its ok if u dont have pinap
u can catch over 100+ lar during the event thats like over 400+ candies it consider good enough ady dont be so greedy haha

lol we are just small potato compare to them that are over 100/200/300m now maybe over 400m

The chinese in-game announcement says Smack Down which is a quick move but at the same time they say cannot use charge TM to change. I think I still have a couple of Larvitars in the 90+ % range.


Srsly.. don't waste rare candies.

Still got a lot of time to stock those pinap. Besides... storage just increased.

30m is nothing lar these days. After hitting lvl40 I didn't pay attention to XP until I notice my gym group (some hit lvl40 after I did) all also above 40m and 2 of them 60m di. A lot of catching up to do.

Thing is... dunno the spawn rate since its pretty much accepted that community day spawns are not like the earlier days so might as well pinap since Ttar candies sure is useful.

Of all ppl, you asking ppl not to be greedy

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: May 23 2018, 11:42 AM

last charmander still ok la
problem is the catch rate for larvitar is kinda high tho so not only pinap , great/ultra balls also need to stock abit


shhhhh haha

Actually, CD spawn rates are fine. Charmander day I started with over 8++ candies. When I am done with 3 evolved to big lizard and one to half lizard still left 9++ candies but I did pinap those lower cp ones

Yup... last CD I went in with 400 great and 300 ultraballs. No point wasting pinaps.

My case is that I've never fully invested into rock type. Only maxed 1x Golem while the rest are just lvl 35 fodders.

If CD Ttar really gets Smack Down as fast move.. then it should be the best (attack+bulk) rock type attacker up to Gen 4 at least.

In that case, I may need 3.

Right now I've only got 627candies... Powering from lvl20 to lvl40 needs 248 candies + 125 candies for evolution each.

Hence at least 1119 candies which means I'll have to catch 123 larvitars.

So yeah.. I'm gonna need pinaps.

how about stardust?

Lvl 20 to lvl 40 is 225K stardust each.

Level 35 will be taking a while to achieve it since I still have long way to go...(Current aim at level 30 first
Will do, gathering coins, candies, stardust, egg & incense too.
And before community day, I use my coins to inventory (pokemon & item) as well buy a community day box too.


I see 6-7 gyms around my neighbourhood, sometimes all with legendary raids but seems like no one battling it at all
Looking forward to try raiding the legendary raids once I reach level 30 & above with decent counters...


After level 30, think i need to triple my ++points effort lol
Yup, powering up my other pokemon type for future raids / gym battle (Example: Geodude as my buddy now

Everyone can join legendary raids regardless of their level. Having high level counters to contribute nice but not essential... just focus on surviving the raid duration minimizing revive/potion use and let others do the job I helped levelling up my youngest daughter's new account to lvl 30 in under 2 weeks of which the XP from legendary raids contributed a lot.

Normally folks will gather before the black egg hatch(raid start). Thats when there'll be most participants.

On buddy pokemon, its more efficient to buddy with pokemons that's rare, relevant or just to fill your pokedex. My humble 2 cents is that geodudes are pretty common in partly cloudy weather and Golems won't be relevant (it was only relevant cos it had the only fast rock move) in the near future.

If Niantic don't change anything at the last minute, the next Community Day in June 16 will introduce Smack Down as a fast move for Tyranitar. Coupled with Stone Edge, a 0% IV level 28 Tyranitar will outperform a 100% IV level 40 Golem as a rock attacker.

Speaking of future, the remaining Legendary pokemons left for Gen 3 .... Regirock, Regice, Registeel all have common counter which is Machamp.

Deoxys and Jirachi have common weakness to Tyranitar with dark type moves.

Moral of the story... Tyranitar and Machamp/Hariyama above everything

now i know why ppl still hunting for Tyra
hope can catch a good IV larvitar on the community day next month

Unreleased legendaries/mythical... and non-legendary counters.

Gen 2
Celebi --> Tyranitar

Gen 3
Regirock --> Machamp/Hariyama
Registeel --> Machamp/Hariyama
Regice --> Machamp/Hariyama

Deoxys --> Tyranitar
Jirachi --> Tyranitar

Gen 4
Uxie --> Tyranitar
Mesprit --> Tyranitar
Azelf --> Tyranitar

Dialga --> Machamp/Hariyama
Palkia --> Dragons, Gardevoir

Heatran

Cresselia --> Tyranitar

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: May 24 2018, 02:44 PM

Are there any PoGo players in Kuantan? Where is a good spot for grinding? I may be in Kuantan during the coming Community Day June 16.

This post has been edited by observ: May 24 2018, 04:53 PM

Good to hear that, looks like I need to join whatsap group for legendary raiding then
But first, need to get the remaining other pokemon type counter for backup, Example:

Fire - Charizard, Flareon & Arcanine (Still hunting for better Eevee IV so I can evolve it, miss Moltres quest previously)
Ice - Lapras (but couldn't find 1 yet, got decent counter like Cloyster / Walrein but each 1 unit)
Rock - Golem & Rhydon
Psychic - Epseon & Alakazam
Ghost - Gengar

Yup, previously I put dratini as my buddy, which I managed to collect enough candies to evolve it to Dragonite.
Will swap to other buddy once have sufficient candies to evolve the next Golems

Looking forward to next community day to get my first Tyr.

Luckily, during the fighting event, I managed to stock up enough candies for Machamp & Hariyama power-up (And At least now can whack Blissey or Chansey in Gym now)

https://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/adventureweek2018/

as mention previous u can basically ignore all the pokemon above for now just get to lvl30 than u can get boosted lvl35 mon to evolve.
but if you just want them in ur dex than go ahead and if u dont need any mon to register in your dex i would suggest you to put pidgey as your buddy

Some comments

Fire - Charizard, Flareon & Arcanine (Still hunting for better Eevee IV so I can evolve it, miss Moltres quest previously)
--> Fire is not very useful in the meta. Nice to have but not essential. Don't need to waste resource on it.

Ice - Lapras (but couldn't find 1 yet, got decent counter like Cloyster / Walrein but each 1 unit)
--> Also not useful in the meta since Ice types of weak attack. Just use some high level wild caught spheals and evolve them into Walreins.

Rock - Golem & Rhydon
--> Adventure week is on... Golems aplenty everywhere. Rhydon not useful in meta now but Rhyperior in Gen 4 could be formidable. Just collect candies. More importantly is the upcoming community day Tyranitar if you need rock type attackers. That said, Rock types were only useful during the earlier Gen1 Legendary Birds time... Don't see any real use for it now. Buddy something more rare for pokedex entry or future use.

Psychic - Epseon & Alakazam
--> Non-legendary wise.... Exeggutor is a more cost efficient choice. Eggs are everywhere and only cost 50 candies to evolve. No need to walk them like Espeon. Besides, there's not much use for psychic type now with the exception of Machamp raids.... its only useful to reduce damage from gym defenders Zen Headbutt and such.

Ghost - Gengar
--> Only for pokedex entry. Gengar's very very fragile and Shadow Claw cannot be obtained anymore. Ghost is only super effective against other ghost type (which you don't see in gyms) and Psychic types (this can be handled better by Tyranitar). Ghost type moves are resisted by normal type and ineffective against dark type means its quite useless against at least 1/2 to 2/3 a typical gym composition.

My recommendation is to build team for meta first and follow 1qaz1qaz famous "gotta hoard em all" strategy.

For gyms, my recommendation once you reach lv 30 for a starter party of 6 for best coverage are:

1) Machamp/Hariyama with counter/dynamic punch
2) Machamp/Hariyama with counter/dynamic punch
3) Machamp/Hariyama with counter/dynamic punch
4) Tyranitar with Bite/Crunch
5) Exeggutor with Bullet seed/Solar beam
6) Dragonite with Dragon Tail/Outrage

The above combo with 1 or 2 extra Machamp/Hariyama and Tyranitar respectively can cover the whole meta already.

Reasons -

The first 3 fighting types (maybe even a 4th) takes care of Blissey, Snorlax, Chansey, Slaking, Tyranitar, Steel and Ice types.
Tyranitar is for those Psychic/Fairy types that ppl slot in to force a change from fighting types ie. Gardevoir, Slowbro/king, Azumarill, Wigglytuff.
Exeggutor if there's a big water type Milotic, Gyarados, Vaporeon in the gym else you can also substitute this with another Tyranitar for general work. , S
Dragonite for Dragonite or Salamence and as a generalist if there's a fire type in the gym.

My own go-to team are:

1) Mewtwo - psycho cut/ focus blast
2) Machamp - Counter/ Dynamic punch
3) Tyranitar - Bite/Stone Edge
4) Raikou - Thundershock/ Wild charge
5) Dragonite - Dragon Breath/ Dragon Claw
6) Machamp - counter/ Dynamic Punch

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: May 25 2018, 11:41 AM

shhhhhhh i just hoard for my own satisfaction

alvintan84 yes in general fighting type is a good to have and Machop is somewhat like pidgey due to weather and about a month or two ago there are like 3-4 100% Machop pop up daily but now without map haha

anyway for now spin as much stop as u can to stock up balls/pinap for community day and end of the day just evolve the high cp/iv larvitar u got.
dont bother if low or high iv as u will have a tons of candies to spare. high cp once evolved straight can be use without using any dust.

TBH, only machamp 100% worth powering up. However, you should focus on:
1. Doing more raids - tyranitar and machamp.
2. Target ex-raid gyms to get Mewtwo.
3. Grinding up XP - target to hit level 30 in 1 week; and quickly grind up to 35.
4. Grind up stardust - its never enough.
5. Stock up candy and candidates - look for nests / higher spawns during weather boost periods.

All have better options available now. No use wasting resources. Except your machamp - if atk 15 and iv high, can consider pumping. Else, my suggestion is similar to above.




Good luck to the both of you!!

Congrats to both sifus!!!!

lol u sure way ahead la haha