wah a week no lurk here got new face ohh
why so bad the taiko here no reply u two?
well go grind your dust, candies and rc haha coz u need alot of them
Ignore the rest, go raid some tyra boss use pinap and evolve your larvitar as tyra is kinda like your overall goto attacker
u can join any raid you want, T4/5 u need atleast 7-10+ ppl depending on what boss
just my 2 cent dont simply power up u will regret later

your line up look good to me as u got overall type attacker. you can power up those u see fit
but i will definitely TM that
D9 to DT/OR
Vapo to WG/HP
Machamp to CT/DP

My 2 cents is hold off  powering up anything, build up your stardust/candy resources and focus on getting to level 30 so you can catch up to lvl35 Pokemons in the wild during weather boost.

Pay special attention to high level wild makuhita as they make excellent alternative to Machamps at less than half the candy cost.

They also have great use for the upcoming regi-trio raid boss and necessary for Tyranitar raids which is arguably more useful than hitting multiple latios/ho-oh.

Ttar is best non-legendary generalist in the game now.

Lastly.. Lapras got nerfed so bad that it's no longer relevant and the easily obtainable Walrein is stronger. Ice beam on Lapras is no longer available so u might wanna hold on to that for collection purpose.

Gengar with the now legacy shadow claw is still strongest ghost attk so hold on to it. That said it's not very meta relevant.
The key to legendary raids are just the number of players and minimizing potion used ie dodging as much as possible.
As above... Build and hoard resources first. Focus in leveling up first.

haha we all also got a day job one but also hit lvl40
say the famous pokemon "sikit-sikit lama lama jadi bukit" 

The game only begins after level 35.

Right now just focus on levelling up, collect stardust (this is very important), collect candies for everything especially those pidgie, caterpie, Weedle to mass evolve during double XP events. Oh.. and save those lucky eggs too.

I've wasted millions of stardust powering up low level Pokemons that I can catch for free in the wild. Ex. Powering up an egg hatched pokemon to level 35 cost 137k stardust and 130 candies.

Also, getting from level 39 to 40 requires more XP than from lvl 1-34.

If you live in high traffic area where raids have full lobby... better just go for legendary raids for higher rewards.

yes, hard work really begin at lvl30 and lvl up also harder after 30
but fun part is u can power up your mons till 30 and catch boosted 35
just hoard whatever u got now
hahah mana ada unker sniper also same la 

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 

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

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!!

Not like totally ignore lah... still catch and build up candy and stardust hoard which stress again is very important. You gain the same amount of XP and stardust for every pokemon caught at your level and at level 40 but the cost of powering up your pokemon level raises substantially the higher you wanna power it up. So hoard and keep a couple of candidates for future use.

https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/power-up-costs

As for Ttar substitute... tbh.... not really.

Tyranitar's ranking as a Dark type attacker.

1) Yveltal which is a Gen 7 legendary is stronger but that's years away and its very very very expensive to build a team of a single legendary.
2) Tyranitar with Bite/Crunch
3) Darkrai in Gen 4 which has higher attack but significantly more fragile than Ttar.

As a Rock type attacker

1) Rhyperior in Gen 4 provided it gets double rock moveset so yeah... Rhyhorn candies = hoard. I already hoarded 1.77K candies for it.
2) Tyranitar provided the coming community day smack down fast move don't get nerfed ( its currently 20% better than Golem)
3) Rampardos in Gen 4 which has higher attack than both above but fragile like Darkrai.

See why we need lots of Tyranitar candies? 

As for Dragonite, I love Dragonite and like most folks, have spent months building up an army but sadly, its days of ruling the meta are over already. 1 or 2 is useful as sweeper in gym team but there's loads of OP dragons are coming. In the overall scheme of things over all generations... Dragonite falls to the bottom.

Houndoom is very fragile so its only really useful (at a pinch) on raids but not for gyms. Tyranitar has higher attack and significantly better bulk... its a tank.

As for Dragonite... it was the King of Gen 1 and with the community day, most folks already have at least a couple of them.

Dragon type's role in the game now is more of a high DPS sweeper with dragon type's high attack stats STAB damage but remember, dragon type moves are only super effective against dragon and only neutral damage to everything else (resisted by fairy and steel).

Since there's weather boost these days, a weather boosted attacker could also serve that role well.

Having said that, 1 or 2 Dragonite are still great additions to the team... just don't over invest.

Be mindful that there's the alternatives...

Rayquaza is king for now... Salamence has stronger attack while slightly more fragile ( I still take Dragonite over Salamence due to Outrage), Latios with Dragon Breath/ Dragon claw is cool for those who values dodging and it resist psychic plus no double ice weakness.

When Gen 4 comes, there's Garchomp... and the legendaries Dialga, Palkia... and them dragon types just keep getting stronger.

Ya... Dialga is a beast provided they don't Ho-Oh him. That steel typing  would be useful in last night situation.

Was attacking a gym with 4 kakis .. total 7 account and it took us 3+ hour to beat it. Those fellas gold razz immediately after 1st round.. and the same fellas re-entered the gym 4 times that night. Giler massive amount of resources wasted and so tired until fark it lah... just tank with ttar.
Just be at the gym before the egg hatch. Should have enough players in more populous areas.

Just be mindful that you'll also need candies to max it later on.

My area gym scene is like that wan... unless can catch the defenders off guard else would be long drawn battle. Even 2 shot kill trick don't work when they berry immediately.

a year since inplayed pogo
stop because not enough pokestop/spawn at my hometown
and now im back... lot of things changed lol
all legends are out already.. damn i missed a lot

Looks like might need to 3-shot kill. I've tried it before, with the help of a friend, 3 acc kill off 6 atkers but need proper timing to kill it off before defender got chance to feed.
Congrats! U should use this event (and the weekend) to push the xp up as much as possible.
Just spin unspun pokestops with lucky eggs. Go to places with high concentration of pokestops and spin away with lucky egg.
I'm grinding new accs for fun... super fast - 1 lucky egg and 30 min can get a level 1 account to level 22.
Welcome back!!!

now i realise... the thread also kind of dead.. no posting for hours
there's  a ho oh appear at gym near my home... i myself cant bring it down.. no more  other pogo players... sad man

i live so far away.. in a state where i think I'm the only one that play pogo (non spoof) 

east coast.. kelantan lol
there's two pokestop near my home.. about 400 meters
1 gym at the grand mosque.. hard to enter at night.. and also at day because the damn gym really close to mimbar (imam's chamber)

town area.. but even town.. hard to play pogo

Park at Wisma Cosway, since it is holiday. I think RM5 or maybe RM6 now, then you can walk thru wisma uoa and get to KLCC park within 300-400m

use lrt better

here pokestop and gym usually in mosque
no taman here for a walk like in kl.. very hot and
dangerous

I usually park at Menara HLA.  Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday is RM6 per entry.  Underground carpark.  Just cross the road already KL Convention Centre.  Less than 5 mins walk to Pavilion also.

Public Holiday/Sunday is per entry.

Rubbish timing.. thinking how to snake now.

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I'm ready for community day
1k candies here i come hehe

Still it's an annoyance la having to specially cater for the time.
I'm prepared too.

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KLCC? sniper on the roof physically in Taiwan so I doubt he is paying Msia a visit anytime soon 

Kyogre is returning...
https://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/waterfestival2018/

I'm looking forward towards those damn magikarps... still missing 80+ for fisherman medal.

80+? I am only at 158/300 so its still freaking far away!   

Errmmm. I didn’t pay attention but this is my current stash.

Yay! I should be able to do it in the current event. My problem is the rat medal...

You're hoarding too much gold.razz.
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Magikarp was the first shiny released

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Nice!!

Wah...I don't have shiny mareep, meditite, makuhina, ho-oh, kabuto, omanyte and i don't see my luck changing with kyogre

Reminder... Larvitar tomorrow.

Me!