It would just be an interesting stat to see. Obviously pokemon break out of great/curveball throws all the time, so maybe it would only count the ones where the pokemon is caught. Anyone else interested in seeing this statistic?

I live in a rural area, with only a couple Pokestops near me. i tend to use incense quite a bit and noticed that I don't get any decent Pokemon that spawn. it would be a good idea if they guaranteed at least 1 rare during the use of an incense.

Since Niantic announced the competition between Weather Trio to influence egg hatches, you would expect Team Groudon/Kyogre to occupy one half of the legendary raid pool while Team Rayquaza the other. That has not been originally the case.

A small analysis from our city's raid tracker for the first three days after the announcement.

You can see that each legendary has been given the same weight. This meant a permanent handicap to Team Rayquaza. Thankfully Niantic fixed this on 27th:

It's my opinion that they will probably discard wins before they fixed the unfair distribution. What do you think?

Based on current game mechanics and all special events held up to this point, the most XP, Stardust and Candy a player can possibly earn from throwing a single pokeball requires this specific situation:

• The pokeball is thrown with a curve
• The pokemon is caught on the first throw
• The pokemon is encountered in the wild, not a raid
• The throw receives an Excellent throw bonus
• This is your first time catching this pokemon species
• The caught pokemon is a 2nd stage evolution (eg: Tyranitar)
• The pokemon is the first pokemon caught on the seventh day of your daily streak bonus
• The pokemon is weather boosted
• A Pinap Berry is fed to the pokemon before the throw
• A Lucky Egg is currently active
• A Star Piece is currently active
• An event is currently active that awards Double XP, Double Stardust and Double Candy for catching pokemon

Reward Breakdown:

• Capture: 100XP
• New Pokemon: 500XP
• Curveball: 10XP
• Excellent Throw: 100XP
• First Throw: 50XP

• Streak Bonus: 2000XP

• Double XP Event: x2 XP

• Lucky Egg: x2 XP

• 2nd Stage Evolution Catch: 500 Stardust

• Streak Bonus: 2400 Stardust

• Double Stardust Event: x2 Stardust

• Weather Bonus: x1.25 Stardust (Catch Stardust Only)

• Star Piece: x1.5 Stardust

• 2nd Stage Evolution Catch: 10 Candies

• Double Candy Event: x2 Candy

• Pinap Berry: x2 Candy

Total Rewards:

• 11040 XP
• 9075 Stardust
• 40 Candies

Not bad for throwing a single pokeball.

For how much work was involved to grind to 39, the rewards are insulting. Potions, revives... and NANABS. What? No lucky egg, no incubator, nothing useful at all.

What's the incentive to get the 3 million XP to go from 38 to 39 then? We already can power Pokémon to 40. Nothing about the game gameplay changes. And the rewards are utter trash

Dodrio sees the Pinap: https://ibb.co/mEDPiH Dodrio sniffs the Pinap: https://ibb.co/fZQRxc Dodrio eats the Pinap: https://ibb.co/kp4fOH

I forgot to make a link out of my images, and my original post was removed unfortunately. But here it is with the links.

Trapinch is one of my favorite Pokémon and I haven't seen a single one, or it's evolutions. Only today did I see a flygon in a gym for the first time. Where are they usually found? Is my best bet an egg if I haven't found one already?

Hello everyone, Anybody here plays PokemonGo in Jordan? We've a WhatsApp group (+50 active members) and we're trying to gather more people to do raids and so on.. If anybody's interested please comment... Also, if there is any active WhatsApp group for PokemonGo in general please let me know so I can join!

To me it would be Beldum.

One of my all time favorite pokemons and with a just gorgeous shiny form!

It hasn't changed. The increased spawn rate just made people realize it's only 20%. Coupled with the fact people generally downgrade the equipment they use to catch it with after their first few event pokemon made it frustrating in comparison to mons like pidgey and snubull with catch rates like .5 and .4 respectively.

Is there a limit to How many pokemon can we catch in one day? How many xp we can get in one day? And how many pokemon we can evolve in on day? Im asking this cuz a player did 20 millions in eleven days from nov 20 to Dic 1 its that possible

Like how gyms spark and stuff when they're being attacked. Just a shower thought.

Edit: Where're the Devs at? Let's get this ball rolling! :)

After hitting level 40, instead of being functionally useless, what if Lucky Eggs actually increased your...Luck? Then they'd be an actually useful item again.

For example a lucky egg could provide 30 minutes of:

• Slightly increased catch rates

• Lower flee rates

• Higher quality items from Pokestops and Raids

• Better chance of 10k Eggs from Pokestops

As it is now, you get four useless eggs when you level up to 40, and they keep showing up in gift boxes but end up feeling worthless.

I want to add that I love the weather feature, I am simply curious about the occurrence of dragon types. Poll

Edit to add that there is a spawn point next to the creek extremely near my home that periodically (pre-weather) would spawn dratini. Since weather was added I have not seen one dratini spawn there.

I think more than anything, if Niantic wants to insist on having turf warfare and setting us against each other in the search for coins and balls, we need "leagues." Non-changing sides really hurt gameplay- ask any MMO veteran, especially PvPers who've experienced the difference between faction warfare vs. guild warfare. Mystic, Valor, and Instinct don't need to be replaced, but "league teams" should use different themes and rotate.

For example, there could be a season called "Grass wars." For the next three months, people join Team Bulbasaur, Team Chikorita, or Team Treecko. These teams would be for a limited time and take over the gym systems- bulbasaur people can take a gym for their team, earn coins, and if they raid their, deal damage as a team and get bonuses based on bulba-power. After three months, there's some token prize (badges? shirts? shiny of the winning team's mascot spawns?) and a new theme enters the scene.

The idea is to fight stagnation and break up monopolies without forcing people to reroll. MMOs like World of Warcraft have servers that are heavily one-sided, and people don't need to be in the same part of the country to play. When players get frustrated with their meta/lack of raid balls, it gives them a reason to quit. Leagues, instead, give them something to look forward to: a new season to maybe be on the winning side. It also lets friends (new and old) be on the same team if they weren't already.

For those on the dominant teams, fighting for the right just to get into a gym is also frustrating and causes same-team griefing through multi-account shaving. Having shifting teams decreases this by shuffling the population around so no one team should be dominating for too long.

The original teams should still exist for unique flavor (quests!?) and maybe even be used for a few days between seasons. It's too late to scrap them, and asking people to leave their current teams would cause too many issues. Having something that changes and is temporary could solve a lot of issues, not just with the game, but in social circles.

Edit: I don't mean the teams should be random. They should be chosen by the players. People could join with their friends or enter into a friendly competition if they want.

It's both a simple yet awesome way to make people excited for old Legendaries. Newer players will initially still have the old catch rate because of how Repeat Balls work, but once they catch one it means future Legendaries will become that much easier to catch, enticing them to not just stop at 1. For those that don't know, Repeat Balls give a 3x-x3.5 higher catch rate than a Poke Ball if the Pokemon has been caught before. This makes that 2% become a 6-7% base catch rate, meaning with a Golden Berry, medal, and all that jazz, you're looking at about a 25-40% chance to catching the old Legendary.

Older/competitive players would gladly make use of the Repeat Balls to catch those high IV Legendaries and not have to stress themselves out over getting RNGed as often. It can send anyone to tilt city to have a 100% Legendary run from them just because RNGesus went "lol, no". It's also hard to say no to being able to use Pinaps to get more candy.

Overall though, it should get people excited for older Legendaries and willing to catch them all over again. Of course, since it's Repeat Balls it means that any older Legendaries that were caught with Premier Balls become a sort of badge of honor/bragging rights. It also becomes an incentive for players to keep spending raid passes even when there's nothing new because the older stuff got that much easier to obtain.

I've seen some people talking about the possibility of a certain 10k Pokemon nesting now that their shiny forms are available. I think, for balancing regions, we can agree this is probably a bad idea. However, this got me thinking on if they should bring some 10k species over to the nesting pool. Here are what I think should be able to nest.

Grimer Lets be real, its a pointless dex completion. Grimer is already stupidly rare in some biomes and frankly I don't see the harm in letting it nest. Not to mention, Muk was in the raid pool a while back so I don't see the issue in letting it nest.

Porygon Another dex completion Pokemon that MAY be relevant in the far future. Porygon is damn near impossible to find in the wild if you're in the wrong biome. Even if you are in the right one, which I was for a year, they're still rare. All of that for essentially.... a trophy Pokemon. Now this is one of the few trophy Pokemon I can see them objecting to, mainly because in the handheld games it was notoriously difficult to get. However, Porygon will soon be a two stage evolution that will require 125 candy minimum. Considering its current spawn rate, that is a ridiculous requirement. Also, this is GO, where despite Natu being found on less routes than Mareep it manages to be more common. Speaking of an electric sheep...

Mareep It has some meta relevance since Raikou isn't obtainable anymore and isn't particularly bad. However, I don't think its too good to not be nestable. Jolteon is still superior in many and is WAY easier to obtain, so I don't see the big fuss other than making it a dex completion Pokemon.

Sudowoodo I'll be honest, I just find the idea of a group of Sudowoodo nesting hilarious. I can see people being against this because it would be a waste of a nest slot, but Girafarig exists sooo......

Slakoth Slaking is way too nerfed to be meta relevant, hence why I think Slakoth being a nest Pokemon isn't game breaking. From personal experience, it isn't even that rare in most biomes, so I think making it a nest Pokemon wouldn't hurt its rarity or upset the "meta" (if you can even call it that).

Trapinch I can only see this thing being blocked on the grounds of making dragon types easy to get, which I think is ridiculous but I can understand the concern. Going over that, Trapinch and Flygon aren't meta relevant enough to be a concern in my opinion.

TL;DR A lot of Pokemon are given artificial rarity to extend the game's play-ability. I think its dumb and a lot of filler 10k Pokemon should just be allowed to nest while still keeping them in the egg pool.

https://youtu.be/c1T95-W73rU

For anyone interested in egg hatchings, Check out the 9x 10k Egg Hatching my daughter and I did on Community Day. Always a surprise when you get some new pokedex entries

There's no Battle Animation or anything but I can't throw a Mon into it cause of that Error. Somebody else was able 2 but I'm getting that Error. Pokémon in Gym aren't decreasing Motivation either so the Gym isn't under attack

My PoGo app was working fine this morning but hasn't been able to detect my location since about noon PST and keeps giving me error code 11.

I haven't changed any location settings in my phone so that shouldn't be the issue.

Thanks for any ideas you guys may have.

Every time I turn on my GO+ or go-tcha to catch/spin. Pokémon stop spawning and only Lured Pokémon or incense pokémon appear and GO+ will catch those. I tried turning GO+ off and spawns were normal. Is this new bug or something? It really hurting grinding cause lol

Has anyone had the error pop up saying he is an event Pokemon and cannot be selected?

How does everyone else feel about Gengar's Stats? His attack is strong but I think his max CP is to low and I also think his HP is really low. He's one of my favorites and I'd love to use him more, he's just not squishy enough to do much. He'll hit you hard, a lot like how Alakazam will, but they both die after basically being hit once or twice.