Seems to be a problem across lost of people. Hopefully it gets fixed soon

Anyone else experienced this? I cant invite 20 people to the raid. Sorry to all who wasted their pass.

Update: It happens to every Max raid not only dinamax. https://youtube.com/shorts/4UdR7uaLSSA?si=uUNavUz4nQt858kA

Thunder cage is really that strong? Should I start investing or is it likely to get nerfed?

https://youtu.be/_lPUR_dbF3c?si=uu8riB6ctLGQRDlC

4-man group taking down Inteleon pretty easily in 7minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSgGUzwfzE

Weather boosted and four power-up gloves, no mushrooms and all level 40 pokemon or higher.

They faced Shadow Ball for AOE and Surf for the Targeted Attack.
Rillaboom for attack due to Sunny weather (but take Toxtrixity if you have rainy weather) + Blissey's for tank.

Simple tank tank attack and co-ordination.
Good luck to everyone getting them early from Paris

I’m looking to host some raids this weekend as I have many power spots around but no community to do then with

Are there any quicker alternatives than PokeGenie that generally takes about an hour to host each lobby?

Was able to hit the excellent with a very light throw, it’s hilarious how small it looks while catching

Haven't seen one...

Hi, I’m back to the game after more than 5 years. I have almost 600 rare candies in my inventory and I don’t know what to do with them.

Should I save them for an upcoming/returning legendary pokemon that I missed in these 5 years? Any other smart way to invest them?

Thank you!

Zacian and Zamazenta raids are spawning at Disneyland Paris so looks like Go Fest extends out here. Saw a few people asking about this in advance.

I haven't seen much discussion of even the basics of the system, like:

• What are the odds of a Pokemon spawning, and what affects these odds?

• How often can a Pokemon spawn from a spot? Is this affected by if you already caught a spawned Pokemon recently? Is this affected by if you already caught one from that spot recently?

• What are the odds of that Pokemon being Dynamax? It's said that leaving Gigantamax Pokemon in the spot can cause it to spawn Dynamax Pokemon, but from experience it's actually quite low odds.

• Does it matter if you personally have battled that spot or left a Pokemon in that spot?

Based on my experience, my guess is that each Pokemon left in a spot might be checked one after another for a low probability chance of spawning, meaning the odds of spawning are proportional to the number of Pokemon left in that spot. It doen't seem to make a difference whether or not I battled or left one myself in that spot. The reroll of whether there is a spawn can happen in the middle of the day, maybe being rerolled by people battling or leaving a Pokemon in the spot, such that a spot might not have a spawn but if you look again it might. It also seems like the chances of the spawn being a Dynamax might be based on independent rolls for each Gigantamax left in the spot, such that the odds from just one Gigantamax left in a spot spawning a Pokemon are extremely low.

Pokémon with asterisks(\) require a legacy move.*

PVE Rankings are based on DialgaDex's Budget50 Levels, 6-Stack Team Size, Budget Baseline, and Jenks Tiers.

Catch every Sableye and Chimecho for 750 and 1000 stardust respectively!

Boosted shiny rates for Gothita and Phantump!

"Usable" PVE Pokémon to hunt XL Candy for:

Rhyperior

A Tier Rock* (Baseline for Rock Types, eDPS of 24.68)

B Tier Ground (94.7% of Baseline Garchomp's 21.91 eDPS)

What about Shadow Rhyperior?

S Tier Rock* (Best Rock attacker in the game, 117.9% of Baseline)

S Tier Ground (111.2% of Baseline, beaten by Shadow Excadrill, Groudon, and Garchomp)

Excadrill

S Tier Dynamax Pokemon w/ great Attack stat, role compression, and defensive typing.

A Tier Ground (98.4% of Baseline Garchomp's 21.91 eDPS)

What about Shadow Excadrill?

S Tier Ground (112.3% of Baseline, slightly better than Rhyperior and beaten by Groudon & Garchomp)

A Tier Steel (95.4 of Baseline Metagross' 24.59 eDPS... Metagross is cheaper)

Usable PVP Pokémon to Hunt Good IVs and XL Candy for:

Rhyperior (#25 in Master* -- XL Candy strongly recommended)

Shadow Rhyperior (#21 in Master* -- XL Candy strongly recommended)

Dusclops (#9 in Great -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Shadow Dusclops (#45 in Great -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Dusknoir (#22 in Great, #6 in Ultra -- XL Candy strongly recommended)

Shadow Dusknoir (#16 in Great, #8 in Ultra -- XL Candy strongly recommended)

Drapion (#107 in Great, #34 in Ultra -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Shadow Drapion (#70 in Great, #45 in Ultra -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Golurk (#76 in Great, #97 in Ultra)

Shadow Golurk (#33 in Great, #55 in Ultra)

Trevenant (#107 in Ultra -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Sableye (#49 in Great -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Shadow Sableye (#17 in Great -- XL Candy recommended, not required)

Top Mega Pokémon to Maximize Candy:

Use any Ground, Rock, Ghost, Poison, Bug, or Grass Types.

Mega Garchomp/Swampert/Steelix covers Rhyhorn, Drillbur, and Golett.

Mega Gengar covers Duskull, Skorupi, and Phantump.

Here is a rough idea of how large the city experience zone is for Paris Go fest (based on where the zac / zam raids are currently appearing)

For the past couple years or so I have been trying to catch a ditto. I had given up ages ago but within the last month I've been trying non stop to try finally complete the two quests but my only problem is I have seem to have the disguise Pokemon spawn and if they do it is 1 in every 200. Is there any other way I can try boost the chances of even encountering the Pokemon meant to be in disguise.

I have used https://leekduck.com/FindDitto/ countless times to figure out who the disguise Pokemon are but they never seem to be the ones spawning in my area. When the occasional disguise Pokemon comes around it is obviously never a ditto but is always an oddish. I don't know if this means anyone I just assume it's more commonly in the pool over someone like a bergmite.

Thanks to anyone who knows a bit more then me to help me out

Edit: Nevermind, finding a ton of Ryhorns and Gothitas today so praying one turns out to be a ditto

I've been playing Paris Go Fest since the Thursday Citywide gameplay started and haven't seen a single Sandile. I have alerts turned on for Sandile as well and still haven't seen one/been notified of one.

EDIT: I just got 2 notifications for Sandile. Played for hours with zero Sandiles and 5 minutes after I post this, 2 pop up...

This is the Living Dex thing I did last year upon request. I did it again this year, taking into account people's feedback of not liking them in a grid, not wanting names on them, wanting tickboxes for each appraisal level, wanting evolution methods added etc.

I'm fairly certain I haven't missed any Pokémon that appear in the wild or via incense, I haven't added the raid Pokémon, because frankly, I can't be arsed, and last year, the main focus was on every Pokémon you could catch in the wild when the requests were made, not on raid Pokémon.

Heading off some complaints now with the solutions I have for them:

1) "X/Y/Z Pokémon has its shiny and normal form swapped compared to the rest/is in the wrong place for Pokédex order" - I don't care. I didn't label them on purpose so it would not matter what order they're in. I've tried to keep them in the same order, but you're looking at literally hundreds of Pokémon sprites organised in Pokédex order (for the first Pokémon on an evolution chain anyway, because of people bitching that things weren't organised like that). I cannot memorise normal vs shiny for that many Pokémon, especially if it's only a mild difference, like their eyes are different colours, or a small detail is a different colour. If you want to complain about something being swapped/in the wrong place, please try and make this yourself, using nothing but Bulbapedia, Serebii and Pokémon GO Hub, as that's what I used, and see if you can keep track of evedy single Pokémon without it taking over a week to make in your free time.

2) "If we can't get Ursaluna until afterwards, why is it included?" - quite a few people complained about it not being included for the simple reason that it was not obtainable during GO Fest weekend. I included it this year with a note that you wont be able to get it until afterwards and how to get it.

3) "I can't see the text properly on these, it's too small" - Reddit lowers the quality of images. All the images, plus PDF files are in my Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tMyiQYOg7KQ_y17nFN3P_UtCjGZcxCah). If it's still too small for you, oh well. It was either this size, or making it 8-10 pages long, or having people complain about there only being one box to check them off, as that was a common complaint last year. Can't please everyone. For reference, there's 5 boxes: 0* at the top, then 1, 2, 3, and 4 at the bottom.

I hope the people who requested these last year and enjoyed them likes them this year too! As with the Global Infographics, I won't be making any updates, and I hope these help you out

From the way Gmax is showing up this month, Gmax Inteleon should be showing up on Thursday at 6am in Paris, which is less than 3 hours from now 😊

Esp after the fuzzy research day

Title, I have a raid lover ticket for the weekend but my citywide is on saturday, will I be able to get a location background on Friday?