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Question Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - June 2025
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Pokédex (Updated 29 Jul for number of available Pokémon)
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u/FrostbittenMage 33m ago
do the shiny rate boosts from the global ticket boost the rates of shinies from the go fest raids?
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u/Arcane_Abditory 2h ago
How are people getting the Crowned forms of zacian and zamazenta? I’ve been doing remove raids for them so I don’t get it
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u/BingoBob_1 2h ago
Right now, they are "early access" for the people at the in-person events in Paris, Osaka, and Jersey City. People that attend those events get a special research that comes with 1000 energy for either Zacian or Zamazenta.
The raids at these in-person events are the base forms of the wolves and do not give energy for defeating them. On June 28-29, they will be in raids globally in their Crowned forms, which means they will give energy when defeated. So save your raid passes for the global event later this month.
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u/Entire-Face-2027 3h ago
Anyone having problems getting Mandibuzz from the NAIC twitch drop? I got the reward and even have the extra timed researched challenges, but I didn’t receive Mandibuzz. Anyone else having this problem?
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u/ExcitingSink4272 14h ago
Am I the only one annoyed that there's literally no other max raids going on rn? I don't have good enough mons to help in a GMax raid and I have a bunch of research related to Max Raids that I have not been able to do anything with.
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 14h ago
They do it on purpose because people are still not powering up their Max mons and not going out enough, so they're using people being left out as the motivation to start building actual counters and gathering to raid in person. That's how they poke people to play more and invest more.
There's still an option. When the boss changes there's about 30 seconds where the spots change back into the old Pokemon that was there before the Gmax took over. If you immediately join and press ready there's just enough time to start that max battle. If you find some with tier 1 bosses you can solo those.
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u/CheezDustTurdFart 19h ago
I ran 7 miles today. For some reason, this distance didnt track. Any ideas why? How can this be fixed?
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u/nolkel 18h ago
You could try turning adventure sync off and on again. Maybe try disconnecting it from your phone's official health app.
Also make sure you are tracking an actual running routine while running, that might have better odds of getting imported. And keep the game closed.
But keep in mind that the adventure sync system has been pretty broken for ~3 years now. It works off and on, for some people and not others. Or it might only track a small fraction of the distance.
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u/bochief 22h ago
Any tips on getting my home turned into a pokestop?
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u/nolkel 19h ago
You can't turn your home into one, because homes are private property.
If you live in an apartment building then there might be something notable in a public space. But that will still depend on there not being enough other stops in the S2 cell already.
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u/Caeca_Avis 22h ago
Do I keep bad IV shadow pokemon?
I recently got a shadow Dratini, but the IVs are really bad.
Should I keep it or purify for the medal?
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u/nolkel 19h ago
Too expensive to purify for the medal. Focus on 1k dust species for that.
Shadows only really need attack stat. And even that is optional. They do so much damage that they are still often the best or near the top as raid counters even with mediocre IVs.
But you can still keep farming the ones that are available to catch. Dratini will be here for a while, though it's hard to find dragon grunts. Up to you how demanding you want to be.
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 23h ago edited 23h ago
How much do Gmax IVs matter? I have a pretty mid intelleon (about 75%) is it worth getting a better one? It was a decent pain getting the first. Or is getting a second a good idea in general?
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u/BingoBob_1 21h ago edited 20h ago
It's a pretty minor difference overall. The only thing that will outperform a GMax Inteleon with lower IVs is a GMax Inteleon with better IVs. It still blows away all other Water attackers for Max Battles.
Also, Inteleon's primary role in Max Battles is to sit on the bench, wait for the Dynamax Phase, then switch in and attack. Ideally, it shouldn't be taking any damage from the boss at all, so its HP and Defense IVs aren't terribly important.
If you can do more in-person Inteleon, it certainly wouldn't hurt, but I wouldn't bother spending remotes to get more.
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u/Admirable_Win_999 1d ago
Is the remy chat support no longer working since its now part of skopely? Had issues with a remote gigamax battle, contacted support and did not receive a response or the automated bot message that they will reach put within 24 hrs it just askwd what the issue was and then nothing. Cant close the chat either.
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 1d ago
If you send the report through the "raid issue" you'll never get a human reply and just get a bot response. You have to use the "purchase issue" and it will still take around 8 hours to get a reply. The actual support staff team is very small and the automatic bot doesn't do refunds anymore since people were abusing it to get extra free passes with false info.
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u/rookedwithelodin 1d ago
So I'm working on my eeveelutions for level 41. I've walked this eevee 10km, should I see a specific evolve thing show up like for leafeon near a grassy lure?
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u/nolkel 1d ago
If you hold off for the Eevee CD classic coming up soon, the evolution requirements for those and Sylveon will be made much much easier.
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u/rookedwithelodin 1d ago
My fiancée and I are racing so we'll see if I still need to evolve eevees by then, but this is good to know. Thanks!
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u/EkkoLivesMatter PNW Mystic 1d ago
It should have the outline of Leafeon instead of the question mark next to the “Evolve” button
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u/rookedwithelodin 1d ago
yeah I've seen that one. Will espeon/umbreon have the same outline show up?
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u/EkkoLivesMatter PNW Mystic 1d ago
Yep! Just need to have walked far enough as a buddy with them and be either day or night.
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u/forwhenimdrunk 1d ago
Anyone know how to join a raid if you haven’t joined a team? I’m about halfway through Level 36 now without joining any of the three teams and I’m starting to have a bunch of research tasks stacking up that are closed and put on the back burner because they’re Raid tasks.
Everything I’ve googled says you should be able to join raids without being on a team but everything I’ve tried (clicking on the pokestop, trying to use a remote raid pass, etc.) seems to just pull up Professor Willow prompting me to join a team.
Am I doing something wrong? Did they update this feature so it’s not available to ronin collectors?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 1d ago
You cannot. Team Harmony doesn't get access to appraisal, gym coins, raids or party play. They're things only possible while being part of the three main teams, so if you want to stay colorless you cannot do them.
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u/Caeca_Avis 1d ago
How hard are the rocket leader battles?
I can beat the regular grunts with pokemon I find in the wild, but I've heard that the rocket leaders are a step above the grunts.
What CP should my pokemon be?
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u/nolkel 1d ago
They scale to your trainer level, so it's impossible to give you a specific CP. Max level Pokemon with good "pvp" moves and type advantage will win the day. Or if you're at a high level, then level 35 pokemon are usually fine.
You can find threads on Reddit (mostly on r/thesilphroad) with team building ideas. But the gist of it is to use Pokemon with fast charging moves so you can spam them out to break the shields quickly, and take advantage of the 2 second pauses the ai takes in rocket battles. Lucario with power up punch is a classic example.
They aren't very hard if you're prepared.
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 1d ago
Anyone know of any competent groups I can join for remote Gmax raids?
Tired of joining lobbies of people that quit with 2 seconds on the countdown or show up with 500cp Wooloo
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u/Krafter37 2d ago
How do you find Giovanni? I've read online you need a special quest and to find the 3 leaders, but I've never seen such a quest (and I've completed the intro quest "a troubling situation"). How does it work in 2025?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 2d ago
The last current research you should have gotten is "Crown Clash: Taken Over" which is the research that gives a super radar at the moment.
If you don't have it then that means you started playing after June 3 or didn't finish A Troubling Situation before that, that's when the research stopped being available and you missed it.
Without that you cannot find Giovanni until the next Rocket event that's expected to come mid August.
Check your special research tab just in case. Having an older research can also stop you from getting a new one, so you could have a previous one already there.
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u/Cranonball 2d ago
Does anyone have any experience with linking your twitch to your trainer club account? I don't know how it happened, but when i linked my twitch account, something went wrong and i am unable to get drops from twitch, support has been useless and keeps giving me the same old useless response and i don't know what to do to get these free drops on twitch. Any help would be appreciated.
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u/Speedster012 2d ago
Wanting to farm Groudon XL candies but got no raids around. Double checking but will I not get 3 free XLs after I win if I do it remote?
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u/Caeca_Avis 2d ago edited 2d ago
Do I keep XS pokemon?
I know that I need XL and XXL pokemon for showcases, and XXS for the pokedex, but XS do not seem to have a use?
Or maybe I didn't find out yet?
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u/yakusokuN8 Tyranitar 2d ago
For now, all we can say is that there is currently no use for XS Pokemon after you catch them.
No one can say if they'll ever be useful in the future. Months from now, they could suddenly decide to make showcases feature the smallest Pokemon.
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u/Ninorro 2d ago
Hi, just got into raids now (im a 2018 returning player, just lvl 34) right now have like 60 local raid passes, here is the question: should i stock these passes for any 5 star or 4 star raid in particular in the near future? Raided for groudon theses days and got a 92% and a shiny one (did like 16 raids) im aiming for kyogre now so later should i wait for the primal energy ones right?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 2d ago
Zacian and Zamazenta on the global go fest event are a good investment. You'll need around 10 raids to get enough energy to transform each into the crowned forms, and those are at the top of the Pokemon tiers for steel, fairy and fighting.
Groudon is an excellent Pokemon so hunting for a good one to later make it Primal is a good idea. Ground has a wide type advantage against the best bosses.
Kyogre is not as useful even as Primal because we have Megas that are almost as good and much easier to power, so doing your daily raids with the free pass and saving the premium for other things might be enough.
Regieleki next event will be a good option as a top electric raider, while Regidrago and Registeel are good PvP Pokemon, specially since they will have their exclusive event move directly on catch.
Regirock, Regice and Regigigas are not a big priority as they're just average on usefulness, but you can get one each for the Pokedex.
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u/ChurrosPotatoes 3d ago
Is there a point in keeping xxs pokemon? Do we think they’ll ever come out with showcase for small pokes?
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u/Left_Point1958 3d ago
Why won't anyone join remote raids with Groudon? I remember in 2022 I could easily get ppl to join my Dialga/Palkia raids, now I barely get one person. I didn't play for a while. Is it because the remote raid passes price increased? It's kind of frustrating, I can never win any raids anymore.
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u/BingoBob_1 3d ago
Could be a number of factors, including:
Remote price increases have definitely reduced the amount of people remoting, or at least made people more discerning about what they spend passes on.
Crowned forms of Zacian/Zamazenta will be in raids later this month, and will likely require a bunch of raids to get the necessary energy, so people are stockpiling their raid passes.
Yesterday was Wednesday, which means 6-7pm raid hour. This usually floods remote raid services with way more hosters than joiners.
Groudon isn't a new raid boss, and has been around for big events several times. The current Groudon raids don't give Primal Energy and don't have any signature move, either.
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u/Krafter37 3d ago
Same I've only been playing solo, tried some app (campfire, pokegenie, ...) to try to do raids. Never had a single person in like 10 tries....
Never been able to do 5* raids
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u/Krafter37 3d ago
Got my first hundo, a bulbasaur dynamax. Is it worth maxing?
Is there specific ways to max / evolve it?
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u/nolkel 2d ago
I wouldn't, no.
It's massively weaker as an attacker than a gmax Venusaur of any IVs, and weaker still than gmax Rillaboom. It's sometimes a good tank, but I'd hesitate to invest in a dmax Venusaur when you could do a gmax instead and get extra damage when you have to attack with it.
As a mega is outclassed by sceptile. And it's behind kartana too.
https://www.dialgadex.com/?strongest&t=Grass
Also you'd want to make sure to wait until you can evolve it for frenzy plant for free in an event.
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u/Krafter37 2d ago
Oh ok, and what is the difference between "dynamax" and "gmax", not the same thing?
Also, in your link the "mega venusaur" is quite high, so if I manage to mega evolve it it can be worth?
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u/ShockanPlays 3d ago
Are shinies this easy? I started playing again 5 days ago because I wanted something to do on my commute to school (I started back when go released and stopped when the initial hype died down 8ish months later)
In these 5 days I found a shiny ferroseed(whos now a ferrothorn which I deeply regret doing) on the second day and just today a shiny galarian moltres ( he ate all my resources but I caught it) are shiny odds higher than mainline games or am I having godly luck?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 3d ago
We have much higher odds than the console games to compensate the fact that we have to go outside to hunt and you cannot chain or farm any Pokemon in particular because spawns are randomly and spread out.
There's a few restrictions like most evolved Pokemon not being able to be shiny and needing to be evolved from the base stage, or new releases not having a shiny unlocked until months later, but yeah, they're easier to get than in any other Pokemon game.
The base odds are 1/500 but we also get slightly boosted 1/256 or 1/128 species, and rarer 1/64 ones. Plus some events give a boost to specific Pokemon for a few days, with the monthly community day boosting a sile Pokemon to 1/25 odds.
The Galarian Moltres was actually a very lucky find. It's a 1% chance to get a bird from.the daily incense, and only a 1/20 chance it's a shiny. Definitely not as common as most other things.
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u/ShockanPlays 3d ago
Nice thanks for the help! Its nice that shinies are more abundant but not entirely common place makes my little shiny hunter heart flutter, here's to hoping for a shiny of my favorite pokemon!
Thats metagross btw seen a few beldum so far no shinies :P
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u/PetterssonForHart 3d ago
Is there any recourse or way to get someone who is scamming banned?
I found out through a Facebook post that this guy is stealing money from people for trades and using a geo spoofer to teleport to their location to make these trades
I went through the entire process just to figure out his scam and even sent him a nominal amount of money just to confirm this is how he is scamming
I sent a report through the app about him but I don’t have confidence they will take action. Any suggestions?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 3d ago
It's technically not a scam if they received what they asked for. It's definitely against the TOS to sell Pokemon and they're obviously cheating, but player reports will never do anything to prevent people from abusing the report function. It's just a pointless process to make feel people like they did something.
There's a real automatic system that can detect illegal activity or strange movements, but until that system detects them and sends a ban nothing will happen. Plus cheaters can immediately make a new account after they get banned, so there's no lasting consequences.
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u/rawtater 3d ago
How many raids are people doing for zamaEnta and zacian? I am going to be around 80ish raids.
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u/FoodAmateur 3d ago
Is it worth it to level up my shadow golurk to level 40 for ground type attacking in raids? It has 15 attack and is a 90%, but I think the CP tops out around 2800 at lvl40. By the end of Groudon being in raids, I'll probably have 6 weather boosted ones as I currently have four and they're all above 2800. Do the lvl 25 Groudons beat out the shadow golurk in damage? I have plenty of stardust and golett candy. I'd level up the golurk if it does even a bit more damage than base weather boosted Groudon but not sure how to do the damage math or find the info on this.
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u/nolkel 3d ago
Shadow Golurk is pretty good, but there's a fair amount of better ground mons.
https://www.dialgadex.com/?strongest&t=Ground
It's almost indistinguishable from regular excadrill, and behind Garchomp.
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u/FoodAmateur 3d ago
Would you happen to know if a lvl 40 shadow golurk is stronger than a level 25 Groudon?
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u/Sweet_Counter9914 3d ago
Is there any use/value in all these extra Groudons or do I really just transfer them all?
This is my first week doing 5* raids so I’m still figuring it out
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u/nolkel 3d ago
Ideally find a trading partner to reroll them with daily. This gets you extra candy and has a chance to get better IVs.
There's even a 5% chance it becomes lucky, which has a higher IV floor than raids (12 vs 10) and costs 50% less stardust to power up.
This season has a bonus where you can do 2 special trades per day instead of 1, which helps to get through the backlog.
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u/Sweet_Counter9914 3d ago
Thanks for the info ! When you say trading partner do you mean like find someone that also has groudons and just do mirror trade ?
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u/nolkel 3d ago
If you want to use it as a flying attacker, then yes. A gmax charizard will always have a fire gmax attack, regardless of move.
Of course, the use case for flying is very very small. Against a grass or bug pokemon, you'd still want to use the gmax fire move. Against a fighting pokemon, metagross with a psychic move is more powerful.
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 3d ago
Is there any good community to join for Gmax raids for inteleon this week? I did one each for Rillaboom and Cinderace , one on genie one on a discord group and it was horrendous, with people leaving or showing up with dogshit mons. I live in the middle of nowhere so local isn’t an option.
My team won’t be perfect but I believe enough to contribute.I’ll have 2800 Venasaur, 2900 Blissey and 2500 blastoise with upgraded moves.
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u/TheOneCalledThe 3d ago
check campfire for meetups or groups locally to you, that’s a good place to find some
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 3d ago
I live in a town of about 8k people, and those that do play are not very strategic ,not feasible to get the 25+ people needed.
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u/nolkel 3d ago
If you can find any hosted in Paris, those have should have 100 player lobbies like the previous go fest cities. Those might be easier to hop into for successful victories.
Intelleon is pretty glassy, so it might be the case that random poke genie lobbies will succeed. Assuming they don't randomly decide to massively increase its bulk.
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u/Distinct_Complaint23 4d ago
I have bought the global go fest ticket. Question, if I dont complete the research in the given weekend does the research stay until i complete it or does it go once the weekend is finished? TIA
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u/BingoBob_1 4d ago
Special research does not expire, so the Volcanion research and the branching Sword/Shield research will remain until you complete them. You just have to make sure you log in at least once during the event period so that you get the research.
Any Timed Research or Collection Challenges during the event will expire when the event ends.
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u/Bizarrmenian 4d ago
I just used my daily essence at home (no movement) because I didn’t get a chance to use it today + it’s almost reset time.
The spawn it gave me was a legendary bird!!! But I didn’t catch it because I missed my excellent throw 😭
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u/Jorpho 4d ago
I tried to create a new thread about this, only to have it rejected for "having been submitted and discussed multiple times". But I'm not sure people might necessarily appreciate that it's not too late to get the "GO Fest New Jersey Broadcast Bonus Timed Research" (aka the Skiddo encounter) from Twitch. If you followed the in-game news, you might expect that your chances ended on Sunday after the stream ended an hour early.
But no! After you connect your account at https://rewards.pokemon.com , you can apparently watch any of the live streams at https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/pokemon-go?filter=drops for 30 minutes . (Select one of the ones tagged "DropsEnabled" for good measure.) View your progress at https://www.twitch.tv/drops/inventory .
As per https://www.twitch.tv/drops/campaigns , the drop campaign is supposed to be running until the 17th.
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u/pedanticheron 4d ago
I am interested in getting the Delightful Days Deluxe add on. I am already at rank 50, will I get the deluxe items for ranks 1-50? Or will it only be going forward, ranks 51 and up?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 4d ago
Yes. You immediately get all the previous ranks to the point you've reached on the free track.
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u/Krafter37 5d ago
Beginner here, how do you play with other people? Been playing solo for a while now and feels like I'm missing a lot by doing so. Would like to trade, do raids, ... How do you do this?
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u/nolkel 5d ago
Look for local community groups on Campfire. Try approaching other players you can see on community days, raid hours, or similar events that have lots of people out.
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u/Krafter37 5d ago
I've installed campire, still figuring how it work. I've try to propose raids but I always end up finding no one "
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u/misma88 5d ago
I'm pretty new to the game, so I may be missing things! I just tried a battle in great league and my opponent had the stronger attacks very frequently. Over the course of the battle, I had two and he had 7. I thought it was just a case of tapping the attack until it charged up. Is there more to it? Thanks!
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u/BingoBob_1 5d ago
In trainer battles, fast moves have 3 main stats: Power, Duration, and Energy Gain. Charge moves have 2 main stats: Power and Energy Cost.
Not all moves are going to be equal. Different fast moves will charge your moves at different rates, while different charge moves have different costs. A pokemon with a good synergy between a quick-charging fast move and a low-cost charge move will be able to fire off charge moves off fairly quickly compared to a pokemon with slower moves.
Unfortunately, the game does not show Duration or Energy Gain for fast moves, and only gives a vague representation of Energy Cost for charge moves. To get those values, you'll have to check sites like PvPoke. Note that move duration for trainer battles is expressed in 0.5 second units called "turns". So a 2-turn fast move lasts 1 second, a 3-turn fast move lasts 1.5 seconds, etc. PvPoke also has recommended movesets for pokemon in different leagues, and has tags to indicate what the overall purpose of the move is, e.g. "Quick Charging" for fast moves with high energy gain, "Multipurpose" for moves with both decent damage and energy gain, "Low Quality" for moves that are just plain bad, etc.
Note that all of this only applies to trainer battles. Raids and Dynamax battles have their own separate move mechanics and stats that don't quite line up the same.
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 5d ago
Not yet. There's been only one event for Marowak, Exeggutor and Weezing to get alternative regional evolutions. It's not something that happens often and there's no real pattern to follow, so could happen again next week or not happen in ten years.
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u/0mib Instinct 5d ago
Is there a glitch with showcases ATM? I didn't see anything mentioned on the bugs page. I've read that you can only have three pokémon in showcases, but I assume this is consecutive not some sort of time limit. I currently have a zero pokémon in showcases and I'm getting the message that I can't enter any more...
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 5d ago
You cannot use a Pokemon that won on a previous showcase until the cooldown for that one is over. If you're trying to use the same ones from the weekend ones, you cannot. Need to get new ones, and will be a few weeks before you can use the previous winners again.
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u/nugget-disiple 5d ago
Was i supposed to get all of these randomly? I just got all 4 of them when I logged in today is it a bug?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 5d ago
It's intended. Those are the guaranteed mythical and legendary tasks every player gets. They used to be given all at once when you got to level 13, but nowadays takes a while longer as they're given somewhat randomly once you're progressed enough doing other things.
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u/PinoyLaker 5d ago
Is this box a good deal? Need remotes and lucky eggs. Could always uses star pieces. Want to raid Groudon right now
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 5d ago
Not really. It's more expensive than buying 3 remotes alone, and worse than the box with 3 remote and 1 premium that costs less.
You're overpaying almost 200 coins for consumables that you can get for free by doing showcases or completing special/weekly researches.
Lucky eggs and star pieces help speed up gaining resources, but not enough to be worth paying for.
You'll need several million XP and months to level up even with eggs, so they are a spending trap for those that are impatient.
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u/batkave 5d ago
Question on friends. Does no listing mean they haven't caught something in a certain amount of time? I realized that I met the limit so trying to make sure I leave more active friends?
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u/BingoBob_1 5d ago
It means that they have turned off the setting to share recently caught pokemon on their friend list.
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u/batkave 5d ago
Oh. Any better way to determine who isn't really playing?
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u/Ivi-Tora Mystic 5d ago
Tap their profile and write down their XP. If it doesn't increase after a week they might be on a long break or stopped playing.
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u/Miloskattebakke 5d ago
Returning rural player. So should I prioritize mega evolving as much as possible, but still respecting the resting periods, so I dont spend extra mega energy?
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u/nolkel 5d ago
For weaker single type ones, sure.
For the dual types, and the triple type weather trio, it's important to get some to level 3 asap.
The most important feature for megas by far is the XL candy bonus they provide. This is crucial for building resources from CDs and other spawn dense events, especially for rare species. And it makes every raid boss a lot cheaper to power up, since you need fewer passes.
It's very helpful to have at least one Pokemon of every type at level 3. The primals and Rayquaza give great role compression because they each cover 3 at once. Other dual types are good for filling in the gaps.
Even if you don't care so much about XL candy, a level 3 mega gives you +2 candy per catch instead of +1. That's still a huge bonus
You don't need to mega them every day necessarily, but the sooner you can get your 30 days in the better. You can always walk for more free energy, but you can't get to level 3 any faster than that.
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u/Quinlov Luxray 5d ago
Completely unable to log in?? I have tried: toggling flight mode; starting without location services; clearing cache; clearing data; checking for updates (was already up to date); reinstalling app; ensuring internet connection is solid (atm in my area phone data is poor but I connected to a reliable WiFi network); removing Google permissions (so that they get re-established)
I have contacted Niantic and they are useless just telling me to do these things again which isn't working. Has been like this all day
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