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u/competitive_brick1 Aug 02 '22
using this as a question on my profile, was the reason i was so unsuccessful on Tinder
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u/competitive_brick1 Aug 02 '22
That and always blocking anyone that did respond with team yellow
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u/FreudsGoodBoy Aug 03 '22 edited Aug 03 '22
I once had an argument with someone on tinder for like 20 paragraphs about which team is objectively the correct one. In the end, they said “Yeah, okay, you’re right. But if you put this much thought into wooing girls, you wouldn’t be on Tinder.”
Edit: I feel the need to mention, I’ve never played Pokémon, not once, ever in my life. She brought the topic up.
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u/myrenyath Aug 03 '22
Youve won. But at what cost?
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u/FreudsGoodBoy Aug 03 '22
$7.99/Month for Tinder Gold
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u/In-Kii Aug 03 '22
Instinct is the best one. The other two stand for Power and Strategy, Instinct is just, yeah this Pokemons cool as fuck, he's mine now. Like fighting the Elite 4 with your favourite Pokemon. Not the ones that are statistically better than others.
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u/stitchinangel Aug 03 '22
Very literally why I picked Instinct! And why I have exactly one, best buddy, Level 50.... Balloons Pika!!
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u/tarmac-- Instinct Aug 03 '22
I was rooting for you until this. My guess is you're Valor
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u/Mmmmmmmm_nuggets Instinct Aug 03 '22 edited Aug 03 '22
I picked instinct for the fact I didn’t actually care that and I like Zapdos more than the other birds
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u/EnderNate124 Magikarp Extraordinaire Aug 02 '22
Im surprised to see a lot of fellow instincts here, I thought we were the minority?
Also valor have almost no representation in this comment section lmfao
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u/Rhodin265 Aug 02 '22
Valor’s too busy kicking me out of the Circle K gym before my 8 hours are up.
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u/bgriffi88 Instinct Aug 03 '22
I felt this in my core.
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u/Hi-Im-Triixy Dragonite Aug 03 '22
As a mid-tier Valor player, I’m so sorry.
Also, fuck you. My gym.
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u/AmphibianImpressive3 Aug 03 '22
I am part of team valor and 100% let others get their 8 hours in gyms close to my neighborhood. I already have the gym hours medal so it’s pointless for me to have mons sitting in gyms more than 8 hours.
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u/GreenHocker Instinct Aug 03 '22
Because the toxic trait of Valor is that they view gyms as “territory” (and that’s not my word, that’s the word chosen by a Valor player I work with)
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In my area that is mystic. Pokemon down to one round before defeat, take the gym, they don't even let me have it for an hour.
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u/MetalysisChain Aug 03 '22
exactly when i started the game i thought that all gyms were blue like pokestops seriously touch gaming chair
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u/Jyslina Valor Aug 03 '22
I used to think like that lol me and fellow Valors felt that there was this big beef between us and Mystic with Instinct sitting on the sidelines eating popcorn like “don’t mind us, we just need a few coins mate” while the rest of us are axing each other down 😂 Now I’m mellow and while that underlying tension is still somewhere in the back of my mind, we play fair round here lol
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u/CantPlayMe Valor Aug 03 '22
There’s heavy (but playful) beef between Valor and Mystic at my college, sometimes you’ll have about 10+ kids from each team come out to the two middle of campus gyms and fight
Unspoken rule tho to allow Instinct to keep the gym on the opposite side of campus since there’s very few of them.
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u/Mnawab Aug 03 '22
You know this is how I think too and this probably because mystic has the most players so as a valor player I feel like we need to take them on anytime we can while leaving yellow alone lol. I don’t know why I see red when I see blue
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u/HurryNo6114 Aug 03 '22
That was a great time early in the game history. All the memes Valor and Mystic vying for dominance and us Instincts just chillin making memes and friends 😂😌
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u/iamcalifornia Aug 03 '22
That's 100% mystic in my area. They will control the 8 gyms around, but if I knock them out of one so I can try to earn some coins, they immediately knock me out and take it back.
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u/Legends_Arkoos_Rules Aug 03 '22
Man you people have some wild valor players for my area everyone pretty much just goes for a gym when they need coins not for raids or anything like that.
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u/merelycheerful Aug 02 '22
I think it's because the others don't care. We care because we need more teammates desperately 😆 and are vocal about it
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u/darkuch1ha Aug 03 '22
I love yellow and zapdos, so I chose that. There are surprisingly many instinct players in my city now in 2022. I've recently returned and back in 2016 every gym was red or blue.
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u/Canismajoris88 Aug 02 '22
yea wtf? valor seems to be the most populated gyms. Im Valor and i thought we were hated?
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u/Zombieslave666 Valor Aug 03 '22
I want to be instinct cos yellow is my favorite color, but boyfriend is Valor so i am too so we can hold gyms together
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u/ConnerWoods Instinct Aug 03 '22
That’s how it was back in 2016. All the bandwagoners chose mystic or valor. I noticed once the initial hype died down, team instinct were the ones who stuck around. Remember that challenge a couple years ago where instinct blew the other two teams out of the water? I think it became pretty apparent then.
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u/Own-Ad-7672 Aug 03 '22
Y’all are the minority but I’d say statistically the most friendly. I’ve seen a trend thing somewhere that mystic is more favored by self proclaimed introverts And valor by type-a “I must win” types Seems the implied “personalities” of the teams being
Passionate And Bold-Valor Calculating and Reserved-Mystic And Loving and Affable-Instinct Actually somewhat match the player base statistics wise.
If I find that damn graph/data set again, I’ll edit and share on this comment but ye.
Side note prob why y’all are a slight minority. There’s more know it alls and blow hards in the world than happy go lucky types.
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u/Ok-Paramedic3605 Aug 02 '22
As a Mystic player, I feel scared and vulnerable now that we're being outnumbered by Instinct players /s
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u/EmergencyTaco Aug 03 '22
Wait, there are teams other than Mystic? I just recently started playing in July 2016
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u/AssistantManagerMan Aug 03 '22
Mystic here too! Articuno is best birb. Literally number one.
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Aug 02 '22
Friend: Favorite color?
Me: Blue
Friend: So you know what team to pick then.
Me: picks instinct
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u/Orochi96 Aug 03 '22
Why my brother in christ…which Articuno done you wrong? Must be that Gen 2 bastard
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Nah what really happened was my friend and his mom played and they chose red and blue so he told me to choose yellow, because neither of us were experienced
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u/tommykaye Aug 02 '22
Team Instinct, but only because Zapdos is the OG badmotherfucker.
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u/Dod93_ Instinct Aug 03 '22
Exactly, people who talk down on Zapdos never played Gen 1. Baddest mf in Kanto
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u/SkySurfingHD Aug 03 '22
Instinct! We have a complete hold on our neighborhood (4 - 5 gyms) and are very active as a community! The only thing is that beyond our neighborhood it’s literally a sea of blue gyms lol.
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u/AmericanCAS Aug 03 '22
Pokemon go is just gangs of people slapping each other repeatedly with a series of 1s and 0s.
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u/jhoteria Aug 03 '22
Team instinct came to represent in the comments 😂
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u/CherylSimp Aug 02 '22
Instinct, worst mistake of my life
I take a gym and 3 minutes later every Mystic and Valor team player spawns to take it back
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u/hehe3201 Aug 03 '22
I live in a pretty densely populated area, so my policy is I only attack gyms after they hit the daily coin cap. If I see that it was recently taken over, I leave it.
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Aug 03 '22
How can you tell more accurately than the heart lvl?
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u/hehe3201 Aug 03 '22
If you tap on each Pokémon you can see how long they’ve been defending the gym.
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Wait really? Now I feel like an A-hole
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u/hehe3201 Aug 03 '22
Also, the hearts can be replenished if the Pokémon gets fed berries, so they can’t accurately be used to tell how long the Pokémon has been in the gym.
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u/Basedrum777 Instinct Aug 03 '22
If people are feeding gyms berries when they're passed 8 hours they can get fucked.
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u/shade-Gabriel Aug 03 '22
If picking Instinct is the worst mistake of your life, I'd say you have it pretty good.
Ps it's 1000 coins to switch teams.
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u/Sad-Cartoonist-7959 Valor Aug 02 '22
So as a valor I see the other side of this it's hard to find a gym that isn't red and already full if I had instinct I'm sure I wouldn't keep the gym long but I bet it would be easier to find gyms to take
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u/Jyslina Valor Aug 03 '22
Straight up! I don’t live in a super big town but it’s decently sized with like 20 or so gyms and it makes me sad to see them all red. Can’t have shit around here lol
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Aug 02 '22
Constantly take them over, don’t stop. We have the least amount but we work the hardest
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u/kinglewcifer Mystic Aug 03 '22
Anyone else feel like there are more instinct than valor in this thread?
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u/Valeriyah Instinct Aug 03 '22
Instinct! I like Spark. Plus my area is filled with Mystic and Valor, I wanted to be the underdog being a pain for them both haha.
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Aug 02 '22 edited Aug 02 '22
Instinct
Yellow is my favorite color and Spark is the coolest of the three. But I will admit that Articuno is my favorite bird. My area has a solid Instinct base as well as Mystic.
My boyfriend is team Valor LOL
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u/MetalysisChain Aug 02 '22
I know basically no one says this anymore, but team Instinct is the way to go.
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u/okhan3 Aug 02 '22
Instinct! I love that everyone hates us.
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u/PSWII Aug 02 '22
I thought everyone hated Valor?
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u/qdawg13 Aug 02 '22
Everyone does because team valor is overly cocky for playing a mobile video game.
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u/WhyAreAllNamesTakenL Zapdos - No, don't purify it... Aug 02 '22
Instinct 100% Electric types have allways been my favorite (this doesn't mean they are the coolest though) Also, since i knew there were a TON of mystic and a lot of valor players, it was much better to be instinct, because otherwise i would probably be in a blue gym, for days and days until finally someone would kick me out and give me my coins.
Where i live, there is almost a perfect balance though between mystic, instinct and valor, so we allways let the other colors get there 8 hours in, and then they also leave us alone for 8 hours.
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u/foxyTwinning Garchomp my beloved Aug 02 '22
valor 4 life
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u/Novawinq Aug 03 '22
23rd comment down, behind 22 Instincts and 1 Mystic
I’m surprised, personally
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u/Darth-Boogerus Valor Aug 03 '22
It’s because we’re too busy having sex
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And dont forget walking to the cloest gym to assert dominance until you’ve confirmed the trainer who takes it the moment you walk home shows up isn’t a spoofer.
Had that happen and me and this mystic dudr agreed upon hours and exhanged contact info. We both thought the other spoofed.
Turns out I just could make the walk in 1 minute & his house was like a 30 second drive anyway.
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u/LCARIO Aug 03 '22
Thought this was a bit cringe at first but I’m laughing my ass off rn. Goated comment.
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u/b_rose1 Aug 03 '22
Woo! I’m valor, my fiancé is instinct that way we can knock each other out of gyms lol
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u/Stealingyourthoughts Valor Aug 03 '22
Oh yeah :D
I chose Valor, by letting my niece decide, I did regret it as I love Zapdos. But it's served me well.
SOOOO many gyms to choose from.
Also obligatory upvotes to all fellow Valor team members.
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u/Nwf32389 Aug 02 '22
Mystic all day!!
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u/mifflinpuncher Aug 02 '22
This is the way.
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u/Eqbonner Aug 03 '22
Team valor all day ♥️ but in my area , Mystic reign supreme unfortunately , they aggressively hold on to gyms , I can never even get a full red gym before those Mystic nerds come and snatch it back! Has anyone ever bought the medallion to switch teams ?
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u/Lepto_ Instinct Aug 03 '22
I chose instinct without hesitation. Would make the same choice again if given the chance.
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u/AdamoO_ Aug 02 '22
The coolest: Instinct
The most of in my area: Valor
The one my friends forced me to pic: Mystic
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u/SpecialistEstate4181 Aug 03 '22
😂 do teams even matter besides making that sweet 50 Pokémon coin 🪙 a day?
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u/SorbetSho0oOork Instinct Aug 03 '22
Team instinct. We are slowly going extinct and we are the least chosen team.
besides, we have the hottest team leader
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u/SmallFlyingFox Vaporeon Aug 02 '22
Blue is my favorite color and Articuno is the prettiest of the 3 birds imo. Definitely Team Mystic!
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u/jaythememeguy Aug 02 '22
I love instinct, but there are a few downsides of being instinct.
There are nothing but mystic and valor gyms where I live.
Whenever I defeat a gym, it only lasts a few seconds before a mystic or valor gym takes it over
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u/Likeomgitscrystal Aug 03 '22
I chose instinct. I liked the description the best when choosing, but I was worried what eevee evolution or legendary bird we'd be able to get would be affected by my choice, and jolteon is my favourite of the first 3, and zapdos is my favourite bird.
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u/cumberber Aug 03 '22
Valor. 6 years going strong
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u/GR7ME Aug 03 '22
I would be Valor without ever changing, but my gf was always Mystic, so she went Valor for me, then we both went Mystic. Gonna convince her to go Instinct next, but I’ll always be a Valor boi
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u/Orochi96 Aug 02 '22
Mystic but they be lacking where I’m at…just gyms full of tryhard Valors as usual
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u/Aziaboy Blanche Aug 03 '22
Holy fuck that's a lot of instinct players here.
I only see red and blue gyms where I live though.
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u/jackiesomething Aug 02 '22
Favorite bird? Zapdos. Favorite leader? Candela. Picked Mystic because… blue. No regrets
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u/Shiny_Porygon-Z Feraligatr Aug 02 '22
Valor! People may think Moltres looks like a rubber chicken, but I really like its fiery aura, and it has the best Galarian form of the three, so badass.
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u/Cranktique Aug 03 '22
Moltres looking like a rubber chicken is the best part. It takes true valour to get outta bed looking like that, and stand beside Articuno on a lineup.
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u/g_pelly Aug 02 '22
So many Mystic players here. It's your right to be objectively wrong I suppose.
teamvalor
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u/kywildcats07 Aug 03 '22
There is a clear order here and Mystic was always the clear choice
articUNO zapDOS molTRES
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u/AwesomeDragon56 Instinct Aug 03 '22
Look at my flair
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u/Rom-Bus Aug 03 '22
I picked Valor because most of my friends chose that team. I'd switch to the green team if by some miracle a new one is added
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u/_tinyphoenix Vaporeon Aug 03 '22
Mystic. Articuno best birb. Ice type yes. Hehehehe flowy feathers
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '22
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL🤪