Thanks everyone. I have a decent spawn site at my house. It just wasn't giving a good variety. I used three incense yesterday and was able to eventually get to research level 4. I just ran them while playing with the kids and doing stuff around the house.

I read that the crashing on iOS and excessive battery drain has something to do with Adventure Sync. Turned it off last night and didn't have a crash today. Still getting excessive battery drain though

I don't understand how/why they can't test better. I'm running stock Android on a pixel, and basically every iPhone is on the same OS. I know there are done hardware differences, but JFC it wouldn't be that hard. They've literally made billions on this game, but can't be bothered with testing updates?

I run Azu in the lead, Haunter as a safe switch, and Registeel in the back.

The last nine leads I've encountered have been 3 Bastiodon, Meganium, Venusaur, Azu, Shiftry, Alolan Raichu, and a Tropius...other than Bastiodon and Azu all hard counters to my lead. Crazy.

Your opinion...

So I waited until lv30 to start completing the Special Research in hopes the rewards would be higher ranked mon. The first completion was to find and defeat Giovani. Took forever to find him but I just beat him and received a shadow Entei. His numbers are not that great, but he sets up pretty good for GBL. Here is what I have

Shadow Entei at 1204cp with Fire Spin. He would purify to 2357. I have 6 candies + 150 rares.

What would you do? Remember, my database is nowhere near as good as yours.

Would you...

1. Leave him at Shadow for Great league. Maybe switch to Fire Fang with a higher quick move damage.

2. Spend 14 rares to Purify and use in Ultra.

From my research, he is not that great, according to pvpoke, therefore, I might be leaning towards leaving him shadow.

Leave him.

FYI Research rewards are all level 15. The only thing that happens at level 30 is that wild spawn IV's are all the same for lvl 30+ players. Lvl 1-29 get random rolls, so players get different IV's when they encounter the same wild spawn.

I agree, leave him.

Also here to say leave him and don't use him for GBL.

thanks

The lag and bugs in gbl are absolutely unplayable. Winning and losing are just ****ing random.

I've haven't had any major issues lately.

Hatched my Groudon tonight. Decent. Used the candy to power up my shiny. Up to 3600+.

I have. My last few sets have been terrible. Bad lag that throws off timing or forces me to take extra damage. Switching taking multiple tries. Charge moves not firing, forcing me to take extra damage or burn shields. The aforementioned win turning into a loss. It's like playing with a constant handicap.

I had a fun team with A-Raichu but with the lag and overtapping issues I've had to shelve that team.

These issues are really putting a damper on the fun this season so far.

Last three games I've faced Galvantula, Victrybel, and Shadow Victrybel. The matchmaking is so frustrating. I lose lead like 80% of the time.

It's also infuriating when the stupid mini game cuts out halfway through and you're stuck with a 50% or 75% charged attack.

I just downloaded this for my 5 year old son to get him into taking walks with me and getting outside of the house.

I collect Pokeballs while I am on my morning runs, there is a string of about 10 pokestops I can hit up on the way there and hit the other 6 or 7 on the way back.

Other than catching pokemon, he seems to understand that he only needs 1 of each, what should he be doing? There is a gym about half a block away, but im not sure what to do there.

BadMoonRisin said:

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I just downloaded this for my 5 year old son to get him into taking walks with me and getting outside of the house.

I collect Pokeballs while I am on my morning runs, there is a string of about 10 pokestops I can hit up on the way there and hit the other 6 or 7 on the way back.

Other than catching pokemon, he seems to understand that he only needs 1 of each, what should he be doing? There is a gym about half a block away, but im not sure what to do there.

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You need to catch multiple of each for the candy to evolve. You can put things in the gym staying at lvl 5 I believe. If it's not your color, you can battle the stuff in there. I doubt you can compete with it at low levels unless there's a handicap (there might be). Wait for it to get changed to his team and then drop things in for coins to use in the shop.

You can do a lot in this game, or a little. He's 5, so he'll probably stick to the basics. He'll eventually need to deal with inventory management and Pokemon storage. And, he can be excited for the occasional shiny that will come his way.

As for the gym, once he reaches level 5 and chooses a team, he can try to take it down (unlikely at that level), or drop Pokemon if it's the same team and has fewer than 6 defenders already. When it gets kicked out, he'll get some coins, when over time will let him decide what to buy out of the shop.

Raids are going to be too much for him without a lot of outside help.

At that age, he's going to do a lot of things that we adults would consider mistakes - deleting shinies, evolving low-IV things. Don't let it get too complicated for him.

Thanks!

Just lost 5 GBL battles in a row. Literally every team I faced had a Skarmory and Altaria, both of which are pretty much indestructible all of a sudden. I had built up a decent winning streak with my Venusaur/Moltres/Azumarill team

Had a pretty good run tonight. Just finished 4-1. Last battle was iffy and I was pretty sure I was going to lose at first. He got a decent matchup of stunfisk vs my poliwrath and shield baited me with a mud shot. Then he switched to wigglytuff. I switched to registeel, and my opponent didn't block a flash cannon against his wigglytuff. KO'ed it and kept me in. His stunfisk knocked my regi out after that, and then I took care of it with hitmonchan. Luckily I got 2 or 3 power up punches in and burned my last shield to avoid a mud shot because his last Pokemon was skarmory. I was partly powered up and got in a powered up thunder punch and some more counters. Skarmory was barely hanging on after that, and my poliwrath came out just shy of an ice punch. I got in one counter and then ice punch finished it.

Sinnoh is going to be tricky to find the right types.

Stuck waiting for a Croagunk to spawn for the Fighting type. Didn't see a single one using an incense this afternoon. A Driftbloom spawned though....of course when it's time to catch a ghost I won't see one for days...

Me too and one just spawned as I was about to reply.

I messed up and missed the Kanto Mewtwo.

Got screwed by lag twice and then got ****ed hard by the 3 shield bug. Niantic needs to get their **** together.

What sinnoh ghost is spawning?

Drifloon mostly.
I caught a Misdreavus oddly enough, but that's probably not common. I've seen some weird spawns today like a Chikorita

Need a steel type. Might have to wait until spotlight hour.

Meltan

Might get a steel via Rocket