got the gyspie prince and king, there isn’t a queen to finish my 3? :-)

What does the light blue background represent in the pokemon listing?

that you caught it in the last 24 hours I think

I think you're right. Thanks

Wookie, you interested in an EX raid in Ballston (Arlington) on Monday the 22nd at 5pm? It's my first ex raid invite, but I'll most likely be out of town. I don't have many locals on my Ultra Friends list but want to invite someone so that it's not a wasted opportunity

Pretty sure that is on the opposite coast from me.

Wait really? Thought I had gotten some DC gifts from you and had you as a DC local in my mind. Must have you mixed up, sorry

Yeah I haven't been to DC since friendship has launched. The furthest east I have been in that time is Denver, I think.

Gen 4 is out hype

hype dampened by the fact that it seems to be tons of gen 1/2/3 + a few bidoofs from my journey home from work.

Halloween event is out! And a new raid boss Giratina! Can't wait to catch it and put it in my Pokedex. Do you guys know if Giratina is any good? And also would you like to exchange trainer codes? I could use some extra friends in my friend list

I can't wait for Haloween event. I heard that it's going to be epic. But rumor has spread that all the goodies gonna be launched after midnight, when everybody sleeps, and of course because it is Haloween, night time is more scary than day.

Hoping for plenty of Duskull and Shuppet shinies, missed them last year!

For people that don't know about the newish Adventure Mode feature added to Pokemon Go:

I would recommend everyone to turn on the switch under settings. Especially if you have a smartwatch/fitbit. It uses GoogleFit/Apple Health to measure your steps.

So you no longer need to be running Pokemon Go or even have your phone with you to get credit for walking buddies and eggs.

Nice.

saw that, thought about my battery, passed.

@SRM

Gonna open your gift tomorrow to hit ultra. Have a few others lined up so gonna pop a lucky egg. Hoping to do it around lunch time EST, can post here before I do if you're trying to use a lucky egg too

*best

My wife and I just started and are having a blast with this!

Here are our codes.

0979 6869 7561

1966 6198 5157

Anyone out there looking to get started or get back into it, there is elite pokemoning to be had out there through 11 pm PT Sunday. You'll be swimming in valuable critters, and if you get enough to evolve, they'll have special moves that are otherwise unobtainable.

Priorities:

1. Beldum. Get 124+ candies to evolve a Metagross with meteor mash. With that move, it's one of the best critters in the game of any type, and it's better than even future legendary steel types as they stand now.

2. Larvitar. Tyrannitar with smack down is an elite rock attacker, although its distance over second place is diminished with the release of Rhyperior. Also, upcoming future releases may beat its DPS, but ttar has great bulk. Better still, raiding Ttars right now gives you a ttar with smack down without having to spend the candy to evolve.

3. Bulbasaur. Despite its modest stats, evolving a venusaur right now will give it frenzy plant, the best grass type attack in the game.

4. Charmander. Same as above, but with blast burn, elite fire attack. Also, it's one of the best looking shinies in the game.

5. Dratini. The special move is nothing special here, and Dragonites are somewhat outclassed by current and future legendaries, but it's still a great critter.

The other boosted critters have special moves but aren't all that relevant due to being outclassed.

Shiny rates may be boosted relative to the baseline ~1/450, but they don't seem to be all that close to the usual community day of ~1/25

think i got 12 shiny pokemon from around 250 or so today

I've heard that Beldum and Larvitar and Dratini are all top tier and Charmander and Bulba are a tier below. I've been using my pinaps or the first 3. I don't have any of them though so its all gravy. I'm just going to try to evolve 1 of all the ones that have good CD moves.

One thing i'm struggling with is whether to prioritize high CP, high IV, or lucky ones. I'm thinking lucky ones, higher CP the better. The lucky ones i get from trading yesterday all have over 80% IV so that seems good enough for me. Hard part is whether to know to evolve a level 15 lucky vs a level 25 nonlucky, for example

Started playing on 11/18, am level 29.5 now.

Walked a **** ton this weekend and caught a ton. Here's the haul:

6 Ttar (1 Shiny)
5 Metagross (1 Shiny)
4 Charizard (1 Shiny)
7 Dragonite (1 Shiny)
3 Venosaur (1 Shiny)
2 Blastoise (1 Shiny)
2 Typhlosion (1 Shiny)
2 Meganium (1 Shiny)

Excited to go own some gyms and raids now (hopefully)

Impressive haul sir

I only managed a few hours of grinding and got a shiny pikachu, chikorita and larvitar, the first two being ones from community days i missed.

Shame i didnt get to grind a bit more really wanted a few more

the only bad thing about community days, is its just so boring afterwards.
Ive really lost all my enthusiam the last couple of days with nothing but ****ing barbroaches to catch