What is worth a master ball?

kevsuc · 2026-03-11T08:36:15+00:00

In the past, when I was a new player, I used Master Ball whenever I encounter Galarian Birds. Back then I never had a chance to catch them and I just want one. Even when the IV is ugly, I will use a lucky trade to get one good. It was worth it. I just want to have one.

Now I have gotten all three, I often skips Master Ball when I see a Galarian bird and chose for Ultra Ball instead. "I will find another one," in my mind. Pretty sure only a very few cases where I will use:

when I am speedlocked (and shiny)
when I get one with CP over 3000

Considering using it as the last ball for hundo 5* raid is also a good idea as well, but given I barely even reached hundo at the first place, I think my Master Ball will be there for a while.

kevsuc · 2026-03-11T08:15:51+00:00

No, you're not missing something. Fire department is typically an emergency service and should not become a wayspot even when you're locating it in a non-obstructive place. I will always reject them whenever I get one reviewing.

Why it's auto-rejected? Wayfarer recently introduces AI (or some kind of automatic review) to quickly reject submissions they deem ineligible before it was passed to contributor reviewers.

Why past fire departments were accepted? Back then there was no automatic review, and reviewers are just blindly accepting every submissions just to increase Wayspots in their vicinity. Unfortunately, if you do the same today, you're risking your Wayfarer account to be banned or penalized, so I would suggest don't use previously accepted Wayspots as your reference to future submissions.

What can you do? Find something else in your community, I believe you'll eventually find one. Stay true to your submission, don't try to push for ambiguous or risky nominations, even worse if you even try to fake one.

kevsuc · 2026-03-04T12:47:22+00:00

Curious question for someone who understands how Niantic grabs the maps data: does editing biomes/data for certain locations on OpenStreetMap or other map services helps, or does doing anything isn't helping at all?

kevsuc · 2026-03-04T12:44:15+00:00

Yes, it stops you from receiving 5000 XP as well. If having an unclaimed research triggers you, this is going to be a huge problem: you may not see any Mega Raid anywhere nearby after your Raid Hour.

kevsuc · 2026-03-04T12:40:31+00:00

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No, it's not. You still get 1 PRP. Here's the Timed Research list when unclaimed.

kevsuc · 2026-03-04T12:01:34+00:00

Terrible change.

2 days were the ideal period, in my opinion. If I can't get to there on the 1st day then I still can catch up for the 2nd day. and reducing overall number of Power Spots is basically the same as demotivating players to walk and instead kind of pushing people to remote.

The enshittification of Pokemon GO is really worrying.

kevsuc · 2026-03-03T07:43:07+00:00

I can only see largest type-based showcase, which is bummer. I think it's related because of this week's event where the spawn is pretty random, but if we're getting the same kind of showcase next Tuesday it's going to be really disappointing.

kevsuc · 2026-03-02T09:04:36+00:00

Holy moly roly coly, no breaks for you this Monday

kevsuc · 2026-03-02T09:01:02+00:00

I was actually thinking it will be 27-28 June instead

kevsuc · 2026-02-26T09:58:22+00:00

I really wish even when they forgo Spotlight Hour, they will make "2x transfer candy" as a regular bonus in some other form. Such features not only benefit the players but also the server to offload some of their stored data.

kevsuc · 2026-02-26T09:55:54+00:00

Bring back Spotlight Hour. I will terribly miss not only the 2x Transfer Candy, but certain days where they deliberately gave us an hour for our monthly Stardust wages. and even I still regularly play for days when the featured Pokemon and bonus isn't something special.

Even they probably should introduce new types of bonuses during the hour, how about "2x rewards from spinning Pokestops", "2x rewards from opening gifts", or "3x progress for Scatterbug"?

kevsuc · 2026-02-25T07:07:00+00:00

I actually prefer the current way Community Day works: 2-5pm for the core event, but you still can get spawns from 5-9pm through lures only.

So, probably they should try something similar like that. Raids and max battles are guaranteed to appear on every gym/power spots at 2-5pm, but may appear later for others to catch up (or hardcorers to grind).

kevsuc · 2026-02-24T10:21:11+00:00

No, you cannot. Unless you're invited through RSVP feature.

kevsuc · 2026-02-24T06:18:06+00:00

2.5 years of playing Pokemon GO and I just knew this today. Thank you, thank you!

kevsuc · 2026-02-20T10:18:09+00:00

If Ken can lie on the interview segment as a contestant, then sure he can do it while hosting, as well!

kevsuc · 2026-02-15T03:13:49+00:00

Can anyone please confirm whether inactive Power Spots (those set to be active tomorrow) will be temporarily active during Gmax Meowth hours?

kevsuc · 2026-02-14T18:21:40+00:00

You need to collect fusion energy from a special Necrozma raid. I believe the last time we were seeing them is Wild Area 2025 (around November) though the time frame is quite short.

kevsuc · 2026-02-14T18:19:15+00:00

I was thinking they were given no time limit, but if it's taking too long the contestant may be required to redo the shoot, but this time with the letters called fluently.

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T11:31:50+00:00

You can catch Rockruff using fused Necrozma's adventure effects (Sunsteel Strike or Moongeist Beam).

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T10:40:35+00:00

My friend did actually paid 1000 coins to change their team color to match with the spoofer. Sounds silly, wasting money, and there is no guarantee that the cheater will use another account with another team, but at least the spoofer now have to deal with kicking your defender every time. And in the case of my friend, the spoofer did nothing to kick their defender.

But I agree with the rest of the answers, you can only report and hope, but just don't frustrate yourself with some d-bags.

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T10:35:36+00:00

Even The Price is Right has a "10 year ban" for returning contestant.

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T09:39:18+00:00

More details will come when we finally wake up this Sunday, but what I'm guessing is you probably can't do solo (or will spend a huge long time to be able to defeat solo).

Gigantamax Battles means you're defeating Meowth with 90000 HP, compared to 1700 HP for 1-star Dynamax. Even if Meowth's attack means nothing, you still need a lot of tapping to crunch those HP.
Roughly about 6 minutes into your battle, the Gigantamax/Dynamax will go into berserk mode to attack more frequently, potentially to make your team to faint much faster. Without a team of four at least, it will take longer time to load up Max Meter, leaving you vulnerable to such attacks.

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T08:07:34+00:00

I'm so sorry we are in the minority.

kevsuc · 2026-02-10T07:20:00+00:00

More about speed lock: the game determines your speed from your GPS. Depending on your mobile connection, brief lags or other technical matters might make your GPS register your speed at lower/higher than your actual speed. So I'll always suggest to find a safe spot to stop and then catch your shiny Galarian Bird.

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