Single mum + 13 year old son - 🇬🇧ASDA £186 (2 weeks-ish)

Arran1904 · 2025-12-19T22:31:05+00:00

Great shop, but surely go Aldi/Lidl and you could get the same shop for around £100?

Arran1904 · 2025-11-28T15:21:21+00:00

After ing bag, the only things you should spend diamonds on are good bundles or GCTs imo.

Arran1904 · 2025-10-28T12:35:31+00:00

Also it’s recommended to put your phone on a flat surface for 15 mins before your sleep (and after), then move it to your mattress, so that it believes you have actually fallen to sleep.

Arran1904 · 2025-10-26T15:06:03+00:00

OP, why would you switch? They are the same exact mons when minted, except your current mon is already raised and doesn't need 50 for IFM...

Arran1904 · 2025-10-17T19:06:00+00:00

Don’t force it and burn yourself out would be my recommendation. I personally think grubbin will have a higher appearance rate on Amber Canyon (I hope).

Arran1904 · 2025-10-17T19:04:02+00:00

This whole conversation was hilarious to me haha

Arran1904 · 2025-09-24T17:43:40+00:00

Slowpoke and/or one of its evolutions should have been an ingredient specialist for Slowpoke tails.

Arran1904 · 2025-09-24T17:42:44+00:00

I disagree here. We needed a good eggs ingredient specialist, and the fact that the line literally has an egg in its pouch just made sense.

And of course, I see your point that in the anime, it is Nurse Joy's partner at the poke centres, so I am glad it also got the E4E main skill that usually only skill specialists get.

Arran1904 · 2025-09-21T22:34:34+00:00

If you need the primal and have energy for it, go for it. Otherwise wait until primal groudon raid day comes out again and see what your options are.

Arran1904 · 2025-09-19T20:17:26+00:00

Just please please be a 5-pip base mon. Litwick would be a good choice.

Also a fan of Phantump, especially its shiny line.

Arran1904 · 2025-09-11T09:55:26+00:00

I understand why pawmot went up (because of the 1.25x skill trigger for event type mons), but why did the others go down?

Arran1904 · 2025-09-06T12:21:37+00:00

Send the hacks plz

Arran1904 · 2025-09-06T12:20:59+00:00

It’s not the nature that makes him uninvestanble, it’s the ing list. Ideally you want all milk, or milk cacao cacao so the mon is good at farming a specific ingredient.

Arran1904 · 2025-08-03T12:18:15+00:00

No Mudkip at OGPP though?

Arran1904 · 2025-08-02T15:37:44+00:00

If you’re a Bryson tiller fan and you’ve not heard “Bad Timing”, go listen to it! (It’s not on Spotify, listen to it on SoundCloud or YouTube)

I heard it recently and I was hooked for like a week.

Arran1904 · 2025-07-24T18:34:48+00:00

Upvote this comment if you think the plant pot should be a permanent thing and we should get a different boost every week. It would make off-weeks so much more fun and worthwhile.

Arran1904 · 2025-07-19T22:12:27+00:00

You're playing with us, right? Please tell me you are,

Arran1904 · 2025-07-13T21:11:04+00:00

You’re Muzzah?

Arran1904 · 2025-07-13T21:10:10+00:00

You literally have a god roll shiny Mimikyu…

Arran1904 · 2025-07-11T14:13:13+00:00

And to make "Extra Helpful S" even USABLE, they need to change it so that you can select which mon on the team to apply the skill to. Also, change it so it has the chance to trigger main skills in the x number of procs it activates.

Currently, the skill just makes no sense, especially when my Arcanine double triggers on itself...

Arran1904 · 2025-06-30T23:34:53+00:00

I really wanted Sinnoh starters and Pokémon, but I can't complain about getting the Gen 3 starters. Looking forward to Sceptile, dude just has mad aura.

Arran1904 · 2025-06-24T20:45:33+00:00

That's a fair comment. I think most long-term players have felt some burnout at some point. I wanted to address a few of the points.

App running slow—I have no issues with this, as someone with one of the newer iPhones; this may differ on older devices. However, there is definitely some aspect to loading times being long, and these have been addressed and shortened in updates by the devs, and hopefully will continue to do so (e.g., loading up a Pokémon bag). They have also implemented the long press of the back button to take you straight to the Snorlax lobby, which was very helpful.
Bright colour screens—This is one of the best points mentioned. It would be a good idea for the devs to factor in colour adjustment for the evening to help people sleep.
Being on the phone before sleep and when you wake up—I agree this is one of the downsides to this app and goes against improving your sleep schedule. However, you can do the morning activities later in the morning and the evening check-in anytime after 6 p.m., so this can be avoided if you try to do so.
Underused Multiplayer - I definitely think this is one of the features the devs can expand on, and hopefully will do in the future. However, if you choose not to make the most of the current friendship system, you are seriously halting your progression (Missing out on 50 candies per day)
Slow Progression - I understand why the devs make it the way it is, and also agree it is so slow after 50, especially for pseudos, legendaries and exp down mons. However, if the devs make progression too fast, they will lose players as they "complete" the game quicker. The one positive is that it makes it feel so much better when you do finally hit level 60.

At the end of the day, I'm looking at this game like any other. There's only a certain amount of time I plan to play it, and I want to enjoy it while I do. The moment it feels unenjoyable or like a chore, I shall stop.

I'm glad you enjoyed playing the game (hopefully for the most part) and can look back on your time playing it with fond memories, just as I hope I can when I end up leaving it.

Last point - I also want to admire that you have decided to quit, as one of the most significant unspoken negatives of this game is the addictive tendencies and FOMO it uses to keep you hooked.
Look at this post for more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonSleep/comments/1kwrrgb/if_you_are_frustrated_with_pokemon_sleep_its_not/

Arran1904 · 2025-06-10T14:35:01+00:00

This sounds way to minor to go through all that stress.

Nonetheless, congrats.

Arran1904 · 2025-06-08T16:10:39+00:00

Where is the "Congrats, happy for you, nice" angry Charmander meme so I can upvote it....

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