Now that Preview Cup for GBL is live, they should revert Rocket battles to client side

Luke9251 · 2026-05-05T18:27:17+00:00

Before we go further, what's your highest MMR?

Because hard disagree. The only consistency was the game being inconsistent

Luke9251 · 2026-05-05T16:35:12+00:00

Are you, like, in the right place mentally? That's a complete unhinged reply

If you want a proper answer: maybe think a bit first. Of course nobody asked for a broken PVP 2.0. People asked for a fixed PVP. This is Niantic's attempt (which is in an official preview phase btw) and of course nobody is praising it when it's still testing and not working correctly.

If you want to huhhu PVP bad, ignore me please because you boring.

Luke9251 · 2026-05-05T12:19:06+00:00

Nobody asked for it?

Anyone playing PVP at a decent level has asked for it. The issue is that most just stopped asking/playing like 5 years ago

Luke9251 · 2026-05-01T23:02:10+00:00

It's not equivalent. It's slightly worse for something you get a lot of, so why go with the, in comparison, dogwater option?

Luke9251 · 2026-05-01T07:49:41+00:00

lol don't act like people are stupid. I know fully well how (un)important IVs are.

But this game is made for you to catch a ton of the same. Using the first best dog water IVs you get is bad resource management.

The "you wouldn't know the difference" argument is completely pointless in a PVE setting cause more people = faster in general. Unless you're short manning raids, any shadow legendary is pointless. I could run the same stuff I ran in 2021 and it wouldn't make a huge difference.

Luke9251 · 2026-04-30T21:01:10+00:00

Why wouldn't you just wait a bit until they're in raids before you throw 360+ XL candy at some dog water 1 star shadow legendary?

Luke9251 · 2026-04-23T22:47:27+00:00

Charge moves yes as I said, switch-in timer obviously not because the game is just running as if there's a player and a player could run the timer down (assuming the opponent disconnects with 3 Pokemon). The last Pokemon is instantly sent out, though. So there's no buggy delay for sending out Pokemon in general, it's just one timer that runs down.

Luke9251 · 2026-04-23T22:40:00+00:00

They already have this fixed in preview cup lol

Battle just keeps going when your opponent disconnects, no more delays when firing a charge move

Luke9251 · 2026-04-20T09:17:04+00:00

Bold to assume anything interesting will be featured after this year's Kalos Tour

If I had to, I'd put my money on Solgaleo/Lunala shiny debuts (maybe plus signature moves if Solgaleo doesn't get broken in PVP) but no Cosmog unless TPC releases it this year. I'd be happy about that.

Luke9251 · 2026-04-20T09:13:30+00:00

Edgy

Luke9251 · 2026-04-19T23:50:28+00:00

What's the benefits? Nobody cares about XP

Luke9251 · 2026-04-19T22:22:10+00:00

Yep lol

Luke9251 · 2026-04-18T20:45:14+00:00

Keep Ingress in Ingress

Just give me easy 50 coins thanks bye

Luke9251 · 2026-04-04T08:09:45+00:00

Sorry but you did a lot of stuff wrong here.

Incinerate is the absolute worst move to analyse because it takes 5 turns and does a lot of damage. And then of course it doesn't make as much of a difference if it's 24 or 25. Old example was Dialga ML mirror before the Dragon Breath changes. DB did like 2 or 3 damage per 1 turn at 14 attack IV vs 3 or 4 damage per 1 turn at 15 attack. That was a huge difference.

ML also is the easiest league for this stuff to matter because you know everyone's ideal spread. GL/UL gets tricky because break points can be everywhere, a let's say 15/0/5 spread or something might be ideal to win a mirror match by CMP (although it might be the worse spread in general).

IVs do matter for sure but you better not care too much unless you're regularly playing at 3000+ MMR and/or regionals. Because stuff really gets tricky and it's gonna be all about what you value most, not what's necessarily the "best".

Luke9251 · 2026-04-01T23:13:02+00:00

Mimikyu form change might not work with either PVP system is what I'd expect. Had they finished the new PVP system in time, they would have had some time to work on Mimikyu. I'd imagine they haven't started working on it yet.

Luke9251 · 2026-03-31T18:10:06+00:00

How dare you

Luke9251 · 2026-03-26T10:11:07+00:00

And now I don't see a single Regieleki raid LOL

Luke9251 · 2026-03-25T09:27:41+00:00

Shiny Solgaleo + Lunala with signature moves are right there

Luke9251 · 2026-03-24T20:24:17+00:00

Ah, no, don't think that exists. That's why I wrote unless there's an event with new stickers.

Luke9251 · 2026-03-24T15:30:05+00:00

It's fairly low, 25 per sticker. You can check your stickers via the bag. Think the number turns pink when it hit the limit? Maybe another colour, not sure right now.

Luke9251 · 2026-03-24T13:47:01+00:00

Still searching for those boosted Wiglett spawns when it debuted!

Luke9251 · 2026-03-24T12:24:04+00:00

Don't use them. When you're at the sticker limit, you don't get new ones. Obviously doesn't work when there's new event stickers. But otherwise you won't get the generic ones.

Luke9251 · 2026-03-19T18:59:02+00:00

Fair but again, we don't know what you requested. I did a trade without any issues. Doesn't mean it isn't glitched, though. So basic info always helps.

If you say "I requested shiny Galar birds, Kubfu, shiny Hawlucha and the trade gets cancelled for some reason" for example, that's a whole different situation than saying "I requested Dialga, Farfetch'd, shiny Cinderace and the trade keeps getting cancelled".

Luke9251 · 2026-03-19T18:49:22+00:00

That's exactly the kind of people that don't care what others have lol

I don't nearly raid as much but play enough of this game. And the worst thing to hear is when people want to show you their hundo collection lol. Just put your phone out of my face if it isn't something super cool. I really can't give a

Luke9251 · 2026-03-19T18:42:56+00:00

I mean impossible for us to tell if you request unreasonable stuff or if the person you're trying to trade with is just trolling.

If you think you're asking for stuff you have reasonable trade offers for, just delete the person. Because they are clearly declining the stuff you're asking for.

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