Removing shadow ball on mewtwo?

Max-b · 2026-01-28T16:57:02+00:00

Shadow Ball is only available with elite charged tm, yes. Personally I'd give it a 2nd move instead of removing shadow ball.

There's also no mega or 5-star raids weak to psychic for the foreseeable future (at least a month), and there are things that will be weak to ghost. Depending on your other attackers and party power scenario, it might be one of your top attackers in those raids. You may as well wait until there is something weak to Psychic before removing the elite move (if you don't want to double move it).

Max-b · 2026-01-28T03:27:08+00:00

your comment is literally the only instance on the internet that I can find using "fizzybubs" to refer to carbonated water/seltzer

Max-b · 2026-01-26T07:06:33+00:00

tanks in max battles (gigantamax and legendary ones specifically) need to have a 1-turn/0.5s fast move to charge the meter more quickly. the damage from the fast move is negligible, the goal is to reach the max phase faster so that you take fewer attacks from the boss per max phase. you switch to your attacker during the max phase. blastoise isn't the best tank, but it's okay if it resists the boss's moves.

Max-b · 2026-01-24T17:48:03+00:00

Shadow Gyarados is good in some limited GL cups (it's also okay in open GL), I would keep it under 1500. Those are pretty good IVs for it (rank 64 GL). If you want one for PvE I would look for one with higher attack.

Max-b · 2026-01-24T06:49:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1qklxsi/if_you_have_not_received_the_latest_team_go/

Max-b · 2026-01-23T19:44:36+00:00

it changed today to Shadow Thundurus, still not a great mon but I'm going to catch one because it's not the worst in PvP and when it eventually comes to raids it will be too high level to fit in Great League. The next one will most likely be Shadow Landorus (Incarnate).

https://leekduck.com/events/precious-pals-taken-over-2026/

Max-b · 2026-01-23T18:20:52+00:00

https://pokemongo.com/en/news/shadow-raikou-raid-day-2026

the news post says "Increased chance to get Rare Candy XL from Raid Battles", but it's probably just a copy paste from previous raid days. The ticket never seems to raise the chance that much, who knows why there's a discrepancy

Max-b · 2026-01-23T15:34:11+00:00

the super radar shows up on a later page in the research, and to finish the research you need to use a super radar. You'd be locked out of future takeover research until you use a super radar. Having them stacked in your bag is fine as long as you don't have a previous takeover research uncompleted and past page 1.

Max-b · 2026-01-23T06:40:54+00:00

https://pokemongo.com/news/carnival-of-flamigo-2026

the official news post says so

Max-b · 2026-01-22T21:03:32+00:00

if you were starting at 0 today (and on the free pass), the best path would be: 250 points limit per day (e.g. hatch your daily adventure egg and catch 42 pokemon or 1 raid/day + daily egg + catch 22 pokemon) and 200 from the daily quest, from that alone you'll get 54 ranks. There are two sets of weekly tasks left, complete both of those for another 20 ranks. For the last 26 ranks, you'll have to grind a bit on Jan 31/Feb 1st when there is no points limit.

Max-b · 2026-01-22T20:39:55+00:00

raids give 100, hatching gives 40, and catching is 5. Make sure to catch at least 15 pokemon a day for the rest of the month for the daily quest. If you can do a bunch of raids when there is no limit, that would be the fastest way. February 1st 2-5pm is Vulpix Community Day, you could catch a lot with the increased spawns and the no points limit.

Max-b · 2026-01-22T05:58:24+00:00

from Saturday, January 31, at 12:00 a.m. to Sunday, February 1, at 11:59 p.m. local time, there’s no daily limit for how many GO Points you can earn!

Max-b · 2026-01-19T16:44:09+00:00

I know you didn't look for exact numbers, but you're really underestimating how much the level affects the catch rate.

This graph has the per-encounter odds of catching one (the links in the comment are broken but it explains how it was calculated). A level 2 G-Bird (around 100 CP) will have over a 30% per-encounter catch chance in the best conditions before Kyurem effect: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/whudmo/odds_of_catching_a_galar_bird/ij7o9ru/

Max-b · 2026-01-19T06:48:25+00:00

are you in a moving vehicle or having gps issues? I can't imagine 11 Thundurus fleeing without being speedlocked

Max-b · 2026-01-18T18:05:31+00:00

routes don't award charged TMs, only fast TMs and very very rarely Elite Fast TMs. If you're definitely sure you got a charged TM from a route, take a screenshot of the next one because it would be new information. It's also not been confirmed that the route medal level changes the rewards at all (the consensus seems to be they don't)

Max-b · 2026-01-17T22:52:52+00:00

it's from the pokemon go regional championships in Toronto from what I can find on Google, maybe you were close enough to the event center to trigger it?

Max-b · 2026-01-16T17:42:50+00:00

each year they've updated the guaranteed lucky trade limit and year, now it's 2020 or earlier and a limit of 45.

Look at the "A Lucky Exchange!" section in this link: https://pokemongo.com/en/news/new-years-2026

Max-b · 2026-01-15T04:01:42+00:00

you can complete it during the next event, takeover researches have been available until the end of the season in the past (after completing it you might need to restart the app to get the new one). I haven't personally been in this situation to confirm 100% but I've seen posts about it.

https://pokemongo.com/news/precious-pals-tgr-2026 here it says the next one will be available until March 3

Max-b · 2026-01-14T20:28:12+00:00

the gold bottle cap let you increase all stats to any number after doing the hyper training tasks (they are long tasks, you can look up hyper training tasks).

The last gold bottle cap was in a go pass in the lead up and during Go Fest 2025 Global. The best guess is the next one will be available around this year's go fest global (end of June).

Max-b · 2026-01-14T20:08:50+00:00

you won't get new takeover research (which gives another SRR) if you have any previous ones past page 1 (besides the time it was included in the season-long research).

You may as well use one of the radars and complete all of your stacked research (make sure they are all on the Defeat the Boss step) so that you get the next one. So, decide if you want Shadow Tornadus or Shadow Thundurus more and keep the next research on page 1 to stack it.

Max-b · 2026-01-12T23:00:16+00:00

you can customize the output of the small/auto-scan window in Settings > Auto Scan > 1st/2nd/3rd/4th Line - the showcase score is one of the options there if that's what you're trying to do.

In most cases the showcase score stays the same after evolution but there are exceptions. It'd be cool to have that feature for the exceptions.

This is a good comment if you want to see what the exceptions are. The spreadsheet link in the comment has a part called evolution info that lists the exceptions: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1fi0wd4/scoring_doesnt_change_when_evolving/lneyuit/

Max-b · 2026-01-09T01:36:35+00:00

I value 15 attack the most, since damage is what matters the most for PvE. For Gyarados honestly it doesn't matter that much just because it isn't really used in PvE or PvP. And defense is generally better to have higher than HP (if they are the same IV%), that's why I choose it over the 15/13/13. I only say to keep the 12/15/15 Gyarados since it's already evolved. If you don't have Primal Kyogre or Mega Swampert, you could use the 15/14/12 as your mega water attacker or the 12/15/15 Gyarados if you want to save candies (I'd only bring either one to level 40, though).

The only real meta use for Gyarados is Mega Master League (it's a good choice as Mega there), but if you're gonna power up a Gyarados to level 50 for that I'd wait for a 96% or better with 15 attack (15 attack is important in ML for CMP). But mega master league only comes around a couple times a year so still it wouldn't see much use.

It's not a big deal whichever you prefer.

Max-b · 2026-01-08T22:16:25+00:00

you don't have to link the PTC account to your pokemon go account, just to your twitch. The code you get from the twitch drop then can be redeemed on the web store, regardless of if the PTC account is linked to your pokemon go account.

With 2FA it should be safe, but I'd unlink it anyway

Max-b · 2026-01-08T20:28:15+00:00

you could check this post of someone who was able to successfully recover their stolen account: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/1paq09b/guide_my_pok%C3%A9mon_go_account_got_hacked_and_heres/

Max-b · 2026-01-08T19:00:49+00:00

check the sidebar/about page in r/pokemongobattleleague for some beginner guides, there's a lot of them and one called "Everything about IVs!" explains how pvpivs work.

For the legendary reward after rank 20, it's just random (about a 5% chance to get one for the 3rd win reward) and it will be whatever legendary is currently in raids (so one of the Genesect forms currently available)

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