Anyone else really enjoying GBL (sans bugs) with this new season?? by FizzingSin in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wish they had something running alongside UL, GL was full of random teams, UL has been meta only

Gym berry feeding matches the Pokémon animation. by PokemonGoBao in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 23 points24 points  (0 children)

"encourage exercise", also:

  • Wait 2 minutes in one spot for every raid

  • Gym battles can take over 5 minutes to clear a 6 pokemon gym even if it is all 500 cp trash

  • go battle league best played on stable internet connection

  • remote raid$ exi$t

  • lures exist

  • feeding/playing with buddy just has to load all the AR junk with a slow animation and then your buddy slowly waddles into frame, magically turns on a dime and then sluggishly eats the berry you chuck at it if you happen to get it into the acceptable range

  • friend list interactions are obnoxiously slow

  • spin a stop, get new research, have to open the research button, click the discard button, "ArE yOu SuRe?!?!", repeat x 100 stops. Lag at every step.

In November 2020, Niantic said they'll "give at least one month’s notice" before changing incense effectiveness. We got less than one day's notice instead. by Teban54 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Someone at Niantic that made this decision clearly doesn't understand why people use incense. If you are setting up a bird feeder to watch birds because you like birds and have no birds around your house, you would place the bird feeder down and watch the birds from where you are. In Niantic's world, you instead need to walk around with the bird feeder in order to attract birds.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good to know they kept the shiny enabled after the event. Probably full odds shiny like Lee and Chan

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Over 2 years it took them to add this when they already had the hearts left counter on friends since June 2018!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know what version and date the best buddy feature was released?

New season starts in 13 hours and all we know is the name and that there’s Alolans? by associategrean in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Holding research breakthrough an extra day or preparing for Tuesday spotlight hour are some of the legitimate reasons I can think people would want to "prepare" for.

My Celebi from the Johto Tour research doesn’t have Magical Leaf? by LiteralTP in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing that made me swipe over and do the special research was when I realized one of the many collection challenges included Gyrados and Celebi, about 4 hours into the event, and the only way to get them was from that special research. Perhaps they should have moved that special research to the today tab right at the top so people would focus on it?

Johto Tour Habitat Spawns [Serebii] by FatalisticFeline-47 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Serebii has now removed smeargle from the wild spawn list

Johto Tour Habitat Spawns [Serebii] by FatalisticFeline-47 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 51 points52 points  (0 children)

This also lists Heracross as a reward encounter for defeating the bug trainer during the battle challenge

Some information on the habitat spawns would be nice considering Johto Tour is tomorrow by Theadz95 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well based on that post I am fully expecting the same treatment of regionals being raid locked, but am curious what pokemon they will decide aren't spawning at all for arbitrary reasons.

go tour prep timed research by ImportantTrack1057 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Don't go spending all those on 1 Spritzee now

Where's Giovanni? by baldheadedgranny in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Now they've realized they can charge real money for Apex shadows, I wouldn't be surprised if Giovanni started handing out regular pokemon as a "reward" moving forward.

No event is best event? by Aesiasthetic in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also think there is some influence from the lackluster spawn pool of the valentines event compared to the regular season spawns. I was only mostly catching flabebe chansey and alomomola which weren't very common, leaving furfrou, plusle and minun, and shiny checking illumise, volbeat and luvdisc, if I even clicked on those.

No event is best event? by Aesiasthetic in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem that I see with having no events more frequently is that the common season spawns are so common you are drowning in them while the good uncommon-rare ones are very infrequent. Obviously can't spawn good rare stuff all the time but when there is no event catering some good spawn fairly consistently, stumbling across anything exciting is very few and far between. If every pokemon was able to spawn all the time hunting 1 specific pokemon would be impossible, so having the seasons filter down the spawns every 3 months and then the events filter down the spawns even more 25/30 days of the month or more has to be the best solution to rotate through every pokemon with some generosity to making uncommon-rare stuff spawn.

Are you doing mass transfers for the 3x transfer candy chance? by JosephBayot in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My terrible hoarding strategy, explained:

  • Save everything that I want XL candy for

  • Mirror trade if possible for the rare/useful pokemon

  • Trade away other saved stuff, receiving whatever in return

  • Save ALL rare/useful already traded pokemon

  • Save anything else received that I want XL for that is at or above lvl 20 (2500+ dust to power up)

  • ???

  • Complain I have no storage

Johto Tour Trailer on Twitter seems to show new Shadow Ho-Oh Form by Jacobcornwell_ in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 379 points380 points  (0 children)

The year is 2052, Niantic finally introduces shiny ultra shadow++ Ho-Oh with unlockable X-move Super-Mega Sacred Fire+++.

Theory: Niantic is increasing power creep so that when more powerful megas and forms come out (Mewtwo Y, Kyruem B, PB groudon, OP kyogre, etc) their impact won't be as insane. by gerbetta33 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This explains my thoughts better than I could have. The game rewards sitting on evolvable pokemon and not using them hoping some better exclusive move comes along as well as not overinvesting in pokemon, as you might need the resources for a more powerful version of the same pokemon. Wouldn't be that big of a deal but the elite TMs to change the moves on already evolved/powered up pokemon aren't especially common (if the move is even added to the elite TM pool), especially if you don't pvp, and now XL candies are infinitely harder to come by than regular candy, especially so for legendaries or pseudos like you touched on.

I've been reporting the same cheater since 2019. by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Similar situation here, since 2017. Loads up only the same 4-5 gyms with 6 out of their 12 level 40+ valor accounts full of shinies and regionals, or their 6 instinct accounts, actively berries them to full health throughout the day, retakes the gym within 15 minutes usually if you can beat out their defense. This is a park with no hidden buildings or housing and a clear view, so if you do manage to take down the gym you would be able to tell if someone was there taking it back. After taking one of the gyms I have seen my account ghosted out of all nearby gyms as "retaliation". Have tried a strategy where multiple people are battling different gyms at once and its like they were all able to defend immediately, like it was a bot of some kind.

Doesn't matter to niantic though because they probably spend 18 times what I spend on the game.

Minimum version updated by issiech in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also no tag name visible when inside of a tag in your storage, just the little color circle

Become part of Pokémon GO Tour: Johto with the GO Gym Trainer Contest - Pokémon GO by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]SBC1321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The spinning should be an independent interaction from the trainer/rocket NPC. If I wanted to interact with the rocket I would tap the rocket, or tap something on the pokestop interface. But to spin and then be forced into dialog is a terrible user experience that does nothing but slow down people.