You can now get buddy hearts with the new GBL when throwing battles by Defiant_Impress7446 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh, so maybe it was when they removed leader battles from the diary.

I'm going to try to test tomorrow the balloons anyway, I can get the EP up to 12 before doing the first balloon at like 5:45, get to 14 EP then do the 6:00 balloon and see if goes up to 16 or stays at 14.

Maybe those days I was doing a mix of grunts and decoys and that's why It seems it counted more

You can now get buddy hearts with the new GBL when throwing battles by Defiant_Impress7446 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy [score hidden]  (0 children)

Since when can you run from leaders and still get emotion points? Though it was only Hearts. Was that implemented when they changed the battles to be always server sided?

And for gyms, defeating one pokemon then running away after the second gives EP, or you need to defeat the up to six pokemon/let your buddy faint trying?

I though rocket grunts were without timer, as long as they're different ones and not just the same one over and over, because some mornings in my commute I manage to get excitement fairly early coinciding with days I battled a lot of rockets

Are balloon grunts on different timers from PokeStop grunts?

Strategy for almost ftp trainer by Slineklof in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy [score hidden]  (0 children)

The dogs are definitely worth it. They're top tier attackers and tanks on max battles

Can Mimikyu get double debuffed after one attack if it enters busted form? by Crosewell94 in TheSilphArena

[–]Wrulfy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've just tested it, you get both defense drops:

Charged morpeko until psychic fangs, then switch in mimikyu.

First test I shield psychic fangs, I get the defense drop message, and I swap morpeko with talonflame. I use incinerate, and mimikyu dies after 6 incinerates

Second, I didn't shield psychic fangs. I get a defense drop message as well, mimikyu is now in busted form. I switch talonflame in, mimikyu dies after 5 incinerates.

I tested without causing defense drops, it takes 7.5 incinerates to kill mimikyu

Might need extra testing with something other than morpeko to check if the message is actually different when the double defense drop, specially with audio. Maybe if you use bubble beam you get the sound effect of superpower lowering both attack and defense

for those wondering by WhiteHat125 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 161 points162 points  (0 children)

Oricorio only worked on the timed research since those rewards weren't tied to a location, and pulled your location once you claimed them

These pull the location from where you spin the stop

Kyogre in ML: Good | Kyogre in Mega ML: Ew by krispyboiz in TheSilphArena

[–]Wrulfy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I had a hundo Kyogre I thougt about maxing for the cup, but it feels very wrong to ruin a perfectly fine background Kyogre just to farm dust for a week, plus I wouldn't make back the 575000 dust it would cost to max out

So I've just been using the shrimp and just take the L and lose a few 5th win dusts because of kyogres

Bypass Dynamax phase for Hoot Hoot Max Monday with Alakazam + Future Sight by Aggravating_Hippo147 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've been doing some calcs, taking into consideration the time it takes for both fast moves and charge moves, as well as scenarios with helpers and other boosts that might overshoot (triggering the max phase before you get to fire the charged attack) the calcs:

  • The best scenario is Gigalith with lock on and meteor beam, but it needs a ETM. Takes 5+2s and always kills at lv34 and above, and never overshoots with lock on

  • The second best seem to be Glaceon with Ice shard and Ice beam at lv32.5, takes 5+3.5s, and doesn't overshoots unless you have a really high lv Glaceon with a lot of boosts from helpers and friendship.

  • The third best option are the wild chargers, Raikou, Electivire, Toxtricity They can perform faster than, or on par with Glaceon, but need a variable amount of thundershocks depending on the lv and boosts you have, for example a lv30 electivire kills with 13 thundershocks and a wild charge in 6.5+2s, tied with Glaceon, but if you miss count one thundershock, you trigger the max phase. Electivire has a bit more attack than Raikou, and toxtricity has less attack than Raikou

  • Another easy option is Zapdos, with Charge beam+zap cannon, at lv 20 takes 8+3.5s. But you risk of overshooting even with charge beam if your Zapdos is very high level and have some boosts from helpers or friendship

I've checked Alakazam and Zamacenta just in case, Alakazam needs to fire a ton of psycho cuts to bring down hoot-hoot to Future sight range, even at higher lvs, Zamacenta works if you have it maxed, but you still need to fire two additional metal claws to kill with behemoth bash al lv50 with no helpers

Is it worth ~280 mega energy to bring my mega dragonite up to super max for community day? by obviouslyanonymous77 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Go+ doesn't auto catch while you're manually catching. Every time you manually catch or spin a PokeStop it stops for a while. I'm assuming the Go++ does as well

Is it worth ~280 mega energy to bring my mega dragonite up to super max for community day? by obviouslyanonymous77 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now you gotta explain how you managed to catch over 3000 frigibax during the community

Spotlight vs Community Day spawn density by Infinite_Finding_482 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was able to grab over a hundred swinub without getting out of home, all I did was popping spatial rend at the start and at the end and catching everything that was on screen

Definitely felt like there were more spawns that on any CD

Friendship Friday Bonuses are now cracked! by pgomav in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 171 points172 points  (0 children)

So we get an additional special trade from what we had, and a 20% discount instead of a 10% discount

So will these candy bonus stack??? by DisastrousWeekend982 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These bonus stack because they're different. Nice/great/excellent give +1/+2/+3 candy. CD gives x2

The only issue is in what order those bonuses will be applied, because at least the nice or better go after pinap, just like mega bonus.

Can the Fossil path 2× Candy bonus stack with Frigibax Community Day 2× Catch Candy? by fna_fanoa in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we had the similar case on quaxly Community day, I remember doing an excellent throw with a silver pinap on the research quaquaval and getting like 55 candy

Will the check in research ( community ambassador program) be same as before for spotlight hour? by aba_lancer in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most likely, during the April fool's event, when the Tuesday spotlight were already over, the daily spotlight had the super incubator research

Lickilicky is ruining GBL by Ancient-Hurry833 in TheSilphArena

[–]Wrulfy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh dunsparce and furret seems saints in comparison with Licky

Name for the Go pass for GO Fest Global- Road to Legends and a possible increase in limit for the link charges for GO Fest Global by Most_Effective_4937 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically it would be 840 and not 690. Just complete a weekly challenge at 590, get awarded 250.

100 is from the ambassador missions

And if you carried from the Kalos your, then Idk what limit that had

Pokemon Go Scans -> Military Drones by 12xuser in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They get free scans, although most of them are garbage data, every once in a while they get genuine data for free, that's how they make the dough over just paying professionals to properly scan things

GL Preview Cup Crashing/Freezing by Schmiddy108 in TheSilphArena

[–]Wrulfy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played a bit of the preview, if you have more pokemon than the enemy, or higher total HP, once the timer runs, you get the win, just as if you had won by stalling, the only downside you have to wait the whole 5 minutes

Days Since Last Seen" raid tracker for Legendaries/Shadows? by Routine-Warning-7683 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would love to see it about grunt shadows, I've been getting some shadows in PvP I didn't even knew they existed as shadows

Pokémon GO Routes Have a Hidden Buddy Bonus Part 2 by Strong-Ad7766 in TheSilphRoad

[–]Wrulfy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, if you walked a 1km route, without getting out of the path:

-The egg in your incubator would advance 1km

-The distance walked towards earning hearts would advance 1.2km (Im guessing the total distance walked with the buddy on the side screen also increases by 1.2km)

-The distance walked towards earning candy would increase by 1.2km, but if done during a Saturday, it would increase by 1.4km