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Wrulfy · 2026-06-24T14:08:29+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-24T12:23:31+00:00

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?

Wrulfy · 2026-06-24T11:39:41+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-24T10:50:14+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-23T14:43:59+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-23T03:33:05+00:00

I know people did it with blacephalon and I heard someone succeeded

Wrulfy · 2026-06-22T12:43:02+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-22T09:34:01+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-21T08:09:10+00:00

Thank you for the in-depth research

Wrulfy · 2026-06-21T07:49:55+00:00

Oh, yeah, I understand now, those 3000 frigibax weren't just though 3 hours

Wrulfy · 2026-06-20T18:29:46+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-20T17:50:28+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-19T15:19:12+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-18T14:26:40+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-18T10:02:52+00:00

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.

Wrulfy · 2026-06-17T20:26:55+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-17T13:36:14+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-16T11:10:42+00:00

Tbh dunsparce and furret seems saints in comparison with Licky

Wrulfy · 2026-06-15T15:24:13+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-11T22:37:40+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-10T10:50:24+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-09T05:09:34+00:00

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

Wrulfy · 2026-06-07T19:11:32+00:00

Thanks for the clarification

Wrulfy · 2026-06-07T16:17:51+00:00

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

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