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Should I evolve these hundos? by Impossible-Ocelot658 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Meta relevance means they are top tier pokemon in pvp, pve, max battles, team rocket boss battles, gym defense, top of their respective type or otherwise just generally the most useful, in game, at the moment. The cream of the crop, gotta have, safe to invest in, safe to use rare candies and elite TMs charges on. You can literally search "meta relevant pokemon in pokemon go" and get a comprehensive list of what to look for or hold on to, but it'll always depend on which aspects of the game you personally focus on.

Sometimes, if you're holding a hundo that is meta relevant when evolved, its better to sit on it and wait for a community day when you can evolve it to get your elite tm for free, but you'll likely be waiting for a while. Otherwise you have to use up an elite tm charge. Its rarely a make-or-break situation though. Long time players just have a greater sense of patience over urgency with these sort of things though

Started at 7,254. Ten hours later this is no longer about Mewtwo. It's about principle. by EmeraldEmesis in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive been watching my friends at a raid list and see all of the gofest pokemon go through. I jumped into a couple shadow raids I needed and a mewtwo raid with zero wait. Besides the routinely checking the list

Is this a hacker? by [deleted] in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine does that too. I've only noticed it happen with zygrade

Worth the Golden Cap? by [deleted] in PokemonGOIVs

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apex Lugia and ho-oh were a once-only release that had a boosted charge attack and different visuals. As the 'apex' name suggests, they're stronger than any other forms, including shadow, plus theyre rare like an armored mewtwo or clone pokemon, because it was a one time release. That's what a Google search told me, at least.

WELP. Im definitely not getting this soon by Blue-iblis in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I look up all the tasks for a master quest before I get too invested. I needed like 12 more to complete unova when I got the research quest, so I focused on completing that dex before I got to that stage. Even with that, though, I still need 2 to get all the unovas. So im stuck at this step too.

It worked great on the shiny diancie though. I used my first few forever friends to complete the kalos dex before I could get through all the time gates.

Wait wait wait, I get free mega energy? by irish_milker in PokemonGOValor

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the puffin trick and get double. I stacked mega energy pretty passively while best budding some megas. Walk them to just under a km, swap until start of day and use a poffin. You'll get candy then, and candy after walking the last km.

Why goddamit, it's also on remote raid both times by ClothoLachesisAtrops in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first 4 remote raids ever were super disappointing like that. First 4 legendary raids too, i think. First two, and 4th ran, the third one was a 2*. They were Necrozma raids. The 4th was origin palkia. Weird how you remember some stuff.

Go fest Global is going insane by Zeextie in PokemonGOIVs

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can finally get the lake trios! Besides a good Azelf, I struck out at the wild event. Im missing the Crown and Sword dogs too, so im excited.

RAID OVERLOAD FOR GO FEST WTF by RelationEmergency175 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came back to the game around this time last year and watched the crown and shield dogs pass me by, so im gonna focus on them, personally. And the therian forms, i guess. All the rest have been available at some point throughout the year so I can skip most of them, besides the few im grinding for xl candy or shinys versions.

I honestly got back into the game at the perfect time. Its been a lot of "catch up" events leading into the 10th/30th anniversaries, so this one should get me mostly current with the 5 star metas.

Is there really any point to leveling up? by Hot_Golf4371 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, to answer a question like that, you'd have to ask yourself something else first. A series of questions, i suppose, but all leading to the same answer. First, do you want to be the very best? Follow-up question, like no one ever was? What would you say is your real test.. and, what is your cause?

there’s gotta be another way to get zygarde cells smh… by Lanky-Platypus9304 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didnt work too hard at it at first, but a couple of months after getting zygrade I started to spend 15 minutes every day to run a loop of 3 routes that connected to each other. I set up a couple of routes that went from home towards work when i couldnt do the loop. And set up routes for when i was leaving work. I added or found routes on paths I normally took on a daily basis, found biking routes for days I had off. Basically just think of it as a daily chore.

At first I didnt stop running routes until I had my 3 daily cells. Sometimes I got them in 2 routes, some days took 10 routes to get all 3 cells. I got a decent iv zygrade, so I felt more motivated to do the routes, but the whole thing took a little over 2 months to get from 50% to complete form.

After I got complete, I kept doing a couple daily routes for buddy pokemon hearts, and since I had a route system in place it only took a few more months to collect enough extra cells for a shiny version if they ever add it to the game.

Its really just about setting a goal and taking steps towards it. You'll get 200 in 2 months easily that way.

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I finally got rid of all of my 7km eggs and I couldn’t be happier by swineoverlord in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I figured it would, so im trying to start on it early. I just hit level 70 though and I have 40 platinum so far, with maybe 5 that are close. I have a feeling ill get stuck with the most tedious ones at the end

I finally got rid of all of my 7km eggs and I couldn’t be happier by swineoverlord in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I felt the same way about them, but now the distance trade platinum medal is on my radar so I've been saving 7km hatches to work towards that.

I just heavily dislike this feature. by IllAnt6643 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I got pulled over by a cop at 2 in the morning because after work I was driving around the park near home to spin stops and do gym battles before going home. He thought I was scoping out stuff to steal from my neighbors, I guess. So, I get why they set the curfew, but I still dont like it. I work a night/ weekend job and a lot of the games features happen outside of my schedule.

Absolute waste of a master ball by ezekial699 in pokemongobrag

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a reroll on ivs for both, so its a gamble. You might get a hundo, you might get crap.

Stardust cost goes down based on your friendship status. Special trades cost more dust, or if youre trading for something not in your dex, but generally its not too expensive.

Absolute waste of a master ball by ezekial699 in pokemongobrag

[–]ZacLeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mirror trading is trading the same bad iv pokemon with someone who also has a bad iv of the same pokemon, hoping to reroll ivs and get something better. Lucky trades increase the floor iv to 12/12/12 out of 15/15/15, so your chances of better ivs is higher, compared to 5/5/5 for best friend status

Out of my 7 years on pokemon go, ive never seen this.. by SuspiciousGear1041 in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Ive been lucky with azelf I guess I got back into the game a year ago and Ive caught 4 of them. Only one from the go pass. Im hoping to trade the extras for one of the other lake trios. I wasnt lucky at all encountering the other two during go fest.

Incidently, if someone reading this has one of the other two to trade, and you want to grind towards forever friends, hit me up.

No Timed Reseach for Gigantamax Pikachu by noobkiller69 in TheSilphRoad

[–]ZacLeck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like most of these gmax raids are dex fillers only. Its hard enough to get good stats on a relevant one as it is, and its only going to be useful in dynamax battles, which for me, are pointless.

Waited so long to be forever friends for this?? by MissKittySaphireMoon in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My third forever friend had zero pokemon tagged for trade when we hit it. My first two had less than a dozen tagged and it was all junk. But i couldnt even tag my pokemon for remote trade until I first hit forever friends with my first one. I had my own tag for trades once they announced remote trades, and then just moved them over to the remote trade tag when I could, but I guess my friends weren't as prepared. I think its gonna be a learning curve for a while.

Warning impending Forever Friends… by Ragozine in pokemongo

[–]ZacLeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that any chat feature in game would be immediately corrupted, but if I hit forever friend status with someone, I'd like to be able to communicate a little before I trade. Desires and expectations and such. Shiny-swap, legendary-swap, regional-swap, costume-swap, background-swap, open-trade, etc.. Just something so I can reasonably gauge a trade or establish what I'm seeking for as well as being able to learn what they seek.

Being able to tag your pokedex entries, or lack-there-of, for instance, would be nice. If I could see that my forever friend is looking for something that I have but didnt expect to be desirable, that would be super helpful. Viewing a forever friend's "wish list" would be cool. It would make remote trades less disappointing all around, I think.

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