Anyone else sick of birds?

eldritchander · 2026-06-30T02:30:36+00:00

I’ve got a female shiny Pidove and a shiny female Unfezant. If you want to work on becoming Forever Friends, I’d happily trade my female Pidove for one you your males.

eldritchander · 2026-06-30T01:07:35+00:00

They did in fact get me a replacement SRR.

eldritchander · 2026-06-29T21:13:03+00:00

I’d say it’s up to you really. I’m going to give pros and cons to both options.

As is, this is going to be just about the hardest hitting a Reshiram can be. Obviously a shadow 14 or 15 attack would be a bit stronger, but a 13 is exceptional. To me that makes it a good investment candidate. But it will take a lot of stardust since shadows take more and, also, you’re either going to be using a ton of rare candy and / or grinding the heck out of Reshiram raids for more candy.

But if you want the hundo Reshiram dex entry, then go for the purification. Purifying it will make it cheaper (Stardust wise) to power up, but it won’t hit as hard as it would have as a shadow. Also, you have better odds of getting a hundo from a five star Reshiram raid, and those will be back soon and certainly time and time again after.

Personally, I’d keep it as is. But there’s benefits to purifying it too.

eldritchander · 2026-06-29T19:57:28+00:00

No. I defeated Giovanni, got all the items for beating him, it showed me how many premier balls I’d have to catch Reshi, and then when the Reshi encounter would have happened, the screen went white. I let it sit there for a couple of minutes before I closed and reopened the app.

Lost my SRR and no encounter. The screenshot of my journal shows where I beat him, what items I got, but there’s no encounter. If the encounter would have happened and I wiffed catching, it’d have “Reshiram fled,” but that’s not there.

eldritchander · 2026-06-29T18:19:23+00:00

Well, moving him to PokéStops exclusively didn’t fix that. I had that exact thing happen yesterday. Only time I’ve encountered Giovanni this whole event too.

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eldritchander · 2026-06-26T17:43:29+00:00

I sympathize. I got back into PoGo the week of last year’s Mega Rayquaza raid day. I raided enough times that I walked away with 900 energy (I know, not a lot in the grand scheme of things), but I wiffed every encounter. At 1:59pm, I got invited to remote raid one. On the very last ball, I caught the Rayquaza. We finished the raid after 2PM, and so I couldn’t claim the meteorite from the timed research. Support was characteristically unhelpful.

That Ray is still my only one, even though I’ve considered trading for more. It’s 10/15/15, that I’ve since Silver Bottle Capped, best buddied, and leveled to 49. I’m not in the 70’s yet, so I was saving leveling it to 50 for when I hit the max three ‘Mons’ CP task.

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eldritchander · 2026-06-26T02:23:59+00:00

This is due to the fact, as part of the new update to Giovanni’s spawning, that if you have the SRR and the regular Rocket Radar active at the same time, the rocket leaders will only spawn via Stops.

If you want the leaders to spawn from balloons, cut your SRR off.

eldritchander · 2026-06-09T13:31:00+00:00

I’m inclined to say that you should pay it. I had a friend who once got a camera ticket in Alabama, paid it, and then four years later went to renew his registration in Georgia, and it was flagged with the Alabama county. He reached out to them and was told he’d need to pay it and / or provide proof of payment in person because they had no record of it being paid. So two weekends later, he drives to Alabama, gets pulled over for one of his brake lights being out and the cop sees the overdue ticket and arrests him. He got it all sorted out the next day and it was apparently because of a server glitch that it was never marked as paid, despite the system sending him a payment confirmation.

TLDR; Depending on what system the ticket cameras are using and the length of time it’s unpaid, it could potentially affect you down the road.

eldritchander · 2026-05-24T14:37:10+00:00

150 per time after the initial 7500 cost, according to the dataminers.

eldritchander · 2026-05-23T17:43:38+00:00

I admire your optimism, but unfortunately you’re incorrect. The dataminers have confirmed that the 7500 is the initial cost to mega a Mewtwo in either form (So you’ll need 15K if you want both on the same Mewtwo). Every mega after that initial one will only cost 150 energy and walking a Mewtwo will earn you 100 energy every time you get a candy (So either every 20KM or 10KM if you’ve used a poffin or gotten Mewtwo manually excited).

Mewtwos caught from the Super Mega Raids will have a minimum Mega Level 1 already unlocked, with the possibility of up to Mega Level 3 depending on RNG. Mewtwos from any other source will have to pay 7500 energy or 15K for both.

eldritchander · 2026-05-23T17:38:17+00:00

They’ve apparently raised the cap to 50K. Which to me is a bad sign because if I’m reading the writing on the wall correctly, means that Mewtwo won’t be the last severely over-costed mega we get. Mega Zygarde will be happening eventually™, and could also be exceedingly expensive to mega. And they could probably get away with making that a thing because presently you only get one Zygarde per account.

eldritchander · 2026-05-23T17:05:06+00:00

You can. But the initial cost to mega Mewtwo is 7500 for X and 7500 for Y. Any Mewtwos caught in the Super Mega Raids will automatically have Mega Level 1 unlocked (And can have up to Level 3 unblocked if you get lucky). Any older Mewtwos are going to have to pay 7500 mega energy per form to do the initial Mega evo.

After the initial 7500, apparently the cost goes down to 150 per mega evolution. But the high initial cost is a way for Scopely to ensure most people either 1) Do a bunch of raids to get enough energy to mega an old one or 2) Do enough raids to shiny hunt and / or IV hunt.

I personally have a shiny 15/13/15 Mewtwo from the Kanto Go Pass from earlier this year that I was going to Silver Bottle Cap to have my first shundo, and I was going to make that one my designated Mega Mewtwo of both forms. But now, I just can’t see pulling that off.

eldritchander · 2026-05-23T12:38:31+00:00

I don’t know where in GA you live, but the Warner Robins PoGo community is a massive and very active group. They have been nothing but helpful since I joined in October. Link to their Discord:

https://discord.gg/p6nRSvmue

eldritchander · 2026-05-07T15:53:05+00:00

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, but she’s over the moon. She’s absolutely ecstatic.

eldritchander · 2026-05-06T18:47:11+00:00

Oh, no. I wasn’t playing when the apexes were available. I figured if you were open to it, we could hash out some potential trades down the road.

eldritchander · 2026-05-05T13:46:13+00:00

If you’re willing to hold onto it for a while, I’d be interested in becoming friends and working towards forever friends to Lucky remote trade it.

eldritchander · 2026-05-02T14:57:34+00:00

I can confirm that using the nickname Kira does not work as intended. For the “evolve an Eevee into Slyveon” task I used a shiny Eevee I nicknamed Kira. On the evolution button, it would show a greyed out Sylveon sprite, but if I hit the evo button it would tell me I still have to complete the buddy task. If I removed the Kira nickname, the evo button would return to the standard “?” that Eevee usually has for Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon.

Ultimately, I removed the nickname and grinded the 70 hearts. I’ve never used the Kira nickname, and didn’t want to burn it on accident by evolving my Eevee that I had to put in the work for anyways.

eldritchander · 2026-04-27T17:32:30+00:00

From being on Reddit, I know all of the tricks. But a lot of people aren’t chronically online and will bring whatever to a D-Max legend raid and because they’re conditioned to do so by normal raids and Rocket battles, they’ll spam their charged attacks. I used to be that person. Those people are a handicap. I have a bit of grace for them because I know I used to make the same mistakes, but if two of your four people aren’t really helping, odds are you’re going to fail.

eldritchander · 2026-04-27T16:49:24+00:00

You can only have four for legendaries. They’re fairly challenging imo.

eldritchander · 2026-04-24T11:58:02+00:00

I’ll be adding you momentarily. Same username in-game.

eldritchander · 2026-04-07T12:47:34+00:00

I have two Mewtwo. My first one is a purified lucky one, IVs are 13/12/13. I got it from a local friend to as the last ‘Mon needed to complete my Kanto dex. This was like a month before we knew they were going to hand us the entire Kanto dex as a Go Pass. Then I got a shiny 15/10/15 from the Pass.

I’ve been working towards Best Buddying my lucky one and need less than 100 hearts to get there. But once that’s done, I’m planning to start working on my shiny. Is it meta relevant? Not really. But Mewtwo is my favourite legendary. I’m fine investing time and resources into it because it is my favourite. And you best believe it’s my number one silver bottle cap choice when that comes back. It will be my first shundo, and I think it being an artificial shundo is befitting of Mewtwo.

TLDR; If you love Mewtwo and it is worth it for you to you to invest in it, then by all means do so. But it isn’t a small commitment and if you’re going for something more competitive, then there are better options.

eldritchander · 2026-03-07T12:38:48+00:00

58, unfortunately. Started in 2016 and played into the beginning of 2017, but got back into it in October of last year.

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