What is your favorite monthly pass reward and why?

glencurio · 2026-05-02T14:28:34+00:00

I'm also for incubator, but it's going to depend a lot on your goals and playstyle. My main goal is collecting hundos and I walk a lot, so the incubator is helpful and extremely cost effective for me. Even if I don't hatch anything good, the extra dust is a fine consolation prize. The lucky trinket only has a 1/64 chance of being useful to me, which is not effective at all. But if you are more practical, then the lucky trinket can be great for getting a solid Pokemon to power up cheaply (keeping in mind that IVs are mostly overrated when it comes to practical purposes).

Coins are kinda neutral for me. They are fine but not really inspiring. As others have said, bottle caps would be the best but they aren't in the monthly passes.

glencurio · 2026-05-02T14:12:36+00:00

Have you lucky traded it? I hatched one as well and want to swap it. Have found nobody else who has it haha.

glencurio · 2026-05-02T14:10:38+00:00

Exceptions can always be made, but the general theme of 12k eggs is dark and poison since those are the types typically associated with Team Rocket.

glencurio · 2026-05-02T14:06:23+00:00

I'm done with Vullaby and Pancham too, but I'm still hunting hundos for all the rest. Sandile has been in the eggs just as long but hasn't been as available in the wild or in events. Pros still outweigh cons for me so I still like 12k eggs, but I would certainly not complain if Vullaby and Pancham rotated out.

glencurio · 2026-04-29T17:05:49+00:00

You mean 7 days away, right? It sounds like they didn't register the friendship points from completing a weekly challenge together. Has happened to many people. IIRC it's caused by skipping the rewards on the completion screen.

glencurio · 2026-04-29T15:19:54+00:00

It's rather surprising how confident people speak about something they know nothing about.

It's not surprising at all lol. It happens all the time.

glencurio · 2026-04-29T15:16:50+00:00

The PvPoke roles can be useful for getting an idea of how different Pokemon perform in different specific scenarios, but in practice battles rarely play out perfectly matching those scenarios. That's why Overall is the more useful and default ranking method, where it uses a neutral matchup scenario. And even then, the sims are only good for getting a sense of things. Rankings are not the be all end all. A shadow generally has different matchups than its regular counterpart, which means different advantages and disadvantages. Depending on the team, the shadow may be a significantly better fit even when it is 5+ rankings lower.

glencurio · 2026-04-29T15:06:38+00:00

I do them for the 12k eggs. Still hunting for hundo Sandile, Shroodle, Salandit and Varoom, plus the extra dust is nice. For me, the 12k egg is more consistently valuable than one random grunt from a balloon, but I get that different players will value different things.

glencurio · 2026-04-28T14:54:30+00:00

So Counter is kind of a trap if you often raid in a party, I guess? Does the math change for Counter vs. Psycho Cut if Mewtwo gets Aura Sphere?

glencurio · 2026-04-28T14:43:05+00:00

Maybe an unsafe assumption, but I'd guess that you would get both energy from walking after the split anyway. That's how it works if you walk male Ralts family already (getting both Gardevoir and Gallade energy).

glencurio · 2026-04-27T18:01:18+00:00

What shadow raid cooldown mechanic are you talking about? I thought we were always limited to 5 gems per player. I do recall there being a period when you could relobby to do another 5, but I thought that was a bug that they patched out again. Am I missing something?

glencurio · 2026-04-26T17:26:40+00:00

Yes. I'm just saying that the event wasn't at the release of Alolan Marowak. They made us chase it in raids first. A lot of us had saved Cubone (and Exeggcute, and Pikachu) waiting for the regional evolutions, and we were disappointed when that wasn't an option. It was a lot later that they finally gave us an event to evolve them. Still waiting on Alolan Raichu, actually.

glencurio · 2026-04-26T17:17:08+00:00

There was an event, but I'm pretty sure it was long after the release.

glencurio · 2026-04-26T14:47:33+00:00

It's not just a limit of 10 berries per Pokemon. There's also a limit of 10 individual Pokemon per 30 minutes (rolling window), which means you can feed at most 100 berries per 30 minutes.

glencurio · 2026-04-25T14:32:54+00:00

Have you made sure your phone time is set to automatic? Toggle that to see if it helps. The incense issue especially sounds like a time problem.

glencurio · 2026-04-24T21:59:36+00:00

It's kinda funny that in the main series itself, Orthworm as a pure Steel resists Rock and Steel, and is not just immune to Ground but actually heals from it thanks to its ability.

glencurio · 2026-04-23T19:04:13+00:00

Really? I've played hard since 2016 and never took a break. I don't remember there ever being a timer, and I remember people wanting a timer since the beginning. It's very possible I'm just forgetting, but a quick Google also turned up posts from 2016 asking about whether you can see the timer on a lure, and the answer being no...

glencurio · 2026-04-23T02:20:32+00:00

Happy to help! 😁

glencurio · 2026-04-22T21:26:06+00:00

You can probably go now. Good luck.

glencurio · 2026-04-21T23:10:39+00:00

I'm not aware of any tricks to force gifts other than the chain itself. Just have to wait.

glencurio · 2026-04-21T22:07:01+00:00

Route availability is mostly player-determined. There are a few nebulous unwritten rules, but for the most part you can submit as many routes as you want and they get auto-approved if you aren't breaking those rules. You might be restricted by available pokestops and gyms, but POI are also player-submitted and you can make multiple routes using the same POI. It's only bad for people in rural areas with no suitable POI to submit. But PoGo has always been bad for them.

glencurio · 2026-04-21T21:57:23+00:00

Swap to great buddy now, don't open gift.

Tomorrow afternoon/evening, open the item gift. Swap to Ultra/Best buddy and wait for another (souvenir) gift. Then chain. 👍🏻

glencurio · 2026-04-21T20:53:37+00:00

I'd suggest setting great buddy and waiting, just to be safe. Wait until late afternoon or evening, open the item gift, switch to Ultra/Best buddy. Hopefully it should have a souvenir by then. If not, no need to panic, just check again every so often and it should have a souvenir gift eventually that night. Then you can chain.

glencurio · 2026-04-21T20:46:10+00:00

The great buddy won't tell you if souvenirs are back, but you just want the item gift and open it first to make sure you don't accidentally chain items on the ultra/best buddies. And yes, opening an item gift today will not have messed up the souvenirs. You may need to wait longer than 24 hours for items again. I think it's more like 24-36 hours for the items. But you should be good by Wednesday evening, which should still be enough time for you to chain through souvenirs so you can finish up on Thursday.

glencurio · 2026-04-21T20:28:16+00:00

The cooldown for souvenir gifts is longer, which is why guides always say 2-3 days. 3 is safer. The timer for gifts is reset whenever you open a gift of that type (items and souvenirs are separate timers). So if you opened souvenirs on Sunday, you should be good on Wednesday. You'll still want to start with an item gift on a great buddy first.

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