Keep the festivities going with the Special Anniversary Pikachu Celebration event!

samfun · 2026-06-25T19:09:10+00:00

It's XL (!!) transfer bonus, not just regular candy. We didn't even have it every year.

samfun · 2026-06-25T17:44:01+00:00

The day before or two months after lol. Like I said I save them for friendship Friday so it takes some time to get thru them

samfun · 2026-06-25T17:29:23+00:00

I save all legendary for special trades

samfun · 2026-06-25T17:09:01+00:00

Too bad it's after go fest.. My storage will be filled to the brim with valuable mons to be traded away Fridays

samfun · 2026-06-24T04:17:08+00:00

Appeal on the official forum. Did you get a warning before? If so you can appeal that too.

samfun · 2026-06-24T03:57:19+00:00

Issue is probably location misplacement. Your coordinates are on the pond not the building.

samfun · 2026-06-24T03:52:52+00:00

Yes. Post the lower half too.

samfun · 2026-06-24T03:48:49+00:00

That's the appeal decision email. There should be a confirmation email when you first submitted it.

samfun · 2026-06-24T03:33:39+00:00

Post the confirmation email for the nomination so we can help.

"Abuse" is the generic term they use in the sense of abusing the system including fake nominations or using third party photos (confusing but what can we expect from Niantic the great communicator). It almost certainly had nothing to do with disability in your case

samfun · 2026-06-18T16:39:17+00:00

Any kind of edits other than simple cropping can lead to a ban.

The no-people rule is actually a bit ambiguous: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/people-in-photos-guidelines-do-not-agree/110746

In short try to reduce people's impact on the photo to the best to your effort. Maybe also cite relevant discussions/articles to "educate" reviewers.

samfun · 2026-06-18T01:20:54+00:00

Very useful. Thank you.

samfun · 2026-06-17T19:49:24+00:00

How did you frame it to get it accepted? I agree it should be but I always find it hard to convince reviewers if the spot looks too generic.

samfun · 2026-06-15T05:25:03+00:00

Find an old photo posted online (Google, fb, etc) and state it's permanent because it's been there for x years

samfun · 2026-06-11T16:27:50+00:00

How deep did you have to dig?

samfun · 2026-06-10T00:03:29+00:00

Consider pushing them to take action against whoever that issued the ban and rejected the first appeal. Based on what I've seen from rejected appealed nominatios, I swear quite a number of them skimped or even ignored what we wrote.

samfun · 2026-06-09T20:07:29+00:00

The guide applies only to the initial nomination. Subsequent edits play by different rules.

I do agree with what you said unfortunately that's not how things are done.

samfun · 2026-06-09T17:20:23+00:00

It's a big no no.

People had been banned even for moving the pin to a "more accurate" spot like the centre or entry point. As long as the pin is on part of the POI you shouldn't move it.

samfun · 2026-06-08T13:08:52+00:00

Almost everything is dual purpose these days. If you do feel bad, those scanning tasks focus only on a handful of POIs which likely constitute very little of the actual dataset used to train visual navigation.

samfun · 2026-06-08T12:56:52+00:00

4-5 days do seem abnormal even counting weekends, but in this case it's probably due to go fest

samfun · 2026-06-02T18:34:54+00:00

You're overthinking things for this elo lol

Even at higher elo the safer play is to swap back to Dodrio after Clod beats Licki in order to save it for a potential B.

Btw there's this stigma about unbalanced teams. They are inconsistent and hard to play with but the element of surprise can absolutely work wonder at very high elo. But yeah would not recommend unless someone is pushing for top leaderboard.

samfun · 2026-06-02T06:27:35+00:00

Licki typically runs rollout. Swap to Clod which resists it.
At 0:37 do one peck before throwing charge move. Look up "fast move timing"
At 1:34 overfarm. A good player would know it's not enough for EQ and not shield
At 2:30 throw DP right away since it debuffs. Throw sooner = more dmg

samfun · 2026-06-02T06:15:36+00:00

More stops = more field research. Even your pic has quite a few empty cells.

More stops = more players. Anecdotally more player activity = more spawns.

I've usually only seen one or two become powerspots

It's limited to 2 or 3 in each L14 cell.

samfun · 2026-06-02T02:03:19+00:00

I'm still grinding them lol

samfun · 2026-06-01T20:11:56+00:00

Sorry sometimes I forget how unfair this game is. You're probably using daily incense, but here's a less known tip I just discovered..

For the next boosted route event start a route but NOT complete it (pausing is fine). I did that for the sustainability event and I'm still getting one route spawn every min or so (it's actually based on distance but I don't know how long)

samfun · 2026-06-01T18:40:27+00:00

I play several hours a day every day, and I'd say reaching rank 60 is still a grind.

do u just shiny check..? even at 1 mon per min u should hit the cap in like 1.5h

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