As usual, Niantic has released some details on their next update for Pokémon GO!
This time around the latest update to their popular mobile game will make adjustments to the Combat Power of several Pokémon: increasing the CP of Pokémon such as Alakazam, Rhydon, and Gengar (mentioned specifically), and lowering the CP of other, unspecified Pokémon.
In the words of Niantic, “These changes will allow a more balanced and competitive battling and training experience in Gyms. We will continue to adjust the CP going forward to improve the game balance when necessary.”
No word on an official list of all the effected Pokémon, however if you open up the app the changes to CP have already been implanted! Check out Niantic’s official blog for their full statement!
In addition to this, in celebration of Thanksgiving, starting November 22nd users will be able to enjoy a week of double XP and Stardust!
Looks like I can watch the first 2 episodes of Sun and Moon dubbed. Might watch XY first since I haven’t got ’round to it.
I watched the first half of the first season of XY. It’s as corny as Pokémon has always been. Though Bonnie, Clemont’s little sister, is legitimately funny.
I heard really good things about XYZ and watched the League finals which were epic. But I didn’t watch anything else.
Watched the first two episodes of SuMo and I’m hooked.
I have to watch things from the start to get into them properly, so I’ll have to watch all of XYand XYZ. I have it all recorded, just not got to it yet. I will prob start Sun and Moon (after a break) after I finish it, even if they literally threw it out the window at the beginning.
Is it possible to get the Z crystals of the other two starters or not?
yes, but its postgame-ish
Great! From a collector perspective it’d bother me if you couldn’t.
I hear ya, I thought that too, and then it happenend and I was like, sick GF thanks for reading my mind! 😀
I need help planning the last two members of my team. Currently, I have Dartrix, Salandit, Charjabug and Crabrawler. For my other two, I want them to have types not shared by my other four, and they must be Alola Pokémon. I’m about to fight Olivia. Biggest priority is type coverage, so dual types preferred.
Minior
Komala
If you do, your team would be 5/6 the same as mine. xD
Seriously though, even though they’re one stage, they’re AMAZING.
Considered Minior since it covers two more types, but Komala being Normal type doesn’t really appeal to me.
I don’t really mind using monotypes, but if it bothers you then try Ribombee.
Maybe Drampa or a Fairy type?
Alolan Diglett; and Oricorio (psychic) or Oranguru (if Moon ver.)
What are peoples dexs looking like?
Mines at:
Overall: 34%
Melemele: 45%
Akala: 40%
Ula’Ula: 36%
Poni: 54%
All I know is the full thing is 8%. Though I’ve only just completed my fifth trial.
I think I’m hovering around 45% overall if I remember correctly.
Got my Wimpod off the GTS <3
Which limb did you sell for it? xD
Haha just bred a Popplio for it! And by that I mean I put a Popplio up and requested a Wimpod lol
That’s pretty reasonable. Maybe the early stages of GTS are better?
The new legend filter is helping a lot.
Early on, starters are very valuable.
I believe they’ll be pretty valuable for the next two-three months or so. Since most people probably won’t get the games till Christmas.
Yeah!
Rockruff, Ribombee and Crabrawler are pretty good as well.
I find the Island Scan mons trade kinda poorly (except starters) since probably many people aren’t looking for them or know they exist.
They definitely are, I still see some pretty unreasonable things tho lol
Do you have a spare Popplio? It would help my team out immensely!
I also have some Popplio spares I can breed in case Ariel doesn’t beat me to it.
If you could do that for me I’d sincerely appreciate it!
Ok give it a few minutes to half an hour since I got some chores lined up. I already have 2 egg moves too.
Yeah Dicie will probably prefer the one with egg moves lol. Sorry Dicie I had just got out the shower! By the hi my name is Ariel lol 😛 but if you don’t wanna wait I can go ahead and trade you one.
alright calling it a night
working every day except Thanksgiving so my life will be a living hell
Earthen Out
Goodnight!
Dhelmise has no gender, does that mean it can’t breed 🙁
There are genderless things that can breed like Beldum.
It probably just needs a ditto.
Once I catch it I’ll find out haha.
Edit: Caught it! Now heading over to see if it breeds
Yeah! General rule is if it isn’t a “baby Pokemon” or a legend or Ditto+Ditto, you can probably put it in with a Ditto and you’ll get eggs.
Yup…it can be bred 😀
If I get that Popplio, who gets my last slot?
Drampa, Oranguru or Minior?
Minior
My vote is for Oranguru.
Drampa hits hard but he’s weak to fighting which sucks
SPOILER; Anabel from Hoenn is Looker’s assistant (lost her memory apparently).
What a scare, I thought I lost my everstone.
Breeding Popplio copies now. 🙂
Would you like it to be an egg so you’ll be OT, Dicie?
You can trade eggs? Did not know that lol
Well not on WT or GTS 🙂
But yeah you can trade eggs if it’s link trade…
Good to know thanks 🙂
Uh sure! How long will it take to hatch?
Ok, I kept the last egg in the set so I ran around on Tauros with that for a bit but it is unhatched, so it shouldn’t take you much walking. Did I add you before already?
Yo Malco is Perish Song one of those egg moves your Popplio know?
Only Charm and Aqua Ring so far since they’re on a Pikachu (m) and Popplio (f). I’m trying to get all 4 egg moves though, so eventually (gender ratio is a b****) I’ll get Perish Song. But first I need to hatch a female with Charm + Aqua Ring to proceed.
In case you didnt, FC is 1977-1450-7299
Ok I’ll try to add you shortly.
3351-4646-9325
Egg or Popplio?
Is the egg close to hatching?
Many Popplios have hatched already I was just checking if you wanted an egg instead so you’ll be the original trainer. 🙂 Anyway it seems you want a hatched Popplio so wanna pop online to trade?
In a minute, yep!
Added.
I got Popplios already, but you might want the egg instead so you’ll be OT? When are you available?
Since I’ll basically be posting on here more often from now on, I’ll add my FC
Name: Ariel
FC: 4167 – 5841 – 4337
Maybe we’ll run into each other in festival plaza or something…
Name: Pandora
FC: 3351-4646-9325
I just beat Lusamine for the 2nd time, it was really underwhelming. Was able to set up +6 with Alola Raichu thanks to some RNG help, and it was a clean sweep from there. But the build-up and the atmosphere were omg. And with that ending, how is this game Rated E?
Ok wait, just finished the cutscene, maybe the ending wasn’t as dark as I interpreted it at first.
We don’t have to fly back and forth to Kiloude city anymore lol
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/pokemon-sun-and-moon-iv-checker-judging-and-calculating-your-pokemons-individual-569871
We still need that flame body talon flame though
Move Relearner is on top of that blasted mountain… :p
Oh well while waiting for Dicie I think I’ma find a male Absol for the next step in my evil plan.
I’m ready for trade anytime. I’m online in festival plaza.
Can someone please explain to me how to get a good iv Pokemon in these games. I literally don’t understand. Also I haven’t finished the game.. UGH WHYY I JUST WANT TO EXPERIENCE WVERUTHING XD
With breeding, or hyper training?
Breeding…. I need to understand how to get good iv Pokemon. Or at least, guarentee a good iv Pokemon.
Well first you need a two good IV pokemon, even just one stat. Basically it is randomly generated, but once you get the max/31 you just need to breed it together until all of the good stats are on 1 Pokemon.
With everstone you can keep the nature of the mom/dad and with destiny bond you can copy 5 of parent’s iv’s instead of 3.
Normally i’d just send you a “6iv” ditto to get started but I have those locked up in gen 6 for now.
If you want something good I suggest trying to get a quick to hatch mon that has 2 egg groups (e.g. magikarp, snubbull) and try to make a 6iv out of it so you can use it as a parent.
It’ll take me forever to explain it just search for pokemon breeding guide. The gen 6 ones still generally work except the locations are different and you can check IV’s on the status screen.
woah woah hold on there, I think you mean Destiny KNOT not Destiny BOND not trying to call you out, just don’t want to mislead anyone.
Thanks, I fixed it. 🙂
DUDE THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Like, I can’t say enough. Can’t wait for the meta game this year!
Wait I know this actually. Probably should have read the comment. Oy I’m sorry. I meant if there was a way to guarentee a Pokemon with at least 1 maxed out IV. Like Friend safari sort of. You don’t have to respond, I feel bad for making you type that whole comment. But once again thank you for taking the time!!! 😀
I know pokemon found in an SOS battle have a higher chance of having perfect IV’s the higher the chain.
Oh gotchya… Thank you that certainly helps, I’ll test that out during post game… Still haven’t beaten the game yet… But I like to be prepared 😀
For those who have already gottten past this point. So I just got to Ultra Space with Lillie and the Lunala. I think I am about to face Lusamine. How screwed am I from a scale of 1 to 10 with a team like this:
Crabrawler lv.49
Alola Persian lv. 49
Mimikyu lv.48
Zygarde 10% lv.48
Salazzle lv.49
Primarina lv.49
the trainer has pokemon in the low 50’s. i’d say pick your moves and type matchups correctly and you’ll be fine, but their first pokemon is a monster of a wall. (also, if you notice, the pokemon on their team all have sinister expressions, except for Bewear because bewear doesn’t have a mean bone in its fluffy body)
Thanks.
Y’all are better at this than I am. What’s a good Nature for Popplio?
I would say modest off of the top of my head.
Sounds good to me thanks!
Yea, with reference to Malco’s statement of what role that Popplio would play. I was thinking a special wallbreaker.
Cool! Thank you both! I wanna try to get into competitive battling this time around. Gotta look up breeding tutorials lol.
Calm also works if you want to be support/special wall.
Sorry to keep you waiting, I can’t connect to my hotel wifi…
Ah ok. I know! When you have wifi I’ll trade.
I’ll have more egg moves soon anyway so the future Popplios will be better.
Ready! What do I do?
Ok I thought you can’t connect. Hang on just go online in festival plaza and I find you using friends list.
Thanks so much! 🙂
No prob. Enjoy!
Yer Bobby, right?
Yeppp
huh. I found guzma’s parents.
Where?
route 2, house below the berry field. postgame, you find your boy there
Ah
Wow bewear. just survived a guillotine lol you rock buddy!
Just caught Lunala with a Heal Ball by critical capture. Feeling very lucky today.
cant wait to soft reset cosmog. my Lunala has a jolly nature, yuck.
Just saw that it was Careful. I guess I will be doing the same as you Exeledus.
I will trade this one for my pal’s solgaleo.
Why dont you catch a syncorize Abra so you can SR for IVs instead
Synchnorize
synchronize works on nature, not IV’s (I’m pretty sure, at least.)
Yeah, I meant that if he caught a Modest Abra for example, he can SR for a good IV’d Modest Lunala
ah I see. I have to wonder, do legendary pokemon still always have at least 3 perfect IV’s this gen?
My Solgaleo Has 3 IVs so I guess this law still applies
Nebby aka Solgaleo or Lunala both, has a high catch rate but I still threw my Master ball at it because I like my box art legendaries in master balls
you do you man. I always save my masterball as a emergency shiny pokemon safety net.
chugging right along on that melemele dex! almost have every basic pokemon, then its time to start evolving!
When do you get access to the Hau’oli City Mall?
didn’t even know that was a thing until you said it and I checked it out. I’m in postgame, not sure if you have to be or not.
Lol crap haha. I keep looking it up online, but no luck. I don’t serebii has it either.
It’s open lol. Don’t know exaclty when it did haha But I’m on the third island so….somewhere around there i guess lol
well, in it there is a theater showcasing ride pokemon, so maybe after you have them all? (edit) nevermind, remembered there’s a ride pokemon on the 4th island.
It was already open for me around the time I reached Olivia’s town.
Must be after the grand trial.
With Hala, I mean. I noticed it was open the other day before I took the boat to the 2nd island
Thank you! Yeah I haven’t went back to Melemele in a while so I wasn’t sure.
No prob! Yeah, I was very surprised. I had even asked around the other day if we’re ever allowed to go in and no one answered.
I had access to the mall after the 1st trial, I believe.
My Wishiwashi is a straight up beast. Love it.
I dropped it because it felt like an Uber on my team
Does that mean too powerful? 😛
I believe so.
Actually all water type in this gen are damin competitive.
I love it. This is a great gen for water and bug 🙂
NPC: “this pokemon still doesn’t trust you enough yet”
Me: “B*tch, this is my starter pokemon, and she’s level 65. WTF are you talking about?!?”