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!
Holy SweetSmilingStuffuls, the clothing in the Hau’oli mall is ridiculously expensive, $378,000 for a satchel bag? no thanks!
I know, right? I saw that and was like O.O
But I want it……. especially the Gem Barrette….
I know, I’m using the amulet coin as much as I can to stock up 🙁
Sometimes I just fish for pearls/big pearls/pearl strings.
I got quite a few of those while I was looking for a good wishiwashi
It’s a leather bag and I almost bought the black one lololol
Mhm lok
If only gaining money were as easy as in XY
well, you can earn a free 20,000 a day cleaning beaches. also, fishing up pearls is rather easy.
Its actually easier. Just Level up the mine of poke pellego to level 3 and send your pokemon out to the money mine mission, feed them beans and you’ll get a ton of sellable items from it every 24 hours.
how do I dye clothes? I look fine clad in white, but i’d like some pink highlights in there too!
You need to have a dye place in your festival plaza, then you pick the color and they will tell you the berries required. You also need a “white” version of the clothing you want to dye.
Said dye place also sells clothes of a particular color.
out of curiosity, can you re-purchase white clothing that’s been dyed? or will it still say you already own it?
It will “change color”.
It will say “Tank Top (Pastel Red)”, for example, after dyeing.
so I can go back to a clothing shop and rebuy a white one if I don’t like the died color? I’m sorry if I’m being unclear.
Yep it looks that way. Also this means you can’t “re-dye” the thing you just dyed.
ok that’s nice to know. I will keep my eyes peeled for people recommending dye shops. my plaza is only rank 11, it takes awhile to rank it up…
It’s so slow talking to people and checking out their reco. 🙂
But yeah that’s a consistent way of doing it, at least, rather than wait for Sophocles to randomly offer it on levelup.
huh. the abandoned stufful is gone. I wonder what happened to it? I know its just a game but that seriously made me want to cry :c
Maybe someone adopted it? Ask the motel counter?
Also since it is still there in my game, want me to screenshot it? 🙁
they still say the same thing. maybe its a bug? I hope there’s a happy ending, the stuffuls just melt my heart :3
I hope it found a trainer. (Go catch one and pretend that was it!)
I already have a box full exploring a cave for me XD
Random tip: When SOS chaining, you can just use another Adrenaline Orb to waste a turn without using up a move. It also doesn’t consume an additional Adrenaline Orb.
i was using antidotes, it works the same. youtuber ADrive (the undisputed king of shiny hunting lol) has a nice guide on it, even recommending a certain pokemon and moveset to have infinite PP and recovery.
Can you link the video here so I don’t have to go through tons of spoiler videos please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HcQ9F2zPQI&t=303s here you go!
Thank you 🙂
Once again I’m struggling to make a good name for a male Jangmo-O, any suggestions?
Any of these tickle your fancy? Shields, Marauder, Scales, Bronze Gong, Ring Mail, Reaper, The Law, Robocop, Saint Seiya, Gladiator, Centurion, Phalanx, Praetorian, Predator, Knight
Clearly Robocop is the appropriate choice.
I actually thought Phalanx too but phalanx seems too…. defensive
Praetorian sounds cool… but idk if I’d use it.. I want something that yells “Badass”
Ok here’s more from the more attacking side (some of it): Barbarian, Berserker, Braveheart, Conan, Soldier, Rampage, Viking, Ragnar, Hoplite, Spartan, Scourge, Leonidas, Shatterhand, Angerfist, Bash, Brawler
Actually, this gave me an idea. I think Ragnarok is the kind of name I’m lookin’ for! Thanks!
whats more badass than Robocop?
Got my female modest Popplio…..gonna train it up to level 31 and replace my male Brionne….which has a bad nature.
Pokedex on Dugtrio:
“These pokemon are cherished in the Alola Region, where they are thought to be feminine deities of a land incarnate” huh, that’s interesting.
lol did anyone get the attract TM?
Yes.
Poor machamp. HAHAHAHA.
So… What’s the story with the three Murkrows on Route 15? I saw a twitter post with a screenshot of a person between the three of them with a caption of, “This game has murder”, but I just found the Murkrow and no person.
I think its just a reference as to how a group of crows is called a “Murder” and the place is spooky.
OHHHH! *Facepalms* And I just found the post and I remembered it wrong, the person was the player’s avatar. Thanks! xDDD
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c9d576b49246cd0bf92f06b336553fd4132c9bc711f3b85c5084779647cbf2e3.jpg I’m up late doing assignments for grad school (It’s 2AM over here), taking a study break by playing Moon. In a bad mood, I wander into the center and the game freezes for a minute. I’m thinking, “Oh shxt, now my game’s frozen. When did I last save?” But it turns out the game just lagged to pop off firecrackers and wish me happy bday. All these years, I’ve really underestimated that feature ^_^ I missed the firecrackers but here’s the cake lol.
Ah, so it is your birthday. Happy Birthday???
I tend to forget that it is my birthday (or when it’s my birthday already) so it’s always a pleasant surprise if anyone greets me, including games like Pokemon or Fire Emblem.
Yeah it is, and thanks! Lol.
Same boat, I completely forgot that it was my birthday today because I’ve been drowning in schoolwork… And simultaneously trying to find time to play Pokemon Moon <.<
I bet the added loading time was like the “scare” of walking into a dark room for a surprise party…
It really kind of was though! I ALMOST turned the game off before it sprung back to life lol.
Happy Birthday! I can only give you one gift: advice!
catch a stufful and love it in refresh. you will be a million times happier.
Thanks! Hmmm… Well Stuffuls are pretty adorable. I think I’ll take that advice =P
I remember that. In X/Y, I was really worried when the game screen was dark, I was OH NO! It’s broken! However after they screamed surprise I realized it was purposely.
well, looks like smogon decided to ban Zygarde Complete. I don’t follow smogon rules, but I do like knowing why, turns out it has an HP stat similar to Blissey.
It can Rest it all back after it transforms to Complete, or just stall with leftovers to gain a decent amount of HP at turn.
Huh, all this time I wondered why ok stat spread but abnormally large HP qualified it as legendary. Question answered.
It’s crazy, it can PP Stall Ho-oh, and setup sweep with Coil.
All it needs to do while it’s 50% Zygarde is ensure it doesn’t die, and take enough damage to get below 50% health (easy with practice, by switching into various predicted non-Dragon non-Ice attacks). After that, the terror can begin.
As someone who used it. It is insanely bulky to the point where 4x super effective hits were doing less than 50%
I never understood what smogon does exactly and how do people even follow their rules?
tomorrow I can finally get my copy of Pokemon Sun.. The EU struggle…
I can relate. The struggle is real son.
Not France ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I was hoping for an early delivery today but not happening 🙁
Wait no one knows what Core Enforcer’s power is?
Oops just saw it nvm
SM better get better because I’m bored with this beginning
lol No worries. It does.
Really? The beginning is so much better than other games IMO. I know it’s mostly cutscenes, but it’s actually different than other games.
It’s getting better now, but the part till you battle Liam is boring. I’ve almost 4h into the game and I still haven’t done the first trial
More like 5h lol
I was on like the 2nd island and had already beaten a trail at 4hrs in, and at the 4th island in less then 24hrs and thats going slow lol
My play time is at 30 hours and I just beat the fifth trial.
what are you guys doing to take this much time? 😛
IDK, I’m just trying to explore at my own pace, I’m talking to everybody, catching a ton of things I don’t have, stopping to listen to the music, etc. I’d rather not rush through the game.
this is like the slowest I have gone in a game and I’m doing all those things too, O_o
Hmm. Maybe I am just slow. xD
I just beat the game and my play time was 51 hours. I talk and explore and backtrack everywhere too, but I was also exploring the festival plaza and poke pelago. I spent a good few hours in festival plaza xD
I’m talking to everybody too + I catching the pokemon those people in the pokecenter ask for, etc. I always do this though
My play time is at 19hrs and I’m heading to Mallow’s trial (the 4th?). I returned to Melemele to explore the areas acessible with Lapras.
It gets super good you just gotta be patient and stick out the beginning. I really didn’t think the beginning was too bad honestly
I’m putting my game on complete hold till my brother catches me at least so my team for now (I’ll still train a bit but not progress in the story)
Brionne- Goofball lvl.20
Alolan Grimer- Honeybeard lvl.20
Rockruff- Rufus lvl.17
PC-
Abra- Al lvl.6
Cutiefly- Cutesie lvl.10
Munchlax- Munch lvl.5
Gumshoos- Goose lvl.20
do you use exp share
No I stopped after the first Trial he’s not at that yet and I’m right near Gladion for the first battle v.s. him
i’m thinking of using exp share everytime my pokemon are underleveled compared to strong trainers or using it the whole time, but i’m not sure yet and tomorrow i’m getting the game.
if you don’t use the exp share the game is going to hit you like a brick by the second island and basically murder you past that
so, you suggest me to keep the exp share on the whole game? I want it to be decently challenging
trust me its already decently challenging, if you turn off the EXP share you’re gunna have a bad time imo
hm, dude you are saving me rn, thanks for the advice, i was so confused on what to do, thanks again!
What level should my pkm be by the time I get to the second island?
well my I had a brionne by that point (it evolved right before half fight) and then it evolved again right after the second island kahuna, so I’m going to say about level 16-18
Even with exp share, it’s hard to overlevel by significant amount unless you really explore or try to catch all Pokemon on a route. Like Gen 5 experience gain is reduced when you’re higher level than the encounter.
I will just keep battling every trainer in my way and do sometimes an explore to routes that I like, thanks for the advice tho!
With respect to my team. I had exp. share on for only a little bit before turning it off before the first Island Trial-when I thought I was near the first island Kahuna’s Pokémon level. I should have turned it back on before reaching Po town, because it was at that point that my Pokémon were under leveled compared to my opponents. There is also a big jump of five levels from the strongest trainer on the third island and the fourth island. It is best to keep that in mind.
wow ok i’m totally convinced that I will have it turned on the whole game lol
Well I wouldn’t do that necessarily. I didn’t have too hard of a time without it. What I would recommend is if you have reached a point where trainers have Pokémon levels above you and it is difficult. I would turn Exp share on and grind in the tall grass nearby. I also rotated some Pokémon in and out because I realized I didn’t like them as much as I thought, so the time and exp. spent leveling them up took away what could have gone to other Pokémon. What I am trying to say is play in a way that you feel you will have the most fun.
Hey guys, I’ll be getting moon tomorrow… as of now what’s the opinion on the game?
That it’s the best Pokémon game to date.
This
My Tsareena can’t learn Play Rough unless I breed for it 🙁 Not gonna ditch one of my faves.
Will finally be getting Sun either today or tomorrow, usually Game are good with pre-orders and ship a day earlier than released but I guess we’ll see!
Can’t wait to build up my team and get started. Also to not make it as easy for me since I’m gonna have all 3 starters on my team (start with Litten then hopefully get the other two via trading), I’ll seek them out maybe one after Hala then one after Olivia, makes it fair that way (since I’m able to get Litten, Grubbin & Rockruff on the Melemele)
Who’s gonna be your sixth?
Jangmo-o, so alllll the way at the end! Might space out the two other starters because of that too
Sun and Moon has the best story in pokemon that I have ever played, its my new favourite game
I’ve liked Minior a lot ever since it was announced, but getting to with it has made it once of my favorites of the generation. Though admittedly, I’m in love with almost all the Pokémon from this gen.
the fact that I am in this exact moment catching minior lol
I’m using one right now and it’s growing on me a ton. I’m just glad the out of battle sprite is the colored one.
I think minior looks awful x)
Is Crabrawler rare? I caught one but not with the best nature ever (not sure I’m using it anyway)
+ can I catch rockruff before the first trial?
No, it’s right after the grand trial (battle with Hala).
I guess my popplio will be overpowered then u_u
Rowlet was going to be the only one on my team until the second trial, but since I wanted to avoid that I caught a few Pokemon to try them out. There’s always that option.
I might use crabrawler till I get rockruff then. I’m looking for salandit/rockfuff/vulpix/wimpod/jangmo-o but I don’t think any (besides rockruff) is available on this island
Semi-rare. The issue with crabrawler is that if you don’t find one in a patch, you have to physically wait until the next day to get another shot, you can’t time travel.
You get it from berry piles, which regenerate about once a day. So it is as rare as the number of berry trees you have access to.
If it isn’t large/shaking already it won’t have a crabrawler.
Anyone know how Minior’s ability interacts with Rest?
Follow up: if Komala uses rest does it just get healed?
I don’t think it can learn rest
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How do you change the way you throw a pokeball?
There’s a man who regulates that outside the recycling plant of Malie city outskirts.
Okay so I’m not there yet. Thanks
so is it pretty much confirmed at this point that we only get one each of the HGSS poke balls?
What is even the point of putting them in the games? -.-
I caught my ninetales in a love ball, I guess I will save them for special pokemon I am going to have on my online teams, I’m just afraid that they won’t always work and I will lose the ball
My Minior is in a Moon Ball <3
I was catching them all in colour related balls but then I realized they cant pass them down, so I’m saving my moon ball for Mimikyu I think
They can pass them down now actually when bred with Ditto
wait really??? :O awesome!!1
I haven’t done it myself yet but someone on here I think confirmed it
now I just need to figure out which colour I want to use in my moon play through, I’m thinking either purple or yellow
Wait but can ditto still not pass down balls?
nope
D:
So they spent all that time remodeling the apricorn balls for almost nothing??
Not really, I’d use it on something not available in HGSS. Something special.
You know Nintendo, they intentionally make things scarce to make it feel more valuable (Amiibo, NES Classic, limited console colors…)
I’m honestly totally convinced it’s just for breeding.
So hold on, if you catch a ditto in one and breed it with a male Pokémon, will you get that Pokémon in the ditto’s poke ball?
Nah but male/genderless with Ditto with pass the male/genderless Ball
:OOOOOOOOOOOOO
That’s perfect! I’m going to use each of my Johto balls to catch a ditto!
Shoot, I misread it.
Yeah, but what if the pokemon isn’t caught in the ball? Then you’re screwed
GTS but I agree haha
Cutiefly called for help but nobody came. I’m dead xd