Pokemon Go [Now in SG]

[Cube3]

(Sigh) Anyone has a red Gyarardos yet? Getting discouraged....

[Guest Poke Dot]

1 hour ago, Cube3 said:

(Sigh) Anyone has a red Gyarardos yet? Getting discouraged....

 

Not so easy wo, read the mother of all trolls happen to some, after catching the shiny karp, suddenly Oh? and it transformed into a normal Ditto.

[not_a_runner]

I just caught a Shiny Magikarp today! It appears as a normal Magikarp on the map, so don't miss out on any Magikarp you see around - they could be your Shiny Magikarp!

[Cube3]

21 hours ago, not_a_runner said:

I just caught a Shiny Magikarp today! It appears as a normal Magikarp on the map, so don't miss out on any Magikarp you see around - they could be your Shiny Magikarp!

 

So it turns into a red Gyarados and...any use in gym? Or just place in display case for show lol...

[jack21992]

Is it because of the magikarp event that water type pokemon (magikarp, wooper, seel, marill, omanyte) appear more frequently ( at my area)?

[Cube3]

5 minutes ago, jack21992 said:

Is it because of the magikarp event that water type pokemon (magikarp, wooper, seel, marill, omanyte) appear more frequently ( at my area)?

 

Yup, Niantic is celebrating the Water festival (there is also a Magikarp hat you can put on for free!) Can be a bit annoying cuz all the usual dratinis in my area have disappeared. On the other hand, lapras - compared to the past - are all over the place...

[not_a_runner]

22 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

 

So it turns into a red Gyarados and...any use in gym? Or just place in display case for show lol...

I haven't tried, hahaha. I wanna try and catch a normal Gyarados in the wild first. Still remembering the times I saw them in the wild and then disappear 5 seconds later...

[onlylonely]

I want lapras!

[Cube3]

2 hours ago, onlylonely said:

I want lapras!

 

Must refer sg poke map la...

[Coolbriz]

Now lapras so abundant that you can even encounter without sgpoke map haha. But I seriously got no luck with shiny magikarp 

Edited March 27, 2017 by Coolbriz

[inbody123]

I also no luck with this shiny Magikarp(s).  

 

My total candy for magikarps now stands at 1813.

 

I must have caught 600+ last weekend and not one SHINY One.

 

I was catching this at DANGA BAY JB and MBS + GBTB  (Singapore)

[Cube3]

4 hours ago, inbody123 said:

I also no luck with this shiny Magikarp(s).  

 

My total candy for magikarps now stands at 1813.

 

I must have caught 600+ last weekend and not one SHINY One.

 

I was catching this at DANGA BAY JB and MBS + GBTB  (Singapore)

 

You deserve a Pokemon Medallion for most enthusiastic Shinykarp chaser!

[HendryTan]

 

http://www.droidreport.com/articles/4869/20170327/pokemon-go-water-festival-niantic-to-increase-shiny-pokemon-after-the-event.htm

‘Pokemon Go’ Water Festival: Niantic to Increase Shiny Pokemon After the Event

Amrin Shaikh Mar 27, 2017 02:36 PM EDT

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"Pokemon Go" water festival is rocking the players and the company is planning to launch an increasing number of shiny Pokemon after the event. After Holiday event, it seems that the augmented reality game is limited to events only. The players also lost interest in the game.

 

Meanwhile, Niantic has successfully managed to revive the hype of the game as players started to become interested in their favorite mobile game again. If you have been living under a rock in recent months, then you have missed two huge additions to the game in the past 40 days. The two new additions are Generation 2 Pokemon with new Berries and Pokemon moves and Shiny Pokemon variants.

If "Pokemon Go" players to believe John Hanke the Niantic CEO then the flow of innovative content is not going to stop anytime soon. The game is expected to get two most anticipated updates this year. The updates must include Gym revamp and an actual player versus player battle system.

The latest "Pokemon Go" Water Festival will end on Mar. 29, but you might be able to catch your favorite Magikarp and Gyarados for more than a week. It is speculated that the water festival is the best way to launch the shiny Pokemon in the game and Niantic has launched it in an extraordinary way.

A shiny Pokemon in the "Pokemon Go" looks just like a regular Pokemon, but it shines when players caught it. It has three different colors and has same attributes and actions just like a regular Pokemon. They are just for the collection and not for the regular use.

The possibilities of catching a shiny Pokemon in "Pokemon Go" are just 1:8192 which was only improved to 1:4096. But with the current water festival, it is speculated that the developers are going to keep shiny little Pokemon in the game. So, you are now able to catch more Magikarp, Gyarados and many other Shiny Pokemon.

 

[Cube3]

Ridiculous...caught TWO Shinykarps today at Boat Quay! Low-IV low-CP, but evolved one into Red Gyarados anyway. May I offer extra shiny to anyone?

[Guest Poke Dot]

2 hours ago, Cube3 said:

Ridiculous...caught TWO Shinykarps today at Boat Quay! Low-IV low-CP, but evolved one into Red Gyarados anyway. May I offer extra shiny to anyone?

 

So lucky... I didn't get any...

[jack21992]

I also didnt get any

[Cube3]

1 hour ago, Guest Poke Dot said:

 

So lucky... I didn't get any...

 

53 minutes ago, jack21992 said:

I also didnt get any

 

Naintic has doubled the likelihood of catching one...something like 1:4000 or so. It will not be long when you catch yours...with probably better IV than mine!

[Guest Poke Dot]

59 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

Naintic has doubled the likelihood of catching one...something like 1:4000 or so. It will not be long when you catch yours...with probably better IV than mine!

 

Caught almost 200 kraps but seriously getting quite sian of the game liao, need so much xp to level up and catching the same old boring stuff, and I haven't even completed Gen2 pokedex.

[Coolbriz]

1 hour ago, Cube3 said:

 

 

Naintic has doubled the likelihood of catching one...something like 1:4000 or so. It will not be long when you catch yours...with probably better IV than mine!

Congrats! At least you got it! I'm still finding my golden karp.. golden karp, golden karp, wherefore art thou??

[Cube3]

Just spent a week in Taipei, spotted Far-Fetch'd on Day 1 on  the tracker (but couldn't stop) and on all other days not a peep! Utterly disgusted...

[MeowPrince]

Wah you guys are still playing....

[Coolbriz]

Ya lor still playing.. completed my ice and dark medals finally. Shiny karp still yet to be seen lol

[Guest poke]

 

'Pokémon GO' Leak Reveals Gym Changes And 'Raids' Are Coming

Paul Tassi ,  

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News and opinion about video games, technology and the internet  

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

 

Niantic

Pokemon GO

This week brought a relatively minor Pokémon GO update with the usual “minor text fixes” and such, but as is the case with patches, what’s going on behind the scenes is the real story.

Fans have had a chance to dissect the data they’ve found in the new Pokémon GO patch, and they’ve found a few interesting things of note. The Pogodev discord (via The Silph Road) pulled out a bunch of code with some interesting new phrases, all of which seem to be tied to gyms.

“(Pokémon name) has fought hard and returned!”

“(Pokémon name) lost a battle!”

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“(Pokémon name) defended the Gym!”

These one seem to indicate a more prominent notification system than what the gyms have at present. Right now, you simply put your Pokémon in a gym, and leave it there. That’s it. If it remains there with the gym icon, no one has beaten it, if the icon is gone, it will show up injured in your collection. The end. These notifications seem like they will actively let you know what’s going on at the gyms you hold, which is nice given that currently players have barely any idea.

Niantic

Pokemon GO

 

But more interesting phrases are still to come:

“(Pokémon name) is hungry!”

“(Pokémon name) needs a pick-me-up!”

“(Pokémon name) wants a berry!”

Pokémon GO seems to be introducing a new hunger mechanics for Pokémon in gyms, where they will have to be “maintained” by players if they want to keep their spot. I am guessing this is to prevent gym stagnation, as players dump high level monsters in gyms and just forget about them. I also would imagine this might be a move to prevent spoofers, with perhaps the new system requiring players to physically travel back to the gym they conquered to “feed” their Pokémon so they stay there.

Will this work? It’s hard to say. I would imagine that spoofers will figure out a way around this while regular players can’t. But it should result in more gym turnover as many players, however dedicated, may not have it in them to return to all their owned gyms every X days for a feeding. I think this could be a good change, but I’ll want to see how it works in practice.

And the most interesting phrases are these:

“There’s a raid about to start near you!”

“A raid’s going to start nearby!”

So, Pokémon GO is getting “raids,” but what exactly does that mean? While the first thing that comes to mind are Destiny and WoW type raids with puzzles and bosses, I definitely don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here in relation to the gym system.

Niantic

Pokemon GO

Rather, if I had to guess, I would say that because of the dual phrasing of the same statement that these are notifications that your Team Leader will pop up and say to you as part of a new system meant to encourage coordinated raids. Niantic may be developing a way to signal to all nearby Team Instinct/Valor/Mystic members that you’re about to attack a nearby gym. Maybe your Leader shows up and you’re “guided” to the gym the way we see with the new nearby tracking system. This would all be in line with Niantic hinting recently that more “co-operative” aspects were coming to the game.

Of course, I think a cooler interpretation of this would be some sort of Team Rocket clean sweep of gyms where you’re called to battle to defend your turf, but I am guessing it’s something a lot less involved than that, and I think my original prediction may be closer to the truth.

I don’t know, all of these mechanics sound like baby steps forward, when I have said for ages I believe that both the gym and battling system need some pretty major overhauls in order to be a more engaging activity for players. Perhaps there are more larger changes coming, but I’m not sure notifications and mildly better gym turnover are really getting root at the core problems here.

Again, this is all just preliminary and there’s no telling when any of this will be implemented. These are nice quality of life changes perhaps, but I really do hope that a much larger announcement about gyms and battling is still to come. Stay tuned.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/04/08/pokemon-go-leak-reveals-gym-changes-and-raids-are-coming/#6d3e3ebb5d41

 

[MeowPrince]

2 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

Ya lor still playing.. completed my ice and dark medals finally. Shiny karp still yet to be seen lol

Haha you are not along.  BF and I both have no shinyshiny either.  

 

@Guest Poke
Gym changes-wise, I'm content getting my 20 daily coins from the gyms near me, though have to agree that it is sometimes a pain when the spoofer gang comes and parks a level 8 or higher gym with maxed Dragonites/Blisseys.  I can probably list many of them, mostly yellow and blue ones.  Grrr.

[Coolbriz]

1 hour ago, MeowPrince said:

Haha you are not along.  BF and I both have no shinyshiny either.  

 

@Guest Poke
Gym changes-wise, I'm content getting my 20 daily coins from the gyms near me, though have to agree that it is sometimes a pain when the spoofer gang comes and parks a level 8 or higher gym with maxed Dragonites/Blisseys.  I can probably list many of them, mostly yellow and blue ones.  Grrr.

Lol fear not with blissey! I got enough machop to evolve into machamp which is a nemesis of blissey with his "Counter, Dynamic punch" moveset. So far, I got no issue taking down a 3k blissey but agree that it's seriously time consuming.. 

[Cube3]

1 hour ago, Coolbriz said:

Lol fear not with blissey! I got enough machop to evolve into machamp which is a nemesis of blissey with his "Counter, Dynamic punch" moveset. So far, I got no issue taking down a 3k blissey but agree that it's seriously time consuming.. 

 

Yes, machamps are great blissey ravagers! Picked up tip that Exeggutor with legacy Confusion/Solarbeam is also potent against blissey and tested: yes, indeed, even better than machamp, I think!

[Guest Poke Dot]

35 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

 

Yes, machamps are great blissey ravagers! Picked up tip that Exeggutor with legacy Confusion/Solarbeam is also potent against blissey and tested: yes, indeed, even better than machamp, I think!

 

When comes to Blissey, I still turn to D9 DB/DC first, ever took out a cp3150 Blissey with ZH/DG with more than 10 seconds to spare, many seconds wasted dodging. Exegg with C/S not bad too but I find it KO too fast, maybe cool down slower so dodging was harder, and need alot of solar beams.

[MeowPrince]

12 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

Lol fear not with blissey! I got enough machop to evolve into machamp which is a nemesis of blissey with his "Counter, Dynamic punch" moveset. So far, I got no issue taking down a 3k blissey but agree that it's seriously time consuming.. 

Low-level is fine.  Its having to take down a gym filled with 7 or more 3K+ Blisseys, that's when it gets really tiresome.  So far anti-Blissey I find Dragonites and MaChamps are the fastest, but even then, its too time-consuming alone, for the 10 coins.  Like mentioned by the guest poster, the dodging adds to the time wasted.  

 

BF uses Gyara and Tyranitar for his anti-Blisseys, so I guess that is a workable formula too.  That's only some weekends that we get to fight together, that's also when it is more tolerable, having some help taking on such level 8 and higher gyms.

[Coolbriz]

1 hour ago, MeowPrince said:

Low-level is fine.  Its having to take down a gym filled with 7 or more 3K+ Blisseys, that's when it gets really tiresome.  So far anti-Blissey I find Dragonites and MaChamps are the fastest, but even then, its too time-consuming alone, for the 10 coins.  Like mentioned by the guest poster, the dodging adds to the time wasted.  

 

BF uses Gyara and Tyranitar for his anti-Blisseys, so I guess that is a workable formula too.  That's only some weekends that we get to fight together, that's also when it is more tolerable, having some help taking on such level 8 and higher gyms.

Yes agree, not worth the time just for the 10 coins for high lvl gym haha. Lucky my area all low lvl gym. 

[Cube3]

22 minutes ago, Coolbriz said:

Yes agree, not worth the time just for the 10 coins for high lvl gym haha. Lucky my area all low lvl gym. 

 

But I do admire the enthusiasts who have the gumption to take down level 10 gyms filled with Blisseys. Only then others get to gym too. Without them, the trainers get to collect coins without doing anything...so kudos, lol!

[Coolbriz]

22 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

 

But I do admire the enthusiasts who have the gumption to take down level 10 gyms filled with Blisseys. Only then others get to gym too. Without them, the trainers get to collect coins without doing anything...so kudos, lol!

Most probably a team of righteous players (at least 3?) can take down that gym relatively fast. Ya if no one does that, imagine all the gym members in that gym can get free coins everyday! So far I have not encountered a level 10 gym that I can keep my position for more than a day! So the game dynamic is still quite active. It's a good sign actually.

[MeowPrince]

8 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

Yes agree, not worth the time just for the 10 coins for high lvl gym haha. Lucky my area all low lvl gym. 

You lucky guy!  My side every Fri-Sat is not gymmable..... Either blue or yellow will come and leave high level gyms during my gym period.  Grrrr.  Other days its level 3-5, still doable, despite all Blisseys or Dragonites. Once in a while get lucky, can ride on a couple of gps fighters efforts, since they take down the gym and leave a single free slot so I can rush in.  

 

And within my walking radius, other than one HDB gym, the rest gets parked to level 4 at least.  That HDB gym has lots of active resident trainers there, park any colour and it gets kicked out within 10mins.  

 

[Coolbriz]

38 minutes ago, MeowPrince said:

You lucky guy!  My side every Fri-Sat is not gymmable..... Either blue or yellow will come and leave high level gyms during my gym period.  Grrrr.  Other days its level 3-5, still doable, despite all Blisseys or Dragonites. Once in a while get lucky, can ride on a couple of gps fighters efforts, since they take down the gym and leave a single free slot so I can rush in.  

 

And within my walking radius, other than one HDB gym, the rest gets parked to level 4 at least.  That HDB gym has lots of active resident trainers there, park any colour and it gets kicked out within 10mins.  

 

Haha could be me, the Mystic enforcer! Well, my nearest gym is Bedok Reservoir park and I guess not many players there to pogo  

[Cube3]

2 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

Haha could be me, the Mystic enforcer! Well, my nearest gym is Bedok Reservoir park and I guess not many players there to pogo  

 

Apparently coming up is "co-op" gymming i.e. team/group plays. Have been playing solo so far, wonder if teamplay would be something I might get used to...

[MeowPrince]

15 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

Haha could be me, the Mystic enforcer! Well, my nearest gym is Bedok Reservoir park and I guess not many players there to pogo  

Bah.  So far away from me.  But you are most welcome to come south and enforce!  The recent update has reduced the potions from stops.

 

 

12 hours ago, Cube3 said:

 

Apparently coming up is "co-op" gymming i.e. team/group plays. Have been playing solo so far, wonder if teamplay would be something I might get used to...

Solo too, on weekdays.  

[Coolbriz]

1 hour ago, MeowPrince said:

Bah.  So far away from me.  But you are most welcome to come south and enforce!  The recent update has reduced the potions from stops.

 

 

Solo too, on weekdays.  

Ya I noticed that too.. running out of potions faster than balls! 

[Cube3]

Didn't realise there was this Pokemon, then someone showed me this cow with udders...has everyone caught Miltank? Haven't even spotted it on tracker!

[curious_boi]

20 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

Didn't realise there was this Pokemon, then someone showed me this cow with udders...has everyone caught Miltank? Haven't even spotted it on tracker!

 

I think this could be a region exclusive pokemon

[enthuboy_93]

27 minutes ago, Cube3 said:

Didn't realise there was this Pokemon, then someone showed me this cow with udders...has everyone caught Miltank? Haven't even spotted it on tracker!

I happened to hatch one out of a 10km egg 
Haven't seen any in the wild though

[13579]

I don't see Mareep in the wild too, but a friend of mine hatched it from 10KM egg. 

[Guest Poke Dot]

6 hours ago, Cube3 said:

Didn't realise there was this Pokemon, then someone showed me this cow with udders...has everyone caught Miltank? Haven't even spotted it on tracker!

 

Quite rare and seldom appear but i caught mine in the wild, was lucky I guess. Was at the library, switched on the game and suddenly the cow popped up.

 

5 hours ago, 13579 said:

I don't see Mareep in the wild too, but a friend of mine hatched it from 10KM egg. 

 

Seems to appear quite often @ Gardens By The Bay, I manage to nab 8, all @ Marine Parade.

[Guest Poke Dot]

Pokemon icons @ sgpokemap is down, likely cos they r using Niantic's images, and they'd likely be served if they persist. To circumnavigate this, got to the FAQ page and paste the following into the box and submit. Icons are different and smaller but better than seeing white circles.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/dsz2993nei77yd1/pokemon.json

[MeowPrince]

6 hours ago, 13579 said:

I don't see Mareep in the wild too, but a friend of mine hatched it from 10KM egg. 

Tend to flash mob when spawning.  Tuas South (yeah darn inconvenient place), Sungei Buloh/Kranji and Woodlands/Sembawang industrial are the regular spawn spots, around once or twice a day.  But its evolved form Flappy is even rarer, have yet to see it at all.  Final form is Ampharos, a yellow mon that spawns a couple of times a day it inaccessible places (eg out at sea, in private property).  Can see, cannot catch.  

 

 

1 hour ago, Guest Poke Dot said:

Pokemon icons @ sgpokemap is down, likely cos they r using Niantic's images, and they'd likely be served if they persist. To circumnavigate this, got to the FAQ page and paste the following into the box and submit. Icons are different and smaller but better than seeing white circles.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/dsz2993nei77yd1/pokemon.json

There's a bigger one IIRC.  Being shared all over the FB group.

 

 

@Cube3 @curious_boi @enthuboy_93 - Miltank is a regular, albeit rare cutie....  Too bad it doesn't shoot milk as its attack.
As Poke Dot said, it is very random.  A few spawns a day.  Caught mine by luck too - one after leaving client site in Sembawang, one at Marina South Pier when returning from southern islands.

 

 

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7 hours ago, curious_boi said:

 

I think this could be a region exclusive pokemon

The only region-specific mons in Gen2 are Heracross - South America, and Corsola - Equatorial regions.

 

[Guest Poke Dot]

14 minutes ago, MeowPrince said:

 

There's a bigger one IIRC.  Being shared all over the FB group.

 

 

 

This https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blogtron/poke/master/poke_1.json

[MeowPrince]

1 hour ago, Guest Poke Dot said:

 

 

This https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blogtron/poke/master/poke_1.json

Yep, that's one of them!  

 

Wonder if there will be an Easter event.....  

[Guest Poke Dot]

The Pokémon GO Eggstravaganza

 

 

Trainers,

Lace up your walking shoes and get ready to put a spring in your step—the Pokémon GO Eggstravaganza is nearly here! From 1:00 P.M. PDT on April 13 to 1:00 P.M. PDT on April 20, 2017, a greater variety of Pokémon can now be found in 2 km Eggs, so get cracking and see what you find! Your Egg-venture doesn’t stop there, though—you’ll also earn more Candy for every Egg you hatch!

Throughout this Eggstravaganza, you’ll also level up even faster with double XP! Combine this Egg-cellent bonus with a Lucky Egg, and you’ll earn four times the XP you normally would. To make this Eggstravaganza even sweeter, Lucky Eggs will be 50% off in the in-game shop!

Get out there, hatch some Eggs, and share your stories with us using #PokemonGO on your favorite social media channels.

—The Pokémon GO team

[Cube3]

43 minutes ago, Guest Poke Dot said:

The Pokémon GO Eggstravaganza

 

Aaargh...forgot there would be an Easter event and went and spent all my poke coins, evolved all the pokes (rare and ordinary) just before event starts! - When will I ever learn?!

[MeowPrince]

6 hours ago, Cube3 said:

 

Aaargh...forgot there would be an Easter event and went and spent all my poke coins, evolved all the pokes (rare and ordinary) just before event starts! - When will I ever learn?!

LOL

 

I want 2X stardust!  

[Coolbriz]

The funny thing is, I had about 6 lucky eggs initially and all of them gone to waste when I accidentally activated them while on the go.. I'm so accident-prone! Lol.. so with this Easter event, I got no lucky egg to mass evolve. Coins? Recently spent to expand my Pokémon slots.. @Cube3, you are not alone haha. 

[Cube3]

5 hours ago, Coolbriz said:

The funny thing is, I had about 6 lucky eggs initially and all of them gone to waste when I accidentally activated them while on the go.. I'm so accident-prone! Lol.. so with this Easter event, I got no lucky egg to mass evolve. Coins? Recently spent to expand my Pokémon slots.. @Cube3, you are not alone haha. 

 

Yes, same here, spent on Pokeslots...was soooo tempted to spend some $$$ to buy more coins (after all, this game has been such a good keep-fit programme!), then hatched a few 2km eggs but absolutely nothing special: one bulbasaur and one growlithe, so decided, just make do for now, no rush to buy incubators...