[Quiet Man Cometh]

So my niece is playing. For the record, there are no Pokemon where I live, but apparently the bookstore in town not too far away has Ghost Pokemon all over it, or so says the sign on their door.

[Awen Moonshine]

I went to an anime convention at the weekend (to work) and where my table was situated I was just in range of a pokestop that always had a lure on it, so I was just sat tagging it most of the time and catching things ^_^;;

As such I am now level 21 and have got as my top 10 pokemon (CP):
Rapidash - 1345
Electabuzz - 1345
Flareon - 1341
Hypno - 1341
Pidgeot - 1205
Wigglytuff - 1180
Lapras - 1119
Golbat - 1072
Kingler - 1068
Vaporeon - 1056

[Lawtan]

...the Kingler is over 9000 CP...I was not aware that was possible. 0_0

[Awen Moonshine]

Oops, mis-typed that due to the small one climbing on me ^_^;; I have corrected it ^_^;;

[RinLin]

DK, I used bluestacks, but I can't move with the WASD keys. Help.

[Tiva]

Im so Jealous Awen, I want that Rapidash.

I got some cool Pokemon while I was down at the beach, loads of Magikarp (I'm at 250 ish candies now) and for some reason they had Growlithe…. which was awesome.

[Coda]

Bluestacks doesn't provide the GPS spoofing thing on its own, to my knowledge; that's probably an add-on you have to install separately.

Note that you've got a really good chance of getting banned for using GPS spoofing.

[Awen Moonshine]

I got lucky with a few eggs hatching into Ponyta ^_^;; I'd love to have a Growlithe, I've not got that or Vulpix yet and they are on my most wanted list ^_^;;

I've not got very many Magicarp yet either, only 15 candy for that so far... :( Sucks living near the River Thames, but not close enough to the shore to get water pokemon showing up...

[ml1201]

I'm so jealous of you guys, all the good places I don't know how to get to so I'm stuck with the one I hit on the way to work and on the way home since I can pull over right next to it.

[Lawtan]

Mankey!

...I know that isn't the best, but it and Pincer have been in the vicinity for weeks (3 steps when that thing used to work), and I haven't been able to find it.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Awen Moonshine

...I'd love to have a Growlithe, I've not got that or Vulpix yet and they are on my most wanted list ^_^;;...

Same! Though my odds are really low given that I don't actually play. ;)

My niece snagged a Vulpix at our Pokemonless farm by putting out some incense.

Is it possible to play the game with only a few Pokemon or cherry picking what you want? How do you level? I assume that level has to do with what is available to catch and what not.

Maybe I should just crack out the game again. ;)

[Coda]

Mankey's actually fairly good -- Primeape is a lot better in Go than it is in the main-series games (it gets Cross Chop, which is *the* best charge move in the game right now) and while it's not exceptionally powerful it's still pretty strong relative to how easy it is to evolve and level up.

[Awen Moonshine]

You level up your trainer by catching, hatching and evolving pokemon ^_^ To begin with it's fairly easy but I'm now struggling to level up (level 22 requires 100k exp to get to level 23)... You also can get bonus exp from how well you throw the pokeball and from tagging pokestops ^_^

I've been lucky that I am able to play a lot and have manged to spend time in environments that aid playing with multiple pokestops and gyms, otherwise I'd probably not be very far into the game at all.

[Coda]

The curve is set up to make it fairly easy to get to 10 or so, then it takes concentrated effort to get to 20, and getting to 30 is kinda hard, and then getting from 30 to 33 takes as much XP as it took to get from 1 to 30. It's MEANT to slow way down as you progress as a way to level the playing field.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

So could one do a "catch and release" sort of thing?

I seem to be something of an Instinct leaner (though if I were to pick something off the bat I'd probably be Mystic because blue). I care more about the pet part of the game more than the battle aspect. People seem to get emotional about the various teams.

Perhaps I should just go and look this stuff up properly.

[Demonskid]

Basically what you do is catch as many of the same types of pokemon possible. Keep the highest CP pokemon, and send the others to the professor in exchange for that pokemon's Candy so you can level it up and evolve it.

Some people also catch cheaply evolvable pokemon like pidgey and rattata, put a lucky egg on and mass evolve the pokemon for faster trainer leveling. (Get the candy you need first)


hope i helped ovo