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GO Fest 2023 – Day 2

August 29, 2023August 27, 2023 Medic 0 Comments dragon, go fest, mega evolution, pokemon go, rayquaza

Day Two of GO Fest is always a bit more relaxed compared to day one. Mostly. While day one mostly focused on Diancie and collection challenges, day two focused on a lot more raids and featured Mega Rayquaza. Now, Mega Rayquaza is a pretty big thing. It’s so powerful that, in competitive Pokemon battling in the main games, Mega Rayquaza has to be banned. It’s hugely powerful and can completely nullify its weaknesses. In Pokemon GO, it’s not as powerful, but it still does an absolute ton of damage, to the point that it’s one of the most powerful Pokemon… [Continue Reading]

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Day One of GO Fest was Fun

August 28, 2023August 26, 2023 Medic 0 Comments go fest, mythical pokemon, pokemon go, shinies, shiny

I bought a ticket for GO Fest. I’d enjoyed the previous GO Fest events in previous years, so I thought I’d enjoy this one. GO Fest 2023 was a mostly simple but fun event. Was it worth a ticket though? Let’s find out. Just like previous GO Fests, day one of GO Fest 2023 was split into four biomes, which rotated throughout the day. The biomes in GO Fest 2023 were based on minerals, and the main theme was crystals and gems. The Pokemon behind GO Fest was the mythical Pokemon Diancie, a rock/fairy Pokemon that, well, makes crystals and… [Continue Reading]

A daily Pokemon, indicated by the white ring around it.

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I wish Daily Pokemon Were More Interesting

August 25, 2023August 14, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon go

A while back, during the height of the Covid pandemic, Niantic added a couple of little features to Pokemon GO, namely the Daily Pokemon Spawn, a daily research task (the green one) and a ton of extra incense. Later on, they added the Daily Incense, which lasts 15 minutes. These are all little daily addons that all players receive, and allowed players to keep up with weekly breakthroughs. However, all these daily things are a bit… dull. Let’s start off with the free daily Pokemon that everyone gets. Denoted with a white circle, you get one spawn a day guaranteed,… [Continue Reading]

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On Nearly Perfect Pokemon

August 20, 2023August 9, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go

When it comes to catching good Pokemon, there’s always a hope that you’ll get a Pokemon with 100% IVs. Getting a Perfect Pokemon is a rare thing, although there are certain ways to increase your chances. These ways include purifying Pokemon, opening research and trading Pokemon, especially with lucky trades. However, the chances are still very low, and even with these options, it’s unlikely you’ll get a hundo. Well, unless you purify a shadow Pokemon with stats at 13 or higher. But you often don’t want to purify Pokemon as shadow Pokemon are stronger. But there are some Pokemon that… [Continue Reading]

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Sandshrew Needs To Go Away

August 16, 2023August 5, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go, sandshrew

I’ve complained about individual Pokemon in the past. A while ago, I ranted about how Dragonite is ugly and fat and that Dragonair’s evolution makes no sense. Today, I am going to rant about another Pokemon. A Pokemon also from the Kanto region. In this article, we’re going to talk about Sandshrew. Now, normally, Sandshrew is an okay Pokemon. The name is a bit obvious, but eh, it looks alright. It’s a pretty basic rock/ground type. Sandslash is a bit on the ugly side, but I don’t mind it so much, since I still have a Sandslash I used back… [Continue Reading]

All the fossil Pokemon were available in the wild.

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Adventure Week Was Pretty Good

August 15, 2023August 13, 2023 Medic 0 Comments fossil, pokemon, pokemon go

If I’m honest, most of this year’s events in Pokemon GO have been average at best. For some reason, Niantic saves all the good events for various times of the year. February generally has a tour event and some nice anniversary stuff. August contains GO Fest and a variety of enticing events. October has Halloween and December has Christmas. Events in other months are generally not as big and can be quite lame. However, this year’s Adventure Week (which are normally in July) has been a pretty good event. Generally, Adventure Week (actually called Adventures Near and Far, but that’s… [Continue Reading]

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Froakie Community Day

August 14, 2023August 13, 2023 Medic 0 Comments community day, froakie, greninja, pokemon go, starter

For the second month in a row, we’ve had a Water type as our Community Day Pokemon. But for August, we got a nice treat in the form of Froakie Community Day. Froakie is a starter Pokemon that evolves into the insanely popular Greninja. You know, like the Greninja in the anime. Well, not quite, we just got normal Greninja. Which we evolved from normal Froakies. Clearly, Niantic knew this would be a popular Community Day. We got both double stardust and double catch candy as the bonuses, which meant this event was very good for hardcore and casual players… [Continue Reading]

Medic and a bunch of Pokemon face a massive Tyranitar

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The Change To Remote Passes Is Still Stupid

August 7, 2023July 26, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon go, raid, remote raid passes, remote raiding

Back in March 2023, Niantic nerfed remote raid passes. They made remote raid passes a lot worse, nerfing them hugely while also making them more expensive. Now, a few months later, I can confirm that remote raid passes are still nerfed to heck. And I still think these nerfs are stupid. The biggest problem is the price. Simply put, Niantic nearly doubled the cost of raid passes. They used to cost the same as premium raid passes, and also had a bundle that cost 250 coins. Now remote raid passes cost 195 coins and the bundle of three costs 525… [Continue Reading]

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Poliwag Community Day

July 31, 2023July 30, 2023 Medic 0 Comments community day, pokemon, pokemon go, poliwag

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t exactly excited with this one. Poliwag isn’t the most popular Pokemon, and we recently had a water-type Pokemon for a previous community day – twice. In fact, I nearly forgot it was happening, and a lot of my friends weren’t interested either, some of which already had multiple Poliwag shinies. But I played a little anyway, and it was alright. A bit hot Here in Cyprus, it’s quite hot, especially at 2pm. Even with a bit of shade, I only played for about an hour. However, in that time, I managed to get five shinies,… [Continue Reading]

Pokemon spawning in the middle of a desert

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The Problem With The Blazing Trails Event

July 27, 2023July 25, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go, routes, trails

The Blazing Trails event ended on the 23rd, marking the end of probably one of the worst events in Pokemon GO for a long time. In this event, most players couldn’t even take part. The Blazing Trails event was supposed to introduce a new mechanic. But that mechanic didn’t even work. The new mechanic is the Route. Routes are player-made paths that you can follow, which give some sort of reward at the end and have Pokemon spawn among said routes. At least, that’s what’s supposed to happen. Many players found that following routes was tedious and were prone to… [Continue Reading]