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On Shadows and IVs

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A Purified Metagross and a Shadow Metagross duke it out in the city

So we just had a Team Rocket Takeover event, and it was pretty damn good. It was also part of a Halloween event, but, frankly, with the new shadow Pokemon we got, it was like Christmas for anyone who is into doing raids. We got four new shadow Pokemon that are either the best or among the best when it comes to DPS. The Pokemon we got are genuinely great. Shadow Rampardos and Shadow Gengar are the glassiest of cannons, but when they do manage to get their damage off, they absolutely destroy. Unfortunately, that might not always be possible,… [Continue Reading]

Hatching Eggs Sucks

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The weird red 12km egg.

Hatching eggs in Pokemon GO is a tedious thing. You spend ages walking around and an egg hatches and, most of the time, it’s nothing good. The last ten eggs I’ve hatched have all given me nothing good. But let’s look deeper into why eggs suck so much. Basically, to put things into TF2 terms, eggs are crates, and incubators are keys. While you do get one free and infinite incubator, having just the one makes hatching eggs take a long time. It requires a lot of walking to hatch one egg, with the longer it needs to walk, the… [Continue Reading]

The Team Rocket Leaders Are Actually Worth Fighting Now!

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Who ate all the pies? This bastard ate all the pies.

After three months of awful shadow Pokemon, the Team Rocket Leaders now actually have good Pokemon! In fact, all three of them have pretty good Pokemon! It looks like it’s time to equip those Rocket Radars I’ve been holding on to. With the Halloween Rocket Takeover event, we got three new Pokemon from the Leaders of Team Rocket, and Giovanni is also back with a new shadow Legendary. Sierra is back with Sableye, Arlo is skulking around with Bellsprout and Cliff is now everyone’s new best friend with Dratini. All three Pokemon have the potential to be shiny, and are… [Continue Reading]

Party Play Is… Interesting

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Pokemon GO recently added a new feature called Party Play. The idea is that up to four players can join a group and see each other in-game. While you are in Party Play, you get various buffs and benefits, as well as various challenges to do. Is this feature any good though? Well, kinda. It’s a neat little feature. You can see your friends on your screen as you play. You can only have four players though, which might screw over families with three or more kids. I think that’s who this new feature is aimed at. Party Play lasts… [Continue Reading]

60 Raids for a Master Ball – Was It Worth It?

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Master Ball

So I’ve finally completed the Master Ball timed research. It’s taken me around about two months, but I finished it with time to spare. The hardest task by far was to win 60 raids. However, was this research worth it? Was it worth spending raid passes, both free and premium? Well, kinda… First off, 60 raids is too many raids. If you want to do the research without spending money, you have to do a raid every day for, well, two months. Which is basically what I did. I did spend quite a few premium raid passes on a Guzzlord… [Continue Reading]

The Least Interesting Pokemon GO Event Bonuses

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The Paldea starter Pokemon from the loading screen

For events, there’s always some sort of little bonus. Sometimes the bonuses can be huge, like the x4 stardust and experience during the Paldea event in the season Adventures Abound. That bonus was insane, and I played a lot of that event to make the most of the massive boosts. Normally though, bonuses are a little calmer. In an event, you’ll probably get just one bonus, like x2 candy on catching Pokemon, or the more skill-based extra candy based on your quality of throw. But some bonuses just aren’t very good. Increased Chance of XL Candy I’ve seen this event… [Continue Reading]

Closing in on the Master Ball Timed Research

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Master Ball

On September 1st 2023, a new timed research appeared in Pokemon GO. This timed research consisted of a list of tasks, designed to be done over the course of the season. And the reward for it all? A Master Ball. The ball that can catch anything. The timed research is very important because it’s a way to get a second Master Ball in Pokemon GO, after some special research earlier in the year. And yes, you can have 2 Master Balls. Either way, Niantic are making us work very hard to get this Master Ball. I’ve already written about this… [Continue Reading]

A Weird Halloween Two-Parter

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A Zubat on Halloween

Every game right now is having its Halloween event. Halloween is a massive holiday in gaming, even if you don’t live in the US, Canada or Europe. Which is nice because, where I live, we don’t really celebrate Halloween. However, Pokemon GO is having a weird two-part event for Halloween. Halloween part 1 and Halloween part 2. So far, we’ve just been given Halloween part 1. However, there’s not really much in it. It’s mostly just a bunch of ghost type Pokemon, and the return of the Halloween map from last year. Although I noticed that, during the day, the… [Continue Reading]

Pokemon That Should Always Be Available

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A Shiny Persian watches a Magikarp

These days, most research tasks that ask you to catch Pokemon generally have a wide variety to catch. You’ll see tasks like “catch X fire type Pokemon” for example. During the Paldea event though, we had a “Catch 15 Nymble” challenge for some star dust. That research task was a bit odd, especially since it was just a normal research task. In special research tasks though, having to catch a specific Pokemon is a more common task. For example, for the Meltan special research, you need to catch some Gulpin and Slugma, because they are rather liquid-y, the same way… [Continue Reading]

On Catching 100 Different Species of Pokemon

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All the fossil Pokemon were available in the wild.

In both the Paldean Adventure special research and the Master Ball timed research, there is a particular task that I thought would be quite difficult. The task is to catch 100 different species of Pokemon. Now, I originally assumed that this task would be difficult. After all, most events only spawn like 5-6 different Pokemon, and the time between events, the spawns aren’t much better. However, I got this research task for A Paldean Adventure only a few days ago (at the time of writing) and I’ve somehow pretty much finished it. And this was just after the Psychic Spectacular… [Continue Reading]