Day 59/365: Arrival of the Beast + PokéGo update

[nanila]

The fabled Beast from the East, about which the UK newspapers have been emoting for days, finally seems to have arrived in the West Midlands. Prior to this we had been thinking it was all just a lot of Hysteria from Siberia. But now, in addition to the cold which has seen the canal freeze over, we have the snow to match.

In far more significant news, I have, at long last, bagged myself a Lapras in Pokémon Go. It hatched from a 10 km egg. I was so happy. I've waited a year and a half for one of these.


Screenshot of Lapras. ♥

Other things I'm enjoying:

• The PokéGo map and catch screens reflect the current weather conditions, and the snow effects are rather lovely.
  
• I seem to be getting a much better ratio of 2 km/5 km/10 km eggs. It used to be that I always had eight 5 km eggs and maybe one other. Now I have almost equal numbers of the three types.
  
• My Rock-type badge went gold, and my Pikachu badge went silver with the latest proliferation of the party-hatted versions.
  
• Have acquired 300+ Wailmer candies. Getting There.

Comments

[ayebydan]

LAPRAS! ♥

I hatched a Dratini on my walk home last night and did a dance in the snow. Luckily for me snow meant not witnesses.

300?! HOW. Are you finding the pikachu are more likely to take 2 or 3 balls to catch? It is driving me batty.

[nanila]

YAY Dratini! :D I hope you got lots of candies as well.

I see Wailmers pretty frequently because of the canal. But even so I've used a lot of Pinap berries to get to 307 candies.

Yes, unless the party-hat Pikachu are really low CP, they need Razz berries. My Pokéball stash is low. Need another trip to the city to refill. ;)

[lurkingcat]

Huzzah for the Lapras! Must be the weather conditions ;)

[nanila]

Ha, yes!

I know you managed to evolve Wailmer, but have you also done Swablu? I was just sort of casually collecting those, assuming it needed 50 candies to evolve, but then I noticed it's actually 400. I don't see them as often as Wailmer so now I'm a bit grumpy that I wasn't using Pinap berries on them earlier.

[lurkingcat]

I have done Swablu - mostly because it's one that turns up more often under windy and cloudy conditions and the center of Bristol specialises in those weather conditions over the winter so they've been everywhere. It's been a welcome change from the Zigagoons and the Pidgeys. I've yet to catch a shiny one though.

[nanila]

Ah, lucky you! I need to get out into Brum more as it specialises in those weather conditions too. All year round. :P

The only shiny thing I've caught so far is a Magikarp, and that was not a very good one. In fact the only reason I've been partaking in raid battles is to try and get a wonderful one, so I can evolve it with the candies I've been saving up!

[lurkingcat]

My shiny Magikarp is not going to make much headway in battle according to Blanche. But there's a couple of players on my team who pass through the city center from time to time leaving a shiny Pikachu and a shiny Swablu in gyms. So I've taken to popping my shiny Magikarp in there with them whenever I spot a gym that they've taken :)

[cmcmck]

Hey!

You too!

Not as much as we had before Christmas, however.

[nanila]

No, I think we caught the brunt of that December storm in the West Midlands, as everywhere else in England didn't seem to have nearly as much snow as we did. This time, we're the ones being left out.

[silveradept]

Yay, snow effects. They are quite pretty.

Yay, Lapras! (I've hatched one and caught one, and that's it.)

And yes, those party hat chus are such a pain to catch.

[nanila]

Yes, you'll have been seeing the snow effects as well! My parents reported snow on our last video call.

Lapras was worth the wait. <3

Party hat chus seem to have gone now. Ah well. It was always going to be a loooong time before my badge went gold anyway.

[silveradept]

Yeah, I got to see some of it in my travels, which was very neat.

I was thrilled to hatch my Lapras when it happened.

And yes, will be a long time before the Pikachu badge fills. Thankfully, they seem to do a chu for most events.

[pax_athena]

Lapras! <3

They seems to have rebalances the eggs. At least I am getting a lot more of the 10 and 2 km, too - I like both, the ones for the fancy pokemon, the others for the quick "yay, accomplished" feeling they bring. Just the 5th are annoying ... XD

[nanila]

Lapras, yes. <3

Agreed on the satisfaction types from 10 and 2 km eggs! Every now and then I get a great starter Pokémon from a 2 km egg. I got my first Taillow that way.

[pax_athena]

Oh, are taillows rare for you? They are everywhere here! But there are others where I haven't seen any in the wild yet :(
Regional differences are utterly fascinating.

But yes on the starter pokemon from the 2k eggs! Those are sooo satisfactory.

[mysterysquid]

Snow!

[nanila]

It was lovely whilst it was around, but I'm ready for there not to be any more until next winter. ;)