Day 108/365: And now for something completely different: a cheerful PokéGo post

[nanila]

Screenshot of a shiny pink Ampharos.

On Community Day, when I was back in the UK I caught a shiny Mareep straightaway, and jumped for joy because I had just acquired enough Mareep candies to achieve the full evolution cycle. And now I have a beautiful shiny pink Ampharos in my backpack. Huzzah!

From a PokéGo perspective, it was fantastic being in central Vienna, where the Pokéstops are as dense as forest trees, during the Spring event. I managed to evolve a number of Hoenn region Pokémon, and I got a Moltres from doing Field Research. Hat-tip to the bloke for helping me with completing sequential curveball throw tasks. I’m very pleased there’s now a way to get Legendaries without having to battle in difficult raids, which would require interacting with other people. (That’s just not my favourite aspect of playing any game!)

That said, the reason I’m making this post is that when I got to London this morning, I found that kaberett had popped a Snorlax in a local gym. I added my Alakazam, and fed the Snorlax a few berries. Seeing a friend’s Pokémon is not quite the same thing as seeing said friend, but it still put a big smile on my face.

Comments

[kaberett]

AAAAH. :D I didn't spot you before I cleared out for the day but am very pleased!

[ayebydan]

I managed to get my Rydon, Alakazam and Gollem evolved while the event was on for Kanto. Cheesing. Still slugging my way towards the original starter final evolutions though uuurgh.

I hate being social and I hate raids. I basically sat on a street and let a big Rydon beat up my pokemon for five minutes to get my task done. I don't really understand how to win the battles never mind manage it enough to get a raid in the bag lol

[quoththeravyn]

i, being Of A Certain Age and Having No Clue about these things, and fresh from a friend's blog entry describing horrible cancer treatments now thankfully ended (patient is recovered, by all accounts, hooray!)... saw "Snorlax" and wondered if that was another chemotherapy agent I hadn't heard of.

Even if not, congrats on popping it off.

[lurkingcat]

*Admires the shiny Ampharos* So pink!

I'm really enjoying the Field Research aspect of the game, partly for the chance to catch Legendaries that I missed and partly because it seems to have brought people back into the game for whom raiding is not ever going to be a thing. (I've got to admit that I find raiding difficult still although it's getting easier now that I'm starting to recognise people from my local group and they're starting to recognise me.)

[silveradept]

Hooray for the shiny! (I ended up catching five, all of them terrible, but I have a pink Ampharos as well.)

The Kanto region event here helped a lot in terms of collecting candies for evolving some of the rarer mons. Still don't have a Hitmonlee, though. Maybe if they ever do a Fighting event?

It is nice to be able to catch legendary creatures without raid necessities. (There was a Latios raid at the Community Day, which basically shuttled people in and out quickly - I caught one!) I do wish that it would shift Pokémon for each breakthrough. Having more than one Moltres is not a complaint, but I would like the others, too.