Day 162/365: Pokémon Go: Medals and Legendaries

[nanila]

In “this game keeps introducing small but important changes that maintain my interest” news, Pokémon Go seems to have adopted an almost continuous rota of themed events, based on Pokémon types and lasting weeks at a time. It’s helping me to complete my medals, as shown above. The only remaining silvers I have are Steel and Dragon, and if I keep tracking down Arons, I should have Steel into gold by the end of the month. Alchemy!

Completing one’s Pokédex is, of course, a never-ending task. Being a solitary player, I was never going to be a fan of raiding, so I’m very happy that the Field Research provides a different mechanism for collecting legendaries. Thus, now I have Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno.


Flaming Moltres (this should be a cocktail)


Electric Zapdos


Icy Articuno

I’m on Step 6 out of 8 in the Special Research. The sticking point is the “Battle in 10 raids” task. I’ll get through it, but it’s going to take me a while. Not that I mind!

How are my fellow PokéGo players doing?

Comments

[redsixwing]

Excellent birds!

I've picked PokeGo up again after the announcement of Let's Go with Eevee, which I will absolutely want to play. The field research makes it way better for me as I'm terrible at raids and the small community here means I can't just go find twenty people* and take down a superboss.

*seriously who can do this

[nanila]

I don't know who can randomly find twenty people apart from those who live in cities. The game is definitely still biased against rural/non-city-dwelling players. I mean maybe if I were a more active FB user or a reddit user I could find people? But those are not cesspits I'm willing to dive into just to find raiding buddies.

[redsixwing]

HEYYYYY

I will gladly send you a Tauros as soon as humanly possible, if it can be done to make friends when not in proximity.

[nanila]

ERMAHGERD I will so be adding everyone on here, if they want to be added and if we can.

Yes please, and I will send you a Mr Mime (although they are SCARY AF if you ask me) to help you complete your dex as well, if you need.

[redsixwing]

\o/ I really hope we can.

Great! I have two now, and I'll catch them as I find them. And thank you for the offer in return. Mr. Mime is terrifying, but ... dex completion!