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[Rolan7]

Double post because double community day:  Eeveent is restarting in 23 minutes here, 2-5 EST for the US.

From what I can tell, the main goal is shinies.  The "last resort" move stuck around when I evolved a Flareon during the event, and it's a strong normal move, but Calcy IV reports that Flamethrower has more DPS.  Probably due to the lack of STAB after evolving.

Importantly going forward:  There's a known method for getting additional Umbreons and Espeons (besides the 1 each from naming them after the show).  Apparently if you walk an eevee buddy for 10km before evolving, you get one or the other (based on night/day, as in the games).  Sorta like Feebas/Milotic, except without the UI indication.

Anyway, good luck everyone... myself included...  I only got 1 shiny yesterday, and I need to save it to become Leafeon (whenever that becomes possible).  Ideally people are aiming for 8 shinies lol, to get one of each including the as yet unreleased.  But maybe it doesn't matter that much - most of the shiny Eeveelutions don't look very different.

Mm, sour grapes~

[Rolan7]

Who's the best legendary in Pokemon before Arceus, and why is it Celebi?
Because they're the special research reward in GO, of course!

Grass/Psychic who would obviously have been Fairy, if that was thing.  Only available through special RL event, like Mew.  Yet another reason nostalgic people play Crystal Clear, I reckon.

On a non-GO note - once I'm done with this Silver run (I feel like the Johto content is extra, and hunting down the Mimic girl for a train pass illustrates how unfinished it is) should I go for...

Crystal Clear (tempted, got it loaded)
SoulSilver
LeafGreen

[Telgin]

I'm just hoping I'll actually see Celebi at some point in Pokemon Go.  I still haven't seen Mew and I'm stuck on stage 5/8 of the quest chain to get it because it's taking months to find 8 ghost type pokemon, and that's even counting the ghastly and misdreavous encounters you get for field research.  Guess that'll resolve itself by Halloween, but then it'll take many months for me to get 400 magikarp candies so I can evolve a gyarados to finish the next stage...

Really wish I'd googled it before I evolved my current gyarados.  It took me over a year to get the candies needed, and I'm quite confident that the one I have now won't count.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, sorry, I had just evolved when the Mew research arrived, and you're right.  It has to be evolved *after* you get to that research task.  It didn't take me a year because city play is completely imba, but it took a while and a lot of pinap berries.  I've actually got the candy for another gyarados now, but I'm waiting to see if it's a research task for Celebi as well.

[umiman]

https://youtu.be/a3YkDQjn0Bg

This guy beats an Anything Goes tier team with smeargle and a meditite.

It's... A thing of beauty.

[Telgin]

Hey, I finally found two more misdreavuses yesterday and finished that part of the mew quest.  Now on to the stage where I have to evolve a gyarados and... battle in 10 raids.  Well, I may find 300 more magikarp candies before I battle in that many raids.  There's one gym that's remotely close to my house, and it only has raids going when I can get to it at exceptionally rare times.  I guess I can just start joining raids I know I can't beat, just to get the number up.

I checked ahead and see that for the last stage of the mew quest you have to get an excellent curve ball throw.  That may actually be the hardest thing of all, since I can barely hit with curve balls at all and gave up on trying to use them a long time ago.

[umiman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJxrBUY8V7c

Here's a pretty fun video talking about the history of sweepers in Pokemon.

[Telgin]

Does anyone who plays Pokemon Go need friends for the Celebi quest?  I do, so here's my trainer code if anyone wants to share codes:

5362 8323 6890

Supposedly you can get Kanto region specific pokemon through the 7km eggs now for a while, so this would also be a chance to get mr. mime, kangaskhan, tauros or farfetch'd if you're missing them.  Checking up on it, that only lasts through the end of the month though, and apparently odds are pretty low on finding them in eggs, which sucks.

[Rolan7]

I almost posted my own code recently when I belatedly started the Celebi quest, after a week or two of real life heh.
I was fortunate enough to have a local Groupme to beg codes from, which I could pass on in PM if you need.

I mean, I had 11 fricken friends already (largely distant), but the quest is for *three more*

Protip:  Save oddish candy, and any incubators you have.  And don't walk your eevees just yet.  Doesn't seem to count afterwards, afaict

[Telgin]

Thanks, I got your invite just now.  I saw where people were sharing trainer codes on one of the Pokemon Go guide sites, so I'll probably just look that up again.

And yeah, I've been saving up hoppip candies for that evolution requirement, but only got up to about 80 + a skiploom before they rotated out most pokemon to be Kanto region, so it'll be a while before I can evolve it into another jumpluff.  I need to look up whatever it is you have to do with eevees, and may regret just evolving some and sending them to the candy factory as XP fodder.

[Rolan7]

The site for Pokemon Crystal Clear went down a few days ago ):
This is a shame because I'd have to say it's the refinement of the GBC experience.  Gyms can be rechallenged and their difficulty increases based on how many badges you have - badges you acquire over both Johto and Kanto.

I mean, I only played Silver and GO previously, but if you have any interest in the oldschool experience I think it's worthwhile.

It's such a shame that the site is down.  It had a lot of information about the wild captures.  Still, so far I'm liking the experience better than Silver - which I enjoyed a lot!

The GBA versions have a lot of advantages, obviously, but I kinda like the simplicity of these.  Particularly for a mobile game I play in small segments around family, aheh (;

[Telgin]

Was Crystal Clear a fan game or ROM hack?  Pokemon Gold was the last one I played before Go, so if it was based on gen II that does sound a little interesting.

It makes me a little tempted to go back and fill out my pokedex in Pokemon Gold, since I don't think I ever did.  Did multiple times in Red, but never Gold.  I still wonder why I lost interest after that generation.

[Rolan7]

Rom hack of Crystal for Game Boy Color.  Gen II, on GBC architecture.
The simple architecture is oddly appealing for a game I play occasionally on my phone.

[Dunamisdeos]

I want to play the Pokemon Crystal Randofuser rom but  I can't get the .jar file to work for some reason it keeps returning a java error

Would anyone be able to just get the thing to run and posting to result? I feel like a nincompoop. I even risked the hard drive apocalypse and downloaded 3rd-party java programs to try and figure out why it wasn't running, and I don't even know Java.

I still own my old Crystal cartridge on GBA in case anyone is a hard-case for pirating, I stopped downloading things I didn't already own years ago.

[Rolan7]

Reminder that Beldum/Metagross community day is Sunday.  I was building one up anyway but this is cool I suppose

I finally got Celebi wooo.  It was kinda frustrating going through the forced "tutorials" of evolving up yet another umbreon and espeon, and then having an unskippable 7-day task after that.  But catching grass types is fun, and it's cute.
Even if it mechanically seems about equivalent to an Exeggcute, but harder to level?  Meh, I'm more likely to use it than Mew.

I got the excellent curveball first try   And then did it again immediately, bizarrely!  Pretty great luck.

Meanwhile in Crystal Clear I discovered Voltorb Flip.  I was expecting lame slot machines (which the romhack *also* has) but this game is pretty neat!  I'm a fan of Picross, this is sorta like that but does require luck too.  Which sounds like an awful combination, but it's surprisingly engaging.
It doesn't seem to cost anything to play, to avoid teaching kids to gamble heh.  Sorta a weird message in what's obviously a casino but fine.

I might get a Larvatar even though I already have a Houndour for dark.  I've been shaping up a strange grass and dark party, with a jolteon now.  The Hoppip and Sunkern aren't really doing anything yet though, since I haven't found the EXP share.  Someone said it was for sale in the department stores, but I just checked both.  Seems like I have to do the Red Gyarados quest like normal...  Fortunately the train just works, no need to find the mimic girl!

I also found a guy who sells event moves.  He gave Splash to my Sunkern for free...