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8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Rolan7]

At home
Launch Pokemon Go
Two Ratatats in range
Click one of them
Nothing happens for two minutes

Yep still can't play this at 4 in the afternoon.

[ZeroGravitas]

the problem with the whole power up / evolve / leveling up system is that the correct move is to NEVER power up a pokemon (well, with some minor exceptions below)

1. powering up a pokemon and evolving a pokemon both cost candy
2. you get XP for evolving pokemon (XP->higher Trainer level)
3. you do not get XP for powering up a pokemon
4. powering up a pokemon raises its CP
5. higher Trainer level raises CP of found pokemon

given those facts, you should always be using candy to evolve pokemon, in order to level up, in order to find higher CP pokemon. you should never use candy to power up pokemon, because you're also paying XP.

the only exceptions are 1) obviously things that have no evolutions (like Jynx), or 2) at or near the trainer level cap. i have heard there is a 50 hard cap but i can imagine being practically soft-capped in terms of activity level (ie, based on how much you play, your next trainer level is years away), or perhaps 3) you have a pokemon you will never ever see again? but with eggs you can expect to hatch pretty much everything, over time.

to illustrate, i have hundreds of Drowzee candy. should i evolve more drowzees into Hypnos, or power up my existing Hypnos? The answer is obviously to evolve drowzees. I did that, and now I find Hypnos in the 800-900 range several times a day. I could never have powered up my earlier Hypnos to that level, because I would have been lower level.

[ZeroGravitas]

also i am really tired of drowzees

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

that's out of 557 total (almost all of the 200+ are drowzees)

[Cthulhu]

I've only gotten one drowsee.  Does the pokemon you're evolving affect how much XP you get?  Like can I power level by spamming weedles and caterpies, evolving them once, and transferring them to get a candy back?

[DeKaFu]

Finally got some info on my local area locations... From the public library of all places. At least two gyms and four Pokéstops within a 30 minute walking distance. That's honestly better than I even hoped for.

Now all I need is for them to release the friggin' game.

...and a phone.

[Shooer]

I've only gotten one drowsee.  Does the pokemon you're evolving affect how much XP you get?  Like can I power level by spamming weedles and caterpies, evolving them once, and transferring them to get a candy back?

The XP rewards are the same for everything no mater your level or anything else.  Plenty of charts/lists out there, here's just base catching vs evolving.

Catching Any Pokemon   100
Hatching a New Pokemon   500
Evolving a Pokemon   500
Catching a New Pokemon   600
Evolving a New Pokemon   1000

Best way to level is hatch eggs and evolve common tri-evolution pokes like pidgey and caterpie.

[Cthulhu]

So yeah, not worth evolving to the third stage except for battling or to have it in my pokedex I guess.  Can get like three pidgeottos for one pidgeot.

[ZeroGravitas]

I've only gotten one drowsee.

yeah, i think my office is on top of a drowsee spawn or something. plus in a big office building in a major downtown, someone in the building has a lure module on it, pretty much the whole work day. i regularly run out of pokeballs and have to walk around to catch more.

Does the pokemon you're evolving affect how much XP you get?  Like can I power level by spamming weedles and caterpies, evolving them once, and transferring them to get a candy back?

nope, the pokemon doesn't matter; and you're exactly right, that's the best way to power level. and you should save them all up until you can pop a Lucky Egg to do it.

[ZeroGravitas]

So yeah, not worth evolving to the third stage except for battling or to have it in my pokedex I guess.  Can get like three pidgeottos for one pidgeot.

yeah, plus you'll eventually find/hatch a pidgeot anyway. and it's not like pidgeot has hard-to-find attacks, either. although the utility of a good pidgeot might vary in your own environment.

[Girlinhat]

Apparently there's a 100% success rate on making Eevee evolve into a specific type by naming it.  "Sparky" evolves into Jolteon.  The other names are based on that episode of the TV show that had the trainers with all 3 eeveelutions.  Google it, people are talking.

[Paul]

I find it hilarious that the Houston zoo is completely packed with people and are having a crazy influx way above the usual... because of Pokemon Go.

Seriously, everywhere you go the benches are full of people on their phones.

Apparently every single exhibit and half the benches and plaques in the dang place are pokestops, and so many people are there that half of them are perpetually boosted with the lure things. One spot in particular was crazy crowded, outside the planetarium, where 4 pokestops were overlapping and people were keeping them all boosted.

[RedKing]

Zoos are also apparently good spawning grounds for a variety of Pokemon.


My local area (i.e. walking distance from house) is chock full of Poison-type. Oddish, Nidoran, Zubats and Weedles till the cows come home.
Have yet to even see a Drowzee.

I used an incense tonight at home just to see what would pop up. Got a CP461 Pinsir, which is easily three times stronger than anything I had previously (only level 7). Took me six captures before he finally stayed in the damn Pokeball. Hello, new horrifying bug friend!

[Zangi]

6 tries? 

Oh damn...  I only get like 6 pokeballs a day at max..  I know I ain't getting any over the weekends if I could help it.

I was already annoyed enough when something resisted my charms once.  ... Then I wasted like 10 balls trying to hit a Zubat.   I'm pretty awesome at this.

[Tnx]

Late to the party, just downloaded this.  I happen to live by a pokestop that I can hit from my room, and pokemon seem to keep spawning around my house.  I feel very lucky right now.

[penguinofhonor]

The eevee naming thing is bunk. A handful of people have gotten lucky predicting their evolution and posted it on social media, and the few successes have been spread around enough that people think they're representative (also there are hundreds of successes because so many thousands of people are playing). The evolution is chosen completely randomly.