Pokemon Go!

ok so today is my ponyta day. caught 5 in the office already. seems there is a spawn in the parking lot. I am not complaining!
 
Nerfherder said:
CP maxes out at about 3500 so not much higher it can go.

Remember - all Pokemon have their weaknesses
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This.. I've seen huge dragons but a quick look here tells you how much their CP really counts i.e. http://pokemondb.net/type So i've seen a fire type with 1.5k cp being replaced with a ground type with 2/3rd cp or a water type haha.

Just know the strengths and weakness of pokemon and you score. that and knowing which areas don't have a lot of players help you own gyms for days with relatively weak pokemon :D so randburg and northeast sandton = take over often and especially around IT places like Didata
 
krycor said:
This.. I've seen huge dragons but a quick look here tells you how much their CP really counts i.e. http://pokemondb.net/type So i've seen a fire type with 1.5k cp being replaced with a ground type with 2/3rd cp or a water type haha.

Just know the strengths and weakness of pokemon and you score. that and knowing which areas don't have a lot of players help you own gyms for days with relatively weak pokemon :D so randburg and northeast sandton = take over often and especially around IT places like Didata
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On which generation is GO based? because there are type differences between different generations. I know currently we only have the original 150, but what's to say they won't expand later on?
 
its based on gen 1 with rumours floating around that gen 2 will be coming in december
 
krycor said:
This.. I've seen huge dragons but a quick look here tells you how much their CP really counts i.e. http://pokemondb.net/type So i've seen a fire type with 1.5k cp being replaced with a ground type with 2/3rd cp or a water type haha.

Just know the strengths and weakness of pokemon and you score. that and knowing which areas don't have a lot of players help you own gyms for days with relatively weak pokemon :D so randburg and northeast sandton = take over often and especially around IT places like Didata
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What you want to do is get in the gym before some other strong guys from your team take the gym.

I took two gyms today that were held very well because they has just been taken by someone else and then they left one weak Pokemon.
So I take the gym and then someone else from my team (red) raises the level. So it looks like Im safe... but then later on some yellow guys take the tower.
The reds came back later and take the gym, I wont be able to beat the gym and so I miss out on holding the tower now.

Need to co-ordinate with these guys.

One thing I have realised is that its easy to take a tower. If you can beat one of the Pokemon then you can brute force the gym if you have enough revives and time.
Holding/levelling a gym is a different story.
 
SykomantiS said:
On which generation is GO based? because there are type differences between different generations. I know currently we only have the original 150, but what's to say they won't expand later on?
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It's gen 1. But there seem to be some new types in there. For example Clefairy Is fairy type. That wasn't in gen 1
 
Baxteen said:
its based on gen 1 with rumours floating around that gen 2 will be coming in december
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I figured this was Gen 1 and future release will be others as they base future dev based on success. The problem I feel is that irrespective of generational pokemon release and futures additionally held back like P2P fights, team based trading/market etc make the game less great beyond the initial game play and will cost them users once you 'catch them all'

Nerfherder said:
What you want to do is get in the gym before some other strong guys from your team take the gym.

I took two gyms today that were held very well because they has just been taken by someone else and then they left one weak Pokemon.
So I take the gym and then someone else from my team (red) raises the level. So it looks like Im safe... but then later on some yellow guys take the tower.
The reds came back later and take the gym, I wont be able to beat the gym and so I miss out on holding the tower now.

Need to co-ordinate with these guys.

One thing I have realised is that its easy to take a tower. If you can beat one of the Pokemon then you can brute force the gym if you have enough revives and time.
Holding/levelling a gym is a different story.
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This has been one of the biggest failings of the game along with a LOT of help info on how things work which the game is very light on. If you do not know about Pokemon from 1.5 decades ago you kinda lost.

I think the game misses a lot of polished features that it needs.. don't get me wrong this game got a LOt of things right, from timing the summer for US & EU release to using Ingress geo info for a lot of features which coincided nicely with storyline... but e.g. team chat (even if limited to a shout in area / 5km of users) is a feature that i feel should have been there.. right now teams and gym battles are awesome but a team is not really a team, just individual users who happen to fight with same badge at the gym.
 
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Suspect99 said:
It's gen 1. But there seem to be some new types in there. For example Clefairy Is fairy type. That wasn't in gen 1
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Then it's not gen1, it's gen6. It's possible to launch only the 1st 150 but using current (gen6) types, hence my question.
 
@ Nerfherder this is why having a gamer gf rocks.. I am always a team of two and we strategise on pokemon lvling so we dont have exactly the same things hehe
 
Stupid me, I should've noticed that... It's so blindingly obvious now, just looking at types and attacks on some of my Pokémon.
 
What would be nice is if there was a way to see which gym's have been lost...
 
Arzy said:
What would be nice is if there was a way to see which gym's have been lost...
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Yea it's again features the game should have developed. Like a area map showing which team in area is doing well or owns the gyms.
 
Baxteen said:
that gym is solidly for team mystic. and we work right here and there are a few of us around so we will take if back promptly if any other team tries to take it back!
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Would be a crying shame if you were to lose it to the red team, for instance...
 
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