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[MmmBanana]

awe, shoot! i missed this community day.hey how do you check IVs?

I use pokegenie for IPhone. Dunno if it works on android or not. I start with the in game appraisal. It my trainer says its a wounder then I know its 81 or better and then ill check the IV.

wow! i only got 2 Shinies! i dunno, i kinda felt like there were less Charmanders and Shinies this community day. at least in the park we were in. i usually catch 4 or 5. just asking random peeps, the most Shinies found was only like 4.

the two Shinies i caught don't have good IV's but hey, don't they look great?! i got a 98% Charmander tho. i only knew that b/c a guy in the group ahead of us shouted very loudly several times to everyone - "Hey there's a 98% Charmander at this stop!!":


also i got my first Ho-Oh in a legendary raid. i really want a Shiny Ho-Oh w/ rainbow wings. we beat a Latias in another raid, but i failed to catch it. i already have 1 tho.


awww mah bad! forgot to bamp. i only missed 1 community day i think - the Pikachu one in January b/c i was sick. i still got lucky and caught a 0.1 Shiny Pikachu around the house lol.

FYI Alola forms/morphs are coming soon! i can't wait to catch/evolve a tall goofy Exeggutor.


there's a way to manually calculate it. it's based on a scale of 0-15 for attack, defense and stamina. so u give your Pokemon a max of 15 points for each of those things during it's appraisal, add it up and divide by 45. or just use an app or online calculator like this: https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/tools/iv-calculator

but personally i don't use IV's to judge my monstars - i just use the basic appraisal of Amazing, Strong, Decent and Not Great (Team Valor's assessment). i keep Amazing and Strong and lesser ones if they are kool, unique, Shinies or i caught them in a city i visited while traveling.

None of my shinies had good IVs. I still evolved one just for a shiny charizard. Congratulations on Ho-oh! Latias and Latios have been a struggle for a lot of people to catch. Ive been real lucky on them tho. Currently I'm at like 38/44 Latias. Got a handful of Ho-ohs, but no shinies yet.

[tttaylorrr]

hello, Alola!!!



just got this notty tonight!

[Ax01]

^ dat's right!

so i was walking back to the train after dinner last night and turned on the game. look what's on the radar!



my first one, an Alolan-type Exeggutor! lol i cant even see the heads! AR mode:

non-AR mode:

uses the same candies. i checked the registry. it's not a separate monster but is listed under the same ol' Kanto region Exeggutor. it's kinda like how the Shiny's register.



here's another one!



and another! i wanna get the top in this pix lol:



here's one next to a park entrance. it's SO TALL!!



so i caught a few but none of them were really good. i think 2 were Strong (like 80-90%) and none were Amazing (90-plus %).



lol i found one in my office hallway today. it's head was way past the ceiling tiles!



in other Poke news:
-- Let's Go Pikachu! and Let's Go Eevee! RPG's will be coming to the Nintendo Switch.
-- Next community Day is Sat, June 16th w/ Larvitar!! i can't wait! i really, really want an Amazing Shiny XXL Larvitar/Tryanizilla.

[tttaylorrr]

hahaha!!! that was my first question when i saw your post: can you look up and see their heads???? i wasn't able to take my lunch today and catch one so hopefully omw home i finally catch one! they were everywhere this am!

[tttaylorrr]

what's the longest u guys had a pkm gone for?

my strongest pkm has been gone for 5 days now from a place that's an hr away and i'm kinda mad bc i want them at other places now lol. 0 VICTORIES.

[MmmBanana]

I currently have an unknown in a gym out in the woods that's been there for about 8 days now. I had 2 or 3 pokemon in a park down in SC for like 13 days I believe.

[Ax01]

here's 1 of the 2 Dittos i caught while in Chicago/Illinoise!



ok after a few disappointing community days where i got next to no Shiny's, the one this past weekend was successful! look got 2 Shiny Eevee's in a row!

thought i would lsoe it b/c i lost GPS signal!

yep, im at the Sub-Pop festival! crazy weather! we've had 80-90degree temps and no rain for a month. now it's overcast, flashes of sun and rain. such bad luck!

here's another!

i got this right at 1:59pm PST. i caught i at 2pm and i realized later it reverted back to a normal Eevee!! it's the 604 CP one in the 2nd pix.



i played for like only 90minutes on day 2 and caught 2 more Shiny's!



so i got 6 Shiy's overal. i changed their names to Rainier, Sparky, Pyro, Tamao and Sakura hoping i would still get one of each. but i knew that trick only works once and in the end got 3 Shiny Vaporeon's, 1 Shiny Jolteon, 1 Shiny Flareon. and i still get to keep 1 un-evolved shiny Eevee. pretty good!