Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

Digglet is so rare as to be pretty much nest only here.

I wonder if other pokemon combos work (Why diglett)? I'll be saving CP 10 bubbles from now on though.

Chris said:

Digglet is so rare as to be pretty much nest only here.

I wonder if other pokemon combos work (Why diglett)? I'll be saving CP 10 bubbles from now on though.

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Diglett is the only pokemon in the game (aside from magikarp) that can be powered up to level 1.5 while still being at 10cp

When I left the gym it was level 4 with nothing above 1k except my 2300 Arcanine. It's far enough away that I really don't want to go back just to check out that gym.

I just caught a lvl 1 pikachu with thundershock, cp 10. Can't power it up to 1.5 but it still might work instead of diglett.

Sounds worth a try. I want to do this but it strikes me as the bottleneck will be a healthy stock of cp20 fodder to keep lining the gym with, versus mining for one lonely 10cp to use to do it.

PS what is the best IV checker at this point? I haven't been keeping up; pokeadvisor block and massive heat wave killed my motivation recently.

Maybe in a big city, but Champaign-Urbana is college town of like 100k, plus the transient student population. Also, I've yet to find a single communal map like pokeradar that CU residents use. Pokeradar looks like it's absolutely insane in a high pop area like Navy Pier, Santa Monica, or Central Park. So in a much smaller, much less densely populated area, without easy access to spawn maps, where if you happen to find out about a Snorlax you actually have to be both free to run after it and it has to be close enough for you to catch, someone with multiple 2k+ Snorlaxes is cheating their ass off.

I have a 2k Snorlax and Lapras, some bad luck and I have two Snorlax. Some good luck and I have less Eevee and more Snorlax.

Those people could be buying incubators, 10k eggs are uncommon not rare and always have 70%+ IVs.

I hatched a 10km egg into a 85ish% snorlax over the weekend, having previously never seen one. It only gave me like 13 candies. I thought it was always 20+ so I couldn't even power him up very well.

Chris said:

I have a 2k Snorlax and Lapras, some bad luck and I have two Snorlax. Some good luck and I have less Eevee and more Snorlax.

Those people could be buying incubators, 10k eggs are uncommon not rare and always have 70%+ IVs.

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Assuming eggs don't have their own internal rarity (and I suspect they do), you have a 1/17 chance of getting a Snorlax from a 10K egg. A perfect freshly hatched Snorlax has 1778 CP, which is a long way from 2k+ seeing as how that perfect Snorlax has to be powered up 5 times just to hit 2001 CP and 8 times to get over 2100 CP. An 80% Snorlax needs 7 powerups to hit 2k and 9 powerups to hit 2100. So going with 80% instead of perfect, it takes 25 candy to get your Snorlax up to 2100.

Someone with 3 Snorlaxes over 2100 living in a town of ~100k is either luckier than a powerball winner, spending hundreds of dollars on incubators, or cheating their ass off.

Well just saying that I have 2 ultra rares at good CP so it's not impossible. Town size is irrelevant, eggs are optimal for getting them and getting them at that IV level plus power up candy.

How are hackers getting them? Even auto walking that's 1 egg at a time and they need to clear out 5ks too. Are they spoofing to Snorlax nests?

I don't think there is such a thing as a Snorlax nest, but if you use a communal map and live in a major city (or spoof to one) you can just check the map every so often for Snorlax (or Vaporeon, Lapras, Exeggutor, or Dragonite, etc). I assume GPS spoofing is just manually typing in the lat/long you want to go to just like the map scanner app I use, so as long as you never move between places fast enough to trigger softbans, I would assume your account will never draw attention to itself.

I imagine Tokyo, NY, and LA would be the best places in the world to spoof to. I loaded up Ueno Park in my map scanner after Chysamere posted about it and it was pretty ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of other absurd spots in Tokyo. With LA obviously Santa Monica Pier is huge, and I'm pretty sure La Brea is too. NY has Central Park as well as miles upon miles of coastline for Dratini. Navy Pier and Adler Planetarium in Chicago are supposed to be really good too.

Meanwhile I'm gonna sit here and accumulate the largest stockpile of Pidgey candy the world has ever seen.

I went to Vegas last week and it was pretty cool collecting a bunch of Growlithes, Mankeys, and Meowths that are all rare to find around me normally. Also hatched a Lampas with all my walking.
Looks like the initial fervor has died down, but I'm still enjoying myself.

Twilight Sparkle said:

Someone with 3 Snorlaxes over 2100 living in a town of ~100k is either luckier than a powerball winner, spending hundreds of dollars on incubators, or cheating their ass off.

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Just because you never leave your town does not mean nobody else does.

Take it from someone that got banned, Niantic is cleaning up the game and it's very hard to continue cheating without getting caught.

So yeah, find another excuse for why other people are better at the game than you

lol, sure bro, sure.