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

Vaporeon still seems ridiculously OP?

Wife woke up to an EX raid pass this morning from a Starbucks across the street she got a Swablu at. Lucky bitch.

So people never got Go running in an emulator again?

Window just started here, hoping to make out like a bandit.

Edit - Well, I got only got two 10 eggs during the entire window and they were Trapinch/Mareep. I did get 4 shiny though and I'm sitting on like 700 candies.

Next community day confirmed Charmander, May 19/20 depending on where you are. Black Charizard here I come, easily one of the best shinies.

pharmakos said:

Pretty stoked for community day, will be my first one.

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How did it go? Wife and I got 7 shiny in total.

Started playing again, decided against doing the community event since ones the odds of a shiny AND wonder Charizard? I'd rather put the dust into Arcanines/Flareons.

Please don't tell me that Shinies are automatically wonders... I'd have major regret if that's true!

Going to be much more casual now since I ragequit the first time trying to min max getting legendary birds and caught zero due to bad luck/throws/connection/bugs, still I'm on the last step of getting Mew now. Just 50 berry catches needed and the curveball throw.

Ended up with an 87% shiny. 13-13-13. Was hyped for a 100% during the appraisal until that last screen touch. Oh well, can't complain!

Chris said:

Please don't tell me that Shinies are automatically wonders... I'd have major regret if that's true!

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I actually caught a 1/1/1 shiny, lol. I did catch multiple max atk Charmander and my shiny zard is 14 atk.

The thing that makes Charizard useful now though is the special charge move you could only get during the 3 hour window. Community days are half about finding shinies and half about getting unique moves.

pharmakos said:

Is it worth powering up a Pokemon with lower IVs but a higher starting CP, to save candy/stardust? How much do IVs really matter?

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It's never worth powering up a pokemon with shit IVs.

There's very little difference in actual combat ability with IVs... You just get to max damage at a lower level but since you can't change IVs, any resources spent cannot be recouped. The difference between an 80% and 100% pokemon is less than 2% in actual ability. So as a general rule of thumb, any combat pokemon should at least be 80% (Mystic - Wonder / Exceeds) to be powered up -- there's no point in holding out for that 98-100% combat pokemon.

But hey, it's your stardust and candy, and those things are farmable.

In practice, attacks are much more important than IV, those however can be changed through farming TM's. For defenders, I would say IV are almost completely irrelevant. Anyone can beat a gym regardless if you left a 100% Blissey in it or not. For attackers, I would say anything with a 15 atk IV is worth powering up to 30 if it's meta-relevant.

Perfect mons really only matter when you get into solo t3 / duo t4 / trio t5 territory. When surviving an extra attack round or doing 2 more dps actually matters.

A longer explanation would include a discussion on breakpoints, where a 15 atk monster might only need to reach level 30, but a 10 atk might need to be level 35 to do the same damage. That's a lot of extra candy and stardust investment.

Best case scenario is finding a weather boosted Pokemon with good IV. Boosted monsters can go up to level 35 in the wild (if player is at least level 33).

pharmakos said:

Those two statements seem contradictory to me.

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I'm not sure how I could have made it clearer to be honest.

IVs and their Influence | Pokemon GO Hub

Damage Mechanics in Pokemon GO | Pokemon GO Hub

A Guide on Breakpoints

Read all that and it might become clearer as to why powering up a "not likely" is a dumb idea, and conversely why waiting until you have a triple stat Wonder is also a bad idea.