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Pokemon Go 2018-12-23: Quickly
Dec. 23rd, 2018 10:26 pmRaids: Dewgong, Shinx
Caught: Venomoth
Caught: Venomoth
Turns out I can solo tier 2 raids if it's something I have a lot of decent counters for– it's partially luck, but somehow I have a lot of double-Electric pokemon on the less-bad end of my CP range. I more or less spammed attacks until Dewgong flopped over– despite some team woes. I don't know why I slotted Ho-oh at the start of the team but it meant every fainting resulted in its flappy red peacock ass popping back out and necessitating some frantic swapping, given that it wasn't dying very fast but it also wasn't wearing Dewgong down.
Shinx was a cakewalk. I don't think anything fainted at all.
Venomoth was found hanging out on the side of the road as we drove home from tonight's unrelated-to-PGO thing (while I rode as passenger). I have no idea how it managed to load or why it was there, but it got in the ball and I'm thrilled. It salves the burn of seeing multiple shadows on radar too distant to visit for even a spin.
As a counterpoint, I tried Alolan Raichu yesterday and got thrashed. I think it was over 40% hp when the timer ran out. So despite the nerd elite rating them as very soloable I'm going to stick to tier 1 & 2 for now. Not that I mind: Alolan Exeggutor & Mawile would both be welcome additions to my Pokedex, and Shinx/Buizel/Magikarp would be candy for future evolutions.
Shinx was a cakewalk. I don't think anything fainted at all.
Venomoth was found hanging out on the side of the road as we drove home from tonight's unrelated-to-PGO thing (while I rode as passenger). I have no idea how it managed to load or why it was there, but it got in the ball and I'm thrilled. It salves the burn of seeing multiple shadows on radar too distant to visit for even a spin.
As a counterpoint, I tried Alolan Raichu yesterday and got thrashed. I think it was over 40% hp when the timer ran out. So despite the nerd elite rating them as very soloable I'm going to stick to tier 1 & 2 for now. Not that I mind: Alolan Exeggutor & Mawile would both be welcome additions to my Pokedex, and Shinx/Buizel/Magikarp would be candy for future evolutions.
