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- Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - March 2020
- Welcome to Great League PvP: (part 6) Teams (Azumarill, Flyer, and Grass leads)
- I might be a little stubborn...
- Was told to post this here! My daughter loves Pokémon and I love to draw!
- Can we get an icon on the friends list to see who can receive a gift and who is still holding one from a previous day?
- [Screenshot] I found the rarest Pokemon!
- Yay! finally got a shiny boi!
- Just caught this guy, thanks to PVP!
- As a Skarmory lover, I'm so happy when I successfully solo Skarmory for the first time
- Raid Distance Requirement
- I can dream
- How do I get Marill?!
- It’s been a bit wonky for me for a few days, but this is a new one.
- Are people cheating in pgl?
- First Ever Legendary!
- Giratina is love, Giratina is life
- I’m ready to hatch 9 Throhs and Ferroseeds!
- During quarantine it would be cool if our buddies could spin pokestops just out of our reach
- Lack of Croagunks
- Low Rank 8
- Happy Pie-day!
- Quitting count as a loss?
- I haven’t had to buy Pokeballs in a long time
| Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - March 2020 Posted: 15 Mar 2020 06:08 AM PDT Instruction Manual
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| Welcome to Great League PvP: (part 6) Teams (Azumarill, Flyer, and Grass leads) Posted: 15 Mar 2020 05:46 AM PDT Hello I'm back with the writing. The Great League (GO Battle League) meta has been consistently changing, and there's no way I can cover all of them. In this part and the next part, I will be featuring more than 30 teams (grouped by lead Pokémon). I hope there will be fewer move changes in the future (ok tbh I'm just lazy and don't have time to update my original parts every month 😅) What is the definition of a good team comp? There isn't really anything specific. Generally, a good team consists of a core and a Pokemon that counters few opposing Pokemon that may break the core. Here are some examples and analysis: Azumarill as leadAzumarill is a great option as a lead due to its awesome bulk, typing, and coverage moves. The hardest meta losses are against Grass. Have you ever encountered a Grass lead in GO Battle League? Azumarill + Registeel + MeganiumPotential counters: Marowak (Alola), Meganium Great against: Fairy, Psychic, Steel Meganium is tanky and hits hard. Frenzy Plant kills Azumarill left and right; Earthquake deals heavy damage to Registeel. Marowak (Alola) with Shadow Ball is deadly to this team if Meganium doesn't land Earthquake. A good IV Azumarill can win, though, being able to tank 2 Shadow Balls. Against Steel, Meganium can win with Earthquake, Azumarill with Hydro Pump, Registeel with Focus Blast These moves are end-game nukes and performs best after shields are down. Azumarill + Skarmory + WhiscashPotential counters: Hypno, Mantine, Mew Great against: Altaria, Froslass, Togekiss, Sableye, Fighting Skarmory + Mudboi is always a good core, covering each other's weakness hard. That said, Thunder Punch Hypno is the core breaker, and Azumarill doesn't really solve that. They don't lose hard, though. This team is safe from those Altarias flying around hunting noobs. Azumarill also tanks Togekiss Charms like a boss. Azumarill + Registeel + Deoxys (Defense)Potential counters: Lanturn, Registeel, Quagsire, Raichu (Alola) Great against: Mantine, Scrafty, Vigoroth, Fairy, Steel Deoxys (Defense) is still decent even after the Psycho Boost nerf. The team doesn't lose to its counters hard, but also doesn't win by a large margin. Overall it is great for general coverage and neutral matchups. Azumarill + Toxicroak + ProbopassPotential counters: Bronzong, Deoxys (Defense), Hypno, Jirachi, Quagsire, Swampert, Whiscash Great against: Bastiodon, Magneton, Umbreon Ouch, even with a Steel tank, it still seems pretty weak to Hypno. Plus, more weakness to Mudbois. So how does this team work? Toxicroak can deal with Steel tanks; Probopass for Flyers; Azumarill for general coverage. Bastiodon can be used in Probopass' spot if you have one. Azumarill + Vigoroth + UmbreonPotential counters: Toxicroak, Tropius, Venusaur Great against: Haunter, Muk (Alola), Sableye, Swampert, Whiscash, Steel Vigoroth is still useful outside of Jungle Cup, it's ranked 41 on PvPoke with a 87.6 score. Grasses have an upper hand against this team, while Toxicroak (especially near full HP) is hardly stoppable after Azumarill is down. Mudbois and Steels are afraid of this team, which is generally decently spammy and tanky enough to survive at least 1 Charged move. Flyer as leadAs described above, Altaria can handle Skarmory is similar to Altaria, trading Dragon for Steel typing and killing Grass Pokémon. Note that it is way more expensive than Altaria to add the second Charged move. Charizard also works in the right matchup, and Blast Burn hits very hard when unshielded. Altaria + Deoxys (Defense) + RegisteelPotential counters: Mew, Raichu (Alola), Whiscash Great against: Bronzong, Cresselia, Scrafty, Vigoroth, Venusaur, Victreebel The only way the team can fight back to Daddy Cash is Altaria shielding the Blizzard. Deoxys (Defense) can put in a good fight, but Psycho Boosts nerfing attack really hurts it badly over time. The team is also a bit iffy against Raichu (Alola) and Mew (with Ice Beam + Wild Charge), lacking reliable counters to them. Vigoroth seems like a good safe switch into this team, but no, it isn't, every Pokémon here beats it. Don't switch out if you encounter one switched in (Vigoroth with energy lead is quite dangerous). As for Grass Pokémon, welcome to farm city. Farming up to 100 energy before killing them with a Charged move is highly recommended whenever possible. Altaria + Whiscash + HypnoPotential counters: Froslass, Mantine, Umbreon, Whiscash Great against: Bronzong, Deoxys (Defense), Haunter, Lanturn, Toxicroak, Raichu (Alola), Quagsire You need Dazzling Gleam on Altaria to cover Dark. However, even with Dazzling Gleam, a perfect PvP IV Altaria still barely loses to Umbreon with 3 HP left. If you go straight Sky Attack, you can theoretically win if you fire it off at the right turn. However, it is practically impossible with the lags and missing a turn = lose. A Froslass switch-in can beat this team, using Charged moves fast. Even Whiscash can't guarantee a win. It's great against many things, but definitely not specific. Skarmory + Deoxys (Defense) + AzumarillPotential counters: Haunter, Hypno, Lanturn, Mew, Raichu (Alola) Great against: Azumarill, Bronzong, Cresselia, Froslass, Jirachi, Medicham, Scrafty, Toxicroak, Vigoroth Lanturn and Raichu (Alola) can give this team trouble; all 3 are weak to it. Hypno covers Skarmory + Azumarill with Thunder Punch, and Deoxys (Defense) with Shadow Ball. Meanwhile, the team is pretty safe against common Fighters thanks to their typing. Skarmory + Medicham + LanturnPotential counters: Deoxys (Defense), Haunter, Hypno, Raichu (Alola) Great against: Bronzong, Forretress, Muk (Alola), Scrafty, Vigoroth Skarmory + Lanturn is a nice core. Medicham covers the Mudbois where their matchups are a bit iffy. Overall it is weak against Psychic (blame Medicham here), but good against Dark. Skarmory + Tropius + AzumarillPotential counters: Bastiodon, Mew, Melmetal, Registeel, Skarmory, Raichu (Alola) Great against: Clefable, Forretress, Medicham, Quagsire, Swampert, Togekiss, Toxicroak, Vigoroth, Whiscash, Wigglytuff Pretty tough to beat, right? Steel tanks seem to be good answers to this team, countering Skarmory very hard. Though Hydro Pump Azumarill beats it IF the little water mouse can get it. Big if. But that is a looooooooong list of Pokémon the team is great against. Fighters can do nothing in even matchups. The team is too tanky for Charmers to Charm down. Skarmory + Swampert + VenusaurPotential counters: Altaria, Mantine, Skarmory Great against: Azumarill, Mew, Scrafty, Vigoroth, Whiscash, Wigglytuff Again, Skarmory + Water is great. But this time the Water is a Mudboi, making it perform slightly worse against Flyers. Venusaur doubles up Water coverage, which is … pretty nice I think? Considering Water is common. There is NOTHING in Great League meta that counters all 3 Pokémon hard. Skarmory + Azumarill + WhiscashPotential counters: Lanturn, Raichu (Alola) Great against: Froslass, Jirachi, Muk (Alola), Quagsire, Sableye, Togekiss, Toxicroak Kieng has featured this team in his own video. Azumarill is generally the safe switch in a bad matchup. You may check the video here, I'm sure he is better at explaining this team's pros and cons. In my perspective, Raichu (Alola) with energy can be a threat as it might beat all 3 (you do have to land Grass Knot against Whiscash, though). Catch the Grass with Skarmory and win. Skarmory + Sableye + Deoxys (Defense)Potential counters: Lanturn, Umbreon Great against: Cresselia, Jirachi, Medicham, Toxicroak Sableye performs great with energy advantage and is only weak to Fairy, making a decent safe switch. Even when it's up against Azumarill, it can usually survive the switch clock by double shielding. You don't even need to have Power Gem However, this team has a huge weakness to Umbreon if Skarmory can't take it low enough. Charizard + Lapras + SwampertPotential counters: Mew, Quagsire, Sableye, Swampert, Umbreon *Great against: Froslass, Hypno, Muk (Alola), Skarmory, Steelix, Wigglytuff, * You double up on Water, that's great. Lapras will be your safe switch when necessary. If a Grass bypasses Charizard, it's not a big rip if you still have Lapras. Raichu (Alola) with a shield advantage is devastating to this team. Grass as leadMost likely you're going to switch out in an unfavorable matchup, so double up the safe switch if necessary. Meganium + Marowak (Alola) + LaprasPotential counters: Altaria, Bastiodon, Haunter, Scrafty Great against: Bronzong, Clefable, Raichu (Alola) If Altaria passes Lapras, then you will be in big trouble. Scrafty also has great matchups against this team thanks to its typing. Marowak (Alola) and Lapras are monsters with a slight energy lead. This IS a pro. When facing this team, soft counters might not work well if you don't switch fast enough. Tropius + Lanturn + AzumarillPotential counters: Haunter, Magneton, Raichu (Alola), Tropius, Venusaur Great against: Scrafty, Toxicroak, Vigoroth, Fairy Yeah…, they're weak to Electric. But hey, can't complain when they have resistances to Fighting. Meanwhile, they outbulk (and obviously outspam Charmers). They might not be common, but when you face one, be prepared to win pretty easily. Try to catch Altaria with Azumarill and Skarmory with Lanturn. Sacrifice Tropius if you face Altaria in the lead. Being weak to Grass isn't just for show after Tropius is down, though. Ice Beam might take the Grasses low, but unlikely to kill. Mid-conclusionAzumarill and Flyer leads are great because they pair well with many Pokémon and have excellent resistances. Well, that's 16 teams analyzed. More coming soon later this week. I promise I will publish all teams in the series before Season 1 Great League ends. [link] [comments] |
| I might be a little stubborn... Posted: 14 Mar 2020 01:27 PM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/T9zcrc9 I started playing the game on 1 April 2019 and the first time I learned about rare candies I immediately checked the available pokémon list to see if my favourite legendary is in the game. I didn't want to waste a "rare" item on a pokémon that I didn't like as much, so I thought I could wait for it to come back. It is almost a year since I started playing and the other day I reached 1k rare candies. My item bag is in pain, I carry around about 50 poké balls and frequently upgrade my bag all the time. But I cannot give up at this point. After waiting such a long time, I am sure it is almost time for them to recycle my favourite. One day I will be able to reach it and I have enough candy to power multiple of them up to lv.40. One day I will find my own Dialga. [link] [comments] |
| Was told to post this here! My daughter loves Pokémon and I love to draw! Posted: 14 Mar 2020 05:37 PM PDT Pokémon! She has me draw new ones every time the current ones wash away! We love decorating the sidewalk! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Mar 2020 02:12 PM PDT One of the most frustrating aspects of the daily Pokemon Go routine has been having to click through each friend to see if you can send them a gift or if they still have one from a previous day. This process is very time consuming, and it seems like it could be pretty simple for Niantic to add some kind of icon to more easily identify who can or cannot receive a gift. I know that everyone has their own trick to streamline this process, but it would be a huge QoL enhancement for Niantic to add some identifier within the game. Something like this maybe?? https://imgur.com/a/Bf98vkV [link] [comments] |
| [Screenshot] I found the rarest Pokemon! Posted: 15 Mar 2020 07:09 AM PDT It is super, super, super rare to see one of these in the wild, but here he is! Caught on the second ball too! [link] [comments] |
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| Just caught this guy, thanks to PVP! Posted: 15 Mar 2020 06:04 AM PDT Awesome IVs plus shiny - this was quite a surprise! It's not great for PVP, but I'll use it anyway... http://imgur.com/gallery/rMR5d7O [link] [comments] |
| As a Skarmory lover, I'm so happy when I successfully solo Skarmory for the first time Posted: 15 Mar 2020 01:50 AM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/9EStpT2 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 06:47 AM PDT With all the temporary changes to Pokemon Go. I would love to see a distance change particularly with raids. My suggestion would be if you can see the gym on your map you can compete in the raid. There are 3 gyms that I can see from my house so it may be a good solution to have people still raid without having to all be in a certain area. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 12:53 AM PDT After a lot of raging and way to many GBL matches finally got to wild pokemon and got Giratina I am so happy Why game why [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 06:57 AM PDT Where I live Marills are extremely rare. I have only caught one in about 4 months. Are they obtainable from eggs? Or am I just unlucky? [link] [comments] |
| It’s been a bit wonky for me for a few days, but this is a new one. Posted: 15 Mar 2020 03:56 AM PDT They do look adorable though. Guess my buddy was either too shy or microscopic Submitted a report in app. At first it made me panic the first few times I've logged in and it looked off, thought someone had my account details. Now it's funny, low key annoying though. Has anyone else seen anything similar to this? Couldn't find anything online about it. My app isn't due for an update either. But hey. Tiny Pokémon. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 06:54 AM PDT I've lost several matches now due to people swapping in new pokemon's and emidietly pulling off a charged move. (And no they weren't fighting earlier in the match storing energy) I'm talking about fresh swaps. It's always kind of a lagspik, I get "attack incoming" and at the same time they also swap. First I thought it was the first pokemon attacking and then it glitch so I saw the swap after. This starts to get really annoying.so are people cheating or is this some kind of game ruining lag? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 12:41 AM PDT I live in a rural place, but the Go League was able to give me my first legendary. Giratina! [link] [comments] |
| Giratina is love, Giratina is life Posted: 15 Mar 2020 07:48 AM PDT After numerous raids in hope to encounter the Shiny Giratina, it all comes down to the final day tomorrow. [link] [comments] |
| I’m ready to hatch 9 Throhs and Ferroseeds! Posted: 14 Mar 2020 09:02 PM PDT I've finally gotten a full roster of 10 km eggs! I obviously I won't be out walking much, but the half distance for incubators sure will help! (This is my first time uploading an imgur image, so sorry if it doesn't work) [link] [comments] |
| During quarantine it would be cool if our buddies could spin pokestops just out of our reach Posted: 14 Mar 2020 04:22 PM PDT Like the title said, and I saw someone else mention it before, but I'm at home trying to not be around a lot of people (I'm in Seattle, where it's panic city) and am by pokestops JUST out of reach. I see my buddy going all over the place and that would be cool of Niantic made that a reality! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 12:11 AM PDT There's been a lot of fighting types around the place (as seen by the Mankey and Meditite posts on this reddit and also everywhere in Pokemon Go). One fighting Pokemon that I normally see a few of in the wild that I haven't seen at all this weekend is Croagunk. Has anyone else been having this too? It's really weird to have fighting types boosted and not see one of the more common fighting Pokemon around. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 07:39 AM PDT So I recently dropped below 2k in rank 8 due to a series of seriously bad match ups and the occasional lag loss. Since I dropped below 2000 I've found that the wait times for matches are absurdly long. My suspicion is that the system is trying to match me against other absurdly low rank 8 players which can take a while. Why doesn't it just drop me to rank 7, since that's what my rating is equivalent to anyway, or let me match against rank 7 players? It's a huge waste to sit in long ques and it makes losing feel much, much worse. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 Mar 2020 03:12 PM PDT https://i.imgur.com/qAEc5xG.jpg My collection has been slowly growing and what better day to share them on march 14 :) Pride and joy obviously being the lucky party hat wurmple! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2020 07:13 AM PDT I'm suddenly seeing a lot of people quitting right before losing in battle. I get a win so not really a big deal, but I was curious if this somehow preserves their ratio, they are impatient, or it's just a carry over habit from other games? [link] [comments] |
| I haven’t had to buy Pokeballs in a long time Posted: 14 Mar 2020 04:04 PM PDT But Incense are finally GOOD. And worth buying. It's nice to be able to be at work, or class, and have a consistent flow of things to catch and check. But I went from 600-something balls to... I have 45 ultra balls left. Which is cool. I'm catching more and getting more dust as a result. And I'm open to buying Balls like I used to have to in the old days. But, uh... isn't 100 coins for 20 balls a little... not enough? I'm not trading a battle pass for 20 balls. [link] [comments] |
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