Don’t get me wrong, I can counter it but MY GOD the high damaging attack debuff

I play a lot, do my battles every day, and raid several times a week, yet I only have a 44 Rare XL candies. Yet it feels like on this sub, people are constantly maxing out mons to level 50. Other than Pokemon that spawn in the wild, is there a way I don’t know about to grind candies, or is this a case of the whales spending a ton of money on raid passes and grinding a ton of raids?

Currently on my first season, been playing around with teams but finally found enough consistency with mantine (bad IVS), an annihilape and a rank 1 non-shadow Quagsire. I’m looking to push further, how far can this team realistically get me? Or should I be looking for better Pokémon?

I know for PvP you want lower attack for a higher chance of getting closer to the cp limit, but if I have a mon with a high attack that hits 1500 and the same Mon that hits 1500 with low attack, why wouldn’t I run the higher attack one? Thanks in advance

So I have a few mons I can take to level 50, and some that will only get to mid-high 40s. I'm curious if I should just try to make a team with the level 50s or just roll with the best comp I can make.

There's the classics that were around the last time we had Master Premier (Snorlax, Dragonite, Metagross, Gyarados, etc...)

And some new stuff too, be it new species introduced to PoGo since we last had Master Premier, or stuff with new movesets (Annihilape, Baxcalibur, Shadow Claw Feraligatr, etc...).

decent IVs?

What is the one pokemon that you can never seem to get a good iv spread for? Mankey and Skuntank would be my two. Cant get anything better than a rank 600 no matter now many I catch.

Sadly there seems to be a large group of redditors in here who are purposefully upvoting posts which contain false information.

Yesterday someone claimed fast move denial is back and it got upvoted a lot.

That statement is wrong, fast move denial is not possible anymore with the exception of one very niche scenario which wasn't what the post was taking about.

Simply lagging does not equal fast move denial!

Anyone else seem to be losing every single charge move tie?

I'm also getting a lot of opponent's who get two charge moves off before I get my first one off, even though my opponent's first charge move was a tiebreaker win, meaning I hit my charge move before their first one goes off, then they get a 2nd one right away without me getting my turn?

Lastly, when my pokemon faints and my next one has a charge move ready, my pokemon NEVER gets to go first. Whenever it happens to my opponent they ALWAYS go first.

I always play on wifi (1.5 Gbps) and play on an s23 ultra.

I've lost so many sets because of these issues that I don't see the point in playing anymore and have deleted the app completely. Until Niantic actually fixes their game and stops making it extremely difficult to play (already stopped the main game because of this) PVP is totally unplayable.

Is it just me?

Not sure how to explain this but when I get a #1 Pokemon for pvp and I. See over 100k Stardust to get to that level I just transfer it. I don't feel like I can spend that much.

I have never used this guy in pvp and this is my first one with good ivs. Any recommendations on which evolution to use and in what league would he be best?

Ive been having a lot of issues in GBL the past 2 days and its made me not want to play at all and have my ELO suffer. i just had a game where a vigoroth used body slam on my whiscash as the game displayed "weak connection" and the body slam hit twice with one attack. i took full body slam damage, and upon the vigs next fast attack, i took a second chunk of damage equivalent to a second body slam.

anyone else getting unusual issues in GBL? curious to see if its the server as ive noticed a bunch of gameplay issues outside of GBL since the update

I’ll start by saying it’s definitely not as common as it was back in the day, but it’s happening a lot all of a sudden. I’ve had 4 instances in 21 games today causing me to lose 3 times. Is it happening to others as commonly?

Last season it seemed to be somewhat lower as far as I could tell, but this season it seems to be significantly reduced. But obviously my matches might be a low sample size, so did anyone else feel like they reduced them?

Currently running a rank 22.6% Skarm lol. Not super strapped for dust but, if I power up this as a shadow, I just don’t want to wait until the next rocket event to TM frustration.

So this Metang is #1 GL and if evolved Metagross is #3 in UL. I’m not sure what to do or how viable either of these mons are. Any suggestions?