What is The Silph Road?

Asking for the regular raids, not Gmax

I have been walking with two different buddied Pikachus for this task, 1 poffined, 1 just normally fed, and I have crossed the distance threshold on multiple occasions, but I'm not getting candy from walking.

I'm level 31 and caught this as a mighty

Guys do you have list on untradable pokemon, except the type mythical, because I know that one and shadow cannot be traded. But I heard Zygarde is not working either. Or is working now?

I can't say I didn't have a decent time with the Event, but at the same time, there wasn't really anything that makes me excited for the next time it rolls around.

Maybe it was better for folks that wanted to catch up on the featured Pokemon, but having participated in past Tours, Fests, Community Days myself, I can't say there was anything I was scrambling for.

The Primals and Origins were of no interest to me, having gotten them before, and the Mighty Pokemon weren't actually unique, just a more expedited way to have stronger Pokemon. It also felt like almost all of the featured wild Pokemon for the hourly habitats had been in recent events, so there were barely any Shinies to go after. The return of the Star Pikachus was nice, considering we had been pretty limited for collecting them before. And the costumed Snorlax was, well, a Snorlax. Looked cool enough and was easy enough to get.

The only new things were Toxel and Toxtricity. Toxel being locked behind 10 km eggs was unpleasant, as Egg-exclusive Pokemon always are, but Toxtricity was a solid enough release between normal and Max Raids (Can't speak on G-Max since I don't have enough players nearby to have tried it).

Again, I didn't hate it. There's a lost of stuff that, on paper, sounded like it was going to be really cool. But it just didn't feel up to par compared to the other big Events. It was a bit of a cacophony of unrelated elements.

Another busy week! Still, here's a feedback thread for ya'll~

This, right here, is the best part of the event.

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As can be seen in my journal, I got the rewards for the raid, but as soon as I went to the catch encounter, it immediately sent me back to the overworld view and wasn’t afforded the opportunity to even try to catch it.

For Gengar catch rate was tweaked up and 25,000 stardust was given.

Anyone have the rewards for current GMax?

My Amp it up research is stuck at step 3/6 and won’t progress. I have earned 2 candy with a Pikachu as my buddy, and one with a magnemite as my buddy. Any idea what may help?

Say what you will about the safari ball event, but for me it was cool to at least have a new ball type.

Surely it wouldn’t be that hard to implement a whole range of pokeballs in the game (that don’t expire). Each one obviously has better catch rates for different types of pokemon.

For example - If I had a water themed event I’d introduce a dive ball that is beneficial for water based Pokémon and stock up some of those (which don’t expire)

I just think they could utilise pokeballs types a lot better. I know we’ve just had safari, beast and there’s premium balls, but you can’t hold onto them and use them later

sad :(

Did you notice that mighty pokemon caught in global version of the event are lower level than the Japan ones? Non weather boosted are 35-40, weather boosted 40-45, so both nerfed by 5 lvls in comparisment. What do you think about this?

So I have the global ticket, but I haven’t gotten the 6 part special research yet. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

I want to spend at least 1 ball on Feraligatr tomorrow. But the research says it ends tonight. Does it mean I have to collect it today and use both safari balls today?

I got a shadow cowboy hat snorlax last year and wondering if I can get a shadow costume snorlax for this rotation.. or if it's not available

I'm guessing it's not available since vulpix during Halloween didn't have the costume, but I thought it was worth asking

I’ve already been having issues with the game crashing during/after a raid, but it feels ridiculous at this point. I join a Dialga Origin raid from my friends list and the game crashes as soon as I “enter” the lobby. I try “rejoining” the lobby and it puts me in the pokemon selection screen. Trying to “rejoin” it tells me that the raid has been completed. So it took my pass, and I dont get raid rewards, an encounter, or even a journal log to show to support. Ive saved up 2 remote raid passes from months of weekly rewards for this and one of them just gets crumbled away to dust. How have they not fixed a major raid lobby issue before a highly anticipated raid-centric event?

Only 2? My kid misclicked 1

I've been reading all week that GMax Toxtricity can be successfully taken down with 4 players with level 40 Excadrills so my friends and I attempted one this morning before the Wild Area event began. We had 2 level 40 with Maxed Attack (Mud slap so it used Gmax Quake) plus 1 level 40 with Maxed Shield and 1 level 40 with Maxed Spirit.

We were doing perfectly, restoring HP and absorbing its attacks while whittling it down. Then suddenly after its HP was just under halfway, it obliterated our entire time in 3 blows presumably because of the timer.

What could we possibly have been doing wrong? The Shielder & Spiriter both were using fully maxed Max Quake when shields & HP were full.

Just wondering if I should be turning it off for the event

I am looking for the text equivalent of the special background Pokémon selector. I tried "location card" and "location background" with or without spaces and with or without plural. Nothing comes up even if I do have some Pokémons with backgrounds (and they do with the selector from the user interface)

All of the rockstar pikachus I have gotten so far don’t have the special move meteor mash they had last time it ran. Was this intentional or a bug?

I reckon there has been many discussions on the post 12am collection. This here is only for post reset.

We have finished Day 1 in our area and the ticket holders get 240 from Power Spots and 600 from 2km

Non ticket holders retain the same 120/200 from spots and 2km

For 1600 max collection you can hit 1560 and get another 300 (1860 effective = 2 raids + 260mp excess) Hit claim when you have this ->can only collect final 40mp

3(120) + 4(300) =1560 + Final 300 (8+2km Total) 8(120) + 2(300) =1560 + Final 300 (4+2km Total)

For 3200 max collection you can hit 3120 and get another 600 (3720 effective = 4 raids + 320mp excess) Hit claim when you have this -> can only collect final 80mp

3(240) + 4(600) =3120 + Final 600 (8+2km Total) 8(240) + 2(600) =3120 + Final 600 (4+2km Total)

Do plan ahead if you wish to maximize your MP collection before you start using Max Particle Packs

Was unable to play during the first day, and I’m thinking of getting the ticket for the second day mainly to be able to get 20 hourly Safari Balls and for the increased shiny rates, but in that case I would like to know how often you encountered mighty Pokémon in the wild. Any other general feedback would be appreciated. Ps. Also will I be missing out on some sort of special research since I didn’t play during the first day?

I'm disabled, not so much that I can't ever walk or anything, but walking is not a commodity that comes easy most days. Pogo might not be the "best game" for me to play due to this but it can still be fun for me to catch pokemon while bedridden or when I go places like the doctor's.

Remote raid passes during quarantine were cheaper, to encourage people staying home, alongside other changes that made the game a lot more accessible! Plus revenue was flowing in pretty well due to remote raid passes being cheaper, so more people would buy them.

To be able to get remote raid passes now I have to get insanely lucky with my weekly research rewards (on the off chance I'm able to do all of them), or spend way more time investing in gyms to save up to get one pass (when storage upgrades are way more needed) and then probably have it get wasted because the raid host flakes or something happens with servers.

I feel like people would buy them more if it was just lowered to it's former price. More people buying them means more people active in raids too which helps with player interaction in events. The more people who are able to do events, the more event passes get sold. I feel like it's such a waste for Niantic to make it less easy for people who live in rural areas, people who are disabled, or people who don't want to spend too much money on raids.

Leekduck had party challenges as an additional feature for ticket purchases but I've not seen anyone give any info on what they're getting. Please share if you've had anything special, or if you're just getting the same as unticketed, thanks.

As a non-ticket holder, our party challenges were mostly catch XX pokemon / spin XX stops / do XX great throws, rewarding mostly encounters with the current wild spawns or occasionally toxel candy.

I have an unclaimed Hoopa encounter from 2021. Wanted to catch it with a Safari Ball for collecting purposes but the menu only shows poké, great and ultra balls. No way to use the safari balls from my inventory.

https://i.imgur.com/5U1yRsw.jpeg

https://imgur.com/a/5eTxKju When I first encountered my Feraligatr, it said it was a mighty pokemon. When I caught it, it had the ivs of 10/12/12, and it was also at level 2, not level 15. How did this happen?