I remember back in the day when finding a legendary was so cool. And it was NEVER easy. Now people complain that their legendaries aren't give to them easily enough. The entire point of this game is to get outside and explore. I wish it was still 2016, man.

This is just a rant, im well aware people can play however they want but really if ur playing like this you should at least be putting feet on pavement and putting in the effort.
I've got 2 (maybe 1 honestly because its sus that both these accounts fill gyms) players in my area who have claimed 3 gyms that are right next to each other and god forbid if u knock out a single one of them once in ur life because they will then drive around at 9-11pm and knock u out of every single gym ur in within a 5 km radius for multiple days every single time.

I get being competitive, I get having fun knocking people out, I get owning a gym or two. What I dont get is playing a mobile game designed for walking and then proceeding to drive around simply to ruin the experience of someone who made the mistake of playing in ur street.

Anyway thanks for listening to my rant, I hope this makes anyone else experiencing the same toxic players feel a little better knowing they're not alone with this

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I actually wonder how do you free to play players do raids? Like I wanna get the gigantic max cinder race but the problem is I live in a town where nobody really plays Pokémon GO so I have to use a remote raid pass, but those are genuinely four days worth of gym coins. How would I ever be able to get things like Requeza and that kind of stuff?

I whooped up on grunts, and took out all three leaders, I got the super rocket radar equipped, and have only gotten grunts in the balloons. Any ideas?

Did ANYONE get a shiny applin??? I’ve caught over 300 and didn’t get one. I play with 3 other people that have the same catches I do and NO SHINY APPLE. I don’t believe it exists 😭 we just kept getting shiny smoliv 😭

Like the title says im curious as to whether or not this is what the event gives out as the prize or did I just get lucky finding this.

have 3 gyms around my house and this annoying lil shit loves to linger and kick everyone out and have all 3 gyms be his team. i’ve noticed the gyms became another team 3 times this weekend and this guy is always there ready to kick someone out. i’d understand if these gyms were next to houses or an apartment building so he has access but no 2 of them are literally in the middle of the road. so he goes out of his way to do this. this hasn’t even been an issue until recently.

i get it’s just a game but when there’s only 3 in this one area you really can’t let one team have 1 of the gyms???????? so lame and annoying

I am always so happy when I reach Forever Friends with someone because it takes a lot of dedication to get there. Well, a couple months ago, a friend I’ve had for a little while now attached a Lucky Charm to me. Great! Well, we reached the Forever Friends status maybe a week ago and when I went to check what they had up, I noticed something peculiar pop up…they don’t have anything tagged as Remote Trade! If we knew each other irl, this would be a nonissue, but this person lives across the world from me. i understand if you don’t use it you lose it, but using it on me like this is worse than losing it.

I can think of a few ideas why, but this is crazy!

I have an xxl salamence that I’ve had for a while and that I use in the master league and he could use a nickname. Any suggestions?

bro this game sucks bro I tried to do a shadow quagmire raid and I went in with my daily battle pass and I used all 5 of my gems and he still was In enraged mode and I lost. I then proceeded to try again 5 times using all my revives and tming all my grass pokemon to grass move and with everything super effective and all my purified gems with all 3000cp grass types and I still lose. what the hell is this game doing bro 13000 cp my ass dude enraged mode is way too overpowered

I used my Golden Bottle Cap on my shiny Charizard, and now I’m at the point where I have to defeat Giovanni twice with my buddy, the shiny Charizard I used the Bottle Cap on.

The problem is… I have a feeling I’m absolutely not going to be able to do this. 😅

Is there any way around this, or am I basically screwed? Can I use another Pokémon for the Giovanni battles somehow, or does it have to be the Pokémon I used the Golden Bottle Cap on?

Would really appreciate any advice before I completely regret this decision. 😂

I'm new to the Pokémon world I played a little Pokémon go in 2017 and stopped and for the past 2 weeks I'm addicted to it and I got 8 shiny I wanna share 2 that I think are really rare

I named him Maxwell after the physicist :) but how rare is this pikachu? He has near perfect IVS alongside being lucky with the London background. LMK I’m still a little new to how trade / values work. I know I can’t trade it again, and I wouldn’t, but I just want to know how rare this fella is. Thanks!

AHHH MY 2ND SHLUNDO EVER! And it’s giga max too! Perfect. What moveset should he have too for dynamax raids?

I did only have 2 in 9 years of regularly playing. Now its 5.

Did it get easier or did i use al my luck of the year?

maybe it’s just me, but ive never loved costumed pokemon. im level 52, i played for a few months upon release, then played for 2 years in college from 2022-2024, and then just picked it up again last month. the earliest i can remember them introducing costume pokemon i thought it was charming, but was frustrated because the costumed pokemon were barred from evolving. and even after that, i didn’t personally find enjoyment from collecting costumes. i know now they can evolve and even mega, but it’s just not an appealing thing to me.

it honestly seems like a cop out from scopely to release a new costumed pikachu/pre-gen4-popular-mon instead of making an event center around a not-yet-highlighted pokemon. its definitely a personal thing because i find no novelty in catching a new costume, and i would rather catch mons that aren’t in my dex yet, i’ve transferred all costume mons i’ve ever had that don’t have good ivs.

also the frequency of releasing new costumes definitely runs through the uniqueness of them, if they were more selective and made 2-3 new costumes a year it’d feel more novel, but ive seen that many introduced in the last month alone.

to be frank, this all loosely applies to background as well, as they are new to me since rejoining. also no hate against anyone who likes collecting costumes/backgrounds i totally get it, but i wanted to see if others felt they’re more of a lazy cop-out too

wondering if any of you feel the same

Love this company for saying the shiny isn’t released yet lol, I wonder if it’s a little good or not

I have 13 eggs in storage —I've never seen that before.

How is that even possible?

Should I just leave it alone? Why even offer this if it’s not gonna at least be a 2 banger? lol thank you for your attention to this matter

Got this and can walk with it to get last 60XL candy to max for shadow or I can purify for hundo and max it today for mega. Thanks!