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My record was 65 Entei without one above 90%. You will get blessed soon hopefully... meanwhile Groudon loves me in 20 raids giving me 2 98%s, a 96%, and a bunch of 90s but an abysmal catch rate (barely above 50%).
 
I'm just going to hope that at least one out of 4 eggs here contain Santa Pichu. I haven't gotten them....

Anyone live in Eevee biome and... is the area's now scarce of Eevee? I wanted to go to one other area in the right weather since I live in outskirtish area devoid of them, but I heard their spawn rate are nerfed hard....
 
event spawns probably wrecked them, now it is back to normal, everything is Minun again :( and it is currently cloudy weather boosted weedles again :(
 

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Regional Migration: Zangoose and Seviper have swapped places. Zangoose is now in the East Hemisphere, while Seviper is now in the West Hemisphere.

In addition, Kyogre has lost Dragon Tail (it never learned it in the main games), which kills its role as the best Dragon slayer, so only one moveset is desirable essentially (Waterfall / Hydro Pump).
 
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Meh, Kyogre is still king of the Waters so this shouldn't be a huge factor.

Unless you wished to use 'Dragon Slayer Kyogre' against the inevitable Rayquaza raid, but stuff like Gardevoir, Articuno, Dragonite, Dragon Slayer Gyarados, Cloyster, Golem, Granbull, and especially the (hopefully prior) upcoming Aggron should get their punches in.
 

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Yea, no doubt about Kyogre's dominance as a Water-type. It is above its Water-type brethren by a lot, in addition to being a top generalist. The Dragon Slayer set was simply better than any of the things you mentioned - I think its DPS was challenged in Gen 4 by Mamoswine, and that's it. So it lost a really useful role it could have had. The positive being that now people don't need to power up 2 of these to take advantage of it.

As a raid boss it also makes anything that's not Grass-typed shakier counters since it's going to be using Waterfall; makes the likes of Ho-Oh and Groudon in particular take more than they would have liked to and annoys Raikou and Zapdos some.
 
Been using my Plus for one day (several hours straight) and the battery is almost empty already. Is this normal?

Used a brand new battery today, and after 4 hours it also showed the ‘battery almost empty’ icon. What the fuck?
 

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At the end of the day, Blizzard, and Thunder will be viable options. Similar to Groudon’s Solar Beam, they will hit hard even if the Quick Move isn’t the same type.

Plus, Kyogre has better survivability than Gyarados, and Milotic. A much higher Attack helps its Waterfall deal notable damage, and it will get charged up for the Blizzard.

Mamoswine with be good for the Lati with Thunder, and Kyogre for the Hydro Pump Salamence, etc.

Kyogre, I think, is so good that even not having a Dragon Tail Quick Move won’t prevent it from handling Dragons.

Also consider this: if we get Kyogre in a couple of weeks, and Gen 4 doesn’t get released for about a year (and if they slow the release per batch like with Gen 3), then we would have been able to power up our Kyogre’s by then, and it won’t be as expected for someone to try and evolve their Piloswine. It may be nice, but if one can wait for Mamoswine, and we don’t know what moves it will have (Kyogre shows that in-game “confirmation” data can be switched out), plus based on demand moves can change - look what happened to Blaziken once people complained it didn’t have a Fighting move, they changed it within the first day of release.

I.e. I maxed out my 100% Vaporeon, no need for a Milotic, even if Milotic has Dragon Tail, etc.
 

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Iirc Kyogre goes from #1 Rayquaza counter to like #63 with Waterfall / Blizzard. That's a huge drop and it's why it lost its role as a Dragon slayer. Stick to Water / Water Kyogre if you want an amazing specialist and a top generalist; every other moveset, while not horrible, is subpar compared to this one.

EDIT: I'm also convinced Delibird is no longer spawning in the wild; this would mark the first instance of a regular Pokemon simply ceasing to exist after it was introduced (only Legendaries have this trait). I've been trying to find proof about it still spawning to no avail.
 

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Well if you know any Greenland players, do send them our way to check if the thing exists ;D

Really though, it's a shame. I feel for newcomers who basically have to wait til Niantic flips the switch on Delibird once again. If anything, it should have stayed in snowy climates exclusively (kinda how Lotad is mostly exclusive to rain).
 
Zangoose I'd say I could expect to see about 6 a day if I hung around some place decently active like a park with a few gyms, depending on Lure modules maybe a few more. I'd say you should expect a decent number of Seviper if it literally just has Zangoose's spawn rarity.
 
the thing with Europe is.. poison is usually boosted more then normal, Serviper was, some days, as rare as ralts, other days turned up fairly often, just because of the weather
 

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Stantler's still around. I've documented every species that is supposed to be spawning to still be spawning post-event, except Delibird. It's the weirdest exception!

Check PokeBattler; I think they have rankings for this stuff. I think for overall Pokemon placement (not moveset), Kyogre is top 15 as a Rayquaza counter as its stats are pretty elite (hell it counters itself p well), I probably have to relook at the rankings lol but I'd still advise prioritizing only one as powering them up is a hassle.

The list is fine, I just want to give it sprites and I haven't gotten around it with school starting tomorrow. You're free to compile it but I'll get around it soon enough; sorry for the delay :(
 
these were the spawns under "clear" weather in my neighborhood today
Dugtrio
Ninetails
Graveler
Weepinbell
Gloom x2
all really close together, 2nd dugtrio in 2 days and first wild ninetails ever, I don't get it, when the other weather happens its just the same commons
 

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Looks like I'll finally have an ex raid invite that I can attend to on 1/16 even if it's on a Tuesday. I received one on 12/18 and couldn't make it and my substitute failed to catch for me. I also received another on 12/25 but it got cancelled due to it being in a mall on Christmas Day. So hopefully I can find success at a sponsored Sprint gym this time.

Wow wailmer needs 400 candies to become wailord? Good thing there's a wailmer nest I was able to get to and stock up on candies there.
 

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Looks like I'll finally have an ex raid invite that I can attend to on 1/16 even if it's on a Tuesday. I received one on 12/18 and couldn't make it and my substitute failed to catch for me. I also received another on 12/25 but it got cancelled due to it being in a mall on Christmas Day. So hopefully I can find success at a sponsored Sprint gym this time.

Wow wailmer needs 400 candies to become wailord? Good thing there's a wailmer nest I was able to get to and stock up on candies there.
It may be one of the last raids featuring Mewtwo, so I hope you catch it while you can.
 

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