Image 1 — Shadow or normal dusknoir for Ultra League
Image 2 — Shadow or normal dusknoir for Ultra League

Shadow or normal dusknoir for Ultra League

I have the rank 1 (0/15/15) normal, and rank 7 (2/14/15) shadow Duskclops line. Since it's a heavy investment of 296-330 XL candies to get one of them to max I am worried I will make the wrong decision. I see that normal is 2 ranks higher than the shadow, and when I have the rank 1 that's usually what I go with. But I I believe dusknoir is meant to be a closer it seems like the 20% more damage could be good.

Anyone have any suggestions or thoughts?

u/DecentYeti — 11 days ago

Do you keep bad PvP mons?

I caught this Noibat today. Noivern is so cool and bad ass looking, but he looks to be terrible in PvP. Is there any move change that could make him good? I know move changes can bring a pokemon from ok to good. But has a move change ever brought something from straight cheeks to playable? I'm pretty new to pokemon go and this past week is my first time seeing a PvP move update. I don't really know how much difference a move change could make for some of these dumpster mons.

u/DecentYeti — 1 month ago

This event would feel better if there were research tasks

Every single week there is some event that replaces most of the researches. Except this one. This event would be much better if there was a research that rewarded you with an encounter with your chosen starter. Instead of been hunting for a catch 10 fire pokemon and hoping it gives me a fennekin.

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u/DecentYeti — 1 month ago

If we got a silver bottlecap

If we got a silver bottle cap, and you have these 2 whose getting it? I do a mix of PvE and PVP.

u/DecentYeti — 2 months ago

Understanding what makes a good IV set

I started playing a few months ago and really enjoy the PvP in this game. I have been hunting for a good Meditite for several weeks because someone decimated me in a match and I wanted to be able to do that. The other day I got the 18th ranked one for Great League and evolved him while I work on getting enough XLs. Just today I caught the 14th ranked one! I thought I understood what makes a good pokemon but now I am questioning my understanding.

The 18th rank one gets to go all the way to level 49.5, and gets to exactly rank 1500

The 14th rank one only gets to go to level 48, and caps at 1498. Why is it considered better? I am not asking for team help automod. I am trying to understand the foundation of what makes a pokemon better than another.

u/DecentYeti — 2 months ago

Does shadow Rhyhorn have better IV odds?

Over the past month I have got 4 encounters with shadow Rhyhorn. 3 out of 4 have maxed attack, and all are in the 80-90% range. Other shadow mons I get mostly have total crap IVs. Small sample size but it seems strange to me to go from the other shadows I'm the 10-40% IC range to this.

u/DecentYeti — 2 months ago

Grass and electric types

Why are grass and electric types so bad or at least so poorly ranked? With the large number of water types in the meta I would expect them to be more prevalent but looking at the pvpoke rankings their performance seems abysmal. For electric types it makes some sense since there are so many ground and water types running around, but grass wrecks those ones so why isn't it a more powerful/common type?

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u/DecentYeti — 3 months ago

Help with shower diverter valve(?)

Hey everyone, long time lurker first time poster.

I moved into a new place and our shower has an overhead and handheld shower head. They should be able to come in separately or together.

When you have it set to overhead only the pressure is great.

When you have it it the combined mode, again the pressure is good (a little worse than overhead only)

When you have it in handheld only, the pressure falls off a cliff.

I have removed the diverter valve and brought it to 3 plumbing supply stores and none of them have ever seen it before. There is no serial number or other identifier on it either. However a guy who owns a plumbing supply store said it looks fine, and the cartridge itself is probably not the cause of the issue but I am unsure if that is correct. I have attached a photo of the cartridge and associated components above.

I have already tried replacing the handheld shower head and hose and the issue persists so I don't think those are the issue.

One thing of note is when you take the hose off of the spigget for the handheld, and set it to handheld only mode the pressure is good. As soon as you reattach the hose and head, the pressure drops and in fact water starts coming out of the overhead even without changing the position of the diverter lever/arm.

I have already had a plumber look at it and he basically said he would have to smash the tile and replace the full thing, which I would like to avoid.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

u/DecentYeti — 3 months ago

Keep as the rank 1 primeape or evolve to rank 3 annilape?

I have this primeape who is rank 1 for GL, or could be evolved to rank 3 for UL. What would you do?

u/DecentYeti — 3 months ago

Anyway to raise a Pokemon's attack IV by a specific number?

A rank 1 tinkaton for UL is 13/15/15. I hatched this 10/15/15 from an egg yesterday and I am curious if there has ever been a way to increase a Pokemon's IV by a specific amount of your choosing? I know about silver and gold bottle caps but those appear to max out the chosen IV (silver) or all IVs (gold)

Thanks in advance!

u/DecentYeti — 3 months ago

Which of these magikarps are better?

I only started playing a few months ago and am still learning. I got really lucky with 2 magikarps through some research rewards, and finally have enough candy to evolve 1. But I am not sure which is better for a raid attacker. I hope to get mega energy for the one I evolve one day to make them even better.

u/DecentYeti — 4 months ago

Has manectric ever been meta?

I caught and evolved this guy and it's my first #1 pokemon. Has he ever been meta/good? I've tried using him but he kind of sucks, would they ever make a buff big enough that makes him good?

u/DecentYeti — 4 months ago

Feed your buddy a treat

I went on a long walk today, battled, played with and took a photo of my buddy along the way and got to the excited status. I am trying to get the extra 3 hearts from feeding him berries but it doesn't do anything, and he seems stuck at 3/6 hearts. Why doesn't feeding berries work?

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u/DecentYeti — 4 months ago

Getting poffins now

The removal of the scanning researches made it nearly impossible to get poffins. I used to feed a poffin to my buddy every morning before going on a walk. I always got another one to replace it from one of the many scan spots on my route. Since the removal of the scan quests I have seen the catch 50 pokemon for a poffin research 1 time. Seems like they want us to buy them for gold instead which is insane as it takes 2 days worth of gold to get enough for 1 poffin.

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u/DecentYeti — 4 months ago

GBL dust rewards

Did they lower the dust rewards this season? I remember last season I was getting like 5000 for the end of set rewards. Now I'm getting like 1000 or so even with 3-4 wins out of 5 matches. Do the dust rewards scale with your rank? I got to 20 last season which was my first season. But I don't remember such trivial rewards in the lower ranks.

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u/DecentYeti — 4 months ago

How to get a low attack IV Galarian Corsola?

I see that it's a good PvP pokemon and it's one of my favourite pokemone. But all of the ones I get from 7km eggs have subpar PvP stats. Is it possible to get a 0 or low attack IV one, and if so how would I do that?

Thanks in advance!

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u/DecentYeti — 5 months ago

How to get Candy for legendarys

I got pretty lucky with the Suicune from the pass which has near perfect stats. I'd like to increase its power but it takes 5km per candy to walk for them. Are there any other ways to get Candy's besides feeding it a poffin and walking 1000 km?

u/DecentYeti — 5 months ago

I live in a quiet residential neighborhood and there is a gym near my house. At 7AM local time I walked over and took the gym from yellow to blue. As I was walking home less than 5 mins later the gym was taken and an entire squad of yellows were back in the gym with the same Pokemon I just defeated. How is this possible? There were more trainers at the gym than there are houses in the vicinity, and I had a view of the gym my whole walk, no one was there. I just started playing last week so I am new and maybe this is something very normal, but it seemed suspicious to me. I have also held this gym for 3 days straight until last night when it was taken around 3-4AM.

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u/DecentYeti — 6 months ago