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Colin · 07-22-2016

Got this for free today from my dad's shop (they print t-shirt designs) I've order several better ones online, but gotta represent!

Lvl20 right now with over 600 pidgey and weedle candies and a ton of others (haven't used any lucky eggs and in total I have only evolved 8 pokemon so far)

Walked over 100km so far hatching eggs, usually I am out from 11pm-8am but spend a few of those hours at the marina where we have 2/3 connecting poke stops with lures.

They have a few outlets at the marina so some of us bring power bars and allow more people to connect, normally I bring my laptop and 3ds and just multi task while playing PokemonGO

Used over 600MB of data so far (my limit is only 100

) so upgrading to a 2.5GB iPhone plan soon

I see a lot of fuss about people wanting to get higher CP's to evolve and such, but IV's and moveset is much more important when deciding which pokemon to use. (hatched pokemon will always have better IV's - a really useful note if you care about stomping gyms)

Here is the calculator I use: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...O_4IbV3Y/edit#

Anyone who is decent with technology, here is a method that will pull the IV's for pokemon directly after catching them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoa...ng_mitm_proxy/

Quick ELI5 about IV's (/u/Conan-The-Librarian):
Pokemon have 3 stats: Stamina, Attack, Defense. Each type of pokemon has different base values for these. You can look these up in charts because they never change. For example, all Vaporeons have base stats of: 260 STA, 186 ATK, 168 DEF. However, each Pokemon is also randomly assigned a 0-15 bonus to each of them. These bonuses are called IV's (i.e. Individual Values, because they are values specific to each individual). They represent genetic variance, in that some pokemon are just genetically superior to others. A pokemon with a +15 bonus to all 3 stats (15/15/15) is considered 100% perfect. Pokemon with higher stats will have higher CP (combat points, the number above their head in the game).

It's important because you might catch a perfect pokemon, but because the CP at the time is not as high as what you might catch later on, you will throw it away, finding a perfect pokemon and powering it up will produce a better pokemon than just trying to catch one with the highest CP as possible.

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Colin Registered User Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,204	Got this for free today from my dad's shop (they print t-shirt designs) I've order several better ones online, but gotta represent! Lvl20 right now with over 600 pidgey and weedle candies and a ton of others (haven't used any lucky eggs and in total I have only evolved 8 pokemon so far) Walked over 100km so far hatching eggs, usually I am out from 11pm-8am but spend a few of those hours at the marina where we have 2/3 connecting poke stops with lures. They have a few outlets at the marina so some of us bring power bars and allow more people to connect, normally I bring my laptop and 3ds and just multi task while playing PokemonGO Used over 600MB of data so far (my limit is only 100 ) so upgrading to a 2.5GB iPhone plan soon I see a lot of fuss about people wanting to get higher CP's to evolve and such, but IV's and moveset is much more important when deciding which pokemon to use. (hatched pokemon will always have better IV's - a really useful note if you care about stomping gyms) Here is the calculator I use: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...O_4IbV3Y/edit# Anyone who is decent with technology, here is a method that will pull the IV's for pokemon directly after catching them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoa...ng_mitm_proxy/ Quick ELI5 about IV's (/u/Conan-The-Librarian): Pokemon have 3 stats: Stamina, Attack, Defense. Each type of pokemon has different base values for these. You can look these up in charts because they never change. For example, all Vaporeons have base stats of: 260 STA, 186 ATK, 168 DEF. However, each Pokemon is also randomly assigned a 0-15 bonus to each of them. These bonuses are called IV's (i.e. Individual Values, because they are values specific to each individual). They represent genetic variance, in that some pokemon are just genetically superior to others. A pokemon with a +15 bonus to all 3 stats (15/15/15) is considered 100% perfect. Pokemon with higher stats will have higher CP (combat points, the number above their head in the game). It's important because you might catch a perfect pokemon, but because the CP at the time is not as high as what you might catch later on, you will throw it away, finding a perfect pokemon and powering it up will produce a better pokemon than just trying to catch one with the highest CP as possible. Last edited by Colin; 07-22-2016 at 12:58 AM.