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Now that adventure week's over, I dont really know what to set for my buddy, I was walking a scyther to get a scizor, as im not evolving any beldum in prep of an eventual metagross event to get a steel type, and dont know what to do, should I keep the scyther/scizor as a buddy to get more candies to power it up further, or switch so something else?
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Im going out for raid and gym battles, not defense. Options I was considering were dragonite, gyarados, Feebas, and possibly Bagon, and Ralts but I am thinking those are going to get C-Day's

Asked by MetagrossMaxis7 years ago

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What whatever the heck you want.

None of us know what you need in your pokedex, what you need, what your overall priorities are, etc. That's like asking someone what you should eat for dinner. There is no right answer.

If you're looking for a practical buddy that has a future purpose, walking a Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar so you can save up candy for the upcoming community day. That's what I'm doing. But my pokedex is complete and I don't need anything else.

My advice would be to never walk scyther. It's a waste of km. But again, if getting a scizor is important to you then go for it. Once again illustrating the futility in asking strangers what you should be walking.

The upcoming Community Day features Larvitar, not Dratini.

(Of course, Dratini remains among the best buddies, especially for players who missed out on Rayquaza.)

I stand corrected! I am walking a 98% Pupitar as I type this. Got my own advice wrong. Thanks for the head's up

I understand whatyou mean, but I dont think walking a lavrivtar would be helpful, have 300 candies right now, and am stocking up on pinab.

I spent the time with scizor mostly because its the only steel type I have (wont want to waste precious good beldum on a metagross now when theres a potential CD for it to become better later). Most of my pokemon are weak to what steel covers and the raids I am going out for are weak to scizor.

300 candies is enough to evolve 2 Larvitars to Tyranitars. If you're content with just 2 Ttars with the exclusive move (that we should discover in the next week), then you're good. I personally want at least 4, maybe more. There has been some idle chatter here that the special move might be the quick move Smack Down (rock) as well as a Dark charged move (maybe Foul Play or Dark Pulse). Either charged move would be an improvement on the slow Crunch. If Niantic does this, then we're now in the position of having to choose between double Rock Ttar and a better double Dark Ttar. If that happens, ideally I'd want 12 Ttars from the event, six of each. That clearly won't happen, as it would require 1500 candy and my catching enough top Larvitar to evolve (I have one right now, 91% but not great attack, want more). There's probably a few people out there with 1500 Larvitar candy, but I ain't one of them.

So when you say you have 300 Larvitar candy and that's enough, I'm skeptical. At a minimum, 750 would be a good level, and that only if you want to evolve 6 Ttars and aren't worried about having candy to power them up.

300 is enough if you only have 2 larvitar, not every has a full team of 6 larvitar, and wild catches pre event are not only infrequent, but also dont habe good IVs a lot, that may change for the event, and also catching more, pinab catches and releases of larvitar net 7 candies, plus the addition 2 from evolving, but just considering catches and releases to get 750, thats only about 107 larvitar that need being caught, minus the number you already have from previous catches/hatches and tyranitar raid catches

Walking as a buddy isnt that crucial, assuming the at absolute most, 60 seconds it takes to pinab, catch, check ivs, and then mass release the bad iv ones, you can have all those catches knocked out in a little over half the event time

YEah, 6 smack down tyranitar would be great, but having 6 presents a whole other set of problems, namely getting the stardust and candies to power it up, yes eventually 6 maxed level tyranitar with smack down will be devastating, but the question is GETTING there really worth it? that will be 1500 candy, ontop of likey thousands of other candy and millions of dust, how long will it take to get that? likely time that wont be worth it

How about your favourite Aron? (Personally, I am walking Chansey.)

Aggron's not my favorite, metagross is

Dont need to walk it, been hatching and catching so many aron from the rock event I had like...800 candy, and my 98 Aggron's already maxed for my level

I walked Slakoth to get my Slaking, then Togetic to get some more candy for Togekiss. Now I’m back to Blissey. Can’t go wrong with that one.

Same here, now walking Togetic (107 candy at the moment) and last week I walked Porygon (148 candy).

I generally go with pokemon that are rare in the area. Walking Metagross right now, still need Slacking and Salamence. After that I may go back to my Heracross I picked up on my trip to Puerto Rico, since they aren't available here.

Thats what I do, but not always easy to pick when theres about 10 rare pokemon, and only 1 buddy slot.

I decide based on usability and if I have a good evolution candidate. I don't have a use for Slacking, so he is towards the bottom. I don't have a good Bagon, so I'm also waiting. Had a good Beldum, and he can be used.

Slaking is disappointing. I wouldn't walk it ever. Just wait patiently, catch them as they come, and evolve a good one for the dex.

The main use for Slaking is if you and a friend who is on a different team want to level up a gym, go to it and take it. Whoever takes it puts in a Slaking, and then the other one takes it. You get a ton of gym points for taking down Slaking, and take almost no damage. After taking it, the other person puts in their Slaking, and the two of them trade the gym back and forth until they both have it gold.

Just make sure your Slaking doesn't have PR so you don't need to pay attention. I haven't done the math since I'm never going to employ this strategy (it's explicitly forbidden in Ingress so I don't like it), but wailing on a high level Bite Gyarados with Raikou is likely to be almost as fast for BP/s and quite easy on the resources as well.

I dont even focus defense, mostly because its not as crucial to get blissey/etc as people think, it actually can be a big detriment to use them (ie not getting your coins and also not having any pokemon to take gyms because you dont walk them)

Im going to set my Dragonite as my buddy, I dont want to evolve beldum or bagon for fear of future CD's, and want to have strong dragons for rayquaza/possible dragon type raids if they do a dragon event

According to auto-select, it's most definitly

You do you, fam.

My recent buddies are/will be:
-Bagon for candy/Salamence (who kicks royal ass by the way, get you one)
-Larvitar for adventure week due to shortened distance and max candy gains before CD
-Feebas when Larvitar finds this next candy because I need Milotic for the Pokedex

After that who knows. I may switch back to Larvitar until CD or walk a Lotad because I still need both of its evos to complete my Pokedex, regionals/Unown/unreleased Pokemon excluded.

I don't really understand the logic for walking Community Day pokemon. This will add maybe 30 candy (if you are able to walk 150 km). It would make more sense to just stock up on pinap berries.

I completely agree. Unless you're in an area with few spawn points and stops for Pinap berries, or you won't be able to grind much during the time period, the CD itself will give you everything you could want.

I disagree. The CD will give more candy, but I don't want to be in a position where I want to evolve one more Ttar, but don't have the candy. We only get 3 hours to get the special move, and then (as far as we know) it's gone forever. The opportunity cost of missing that window is far greater than the loss of a few candy walking something else that could be just as easily walked after the CD.

And by that same logic something else could come along and outclass smack down, I reiterate, we saw this with blastburn, they nerfted it HARD, and yes it is still very strong, but it shows that they are paying attention, and at any second, smack down can get knocked down. a lot of those projects have been made using rock throw, and I dont know if it has been confermed that smash down will be a clone of rock throw

It's an exact copy of rock throw in the game data currently. That could change before it's released of course.

I'm doing that too, currently have about 100 Pinaps saved and counting. I figured why not do both? I pretty much never see Larvitar spawns, I don't get 10k eggs at a reliable rate to hatch a few before CD, and trying to find a group to raid anything other than a legendary can be challenging.

Edit: To specify, I've never bothered to walk the CD Pokemon before and only considered Larvitar since the walking distance was reduced. Otherwise I'd have probably focused on things to fill out the Pokedex.

Why does buddying mean you aren't stocking up on pinaps? Pinaps only help until you can pinap every catch, they don't give you more spawns. 30 additional candy can make the difference of evolving your sixth TTar if you can't play at a great place and average only say, 100 catches during the 3h event.

I see your point, but not everyone has a full team of 6, unless you've been hardcore egg hatching and prepping for months (or just not evolving them) most players arent likely to have that many, where im from, your lucky if you get even 3 good community day pokemon

And the spawn increases, those are called Lures and incense, something most players have in spades

You don't need your Larvitars to have good IVs. According to currently known information, a level 28 SD Tyranitar outclasses any Golem as a rock attacker. So you can (and should) just evolve 6 high level ones if nothing else.

Pretty much only players who spend real money are going to have lures and incense in spades. Incense is dependent on your movement speed and spawns a total of 30-144 pokemon during the event, while lures are totally reliant on your best stop cluster. Some people don't have a good stop cluster. Of course if you play in a city, this doesn't apply to you and you can probably safely assume to farm 750 candy during the 3h window (125 pinap catches without wasting time on transfers).

I dont spend money on the game, and have 15+ incense and 25+ lures, and thats after 4 months of play, so its not unreasonable to suggest that other player will be the same

and even assuming you get 750 candy to evolve 9keeping in mind you get 11 candies from evolving 5 tyranitar and then the pupatar, so really only need 739 candies) how will you get the dust and candies to power them up? getting pokemon to higher levels is known to be a massive drain on resources, and by the time one can get that many dust and candies, there could be something better out, or even with the release of Lets Go, it could be possible to teach these moves to non event pokemon

Refer to my post above. You don't need to power them up, a level 28 SD Tyranitar trumps any other rock attacker in the game that's not a higher level SD Tyranitar. That's why it's so important to just evolve six no matter what (provided no nerfs to SD).

Gen 4 has two potential competitors, which are both moveset reliant and could be anywhere from 2 to 8 months away. If you want a good rock team in the meantime, you make sure you get a full team of L28+ SD Tyranitars.

Thats the reason ive been thinking not walking Beldum bagon and ralts, all three seem guaranteed for a community day, and the amount you get wont be of benefit.

Adventure week changes nothing, just how fast you get candy.

^ This.

I've walked Chansey candy for the last 600km. The only other buddies I'm likely to walk in a while are short term ones like Feebas or Eevee.

One thing I'd advise is to walk Larvitar if you're unsure whether you can evolve 6 Tyranitar during the community day. If the move is SD and its stats stay, the exclusive Ttar is going to be hugely valuable.

I'm walking Togepi to get the last assumed candy I'll need to max out a Togekiss (3 more!). After that, I'm in your boat. I don't need anything. Even though there's zero payoff, I'll probably just slot in Mew because it's my favorite and I'll like to see him floating there. Until Gen 4, anyway. Feebas wouldn't be a terrible choice, because I don't see many of those in the wild. But I don't plan to ever power up my Milotic, so there's that too. :\

I have a feeling against water only palkia raids and rayquaza, the dragon tail/blizzard milotic will be useful, though thats only because I have no good ice types at any decent levels (100% walrein, 98 jynx and a few articuno, but no dust/candy to power up)

I agree with that togepi think, got a 93% one, but as I dont know what togekiss is going to be like, I dont want to get it now, some may say that scizor was a waste, but hey, togekiss is weak to it

Palkia is not weak to ice. Against water moveset Palkia you want to use dragon types since they resist the boss and deal the best damage. Against dragon moveset Palkia it's going to be either fairies or kamikaze dragons.

I belive you should go for Larvitar so that you have candies for the Community Day.

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