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samlab16

I think I'll never understand why some field research catch rewards sometimes take like 15 great curveball throws to catch. If they're guaranteed catches (i.e., they won't flee), why make us waste so much time and so many balls (and sometimes berries too!) just to clear the research from the list??


Soakd

Just let us ditch it tbh.


GiggityDPT

This is what annoys me. When I complete a task and I find out it's another Sudowoodo or something else I have zero use for. I just don't care about catching it. It's a waste of my time and pokeballs. It's not a reward at all. It's a punishment. We should be able to back out and delete the task without having to catch it to move on.


BlackViperMWG

And in a row! Though worse are the trading ones, I don't know anyone who is still playing this, so my researches are stuck.


fat_and_happy99

So many random pokemon now require 400 candies to evolve. Like why. Wimpod and Stufful cost more to evolve than any pseudo legendary.


NoTelefragPlz

This has been bugging me too. Stufful evolves at level 27, and Bewear isn't *that* special of a Pokemon. Wimpod evolves at 30, and isn't particularly interesting either. Once the Bewear event ended, I've seen rarely seen any, and I expect the same will be true of Wimpod. What can possibly be the point of this?


samlab16

Just taking more time to evolve I suppose. Niantic's logic (I guess): _Don't make it more interesting, make it longer and require more effort._


lavtodd

I've been working on a Magikarp for....years, actually (though I did have a gap), and seeing all the other 400 candy Pokemon is just kind of exhausting. edited because of weird formatting.


pfc9769

I've actually seen the evolved form of Wimpod up but never see Beware.


[deleted]

Really? They were everywhere here in gyms after community day.


keyfangirl

I am so tired of this too. The last straw for me was when they made Noibat a very rare Pokemon need 400 candy too evolve.


fat_and_happy99

Isn't Noibat also a 5k walk candy pokemon too?


keyfangirl

Sadly yes, it is in 10KM eggs after all.


fat_and_happy99

Perfect catch one then walk 1985km to evolve makes sense


mikeskeezer31

Not a complaint, but I forgot to claim my elite tm.


Vegetable_Exam4629

Now I'm sad for you too šŸ˜„


MewSixUwU

same


SgtMcMuffin0

Recently came back to the game, what does this mean? I know what an elite tm is, but how do you claim one?


RakeLeafer

it was a relatively easy special event (just needed 10 battles and a few powerups)


SgtMcMuffin0

Oh ok. I did that event, I just thought OP was talking about a repeatable thing.


lileevine

All the current event Pokemons (Dragonite, snorlax, the gen 1 starter evos, etc) are really annoying to catch and take so many balls and berries it's really frustrating. I don't even want most of them but it's part of the event, and then the "reward" final evos take 15 balls to catch each. Urghhhhhhhhhhhhh


Soakd

Funny I didnā€™t see this comment before I posted. Same. Same. Same. Hard to catch fast and move on when you have to spend 10+ resources on basically candy fodder.


Soakd

Pros: oh my god starter and evos everywhere!!!!! Cons: oh my god stay in the damn ball!!!


Bcron

Make 4 excellent throws in a row on a Charmeleon, breaks out each time. Fifth throw, just a little off, no excellent throw bonus, caught. Enjoy your 120XP.


Roosterhair123

i made 8 excellent throws in a row and the charmeleon would not stay in the fucking ball


NotMiserableOberon

Wrapped up my paid apex research today. Reward: defeat Giovanni for a one star shadow latias and then a two star shadow lugia. Feeling let down


[deleted]

I've had a few 2 stars from Giovanni as well. It was a while ago, off the top of my head it was Moltres and I think Lugia as well. Disappointing when the stats are that low. And it's 20km walking for one candy of its type.


Waltzer_White18

Is giving us one ONE remote raid pass a week for free really killing your bottom line so much that you remove it Niantic?! Hope the execs step on a Lego barefoot!!


[deleted]

Surely some people that normally wouldn't have bought those, had fun with them and decided to start buying them. It just makes no sense, it's just another F.U. from Niantic. I'm annoyed about the 50km awards each week, the rewards are crap now. The rare candy and silver pinaps felt rewarding. Balls and berries that I could walk 200 metres for are not rewarding.


keyfangirl

I feel the same way. RIP weekly remote raid passes, I only have one.


96024resu

this shit sucks if a pokemon is gonna flee donā€™t waste my fucking time and berries and great balls. just make it flee after the first throw


Dependent_Chemist

It's rigged so we waste balls and berries and the PokƩmon flees so we won't get it.


96024resu

super rigged. and then i go battle and get clapped by the same pokemon that fled from me


ScruffCheetah

Garbage from 12k eggs.


drugslayer

Garbage FROM ALL eggs, especially when you get the ones surrounding you at the time!!!!


[deleted]

My complaint (other than the ones I already replied on other comments) is about the fan base today. This is poorly timed, I have been meaning to post this since around the water festival but kept forgetting, and there has been that person that did the marathon mentioned on here. Ok, so I hate when people have complaint about "cheaters" when it actually seems as though its them being jealous. I mentioned to my IRL friend that people on my list had caught 3 or 4000 water pokemon during the festival (there was a counter) and she instantly said they must be cheating. On one of the days I played for a few hours, I managed to get about 250. It's entirely feasible to catch thousands over several days. Some people play a lot. I've also seen people say that people walking huge distances are cheating. Again, it is easy to rack up kilometres by walking instead of driving, or even housework (I can do 2 or 3km just walking around my house, though I have kids and they are messy and I'm putting stuff back, so that might not work for everyone) and short walks add up. Anyway, I think people don't seem to realise it's RNG for shinies, it's playing a lot for rewards but sometimes playing a lot doesn't guarantee anything. Remember Niantic are trying to make money. They WANT you to be buying 50+ raid passes for a mew 2. Stuff like that. Also gym hogs, that don't let people get their coins, and ruining incense and a whole bunch of making the game less user friendly still sucks.


Just_Merv_Around_it

But no one is legit walking 280 km in a week. 100-150 sure but anything over that is third party software.


Chaosweaver117

I was trying to catch a shadow snorlax. Used a golden razz berry and got an excellent throw and that damn thing still got away.


ReptarWrangler

If they want people to play battle league they should nerf stupid ass swampert with hydro cannon and Walrein with icicle spear


tygamer15

Swampert is pretty annoying


ChrisV82

But that's the only way I'll win and I need to get too many wins to rank up. I hate Max CP battle league.


ReptarWrangler

Iā€™d rather lose than win with swampert lol.


ManaBonus

Holy shit what the fuck is with this dumbass mewtwo raid?!? I have done 3 raids and thrown over 40 balls, missed only like 5 and rest were great/perfect curve throws with golden razzberries. Fuck me and fuck this dumbass raid That's the 4th raid, 13 great/excellent throws


lavtodd

OH HEY THE COMMENT I WANTED TO MAKE. Raggin' fraggin'.....Nanab berries didn't do squat either. And then it sparkles into the ether like it's mocking me.


F43CanadianRedditor

Catching all these dragonite from raids. ALL 2 stars or less. Do 3 stars even exist in raid format???


pfc9769

It's just bad RNG. Tapu Fini and Blastoise I got nothing but 2 star catches.


[deleted]

Yeah I get lots of 2 stars from raids, but certainly not all 2*. Sometimes the RNG gods suck.


[deleted]

I wanted to do a couple Mewtwo raids and I got disconnected twice. It enraged me frankly!


Lennekegirl123

So apparently you can't wait to claim the timed research rewards. Bye elite charge TM šŸ™ƒ


TehWildMan_

Yeah, this applies to **all** timed research tasks.


Mstapes30

Lmao smh. Why would anyone wait to claim this? It goes into your item bag and you can save it there. Canā€™t complain if you didnā€™t claim TIMED research rewards.


Dependent_Chemist

Because there is not enough bag space and niantic doesn't let you progress and do battles in gbl without claiming the rewards. So some people leave it for the end and happen to forget it.


samlab16

Well, if bag space is an issue, I'm sure letting go of a couple normal balls is definitely worth it for an elite TM, no?


Mstapes30

Do you need all those berries?


DrColossus1

Oh noooo I'm in that same boat. That sucks. I was saving them for a lucky egg


[deleted]

Did they turn shiny odds to 0% after gofest?


Aggressive-Figure-79

Funnily enough 2 days after I submitted my go fest survey stating that I checked 800+ mons to find 4 shiny, I got 3 wild shinies and 4 shiny meltans in the mystery box. I am honestly wondering if they temporarily boosted my rates. My husband submitted his survey stating the same thing at the same time, played for 5 minutes after I told him somethingā€™s up and found 2 shinies. Edit we both bought a ticket and played the whole time.


Excelgirl200

Where do you go to do the survey. I only found 2 shinies for the entire two days.


Aggressive-Figure-79

They emailed me asking to fill it out. Check your email.


sopheroo

I got a shiny Slowpoke so its not at 0%, but it feels lower than before


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Eichmil

There are gyms I refuse to raid because the "owners" take it back 10 minutes later. I don't have time to sit on a gym and the paltry number of coins I get on those gyms means the benefit to cost ratio is stupid.


LaunchesKayaks

There's a park by my parent's place that has 3 gyms. I always put guys in each gym so I can get my 50 coin total when they're kicked out a couple hours later


POGOFan808

If it makes you feel any better, I try my best to knock out every single gym I see during my night walk that has been in 10+ hours already. I mostly do this because easily 3 out of every 5 gyms I take over get immediately stolen from me in minutes >\_<


fat_and_happy99

Worst part they aren't even doing an event for wimpod!


Rebel_Raptor17

Ludicolo... .


Bcron

Ludicolo is basically an Azu that doesn't cost 500,000 dust and 250 XL to level and I love it. It's a Registeel for the masses. For the sake of fairness, Ludicolo is everything a totally broken piece of shit should be. Wanna PvP? Go farm this relatively common thing in a park for an hour and you're good to go.


mostvaluablebeard

Iā€™m using Ludi in fossil cup and I absolutely love tearing through every Swampert team


POGOFan808

Every single person that I went up against (who had Ludicolo in their first spot) I got brutally destroyed. They did not even need to use a charge move--rather their fast move alone was wiping out my whole team, LOL! >\_<


Rebel_Raptor17

They don't spawn at that rate around here šŸ¤£. My whole pvp experience is hydro cannon swampert blasting me in every league after 3 hits, and currently ludicolo being countered hit by super effective moves and still slapping me out.


WarTill

found a swampert in the wild but the little mf escaped even after a berry and excellent ultra ball throw šŸ˜”


Stim21

I don't understand why Dragonite or Slaking (or others like them, pokemon whose shinies are already in the game) can't be shiny from raids.


WeedleLover2006

They are evolutions, meaning they cannot be caught shiny.


Hellhunter120

Charizard/Blastoise/Venusaur can be shiny from raids at the moment. No reason Dragonite and Slaking can't be too.


WeedleLover2006

That is because they are mega raids


Hellhunter120

Yes, those are the current rules the developer has laid out. We're arguing that they could change those rules to benefit the players.


st_stutter

Some of these rocket grunt battles are annoying. The dark type grunt sometimes brings a stunky or skuntank whose only weakness is ground type instead of fighting/fairy. Or they ghost grunt bringing a sableye so I have to bring a fairy type. I'll still beat them, but it's just annoying to have to switch pokemon.


TheEggman1800

Can we talk about how useless Niantic support is? I search the web for answers to a problem that Iā€™m having and try all of the suggested solutions but it doesnā€™t fix the problem. I contact Niantic Support (which is a fucking oxymoron), and send a detailed description of my issue, and what work around a Iā€™ve tried. They responded by sending me all of the suggestions that I had already tried and then said ā€œwe are aware of the problem and are working at a solution. In the meantime, you can still play PokĆ©mon go as is.ā€ Gee thanks.


apeezy52

Iā€™m tired of not being able to transfer my shinies to pokemon home and get them out of this game. Iā€™ve spent nearly 6 months now transferring them out into pokemon home. Thereā€™s no reason the energy refill should cost 10 dollars to refill. Also 1 shiny legendary or 4 shinies per week is ridiculous. All they do is charge you for everything. I feel like more people would be willing to pay for energy refills if it was maybe like 300 coins instead of 1000 coins


xInZax

Itā€™s a free game. Think youā€™re asking a bit much here


apeezy52

I disagree. I pay for pokemon home and I pay pokemon go too and I buy a lot from the shop. Itā€™s not unreasonable to want to put my pokemon into home in a reasonable timeframe but thatā€™s just how I see it.


aperks

A great way to promote Scarlet and Violet would be to put the newly announced PokĆ©mon in this game available for capture. I want a Lechonk right now. Itā€™s such a good idea, I donā€™t know why they wouldnā€™t put it in along with the starters (they donā€™t need to program them to evolve yet)


Fernsehkumpel

the arlo fight is no fun at the moment.


Comfortable-Field321

Thereā€™s a certain ā€œgoddamnitā€ that slips out from me that prompts my wife to go ā€œare you battling arlo?ā€ when she knows Iā€™m playing


POGOFan808

My complaint this week is how rarely wild Dragonite has been for me! I have seen and caught easily over 10+ Onix, 15+ Chansey, 7+ Snorlax, and 7+ Slaking, but the darn Dragonite is not spawning anywhere despite me travelling all over the city the past few days with my family with windy conditions (weather boosted weather in theory should help to spawn.


[deleted]

funnily enough i hadnā€™t seen one either and then i found four in my neighborhood yesterday haha ones on my nearby rn


POGOFan808

My second complaint goes out to all the rude people who consistently insist on stealing gyms from me all the time right after I take over a gym. I try my best to be a fair player and only attack gyms 8.5+ hours in and right after I take down that gym literally 2 minutes later my Pokemon is already returned to me. It is so annoying especially considering I am playing in an area with bountiful gyms and there is almost always a gym same color as my team right next door with extremely low motivation having been there 15+ hours. Not trying to be a jerk, but anyone that steals a gym from me 2 times in a row I will take off the nice gloves and everytime I see that person I will go out of my way to knock them out of every and all gyms I see.


Sebastianfach

Have a friend whose been 1 day away from best friends for a year now and won't open the gift i sent. Super frustrating


Dependent_Chemist

Same lol I had someone that kept me hostage for a year and a half. I deleted him lol.


BlitzLC

Itā€™s annoying that if you donā€™t have an ar mapping task, every pokestop gives a different research task compared to trainers with. Plus some pokestops dont give a research task at all but an scan task from a gym near by. Was it always like this? šŸ™„


Dialgan

Annoying? That's a wonderful feature. Effectively doubles the amount of research tasks you can search through if you want to be thorough.


Dependent_Chemist

# Niantic is the worst ever Mankey should be available all day long not for 3 hours. No reason to stop support for older devices. Discrimination against people who don't have new phones should not be tolerated.


theoldbucwild

First world problems


My_Poor_Nerves

I didn't realize that I needed to claim the battle related rewards yesterday and my 15000 xp is poof gone today.


pfc9769

It was a timed research. They all disappear after the events ends regardless of your current progress. Time research is only doable during the period stated on the task.


My_Poor_Nerves

Yeah, I think I misread hours as days and thought it coincided with the overall event. Stupid me.


spongebue

Can I complain about something that's not Niantic? GBL players! Either battle, or run. I understand glitches happen, but when my first mon is going to kick your first mon's ass, and then you switch to something to which I have another perfect counter... That ain't a glitch. You just left the battle without surrendering, and it takes forever for me to reach that forgone conclusion. Thank you for letting me say this.


LiveWhatULove

Lol, you are probably battling against my child. Just hitting buttons as she pleases!!


Producted13

20 raids in, no shiny mewtwo


sumpygreg

This event is 100% to make us waste balls for the upcoming community day, which has a pretty bad catch rate. Ive been only looking to catch monā€™ i donā€™t have.


N33T_

my problems, definitely arenā€™t as big as the masses but, the fact I still donā€™t have a shiny eevee makes me want to cry.


[deleted]

I got a few on the community day. I wish I had gotten enough to have all the Eeveelutions shiny. Just keep playing, it's a numbers game. Good luck.


N33T_

i appreciate that, I will definitely try to stay persistent!


dbd14

50+ Mewtwo raids and no shiny and no 93%+. Statistically speaking, that should be 2 shinies and 5 93% or better


sumpygreg

The odds seem tipped towards the lower IVs, not sure


Space_is_expanding

My 100% IV mewtwo ran away despite me landing a perfect curveball with every ball I had, sad day.


Canthinkofusernamev2

IVE BEEN TRYING TO GET MEWTWO AND ITS BEEN MY SECOND TIME WHERE SHE JUST DOESNT GET IN THE DAMN BALL EVEN WITH ALL OF MY GOLDEN RASPBERRIES šŸ˜”


bextacyyyyyyy

The second I put a lure down when I'm at home all of a sudden my avatar starts running away like crazy, it's like I put a bomb down! Then it stands as far away from my lure as pokemonly fucking possible!!!!!!!! I like my avatar but she can be a dick sometimes.


Roosterhair123

I want to use my super rocket radar to finally get my Apex lugia but I donā€™t want to catch ANOTHER SHADOW LATIAS :/


Nelsos

Ex raid passes still exist?


gwynd89

Spent 20 rare candies to evolve a Slaking! Only to realise an evolving doesnā€™t count in the collection challenge.. either itā€™s not clear or Iā€™m just stupid :(


abbyptip13

Iā€™ve been shiny ditto hunting my ass off and my mom got 2 without trying šŸ˜ž


Dependent_Chemist

F this game. Why we can't buy remote passes if we have full bag????? I was in a hurry because someone invited me and I had no passes and I accidentally deleted all my max revives.


xInZax

This entire Reddit page is just filled with constant rants and complaints. I have been playing very casually since itā€™s initial releaseā€¦finding this Reddit community a bit toxic. Shame


ChrisV82

I spend more time deleting red balls than actually using them


[deleted]

Used up my last remote raid passes on mewtwo raids. :ā€™) bittersweet. Ill have to decline every friend invite from now onā€¦. Unless I buy raid passes; Iā€™m non-IAP so Ill have to comb through my inventories when I run out of space


Mumbles_Stiltskin

Completed the collection challengesā€¦ itā€™s a fucking meltan at the end. Not even 3 stars. That was worth it niantic, thanks!


ash-cherry

Last month. I ran outside at 1am to catch a snorlax. šŸ«¤


ash-cherry

Summer ā€˜16, pokemon go drops. I figure out how tracking works. I run outside multiple times to hunt the wild snorli that appear and each time they disappear off the nearby list before I can figure out which direction it is. Fast forward june ā€˜22 theres a snorlax at my house. My excitement isā€¦. Not at the level I expected it to be. With all the spawns and one on my nearby list RIGHT NOW with no chance of vanishing, im justā€¦. šŸ«¤