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Originally posted by apex
I just found a wild Vaporeon across the street from my house but it was only like 100 cp
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Nnn, this reminds me, just as my batter was hitting like 5% a few minutes ago I tracked a Magmar with seconds left. After literally RUNNING (and sweating like a Pignite), some guy pointed the spot out to his friend and said his had 1200 CP... I find the damn thing, and it had the NERVE to appear with 93 CP
I'm level 23 ffs
I threw one great ball (since I had on a lucky egg, that 1220 xp would be nice), and it had the nerve to escape and run
That also reminds me, soon after I plugged in my USB with the Pokemon Go Live Map app (which is better for tracking specific pokemon imo, since it saves your list of desirables and/or excluded pokemon), a Vaporeon popped up, running distance. I figured it wasn't worth running out of work for, and its appearance at least was a good omen for finding other things higher on my list (like the stage 3 starters, dragonite, lapras, snorlax, gyarados)... Basically NOTHING popped up for the rest of my 6 hour shift
A Blastoise appeared, but it was pretty much exactly 7 miles away, and I only noticed it when there was 8 min left
What I took from this is to always RUN FOR YOUR LIFE as soon as a rare pokemon shows up, because there literally is no pattern. You can chain several rare ones in a row, then go on a 12 hour drought.
A bad choice in direction caused me to miss out on a Venusaur today as well... The only thing I wanted that I caught was a Clefable, but it was 756 CP after I hatched a Clefairy which gave me enough candies to evolve and already has 664 CP unevolved
Has anyone been reading up on IVs? I was kinda hoping they weren't in this game, but it appears they are... That probably explains why my Alakazam has such low CP compared to my other Pokemon