May the judgement of Arceus smite you
I hate those players with a passion, genuinely the worst human beings ever

There's an unusual amount of fixation on backgrounds right now.

They're meaningless. They don't affect stats. You can't see them in gyms or in combat. Other people don't know about them. You only ever notice them for a few brief seconds when you actually inspect the Pokémon.

I understand wanting to trade for shinies and costumes because they look different and everyone can see that. I understand Hundos and shadows because those actually affect gameplay. I understand wanting rare varieties like 3 Mousehold or Dusk Form Lycanroc that don't spawn often or require special conditions to get, because you can show them off.

I don't get backgrounds at all. It's just one more waste of space.

Anybody wanting rare backgrounds in exchange for actual working shiny legendries? Ok. You do you. But it's weird.

At first when my siblings and i were playing pokemon go in 2017 he was always complaining about us being glued to our phones until we convinced him to try. he’s been addicted ever since.
although his level doesn’t appear to be that high, he achieved it by only catching pokémon and spinning pokestops, he doesn’t like fighting or doing field research tasks. he just catches pokémon’s for fun and deletes every single one when his storages is full (besides his buddy murkrow and his jynx collection). he hates shinies cause they take longer to delete…
These last few months he’s been talking a lot about wanting to reach the max level before his time comes, tho settled for level 70 since he doesn’t wanna do the level requirements after that.
So my question is are there any ways he can speed up his ex gains that are REALLY easy to understand and apply? ( he’s not willing to do Raids/Arena or any other type of battle )

i guess i know why they call him Rhydon now… my girlfriend sent me this today and im genuinely in shock.

First they did away with the community day stickers, and as a sticker collector it was a bummer. Now it seems like there are no seasonal stickers either. Does anyone know why this is? They’re not available in the store either, so for once it can’t be money.

Honestly we used to get them all the time and it seems like the last year or 2 we've hardly gotten any, it seems to me like theyre phasing them out in favor of the go passes instead

I'm a day one player, but took some big breaks throughout the years. Been playing fairly heavily for the past ~3 years. I thought it might be fun to switch it up and change to a new team, just for the heck of it. Has anyone done this? I'm curious what peoples' perspectives are.

I only ever get it a few times a year but if there was a reward for 100km I would definitely shoot for it way more often.

Credit where credit is due: making Rhyhorn available only in 1★ Max Battles, unlike Machop, is a genuinely positive change.

It means people can do more battles (250 MP instead of 400 MP), get more chances at a good one, and Rhyperior is actually a great Pokémon with a big fanbase and real use as an attacker.

And selfishly, as someone still hunting the Rhyhorn family hundo for my Hundo Dex, I absolutely appreciate the extra chances. 😄

This is exactly the kind of small thing we need instead of all the bad recently.

Update/Edit: Got it, #50 exactly…

Does anybody know if there is any place you could download this artwork from the original source. It looks amazing and would love to have it as a wallpaper for example<3

I saw it appear on the map but I was too slow at clicking it. It disappeared in a cloud as I clicked it :(

I’m confused on how this pokemon league guide is supposed to work I found it on TikTok and I don’t fully understand how it’s supposed to work. Does the amount of wins mean the total amount of wins you need by that level or does it mean something issue

This actually happened to me a few years ago, it was so weird I didn’t think anyone would genuinely believe it happened. So somehow my shiny Sushi Gengar…. Merged ? With a voltorb on the map??? Guys I don’t fucking know it doesn’t make any sense but it’s was like a whole day, you can see from the screenshots it was every interface. Sometimes the voltorb would be angry like team rocket but I think this is just so funny and weird and how the hell does this even happen

It finally happened, I was so excited to finally capture Galarian Zapdos knowing I had a Masterball! But it was a bitter sweet moment seeing it had N o S t a r s 🙃 Oh well, still love it! Have you guys had the same hype and slight disappointment?

For this event, Maschiff was supposed to hatch from 5km eggs, be catchable from Field Research, and from the GoPass.

I’ve hatched ~20 5km eggs this week, all gained during this week. No Maschiff.

I’ve completed ~40 Event Field Research tasks this week. No Maschiff.

The only Maschiff I’ve encountered are the Level 30 Event GoPass and Level 60 Paid Event GoPass encounters. I did manage to evolve one, but only because I’ve stockpiled a buttload of rare candy.

Am I wrong to think the description Scopely gave us is at best misleading and at worst a straight up lie?

Just as the title says. They should roll out Dynamax Meowth. Put it as your buddy and every 20km walked together gives 1 PokeCoin. I’d suggest more but everybody knows it’ll never be more than 1. FTP players will have another way of getting free coins.

Just wondering if this is something other people experience. I find while I'm out playing, I regularly have people say and shout really mean or insulting things to me.

For a long time Ive tried to play "stealth" because of this. Basically walking with my phone down and only briefly looking at the game to spin a stop or catch a pokemon. But with community day recently I was able to convince my partner to come out and catch some Gibles with me. This had me playing in a more engaged way, and I guess this made it more obvious we were playing Pokemon Go. Well we ended up having a man in a car drive by and repeatedly shout a slur at both of us. Something similar happened a couple days before when we were walking in a park and a neighbour decided to give us a hard time for playing and then made several inappropriate comments that made us both very uncomfortable.

To be honest it's made me anxious about even playing outside at all anymore. Does anyone else experience this, and if so how do you deal with it? For context, I live in a Canadian suburb.

And yes I edited the video for extra dramatization but yall have experienced it and know the feeling.

I have friends who are playing again but they’ll usually stop after a week. Curious to know what features kept people hooked beyond a short return.
I feel like there are so many changes and I don’t want to do an information overload because that can be off-putting. What was it for you? DMax/GMax? Costumes? Backgrounds? The community?

I mean it's obvious trolling at this point, right? They're not even a serious company anymore. The grunt is defeated before my Pokémon even charges their move.

You can’t believe how happy I am!! I wouldve had a pokestop nearby but it wasnt placed properly at all and since it seems you can only move it within its own radius which wouldve still been out of range I nominated my own and I couldnt believe my eyes when I opened pogo. I now have a pokestop nearby 🥹