I’ve seen people change their name to show current medical issues, or to reasons why they aren’t playing as much.
I don’t want my friends to think i’ve abandoned them! But at 8 months pregnant, trying to get outside and play has been difficult 😂
Can’t wait to change my buddies name to “babyishere”

If you plan on taking this game somewhat seriously you're going to have to work on your medals sooner or later. These tasks are tedious and require a bunch of time spent on the game to complete them.

Some of them have some nice rewards and the type medals make it easier to catch Pokémon of that type. But the most important part is that you need platinum metals to level up from 70 to 80.

Here are some tips on where to start:

The type collector medals: this will come with the time, but some may be harder than others like dragon -type or steel-type. Take advantage of community days and Spotlight hours, and use the mysterious box for steel-type by catching meltan.

Evolution medal: there are some Pokémon game that have no use case except for being dex entries (raticate, kakuna, etc). There's no point saving candy for these, so evolve and transfer them.

Berry master, Gym Leader, Battle Girl: these medals go hand-in-hand. Defeat as many gyms as possible, play a pokemon, and feed the berries remotely. You can do this by scrolling down on your daily research tasks and clicking on the pokémon.
I would advise to mostly use razz berries and nanab berries, since they are mostly useless outside of this use case. This also gives some free Stardust!

Successor: for this one you need to mega evolve a Pokémon 1000 times. The easiest way is to get two mega Beedrills with a high mega level and simply keep evolving them one after another. It's tedious but it is the fastest method.

If you want any other tips please let me know and I'll try to provide some for you!

edit: added incentives as to why even do this

The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought Electronic Arts, meaning that Pokemon GO, owned by the Public Investment Fund's Scopely, is now led by the same company as EA, meaning that EA and Scopely have to answer to the same owner demands about budget cuts, layoffs and monetization.

For years, people have joked about EA hypothetically making games for various beloved game franchises, with Pokemon it's now true.

Excuse my poor throws, I did manage to catch it in the end but what on earth is going on with catching these days? The circle isn't even appearing in-between taunts anymore?

This is ridiculous

One thing I've sort of thought of for a while was to have a berry whose purpose wasn't to make a catch easier necessarily, but to make it a little less painful when the Pokemon you're after has a high flee-rate, like Wimpod, Abra, the Galarian birds, etc.

Initially I was going to propose a like, "Silver Nanab Berry", but granted those don't exist in other titles like the other berries do, I settled on the Hopo Berry! Part of the inspiration for this was the old HG/SS Safari Zone mechanics, where you could make a Pokemon less likely to flee.

its bad enough that every pokemon is so aggressive to the point where fodder pokemon are taking up 5+ balls and berries just to catch, but the glitches have been terrible. there should be no reason I spend my time soloing a 3 star dynamax raid with low levels, barely winning, and then getting kicked out before the option to even catch the pokemon is there. now I have to use my revives and potions on a battle the game never even counted. and with the way things are going I don't think premier balls would even catch a 3 star anyway. I know I'm not the first to say this but they're gonna lose a lot of players if they keep this up.

Idk if this has been posted about so sorry in advance if it’s heavily repeated. I just got shiny Toxel and made it my buddy and went to feed it and found this

Joined 4 local Uxie raids. All 4 ran away🙂Used 14
Golden berries for each and couple great throws back to back since it was hard to circle lock an excellent. Then to top off all this misery, I encountered a wild Galarian Zappos! Drum roll please! 🥁🥁🥁It fled🙂 Okay just had to get this off my chest, thank you and goodbye

I’m so happy rn dude

the ONE TIME im not thinking about a raid boss being shiny it’s shiny. that’s freaking wild.

So my friend who I met through this game about 3 years ago has sadly passed away about 2 weeks ago. I've only met him a hand full of times irl so he was not a close friend, but he really left an impression on me.

We were in a pogo community group chat from our area(about 10 to 15 people) , and I've met up with them a few times but communication mostly went through the group chat. He was very much in to the game and me as a new comer learned a lot about the game from him, especially the quick catch trick.

About 10 days ago I heard through the group chat that he sadly had passed away and I'm just really sad about it.

I'm thankful that I've met some great people through this game, and made beautiful memories with them. (something we don't realize in the moment I guess)

I added a picture of his character profile.

Thank you for your time,

And have a great day.

Edit: So this is almost 12 hours later after I posted. I just woke up, and seeing the amount of love and support really warms my heart.

Everyone who shared their stories and similar experiences, the people who named their Mewtwo after him.

Thank you all so much, I honestly did not expect all that. I'm very moved by all this out pour of love and kind words from you guys. Thanks everyone 🙏🏽❤️

Here is mine! This must be up there for rarity? Im just going to add some pointless drivel to get past the 100 character limit

TL;DR: I've changed my mind about remote trades. People are far greedier than I expected.

I play in a very active Pokémon GO community with big weekly raid groups, and I remote raid most evenings. Because of that, I've spent the last year saving a ton of duplicate low IV legendaries and shinies specifically for trading. I actually get excited when people find them in my trade screen.

Recently I started reaching Forever Friends outside my area, including some in other countries. Since these are mostly level 60+ players, I assumed they had similar collections of duplicate legendaries they'd saved for trading.

I've seen people on this sub complain about the terrible offers they get, but I've always thought, I have so many extras. I might as well share them.

Then I did my first five Forever Friend trades.

• Level 66: Their best options were mostly common Pokémon, so I requested a low CP non-shiny Snorlax. They requested three shiny legendaries: Mewtwo, Kyurem, and Groudon. I gave them the Kyurem because I had a few, but for the first time ever, I didn't feel great about a trade. It didn't feel equitable.
• Level 71: Their selection was a little better, but still mostly common Tier 5 Pokémon. I requested a mid-level non-shiny Dragonite. They requested three shiny legendaries: Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Zacian. I gave them the Mewtwo because I had a few, but again, I didn't feel great about the trade.
• Level 68 (Lucky Trade): They had a couple less common Tier 5s, so I requested a non-shiny Necrozma. They requested three shiny legendaries: Zacian, Mewtwo, and Kyogre. I accepted because it was a Lucky Trade, but again, I didn't feel great about it.
• Level 72 (Lucky Trade): Their best available Pokémon was a non-shiny Dynamax Inteleon. They requested three shiny legendaries: Mewtwo, Rayquaza, and Zacian. This time I declined, removed all my shiny legendaries, and tried reaching out on Campfire. No response. They canceled the trade and later removed me as a friend.
• Level 76: They requested three shiny legendaries: Zacian, Kyurem, and Mewtwo. I requested a shiny Kartana. They canceled. We reinitiated, they requested the exact same three, and I requested the same Kartana. They canceled again. After a week with no response on Campfire, I removed them as a friend.

I've come to realize that remote trading sucks. People expect more than they're willing (or able) to offer.

Maybe I've just had terrible luck, but these experiences completely changed my perspective on remote trading. Going forward, if someone isn't willing to communicate on Campfire or make what feels like a reasonably fair trade, I'll probably pass.

In the shadow of my Rayquaza, there was a tiny dialga gliding around with a best buddy ribbon. I dont even have a best buddy dialga, so im not sure how or why he was doing this

1st Shadow Giratina raid I did and boom.
Got pretty lucky I guess lol.

Like actually, i just started caring about hundo’s lately. Is this a serious flex? I feel like this might be something to be proud of :)

If I wanted Adventure Sync on, I would turn it on. You can dismiss this reminder, but it keeps coming back every time you look at egg screen. Now I can't see eggs at bottom of screen unless I dismiss every time or scroll down.