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Original games stats analysis: except for pseudo-legendaries, nothing is guaranteed
TL;DR: Dragonite and Tyranitar cannot be bad. Everything else can. Arcanine and Kingdra may improve a lot. Original spreadsheet here. WARNING: There is a lot of speculation and guesswork here. At least guesses are data-based / educated guesses. With the gym rework,...
Underrated Prestigers #7: Hatching Pineco is not as bad as it seems (aka Forretress the Snorlax slayer)
So you were disappointed because half of your last six 10km eggs were Pineco. However, the good news is that two hatched Pineco make a Forretress in the 1260 CP range, which is half the CP of the typical gym bottom defenders in many areas. The even better news is that...
The Best Blissey Counters, Considering Sub-Optimal Movesets with Realistic Dodging Pro
There have been many threads discussing options for Blissey counters. Most rank by species, listing the best 1 or 2 movements, without comparing the relative movements. I thought it would be interesting to compare how rankings changed with specific sub-optimal...
Stamina is Broken in Pokemon Go
First, let's start by defining a few terms. Base Stamina is calculated from the main series games (based on Generation 6 stats) it is the same for each Pokemon irrespective of level and IVs. HP is what you see on a specific Pokemon's health bar; it is based on the...
Damage Breakpoints
While I understand that when powering up past level 30, the DPS of your Pokemon doesn't increase substantially, there has been discussion what are the various sweet-spot levels to power up to. While all these depends on both the defender types, their levels and their...
Realistic Dodging update, now with more realism!
So its been two weeks since the realistic dodging update was pushed out and I've gotten a ton of feedback. Unfortunately, no one can agree what realistic dodging means! Some people don't like how much I penalize the super effective text. Others wanted faster moves to...
Underrated Prestigers #6: Fighting Fire with Fire – why Magcargo is the best prestiger against Fire
According to most sources (example), Slugma is the most frequent event spawn together with Geodude. It has a relatively low catch rate, so why waste Razz Berries and Great/Ultra Balls on it? Because Magcargo is the most efficient prestiger against Flareon, Arcanine,...
Realistic Blissey Counters Revisited
My recent post on Realistic Blissey Counters generated quite a few comments on reddit. Most of these comments had to do with the way Overall rating was calculated.Overall rating is composed of 50% Power, 30% Combat Time and 20% Potions. The issue comes down to, how...
Potential New Research: I just caught four shiny Magikarp using chaining.
After reading a few posts about "chaining" on The Silph Road, i.e., exclusively catching the same species of Pokemon over and over in order to increase the chances of encountering a shiny, I decided to test and see if this technique would work in Pokemon Go. I...
Underrated Prestigers #5: Beedrill and Furret are among the best allrounders for prestiging
We have to catch Weedle and Sentret anyway for stardust and XP. Everyone evolves a lot of Furret, and those of you that aren't into power leveling (e.g. being level 30+ and finding the diminishing returns of stardust investments after level 30 not so attractive) can...