FINALLY managed to beat Giovanni! 
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FINALLY managed to beat Giovanni! 
FINALLY managed to beat Giovanni!
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although I guess that research task is kinda ongoing since you can do it again for more legendaries...
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but okay, at least I know it's doable
Lyra + a Player
Niiiice
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I still need to find Giovanni x.x
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but I don't have anywhere with a lot of stops nearby, so it gets hard to check for lairs or whatever
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uugh that makes it hard
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especially since you gotta root through a bunch of decoys first
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yeah
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I've taken down... two decoys?
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maybe it automatically makes you do three, since pretty sure I did 2-3 decoys before finding him
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but I lucked into that second because the stop the next block over (read: the only one the scanner will find) happened to be a lair
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at least you got it there
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(there are... 2-3 other stops within walking distances, but too far away for the scanner to grab, and it's often impractical to go out walking just for that, especially when I have to be extra careful to not slip and fall atm)
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just yeah, beef up your guys if possible because he's friggin hard
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had to do like six tries before I finally squeaked by with Machamp, shiny Metagross and shiny Tyranitar
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I think mmmost of my guys are as beefed up as they can be, or at least, my best guys
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nod
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I'll check my machamps later, unless I manage to somehow luck into a good enough timburr before then, because I'm interested to see how Conkeldurr compares to Machamp
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ooh man I still need to get a Timburr
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I've seen them at raids but not one I happened to be passing by when I was available
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there was a raid for one at the local coffeeshop while we were there last weekend
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definitely need better fighting guys. My best Machamp honestly got whalloped by the Persian, was mainly useful because it managed to get in one charged attack before dying and use up one of Giovanni's shields
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but that's the only one I've managed to get to so far
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and then the Metagross managed okay just because it was steel type and had such strong defense that it could last long enough to almost get the Kangaskhan
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and ooh that's lucky
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I assume Timburr is just one star raids?
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yep!
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cool, makes life easier
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easy enough to take on solo, if you have a good team of psychic or flying types
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could probably stand for some better of those, but I do have a good fairy type
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that should help too!
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I know I've solo'd Klink raids, and that's a one-star too
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for timburr... maybe try buffing up Xatu or a Lugia, if you have one?
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well if it's one star, I can get through those no problem
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/nodod
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I honestly wish I could oneshot four-star stuff, I want a Galarian Weezing but can't handle it solo...
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god, the hubs and I can't handle that as two people and I want a Galarian Weezing so bad 
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and the group I may do bigger raids with is usually only gathering for big 5-star legendaries, yup 
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my strategy so far is, if I'm available, to just join the 3 or 4-star raid and hope other people see it and jump in too just out of crowd psychology
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it's worked a couple times! Got an Alolan Raichu and a Ferroseed that way
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but probably more often than not no one shows
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maybe we'll luck into one at the coffeeshop one day
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since I know other PokeGo players stop there from time to time too
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hopefully so then!
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plus maybe once we get to Galar pokemon they'll give us another way to get them
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through eggs or something
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the koffing isn't any different, and that'd be what hatches, but we might get like. a galar stone or something