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ballsofpeel

[Story] Caught my first Snorlax and Dragonite within 13 hours of each other!

Story

Super stoked and had to share with someone. I play this game daily and was going about my regular loop last night of pokestops and gyms with my brother. We had already circled twice so it was time to go back home when my 2k egg hatched and I got a solid Magikarp. When I got out of the screen I saw a Snorlax on my map! I couldn't believe it nor contain my excitement, to which my brother mocked me, and we both split up to search for him. Thankfully it didn't take long and I managed to catch him with one ultra ball only. I thought for sure I would need to hatch one in order to check it off the dex.

Now fast forward 12 hours to lunch time today. I was making my toasted sandwich for lunch and loaded PoGo and sat my phone on the counter. Heard the vibration and figured it would be another eevee/venonat/paras so finished up with my sandwich to then check on my phone. Couldn't believe it was a bloody Dragonite! This guy took about 12 ultras and I was paranoid he was going to bail at anytime.

Sorry if this is a boring post but it was absolutely huge for me. I have played this game since launch and have never used a tracker or any third party helper at all so I never really expected to catch either of these guys without getting lucky with a 10km egg. I'm now up to 132 pokemon caught :D. Cheers for taking your time to read this if you did

Posted Nov 18, 2016, 3:39 AM UTC

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GreenHeronVA•

Congrats man! Those are some great catches!

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Jet117HK•

Happy for you, still remember those goose bumps when I met a Dragonite in the wild...

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seffro77•

Congrats! I've hatched a few Snorlax & I had to walk a ton to evolve my first Dragonite. I've only seen one of each in the wild. Both times I was totally stoked.

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centrafrugal•

I had exactly the same experience. No sniff of either for four months then both within 12 hours.

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xscorpio12x•

Thats sweet..breakfast with dragonite... lucky dude

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_2147483647•

That's awesome news man, I am super jealous of that Dragonite, I am on 90 candies with my Dragonair.

I got a Snorlax from a 10k egg though so can't complain.

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RHS113•

Today was probably my best day so far as well. I caught 3 Snorlaxes, 1 Dragonite, 1 92% Seadra with Dragon Breath/Blizzard, a Twister Gyarados and my first 100% Charmander. All the Snorlaxes were low CP and IV though and the Dragonite was only 53% IV :(

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Javert__•

Where the fuck do you live?!

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RHS113•

Snorlaxes are quite common near me. As are Porygons and aerodactyl. Dragonites appear every now and then. No Chanseys though and I've only ever seen 2 Laprases.

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OnscreenForecaster•

Y'know... I saw a Dragonite and a Snorlax on my nearby yesterday (at different times). I've seen 3 wild Dragonites and 1 wild Snorlax prior to that. Perhaps they've increased the rare Pokemon spawn rate?

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AitLoL•

I love hearing these stories.

What CP?

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ballsofpeelOP•

1148 and 1304 for Snorlax and Dragonite respectively and I am lvl26

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GoLevels•

Nice one I had a similar experience playing casually since it launched in the UK and hadn't even seen a Snorlax or Dragonite. Then in the space of a week or so I'd managed to catch both! Turned out they were 41 and 45 CP respectively so downright unusable but beggars can't be choosers n all that.

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I_am_anonymous•

Thanks for giving me hope. Still missing both of those, but I'm walking my Dratini.

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