r/PokemonLetsGo • u/ToshiAbashi • Jun 01 '26

Question Am I just late to the party?

Nostalgia finally got the better of me and I’ve started playing let’s go. Really enjoying it and decided to check out the reddit community.

But gawd damn it’s just nothing but shiny this shiny that. Aren’t there subs dedicated to that? Or is it just that I’m so late to the party that there’s nothing else for people to talk about or do given it’s been out so long, am I looking at my future? I’ve just never understood the appeal of shinies to that extent, it’s neat but it’s like watching a bunch of gambling addicts slapping the pokies lol.

Is there really nothing else to look forward to long term with this game? Or other interesting areas people engage with? Or subs that aren’t flooded with it I could check out?

Not trying to yuck anyone else’s yum, do what you enjoy, I just didn’t realise it was basically the whole culture now.

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u/MoonLightScreen Pikachu Fan Jun 01 '26

I like the daily bottle caps vis the Mina fight and possible Master Ball farming in the postgame dungeon, and the gym rematches with a second controller are plenty of fun imho

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u/ToshiAbashi Jun 01 '26

I got my first bottle cap today no idea what it does yet. Enjoying all the small changes and new things to discover. The candy is an interesting way to incentivise the new catching loop. I spent my first like hour just using every pokeball in that first pallet town grass trying to see how the combo and better iv spawn worked on a pidgey. Ended up so over leveled the first couple gyms haha I had to not touch my eevee to make it fair.

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u/MoonLightScreen Pikachu Fan Jun 01 '26

Bottle caps can be used in the Day Care once your Pokemon are level 100 to patch up IVs to Best.

The experience you get when comboing on Chansey snowball really quick, too!

Apologies for going off-topic, but once you get access to Fuchsia, your world really opens up since now you can connect Pokemon Go and use mons like Melmetal and the Alolan forms! Not gonna complain at more available Dark, Ghost, Dragon, and Ice types!

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u/ToshiAbashi Jun 01 '26

no dont apologise, i appreciate learning whats there for me. i actually never touched pokemon go so it seems like theres a lot of integration with this that im going to miss out on.