Guide: How To Use Medals To Boost Your Pokémon GO Catch Bonus

Pretty pointless guide... I was hoping for some actual probability analysis rather than just re-stating the same numbers they give which lacks any context... what does +1/2/3 actually mean?
Without context it could mean anything from being +1/2/3% to the probability (making a 50% catch rate 51/52/53%) which is pretty insignificant... to being +1/2/3 additional probability rolls (making a 50% catch rate 75/87.5/93.725%) which is substantially bigger.

Also... I don't think they've applied the bonus to the Pokemon GO Plus, as my catch rate with it doesn't seem to have changed... it still seems to sit somewhere around the 30-40% mark, while regular captures are up to around 70-80% on average (based on per throw, using regular PokeBalls, and without berries).

@DragonEleven It took GO! fans' dedication to create a true guide to seeing a monster's maximum CP, based on its current stats, and I'm sure the NintendoLife staff have better things to do than spend days analyzing the game to such a degree.

Hopefully this will actually curb down the possibility of 'normal/flying/bug/poison' which I currently have about 1000 of each, the last thing I need is more pidgeys, ratattas, and weedles!

@allav866 I didn't say that it had to be their own analysis... reposting or linking to an analysis that someone else had done would have been fine... all this does is basically just repeat what the app tells you already.

@uhhhhhhhh Quite the opposite... it increases catch rate... spawn rate is unaffected... so if anything you'll catch even more of them (you just won't be wasting as many PokeBalls).

@allav866 The NIntendo Life staff has the time to figure out everything in Pokemon GO.

There are less than 5 WiiU games coming from now until the end of its life cycle.

Not sure if anyone cares about any game that isn't Pokemon Sun/Moon for the rest of 2016.

NX reveal isn't coming until March 2017.

SO NL staff, figure out everything in Pokemon Go. NOW.

@XCWarrior What about Super Mario Maker for 2DS? I'm sure someone out there is eager for more information about that game.

@XCWarrior Besides, if Nintendo reveals the NX, which they could do any day now, NL will have to drop whatever it is they're doing, because they'll have too many articles to write.

I saw a few Eevee nearby earlier today (though I didn't get close enough to battle them), plus there seems to be slightly more variety now. Dunno if that's the update on if I just got lucky.

It took me this long and the release of this Go update to finally notice that there are no Dark type at all in Gen 1. Metals and Fairies had been added through Magnemite and Cleff', among others, but I had never realized there were no dark type (Alolan forms not included). My Pokéknowledge seams to be more outdated that I thought :x

@crimsontadpoles I don't think the variety of the Pokemon that spawn in general has changed, but they did add more spawn points to areas that were lacking in them a couple of weeks ago... and more spawn points would increase your chance of seeing rarer Pokemon, so it might seem like there's more variety if you live in one of those areas.
And multiple spawns can actually happen anywhere, but they follow the same probability as regular spawns, so are usually common Pokemon, which people tend not to notice.

@Bliquid I have seen a definite increase in catch rate since the update... before it was a roughly a 50% catch rate per PokeBall thrown on average, but now that looks to be more like 70-80%.

@Kroko That's probably why a fair chunk of the Alola forms are Dark, so gen 1 technically has them as it's the only gen that doesn't have at least 1 of every type. That and Dark tends to get the short end of the stick with most things

@allav866 The NX is being revealed in March of 2017. Stop lying to yourself and thinking it's going to be "any day now." I bet Nintendo hasn't even figured out what to name the system, whether it should be VR compatiable, or even if it should come with a removable hard drive.

This new regime doesn't know what they are doing. Look at everything since Iwata's death. Been more or less a disaster. If not for Pokemon Go, I don't know if Nintendo would have had any good press this year. Oh, well the mini NES, but that's just repackaging old stuff. But that NES will outsell the WiiU and possibly the 3DS this holiday. Which is sad.

@XCWarrior Who's really lying to himself here? Nintendo already confirmed that the NX would be released in March, alongside both the Wii U and NX versions of Zelda: BotW. They have 4 months until then, and that's plenty of time to announce something that won't be ready by the holidays. Kindly take your salt elsewhere, I don't want any of it!

@allav866 Zelda has been delayed many times. It will be again, as will NX. Nintendo is in a bad crossroads right now. Let's hope they come out of it, but with current leadership, who knows what will happen.

Remember, Nintendo is a business, not your friend. Although friends will lie to you to, it's Nintendo's job to think you are happy, not to tell you the truth.

@XCWarrior Tell you what, if Nintendo reveals the NX in March, I'll apologize for being optimistic. However, when Nintendo reveals it before March, regardless of whether or not they delay it's release, I get to rub it in your salty face, savvy?

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I know I seen a greater improvement when I use the Go Plus when it comes to catching Pokemon. Before it felt like a 30% success rate, now it feels like a 55% rate. At least based on the ratio of Pokemon I caught with it.

@allav866 You don't get what I'm saying. I've mentally prepared myself for NX to be revelaed in March. So when it is revealed, it will be sooner than I expected.

Most Nintendo fans expected NX reveal at E3, then in July, then in August, then in September, now in October, soon in November... think about all those months of disappointment you've gone through!

And me, I'm just sitting here patiently thinking, "Yep, it won't be ready for 5 more months." And if it comes before that, I can be like, "Wow, Nintendo is ahead of schedule."

Does that make better sense?

@XCWarrior I guess so. I'm not as mentally prepared to wait that long just to hear when Nintendo will actually release the damn thing, especially if it means BotW is also delayed because of it. I'm trying to be optimistic simply because of how frustrated I am with Nintendo's silence at this point.