The case of the uncatchable Pikachu (and other weird glitches)

[KellanBriggs]

The fact that he had a hundo showcase pikachu is crazy.

[pueohoot]

Yes a ton of bugs: hearts in best buddy pokemon not showing up as earned, training against team leaders moves of opponent change mid match to mirror yours despite not being able to learn the move (Sneasel does not learn roll out in any game but it will mirror your Likkilikki), game freezes when shielding attacks, normal type charge attacked have different dot placements than last season and don’t stay on screen nor appear consistently, wild spawns disappear instead of flea, incense spawns do not stay on screen for consistent duration of time and flea upon selection, raids are impossible to solo, gigantimax battles damage doesn’t have consistent effect, bullet punch got nerfed to ice type mons for some reason. I feel like I’m missing some

[ahimapie]

youve been softlocked
edit shadowbanned*

when the game thinks youve been using exploits to move by going to a location too fast, itll ban you from catching any pokemon for a few hours.

softlocking is not permanent, you just need to wait it out

[MichaelV]

100%agree, I have been having so many issues after the dynamax update

[sentobento]

A gold xxl tag means it's the biggest size you've caught. If you transfer it, the gold tag won't transfer to another pokemon until you've caught one bigger than the last gold tag. This is what I know though, as my gold xxls are still in my inventory

[glensiembida]

Having a quality control team
Niantic: no can do

[ijbsee]

Pokemon go has went down the trash since the update and it just shows that these big companies don't care about their players and only see dollar signs.

[hunorpapp]

Today I tried to catch a Dynamax Beldum, took me 3 tries to get close and when I was about to defeat it, it kicked me off the power spot

[vitezoman]

That bug where you can't catch something also happened to me, and it was because I was connected to Wi-Fi instead of having the mobile data active, and amongst that, it wouldn't detect my GPS despite being active and only working either after backing off and on the game (but only for about a minute) or if you have mobile data active.

[Writerofthesky]

3024:”Some say he wanders earth still trying to catch it to this very day.”

[BGFutureBG]

I've been noticing the size record thing as well, there's been some change in AR play services and they seem to rework a few systems atm (mainly raid battles)

[greysenhucek]

I have had the same problem with research pokemon before it comes and goes

[Pistachio.Disguisey]

Does your camera work? Mine does the same thing

[Pugcam]

The windows disconnect sound played and took my headphones with it

[boricuaguy]

It’s not just you & when i contacted player support about it all they told me was “sorry you’re unable to catch it. Have a good day”

[goku]

The records are back in the pokedex, but i still cant catch my professor pikachu.

[RickC-lvob]

This game is manipulating your time by artificially increasing difficulty to increase play time?! Crazyyyy who would have thought

[aidenleidholt]

I've seen the invisible glitch, but I still have the size record thing.

[WilsonDoesStuff]

I rhink you can still get new height records still but only from hatching though

[austinbrannan]

My friend is having the same problem with his professor Pikachu he’s tried reaching out to niantic