guess who turned a fifteen minute walk home into a two hours trek across town and back for pokemon go
things
no less than seven groups of people all doing the same thing i was doing
a man dressed as team rocket, sitting by a waterfall and dropping lures at the pokestop for everyone to use. he said he had been doing it all day trying to catch a meowth
two rabbits
i walked into a tree twice tracking an eevee
i found a raspberry bush in the woods near the pond. had many raspberries.
caught a ton of pokemon
found four pokemon eggs at the pokestops
discovered that this town has a lot of memorials for different things and little parks
we have a town hall (did not know this)
found out where the fire department is located (two blocks away)
saw several birds nests, one of which had baby birds in it
ran away from a bird’s nest after the mom saw me peeking at the baby birds
a little boy (elementary school aged) camping out in front of the library (a pokegym) and asked if i was going to try and beat him for it. when i said i’d try, he said “good luck with that”
he beat me because his pokemon were like…….super strong
Just some things I’ve learned that when I share some people don’t seem to know yet!
CATCH DUPLICATES. Catch them and then return them to prof willow. You can do this by clicking on the pokemon’s stats, scrolling down and hitting transfer. You get pokecandy for this which you can use to evolve/power up your original!
Make sure you compare and contrast CPs of your duplicates. One pikachu might be 10cp and the other 56cp. Keep the higher one, transfer the other.
That being said DONT waste your time evolving/powering your pokemon just yet. You might work hard to power your eevee to 100cp only to catch one at 150cp the next day. WAIT. In fact, I started only powering up my highest evolved pokemon. (ninetails, fearow, etc)
Pokestops refresh every 5 minutes. You can visit them for an unlimited amount of time. I live right on top of one and check back in whenever I remember to.
Leveling up will give you LURES, INCENSE AND INCUBATORS. So don’t think you NEED to buy these from the shop.
If your wary about spending money for coins, you can GET COINS by having pokemon in gyms. This is the ‘defender bonus’ Theres a shield icon in the shop section that you can refresh every 21 hours. You can have up to 10 pokemon in 10 diff gyms for a total of 100 pokecoins and 5000 stardust a day.(10 Pokecoins and 500 stardust per pokemon)
Your gym alliance makes it so that ANY GYM you fight of your own alliance, your pokemon WILL NOT FAINT. Their hp will reduce to 1 and they will need healing, but they won’t faint. You also gain gym prestige this way which helps strengthen your alliance territory. Any rival gyms however will faint your pokemon and they will need a REVIVE to keep being used. You can also transform them into candy at this point if you are a heartless monster. 🙁
A gym has a max of 3 pokemon traners/defenders. If you find a gym of your alliance with only 1 or 2 pokemon in it, you can ADD YOUR POKEMON WITHOUT FIGHTING YOUR FELLOW TEAM. Just drop a pokemon in there and keep walking! Free defender bonus. (Do this by clicking the bottom left icon of ‘add pokemon’)
More than one trainer can fight one gym leader at a time. Getting a friend to fight with you is the best way to beat the gym!! You attack at the same time.
ITS NOT TURN BASED ATTACKS. Its real time! Click once for a basic attack, swipe to dodge, and hold down a click for a SPECIAL ATTACK!
My best method is not to dodge at all but just click forever. So long as I have a bigger CP I usually win lol.
Do NOT put your best pokemon into a gym. Your second or third only. You cannot recall your pokemon once its in a gym and you will need it to fight other gyms.
Everyone gets one free incubator that lasts forever. Any extras you find or receive from leveling up only last 3 hatches before breaking.
TRACKING POKEMON! Sparkling grass doesn’t guarantee a pokemon showing up. The ‘nearby’ tab is the actual tracker. The highest on the list is the closest. Selecting a pokemon in it will make the tracker pulse when you get nearer to it. 3 footsteps away mean THREE RINGS away (or more). 2 footsteps means TWO RINGS, one footstep means one ring and NO RINGS MEANS YOU CAN CLICK ON THAT POKEMON AND IT WILL APPEAR IN 10 SECONDS.
Battery saver mode, found in settings, works as follows: Once clicked on, if you drop your phone to your side as you walk, with the top of your phone facing the ground, the screen will dim so only the pokemon logo shows. It still tracks your steps for your eggs and it will vibrate and beep when a pokemon shows up. As soon as you lift your phone to your face (right side up) the screen will appear again as normal!
The higher level you get, the more rare pokemon you come across.
I think that’s all I’ve learned so far. Send me an ask or message if you want me to add or change any info here! Happy hunting!!!!
I’m gonna save this when o canada land of sorries and thank yous finally gets it
These tips are extremely important! Here is the source
15. The footprints you see on your nearby key is nothing but a radius of your ‘nearby’ pokemon. If there’s three footprints, that type of pokemon is 300 meters away. If there is two, it is 200 meters away. And so on.
14. Transferring a pokemon gives you candy!!
13. The shield icon in your shop says how many free items you have! You get one free item a day!
12. When a green ring is around your pokemon while your trying to catch it, that means you should throw the pokeball when the ring is at its smallest. Shrink the ring by holding your finger over your pokemon. Pokemon with red or orange rings are much harder to catch, but berries, which you can purchaseor find, make it easier.
11. (copied and pasted this one because I can’t explain it?) To throw a curveball (which are worth more XP, but you risk burning through Pokéballs to do so), simply hold on the Pokéball and make a rotating motion until it sparkles – similar to how you modify items in Super Mario Maker.Once this has happened, let it fly – and most likely miss – but eventually you’ll get the hang of it. Combine with a Lucky Egg to double your base XP, and you’ll be ranking up in no time.
10. YOUR APP IS NOT TRACKING POKEMON WHEN THE GAME IS NOT PULLED UP. AND IT’S NOT COUNTING YOUR STEPS EITHER.
9. for the love of all that is charmander, turn BATTERY SAVER MODE ON. IT’S A LIFESAVER. WHEN TURNING IT ON, TIP YOUR PHONE UPSIDE DOWN AND IT WILL TURN THE SCREEN OFF, BUT NOT THE GAME. IT WILL STILL TRACK AND COUNT YOUR STEPS.
8. wHAT A LIFESAVER. When your pokemon get completely knocked tf out, don’t use a bunch of expensive crap to bring em back. Just evolve your pokemon. Brand new health bar.
7. TAKE A BREAK. STAND AROUND IN THE SAME SPOT FOR A FEW MINUTES. After walking for a while, the game triggers cool pokemon and stuff to congratulate the fact you are moving your body. and to actually have a good chance of getting it, you gotta just stop and wait for it to come to you. Which it will.
6. This is an easy one, YOU CAN NAME POKEMON.
5. (this is really important so to make sure my poijt gets across i’m copying and pasting) When you get close to a PokéStop, yes it will change shape, but you need to tap on it to zoom in, swipe as fast as you can on the picture itself (it’ll be a real snap, taken from Google Maps), then the icon will produce items and you can hoover them up. This can be done once every five or so minutes, as many times as you like.Bonus tip: Due to how every item and element of progress is synched with Niantic’s servers, after you’ve set the picture disk spinning, simply hit the ‘X’ quit button and any requisite items will automatically be added to your inventory, meaning you don’t have to wait for the animation to stop. People have used this as a means to perform ‘drive-by PokéStops’, as it’s especially useful in traffic.
4. See blades of grass rustling? Or any other kind of map animation? Go there. That means it is probably filled with some pokemon. Or at least one pokemon is there. From my experience, at least. Always remember: THE GAME KNOWS YOUR LAND TYPE. THEY KNOW WHERE RIVERS, LAKES, FIELDS, ROADS, AND EVERYTHING IS. USE IT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO FIND POKEMON.
3. (VERY IMPORTANT SO COPY AND PASTE) BATTLING IN GYMS: First you’ll need to level up to 5, and then claim a neutral gray-coloured one for yourself, or head up to a coloured gym (meaning it’s owned by members of the three teams, Instinct, Mystic, Valor), as therein you’ll get the option to battle their Pokémon one on one.Depending on how many real-world people have staked their claim at that specific spot, the person with the highest combined CP (Combat Power) will be the default ‘Leader’ (who you’ll face last), with all others simply being trainers you need to get through on your way to the top.Note, battles are NOT turn-based. Instead, you swipe left and right to dodge and can tap on your opponent to do as much damage as fast as possible. The only ‘tactic’ outside of evasion is keeping an eye on your special meter, but chances are the fight will be over before it’s maxed out. After you win, depending on how many people you need to get through, the gym may still be coloured – so repeat the process until it’s gray, and then plant your metaphorical flag.Once you do, you’re then free to be the Leader of that gym, providing you can keep your CP high enough.
2. You’re gonna be crushed when you first try dominating other teams. But it’s okay! Your special attack meter is always rising while battling with a certain pokemon, and you can use it later on to really take out your enemies. Find it by picking a pokemon and scrolling down to their abilities.
1. To make sure you don’t lose your data during a server crash, turn the game completely off, that means going to the app manager for some phones, and rebooting it. DO NOT leave it active during a server crash and try to come back. Although I’ve never lost my data during a server crash, it could happen. But there’s a 99.9 percent chance it’s still there and you’ll get it back.
For more details, click the link I put in the beginning~
