{"id":91759,"date":"2016-07-21T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/some-debunked-pokemon-go-tips-ive-heard-feel\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T07:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:35:43","slug":"some-debunked-pokemon-go-tips-ive-heard-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/some-debunked-pokemon-go-tips-ive-heard-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"some debunked pokemon go \u201ctips\u201d i\u2019ve heard (feel free to add more you\u2019ve seen debunked!):"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/olivemeister.tumblr.com\/post\/147621346385\" target=\"_blank\">olivemeister<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201ceevee\u2019s evolutions are determined by moveset\u201d &#8211; demonstrably false. jury\u2019s out on nicknames, have yet to see a case where pyro\/rainer\/sparky nicknames have failed when the nicknames were confirmed to have been saved by the servers<\/li>\n<li>\u201cthe green pulse around the nearby list indicates you\u2019re facing in the right direction\u201d &#8211; the green pulse indicates that the nearby list has been updated &#8211; it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean something\u2019s changed, just that the list has essentially\u00a0\u2018refreshed\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u201ctapping a pokeball after missing will recover it\u201d &#8211; this is just straight-up not the case<\/li>\n<li>\u201cyou can hatch eggs by shaking your device\/spinning your device\/any sort of stationary movement\u201d &#8211; pokemon go DOES NOT USE A PEDOMETER, the step counter is based on your GPS location moving<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdownloading offline maps for google maps will decrease load times\u201d &#8211; this seemed legit because it is the case for ingress, but it is not here &#8211; pokemon go does not use google maps\u2019 API for location data.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cyou can email nintendo with proof of disability to unlock different settings\u201d &#8211; nintendo did not develop the game, no one would set them to be something that you have to contact the developer to unlock, and they would not require <i>proof<\/i>\u00a0to change said settings<\/li>\n<li>\u201cthe leaves indicate a pokemon is going to spawn there\u201d &#8211; it seems to just be cosmetic, but <i>may<\/i>\u00a0indicate that a pokemon will spawn <i>somewhere<\/i>\u00a0soon<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdifferent weather conditions affect pokemon spawns\u201d &#8211; the one i heard the most is\u00a0\u201cstorms = electric and water pokemon\u201d, this has no basis in reality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>one that\u2019s true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some pokemon <b>do <\/b>have altered spawn rates based on what time it is! clefair and the gastly line appear more frequently at night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>olivemeister: \u201ceevee\u2019s evolutions are determined by moveset\u201d &#8211; demonstrably false. jury\u2019s out on nicknames, have yet to see a case where pyro\/rainer\/sparky nicknames have failed when the nicknames were confirmed to have been saved by the servers \u201cthe green pulse around the nearby list indicates you\u2019re facing in the right direction\u201d &#8211; the green pulse &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/some-debunked-pokemon-go-tips-ive-heard-feel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;some debunked pokemon go \u201ctips\u201d i\u2019ve heard (feel free to add more you\u2019ve seen debunked!):&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[244,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}