>What is it? Pokemon Go can be described simply as the Geocaching of Pokemon. Grab your smartphone, get some exercise, catch some mons, battle some people - the usual Pokemon gig.
>Some questions answered pastebin.com/spEFYmPw Feel free to add more to the pastebin, keep it in the OP though.
Basic info: As you traverse the real world, as represented on the in-game map, you'll occasionally run into tufts of rustling grass. Approaching these will end with a Pokémon appearing on the map, and clicking on it will initiate a battle.
Battles aren't between two Pokémon, though. They're between a Pokémon and your ability to swipe a Poké Ball in their direction. When you engage a Poké Ball, a colored ring will appear around the opponent. These change in size after each capture attempt. Throwing a Ball during a smaller window seems to be more effective, based on our time with the game, but that's a part we're still trying to figure out. Going near water will attract water Pokémon. Playing at night brings out more nocturnal creatures, like Clefairy and Gastly. Hatching Eggs: Each Egg displays the number of kilometers you must walk for the Egg to hatch. In general, the more kilometers required, the rarer the Pokémon that will hatch. A notification will appear when the Egg has hatched. Make sure you have the Pokémon GO app open while you walk. Kilometers walked when the Pokémon GO app is closed won’t count toward hatching your Eggs. Gyms: Fight at your team's gym to train and increase it's reputation. Fight at other team's to decrease their reputation. Tap your opponent to hit them, swipe left or right to dodge attacks, once one or more blue bars are filled, tap and hold to power up your secondary attack, release when the smaller blue bar fills up. Take over other teams' gyms and put your mons in to defend them.
>friend sees pikachu 3 footsteps away from us while im driving him home >park real quick to take a look >he opens the doors and sprints off onto a golf course to go catch it this game has really brought something to the world
Brody Ortiz
>tfw wanna go out and meet new people due to this game >don't wanna drive into town where everyone hangs out
Juan Foster
Now what?
Chase Allen
>the only pokestop I can see from my house is in such a shitty, hard to get to spot that it's not even worth going there
At least I have one, I hear stories of people who can't find stops for miles.
Ayden Martin
INSTINCT OR EXTINCT
Connor Evans
Reminder to claim your gyms at night while the servers actually work and the normies are in bed
Nolan Wright
Rate my failure
Austin Miller
Am I the only one with box space issues? Maybe because yesterday I ranked up from 10 to 13 in half an hour, I don't know what to trash The question is, what's the best amount of every item? I'm leaning towards trashing pokeballs and potions since I also get their super counterpart, I'd keep around 100 normal pokeballs and 20 potions Does that sound good?
Josiah Price
>tfw really good at finding 3 footprint mon with my secret method
Must suck being shit at this game
Easton Bennett
buy lucky eggs, incense, and lures
youll get plenty of balls from stops
go find somewhere where you can have multiple stops touching your proximity and lure them up with lucky egg and incense up and lvl and catch nonstop pokemon
also evolve all of your pokemon while lucky eggs are up for crazy lvls
Brody Torres
I had some autistic girl come up to me and start talking about every pokestop she had seen.
Some asian bro came up and talked for like an hour.
I stay away from the couples.
Jackson Baker
Yes. Only cap gyms to gain defender bonus, and other than that ignore it and focus on upping your rank. When you're above 15, you can reconsider your position and decide if you want to try a bit of base flipping.
Gyms are good for only 2 things: defender bonus (pokecoins) and xp (from flipping). The former you can only get once a day basically, the latter you need to spend dedicated time sitting at the gym. This can become counterproductive to rank grinding if you aren't also close to a pokestop and catching pokemon.
Austin Miller
I want to catch him so much but it's cold outside I hope I find him again someday
Kayden Flores
>1000 CP Hypno can barely beat a 600 CP pidgeot
what le fuck
Daniel Morgan
Going to the city for the first time tomorrow. Any tips to get most out of pokestops, allied gyms and enemy gyms? Any tips to avoid talking to people who try to strike up conversation with me based on the game I'm playing?
Henry Jackson
yeah sounds like plenty also idk about you but i dont use revives all that often either
Josiah Young
If you do not run gyms, do not keep potions. If your local gyms are easy caps and you don't have anybody trying to squat in a gym, use sacrificials to keep the damage down if you take damage. Pokeballs. Lures. Essence. Lucky Egg. Concentrate on hoarding those items until you get higher rank.
Robert Carter
rate my tattoo guys
Samuel Flores
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Blake Howard
you might just be bad or servers fucked you
1000 hypnos are the chicago meta over here and hold shit like champs
alteast in my area
Sebastian Martin
>go for a walk >sit down in costa >pop a lure because i want a coffee and i want to people watch whilst on it >some people show up playing the game >a girl notices me playing, about my age >"Do you mind if I sit here user?" >"u-um sure" >she sits down >now keep in mind I have NO experience with girls >she asks to see what pokemon I've caught >THAT FUCKING FEEL WHEN >fake a phone call from my equally autistic friend >"s-sorry i gtg..." >get up and go with time on my lure remaining >tfw
Why am I such an autist
Xavier Adams
Thanks.
I had to get more backpack space.
>Any tips to avoid talking to people This is most of the fun. I set a lure in an empty mall and within 10 minutes about 20 people were there playing.
Some girl approached and started talking to some guy.
Maybe they will get married because my lure. Who knows.
Daniel Lewis
just tell them you caught some crazy ass rhyhorn two blocks away and theyll leave you alone
also if you want the most out of stops you need to lure them and use incense and the lure will also lure people to you so you will be standing there with them awkwardly if you cant be bothered to talk to them
Lincoln King
Should've unzipped your Gyrados right there my man
Matthew Scott
Sorry for the stupid question, I couldn't find this in the faq.
I caught a Pidgey and a Pidgeot yesterday, and I would like to give one of them back in exchange for candies and stardust.
Pidgey is CP 10 and Pidgeot is CP 14. Does it mean Pidgey has more potential for growth, or should I keep the Pidgeot since it is already evolved?
Oliver Rivera
Movesets matter. CP is only a HP gauge, you still need movesets for the attack. Rank grinding for CP is advised because movesets remain relatively consistent. When you're at the point where your CP plateaus out a little, then you can focus on grinding pokes for movesets.
Brayden Morales
>Some girl approached and started talking to some guy. KEKED
But no seriously that sounds hella cute
Adam Davis
This is me at the end of today, working a 48 hour week but trying my best to keep up on my off hours. God I'm tired
Jace Murphy
Nigga go get it
Brayden Gomez
People who don't like red or blue curve random lines in their hair, wear puffy coats and make almost mediocre music Yup this is accurate
Post your approximate location and the TOP 5 MOST COMMON POKEMON in that area.
Levi Brown
>go for drive at 3 a.m. searching for pokemons >cop with flashing lights pulls up next to me >hide phone >cop does a 180 in the middle of the road and drives off
phew
Jose Brown
>no one took this bait
Isaiah Roberts
dude if you fuck up you can literally just leave and never see them again
you might as well use them as trials and see how to act even though just talking with them like a normal person is all they want anyway
Jonathan Powell
Oh man, I could add a bunch to that using Bluestacks but too lazy.
Juan Thomas
Headphones. Keep music on. Don't bother with eye contact. If you make yourself unapproachable, people won't approach you.
The optimal pokestop is literally just to find an area with a cluster of them, sit down, and camp. You can try playing around with gyms to get a feel for the surroundings, but if your rank is low don't expect much.
Asher Carter
So I didn't get murdered collecting pokeballs at the park but this happened and it's kinda like getting murdered except I get to sleep on it
Isaac Long
Toss both, the materials required to level it compared to catching one at 50 or 100 or 300 or 1k+ is wasteful and ridiculous.
Just catch stuff, stuff that has a low evolution cost keep and evolve asap for more points to level fast.
Brody Williams
OH MAN
Grayson Young
Some celeb like Kanye is going to call pokemon go gay and everyone is going to parrot him.
You'll have to hide this shit like a nintendo ds unless you want to be called a fag.
You know it's coming.
>Oh, he's still playing that and not candy crush screaming man castle siege 2? What a FAG!
Asher Murphy
So I'm trying to use Bluestacks to emulate Pokemon Go since I don't own a Smartphone. But I'm stuck on getting "Fake GPS 4.6" since it apparently costs 2€ to get. What do I do?
Camden Miller
>that's not how you explain user >that's how you shitpost
Hunter Ortiz
>cold outisde >2PM ayyo man, fuck you go get him
Jayden Walker
But I really do have a method
Ive caught 5/6 three step mon that I've set out to get with it, one was in somebody's fucking garden
Isaac Baker
>Does it mean Pidgey has more potential for growth, or should I keep the Pidgeot since it is already evolved? Pidgey will have a higher CP cap than the Pidgeot because evolution attaches a CP multiplier. You can try this by evoing the Pidgey into Pidgeotto and see the results.
Drop the Pidgeot for candy.
John Hill
early on nothing is worth lvling, save all your dust for when you are much higher trainer lvl
you will want to stock up on candies for evolving your pidgeys all at once while you have a lucky egg up which gives double xp
youll shoot up tons of lvls fast that way
Oliver Taylor
Whoever is in Arnold, MO...I'm the guy by Gravois Bluffs.
Jeremiah Morales
Thanks. Any idea how to get squirtle candies? Since clearly I can't just go around catching more of them.
Cooper Miller
The sonar thing around the box?
Yeah.
Want a tip no one knows about?
double tap and hold to zoom by moving finger up and down.
No more pinching while driving.
Colton Gutierrez
Is this /pgg/ only or is it from reddit?
Prove it then bitch.
Carter Anderson
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT YOU AUTISTIC SON OF A BITCH
Levi Moore
You can, you're just not in the right area to find them. Plenty of pokemon show up in the wild that wouldn't in the games, like Dragonite, Arcanine, Scyther, Lapras, starters, etc.
Nathaniel Wilson
i hope that hurts i mean being aligned with that
Landon Sullivan
By catching Squirtles, Warturtles, or Blastoise.
Candies from base evolution are used for the whole evolution tree.
So to evolve pidgeys you need to catch'em or their evolved states to get their candies.
Justin Fisher
Both.
It's to collect data on spawn locations so you don't drive 5 hours to go to a town that has exactly what you have at home.
Juan Jones
If the game is acting up is there a way to tell if it's the severs or a soft ban?
Aiden Taylor
So what's the max trainer level in this game? Someone in a thread from a few days ago said it was 25?
Levi Jones
was she a qt?
Hunter Green
>The sonar thing around the box? what?
the nearby menu? I see it pinging sometimes, what do?
Juan Clark
post your face when you realise they modelled professor willow on this guy
Cooper Lewis
Is there any way to change the attack/charge attack on my pokemon or is it completely random?
Julian Lopez
Beta was 50, IGN rumors 50, we only have xp projections up to 25. Wait a couple days to a week for the grinders to hit 25 (they're at about 22) and we'll see then.
Levi Bennett
beta players say 50
rando
some weirdo in an article said that wanted to fuck willow, and call him daddy. is daddy a new thing or just awk women being cucks?
Colton Cox
>vaporeon outside, 3 footsteps away
It's go time.
Anthony Wilson
"If you tap the pokeballs that you missed before they disappear you get them back" Did anyone confirm this or is it bs?
Sebastian Evans
That's what you really want to grind for. Attacks not CP. CP comes with levels, attacks are what makes a good or bad catch.
Grayson Lopez
It's 20.
They're going to be increase the level cap with each generation for new items.
Julian James
pretty sure the ping means it updated info on either new pokemon or the distance of ones already there
Juan Rivera
>I see it pinging sometimes It's supposed to blink when you're headed in the right direction, but it does it by general direction.
If it's north and you head north east mostly east, it will still ping.
I've been walking around a mall parking lot trying to figure it out.
Kevin Barnes
The 1hp gym bug is game breaking for me after trying at least 12 different gyms around DC. Wasn't able to take one until 3:45 am.
On the upside found a Scyther.
Joshua Rogers
>prove it
1. Get a 3 step mon to appear on your radar 2. Where you are know is the 'base point' 3. Walk in a straight line in one direction 4. If it decreases to two, set up a new base point 5. If it doesn't decrease to 2 or vanishes, return to your first base point and walk in a different direction 6. When it reaches one step, walk in a straight line between your first base point and where you are now 7. Collect pokemon
Works literally every time for me
3 step mon are sometimes far away but if you autistically search like this it's easy
Luis Myers
user we already have people past 20 pls just stop.
William Cooper
its definitely bs, you get plenty of balls from stops no reason for that to be a feature
unless you live out in the sticks i guess
Connor Morgan
did you find it at that CP? What level are u bro
Carter Hernandez
>tfw you will never get a qt sad girl to call you daddy
Ethan Johnson
I'm 20 now, it's still going up
Michael Kelly
might have to test tomorrow, but hopefully they'll not stuck in high rises
I was following a charmeleon last night and an aerodactyl this morning when it updated and disappeared on me, is there a time limit?
Alexander Nelson
Is egg cp determined by player rank when it hatches or when u get the egg?
Jace Campbell
I tried it and it worked, I think. I can't fully confirm until I try it at least two more times succesfully.
>look at map >closest grasses, barely outside of ping radius are 1 print >mid are 2 >furthest, barely onscreen are 3.
Note things have an astronomically higher chance to be in the grass than anywhere else.
Liam Martin
>unless you live out in the sticks i guess Thats why im asking... Thats literally what everyone does..
Anthony Bailey
wut does it mean tho
I wanna be femdom'd anyway
Jace Torres
Yeah go check on it when you see sparks flying a dork then beat their ass to death before they can win
Jason Davis
i think the pokemon that are not the "commons" for the area have a timer on how long they will stay in the area, seems to be about 10 to 15 minutes from what i have experienced
Tyler Thompson
Someone gimme a place in NY that they are near or close to and I will tell you what Pokemon are nearby.
Benjamin Walker
He's basically describing a sort of manual triangulation. Picture yourself as the center point of a compass, move out in each cardinal direction, confirming each time whether the target footprints shift. If they do, narrow it down by repeating the procedure, otherwise, follow another cardinal direction.
Adam Brooks
Central Perk
Alexander Gutierrez
>I wanna be femdom'd Its exactly the opposite. Cute pale slim chicks with chokers and stuff that are into bdsm and want you to be their master (daddy)
Hunter Phillips
>this is his secret method >how literally everyone tracks a pokemon >how you are literally meant to follow a mon >the entire player base does this >secret method
Luke Young
Sometimes my avatar just wonders around when not moving and can access other pokestops/increase egg movement. Any idea what causes this? Would be nice if i can hatch my eggs this way.
Blake Green
sorry senpai, i havent noticed being able to interact with the balls after a toss so i think its a no but someone said they did it so guess you gotta just try it out
Ryan Taylor
Rumors and lies have told me that everywhere has the same thing it just depends on your trainer level