POKEMON GO TIP AND TRICK

Unlike in traditional Pokemon games, you don't train your Pokemon by battling in Pokemon GO. Instead, you raise your Pokemon's CP--Combat Power--by feeding it Pokemon Candy and Stardust. CP is essentially a measurement of how strong the Pokemon is, and is important to consider when choosing a Pokemon to use in Gym battles. 
There are only two ways to increase your Pokemon's CP. You can:

• Power Up your Pokemon
• Evolve your Pokemon

Both of these methods will increase your Pokemon's CP and HP, but will require different quantities of Stardust and Candy.

Power Up Your Pokemon

Powering Up requires a mix of Stardust and Candy. Stardust can be used for any Pokemon whereas Candy is species specific. Powering Up will usually require a single Candy, but will require more depending on how close the Pokemon is to reaching its full potential, regardless of its evolution stage. You can tell how close a Pokemon is to being max CP by the white, half circular bar. Usually, once the bar is 75 percent of the way, it will start costing two Candy. Amount of Stardust needed to power up a Pokemon will depend on species and scale with that Pokemon's CP. Powering up will increase that Pokemon's CP and HP. 
You'll find that your Trainer level will limit the amount you can increase your Pokemon's CP. If you try to Power Up your Pokemon beyond the white bar's limit, you'll get a notification that your Trainer level isn't high enough. Once you level up your Trainer, you'll be able to Power Up your Pokemon again! . 

Combat Power - How it Works

Combat Power is more or less your Pokemon's level - it the big identifier of how powerful they are, and every Pokemon is different. Increasing your Pokemon's CP will also increase their maximum health points. But how does CP work, and how do you know if your Pokemon is powerful enough?
Think of the CP meter like a percentage bar instead of a numbered bar. If the white dot is on the left side, it's generally pretty weak, and if its on the right side, you have a fairly strong pokemon for your level. It's worth noting two things: Your Pokemon's max amount of CP is determined by your Trainer level, and every different Pokemon type may have a different max CP amount depending on your level. For example: You can find both a Zubat and Golbat with the same CP, but the Golbat's position on the potential bar would be much lower than the Zubat's. The Zubat, with a higher point on the bar, would evolve into a much stronger Golbat.

It's also important to know that evolving a Pokemon will increase its overall CP, but not the percentage of their power (See the images below with Evolve Your Pokemon. As you can see, the point on the bar did not change). For example, if your trainer is level 10, and your Pidgeotto has a CP of 177 (out of a max of 300), evolving it to a Pidgeot increases its CP to 312 (but out of a max of 500). This means that a Pokemon evolved at a low CP is still going to have low spot on the potential bar compared to others of its kind. 

So which are the best Pokemon to keep, when should you evolve them, and when should you power them up? Typically, it's up to you and what you want to do - battle nearby gyms, level up first, or just catch them all. For the best results, we reccomend trying to find Pokemon that are already at a high CP potential point (meaning the white bar is near the far right, in the 80-90% range. That means evolving them will still make them powerful for their type, and you'll only need to power them up a few times every time you increase your Trainer level. 

Evolve Your Pokemon

To evolve your Pokemon you must have the specific type and necessary number of Candy, which will enable the evolve button. 
Evolving your Pokemon is a sure-fire way to drastically increase your Pokemon's CP in one go, but this could require quite a few captures. This Pidgeotto needs 50 Pidgey Candy to evolve. Since each Pidgey capture awards you with three Candy and each transfer with one, you need to catch 13 Pokemon from the Pidgey evolution line before you'll be able to evolve it.



Some Pokemon, like Magikarp, need a huge number of Candy before it will evolve. To get a mighty Gyarados you'll need 400 Magikarp Candy!  
Evolving your Pokemon has a few effects besides making it stronger. Your newly evolved Pokemon will be fully healed, and its moves will be randomly re-selected. Because of this, don't choose which Pokemon you want to evolve based on the moves it knows. They'll probably change anyway! 
Additionally, evolving your Pokemon grants you 500 XP. Evolving it into a Pokemon you havent caught before? You get an extra 500 XP bonus--a total of 1000 XP for your Trainer! 

How to Obtain Pokemon Candy and Stardust

Pokemon Candy and Stardust cannot be purchased from the Shop, and must be earned by playing the game.
There are a few methods you can use to earn these items:

Catching Pokemon

Each time you catch a Pokemon, you'll be awarded 100 Stardust and three Candy, specific to the Pokemon you just caught. For example, if you just caught a Pidgey, you will earn three Pidgey Candy. If you catch an evolved Pokemon, like a Pidgeot, you will still earn three Pidgey Candy.

Hatching Pokemon

Hatching a Pokemon will award you with even more Candy and Stardust than catching a Pokemon will! Depending on the Pokemon, you will mostly likely get at least 10 Candy or more. It will also give you a pretty fair amount of XP to help level your Trainer.

Transferring Pokemon

Transferring a Pokemon will award you with a single Candy of that Pokemon, regardless of its CP or evolution stage.  Make sure to go through your Pokemon before transferring them, as once you transfer a Pokemon to Professor Willow in exchange for a Candy, you can never get it back.

Defending a Gym

If you have placed a Pokemon to defend your team's Gym, you can collect a bonus award of Stardust and PokeCoins about every 20 hours. See the Teams and Gyms page to learn more about this mechanic. 

Some Pokemon, like Magikarp, need a huge number of Candy before it will evolve. To get a mighty Gyarados you'll need 400 Magikarp Candy!  
Evolving your Pokemon has a few effects besides making it stronger. Your newly evolved Pokemon will be fully healed, and its moves will be randomly re-selected. Because of this, don't choose which Pokemon you want to evolve based on the moves it knows. They'll probably change anyway! 
Additionally, evolving your Pokemon grants you 500 XP. Evolving it into a Pokemon you havent caught before? You get an extra 500 XP bonus--a total of 1000 XP for your Trainer! 




 credit to : http://www.ign.com

I’ve been playing Pokémon GO pretty hardcore now for the past 48 hours or so, at least whenever the servers have decided to work. I have a bunch of 500+ CP Pokemon and have won and lost three gyms at this point. I’ve tried to do some research to improve my game, and what I’ve found are things that I wish I’d known from the start.
Some of these are things you should know right at the start, like before you even start playing, other items will hopefully just shorten the learning curve a bit, because so much about Pokémon GO is frustratingly vague and almost nothing is clearly explained.
So, here are ten things I wish I knew when I started Pokémon GO:

1. You Can Pick Pikachu As Your Starter
Seriously. I thought this was a joke too, a kind of “Mew under the truck” urban legend that had already sprung forth on day one, but it’s actually true. Right at the beginning of the game when you are given the usual Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle choice, pick none of them. As in, physically run away from them. The game will jump them over to try and follow you, but by the fourth time you do this, it gets the message you don’t want any of them, and surprise! There’s Pikachu, joining the party. Now, as anyone knows who has played, your “starter” is ultimately not terribly important (in two days I have all three original starters from eggs/wild captures), but this is a fun little trick you can tell your friends about regardless.
2. Catching Higher Level Pokémon Requires Some Actual Strategy
At first, Pokémon GO seems like it’s simplified the capture system to the point of stupidity, as you just lob Pokéballs at the faces of wild Pokémon until they relent. But, once you start seeing 100+ CP Pokémon in the wild, they will start breaking out. And ones that are 300+? They will prove mighty difficult to catch unless you understand that there are a few finer points to the system. First, there’s an entire aspect to capturing most people will miss. If you press and hold the Pokéball, a ring around the Pokémon will start shrinking. When it reaches its smallest circumference, that’s when you should throw, as they are the easiest to capture at that point. Also, the color of the circle matters. Green shouldn’t be a problem, yellow will be tougher, red will be very hard. You eventually get treats you can lob at Pokémon to reduce this level, and make capturing easier. Combine these two tactics, and you should have a better shot at capturing stuff, and later you will unlock more secure types of Pokéballs as well. Oh, and one more thing. Turning off AR is probably the best way to help capture Pokémon, because as fun as it is to see them in the real world, turning off the camera will stabilize them in the center of your screen and make them much, much easier to hit. I still do not know exactly what makes Pokémon flee. Sometimes it seems like they get bored after too many breakouts, other times they flee immediately, so it’s not quite clear how this system works.

Update: Alright, further clarification about the rings. Ideally, you want to get it in the ring, no matter which size. I think the smaller the ring is, the higher the chance you’ll catch the Pokémon if your throw lands inside the inner ring. But waiting until the ring is large enough to be a bigger target also seems to help, but not as much. So for instance, hitting inside a big ring might get you a “nice!” while a small ring is an “excellent!” and probably the most likely to catch something high level. But if you hit in between the outer stationary ring and the inner expanding/shrinking ring, that’s when higher level stuff is almost guaranteed to escape. I’ve found going for medium size rings that are still relatively easy to hit is your best bet.

3. Battling Is Also Slightly More Complicated Than It Looks
The first thing you might realize about battling is that in addition to mashing an opponent’s face, you can also swipe to dodge attacks, though it seems hard to use this tactically. But more importantly, I think a lot of people may not realize that each Pokémon essentially has a “special” meter that builds as you attack, and you can use filled bars to unleash a more powerful attack, that you launch by holding down a finger on your enemy. The system is pretty chaotic despite this, but some of these moves can do some serious damage, and they can singlehandedly win you fights if you actually remember to use them. Battling is still pretty lame, but it’s a tiny bit more complicated than it initially appears.

Update: I thought I should comment on the “immortal boss glitch,” something that seems to happen when you’re trying to win a gym fight, but the clearly dead enemy Pokémon just won’t faint, and the whole battle seems to freeze. This is a server thing that will hopefully get fixed when they’re more stable, but one active way I’ve seen to prevent it is NOT to button-mash, and tap at a more normal rate after each of your strikes land. This way, the server doesn’t have to receive like 50 tap commands, only maybe 10-20, and it helps it not to glitch out. This does not always work, but it seems to help. This is one of the most annoying glitches in the game, however, and I’ve missed out on a maddening amount of gym wins because of it.








4. You Can’t Cheat Egg-Walking Easily
One of the more “go” aspects of Pokémon GO is the fact that you have to walk around to hatch incubated eggs that will turn into Pokémon that probably are not in your area. The game tracks your movement using GPS, not a pedometer, so walking on a treadmill does nothing to hatch eggs. Similarly, trains or buses or cars do not seem to work either, as there’s some sort of speed limitation that knows just how mobile you are. I’m not sure about biking. Biking slow may work, but quickly, almost certainly not. So prepare to walk around your subdivision or block quite a bit if you want those eggs to hatch. Buy a few incubators to reduce the grind, but those will cost you a couple real-life bucks. Honestly, they’re the best item sold in the store though, in my opinion.

5. Almost Nothing Tracks When the App Is Closed
This is one aspect of Pokémon GO that really seems to be a problem, and a huge cause of battery woes. The game will not alert you when Pokémon or PokéStops are near unless the app is open. It will not count your steps. It will pretty much not do anything except drain the timer of your consumables (which is BS, and Niantic owes me like $10 for servers destroying my incense parties). So you will literally have to be that guy or girl walking around with your phone in hand, or at least paying really close attention to sounds via headphones or buzzes while you have the app open in your pocket. I really hope this is addressed in the future, at least for the step part. This may be them trying to sell those $35 wristbands that buzz when Pokémon are around.


6. You Have To Beat A Rival Team Into The Ground Repeatedly To Take Over A Gym
The gym system is a little confusing at first. First I didn’t understand I was fighting other players (I thought I was fighting NPCs like in the original game). Then I didn’t understand why I wasn’t kicking them out once I beat them. As it turns out, you have to lower the “gym rep” all the way to zero in order to make it “neutral” and then you can station one of your Pokémon there. This involves beating a gym two, three or more times, unless you have some team members around to back you up. If you can heal after each fight, this is actually pretty easy to do depending on your CP levels, but the system is not terribly well explained in the game itself.

7. Holding Gyms Gives You Free Stuff
You may wonder what the point of holding gyms is other than bragging rights, and there is actually a tangible benefit to it. For every gym you either lead (as top CP badass) or support (also note: you can station Pokémon at friendly gyms as “back-up”) you will get a daily package of a pretty significant amount of currency. I think you also get it the first time you take over a gym each day, but otherwise, you have to control a gym for a full 24 hours. Right now, things near me are crazy and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone have a gym for a full day. I lead one gym and supported another yesterday, but I lost both of them in about six hours. Ingress players tell me this happens often, and not to get attached to “your” gym because you will be losing it all time. That’s most of the fun of the competitive aspect of games like this.

8. Evolve Non-Primary Duplicates For XP
You quickly learn that you will be shoving lots of extra Pokémon into the meat grinder for candy, once you start amassing a lot of low level duplicates. Once you have a max evolution version of a Pokémon, it seems like you’d want to just upgrade that and not look back. But, for some of the most common Pokémon near you, they can be a bonus source of significant XP. Say you evolved your Rattata into a Raticate but you keep finding eight zillion Rattatas. Well, save a few, and use all that candy (and zero stardust) to evolve them for 500 XP a pop. There are probably only a handful of Pokémon that you will find this often, but trust me, this is a great use of extra candy which costs you nothing of significance and will really help with leveling. Bonus trick: Save up a number of these XP evolutions to pair them with a lucky egg which will get you 1000 XP for even a 12 candy Pidgey evolution.

9. It’s Tough To Know When To Invest In Pokémon, And When To Hold Off
Pokémon GO’s leveling system sort of sucks. You’re encouraged to pump up Pokémon with expensive stardust infusions, but you will quickly learn that you can easily find another Pokémon at a higher level, and you’ve essentially wasted your resources. For example, I pumped up a 60 CP Drowzee from the start to 120, but later found a 140 one, so everything I invested was pointless. Usually, it seems like the smart play to keep your highest level base Pokémon and transfer the others. Either wait until you have the candy to evolve them, or until you find their evolved form in the wild, then once they reach their second or third stage, really begin to invest. For single-stage Pokemon, it’s hard to tell. I tried to pump up what I thought was a decent 250 Jynx, and lo and behold after spending a ton of stardust, I found a 380 one a few hours later. This aspect of the game can be really frustrating.

Update: Here’s another hint about leveling/evolving. If you want to evolve something to stage three, do not evolve it to stage two as soon as you’re able. Save up 125/75 candies instead to do both evolutions at once. In the time it takes you to get all those candies, you will level up and start finding higher stage one Pokémon that in turn can be evolved into higher second and third stage.
For example, you have a 200 Dratini, and finally get 25 candy to make it a ~400 Dragonair that may someday turn into a ~800 Dragonite. But, by the time it takes you to get to 100 candies for a Dragonite, you will probably have found a 400 Dratini, which could be an 800 Dragonair and then a 1600 Dragonite. I have wasted lots of candy learning this the hard way with a number of second stage evolutions.


10. Tracking Is Super Unreliable Right Now
I think I have most of the game’s systems down right now, but “tracking” is one that still eludes me. I have heard so many conflicting reports about tracking, I don’t know what to believe, and I’ve never done it effectively myself. Right now, the rumors are that if you select a Pokémon from the “nearby” list, it will pulse as you get close. I’ve also heard the footprint symbols are 100 meter intervals, and you have wander around until they shrink from three to two to one, and then Pokémon will be somewhere near you. I have also heard that people have tried all these things and had zero luck doing it. This aspect of the game is so perplexing, yet obviously hugely important, I literally contacted Niantic directly to ask them how exactly this tracking system is supposed to work, but I haven’t heard back yet. For now, don’t drive yourself crazy over those “nearby” silhouettes.

credit to : http://www.forbes.com

"Pokémon GO" is here! We've been playing it non-stop since it launched on the iPhone App Store and Google Play last week. In our time with "Pokémon GO" so far, we've had gobs of fun — sure — but we also have truckloads of questions. And then we answered them.
But we had even more questions! Here are even more tips and tricks you should know to enjoy "Pokémon GO" as much as possible!

Tap the Pokémon to make them squeal!

You want to hear how your Pokémon sounds, right? Who doesn't? Tap the Pokéball at the bottom of the screen, select the Pokémon submenu, and select which Pokémon you want to hear. When their character screen comes up, tap on the Pokémon itself. If your volume isn't up, turn it up. Now you can hear 'em!

Curveballs!

While capturing Pokémon, you may have seen an XP bonus on your capture that says "curveball." How'd THAT happen? Simple!
When you enter the Pokémon capture screen, instead of just flicking your ball forward you'll want to tap it and hold, then spin it around in a circle (several times) before flicking it toward the Pokémon. You'll know you're doing it right when the Pokéball gets a bit of a glimmer to it, like sparks are coming off the ball.

Getting better throws!

You may also notice that, while catching Pokémon, you're occasionally getting a "Great throw" bonus. That's because you totally nailed the throw and hit the Pokémon with your Pokéball within the ever-shrinking yellow circle hover over the front of the Pokémon.
That's right: the yellow ring is more than just an idea of where to throw your Pokéball. It's specifically a target to nail to get a throw bonus!
(Note: With difficult to capture Pokémon, the ring will be orange or red — that's a visual indicator that you may want to use a Razzberry to make the Pokémon easier to capture.)

 

 

Razz Berries lull Pokémon into a false sense of security!#

If you're in the middle of a contentious Pokémon capture, and you've thrown Pokéball after Pokéball to no avail, you may want to throw said Pokémon a delicious raspberry (er, "Razz Berry").
You can buy Razz Berries with in-game money, but you also earn them from visiting Pokéstops pretty frequently. I currently have 21, have used a bunch, and never bought any. BEWARE: The Razz Berry will only make the Pokémon easier to capture for your next throw. Make it count!

So you want to incubate eggs but you don't want to walk...

You've gotten some eggs at this point, no doubt. You may even have found them hidden in the Pokémon submenu (after clicking the Pokéball). Now that you've got those eggs incubating, it's time to start walking!
Ah, but you've got a car — not so fast Pokéfriend!
It's true that you'll need to cover a distance to get that egg incubated (anywhere from 2KM to 10KM), but you'll also need to do it under a relatively low speed. The game can tell that you're in a car, because people don't run much faster than 25MPH (and that's people like Usain Bolt, not you and me). Also, hey, don't play "Pokémon GO" while driving. Stop that.
This also rules out trains/buses/etc. But there is one method that's slightly easier than walking and a lot less dangerous than slowly driving around: biking. Get on your bicycle and get incubating!
(NOTE: You'll need to keep the app open and your phone screen on to have the distance you cover count for anything. Sorry!)

Save your battery! There's a battery saver setting within "Pokémon GO" that will help!

As it turns out, walking around with your phone's screen on full blast is a great way to decimate your battery. "Pokémon GO" has a solution buried in its settings menu. Tap the Pokéball, select "Settings" in the upper right corner, then click "Battery Saver." Solved!

 

Save your battery even more seriously by flipping your phone!

Pokéstop modules attract Pokémon — if you see a Pokéstop "raining," it's got a module attached. Go there for more Pokémon than usual!

Having a hard time finding Pokémon? Take advantage of other people's good fortunes by going to a Pokéstop that has a "module" attached. These modules attract Pokémon to the stop for 30 minutes at a time. Better yet, they affect anyone walking by that Pokéstop. Nothing like scooping up some free Pokémon from someone else's item!

Track Pokémon!

If you open the Pokémon menu in the lower right, you'll notice that there are a handful of footprints beneath each Pokémon. You may also notice that one of the Pokémon silhouettes doesn't have any footprints, which means it's really close to you. If you tap that silhouette, the Pokémon will be revealed on your map! Voila!

 

Evolve your Pokémon first, then power them up!

Instead of powering up your un-evolved Pokémon, focus on evolving them into their final form first. They'll automatically become more powerful just from evolving, and you use the same stuff (candy, star dust) to power up that you do to evolve. Given that, you should focus your energy on evolving Pokémon first — the more resource-intensive of the two steps anyway — before powering up.

 

 

Collect all the low-level Pokémon, regardless of what level you are.

Tired of catching the same Weedle over and over? I sympathize, but don't let your boredom get in the way of evolving and powering up your other Pokémon. The more Pokémon you collect, the more candy you'll earn for that type of Pokémon. And the more candy you have, the faster you can evolve and power up your Pokémon. And the more evolved/higher the power your Pokémon are, the better you'll do in gym battles!
Bonus: You'll get stardust every time you capture new Pokémon. And what's stardust used for? Evolving and powering up Pokémon.

When you tap the Pokéball and enter the Pokémon submenu, things can get disorganized quickly. Good news: There's a super easy way to organize it by a few different metrics.
Perhaps you'd like to organize it alphabetically, or by combat points? You totally can. Click the icon in the lower right hand corner of the main Pokémon menu and you'll find a few different ways of organizing your Pokémon. Convenient! Also, really helpful when you want to, say, decide which Pokémon you should power up (the one with the most CP already, obvz).

Sort your Pokémon!

When you tap the Pokéball and enter the Pokémon submenu, things can get disorganized quickly. Good news: There's a super easy way to organize it by a few different metrics.
Perhaps you'd like to organize it alphabetically, or by combat points? You totally can. Click the icon in the lower right hand corner of the main Pokémon menu and you'll find a few different ways of organizing your Pokémon. Convenient! Also, really helpful when you want to, say, decide which Pokémon you should power up (the one with the most CP already, obvz).

Use incense and a lucky egg at the same time to maximize efficiency!

 

 

If you get a Lucky egg, it allows you to earn double experience points for 30 minutes. Two easy ways to earn a lot of XP points are by catching or evolving Pokémon. Catching a new Pokémon gives you 100 XP. Evolving Pokémon gives you 500 XP. When you have the Lucky Egg in play, you'll gain 200 XP for any new captures and 1,000 XP for any evolution.
If you have a lot of Pokémon to evolve wait to do it until you have a Lucky Egg.
Why add the incense or lure modules? Those attract Pokémon for 30 minutes exactly. Time a Lucky Egg to go at the same time as a Pokémon lure and start watching the experience points roll in as Pokémon after Pokémon comes to you.


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The new "Pokémon" mobile game is here! We've been playing it non-stop since it launched on the iPhone App Store and Google Play earlier this week. In our time with "Pokémon GO" so far, we've had gobs of fun — sure — but we also have truckloads of questions.
So we took those questions and gathered as many answers as we could. Here are all the tips and tricks you should know to enjoy "Pokémon GO" as much as possible!

Catching Pokémon: What those circles mean!

You've found a Pokémon! Now what? When the game enters capture mode, you'll see a wild Pokémon juxtaposed into real life through your phone's camera. You've got Pokéballs to throw at it, and there's a colored ring circling the Pokémon's body. What's going on here?
Here's the deal: the smaller that ring is, the more likely you are to capture that Pokémon. Throwing your Pokéball carefully is important, as you don't want to waste a bunch of them whiffing shots.
This becomes much more important as you progress in the game, and wild Pokémon are less likely to be captured simply by having a Pokéball thrown at them.

What do the colors of the circle mean?

The color of the ring when catching Pokémon tells you how hard it is to capture said Pokémon.
-Green = Easy
-Yellow = Moderate
-Red = Difficult
The more difficult the Pokémon is to catch, the less likely it is to be caught simply by throwing a Pokéball at it. Good news: There are special Pokéballs you'll earn as your Trainer levels up, and these are much more likely to capture rarer Pokémon. You can also use berries to lull the wild Pokémon into a false sense of security before — WHAM! — snatching them up in a Pokéball.

What those rustling leaves mean on your map: There's a Pokémon there!

 Seeing rustling leaves on your map? That's not just artistic flair — it's an indication that a wild Pokémon is nearby! What kind of Pokémon? It's never totally clear, but you can get a good idea of what it is based on the menu in the lower right of the main screen. 

 

Finding a lot of duplicates? Send them to Professor Willow!

Remember that fashionable doctor who serves as the premise for the entirety of "Pokémon GO?" His name is Professor Willow, and he wants your Pokémon. The good news is you're going to catch a lot of duplicates. And those duplicates can then be transferred to Professor Willow by selecting them in the Pokémon menu (click the Pokéball, then click the Pokémon submenu), scrolling down, and selecting "Transfer."
For your gift, Dr. Willow will hook you up with some candy for that Pokémon. And that candy can be used to make your Pokémon stronger, or to evolve them!

What's that Pokémon menu about on the main screen?

 

Beyond just showing you which Pokémon are in your general area, it also tells you how close they are to you. See those footprints below each silhouette? Those indicate how near you are to each, and their placement in the list also indicates which is closest. The first one is the closest one to you!
One footprint is relatively close — a short walk — while several footprints means you may have a bit of a hike before finding that particular pocket monster.
Beyond just showing you which Pokémon are in your general area, it also tells you how close they are to you. See those footprints below each silhouette? Those indicate how near you are to each, and their placement in the list also indicates which is closest. The first one is the closest one to you!
One footprint is relatively close — a short walk — while several footprints means you may have a bit of a hike before finding that particular pocket monster.
Beyond just showing you which Pokémon are in your general area, it also tells you how close they are to you. See those footprints below each silhouette? Those indicate how near you are to each, and their placement in the list also indicates which is closest. The first one is the closest one to you!
One footprint is relatively close — a short walk — while several footprints means you may have a bit of a hike before finding that particular pocket monster.
Beyond just showing you which Pokémon are in your general area, it also tells you how close they are to you. See those footprints below each silhouette? Those indicate how near you are to each, and their placement in the list also indicates which is closest. The first one is the closest one to you!
One footprint is relatively close — a short walk — while several footprints means you may have a bit of a hike before finding that particular pocket monster.

Tired of duplicates? Go out at night!#

The type of Pokémon you're finding vary by location — water-type Pokémon are more likely to appear near water, for instance — but they also vary depending on the time of day. Simply put: Going out at night and playing "Pokémon GO" increases your chances of finding nocturnal Pokémon!

Stuck at work? Attract Pokémon with incense!

If you're stuck in an office or classroom all day (ahem), unable to explore the world and find wild Pokémon, there's a solution: bring them to you! Simply click the Pokéball at the bottom of the screen to bring up the menu, and select the "Items" circle. From there you can select incense and place it as you like! Then all you have to do is sit back and wait for those wild and crazy Pokémon to come to you. You'll know it's working because your Trainer will show a purple cloud swirling around them.

 

Tired of wasting Pokéballs trying to capture wild Pokémon? Turn off the AR camera to make it MUCH easier!

 When you encounter a Pokémon, you tap on it and your phone's camera turns on. Suddenly, there's a wild Pokémon in the actual world in front of you (according to your phone). And that Pokémon is getting WILD, running/flying/flopping all over the place, making them harder to capture. But if you click the little switch in the upper right corner of your screen that says "AR," it'll switch the game's camera from your phone's camera to a virtual camera in a virtual world (seen above). It's less impressive-looking, no doubt, but it's MUCH easier to catch the Pokémon in that virtual world. They remain centered, and throwing the Pokéball at them is far easier.

 

Leveling Up: So you wanna battle in gyms...

There's no way to battle in gyms — the places on your map with the massive Pokémon hovering over them, that look like some sort of futuristic cone — without getting to level five. So, how's best to get there quickly?
Some quick tips:
-Tap on every PokéStop you can. When they're blue, they have items in them, and you get a little bit of experience, which helps out a ton in the early goings. You can return to Pokéstops over and over, and they flip over pretty quickly (about five minutes as far as we can tell).
-As you walk around, you may feel your phone vibrate. That means a Pokémon is near! Tap it, swipe to throw a Poké Ball at it, and it's yours. You'll get a lot of experience for doing this, so do it as often as possible.
-If you feel like spending money, you can use it to buy Lucky Eggs from the in-game store. A Lucky Egg will double the amount of experience you get for 30 minutes, so if you have one, use it before you start doing all of the above.

Revisit Pokéstops!

Every player stars with a few items: some Pokéballs, and a few pieces of incense.

Not all Pokéstops are created equal.

Some Pokéstops are more notable than others, and those will net you some sweeter items than the usual handful of Pokéballs. These tend to correlate with actual landmarks. The more well-known a Pokéstop's actual landmark is, the more likely it is to be a more lucrative stop for you. Some Pokéstops look like they're raining on your map, and that's because another player has installed a module on it. That module attracts Pokémon and gets you better stuff from said Pokéstop. (Modules can be purchased in the in-game store using Pokécoins.)

Transfer your extra Pokémon to Professor Willow, and he'll give you some sweet XP!

keep catching Horsea. I can't help it. So what I'm doing every time I get one is instantly transferring them to Professor Willow, who gives me a Horsea Candy (used to evolve said Pokémon) and some XP. And the more XP I have, the faster I level up. And the faster I level up, the faster I get to level five and can go to gyms to battle other Trainers!

What the heck are these eggs about?

Stopped at a Pokéstop and got a bunch of eggs? What's that about? Simple! Click the Pokéball on the bottom of the screen and select the Pokémon bubble. When you've opened that, swipe to the right to go to your eggs menu. There they are! Tap one and it'll bring up a menu that offers one option: "Start Incubation." As it turns out, the eggs are filled with Pokémon embryos, slowly evolving into standard Pokémon.
Rather than being time-based, the incubator is based on how far you've walked. Beware! Walking is only registered when you have the app open. So maybe start some incubation right before a long Pokémon hunting walk.

And what's the deal with "CP?"

if you're new to "Pokémon GO" — which, ya know, it came out this week — you probably don't need to worry too much about CP just yet. BUT, if you're wondering, it's an acronym for "combat power." Essentially it's a measure of how tough your Pokémon is when facing off against other Pokémon in a gym battle. The more powerful your Trainer is, the higher the CP of your Pokémon will be. You can also increase CP by "powering up" your Pokémon (select the Pokémon and select "power up" in the menu).

 

 

When you reach level five you can join teams, battle in gyms, and begin the REAL game.

 Getting close to level five? Blown past it already? Now the real game begins. You're able to join one of the game's three teams, and with those teams you're able to take over gyms. The longer your team holds a gym, the more stuff you'll earn. How do you "hold" a gym? By guarding it with your most powerful Pokémon, of course!

 

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