Catching duplicates and then transferring them to the professor is how you get the candy you need to evolve the Pokemon.
I'm catching a bunch on the ambulance tonight and our least favorite post just got bumped up to #1. It has a gym and a pokestop
I just got dressed and left my apt to go 50 feet to the pokestop to catch Pokemon because someone dropped a lure module. Don't care. Caught Pokemon
So cp stands for combat power? Does -a higher cp definitively make it a stronger Pokemon? I got a pinser with 167 cp, i think that's my best.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4ruand/pokémon_go_lengthy_introduction_guide/ i've been going off this ^^^
I just spent the last hour riding around Columbia with my gf collecting Pokemon and hitting poke stops. Im probably on several churches' security tapes. I caught a raticate with 196 cp. my egg hatched and it was a magikarp. Only 200 magikarp points and he can evolve. :/
Just found a scyther in the cereal section at wal mart. I threw a Nice! throw, it shook twice, broke free, then flew off. You better fucking believe i'm going back in the morning to find that fucking pokemon.
>be me >wake up >saw there was a squirtle around >game on >go outside to look >and it's gone >decide to go on a nature walk since i'm outside anyway >get lost in the woods looking for a clefairy >didn't find clefairy >eventually found a rare squirtle Spoiler >had no pokeballs >threw my phone at it instead >didn't catch it >mfw living the dream
Just downloaded it. Do you get proximity alerts if the game isn't actively on or do I need to have the game open all the damn time?
Game has to be on to actually do anything. It drains the hell out of a battery and I'm guessing the data too. Went around to a few pokestops and gyms today and its funny seeing a bunch of people sitting around playing this.
Turn on battery saving mode and the turn your phone upside down. It'll darken the screen and conserve battery while keeping the game running. You'll get notifications when a Pokemon comes in your immediate area.
That's annoying. I was going to play while I run but if I can't listen to music while I run that makes running shitty.
You can. Just turn off the music and sound effects. I played my music earlier and it worked when I was running earlier.
Can someone who has never played any sort of Pokemon download this and learn what the hell is going on? It sounds fun
Caught a slowpoke last night Just need a snorlax and psyduck and I'll have my top 3 favorite pokemons
Meh I'll pass on this game then. Sucks about the data. I have the cheapest data plan possible because I rarely ever use it. I probably should just go to a prepaid plan so I can get rid of the data entirely but I'm too lazy to switch. I'd end up probably having to bump up my data plan to play this game how it's designed to be played then.
I'm currently driving a tractor back and forth in a hay field and can't find anything an I doing this right
It started out real slow for me the first few hours, now i find stuff all the time, not even physically moving. Just give it a little time imo
I want to make a belt that charges your phone and has those pokeball things. I feel like people are going to need to charge their phone if they continue to play this game.
I'll just run down some things I've been seeing: - data isn't a problem. I've used 30MB in 3 days. Background data is almost entirely negligible(it doesn't run in the background really) and the only data transfers happen when you're dealing with stops or pokemon. - battery is a problem. it chews it, deal with it. buy a battery pack. - you aren't meant to hold gyms forever. do what you can, ally with friends on the same team and use it to get more stardust each day - the further along that white bar is above your pokemon the less dust it takes to power it up and the closer to max power it is - evolving a weak pokemon makes another weak pokemon(relative to all things, evolving will always give you a higher CP pokemon than you had). you have to evolve and powerup regardless. - some Pokemon take less candy to evolve, some take more(Magikarp requires a shitload but it evolves into powerful Gyardos). You get 6 for the first time you catch that species, 3 for each additional catch, and 1 for every transfer you make. - if you don't want a pokemon, click on it and scroll to the bottom to transfer it. you receive 1 candy of that type for it regardless of how weak or strong said pokemon is. get enough candy to evolve a stronger pokemon. - your Nearby bar is just that. its order will change as you move. use it to triangulate certain pokemon. the footprints signal distance, the thought is in the 0-100m range(100m for 3 footprints) but it's not totally confirmed. I can tell you anything within 2 footprints is pretty close and 1 footprint is like 10-20s walk away and 0 footprint means you should have them on your screen. - if you tap the Nearby bar then tap a specific Pokemon your Nearby bar will track exclusively that. - as long as the pokemon are on your Nearby bar you can find them but if you think you can come back to the same spot a day or a week later and get the same pokemon to spawn you're wrong. - areas are more prone to certain types but it doesn't mean you'll never see other types. if you live on a lake you'll get plenty of water pokemon but it doesn't mean fire types won't exist for you. - Pokestops reset fairly quickly. if you can figure out a route that takes you 5 minutes or so they should reset(go from purple to blue) by the time you circle around. - if you move too fast(Ingress, the game this was based on by the same company and is the reason how we have stops and gyms, used a 30mph barrier I think) past a stop it won't let you use it. riding along the highway and getting stops will be difficult. city driving should be OK but obviously don't fucking do this as the driver. - You shouldn't need to spend money on the game if you spend a little time each day hitting stops. you'll get 3-8 items per stop and no less than 2 balls each stop from my experience. even my smaller city of 25,000 has a good amount of stops although some of you that are truly rural may be fucked. - you get better pokeballs as you level(once you receive them as a levelup reward they become unlocked in pokestops and you'll see them there). better balls mean a greater chance of them not escaping the throw. - don't just fling the ball. touch and hold it. wait for the smallest circle and then fling it for the best chance of success. the colors of the ring indicate how hard this particular capture will be(green is easy, orange moderate, red difficult). the capture doesn't always depend on the pokemon as more powerful(higher CP) common pokemon can be harder to capture as well. you may chuck 20 balls to catch a red ring or you may chuck 2. or you may chuck 1 and it says fuck you and leaves. - they will escape your throws. accept this. - they will flee from you. accept this. - you will lose cool pokemon because they didn't want to be caught. shit happens to everyone. - oh yea, your gym color doesn't matter. pick whatever you want. that should cover a lot of the basics.
yea. that is pretty much my experience. if there is a cool pokemon and you have time to chase it, do it. it won't be around forever.
Just ran to Starbucks and saw that there are 2 pokestops at the Red Robin across the street and someone dropped a lure module. Heading there next
I just realized that there's a tips button that explains the game. A day and a half later, I now know what I should have known at the beginning.
I've not battled any but I'm guessing that's faster to level them and evolve than catching a hundred of wild pokemon right
Winking a gym battle is going to be difficult in my opinion. I only won one and the game froze on me before I got my reward.
I passed a few gyms today and they had like lvl 480 exeggutors and my best is a 190 pidgeotto. Are those real people or like npc characters