Pokemon GO Hysteria! Tips, Tricks, and Tools for the Pokemon Master!
Update: Found a few of the APKs on GitHub. Linked below!
UPDATE 2: Added Pokeadviser.com
UPDATE 8/5/16: Niantic has removed access to their API for most of the Trackers. The only ones available are crowd-sourced at this time. The developers over at PokemonGoDev reddit are working diligently towards a solution, but at the moment, Pokemon hunting is something akin to a deaf game of Marco Polo.
See my previous Pokemon GO article here! Goes over the app in general, and how crazy PokeGO Hysteria has become!
As Pokemon Go has grown exponentially, dedicated groups of people are jumping at the opportunity to
dive into the nitty-gritty of how the game works to understand how to become the very best, like no one
ever was DUN DUN DUâŚ. Sorry, couldnât help myself⌠Moving on.
Shoutout to the wonderful development community over at Reddit.com/r/pokemongodev for several of
The tips and tricks are going to go over relatively quickly. Every other article has been about âx things
Pokemon GO didnât tell youâ blah blah blah. While this is DEFINITELY the case and Pokemon Go is less
than forthright with several of its features, this article is intended to focus more on the tools that are
constantly being updated and developed to push the community into Pokemon Mastery!
If you are tired of seeing the same little tips over and over and want to get to the TOOLS,
What Pokemon Go doesnât tell you.
1. Extra XP from catches.
From the very beginning, the game throws out a few mechanics that it doesnât explain completely. I
am sure this is for accessibilityâs sake. There is a constantly closing circle within the capture circle
when looking at your wild PokĂŠmon prey. If you are lucky enâŚ..I mean, skilled enough to hit inside
the ring, you will gain extra XP. The amount of XP is based on how small the inner circle is.
Nice (Large inner circle) : 10 XP
Great (Mid-range inner circle): 50 XP
Awesome (Tiny inner circle): 100 XP.
As you move forward, these little bits of XP boost definitely help move forward in levels.
2. Color of inner ring indicates difficulty to catch.
The inner circle is a color somewhere between green and red. The closer to red, the harder to catch
the PokĂŠmon with the current ball.
3. Gyms can be taken with multiple players.
The Gyms are the main focus of the game for many. It is the reason to discuss CP at all. But not all
players know that Gym battles donât have to be done alone. Grab a few players from your Team,
and throw in against a Gym to take it down.
4. Gym battles are not one and done.
As you take down Gyms, the battles only knock down prestige. When Prestige gets to 0, the Gym is
free to be taken. Keep attacking! And donât forget to heal/revive between battles. As long as you can take down 1 Pokemon with your team, any can be taken down with enough time.
5. There are bonuses for holding Gyms.
Having a PokĂŠmon in a gym is definitely worthwhile. For each PokĂŠmon in a gym at the time of
collection of prizes, you receive 500 Stardust and 10 PokĂŠcoins, which can be used in the store for
backpack and PokĂŠmon capacity expansions! The location of the collection button is on the store
screen in the top right corner. (I either missed this when it was discussed or it was never talked
about cause it took me a while to find it.
***Thanks to the 0.31 update, this no longer works!***
6. PokĂŠballs are thrown from the location of the camera.
This is not intuitive at first, and might not work every time, but sometimes the hardest thing to do it
hit the PokĂŠmon with your little prison ball. Sometimes the paper-football- esque throwing game can
be avoided with a quick flick as soon as your PokĂŠballs appear. The first thing that happens with
each PokĂŠmon is a close-up view of whatever you clicked on, followed by a zoom out. Your
PokĂŠballs are active during this zoom, and are much closer than if you wait. In later levels, this may
not work since the default balls is the basic PokĂŠball, and the PokĂŠmon are significantly stronger,
but sometimes, it is worth the risk instead of throwing wide over and over.
There was a lot of misinformation going around about CP being the biggest factor. Yes it is one, but
there are a few more important ones. If you have the Stardust to spend, it is more important to
factor in Moveset and Individual values (These are discussed later)
In general MOVESET Â >Â IV > CP.
Movesets do tend to change as you evolve, but any Pokemon that you donât expect to evolve, Moveset reigns king!
8. Donât level/evolve your Pokemon right away.
This is more of a tip than something Pokemon GO doesnât tell you. You can play however you want,
but if you were like my during my first go round, you started leveling Pokemon right away. Bad idea.
Powering up your Pokemon uses precious Stardust. Not just that, as you level, the CP of the
Pokemon you catch level with you. This means that if you spent 15000 stardust getting a PokĂŠmon
to a decent level at level 13, you have the possibility of getting the same PokĂŠmon with a HIGHER CP
at later levels, but you are now out the Stardust needed to level the new Pokemon.
BONUS: PIDGEY STACK! â This is discussed later in tools as well!
You may notice the crazy amount of Pidgeys, Caterpies, and Weedles that are EVERYWHERE! You trip over their digital bodies.
Every twist and turn. Nearly every blockâŚyou get the point. You may think that they are things to be ignored, but they are actually
a key to leveling FAST! XP is what keeps you evolving, and up until around level 20, it doesnât take a huge amount to get from
one level to the next. Pidgey stacking is where you use those precious Lucky Eggs for their full capacity! Wait until you have
a crazy amount of Pokemon to evolve, (Pidgey, Caterpie and Weedle are prime targets since they only take 12 candies to evolve)
and do it all at once. Evolving grants you 500 XP every time. If you take all 30 minutes of a Lucky Egg to evolve Pokemon after
Pokemon, optimally, you can max up to 60,000 XP in 30 minutes! Thatâs huge! And usually enough for 2-6 levels, depending
on what level you start at. Unless you are like me and 15 minutes in, the servers start to glitch out. In which case you throw your
phone out the window and pray you can find if after you stop seeing red.
Now for the part that makes my day easier, the amazing community tools! Thanks to the amazing
PokemonGoDev Reddit Community!
Until Niantic gives the go ahead for several of these tools, there is a change of being soft or hard
banned from the game. Do NOT use your main account for this. Create either a dummy account at
the PokĂŠmon Training Club, or a dummy gmail account to be able to use these amazing tools. These
may not work in the future, but as of the writing of this email, they are working.
***YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED***
*****************UPDATE! Niantic Cracked down on these tracking apps  with V0.31! Trying to keep this updated with working ones! ************
The first of the tools is not one that gets you Pokemon, or notifies you of nearby, or sorts by lured
PokĂŠstops. This makes the application a little more user friendly. One of the main flaws with the
program itself is it is a HUGE battery drain. Not only that, but keeping the application active in your
pocket, which I have done walking around my workplace (Most donât exactly want you staring at
your phone as you walk around), ends up with button presses that can end up with you dropping all
your PokĂŠballs all over the ground, upgrading Pokemon you werenât planning on, and other
generally unpleasant things.
The main thing about Extender is screen control. Allows you to turn off the screen when you are
holding it towards the ground, which I have had varying degrees of success with when I try to pull it
back up again. The ability to keep it up for extended periods of time helps around the house. Not
having to constantly babysit it to keep it on helps when trying to do things and play Pokemon GO at
the same time. I mean, they arenât mutually exclusive! Come on.
PokĂŠDetector â Dummy account recommended
PokeDetector is a great application for passively looking for something around you without actually
having the game up. You can set the frequency of the notifications and they will tell you what is in
the area. This works great when you are not moving around, like at work or at home. The
notifications can be tailored to specific PokĂŠmon with the paid version, but either way it works
great! Caught a Snorlax and Magmar using this the other day without draining my battery.
The problem with PokeDetector is that it doesnât have a huge range. It makes the assumption that
you want to open the game, catch what it tells you is around, and close it again. Which sometimes,
PokeRadar â Dummy account recommended *THIS WAS REMOVED FROM Google Play Store*Â Download Here
*In the meantime, another app that allows multiple dummy accounts for faster scanning is HERE.*
PokeRadar is a great utility for finding Pokemon in a specific area. It needs a little polishing, and will
disconnect without warning at times, but the thing that makes it stand out is the standalone button
that hovers over the active application, like when you actually HAVE Pokemon GO active.
I am not sure I would recommend it, because you are broadcasting your specific Device ID at the
same time, regardless of the use of a dummy account, but until Niantic posts more about how they
will be dealing with these tools, everything utilized to seek out Pokemon is a riskâŚaside from
walking aimlesslyâŚsince tracking isnât workingâŚbut âŚ.you knowâŚexercise and all that.
Unlike a few other applications at this time, it constantly updates sectors of the map. Once it has
updated the whole map, it turns right back around and starts again.
Before we get into the web resources, letâs talk about something that has gotten a lot of
attention, especially in the competitive side. Individual Values (IV). Individual Values have
been a part of Pokemon since the beginning of the games, and it canât be ignored here.
Individual values are hidden multipliers that affect the attack, defense, and stamina of your
particular Pokemon. The IV values, from what has been discovered so far, stay with the
Pokemon throughout its life. For those who are looking to be competitive and give their
Pokemon a reprieve from their tiny spherical prisons will do well to use a calculator to look
for the âperfect Pokemon.â I ran into a perfect Pidgey the other day. I felt like I should have
been excited, but in fact, I was underwhelmed. Imagine that.
Gameinfo has a lot of very good information, but what I found most exciting was the ability
to look at the Damage Per Second (dps) of all possible attacks that PokĂŠmon could have!
Movesets become extremely important once the gym battles commence. Be aware! There
is also an Evolution calculator and IV Calculator, but I prefer to use the ones listed below.
Granted IVs arenât everything.
Without further ado, I give youâŚâŚ
The Silph road is a group of Pokemon Go players that is intended to be a network of in-
person players. While this may be an attractive prospect to some, and I encourage you to
take a look at their Reddit, The gems come in the way of their tools.
Species Stats can help you find the best Pokemon that you are looking for, in addition to
being able to compare them to other Pokemon.
IV RATER helps you determine the possible IVs from your Level, CP Arc Position (This is the
most difficult part), and Current HP and CP.
Moves Ranks the best to the worst moves. Helpful for determining moves between
Pokemon as well as the best Pokemon to keep.
PokeVision With the new update, Many of these apps are shutdown! Pokevision no longer works!
Pokevision is an online version of the Pokemon Maps as seen from before. Great tool, but it
has its limitations. It has a very narrow scope, and lets you search once every 30 seconds.
PidgeyCalc is a fantastic tool that has a very specific purpose. Lucky Eggs are very rare. You
receive a few while leveling up, and can purchase them from the store. This is also the key
to âPidgey Stackingâ, which has become one of the most effective ways of XP gain.
Lucky Eggs are 30 minutes of Double XP. Those are a precious 30 minutes, and Pidget calc
can show you how many more Pokemon you need to be ready to evolve before you crack
open that Lucky Egg. It averages out to around 60 evolutions, if you have no problems.
Side note. Had a server die while in the middle of a Lucky Egg. NOT A GOOD DAYâŚ
Great tool that tells you how many more Pokemon you should get before evolving, how
many candies you will have after you are done. It is like the night after Halloween!
IV Calculation Spreadsheet â Click HERE!
The calculation sheet is slightly more accurate than the subjective use of the CP curve for IV
calculations, and gives you a range of perfection based on stats entered into the sheet.
PokeAdviser.com â Great resource, but use with caution!
This is an amazing resource. Many items that it pulls save HOURS of time, the IV calcs are one of the best items on the site. USE WITH CAUTION! As of today, there is no support from Niantic for 3rd party applications, and unlike many of the other items on this list, if you want any information of use, you will need to use your main PokeGO account. You have been warned, but this is such a wealth of knowledge.
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