Share Your Tricks and Tips

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While waiting for PF to redeploy, why don't we post our tricks and tips that we use when playing pokemon? I know that some of you are either experienced Pokémon Hunters, some are veteran Gym Players, others are both, "Hunters and Warriors", while others are just Pokedex collector and occasional players.

So, let's trade secrets and tips.

Here's one chart that maybe useful for some:

 

[Chok0s]

I evolve all CP high evee, have 6 Vaporeon, 1 of them 100% IV when I go in the battalion gym with these CP high, and button my perfect pokemon to defend.

 

[JoelGilmor]

Probably Learning to dodge in gym fights is the biggest advantage you can get without cheating.

How to dodge effectively in Pokemon Go | Poketutorials - YouTube

 

[JoelGilmor]

You can get extra experience catching pokemon when learning how to throw curve balls.

HOW TO THROW THE PERFECT CURVEBALL IN POKEMON GO - YouTube

This video shows how to throw curve balls from right to left, but you can also invert the pattern and throw curveballs from left to right. I throw curveballs both ways.

 

[maciokoki]

U van control vaporeon evolution by changing his name :

Rename as Rainer to evolve into water type Vaporeon
Rename as Sparky to evolve into lightning type Jolteon
Rename as Pyro to evolve into fire type Flareon

 

[USMCBlade]

U van control vaporeon evolution by changing his name :

Rename as Rainer to evolve into water type Vaporeon
Rename as Sparky to evolve into lightning type Jolteon
Rename as Pyro to evolve into fire type Flareon

This only works once though. After that it goes back to randomness.......

 

[DarkDay]

This only works once though. After that it goes back to randomness.......

CONFIRMED !
From my experience it works once for every type.
After evolving 3 eevee with these names once, you start getting random evolutions nomatter what the new name is.

 

[Square]

I am not very successful with Eevee. Out of 10, I ended up with 5 Jolteon, 3 Flareon, and 2 Vaporeon. And yes, changing the nickname only works once. You can change the nickname, close and restart, then evolve, it doesn't work It will work only once. I ended up with 3 Jolteons nicknamed "Rainer". Regardless of strength and weakness, I would prefer Vaporeon because of high CP and very responsive.

Speaking of battling in the gym, there are many charts out there you could use. This is just one of them. Not really effective against a level 10 Gym with alternating type stacked pokemon, but useful when a fight is one on one and type versus type battle.

It is not as straight forward as it may look. You may think that Arcanine can easily beat Lapras because fire beats ice. But Lapras is also water, and water beats fire. Exxeggutor is grass, so it should easily beat Gyarados which is water, but Gyarados is also Fying and it beats Grass. But once you became proficient with fighting like what Joel's video showed, none of these matters much anyway. And with bot, it became less useful, with endless supply of revive and potions, you can just use brute force, and revive later, then attack again.

 

[ghostshadow037]

I've been dropping the bottom guy of a lvl10 gym with my instinct Acount only lvl26 then I'll power it up with my main Acount so I can put my Pokemon in but make sure ur Pokemon cp is higher you don't want to be in the bottom slot lol

 

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I've been dropping the bottom guy of a lvl10 gym with my instinct Acount only lvl26 then I'll power it up with my main Acount so I can put my Pokemon in but make sure ur Pokemon cp is higher you don't want to be in the bottom slot lol

LMAO!! sometimes I do that too, since I have many accounts of different team. I put pokemon with high CP regardless of IV or defense value, not to defend but to get me on top and collect coins. I basically use other players to defend me. Their low level Snorlax stands better chance than my high level Arcanine. This may sound unethical for some, kicking your team mate of out of the gym. But this is an accepted practice in my area. When we build up a gym, we also put decent but weaker pokemons at first to make it easier for us to beat them and improve the prestige faster. Then we knock it out and replace it with stronger pokemon later. It's up to the other players to do the same thing, until the gym ends up with 10 level 30+ dragonites or snorlax, (only to be taken over by a single level 25 player later)

On level 9 and lower gyms though, I check if it is easier to build it up or knock it down, then build up again. Then I put my pokemon. I found it easier to knock it down just a little bit, then build it up, although some times, there are gyms that are too close to levelling up, so I just build it up.

Without bots,fighting in the gym really took its toll on my accounts. Regardless of pokemon CP in this account, this one will not fight in the gym in the near future.

 

[ghostshadow037]

We've got this group on fb ValorElite some of them they do group raid and take down high tier gyms one of the guy is holding down 33 gyms max I had was 5 lol

 

[PokeNabMx]

I have a question, Can you guys can share how to do a little bit faster candies? for pokemon? i mean, im on car xD all day, because my work is kinda delivery guy... but the fucking candy bar doesnt go forwards i think for the speed....
Thanks....

Also, i did like 2 times a thing, but i dont know if is a trick.. when i catch a pokemon, then before press the exit button for the map again, i go a little faster and some blocks and then press the buton.. the character run, and the Candy bar progress go forward... but i cant do it again now haha was like 2 or 3 times...

 

[DaSoul]

Curve ball improves capture rate.

 

[PsychoM]

Curve ball improves capture rate.

I think that´s backwards, I mean, when you are spinning ball clockwise, you should hit the counter-side, which it means the left side.
And when you are spinning counter-clockwise, you should hit the right side.

 

[DaSoul]

I think that´s backwards, I mean, when you are spinning ball clockwise, you should hit the counter-side, which it means the left side.
And when you are spinning counter-clockwise, you should hit the right side.

The Curveball Bonus in Pokemon GO| The Silph Road

 

[PsychoM]

The Curveball Bonus in Pokemon GO| The Silph Road

Still thinking that the curve ball launch if you are spinning it clockwise, you must hit left side and if you are spinning it counter-clockwise, you must hit right side.
That web-page only tells me the differences between a curve ball ratio and a normal ratio.
Maybe in your region is different, but mine is as i said.
It is true that if you spin clockwise and you launch it on a straight direction it will go to the right and if you spin counter clockwise and laucnh it on a straight direction it will go to the left. Im with you on that. But what im trying to mean is that the pokemon is right in front of you. So to make the curve ball you must spinning the ball and then aim the side to achieve the curve ball just as i explain before.
Maybe there are different ways to achieve the curve ball and we are talkinga bout this different ways.

 

[JoelGilmor]

Try delivering pizzas using a bicycle If the delivery is not too fat away. I think the best way to increase kilometers to your buddy or egg hatching is by riding bike.

I have a question, Can you guys can share how to do a little bit faster candies? for pokemon? i mean, im on car xD all day, because my work is kinda delivery guy... but the fucking candy bar doesnt go forwards i think for the speed....
Thanks....

 

[JoelGilmor]

I prefer Vaporeon with Hydro pump or Aqua Tail. Aqua Pulse vapores are destined to be Gym Holders for my team. I prefer to use Jolteons against Blastoise, Lapras instead of grass pokemons. Well any water type pokemon, except Poliwrath who most of the time have Ground Attacks. All my Flareons are Gym Holders. I rather like to use Arcanines or Nine Tales.

I renamed my Pokémon with the Types of Attack they have. For Instance My First arcanine Is Called Dark Fire, because it has Bite and Flamethrower attacks and my second ARcanine is called Fire Ground, because it has Fire and Earthquake attacks. Si it is easier for me which Pokémon to choose in a gym to match the best matches.

I am not very successful with Eevee. Out of 10, I ended up with 5 Jolteon, 3 Flareon, and 2 Vaporeon. And yes, changing the nickname only works once. You can change the nickname, close and restart, then evolve, it doesn't work It will work only once. I ended up with 3 Jolteons nicknamed "Rainer". Regardless of strength and weakness, I would prefer Vaporeon because of high CP and very responsive.

Speaking of battling in the gym, there are many charts out there you could use. This is just one of them. Not really effective against a level 10 Gym with alternating type stacked pokemon, but useful when a fight is one on one and type versus type battle.

It is not as straight forward as it may look. You may think that Arcanine can easily beat Lapras because fire beats ice. But Lapras is also water, and water beats fire. Exxeggutor is grass, so it should easily beat Gyarados which is water, but Gyarados is also Fying and it beats Grass. But once you became proficient with fighting like what Joel's video showed, none of these matters much anyway. And with bot, it became less useful, with endless supply of revive and potions, you can just use brute force, and revive later, then attack again.

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[DaSoul]

Still thinking that the curve ball launch if you are spinning it clockwise, you must hit left side and if you are spinning it counter-clockwise, you must hit right side.
That web-page only tells me the differences between a curve ball ratio and a normal ratio.
Maybe in your region is different, but mine is as i said.
It is true that if you spin clockwise and you launch it on a straight direction it will go to the right and if you spin counter clockwise and laucnh it on a straight direction it will go to the left. Im with you on that. But what im trying to mean is that the pokemon is right in front of you. So to make the curve ball you must spinning the ball and then aim the side to achieve the curve ball just as i explain before.
Maybe there are different ways to achieve the curve ball and we are talkinga bout this different ways.

They collected data and test results from tons of users from different countries and i can confirm what they are writing is correct. A correct thrown curve ball, based on the graphic, gives a higher capture rate.

 

[JoelGilmor]

I found this tutorial on how to GPS spoof using an unrooted android phone. The hack only works for Android Marshmallow, though.

I haven't tried this myself.

[Pokemon GO] Fly GPS Hack Installation & Configuration Tutorial [Android 6+ No Root] - YouTube