The
Art of Throwing Poke balls
Once you’ve located a Pokemon out in
the wild -- or in your home, if you’re fortunate enough -- you’ll want to catch
it and add it to your collection. You do that via the time-honored tradition of
throwing Pokeballs at it, which never makes them quite as upset as you might
figure.
Simply tapping on a nearby Pokemon
on the main map will enter you into a showdown, with the camera using wherever
you happen to be standing as the backdrop. To throw a Pokeball, simply swipe up
from the picture of the red and white sphere at the bottom of the screen.
Sounds simple enough, but it might
take you a few throws to get the hang of it, as you need to flick in the right
direction and with the right relative speed to hit the Pokemon. Tougher, rarer
creatures might require more than one throw, but don’t throw wastefully. Even
though they’re easy to replenish, your supply of Pokeballs is not unlimited.
Visiting
Poke Stops
In-between catching Pokemon, you’ll
want to check out the PokeStops in your vicinity. On the map, a PokeStop looks
like a thin blue tower with a cube on top, and often churches, libraries,
statues, fountains, historical markers and the like.
As you walk, you’ll notice your
trainer avatar gives off a pulsing blue circle. Once you get close enough that
the PokeStop appears in that circle, it will change shape to have a large blue
circle on top. Tap on it and you’ll see a picture disc, which you can spin by
swiping across.
Doing so will produce a variety of
free items, including Pokeballs (told you they were easy to replenish). It pays
to visit the PokeStops around you often, especially because they recharge.
Eggs
and How to Hatch Them
The other benefit of visiting a
PokeStop is that it could what may hatch from it, but it’s a good method for
adding to your collection when there aren’t many Pokemon in the surrounding
area.
To hatch an egg, it needs to be incubated.
Lucky for you that one of the things that otherwise not very helpful professor
gave you was an incubator. Simply head to your Pokemon inventory, swipe over to
see the egg, then tap on it. You’ll see any unused incubators below and can tap
on one to start the process.
The other option is to save up your
candy, because gathering enough allows you to) do the evolution. As experienced
Pokemon trainers know, evolving bumps the monster up to a more formidable form,
boosting all stats and opening up new attacks as well.
The choice is yours, but here’s a
tip: Spare Pokemon can be given back to the professor for extra candy. So if
you want to evolve into Pidgeotto, simply catch a lot of the buggers and swap
all but one of them back for more candy.
The
Care and Feeding of Pokemon
Once you’ve captured a Pokemon, you
can tap on it in your collection to see its combat power, vital stats, attacks
and more. There’s even a record of when and where you caught the Pokemon so you
can remember you grabbed one of your aunt’s lanai (when she wasn’t home, but
hey).
While there isn’t a ton of combat in
Pokemon Go at launch, to be prepared for the fights to come, you’ll want your
Pokemon to be as powerful as possible. Doing so means using two different
resources, but also making some tough decisions.
See, every time you catch a Pokemon,
you’ll be rewarded with two things: stardust and candy. The former is
universal, while the latter is specific to that type of Pokemon. You can spend
a few hundred stardust and one or more pieces of candy to power up any Pokemon,
leading to an increase in combat power and HP.
There’s just one catch: The
incubator is powered by your walking, and you’ll have to cover a specified
distance of at least 2 km to hatch the egg. The people who made the game want
you to get out and move around, and this is one way to ensure you do it.
Oh, and don’t bother driving around
in the car.foot and won’t give you credit for the distance traveled that way
toward hatching any eggs. Good thinking though
An
Introduction to Gyms
Now we’re getting into slightly more
advanced parts of the game, but once you reach level 5 -- earning XP by
catching Pokemon and visiting PokeStops -- you’ll unlock Gyms. These are also
located on notable places in any given area, but they’re much more obvious on
the game map because they appear as really large towers.
First, you’ll be asked to join one
of three teams: Spark (yellow), Mystic (Blue) or Valor (red). The consensus is
that your team choice doesn’t affect the game in any way, so feel free to just
pick your favorite color.
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