Pokémon GO - Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - May 2018


Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - May 2018

Posted: 27 May 2018 06:11 AM PDT

Temporary FAQ:

  • LEGENDARIES - Three Legendary Beasts (Raikou, Entei, and Suicune) available, rotating continents on 30 September, then finally rotating on 31 October.

  • LEGENDARIES - MewTwo available via invitation-only EX Raids.

  • Known Issues Page

  • Raids and Battles - open to all Gym-eligible Trainers (Level 5+) as of July 1st

Consider asking your question here, instead of making a post and have it buried!

Also, to prevent redundancy, do consider doing a CTRL+F in this thread or a subreddit search query for your question!


Rules

Please note: ONLY AR Screenshots are allowed as image posts. Any other screenshots MUST be submitted as text posts with a link to the image

Past Q&A Megathreads


Known bugs (some have possibly been fixed):

See here for Niantic-recognized bugs.

  • New: Shadow-Bans If you have ever used a third-party service (such as an IV checker) that required you to log into your Pokemon Go account, and/or you have ever received a warning message about unauthorized access, you may have recently been "shadow-banned". You can still play the game like normally, but only common Pokemon will show up and you will not see "rare" spawns while others will. You will need to remove any such services, revoke their authorizations, change your password, etc. Roughly a week after doing so, people have reported the shadow-bans being lifted for legitimate players.

  • New in 0.59.1 The Pokédex displays genders for Pokémon you have caught, if applicable. However, code for genders was only added sometime in December/January. Any Pokémon caught/evolved prior to that will have a (randomly assigned?) gender in the Inventory, but will not properly display the gender in the Pokédex.

  • Sometimes while the game is loading it will get stuck on a white screen. This seems to be due to an anti-bot "Captcha" screen that didn't load correctly, and can usually be fixed by restarting the app.

  • There is a bug with the GPS not connecting properly, which results in nearby Pokémon spawns disappearing for a few minutes.

  • The game will randomly crash sometimes. Having the most updated version of the app and the most updated version of your operating system tends to minimize this, but it still happens.

  • There are graphical glitches sometimes where a Pokémon will spawn as a "miniature" version of itself. If you restart the app and are still close enough, it should reappear normally and be clickable.

  • There is a bug sometimes while battling a gym if you don't have a great connection. If you dodge an attack that would otherwise kill you, sometimes the game won't register the dodge and your Pokémon will "faint". Then the game will sync with the server and undo the damage that you dodged, but your Pokémon still shows as fainted and you can't actually attack.

  • If phone time is not set to Automatic, Incense and Lures may not work properly. Fix this by setting time to Automatic (in your phone's Time/Date settings)


Instruction Manual


Useful Links


I'm sick of the memes here, I want the discussion posts!

try http://nr.reddit.com/r/pokemongo for desktop users or this for mobile/app users.


Niantic support : https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us

/r/PokemonGO FAQ: /r/PokemonGo/wiki/FAQ


There's this Pokéstop/Gym near me which seems inappropriate. Can I report it?

Use this link. However, Niantic seems to be preoccupied with other things now, so don't expect too much.

We have Niantic representatives on both here and /r/TheSilphRoad - please do not ping them for bugs which are in the known issues page unless you have found a niche yet gamebreaking issue/exploit.


Where can I find other players in my area?

Try our regional subreddits list! Also, see the related subreddits for more niche needs!


If you have any suggestions for FAQs to append to this thread or for meta questions, message the moderators or mention /u/PokemonGoMods!

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Salty Sunday - Rage Rants and complaints

Posted: 27 May 2018 11:09 AM PDT

Have you been the one missing the Mewtwo EX raidpass? Maybe you haven't been lucky the whole week and that damn raid Tyrannitar ran and everyone else caught him.

Or the worst part, maybe it's monday again?!

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Here we rant about everything that goes wrong, someone who sniped a gymspot (  ̄Д ̄), a missed Tyrannitar again (ಠ_ಠ) or that stupid bug which made you miss your raid because of the server desync, ending the raid prematurely (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

No personal insults, no trolls and provocation but all salty stuff is accepted.

  • Only salty posts allowed ( ಠ_ಠ )

  • No uncivilty or personal information allowed. ☜(`o´)

  • Complaints can be posted here as well, agree that stuff needs to change here as well, like the spawn rate or gym bugs.

    (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Don't forget to hydrate after all the salt!

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[Video] Finally tried my own multi 10k hatch! I enjoyed watching the previous ones posted on here, so I thought I'd contribute!

Posted: 27 May 2018 03:58 PM PDT

2018 Pokémon Go Community Survey: It won't take more than 2 minutes!

Posted: 27 May 2018 01:20 PM PDT

After latest android update...

Posted: 27 May 2018 07:13 PM PDT

This guy totally called it

Posted: 27 May 2018 11:00 AM PDT

Lileep has a new friend!

Posted: 27 May 2018 12:30 AM PDT

Never thought of Lileep as a flower for some strange reason but when I stumbled across this tourist attraction two days ago and Lileep actually popped up on the same spot they looked like the best buddies of all. https://imgur.com/gallery/U7gY0js

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Walked Eevee 10.6 km and got a Jolteon.

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:24 AM PDT

I just lost a perfect Eevee, 4 hours of my time walking, and 25 candy to this bug. I specifically wanted and did everything to earn the Espeon. Why!?

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It would be cool if...

Posted: 27 May 2018 01:18 AM PDT

...when you're catching a Pokemon, instead of them taking a random swipe at you, or moving about, they used their actual attacks e.g. some kind of fire spin/blast burn for a fire Pokemon.

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[Request] "Returning Players guide" in the side bar.

Posted: 27 May 2018 08:11 PM PDT

I've seen a lot of posts about players returning back to the game recently, and I thought it would be helpful if there was a "guide" for returning players in the sidebar, thus reducing spam about the same. This would include what the current raids are, maybe what raids are, how the new gym system works, etc. A lot of other gaming subreddits have this too and I think PoGo definitely needs it with all the new additions. It can also be continuously updated as new things come into the game. What do you guys think?

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Should I get Pokemon Go?

Posted: 27 May 2018 01:25 PM PDT

I had surgery last month and need to start walking around to recover so I thought I might come back since I haven't played since 2016. But there are a few things holding me back. The main problem is living in a very rural area and almost no Pokémon used to appear and in most places the roads aren't mapped. Has anything changed since late 2016 about that?1

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All of these cars were full of people for a raid. And people around me say none plays it.

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:07 PM PDT

Shiny glitch with new adventure week. Some shinies show up as regular pokemon in catch screen.

Posted: 27 May 2018 04:16 PM PDT

[Humor] When Ex invites are about to be issued

Posted: 27 May 2018 07:08 AM PDT

When Ex Invites are about to be issued

It's pretty clear why Niantic have introduced this strange behavior.

If there is an active raid on a gym at the time invites are issued, that gym is excluded from the algorithm so that the raid activity on that gym can count towards the NEXT invite wave. Otherwise the raid activity for that one raid would be redundant as far as counting towards the next Mewtwo raid because the gym will be ex-locked.

This needs to stop, Niantic! We would rather have these gyms included in the ex invites algorithm and will accept that raid activity on that one raid will not count towards a Mewtwo raid.

It's time to fix this one to avoid regular disappointment.

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Are evolve-stone Pokémon in the wild?

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:34 PM PDT

Evolve forms obviously. Like Steelix, Sunflora and Porygon2? Never seen them or heard of anyone catching them?

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Favorite Pokemon Survey

Posted: 27 May 2018 10:49 AM PDT

Hi all,

I'm taking a data visualizations class and I would like to visualize what pokémon people like the most. I made a Google forms survey located here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfntg4a3w0pZAQ2v9ltKBfAJgRG8GwnCkr1WDyMxi7Ikon5-w/viewform?usp=sf_link. Feel free to select as many pokémon as you like per generation (I know it's hard to pick just one). It takes about 5 minutes to pick like a top 5 or so and submit.

I realize the UI might not be intuitive (I split up the options by generation and added navigation buttons to quickly go to a specific generation so you don't have to scroll through 800 pokémon looking for a specific one). Also, it might be slow on mobile due to how many choices there are to load.

Also, please let me know of there's anything wrong with the form so I can try to fix it.

Thank you!

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X Attack, X Defense and X Stamina

Posted: 27 May 2018 11:05 AM PDT

These items have been used in the Pokémon game series and this is the #1 item that I think needs to be added to Pokémon GO.

They could work like TM's, by adding an

X Attack would increase the Pokémon's Attack IV by 1point

X Defense would increase the Pokémon's Defense IV by 1point

X Stamina would increase the Pokémon's HP IV by 1point

This would allow trainers to use these items on the Pokémon they love but have lower IV's

For Example: A Pokémon that has 13-15-12 could become a perfect 100% IV with 2x X Attack and 3 X Stamina which wouldn't be easily obtained.

What do my fellow trainers think about these types of items being released into Pokémon GO?

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[Question] Why is this subreddit’s background image so out of date?

Posted: 26 May 2018 10:39 PM PDT

There have been many updates and newly featured Pokémon that have been added to the game, but I'm still seeing an outdated winter theme. Any ideas on why it hasn't been changed?

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Raid battle didn't count towards "Battle in 10 raids" research task.

Posted: 27 May 2018 03:17 PM PDT

Hi everyone! Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find any previous info.

I battled in two raids today and only got credit for one of them towards the "Battle in 10 raids" task. I started the day with 2, thus I should be at 4, but I'm at 3. I finished both raids and caught both raid bosses.

Is this a known error, or am I only allowed one raid per day towards that counter?

Thanks!

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I’m freaking the FLIP OUT

Posted: 27 May 2018 10:09 PM PDT

So this happened just now and I'm so excited so I wanted to share with my Pokémon go fam on here lol

https://imgur.com/UKh6dya

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An idea for trading in POGO

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:27 PM PDT

Every couple days someone always asks, "when do you think trading will happen?" and people generally have their own take on the situation. The most common thing I hear from people about why trading isn't out yet is, "to many people have multiple accounts and they would just trade to get the best possible team on one account" after thinking about this I think I came up with something that might show down the super team.

When players agree to a trade the mons being traded will revert back to level 15, this would (maybe) discourage people from trading all these high powered mon unless they really need it.

So if a guy has a perfect maxed out Moltres at 3272 CP and wants to switch it to his other account so he trades it for a 10 CP Pidgey that's fine Moltres reverts back to 1402 CP and he would need 268 candies and 246,600 dust to get it back to level 40. For some players they don't care they just want a Moltres but for those trying to build a super team they might have to think twice.

Just my idea.

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Which pokemon (other than Mew or Ditto) has access to the most "types" of moves?

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:22 PM PDT

For instance, Typhlosion has access to 3: dark, fire me grass. Which pokemon has the most varied move pool, by type? Thanks.

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Rock Event Issue

Posted: 27 May 2018 09:21 PM PDT

Where are all the Onix? I only have 35 candy and I still need my Steelix, but Onix is the only Rock type that isn't spawning. Well that, and Larvitar but ot makes sense since Larvitar in the next event. Ugh!!!!

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[Discussion] Fix the schedule

Posted: 27 May 2018 08:10 PM PDT

Candy From Egss

Posted: 27 May 2018 08:07 PM PDT

whenever you hatch an egg, you get candy for whatever pokémon comes from the egg. i was just wondering if there was some pattern to it or a way to tell how much candy you're gonna get like if it's based off of how much you already have for a certain pokémon

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