Six mistakes you're probably making when playing Pokémon GO

I remember when I was little and they brought a new arcade machine: we were all curious and played the newest acquisition of the closest arcades, but no one really knew how to play that new game. Over time, many of us learned and even discovered most of the tricks to pass all the screens. Pokémon GO It is nothing like that type of game but, as always, a few days of confusion are followed by others in which we learn the best way to play.

Pokémon GO arrived in Spain, Italy and Portugal last Friday, so we only had 3-4 days to play the title of the moment. What we all do when we discover a new game is to play forgetting everything else, but not taking into account some things can slow us down. In this article we will talk about various mistakes we make all when playing the latest hit developed by Niantic.

Disable AR mode when hunting in Pokémon GO

It is clear that it is much more visual to hunt Pokémon in the "real world" than in a computer-generated image, but is this the best for our evolution as a trainer? No, it is not. If we have activated the Augmented reality When hunting the Pokémon, we will have to locate them with the camera of our iPhone and, once we focus on it, keep the mobile in the same position. If it turns out that, for example, we are playing from the bed to see if we get a Pokémon that we do not have before going to sleep, you will understand what I mean.

Si we deactivate the ARInstead of the background of the real world, the background of a forest will appear, with light by day and dark at night. Hunting the Pokémon will be much easier, we will get more and we / our avatar will be a better trainer. With AR activated it is much easier for them to escape us (yes, they escape, but at more advanced levels).

Ah, the option or switch appears on the top right when we are going to catch a Pokémon.

Forget about hatching eggs by driving

The creators of Pokémon GO have proposed that we have fun, but also that let's go out on the street and we are not always sitting with the mobile or tablet. This is especially important when hatch eggs, a kind of "surprise" that will force us to travel 2-5km for a Pokémon to hatch and appear.

It is clear that almost no one likes to walk for the sake of walking. Yes, there are many people who walk to do sports, but in this case, sport is a clear objective. The most normal thing is that many of us want to take advantage of a car trip so that the eggs hatch, but this will not work. For the kilometers to count, we have to go at a speed that is not confirmed, but it seems that the counter stops if we exceed 40km / h approximately. Bad luck. The best thing for these cases is to go by bike. This really works.

Activate Pokémon GO Battery Saver

When we talk about what we would like a new iPhone (or other smartphone) to include, we always mention the battery. Pokémon GO is a game that makes use of GPS to warn us by means of a vibration when there is a Pokémon nearby. It is clear that this can be positive if Pokémon GO is ours Hobbie favorite, but it will not be so if we need our mobile phone to enjoy good autonomy.

If we activate the mode Battery saving, the GPS will be deactivated when we do not have the game running in the foreground.

Pay attention to the FENCE tab

It is one of the few indications that the game offers us, so it does not seem a very good idea to ignore it. In the lower right we have the option NEAR that tells us the Pokémon that are around us up to a maximum of 9. The ideal is to open the tab every time we enter Pokémon GO to see if there is something that we have not yet caught. If we see a Pikachu appear and we do not have it, it may be a good idea to take a walk around the area where we are.

With this explained, I would also like to explain that the order of closeness It does not appear as if we were reading a text in the West, if not as if we were reading in Japan. The order of proximity is as you have it in the previous capture.

Upgrade your trainer, not your Pokémon

Funny advice, right? So that improve coach if the Pokémon fight? Well, because this goes by levels, we are not talking about the Pokémon series or movies. Most interesting things happen from the moment the trainer reaches level 8. For example, Frambu Berries start to appear at PokéStops.

This is something that I am telling a friend right now through iMessage (hello, David 😉): «Don't give Pokémon candy unless it is for them to evolve right now. If you improve your trainer you can find a stronger Pokémon than the one you are improving and everything you have given it you will have lost. This is a reality: the better trainer you are, the better Pokémon you hunt. If we spend our resources on, say, an Eevee, we level up and hunt another far superior Eevee right after, what?

Having explained this, we also have to explain how many points each thing gives:

• Capturing a Pokémon gives 100 XP (experience) points. This means that it is a good idea to capture everything we see. If it turns out that we catch a Pokémon that we have in triplicate, we can transfer the weakest to the professor.
• Catch a Pokémon for the first time: 500 XP.
• Hatch a Pokémon: 200 XP.
• Interact with a PokéStop: 50 XP. By interacting, I mean picking up what you have to give us.
• Evolve a Pokémon: 500 XP.

Take advantage of objects wisely

In the previous point we have talked about the experience points of the coach. For example, evolving a Pokémon will give us 500 XP. But what if we evolve it with a lucky egg activated? Well, it will give us 1.000 XP. If we do this with several Pokémon that we have endured without evolving, we can get many more points.

On the other hand, we also have the Frambu Berries, a fruit that will make Pokémon become somewhat more docile. In this case we will not say that we must use them wisely, but rather the opposite: what we do not have to do is the foolishness of using one of these berries to hunt a Rattata with a Combat Power (CP) of 10-12 points because the we will be wasting and we might need it to hunt a much more powerful / unruly Pokémon.

Bonus: log in and out of the game from time to time

Ok, it is clear that this advice cannot be the most accurate if the servers are crashed because we could be left without re-entering for a long time. But we must not forget that Pokémon GO is software and, like any program, it has to process data. You would be surprised how many times I close the game from multitasking to see that various Pokémon have appeared around me. Maybe they will fix this in the future, but it is something that, for example, I have done to capture the point of battery saving and I have caught no less than 4 Pokémon (Ponyta, Venonat, Geodude and Growlithe), one of them that does not I had it.