Top 15 tips and tricks guide For Pokemon Go - It's Cool

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THROW A CURVE BALL FOR EXTRA XP

Pokémon Go gives you plenty of unique ways to capture Pokémon, and this way will help you level up much faster.

When you're about to catch a Pokémon, hold down on your Poke Ball and spin it in a circular motion with your finger. This will create a curve ball, and if you hit and capture a Pokémon with this move you'll gain some extra XP.

SAVE DATA BY USING OFFLINE MAPS

Pokémon Go pulls map data from Google, and if you download your home and work areas on your phone via the Google Maps app it will improve the performance of Pokémon Go. You phone won't have to keep constantly redrawing your surroundings.

Open up the Google Maps app, select the Settings menu (shown by an icon with three horizontal lines) and tap on 'Offline areas'.

Press the '+' icon then use the map to drawn a square of the area you want to download, then tap on 'Download'.

This will mean you won't burn through your mobile data allowance quite so quickly, and it can help save your smartphone battery as well while you play Pokémon Go.

USE OTHER'S PEOPLE'S LURES TO CATCH POKEMON

While playing Pokémon Go you can increase the number of Pokémon who appear near you by either using Incense or a Lure Module, which attracts Pokémon to a Pokéstop.

Incense only works for the person who activates it, and no one else can see it, but Lures work for everyone. While playing Pokémon Go you might see other player's lures, and these can be seen on the map, represented as confetti.

To use another player's Lure, just hang around near it, and you'll soon find extra Pokémon without having to use one of your own!

KEEP AN EYE ON NEARBY POKEMON

While playing Pokémon Go you'll see Pokémon icons (or their silhouettes if you've not encountered that type before) in the bottom-right hand corner of your screen.

This shows you nearby Pokémon. Tap on this area to bring up the larger Nearby menu, listing all the Pokémon near you.

However, while you used to be able to see how close a Pokémon is to your current location by the number of paw prints underneath them (the more paw prints they have under them, the further away the Pokémon is), since update 0.31.0 you can no longer see those footprints - which weren't always that accurate.

Now you can't see how far away a Pokémon is, just that it's in the nearby area. The Nearby screen also used to show Pokémon in order, starting at the top left of the Nearby window, by how close the Pokémon is to you. However, since the update, this order is now randomised.

TRACK POKEMON

You can make catching Pokémon in Pokémon Go easier by tracking the ones you want to catch.

You can track Pokémon by tapping on it to select it in the Nearby menu. A blue circle will surround it, and then when you go back to the main map the Pokémon you've selected will appear in the bottom-right hand corner.

LEVEL UP YOUR TEAM'S GYM'S

As well as capturing other team's gyms you can also battle your own gyms to level them up. You'll be limited to using just one Pokémon, but for each of the monsters you defeat at the gym you'll build up the gym's XP.

Once the gym has enough XP it will level up, which unlocks more slots for Pokémon to defend it. Either you can then leave one of your Pokémon there or else another member of your team can do so.

Once your gym is impenetrable you can sit back and reap the coins that will come your way as a defender's bonus.

TYME YOUR LUKY EGGS

Short of filling up your Pokédex, evolving Pokémon is one of the activities that will get you the highest level of XP.

You can take advantage of this fact by saving your evolutions for when you have a lucky egg activated. The item, which you can find at Pokéstops, doubles the XP you get for half an hour.

So rather than transferring all the low-level Pidgies you're no doubt accumulating, try evolving several of them right after activating a lucky egg. If done right you should get 1000 XP with each evolution and be levelling up in no time at all.

PLAY POKEMON GO ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT

We probably don't need to tell you to play more Pokémon Go if you're as addicted to this game as we are, but we've found that playing Pokémon Go on public transport such as trains and buses, is a great way to catch Pokémon you usually wouldn't find in your local area.

You don't get steps when siting on a train, but you will cover a lot more distance, and pass a lot more Pokéstops during your travel. It's safe to play when someone else is driving, and it makes that morning commute into work or school go by much faster!

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LEVEL UP FOR REWARDS

The more you play Pokémon Go, the more XP you will earn. After earning a certain amount of XP you'll level up, and each level brings new rewards.

Up to level 10 you need to gain an increasing number of XP points to level up, and the amount increases by 1000 XP each time. So, for level 1 you need 1000 XP, level 2 needs 2000 XP and so on.

The first couple of levels give you extra Poké Balls when you level up, but certain levels give you more exciting things.

When you reach level 5 you unlock Gyms, Potions and Revives, and you get 10 Potions, 1 Incense and 10 Revives as well.

Level 8 unlocks the Razz Berry, along with 15 Poké Balls, 10 Potions, 5 Revives, 10 Razz Berry, 1 Lure Modulator.

Level 10 unlocks Super Potions, Level 12 unlocks Great Balls, Level 15 unlocks Hyper Potions, and level 20 unlocks Ultra Balls.

BR PREPARED FOR TOUGH FIGHTS AT HIGH LEVELS

The higher the level you achieve in Pokémon Go, the harder the game gets. A committed Pokémon Go player has shared their experiences of playing Pokémon Go at very high levels, proving just how hard this game can get.

This involves once easy-to-catch and low powered Pokémon now becoming incredibly hard to catch thanks to their high chance of evading capture. So you may end up having to use a large amount of Pokéballs to catch Pokémon at this level.

Each level increases the number of XP you need to move on to the level, and by level 30 you'll need 500,000 experience points to move on.

If you gained 100,000 experience points a day (no mean feat in itself), it would take you over a week to go from level 31 to 32. So, if you're playing Pokémon Go with an aim of levelling up fast, make sure you're prepared for a tough fight the higher up you climb in the level rankings.
GET POKEMON ALERTS ON YOUR SMARTWATCH

Pokémon Go has got us glued to our smartphone screens, but it's not always safe to walk around staring at your screen.

However, a new app called PokeDetector allows you to receive alerts from Pokémon Go on your Android Wear smartwatch (the app isn't available for the Apple Watch).

With the app installed you can put your smartphone away, and as you walk around and pass a Pokémon, you'll receive an alert, letting you quickly whip out your smartphone to capture it.

A word of warning, however: the app currently uses unofficial Pokémon Go code, so there is a possibility that your account could get banned if the makers of Pokémon Go wise up. While this probably won't happen, to be on the safe side use a secondary account for the PokeDetector app.

NAME YOUR EEVEE TO DETERMINE ITS EVOLUTION

Eevee is a unique Pokémon that can evolve into three different Pokémon - Jolteon, an electric-type Pokémon, Vaporeon, a water-type, and Flareon, a fire-type.

It's been discovered that by naming your Eevee a certain way in Pokémon Go, you can control what it evolves into.

So, if you name your Eevee Sparky it will evolve into a Jolteon, if you name it Rainer, it turns into a Vaporeon and if you name it Pyro it will evolve into a Flareon.

We've tried this trick ourselves and it worked! This is a cool Easter egg, as the Eevee brothers from the Pokémon anime series were named Sparky, Rainer and Vaporeon.

NAME A POKEMON YOUR FAVORITE

You can now choose Pokémon to highlight as your Favorites. This essentially 'locks' the Pokémon so that you don't accidentally transfer them, or lose them.

It's a great way to make sure you don't lose any super rare Pokémon you have, and to select a Pokémon as a Favorite, load up the Pokémon Go app, press the Pokéball icon to open up the menu, select 'Pokémon', then tap on the Pokémon you want to add as a Favorite.

There will be an empty Star icon in the top-right corner of the screen. Tap it to fill in the Star icon - you've now saved that Pokémon as a Favorite.

INVEST IN A POKEMON GO PLUS

Let's be honest, playing Pokémon Go is great, but not all of us can walk around with the app open all day - day jobs, a life and a finite battery source being just some of the obstacles standing in the way of accelerated Pokéstardom. But there is a way to track notifications without having the app, and its name is Pokémon Go Plus.

The Pokéball-themed wearable is extremely difficult to get hold of at the moment (it's only available through the official Nintendo Store and waves of pre-orders are disappearing fast), but if you're in to Pokémon Go for the long haul this Bluetooth-enabled, US$34.99 (£34.99, around AU$46) priced gizmo is your best bet.

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