Aug 11 2016, 03:35 PM, updated 10y ago
1. Save your lucky egg for a mass evolve. Collect a whole bunch of candies for the cheap-to-evolve pokemons like Pidgey, Weedle and Caterpie. Then break out a lucky egg for double XP. Lucky egg is active for 30 mins or 1800 secs. If you're real fast, say, 25 seconds for each evolve, you can evolve 72 or more pokemons for 72000 XP. Lucky eggs are awarded at levels 9, 10, 20, 25 and 30.
Tips for the tip
- Do it at a time when nobody is going to disturb you for 30 mins. Nothing worst than an incoming call 10mins into your mass evolve.
- While you may be tempted to remove your sim card to prevent any incoming calls, don't. It's a good idea to have your phone data as a backup in case your wifi goes down.
- Set your own 30min timer because you can't see the timer when doing the evolves.
- Don't exit to the map screen for whatever reason because if you have levelled up, the level-up animation will waste precious seconds.
- Favourite all the pokemons that you want to mass evolve. Sort them by Favourites and they will appear at the top. This saves a lot of time as you won't have to scroll through the list.
- It's also important to un-favourite them as they are evolved. This ensures that only the unevolved ones remain at the top of the list.
- If you get a new Pokemon as a result of an evolve, that's an extra 1000XP. The new pokemon animation adds only a few secs so it's worth it. With that in mind, you may want to avoid capturing pokemons that you will be evolving.
- Use http://www.pidgeycalc.com to double check your calculations for the optimum number of evolves.
- Start strategising your mass evolve from level 1. Decide if you want to catch evolved Pokemons now or skip them and save them for the bonus during your mass evolve.
For my 2nd mass evolve, utilising all the tips above, I managed 73 evolves (73000XP) with 11 new pokemons (11000XP) for a total of 84000XP.
Also see below for the Onoff method named after Swedish female player Appel Onoff.
2. Legitimate fake location If you're indoors, check to see if there's any difference in your location when your wifi is off and on. If there is, toggle your wifi every few minutes. That'll get you moving a little bit. It's not much but I find it good for hatching those 1.9/2.0km eggs.
3. Pokestop No. 10 If you spin 10 different pokestops. The 10th one will give you double XP and more items (6-8). You can do this multiple times as long as the pokestops are unique. There is a cooldown period (not sure how long) before you can re-use the same pokestop. Not sure if there's a time limit to go through all 10 pokestops.
4. Gym Pokecoins If you managed to put a pokemon into a gym, immediately, go and collect your 10 pokecoins. Many beginners seem to miss this. Collect from the shield icon in the Shop.
5. Hatching Eggs Hatch your 2km & 5km eggs first. Always try to ensure that you have space for an egg in case the next one that comes along is a 10km egg.
6. 100th Bonus For every 100th of the same pokemon caught, you'll get 100 XP bonus.
7. Pokestop Wardriving When you're a "passenger" in a car, keep an eye on Pokestops on the roadside and spin them as you pass them by. After you spin and the stop turns purple, you can immediately exit. The items are automatically collected. You can't go too fast. Ensure you spin before the pokestop gets out of range or you won't get any items.
8. Pokemon Wardriving When you're a "passenger" in a car and see an awesome pokemon that you must have. Don't try to capture it in the car. It's too dangerous. Just tap it to start the capture and wait till you're safely stopped somewhere. You can still capture it even if you're far away from where you originally saw the pokemon. I've used this to catch pokemons 2, 5 and even 20KM from where I first saw and tapped them.
9. Zooming with 1 finger Everyone knows 2-finger zoom, you can also zoom with single-tap and drag up/down. Good for one-handed use.
10. Spending Money If you plan on spending money for pokecoins. Don't buy pokeballs. They're too expensive at ~20sen per ball for a consumable. I suggest Bag Upgrades for starters. Once you hit higher levels and start getting more types of balls and potions, there won't be enough space to store everything. Also good if you bot. Tip #18
11. Morning Balls While it's tempting to play till you're out of balls before retiring for the night. Save a few balls for the morning. Nothing is worse than waking up to a Draconite outside your house with no balls.
12. Practise Throwing Excellent throws are really difficult to achieve. Forget them and aim for Great Throws which gives an extra 50% XP and are much easier to connect. It's like having half an infinite lucky egg the whole day.
13. Morning Gyms The best time to get a few pokecoins is in the morning. Not many people, maybe even no-one, at the gyms then. Early Pidgey gets the Weedle.
14. Banana Leaf Rice When eating banana leaf rice, use fork & spoon. If use hands, may not have enough time to wash hands & come back to catch the Dragonite that just appeared.
15. Drive Slowly Especially near colleges. Watch out for fellow Pokemon Go players crossing the road. Also to hatch your own eggs.
16. 25XP Flee Bonus It's OK if the Rattata fled after throwing 10 balls at it, you still get a consolation prize of 25XP.
17. Poketrip Planning http://pokemongomap.info shows you locations of pokestops and gyms. Not entirely accurate but good enough that you can use it to plan for a Poketrip. MV or Pavi? Or to optimise the route taken to somewhere in order to pass the most pokestops. This is safe from bans as it doesn't use your PG account to access data from Niantic.
18. Kid Botting If you have a spare kid in the car... My daughter doesn't like to play Pokemon Go so I've taught her to bot for me. On the way to school, we pass 12 pokestops and her job is to spin all of them. A bag upgrade will be essential for this. Tip #10
19. Mass Evolve Onoff Method In a nutshell, quitting and restarting Pokemon Go in order to skip the evolve animation thereby saving up to 8 secs per evolve. Theoretically the max number of evolves one can do in 30mins is 1800/15=120 evolves. With a lucky egg, this equates to 120K XP.
negisf is the first to report back with a crazy result of 94 evolves or 94000XP in 30 mins.
See post below for my mass evolve of 111 in 30 mins. 111000 XP.
Also check this good list of tips from reddit.
reddit Lv22 Player giving small tips of advice by /u/Kolrich
This post has been edited by soonwai: Oct 14 2016, 04:43 AM
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