Pokémon GO Tips for Beginners

Helpful Hints to Improve Your Game

Solange
3 min readApr 22, 2023

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My Pokémon avatar and one of my fave companions, Milotic

Though Pokémon Go started in 2016, new players join up every day — and there’s a LOT to learn. Here is some basic advice to help you on your Pokémon voyage!

Get your freebies. Pick up your daily free gift in the shopping window, and fulfill the quests in Field Research and Special Research to give you more items. (Note: Only one daily quest field research will give you an achievement bubble.) Also add friends who are also playing to get and send gifts, also increasing the number of items you receive. Check gyms to add your Pokémon to them so you get free coins as well (1 for every ten minutes, with up to 50 coins a day).

Don’t be afraid to dump some items. You only have so much space — even if you buy more storage, much as in real life, you will fill that space up! To get rid of superfluous items, just go to your items, click on the grouping you want to adjust, and select the number of items you want to delete. If you want to delete all items in a grouping (say, all your regular Pokémon balls, keeping the Super and Ultra ones), click on the left to dump the whole load.

Hatch eggs. You can incubate eggs in your avatar profile to get new Pokémon and also earn more candies. If you have an infinite incubator, you should always have a Pokémon egg incubating —…

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Solange
Solange

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