Hello there new Pokémon trainers! You didn't click this video because you want to be
the best. You clicked this video because you wanted to be, the very best,
(singing) like no one ever was.
Ok, yeah, so Pokémon Go is now out in a lot of countries: UK, Ireland and Germany
included, which is great because for the last two weeks I kinda got a head
start on everyone playing with my American iTunes account. Which is okay
because to be fair, I was in America last week. So it wasn't like I was
technically cheating. But because I got a head start this game, I mostly figured
out all the tips and tricks to getting you to be better than your friends. Which
is the only reason we're really playing this right? Like, it's not actually catch them all or
to be better than everyone, it's just be better than those people that you know.
Yeah. Just at least if I'm better than these people I'm happy with myself in the game.
So yeah, let's get started.
The thing I really love about this game is that it doesn't
really help you out. The user experience is very much like plopping you on the
ground and going "Have fun!"
"Go catch Pokémon!" It doesn't teach you anything, you just kind of have to find
out for yourself or when you meet people at pokéstops, they give you little
tips and tricks. And I'm getting ahead of myself,
let's get down to the basics. The game starts and you have to pick your startup
pokémon. Now, a lot of people don't know this but, you do not have to choose
Charmander, Squirtle or Bulbasaur.
There is a secret trick where, once those three appear on the screen, you
physically have to walk away. Then those three will appear on screen
in the next place you are, you physically walk away again and after the third time
a Pikachu will appear for you to catch.
Now a lot of people complain saying, "I have to walk around? What is this about?"
Oh, believe me that is-that is just the start. Now the area in which you live or
play the game definitely affects your user experience. Do you live in a rural
or suburban area? I've got bad news for you,
you're not gonna have as much fun as people that live in the city. It's just
the cities have lots more pokéstops, gyms and overall stuff to do in the game.
Kind of like real life. So like I said, in the game there are two types of
buildings you can interact with: poké stops and gyms. Now you don't have to worry
about gyms until you're at least level five so we'll get to that a bit later.
But when it comes to pokéstops
if you pass one just, click it and spin the wheel around
it's worth it, you get 50 experience and you get some free lag. Free lag? That's if
the servers are bad. I mean free swag. (laughs)
So, yeah, tap every pokéstop you get to, spin the circle and get some free stuff.
And just you know the most important aspect of this game, in terms of getting
better, is your player level. So all you should be wanting to do early on in the game is
get as much experience as possible and raise that level as high as you can.
Now the world around you is surrounded by wild pokémon which you can catch which
give you a hundred experience each -or more- depending how good you are at throwing
poké balls. Are you bad at throwing poké balls? Because I do know some tips that'll make
you go from saying, "Hyp-no"
to "Hyp-yes." (laughs)
Pidge-ot-nooo (laughs)
Pidgey-I tried my best. (laughs)
The the easiest way to catch pokémon is to make sure that
the poké ball you throw, goes within the shrinking circle. The color of the circle
depends on how difficult the pokémon is to catch. If it's green, it's gonna be easy, yellow
a bit harder,
orangey red, good luck. Now the easiest way I found to catch pokémon is to turn off
AR so that you're no longer getting the fun experience of seeing the pokémon
in your real world but I mean if you're just in it for the experience and are just
in it to level up,
who needs the fun?! Ok, we're here to win! And so turn that off and you're just going
to get a green environment.
Swipe up with your forefinger very simply and make sure that you get it
within the shrinking circle when it's at its largest. Very easy to do, you get an
extra 10 points for being nice. Or, like me, this is the one I usually go for wait
till it shrinks a bit more and you get 50 points for getting it in that circle or if
you're really good,
wait until it gets very small then you get an extra 100 experience for getting an
excellent in a very small ring. Or if you can't be asked to do any of that, just
spin the ball in it's place and throw it and get a curve-ball bonus of ten experience.
Now I found it much easier to get the nice and the great
so it's whatever you prefer. Once you get to level eight you unlock raspberries
which you can feed to a Pokémon which makes them easier to catch.
Don't go stingy on them, you get too many of them. I seriously think I have 70
still and I use them every single time a wild pokémon comes up. And then you
also unlock Great balls at level 12 and then Ultra balls at level 20 which make it
easier and easier to catch pokémon. But still incredibly difficult!
There was a wild Hypno by the pier I was at yesterday, I had an Ultra ball on it,
I had a raspberry on it and I got a Great, in the ring.
Still ran away. (gah!) So at this point you're mostly set. You let the poké ball shake three times or wait for
the inevitable server crash, when the poké ball either stays really small in the
distance or zooms up really close and you just have to wait.
Now when the server crashes in this instance what I like to do is count to
20, which also helps my anger issues, but mostly is good because if it's been
caught
you caught it regardless of if servers crashed not. If it's not, all you have to do is
close the app, reopen the app and you'll see the pokémon is still there.
If it's not there, maybe it's in your inventory, maybe you've got it yourself. Good
job.
You beat the server! (laughs)
Are you running out of poké balls or items? I've got a good tip for you. Hop on
the bus, or get and Uber somewhere. You can literally
get every stop on the way. It's a huge bonus. If the car or bus is going
really slowly
you also build up your walking distance. Now if you're looking for a certain pokémon
you look in your bottom right corner you'll notice it's there. If you select
it you can track it. The number of footprints next to it is how far away it
is roughly. If you face the right direction to walking towards it, it will
pulse in the bottom right corner, so that is how you can track this pokémon of
your dreams. But I've mostly been too lazy for that
I'm like, "If it comes to me, it comes to me." I let the pokémon come to me, ok?
Chillin' out here in my house, you come in my bedroom I catch you. You don't, I don't
catch you. Now you might notice that some pokéstops have pink flowers raining
from them. That's because someone has recently put a lure on that pokéstop which will
attract a lot of wild Pokémon of the area and coincidentally also lots of
trainers like yourself. Now if you use an incense it means that wild pokémon
will be attracted just to you and none of your friends that you're playing with
can actually see them. So if you're like "oh my gosh guys I found a Dragonite!" I
mean they're not gonna like you that much because you used an incense and
you're the only one who can see that. But I think the fact that there are lures
in this game is one of my favorite parts of the game in general. The fact that
just by seeing one of the map means everyone in the area that's playing the
game is going to want to go there and see what's going on and you have huge
groups of people playing. When I was playing in Hyde Park with a couple
friends we saw one were walking towards it and then end up finding a wild
Snorlax, started freaking out!
Everyone was trying to catch it! I caught one, but my friend Ray Roberts, the one
who originally found it,
his server crashed and uh, (laughs) he didn't catch it.
Story of my life. You've had a lot of fun, you've caught a lot of pokémon, your past level 5, you
think you're ready to take on some gyms in your town. Before that you've got to
choose a team and that is one of the most important parts this entire game
because you cannot change your team once you pick it. This is your decision right
now, forever. Now my biggest piece of advice for picking a team is just pick
the team that most of your friends are on. I think you might have more fun
that way or do what I did when none of my friends are playing the game yet I
just read what each team represented and I picked the one that made the most
sense to me. Which of course was Mystic. Mystic is the best team, obviously. Or if
you feel like you just make decisions without even thinking
you can go with Instinct, as most of the people that picked Instinct would probably agree.
"Yeah, you're right. I just picked it. I made a mistake. No one's even on Instinct. Or you
can pick Valor.
If you just want to be hated by everyone. (laughs) Now be ready with team-related insults
when people are other teams come up to you. Such as, "Mystic? More like mis-
dick! Instinct, more like you-stink-t! (laughs)
"Valor, um..." I actually don't have a good one for Valor, so if you have any please
leave them below. I need to use some. So, now that you've picked a team you want
to fight some gyms.
I don't really recommend it, not really. You're not gonna have a good enough
pokémon to stay in a gym for that long unless you have something over level
thousand, it's not really gonna work out. That being said it is really easy to
take a gym
rather than defend it. Like you really have the odds against you if you're
defending it. So who knows? Maybe your six level 80 Pidgeys can take that gym with
a Gyarados in it. But if you want to take this seriously, you want to level-up
more, here comes the meat of the video. That delicious delicious Torus meat.
It's not vegan. The combat level of pokémon you find in the wild is a hundred
percent contingent on your player level. So if your player level is low
you will not find many good pokémon. And because of that I highly recommend you
do not waste your stardust at early level.
Do not try leveling up things, because you will spend a lot on your beloved
Charmander, only to find out you can literally find wild ones way stronger
than it in the wild. And what's funny about this game is it takes a complete
moral 180 to every other pokemon game we were supposed to take a Pokemon from
like when you first find it
love it, nurture it, get it to be really strong. In this one it's "Oh I found a
stronger one time to grind this one up for candy." Basically everyone playing
this game is on Team Rocket. In terms of evolving pokémon once you enough candy
you may be tempted to evolve everything in your inventory.
I'm gonna actually recommend you don't do that at least until you get to level
nine.
Once you get to the nine you unlock an item called a lucky egg which doubles
all the experience you get for 30 minutes. So one of the best strategies I can give you
for increasing your player level very fast is to keep all the pokémon you can
evolve and don't evolve them until you have about 20 to 25 of them maybe more
if you're that patient and then use your lucky egg. And then go crazy! Just by a
evolving these pokémon you will get 1000 XP!
That's insane! 25 of these is 25,000 experience. Here's a list of pokémon
that I waited and evolved all at once and by that point I gained a huge ton of
experience. I went up two levels just by doing it. That's basically how you're going
to get better than your friends.
Save your evolutions, go crazy evolving Pidgeys into Pidgeottos.
That's a big strategy by the way. Why would you waste going from Pidgeotto -
Pidgeot, which is four times as much candy when it's the same amount of
experience?
If you're in it for increasing your player level do not evolve anything into
its third generation unless you're in that for battling gyms. If your in it for XP
just evolve lots of Pidgeys into a lot of Pidgeottos and lots of Rattatas into
lots of Raticates. So now that you're player level's super high and you've got
some super strong pokémon, it's now time to take on some gyms.
Now like I said it is much easier to take a gym than hold it, but one of my
best strategies for collecting the payout of ten coins and 500 Stardust per gym
is not actually to attack enemy gyms but just find a friendly gym that's my
color of Mystic and just train there until I can add my own really strong one
in.
Why? Because we all know that when someone takes your gym
you're pissed, ok?! One time I took a church, I walked about one minute down the
street and saw someone had taken it back. So I just ran back there and took it back.
Like, that's the thing, if you take someone else's gym
they're going to come get you. Whereas if you take your own gym
I mean, people are going to be less likely to be angry about it. That's just
my strategy. It is fun taking down really huge gyms with one pokémon that is
really fun to do. But like I said if you're in it for the coins and the
Stardust
I'd try and play it a bit safer. Find a strong gym, make it a bit stronger. Now there are
multiple strategies for battling at gyms. You can just tap incredibly
quickly on your Pokémon until you win or you can tap quickly until you see you've
charge up your secondary attack, which may or may not be better to use, it does
take a long time to charge.
Personally, I barely use it except for maybe the last attack to take out a lot
of help from the enemy. Or, sometimes if I want to play strategically against a
Hypno, if I feel like I can beat all the pokémon at the gym with one pokémon I
will actually dodge. If you didn't know this, at a gym you can swipe right you
can swipe left and you can dodge attacks.
It's actually pretty useful. At one point I dodged every single attack Hypno threw at me.
Hypno is very readable so, if you're going up against one of the gym
take your time. One last thing you need to know about Pokémon Go is eggs. And
this is the reason that even if you can find a lot of pokémon in your room
you're not going to get the full experience the game because you need to
go out and walk in order to hatch your eggs. There are 2-kilometer eggs, 5-kilometer
eggs and 10 kilometer eggs, which as you can guess, need you to walk those
certain distances in order to hatch the eggs. Or get a very slow Uber.
If you're in a car, it will detect that you're going a bit too fast
so mostly you can walk, you can run, you hatch these eggs anyway you want.
And if you're going out with friends playing this game I mean you're walking
a lot anyway, it's fun.
Personally, I try and hatch the fives and the tens first because those are going to be the rarer
pokémon. Whereas the twos, always end up giving me something bad.
I ended up getting a Rattata and a Zubat the other day. Great. So hopefully if you
follow my tips you should get to level 20 within two days and you should be
having a lot of fun playing this game. As much fun as I'm having taking all the
gyms in my area. Team Mystic forever! Anyway thank you so much for watching this
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Thanks for watching, I'll see you guys next week. Goodbye.
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If you're already pretty far in the game you jus--Man I speak so fast!
What is this?! How is this a thumb nail? I'm just jazz hands.