13 Hidden Secrets Pokemon GO Never Tells You!

0:00 Pokémon Go has a bunch of hidden mechanics the game never tells you about. Like one that lets you bypass the full moon requirement for the Ursaluna evolution, and another one that reduces the cost for adding second moves to your Pokémon. So, here are 13 obscure Pokémon Go secrets you probably didn't know. Firstly, have you ever seen this before when catching a Pokémon? This is a critical catch, which happens around 1% of the time, and it guarantees a catch. There is, however, a way to guarantee a critical catch. To do this, you need to land a throw on the smallest possible catch circle, a perfect throw, and this will get you a guaranteed critical catch. But, do note that while you can randomly get lucky with a 1% critical catch on a legendary Pokémon from a five-star raid, you can't guarantee the critical catch with this trick for legendary Pokémon like you can for other Pokémon. Now, when catching Pokémon, you're probably throwing curveballs most

0:46 of the time. But, did you know they actually boost catch rate? You see, a number of things in Pokémon Go do this, like raspberries, ultra balls, and small catch circles, etc. But, curveball throws actually contribute to this increasing catch rate a lot more than you'd think. Even more than using a great ball or a regular raspberry, which both increase catch rate by 1.5 times, whereas a curveball throw increases catch rate by 1.7 times. So, overall, the best possible combination to increase catch rate the most is to use a golden raspberry, an ultra ball, a curve throw, a perfect throw, meaning the smallest possible excellent throw, having the platinum medal of the type you're trying to catch. And if you got the candy and stardust to do so, using White Kyurem's Ice Burn adventure effect, which also increases base catch rate. Now, these are some great things to know for catching Pokémon. But, did you know there is actually a limit on

1:32 the number of Pokémon you can catch per day, and you can catch per week? Currently, it sits at 4,800 Pokémon caught per day and 14,000 per week. Upon reaching either of these caps, you will have a sort of soft ban that will prevent you from catching Pokémon. Instead, they'll just run from you each time you try to catch them. And that isn't all that has a cap. There's also a cap on the amount of rocket battles you can do. This is thought to be around 900 battles per day and one battle per minute. And the amount of PokéStops or gyms you can spin in a day is also capped at around 1,200. After this, you won't be able to spin and collect items from PokéStops or gyms. Do note that getting to these limits may flag your account for suspicious activity and give you a temporary ban. But, why have the limits? Well, they are likely designed to stop automated bot farms, which target rare Pokémon to sell or level up accounts to sell. The caps are, however,

2:18 pretty high, so they are very rarely reached by manual players, even those that grind the game heavily. Now, on the topic of spinning PokéStops for items, there is actually a way you can get yourself 30 free Poké Balls each day. To do this, you need to have 30 or less total Poké Balls, Great Balls, and Ultra Balls in your item bag. Then, when you activate your daily adventure incense, the game will grant you 30 bonus regular Poké Balls. It's likely 30 Poké Balls you get because the base daily incense lasts for 15 minutes, and you can get one encounter roughly every 30 seconds. So, the max amount of encounters you can get in a 15-minute daily incense is 30, so they give you a Poké Ball per possible encounter. Note that you won't receive the 30 Poké Balls if your item bag is full, however. There have also been a number of changes to shiny rates more recently in Pokémon Go, were kept secret. You see, part of this shiny

3:04 update stated that any evolved Pokémon in the wild can now be shiny if it's had its shiny debut. For example, Pokémon like Ivysaur had their shinies in the game through evolution, but they couldn't be shiny in the wild until this update went live. So, this change is definitely a positive. It was also stated that Pokémon from eggs and from raids would have boosted shiny rates, and Pokémon from Giovanni would now be able to be shiny. But, one thing they didn't tell you is that perma-boosted shiny rates were being removed. Perma-boosted shiny Pokémon were a group of Pokémon that had a 1 in 64 shiny rate instead of the 1 in 512 base shiny rate. Pokémon like Shinx, Absol, Timburr, etc. And many of the Pokémon in this group were considered rarer than common spawns, and that was sort of the reasoning for this perma-boosted shiny rate. However, with the shiny update for the Memories in Motion season, the many 1 in 64 shiny rate Pokémon were changed

3:50 to have 1 in 512 shiny rates like the rest of the Pokémon. It's also worth noting here that one of the old perma-boosted shiny Pokémon was Smeargle, that was shiny locked to certain events that came around roughly once per year. Following this update, however, this Pokémon can now be shiny all year round, but with base 1 in 512 shiny rates. Moving on, there's also a few secrets that you might not know when it comes to Pokémon Go friends and opening gifts. Firstly, you can skip the gift opening animation by tapping X right after you tap open. This makes opening gifts so much quicker. You can then also swipe left or right to change to the next friend, to open the next gift, or interact in whatever way you want to. The blue glow behind a friend's portrait means you have already interacted with that friend that day. So, you can more easily tell which friends you still need to interact with on that day. And when you pin postcards from gifts to the scrapbook for

4:36 Scatterbug encounters, if you pin it and then unpin it straight away, it will count for the Scatterbug encounter and the medal. But, it saves you having to go into your scrapbook and delete them later on when you need to make room for more postcards. And did you know that in the Pokédex battle tab, you can see what types of Pokémon resist and which are strong against the Pokémon? You can see all possible moves it can learn, both fast and charged, and you can see which moves are legacy moves that require Elite TMs to get. You can also set an alert for a Pokémon you're trying to catch more of, so you will get an alert if one spawns near you. And as you probably know, lucky trades are the best ways to get Hundos and Shundos in Pokémon Go, because lucky Pokémon do have a 12 12 12 IV floor. So, they have around a 1 in 64 chance to be a Hundo or a Shundo if shiny. These lucky trades only occur randomly around 5% of the time, however. But, what if I told you

5:23 there is a way you can guarantee a lucky trade? So, in a trade, if one of the two Pokémon traded is from 2020 or before, it will cause the trade to be a guaranteed lucky trade. But, there are some confusing and secret limits to it. You can only do 45 of these guaranteed lucky trades. Once you have reached your limit of 45 guaranteed lucky trades by trading a Pokémon from 2020 or before, you won't be able to initiate a guaranteed lucky trade with one of these Pokémon anymore. But, you can still be part of one of these guaranteed lucky trades if the other trainer in the trade is still under the limit of 45 and sends you a Pokémon caught from 2020 or before. Do note that even though the other trainer in this case has triggered the guaranteed lucky trade, and you have already reached your limit of 45, it will still count that you have been part of a guaranteed lucky trade, so it would increase your counter up to 46. Do note

6:08 as well, only one of the two traded Pokémon does have to be from 2020 or before to trigger a guaranteed lucky trade. And if both trainers in the trade have already reached the limit of 45, then the trade won't be a lucky trade. Now, stardust is perhaps the most important resource in the game, because you need it to power up any Pokémon, and it's shared amongst all Pokémon. And each time you catch a Pokémon, you do only get 100 stardust. But, there are some Pokémon that do give more than the normal amount per catch. And the game doesn't really tell you about this, and it is easy to miss if you are quick catching, and you therefore skip where it shows you the amount of stardust you've earned for a catch. So, really, you just need to know the list of stardust boosted Pokémon. So, Paras, the Kantonian Meowth, Delibird, Shroomish, Foongus, and Morelull all give 500 stardust per catch. Paras, Persian, Breloom, Amoonguss, and Shiinotic all

6:54 give 700 stardust per catch. The Alolan form of Meowth, Staryu, Sableye, Combee, and Trubbish all give 750 stardust per catch. Alolan Persian, Starmie, Vespiquen, and Garbodor give 950 per catch. Shellder and Chimecho give 1,000 per catch. Cloyster gives 1,200, and Audino gives 2,100 stardust per catch. So, definitely worth trying to find some Audino nests if you can. And if you do get any of these encounters through field research, you could run from them to keep them in your field research stack, and then go through and catch them all during a stardust boosted event with a star piece active. And this brings me on to weather, which boosts the amount of stardust you can get per catch by 25%, but it does a lot more than just that. You see, weather-boosted Pokémon that you can identify by the swirling animation underneath them on the overworld map, can also come at a

7:40 higher level when you catch them. And the level of a Pokémon itself is something that is hidden in the game, but usually the highest level a Pokémon can be in the wild is 30, but with a weather boost, it jumps up to 35, which is really useful because it means you need less stardust and candy to power them up overall. This does also extend to raids, where Pokémon caught from raids are normally level 20, but with a weather boost, they're caught at level 25. This is extra helpful for legendary Pokémon whose candy is a lot more difficult to come by than the average Pokémon. And moves used by raid attackers or bosses that are the same type as the weather is boosting at the time will also deal 20% more damage, so you can use this to your advantage by using counters that currently have weather-boosted moves, or by trying to avoid moves from raid bosses that are weather-boosted. Weather can also cause certain Pokémon to spawn more

8:25 frequently. For example, when it's raining, you are more likely to see water, bug, and electric type Pokémon. And a very useful way to take advantage of this is to use daily adventure incense in windy weather, because that increases the likelihood that the Galarian birds will spawn due to them all being flying types. Weather-boosted spawns also have a higher minimum IV floor of 4 4 4, whereas normal wild Pokémon have a 0 0 0 IV floor. Moving on though, did you know that the shield you use in battles changes color depending on how effective the attack you blocked would have been. For example, if the shield turns red after the attack, it means the attack would have done super effective damage to your Pokémon. If it stayed purple, it would have done neutral damage, and if the shield turned blue, it wouldn't have been very effective. This is useful for learning type match-ups and types of moves you didn't know before. And speaking of moves, it can be quite costly to

9:11 purchase a second move on a Pokémon in terms of candy and stardust. But, there is a trick you can do to reduce the cost for certain Pokémon. You see, any Pokémon that has a baby Pokémon, baby Pokémon including Elekid, Magby, and Munchlax, etc., if you buy a second move on the baby Pokémon before evolving it, it will actually cost a lot less candy and stardust. For example, to get a second attack on a Riolu, it costs 10,000 stardust and 25 Riolu candy. But, for Lucario, getting a second move will cost you 75,000 stardust and 75 Riolu candy. So, well worth getting the second attack on the baby Pokémon before you evolve it. And on the topic of evolution, as you may know, to evolve Ursaring into Ursaluna, it requires the full moon to be active in the game. And for it to be active in game, it has to be around the time there is a full moon in real life. And this only happens

9:57 roughly once a month. And if you are waiting to do it and you forget it when the full moon is active, then it is going to be a while before you can do it again. Luckily, however, there is a secret way to do this evolution without requiring the full moon, and you can do it anytime you want. You see, Dawn Wings Necrozma's signature move Moongeist Beam has an adventure effect that when used spawns a certain pool of Pokémon to your location like an incense. But its secondary effect is more important in this scenario because it also allows the evolution of Pokémon that only evolve at night. So, Pokémon such as Eevee into Umbreon, a more into Aurorus, etc. But also it allows you to evolve Ursaring into Ursaluna, bypassing the full moon requirement. And with that said, if you did find this video helpful, I'm sure you will get something out of this video on the screen now. So, do check it out and I'll catch you in the next one.