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Returning/beginner's guide

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  1. ⁠Go look up the r/thesilphroad returning guide by gamepress. Also for most updates there is an in game news section. It will tell you all the newest updates.
  2. ⁠Don't evolve a Magikarp because you have to do it for the mew quest line on stage 6/8 doing so before doesn't count.
  3. ⁠You can get 50 coins max a day from gyms. This number doesn't roll over and does not increase in any way. If a Pokemon is in a gym for 300 days it only gets 50 coins when coming back. If you have 6 Pokemon coming back in a day you only get 50 coins not 300.
  4. ⁠Golden razz can be fed to Pokemon from far away to heal that Pokemon to full health in gyms. This is the reason it keeps healing up when you battle it. You can feed any berry to your Pokemon to heal them. You'll get 20 stardust for feeding berries and a 1/86 chance of getting a candy for the Pokemon you're feeding. You can feed 10 berries to the same Pokemon every 30 minutes.
  5. ⁠Celebi quest starts when you hit stage 4/8 of Mew quest. Both quests never end. Every account gets one each of the mythical Pokemon. They cannot be traded. Also make sure eevee is your buddy when evolving to Espeon/Umbreon.
  6. ⁠Use poke genie (iOS or Android) calcyiv (Android) to check IVs. Yes they are allowed and will not get you banned. First look at the appraisal and make sure it's on the top tier before putting it into the app especially on iOS. IVs are Individual Values that each Pokemon has. The higher the IVs the more damage they should do in battle. A 100% Pokemon will do an average 10% damage more then a 0% of the same Pokemon at the same level. It's your choice if you want to look at IVs or just go with the higher CP/level Pokemon. Higher CP/level will do in most cases.
  7. ⁠Mass evolving Pokemon still works (you get 500 XP per evolve and double with a lucky egg) but adding 115 friends and getting them to best friends (163,000 XP per friend) gets you the XP you need to go from level 1-40 in 90 days (that's how long it takes to get to best friends). This is all without using a lucky egg.
  8. ⁠Don't use stardust until you hit level 30 because you'll find Pokemon up to level 35 with weather boost in the wild at level 30+. At any level a weather boosted Pokemon can be up to +5 levels above you to a max of 35. All players level 30 and above get the same wild Pokemon. All Pokemon will have the same CP/IV/level. Also don't level up Pokemon to higher than 30-33 unless you have less people in your groups. Leveling a Pokemon from 1-30 costs around 100,000 stardust and 30-40 costs 150,000 stardust. The damage difference between 30 and 40 is about 10%. If that 10% is worth 150,000 stardust use it but you can level up two Pokemon to 30 and do more damage as a team.
  9. ⁠Trading can only be done <100meters or 328 feet away from each other. So no you cannot trade regionals from other countries unless you're standing next to the person. Also trading a Pokemon will completely re roll it's IVs so don't trade a 100% thinking it'll stay a 100% cause it won't. Trading low IV/high CP is the good way to try and get high CP/high IV Pokemon. It only costs 100 stardust per normal trade. Also traded Pokemon are locked after trade and can never be traded again. Shiny and legendary and new dex Pokemon trades can only be done once a day and are more expensive. Lucky Pokemon give a floor of 12/12/12 and can happen at any time with trading. If you have less than 10 luckies and have Pokemon from July/August 2016 you can trade those Pokemon for 10 guaranteed luckies. The 10 luckies looks at your Dex number not at your box number so evolving will decrease your limit and deleting them will not decrease anything. The date on some of your Pokemon is to help with trading for luckies
  10. ⁠If you need friends in the game go to r/PokemonGoTrades and you can open 20 gifts a day which will help you as a rural person (or not). Best time to open gifts otherwise is at night especially if you don't want the eggs. If the person has a blue border on their picture that means that the friendship has leveled up that day already so do not open their gifts cause it'll be a waste of a gift cause you can only level up once a day per friendship.
  11. ⁠Learn how to "lock the circle" and "fast catch". Go YouTube for these things. Also always curve the ball cause you get a higher catch rate.
  12. ⁠Every 7 stamps you get you get the Pokemon of the month. This month it is all the legendary birds (can be shiny) and the legendary dogs. Pokemon encounters from research quests cannot run. If you run it'll make a new "stack" on the top that'll store Pokemon "first in first out". There's a limit to 100 in your stack. You can catch these Pokemon later. If you play everyday you get this Pokemon 4-5 times a month. You can delete research tasks by clicking the trash icon on them.
  13. ⁠Raiding is battling a boss. 1-2 * raids can be soloed 3* can sometimes be soloed and 4-5 * cannot. You will have to find people to beat those. Join your local discord www.thesilphroad.com/maps to find your closest one. Do not use Aggron to battle
  14. Try these search strings: evolve, +weedle, 1-151, @shadow claw, fire, water&evolve, @dark, lucky, traded, legendary, mythical, defender, cp10, shiny, alolan
  15. Adventure sync: yes it works on a treadmill, it works when the app is completely off, it syncs your steps every hour. You will get your rewards at 9 am on Monday local time.
  16. ⁠Community days are 3 hour events that will spawn one Pokemon everywhere (others will spawn also). You can get a shiny of that Pokemon on a rate of 1/25. After the event the shiny rate goes back to 1/450 like it is for all wild Pokemon. You will only see it's shiny once you click the Pokemon. If you evolve during the event (or one hour after) you'll get a special move that you can only get during the event. That Pokemon doesn't have to be caught during the 3 hours. TMs won't give you the moves. These moves are usually the best moves the Pokemon can get. Go out and find your local community and have fun! December Community day is a mixture of ALL the other CDs from this year
  17. ⁠Ex raids are triggered by multiple people/groups completing a raid at an eligible gym. The more you raid at eligible gyms the better the chances of getting an ex pass. Ex pass will give you a chance to defeat and catch deoxys. You can also become ultra friends with someone and receive/give a buddy pass invite to the raid.

Posted Nov 11, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC · edited

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