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TastyBananaPeppers

What triggers a cooldown? (Part of Mega FAQ post)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

***Credits goes to Pokedex100 and everyone on the internet who contributed to making this list possible.***

Please note that this post may be included in the newly giant mega FAQ post or as a separate post with links in the mega FAQ post. At the moment, the FAQ post is a work in progress. It's crazy long with tons of information.

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Actions that will trigger cooldown :

  1. Catching a wild Pokémon (especially those coming from Incense, Lure Modules, Special Lures and Meltan’s Mystery Box)
  2. Accidental drop of a ball on encounter screen (also applicable to raids)
  3. Feeding a wild Pokémon with a berry (also applicable to raids)
  4. Spinning a Pokéstop (especially getting a message Bag is Full due to item limit)
  5. Spinning a Pokéstop with Try Again message due to spin limit
  6. Placing a Pokémon in one of the gyms
  7. Feeding a gym defender within screen radar (especially remote feeding as long as you are within the screen radar)
  8. Gym battles
  9. Fleeing Pokémon (due to catch limit)
  10. Use of Gotcha device to spin and catch

Note: These actions will NOT reset or trigger another cooldown if you are already on cooldown.

Actions that will NOT trigger cooldown:

  1. Teleporting
  2. Encountering a wild Pokémon
  3. Remote berry feeding of gym defender (from long distances)
  4. Autowalk (minus spinning and catching)
  5. Hatching eggs
  6. Claiming quest and weekly rewards
  7. Catching a reward Pokémon from quests
  8. Speed raids (ensure you are off cooldown two hours prior to this)
  9. Exchanging and opening gifts
  10. Evolving a Pokémon
  11. Powering up a Pokémon
  12. Trading a Pokémon
  13. Transferring a Pokémon (deleting from the bag)
  14. Taking snapshots of a Pokémon
  15. Changing a Buddy
  16. Gaining Buddy candies
  17. Using items (healing items, evolution items, TMs) on a Pokémon
  18. Using Stardust and Candies to gain a second move for Pokémon
  19. Using Incense, Lucky Egg and/or Starpiece
  20. Deleting items from storage
  21. Player vs player (PVP) battles
  22. Team leader vs Player battle (battle with Blanche, Candela and/or Spark)
  23. Placing a Lure Module or Special Lure on a Pokéstop
  24. Purchasing coins and shop items
  25. Changing of avatar items/clothes
  26. Transferring a Pokémon to Switch to activate Mystery Box
  27. Obtaining a free raid pass by clicking a gym with an active raid
  28. Encountering and catching certain Pokémon from Photobombs such as Smeargle and Party Hat Pikachu

Posted Jul 2, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC · edited

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ReverESP•

Amazing post. You should check formatting of the text.

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TastyBananaPeppersOPActive Mod / Rooted Note 9 / Sytemized & Smali Helper•

It looks aligned on a computer but on a phone, it's a hit or miss depending on your phone's screen resolution and size.

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iusethistologin•

Formatting does look messed up on a computer as well. Some lines such as #4 in what triggers a cooldown looks like this "Spinning a Pokéstop with Try Again message due to spin limit 6. Placing a Pokémon in one of the gyms"

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TastyBananaPeppersOPActive Mod / Rooted Note 9 / Sytemized & Smali Helper•

Fixed now.

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snowevil•

does adding a pokemon in gym but fail does it count CD?

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CordeliaGrace•

I think so, yeah. Because if you’re getting an error while attempting to add to a gym, you’re on a CD.

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snowevil•

ty

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jefjefjef•

Since I just linked this post to a new spoofer and they said they still didn’t understand what a cooldown is, I think it might be a good idea to include what a cooldown is and what the consequences of breaking cooldown would be on this post.

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Narananas•

Here's the best explanation I could find on this subreddit so far.

The stickied mega thread warned me about cooldowns but it wasn't easy to actually find out what they are and how they work.

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knuckle_d•

If you’ve ever played basically any video game ever you should know what a cool down is. Lol. I’m just kidding. But I can see why some people would take it for granted and assume it’s universal knowledge.

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JTRigz•

So is it generally safe to jump continents more than once a day as long as the CD is respected?

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CordeliaGrace•

Yes. I mean, we run the risk by spoofing, but so long as you respect your CD, you’ll be fine for the most part.

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kevinono•

We should list down things that can't be done while on cooldown, such as:

  1. Catching Pokémon
  2. Spinning Pokéstop/gyms
  3. Placing Pokémon in gyms
  4. Raid
  5. Gym battles

Are the above correct? what else should be included in this list?

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probablylater•

Nice. Just a bit new to all of this. So let me get this straight. I open the app and wait for cooldown time to be over or teleport THEN wait ? Thanks

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laurihof•

Either one. As long as you don't interact while on cooldown.

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jgame117•

Wait, so running from pokemon triggers a cooldown?

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favolecrystalis•

Only if you've hit your catch limit for that week.

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BigDZ4SheZ•

What’s the catch limit at

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favolecrystalis•

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pokemon+go+weekly+catch+limit

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BigDZ4SheZ•

Sorry bud. Is there a way to keep track of how many mons you caught in a week

I got a gotcha and been letting it do it’s thing for a minute

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Spoofpoofpoop•

This is great thank you very much.

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Subaknaa•

How about completing research?

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alextheawsm•

Possibly add that it will not reset your cooldown if you spin a pokestop and recieve the try again later message because of your cooldown

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Segmentation_Fault__•

So this is especially topical for me right now and I’m hoping for a quick answer 😅😅I just teleported to a nest and found a shiny. Problem is, I’m on 90 minute cool down. If I stay in the encounter, will it flee if I wait the cool down? Do Pokémon run if you’re in the encounter too long? I really want this shiny 😫

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gilxion117•

No they won't run after the cooldown expires.

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CordeliaGrace•

As long as you keep your phone open! I’ve kept my phone open on something I was trying to wait out the CD on, but had to go to work...16.5 hours later, I was good to go lol. But I don’t know when your phone decides to screw you over and shut the app down on its own...and that sucks. I’ve lost a few rarer (for me) Hundos because of that.

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josbor11•

One thing that I don't believe was covered, what if you have a pokemon in a gym and it gets knocked out and you get the notification that it has returned after fighting? Does this trigger cooldown?

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Cwudude88•

So if I have been offline for a lets say 3 hours, and then I log in and the first thing I do is teleport somewhere else in the world, I can start playing right away or do I need to log off and wait 2 more hours?

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laurihof•

You can play right away.

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Itskrueger•

One thing I don’t understand, what’s the point of a cool down? Say i teleport from San Fran to New York, my cool down will have to be 2 hours, what’s the point I’m not triggering the cool down ? It’s 2 hour wait whether you trigger it or not right ? Sorry if that was confusing

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CordeliaGrace•

If you do any of that stuff listed that triggers action, you have to wait. It keeps some one, something, somewhere, from getting suspicious. I don’t know why it’s just 2 hours, when going from Buffalo to South Korea is a longer trip than 2 hours..but here we are.

But if I go from Buffalo to SK without triggering any of the listed actions, I’m fine. It’s like I was never there. And I can bounce all over as long as I don’t touch anything lol.

Hopefully that helped?

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swiftgigz•

So I Travel to Paris, that won’t trigger a CD, but each stop I spin has an individual CD as well. So I want a place with better clusters to avoid hitting up one stop every 1 or so? what if i spoof but stay home and use a joystick?

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laurihof•

If you TP to Paris and you wait your cooldown, or you hadn't done anything in game 2 hours prior to the teleport, you can just walk around and hit stops as you come to them. Each spin doesn't create a new cooldown. If you are teleporting to each stop, you will have to wait the cooldown that the app suggests after spinning the stop or catching the mon.

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Bonyoh007•

to running the cooldown of the Pokemon go application, it must be turned on or turned off ?? Sorry im new spoof and i need a help

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XtremeDragon35•

If I start a TR battle but leave before the battle starts, does that trigger a cooldown? (without spinning the pokestop of course)

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Muskandar•

Does restarting the app or reinstalling the app trigger a cooldown??

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dangernoodle6666•

Does catching a normal pokemon trigger cd? Ex: encountering a wild pidgey while not on cooldown and preceding to catch it

Also how long are these listed cd's?

Edit:forgot to add a part :(

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Zwodo•

Of course, that's literally the first example in the original post. There is a cooldown chart pinned in the sidebar of this subreddit, it will tell you your wait time based on the distance you wanna travel after getting on cooldown.

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