An Undiscovered Easter Egg

                      

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After choosing your starter Pokemon; Squirtle, Charmander, or Bulbasaur, from Professor Oak. You then proceed on into the wild where you encounter wild Pokemon. Route 1 is the first area in the game you will encounter Pokemon, which are just Pidgey and Rattatas in the original Red and Blue games.

From there you will find yourself in Viridian City, which will eventually get you to route 2. Route 2 is the home of Caterpie, Weedle, Pidgey, and Rattata until you get to Viridian's forest; you can add Metapod, Kakuna, and Pikachu to the list. These are the Pokemon that again, show up in the Red and Blue games.

After doing a short tutorial on how to catch Pokemon in Pewter City, and a quick exploration of the town, trying to get into the gym you forgot was owned by the 8th gym leader; route 3 is just east of the city.

Home to Pidgey, Spearow, and Jigglypuff, some may already see where I'm going with this. The only Pokemon we are missing so far would be Geodude, Zubat, and Clefairy.

After completing route 3; defeating all the trainers and making it to the other side so you can heal your Pokemon, you will find yourself standing with what appears to be, nowhere to go. Don't worry, though, that little black dot is to a cave, Mt. Moon.

Those missing few Pokemon can all be found here, plus Paras. I'm not sure why Niantic didn't include Paras in the same egg group, or maybe what I came across is just a mere coincidence, but I don't believe so. The odds of the developers making all these wild Pokemon in the Red and Blue games; found before and in Mt. Moon, being nothing more than luck just doesn't cut it for me.

  There is a reason I believe this to be an easter egg, only involving the Pokemon Red and Blue games. I did quite a bit of research. At first I suspected it might have been the first Pokemon Ash registered in his Pokedex. A few episodes in I noticed Ash registered a bug trainers Pinser in his Pokedex, so I went on to believe that maybe it was only wild Pokemon. 10 Pokemon into the theory, Ash Catches a Krabby, busting the theory and putting my semi-hard work to shame.

  I don't remember why I decided to research all the Pokemon that spawn in the games, Red, Blue, and Yellow, but I did. I started getting a little disappointed when I saw that Sandshrew could be caught in Mt. Moon. At the time I was just skimming the bulbapedia articles, only later to catch on that I found what I was looking for. Until Niantic confirms this, which I doubt they will see it, I'm still not 100% sure this was intended.  

If it wasn't for that one extra Pokemon, Paras. I would feel more comfortable about saying this is, in fact, an easter egg. Aside from Paras though, all the Pokemon caught up until this point are the same Pokemon we can hatch from 2km eggs. My biggest question about the 2km eggs was, why do we hatch, out of all the other Pokemon, Geodude from 2km eggs? I told myself I wouldn't stop until I found an answer and I did! The thing about Magikarp being hatching from 2km eggs is because of the amount of candies it takes to evolve.

Why We Don't Battle Before Catching Pokemon

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We can thank Pokemon's mascot Pikachu for allowing us to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go without the hassle of battling them first. I personally liked that part of encountering and catching Pokemon but it's kool... it's kool. This isn't a confirmed easter egg, though if Niantic included this scene from the anime into the game, it would be an easter egg. 

If you haven't watched the anime, then hold up before reading the rest of this post. It may contain spoilers. If you don't wish to watch the anime, and or spoilers don't matter to you, then go right ahead and continue reading.  

This scene begins with Ash stumbling upon everyone's "favorite" Pokemon to catch, Pidgey. Ash demands Pikachu to attack, which instead of listening to his trainer, Pikachu decides to find itself a limb to climb on and lay down. Ash, being the stubborn trainer he is, decided he doesn't need Pikachu's help, he can just catch the famous Pokemon by simply throwing a Pokeball at it.



This can also be done in the games; not weakening a Pokemon before trying to catch it. Ash isn't the only stubborn master. It is more plausible that this feature was put in the game to speed gameplay up a bit. The main objective is to "catch'em all". But... it's more fun to believe this was an easter egg intended to be found. Niantic confirmed a while ago, there were still several unfound easter eggs within the coding. I'm unsure of how to find out for sure, we all know Niantic won't respond, but I may have found other easter eggs in the game, so I will be covering what I have found over the next few days.

One thing that would have been nice for Niantic to do; like in the first episode of the anime, Ask doesn't catch Pidgey and it ends up fleeing. Did Ash lose his Pokeball? No! But It's okay that's not a very important feature. Who knows maybe you don't lose a Pokeball after a Pidgey flees, I sure haven't been paying attention to that. 

The Problem with Catching A Ditto

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Ditto, the Pokemon the had more theories of how the critter would be introduced into the game. Maybe it was already in the game? Maybe it will be a regional Pokemon? The beginning of Thanksgiving update proved us all wrong. The Pokemon community was in an uproar, everyone thought pictures were fake, or that they had caught the very first ditto; I believed that myself too, there wasn't anything about people catching Dittos when I did, which was on its release date.

It all began when my mom was trying to catch a Rattata for her "Youngster" achievement. She was outside with my brother at the time, showing him all the Christmas lights; he was on break from college. Not paying attention to her phone until they return inside, she noticed that it was a Ditto, nor a Rattata.

Ditto

Pidge

A few days go where we don't catch any around our house, though we wasted several Pokeballs in the process. In the photos above, you will see a Ditto and Pidgey. I bet you can't tell which is which, without looking at the caption. 

In the Pokemon Snap game, to get a Ditto we have to "disturb" a Bulbasaur before it will finally transform back into its original form. In the anime, it's first seen not able to fully copy Pokemon, and in the other Nintendo games, it's just itself, meaning that in all the other Pokemon games, Ditto can clearly be seen as Ditto, or abused into showing it's true form before any Pokeballs are "wasted". 

A simple tap frenzy on the confirmed Ditto disguises would be something interest to add, that way People don't have to participate in Niantic's money thirst scheme, buying Pokeballs because stops no longer drop many, and now trying to catch a Pokemon that might not actually be there.

Pokemon Stopped Spawning?

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I wasn't planning on covering this topic. It didn't seem worth my time to cover it, to be honest. I'm not too fond of it because there is only one Pokestop around my area so the tracking system doesn't really affect me. At least that is what I thought. It turns out it affects rural players, not to the point we can't even catch anything.

Before this rolled out; I wished I had a screenshot, there were several Pokemon popping up, not just your commons either in fact I have completed most of my Pokedex from my own house. Rare Pokemon just seemed to keep spawning, every time there was a migration, the Pokemon that use to spawn changed, and from there I was able to catch different Pokemon.

I'm not sure if this is the same for those who live in more populated places, I just know I went from catching several Pokemon a day, to not even finding any the next. Normally, this wouldn't be concerning, but it seems like Niantic keeps punishing rural players. Many times people have reached out to Niantic, trying to help rural trainers but so far it seems like they do the opposite of what you would expect. Let me know if you are having this problem too, hopefully, it's just a bug with the sightings tab but I'm not going to get my hopes up. 

Update: I have now had the game up for 2 hours, the only thing that has shown up was a Magikarp... it wasn't a ditto :/

A Belated Thank You We Should All Be a Part of

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There are several reasons each individual should be thankful, many things of which aren't shared but personal. Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be thankful for the things you have. Only a week late, there is one person we should all consider thanking, and that is Satoshi Tajiri.

Tajiri had a dream, it began with his love for insects. He was very fond of insects and tadpoles found in the suburbs of Tokyo; later to form the idea of one of the largest creative franchises in the world. He loved insects so much, he wanted to share the thrills of collecting them with other children.

Getting a few of his friends together, Tajiri created Game Freak. When Tajiri discovered the Game Boy and Game Boy Linking Cable, his dream grew bigger, imagining the insects traveling through the wire.


Ultraman; a fantasy TV series influenced Tajiri to further his creation when the protagonist of the series used monsters that were contained in small capsules. He later pitched "Capsule Monsters" to Nintendo, only for his idea to be dismissed. Later on, Tajiri befriends Shigeki Morimoto who pitches the idea to Nintendo once again.

Once the game was funded, it spent 6 years in development, leading to a financial loss, and "Capsule Monsters" being changed to the well-known game "Pocket Monsters". Several members of Tajiri's team left him, while he stayed with his ship, everyone thought to be sinking. Many unpaid hours went by while the rest his team, including him, finished the game.

If it weren't for Tajiri being stubborn about his creation, we wouldn't have the Pokemon we know and love today. Though his team also deserves a big thank you for sticking with him through his long journey, and Nintendo as well for helping make it possible for everyone to share the joy of collecting "insects" Tajiri had.

Of course, if it weren't for Niantic, we wouldn't have Pokemon go. Though through a bit of hardship, not being very communicative and drastic changes to the game, we owe them a big thank you too.

I would like to Thank,

Satoshi Tajiri and his team, Nintendo, and Niantic for all of their hard work!

There is a Missing Team in Pokemon Go?

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Returning to the joys of my childhood TV series, Pokemon Indigo League, I came across a few stunning scenes. Though this is all fan based, it is still fun to believe that the Pokemon world is deeper than what as kids, once thought. I highly recommend, no matter your age, you watch the anime series.

Here is what I have found thus far...

It's just Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur, right? Look closely, not too closely, though or you can clearly see that I just used my phone to take this picture; I don't own any of these Pictures. If you can see that then you are looking to hard! I want you young and old trainers to look at the symbols setting behind the Pokemon.

Squirtle's symbol is red, Charmander's Blue, and Bulbasaur's Yellow. Meaning, in the Pokemon Go community, Squirtle belongs to Valor, Charmander belongs to Mystic, and Bulbasaur belongs to instinct. I can safely say, I am a true instinct. 

Where does that put Pikachu then? Ash starts with him, does that mean Ash isn't a part of a team? Or, just hear me out now, Ash could secretly be a part of team rocket? No, no, no, that wouldn't make sense because team rocket is always after Pikachu. But does that mean Team rocket isn't the missing team? Well, I'm not sure yet. Things got a little hairy as I progressed through the second episode.

This is an ancient hieroglyphic found while archeologist discovered King Tuts pyramid; not really, that would be interesting, though. The hieroglyphic above shows Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos, and Arcanine. Moltres, Articuno, and Zapdos; also known as the legendary birds are Pokemon goes team symbols. 

Moltres is team Valor, Articuno is Mystic, and Zapdos is Instinct. Where's Arcanine and its team? First of all the color would be green as seen in the picture above, but Zapdos is green and Arcanine is Yellow. Is it Possible Instinct took out this "green" team? 

Let's try and see if we can come up with a name for this so-called 4th team. A friend and I pondered over it for a brief moment and decided on Team Legend. There is a reason I agreed with him, that I didn't mention to him. We will go over the definitions of the team names really quick, shall we. 

Valor: great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle

Mystic: a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

Instinct: an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli

Legend: a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

Something tells me "legend" isn't the most accurate guess, but it works. Arcanine's Pokedex entry is "a Legendary Pokémon, Arcanine is known for its bravery and fierce loyalty." That is why I sided with my friend on "Legend" being the missing team. 

What happened to team "Legend"? Could team Legend be team Rocket, or did Instinct win the theorized Pokewar? 

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You Only Need 124 Candies for Those 3 Evolution Pokemon

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Ever evolve a Pokemon using every last bit of candy you have for it, and you go to look at it and see this one candy just hanging there? It's okay you aren't crazy, I have been paying close attention to the Pokemon I evolve. Not only that, but I have a theory as to why this happens. It doesn't seem to be a glitch or bug either.

Don't mind the 34% battery life left on my phone, that's not what we are looking at. In the photos above I show that I have 100 Cubone candies. I figured having 50-100 candies for a Pokemon that takes 50 to evolve would be easier to show you get candies from evolving. After evolving the Cubone, I should be left with 50 candies right? So why do I have 51?

Many know by now that you get a total of 4 candies per Pokemon catch. 3 for the catch and 1 for transferring. Do we really get 3 candies for the catch itself? I don't believe so. I think we get 2 candies for catching the Pokemon and a candy from the Pokemon itself, then another candy when, if we wish to transfer the Pokemon. How does this effect evolving, though?

When you evolve, you aren't only getting a good amount of experience, or possibly a new Pokemon in your Pokedex, you are getting a "new" Pokemon as well. This is why I believe you receive candy from the Pokemon itself. When I evolved the Cubone, I didn't transfer it, and it shouldn't register as anything such, but I still got an extra candy when Cubone became Marowak. Since I didn't catch Marowak, I didn't receive the 3 candies for catching a Pokemon, making me think that you only get 2 candies for catching.

What do you think? Do you get a candy for the Pokemon, or when you evolve do you think it means you are transferring the Pokemon of your choice? 

Get the Most Out of the Thanksgiving Bonuses

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Everyone has been asking if using the lucky egg would give 4x the amount of experience during the event, which Niantic even confirmed the answer for us that indeed it does. Here are a few of the things that you will need in order to get the most out of this event.

• 7-day streak: the event lasts for 7 days, so by the time this post is out, a majority of those that read it during its first arrival to the web; should be able to get the 4000 experience bonus when completing their daily streak within the event. Just before your last streak count, be sure to use a lucky egg.
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• Eggs:  If properly placed in incubators, hatch all your eggs at once! Put your 10km eggs in first, walk until they are halfway hatched, put your 5km eggs in, walk until your 5km eggs hit 3km and your 10km eggs hit 8km, then put your 2 km eggs in incubators.
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• Evolving: Save all your candies until the last day of the event (or just before it ends) and evolve your Pokemon.
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• New Pokedex entry: Save any new evolutions you might be able to get until just before the event ends
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• Lucky Egg: If everything is done right above, use a lucky egg to double everything or get 4x the amount while the event is still going on!

Normal experience gain:

Eggs: 2km 200, 5km 500, 10km 1000

Pokestop: 50

Evolving: 500

New Pokemon entry: 600

Daily Bonus: 500 for both stops and first catch

7 day streak: 2000 for both stops and first catch

Accuracy: Nice 10, great, 50, excellent 100

Experience from Lucky Eggs:

Eggs: 2km 400, 5km 1000, 10km 2000

Pokestop: 100

Evolving: 1000

New Pokemon entry: 1200

Daily Bonus: 1000 for both stops and first catch

7 day streak: 4000 for both stops and first catch

Accuracy: Nice 20, great 100, excellent 200

Experience from Lucky Egg+ Event Bonus

Eggs: 2km 800, 5km 2000, 10km 4000

Pokestop: 200

Evolving: 2000

New Pokemon entry: 2400

Daily Bonus: 2000 for both stops and first catch

7 day streak: 8000 for both stops and first catch

Accuracy: Nice 100, great, 200, excellent 400

The best way to make the most out of the event is by getting 9 eggs, wait before putting them all in. Put 10kms in first as stated above, walk them to 5km, put your 5km eggs in, walk another 3km putting your 10km eggs at 8km, and 5km eggs at 3km, then put your 2km eggs in. Once that is done, try to walk another km so that you only need one more to walk on all your eggs. Use a lucky egg and continue to walk.

It is important that you get all of your eggs the day before your 7 day streak if it isn't already too late. Don't catch anything or spin any stops until your eggs are set up as said above rather you can get your 7 day bonus or not. If you can't it's still an extra 2000 experience each.

Hopefully, you have a nice stock of candies ready because you will be using the evolving method often used to level. Luckily I saved about 5-6 new Pokemon entries so I will gain a bit more experience than others, but if you have new Pokemon entries, be sure to evolve those as well. If done correctly, using averages, you can expect to get roughly 100,000 experience. I have seen screenshots of most 120,000.

I Caught A Ditto!

It all started when my mom was showing my brother; of whom is on vacation as he is in college, our Christmas lights we decided to set up early this year while the weather was warm. The Thanksgiving event is in place right now so my mom decided to catch a Rattata for the event bonuses, and hopefully a recorded breaking tiny Rattata for the badge. 

Moments later she looks at her screen to see if the Rattata was small enough to count toward the achievement and this happened! 

I am not sure of and strategies of coming across one of these because it looked like any other Rattata, there wasn't anything off about it. The best/ fastest way of getting one of these long sought for failed experiments is simply by catching everything you come across. 

Please let me know if you have or know of someone who also has a Ditto. This is the first of even hearing about it, and I'm glad to say that I too am one who actually has a Ditto, maybe one of few?

Pokemon known to transform thus far:

Rattata 

Pidgey

Magikarp

Zubat

Get Accuracy Bonus Throws Everytime

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In one of my latest posts, I covered how to get the accuracy "Nice" throw every time. Though many disbelieved I wouldn't cover how to get great and excellent throws, and just leave it at the "Nice" Bonus. Well, the truth is, I still need to collect data for the other bonuses and wasn't expecting to come across them both as fast as I did. I had an idea on how to get a Great throw often, but why settle for that when I can say I figured out how to get Excellent throws often. Getting an excellent throw is still hard to do, even after knowing how it's done. 

Many believe it all matters on how big the catch circle is, though that stands true, that isn't everything needed in order to get a bonus throw. The key to getting a bonus every time relies on not only the circle but also rather or not the ball lands in the catch circle, which is why it is so hard to get excellent throws unless you have mastered this technique. I'm still unsure rather the button of the ball needs to be facing the Pokemon, the main reason why is it doesn't seem to matter when I try for a "Nice" throw, but great and excellent it seems to matter, or I could just be barely missing the hit box for the accuracies. 

In the pictures below shows about where the catch circles need to be. Nice seems to be the most accurate screenshot of them all, but it's hard to time the delay just right. For both great and excellent, the circles need to be a tad bit smaller (or so I believe.) After you get the hang of accurate throws, you can then master the curve ball for the slightly increased catch rate alongside the accurate boost. Not to mention the extra experience given could boost the rate you level. 

The "L" throw people keep talking about (where you drag your Pokeball to either side of the screen.) seems to make it easier to throw curve balls, and maybe that's why it was implemented in the game. Hope these tips are as helpful for you as they are me, my family, and friends. 

Nice

Great

Excellent

How to Increase the Chances of Hatching Pokemon you Want

As far as I am aware, this is still a theory but it deals with the biome weather dependency and biome exclusive trails. For those who aren't sure what a biome is; it is a fairly new term used to describe the different habitats such as forests and tundras. I'm not sure of what biomes are in Pokemon go other than a water and grass biome, mostly because of where I live.

Well, what does any of this have to do with hatching eggs? About a week ago, it was cold damp and rainy for a few days in which I was able to hatch eggs still, though it wasn't my common fire or grass types. It was literally water Pokemon one after the other. It is safe to say however that Water Pokemon do spawn more when it rains because that was practically the only thing spawning. I'm still working on testing this, but I believe it to be true because there is a spot I normally walk to get a good sum of water types. I normally end up with 10-20 within the route, nor included what I get from eggs.

I didn't think much of the Pokemon I got out of eggs I hatched while walking this route, mostly because I thought it was by chance. Well the more I started hatching, the most water Pokemon I got, this was also when it was raining a bit though it was clear at the time I walked. I realized what was happening after hatching several eggs, which most were, of course, water type.

Have any 10km eggs you hope to become one of the one of the few water types you can get from them? Well, I would hold off hatching them until it's either cold damp and rainy unless you live near a water biome spawn. This could greatly increase your chances of getting Dratini's if you are still after that Dragonite (like me). Remember, though you have a (possibly) higher chance of getting water types when conditions are right, doesn't mean A) you will get a water type 100% of the time and B) you will get the Pokemon you long sought for and C) this is still speculation in which I hope to get hard evidence for, before I say rather or not it's legit. 

Though this theory makes sense doesn't mean it is true, that's why it is merely a theory. If you wish to be a part of testing this theory, please don't hesitate to let me know your data.