![]() ![]() To understand the best ways, it's worth remembering the conceit of the game: creatures are found in real-world locations, with the app using Google Maps and Ingress data to place PokeStops, Gyms and other attractions into the game. It’s all so weird and it feels so random.There are many ways to find Pokémon in Pokémon Go, with some more efficient than others. This spawn is where I caught my one and only Gible, despite having been active playing Pokemon Go all week. But why do 2-4 Pokemon, including pretty rare spawns like Charmander and Eevee, spawn here of all places? You can’t even really walk to it because it’s next to a busy road. There are no other Pokemon spawns in a 3km radius. There is one other spawn around the corner at the village offices. But there’s a spawn point that spawns 3-5 Pokemon just before the roundabout onto the motorway, which no one can access unless you’re stationary by the side of the road!Īnd then there’s a road on the way to where my mum lives that will guaranteed spawn 2-4 Pokemon. On the northern part of town, there’s a lonely EX-Raid Gym that gets Pokemon spawning nearby, but no other Pokemon spawn until you reach the next Pokestop. In the middle of town though, outside the main areas, Pokemon spawn points quickly vanish into nothing. There’s another one slightly further down that also only works if you’re walking. Why is there a spawn here? Who knows? There’s a single Pokemon spawn along a main road that can only be accessed by car and only appears if you’re going less than 30km an hour – which never happens on this main road. There are no other spawns in this village. The spawn is directly on top of a derelict old house. There’s another spawn in a small village. My place, being in the middle of town, has a spawn that’s a 2-3 minute walk away, and another spawn 5 minutes away, but zero spawns right on top of my house. I’ve caught two Eevees at my dad’s place. Or maybe that’s just at major airports because there’s actually a Pokestop at the nearby airport for me.īut then you have insanely weird spawn locations.ĭespite my dad’s apartment being kinda isolated, there is a spawn right there. There are also ‘biomes’ that don’t have spawns at all. Which means that, even if you’re in a somewhat busy area, you might not get any spawns. Sure, Gyms and Pokestops come into it, but apparently spawn points are determined by cellular data usage. But what determines a spawn point? That is mostly a mystery. So there are definitely things that determine which types of Pokemon may spawn. Honestly I think a lot of that was early-game guesswork. Apparently ghost type Pokemon like churches and things like that, but about 30% of all Pokestops and Gyms where I live are for churches and I still only occasionally see ghosts at night. ![]() I’m really not sure if actual real life locations affect spawns though. Whether they are actual nests or not, I have no idea, but considering just how many Magmars spawned, I’m pretty sure the Magmar nest was an actual nest. When the Adventure Week goes away, those spawns probably won’t come back. ![]() That lasted about 2 days before the Adventure Week update hit and most of those spawns were replaced with Lileeps and Anoriths. Just recently, there was a nice Magmar nest right where I normally walk, with a small collection of Scythers nearby, allowing me to catch a ton of them at once. One Pokemon will just tend to spawn a lot in a small area, and these will change occasionally, normally whenever there’s a new event or update. On top of that, there’s the nesting system. You also have local weather affecting what Pokemon spawn, so, for example, if it’s clear and sunny, you get more fire, ground and grass types, while partly cloudy boosts rock and normal types. I’m pretty sure you get different types as well depending on how many buildings there are too. If you’ve travelled before, you know that water and electric types tend to spawn near the sea or ocean, while you’ll get more grass and bug types. Why? Who knows? Why am I carrying this Quilava around? Why not? Pokemon spawning in the middle of nowhere. Open Street Maps not only gives us roads but also gives a rough idea of what biomes are, and the biomes determine the chances of certain Pokemon spawning. Secondly, a large number of Pokestops and Gyms are based on similar portals in Niantic’s other game Ingress (now called Ingress Prime). Firstly the map we see in Pokemon Go is based off Open Street Maps, an open source mapping system that works based on contributions by the Open Street Map community. I understand that there’s a system in place that determines when Pokemon spawn (they spawn every hour but only appear for certain amounts of time) and there’s a whole biome system in place as well, but it’s really a bit of a mystery as to why places spawn Pokemon. ![]()
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