Updated Egg Chart: Valentine’s Day
We've observed a shift in the Egg hatching groups following the Valentine's day event on 08th February 2017. Refer to the updated chart below...
Valentine’s Day Event Guide: Porygon, Blissey and Buddy time!
Trainers,
the Pokémon GO Valentine event is live now and lasts until 11:00 A.M. PST on February 15, 2017. The rewards for participating in this...
How to APK mine Pokémon GO: a data miners guide
APK mining, or data mining, is the process of exploring and reading the code behind Pokémon GO. We've been doing this for a while already,...
Guide: how to decode the Pokémon GO GAME_MASTER file
Trainers,
it's time to share some APK and game mining knowledge with the community. Here's the first installment in our upcoming "APK Mining" series, explaining...
Tyranitar vs Dragonite
Tyranitar vs Dragonite
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Many trainers believe that with the addition of Tyranitar into the gym meta things will change drastically....
Pokémon GO Nest Migration Tracker
Pokémon GO Nest Migration Tracker
Following the well established pattern, Pokémon GO Nest Migrations occur every 2 weeks. This pattern was observed and verified by...
Christmas Box buying guide: which Pokemon GO bundle is the best for you?
In honor of Christmas and Winter festivities, Niantic has released a couple of sweet items and bundles in the Shop. We decided to take...
Pokémon GO on Apple Watch
Apple Watch Pokémon GO
The official Pokémon GO app for Apple Watch was released on December 22, 2016 to much excitement and joy of Apple...
Tracking Sightings Tab Pokémon using Ingress and XM points
Tracking Sightings Tab Pokémon using Ingress and XM points
All credit for this guide goes to RDash123, the highest level Pokemon GO player in Croatia....
PokeStop Item Drop Rates
PokeStop Item Drop Rates
A reddit researcher named Greenkappa1 tested more than 160 PokeStops to see if the item drop rates have changed significantly recently....
How to chose your Pokémon Sun and Moon starter
With Sun and Moon only 3 days away, it's time to talk about starters. You know, that not-so-little decision you make at the start...
Preparing for the Pokémon Sun and Moon release day
Trainers, Sun and Moon is coming out on 18th of November, so we have only 6 more days to prepare and read up on...
Gen 2 Cross Evolution Candy
Pokémon Candy you should save for Gen II
We've received a number of questions what Pokémon Candy should you save for when Generation II releases.
We've compiled...
Pokemon GO Tyranitar: the Hype is Real, a new Gym god is coming
With the recent discovery that Generation 2 has been added to the game code, we are officially hyped for what's coming up! One of...
How to find and report Pokemon Nests in Europe and Asia
There seems to be a lot of confusion around Pokemon Nests, especially in Europe and Asia, where the Global Nest Atlas has not yet been widely...
Lapras biome (spawn area) has been discovered!
Lapras is one of the rarest, if not the rarest, top tier Pokemon in the game. It's also top tier defender and attacker.
Recently, we managed...
Pokemon GO Catch Chance Calculator
Pokemon GO Catch Chance Calculator
Based on research conducted by Gamepress and verified by the reddit Silph Road community, we're finally able to devise a calculator...
Pokemon GO Daily Quests and Bonuses
Pokemon GO Daily Bonuses
We were the first who managed to data mine the details on Daily Quests in the 0.43.3 APK. As new info comes...
Pokemon GO Halloween Event Guide
BREAKING: Upcoming Daily Quest feature datamined in the new APK!
Niantic announced that Halloween is coming to Pokemon GO! Starting October 26 and lasting through November...
How to throw Pokemon GO Curveball correctly
We found an amazing guide on curveballs on reddit (/r/thesilphroad), so decided to share it here also. Thanks to ohbearly for this great guide.
TL;DR: If you...
Pokémon Genesis: History of the Pokémon world
Genesis
In the beginning there was nothing. What would eventually become the Universe consisted of a formless black mass, hovering over an endless plain of...
Curveball bonus increases capture chance!
According to a statistical analysis posted on TheSilphRoad website curveballs increase the odds of capturing Pokemon! This is great news, as there was a...
Top 6 Pokemon NOT to place in gyms
In order to minimize the amount of work required to maintain 10 gyms in and near my hometown, I focus on training up friendly gyms...
How to play Pokemon Go on rooted Android devices (Marshmallow)
A few notes: this only works on Android 6+, could work earlier, but we do not recommend it. Big thanks to whoever created this...
October 2016 bugs and workarounds list
Pokemon GO is not a perfect game by any means, but some of the bugs can be easily avoided and fixed temporary by using...
Top 5 Grass Pokemon in Pokemon GO
A growing number of players has recently been looking into Grass and Electric type Pokemon, mostly due to their double effectiveness against Water type Pokemon...
Top 5 Rock Type Pokemon
If you're a sucker for Brock and Rock types, we can't blame you! Rock types comprise some of the coolest and most iconic Pokemon...
Unfortunately, Pokemon GO has stopped
Recently, Pokemon GO has started crashing for a lot of people, even if they did not open the app at all. Usually, this crash...
How to dodge in Pokemon GO
We get the same question all the time, by new and old players alike: "How to dodge in Pokemon GO?". The confusion behind dodging...
Pokemon GO I am not a robot
In August of 2016, Niantic introduced a sleeve of safety features in Pokemon GO to knock out bots and tracker apps. Among those features...