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NHow To Find Rare Pokémon In 'Pokémon GO'

Dave Thier ,   CONTRIBUTOR
I write about video games and technology.  

image: Nintendo
image: Nintendo

At a certain point, you’ve got enough Pidgey. I don’t care how many Pidgeots you’ve made, how much candy you’ve stockpiled or what plans you’ve got for your fleet of tiny birds. A few days into Pokémon GO, and you notice that you start to get awfully full up on some of those trash Pokémon everyone seems to be getting: creatures like Rattata, Caterpie, Pidgey, Doduo and the like. It might be slightly different for you depending on which Pokémon live in your area, but it’s the same problem. So how do you find rare Pokémon?

Wild Pokémon rarity and CP are tied to your trainer level, not the level of any of your Pokémon. You can see it in the lower left-hand corner of your screen. You raise your trainer level by getting experience, which you get from basically everything you do. So grab those PokéStops, fight at those gyms and hatch those eggs to keep things rolling. You also get experience just by walking. If you’re looking to fast forward a little bit, you can buy a Lucky Egg from the store to double your experience gains for 30 minutes.

You can also evolve those less interesting Pokémon, which you can read about in my guide here. 

It’s a bit of a drag for the first ten levels or so, but things start to open up after that. I caught a 520 Scyther yesterday, and I’ve noticed that a lot of those encounters with lower-level creatures have been replaced by newer monsters, as well as evolved versions of the normal types.

What remains to be seen is where you get the ultra-rare legendary monsters like Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and Mew. There don’t seem to have been any confirmed sightings yet, and there’s no evidence they’re in the game at this moment. The original announcement trailer for Pokémon GO, however, showed a bunch of people in Times Square all fighting the same Mewtwo, so it seems possible that legendary Pokémon are going to be tied to real-life events. Niantic did a ton of events for Ingress, so expect to see that sort of thing going forward.

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