Keep in mind that offenders are not always offered three strikes. Some misbehaviors may
result in immediate account termination without prior warning.
Strike 1: Warning/ Red Warning (RW)
Disciplinary actions:
If this strike is issued, you will see a warning message within the Pokémon GO app informing you that we
have detected cheating on your account. In addition to this warning, your gameplay experience may be
degraded in the following ways for the duration of the warning:
You may not be able to encounter rare Pokémon in the wild. These Pokémon may not appear on the map or on
the Nearby Pokémon tracker.
You may be excluded from receiving new EX Raid Passes.
Duration:
This strike will last for approximately 7 days. After this period, your gameplay experience will fully be
restored.
Strike 2: Suspension
If your account is issued a second strike, you will temporarily lose access to your Pokémon GO account. When
attempting to log into the game, you’ll be presented with a message stating that your account is suspended.
You will not be able to bypass this message.
Duration:
This strike will last for approximately 30 days. After that period, your account access will be restored.
Strike 3: Termination
If you receive the first and second strikes and continue to cheat, your account will be permanently banned.
Duration:
Permanent!
Spoofing is where you trick your device's GPS tracker to think it's in another location. Of course
your whereabouts in Pokémon Go is completely dependent on this.
With the latest changes by Niantic, sniping is now much harder.
Start by being idle (no pokestops, gyms, or catching Pokémon) for 2 hours. This includes having the app
open or
closed.
Assume you are at location A and there is a Pokémon spawning at location B (which is more than 1000 km
away).
You can now teleport to B, encounter that Pokémon and capture it at B. Since the game records your
encounter
location now, your latest location is at B and not A anymore.
Then, you can spin Pokestops at B without being soft banned. You may return to A or snipe at another
distant
location C after another 2 hours of idling.
Cool down is the time required between teleports for certain actions. Cool down time depends on the
distance
teleporting. Max cool down is 2 hours!
Distance
Cooldown
1 Km
1 min
2 Km
1 min
4 Km
2 mins
10 Km
8 mins
12 Km
9 mins
15 Km
11 mins
20 Km
13 mins
25 Km
15 mins
30 Km
18 mins
40 Km
22 mins
45 Km
23 mins
60 Km
25 mins
80 Km
27 mins
100 Km
30 mins
125 Km
33 mins
140 Km
34 mins
150 Km
36 mins
180 Km
39 mins
200 Km
42 mins
250 Km
46 mins
300 Km
50 mins
350 Km
53 mins
400 Km
56 mins
500 Km
64 mins
600 Km
600 Km
750 Km
82 mins
800 Km
86 mins
900 Km
93 mins
950 Km
97 mins
1000 Km
100 mins
1150 Km
111 mins
1200 Km
115 mins
1250 Km
118 mins
1266+ Km
120 mins
Cooldown can be calculated with a distance calculator or by waiting the maximum cooldown of 2 hours.
Cooldown will reset doing any of the following actions:
Catch a Pokémon.
Accidentally drop the ball anywhere on the catch screen.
Use a berry on a Pokémon in catch screen.
Fight in a Gym.
Putting a Pokémon in a gym.
Spin a Pokestop/ gym.
Using a berry on a gym Pokémon.
Finish a Raid and either feed a berry or try to catch the boss.
Catch meltans from a meltan mystery box.
Cool down will NOT reset doing any of the following actions:
Teleporting in general. You can teleport as much as you want, just don't DO any of the cool down .
Click on a Pokémon, without doing anything after. (shiny checking).
Egg hatching.
Evolve/ power-up a Pokémon.
Using an item on a Pokémon (like TM/ rare candies).
Receive rewards from a quest.
Catching a quest Pokémon.
Take photos (Snapshot).
Catch Smeargle or any of the other photobomb Pokémon.
Raid and then immediately run away from the catch screen (used in speed raiding) You have to be off
cooldown
when you start this
Trades
PVP Battles
Sending/ Receiving gifts
Add a lure to a pokestop
Feeding berries to gym defender Pokémon from a distance. (remote feeding)
Switch from tweaked app to legit app in order to buy coins and then switch back.
If you are already on cooldown, these actions above can be done while you wait it out.
Soft bans are temporary and may prevent you from interacting with the game. You may be temporarily soft
banned if
you find that you can't interact with elements in the game. For example, you may be soft banned if Pokestops
spin
but nothing happens and they remain blue, if you can't spin Pokestops at all, or if you throw a pokeball at
a
pokémon and it hits, but the pokémon flee or you got kicked from a gym battle.
A shadow ban, different than a soft ban, doesn't prevent you from playing. What it does is prevent you from
seeing
anything other than common spawns- Pidgey, Rattata, and the like. In other words, no rare Pokemons for you!
No
Eevee, no Growlithe, and certainly no Snorlax, Dragonite, or Tyranitar. You can still hatch eggs, spin stops
and
catch Pokemon you can see and does not affect Raids.
Players get one coin for every 10 minutes a Pokemon is in a gym, for a maximum of 50 coins a day. This
means one
Pokemon has to be in a gym for eight hours and 20 minutes to max out on coins. The daily reset for coins
happens at
12 a.m. in your local time zone. You also only get your coins after the Pokemon is defeated and returns to
you.
However, you won't get coins for previous days. This means if your Pokemon was in the gym for two full days,
you'll
only get the daily max of 50 coins.
Yes! There is a daily/ weekly catch limit in the game which is 1,000 Pokemon per day or 7,000 per week.
This
so-called "Catch Ban" doesn't affect Shadow Pokemon. Yes, you can actually catch 1,000 Pokemon per day using
Gotcha/Go Plus and playing in a bigger city for 7-8 hours.
open gifts
auto-walk
shiny check (hold in catch screen untill cooldown ends>
sing
back-dive
DPS= Damage Per Second
DPS is the average amount of damage a Pokémon will do per second in battle.
TDO= Total Damage Output
TDO is the total amount of damage a Pokémon will do before it faints.
NOTE:
The game updates location data fairly frequently, such as when you switch apps or the hour changes (like with weather). Be careful when teleporting across dates - if you do not ensure you're on the proper date, YOU WILL MISS OUT ON PASSES IF YOU SCREW UP.