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Pokmon GO: everything you need to know to start out as a trainer

Once you customize your trainer and choose a starter Pokemon, take a look around your map. Any blue icons that you might see around you are called PokeStops. They are often located near real world landmarks, important buildings or other noteworthy places. If you don't see any, it might be a good idea to get up and walk around a bit. That's the point of this game, after all. Getting close to a PokeStop and swiping on it will yield some free items and even experience points some times. This will turn the PokeStop icon purple, which means that it has been depleted for the time being, but it will revert back to blue after some time. That's how you get items for free.

As any free-to-play game, Pokemon GO also lets you buy items with your hard-earned cash


Items in the game can be obtained for free but, naturally, this takes more time than buying them with real money. Purchases are made with an in-game currency called PokeCoins (PC), which can be obtained by playing the game, albeit rarely, or bought with real money.

Items are an integral part of Pokemon GO, as they've always been in the main RPG series

Now that you know where to find the items you need, let's see what kinds of items there are in the game and how much they cost.

Pokeballs


Pokeballs are the most essential item in the Pokemon universe and you will be given 50 from the beginning of the game. More can be obtained by either scavenging PokeStops or buying them from the shop. They are sold in packs of 20 (100 PC), 100 (460 PC) and 200 (800 PC).

Eggs


Pokemon Eggs can be found in the wild and hatched with an Egg Incubator. Eggs hatch once the player travels a certain distance and yield a new Pokemon.

Lucky Eggs


Unlike regular Eggs, Lucky Eggs are consumables that double the experience points you gain for a period of 30 minutes. They can be purchased as a single item for 80 PC or in batches of 8 (500 PC) and 25 (1250 PC).

Egg Incubator

You start out with only one Egg Incubator, which is limited to only one Egg at a time, but has unlimited uses. You can purchase additional Incubators in the shop, for 150 PC a piece, which hold up to three Eggs at a time, but are good for only three uses.

Incense


Incense is used to lure in hiding Pokemon. It increases the rate at you which find creatures in the wild for a period 30 minutes. Incense is sold in the shop as a single item (80 PC) and in packs of 8 (500 PC) and 25 (1250 PC).

Lure Module

Lure Modules attracts Pokemon to a certain PokeStop. They are more effective than Incense and affect all players around a certain PokeStop for a period of 30 minutes. They can be purchased from the shop as a single item (100 CP) or in a pack of 8 (680 PC).

Pokemon Storage


Your initial Pokemon Storage allows you to keep up to 250 Pokemon and 9 Pokemon eggs. The storage can be upgraded with 50 extra slots for 50 PC.

Bag Upgrade


As an essential accessory for every Pokemon trainer, your Bag allows you to store all the different items you obtain during your travels. It has 350 free slots from the start and can be upgraded with increments of 50 slots for 50 PC each. 

Teams, Gyms, protecting your Prestige and more


Once you make enough progress in Pokemon GO, you will be asked to join one of three available teams: Red, Blue and Yellow. Once you join а team, you will then be able to run your own Gym and assign a Pokemon to protect it. Each Gym has a prestige level, based on the experience of the team which holds it, and you can challenge enemy Gyms.After you defeat all trainers in an enemy Gym, you will be kicked out, but keep challenging the Gym in order to drain its Prestige entirely. Once you do this, you will take over the place and become a Gym Leader. You can then assign a Pokemon to guard the Gym. Just make sure that you use a Pokemon with enough Combat Points (CP) to fight off enemy challengers.

This time around, Pokemon are not ranked by level, but rather by CP. CP can be increased by giving your Pokemon Stardust and Candy, which you acquire by catching creatures in the wild, hatching new ones or transferring them. Candy is specific to each Pokemon family, so it can't just be used on any of your monsters, while Stardust is universal and can be used to power up any of your Pokemon.

That's it from us for now, hope you liked our quick beginner's guide to Pokemon GO! Now, GO out and start filling that Pokedex!

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Fernande Dalal

Update: 2024-05-27