I don't see why not. Even if your Pokemon is really far away from you, it still belongs to you. You can see it in your Pokemon list, even if it's now defending a foreign gym. The distance from you and your Pokemon doesn't really do anything.

No. IVs do not change on evolution. The only way for a Pokemon's IVs to change is upon trading it to another player, or upon purification. What you are describing is almost certainly either a case of mistakenly evolving the wrong Poliwhirl, or simply misremembering its IVs. If you have unlocked the Perfect Dex you can use that to check if you actually have a perfect Poliwhirl recorded. If not, you misremembered its IVs, but if you do you probably just evolved the wrong one.

Over the years there have been many glitched waypoints that end up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island , but that's not out of bounds, just somewhere no-one would ever (legitimately) be playing at. These have been cleaned up though, and the only waypoints that remain at Null Island are 10 Field Trip waypoints imported from Architizer, none of which are visible in Pokémon Go. It is likely impossible for any waypoint to be "out of bounds", but there's no real way of knowing if there's any junk data in the database. Certainly there's no out of bounds waypoint visible via any ordinary means (in-game, via the Mission authoring tool, on Intel, or in Campfire).

It looks like you've just installed the game because there are three starter Pokemon around you. Before you can access the rest of the game, you must choose to catch one of the three Pokemon. As you can see in this https://youtu.be/S1haN8xvYz4?t=260 , capturing one of the starter Pokemon is an unavoidable part of the tutorial.

If you're using a Samsung device you may be able to run https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.soundassistant , which is an official app that let's you control volume on a per-app basis. Otherwise https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spycorp.appvolumecontrol or a similar app may work, as long as its Service works.

When feeding your buddy berries so that it will walk beside you, it will last for a total of 3 hours ( https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-go-buddy-adventure-play-excited-6002 ). And yes, it is true that using a poffin with double this time to 6 hours. [Using a poffin], your buddy will also stay full, stay on the Map, and stay Excited for longer https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/6-pokemon-go/faq/2147-what-is-a-poffin

Simply because the left Jumpluff has an higher level than the right one. I aligned the two images, and you can see that the left one has the white bar a little more filled. If you power up the right one both should end with 149HP.

https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/guct-berry-throw-bonus-multipliers made an analysis about the throw bonus, and these are the results: Throw Bonuses are not fixed, instead depends continuously on radius! The formula we found for catch bonus is: Throw = 2−r where r is the radius of the inner circle, which goes up to 1. That means that when the circle is as big as possible, Throw = 1, and when the circle is as small as possible, Throw = 2. Since ring size and throw bonus are correlated, we could not be completely sure that the multiplier varies continuously with radius, rather than being a flat bonus for Nice / Great / Excellent. However, the communication between client and server during a catch suggests that the bonus is continuous. What can be seen in the client-server communication is that a variable named normalized_reticle_size (NRS) is sent to the server when a ball is thrown. In other words, for a full-sized circle, NRS = 1, and for a circle of minimal radius, NRS approaches 2. Experimental evidence shows that: Throw Nice! Great! Excellent! Target Ring Size 70% - 100% 30% - 70% ~5% - 30% Bonus (varies with radius) 1 - 1.3 1.3 - 1.7 1.7 - ~1.95 We also have some lines from the game's code that shows: "excellentThrowThreshold": 1.7, "greatThrowThreshold": 1.3, "niceThrowThreshold": 1,

Attack and Defense stats changes are now cleared after swapping during combat. As confirmed in official https://pokemonblog.com/2020/01/24/new-pokemon-go-update-version-0-131-0-and-0-165-0-now-live-on-ios-and-android-full-patch-notes-revealed/ . Buffs are reset only on the switched Pokemon. If your own Pokemon stays on the field its buffs are retained. Nothing will ever reset your own buffs if the opponent's Pokemon is switched or faints.

Based on a ranking of positive match-ups against the core meta and the entire format, the Mega Pokemon with the best match-ups is Mega Gyarados (about 85% against the core meta and 95% against the entire format). This is followed by Mega Latios, who has a lower win rate against the core meta (79%) but a higher win rate against the entire format (96%). Source is https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphArena/comments/uz1gzt/budget_busters_mega_master_league_meta_analysis/ which used PvPoke simulations. If you want a ranking of every Pokemon in Master League with Megas, https://pvpoke.com/rankings/mega/10000/overall/ . There are assumptions with this ranking which should be taken into consideration, most notably both Pokemon have 1 shield each and shields are always used at the first available opportunity.

You need to consider that each quick move generates a different amount of energy, and each charged move requires a different amount of energy to be used. https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/pokemon/233-porygon2 and https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/pokemon/474-porygon-z have the same quick moves, and this image sums up their damage power and energy generation: (The moves highlighted in green benefit from the Same Type Attack Bonus, and deal 20% more damage.) These are the charged moves Porygon2 can learn: Solar Beam Hyper Beam Zap Cannon Tri-attack Porygon-Z can learn the same charged moves, with the addition of Blizzard. (Not counting Return and Frustration, if your Pokemon is shadow or purified.) Charged moves have a base power and a certain amount of energy they need to consume: Move Base Power Charge Energy https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/pokemon-move/solar-beam 150 80 https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/pokemon-move/hyper-beam 150 80 https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/pokemon-move/zap-cannon 150 80 https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/pokemon-move/blizzard 140 75 https://gamepress.gg/pokemongo/pokemon-move/tri-attack 65 50 So Porygon-Z is not slower than Porygon2 by default, what really matters is what charged move you are actually using, since they do have different requirements.

To evolve Feebas you are required to set it as your buddy and walk a minimum of 20km with it. Once you have completed this task, you can then freely evolve it. The notification you are receiving about choosing to evolve it, is only in regards to the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_GO_Battle_League . There are "caps" of 1500 CP, and 2500 CP. Evolving your pokemon may automatically boost their CP beyond one of these caps, which is unavoidable. There is nothing in regards to this choice being "too late", as this is standard practice for Feebas/Milotic evolution

I was able to figure it out. This was something that could not be easily determined in Pokemon Go itself. I ended up having to use a 3rd party app that performs IV and CP calculations. Every time you power up a Pokemon, the hidden level attribute is increased by half a level. After plugging in numbers into the app, it calculated the Machoke’s level was 33.5. Based on these calculations, and the new CP for Machoke, it appears that trading rounds your Pokemon’s level down rather than keeping the half level. I further validated this by testing it out with the Azumarill and Snivy. I powered them both up by once, effectively increasing their level by .5. As expected, the results were the same with Machoke. Their new maximum CP was equal to their CP prior to powering up

That symbol indicates the Pokemon is boosted by the weather. There are a various bonus' that take place when a Pokemon is boosted by the weather: When catching a Pokemon in the wild, their base IV threshold is 4/4/4, and you can catch them up to lv35 rather than lv30 When catching the raid boss, the Pokemon will be lv25 rather than lv20 Attacks that are effected by the weather receive a 20% damage boost

Does anyone actually recommend using wifi scanning, and is it helpful for actually making sure you are in the location you are Yes, particularly if you play in a dense urban environment where satellites may not have direct line of sight to your device. As you've clearly noticed, GPS alone can sometimes be very unreliable (sometimes to your benefit), and Wi-Fi positioning will often "take over" in these cases and make sure that your position is at least roughly where you actually are, rather than teleporting all over the place. Additionally, Wi-Fi positioning being enabled will dramatically decrease the likelihood of the game ever coming up with the dreaded red "Location not found" banner if GPS is failing entirely. In situations like this the Wi-Fi positioning will not typically be enough to actually track your movement and you'll end up locked in place until you go somewhere with stronger GPS, but you'll at least be able to spin and catch whatever is around you in that area. If you play exclusively in suburban or rural areas, it's unlikely to be of any benefit. or is it not that useful and takes up battery? Wi-Fi positioning uses a completely negligible amount of battery (especially on Android 11+ phones, which can use it even with normal Wi-Fi features disabled). Would it also technically take up more data? Yes, but again a completely negligible amount. Communicating access point metadata to a WPS location API would require only a few hundred bytes. Pokemon Go would use more data every minute than wireless positioning would over the course of an entire day.

Does turning off your screen while mobile data is on and the game on take up ANY mobile data whatsoever? Yes. Does anyone know if the battery saver screen also saves data or just power? The battery saver mode simply dims the phone's screen, but keeps everything running in the background. As such, data usage will remain the same.

The General category includes items like announcements, reminders, etc. I practically ignore this category, so I do not recall the complete list; feel free to edit and add to this. The Miscellaneous category includes items like egg hatches, buddy finding candy, and weekly Adventure Sync rewards. I do monitor this category since I like to know when an egg hatches.

You can see your Pokecoins from the shop menu: To access it, press the Pokeball icon to open the menu, then Shop.

Update: Niantic has reverted their plans again. According to their Twitter post the default distance is 80 meters from now on. You were just used to the COVID-19 bonuses. According to this article Niantic started to revert some of the changes made to take lockdowns and curfews into account. Since these are no longer a thing Niantic has decided to change some interaction ranges again in select countries (including the US). The article also quotes a twitter post with the following image to visualize the changes:

Niantic is currently upgrading all of their backend systems to the latest version of Lightship, which is preventing the waypoint sync systems from running effectively. Here's a direct quote from their most recent update. Due to upgrades we are making to the backend, Portal nominations, and photo submissions and edits will be delayed for several weeks, and we are actively working to address this. Please note that you do not need to submit these nominations/edits/photos again. Under typical operation this data would sync 5 times per week. My guess would be that this upgrade was started in the short period after the Ingress portals went live, but before the regularly scheduled synchronisation process ran, leading to the waypoints appearing in Ingress but not in Pokemon Go.