Top 4 Reasons why you shouldnt miss the latest Pokemon Go's Halloween Update!

Millions of users have expressed their disappointment in the lack of features such as Trading, Gen 2 Pokemons, Battling other Traders and Legendary Pokemon in Pokemon Go. This has led many users to temporarily shelf the game aside till one of these features kick in. 

Before you put away your App, stay tuned to the following news!

From October 26th to November 1st, Niantic Labs has launched a new Halloween update that brings more incentives for why you should go "Pokemon Go" during the Halloween.

1)           Double the candy rewards

Halloween will never be better than getting double the candy for catching Pokemon, transferring Pokemon to Prof. That means its 2x times faster to evolve your Magikarp to Gyrados.

2)           More Sightings of Pokemons from Lavender Town

Tired of seeing the usual Pidgeys, Rattatas, Weddle, Venonat and Caterpie.  One more reason to rejoice is because is their place who be our friendly Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, Drowzee, Hypno,Cubones, Marowaks and Meowths 

3)           More Buddy Times

Pokémon GO has designed the system in such a way, such that you only have to catch a single Pokemon in order to level it up. They do so by dividing the total distance you need to walk with your buddy by four. That’s 0.25 km/0.75 km/1.25 km for the 1/3/5 km tiers. An example is my buddy Electrabuzz, who generate a candy every 1.25km.

4)           Getting a Gengar

There is no reason not to have a gengar even if you do not encountered one. With so many gastly and haunter to catch and with the double candy rewards, you can easily accumulated enough candys to evolved your Gastly to Haunter (25 candies) and Haunter to Gengar (100 candies).

Gengar is one of the strongest Pokemon in Pokemon Go, especially those with the Sludge Bomb skillset and there is no reason why not to add one of those Gengar to your line-up.

Fancy this rare BadS Buddy Pokemon! Catch one of it to be your buddy! Limited Time Only

Electric Pokemon are known as the Legendary Cookie Cutter in every Pokemon games so far. Gyradados, Charlizards, Vaporeons and other strong Pokemon are not so touch after all in the face of an Electric Pokemon.

This applies to Pokemon Go to. And in case you haven't had your buddy Pikachu yet! This is the best time to land one BadS Pokemon, Electabuzz. According to a reliable source, Electabuzz is considered as an "A-Tier". It can go as far as 2119 CP and it had a high attack rating. Globally, it had a capture rate of 0.074%. 

I had a very rare chance to encounter one in Mount Faber Safra and recognizing that i may had no other chance to find another Electabuzz in the wild,  i immediately tagged it as my buddy to gain Candy. This is not the case for now. We have spotted a Nest, and in just a day, you can as many Electabuzz as you want.

Location of Spoils of War!

So where can this rare Electabuzz be found?

Surprisingly, it is found in one of the most unexpected place in Singapore. Tanjong Pagar Estate. 

When you walked up the stairs from Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market towards Yan Kit Road, you may spot Electabuzz waiting for you. Concidentally, the Electabuzz level is pretty low around that area.

As we ventured nearer to Duxton Plain Park, that is where we spotted more occurence of Electabuzz. With more occurrence, the chances of finding higher level Electabuzz increased. 

 Electabuzz,I Choose You!

Just because Electabuzz is rare doesnt make it a number 1 starter in your line-up. There is so many Pokemons which are rare too. One of the reason why Electabuzz is so bad$ is because of its painful Thunder Attack! It dealt a damage of 100 whopping hit points. And with his insane attack speed, couple with the small cool-down timing of Thunder Shock, it makes it seems like you are throwing infinite thunder punches!

The fast attack speed plus small cool-down timing of Thunder shock is what makes dodging easily , overcoming its weakness in low Max HP and moderate defence. Why take huge damage when you can simply dodged it. What is Dragonite Hyper Beam, feel my wrath of Thunder!!!!

Limited Time Only

Good Things doesn't last forever. This applies to Pokemon Go too. Previously what is makes Tanjong Pagar a haven, is its nesting spots for Kabuto. Gone are the days, of finding a Kabuto in Tanjong Pagar, thanks to Nest Migration.

Catch your Electabuzz now while its still there. To sweeten the deal, the walking distance of our buddy is reduced from 3km to 1.25km during the halloween period. Choose him now!!!!

1st Lucky Egg Strategy Plus a Very Unusual Way to Gain More XP

As promised, when you finally reached the milestone! Level 20, it is time to use your lucky eggs and quickly ascend to the next level. I believe you have heard of the pidgeys spam but things are not so simple. Here are a few tips and tricks to go around maximizing your yield.

Things to do before you start using your lucky eggs.

1. Battery Life

Ensure you have sufficient battery as you don't want your phone to suddenly die on you when you are evolving halfway.

2. Turn off your Power-saving mode

It is good to be on power-saving mode, as it conserve your battery. But the last thing you want is for the screen to go off while you are in the middle of evolving and you have to waste that precious time trying to wait for it to detect the GPS again.

3.Ensure you have enough Pidgeys

As we are doing a mass evolving of Pidgeys, the last thing you want to end up with is no Pidgeys to evolve. Make sure you have a sufficient stock of Pidgey candies (at least 240) and 50 Pidgeys.

What i am going to share will be very unorthodox. But it worked very well for me especially!
Gaining the New Pokemon Bonus!

Which Pokemon is the best sources of such techniques:

Common Pokemon: Poliwhirl, Seaking, Ferrarow, Gastly, Nidorino and Nidorina.

Less Common Pokemon: Evolved form of Eevee

Rarer Pokemon: Starter Pokemon

From the start, we have to refrain from catching the evolved form of the Pokemon listed above. Mostly they are the second form of Pokemon.

Secondly, we have to refrain from evolving the above Pokemon, especially Evee. I am pretty sure that the evolved form is very rare outside.

If you do it right, when you use the lucky egg, instead of the usual 500 XP when evolving Pokemon. You will get 500 XP + 500 XP for new Pokemon in Pokedex, with the 2x multiplier from Lucky Egg, you will get 2000 XP.

New Unreported Discovery of this Pokemon Nest in Singapore

Unreported Nest of one of the weirdest, most mysterious and ironically cutest Pokemon in Singapore

Tired of reading all the same articles that show the same spawn sites catching Pokemon like Pikachu In USS, Gyarados in Hougang, Chansey In Khoo Changi General Hospital and Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital.Dragonite In Tiong Bahru Plaza and Dratini In Chinese Garden. The following thing below will blow your mind off as never been reported before.

What is the Pokemon?

If till now you are still clueless on what this Pokemon is, allow me to shed more light on this extinct Pokemon which you could resurrected, after defeating Team Rocket in Mount Moon and choosing the Dome Fossil in Gen 1. 

Say hello to Kabuto! 

Kabuto is a Pokémon that has been regenerated from a fossil. However, in extremely rare cases, living examples have been discovered. The Pokémon has not changed at all for 300 million years.

Because you can only resurrect it late in Gen1, most trainers generally do not use it due to the amount of catch-up you have to get to train it. Nevertheless, this is a good chance to use them. And just to sweeten the deal, its evolved form is pretty bad$$ and it is the only water/Rock type Pokemon in the game. 

For more in-depth information of Kabutop stats and move, you can look here.

Location of Kabuto Nest

Hint hint, the Kabuto nest lies near the first 50-storey, majestic HDB in Tanjong Pagar area, cough Duxton Plain Park. 

Getting To Duxton Plain Park

Take a train to Tanjong Pagar MRT, walk out of control station and turn left after exiting the gantry.

Walk up the steps or take an escalator and you will see International Plaza on your left and a open field on your right.

Cross the road towards and unoccupied land and you will see Orchid Hotel and the Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market. 

Walk towards Tanjong Pagar Plaza Market and you will find a small service road that cut between the market and NTUC FairPrice in Tanjong Pagar Plaza Blk.5. Walk along the road and you will find a Multi-storey car park to your left and a flight of stairs ahead. Climb the steps or walk up the slope and you will find a uphill road, that road is Yan Kit Road.

Continue walking straight to cross Yan Kit Road and you will find Duxton Plain Park. The most significant landmark is Essen At The Pinnacle.

Area of the Nest

The radius of the nest stretch from Yan Kit Road and to as far as the end of the park,Neil Road. Usually the Kabuto is find beside Essen or at the empty area as shown above while walking into to Duxton Plain Park. As Essen is connected to Pinnacle Duxton Building, it could sometimes even be found near the community club.

At end of the Park towards Neil Road

Beside Essen near the connector to the community club

Frequency of the Sightings

The frequency of the sightings can be ranged from 20mins to 1hr per Kabuto. And with a small group of friends,we sighted the kabuto at around this timing.

8.20am, 1.40pm, 2pm, 5.30pm,6pm,8pm,10.30pm and 11pm. 

So basically, it is found throughout the day in generally.
My latest sighting and catch is on 29th August 2016, 6.30pm.

Best Strategy to exploit and level Up to Level 20 Without Spending any money or lucky eggs (Part 1)

Previously, in our previous post previous post, we shared on the importance of leveling up to Level 20 as soon as possible. Today we shall shared on how do we do that, to ensure we stay ahead of the rat race.

Action	Exp
Capture a Pokémon	100 XP
Capture Bonuses: -Nice -Great -Excellent -Curveball	10 XP 50 XP 100XP 10XP
Hatch a Pokémon Egg of -2km -5km -10km	200 XP 500 XP 1,000 XP
Evolve a Pokémon	500 XP
Register a new Pokémon in your Pokédex	500 XP
Check in to a PokéStop	50 XP 100 XP (If 6+ Items)
Defeat Pokémon in Training (Friendly's Gym)	10 XP
Defeat Pokémon at a Gym (Rival Gym)	100 XP
Defeat all Pokémon at a Gym (Rival Gym)	50 XP

1. Never underestimate PokeStop and Public Transport (Secret of PokeStop)

Each Pokestop is worth 50 XP. In the early game, it really means a lot. Continuously swipe them when you walk past them. The best timing to swipe PokeStop is when you take public transport or in a car. It not only clock you the extra 50XP and it also clocked you the distance required to hatch a egg.(as long as your speed is 30km/hr or less). 30km/h seems super slow and impossible to clock in a vehicle but it is made possible in heavy traffic or nearing traffic lights.

Lastly who knows you might get lucky. Do you know that PokeStop that churns out more than 6 Items will clocked you a extra 50XP, that makes it 100XP. And the best part i observed is that some PokeStop has a higher frequency of doing that. I got a secret Pokestop that regularly churned me more than 6 items in Tiong Bahru estate area.

2. Catch and evolve all the Pidgey, Weedle and Caterpie and not the rest for levelling

Seriously, please do so. There is a reason why i request for you to do so because Pidgey, Weedle and Caterpie only require 12 candies to evolve. As evolving a Pokemon is of the activities that provide you the most XP, 500XP, you need to evolve a lot to level up fast. And trust me, do not evolve anything yet except for rattata as it is crucial for our strategy <level 20 and above leveling guide> when we are going to do a quick level from Level 20 to Level 25.

3. Catching more Pokemon is important, but how you catch it also matter

Don't stop catching, cause you it grant you 100 XP for every Pokemon you catch. But catching is not everything, you have to aim at the circle when it becomes smaller to get the Nice 10 XP, Great 50 XP or Excellent bonus 100XP. 

On top of that, don't forget to spin the ball in either a clockwise or anticlock direction to add a curve ball bonus, 10 XP.

Usually, Great ball is still not that hard to achieve and when we sum up, this will grant you 100 XP + 50 XP + 10 XP for every Pokemon you catch. This really goes a long way.

But if you are really lucky..... ;)

4. Where you position yourself really matters

There is a saying that to succeed, "you have to be at the right place and right time." Hey i totally agreed with that. Where you position yourself when catching your pokemon really matters. Usually i will find a good spot to camp when having my meals or meeting friends which have at least 2 to 3 Pokestop to not only swipe Pokestop to gain that precious 50 XP, but also to catch more Pokemon.Just by catching Pokemon, i could level up easily in matter of an hour when i was Level 18.

Areas with at least 3 lures around you are ideal locations. You can easily find such areas such as ION, JEM and other crowded shopping malls.

ChinaTown Plaza

Jem

Jurong Area

5. Don't be afraid to Challenge the Gym

Always take a look at nearby gym from time to time even if your level is not there yet because they could also be a interval when a gym is left vacant and you can go in to make it yourself, claiming that valuable, 500 XP of defender bonus and 10 Poke Coins, hint hint for Lucky egg. :)

Also even if it is not vacant, you can still challenge from time to time to gain that extra XP. Not all Pokemon being fielded in gyms are strong. You might get lucky with a if quick 100XP or 200XP.

Why must we level up to Level 20 as soon as possible

It is very important to level up as quick as possible to level 20 for the following reasons:

1. Higher level CP Pokemon will appear according to your trainer level. Let's assume you really want to have a usable and pretty rare Pokemon like Snorlax or you are ready to drive down to the nearest dratini's nest to hunt dratini. You have higher chance to get Pokemon that are above CP1000 in the wild when you are at a higher level. Caught this snorlax when i am at Level 19 and another fellow trainer got a CP50 snorlax at Level 8.

2. It's an equal and rather competitive playing field out there in SG Pokemon World, like in the real world (erhm minus the spoofer part where they are level 30 in the first day the game release in the first day) The general trainer level is 20 plus on the Day 8 i blog as we speak, (17 without using lucky eggs) and gym are harder to conquer. Still if you are at a lower level, don't give up, we can

3. The higher you level, the more types of resources is available to you. Trust me, great balls, berries, ultra ball and more incubators will certainly come in handy.

So then, what is the quickest, smartest and best way to level up.

Before we begin, will like to share the experience chart.Please follow the here for Secrets to Quick Leveling to Level 20

Action	Exp Gained
Capture a Pokémon	100 XP
Capture Bonuses: -Nice -Great -Excellent -Curveball	10 XP 50 XP 100XP 10XP
Hatch a Pokémon Egg of -2km -5km -10km	200 XP 500 XP 1,000 XP
Evolve a Pokémon	500 XP
Register a new Pokémon in your Pokédex	500 XP
Check in to a PokéStop	50 XP 100 XP (If 6+ Items)
Defeat Pokémon in Training (Friendly's Gym)	10 XP
Defeat Pokémon at a Gym (Rival's Gym)	100 XP
Defeat all Pokémon at a Gym (Riva'sl Gym)	50 XP

5 Things you die die have to avoid doing before you reach level 20 in Pokemon Go

     

     

Hello fellow trainers, as you are eager to embark on your route to become the best and strongest Pokemon trainer the world as yet to see and raring to have a go at gym, will like to advice you to hold on your horses and share several things you wish that you haven't done till you reached level 20.

       There is a saying, "Level 20 is where your real journey began...."

       Wow, thought my real journey begin when i reached level 5,  where we earned the right to battle gyms and even be the gym leader hehe. True but not so true. 

        At level 20, Pokemon tends to have a higher rate of escaping and higher CP Pokemon are harder to catch.

       Top that off with the Pokeballs that you threw tend to swirl more which is why we have to master the magical curve ball and the number of XP it takes to reach the next level is so exponentially much more than in the lower levels.

        Cause leveling up become so much harder when you reached level 20, it makes you wish that you didnt do the following before you reached level 20.

1.Using up your lucky eggs, hoping to gain a few more level in the early stage with the double XP perks, though it won't make so much of a difference in the early games when you can just camp in a good spot with many lures and level up even without evolving your Pokemons. Hold on to your Lucky eggs really! You will thanks me when you reached level 20

                                                        

2. Spending so much candy to evolve rarer Pokemon only to find a stronger evolved form in the wild much later. Yes, the higher your trainer level, there is more chance of Pokemon with higher CP appearing in the wild. And this will continue till you are Level 30, where the CP will cap off. Don't evolved any Pokemon beside your Pidgey, Rattata, Weedle or Caterpie, you will need them when you use your secret egg to earn that extra bonus. 

3. Using a huge portion of incense that you have. Hmmm, you really have to assess. There has been rumours that using incense in remote area with no Pokemon sighting will generate random Pokemon, giving you a chance to get that rare Polygon or Dragonite.

Nothing wrong with using incense from time to time, but please conserve it if possible as it will really come in handy in areas where there are often sightings of slightly rarer Pokemon. Who knows, it might give you the Ponyta, ElectricBuzz, Raichu, Jynx or Magmar that you need.

                                                          

4. Constantly leveling up your Pokemon Combat Points with Stardust when you realised how much a stardust vampire your Pokemon is, just to reach a higher CP. Besides, you will always meet higher level CP Pokemon in the wild as you level up and wish you haven't spend that Stardust on the Pokemon  but on the one that you just catch.

At Level 22, my highest CP Pokemon is pretty pathetic, a Pinsir of CP1040. I spend at least 10K Stardust to bring it above CP1200 and guess what, fate always have a way to toy with you. I caught a Pinsir above CP1200 and its stats are far better than the one i have. :((   

Really, Stardust are really hard to come by! Each Pokemon you catch only earned you 100 Stardusts, and each Leveling may cost up to around 2200 worth of Stardust when your Pokemon CP is around 1000 plus. Don't dare to imagine the stardust required for those CP2000 Pokemon.

5. Transferring Pokemon with a slightly lower CP. There is a saying that we shouldn't judge people by their appearance, in this Pokemon Go, CP, yea hell we shouldn't. In Pokemon Go, we judge Pokemon by their IV values. There is a new appraisal feature which you can access at the bottom right hand side of your screen that allow you to estimate the IV of your Pokemon. More will be shared later.

Welcome to the world of pokemon....in sg

Pokemon Go has recently been launched in 6th August 2016 and many fellow Singaporeans including myself has fallen in love with the game. In the spirit of the game, in order to create a more equal playing field and to bring out the most enjoyable experience.

Have created a blog providing the best, original, top-notch information for Pokemon Go Trainers in Singapore.

Personally, i do not believe in cheating erhm spoofing and paying money to buy in-game items.

At the end of the day, will like to conclude with the following quote:

"Why so serious! Good things are mean to be shared :)"  

Secret Pokemon Hideout

• Kabuto Nest

Leveling Strategy

• 5 Things you die die have to avoid doing before you reach level 20 in Pokemon Go
• Why must we level up to Level 20 as soon as possible
• Best Strategy to exploit and level Up to Level 20 Without Spending any money or lucky eggs (Part 1)