Two clever ways to find rare and hidden Pokmon even when Pokmon Go is glitching

FIND ANY POKEMON IN POKEMON GO - PokeVision (3 Steps Nearby Glitch/Bug Fix)

Pokmon Go"s tracker, which hasn"t worked correctly in about a week. The Pokemon Company

It"s been about a week since Pokmon Go"s tracker the tool that guides players towards hiddenPokmon has worked as intended.

The tracker sits in the lower-right corner of your screen and shows you whichPokmon are in your immediatearea.

When aPokmon is far away, it shows three little paw prints. As you get closer, it goes down to two paw prints, then one, then the prints disappear and the Pokmon will appear on your map.

It"s like a hot-or-cold game. At least, that"s how it works ideally.

For the last several days, for reasons unknown, it"s been showing three paw prints no matter how near or far you are from aPokmon. It"s been frustrating a lot of players:

The rumor on the street is that Niantic, the developer ofPokmon Go, purposely turned off the tracker to ease the strain on the servers, which have been unreliable since the game"s launch just over two weeks ago.Regardless of the reason, players are getting annoyed.

But Nick Johnson, the Pokmon Go master who recently became the first to captureall 142 monsters currently available in the United States, says he used a very clever workaround to find and catch "em all. Plus, here"s a bonus method that Johnson didn"t use, but that could work for you.

Download Ingress

Before Niantic madePokmon Go, they were best known as the creators of Ingress, a similar kind of map-based real-world game, but with more of a science-fictional bent.

Not only is Ingress still up and running on both iPhone and Android, but players like Johnson find it to be an indispensable tool forPokmon hunting, since Niantic brought a ton of data from the older game to the new.

This is Ingress:

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See the white dots on the screen? In Ingress, that"s called "exotic matter," or "XM," and it"s the key to the whole affair. Players like Johnson have noted thatareas where the XM dots are concentrated in Ingress also have a very high correlation with wherePokmon pop up.

So if you"re having trouble finding a Pokmon that"s showing up on your tracker, and you"re really dedicated, you can switch over to Ingress, find an area with a high concentration of XM,and walk towards it. Once you"re over it, switch back toPokmon Go, and aPokmon should appear.

"I found more than a few rare ones by spotting them on radar, then ignoring the radar and using the Ingress in-game map to navigate to those hotspots," Johnson told Business Insider. "May not work 100% but definitely helped me."

This comes with a massive caveat:Pokmon Go draws a lot of battery, and so does Ingress, so tread with caution or carry an external battery pack on yourPokmon hunts.

PokVision

There"s a second option, not used by Johnson, but loved by plenty of others. It"s calledPokVision, and it"ll show you all thePokmon currently around any address you plug into it.

Here"s Central Park"s Grand Army Plaza, as viewed through PokVision:

Screenshot/PokeVision

Dang, that"s a lot ofPokmon. No wonderGrand Army Plaza has become such a hotspot forPokmon hunters.

The timer you see below eachPokmon shows how long they"ll be at that particular spot. If you make it to their precise location before the timer expires, you"re all but guaranteed to find thatPokmon.

In a brief excursion to testPokVision, it wasn"t 100% reliable: I tore out my front door and jogged a few blocks to succesfully capture a Gastly that PokVision had spotted before time ran out, but I wasn"t quite able to locate an Eevee that it assured me was close. And at one point, I caught a Squirtle thatPokVision had completely failed to mark on the map at all.

This might feel like cheating to you, so use it at your own discretion. Also, it uses data taken straight from Niantic, so it seems possible that they could change something and turn offPokVision"s access. So enjoy it as much as you can, for as long as you can.

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In the meanwhile, we"re still waiting for word on whenPokmon Go"s radar glitch will get fixed. So if you don"t want to stop your hunt, you have some options.

On a final note, Johnson says that a good idea is topay close attention to your fellow players. If you"re out hunting, and it looks like the crowd is about to stampede in one direction, it"s probably time to stop what you"re doing and open your map.

"The stampeding horde was also an awesome form of real-lifepush notification at Grand Army Plaza," Johnson jokes. "I caught a few things just by following the crowd or hearing other people shout out that it had spawned."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/pokmon-go-guide-find-rare-pokmon-2016-7