How To Cheat in Pokemon Go
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,323 words · ~6 min read
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Due to the mechanics of the wonderful world of Pokémon Go, being somewhere
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important or notable is very helpful in terms of population of Pokémon and
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various other item acquires and all that kind of stuff. So, being somewhere like
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London or Central Park in New York or something like that would be awesome.
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What if you could be there but be playing
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from your couch? So, this is especially helpful if you have some form of
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physical disability or if you live somewhere rural where there just aren't
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Pokémon stops anywhere near you and maybe only a couple spawns for Pokémon
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at all. That can be frustrating, but there's downsides to this as well,
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fairly obviously. We'll talk about that later.
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Intel's Skull Canyon Knuck features the sixth generation Core i7 processor and
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Thunderbolt 3. Learn more in the link in the video description down below. How
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one would accomplish this is through something called GPS spoofing.
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Essentially tricking your phone and the apps on your phone into thinking that
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you are somewhere that you are not. This enables you to do the affforementioned
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sitting on a couch while your phone thinks that you're in Central Park
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general idea. You do this by simply just downloading an app that does it all for
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you, telling the app where you want your phone to think you are, and then you're
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done. If you're doing that for things that aren't just Pokémon Go, when you
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try to do it for Pokémon Go, things get a little bit more tricky. This isn't
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this company's first attempt at something like this. They made a game previously called Ingress, and they're
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used to people trying to screw around in these ways. That being said, there are
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workarounds. First off, you're going to need a rooted Android device or a rooted
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emulator. If you want to use an emulator on your computer, I would recommend
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using Blue Stacks, the application to emulate Android. Then, you're going to
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need a few different APK files. You'll need Lucky Patcher, Fake GPS, and
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Pokémon Go. First, you would install Lucky Patcher through your previously
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rooted device. Then you would use Lucky Patcher to install Fake GPS as a system
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application. Tell Fake GPS where you want it to say you are and other various
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details like how fast you want it to update and other things that you can
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program yourself very easily through the settings option. Then go into your
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location settings in Android and turn off Google location history and change
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your GPS accuracy to low. Although this may take some fiddling later on and you
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may need to make it to high or even medium if you must because the game
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refuses to update its location. If you're in Windows 10, you need to make
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sure all of your location services are off. Just type location in the start
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menu and then make sure both of the location options are individually turned
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to off. If that feels too difficult, that would be fair. It's more of an
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advanced user thing. If you want something more simple, you could go with
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Pokemon Go anywhere, which enables you to click on the screen for movement
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instead of actually just walking around, enabling you to leave your house and
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walk to the park by clicking on the screen instead of getting up from your
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couch. Now, there are problems with this. Most importantly, in my opinion,
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is that it completely breaks the gamified features of the game. The whole
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idea of the game is that you're supposed to walk around and try to find all these
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Pokemon and there's like location meters with the little feet and you're trying to track things down and it's fun to
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search and locate on your feet. It brings you outdoors. That's the purpose
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of the game. But even beyond that, if you're like, I don't care, Luke, I don't
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care about the gameplay. I just want to win. It might not matter because you
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might get banned. Right now, they only seem to be temporary banning people from
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about 45 minutes to six hours depending on what happens. You can teleport to
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Central Park, be banned for 45 minutes, but then be in Central Park and just
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play the game anyways. But they're currently very focused on making sure
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that their servers don't just evaporate from the obscene amount of usage that's
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going on. Once that calms down a little bit, once they're managing the load,
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then they're going to hammer down on people. in the beta and in their
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previous game, Ingress, they were banning the crap out of people for this
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stuff. Now, the bans aren't going to stop people because the game is
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ludicrously huge. Nintendo's stock price has gone up 30% since its launch days
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ago. APK Mirror, an unofficial place to
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download the application for countries that don't officially support it yet in
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the Play Store and App Store, went from about 600,000 hits a day to over 4
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freaking million. There's even a rumor going around saying that Nintendo is
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making $1.6 million a day just on iOS
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just in the States off of Pokémon Go.
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Holy crap. Now, for me, this completely
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breaks the game. So, I'll never do it. If I wanted to just sit on my couch and
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play Pokémon, I would load up some version of Pokémon on Game Boy and just
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play that. It would be a better overall experience. But knowledge is power, so
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I'm still down with making this video. I don't think anyone should use it if they
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can avoid it. If you're physically disabled and you just want to play the game that your friends are playing, I
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think that's super cool. Or if you have some other very good reason. If you just
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live in a rural area, man up and go for a long walk. And you can also use this
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information to call out your friends who you know are working like overtime every
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day but just got the game 2 days ago and
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are level like 20s something with huge crazy strong Pokémon. I don't know, man.
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Or you can use it as that fantastic scapegoat. Anytime there's someone
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stronger than you, they probably just cheated. Jerks.
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All right, guys. Thanks for watching. I'm probably going to have to get back to work as I don't think Lionus is going
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to want to pay me for playing Pokémon Go all the time. Like the video if you
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liked it. I know it's not normally what we do. Dislike the video if you're like,
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I'm tired of everybody talking about Pokémon Go, cuz that's valid. Um, check
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out the link in the video description to buy some stuff from Amazon.
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cuz I don't know because it's Amazon. I guess there's Prime Day going on and
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stuff so you can get deals that exists.
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Uh, check out the link in the video description for our shirts, which isn't this one. This is for Transistor, a
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video game that I like. Check out the forum if you want to like yell at me for
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telling people about how to cheat in Pokémon Go. People are going to talk
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about it eventually. Anyways, there's probably other information online about it already. Anyways, it's not a big
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deal. Uh, and yeah, I'll see you guys next time. Watch this video on
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I don't know. Taran will decide. Probably one of Taran's videos. Put like
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one of your mobility videos in here, Taran. Bye.