👉 If you violate the Cooldown Rules, the game account will get soft banned.
⚠️ After that, you’ll get “Try Again Later” error when you try to spin PokéStops, and all Pokémon will flee when you try to catch.
🕒 “A Cooldown is the amount of time you need to wait after using an in-game action. This is calculated from the distance you will travel between your in-game actions.”
| Distance | Cooldown | Distance | Cooldown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 km | < 1 min | 220 km | < 40 min |
| 2 km | 1 min | 250 km | 45 min |
| 3 km | < 2 min | 350 km | < 51 min |
| 5 km | 2 min | 375 km | 54 min |
| 7 km | 5 min | 460 km | 62 min |
| 9 km | < 7 min | 500 km | < 65 min |
| 10 km | 7 min | 565 km | 69 min |
| 12 km | 8 min | 700 km | 78 min |
| 18 km | 10 min | 800 km | 84 min |
| 26 km | 15 min | 900 km | 92 min |
| 42 km | 19 min | 1000 km | 99 min |
| 65 km | 22 min | 1100 km | 107 min |
| 76 km | < 25 min | 1200 km | < 114 min |
| 81 km | 25 min | 1300 km | 117 min |
| 100 km | 35 min | 1350 km | 2 hours |
💡 For example:
If you just triggered an action at location A, then you want to fly 10km away and keep playing, you need to wait more than 7 minutes before triggering actions (according to the cooldown chart).
⏱️ The maximum cooldown time is 2 hours.
🔴 Actions that WILL trigger cooldown
- 🎯 Catching a wild Pokémon
- ⚡ Accidental drop of a ball on encounter screen (also applicable to raids)
- 🍓 Feeding a wild Pokémon with a berry (also applicable to raids)
- 🌀 Spinning a PokéStop (even if spin limit is reached)
- 🏰 Placing a Pokémon in one of the gyms
- 🍏 Feeding a gym defender within screen radar
- ⚔️ Gym battles
- 🏃 Fleeing Pokémon (due to catch limit)
- 🎮 Use of Gotcha device to spin and catch
🟢 Actions that WILL NOT trigger cooldown
- ✈️ Teleporting
- 👀 Encountering a wild Pokémon
- 📡 Remote berry feeding of gym defender (from long distances)
- 🚶 Autowalk
- 🥚 Hatching eggs
- 🎁 Claiming quest and weekly rewards
- 🐾 Catching a reward Pokémon from quests
- ⏩ Speed raids (ensure you are off cooldown two hours prior)
- 🎁 Exchanging and opening gifts
- ⚡ Evolving a Pokémon
- 💪 Powering up a Pokémon
- 🔄 Trading a Pokémon
- 🗑️ Transferring a Pokémon
- 📸 Taking snapshots of a Pokémon
- 🤝 Changing a Buddy
- 🍬 Gaining Buddy candies
- 🧴 Using items (healing items, evolution items, TMs) on a Pokémon
- ✨ Using Stardust and Candies to gain a second move for Pokémon
- 🕯️ Using Incense, Lucky Egg and/or Starpiece
- 🗑️ Deleting items from storage
- ⚔️ Player vs Player (PVP) battles
- 🧑🏫 Team leader vs Player battle
- 🎇 Placing a Lure Module or Special Lure on a PokéStop
- 🛒 Purchasing coins and shop items
- 👕 Changing avatar items/clothes
- 📦 Transferring a Pokémon to Switch (Mystery Box)
- 🎟️ Obtaining a free raid pass by clicking a gym with an active raid
- 📷 Encountering & catching certain Pokémon from Photobombs (e.g., Smeargle, Party Hat Pikachu)
🟢 Step-by-step guide for catching a Pokémon during cooldown:
1. Find the Pokémon you want to catch.
2. Don’t throw any balls or berries yet — just stay on the catch screen.
3. Set a timer for your cooldown. You can check your Journal for the exact time or simply wait 2 hours.
4. Wait until the cooldown is finished.
5. Once it’s over, you can throw balls and use berries to catch the Pokémon.
6. To avoid losing your camp while waiting, turn off Background App Refresh for Pokémon GO in your device settings.
🟢 Method:
1. The Account Maintenance notice is strictly related to Pokémon encounters. There’s an encounter limit, and once you hit it, you won’t be able to log back into the game for 12–24 hours. The exact number of encounters is unclear, but there are ways to avoid hitting that limit.
2. This mainly involves shiny scanners. Shiny scanners check nearby Pokémon for shiny forms. In the background, they technically “encounter” every Pokémon in range to verify it. When you teleport or hatch eggs, those encounters can stack up really quickly.
3. My suggestion: use the shiny scanner sparingly, and turn it off when you don’t really need it.
4. If you do see the Maintenance screen, don’t panic. There’s no evidence linking it to bans. Just wait it out and keep enjoying the game.
1️⃣ What are Account Strikes / Bans
2️⃣ Bans don’t happen instantly; accounts are repeatedly flagged on Niantic’s servers.
3️⃣ Did I receive a strike/shadowban?
4️⃣ What could result in a ban?
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Attempting to join a raid during cooldown can lead to several issues, including:
⚠️ Always confirm that your cooldown has fully ended before starting any raid to avoid unnecessary losses.
Pro Tips for Safe Raiding
- If you are not speed raiding, spin the Gym first
- If the spin successfully gives you items, it indicates that your cooldown has ended
- Use reliable cooldown calculators to track your remaining wait time
- Always wait for the full cooldown duration before teleporting to raid locations
- Plan raid routes based on the location of your last in-game action
Speed raiding is a technique used to quickly complete multiple raids in a short period of time, mainly to check for shiny Pokémon or high-IV raid bosses as efficiently as possible.
⚠️ Important:
Your account must be completely off cooldown before starting speed raiding. Attempting speed raids while on cooldown can result in errors or lost Raid Passes.
✅ Speed Raiding Steps
1. Teleport to the target raid location
2. Use a Raid Pass to enter the raid lobby
3. Defeat the raid boss
4. Check whether the Pokémon is shiny or meets your IV criteria
5. Run away immediately if it’s not what you’re looking for
6. Move on to the next raid and repeat the process
⚠️ Critical Cooldown Warning
The following actions will trigger a cooldown at that location and should be avoided during speed raiding:
- Throwing or dropping a Premier Ball
- Feeding any berries to the raid boss
- Catching the raid boss
❗ To continue speed raiding safely, do not interact with the catch screen in any way except selecting “Run Away.”
In Pokémon GO, there are two main ways to hunt shinies and shundos (Shiny + 100% IV). Each method suits a different play style.
This method focuses on sniping 100% IV Pokémon and checking whether they are shiny.
✅ This method is ideal if you’re specifically hunting shundos and want fast results.
This method is better for consistent shiny farming.
📍 Spending a couple of days at a mega nest gives you a very high chance of finding the shiny you’re looking for.
Pokémon GO enforces several daily and weekly limits to prevent excessive gameplay, maintain server stability, and identify suspicious activity.
Understanding these limits is especially important for spoofing and high-activity playstyles.
⚠️ Reaching the hard limit does not reset instantly — limits roll over gradually.
These limits do not reset at midnight and roll continuously:
❗Important:Repeatedly hitting daily or weekly limits can lead to **shadowbans permanent account suspension.Always play responsibly and within safe limits.
In Pokémon GO, a nest is a specific location where one Pokémon species spawns far more frequently than normal. Nests are widely used for targeted hunting and shiny farming.
Regular nests are common, stable, and easy to farm.
Key features:
Regular nests are perfect if you want to hunt a specific Pokémon consistently.
Mega nests are large-scale nesting areas with extremely high spawn density.
Key features:
Mega nests dramatically increase shiny encounter chances due to continuous high-volume spawns.
To get the best results from nests:
Nest migrations happen, every 2 weeks, Wednesday at 00:00 UTC. All nests worldwide change at the same time.
During migration:
Even in mega nests, shiny Pokémon are never guaranteed — persistence matters.
Mega nests are one of the safest and most efficient methods
A Shundo is considered the ultimate Pokémon in Pokémon GO.
It refers to a Pokémon that is both shiny and has perfect 100% IV stats (15/15/15) — a combination that is extremely rare and highly prized by players.
A Shundo combines maximum rarity maximum power
A Pokémon qualifies as a Shundo only if it meets both conditions:
Shundos are widely considered the “holy grail” of Pokémon collecting.
Shundos are rare because both shiny odds and IV odds must align.
Estimated odds by source:
Wild Shundos are possible, but raids and research are far more realistic sources.
If you are actively hunting Shundos, focus on these sources:
Raids and research tasks provide the best balance of IV quality and shiny odds
To improve your chances:
Consistency and volume are key — Shundos are never guaranteed.
⚠️Important: Shundos cannot be reliably obtained through trading.
Shundos represent the absolute peak of Pokémon GO collecting — combining perfect beauty perfect power
Not all Pokémon can appear in nests.
Only certain species are eligible to nest and rotate during nest migrations, while others will never appear in nests.
These Pokémon commonly appear in nests and migrate regularly:
If a Pokémon is commonly found in the wild, it usually has a chance to nest.
The following Pokémon will never appear in nests:
Nest migrations follow a fixed global schedule:
Nest migrations are predictable — planning around them greatly improves hunting efficiency.
To identify current nesting species:
Keep track of migration dates so you know when your target Pokémon may start nesting and plan your hunts accordingly.