👉 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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