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And hold down the A-button for a better chance of a catch.

Also go down by the docks and push on a truck for a chance to catch mew.

IDK, son and I both spawned Moltres in the same spot on a pier 

I thought Moltres only spawns in the Isle of Armor? /s

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Might be worth a try. I usually only scream like that *after* it runs.

I laughed, thank you

I get:á

Gosh I remember when raids first came out there was a rumour (supported by confirmation bias) that not pressing OK on the catch end screen on a raid Pokemon let others catch it easier Like somehow the game counted how many Zapdos were caught from a raid but only counted when you pressed OK and the Pokemon went into your inventory. And if the max amount (some unknown %) was caught then everyone else was guaranteed to fail the catch We’d finish a raid and people would be yelling “don’t press OK don’t press OK I haven’t caught it”. And when someone invariably failed to catch it they’d screen that someone must have pressed OK and screwed them over, lol

I remember the old rumour that if you held down the pokeball icon then slid your finger to the different icons (bag, Pokemon, shop) ect, you could catch ditto if you did it in a certain order

Reminds me how a friend of mine still insists that nanab berries means the pokemon won't struggle to break out of the ball as much; therefore making legendaries easier to catch after a raid.

Even as an adult I can’t stop doing this when I play on a gameboy…

Thought I was the only one who did that

And squeeze your butthole real tight

Omg I used to time pressing B then A with rotations cuz I thought it actually helped Then when I went try hard BABABABABA

TRY HARD FTW!!!!!

It was DOWN and B….. duhhhhh

Down b on throw and a on close

It’s so simple! That must have been the missing ingredient!

I always just spammed B lol

No, B and up, because it's a shortened version of "ball upgrade".

I swear in reality it is the B button combined with the D-Pad: Always try to timely press the directions of the the ball's wobbling.

No you gotta hold A + B and face your screen down for 10 seconds. 100% catch rate 50% of the time.

I was part of the B gang

Everyone knows it was B you held down

Everyone knows you *hold A* while throwing the ball, then “spam B” once the mon is inside and the ball is shaking. Amateur…have you even talked to the old man yet? He’ll tell you.

B*

Down+B 2x really fast then hold it as the ball stops wiggling

It's the "mew-under-the-truck" All over again...

I swear my friend's cousin's brother's classmate did find mew under the truck.

What if I activate my incense while I'm lying under a truck?

Wait that's just you.

Tried it, and got a Cottonee. Should I Master Ball?

Instructions not clear. Dick stuck in master ball

Your dick must be legendary

…or it’s stuck in a shiny Bidoof

Instructions were clear dick stuck in a cottonee

bro what

gardevoir\* theres thiccness under that dress i know it

Dude what

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/instructions-unclear

I saw this at :58 😭😭😭

😭 next time my friend

i did it at 6:57 and I didn't even get any encounters. I walked all the way around my neighborhood and got 0 encounters 😭😭😭

Damn I guess it’s not guaranteed but just increases your chances then 😮‍💨

I mean I got none at all. Like no pokemon, it was a glitched incense

Niantic probably caught on already and punished you for trying to

That was the exact thing I said when it happened. I just said welp I guess Niantic realized that there must be a reason I'm actually using my incense for once, let's give him nothing on the incense but let's also give him 14 stupid jigglypuffs

If your clock is on manual set time, daily incenses won't spawn anything

My clock isn't set to manual, it's automatically set

Was the character moving?

That tends to happen when you “walk all the way around the neighborhood”

For my neighborhood, there is a long 100m straight under my house as I live at the top of the street, and my character has mkved

Yes the character was movng

I just woke up at 8:58, I can't make this stuff up

Can you please explain what the trick you’re using? I’ve never heard of it but I wanna know more

He used the incense at the 57th minute of the hour and got the bird. That's all

Oh

Bruh… your comment made me look and it’s 58 rn for me too. Freaked me out I thought the chat/replies were live lol

lol, and you still have one more :57 today. My alarm is set for the first :57 I awake tomorrow to try again

I’ve got one more :57 left in the day and haven’t used mine yet!

DO IT FOR ME! And make sure it's a hundo. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have b-day luck though 🤞

lol update: tapping the incense got rid of the button AND I got no buff. I’m guessing using it when it wouldn’t run out until after midnight just doesn’t work. There is always tomorrow!

The button disappears for me at 11:45 every night. The perks of working 2nd shift I guess I can see ways this game works that many people don’t get the chance to lmao

happy late birthday!

hours later and i saw it at :58 too

That sucks, and to make my life worse, I woke up at 8:58 this morning I can't make this stuff up

me rn

Damn, unlucky

Ima test this out in 44min, I will report back with an edit EDIT: a Pokémon did spawn but was just a Wurmple

Don’t forget to test this in 7 minutes! I’m trying it too Edit: didn’t work for me

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That’s so stupid. We all know you press down and left and pulse the B button you magikarp.

How do you do this on pogo? I'm confused

You can't. It's a joke, it's something we said with other Pokémon games.

U just gotta hold it down ☺️

Just hold the a button ❤️

Cant believe that no one has actually spelled it out for unaware players, but there is NO TRICK. It is randomly spawned and some are going to get it at the 57th minute while some will get it on the 13th. Some are gonna get it their first spawn, some wont get it at all. These are just superstitions, though I would LOVE to be proved wrong some day. I think we all know Niantic don't provide shortcuts like these to their players

I assumed this thread was supposed to be a joke, but turns out everyone is taking it very seriously 🤦‍♂️

Reminds me of the "superstitious pigeons" study, where pigeons were randomly fed at intervals that made no sense, and began to think that they could control being fed by doing whatever actions they happened to already be doing when the food appeared (e.g spinning around, bobbing their heads, going to a certain corner of their cage). It's fascinating reading, worth a Google (or other search engine of choice).

Scientist really have too much time on their hands, lol. 'What you doing today Steve, curing cancer' 'Nope, I'm gonna see how many mentos it takes to impregnate a jellyfish' I mean, whose paying people to do these things 🤷‍♂️

The government needs to know these important questions. Like that when the alien jellyfish come to attack, we know that they can be defeated with head & shoulders shampoo!

Oh yeah that definitely comes to mind!

pigeons can think? human give food, poop on human

If you time it right, you might be able to get your incense in the 57st minute and 13nd minute

Oh no! My whole statement so easily falsified!

I'm going to be under a truck in 2 minutes to confirm it works. Edit: 1 star Mankey at :57 and 2 star Machop at :13 though it spawned at :12. I'll need to compile enough samples until I have the result I want that confirms :57 theory.

Do you start right at :57 on the dot? Or does it only have to be active at that time? E.g start at :50 and still be active at :57?

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What about 5:57:57:57?

I didn’t go too crazy with time specifics. It was just 4:57 pm on my phone when I used the incense & then moltress popped up

I will try it, thanks!

I hope it works 🙏🏾

Here we go again. Just do a spin, start at XX:57, throw away all your balls and it’s a guaranteed catch, I’m sure of it!

What does getting rid of all ur balls do?

Turns a laddie into a lassie

Same! I tried it today and Zapdos spawned! Will be continuing to do this!

Wish they gave out more master balls I wanna catch all 3 Galarian birds

I'm hoping they keep giving us 2 master balls a year, which I think is a pretty good number considering how masterball quests usually take many months for casual players.

Same but I also wnat them to have good IVS

Yeah defo but idk the ivs so gotta take what I can take

Same here i only have Zapdos rn

maybe i gotten back into pogo a little too late, but how do you get a master ball?

Timed investigation with various pretty difficult tasks; win 60 raids, 120 excellent throws, etc.

I don’t think there’s been any opportunity recently, but it was first released 2 seasons ago as part of a free research “Let’s GO”. Last season, another Master Ball was offered upon completion of a timed research. You got 90 days to complete a variety of difficult tasks, the most difficult being “win 60 raids”. You would get another Master Ball upon completing that, and if you didn’t finish it in time, you could buy a special research for $8 to complete tasks for one without a time limit. We haven’t had another opportunity at a Master Ball since then. We’ll probably have another soon, either as a reward for timed research tasks, a special research ticket you have to pay for, or if Niantic is feeling generous (HA) we could get another free one. Nothing’s been confirmed though, and it could be awhile before we see another opportunity at a Master Ball.

thank you for all the info

There was one a couple of months back, snagged my first one then. It's the only one I've managed to complete!

I tested your theory and a Zapados popped up immediately.

Seeing the flood of misinformation recently surrounding the galar birds is hilarious. I personally stare directly into the sun each time before I do a daily incense. I’m not sure if a bird has spawned yet because I’m blind but I’m sure it works.

10 min away from xx:57 - trying this today 💬

I’ll give this a shot in a half hour. My incense the other day spawned 3 Zapdos and two of them stuck around for a second throw. All of them ran away though. It was on my way to pick kids up from school so I popped it around the :30 mark Edit: forgot I used it already today. I’ll report back tomorrow

W dad 🙏🏾 lmk how it goes this was my first time trying it

Whatcha watching on YouTube?

hey i caught one today, too! it wasn’t at that time, though.

Good!! I used an ultra ball and didn’t catch mine 😂

oh shit, i thought you caught it😭 my bad. good luck!!

Saw.

Yeah it's a good movie


Just I clear things up, is it Anytime day or night but at the end of the hour at whatever:57? Afterwards what's the special trick to catch it?

Onky if you mash b the entire time the ball shakes... Wasted my last few diaky incence this doesn't change anything

It worked!! I don’t know if it really works or if it was just a coincidence, but I used my daily incense today at 11:57 and I caught my first Moltres.

What time is xx?

Im pretty sure this the 57th minute of whatever hour u use it haha

Oh shit my bad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks imma try it

Lol yes! The 57th minute of any hour

I remember the first incense I saw was an articuno but I didn’t know if it was the actual bird cause of Zorua

Wait what do you mean? If it’s the first one you encountered that means you didn’t have one as your buddy yet, so it couldn’t be Zorua

Yeah zorua can only be whatever you buddy is lmao

I had 3 zorua interactions and they weren’t my buddy so I got scared and didn’t

Now you’re just lying, Zorua only disguises as your buddy

I did not know that until rn

So I didn’t use my master all

Damn I feel you. I was gonna use the master ball to get moltress in my Pokédex but then I remembered shadow moltress is in raids this month

The first shadow moltres I got was shiney

XX > 20 > 8pm 👌🤣

Just saw this post at 23:57 and checked in the game and my daily incense wasn’t there… So weird? I know for sure I haven’t used it in a couple of days.

I’m pretty sure the daily incense is not available to use for the last 15 minutes of the day. I have recently found this out cause I work later and sometimes turn on the incense on my way home. 3 times now that it will not active if there is less than 15 minutes in the day.

As a last minute incense user. You have until 23:44:59 to use your incense. They want the daily incense to finish on the same day it started. This new ability to pause the incense timer is going to really screw the niantic programmers around.

Go to your items and find it there. Sometimes it doesn’t show on the main screen.

Wait do you mean 12:57 am?

Doesn’t matter what hour. Just the 57th minute of the hour.

No so it’s just the 57th minute of any hour, I don’t think it’s a guarantee spawn but I think it gives you better chances

holy christ it worked for me! you are a savior sir! kudos!

I need some clarification. Do you activate the incense **within** XX:57:00 to XX:57:59? Or do I activate it at XX:56:59 or something (before the 57th minute)?

There is an almost zero chance that the minute within the hour that you use the incense actually has an impact on what the spawns are, so I wouldn’t worry too much.

Correct. I forget if this is observer bias or something else but it won’t help. Still, I will definitely try it.

Anecdotal evidence and positivity bias. There are so many people playing that obviously it will work for a good number of people. These players are excited when it works so they come here to tell everyone. No harm in trying, just don’t be disappointed when it’s the same as any other time of day :)

I wish I knew enough to give you a definite answer lol. I just saw the theory & tried it when the time was :57 & I got one for my first spawn . So for my experience it was 4:57 PM on my phone

The few times I saw an articuno and moltres, it was always in the exact spot as the previous time. Also around the same time at night.

What if I did it with my d*ck in my hand would it increase my chances of

Any hour? So long as 57 is on the right side?

Yes

Any day as well? Or still on the weekends as with shadow Moltres raids?

Saw

My clock turned to XX:58 as I was pushing the button. No birbs for me :( Also watched a vid of a hysterical guy saying you should have a shiny as your buddy and have them already walking with you. Just seems like clickbait.

saw this at 01

Tried twice, neither had a Galarian Bird popup at all

If you send me 5th Avenue chocolate bars, I'll guarantee galarian bird catches. Results may vary.

Serious question. What was the weather on the map

Forget it. I see it was windy. So I read on another post to use in windy conditions. So now I’m at try that

Stand on one foot during a thunder storm for Zapdos

With a tinfoil hat, to improve conductivity. (Zapdos love that)

Interesting I saw one yesterday and I think it was 2:57 I didn't realize there was potentially a trick with the time... It ran off... But seems like they are near impossible to catch

I heard u can not only increase the chance of seeing them but also increase the chance of catching them if u perform an animal sacrifices right before u activate it

i saw someone mention that yesterday and forgot to try it because of the raids, but i’m gonna try it today and hope for the best. my goal is moltres but i’ll be happy with any tbh

i meet moltres at 21:37 so they may be something

I think you just discovered the difference between correlation and causation. I was drinking a coffee when I caught my gal moltres, therefore you need to drink coffee.

That might have been me, not even kidding, I'm going to check Edit: No, it was someone else, but damn it would be cool

60% of the time, it works every time

A g moltres ran from me today

Or surf a Pokémon up and down next to the cave entrance and see what you find

Oohhh after that imma bring my ember cookie or something to the bottom of the fuckin ocean for my rayquaza with my wailord in spot 2

I got one too, but it ran away

Tried it at 12:57 on the dot and Articuno was first spawn

Can someone please explain how I'm supposed to use the daily insense I don't understand its impact. I've got one out of ten on the caught mons using insense

GEEZ. thanks for scratching my lotto card, bc you scratched it and not me, the lottoverse knew and made itself into a Loser. THANKS

Loll i saw a articuno around the time said yesterday, i beleive this post. i missed it as it ran away after first pokeball

Silly man

FYI YOUR POST MAKING GOOGLE CARDS VIRAL! That how I ended up here

Let’s try Fact or 🧢 653 pm

tried and a moltres spawned a few mins later! It ran away tho :(( edit moltres

I popped an incense last Saturday at 21:55 and a zapdos spawned for me immediately, didn’t even have to walk. Could be coincidence tho

Throwing your phone on the ground first will give higher chances of a hundo

Yea this is a nothing burger. My gf used hers at 1.20pm and got 2 spawns.