Thursday, October 20, 2016

Pokemon Go 5th Nest Great Migration Is Coming: Spawn Points Have Changed

The last nest migration in Pokemon Go took place on October 6. And it has been 14 days since the last nest migration. Players have noticed that Spawn Points have changed again. We can make an educated guess that the next Pokemon Go nest migration is coming. 

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What is nest migration?
When a very small localized area has a consistent and abnormally high amount of one specific kind of Pokemon, it is called a nest. These areas are almost always guaranteed to yield more than 1 of the specified Pokemon per visit, perhaps at a rate of 5 per hour or more.

The reason that the next nest migration is coming is simple. Pokemon Go player Fightgeist has shared on reddit the details from October 16 to 18. Below is the information indicating the spawn points changes.

Sun 10/16
9:57 Weedle 10:57 Voltorb 11 11:57. Eevee 307 1:57 Weedle 10 2:57 Paras 87 3:57 Weedle 17 4:57 Weedle 67 5:57 Rattata 271 6:57 Venonat 163 7:57 Rattata 21 8:57 Rattata 57 9:57 Seel 424 10:57 Rattata 267 11:57 Pidgey 292

Mon 10/17
12:57 Rattata 148 1:57 Pidgey 95 8:57 Drowzee 188 9:57 Pidgey 79 10:57 Pidgey 264 12:57 Goldeen 496 1:57 Tauros 725 2:57 Gastly 135 3:57 Pidgey 10 4:57 Pidgey 132 5:57 Weedle 169 6:57 Pidgey 178 7:57 Weedle 38 8:57 Pidgeotto 113 9:57 Weedle 121 10:57 Pidgey 56

Tuesday 10/18
12:57 Rattata 84 1:57 Weedle 45 7:57 Shellder 405 9:57 Pidgey 300 10:57 Pidgey 154 11:57 Weedle 213 12:57 Kakuna 97 1:57 Pidgey 324 2:57 Weedle 248 3:57 Rattata 10 4:57 Rattata 279 5:57 Abra 68 6:57 Rattata 201 7:57 Rattata 86 8:57 Pidgey 92 9:57 Caterpie 26 10:57 Weedle 42 11:57 Weedle 10

Another player DrHeadgear has also proved that spawn points are changing. Below is what he shared online.

I just got a new one, 100% verified. I have all my home points mapped and timed. This one is well within range to catch from my sofa, so no way I missed it before. Exact time: 12:29 CET.

So far, possibly lost two (on boundary of sofa-catching radius so not always available) and gained two.

The :29 didn't fire at 13:29, possible causes:
- The new spawn rollout occured between first and second appearances of the mon, I should expect it to spawn first time at a different time (:59, :14, :44) - I haven't noticed this.
- The new spawn rollout was part-way into its second appearance and I've confused it with a close-by new spawn at :16
- What Niantic giveth, Niantic taketh away again.
- There's a drastic change in spawn dynamics, that sometimes spawn points won't spawn anything at all

There is definitely no spawn at :29. This suggests that I was seeing the end of the new :16 spawn. If so, given that this is pretty much right on top of me, we have an exact time the rollout hit: the app was open all through the :16 spawn but didn't pick it up for 13 minutes. Barring extreme and prolonged GPS drift I think that's unlikely.

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