Vegas - Pokémon Go tips and tricks – How to find, capture and keep 'em all

1. How to catch Pikachu as a Starter Pokemon

Before you get started, you might want to know how to catch a Pikachu. Initially you'll be offered one of the three main Starter Pokémon - Charmander, Squirtle or Bulbasaur. But, if you want the little yellow fellow, don't fret. There's a workaround for that.

When you notice the three startup characters waiting, don't tap them or walk towards them. Instead, walk away from them until your phone vibrates and the trio pop up again. Keep going until they've reappeared four or five times and then suddenly Pikachu will appear.

Then it's just down to you to catch the little guy.

2. How to get your preferred Eevee evolution

If you manage to get enough Eevee candies to evolve your little foxy friend, you may know exactly the Eeveelution you want to have. But, at the moment that evolution will happen randomly.

But Reddit user smithnigel has discovered there's a way of forcing your Eevee to evolve into the evolution you want - whether that's Flareon, Vaporeon or Jolteon.

And the trick is to know your Pokémon anime. In the cartoon series, the Eevee Brothers each had their own Eeveelution and if you rename your Eevee after the respective brother you'll evolve your Eevee into the perfect evolved form.

Rainer = Vaporeon
Sparky = Jolteon
Pyro = Flareon
Go to the Eevee you want to evolve in your Pokémon list, hit the pen icon next to its name and then rename it according to the Eeveelution you want - see above.

Quit out of the app and restart it, just to make sure the name's registered with the Pokémon Go servers and then evolve your little fella. Et voila, one Vaporeon, Flareon or Jolteon.

3. Try the Ingress hack

Now you might have heard of Ingress before. It's the mobile game that developer Niantic made before Pokémon Go and it works on a similar principle. In Ingress you battle for control of territories that are linked to real world locations.

But in order to do that you need to collect a glowing substance called XP, which is scattered across the map like PokéStops.

It seems that XM pools actually correspond to the spots where Pokémon congregate in Pokémon Go.

So if you keep both apps open and switch between the periodically, you may find your latest PokéWalk improves dramatically.

4. Invest in a portable battery pack

Now that the Battery Saver Mode has disappeared, there's only one option for you: invest in a portable battery pack. Obviously their uses extend far beyond Pokémon Go – holidays, festivals and so on – and you can pick them up fairly cheaply nowadays.