Are There Pokemon Nests in Pokemon Go?

You've read the stories online. A Pokemon Go player wandering through his or her city suddenly [...]

By Christian Hoffer

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You've read the stories online. A Pokemon Go player wandering through his or her city suddenly stumbles upon a location containing tons of a rare Pokemon. Maybe it's a pack of Bulbasaur, or possibly a herd of Ponyta, or even a gang on Abras. And crazily enough, when they returns the next day...there's even more of the same species of Pokemon waiting for them.

Players around the country are reporting finding "Pokemon nests" in Pokemon Go where the same Pokemon species keeps appearing in the same location. Niantic hasn't confirmed the existence of Pokemon nests (they're too busy trying to clean up the daily server issues and get the game ready for worldwide rollout) but there are enough reports in multiple locations and cities to accept that Pokemon nests do exist in Pokemon Go. What we don't know is whether Pokemon nests were deliberately programmed into the game or if they're just some quirk of the game's complicated algorithms.

Unfortunately, Pokemon nests seem random and aren't easily identifiable like PokeStops or Pokemon Gyms. That doesn't mean that players aren't trying to chart these confluences of uncommon Pokemon. There are several crowdsourced lists of Pokemon nests around the United States, which will only grow as more players find nests around their neighborhoods. Many local Pokemon Go Facebook groups are also good sources for finding out where a Pokemon nest is nearby.

Pokemon Go is out in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe.

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