The best Pokemon Go tips and tricks

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(Pocket-lint) — The basics of Pokemon Go are simple and fun. You walk, you catch Pokemon, you collect as many as you can and you visit Poke Stops to load your backpack up with goodies to help your Trainer along the way.

But when it comes to mastering the game, there's a lot more you need to consider. Here are some top tips to help you become a Pokemon pro:

The eggs you collect at Poke Stops or get from gifts will help you get some Pokemon as well as gain XP and boost candies, once you've put them through an incubator and walked the required distance — 2km, 5km, 7km or 10km. Everyone starts with an infinite use incubator with an ∞ symbol on, but sometimes you'll be rewarded with 3x incubators, as well as being able to buy them in the shop. Use them wisely:

Using this technique, you'll get more efficient use of those incubators. Also watch out for special events where hatching distances are slashed. Generally speaking, the longer distance eggs have greater rewards.

The skill of your Trainer is dictated by the XP you have. You move through the levels of XP, needing more XP each time to level up. But as you do so, the rewards get higher and you'll evolve and hatch Pokemon at a higher level, as well as being able to power-up to higher levels.

Powering-up your Pokemon when your XP is low means it costs you more candies to do so. So it's better to save your power-ups of Pokemon until you've reached a higher XP level — like over level 20.

To help build XP quickly, try some of these things:

There are two areas of the game that register the Pokemon you catch:

There's no need to carry every type of Pokemon as a growing collection in your bag — that's what the Pokedex is for.

It's better to keep only the Pokemon you need: that's an