How to get more Pokeballs in Pokemon GO
Pokemon GO has taken the mobile gaming world by storm, but its success has come despite, and definitely not because of, its almost complete lack of tutorials.
Sites like this one should be grateful though, as the game's bare bones approach to explaining the basics has allowed us to help pick up the slack. In this case, we're going to discuss how to ensure you never run out of that most essential of supplies, the Pokeball.
The kindly professor who sets you on your way in Pokemon GO gives you a supply of Pokeballs to start out your adventures, but you'll quickly discover that they aren't enough to catch 'em most, let alone all. Even if you chuck them like Clayton Kershaw, you're going to miss some throws, leaving yourself open to running out just when that Pokemon you've seen wandering around the neighborhood finally shows itself.
That obviously won't do. The good news is that there are multiple ways to keep yourself stocked up on Pokeballs, and none of them take too much effort on your part.
Visit your local PokeStops
No matter where you live, there should be PokeStops somewhere within a mile or so. They appear on the game map as blue towers on top, and they typically pop up at churches (SO many churches), fountains, historical markers, and other points of local interest.
When you get within range of a PokeStop, it will transform and offer a big picture disc that you can spin. Doing so produces three or more items of various kinds, some of which are always Pokeballs.
Visit often enough -- and they recharge in a matter of minutes, usually -- and you should never run out of Pokeballs.
Level up for some freebies
Every time you level up, your trainer will receive some rewards. The assortment changes as you advance, but you can count on seeing a healthy amount of Pokeballs.
How do you level up? We wrote a whole separate guide about that, but the big keys are to catch more Pokemon, especially ones you've not already added to your collection, and to visit PokeStops. Yep, killing two birds with one stone in Pokeball terms with that one.
Buy them
There's a definite reason that Pokemon GO is already the top-grossing app on iOS, and that's because it offers in-app purchases that a lot of people are obviously feeling are worth spending on.
It should probably come as no surprise that Pokeballs are among the items you can buy for real money. Or rather, you can buy them for Pokecoins, but those you need to buy for real money.
At the time of this post, 20 Pokeballs cost 100 Pokecoins, which in the smallest bundle will set you back 99 cents. Thus, it costs you about a nickel a Pokeball by our calculations, but if you concentrate on the two previous methods for getting more of them, you should rarely if ever have to go this route.
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