I have learned more from talking to people then anything else for tips and tricks in the game and wanted to share a big one I just learned yesterday.
As you level you need more and more XP but have fewer new pokemon to find and get bonus XP from. One solution is mass evolves, what you need is a bunch of any pokemon (pidgey, weedle, rattata are good ones as are any you find in bulk) and a Lucky Egg. Collect and transfer the pokemon to build up candies then get a collection of however many you need to use up all your candy evolving them (powering them up is not needed as these will be disposable). Use the Lucky Egg to get an XP bonus for the next 30 min then start evolving the pokemon in mass, each evolve is worth 500XP or 1000XP with the Lucky Egg so every 10-25 you evolve will give you a level. Levels 9, 10, 15, and 20 give you eggs for free, I'm not sure if you can get them from poke stops so be aware of these for fast XP and build up a stash before using. Of course you could also buy the Eggs if you want.
I'm sure this and other tips are out there somewhere but I hadn't seen this one and hadn't through of it. Any tips you want to share with the rest of us?
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[–] thrus [S] ago
The curveball is more how you throw it then the spinny thing everyone keeps saying to do. I know this as a fact due to having had many of them happen when I just wanted the ball to go straight. Spinning it sounds good but is as effective as steering with the remote on Mario Kart 64.
[–] BB-3 ago
Yeah, it does make them way harder to hit.