This will Get You BANNED in Pokémon GO

what this has made me realize is that if they just enabled long distance trading, it would reduce quite a bit of term violation

6:46 Actually that was just a cooldown not a ban. Depends on how far from your last location is, the cooldown can reach up to 2 hours. The trigger is that you spin a pokestop or catch a pokemon. Since you catch a pokemon from far away at that moment, the cooldown trigger until it catches up to your recent location.

I was definitely temp banned before just because i was driving cross country and pokemon shadow ban me for fast travel. and then lied to me when I confronted them about it.

Banning people for having a friend log into their account elsewhere seems really unfair. If you’re going to have regionals that only exist in certain countries, it should be expected that people would want to share with someone they know that’s there.

Around when PoGo first launched there was a neighborhood I would go to and it would cause my avatar to teleport. I didn’t know the area well and didn’t know what was actually happening. The third time I went to that neighborhood, I got a 7 day ban. I sent a message to Niantic and they didn’t respond until the 8th day. On top of that they replied like “You know what you did.”

i love that 3rd party devices can get you banned too BUT they wont sell more of there own devices... this is like Nintendo going after emulators. If you sell it for a reasonable price people will just buy it from you because its easy but if you dont sell it someone else will.

That "Mewtwo service" was absolutely a scam. Wow.

I got shadowbanned for trying to spin pokestops while my mom was driving.Some times I could spin them but once we were home I couldn't catch anything during many hours.

i’ll be honest, starting back in 2017, i started spoofing after i learned how from a youtuber who was known for it. i did it because i live in an unpopular area where it’s impossible to win legendary raids, and back then they didn’t have remote raid passes. i spoofed for about a year and i got plenty of legendaries from raids and i even Teleported to get a Mr. Mime. i will be forever grateful that i only got a 30 day account suspension and i was able to keep my account and everything on it, and i will never spoof again after that. It’s not worth it.

A chunk of the bans seem to be a GPS hardware issue with gps refresh times on a lot of phones where they only confirm the location every so often and if the phone is asleep, off, or something that doesn't let it communicate such as airplane mode or some tunnels you have a delay until the next refresh after it loads. It's kind of funny that a smaller game like Orna doesn't penalize you for it, but larger companies do...

I remember when people were being kicked off YouTube for talking about "3000 CP Pokemon" or whatever, because Google thought CP meant, er, something else.

I worry a LOT about possible bans as I have an account for me and one for my son. Frequently when his device runs out of battery power I will simply log him in on my phone. Everytime I do this or go back to my account I cringe thinking a ban might be coming my way

Loved the end, it's as if getting banned got you street cred 😂

I used to have a rooted tablet and had access to not only changing my gps location to anywhere but also a d-pad to move around in the area, never got banned for it though but this was a long time ago before things like eggs etc were added and my account went idle for several year before coming back to the game only last year

There was a while where I was getting soft ban weekly and I was very confused why. I was getting the damn “are you a robot” question daily!

The thing is, you can 100% comply with the rules and still get banned - we've had ban waves that have mistakenly banned both iOS and Xiaomi devices specifically that Niantic have admitted were mistakes, and likely had many more errors from their systems that they've never admitted to. Doesn't inspire any confidence to sink time in to the game when you might just lose your account for no reason. And then, as you say, you find users who cheat for years..!

The not catching and spinning can happen if you travel to fast, so waiting to catch a pokemon can confuse the game. I had it happen a few times on the bike, and when trying to spin in a train or car (not driving myself) it will also fail everything after a while above a speed thresehold. My old iPhone had my character sometimes freak out and running and even that did put me into can't catch modus some times. But with speeding the game also tends to just unload pokemons and stops

i got soft banned before i knew what a soft ban was, it happened on community day where my cousin was driving me and other friends on the freeway to a park and i was catching on the passenger seat. the cooldown was short though, but I missed out on some time

I got banned for sneezing in front of Niantic 😂

One time, my GPS shat the bed and refused to leave one spot on the other side of the park. I don't personally spoof but I've seen it in person plenty of times, but it was exactly what it reminded me of. My guy was just standing next to a PokeStop in a cluster spawn of Mons and I just kept spinning the stop, laughing my head off lol! Was not banned, but I eventually restarted the game out of fear I would be 😆 Edit: I could freely spin the stop, get the items, and catch the Pokemon. I don't know what made me freeze there no matter how far away I got from the PokeStop, but it was the dumbest thing ever lol. My dude didn't even turn around when I moved my phone around; he just kept staring at the Stop.