Pokémon GO: 11 Biggest Questions Answered For New Players

7. Where Can I Catch [Insert Specific Pokémon]?

Sadly you're going to have to rely on a mix of luck and grinding to get childhood favourites like Charizard or Gyrados on your team, as at time of writing, there's no defined place to catch specific creatures.

Instead, Pokémon GO uses Google Maps data to link the game world onto our own, resulting in bodies of water housing their respective Pokémon - the same goes for fields, industrial areas, etc.

You have more chance of finding a Magikarp or Paras next to a river or beach than anywhere else, but that's it for the early-goings. Ranking and levelling up changes the ranks of Pokémon that appear, but that's it as far as 'guaranteeing' a given area will house a specific creature.