{"id":98860,"date":"2016-07-18T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98860"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:03:56","slug":"the-secret-way-to-get-a-pickachu-early-in-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98860-the-secret-way-to-get-a-pickachu-early-in-pokemon-go","title":{"rendered":"The secret way to get a Pickachu early in Pokemon GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who are familiar with the Pokemon games will know that you are typically given your choice of three starter Pokemon.<\/p>\n<p>Pokemon GO is no different, with Professor Willow offering you your choice of one of Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle.<\/p>\n<p>There is however a fourth unlockable Pokemon, Pickachu, which can secretly be unlocked as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the game, don&#8217;t tap on any of the three available starters. Instead, walk away so that they disappear towards the edge of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>They will reappear in the centre of your map &#8211; ignore them and once again walk away so that they start disappearing towards the fringe of your map.<\/p>\n<p>Repeating this process three or four times and the three Pokemon will be joined by a mysterious fourth &#8211; Pickachu!<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the secret way to catch Pickachu for yourself in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2MW6z8OnKlw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What did you choose as your starter Pokemon? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"watch-title-container\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how much data and battery Pokemon GO really uses\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98856-this-is-how-much-data-and-battery-pokemon-go-really-uses.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how much data and battery Pokemon GO really uses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Spoiler alert! Plot spoilers actually increase your enjoyment\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/98792-spoiler-alert-plot-spoilers-actually-increase-your-enjoyment.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spoiler alert! Plot spoilers actually increase your enjoyment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The secret world of eSports stages\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97924-the-secret-world-of-esports-stages.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The secret world of eSports stages<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the secret way to unlock Pickachu in Pokemon GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[73,20478,20314,2163],"class_list":["post-98860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-nintendo","tag-pickachu","tag-pokemon-go","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98988,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98860\/revisions\/98988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}