PokéStops in Pokémon GO

Discovering your city and its surroundings while capturing Pokémon is a key part of Pokémon GO, and we explain you how in this guide!

When you are on the game map, you will certainly come across many blue disc-shaped structures. These will be found at well-known places — often with cultural connotations — such as monuments, art installations, churches, and so on. These are PokéStops.

When you are at a PokéStop, you will have the opportunity to spin it. This will give you Items (between 3 and 9, depending on the location), such as Poké Balls, Potions or even Eggs (see below). You will also receive 50 XP.

PokéStops have a five-minute cooldown. This means that you will have to wait five minutes between spinning the same PokéStop.

It is possible to assign a Lure Module to a PokéStop — if you do so, it will attract Pokémon to the PokéStop for half an hour (standard) for all players in the area to catch.

Niantic generally don't allow players to propose PokéStops, but the feature is currently in beta in certain locations. This is an aspect of the game taken from Niantic's precursor game, Ingress, and is used a lot in that game in rural areas, where PokéStops and Gyms are not very common.

Items to be collected in a PokéStop

You can retrieve a multitude of items through a PokéStop. Find out about them in the table below, as well as any requirements to unlock them.

Object	Effect	Condition
	Hatch into a Pokémon. These come in 3 km, 5 km, 7 km and 10 km variants.	None
	Device for capturing Pokémon with normal chance of capture	None
	Device for capturing Pokémon with increased chance of capture compared to Poké Ball	Level 12
	Device for capturing Pokémon with increased chance of capture compared to the Super Ball	Level 20
	Restore HP of one Pokémon by 20	Level 5
	Restore HP of one Pokémon by 50	Level 10
	Restore HP of one Pokémon by 200 points	Level 15
	Restore all HP of one Pokémon	Level 20
	Revives a Pokémon and restores 50% of max HP	Level 5
	Revives a Pokémon and restores 100% of max HP	Level 30
	Makes a Pokémon easier to catch	Level 5
	Receive more candy after catching a Pokémon	Level 8
	Calms a Pokémon so that it is less erratic	Level 8
	Evolve Gloom into Bellossom Evolve Sunkern into Sunflora	None
	Evolve Poliwhirl into Politoed Evolve Slowpoke into Slowking	None
	Evolve Onix into Steelix Evolve Scyther into Scizor	None
	Evolve Seadra into Kingdra	None
	Evolve Porygon into Porygon2	None
	Give to Friends to increase Friend Level Open received Gifts for Items	None