The website at a glance: tools and first steps

This website is for those of us who play Pokémon GO on Menorca. Part of what you see updates itself (raids, bosses, moves, events); the other part is yours (medals, goals, Pokédex, collection). Note that many tools come alive once you register your Pokémon. That is why this guide ends with a suggested order of first steps.

First of all

1. Create your account with an email and password and confirm the code sent to your inbox.
2. Verify your profile: upload a screenshot of the "YOU" tab in Pokémon GO. We read name, team and level so the community is made of real people. You cannot use the app without this step.
3. It sends you to New around here?, a two-minute walkthrough you can reopen any time.

Your command centre

• My panel: the first thing you see. Goals closest to completion, upcoming meetups and quick actions.
• Notifications: what happened while you were away. There are no push alerts: just this inbox.
• My profile: your details, team, level and preferences.

Explore the island (needs nothing first)

• Map: gyms, PokéStops and power spots of Menorca. It shows one layer at a time; tap a gym for its page.
• Gyms: a list with search and a town filter. Each page has a photo, directions and your medal. When you set it we ask for a screenshot of the gym to verify it.
• My contributions: a gym is missing or something is wrong? Propose the change and we review it.

Community (no Pokémon needed either)

• Meetups: join the community's or propose your own. Official ones go through Campfire first: see Campfire step by step.
• Events: the game's calendar in Menorca time, with meetups alongside. There is a calendar feed you can subscribe to from your phone.
• Rankings: the island's leaderboard by gym points, medals and Pokédex.
• Guides & tips: what we have learnt by playing.

Progress

• Goals: pick what you aim for (a gym medal, a Pokémon…) and the app keeps track. When you get it, press "Done!".
• Pokédex: tick what you have registered, form by form: shiny, shadow, Gigantamax, XXL… If you miss a shadow, we tell you which Rocket trainer drops it.

Tools that depend on your collection

These will not tell you anything useful until you add Pokémon:

• My collection: add the specific Pokémon you fight with, with their moves and IVs. It is the basis of everything below.
• Raids: the bosses active right now. With your collection it tells you which of YOUR Pokémon to bring, not the world's best in general.
• Energy nodes: Max Battle bosses and which three Pokémon beat them.
• Team GO Rocket: who you fight, what they bring and which Shadow Pokémon you win.
• PvP: the IV range of your collection for Great, Ultra and Master League, with the moveset the current meta recommends (PvPoke data).
• Improvement plan: of everything you could do now, what would improve your account most, based on the game's best attackers and what you lack.
• Trades: what you need is worked out from your Pokédex; you declare what you want or offer. Opt-in: until you enable it you appear in nobody's matches, and others never see your whole Pokédex. The website has no chat: it only tells you who may have something you want.

With no Pokémon registered these screens work as general reference (which bosses, which moves) but are not personalised.

Recommended first steps

1. Create your account and verify your profile.
2. Set your first gym and a goal (gym medal): the fastest way to see your panel come alive.
3. Fill in your Pokédex with what you already own: it unlocks Trades, shadow hints and the ranking.
4. Add your best Pokémon in My collection, starting with those you use in raids and PvP. You do not need everything: your usual ones already make a difference.
5. Check your Improvement plan to know where to spend candy and dust.
6. Join a meetup and meet the island's players.

Something off? Propose the fix from My contributions.