Zoals dat gaat met populaire video games, verschijnen er op het internet de meest rare verhalen en natuurlijk photoshops van mensen die interessant willen doen. Daarom heeft de website Dorkly.com nu dit artikel gemaakt over vijf mythes die de ronde doen en niet waar zijn. Dingen zoals:

4. No, the Pokemon you catch aren't affected by the rain

It's still kind of tough to figure out what Pokemon will show up where. Some folks have reported an overabundance of Doduos, and some haven't seen a single instance of the two-headed ostritch monstrosity. Going by anecdotal reports, it does seem like certain Pokemon are attracted to certain climates, like water Pokemon showing up near rivers, grass Pokemon at golf courses and snake Pokemon in Austrailian toilets. The Silph Road took it a step further and attempted to take broad scientific samples to prove what was suspected. They found that the climate, temperature and humidity have an effect on what Pokemon show up where -- Fire Pokemon will be more likely to show up in a desert, and that makes total sense.

But after their findings, the team was very pessimistic about rainfall affecting Pokemon appearance rates. Which also makes sense -- you'd figure it'd be much easier to hammer out the average climate of an area, since there's tons of data on that. But to factor in active weather at any given moment would probably involve constant access to meteorological data. Streaming this to 20 million phones would probably incinerate the servers, and they're already on fire half the time anyway.