Regarding # 4 , I read a comment some weeks ago saying that when the pokemon you ' re tracking flees it means it will despawn in something like 90 seconds . I haven ' t seen any more info to confirm this , but I ' ve kept that in mind so whenever it happens I give myself a window to get there . I never measured the time precisely but on the few occasions that I missed a Pokemon that had ' fled ', I took definitely more than a minute to get there . I once got waylaid by a neighbor for a minute while power walking toward a Charmander that fled . I got to the spawn point and saw the Charmander , but when I tapped it I got the error message that you get right as they despawn . Damn neighbor . <| sep |> Yes , I ' ve play hockey for 10 years , redirects aren ' t always on net