A comprehensive list of all Pokemon Go Search Terms to find Pokemon more easily.
You can combine and group search terms using the following symbols
Combining Search terms with & | You can combine two search terms using an ampersand so to find Grass Pokemon better than 3000 CP you can search for Grass&cp3000- |
Grouping serch terms with , | You can group two search terms together to find Pokemon in either terms using a comma so to find Grass and Water Pokemon you can search for Grass,Water |
Selecting the inverse with ! | You can select the inverse of a search term using exclamation mark so to find things that have not been traded you can use !Traded |
Bulbasaur | All Pokemon of the Species Bulbasaur |
+Bulbasaur | All Pokemon in the Bulbasaur Family |
"Nickname" | All Pokemon with the given Nickname |
1 | All Pokemon with Pokedex ID 1 |
1-25 | All Pokemon with a Pokedex ID between 1 and 25 inclusive |
1- | All Pokemon with a Pokedex ID of 1 and above |
-25 | All Pokemon with a Pokedex ID of 25 and below |
cp2000 | All Pokemon with a Combat Points value of 2000 |
cp2000-3000 | All Pokemon with Combat Points between 2000 and 3000 inclusive |
cp2000- | All Pokemon with Combat Points of 2000 and higher |
cp-2000 | All Pokemon with Combat Points of 2000 and lower |
hp200 | All Pokemon with 200 Hit Points |
hp200-300 | All Pokemon with Hit Points between 200 and 300 inclusive |
hp200- | All Pokemon with 200 Hit points or more |
hp-200 | All Pokemon with 200 Hit points or less |
Distance10-100 | All Pokemon caught 10 to 100 KM away from your current location |
Distance100- | All Pokemon caught 100 KM or more from your current location |
Distance-100 | All Pokemon caught 100 KM or less from your current location |
Water | All Water type Pokemon |
@Bite | All Pokemon with the move Bite |
@1Water | All Pokemon with a water type Fast Move |
@2Water | All Pokemon with a water type primary Charged Move (first charged move only) |
@3Water | All Pokemon with a secondary water type Charged Move |
@Move | All Pokemon that can learn a 2nd Charge Move |
!@Move | All Pokemon that have learned a 2nd Charge Move |
@Special | All Pokemon with exclusive moves (e.g. legacy, Community day, etc) |
@Weather | All Pokemon currently boosted by the weather |
@1Weather | All Pokemon with a weather boosted Fast move |
@2Weather | All Pokemon with a weather boosted primary Charged move (first charged move only) |
@3Weather | All Pokemon with a weather boosted secondary Charged move (second charged move only) |
0* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage between 0% and 49% |
1* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage between 50% and 65% |
2* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage between 66% and 80% |
3* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage between 81% and 98% |
4* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage of 100% (Aka a Perfect/hundo Pokemon) |
0*,1*,2* | All Pokemon with an IV percentage between 0% and 80% (typically used to find 'trash') |
Buddy0 | All Pokemon that have never been your buddy |
Buddy1 | All Pokemon that have been a buddy but not reached Good buddy status |
Buddy2 | All Pokemon that have reached Good Buddy status |
Buddy3 | All Pokemon that have reached Great Buddy status |
Buddy4 | All Pokemon that have reached Ultra Buddy status |
Buddy5 | All Pokemon that have reached Best Buddy status |
Age1 | All Pokemon caught Between 24-48 hours ago |
Age-6 | All Pokemon caught in the last 7 days (count starts from 0) |
Age6- | All Pokemon caught longer than 7 days ago (count starts from 0) |
Age6-13 | All Pokemon caught longer than between 7 and 14 days ago (count starts from 0) |
Year2016 | All Pokemon caught in 2016 |
Year-2017 | All Pokemon caught in 2017 and earlier |
Year2017- | All Pokemon caught in 2017 and later |
Year2017-2019 | All Pokemon caught in the years including and between 2017 and 2019 |
Costume | All Pokemon that have a costume making it different from the 'standard' Pokemon |
Defender | All Pokemon currently defending gyms |
Traded | All Pokemon that have been traded to you |
Legendary | All Legendary Pokemon |
Mythical | All Mythical Pokemon |
Shiny | All Pokemon that are Shiny |
Lucky | All Pokemon that are lucky |
Shadow | All Pokemon that are Shadows |
Purified | All Pokemon that are Purified |
Hatched | All Pokemon that have hatched from eggs |
Eggsonly | All Pokemon that are exclusive to eggs (aka the baby Pokemon) |
Evolve | All Pokemon that you have enough candy to evolve |
Evolvenew | All pokemon that you have enough candy to evolve and have not yet registered the evolution in the PokeDex |
Tradeevolve | All Pokemon that can evolve for free after being traded |
Item | All Pokemon that need a special item to evolve |
Female | All Pokemon that are of the entered gender |
Genderunknown | All Pokemon that are genderless |
Kanto | All Pokemon from the entered Region (note: Khanto shows Alolan Pokemon too) |