FASTEST WAY to get Zygarde Cells in Pokémon GO! 

Very helpful content. Zygarde cells feel like such a wild goose chase. If you're lucky enough to live close to routes, sometimes the route glitches and you lose your progress. Sometimes you see a Zygarde cell and the route badge pops up and the cell disappears before you can tap on it. They're so hard to see when the sun is bright. I wish they would implement some feature where if you find one, it would just automatically appear in your bag like the rewards at the end of the route. They've made it so hard that it's very discouraging.

Jokes on them. I love the Dog Form of Zygarde and never want to change it's form.

There definitely is a benefit to finishing at least one route per day. The game keeps track of your daily route streak just like the Poke Stop and Catch streaks. You'll get some items and XP for finishing your daily route in addition to medals.

Im not gonna lie after grinding 47 cells, my last 3 days I've done over 12 routes and gotten 0 cells....after evolving to 50% zygarde its going to be really hard to have the motivation to get to 100%...kudos to all the people that actually grind the 250 cells because I am slowly fading man.

There isn't a route near me for miles

I got screwed out of my first cell because it was at the end of the route, so this advice is super helpful. Thank you for the video!

I have had more than 3 spawns in a single route. From my account, it seems dependent on length of route. A route I created, about 2.5 km long, spawned 5 spawns from the starting to ending point. This would be a rate of an exclusive route spawn per 500 meters. An exclusive route spawn could be switched out by a zygarde cell. I have been unlucky a handful of times not having a zygarde cell to spawn from this route.

Zygarde is the perfect Pokémon for people with no job

Great information!! Thank you for the work you do to help us all.

This video is very enlightening......Cause I quit after getting 10-12 cells but now after hearing the tips, I have new hope 😁

They need to add more routes man there distribution is shocking

Something I found out is that when you pause a route, it appears to stay paused indefinitely! I paused a route because I was running late and it would have taken me in the wrong direction, and then for reasons I wasn't available to play much for a couple days. But the route remained paused and I was able to walk over, resume, and finish it, about 48 hours later. So if your geography/time/energy makes it hard to complete a route, it can be worth it to walk PART of a route, if it's one you'd come back to.

I (finally) have enough routes and have reached 50% Zygarde but mixed results on locating cells. I've known about the route spawns for a few weeks and have obsessed watching for them. However, even taking my time, checking every pokemon, I've had majority of routes with zero route spawns. I've tried the "pause route, close app and reopen game & unpause" a total of 7 times with zero success.

Would be great if there were any routes to do the quest to begin with.

Love the idea of routes. Been enjoying them, whether I get cells or not. I like the rewards and the exercise encouragement. I've gotten rare xl candies from completing them, too. Also a good way to get revives...you know, if you're low because outrage rayquaza decimated your teams for a whole day haha.

I recall major traffic jams and near-accidents during early days of POGO when people found Dragonites... needing to keep staring at your phone while hunting for cells = POGO-related accidents making the news again 😅😅

I have gotten 3 cells every single day since they came out. I have 2 strategies here they are. I have found cell spawn to actually be almost 100%. It's just hard to navigate the route to make them spawn. Finally a video that has accurate info I keep seeing youtubers say 10% spawn ect Strategy 1. Travelling 60km/h Doing 3 different very short route. Stop 100m before end of route and wait for spawn slowly creep towards end point but never go within 50m of the end stop until you get the cell. Strategy 2. 1 long route my local one is 8km. After doing it at 60km/h stop at the 100m mark and walk around waiting for spawn making sure not to get to close to the end point. This gives 3 cells every time. Other things to note after doing the same 5 or 6 routes each day is that the cell spawn for each routes seems to be in the exact same spot every single time. I have not tried to do them slowly but I have gotten almost 100% spawn rate on cells the only time they didn't spawn was when I accidentally completed the route before it popped up as they will auto finish when you are around 50m from the end stop. And that's the actual stop not the end of the path. One route in particular I have to go to the end but then the spawn is next to the stop so I have to walk around 50m off the side of the route to get the spawn without it auto completing

Great video and the opening mouth thumbnail is epic !!!

In my experience you don't need to pause the route first less than 100 meters from goal and then restart the game to get the Zygarde cell spawning - you only need to restart the game.

This is some good info bro, thanx ❤

Thanks for all Your tips!!

You answered all of my questions regarding routes, thanks for that Daxi! However, I have already lost any and all willpower of doing routes due to all the caps,limits, etc thanks to Niantic lol.

Routes auto complete under 40 meters, so pause around 50 meters before the end, now you are free to explore around the end of the route without it completing, and restarting the app too helps.

Great information I just did my first route at Daniels Park.

I’ve found some routes somewhat local! Super excited.

Used the trick today and it worked! Thanks!

What happen if you pause a route close to the end and then finish it the next day. Can you start that route again that same day in order to hopefully find a cell or is it impossible because you finished that route already?

Even tho it takes long, you get some good stuff from finishing the route once you’ve done it a few times. I got a couple elite tm’s some rare candy, good xp and stardust

I can’t verify this yet (I’m too quick to transfer) but I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten more than 3 route spawns on a single route. I’ll try to confirm. Also, I haven’t seen this mentioned yet but MOST (not all) of the route spawn I’m getting seem to be local regionals, like Throh, Illumise, Seviper, Lunatune and Durant.

I was watching your shorts about zygarde cells and thanks to informations that I got from you I have now 41 zygarde cells and yeah zygarde cells almost every time are spawning at the end of the route.

Great video and helpful!! :) I just caught a zygarde :D

I got an elite fast tm from a route so probably worth always finishing. Just a heads up

Thanks, Daxi. I have gotten a cell about 50% of the time, but I may be doing something wrong. I appreciate the info here, and hopefully I can up my consistency with getting cells!

Some of the long routes have more than 3 route exclusive spawns and some of the short routes have less than 3 exclusive spawns. A 4km row today had 6 spawns

Still so many questions: Are the spawn locations centered around the route path or your location? Is Niantic aware of the no spawn bugged routes? How far apart are the spawns? Do short routes, like 500-600m long, still spawn things? Does the trick work on the short routes?

the reason that the routes finish near the end point is due to the way that the route is finished when creating routes it offers you the option when you get near to the nominated end point to finish the route this can mean that the distance is not to the stop just near it. a way around this i hope is to not end the route early to walk in a circle around end point to increase distance! so should not complete early

Thanks I couldn't find the cells great job

You Rock! Thank You! 🤘🤩

I live in a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area, and yet I don't live within walking distance of any routes. I look for routes when I'm doing some outings, but in general it's just too troublesome to drive outside of my neighborhood and meander around just to find routes and farm Zygarde cells. I really hope they let us collect cells through other means, like future Zygarde raids, research tasks, or GBL rewards.

Thanks for making this video because my zygarde was a hundo and now i need to evolve it if it was bad ivs i wouldnt care about it but cause its hundo i need to evolve it unfortunately theres no routes near me so i gotta walk 2 miles to get to a route and its hard to complete now because its summer and its super hot but i should get it a lot faster

Finishing routes can get you some good rewards; I once got an elite charge tm from completing one, so now I finish every one I do in hopes of another 😂 Thank you so much for sharing this hack though!

I have a bit of contrary info. Today I walked a route, encountered the 3 route pokes and then also got a zygarde cell at the end. I suspect it may be because I've done about 15 routes total and have only gotten 2 zygarde cells so far including the one I just got. Niantic absolutely needs to do something to change the drop rate and all round glitchyness associated with routes and cells.

I kept getting cell spawns right at the end of the route, and then the route would auto-complete at the exact same time and I wouldn't have time to collect the cell. I've started pausing the route at about 60 to 80 meters from the end and just keep walking forward. If a cell spawns then you have plenty of time to collect it and you can go back close to where you paused it and finish the route. It works pretty well for me and is faster than restarting the app. There is one route closest to my house (one that I made actually) that I've done a dozen times and haven't gotten a cell from. The other routes I do seem to have a cell spawn at the same spot nearly every time, right at the end and past where you could actually go on the route before it auto-completes. I still only have maybe 24 cells, it is going to take a long time to get enough to get the 100% form. Maybe Niantic will do an event where you can pick up more cells or do tasks to get more cells as a reward or something, that would be really helpful. I also kind of wish you got cells automatically for completing routes, or it picked them up automatically so you don't have to worry about missing it. Missing cells on routes definitely makes me not want to bother with them, it is really demotivating.

Have gotten multiple cells same day from same route twice, once forward once backwards. Also continue to get them even thought completed more than 5 times

1) Received three (3) Zygarde Cells on my first route this morning. Then completed two more unique routes. Did not receive any additional cells in the other two routes. Three cells per day still appears to be the maximum. 2) On other days I have been able to force Zygarde Cell spawns even WITHOUT pausing the route during restart. This skips both the pause before closing the app & the unpause of the route when the app restarts. Have only not spawned cells if the route Pokémon had already spawned near the end of the route. 3) The biggest. On September 3, 2023, I created and submitted a route and it was approved & appeared in the game within about 15-20 minutes after submission. Not sure what this means. Perhaps Niantic has finally allocated enough personnel to this task. Perhaps since I’ve already submitted and had five routes approved and none of them received any negative comments, I may have acquired a golden ticket per se for submitting routes. But, what I & the community would like most of all is that perhaps Niantic is ready to start expanding the number of Trainers who can submit routes.

I would just like to comment on the three route spawns thing. Since I found out about this, I always count my route spawns. There is a route close to me, just over 2k long, that I have done multiple times now but I have had more than three spawns on it twice. As I said, I was counting and when I got to three and I was just over half way along the route I thought, OK, that's it for this route. Since I was walking the dog and we were going to the end anyway, I kept up with the route, had two more spawns for a total of five and STILL got a cell near the end. The second time I was doing the route in reverse on a different day and had six spawns but sadly no cell. I don't know if this is just a glitch or what but it's the only route I do of this length and I've never had it happen anywhere else.

My buddy and I enjoyed our first route this morning. I got the cells but it didn’t register that in did a route with my buddy. Some how the route got paused and it was asking me to do it again.😢

Theyll probly have route events with increased zygarde cell spawns once the system actually works for everyone.

I've lost my only two zygarde cells I've seen because they show up right at the end, less than 1 second before the end of route pop up happens and I don't have time to click it.

My wife and I have done over 100 different routes and still only have one cell. I’m done with this task, not interested anymore.

To find a cell, do you catch the route pokemon first then restart the game, or do you run from it, restart the game then look for the cell. Everytime ive seen a route pokemon, ive tapped on it, ran from it, restarted the game, but it was no longer there. Idk what im doing wrong. Could the problem im facing is that im tapping on the pokemon that i know is a route pokemon then restarting the game? SO should i not tap on a pokemon that i know for sure is a route pokemon? I tried these tips yesterday during community day cause i figured it would be easier to tell which pokemon are route pokemons, but each time i tapped on it before restarting the game

Great video

Great content bro 👏🏼💯

I came back to say thanks. I watched this video yesterday and almost lost a cell today when it de-spawned on me. I paused the route, reset the app, resumed the route and claimed 2 cells.

I've done the trick over a dozen times and it never has spawned one. I know what they look like as I've found the cells while walking along the routes though.

Even if you get 3+ route spawns sometimes you get a cell at the end. I have a route that gives 4 route spawns and sometimes a cell spawn at the end every once in while

i haven't done any after getting 9 because it sucks to do & feels like a waste of time when we already walk more than most of these routes are setup to make us walk, anyway. these tips were things i was already successfully doing (minus driving for quicker completion--i don't drive lol), but the route spawns having a chance at being cells themselves is new info to me; i'll try catching them since i usually ignore them knowing the guaranteed cell is at the end of the route. hopefully Niantic figures out that their player base isn't thrilled about this method of getting the cells in the first place & adds another features that makes acquiring them more realistic for 1 Pokémon

You actually don't have to pause your route. You can just restart the game. Also, it helps to restart at the beginning and middle, although restarting at the eye has produced more results. For my girlfriend and i.

2 subs on diff accnts love your tips ❤

Thanks for the info i try

I have had 5 different route spawns on longer routes. Not sure if they were all "route exclusive" but they each had the route spawns indicator.

I like the idea of routes but I'm one of those players with no routes nearby and none in larger cities I go to on weekends for shopping and stuff. I wish they would add a feature to Campfire to be able to find routes on the map because I don't mind driving to one.

PokeDaxi, you have completely saved my zygarde cell sanity!

Currently got 30 zygarde cell.. the most precious reward that i got was Elite Fast TM.. and yes, you should complete the route.. 😁

You should finish the route because the items you get are not bad. I even got a elite fast tm once.

1:18 can you explain to me why i mostly dont get a single route spawn? I just normally walk diferent routes every day but only get 1 route spawn per 5 walked routes a day, if any

Routes sound amazing and now i hear about route streaks, now only if i didnt live in australia, not sure but after 30 mega ray raid not one shiny for me or others they probably forgot to turn on shinies again too

So short route are better 🤔 thanks you always good jobs !

I got lucky to have my 50% Zygarde few weeks ago and inhaveb20’somethings cells now… but I did over 200 routes. Good to know tho that you don’t have to do it back in forth now. For the pause and reboot the game, did it plenty of time when I had nothing… Never got anthing. It is true tho that when there’s a « big » spawn of Pokémon, a cell is around. Sometimes even under few mons stick to each others so you have to catch them to grab the cell. Didn’t know at all for the « route exclusive Pokémon slaw tho »! I saw this icons multiples but I just thought it was like for encens. I’ll be more careful about it now lol Thanks for putting all those i formations together I got a « good one », so even if I orefer the snake form, I would really like to use it in ML ahah

I am level 41 and can't nominate routes but I am able to walk routes that are already made. So not necessarily needing to be Level 45+.

Thank you man! I would hope that once routes roll out fully, and we can create routes, it won’t be so difficult to grind cells.

I play while biking, I've done dozens of routes since it was added. I basically gave up on cells cause I hadn't seen any. Thought maybe I was going too fast. Yesterday was the first time I saw a cell. I guess I was just unlucky whole time. Still not liking this method for Pokemon form change. Once winter comes here, gonna be challenging to find a route and be safe/comfortable. They just rejected my neighborhood walk route yesterday.

I’m definitely going to try that and get back to you maybe later on today 😅

The routes around me are so wonky that it continuously pauses, and if I miss starting it back up I can do the whole route and not have it count as finished. If I do end up getting to the end, I've also had it get an error where it won't complete... So infuriating...

I still have not seen one ... 5 routes later. I shall keep trying!

Daxi would have known the poking raids for September

I was finally able to add some routes to my rural area. Added a couple short routes to walk my dog on still .. Maybe getting a cell ever 3rd day doing daily routes... route rewards are huge though..

Sometimes cells spawn BEHIND the end point of the route, which you cannot find because routes are automatically finished once you are near the end point. So what you do is what Daxi did: 1. Pause route near the end ( 100 - 60m ) 2. Force close the app and reopen 3. Wait a few seconds if the cell spawns, if not 4. Walk beyond the end point, sometimes you can find a cell there. optional 5. Unpause route, go back to your pause location and finish the route Sadly some routes are bugged and don't have route spawns and therefore no cells, avoid these routes for now.

I tried to do a route today and it wouldnt even let me start the route and my pokemon go kept glitching so i had to close app and try over and over but ended up not even working pretty disappointing

Thank you

So I've done routes and one thing that did work for a couple of times was if I didn't get a cell going one direction I would quite the route before the end (around 60m) and did it in reverse I was able to get a spawn.... the pause and reset thingy only worked for me once but from info that's because I missed the initial spawn the 1st time.... and yes there is a maximum of only 3 a day

It is true, you can get 3 cells a day max. I’ve had the best luck on shorter routes than longer routes over 1.5km. My Zygarde is now at 50% and I’ve collected 178 cells towards the 100% form. I want more candy and xl candy to power up my zygarde so I have a couple routes that are over 2.5-4.5km that I do just for that reason. I absolutely love the routes!

I got feature to add new routes in my Island (Andaman And Nicobar Islands, India). But no campfire in game yet.

Tried it a few times today on two routes (only two within like 50mi...) to no avail. However I did not know to look for the route mons so Ill pay closer attention tomorrow. Does anyone know - if you complete a route and only get mons, can you do the route again and potentially get a cell(s), or can you only get cell(s) the first time you do a walk daily?

When I get a cell on a route, can I find others in the same route in the next days? Or do I need 100+ dufferent routes (that I don’t have)

Is it possible for having more than one chance to acquire the Zygarde cell on one route? Say you grab once at middle and grad another at the end?

I'm currently on 23 consecutive routes completed without a single cell. Can't forget the issue where sometimes a cell does show up and you click it and you're awarded nothing. Another issue with these routes I find is that cells show up at the end and the route will complete before it lets you click on it. This is so broken, I can't believe a company would put something out like this on live. I get you need to grind for cells, but over 50 routes completed and I have 5 cells, something isn't right.

That last strat is a game changer

I have 3 routes in my area and the only time I ever find a Zygarde cell is within range of one particular gym on one route in one direction. Never found a cell any other way.

Does it make a difference with location services on all the time as opposed to on when in use. I tried this pause method. Pausing and unpausing the route 7 times and no luck

even if zygarde cells are hard to find and routes aren’t great id recommend doing them. i earned a elite fast tm from completing my daily route

If I did a route and didn’t find a cell, does this mean I can do the route again ? And find the cell with it since I didn’t find it last time

I completed this today and I’ve trying to do it since the day this was posted😭😭😭😭

i wish that a route didnt need to have a stop cause of the low stop count in my area so its good to know that if i could have a route in my area it would 1 not only take time to get to the route but 2 be jank AF cause terrible cell service and 3 end up going right by where i left to get to the route which would mean after completing the route id have to take that same amount of time to walk back to my house. some days itd be nice to not have to drive a ways away just to even see 1 route let alone be able to get a cell from the route

Very usefull we have 2 People Who can create a routes In the country

Ok, I tried this today on one route. My observations: - got three spawns on my route (a Throh, a Panpour, and a Pikachu). No hope of cells... or is there? - got near the end of the route, paused, then exited the game - reloaded the game - unpaused the route - the cells appeared (3 of them in one cluster!) AND ANOTHER ROUTE PANPOUR.

So can I do the same route once a day and get a zygarde cell? Im still confused on what unique routes are. I hope I dont have to completely find a new route.

One of the first times I finished a route I got two XL candies when I was done.

If you complete the route from the start to the finish would it not be simple if Niantic either reward you with a cell or reward when you end the route instead of pausing the game and reloading the game up and hoping the cell appears,done 4 routes and no cell,not expecting to get a cell every time I do a route,but the current system needs to be changed to work better

When you pause a route, you have to go back to the beginning of the route to unpause it