Pokemon Go: How to heal your Pokemon

Last Updated on: 17th July 2021, 06:01 pm

How to heal Pokemon in Pokemon Go is a fairly simple question, but also an exceedingly important one, given that fainted ‘mons can’t fight for you at all, and wounded ones will go down quicker.

This article will cover how to heal and revive your Pokemon accordingly to avoid those issues.

Healing a wounded Pokemon

To heal a wounded Pokemon, you first need to have specific items. In traditional Pokemon games, you can heal using a wide variety of items, from drinks to medicinal plants, to the series-typical potions and restore items.

In Pokemon Go, how to heal Pokemon is a simpler question as there are less healing items competing for the same purpose.

You first need to have some form of potion item, such as any of the following:

• Potion (20 HP)
• Super Potion (50 HP)
• Hyper Potion (200 HP)
• Max Potion (Automatically heals the full health bar)

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There is some debate about if Max Potions and Hyper Potions both need to exist in their current forms, as 200 HP is more than the maximum of the majority of Pokemon in Go, so the effect is usually identical. That said, some Pokemon such as Chancey do need the extra HP.

Regardless, provided you have one of the above Potion items you are able to heal your own Pokemon at will, at least until you run out of them, simply following these instructions:

• Tap the Pokeball icon in the bottom middle of your screen
• Tap the Items button
• Find a “Potion” item somewhere in your inventory (typically at the top)
• Click on a Potion item.
• This will bring your list of wounded Pokemon, click on any Pokemon missing HP to use your currently selected Potion on it.

Note that if the list is empty, you have no wounded Pokemon that are able to be healed by a Potion. Of course, this could also be because they’re fainted, which we will address next.

Reviving a fainted Pokemon

To revive a fainted Pokemon, a Potion simply isn’t strong enough. You’ll need either a Revive or the superior version, a Max Revive for that.

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It’s a fairly simple process if you have the items required, just like healing a Pokemon, just follow the instructions above and select a Revive item instead of a Potion item, then select any fainted Pokemon in the list you wish to revive.

Note that reviving a Pokemon using a normal Revive will not fully heal them, so they may need a potion afterward as well.

Anything else?

That’s really all there is to it, its quite simple as soon as you know how, but it might not be the most obvious to many players.

If you’re low on Potions/Revives, its highly recommended to NOT spend coins on them. Open gifts and spin PokeStops regularly, as many of these items can be obtained for free that way instead.

If you’d be interested, you can find more Pokemon Go articles, stories and guides on The Click right here, and more pieces written by me personally here.