When a lured Pokemon appears at a lure, will it appear on my sightings list if I am nearby?
Pokemon-go – Do lured Pokemon appear on sightings
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The nearby system was originally supposed to show you pokemon spawns in order of distance (Which we all know didn't work at all). Essentially Sightings is now a list of what pokemon are currently in the area as opposed to listing every nearby spawn as an individual pokemon, which also caused a bunch of duplicates to clutter the tab. They also took out the ability to "watch" a pokemon since that was based on distance as well. Sightings doesn't appear to sort pokemon in any particular order, at least not alphabetically or numerically based on pokedex number. (For example mine currently shows Drowzee #96, Weedle #13, Ratata #19, Pidgey #16 etc.)
It also seems to update more frequently and accurately, every 15 seconds. Previously with the nearby system I would have to force close the app and reopen it to load a new nearby list (Personally I don't think it was properly removing pokemon from the list if they despawned). The new sightings system removes pokemon that are no longer currently in the area. This combined with the fact that there are no more duplicate listings, means the tab is less cluttered and more reliably showing what is actually around you.
You can click on that image of goldeen. The box will close and the map will notify you where the goldeen is.
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Best Answer
No, they do not.
Sometimes this is hard to tell, because there could be another of the same Pokemon nearby, so it shows in your list. However, I have definitely seen Pokemon at lured stops which were not in my sightings list as recently as last weekend.
Here are some other players who have reported the same thing: Reddit Some crazy person that basically wrote a paper on using the sightings list