Pokémon GO - Guide To Hit 40 By December 31st |
- Guide To Hit 40 By December 31st
- 1st ever PokemonGo Bestfriend
- Froakie is impossible to find for me
- I would love a search filter for "Can evolve into pokemon not in my pokedex"
- Where art thou Froakie...?
- Can't find any chespin at all!
- The game should have faster (or less) animations
- Why don't you get more rewards for leveling up?
- An Aggron and a Snorlax have spawned today at my house, but i haven't seen a single Froakie spawn in my entire city.
- Finally caught Froakie!
- Is my Ditto broken????
- Are Pokémon more aggressive with this latest update?
- Dear Niantic - 4 more days
- Design Idea: mass open/send gifts
- Gen 6 seems harder to catch
- Shiny Celebi will be coming to Pokémon on 14th December
- Found this Electric buddy at my home
- To my dear fellow Pokemon Go Battlers...
- Why even HAVE tags if we can’t use them when throwing in gyms?
- Happy Holiday Season and Kyurem Raids!!
| Guide To Hit 40 By December 31st Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:06 PM PST I'm seeing a lot of people asking "can I make it to 40 in time?" around here. Just a few weeks ago, I was also one of those people. I was only lv 35 (~6.6 mil total xp) as of November 20, and was seriously doubting that I could reach lv 40 by the end of the year. I decided to try anyway, and as I did, I learned a lot of things that could be useful to others who are also on the grind. As of December 3, I'm currently 1/2 way through lv 38 (13,651,379xp), so I'm on pace to hit my goal even though many people told me it was impossible. Just to start with, please above all else stay safe. There's a global pandemic going on and as much as we all love this game, it isn't worth risking the health of yourself or others if you are unable to play safely. Please follow your local health guidelines and wear a mask. Also, for those of us who live in colder areas, be sure to stay warm. :) Now on to the tips I have to share (in no particular order): 1) Quantify Your Goal Do the math. Hitting level 40 requires a total of 20 million xp. Take a look at how much you still need, how many days you have, and figure out how much you need to average per day to accomplish that goal. Once you have that daily quota, decide if you think that is feasible for you. If so, you can use it to motivate yourself. Try to not give up for the day until you hit at least that amount, and if you feel up to it, surpass that goal as often as possible to make things easier for your future self. That said, don't be discouraged if you fall short of your quota sometimes. Daily xp totals can fluctuate. I've had days during this grind where I've earned less than 200,000xp, and a day where I earned over 1 million xp. It's all about the average. 2a) Mass Evolving With the recent xp rebalance, evolving a pokemon is now worth 1,000xp. That means it can be quite lucrative to stockpile pokemon and then evolve them all at once with a lucky egg active. Pidgey, Weedle, Whismur, and other pokemon that cost 12 candy to evolve are ideal, but every evolution is worth the same amount of xp. With a lucky egg going, you'll get 2,000xp every time you evolve something. You'd be surprised how much xp you can earn in half an hour this way. I typically spend most of my time grinding catching pokemon, then at the end of the day, (sometimes more or less often depending on how many pokemon I've got sitting around waiting to evolve) I pop a lucky egg, evolve as many as I can, then go home and clean my storage to prepare for tomorrow. If you do this, it's VERY important that you make sure to save enough pokemon for... 2b) December 29th Spotlight Hour During this event (6pm to 7pm local time), you'll earn double xp for evolutions, which stacks with lucky eggs. That's 4,000xp per evolution for a whole hour. Stock up on pokemon to evolve beforehand so that you can squeeze every drop of value out of this hour as possible. Don't bother with evolutions that lead to new dex entries during the spotlight hour, since the new entry xp won't be quadrupled. Time spent on the animation of a pokemon being added to your dex is better spent evolving something else. With 2 evolutions per minute, you'll earn 480,000xp over the course of the hour. If you can manage 3/min, then you'll get a whopping 720,000xp. 3) Friends As of a few days ago, it's too late to get to ultra or best friend with anybody who isn't already on your friends list with some degree of progress already made. It is not, however, too late to earn a massive amount of xp from friends. There are various sites, discord groups, and subreddits with people looking to exchange friend codes, utilize those to expand your friends list. Getting a friend to good friend status only takes one interaction and is worth 3,000xp (6,000xp with a lucky egg), and getting to great friend takes 7 days and is worth an additional 10,000 (20,000 with an egg). You're going to be limited to sending 100 gifts per day, but that's a LOT of potential for xp. Also keep in mind that just sending a gift is worth 200xp by itself. If you add 100 new friends, and send them all gifts every day for 7 days (assuming they open those gifts), you'll earn 1,440,000xp without even using a lucky egg. After getting them all to great friend, it's your choice if you want to keep them around, or delete them and add a new batch of 100 and try to get them to great friend as well. 4) Raids Your daily free raid pass is valuable, don't waste it. The best use for it is hosting a legendary raid for remote players. Just like exchanging friend codes, there are sites, discord groups, and subreddits where people go to join/host remote raids. Hosting a raid means you'll be locating a gym with the raid you want to host, friending 5 other people, joining the raid, and then inviting them to join you via remote raid passes. A legendary raid awards you with 10,000xp for completing it. Even better, doing a raid with friends increases your friendship level, so those 5 random people you invited will all immediately reach good friend status, giving you 3,000xp each. That, plus the 10k you got from the raid itself, adds up to a potential 25,000xp per raid (not to mention giving you an encounter with the raid boss). Now just because you get one raid pass each day, that doesn't mean you necessarily have to do a raid every day. You can leave your pass in your bag, then the next day you can use the pass you have, get your new pass for the day, and then immediately use that pass as well. This strategy is particularly effective if you find a place with multiple gyms with legendary raids active, since you might be able to activate a lucky egg and then host 2 back-to-back raids before it expires. If you pull that off, that's 100,000xp and 2 legendary encounters. The easiest way to make that happen is to play during the weekly raid hour, which takes place from 6pm to 7pm local time on Wednesdays. 5) Throws Curveballs are hard to master, but if you can get to the point where you reliably throw them, then you earn an extra 40xp per catch. That doesn't sound like much, but over the course of thousands of catches, it adds up. That said, don't waste time with curveballs if they're causing you to miss throws you otherwise could've hit and you don't feel like you could get the hang of them relatively quickly. The other type of throw that you should be thinking about is an excellent. Excellent throws recently got increased 10x to be worth 1,000xp now, doubled to 2,000xp thanks to the event. That's MASSIVE amounts of xp to be earned from a single catch. Now, not every pokemon is equal when it comes to landing an excellent. Some are pretty easy, while others are nearly impossible. Learn which ones you have an easier time landing an excellent on, and which ones you should just stick to great throws with. Keep in mind, it's always a gamble to go for an excellent, since you're risking the 200xp you could've got for a great throw in exchange for the chance to instead get 2,000xp. If you can get to the point where that gamble pays off more than 10% of the time, then it's worth it, otherwise just go for the great throw. 6) Daily Coins You need to try your absolute best to get your 50 coins every single day. Find gyms and get yourself in there. You get 1 coin for every 10 minutes spent defending a gym, so you need a total of just over 8 hours of defense per day to get the 50 coin max. That time doesn't need to be consecutive, nor does it need to be earned by a single pokemon. The best strategy is to grab a spot in a gym in the evening/night when people are less likely to be playing. A great way to earn the full 50 is to get 2 defenders into gyms at 8pm, then if they can hang in there until at least a little after midnight, they'll get you your 50 coins before you even wake up. Every 500 coins you get is 8 more lucky eggs. Be careful of gyms that might be too remote though, as you only earn the coins after the pokemon is knocked out. If you've got a defender sitting in a gym for a week, you'll still only get 50 coins when it gets knocked out, and those 50 will count towards the daily limit for the day it was defeated, not the day it was put into the gym. 7) Lucky Eggs The value of a lucky egg is directly tied to what you do while it's active. Don't waste an egg if you aren't going to be earning a lot of xp in the next 30 minutes. But also don't confuse "earning a lot of xp" with "doing a lot of things". For example, let's say you activate a lucky egg, and over the next 30 minutes, you catch 50 pokemon, all with great throws and all on the first try. Each of your 50 catches was worth 500xp, so in total, the 50 of them are worth 25,000xp. Using a lucky egg there would double that to 50,000, meaning the egg provided you with an additional 25,000xp. By comparison, if you activated a lucky egg just before reaching best friend status with one of your friends, you'd double the 100,000xp that gives you, meaning that even if you immediately closed the game and wasted the remaining 29 minutes and change left on your egg, that egg would still be worth 4x as much as the previous example. Not every egg can be that valuable, but just think carefully about the raw amount of xp you'll be earning when you decide when and where to use your eggs. Decide how many eggs you have/can afford, and what's the minimum value you're comfortable getting out of them. Generally speaking, I'd say the most valuable times to use a lucky egg (in descending order) are: High-Tier/Mass Friendship Increases > Evolution Sprees > Raids > Captures*
8) Devices If you have a go plus, pokeball plus, gotcha, etc... make sure to use it effectively. That means if you're evolving, raiding, sending/receiving gifts, etc... you should have it catching and spinning stops in the background. If you're manually catching, have it spin stops for you in the meantime. This is especially true for when you have a lucky egg active, since by completing two xp-earning tasks at once, you're getting even more value out of the egg. 9) Feeding Gym Defenders Another source of xp that's often overlooked is the xp you get when feeding a berry to a pokemon defending an allied gym. The xp rebalance made it so that every single berry you feed to a gym defender gives you 50xp. You can feed each pokemon up to 10 berries before it becomes full. If a gym is maxed out with 6 defenders and you've got enough berries to feed all of them, that's 3,000xp. A drop in the bucket compared to other methods, but if you're like me and often find yourself needing to make space in your bag, berries are often the first thing you get rid of to make room. Better to turn each berry into 50xp than to just throw it away. Tossing 100 berries is flushing 5,000xp down the drain. Also keep in mind that if you've got a pokemon defending a gym, you can use it to inspect the gym remotely, which allows you to feed the defenders regardless of how far away you happen to be. That means you can use your berries to feed defenders while you're at home, so you can use all the time you spend out and about focusing on the more rewarding sources of xp. 10) Making the Most of Purchases If you choose to spend money on the game, you should at least make your dollar go as far as it can. Be honest with yourself about how much money you think you're going to end up spending, and then rather than buying a small amount of coins here and there, buy them all at once to maximize the bulk purchase bonus. Be on the lookout for any discounts or promos on Google Play or Apple gift cards that may be out there (they're rare, but they do happen). Also, if you're on Android, make sure to sign up for Google Play Points (not an advertisement). You earn play points every time you make a purchase on the play store, as well as from various offers such as installing featured apps (for those, you can click install and then immediately cancel the download. You were given the points the moment you clicked install.) Those points can be redeemed for $3 coupons for pokemon go. You can buy as many coupons as you like, but you can only have 1 at a time. Every coupon you get allows you to grab the 550 pokecoin package (which normally costs $5) for $2. If anybody else has any useful tips or tricks to share, feel free. I hope this helps anybody looking to get that legacy title and encourages those who are doubting if it's possible. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:50 PM PST Shout out to trainer "hendribok" for being my first ever bestfriend in this game. I hope wherever you are you keep safe. This is my first ever online game, i know this might be cringey. but yeah. Thank you for everything! -- iambrugudoinks [link] [comments] |
| Froakie is impossible to find for me Posted: 03 Dec 2020 11:44 PM PST I have Braixen Quilladin Diggersby male Pyroar Diggersby and almost a Talonflame. Yet not a single Froakie. It reminds me of the impossible Riolu egg in the journeys event which was also ridiculously hard to get. They seem to make popular pokemon rarer Any tips to find Froakie? [link] [comments] |
| I would love a search filter for "Can evolve into pokemon not in my pokedex" Posted: 04 Dec 2020 03:56 AM PST The worst time sink in this game is trying to figure out just which pokemon I need to be farming candies for. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2020 02:35 AM PST I'm I the only one that can't find one? I have searched a fair bit - can't seem to find one anywhere. Thanks, [link] [comments] |
| Can't find any chespin at all! Posted: 04 Dec 2020 02:08 AM PST Is anyone else having trouble finding chespin? Been looking for 2 days now to try complete the event been to and from work, took kids to school and walked back through a populated area of pokestops and nothing... This covers about 5 to 10 miles of area. Bit rubbish given its a timed event and it seems impossible when it doesn't appear anywhere [link] [comments] |
| The game should have faster (or less) animations Posted: 03 Dec 2020 01:20 PM PST Maybe I am the only one, but I honestly feel like I'm spending too much time doing the most simple tasks like sending presents to friends, or rating several Pokemons in a row. The process is like: tap the menu button, wait for the animation to finish. Select the option I want, wait for the animation to finish. Literally check what I wanted in a half of a second, tap the exit button, wait for the animation to finish. Tap the close menu button, wait for the animation to finish. Total amount of time spent: 4s Actual useful time: 0.5s Edit: wow! I didn't expect so many people would agree. Thanks for the silver! [link] [comments] |
| Why don't you get more rewards for leveling up? Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:56 PM PST I just hit level 34 I think that is the first level where you have to get 1,000,000 xp for. I got like 10 max potions 10 berries and 10 ultra balls after working really hard to catch many pokemon daily, fight in raids, as well as spinning pokestops daily to get gifts to build up friendship with people. Don't you think for all of that hard work I should at least get a lucky egg, maybe another egg incubator (honestly walking 5- 12km to hatch an egg is whack), or possibly a lure? I feel like in the beggining I took for granted all the stuff I got from leveling up but in a way I thought the same items would keep flooding in, IF NOT more. I know leveling up from here on out will be a GRIND! It just seems pretty messed up that you have to play this game consistently for MONTHS and for busting your behind (keeping it G) you get literally stuff I get from opening gifts from friends... Does anyone else feel the same way? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2020 06:43 AM PST Niantic can't be serious eith this event. I have already catched Fennekin and Chespin only one time since the start and my friends aren't even finding them. The only Kalos mon i have catched besides them is Litleo. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2020 07:02 AM PST After four days of using all my incense and grinding I finally got him! Talk about frustration...and then... he wild spawns right in my house, what are the chances. So happy that this research is completed, I hope everyone else eventually has this luck! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2020 02:04 AM PST How do I use Ditto? I've tried a couple fights with some grunts and he just does not transform at all, he just stands there also when I tap he just uses struggle he is my ONLY ditto so I was very excited when I caught. Now it just seems useless [link] [comments] |
| Are Pokémon more aggressive with this latest update? Posted: 03 Dec 2020 11:21 PM PST If it seemed like it was just bad RNG I would not be making this post, but it seriously seemed like Pokémon were at least four times as aggressive than usual when I was going around catching them today for the first time since the Kalos update. Normally I would just have one Pokémon make an untimely attack every once in a while, not a big deal at all. But since the update rolled out, this attack rate seems to be boosted greatly, and I've had many Pokémon attack quite frequently and cause me to waste more Pokeballs than it should, sometimes even multiple Pokeballs over one. There's no way this is just RNG, this really seems like they made a change in the aggressiveness of wild Pokémon. Has anyone else had the same experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2020 09:43 PM PST Dear Niantic, how am i supposed to complete the Kalos Celebration Event if i can't find a Chespin in the whole city? Bin stuck at this task for 2 days now...is Chespin the new Ditto? I live in a decent sized city and haven't seen a trace of this pokemon since the gen 6 was released, not in the wild and not in the raids, i have played with some friends and none of us seen a Chespin.... Lures and incents are not working with this gen, used 1 lure and 2 incents only to get old gen pokemons. [link] [comments] |
| Design Idea: mass open/send gifts Posted: 03 Dec 2020 02:43 PM PST With this idea when you can mass open/send gifts saving you time so you can catch and battle more. It will apply to the first 20 (or which ever the limit is at the time) that has their last gift open so you can open & send gifts to your friends. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:21 AM PST Does it seem like the gen 6 Pokémon are all harder to catch every single gen 6 i have encountered so far has been a red ring i had a 126cp fletchling with a dark red ring and it took a raz and an ultra ball great curve ball throw to catch it [link] [comments] |
| Shiny Celebi will be coming to Pokémon on 14th December Posted: 03 Dec 2020 03:10 PM PST They announced it via Instagram, will be coming in a special research alongside James and Jessie will be returning to the game it seems [link] [comments] |
| Found this Electric buddy at my home Posted: 04 Dec 2020 06:50 AM PST Imgur Great find for just checking in at that time! To my surprise It was actually a decent CP. [link] [comments] |
| To my dear fellow Pokemon Go Battlers... Posted: 03 Dec 2020 08:56 PM PST SCREW YOU IF YOU USE AZUMARILL AND STUNFISK. I HATE YOU. That is all I have to say. [link] [comments] |
| Why even HAVE tags if we can’t use them when throwing in gyms? Posted: 03 Dec 2020 08:54 PM PST My friends and I like doing "theme" gyms, like all green, blue, flying etc Pokémon. So I made a few color tags, and added Pokémon to each that matched color. I thought this would make this much easier but when I went to throw in a gym I could not swipe to the right and bring up the tags screen. So why have tags? How do they help? [link] [comments] |
| Happy Holiday Season and Kyurem Raids!! Posted: 04 Dec 2020 06:34 AM PST Kyurem in Tangles - Posted in r/Pokemon I did this painting live on my Facebook group the other day before we started raiding in Pokémon Go for raid hour. I hope everyone is getting perfect ice dragons. ❤❤ I wanted to go cute for this legendary because he is such a big dragon that seems so unapproachable with all the ice. So he is getting ready for the holiday season with some festive lights that aren't working with him. lol. The medium is watercolors (Tube and brush) with a find inking pen for the black details, it took about an hour and half from start to finish. If you like speed paints, I will have it posted to my YouTube Channel (KaliLyon) this week to watch it. <3 [link] [comments] |
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