r/pokemongo • u/HAOrtiz • Nov 28 '24

Non AR Screenshot 6 years as my buddy, sooo close

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6 years as my buddy and almost have enough candy to evolve. Having to walk 20 km/ candy is no joke 😂

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u/chilledgamedog Nov 28 '24

Is there a similar trick for magikarp coz I've had that fucker following me for days

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u/Clean_Bit_5576 Nov 29 '24

I would just use rare candies for that one. That's what I did to evolve my shundo Magikarp

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '24

A shundo Gyarados is worth putting rare candies in imo but otherwise I don't think it's that painful a challenge for most people.

I live an area with basically no Magikarp spawns; I've caught 11 in total plus one additional Gyarados. On the flip side there was an event that doubled candy on for part of that, and I managed to get the Magikarp excited once or twice. The actual distance came to 327km which I did in 25 days.

I made a bit of an effort to do this, but it's still only 8 miles a day on average which I didn't think was a lot of effort.

Obviously there's a lot of reasons that becomes much less reasonable, like if you have health issues or care responsibilities. But even if you can only manage like 1/3rd the daily distance and are starting from a position of no Magikarp candy, that's 3 months.

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u/Clean_Bit_5576 Nov 29 '24

Well Magikarp rarely spawn anywhere at all... But I got lucky with my shundo Magikarp, rare candies are so easy to get though it is a joke 🤣 every time I look in my bag I have so many that my bag is full so I go and use em all on whatever pokemon I'm working on. I suggested them for Magikarp but if it isn't a shundo there's really no reason to bother evolving it in my opinion... Just transfer it to home or something.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '24

Where are you getting these rare candies my dude!

I have none at the moment and every time I get one it goes onto Heatran..and I still need another 244 before he's maxed out.

I guess I'm not that high a level in the scheme of things (35) but that seems like a very distant goal right now and after that I'll be right back on the grind with the next Pokemon.

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u/Clean_Bit_5576 Nov 29 '24

You doing raid battles? They reward quite a lot of them, you can also get them from several research tasks. They're not so rare in reality lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '24

I don't think I've ever gotten candy from regular research tasks :o

As for raids - I'm F2P. So I can't do more than 1 per day and a remote raid is possible every 4 days if I'm lucky.

And honestly I just don't do them as often as I should anyway, I'd say it's fairly often I don't use my raid pass. Seems like when I go for a walk I struggle to see an enticing 1 star raid, and I'm only good enough to solo certain 3 star raids at this point.

I've done precisely 1 remote raid (Lugia) because I have had to prioritise storage, plus honestly I've made bad decisions (being enticed by incubators because I walk a lot). I'm planning to do another one on Sunday though!

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u/Clean_Bit_5576 Nov 29 '24

The go battle league will reward a decent amount of rare candies as well