One of many modifications Niantic made after they added ten extra ranges to the sport, making the extent cap 50, was a set of challenges or necessities you wanted to finish to advance to the following stage. It was now not going to be all about incomes xp, which some folks appear to have the ability to do with virtually reckless abandon… and a few money store indulgence.
Pokemon Go – Since 2016
Again in July when my spouse and I made it to stage 46 it appeared just like the 4 required duties could be a difficulty for me. They had been as follows:
Duties to get stage 47
The primary one, the 30 raids, I didn’t assume could be robust. It could simply be a matter of remembering to do it. I knocked that one out fairly shortly, as did my spouse, despite the fact that she stored forgetting about it. However we do sufficient raids that it wasn’t a difficulty ultimately.
The second was a gimme, since you don’t need to do it alone. My spouse and I knocked that one out collectively.
The ultimate one, the 20 platinum badges… my spouse had that achieved already. I had a number of paths ahead on that and finally it turned out to not be a gating merchandise for me.
Which leaves us with that third activity. My spouse managed to knock that one out and is now stage 47.
I, alternatively, haven’t. I solely have 1 of the required 3 max CP Pokemon.
The state of my stage 47 duties
The rationale my spouse has this achieved is that it requires a whole lot of XL candies and a whole lot of and, since she catches about twice as many Pokemon as I do given our account stats, that was much less of a difficulty for her than I.
For the primary half, most Pokemon want 296 XL candies to get to max CP.
An instance Slaking
You get XL candies randomly, often one after the other, from all the same old issues like catching, raiding, hatching eggs, and so forth. It’s also possible to commerce in regular sweet for XL sweet at a fee of 100 regular to 1 XL. That’s fairly steep, however because it seems, my spouse had 1000’s of sweet out there for a number of widespread species of Pokemon.
I didn’t.
I didn’t as a result of the way in which I sustain with my spouse on the xp entrance is to strategically evolve Pokemon when I’ve a fortunate egg going. I strive by no means to waste a double xp alternative, so any species that accumulates sweet will get developed lots.
Nonetheless, I believed I might need a path ahead in that I additionally practice up my Pokemon. My spouse tends to depart her Pokemon at no matter CP stage they stand whereas I discover the three star Pokemon and stage up their CP.
So I believed I might need superior a few of my prime Pokemon far sufficient that I won’t want the entire 296 load of XL sweet. So I went digging by my Pokemon.
The very first thing I seen is that the UI for the way near max CP a Pokemon is form of sucks… and that was solely after I seen there even was a UI component attempting to indicate you that.
Going again to that Slaking, there’s an arc behind every Pokemon of their show while you have a look at them individually that exhibits their progress in the direction of max CP.
Slaking slaking off as common
That orange bit solely exhibits up as a result of I opened up the facility up choice and hit the unfavorable to get the picture above exhibiting. It offers a way of how far you might want to go, however it isn’t very exact and you really want to enter each Pokemon and click on the facility up button to see what number of XL candies you really want.
Oh, and you may solely click on on the facility up button when you’ve got sufficient candies to truly energy the Pokemon up. So in the event that they subsequent step requires 14 XL candies and also you solely have 10, overlook about it. No whole for you.
So I dragged by a whole lot of Pokemon to search out some choices.
Because it turned out, a whole lot of my highest CP Pokemon, the place I believed I’d discover a straightforward win, had been nonetheless fairly distant. Most of my Pokemon had been. I used to be fortunate to search out anyone who wanted fewer than 200 XL sweet.
The primary up was my Gyrados, who I instantly made my buddy. Magikarp/Gyrados are 1km buddies, which suggests strolling round with them they earn a sweet, and sometimes an XL sweet, for each 1km you go. It wasn’t going to be simple. He nonetheless wanted about 120 XL candies, which is a whole lot of strolling for me, however I obtained him on his method. He’s presently right down to what I consider is the final energy up, and has 17 of the 20 XL candies wanted for that. I can’t inform you for positive as a result of I don’t have the 20 XL candies wanted to examine. However he’s shut.
My second choose, and my first Pokemon to max CP, was a shiny Persian, the Meowth evolution, the place I occurred to have a whole lot of sweet saved up.
Persian with loads of candies
Additionally, once I began wanting into this significantly… one other factor is that I in all probability waited too lengthy to do this… Halloween was developing, and plenty of Meowths could be out and about, so not solely did I’ve a leg up with the candies, however the alternative to earn extra was current.
And that was a key side of my selection. Since I wasn’t very shut anyplace, the right way to get these extra XL candies was key. So I obtained Persian there off of Halloween.
Persian at Max CP
You’ll assume that CP arc would change coloration or one thing at max CP… however it doesn’t. Poor UI design in some methods.
For the third I bounced round a bit. I began with a Jolteon, an Eevee evolution, as a result of I believed these are at all times round, so it could be a path ahead. Nevertheless it was additionally gradual and Eevee is a 5km buddy, so it takes lots longer to get candies from strolling.
Joleton shut, however not shut sufficient
I believe I’m nonetheless 50+ XL candies from max CP with him, although the UI isn’t useful on that and I don’t have the candies to examine. I complain about that lots.
Then I swapped to a Vivillon as my goal. I occurred to have an ideal three star River Vivillon.
Vivillon making its method up
When you can not catch Scatterbugs within the wild, you will get them to indicate up by saving postcards from presents from folks in your associates listing… and in some unspecified time in the future I might want to do a submit concerning the administration of your mates listing… so one will pop up each fifteen postcards saved per area, and each is a chance to earn an XL sweet.
So in case you’re on my associates listing, that’s the reason I out of the blue began saving postcards once more despite the fact that I accomplished the Vivillon assortment again in September.
Additionally, Vivillon is a 1km buddy, so it’s simple to earn candies that method too… although Vivillon didn’t appear to earn XL candies as reliably as my Gyrados. That was my path ahead, and Vivillon was quickly up and previous Jolteon.
Then we had the large Necrozma group day raid even a number of weekends again. That was the second raid occasion for Necrozma this 12 months and this time round I seen that not solely did I’ve a bunch of candies leftover from that, however that for every raid we had been incomes 3 XL candies for simply successful, and one other 2-5 for for every catch.
We had been down on the group middle, parked by the outdated submit workplace, the place you may sit in your automotive and be in vary of 4 Pokemon gyms so might catch 4 raids each half-hour, plus a few distant raids in case you had the inclination… and as soon as I noticed the tendencies, I very a lot had the inclination. I blew all of my in-game forex and made us keep there within the automotive till I had 297 Necrozma XL candies in hand.
The XL sweet downside had been solved… so on to the following downside.
I picked an ideal, three star Necrozma from those I had caught and shortly burned by the traditional sweet stage and began utilizing a number of XL candies to stage him up.
Necrozma after spending 20 XL candies
After which I bumped into the opposite barrier; stardust.
Stardust is required for a lot of issues, together with powering up Pokemon. That is one the place my spouse, having caught almost two instances as many Pokemon as I’ve of the final eight years, had not concern all. She has virtually 3 million models of stardust sitting round and was amazed I used to be not additionally rolling within the stuff.
My spouse doesn’t are inclined to her Pokemon as I do. She doesn’t energy them up except there’s a day by day activity for that, and even then she tends to select the bottom CP Pokemon. She additionally doesn’t purify shadow Pokemon, which is a complete extra factor, the way in which I do. I wished the platinum medal for that, so I’ve purified many, and that runs 2-5K of stardust every.
So now I’ve all of the XL candies for my Necrozma… and one to spare… however not sufficient stardust.
I’ve 110K stardust presently
So now I’ve two obstacles left between me and stage 47. I’ve the XP side of the extent lined after which some.
I’m banking XP towards the following stage at this level
The primary is incomes a number of extra XL candies with my Gyrados buddy. Time for an additional afternoon stroll.
The second is to earn a bit greater than 100K in stardust, which one will get by doing all of the Pokemon Go issues, like catching Pokemon, combating within the Battle League, spinning Pokestops, opening presents from associates, hatching eggs, raiding, and no matter else.
I’ve a path ahead. I simply must get to the tip of it.
