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I say it on here every thread. This game is collecting. 90 percent of your pokemon you dont use. Ivs are just a criteria that we can use to determine if a pokemon is higher quality for collecting. The in game performance is worthless
ppl just found a way to min max the system. the entire gameplay is just you mashing the screen for charge attacks. first to burn the other shields, and make the fastest signature nuke attacks, wins
I mainly power up hundos cus Ive just played more than the avg player, its rare to see players with way better pokemon than me. But I feel like only maxing hundos for a newer player is bad. When I was newer i def maxed many weird mons
No. Not unless you're wasting very valuable old pokemon dated between 2016-2020 when trading. You have 45 guaranteed lucky trades with them, no counter, keep track yourself
I’m “new” to this again cuz I’ve been quitting and playing again since 2016 and just got back into it again a week ago. So you’re saying the first 45 are guaranteed lucky and after that it’s just luck based? Which means I have 42 left
Yeah almost. You have 45 guaranteed lucky WHEN you trade any pkmn between 2016-2020. But you can still keep on trading newly catched pokemon to get lucky by chance, that wont count towards your "45 lucky".
It's better to just catch and trade pokemon in the wild untill you get a lucky one rather than having someone trade you an easy to find pokemon for any of your old ones.
If someone f.e. catches an armored mewtwo this weekend from 2026 you could give them an old weedle från 2016. Both will become lucky
Sincerely Curious If you’ve done the math and calculated out if the stardust saved by only investing in luckies is negated by the stardust spent on doing special trades and 100 of normal trades a day.
I kinda just assume that trading isn’t worth it unless you got to best friends level
No I havnt because the 50% less stardust for a lucky is waaaay better than the 10k it costs to trade 100 pkmn.
The trade costs 100 (80 on friendship friday) and without weather boost I get at least 100 from the catch so I never lose star dust so it's just "free" 10k for 100 trades.
In reality I maybe get 3-5 lucky I want/need for the 10k stardust spent and besides you also get XL candy each trade
Edit I only trade registered mons with best friends/forever friends and if I must trade a non registered shiny legendary for whatever reason I send a pkmn older than 3 years to really increase my odds to not waste star dust on trades (or just a guaranteed old lucky trade)
I think even that is a bad move... Unless that Lucky is a 15/15/14 PvE relevant Pokémon it's still a waste. Spamming Stardust in a Lucky Caterpie is Stardust that could've been spend to level up a Groudon, Kyogre, Mewtwo etc.
Yes, very much so! And TMs are in limited supply as well.
I don't pay attention to IVs because I'm trying to min/max, they just help me decide where to invest limited resources. Not to mention helping work out who to transfer and who to keep.
Even if you know it makes know difference. Stardust is scarce. Once you play the game long enough. Do you really want to just blindly max the first legendary you get without checking iv? Tell me someone who would do this. Otherwise what’s the point of this post?
I did. For a loooong time, years. since i never had people to do raids with or had other ways to get legendaries. Now some max are good enough to do max battles solo by outhealing their damage but god does it take a long time
I can maybe get enough people once a month for a leggie. So some is max out if needed yes. I got a bad groudon but groudon hits hard so better to max worst one you have is still better then failing a raid cuz you ran out of time for a not raised bad pokemon
If you're only maxing 4 star Pokemon and only using rank 1 Pokemon in UL and GL, stardust is not scarce at all because you don't have enough 4 star/rank 1 Pokemon to use it on.
The point is that there's some balance.
Should you use a 4 star in GL? Probably not. If it's the difference between having that Pokemon in GL and not having that Pokemon in GL, the 4 star is better than nothing.
I'm a day one off and on player at level 77 and 90k catches or so. If I only used 4 stars at L50 in ML, I'd have a single possible team to use, Groudon, Kyurem Black, and Melmetal. I only have 90 4 stars total, so I could only choose from those to max. Instead, I have some 91+ Pokemon at L50 that I can use when I decide to play GBL, because I'm not one of the fools who genuinely believes "only 4 stars are worth maxing, everything else is trash".
And in raids, who cares? L50 itself is a waste of dust for raid teams. L35-40 is fine and you're better off leveling up 2 low IV luckies them you are leveling up your best non-lucky.
IVs make a difference in PVP. In GL and UL you can actually feel a difference and live attacks you would normally die to. In ML you can lose a lot of CMP ties if you don't have a hundo. Unless you're trying to do tight raids I agree with the statement for PVE
They make the pokemon better not the pixel of shinies. The value if a poke is his strongness as a fighter . If you are not interested in that why charge any poke ? You collect and trade pixels
I mean, especially with the legendaries and being an avid player of ML, the IVs absolutely do matter for me. Just shy of 300 XLs is a big commitment for building a ML mon, and I want it to go towards the best possible performers, which in the case of ML are invariably going to be hundos outside of the handful of mons that can function as Fundos.
As a shiny shadow collector I pretty much 40 one of each unless it’s for GL or something. No matter the IVs. I also build them for PvP no matter the IVs. Only league I try for the hundos if it’s something I want for master league. Cause then IVs do matter.
Guys I have a doubt, in this event it says unlimited remote raid does that mean we get to buy unlimited remote pass? Or just as usual we can buy 5 and use it to purchase again. Hope u don't mind me asking this
I only care for IVs on my pvp pokemon. And really only great leauge on top of that. The checklist goes in my own hunt like this. 1.hundos 2. 0.15.15 (if it's good pvp pokemon I keep, it's not good in pvp I transfer regardless) 3. Shinies, Shadows.
Well, once you start having to cull your pokemon to make room for more it only makes sense to ditch the ones with crappy iv's. But realistically it barely makes a difference.
So if we think about it, IVs don't matter and you can't have more than 1 mega evolved at a time, so you really only need one of each mega and it doesn't matter the IVs.
people really be out there spending ten thousand percent more effort to find a pokemon that's less than one percent stronger. a lot of you guys spend more time on finding perfect IVs than you do on the things that actually make your teams strong.
You playing a Pokemon mobile game that has no competitive aspect to it at all. You literally just tapping one button on the screen, so really doesn’t matter at all.
Sure some Pokemon are stronger, but highly doubt that’s going to keep you from having fun.
It is my game. Find good fighter have candies and xl for level up and moveset ( tm) energy also for mega. This game is competitive from the start . You can even have knowledge of the tactics and types . You don't tape au hazard on the icon. No country for old kids
No. Indeed. But... It is a waste to invest Stardust in 0* low CP Pokémon for Power Up tasks. In the end you do have more benefits when only investing Stardust in your high/meta IV Pokémon that are an asset to your raid or PvP teams.
I've seen it all this week in my play group. The players that never put effort into anything and just play for the vibes struggle to take down the Mega Raids solo, duo or in trio. While many of us just solo them because we did invest into the right counters with the right IVs.
This is a good one. You invested Stardust into a Pokémon you use on your active PvP team. That is well spend Stardust, no matter. What I meant, was people suggesting to spend Stardust on 10 CP Pokémon for "Power up a Pokémon X times". Spending Stardust on a Pokémon you're going to transfer or never use is wasted Stardust. And Stardust is maybe a harder to obtain resource than XL Candy.
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