What is the point of transferring Pokemon?
Those common creatures will help evolve your squad, thus expanding your Pokédex and heightening your chances of defeating gym leaders. Transferring Pokémon to the professor will net you candies, which in turn can be used to evolve your junior Pokémon into powerful, gym-ready monsters.
Should I transfer all Pokemon duplicates?
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While catching duplicates is helpful, you should get rid of them afterwards in order to save precious storage space.
What happens if you transfer all your Pokemon?
Yes you do. All candies you have are stored kinda invisibly on your character and the only way to see them is by selecting a Pokemon of the evolution chain. If you get rid of all of the Pokemon in that chain you will keep the candies but be unable to see them until you catch another of that chain.
What does transfer Pokemon to Professor mean?
Transfering to the Professor is a way of permanently removing a Pokemon from your inventory. In exchange for a transfer, the Professor will give you some Candies, that can be used to power up and evolve a Pokemon.
Should I transfer all my low CP Pokémon?
Yes, I recommend always transferring low-level Pokemon except for the following cases: You only have one of that Pokemon. I like to have one of each so I can have a “living Pokedex” You have enough candies to evolve that Pokemon (even when you evolve starting from high-CP).
Why can’t I transfer shiny Pokemon?
You’re unable to transfer multiple Shiny Pokémon, Lucky Pokémon, or Buddy Pokémon with whom you’ve reached Good Buddy status or above at a time. Additionally, certain Legendary and some Mythical Pokémon (e.g. Mew, Celebi) are not able to be selected for transfer.
Can two Pokémon merge?
Yes. In Pokémon GO, you can choose what Pokémon HOME account you’ll transfer Pokémon to by linking to a Nintendo Account that is also linked to the desired Pokémon HOME account.
Should I catch the same Pokémon?
By catching the same species of Pokémon consecutively over and over, you will build up your Catch Combo. As your combo count increases, you will earn more Candies to power up your Pokémon. It will also increase the odds of encountering a Pokémon that has more impressive stats, allowing you to form a stronger team.
Is it better to evolve or power up first?
Should you evolve first, or power up first? Evolve first, power up second. It’s tempting to power up first, because instant gratification is instant, but it’ll cost you less Stardust in the long run to evolve and the strategically power up only your best or favorite Pokémon.
Which Pokemon should I evolve?
You should always evolve a Pokémon fully when you can – so, a Geodude all the way through Graveler to a Golem – because otherwise the time it takes to earn another 100 Candy for your respective Pokémon will likely see you level up enough to catch a higher Level version.
How do you transfer legendary Pokemon?
You can now go to Settings and click to enable Legendary transfer. This will allow you to select and mass transfer Legendaries in Pokémon GO the same way you’d mass transfer normal species. As far as the quality of life updates, this is a huge one, but just be careful.
Does transferring give XP?
You do not get exp from transferring Pokemon.