The Best Free-to-Play TIPS for Pokémon GO!

[@vipeschick316]

**A note about using a lucky egg for the evolve XP spotlight hour** Stop evolving a little early before your egg runs out, you have to let the XP hit your account while the egg is active for it to work. For this I set a timer and stop evolving with 30-45 seconds left on the egg to give it time to catch up, since the total XP for all evolutions hit at once once you're back at the main screen.

[@pokechannel9758]

Thanks, I didn't knew it.

Good to know - Frogot that it only comes in when notifications come in

[@psy8428]

Same is true for advancing friendship levels, but even slower because you have to wait for each friendship increase to pop-up on screen. On the other hand, I believe this can be used in reverse -- that is, do your evolving and friendship increases _then_ use your lucky egg and sit on main screen. I haven't actually tried this, but I think I'll at least test it out next time I lucky egg.

[@peacearena]

Good tip. Took me a while to realize this.

[@brianfox340]

Wow, that sucks that it works like that. Thanks for the tip!

[@SD-hv2vl]

Catch everything PVP Stack pokemon encounters 4:13 Extra XP by evolving 12 candy pokemons in spotlight hour 8:18 - 3X catch XP event - Community day - Use lucky egg to get more XP 12:26 - get excited buddy for free Buddies for mega energy 12:55

Description has timestamps as well :)

[@SD-hv2vl]

@ Haha I know. This is just a short note for when I return to this video later

[@thunderstar254]

His description is better than your timestamps, it saved me 14 minutes :)

[@thunderstar254]

​@@SD-hv2vl Your description is better, it saved me 14 minutes so thank you :)

[@junpyoffx]

We'll be needing this more than ever from now on!

Definitely might include a FTP section in the tips videos

[@digital_pokemon]

Yeah

[@rememberda4736]

As a level 50 player that’s spent over $10,000 on this game I think I’m ready to take the Free to play route

[@vipeschick316]

As wild as that number sounds to me, I really do not want to know what I've spent on the game 🥲

[@dprob1985]

Heck ya. It takes us to stop letting niantic cuck us and take our data just to keep ripping us off. Crappy prices...bundles have become sooo bad. Rather spend my money on other things than a horrible data driven company

I wish you the best - patience is the biggest learner when going ftp

[@OvaltineJenkinsFx]

@@vipeschick316 ditto

[@alexanderavila563]

Woah

[@taguro1006]

They need to lower the cp of the raid boss. No way in hell i could find players locally that have TIME to meet up and battle someone like Lugia. Level 50 players cant solo that mon yet alone new casual players. Its so dumb EDIT: i understand raiding high tier mons are not meant to be raided solo, thats why remote raids are needed because you can hop in something like pokegenie then boom, raid done. Secondly, if they really want to keep the game alive they should take care and entice casual players. A normal person with a brain thats trying the game out will be like “this sh*ts unplayable”

[@ChristinaGerman]

This this this

[@nancyzipperer8819]

I'm level 34 on two accounts and my mom and I have never took down anything higher than a level four raid boss😤

[@Courraff]

bruh this isn't one of these games where you can do everything by yourself :/

[@Akshay-iv8rf]

@@ChristinaGerman use the method i toldd

[@Akshay-iv8rf]

@@nancyzipperer8819 usee thee method i told

[@endling2642]

Also If you have less than 30 pokeballs because you live in a rural area the daily incence gives free pokeballs

[@Incatebrawl]

That actually is useful

[@pokegeek22]

This might sound crazy, but I think they should remove the timer for raids (or make it like 700 seconds). This would allow smaller groups of players to beat raid bosses while also making it better to raid with others, as you will lose a lot and a lot of revives

[@brianfox340]

They need a "player ready" button that starts immediately when everyone marks as ready for this, (because of you DO have a group of 5 that can take it down all playing together you just want to start) but I would love it

[@nomames6855]

What’s the point of having legendary raids the if it just takes one person

[@nikopikopoo]

@@brianfox340 here late THIS IS A THINBG ;DD

[@ethanbouganim428]

what is the campfire thing u talked about?

[@Y4ngCP]

the point is permiting everyone to enjoy? there are places that don't have people to do raids anymore@@nomames6855

[@kevinhu772]

Nanab berries are actually somewhat useful this month. You can get the field task to use 5 nanab berries to help catch pokemons, which gets you a foongus encounter. Since each foongus catch gets you 500 stardust, you can stack the tasks until those 2x or 3x catch stardust events to get a lot more stardust.

[@lefranka]

I bought some 'Masterwork Research' a couple of months ago-ish. My wish was 'granted' with a task of having 10 Best Buddies. I'm roughly 9 months into this Pokémon Go thing - so I am constantly running out of berries to feed all of my Good/Great/Ultra Buddies. I read that this particular research is a grind, but there are moments I wonder, why did I sign up for this? To make nanab berries useful? On another note, I have learned a lot about the math behind their buddy algorithms, so, there's that too.

[@juanisimocr3813]

Thank you for this video and for your unwavering support of the community Daxi. I'm going F2P until Niantic undoes all the remote raid nerfs completely, including setting back the remote pass price to 100 coins and bringing back the 250 coins remote raid pass bundle

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

Niantic makes money from selling your location data. You're not hurting them by going Free ro Play. Uninstall the app if you want to hurt their wallet.

[@wackrap]

so your going f2p forevor?

[@umbrequil]

​@@wackrap if that's what it takes. Niantic is a company, their main motivation is making money. Vote with your dollars.

I respect your decision - glad I can help people move into a new playstyle

[@josefh6804]

They're not gonna revert it. They said they weren't making this change lightly. It isn't about the money otherwise they wouldn't have limited you to 5 a day, the location data they gather is more important to them

[@garyn3323]

Feeding Berry to gym 30dust. Put rare mons into gyms as you can get free candy for that mon when you feed it a Berry.

[@aroryboreallen]

I don't seem to get the candies all that often and you can't do it with legend/myth/ultra. Most of the time it's better just using a poffin and walking with then as your buddy.

[@cnh4431]

It's a lot more than that. You have to move fast, but you get 30 for the first berry, 60 for the 2nd, 90 for the 3rd, and so on, for 1650 for one pokemon - max 10 berries per pokemon. But if you can quickly switch between mons in the gym, you'll keep going at 330, then 360 etc, instead of starting over at 30.

[@mckenziehoward5079]

What’s a mon

[@klaus-mikael_son]

@@mckenziehoward5079 Pokemon

[@harry_marsden6265]

@@cnh4431are you silly that's a cumulative count.

[@UsPlusaBus]

great vid! to expand on 12:20 more regarding excited buddies for free, there's actually a method to do this in half the time (1.5 hours instead of 3).. you'll play, take photo, feed 3 berries to get it out and walking, and then you'll battle a team leader with your buddy in front of the party.. back out of battle, you don't need to finish.. then set a timer for 30 minutes and repeat the same process (except only feed 1 berry now).. after 3 rounds they will be excited.. this is the method I use and it's fantastic

[@lefranka]

I walked 11+ miles today, with two 'excited' buddies, got 25 and 23 hearts respectively. I didn't battle any team leader, but I did do a lot of buddy coddling (play, photo) along the way. One buddy out (got it anticipating adventure in advance), one buddy on the way back. A tip for any walkers out there who are trying to finish special research tasks that require 10 Best Buddies.

Good to know - I havn't made a vid on the method in a while so I had forgot a bit about how it works.

[@UsPlusaBus]

@@lefranka I would include battling team leaders (unless you’re getting your battle hearts from grunts or pvp already) because it literally only takes a few seconds to do. soon as the team leader battle loads with your buddy in front of the party just back out and you’ll get a heart

[@zenithskoll]

I use training all the time to level up my buddies, they don't have to be in front c: I just go to Master League Spark and sweep with my Garchomp, the rest of my team never comes out and I still get the benefit of battling with a buddy

[@UsPlusaBus]

@@zenithskoll thats good to know.. I never actually complete the battle though, just back out as soon as it starts and it counts.

[@lildon112]

I started playing in 2016 and have been on and off but I’ve never spent anything ever. I re-installed the game last year and began to play more consistently , finally hitting lvl 40 last month. I think this game is still fun as a free to play but your success completely rides on how close you live to gyms and pokestops. I think a player who lives on top of a gym and pokestop will do better with much less effort

[@colenaber7409]

My two biggest tips for people building out stuff to raid with would be: 1) Don't sweat IVs too much. Obviously, you want as good as possible, but the reality is that IVs rarely matter in raids unless you're trying to do the smallest groups possible. If I wasn't so determined to get full teams of 96%+ pokemon, I could've saved myself a lot of money over the years. 2) Know the budget counters. Yes, legendaries will almost always be at the top of their respective type lists, but there are usually a few non-legendary pokemon that score pretty high up the list as well. For example, Earth Power Garchomp isn't THAT MUCH worse than Precipice Blades Groudon, and the former can be obtained for free. Also, shadow pokemon, which are more expensive dust wise to power up but can be obtained for free, are typically some of the hardest hitters if you know what you're looking for.

[@josh_n3174]

thanks for the tips!

[@dirtydan4492]

Im glad to hear that about perfect IVs being helpful but not absolutely necessary. I feel like I have more options in terms of things to power up now

[@KittiezeittiK]

As a f2p I've always been doing excellent throws. Excellent throws is the main way I got my xp and the practice was SO worth it. And with the xp bonuses I can tell everyone that excellent throws are literally the best

[@peacearena]

Another tip I recommend to people is to sync your weekly rewards. Catch, spin and collect a field research reward every day so they all pay off on the same day when you can put on a Lucky Egg and/or Star Piece. While they are running, do all the things Daxi suggested. As well as open gifts if you still have some time on the Star Piece.

[@jasonstephen7564]

I only disagree with the Pokemon storage vs item storage. Poke balls are always plenty if you have active friends who send gifts. Gifts give so many useful items and if you have a large enough friend list you will be absolutely inundated with pokeballs. So for me I always prioritise Pokemon storage over item storage

[@racdude01]

I completely agree, prioritize Pokémon storage, if your Pokémon are full you’ve got to go through and figure out what to transfer which can be difficult and tedious. If your bag is full it just means it’s time to go catch Pokémon and go gym battles and raids till you run out of balls and potions and then re-up again. And I’d much rather be running back to poke stops more frequently than constantly stopping to transfer more Pokémon

[@honestfan420]

Y’all have friends? To play Pokémon with? In 2024??? Damn.

[@thesnake1661]

They need to make multiple ways to earn poke coins, and they need to add something like a piggy bank, all the extra poke coins that you get over the 50 limit will end up in that and you can claim them the next day or whem you need em

[@zenithskoll]

Another FTP Tip, MEGAS: Any time a new mega Pokemon comes out, do enough raids (usually only 2) to get the mega energy needed to mega evolve them. Having level 3 megas will get you more EXP and more candy then you would get just catching on your own. I have all of my Pokemon I use as megas under a tag, then when I go to that tag I search "Can Mega Evolve" so that I can see which ones are ready to go for free without using energy. Once you evolve one, you can walk for the rest of the energy if you want, but you don't need to. I have 15 mega level 3 Pokemon now just because I check in on them every few days and do my free evolution to level them up. Mega level 3s come in huge on events like community day when you want to squeeze as much as you can out of your time. So make sure you're not missing these! Added bonus, you can shoot your mega medal up really quickly using this method of just evolving whether you're using them at the time or not.

[@doublecomplex4741]

Mega0-3 in the search bar Mega0 shows eligible pokemon Mega1-2 brings up pokemon you’re building towards Mega3; you can just scroll through daily and see which ones have finished cooldown.

[@NNRedemption]

Ah good Tip. As lvl 30 Player without any good Mon (jolteon with 1700 IS the best) this IS definitly whwt i need. There are fcking Zero Players in 30 km range

[@zombie8hunters]

Much love Daxi, glad to see your keeping your head high and seeing what you can do to help us!

[@seedspittinspacecowboy]

Great tips PokeDaxi. I've been mostly F2P since the big post-covid update but still buy event tickets for Tour and Go Fest. Last tour was meh but Go Fest was amazing.

[@char198]

Just a heads up because I'm not sure it was explained but in regards to the "Pokemon Stacking" at 4:15 Be very careful as developers said it wasn't an intended feature and anything past 100 stacks could be lost including shinies, hundos etc

[@justincadieux1535]

Source? (Coming from someone who knows they have 2 shiny sableye and a shiny shedinja currently somewhere in stacked tasks)

[@char198]

@@justincadieux1535 Just about anywhere online google "pokemon go research stack limit"

[@anthonygcampbell2977]

@@justincadieux1535 idk the source either but anything past 100 definitely will disappear, I’ve learned that the hard way 😔

[@aamandaxo22]

@@justincadieux1535 it starts deleting 1 stacked task everytime you stack another task when your past 100. the one thats deleted is the oldest on in the queue as it adds the new one to the line essentially

[@ajacobs6955]

PokéDaxi explained stacked tasks in a different video also, 100 is the max then the oldest encounter gets deleted first when you go over

[@ethanmuniz7354]

The remote raid update is so frustrating bro

[@vincedibona4687]

Is it bro? Tell me more bro. Because bro bro bro bro.

[@cherrywolf759]

​@@vincedibona4687bro

[@joni2417]

Since the Super Raid Box is here, I have never paid so much attention to getting the gym coins each day. I was able to buy it twice for now. Hopefully the box stays till the end of the season, so that I have enough for the next Go Fest and future Raid Days, maybe even the Sinnoh Tour.

[@axm7597]

you think sinnoh tour will be this summer or next winter?

[@earthbloodelf5289]

​@@axm7597 Sinnoh Tour will definitely be next February imo, since that's when they did Johto and Hoenn tours

Boxes are definitely great for ftp to get a good bang for thier buck

[@ryyangggY]

wait, what super raid box? what does it contain

[@coleswan]

As a current level 38 F2P player...the absolute hardest thing to do is grow the pokemon/bag storage by trying to get the 50 daily gym coins...the fact that there is a cap on storage is the dumbest part of the game.

Facts not a great implementation

[@coolbenjhonraffy632]

It's the only reason why I'm forced to buy some PokeCoins

[@gamingtricks_LM]

You need only 45 to 50 mins to get your buddy excited by just walking 4 kilometer & completing all the other tasks and playing with him every 5 mins ... I do it every day for minimum 3-5 Pokemons 😍

[@asseyez-vous6492]

The video Nerfantic never wanted you to see. Nice job, Dax.

[@ThatHollowGuy]

Brilliant video, one thing I will add DO NOT EVOLVE STARTER POKEMON OUTSIDE OF THEIR COMMUNITY DAY / certain events! The legacy moves they get are SO strong, it brings them from useless, to top raid counters most of the time!

[@blackcat-o7p]

But if you are doing pvp ,sceptile is an exception because leaf blade is actually a better option than frenzy plant .

[@pokenesa]

Once again, great video!! I'm living proof of this tips as I never spent money on pogo and started doing most of this methods from all the tips I found on your channel when I got back and more serious about it. Catching everything is so underestimated and I'm saying this looking at myself few months ago... I was able to level up all the pokemons I needed/wanted and still have over 2 million dust in a few months... not to mention I cant wait for a 3x dust event with the shellders and some starpieces that I'm saving! The pvp tips were also so clutch not only to win battles but also getting double the rewards at the end! Not to mention that I have the worst luck with Lugia and cannot get a decent one from daily raids but just last week I hit level 20 and already got 4 extra lugias from the 3rd reward.. All the tips on platinum medals, event tips, which pokemons to focus for excellents... cant take you enough, it made the game so much more enjoyable that I now want to spent money on it... great timing lol maybe I'll buy someones used auto catcher

[@pokenesa]

Just if anyone is curious I went from the original 300 storage on both items and pokemons to now over 1000 on each in less than 6 months, just have to be patient and answer lots of surveys lol

[@fruityjeezus]

Although I played this game since day 2 launched. Since the server were down during day one. I appreciate these types of videos you always make. Always learn something new regardless of the topic.

Glad I can still teach people :)

[@fruityjeezus]

@ amen 🙏

[@Courraff]

30 stardust per berry ;) Its insane if you get around 15 pokemon in a gym which means you get up to 27'000 dust per 30 minutes depending how many pokemon are in a gym (Max is 6 but 5 if there's too many large pokemon)

[@jdeneau13]

There's a limit of 100 berries fed every 30 minutes. But still a good way to farm dust and XP (50 XP per berry as well).

[@gamingtricks_LM]

It's not 27k by any chance... It's 3000 Stardust per 30 mins and eventually you will get a platinum madel for this also

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

@@jdeneau13 It's 10 berries per 30 minutes. Not 100.

[@jdeneau13]

@@PSYCHOV3N0M Per pokemon, right. But you can feed 100 berries every 30 minutes, so 10 different pokemon.

[@hh-lg1he]

What I love about this event is the shiny boosted Pokémon, it's a nice way to give a little more incentive to grind

[@Anthony-zm8of]

I quit the game a while ago but still love when Daxi uploads

[@raulojeda8567]

It's better to increase Pokemon storage first since there are 730 Pokemon in the game than do item storage after every 4 days you can upgrade you get plenty of Poke ball in stops and gym

[@GoombruhGG]

I just realized today is my 1 year anniversary of playing pokemon go 🎉

[@wanakmar0734]

I am ftp on only manual catch. I play everyday(almost) from day one without any specific target. Now i am at level 46 closing to 47. Most xp i get is from friendship.

[@justinmichael7414]

My biggest tip would be is get yourself a gotcha … when I first started I did the quick catch method but wasn’t enough . If you get one you can catch twice as fast and get the most dust that way tbh . Doesn’t even have to be a good brand one just a cheap one

Yup - I have a video on autocatchers dropping soonish

[@justinmichael7414]

@ can’t wait !😊

[@kobemorand2313]

i’ve already been doing a lot of these but man these are fire u rly the best pogo tuber man make the game so much better fr

[@Suraj.or.is.it.]

This helped me decide between item and pokemon storage, thanks alot.

[@Boboishere69]

I recently joined Pokémon go for the 2nd time after a couple years, and made a new account. Thank you for these tips and i’m glad I found this video.

[@deannday4]

Dax, you are the best! Thanks for all of the great info!

[@jmanjimmyjoejonnyjinglehei3925]

I have never spent money in Pokémon Go and I have been playing for about 1 and a half years. I am level 35 with 24 legendaries, 5 mythicals, 83 shinies, 10 ultra beasts, 2 shiny legendaries, 1 shiny shadow, 2-100%, and 1-0%

[@Megabooy1]

A thing I fine very good when playing on a low budget is to do the scan quest that can come from pokestops and gyms. There are times they give 10 pokeball / 5 great ball / Poffin I personally go for the poffin for more easy friendship but the pokeball one has for sure saved me at times

[@lionheart4424]

I understand for sure that this is a video with great tips, and as always thank you for considering all players and creating content for everyone. I believe it's just plain ridiculous that a game that demands you to play outside also demands this amount of planing and tight daily schedules in order to get a *decent* growing pace, specially when it comes to stardust recollection. I am bored of having to wait for a lucky trade in order to get an improved IVs shiny and then having to wait for when that Pokémon becomes relevant to power it up thanks to the ridiculous stardust prices per level near lvl 40.

[@vVincent.]

hard agree

[@dprob1985]

Just delete the app until niantic learns how to balance the game

[@DrDarrellCoats]

Yeah, that's gonna happen. 😂

[@mrgamer74]

I'm actually f2p and live in a rural area, and here are more tips I got from other players or figured out: -Try to hit excellent every single time on a Pokémon. (It saves you pokeballs cause the catch rate is higher, and you can get more xp. Also, good practice for 3x-exp-events) -Open your gifts daily up to the limit. (It gives you a good amount of pokeballs and also per gift from a not maxed friendship player it gives around 1811 exp/gift or for the 50k and 100k on a lucky egg 3477 exp/gift. Make sure to use the "interactable" filter, so you level up your friendshiplevel) -Use ar-mapping for stuff that you need. (When I go out playing, I always do one ar-mapping and upload it at home, so I can get like a puffin for free.) -When feeding berrys to gyms, always keep like 10 of all left that you're feeding away. (If you are playing and want to use a Pinap Berry, you could missclick because you're missing a berry and waste a golden berry. Also keep a little of them for the task where you need to feed berries to Pokémon for an encounter.) -open your gifts in the morning and send out in the evening. (You can save yourself some ultra or great balls cause of this, and so it's easier to send out gift for tasks. Always use "interactable" for more exp by sending gifts) I hope at least one of the tips could help someone. Have fun playing, guys.

[@experimentallab695]

I want to add Pidove which also evolve in 12 candies and mostly available every time and in every event

[@timtam9168]

Great tips, lots of good reminders in there for someone that is already lv50. Ķeep up the positive content.

Thank you I will!

[@jenniferchristman8222]

I synchronized my daily catch and special research rewards and claimed them at the same time I was getting ready to hatch 4 of the 10k eggs and earned almost 40,000 stardust this week on a star piece!

[@uncannyofficechair4378]

Thank you bro someone had to make this love this Chanel been watching for years!!!!

[@Chant4Change]

FYI you can speed up making your buddy excited by interacting with it every 15 minutes, not 30 minutes. If you interact every 15 minutes you can get your buddy excited in about an hour.

[@ethancampbell245]

Berries fed at a gym is 30 stardust but 50 xp per berry You can do 100 per 30 minutes and gain 3,000 stardust and 5,000 xp every 30 minutes when you have berries If you’re fortunate enough to have a lot of bag space and you play in a large area with many pokestops chances are you will be able to feed berries often enough to keep them low in your item bag Right now I have 800 nanab and 750 razz berries and I’m struggling to find gyms that people won’t kick me out of but I know how useful feeding them is in my rural area and know I have the time to do it so I’m holding off on deleting them until I hit an event where I have to

[@ethancampbell245]

It’s worth noting that I live next to a church that is a gym and can reach it from my house so even though I live in a rural area I may have a bit of an edge over other players so don’t feel bad if you can’t do the berry tricks, daxi’s other tips are just as good if not better (They’re definitely better actually)

[@ShadowingBlaze7]

I Am ftp and can't go away from home as I have school and then Homework then also I have consistently played for 1 hour a day and still have made it to level 32 guys you don't need money to play u just need to belive

[@brianmatthews2835]

Thank you daxi for the info much appreciated and I wasn't sure if the PokeCoins were still a thing for surveys thank you

[@petersh0world429]

Tip: New players - dont catch 2. and 3. level pokemons that you dont have in the pokedex - evolve instead during 2x evolve bonus + lucky egg = 8000 xp per pokemon. This will really stack up😊

[@berkY.]

5:45 and pidove. you always leave out the pidove, it’s the most common 12 candy evolution pokemon in my area

[@radioactiveslam8352]

I actually like and use Nannab berries semi often. I use them on shadow Pokémon so I can just catch them quickly and move on. I also like to use them on stashed Pokémon because I can fly through it when I decide to empty it.

Good to help excellent throws

[@radioactiveslam8352]

Ah yes, that too!

[@symeoniskenderoglou9367]

4:01 i dont understand the board of the startdust w and o /w whats the difference?

[@ThePokéWild]

The PVP mechanic is SO underrated. I've gotten a Zamazenta and 4 Giratina from PVP in the last month. Definitely use PVP!

[@nimonaug]

Hi pokedaxi good video you my favorite KZbinr

[@gabrielfavalora5532]

Thanks so much, love your content

[@jdbatwing]

Nice video and happy Easter!!!!🐣

[@OvaltineJenkinsFx]

0:45 Just for a point of clarification, a chance at getting a Legendary is what these days…..about 0.000000000000000000000000001% right? Chance of getting Meditite, Lickitung or Wingull is 33.3333333333333333% respectively. This is a shot at Niantic, not you Dax. Your point is correct, just another thing they nerfed.

[@OvaltineJenkinsFx]

Update: I just got a 3 star shiny Skarmory, no legendary but I’ll take it.

Ya I remember the days where almost every encounter was one

[@OvaltineJenkinsFx]

@ Ahhhh yes, I often sit back, sip lemonade and daydream of the good ole days

[@SnomKing]

I WOULD be spending money on this game, but not any more! I think this guide is going to be helpful to a lot of people lol

[@blakeneff4785]

BEST Pokémon KZbinr hands down!

[@jonathanvail9643]

Thanks for these tips Daxi and always helps. I put some of these tips and help alot

[@CherryStar39]

Thanks for this video, Pokedaxi! I'm a f2p player so this helps a lot

[@txo80sb10]

I saw buying the official auto catchers get you a mew if it’s unused does the same apply for off brands

[@VisualEnjoyer9756]

Didn't know the legendary thing in PVP! I might try to get into PVP now thanks to that! Ps: Could we get an updated list of the best pokemon in PVP next please? lol

[@erickauppinen2157]

Not to get your hopes up, but rather just to set your expectations, I think you should just be aware that the legendary encounter rate in pvp is currently very low. It was a good way to get legendaries a few seasons ago, but Niantic nerfed the rate, partially in response to people complaining that they took too long to catch. Still, if you play enough and get up to the appropriate rank where you will be able to encounter legendaries, you will encounter them; but it's not very reliable. I still think it's still worth it, especially if you end up enjoying pvp, as it means you will probably get a few extra encounters that you otherwise wouldn't have had. And, if you do encounter them there, they won't run. Also, if you are looking to get into pvp, I would definitely check out PvPoke. They are a good free resource, which can tell you the top mons in each league, the matchups that each one wins, the timing and damage of different attacks, and there is a feature that lets you simulate how your team does against the meta for a certain league or cup. Best of luck!

[@naturalharmoniagropius4486]

2:30 30 SD, 10 maximum/Pokemon. It can be sometimes capped up feeding when reached the certain limit

[@cjacobs851]

Watching this a year later when Lugia is the current available legendary is crazy 1:01

[@clone7775]

same thing i caught

[@goatmanfn]

Yah

[@elesku4439]

I have money but I just want to call my self a ”free to play” player😂

[@aroryboreallen]

So timely! I have got to get on the Play Store credits train.

[@ejdj2205]

1:05 I never knew that Pokémon had a chance if being shiny in pvp

[@StormySky48]

9:30 Google says you only get five coins every hour. How do you know you get six? Do you have any proof?

[@thebadger9302]

Thanks Daxi, you are so helpful!

[@AlejandroChavez-du7kx]

Thank you poki David for the awesome tips and tricks for beginners this well help me out a lot

[@gruntwc]

Thanks for the info as always 👍🏾

[@shintyty]

Me, my little brother and sister made a free little library at our house and we got lucky and it became a gym. We mine 50 pokecoins per day but unfortunately niantic screwed us over with the new raid pass update

[@BotFansUnited]

Thanks so much, man! You are a legend!

[@StormySky48]

8:25 "excellent throws her completely free"? What is that supposed to mean they never cost any money to begin with and they're not easy to do unless the pokémon are right next to you and are normally small. Big pokémon or exceptions the rule like exeggcute are nearly impossible to get a excellent throw on let alone a great throw.

[@monkeybrains]

Cheers pokedaxi. I really like your videos

[@liorodriguez1379]

For the pvp does it have to be the premium pass battles or the free ones work ? Please answer daxi i won’t be able to get passes for a while😂💀

[@german2507]

I think I’ve spent like….. 150, maybe on the game. Level 38. Been playing since November ‘22. These tips will help a lot. Thanks.

[@UmmmmmmmM234]

As a free to play player, this was helpful

[@mattercolini7451]

All the Pokémon come back, no one is selling rare Pokémon in Pokémon go, Take ur time ,stop spending money if ur reading this you're not close to the best in the game so it doesn't matter how long it takes to get to 50 it's the journey! Enjoy

[@sigisoltau6073]

I'm already level 50. Might not be as good as BrandonTan91, but I'm still quite good enough to solo some mega and legendary Pokémon.

[@Mouiz412]

I started today actually and yep pokemon go is so much fun!

[@roryhadfield1025]

0:42 literally how I caught my legendaries for years until I was forced to join a community to play the game.

[@Make2wo]

To get max pokecoins from gyms it’s actually 8 hours 20 minutes to get 50 coins. If you’re knocked out at 8 hours you only get 48 coins.

[@Lucky69K]

What if Buddy your gholdengo n walk ? much km and earn between 1-5 pokecoins

[@FlygonnTrades]

5:30 I use my field research encounters that have boosted stardust for the 7th 1 catch of the day

[@narwhal8705]

6:49 Polar Express "We gotta stop the train!"

[@Alex-lv5ji]

i would reccomend using poke raid and then hosting on the day a new legendary is in raids then putting lucky egg down and then you can get stardust and exp

[@napy9023]

When will you make an update on how to make pokestops video?

[@PhilipTheFish]

1:56 isnt that the clip from the april fools lagasorus clip

[@SPARKI404]

thank you for this, i usually try to spend minimal money on any f2p game i play .. and im trying to play POGO again :]

[@mindblown9]

0:50 Isnt there just a 4% chance of getting the legendaries?

[@deathglock3132]

Last season I got a shiny Rayquaza from Battleing, and the same thing happened this season. I was able to catch a shiny Lugia, definitely a good thing to do.

[@phyzic8383]

Is this Mystery encounter from pvp ?

[@vipeschick316]

I got a 96 shiny Giratina (origin) from PvP rewards ❤

[@Shomiibeats]

Is it luck that legendarys show up or do you have to be a certain rank

[@Lex-rj5vm]

Hey, and if I get rank 20 and dont get 3 wins then I have no encounter

[@patriciaocampom]

These are great tips! Ty!! (PS Shiny nosepass is my favorite shiny)

[@FoggyFrosty]

I’ve gotten 3 Lugia from the Go battle league and one was shiny!

[@pikachu5664]

pvp has been my saviour as a free to play player as they really help me get legendaries and i have even gotten a shiny ho oh from it