TOP 30 BUDGET Pokemon To Power Up In Pokémon GO! (2022) | Which Pokemon Are Worth Powering Up?!

[@chickenchaser6284]

I think budget PVP options would be huge for newer players. Great league isn't so bad on the stardust wallet, but man there are a lot of Ultra League cups this season.

[@Spurss210]

Finally got a Hundo Machop today and evolved it to machamp just waiting to max out now 👊🏻

[@LuckyBunz]

Congratz!

[@smitthakur8499]

How did you get a Hundo?

[@owenboswell2613]

im working on powering up my 92% shadow machamp. thank god machop is spawning in the wild now

[@Spurss210]

@@owenboswell2613 caught a 98% shadow Machop well evolved it to machamp now

[@herohour6496]

Will you trade with someone so the Evolution is free?

[@wuzzle5261]

Heyo! I'm coming back to the game after a few years, and I was an absolute noob last time I played, trying to up my game this time around. Your guides are fantastic for this, particularly this one. Thank you!

[@Savrathmith]

I'm coming back to Pokemon Go and I feel like I'm very far behind since last time I played was 2018. But this helped a lot! Thanks!

[@NotPennyTPG]

Those videos are super useful for beginners that are F2P (or F2P in general) cause they don’t have a lot of ressources, stardust, and no money, useful picks before you get better Pokémon

[@jkd2817]

Don't use name trick until u need to evolve them for to level up in the 40s. It can only be used once.

[@quubey_]

This has definitely changed because I’ve named multiple different eevee using the name trick and each time I got the specific evolution i wanted, to specify I’ve used the same name to get the same evolution

[@TheHBKmaster]

A PVP budget version for each league would be amazing if you could do that 😁 3 separate videos or one video for each league

[@AlanNadell]

i will tell you this Excadrill is CRAZY good in great and ultra league as long as you give it the moves metal claw and drill run

[@bobxiong4516]

"Trade Evolutions" I would include Geodude, Gravaler, Golem. They are massive budget trade (25xCandy total) evolve pokemons. Golems wreck all the bird raids with rock/ground typing. While Giglith is much more expensive to evolve (50xCandy total), harder to find candy, and is a glass cannon rock specific type.

[@LuckyBunz]

Roggenrola has been a common spawn for quite some time, not sure what you mean. Also, Gigalith is not a glass cannon rock type. Golem was a debatable choice, so I can understand why some feel it should have been added.

[@Weav576]

Shadow Golem is pretty good to power up as a ground and rock attacker I caught a shadow with 93% IVs that I plan to power up soon

[@trapmare]

It's funny how my master league team is garchomp, melmetal, and sylveon and yet no one expects it

[@izmoody]

This is the most useful info i've seen. I'm a returnee and just in time for the dratini community day on Saturday. Thanks so much for this.!

[@herohour6496]

Same for me. I stopped playing 3 years ago. Dratini brought me back.

[@Tylar122]

@@herohour6496 Dratini bought you back? lmao.

[@sumpyori]

I wouldnt call Hydriegon 'budget'. It out DPS's Darkrai and is currently the best Dark type DPS. It is the sole best option for Dark type dps with brutal swing.

[@LuckyBunz]

You seem to have missed the point. This budget list focuses on accessibility, cost and meta relevance. Hydreigon just benefitted from a Community Day very recently.

[@SK-XMBCBH]

He said it's the best in the video btw

[@Synoh]

You missed the plot

[@truek1ng7]

You don’t understand what budget means, accessibility, it had a com day and if you played that day a low level player can lvl one up, it has nothing to do with how good it does lol

[@Xmpting]

Budget doesn’t mean what you think

[@matthewbreslin6732]

Pidove into Unfezant is a very cheap and high DPS flying type attacker if you get the move set Air Slash + Sky Attack. Flying type attackers aren’t the most meta relevant but Pidove spawns very commonly in my experience so it’s not hard to get the 75 candy necessary to go through the stages.

[@LuckyBunz]

In terms of DPS * TDO, it does fall a bit short compared to Honchkrow and Staraptor, but it's true that it is very common in the wild currently. If you catch one weather boosted, it would be a good temporary flying type attacker to add without spending any stardust 👍

[@lukasschuhmacher5905]

First of all I wouldn’t focus on powering up Flying Type Attackers as a new player and if you power up one Staraptor is the play.

[@matthewbreslin6732]

@@LuckyBunz also thanks for taking the time to make this.

[@fabianornelas463]

I've been getting lucky in hundos lately. My most recent are Lucky Hundo Metagross , Machamp, and Manetric. I can't wait because I only need 5 more mega energy to mega evolve my Manetric.

[@starlights1519]

PvP budget guide would be wonderful

[@dakufokkusu2702]

Thank you so much i started abou 1,5 months ago and there were a lot of really helpful tips in your video. Now I can focus on building a decent raid team ^^

[@markhorvatin8189]

I’d be interested in a pvp budget Pokémon video for sure

[@upnorth1511]

This is awesome. Very useful info. As casual player, I really appreciate the effort you put into this video. Thank you very much.

[@katrinavoshell2486]

I really appreciate you mentioning what Pokémon they evolve from

[@martinnhantran]

7:58 good point I haven't heard other KZbinrs specify this advice. Save till 100% IV not just level 40 or something for evee evolve missio

[@roltrat522]

Would love a pvp version Thanks, love your content

[@arthurkurbedzis]

Glad that I got some of them from the past, it would be hard to come back without having any good ones.

[@Kullusa]

Even though I'm luckily not really in need of using budget Pokemon anymore, I enjoy your videos way too much to miss out on watching. Great comprehensive video as always ❤

[@antonlydahlwestrin9388]

A Shadow Machamp is allways better than a normal 100%IV Machamp

[@Weav576]

I also have a 12, 14, 15 shadow Staraptor, I recently gave it an elite fast tm that I got thru the recent quest that gave both an elite charged and fast tm. Anyway I gave the elite fast tm, to my best Shadow Staraptor that I evolved too early before I knew that it was going to have a Comday, an elite fast tm for gust. Plan to power up soon as it will do very well in Phermosa, and Buzzwhole raids. Along with my 3 star shadow Hounchrow

[@khairulhazim7966]

I have a lucky machamp 🥳. Yes we do need a budget pvp pokemon to power ups vids. Becoz most best pvp iv pokemon is the non lucky one. Im a returner player, got a bunch of lucky pokemon from trades, was happy at 1st, then i learn bout pokegenie n i notice most lucky pokemon are not great for pvp. So i would love a budget pvp pokemon to power ups.😁

[@Weav576]

My lvl 50 15, 15, 13 shadow T-tar is a beast sweeps thru Rocket battles like nothing. I been trying to catch a 98% or preferably a perfect normal T-Tar as well to have for it's mega to eliminate the temptation to purify my shadow when the mega does come into Pogo so I can have the best of both worlds.

[@tastysandwhich]

There are so many bits of jargon that I simply don't know in these types on videos

[@SilverPandaz]

Perfect timing!I was wondering what the best budget pokemon were.

[@minkhoo790]

Hi LuckyBunz, may i ask which shadow machamp would you recommend me to level up: 13/15/15 or 15/14/13? Lol i have been pondering on this for many weeks😅

[@LuckyBunz]

Both are amazing spreads for a shadow Machamp tbh! In general, prioritizing 15 attack spreads will always take priority though for maximizing breakpoints 👍

[@minkhoo790]

Thank you very much😁

[@PStrophies7]

Good video, but if you ask around people will tell you to never power up anything unless it's a 100% iv shiny caught on a Tuesday. Even if the difference will most likely not matter for 99% of the player base :P.

[@JahOceanGrown]

Incredibly Great Video Worth sharing to every PoGo newcomer

[@kalroy1230]

9:57 i will die on the hill that youre wrong, my sylveon has turned my great league team from casual player to basically chuck norris if he decided to play Pokemon

[@lukasschuhmacher5905]

Hi I just wanted to thank you for doing these viedeos I watched your viedeo last year and now I have really good teams for each typing. I really enjoyed your PvP content. When will we see you PvP again?

[@LuckyBunz]

That's really awesome to hear! ☺ Getting content out in general is kinda difficult with balancing my full time job right now, so I can't say forsure. I am still actively doing GBL though

[@Jacob-bl5cg]

i love ur videos. go on and i promis you hit the 100k soon

[@GeraldMcLaughlinGamingVideos]

Wow Thank you! So much great Information.

[@ellissparkes1707]

Thanks for the vid and time stamps. Cool content

[@frederickdelius1106]

Thank you. I definitly focused waybtoo much on ivs. Instead of having like three decent machamps i had one and òne lee and primape

[@frederickdelius1106]

I have a dragon garchop is that ok or shoukd i really just make it a ground type?

[@frederickdelius1106]

So is mega alakazam worth it???

[@roguegen5536]

Thanks. I've been trying to decide if Mega Blastoise was worth the Elite TM to get Hydro Cannon. It just sucks so bad right now.

[@Ahmedy199]

love all the videos you make. entertaining and informative.

[@thebrianshaw]

pretty new... got a shadow dratini, but super low iv. is it even worth evolving?

[@lol-bk5mo]

(Answer me Pls...)Should I invest on a 13/15/15 zacian???

[@zensohvh]

Depends, if you wanna max it, then go for it, 2 iv don't really matter hahaha.. If you wanna PvP then search for pvp iv

[@_Thr33m0]

Are you able to try and catch more? Because whilst farming raids for the candy you may come across 1 with even better IV’s. I would strongly recommend that you don’t power it up until it leaves raids to ensure that you get the best one. I would also encourage you to look for weather boosted raids because it will be Lvl 25 as opposed to Lvl 20. That difference is ~ equivalent to 28 candies. Good luck!

[@LuckyBunz]

Zacian in its current form (hero of many battles) is only utilized for PvP, specifically in the Master League. Therefore, having the hundo or even the 98 with 15 attack is very important when running it.

[@lol-bk5mo]

@@LuckyBunz Thx for the help

[@lol-bk5mo]

@@_Thr33m0 Thx for the help

[@biboysitoy5133]

Perfect IVs are still rocking the floor in the master league. Its like reality slaps your pokemon when they enter the master league with bad IVs

[@Toriann6d9]

Really good video thanks

[@dustinpike7879]

You forgot to talk about Mega Gyrados. He has the highest CP in the game.

[@KingKoral]

What those +'s and "14/15A" mean in your Pokemon's names?

[@dphinsfan6453]

Murkrow into Honchkrow is 100 candies + sinnoh stone

[@LuckyBunz]

You're right, sorry about that!

[@mtvnews123]

Nice video thanks it helps me a lot!!

[@UDUDUD23]

Is this guide updated? Love this

[@ls-metro9362]

You’re always the best

[@LuckyBunz]

:)

[@studburna]

can you do the best budget pvppokemons to level up? :)

[@loocario.3739]

maxed out a shiny melmetal 93iv and thinking about maxing my SHUNDO hydreigon

[@linkinparkroxx]

Any way to change my game language from my device language to english? ALso, how do I know which item helps my pokemon learn the specific attack that the video shows?

[@Casperfacekilla]

I’d love a pvp one!

[@RealGettoBirds]

Does the addition of XL Pokemon make a lot of these irrelevant as normal/average-sized?

[@MrZorx]

Oh man, I was just about to record a video today about this because I didn't know when yours would be out haha! Glad you made this, I personally don't use budget Pokemon too much but it's one of the most useful lists one can have.

[@maganhassan2627]

Like to see this for pvp if you don't have XL candies to use & this video but updated

[@ninja-c]

I’ll wait for your 2023 version 😊

[@LuckyBunz]

I'll make sure to update this in 2024!

[@Blyfee]

How's this looking? I recently returned and could really do with your expertise on this :D ​@@LuckyBunz

[@gafak47]

@@Blyfee same

[@navrion572]

Are you free to play? If so how many 100%s do you have and Have you got any shundos! Also this video helped me so much !!!

[@belalang90]

With so many Croagank spawn for this week events, do you think Lvl30 Toxicroak would be good alternative for Machamp? Found a lot semi decent IV Lvl 27-29 Croagank and thought this could be use instead of transfering them.

[@LuckyBunz]

Nah, it's actually a lot worse than Machamp.

[@invincibleanik]

It's Good for PvP. Beats other fighers when takes neutral from fairy.

[@Weav576]

A good Iv shadow Golem is good as well, as both a ground and rock attcker

[@Friskii-]

are these pokemon still relevant and worth powering up?

[@ciaranconway1876]

How do you get level 30 machops and other pokemon

[@outdatedmeme5544]

when will we get another oportunity to remove frustration from shadow pokemon?

[@themanicmarauder]

I'm very thankful for 0.75 playback speed.

[@JohnDoe-pd4jo]

Conkeldurr is not budget lol. You really gotta do lots of raids to even get a good one, let alone have the candy for it. It’s also near impossible to run into its ore evolution in the wild too.

[@arthurrosa9403]

I can't find high % pokemon, and so if I level the ones I have, it will not be worth in the long run, and I'll be wasting resources. . . I'm almost quitting, the only pokemon I get with high % are completely useless.

[@Spink_Prime]

I don't understand your naming system, and I would appreciate a bit of elaboration on that, since I feel my naming system is WAY more efficient. I'll make a whole section for this comment just how I name them, since I think my method is great: I always name my pokemon [A]/[D]/[H]FC This stands for the IVs in each category (which the game tells you if you know how to eyeball it, i'll explain that in a second). I name my pokemon Atk/Def/HP, then their moveset. I understand that the numbers on yours are the IV %s, but those are completely worthless next to knowing the exact IVs, which is a mystery my naming system circumvents. For example, you could have an 85% pokemon, but you wouldn't wanna use it in gyms because its IV spread is something like 8/15/15, whereas you may wanna use a 76% because its IVs are 15/11/9, and having a higher attack stat is more optimal for gym/raid attacks. It's actually even more efficient to use my system because you don't need a 3rd party app to break down the exact percentage. Attack, Defense, and HP are all weighted a bit differently, and so a 13/15/15 could be a 96% while a 15/15/13 could be 98% because attack affects their CP more than HP does in this instance. As for how to tell a pokemon's IVs in game, your leader will show you a picture of the 3 stats, broken up into 3 bars each. If you know that a pokemons IVs can only be 15 max, those being 15 atk, 15 def, and 15 hp in that order, then you can assume that those bars represent the full 15 points for each stat, and each of those 15 points is divided into 3 smaller bars. This means each individual bar represents 5 IVs for each stat, making the picture mean Atk - 5/5/5, Def - 5/5/5, HP - 5/5/5. The tricky part is telling the difference between a 1, 2, 3, or 4 IV, but with enough practice, you can learn to very quickly eyeball a pokemon's IVs this way. The part after that is the moves my pokemon know, which can be a little tricky to keep up with, but i'll try to make it simple. If a pokemon's IVs are all in the 10s (so 10/10/10 for this example), then you only have 3-4 characters after that to name their moves, 3 if you're putting a space between the IVs and the moves, then you only have 3 characters to use. So, I use 1 letter for the Fast Move and two for the Charge Move. If a pokemon like Charizard has Fire Spin and Blast Burn, I would name it 10/10/10 FBB, and because Blast Burn is two words, both Bs are capitalized. If a pokemon like Venusaur has Solarbeam, it could also be named something like 10/10/10 RSB, R being Razor Leaf and SB being Solar Beam, even though it's one word. If I have a pokemon with a charge move like Psychic, I split up the word into something like Ps or Pc, but I understand that's not always super clear. If I'm lucky enough to have a relevant pokemon that's 100%, it wouldn't be 15/15/15, cuz that wastes space. Instead, I can name a pokemon's IVs and moves ENTIRELY if they're like that. A Charizard might look like 100% FSBBDC, for Fire Spin, Blast Burn, Dragon Claw. Every now and then, I'll get a particularly annoying issue where ONE pokemon has 2 or 3 moves that all have the same abbreviation, such as Venusaur with Sludge Bomb and Solarbeam, which could be remedied by RSB vs RSb, the lowercase existing because it's not 2 words, so it doesn't get 2 capital initials. However, I usually name him RSb or RSl. You can tinker with this naming system a bit, but I feel like it solves most problems anyone would have when it comes to having 6 Mewtwos, Machamps, or Giratinas. You know their IV%s, but you don't know which of them are slightly better for raids (because you didn't name them for their attack IV), and you don't know if your Mewtwo is a Psystrike/Thunderbolt or Psystrike/Ice Beam or Psystrike/Shadow Ball without checking its moves first.

[@NotPennyTPG]

pokegenie exist So you can use the IV numbers of pokegenie and your system of moves

[@sashenmoodley7158]

What about Umbreon? It's that like So OP

[@lemon98TV]

22:35 Mega Gyarados just got snubbed…

[@moyai9590]

Me who’s catching roselias to power up my roserade for ultra league

[@ExiledtoVampa]

What's the best way to get candies? I'm relatively new to this game...

[@CabinetGremlin]

catching and releasing mons is the fastest way to get (most) candy. pinap berries give you double candy for a catch, so make sure you always keep some handy! making a pokemon your buddy and walking with it will also get you candy. this is a great option for super rare pokemon. every now and then there will be double candy events, so watch out for those on the news tab!

[@owenpearson5248]

with the eevee does the name trick only work once?

[@LuckyBunz]

yes, the name trick will only work once per eeveelution

[@BerserkGoat]

Can someone explain what £ means? For example 96%£++ 15A

[@LuckyBunz]

Legacy move; if you want a full explanation of all my naming conventions, I do have a video on it

[@kasperharder6783]

Should i power op my 13 10 14 shiny reshiram?

[@damienlee3753]

What do you want do with your Reshiram?

[@LuckyBunz]

If you can, try and mirror trade it with a lucky friend! This way you can save on some resources too. Reshiram is one of the best fire type attackers in the game though, so if trading is not an option for you, it will still be a solid investment.

[@kasperharder6783]

@Luckybunz thanks

[@notkyle6969]

I have a hundo darumaka maybe i need to level it up

[@DuskDynamo]

Is mega scizor not good as a steel type?

[@LuckyBunz]

It's pretty decent as a steel type! Provides good supporting role for any Metagross in battle as well

[@herohour6496]

When will Mega Eevee come out?

[@LuckyBunz]

Never 😆

[@aubreita_deltoidea371]

What does 94% ++ 15A mean?

[@LuckyBunz]

Uploaded a naming convention video not too long ago, I have a full explanation there

[@balldur]

what about 2023/2024?

[@jelmukelmu4249]

Yeah pvp Pokémon pllsss

[@DR-nh2kh]

u got a vid for 2023

[@jevfortis2412]

Ready for nun budget

[@slashturtleman88]

What do the weird names do???

[@edmalone4474]

Why is this spoken so fast

[@mrworldwidebilly]

Trust me he’s still understandable..poke daxi is ridiculously fast.

[@haydenkwok7027]

pvp please :)

[@bobthebuilder9115]

What dose Iv mean?

[@LuckyBunz]

Individual Value, when you click on appraise on your Pokemon, those are the IVs

[@Oger_von_Altschauerberg]

nah fuck that i want all the hundos HUNDOS

[@kibanyanski]

pokemon is my f avorati thinbg

[@kimzorza1543]

No clue what you are talking about :(

[@TheParrotJot]

First

[@LuckyBunz]

👊

[@antoniodittman5820]

I think you should quit your job and just make pokemon videos. I've heard it's v lucrative; you're leaving billions on the table IMHO

[@antoniodittman5820]

Also love your videos, btw. You're my fav poke creator. I def think you should do budget PVP guides but instead of like 20 pokes maybe do 5-10 budget teams that work in the meta, since team synergy is so important in pvp

[@itssnovaa5031]

Hey guys i have a discord group for new old grinders and beginners feel free to ask for the link Great video man