Watch This BEFORE You POWER UP YOUR POKÉMON - BEST STARDUST SAVING STRATEGY | POKEMON GO

[@TheTrainerClub]

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[@mikiev916]

I do not power up everything. Got plenty of Maxed out Tyranitars, Garchomps, etc. A few maxed pokemons of each type. That's enough. No need to have so many maxed out mons.

[@billylutz]

Mark C depends on what your end games are

[@CornballLyric]

I really appreciate the tips. Thank you very much.

[@fredwardell7024]

I really like this video bro i wasted so much stardust b4 so I'll take ur advice here 4 sure !! Stay safe Halla back peace 4 now!!!

[@ProudCommie]

Preach! So many scrubs have to learn it’s not a power move to just power up for no reason...the power move is to save

[@maxwell4322]

357 dust. Not million not thousand. Just 357

[@humantorchonpc2946]

Ferra Joachim Same

[@casperdaghost7836]

We have to low man raids. I feel ur pain. If my community was more involved I wouldn't have to 3 man raids every month. I've had to do this every month since registeel was a raid boss. Not so lucky to have friends to let me not have to power up to b able to low man everything. I only have 3g dust because I had a team of Mamos already maxed out

[@billylutz]

Ferra Joachim oh oh. we’re going to raise you up. What do you want to be at?

[@billylutz]

casper daghost I hear that

[@jamesvivian1888]

I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night with that amount of dust☺️

[@user-gu9cb2ql4r]

Tip: if you run out of revives for a Pokémon, you can power up the Pokémon then use a potion

[@user-gu9cb2ql4r]

This works because the power up gives you health, moving the health from 0, and with a power up to 1-2 which brings it to life and all it needs after is a potion

[@billylutz]

⠀ yes you can. Great tip

[@billylutz]

⠀ I’ve done it I just didn’t heal my guys before editing

[@KadGamer]

But powering up uses dust. If it's a higher level pokemon... lot of dust. Depends if you plan to eventually max it out or not

[@KarnageReigns]

That's a super dope tip!

[@toruisalive5499]

I'm at 40k Stardust, Level 26 living in a village with only 2 Pokéstops which both are in an area with no internet connection.. I want to get up to around 100 to 150k stardust for now :)

[@TheTrainerClub]

Hype you got this

[@toruisalive5499]

@@TheTrainerClub lol! When I commented I didn't even realize that the video was uploaded a year ago as I just got the notification for it. Impressive that you actually still replied to such an old Videos comment. Thanks! 😁

[@youyoutube2.0]

I have 600k 😂

[@scottgeorge7240]

@@youyoutube2.0 LMAO why'd you flex😂😂

[@youyoutube2.0]

@@scottgeorge7240 i have now 8k rip 🪦

[@sam88wise22]

5.5 million, wanna reach 10million, never bought poke coins, so the grind is real

[@VGAMAV]

did you reach?

[@sam88wise22]

Bill yes I did 11.4million atm 😂

[@jhovany9792]

how much do u have now

[@sam88wise22]

Blnksz 12.6million 👌 but still slowely powering up stuff at 205.000 catches atm

[@josevinicius_prof]

Make a video of you spending that dust

[@disneymomrachel1195]

At almost 500k. I don’t save very much. I impulse power up. Lol

[@billylutz]

Disney Mom Rachel oh man!! I bet. You are gonna save it 😎😎

[@disneymomrachel1195]

Billy Lutz I will now. Gonna set a personal goal of 2 million.

[@silent9pc]

Same, i think maybe 480k right now lol

[@lorcanawithluke]

I've been spreading the word to my local noobies to save ur stardust until you NEED the pokemon for a raid. Its been helping me a lot and I'm back up to 400k dust after hitting 0 dust at Mudkip comm day.

[@billylutz]

Tig Biddy aw yeah. Love it!! we’re going to raise you up. What do you want to be at?

[@lorcanawithluke]

@@billylutz Well 1 mill stardust would be a sweet spot for me to chill at I hope I can get there and not spend any! Then next step might be 2 mill!

[@danielaguilar7845]

700k stardust. Never commented but I love watching your videos. Glad to see u made it to Yokohama

[@dreyoneure7131]

I'm only at 21k 😢😢😢 I've been purifying way too many Pokémon

[@billylutz]

Dre'yon Eure yeah easy in that one.

[@michellepicazo9794]

Omg yes and to just transfer them 😢

[@HettyReyes]

Felt like the content was talking to me. 😂😂 when I receive task about powering up a pokemon, I get excited then automatically power up my favorite Pokemon. 😂 I’ll be smarter now with my stardust.

[@jordiemetie950]

40k stardust here want like 500k so i can trade a legemdary with my mom :)

[@billylutz]

Jordie Met ie love it. I would suggest not trading them. Not smart use of dust

[@coolkinglou007]

Wait till you’re best friends, then it’s only 40k for a new legendary trade

[@traverserred]

I tend to spend my stardust. I’m constantly building it up then running low, but I use it pretty wisely most of the time. Remember you can always grind for more. Holding all the stardust theyve ever collected makes some players not as good as they could be. I’ve been powering up my mamoswines and glaceons instead of revives. I know that’s bad for stardust retention but they are helping do these low man rayquazas

[@seawind7059]

56k at level 31. Goal is 500k by the end of next month

[@billylutz]

Seawind I love it. You can do it with my tips coming up

[@seawind7059]

Thanks 😄

[@Inspirator_AG112]

Which of the Following would you power up? *JOLTEON* (LVL 30.0, 71% IV [13, 15, 04]) *MINUN* (LVL 22.0, 91% IV [15, 15, 11])

[@MinhongLiang]

I do really appreciated with your tips sir, your philosophy of saving stardust is not only help me save my stardust but also help me saving my money in real life.

[@pointclick1094]

I'm a power-up sucker, can't resist those stardust. I'm impulsive... As a result all my SD has been depleted. I'm looking forward to the upcoming SD event. Thanks Billy for this video. It's a wake up call for everyone!! :)

[@pokeohana5958]

Love the Tips. I preach the same things to local players. I think I sit at 8.8 mil. Been up to 12 and down to 4 PvPing. You missed trading though, lots of dust goes in trades I never turn down a friend in need.

[@billylutz]

Poké Ohana true tru. Well said. I definitely missed the trading

[@segarion]

Great strategy. What I do is pay attention to breakpoints on pokemons I plan to use on the current t5 boss. This way I'm not having to max out a team of mons when I can get the same performance/results at a slightly lower level.

[@noticemeonii-chan5347]

Don’t forget when you do PVP you have a chance getting 500 or thousand Stardust just do three matches if you’re lucky to get those

[@pyrorock8704]

Trainer battles

[@warrensnook9435]

I have 3 accounts and these are all good tips. My main account has 5.1 million, my best alt has 2.8 million, and my baby account has 1.9 million. I could care less about PvP and really only care about raiding, so it’s easier to save stardust. After the Yokohama rewards are over, my goals: Main account: 7.5 million First alt: 4.5 million Baby alt: 3.5 million

[@jjerbs4151]

Level 40x2.5 and 5.5 mil stardust. GO TEAM INSTINCT!

[@pattycamacho3155]

Team instinct forever

[@faustass7104]

Instinct is trash

[@eduardoaburto1160]

@@faustass7104 the only reason im instinct is because the gyms around me are just instinct so it helps me out

[@eduardoaburto1160]

@@faustass7104 and besides that ive built a pride on team so team instinct for life💪

[@donniedarko6413]

I love this video!!!! HERE WE GO!!! I'm always hype whenever you posted a new informative video!

[@billylutz]

Donnie Darko love it. You’re so awesome 😎😎🙏🏼

[@donniedarko6413]

@@billylutz you're awesome too!!! I'm happy to see your adventure in Japan together with the the other PoGo player!

[@pyrorock8704]

@@donniedarko6413 that's not the real him

[@bigmel26]

Currently sitting on 2.1 mil dust. Goal is to get to 5-7 mil by the end of 2019. That temporary 2nd move glitch for legendary pokemon was too good to pass on.

[@billylutz]

Big Mel26 love it. I think you could get to 5 after a week with triple dust

[@thomaspyck7591]

What is the glitch?

[@CarlosReyes-nq9by]

You are the best! Thanks !!!!! I have 301,000 star dust and I am looking to aim for 1 million by the end of the events.

[@billylutz]

Carlos Reyes you’re welcome. You can do it with my tips

[@purplegh0st311]

Your dedication to your craft is awesome. Consistently putting out detailed quality content. Thanks man.

[@purplegh0st311]

1.4 mil currently

[@billylutz]

Purple Gh0st thanks!! Love having you here. Where do you want your stardust to be at

[@franciscobecerra1280]

My goal is at least 5mil. Once again Billy comes through with the best tips. I try to mention to everyone I know in all my groups to subscribe to The Trainer Club for the best tips. Thanks billy. I hope your channel keeps growing.

[@jasonhawkins6798]

Roughly 200-250k currently. Was around 300-400k before doing some powering up for Rayquaza raids. Would like to reach and stay above 500k.

[@billylutz]

Jason Hawkins love it. We can do it!!

[@ragnar5534]

215.000 and i have a 91% rayquaza which i would like to power up.. but i dont have that many pokemon to power up right now

[@billylutz]

Dimitris Lialios save it. You don’t need to power it up right now. Wait until raids are done

[@ProudCommie]

1.5 million...my goal is 10 million ....no slack baby I’m coming for it

[@sambeaumont395]

The biggest tip to save stardust for Raiders, is to join an active group and have them carry you through the raids. Save your dust and power up slowly.

[@billylutz]

Sam Beaumont could be but I like to contribute so this helps well

[@sambeaumont395]

Billy Lutz - just saying instead of powering up an individual Pokémon or a small selection of counters specific to the current T5 boss (blowing all of your stardust) you gradually improve your whole lineup with the assistance of the community.

[@Jatinjutsu]

Stardust 80k - been playing for only a week

[@dwsncw]

does this guy literally reply to everyone? these are the people we need in the youtube community.

[@CrosbieL]

Good video man

[@Taiica]

I'm really liking your idea about having a stardust benchmark and your strategy to only power up Pokemon when it's relevant to the current raid boss. It's such a brilliant idea and cost conservative approach. I'm definitely going to use it! Thanks! I currently have 1,185,969 stardust. My goal is to reach 3 million for this event and my benchmark will be 5 million. I better prepare for the stardust grind!

[@billylutz]

Taica love the feedback. Happy to help. It works really well for me and it can get you to that benchmark

[@MrQuebe]

Hey bro did it work?

[@Taiica]

@@MrQuebe Yep so far it is! I'm at 4 million stardust

[@nima_n]

Great (and timely) video, thanks! I would say another strategy for saving stardust would be to not purify all shadow pokemon (only purify the 1K pokemon so you can unlock the badge for the extra ball(s)). Also, if you DO need to powerup a pokemon for pvp or raid, see if you can get a lucky or purified version to save on the dust.

[@billylutz]

nematon yes absolutely. Love it. Didn’t even think people are doing it often

[@the_phantom_cat7912]

91 thousand dust and I want as much as I can get I power up cool things like 100% iv attack deoxys and a 100% iv ditto because it's fun I alredy have fine teams not perfict but they work for raids

[@billylutz]

The_Phantom_Cat we’re going to raise you up. What do you want to be at?

[@mpproductions1385]

im at 80k dust, i've been saving up lately instead of wasting my starust to power up my almost maxed out (like 2 power ups away) pokemon lol

[@brandonjontz8587]

Playing since Jan of this year and Im at 1.3 million. Powered up at the beginning now im saving.

[@elchupacabra3753]

I started playing again with a new account. I just want my Gengar.

[@rodrigobonetto3850]

My friend, I hope you keep posting videos like this and always stay inspired as much as you can. Only channel i watch about pokemon go. Keep it up bro!

[@billylutz]

Rodrigo Bonetto thank you so much. Really appreciate your kind words

[@rodrigobonetto3850]

Billy Lutz You deserve!👊

[@LAzii1117]

Not just your stardust... all of the pokemon you showed in this video, the amount of candy is also impressive...

[@amberfarwell3404]

Andy Lin right I noticed that lol

[@billylutz]

Andy Lin thanks. I’m actually on the low end of a lot of hardcore players

[@billylutz]

Amber Farwell 😂🤣😂

[@Cimags1028]

Thanks for the video. I struggle with dust. Love to spend it when I have it. Recently maxed out a Lucky Shiny Ray Ray and Lucky Gardevoir!! It def came in handy for a duo Ray Ray raid with someone who never tried two Manning it.

[@pyrorock8704]

Ray Ray?

[@pragatimaloo9081]

Yesterday grinded near 50k dust and currently at 450k So i want badly to be near 1M dust! Hope I can do it

[@billylutz]

Maloo Rekha you’re going to crush it for the upcoming event

[@cmdrcptmattfoot]

I'm sitting comfy around 500k. That's my benchmark that I won't go below, but with these events coming up, I want to try to break 1 million.

[@billylutz]

Matt Robertson love it. This event you can easily do it

[@zacdeklerk5937]

I found a shiny poliwag today. I am so happy it's my favorite pokemon.

[@Jauhgn]

Nice I still really want one

[@billylutz]

Zac deKlerk wowwwww. Congrats 😃😃😃 will you evolve it?

[@louis2046]

I got one aswell but need more candy to evolve it to politoed

[@zacdeklerk5937]

@@billylutz yes I love frogs and I want that Shing politoad.

[@zacdeklerk5937]

@@louis2046 I need more candies too I just evolved 2 shadow poliwags into shadow politoad and shadow poliwrath.

[@OrangeDragon04]

I Know you asked like a year ago, but I have just 19 000 Stardust. I do a lot of trading and powering up to keep up with the yellow people in this town, because they are way more powerfull then me. ...I started 2 weeks ago and this Charizard really saves me at times *cough* my friend's Dragonite *cough*

[@TerraPlayz2004]

481 Million Nope just 481

[@billylutz]

TerraPlayz2004 😂🤣😂 love this. Too funny

[@stayathomedad4830]

Me, my wife, my daughter and son all have less than a million stardust combined. We only raid with us 4 so we have to make sure to power up what's relevant. Right now all of us have 3 mamoswines that's 12 mamos in every raymundo raid. I don't have any stardust but damn is it fun to watch my kids get hype for raids when we do it with just us.

[@gain7647]

55k level 37, had to power up Pokemon for Suicune Raid day so I'm pretty low :/

[@njmaxrocks]

A little over 3 million these days. I was about 3.6 before the Team Rocket Pokestops started, but it was time to make sure my top 3 type specific mons were very strong.

[@billylutz]

njmaxrocks yeah for sure. Get it back to where you want

[@TonyxD193]

I thought I was a beast when I had 2,000,000 . Powered up a few, how did I end up with less than 100???

[@billylutz]

Tony R it’s expensive to max out pokemon

[@amlord4709]

Ay, I can relate!

[@spartanAXA]

My brain dies when I see 8 candies and 8000 stardust is required to power up a mon.

[@CM_684]

@@spartanAXA and it increases only 20 cp

[@evolutionvi]

Change stardust to money, pokemon to goods and services, cup to life events, reservoir to rainy day fund and you have solid money management advice.

[@nocondition]

Not enough I keep accidentally learning 2nd moves :(

[@LadyDragonborn]

I actually met a dude who had over 3 mil dust and NONE of his mons were powered up - he literally told me he didn’t need to because other raiders would carry him. That ticked me off so much. I’m always low on dust because I power up teams for raids and battles

[@dannyboi8900]

2.1 mil. Hoping to have 3 mil by the end of the stardust event

[@TOF2485]

Just hit 500k stardust today. Happy. Need to get to 5 million hopefully by the end of next year.

[@billylutz]

Movie Lover love it. You can do it. Okay hard this next week. You could get 5 m in a week

[@snafu2291]

Great Strategy, thanks for the tips man appreciate it 🙏🏽

[@billylutz]

christopher wallace always happy to help out.

[@julianescobedo7052]

Thank you for keeping us updated with tips n tricks....thanks😁😁

[@billylutz]

Julian Escobedo you’re super welcome!

[@MAZ047]

1.23M spent 30K SD for a shiny swablu yesterday with no regrets ✨💛✨😍

[@billylutz]

tonee zaide love it. Thats solid

[@diana_rayne]

I'm proud to say I've got 65k. That gives me enough to make a special trade and still boost a Lucky Groudon up a notch or two. Maxing out a high IV would be wonderful but there's always going to be something more powerful coming out next month or a new attack that will make my favorite Blastoise obsolete, or the next round of legendary bosses will be immune to ice and my Mamo gets put back in the freezer. I'm a casual player, I haven't topped lvl 40 but luckily I am part of a great community of players who run raids together so I don't need fully powered beasts when taking down Rayquaza. I will take full advantage of the upcoming Stardust bonuses but will probably end up spreading the love around equally rather than maxing out one or two.

[@lchn4290]

So, should I max out a 96% lucky or a hundo pokemon?

[@mike3575]

Lucky

[@billylutz]

L Chn which Pokémon and is it relevant to use for battling now for raids?

[@sambeaumont395]

The 100.

[@mike3575]

@@sambeaumont395 why, the difference between 96 and 100 is so small that u dony even notice it in battle, its non existent. Meanwhile lucky safes u a lot of stardust

[@sambeaumont395]

Larry Bird - Yes the difference may be minuscule but there is a difference. At the end of the day I am not transferring that 100, so may as well make it as powerful as possible. If it was a 98 (not 100), then sure I would power up the 96, saving the dust. This all assumes that the Pokémon is question is meta relevant, if not then I wouldn’t power up at all.

[@NotPennyTPG]

As a F2P, I usually power up everyone at level 30 for being strong for almost every raid, then, I will try to get 1 million and max 1 Pokémon each month max

[@donniedarko6413]

Currently at 1.5M. I'm level 38 and still dont have a maxed up pokemon.

[@mondo6875]

Donnie Darko coi

[@thechubbsjochez]

Same

[@billylutz]

Donnie Darko that’s okay. Level 35 is plenty sufficient

[@JesseKnoxOfficial]

Good advice here. Thankfully watching your videos over the past few weeks have helped me already with this in essence but I never came across this one in particular.

[@ScarfaceMich]

What's the point of saving millions of stardust while you can help the community by powering up raid counters?

[@billylutz]

Michiel De Neve that’s the key you have both

[@TedLee85]

Absolutely, hate ppl who think its a big deal to have many Stardust and bragging about it but not powering any raid counters. This is Pokémon Go, not Stardust Go

[@djsaitta]

That was literally the point of this video....don’t waste dust on Pokémon that aren’t relevant to the active raid

[@richardthomas3577]

great advice!! thank you! I wish this video had been available before I powered up my 100% Dewgong!!

[@ardivloggt]

Only have 60k Stardust😔need ti save once again up to 1 Million

[@billylutz]

ArdiVloggt you can do it. In a week for this next event

[@casperdaghost7836]

3,102. Have to 3 man most every legendary raid. Not alot of players out n my community l8ly. So I only get up2 a mill at most and thats if its something I've already maxed out supreme counters. I always power up supreme counters and try to make sure I have an efficient teams.

[@billylutz]

casper daghost good job still playing strong by yourself. Impressive

[@casperdaghost7836]

@@billylutz trying to. Def taking ur tips to heart tho. Been stacking for awhile and just waiting for the dust event to stock up. This month I might b able to hit 2 mill if I'm lucky. Just hope the next raid boss is something I've already powered up for so we don't have to spend any more dust. Got alot of new low level players taking advantage of not using anything. We have been trying to grow their levels by having anyone lower then level 30 just wait n the lobby so they don't have to use revives or potions. It hurts a bit for us but it, hopefully, will help us and them n the future. I've been sending them this way so they can stay ahead of the game. Ur so much better then trainer tips and top 2, if not top, poke-tuber n my eyes. Thanks for all ur hard work. Can't b ez

[@Lava_891]

Im at 1.6 million stardust rgn And I wanna be at 10 mill

[@CC_Th1rst]

I'm at 1 million dust right now, but I should be much higher. I've been doing A LOT of unregistered, shiny trades with my wife(6 shiny), her brother (2 shiny) and her mom(3 shiny). We are all lv4 friends, so it's ok. The current 25% off trading, has been great to me. I wanted to get as many of those shinys over to them ASAP, to maximize the discount for myself and them especially. They have much less of a reservoir. Normally, it would have cost me 440,000 dust to trade all those. What it actually cost me was 330,000 dust. So I saved 110,000 dust comparatively. Not too shabby in the long run TBH! It's definitely about having fun and having people to share the fun with.

[@YaaBoyyIsh]

Just Blew 100k On a Perfect Purifed Dratini. Currently At 264k. 😩

[@billylutz]

Not A Savage oh man!!! We’re gonna get you up

[@amberfarwell3404]

Not A Savage that’s really not blowing it tho for a perfect iv Dragonite when it’s all said and done tho. So great job!!

[@mattspencer187]

Amber Farwell true but im pretty sure its stuck with a normal type moveset

[@RickTrajan]

@@mattspencer187 you can tm return

[@mattspencer187]

RickTrajan damn i didn’t know, i would say that this stardust was not wasted then

[@hystericallyhysterical4263]

I really like your vids man everything is really detailed 🎉

[@5H9D0W3R]

Every time i get the “Power up Pokemon 5 times” field research, i get lost on who should i power up 😂

[@segarion]

A lvl 1 caterpie.

[@billylutz]

Shawn SYKW hah I love it. Have one guy who’s relevant for you use for the raids

[@8019797369]

I just delete that task 😂

[@CaidanL]

i power up the 5 cheapest ones

[@CooperCoal]

yeah i just do 10 cps because it costs 200 dust

[@SSmith_713]

Top wild caught raid Pokémon Larvitar, Rhydon, Gible, Beldum, Sneasel, Deino, Litwick, Swinub, Dratini, Bagon, Drilbur, and Mudkip

[@mondragonmsaul308]

1,200 used on lucky mamoswines goal 3-4mil

[@billylutz]

ElChurroDurro get it. Love the specificity

[@lolmdr3219]

I use my dust for my teams for raids ! Nice vidéo bro

[@introbeeert]

i only have like 560k stardust

[@billylutz]

Mc Albert culaban we’re going to raise you up. What do you want to be at?

[@xX3liT35c0P3sXx]

Lmao 112k 😂

[@Inspirator_AG112]

I recently powered up a level 7.0 [15, 15, 15] (100%) *Vaporeon.* It ended being relatively cheap on the *Stardust* at 50K (-It was cheap for me because I had over 1M *Stardust.),* but it was expensive on the *Eevee Candy,* using up most of my *Eevee Candy.*

[@Inspirator_AG112]

I have _finally_ have 1M Stardust!

[@pyrorock8704]

Must be nice

[@Inspirator_AG112]

@@pyrorock8704: *===== **_11 Months Later_** =====* I now actually have 2M since July.

[@mosindesire]

I seen people with 3mil and thought it was a crazy amount but 11mil!?!? That is pure crazy sauce. I got 445k and going up as I'm still waiting on candy and good IV's on some pokemon. With the stardust event starting this week, I hope to hit a million.

[@T39Omi]

54 🤣🤣😂😂😅😅😄😄😀😣😣😭😭😭 Benchmark over 90,000,000

[@billylutz]

Omsai Kokankar oh yeaahhhhhh

[@majinbuuuur9987]

I always wondered what professors Oak would look like in real life. Now we know...🤷‍♂️

[@juansandoval3430]

Dragging out these videos. Nobody has time for 10+ minutes of useless stories/information. Just get to the vital stuff and stop repeating yourself.

[@crackedgaming5696]

Shut up m8

[@ronnym2863]

Currently 11M stardust. No goal in mind, I just catch, catch, catch (over 130,000 pokemon caught) - stardust is just a byproduct of catching. I have enough solid pokemon to build effective teams against all raid bosses. But, if Niantic come out with a half stardust power up event, I be using some of it to power up my 100% IV's to level 40. Billy, they've got to do something to make you and I use our excessive stardust. Come on Niantic, I dare you to make this happen before the end of the year.

[@lowlifeaquarium1553]

I'm broke asf, it's not even funny.😂😂

[@billylutz]

Johnny Xiong you’re going to get it higher

[@flopkin]

Yeah I only power up when I absolutely have to, which is why I’m at 2.3M dust (goal is 10M). This is also the reason I have 56 charge TM’s, because I only TM when I absolutely have to. It’s nice being able to have the freedom to max any Pokémon and give them an ideal move set whenever you want. But you’re right the only way to have this freedom is to have good dust management. One of my tips is to just wait, and I don’t mean wait until the Pokémon is relevant (which of course is important), but to wait on the proper catch. What I mean by that is, I very rarely ever power a Pokémon up that I catch that is less than level 25. I see a ton of people powering up high IV Pokémon that are like, level 6, when they could just wait on a better catch that will inevitably happen in the future. Don’t waste your dust unless you’re super down with that low level, high IV Pokémon for whatever reason. I’d rather power up a 90% level 25 (or higher), than a 96% level 8, as long as it’s 15 attack, doing the low level one just isn’t worth it most of the time. The amount of dust you will save by doing this is off the charts.

[@francisreidjr3788]

Congrats on the subs, just noticed today that it had jumped a lot

[@billylutz]

Francis Reid Jr thanks!! Been working on it 😎😎💪🏼

[@liljohn5070]

Been playing 4 days now and I’m at 122k🙌🏽 this is with just staying at the house and walking in the backyard. I haven’t powered up yet bout to be level 27

[@yoshix7231]

Awesome video and good info!! Keep up the excellent work!!!

[@billylutz]

Yoshi X thanks a lot Yoshi!

[@javi_gmzm]

1,069,829 ✨ Up from about 50,000 the first time I watched this video. I made it my goal to reach 1M and basically if I wanted to power up a pokemon or purify it I would only allow myself to use down to the nearest 10,000 dust. My floor moves up every 10,000 dust I get. I did this in about 2 months

[@elijr2982]

Im at 700k dust but also have counters for majority of raids. My psychic team and fire teams need work since Im into 89+ Iv's but im great everywhere else. I also dont power up any Pokemon past level 35 because after that gets too expensive. No goal for stardust event, just going to grind!

[@basedremy]

What a great analogy! I love me a good analogy man

[@billylutz]

Jeremy Huertas I know right I was like this one is good

[@spartanAXA]

50k right now, I once tried collecting a lot of dust, I reached 200k+. But then, I caught my first ever Tyranitar from a raid and it had 96% IVs. So I had this sudden urge to power it up and I fell into that trap and spent everything because after that I wanted to power up my Lugia & Salamance too. I'm gonna set 1M as my goal right now, then I'll increase the goal a million every time.

[@TheBestEver1998]

I've do not have many stardust most of the time. But now I have for most raids 6 or more maxed out teams. I did spend too much for random power-ups for PvP while not participating with any tournaments. Now I have to collect stardust for the upcoming Pokedraft Tournament so maybe now I have to decide what benchmark I want as a reservoir. A great start could be 5 million for me..

[@samayajackson7328]

Currently at 13M. Since day 1 I don't power up random Pokemon. If I can't use it for anything it's not getting powered up. Proud stardust hoarded💪🏾💙🤣

[@ScarfaceMich]

Makes me sick lol. Having 13M stardust while depending on other people's powered up pokemon..

[@billylutz]

Samaya Jackson yooooooo Samaya grinding hard!!!!!

[@TedLee85]

Michiel De Neve absolutely, this is Pokémon Go, not Stardust Go

[@samayajackson7328]

@@ScarfaceMich You misunderstood my comment. I never said I don't power up anything at all. I just only power up revelant Pokemon for raiding & gymming. I have over 300 maxed out Pokemon. I have so much dust because I grind a lot.

[@ScarfaceMich]

@@samayajackson7328 I'm sorry

[@Darpan09]

2000000 stardust 😊 Much needed video. Reached lev 39 yesterday so wanted to powerup some of my mons🥰

[@Inspirator_AG112]

#TRIVIA Which one should I power up? *Vaporeon* LVL 23.0 [13, 12, 06] (69%, 2*) *Butterfree* LVL 20.0 [11, 14, 14] (87%, 3*)

[@arisunohana]

I’m at 793k, aiming to get past 1 million to use some stardust to power up some luckies. Thank you for this video, does some help as always!

[@MegaN0ise]

Started the day with over 1 million dust then I maxed out mamoswine and weavile to level 36 for the rayquaza raids and now I’m at 884,000 dust

[@billylutz]

MegaNoise that’s okay. Now build it back up and over and have 1 m be your benchmark

[@gildedcreed4438]

I look at all these Stardust hoarding videos and laugh because I'm fine for Stardust based on my needs (hovering around the 250k average, but my own priority system involves me setting an upper limit based on a Pokemon's IVs, their IV%, Lucky status, if they have a top tier C-Day move, stuff like that so I can maximize my limited access to Stardust). But I'm bleeding out over candy. I just can't go out as often as some other people who might be able to hit up a park or a gym before or after work, or when they're doing errands or shopping and catch Pokemon or do raids, maybe beat Team Rocket a few times. Best I do is about once or twice a week (but I'm also not bleeding out over Revives and Potions because I can rarely use them, a minor perk). Typically I have them stopped at the Lv30 mark, as I don't see any worth powering them up past that when the dust needed could get about 2 or 3 power ups into another Pokemon and work it towards 30 as well (30+ I tend to save for Luckies or if they're about 85% or higher if they've got maxed Attack IVs and 13/14/15 IVs in Stamina/HP, capped at Lv35. 35+ I'd save for Luck 100's once I get one). I'm so strapped for candy that I've walked my Giratina-Origin for about 186km, or about 9 candy's worth of distance (well, it was also 98% lucky so I just had to flex it).