afaik, always both pokemon in a trade become lucky. Luckys only have a reduced dust, not candy. Niantic has said that older pokemon have a higher chance of becoming lucky, this indeed seems to be the case. What is considered old is anyone's guess, but its a safe bet that 2016 pokemon are old. It is also not clear if both needs to be old or just one.
Lucky pokemon indeed have a floor of 10 iv, like raid bosses and eggs.
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Basic trading (Lucky) details questions
If two people trade pokemon and one of them becomes Lucky, will the other one always become lucky too?
My understanding is that a lucky pokemon has half the stardust requirements. Does this also apply for candy, or is candy normal, or somewhere in between?
Word is that the older the pokemon, the more likely it is to turn lucky when traded. Is this borne out by people who have done trades? And is it now true that Lucky pokemon have the same IV floor as hatches and research breakthroughs (10)?
Thanks in advance.
Partly I want to know because I had the bad luck (> 2%) of getting all four of my research breakthrough Snorlaxes at 80% IV or less. But I have an older one, also with Body Slam, from 2016, which I can trade for anyone's worst Research Breakthrough Snorlax, and if they both turn lucky, well, that would be awesome. And then I have two old Shadow Claw Gengars with awful IVs that I'd also like to trade like for like. (Kinda glad I expanded my bag and saved some older bad pokemon because they had legacy moves.) And there's that old Dragonite with 2/6/7 (ads) and has DB/DP at level 6, and the 1/3/3 Gyarados with Twister that I caught wild. I'll be looking for trade partners for all of those, once we finish unpacking from our move.
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Both become lucky. Half stardust. Normal candy.
I've done older trades and got the expected outcome, but then today missed on an old Arcanine for a Groudon attempt.
I just looked at my wife's real account. She started before me, picked our color, but combining my account (plus extras) compared to her account I'm beating her 53 million to 1 million. She has 70 of the minimum 300 pokemon spots from 2016, at some point I'll see percentages trading some potentially very lucky pidgeys/hypno/rapidash, etc
I just did 10 trades for 2016 mons, in exchange I gave her stuff I thought she would like Tyranitars/Snorlax/Lapras/Heracross/Machamp etc
First two trades were lucky (we became good friends 15 min ago). Next 3 unlucky. Then a lucky, then 4 more unluckies. Overall, 3/10.
If you get 1 or 2 luckies early then stop. I barely care and she really doesn't care, that why I went to 10, I knew the later ones would not be lucky. Plus, I did them all in a 3 min span.
***Following morning I traded 6 more from hers that were born in 2016 to mine, none of those were lucky. I think the player to player lucky cool down might be 12 to 24 hours in some cases. Maybe from the side that triggers the lucky, since all of hers were the potential trigger mons
I traded one 2016 for a Mewtwo yesterday and got lucky (and really good IVs).
Did two more trades today (one Mewtwo from me, and one Chansey to me, both for a 2016) and both lucky with all IVs 10+.
Then after those, since the Chansey was like 11/11/10, I wanted another lucky Chansey with better IVs. Did another 4 2016s for Chansey and none were lucky. Then a few trades the other way (girlfriend's 2016 for my Chansey) and none for her either. Then a bunch of new pokemon for candy (since we're away from home atm) and no lucky on the new ones.
So it seems older Pokemon are a lot more likely, but doing multiple trades with the same person on the same day makes it less likely or stops it or some sort of cap... Or just extremely weird luck. Going to try a few more 2016 trades tomorrow.
My special trade today I sent a boosted Groudon my lowest 2821 for a level 22 Zen Headbutt Exeggutor caught on 12/3/16. Trade turned lucky (ultra friend) but IVs on both went slightly down Groudon went to the other at 2817. Really low considering 10/10/10 floor, 2860s and 2870s are ones you normally consider powering.
Yeah I just don’t have much stardust on my real one, no stardust or any aspiration to get any on my main side account. My account I could use rare/legendary candy bc I max, but I have loads of legendary candy on my other one bc I don’t max there.
Brightest spot was I went cycling and caught a level 30 Scyther 40s%. When I got back there was a level 35 Venusaur across the street in the 50s%. Traded Scyther for my side account’s Venusaur and they turned lucky. IVs in the 80s%
Best thing for me is to catch/evolve high level low IV/relevant Pokémon and trade them and hope for a stardust discount. A lot of this unnecessary if you have 1 million to 5 million stardust/you run a lot of incubators/starpieces/you catch for hours a day during stardust events
Is it possible that not being best friends skews the IV distribution down, subject to the floor of 10? Contrariwise, would best friend trades have much higher IVs even if the floor is low? Or is this complete nonsense because the IVs are always random within a certain range, and better friends just raise the floor.
