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No double xp again ... what should i do?

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Ive been hording my pidgey army since before gofest trying to use them during a double exp event.
Should i continue keeping them for future double exp or should i make use of the double candy and transfer 300+ to get more candy?
Which is more worth it or beneficial?

Im lv 39 with 1m exp.
What im afraid of is that when the next double exp event come, i dont have enough pidgey to fully utilise my 5k+ pidgey candy.

My bag is constantly almost full at 980/1000

Asked by Teddy6 years 5 months ago
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Double Candy means Double the Evolve which means Double XP

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by daltry 6 years 6 months ago

does XP really matter?

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Yes it does because reaching Lv40 is 1 of the end game objective for most player

And im almost there but 4mil exp to go

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Transfer 150 - 200 without evolving them - you'll be able to catch that many between now and Christmas (the next likely time for a Double XP event) easily.

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Hmmm this sounds like a good idea
I guess i try to play around with the no. Of pidgey to transfer near the end of the event.

But the thing is if my memory is correct during the halloween event last year the ghost pokemon took over all the normal spawns(pidgey rats)
So not sure if i can replenish my pidgey army

And theres also thanksgiving event last year am i right? Double exp?

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There might be a Thanksgiving Double XP event, but I expect it to come with the rollout of Gen 3 - maybe even with a triple XP for new Pokedex entries. And it isn't looking like the Gen 3 will come out before Christmas. That's why I think Christmas is the most likely time for a Double XP event, not Thanksgiving.

I could be very wrong, though.

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by Sebhes 6 years 6 months ago

Listen mate. I'm on the same page as you. I can more or less guarantee you that by the end of November we will have our double XP event.

What I'm gonna do now is to evolve around 160 Pokemon, especially the ones that I only have a few evolutions of. In this way I empty some space for the coming month and I got some air to breath.

You won't be able to catch enough Pokemon during the double XP to evolve anyway so emptying your bag with 100 now and then isn't a bad idea imo.

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I'm at 4k candies and a pretty full bag as well. Once double candy hits, I'm transferring ANYTHING necessary (I've saved all my larvitars/ttars/chanseys/blisseys/mareeps/etc since summer) including anything like pidgeys as well. Players anticipate a double XP event happening around Thanksgiving.

Pidgeys aren't super rare, so I would simply prepare to catch a whole bunch again for that event. If anything, you might run into a whole lot more candies during Halloween.

Evolving during Halloween only gives you 1 extra candy per Pidgeotto (When you evolve a pidgey into a pidgeotto, you get 1 candy (x2). May as well just wait for double xp - Pidgies take up room, but pidgey candies do NOT.

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My main issue here is will you be able to catch several thousand candies worth of pidgey in the event time? Maybe, maybe not...

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I am in the same boat as you. About 5200 candy and 350 pidgey taking up space. I think i will turn them all in for double candy and catch as many as I can before the next double point even whenever that happens.

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I had well over 1000 candies of most pokemon lines just a couple weeks ago. I just hit 39 and decided it was time to cash out, go all on, and hit 40. I'm down to about 8 pokemon lines with still over 1000 candies and I only made it halfway through the level. This is with lucky eggs and raiding. Ill hit a raid (or better yet two or three) and evolve in between them. Still only made about 2.5m exp. Do what you will however take my warning, it goes faster than you think!

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Fire up a lucky egg before your next raid. After the raid is finished evolve as much as you can. Do this as frequently as needed to maintain bag space until a double XP event.

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by aSp 6 years 6 months ago

  1. Pinap a pidgey
  2. Evolve it
  3. Send to professor

Result...more candy than you started with and an evolve worth of XP, without impacting your storage.

It was such a beautiful thing when we had double XP at the same time...and used a Lucky egg while doing it.

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by relvix 6 years 6 months ago

Same boat here. 2000 Pidgey candies with an army of Pidgey. I am leaning toward transferring the pidgeys for the time being, in view of bag space for gen 3. Candies in hand are also more tangible (compared to waiting for the next double XP event).

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