Pokémon Go Trading: Rank Increase Test, Trading Evolution List, Cost Chart and Explanation of Special Trading Restrictions • Eurogamer.net

Explanation of the commercial rank increase test in Pokémon Go

On November 12, 2020, Niantic announced that, for a short period of time, the commercial range distance in Pokémon Go would be increased and that depending on the data they collected during this test, an increased commercial range could be included as a bonus in the future. events.

The trade range distance has been increased to 12 km, which means you can trade with any of your Pokémon Go friends who are 12 km from your location. This expanded range was introduced on Thursday, November 12.

Thanks to The Silph Road subreddit for finding out this information.

This increase will run until Monday, November 16 and will end at the following times:

• UK – 6pm (GMT)
• Europe – 19:00 (CET)
• East Coast of USA – 1:00 pm
• West Coast US – 10:00 am (PST)

Pokemon Go Commercial Evolution List and How Commercial Evolutions Work

Before we get into the details of the trade itself, let’s start with the big new feature of 2020: trade evolutions.

In mainline Pokémon games, there is a set of Pokémon that can only evolve if they are traded with another player. When Pokémon Go was released, all of these Pokémon evolved through candy, due to a lack of trade.

Now, however, the evolution of the trade has been incorporated into Pokémon Go, offering a different evolution method for a specific group of Pokémon. These Pokémon are:

• Kadabra (evolves into Alakazam)
• Machoke (evolves into Machamp)
• Graveler (evolves into Golem)
• Haunter (evolves into Gengar)
• Boldore (evolves into Gigalith)
• Gurrdurr (evolves into Conkeldurr)
• Karrablast (evolves into Escavalier)
• Shelmet (evolves into Accelgor)

Once you’ve traded in one of the above Pokémon, the cost of the candy to turn it into its third and final evolution will drop to zero. This will allow you to quickly add this new Pokémon to your Pokédex, while also gaining a powerful new team member.

However, if you don’t have other Trainers to trade with, you can still evolve these Pokémon with candy.

It costs 100 candies to evolve into Gen 1 Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler, and Haunter.

It costs 200 candy to evolve Boldore, Gurrdurr, Karrablast, and Shelmet from Gen 5.

It is also important to note that Pokémon that evolve using a combination of items and candy in Pokémon Go no receive the discount for commercial evolution. Although, in the games of the main line, a requirement of its evolution is to exchange with another player.

How to trade Pokémon Go and trading requirements

Before you can start operating, you must meet the following requirements:

• Be Pokémon Go friends with the person you’re trading with
• Have a coach level of 10 or higher
• Being in close physical proximity (around 100 m)

From there, go to your friends’ feed and select the friend you want to trade with. The option to exchange will be next to “Send Gift”, under the XP bar.

As long as you are within 100m, you can select a Pokémon to trade in, check the Pokémon you will receive and the cost of Stardust before confirming. Then it operates, and the process takes just seconds.

The following should also be considered when it comes to trading:

• The exchanges will give each player additional Candy, with more Candy rewarded if the two Pokémon were caught away from each other. According to Reddit, it is 1 candy for less than 30 km, 2 candy for 30-100 km, 3 candy for more than 100 km.
• The HP and CP of each Pokémon will vary once the trade is complete, it could be higher or lower. The better the friendship level, the lower the variance. You’ll be able to see this before the trade, and there will be safeguards to prevent powerful Pokémon from going to players with a much lower Trainer level.

• Pokémon cannot be traded more than once. This is due to the HP and CP change feature, to prevent players from “re-rolling a Pokémon’s stats through trade” over and over again.
• Although a Pokémon’s HP and CP when traded change, other aspects, such as size and moves, do not.
• Mythical creatures, like Mew, cannot be traded at all.
• Not all trades are created equal, with some Pokémon classified as ‘Special Trades’ dictating the number of trades it can make and the cost of Stardust, all of which are detailed below.
• Both commercial players may be able to receive Lucky Pokémon, which sees a reduced Stardust cost upon power-up, as well as guaranteed high stats.

Pokémon Go special trades explained

In commerce, not all Pokémon have the same weight. They are classified into two types:

Standard Pokémon Merchants:

Special trades:

It must be reiterated that Mythical Pokémon, such as Mew, cannot be traded under any circumstances.

Standard and special trade differences

There are two main differences with the standard and special trades. For one thing, you can only do one special exchange per day, with anyone. This resets at the same time as PokéStops and Investigation Missions (around midnight UK time).

The other is the cost of Stardust. This is where things get a bit more complicated. If you are trading Legendaries and Shinies that you both own, the cost is the same as a Standard Pokémon that no own, such as a Regional or Unown form. But if one of you doesn’t have a Legendary or Brilliant in a trade, then the cost goes up enormously.

Pokemon Go Trading Cost List

For each friendship level, the amount of Stardust required for a trade is reduced as follows (thanks to Reddit’s AshmedaiHel):

It appears that the biggest drop occurs between Ultra and Best Friend, reducing the ownerless cost of Shiny or Legendaries by a large amount – 800k to 80k. Although Best Friends sees a half drop back to 40k, 80k is very reasonable if you can’t wait until then.