Disregard the advice. The author is smoking camel dung.
Walk and evolve is sound, but flip a pokeball at everything that moves. You need to create open slots in your bag in order to keep 'em eggs coming.
The trick is knowing where you are relatively to the pokestops on your route. Don't be afraid to run away from a catch if you're closing in on a pokestop cluster.
Throwing balls at wild pokemon doesn't cost you anything as long as you make certain to keep the momentum.
While collecting pokemon for the next power evolve is nice in itself, don't disregard the 1000 xp gained from evolving comparatively expensive crap and transfering the result.
While I understand that the author refers to power evolving while walking, that is an activity you should do while stationary. If for no other reason then at least for your own safety.
Running the list of 80 pidgeys to evolve as quickly as possible requires a lot of attention. You're potentially walking around in traffic, which is a bloody awful thing to do when you're fixated on evolving stuff.
Add that you're likely to be able to cram in an extra five or so evolves if you're comfortably seated at a table. That's an extra 10K xp.
If you can afford running hours on end with lucky eggs, then just walk and catch and evolve crap whenever you get enough candy to do so.
If you really, really, really want an absurd amount of xp with next to no preparation, then you should find another player from a hostile team, or even better, gather a group of players from two hostile teams.
Find two gyms extremely close to each other.
Each team bubble up their gym to 50K with two or more bubble defenders.
Switch gym and tear it down.
Rinse and repeat.
The math for four players (two in each team):
- Building the gym is worth 2300 XP times 2 times 2 for each player.
- Building the gym takes 6 minutes
- Tearing down the gym is worth 2500 XP times 2 times 2 for each player (no you won't be able to coordinate it)
- Tearing down the gym takes 2 minutes
- Walking between the gyms takes 1 minute
- A full loop is 10 minutes
- About 120 K xp per hour
- Die from boredom
I did the capture/evolve/trash for the event. Average was 104,142 XP per hour played. Best 12-hour day was 1,409,050 XP. Used a total of 43 lucky eggs. Having a ton of candies for everything I might capture was key. The folks who only had a few thousand Pidgie/Rat/Psyduck… Candies and relied on capturing and evolving 100 at a time lost out big time. Finding a good park with lots of lured stops helped keep me moving and hatching eggs. No idea how many incubators I went through, but I’m sure I made Niantic happy.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about the switching gym thing! Brilliant! Throw three low CP pidgies as defenders and one big attacker will not need any potions for the entire day!
A gang mistakenly refined the gym prestiging into an artform.
DeleteFour gastly, elevator goes to 50, down to 16 (just to make sure you don't kill one by mistake), up to 50...
150K per hour. Exactly one revive and one basic potion needed the next day when those gastlys where booted out.
Add some bonus XP for using the PoGo Plus while they were at it.