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I feel that, even when I used to go hard on this game, grinding nonstop best I could do is 100k. Mainly because I power things up to duo t5s/megas. I love the challenge and when I want to raid...I WANT TO RAID lol, not wait on people :P
It seems like a lot of local trainers just don't power stuff up because other people will. Then they say, "ooh, I've got 5 million stardust" but also wonder why their group of three can't take down a Rayquaza. "We're all level 40, though!"
Already powered most of the pokemon I need for raids. There's still room for improvement, but currently I'm strong enough to go toe to toe with legendary pokemon alone. For example Palkia and Virizion I managed to get into yellow health on my own when they first came out.
If you are talking about raids which is what your comments says, so if I read it right you are talking about raids and to raid there's really only a hand full of decent ones to use, like 4 or 5 to stack, aggron seems always strong and of course that Abomasnow with the mega, really only a few that's tanky and strong enough for raids
@@joesmith201212 It depends on what raid it is. For Rayquaza you can use ice, fairy, dragon and rock types. For Heatran the best type to use is ground type, and include Groudon and Garchomp. When powering up pokemon I try to do that with as many pokemon as possible so I can have like 6 each on one team, and a possible second team with different pokemon. For example, with my rock type team I got 6 Rhyperior with rock type attacks. That's my main rock team, I also have a second rock type team with Golem, Rampardos and Gigalith.
@@sigisoltau6073 yes I know of course it depends on the boss, but really still like I said there really is only a handful that is strong and relevant in those situation and it mainly comes down to the handful of megas no need to power up the hundreds in your bag
@@joesmith201212 I'm not powering all of them. However, I need to max out a lot since I live in an area with few players. There are 2 active players, myself included, with a few on and off players. The two of us are level 45 and 42, I'm 45. Of the two of us I'm the more experienced one. Sure the other one can hold her own, but still, not that good. So I have to do my part and power up as many decent pokemon as I can.
@@qpSubZeroqp When you power up a Pokémon you’re actually leveling them up, you just can’t see it in game. A maxed out Pokémon is level 40, with XL candies (which you obtain when you hit PLAYER level 40) can increase that limit to 50
@@qpSubZeroqp just like how Pokemon have CP and HP at the same time, they also have CP and level at the same time. When you power up a Pokemon, CP, Attack, Defense, HP, and level all go up.
Found out about level 35 vs 40 effectiveness a while ago and that is such an underrated tip. Saves sooo much dust. I don't have someone I duo raids with, so I rarely feel pressed to max out every counter.
I'm new to the Pokémon go landscape, can you brake it down for me, if it's not too complicated, I couldn't understand most of the stuff he said lol, I have no idea what 100%IV are or why having the second evolution Pokémon and running from it? I didn't get that lol
"Why are you still catching Pidgeys?" - "I'm not... I'm scooping up little piles of dust." I still power up 'all' my hundos chronologically and give them second charge moves for no reason other than collectors obsession and I love it. But whenever I max one, my stardust benchmark goes up by 100k. Works well so far and adds a nice measurable long term grind.
Recently learned that higher level Pokemon are more likely to find XL candy so it is worthwhile to power up Pokémon you are actively trying to best buddy so it finds more xl candy
Agreed 100%. Aside from your comments, I suggest to get a phone shaker to increase the weekly walk distance. Its inexpensive and extremely useful during the pandemic when we can't go outside all the time.
Ive only just started playing again with my nieces two months ago, was so proud I accumulated 70,000 stardust 😭 Yet the goals been set at 1,000,000. Seems I have a looooooong way to go 😭😂😭😂
These are excellent tips for getting stardust. I’m going to take advantage of all the team rocket stop. 750 stardust per stop with a star piece. That’s how a got a majority of my dust last time they had an event like this.
You can also feed berries to pokémons at gyms. Not a crazy amount of dust, but a full gym can give you 1800 dust (30 dust x 10 berries x 6 pokémons). Better than throwing them away 🙂
Most of these I either already do, or am not willing to do. But the powering up to only level 35 tip is totally new to me, and will help me SO much. Worth watching the whole video for, no question.
No, a reasonable bench mark does make good sense once you have a reasonable stable of GBL &/or Raid meta mon. 30million is NOT a reasonable amount. I've had multiple times come up for special cups or 5 star raids where I "suddenly" needed to power up a mon or two. No harm in being disciplined in holding 1-3 million dust in reserve and then freely spend over that amount. I've been working hard on a stable for the last year so it's not uncommon I drop to 100k... but I am finally reaching a point where I have my Great and Ultra league champs sitting like I need them to be and have a good set of 5star raid attackers ready to go. I'm starting to accumulate some dust without a pressing feeling to spend it so I can half way compete. I'm looking forward to hitting 1 million so I can shoot for two and then "freely" spend.
Tink is right a stardust benchmark is important I always fail to do that tho lol but I am trying so let’s say u need stardust and you find out you had none because u didn’t have a benchmark a benchmark u spend in the most needed situations
I like how you go straight to the point. Unlike other content creators out there talking about their trips most of the video instead of Pokémon; not gonna name them but I know you guys know what I’m talking about.
@@chrisa1161 As of right now, Niantic has a first catch (of the day) stardust and xp bonus. The 7th day streak is even larger and it would be ideal to catch a weather boosted 2nd or 3rd tier evolution for more stardust plus make an excellent throw. If you align everything to use a starpiece and lucky egg, that's a lot of stardust and xp and you're not wasting starpieces by doing them all separately.
There was this event a month ago?, where Trubbish was spawning like crazy. Knowing that Trubbish gave 750 stardust per catch, I played this event the hardcore way, every single day, and using my whole batch of star pieces... and managed to raise about 800k stardust. That was an AMAZING event! And those are the kind of events where you must pay attention to the spawning pokemon, which could have a stardust bonus per catch. (Other examples are Shellder and Chimecho),
@@nightwalker4126 so power up 5 times is 1200 dust. So if you're trying to set a dust benchmark, spending 1200 everytime this task comes up isn't beneficial
I really appreciate all of these informational videos, especially the stardust ones! I made a playlist of all your informational videos so I can go back and rewatch them😁
As always, it's great advice but if you've been playing less than a year and you are taking advantage of the massive dust available in GBL it's very hard to NOT always be in a dust deficit. Building a core stable of Great, Ultra and Master rank mon takes a long time and alot of dust. Once you have some solid core mon however, the GBL is more than worth the dust you will win. Eventually you will catch up and can set and reach a benchmark but getting to that point takes a long while.
My benchmark has been 5 million for a year now and I love knowing it's there when I need it. I just can't seem to reach my 10 million goal though. I don't power up anything unless I absolutely need to but I've got a 4* rayquaza and it's so tempting to max this baby out.
I'd max that baby up instantly. A 4* Rayquaza is worth gold. You can't go wrong with maxing it out. Rayquaza is the top best dragon type pokemon in the game, and once Rayquaza gets its mega form, you will a monster beast of a pokemon. In one pokemon tournament game a while back mega Rayquaza was actually banned for being to strong.
@@sigisoltau6073 Question. Right now I've got Dragon Tail and Hurricane. What would you recommend for the moveset. I'll be adding a second charge move too.
@@MunchyRelue I'd keep those two. If you add the second charged attack, and you have enough tm's, I'd go for Outrage. Rayquaza is the best dragon type attacker in the game, and for me worth the effort in maxing out. It has very high attack, but low defense, and quite a few weaknesses. Still, as I said worth the effort. In the normal pc games, when I play through Emeral I always go for Rayquaza. Takes a while to get but so worth the effort. It has insane attack stats and access to many moves. When done right, with the proper moves it can one shot almost every pokemon in the game.
@@sigisoltau6073 Thanks again! You are awesome! El Ray maxed out at 4336 and I added Outrage. The stardust hurt but I'm still around the 5 million mark and I know I'll gain it all back with community day! One more thing...Mewtwo. I did 184 mewtwo raids and no hundo and after all those freakin raids I barely got enough XL candies to get one to level 44. Lol. But would you recommend I use the little bit of XL candies I have on an 80% (11/11/14) shadow mewtwo, a 98% reg mewtwo, or save them for a possible better shadow mewtwo later? Sorry, for all the questions. I'm level 48 and still have much to learn.
Excellent advise! One thing I ask you discuss, can you make a video about people who hoard Stardust and never power up anything. Example they got 20 mil Stardust and level 20 or 25 legendaries and never power them up,never when they are relevant.
you could have mentioned the fact you get a free star piece for completing the current event quests, and they're super easy because they've increased the amount of rocket spawns I think
im telling you, gbl is the best stardust gaining strategy. you will get 20k+ dust a day by just completing you 5 sets. when you win, you also gain some extra and the massive 100k dust reward at the end of the season
I like to add on to this list as 6th but very viable way to grind dust. Complete your daily gbl sets. Even if you don't like gbl or Don't like losing. If u really hate pvp I suggest u use low cp mons throughout all 5 sets but before u claim your 1st sets rewards throw a starpice on.
after setting stardust benchmarks and now im at 2.77million stardust, (im mainly a pvp/gbl player), now stardust isnt even a problem, the only thing to worry about is candy. it was easy to drop 230k to test a new team(the team was good and i won with it a lot). pokemon for gbl are a good investment since you get so much stardust from gbl anyways. minimum 20k a day
Never ceases to amaze me how much knowledge you have on the game. I’m the most hardcore player that I know and still am a noob in light of how you play. I would love to be in a position one day to do the things you do for the game. Thank you for all the tips and information you give to everyone! You have taught me a lot and help me enjoy the game more and more.
Most underrated stardust grind is feeding berries to mons in gyms instead of throwing them away. I had a wailord earn me 27k dust in a 30 day span. That’s just one mon.
I started with the 1 million bench mark as you suggested in an earlier video, but then thought if Billy sets his benchmark higher there is a good reason so grinding to 10 million as my benchmark.
Catch everything is something i kinda struggle with i dont like using balls other then the red balls and i dont wanna buy a auto catcher until i do my other stuff.
Good tips I usually stay within the 1,900,000 & 2million mark. I have been slowly powering up my Pokémon & don’t max out anything unless it’s Lucky or Mega. Saves you a ton of dust & helps make your Pokémon stronger faster. Stacking dust & mega energy then spending low, walking more & Hatching 12 -12k eggs helps a lot to build a powerful bag. Shadow Pokémon I’m starting to use I wouldn’t go past lvl 35 though unless its Shadow Mew Two. Shadow Mew Two is very versatile as well as regular Mew-Two and worth every penny to invest in!
I spend dust for the GBL and it seems to be a worthy investment from my viewpoint. I have probably put 1,000,000 into it but I have gotten a return of 7,000,000 over time. I got 300,000 from the last go battle night as well when the sets were unlocked for 20. Of course, this is highly situational as I place rank 21 (10 before it was changed) or above every season. I have done thousands and thousands of battles with my meta teams for every league but it’s all about playing your cards right with the meta which makes it hard, not to mention the time consuming process. It’s another can of worms just for dust but I have found it rewarding.
Tip: If you‘re Rank 20 and don‘t want to fight or you haven‘t enough Time , then just go in the fight and Go out for the 25 battles which could give you about 30.000 Stardust for doing Nothing
When I was going hard core on Deoxys raids I went in and powered my 14/15/15 Yveltal up to level 35.5 combined with my raid group alternating slots with mega Gyarados and mega Houndoom we took those DDs down super fast.
Man he was talking about me when he went on about GBL lol!!! I’ve watched videos and was like....”yo I need that Pokémon with those moves” and blew a bunch of dust on it only to find it wasn’t that great
I like the Monday morning adventure sync idea, but the cost is prohibitive for me. 12 rocket radars, 12 incubators, and a star piece every week busts my budget. But if you have $40 a week to spend on this part of the game, it does look like a fantastic way to max out stardust.
Got to 5 million at my highest about a month ago thanks to your lore! It went down to 3.5-ish due to some necessity power-ups over the course of these endless events and challenges, but I did set my latest benchmark at 4 milly. It'll stay there as I climb back up to 5. My last max outs with stiff tariffs were the three L50 requirements to get to L47 and that was close to about 1.5M on the dust. I am currently grooming future Megas by incrementally pumping up my best Pokeys that will eventually get their big-shot releases and I feel those are worthwhile investments. I will try to get beyond 5M later this year but...oof...such a tough grind!
One more important tip to add, power up lucky pokemon, it is half of the stardust cost. When I returned to the game I immediatelly traded everything to get luckies and then I was powering up meta pokemon for cheap, this gave me time to focus on other things having all the meta pokemon ready since I was lvl35
You really helped me when I started back playing in 2019! I was inspired by your tips to create a tag called “next”. The only things I keep on that tag are ones I need to power up for current and upcoming raid bosses. It’s really helped me stay focused on team building and any time I have extra dust or rare candies I dump them into one from that tag! ❤️🙌
Is stacking rocket eggs really worth it compared to hatching 24 eggs per day? My galaxy s8 drifts like crazy so I drift approx 60km/day just having the app open on my desk all day so I hatch approximately 24eggs per day.
Weird, i'm lvl 28 and have over 400k dust. I did play for a few weeks back at launch, not sure if this would account for the difference but 50k-400k is massive difference. You must be spending it right?
I currently have 20k stardust because I maxed out some 100% but I'm doing the whole c day with star pieces so I can reach at least 500k and never go under it
Might be frowned upon, but getting a phone rocker is probably one of the best investments to get dust. hatch a 2km egg in c.12mins or a 10km in an hour. Easy dust when you aren't actually out and about playing. Hatch about 70 eggs a week (on the low end at 1k average per egg)
Another thing is if you happen to have your 7 day catch streak fall on Monday as well. I’m at a 3.5 million baseline currently and am at 3.93 currently. Sitting on a 96% shadow Zapdos, 96% shadow Machop, and 91% shadow Mamoswine for the next chance we have to TM Frustration. Trying to have enough in the bank to max those when the time is right
Thanks as always for the stardust tips! I’ve been following tips from earlier videos and quickly got to my 1mil benchmark and I’m only level 36. Now at 1.12mil :) !
I consistently kept 60,000 stardust… until this post. After that point I set a goal of 1,000,000 stardust (and then move it up to 2,000,000 but breaking it up in bite sized increases where I reward myself by spending some to do something for my level 40 challenges). In less then a week I am pulling up on the million mark.
What I've done is capture weather boosted pokemon, do a raid, and have battled grunts, i need to battle 6 for the rocket radar every grunt give 500 stardust when defeated so if i battle 6 that's 3,000 stardust but most importantly i have restrained myself from powering anything so it stacks up! That reminds me today i get my 7 day streak, another good way to get stardust easily is gbl it doesn't not give much but it does stack (edit: i heard you get more the higher your rank) also adventure sync and research breakthrough, i went from only having 9,000 stardust left (because i maxed a hundo greninja) to having 146,000 stardust in less than 7 days! And now with billy's tips i can maybe even max that number more :D Edit: forgot to mention the more important part im hatching alot of eggs i try to just get 5, 10, or 12km eggs but it's hard since i only got 1 incubator
I feel you, my group all work full time even on weekends. We just ordered Go-tchas so well see if it helps us. Idk how orher full time workers can grind on this 😭 im not allowed to use my phone, just run in in the back ground and hatch eggs since I walk all day
@Jim glaceon is better and cheaper than shadow articuno. So why waste stardust. Also I don’t wait to power up certain Pokémon for gbl. If I get a Top 25 rank I power it up and I always have at least 400k stardust. I don’t wait to completely dump my dust on 7 Pokémon at the same time.
If you absolutely want to max our your Rayquaza, go ahead. This video is also just a suggestion. No one says you can't (unless you're missing candy or stardust). Maxing out Rayquaza RN won't really help you in any Raids (No Dragon Raids in sight, and nothing that's weak to Flying either). But it sure feels great to have such a monster in your possession.
The problem with stack Pokémon is that you have to catch them in order and you can’t skip one to catch the following. For this reason there is a conflict between the Pokémon that you stack for doble candy and the one for triple stardust.
Hey great video but what’s your recommendation on the special field research from pokestops that say power up 5-10 times for mega energy’s? I personally have spent a lot of stardust this month getting mega energy and still need gengar mega energy
Your info is good but you majorly over estimate the time available to other players . 1,000,000 benchmark is still huge for many many players. Maybe most...
I have 2 Stardust benchmarks which depends on the meta (Raids & PvP). The minimum amount of dust I try to stay [I'm finally getting back to 2 mil after spending 1 million on a shiny regional trade] at is 1.5 million, if I don't need to power up anything urgently. However, if I do need urgent power ups, I try to stay at 1.2 million
Just go into the encounter and run away, it will stack. No need to feed berries, but that's not a bad idea as the berry effect stays with the pokemon until you encounter it again. Max you can stack is 100, then starts dropping the oldest. No there is no way to keep track of how many stacked. Have fun!
I currently have 500k stardust at level 34. I only started playing pokemon go in mid February though. Still learning but I've done many of these tips since day one especially catching everything. I did power up a few pokemon though just because I needed some decent ones for raids. I'm going to start with million benchmark from here on out.
Currently at 897K stardust, the last 2 mondays popped a star piece while hitting my 7 day catch streak, poke stop streak, field reach streak and adventure synch and combined that’s a good 20k+ stardust and we have a Tepig 3X’s stardust community coming up 😈😈😈😈😈😈 I’m looking to hit 2-2.5 million stardust during the community which will put me half way towards my benchmark goal of 4 million stardust
Go battle league Pokémon can help you get more stardust too. Winning a full set can be claimed on Monday morning with the adventure sync and 12 km eggs
Get more raids!
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Please make a video related to raid pass since most of us dont have raid passes when we need them and how to effectively use them and more.
Does azumarill count as a third or second, since azurill is a baby pokemon?
@@tornadey018 yaa
stardust for me: Is to catch pokemon that's weather boosted or any yet all pokemon that would be fill out a research task.
My man staring at the sun to get good lighting.
He wants to be blinded by god
I would do that too
NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT
Geeze the amount of anxiety I'm getting just by thinking that. What a guy.
He needs a hat 🧢
1 million is the recommended benchmark?
Best I can do is 100K
That's disgusting. I can make that in about 3 days
@@R.O.T.C._SEEM He has other things to do in life unlike you smh
Make it 40k for me🤣
I feel that, even when I used to go hard on this game, grinding nonstop best I could do is 100k. Mainly because I power things up to duo t5s/megas. I love the challenge and when I want to raid...I WANT TO RAID lol, not wait on people :P
Got 119k today
It seems like a lot of local trainers just don't power stuff up because other people will. Then they say, "ooh, I've got 5 million stardust" but also wonder why their group of three can't take down a Rayquaza. "We're all level 40, though!"
Already powered most of the pokemon I need for raids. There's still room for improvement, but currently I'm strong enough to go toe to toe with legendary pokemon alone. For example Palkia and Virizion I managed to get into yellow health on my own when they first came out.
If you are talking about raids which is what your comments says, so if I read it right you are talking about raids and to raid there's really only a hand full of decent ones to use, like 4 or 5 to stack, aggron seems always strong and of course that Abomasnow with the mega, really only a few that's tanky and strong enough for raids
@@joesmith201212 It depends on what raid it is. For Rayquaza you can use ice, fairy, dragon and rock types. For Heatran the best type to use is ground type, and include Groudon and Garchomp. When powering up pokemon I try to do that with as many pokemon as possible so I can have like 6 each on one team, and a possible second team with different pokemon. For example, with my rock type team I got 6 Rhyperior with rock type attacks. That's my main rock team, I also have a second rock type team with Golem, Rampardos and Gigalith.
@@sigisoltau6073 yes I know of course it depends on the boss, but really still like I said there really is only a handful that is strong and relevant in those situation and it mainly comes down to the handful of megas no need to power up the hundreds in your bag
@@joesmith201212 I'm not powering all of them. However, I need to max out a lot since I live in an area with few players. There are 2 active players, myself included, with a few on and off players. The two of us are level 45 and 42, I'm 45. Of the two of us I'm the more experienced one. Sure the other one can hold her own, but still, not that good. So I have to do my part and power up as many decent pokemon as I can.
Me : This sounds cool
Also me *spends 450k dust to power-up chansey to close lvl 50*
I'm confused about the levels. How can a Chancey be level 50 if power is measured in CP?
@@qpSubZeroqp When you power up a Pokémon you’re actually leveling them up, you just can’t see it in game. A maxed out Pokémon is level 40, with XL candies (which you obtain when you hit PLAYER level 40) can increase that limit to 50
@@qpSubZeroqp just like how Pokemon have CP and HP at the same time, they also have CP and level at the same time. When you power up a Pokemon, CP, Attack, Defense, HP, and level all go up.
@@Shahido2017 oooh interesting
@@MrZorx wow, I didn't know that. Thank you for the awesome info!
Found out about level 35 vs 40 effectiveness a while ago and that is such an underrated tip. Saves sooo much dust. I don't have someone I duo raids with, so I rarely feel pressed to max out every counter.
I'm new to the Pokémon go landscape, can you brake it down for me, if it's not too complicated, I couldn't understand most of the stuff he said lol, I have no idea what 100%IV are or why having the second evolution Pokémon and running from it? I didn't get that lol
"Why are you still catching Pidgeys?" - "I'm not... I'm scooping up little piles of dust."
I still power up 'all' my hundos chronologically and give them second charge moves for no reason other than collectors obsession and I love it. But whenever I max one, my stardust benchmark goes up by 100k. Works well so far and adds a nice measurable long term grind.
Recently learned that higher level Pokemon are more likely to find XL candy so it is worthwhile to power up Pokémon you are actively trying to best buddy so it finds more xl candy
XL candy?
Triangle candy, available to bump the Pokémon from 40 to 50. Only available after you reach level 40 yourself
I haven’t had a life outside of Pokémon Go since the pandemic
Agreed 100%. Aside from your comments, I suggest to get a phone shaker to increase the weekly walk distance. Its inexpensive and extremely useful during the pandemic when we can't go outside all the time.
Or you can just use an app for that purpose.
Ive only just started playing again with my nieces two months ago, was so proud I accumulated 70,000 stardust 😭 Yet the goals been set at 1,000,000. Seems I have a looooooong way to go 😭😂😭😂
Same😢
Lol same
Right, I was happy I reached 100k 💀
These are excellent tips for getting stardust. I’m going to take advantage of all the team rocket stop. 750 stardust per stop with a star piece. That’s how a got a majority of my dust last time they had an event like this.
With the gotcha catching in the background. That’s what I do when rockets are everywhere.
Just play GBL 20,000 per day if you play your max battles
Really? Is that from winning though?
@@YaBoyChe 25,000 if you win 1 per set
I think the limit is not 20,000 i think like 15
@@MambaPlanet when you hit rank 20 it’s 20,000 per day and 35,000 if u win all the battles
Losing all 5 sets at rank 20 gives you 14,500 stardust not 20,000
“Now it’s just kinda like a game to me”
I hope so, since it literally is a game😂😂
Pay attention much?
He was talking about collecting stardust not actually playing
You can also feed berries to pokémons at gyms. Not a crazy amount of dust, but a full gym can give you 1800 dust (30 dust x 10 berries x 6 pokémons). Better than throwing them away 🙂
make sure do only feed your own pokes tho :p ppl in my neighboorhood always stuff my pokes with berries and it annoys tf outta me lol.
I just got back into Pokémon go after leaving since 2016 and I’m so glad you uploaded this, thanks.
Most of these I either already do, or am not willing to do. But the powering up to only level 35 tip is totally new to me, and will help me SO much. Worth watching the whole video for, no question.
i feel like dust you're never gonna use like a benchmark is useless
That’s what I always say. If you already powered up everyone you want to then of course you’re gonna build up a benchmark.
No, a reasonable bench mark does make good sense once you have a reasonable stable of GBL &/or Raid meta mon. 30million is NOT a reasonable amount. I've had multiple times come up for special cups or 5 star raids where I "suddenly" needed to power up a mon or two. No harm in being disciplined in holding 1-3 million dust in reserve and then freely spend over that amount. I've been working hard on a stable for the last year so it's not uncommon I drop to 100k... but I am finally reaching a point where I have my Great and Ultra league champs sitting like I need them to be and have a good set of 5star raid attackers ready to go. I'm starting to accumulate some dust without a pressing feeling to spend it so I can half way compete. I'm looking forward to hitting 1 million so I can shoot for two and then "freely" spend.
Tink is right a stardust benchmark is important I always fail to do that tho lol but I am trying so let’s say u need stardust and you find out you had none because u didn’t have a benchmark a benchmark u spend in the most needed situations
yeah like 30 million is useless but I think anything below 10 mil is nice to have
Imagine you go walking in a park and you see this 😂🔥
If that happens I’m immediately asking for a friend request on PoGo.
@@richardbarker7282 obviously if you knew him you'd ask but if you randomly saw this
I like how you go straight to the point. Unlike other content creators out there talking about their trips most of the video instead of Pokémon; not gonna name them but I know you guys know what I’m talking about.
Also line up your 7 day streaks and research breakthroughs on Mondays along with 12 12km eggs and adventure sync
Why? How does this affect stardust? Im new btw
@@chrisa1161 As of right now, Niantic has a first catch (of the day) stardust and xp bonus. The 7th day streak is even larger and it would be ideal to catch a weather boosted 2nd or 3rd tier evolution for more stardust plus make an excellent throw. If you align everything to use a starpiece and lucky egg, that's a lot of stardust and xp and you're not wasting starpieces by doing them all separately.
@@yanakalita1096 ahhh makes sense. Thanks!
There was this event a month ago?, where Trubbish was spawning like crazy. Knowing that Trubbish gave 750 stardust per catch, I played this event the hardcore way, every single day, and using my whole batch of star pieces... and managed to raise about 800k stardust. That was an AMAZING event! And those are the kind of events where you must pay attention to the spawning pokemon, which could have a stardust bonus per catch. (Other examples are Shellder and Chimecho),
TLDR:
Donts
-spend stardust at all
"Power-up Pokemon X times" research tasks: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*
@@naturalharmoniagropius4486 you know you can Power Up LEVEL 1 Mons, Right
@@rakeshsabnarakesh4177 then you are just wasting stardust on Mons you won't use
@@LMJFPHOTOGRAPHY oh you mean like 200 stardust.
@@nightwalker4126 so power up 5 times is 1200 dust. So if you're trying to set a dust benchmark, spending 1200 everytime this task comes up isn't beneficial
I really appreciate all of these informational videos, especially the stardust ones! I made a playlist of all your informational videos so I can go back and rewatch them😁
And then there's me who deadass never had 70k dust at any one time in my life
Uh so maybe I haven’t had 35k but we don’t talk about
As always, it's great advice but if you've been playing less than a year and you are taking advantage of the massive dust available in GBL it's very hard to NOT always be in a dust deficit. Building a core stable of Great, Ultra and Master rank mon takes a long time and alot of dust. Once you have some solid core mon however, the GBL is more than worth the dust you will win. Eventually you will catch up and can set and reach a benchmark but getting to that point takes a long while.
But how do you get multiple battle passes to start building the stardust up
@@Momo-xs8mo you don't need premium, if you battle well in regular you can get about 1.5k dust in 5 rounds. Its slow but you just gotta grind
My benchmark has been 5 million for a year now and I love knowing it's there when I need it. I just can't seem to reach my 10 million goal though. I don't power up anything unless I absolutely need to but I've got a 4* rayquaza and it's so tempting to max this baby out.
I'd max that baby up instantly. A 4* Rayquaza is worth gold. You can't go wrong with maxing it out. Rayquaza is the top best dragon type pokemon in the game, and once Rayquaza gets its mega form, you will a monster beast of a pokemon. In one pokemon tournament game a while back mega Rayquaza was actually banned for being to strong.
@@sigisoltau6073 Daaaamn! I had no idea! Thank you! You've convinced me! I wish I had enough XL candies to also max out the 2 98% I have!
@@sigisoltau6073 Question. Right now I've got Dragon Tail and Hurricane. What would you recommend for the moveset. I'll be adding a second charge move too.
@@MunchyRelue I'd keep those two. If you add the second charged attack, and you have enough tm's, I'd go for Outrage.
Rayquaza is the best dragon type attacker in the game, and for me worth the effort in maxing out. It has very high attack, but low defense, and quite a few weaknesses. Still, as I said worth the effort.
In the normal pc games, when I play through Emeral I always go for Rayquaza. Takes a while to get but so worth the effort. It has insane attack stats and access to many moves. When done right, with the proper moves it can one shot almost every pokemon in the game.
@@sigisoltau6073 Thanks again! You are awesome! El Ray maxed out at 4336 and I added Outrage. The stardust hurt but I'm still around the 5 million mark and I know I'll gain it all back with community day! One more thing...Mewtwo. I did 184 mewtwo raids and no hundo and after all those freakin raids I barely got enough XL candies to get one to level 44. Lol. But would you recommend I use the little bit of XL candies I have on an 80% (11/11/14) shadow mewtwo, a 98% reg mewtwo, or save them for a possible better shadow mewtwo later? Sorry, for all the questions. I'm level 48 and still have much to learn.
Excellent advise! One thing I ask you discuss, can you make a video about people who hoard Stardust and never power up anything. Example they got 20 mil Stardust and level 20 or 25 legendaries and never power them up,never when they are relevant.
you could have mentioned the fact you get a free star piece for completing the current event quests, and they're super easy because they've increased the amount of rocket spawns I think
im telling you, gbl is the best stardust gaining strategy. you will get 20k+ dust a day by just completing you 5 sets. when you win, you also gain some extra and the massive 100k dust reward at the end of the season
At the moment I only check for shinys because of the next C-Day because I'm relativly low on balls and in my village there are just 8 Pokestops
We understand your problem. 😓
open gifts every day
@@4coldfeet39 I already do that but its not enough
Do you have gyms? Try get as much coins as possible and boost your bag space hard so you can stock up on balls for comm days :)
I like to add on to this list as 6th but very viable way to grind dust. Complete your daily gbl sets. Even if you don't like gbl or Don't like losing. If u really hate pvp I suggest u use low cp mons throughout all 5 sets but before u claim your 1st sets rewards throw a starpice on.
after setting stardust benchmarks and now im at 2.77million stardust, (im mainly a pvp/gbl player), now stardust isnt even a problem, the only thing to worry about is candy. it was easy to drop 230k to test a new team(the team was good and i won with it a lot). pokemon for gbl are a good investment since you get so much stardust from gbl anyways. minimum 20k a day
The only 2nd charged attack pokémon of mine is talonflame because it's so cheap, and it was a meta thing
Never ceases to amaze me how much knowledge you have on the game. I’m the most hardcore player that I know and still am a noob in light of how you play. I would love to be in a position one day to do the things you do for the game. Thank you for all the tips and information you give to everyone! You have taught me a lot and help me enjoy the game more and more.
Most underrated stardust grind is feeding berries to mons in gyms instead of throwing them away. I had a wailord earn me 27k dust in a 30 day span. That’s just one mon.
Loved the tips Billy! Thank you for sharing the knowledge 🙏🏽💪🏽
I save a lot of stardust by not powering up shadow pokemon. That 20% penalty hits hard.
I always see it as imma get that stardust back also research evolved Pokémon tasks are good for the 7th day catch too
I started with the 1 million bench mark as you suggested in an earlier video, but then thought if Billy sets his benchmark higher there is a good reason so grinding to 10 million as my benchmark.
Catch everything is something i kinda struggle with i dont like using balls other then the red balls and i dont wanna buy a auto catcher until i do my other stuff.
Good tips I usually stay within the 1,900,000 & 2million mark. I have been slowly powering up my Pokémon & don’t max out anything unless it’s Lucky or Mega. Saves you a ton of dust & helps make your Pokémon stronger faster. Stacking dust & mega energy then spending low, walking more & Hatching 12 -12k eggs helps a lot to build a powerful bag. Shadow Pokémon I’m starting to use I wouldn’t go past lvl 35 though unless its Shadow Mew Two. Shadow Mew Two is very versatile as well as regular Mew-Two and worth every penny to invest in!
I spend dust for the GBL and it seems to be a worthy investment from my viewpoint. I have probably put 1,000,000 into it but I have gotten a return of 7,000,000 over time. I got 300,000 from the last go battle night as well when the sets were unlocked for 20. Of course, this is highly situational as I place rank 21 (10 before it was changed) or above every season. I have done thousands and thousands of battles with my meta teams for every league but it’s all about playing your cards right with the meta which makes it hard, not to mention the time consuming process. It’s another can of worms just for dust but I have found it rewarding.
Tip: If you‘re Rank 20 and don‘t want to fight or you haven‘t enough Time , then just go in the fight and Go out for the 25 battles which could give you about 30.000 Stardust for doing Nothing
When I was going hard core on Deoxys raids I went in and powered my 14/15/15 Yveltal up to level 35.5 combined with my raid group alternating slots with mega Gyarados and mega Houndoom we took those DDs down super fast.
I’ve been following Billy for about two years now and his tips are absolutely essential. Listen to this man! Best overall Pokémon Go RUclipsr by far
Appreciate you 😁😁😁
@@TheTrainerClub here we gooooo!
Very good video man! I have always done those things, although it's a bit more difficult for me to do the "catch-em-all" part 😅
Man he was talking about me when he went on about GBL lol!!! I’ve watched videos and was like....”yo I need that Pokémon with those moves” and blew a bunch of dust on it only to find it wasn’t that great
He makes better and more informative videos than mystic 7. I hope you get to a million soon✨✨✨✨
I like the Monday morning adventure sync idea, but the cost is prohibitive for me. 12 rocket radars, 12 incubators, and a star piece every week busts my budget. But if you have $40 a week to spend on this part of the game, it does look like a fantastic way to max out stardust.
Just surpassed 14 Mil dust, i do follow your tips and pointers 👌👌
Got to 5 million at my highest about a month ago thanks to your lore! It went down to 3.5-ish due to some necessity power-ups over the course of these endless events and challenges, but I did set my latest benchmark at 4 milly. It'll stay there as I climb back up to 5. My last max outs with stiff tariffs were the three L50 requirements to get to L47 and that was close to about 1.5M on the dust. I am currently grooming future Megas by incrementally pumping up my best Pokeys that will eventually get their big-shot releases and I feel those are worthwhile investments. I will try to get beyond 5M later this year but...oof...such a tough grind!
I feel there's an exception to 2nd charged moves. Example riolu other babies mons, altaria, I think maybe magicarp?
I used to spent stardust on bad iv pokemon when I started playing and now I regret it😄
One more important tip to add, power up lucky pokemon, it is half of the stardust cost. When I returned to the game I immediatelly traded everything to get luckies and then I was powering up meta pokemon for cheap, this gave me time to focus on other things having all the meta pokemon ready since I was lvl35
Thanks for the tips but do you have any videos on inventory management
He does. Go search his video library.
You really helped me when I started back playing in 2019! I was inspired by your tips to create a tag called “next”. The only things I keep on that tag are ones I need to power up for current and upcoming raid bosses. It’s really helped me stay focused on team building and any time I have extra dust or rare candies I dump them into one from that tag! ❤️🙌
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675,000 I am
I set a new record low today with 4 stardust.
Well done my g
Is stacking rocket eggs really worth it compared to hatching 24 eggs per day? My galaxy s8 drifts like crazy so I drift approx 60km/day just having the app open on my desk all day so I hatch approximately 24eggs per day.
How do you get so many incubators
@@Suveer5518 the coin shop?? Lol you get 15 for 1480 coins.
@@lagavulinmtg5120 that’s wayyy too many coins for me
I'm lvl35, 3months in POGO and 50k stardust. Struggling every day. Discipline and strategy!
Let’s go. You got this
Weird, i'm lvl 28 and have over 400k dust. I did play for a few weeks back at launch, not sure if this would account for the difference but 50k-400k is massive difference. You must be spending it right?
Play your GBL battles, even if you hate it. Just put in 10 cp pokemon. Even with 0 wins, you still get free stardust.
I currently have 20k stardust because I maxed out some 100% but I'm doing the whole c day with star pieces so I can reach at least 500k and never go under it
Might be frowned upon, but getting a phone rocker is probably one of the best investments to get dust.
hatch a 2km egg in c.12mins or a 10km in an hour. Easy dust when you aren't actually out and about playing.
Hatch about 70 eggs a week (on the low end at 1k average per egg)
Another thing is if you happen to have your 7 day catch streak fall on Monday as well.
I’m at a 3.5 million baseline currently and am at 3.93 currently. Sitting on a 96% shadow Zapdos, 96% shadow Machop, and 91% shadow Mamoswine for the next chance we have to TM Frustration. Trying to have enough in the bank to max those when the time is right
Thanks as always for the stardust tips! I’ve been following tips from earlier videos and quickly got to my 1mil benchmark and I’m only level 36. Now at 1.12mil :) !
THANK U SM !!! I havent played since launch , and everything has been overwhelming and your channel has been a life saver ! Sub4Life
I consistently kept 60,000 stardust… until this post. After that point I set a goal of 1,000,000 stardust (and then move it up to 2,000,000 but breaking it up in bite sized increases where I reward myself by spending some to do something for my level 40 challenges). In less then a week I am pulling up on the million mark.
As a level 43 player, the most stardust i ever had was 300k....everyone and some lower level players have more than me lol
But that means that you have the better Pokemon so its good
If Pumpkaboo isn’t this year’s Halloween event Pokémon, I’ll be severely disappointed in Niantic.
Me who Maxxed Every Useless Things and Double Move- 😭😭
My dude has 30M, my minimum amount of stardust is 100k 😂
Me too 😅
My benchmark is literally 0😐
What I've done is capture weather boosted pokemon, do a raid, and have battled grunts, i need to battle 6 for the rocket radar every grunt give 500 stardust when defeated so if i battle 6 that's 3,000 stardust but most importantly i have restrained myself from powering anything so it stacks up! That reminds me today i get my 7 day streak, another good way to get stardust easily is gbl it doesn't not give much but it does stack (edit: i heard you get more the higher your rank) also adventure sync and research breakthrough, i went from only having 9,000 stardust left (because i maxed a hundo greninja) to having 146,000 stardust in less than 7 days!
And now with billy's tips i can maybe even max that number more :D
Edit: forgot to mention the more important part im hatching alot of eggs i try to just get 5, 10, or 12km eggs but it's hard since i only got 1 incubator
Dang man, do you ever run out of breath, I could not keep up 😂😎😆,
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It's hard to get stardust when I work every spotlight hour
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I feel you, my group all work full time even on weekends. We just ordered Go-tchas so well see if it helps us. Idk how orher full time workers can grind on this 😭 im not allowed to use my phone, just run in in the back ground and hatch eggs since I walk all day
My benchmark is 400k but after shivy comday it will be raised to 600k😀
Thumbnail: DONT, WAIT
Me: welp time to max my rattatas now
There is no reason to save more than 1 or 2 mil stardust. His benchmark is so high because he powered up everyone already.
@Jim glaceon is better and cheaper than shadow articuno. So why waste stardust. Also I don’t wait to power up certain Pokémon for gbl. If I get a Top 25 rank I power it up and I always have at least 400k stardust. I don’t wait to completely dump my dust on 7 Pokémon at the same time.
@Jim lmao armed? You’re an adult that speaks like a kid. I’m 28 here. Have fun trying to threaten over the internet LIL KID
@Jim man I barely read a few words from your dozen replies to me. You got too free time.
Thank you for all tips and tricks you making me fall in love with Pokémon go again in a faster way
I'm lost, what is stacking 2nd and 3rd evolution? And you described running from them after giving a berry... why? Where do people learn these things?
On the Do’s for Catch everything you just have to catch them All
ah damn got rayquaza 100 iv
plan to power up him because i like it
but see this video i have to think twice xD
If you absolutely want to max our your Rayquaza, go ahead.
This video is also just a suggestion. No one says you can't (unless you're missing candy or stardust).
Maxing out Rayquaza RN won't really help you in any Raids (No Dragon Raids in sight, and nothing that's weak to Flying either). But it sure feels great to have such a monster in your possession.
@@Janders797 yeah i think i go for that but not up to max lvl
The problem with stack Pokémon is that you have to catch them in order and you can’t skip one to catch the following. For this reason there is a conflict between the Pokémon that you stack for doble candy and the one for triple stardust.
Hey great video but what’s your recommendation on the special field research from pokestops that say power up 5-10 times for mega energy’s? I personally have spent a lot of stardust this month getting mega energy and still need gengar mega energy
I didnt play last year soo is it the same thing every year? Seems like all these 1 year videos fit in exactly right where we’re at today
Wow. You have GREAT tips here. Thank you!
Happy to help out
Your info is good but you majorly over estimate the time available to other players . 1,000,000 benchmark is still huge for many many players. Maybe most...
Just stumbled across this here, can you please explain the stacking the stage 2 and 3 again i dident get it from the video
I have 2 Stardust benchmarks which depends on the meta (Raids & PvP). The minimum amount of dust I try to stay [I'm finally getting back to 2 mil after spending 1 million on a shiny regional trade] at is 1.5 million, if I don't need to power up anything urgently. However, if I do need urgent power ups, I try to stay at 1.2 million
Current bench mark is 6 million. I thank you for your tips they are so helpful.
How can we stack field event encounters? I’m afraid when I run it’ll go away lol I’ve never stacked them before
if you give berries they stack up.
Just go into the encounter and run away, it will stack. No need to feed berries, but that's not a bad idea as the berry effect stays with the pokemon until you encounter it again. Max you can stack is 100, then starts dropping the oldest. No there is no way to keep track of how many stacked. Have fun!
Top quality tips, as usual! Keep up the good work! :)
I have set a million stardust benchmark ,
Aa I will collect more will increase the benchmark
It my strategy 👍👍👍👍
I currently have 500k stardust at level 34. I only started playing pokemon go in mid February though. Still learning but I've done many of these tips since day one especially catching everything. I did power up a few pokemon though just because I needed some decent ones for raids. I'm going to start with million benchmark from here on out.
One of the most smartest and realistic way to save star dust... I am guilty of the 3 don'ts...LOL.... patience is a virtue and not run by impulse .
Do i power up a shadow zapdos 96% will it be a good addition i caught it today
Yes 96 is very good
Yes, they are very useful for raid attackers and among the best electric types. Also, DON'T purify it to make it a hundo.
Thanks will do
I won't purify
Billy Lutz: Certified Stardust Financial Advisor
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Currently at 897K stardust, the last 2 mondays popped a star piece while hitting my 7 day catch streak, poke stop streak, field reach streak and adventure synch and combined that’s a good 20k+ stardust and we have a Tepig 3X’s stardust community coming up 😈😈😈😈😈😈 I’m looking to hit 2-2.5 million stardust during the community which will put me half way towards my benchmark goal of 4 million stardust
2 weeks later I’m at 1,370,000 million lol
3 weeks later I’m at 1.5 million stardust lol
Sitting at 1.8 million stardust atm
Here we are, almost a year after this video dropped, sitting at 5.3 million stardust lol working towards 10 million stardust
A year later, new benchmark for stardust at 10 million this year
Prioritize powering up lucky trades is a new approach for me. Save 50% dust and get your powered up 'mon!
I’m struggling to keep more than 50k lmao
Same🥲
Just got back into the game, your videos are awesome
With an invite code?