candy for galar starters began when they came out, not long ago. some gen 1 and 2 starters are in the wild, but nowhere near the amount of galar starters, from what i have seen. catch some, resources arrive with time.
This is the kinda ressources I've been looking for. Nice. Hope people will stop sleeping on this feature so we can get more ressources on it. I feel like the "tanking hits" pokemon is really important. Like Blastoise will be of much more use now than it is in regular raids/battles.
I was searching for the ‘CP vs Max Level’ answer for a while to no avail… So I had to figure it out myself! Definitely need more people taking it seriously, because I think it may slowly replace raids…
@@PokeeSeanGO I think so too. Also it is way more involved than regular raida. Actually feels like a game now. But I'm worried about how accessible the g-max are gonna be.
Same. I really hope the "10 - 40" trainers line was mostly a marketing strategy. It certainly has people talking, and I'm sure there's a lot of people trying to convince friends to come out to help.
@@PokeeSeanGO Indeed, I know legendary raids are set to 20 max and most can be duo'd of those, so I'm hoping this means you only need 4 people with good counters. Or that they did a scaling thing where the boss has more health the more 4-man groups are made. Or even better. That they did the harry potter wizards united thing where you just join a world wide lobby. But I doubt that.
The world wide lobby system is absolutely how remote raids should work, at least. Would be great to select a remote pass, choose a boss, and enter a lobby with other remote raiders. Not that I do many remotes. Campfire has a feature for hosting and joining raids, but I haven’t actually tried it. Maybe I should look into it. 😛
Awesome video! You just earned a subscriber! And definitely agreed on what you said on the strategy aspect of Max Battles. I really enjoy that I actually need to switch around my Pokémon to stay alive longer, but I really wish that there were some logic or telegraphing behind the boss’ attacks. And yeah, the implementation and monetization of the other aspects of Max Battles continues to baffle me…
I was a little surprised to see lvl 30 be equal to a lvl 2 max move. I’m definitely going to be holding off on the max moves for now, since I have a decent amount of stardust. I will probably just ask for Dmax Pokémon in my lucky trades for now to save even more.
The cost for the next Power Up will be 5000 stardust. Each time you press the + when powering up, it goes up by .5 of a level. A Pokemon caught at a Dynamax Battle will be level 20, so you'll need to press the + button 19 times to reach level 30.
Very true. It would make communicating about Pokémon level so much easier if they just put it in the game. My only guess is that they want to conceal it because Pokémon can go to level 100 in the main series, but currently only 50 in GO. That may seem weird to some players, I guess.
They will do even more damage if you can level them up. But if you only have candy for either power or level up, it’s cheaper and more effective to power up the Pokémon to level 30.
Evolve. CP will be higher because the evolved forms have way higher base stats. My lvl 30 Sobble has a CP of only 915 vs 1664 for Inteleon, both at lvl 30.
Great! I’m indecisive what to power up and/or optimistically imagine a hundo is around the corner so hold off.. so always have a few million dust but as a new player candy can be limiting. I leveled up moves of the first mons cos I wasn’t gonna do much else with wooloo etc candy but for the rest was not sure how to prioritize. Could duo the beldum and falinks without fully evolved and maxed mons but I’d like to be able to solo those and get ready for the gigantamax so this is very useful.
I usually have plenty of stardust as well now that I basically have my raid teams all set. I don’t do a ton of PvP, so I rarely power anything up, and still don’t have Pokémon over level 40.
@@PokeeSeanGO haa i find it so interesting how people play. My friend who’s level 31 or 32 is constantly running out of stardust cos feels he has to max stuff. Me I only have cheap stuff powered up (Sylveon, Melmetal, etc) and not maxed yet in the XL slog. But I don’t feel any hurry since I don’t try to solo raids. For PvP I do a little on and off and kinda like it but I’m still new. I like the limited cups everyone seems to hate cos I can learn easier from smaller meta/movesets and at low cost. Normally don’t touch master league but I have a few mons im best buddying so had been tanking for buddy hearts lately but today battled a few sets and got a Gyratina on the third! I like the rewards mainly don’t take it too seriously :))
I spent a lot of stardust early on, not realizing the best strategy when you’re under level 30 is to just keep catching stronger stuff to use. I have a whole beginners guide written now - just need time to make the video. In PvP, I tried to go for 500 wins this season, but the competition gets intense and I’m not nearly good enough to get 6 wins a day in a reasonable amount of time 😛
@@PokeeSeanGO yeah I wasted resources too at first too. Game has so many different details that take time to figure out. The beginners guide sounds like it would be useful! Indeed PVP gets hard quick! Things can change fast even from day to days sometimes. I get discouraged when it gets too hard and end up tanking. I usually know when I get start to get matched with people bringing like a Vaporeon to master league it’s back to being able to win easily again lol… (the easy part matters to me as I also have chronic pain and even though mobile games don’t trigger it nearly as much as computer use or console gaming, I don’t wanna take this part of the game too intensely)
Holding the phone does get pretty fatiguing after a while. Definitely need to do some hand stretches! I haven’t even touched Master League. I might challenge myself to build a non-legendary team for it and see how it goes, though. Next season I’ll probably stream a bit of PvP, once I get things set up for that.
i somewhat have an issue with evolving stuffs to their final stage knowing it had an exclusive move or will get them in the future for good ivs primarily as i have a hundo scorbunny and sobble currently and i left them at stage 2 evo and is very hard pressed on spending dust on any other lesser ivs...if push comes to shove i guess i gotta pull the trigger on a lesser iv ones preferably lucky as u elaborated on its cheap-ness hmmm. nice vid bro!
I feel the same way. I’m only justifying it to myself by knowing I already have everything I need as far as my regular raid teams go, and Dynamax is just a different system. Considering it’s the fast move type that gets counted toward the Max Attack, I’m a little less bothered by it.
@@PokeeSeanGO yeah this will probably be the thing that moves me over into finally investing but i will probably go with the lesser ivs ver first as i have done with a 93 charizard and kept my 96 charmeleon as is for now
@@PokeeSeanGO hope so! yeah just saw posts all over and ima just stare at the gigantamax at my home power spot as i will never have the chance to defeat it here cause its super rural
im thinking to have one of each starter as a team + metagross so for charizard it would be inteleon + blastoise + metagross, which moveset would be best for metagross when taking on the 3 gmax mons?
And a Gengar, for good measure. Most people probably have enough Gastly candy to make at least one decent Gengar For Metagross, I'd only do it if you have the candy to spare. It had a com day classic in August, so if you wait to evolve Metang until December's com day, they'll get Meteor Mash. Could just power up a Metang with a Psychic fast attack, though, and use it against Gmax Venusaur.
Use a Pinap Berry on anything you want extra candy for, and for now you can do 3 or 4 Dmax Battles for the Galar starters. The Galar starters are still in the wild, but not as common as they were at the beginning of the season when they were in an event. Make one your buddy as well to get that bit extra when walking, and be sure to leave them at Power Spots after max battles so they earn some candy when others use that Power Spot.
@@PokeeSeanGO that might be a game changer for us rural players since there is no time limit on a max battle. It might work like other MMO's now someone healing the party to continue DPS.
oh actually i do have a question I started really late to the whole max battle thing and i only have falinks, each of the gen 8 unevo starters and chamander. What do you think I should prioritize before gigantamax battles come out?
Try to evolve and power up one of each of the Galar starters. Charmander will be harder to get candy for right now. The Galar starters are in the wild, though somewhat uncommon. If you can get to Max Battles, use Pinap berries when catching them for some extra catch candy, especially next week while the bonus for Halloween is active: 2x catch candy. That will be 12 candy per catch if you use a Pinap berry.
Even if you manage just one of each, you can do a lot of swapping around during Gigantamax battles to keep whatever is super effective alive and dealing out its Max Attack.
@@PokeeSeanGO thank you so much for the advice i'll start grinding for candies right away and keep up the videos it was so informative and entertaining
@@mystica6150you should have a greedant from the dynamax research. This one can be used to tank sth like gigantamax gengar and he deels a lot of damage with his dark moves.
At the moment, neither. Wait until you need it for a battle. In the mean time, you can find more candy. I don’t have the data yet for now much more effective Gmax is over Dmax, but I’ll put out that video when I do the tests.
In all my tests (I did a bunch of others to try things out) dodging simply didn’t work, no matter when I timed it. Not sure if it’s a generally glitched out feature or a connection issue. Dmax battles have been kicking people out randomly quite frequently, so I think they’re full of inconsistencies and bugs. Going to be interesting to see next weekend.
unfortunately i am candy poor and stardust poor
A tragic combination 😞
candy for galar starters began when they came out, not long ago. some gen 1 and 2 starters are in the wild, but nowhere near the amount of galar starters, from what i have seen. catch some, resources arrive with time.
@@lodestar1380 It's definitely a numbers game. The more you play, the more you'll have. Assuming you catch and don't just shiny check ;)
We all are bubba we all are…
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This is the kinda ressources I've been looking for. Nice. Hope people will stop sleeping on this feature so we can get more ressources on it. I feel like the "tanking hits" pokemon is really important. Like Blastoise will be of much more use now than it is in regular raids/battles.
I was searching for the ‘CP vs Max Level’ answer for a while to no avail… So I had to figure it out myself! Definitely need more people taking it seriously, because I think it may slowly replace raids…
@@PokeeSeanGO I think so too. Also it is way more involved than regular raida. Actually feels like a game now. But I'm worried about how accessible the g-max are gonna be.
Same. I really hope the "10 - 40" trainers line was mostly a marketing strategy. It certainly has people talking, and I'm sure there's a lot of people trying to convince friends to come out to help.
@@PokeeSeanGO Indeed, I know legendary raids are set to 20 max and most can be duo'd of those, so I'm hoping this means you only need 4 people with good counters. Or that they did a scaling thing where the boss has more health the more 4-man groups are made. Or even better. That they did the harry potter wizards united thing where you just join a world wide lobby. But I doubt that.
The world wide lobby system is absolutely how remote raids should work, at least. Would be great to select a remote pass, choose a boss, and enter a lobby with other remote raiders. Not that I do many remotes.
Campfire has a feature for hosting and joining raids, but I haven’t actually tried it. Maybe I should look into it. 😛
First time viewer, but love this style of video and noone else seems to be putting out this type of information on the gigabattles yet so big thanks!
I couldn’t find the answer to this question either, so I had to test it myself 🤓
@@PokeeSeanGO well thanks again!
Interesting and helpful man. Love it
amazing intel here man, thank you so much! I'm so glad I stumbled on this gem of a channel!!!
this is exactly the kind of info ibeen looking for thanks you so much!
Awesome video! You just earned a subscriber!
And definitely agreed on what you said on the strategy aspect of Max Battles. I really enjoy that I actually need to switch around my Pokémon to stay alive longer, but I really wish that there were some logic or telegraphing behind the boss’ attacks. And yeah, the implementation and monetization of the other aspects of Max Battles continues to baffle me…
Great work my freind! Thank you for all your hardwork on this video
Started lvling alot of my starters to 30 before this, thank God I was right on the money. Thanks for the guide!
Great analysis! I've been wondering how much the max move upgrades mattered
I was a little surprised to see lvl 30 be equal to a lvl 2 max move. I’m definitely going to be holding off on the max moves for now, since I have a decent amount of stardust. I will probably just ask for Dmax Pokémon in my lucky trades for now to save even more.
Amazing video! You answered all my questions tyy
Thank you this was very helpful!
Thanks for the useful information!
Dumb question, how do you know when it’s level 30?
The cost for the next Power Up will be 5000 stardust. Each time you press the + when powering up, it goes up by .5 of a level.
A Pokemon caught at a Dynamax Battle will be level 20, so you'll need to press the + button 19 times to reach level 30.
That’s not a dumb question at all; the level of a Pokémon isn’t directly stated anywhere in the game!
Very true. It would make communicating about Pokémon level so much easier if they just put it in the game.
My only guess is that they want to conceal it because Pokémon can go to level 100 in the main series, but currently only 50 in GO. That may seem weird to some players, I guess.
@@PokemonBigSaduse poke genie
Then how are max moved any useful
They will do even more damage if you can level them up. But if you only have candy for either power or level up, it’s cheaper and more effective to power up the Pokémon to level 30.
@@PokeeSeanGO what if i have enough candy to level up to lvl 30 but not to evolve? What's better, evolve or power up 10 levels?
Evolve. CP will be higher because the evolved forms have way higher base stats. My lvl 30 Sobble has a CP of only 915 vs 1664 for Inteleon, both at lvl 30.
Great! I’m indecisive what to power up and/or optimistically imagine a hundo is around the corner so hold off.. so always have a few million dust but as a new player candy can be limiting. I leveled up moves of the first mons cos I wasn’t gonna do much else with wooloo etc candy but for the rest was not sure how to prioritize. Could duo the beldum and falinks without fully evolved and maxed mons but I’d like to be able to solo those and get ready for the gigantamax so this is very useful.
I usually have plenty of stardust as well now that I basically have my raid teams all set. I don’t do a ton of PvP, so I rarely power anything up, and still don’t have Pokémon over level 40.
@@PokeeSeanGO haa i find it so interesting how people play. My friend who’s level 31 or 32 is constantly running out of stardust cos feels he has to max stuff. Me I only have cheap stuff powered up (Sylveon, Melmetal, etc) and not maxed yet in the XL slog. But I don’t feel any hurry since I don’t try to solo raids. For PvP I do a little on and off and kinda like it but I’m still new. I like the limited cups everyone seems to hate cos I can learn easier from smaller meta/movesets and at low cost. Normally don’t touch master league but I have a few mons im best buddying so had been tanking for buddy hearts lately but today battled a few sets and got a Gyratina on the third! I like the rewards mainly don’t take it too seriously :))
I spent a lot of stardust early on, not realizing the best strategy when you’re under level 30 is to just keep catching stronger stuff to use. I have a whole beginners guide written now - just need time to make the video.
In PvP, I tried to go for 500 wins this season, but the competition gets intense and I’m not nearly good enough to get 6 wins a day in a reasonable amount of time 😛
@@PokeeSeanGO yeah I wasted resources too at first too. Game has so many different details that take time to figure out. The beginners guide sounds like it would be useful!
Indeed PVP gets hard quick! Things can change fast even from day to days sometimes. I get discouraged when it gets too hard and end up tanking. I usually know when I get start to get matched with people bringing like a Vaporeon to master league it’s back to being able to win easily again lol… (the easy part matters to me as I also have chronic pain and even though mobile games don’t trigger it nearly as much as computer use or console gaming, I don’t wanna take this part of the game too intensely)
Holding the phone does get pretty fatiguing after a while. Definitely need to do some hand stretches!
I haven’t even touched Master League. I might challenge myself to build a non-legendary team for it and see how it goes, though. Next season I’ll probably stream a bit of PvP, once I get things set up for that.
i somewhat have an issue with evolving stuffs to their final stage knowing it had an exclusive move or will get them in the future for good ivs primarily as i have a hundo scorbunny and sobble currently and i left them at stage 2 evo and is very hard pressed on spending dust on any other lesser ivs...if push comes to shove i guess i gotta pull the trigger on a lesser iv ones preferably lucky as u elaborated on its cheap-ness hmmm. nice vid bro!
I feel the same way. I’m only justifying it to myself by knowing I already have everything I need as far as my regular raid teams go, and Dynamax is just a different system. Considering it’s the fast move type that gets counted toward the Max Attack, I’m a little less bothered by it.
@@PokeeSeanGO yeah this will probably be the thing that moves me over into finally investing but i will probably go with the lesser ivs ver first as i have done with a 93 charizard and kept my 96 charmeleon as is for now
I did the same thing. We’ll see if it even makes a difference with how hard apparently they are!
@@PokeeSeanGO hope so! yeah just saw posts all over and ima just stare at the gigantamax at my home power spot as i will never have the chance to defeat it here cause its super rural
Nobody is raiding in my area anymore let alone raid Dynamax pokemons.
Definitely going to be tough for a lot of people. So far it looks like they’re nothing more than a new dex collection, though.
good video, but doubtful I will ever do one
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@@PokeeSeanGO Hey buddy I hope you get this comment! What is going to be the best lineup against dynamax drilbur do you?
It will be a 1-star battle, so a wet paper bag should be able to take it down.
im thinking to have one of each starter as a team + metagross so for charizard it would be inteleon + blastoise + metagross, which moveset would be best for metagross when taking on the 3 gmax mons?
And a Gengar, for good measure. Most people probably have enough Gastly candy to make at least one decent Gengar
For Metagross, I'd only do it if you have the candy to spare. It had a com day classic in August, so if you wait to evolve Metang until December's com day, they'll get Meteor Mash.
Could just power up a Metang with a Psychic fast attack, though, and use it against Gmax Venusaur.
How do you get all the candy for the pokemon? I sometimes have trouble finding more of the same!
Use a Pinap Berry on anything you want extra candy for, and for now you can do 3 or 4 Dmax Battles for the Galar starters. The Galar starters are still in the wild, but not as common as they were at the beginning of the season when they were in an event.
Make one your buddy as well to get that bit extra when walking, and be sure to leave them at Power Spots after max battles so they earn some candy when others use that Power Spot.
Not an ounce of fat on your videos. Great stuff.
But did you test the protect and heal move
I have not. I will follow up with that, though. I’m curious to see what they actually do.
@@PokeeSeanGO that might be a game changer for us rural players since there is no time limit on a max battle. It might work like other MMO's now someone healing the party to continue DPS.
True. There is an enrage timer, though. So, kind of a soft time limit with that.
oh actually i do have a question I started really late to the whole max battle thing and i only have falinks, each of the gen 8 unevo starters and chamander. What do you think I should prioritize before gigantamax battles come out?
Try to evolve and power up one of each of the Galar starters. Charmander will be harder to get candy for right now.
The Galar starters are in the wild, though somewhat uncommon. If you can get to Max Battles, use Pinap berries when catching them for some extra catch candy, especially next week while the bonus for Halloween is active: 2x catch candy. That will be 12 candy per catch if you use a Pinap berry.
Even if you manage just one of each, you can do a lot of swapping around during Gigantamax battles to keep whatever is super effective alive and dealing out its Max Attack.
@@PokeeSeanGO thank you so much for the advice i'll start grinding for candies right away and keep up the videos it was so informative and entertaining
@@mystica6150you should have a greedant from the dynamax research. This one can be used to tank sth like gigantamax gengar and he deels a lot of damage with his dark moves.
I totally skipped the little squirrel and now I kiiiinda regret it.
So I have a 100% Dmax Charizard and a 84% Gigantamax Charizard. With limited candies left, which should I Power up.
At the moment, neither. Wait until you need it for a battle. In the mean time, you can find more candy. I don’t have the data yet for now much more effective Gmax is over Dmax, but I’ll put out that video when I do the tests.
I'm not doing any of this i got no friends
Looks like having friends isn’t enough anyway 😂
Or you can just dodge the attack moves from the boss.
In all my tests (I did a bunch of others to try things out) dodging simply didn’t work, no matter when I timed it. Not sure if it’s a generally glitched out feature or a connection issue. Dmax battles have been kicking people out randomly quite frequently, so I think they’re full of inconsistencies and bugs. Going to be interesting to see next weekend.