@@bigmel26 You don't have to walk the Mega Evolved Pokemon specifically. You can Mega Evolve any one and walk any of it's species. For Example I Mega Evolved a Blastoise and Im walking my Squirtle and still get the Mega Energy.
probably not the first to mention this but you can get up to a max of 32 hearts with your buddy, granted its not entirely f2p since you need the go plus+. 6 hearts each from walking, feeding, and battling. 2 hearts each from playing, snapshot, visiting a new place, and following a route. Here's where it gets tricky, 2 hearts from both gifts, 2 from the sleep bonus with the go plus+, 1 from spinning a powered up pokestop, and 1 from finding a location stop. Its definitely tedious but I've done it before and oh man it looks good
This post is very helpful as I just posted a 32 hearts thread on X. I can get 31 but the location was brand new as of a couple of days ago. I accidentally stumbled o on it at work and could not get to that new pokéstop. This is a goal of mine, maybe before the year it out.
Buddying is the worst addiction, I started a year and a half ago getting 6 hearts a day on 15 buddies and switching in the other 6 during the day to optimally buddy them. I wish I never started but I’m 180/200 on the platinum medal I only have about 40 days to go now and it will finally be all over
@@denna32 I stopped two months ago with 5 buddies left and about 30 hearts left to get on each of them I don’t even open the game any more it’s been quite nice tho
The method I'm using: -Set around 3 or more Master league teams (I'm doing Pokes with different CP levels) with the pokemon you want to best buddy. -Pick one and use either regular berries or golden, snapshot, scratch, training battle 3 times and change to a different buddy of the same team (so it takes less time to select) -Repeat until you want or can. I'm getting 6 hearts for each pokemon so it's 54 hearts a day (I could do more but it also can get boring). By using only regular berries I feel it's efficient enough and with 6 hearts each day it only takes 50 days (or less depending on the number of gifts you get) for best buddy.
Should really have someone watching these before release to check for those mistakes so they can edit in a fix. Probably comes down to the editor. So WTH editor is you see this, get your work proofread! 😛
Just takes 12 days to get your best buddy. And if want to do the most at 3 hours including the walking. You can do approximately 3 to 5 in that time period.
For people without time and extra money Feed, play, pic, battle ‐> swap buddy -> repeat. Then leave on a main buddy for candy, walking, and possible new Pokestop.
I use a rotation system for my best buddies. I select 7 pokemon to best buddy and assign each one a day in the week. On that day, I make sure to excite that pokemon up to 22 hearts. I can typically get that done in the morning by setting a timer for every 10 mins and use the sock method with adventure syn enabled to get walking hearts. Then, I move on to the next day's pokemon, repeating the process to get 22 hearts. With the remaining 19 buddy switches, I will switch to the pokemon for the other days of the week to earn a min of 8 hearts (3 battles, 1 Pet, 1 Photo, and 3 treats). Each time you switch a buddy it can be fed a treat saving time on waiting for it to get peckish. Currently, I am doing the training battle with each buddy pokemon in order to get the trainer plat. badge, but once that is done I can simply go into the battle and give up instantly as it counts as battling and is way more time efficient. So my system looks like this Each day: 2 pokemon get 22 and 5 pokemon get 8. Each buddy earns 82 hearts a week. This always leaves me a few extra swaps a day I can use for background pokemon; usually ones that need buddy requirements to evolve.
This came up as a recommended video, very helpful. Ive been doing the background buddy method for a minute, currently best buddying a 4* Sylveon,4* Umbreon, 4* Lucky Wartortle and a lucky Cereledge
My method is to focus on Best Buddying 1 Pokemon and have 6 in the background. This takes about 20-30 minutes every night while I'm watching some TH-cam before bed (I've timed it multiple times). Each background buddy gets 8 hearts (9 if they bring me a present) so they will be best buddies in 38 days. What I do is switch to one of my background buddies, berry it, play with it, snapshot it, then do 3 battles with team leader. (You don't need to finish the battle) Then switch and repeat with the other 5 background buddies. Once this is done they should each be at 6 hearts. After this I go back through each of my background buddies 1 by 1 and feed them again to get the 7th heart, then do one last round feeding them berries to get them the 8th heart. Once this is done I switch to my main buddy and go to sleep. Then grind as much as I want on the main buddy during the day using poffin or excitement etc.. If this is too much you can stop after the first round with each of them when they are at 6 hearts and they will become best buddies in 50 days instead of 38. Some tips I have to make it faster. All my buddies I'm working on have a tag that I made a keyboard shortcut for to find them easily. When doing the battles with the team leader I have the teams preset with my buddies so I don't have to add them in every time. This should all take 30 minutes max good luck!
I work with different pokemon at the same time and always get 6 hearts in one shot (Snapshot, 3 Nanab Berry, play, 3 battle with trainer (I exit the battle at the beginning). I use Puffin with more strategy for getting more candy and Mega Energy. When I know I will walk more, I use Puffin and I do a route so I make between 18 and 22 heart with one buddy. My best buddy is like my elit team for Raid or Master League because this pokemon need more candy, more candy XL, more power (so 1 lvl Bonus is Good) and more Mega Energy for the Mega Pokemon.
I am unsure whether you knew or not, but one of my friends taught me this: you can get more research tasks if you keep the AR spinning task as it won't give you more AR tasks. Thought it was useful, and if you knew this already, I'm sorry lol
I used to be able to scan pokestops for poffins, and get at least 5 a day, but it's been months since I've been able to get scan tasks.. I miss them everyday, as I love the buddy feature
If you travel 2-3 routes with your buddy you will get to excite a lot faster, battle master league, in a gym, and you can get it to excite in about 35 minutes.
I just work on 1 buddy at a time. But, since Niantic banned me and some friends (not all, just some) from recieving AR tasks, I learned how to get them excited for free. I guess we were submitting low quality scans. Of course, they never told us why or warned us. We just stopped getting AR tasks last summer. Eh, let 'em keep their Poffins. :)
If you're battling a team leader, you can actually exit the battle and it will still give your buddy emotion points. It's much quicker than fully completing the battle. (I know you said this in the video but the screenshot shown earlier in the video said you had to complete the battle, so I'm just commenting this so people understand)
wow kid you dorealize that what he just said in his video is nothing compare to what you can do in the game right!? i do 12 mons 4 ain ones am 8 in the back! righ now i just nedd 12 to finish my 200! if you dont have the time just do it at your own time that's all!
if you're doing multiple buddies, you can tag them or you can put a symbol at the start of their name (i use /) and sort by name. they'll be there at the top and switching buddies will be lightning fast
I love all the methods 10:58 . Im a newer player, April 1st start date of this year level 41 & candys are still important to me as i havnt had much opportunity to catch like “gible, larvitar, dratini, etc) so when i get my buddy excited i keep him in all day as im traveling for the candies so i can power up. Although global go fest helped for gible, deino, anex, dratini and saved me alot of traveling candies haha! And now this garchomp raids are saving me the 125 to evolve so i guess as time goes on ill be able to do crazier methods like these 🎉
I'm at 150 best buddies and love them all. I do wish though that there were better perks to getting them to that level. Like half walking distance for candy/XL once best buddy
I do the same but with 12 mons focus on 4 am have 8 as you called background ones! it is fun it keeps me alert in the game! I am almost done as well 12 more am 200!
You can also create teams of your background buddies for leagues and quickly battle with each 3 times a day. This can get you 6 hearts for your background buddies instead of just 3. Takes an extra minute but you can buddy your background buddies in just 50 days instead of 100
I do the background buddies though slightly different. I have 7 buddies I cycle daily through. I tag them 'cb' and do 3 rounds of buddy after buddy. First round makes sure they get each the play, pic and feeding hearts which are 3 hearts. Then the 2nd and 3rd rounds go through them using more berries to put them at 5 hearts per day. A bit slower but it's a best buddy made in 2 months with 5 per day. If done fast, can take 20-25 minutes in a day.
We really need a feature were we can have 2 buddies on the map. It is possible because back when gimmighoul got released it could follow you like a buddy pokemon while your normal buddy pokemon could follow you to.
@@ssj2trunks103 Actually, it was in Pokemon GO. When Gimmighoul first got released, it would follow you and you could tap on it to see which way it pointed to more coins. Although, it was nearly always wrong.
I started with buddies in nov/dec 22 with 3 best buddies and have tried enough to learn some methods that works for me. I Think i have 42 best buddies now.
My suggestion is that if you are trying to farm candies for a Pokémon, don’t make them a background Buddy. What I do is have Pokémon I want to get to Best Buddies but not care for the candies of them as background buddies. Meanwhile, Pokémon I want to get candies for (like my Hundo Gardevoir) I’ll make my main buddy to farm candy
This video is a game changer if we do this with one a buddy in the morning and one buddy in the afternoon we will have two best buddies in 20 days which means 6 in 60 days which means an average of one every 10 days that is 36 by the end of the year 🎉😊❤
my methods as followed. I do as many full heart best buddies i can in a day, it usually is 3 for me, as i walk a lot. Then round 10pm before bed I swap between my other 15-17 buddies and do give a treat, play together, battle together, tale snap shot. It dosen't look like too much individually but it actually ends up being around 170 hearts gained a day.
@@pokemama9317 Thanks for pointing that out, I was curious about more details on that, for example how it works in general. I'd expect that each buddy has it's separate list of new places to visit but it does not seem to be the case. I also distinctly remember getting a heart on a buddy without spinning the pokestop.
I use the background method with a main buddy! I keep a main buddy that I focus on and I have three or four tagged background buddies that I will get 3 to 6 hearts on occasionally. I used to have more than four background buddies, but it was confusing, too time consuming, and not fun.
I didn’t look to see when this was posted, but if I use my buddy to clear a gym, I get a heart for each one it battles. Pokémon, I mean, not per gym. I got confused because of the adventure with evolutions. Some of those, they don’t even have to be in the battle, but to get a heart, it’s per Pokémon.
I don’t really care about best budy. I'm just interested in exciting him to get mega energy twice faster. So I focus at one at the time until I got plenty mega energy, by that time they would reach best buddy status. Since I focus on getting around 20+ heart per day if they are not yet best buddy yet. However from my experience they get excited in around one hour only. I do the following: feed buddy , screenshot buddy & excite buddy in few minutes then set a 1st 30 min timer. Battle a full gym (6 pokemon), one PVP battle, one training battle then set a training battle with Candela or Spark or Blanche. Set e second timer to 30 min. When the first timer reach 30 min then give one berry, screenshot & excite, reset 1st timer to 30 min. When second timer reach 30 min, battle a full gym, 1 Pvp & one training. Usually when this is finished the first timer has reached 30 min a second time, then I take screenshot, excite give a berry, then give more until fed. At that point the buddy is excited.
In my experience, I burn out after a while using these methods. I'd suggest a much slower tactic of picking 3 Pokémon that you will give a berries to or a poffin and get your min 6 or 16 hearts if you've used a poffin. One of those Pokémon, go for a walk, follow a route, find a new stop and you'll probably get a gift once you're a the required friendship level, thus earning more hearts. Then with 12-15 other Pokémon just play with them and take a snapshot. Yes, its only for 2 hearts but it's much faster and you're more likely to keep it up if it's not as time consuming.
As someone with 400 best buddies, I used to use poffins a lot but then I got banned from submitting AR tasks because getting over 20 poffins a day eventually meant i submitted enough garbage AR scans that they employed the ban. So be careful. Do not scan from your car. Do not scan in low visibility conditions and don't shake the camera too much Also I expect even the best scans with a bad camera phone will get you banned. Niantic is extremely picky now.
With the disclaimer that you need to have Mega-Evolved that species at least once already (added it to your Mega-Dex) in order to unlock the ability to earn more Energy walking with it.
200 Best Buddies is just a grind i cant be bothered with for Platinum its just too many, i just buddy the mons i use the most or that i just like the look of,
theres a way easier way to switch buddies. Click on your avatar bottom left. Then click "buddy History". You can switch to a past buddy way faster then swapping them and typing them manually.
You can gain 3 easy hearts in the “battle together” category by surrendering and rematching a team rocket leader or grunt up to around 3-5 different Pokémon depending on how long they’ve been there for! Do it at your own risk as they can disappear but if you don’t care about that particular line up then it’s an easy 6 hearts each buddy you switch up! ^^V
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Yes works but its better with team leaders as they are always available
Don’t forget that you can get free poffins for scanning pokestops. I’ve never paid for a poffin. I usually just best buddy Pokemon that a really like one at a time. I’m not in a rush to get those going
I get my buddies excited to get some mega energy for them. Often with the primal, I wait till im at 19 km or something and then get it excited, so i have maximum result from it. Best buddies follow just from grinding the mega energy
What about the four Bonus hearts; there’s a bonus for Sleep, for getting a gift, and two other ones (folks thought it was three but they did find a fourth one)
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Yes you can acatually get up to 6 bonus hearts - great to speed up your main buddy
As a hardcore solo player, best buddy isn't worth it. It takes too long and doesn't give you anything. What you want to do is just get them up to the first heart so that they can bounce the ball back to you when you miss a shot.
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I think it only really brings in value for pvp players trying to push legend - other then that its just a flex
@ yeah, and the thing I really dislike about it is that even if you spend money on poffins you still have to do all the other stuff to get the hearts. I guess I wouldn't be too disappointed in it if poffin doesn't expire when you use it, but it does
We don't has White Kyurem and Black Kyurem in this year Holiday Christmas Event but we mostly will has White Kyurem and Black Kyurem next year Holiday Christmas Event road on the way to Unova Tour!
Without walking the last stage takes 15 days for the last 150... you can earn 10 a day easily, just swap buddies and work on 2 or 3 at a time❤❤ much love peeps
My strategy is doing 6 hearts a day for 21 best buddy's, the first buddy of the 21 I get a puffin for, the hearts I do for each of them are feeding, play, snapshot and battles. In the long run it does take awhile but I get 21 buddy's at a time, as a loving pokemon trainer the main reason I put so much effort to best buddying my pokemon is to show other trainers how strong my bond is with my pokemon having every 20 gyms defended by a buddy
my is very different 12! 4 main ones am 8 in the back the 1st 4 will get 11 hearts the rest will 8-9 no poffin! am you know what I only need 12 more to finish after the ones I am doing! everyone had their own way but I don't spend money in the game!
How long do you have to wait to get a new "Give your buddy a treat" heart? If my buddy is excited and it swap out, will it remain excited in the background?
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give your buddy a treat I think is every hour - and your buddy won't be excited if you swap out
I have a question! what is the idea to have multiple pokes with full hearts? instead of the 4-6 fav pokemons your going to use like everytime? because, for wath I know, with the ribbon the PC increase only when you have the pokemon next to you, so the extra level doesnt apear unless you have your partenet next to you. And, for example a Sableye for Great league needs to be be lvl 51, does that mean I have to have it as my partner everytime I want to battle with t? So.... what is the idea of having a lot of pokemon full of hearts? what am I losing?(honest, ignorant question)
What i do is the background buddies, just play and take a picture then switch, sucks since i get 2 hearts daily(sometimes an extra one if i get a present)
Also to note, if a poffin is used or your buddy gets excited "naturally", the walking distance to earning candy/ mega energy is cut in half.
good point!
Wait you can earn mega energy from walking with your buddy?
@hoquangminh8030 Yes, providing that you've mega evolved it at least once.
@@hoquangminh8030if you’ve mega evolved it once before it will earn mega but it’s an extremely low rate. best to do raids for more candy
@@bigmel26 You don't have to walk the Mega Evolved Pokemon specifically. You can Mega Evolve any one and walk any of it's species. For Example I Mega Evolved a Blastoise and Im walking my Squirtle and still get the Mega Energy.
probably not the first to mention this but you can get up to a max of 32 hearts with your buddy, granted its not entirely f2p since you need the go plus+. 6 hearts each from walking, feeding, and battling. 2 hearts each from playing, snapshot, visiting a new place, and following a route. Here's where it gets tricky, 2 hearts from both gifts, 2 from the sleep bonus with the go plus+, 1 from spinning a powered up pokestop, and 1 from finding a location stop. Its definitely tedious but I've done it before and oh man it looks good
I guess that's another bonus of the Go Plus+. Extra hearts! Thanks, I hadn't realized that!
This post is very helpful as I just posted a 32 hearts thread on X. I can get 31 but the location was brand new as of a couple of days ago. I accidentally stumbled o on it at work and could not get to that new pokéstop. This is a goal of mine, maybe before the year it out.
Buddying is the worst addiction, I started a year and a half ago getting 6 hearts a day on 15 buddies and switching in the other 6 during the day to optimally buddy them. I wish I never started but I’m 180/200 on the platinum medal I only have about 40 days to go now and it will finally be all over
Made it?
@@denna32 I stopped two months ago with 5 buddies left and about 30 hearts left to get on each of them I don’t even open the game any more it’s been quite nice tho
@@4lerusbro wasted all that time for nothing
@@4MULACosmos😂
@@denna32one day he’ll log in and get the rest
The method I'm using:
-Set around 3 or more Master league teams (I'm doing Pokes with different CP levels) with the pokemon you want to best buddy.
-Pick one and use either regular berries or golden, snapshot, scratch, training battle 3 times and change to a different buddy of the same team (so it takes less time to select)
-Repeat until you want or can.
I'm getting 6 hearts for each pokemon so it's 54 hearts a day (I could do more but it also can get boring).
By using only regular berries I feel it's efficient enough and with 6 hearts each day it only takes 50 days (or less depending on the number of gifts you get) for best buddy.
I'm pretty sure poffins are not 100 dollars
in my eyes it is lol
Pokémon go inflation 🥲
Should really have someone watching these before release to check for those mistakes so they can edit in a fix. Probably comes down to the editor. So WTH editor is you see this, get your work proofread! 😛
100 pokecoins
Bro you know wtf he means though. Don’t be that guy
Just takes 12 days to get your best buddy. And if want to do the most at 3 hours including the walking. You can do approximately 3 to 5 in that time period.
hmmm so how many you have already!? i just need 12 to finish the 200 metal!!
For people without time and extra money
Feed, play, pic, battle ‐> swap buddy -> repeat.
Then leave on a main buddy for candy, walking, and possible new Pokestop.
This was super helpful thx Dax especially with this update I had no idea
I use a rotation system for my best buddies. I select 7 pokemon to best buddy and assign each one a day in the week. On that day, I make sure to excite that pokemon up to 22 hearts. I can typically get that done in the morning by setting a timer for every 10 mins and use the sock method with adventure syn enabled to get walking hearts. Then, I move on to the next day's pokemon, repeating the process to get 22 hearts. With the remaining 19 buddy switches, I will switch to the pokemon for the other days of the week to earn a min of 8 hearts (3 battles, 1 Pet, 1 Photo, and 3 treats). Each time you switch a buddy it can be fed a treat saving time on waiting for it to get peckish. Currently, I am doing the training battle with each buddy pokemon in order to get the trainer plat. badge, but once that is done I can simply go into the battle and give up instantly as it counts as battling and is way more time efficient.
So my system looks like this
Each day: 2 pokemon get 22 and 5 pokemon get 8. Each buddy earns 82 hearts a week.
This always leaves me a few extra swaps a day I can use for background pokemon; usually ones that need buddy requirements to evolve.
Dang I’m cooked, my brain could bearly process that, but I learned a lot from this video so thank you. I think I’m just gonna do the 13 hearts a day
This came up as a recommended video, very helpful. Ive been doing the background buddy method for a minute, currently best buddying a 4* Sylveon,4* Umbreon, 4* Lucky Wartortle and a lucky Cereledge
Was not expecting a Winston from overwatch “Hi there”. Well played
My method is to focus on Best Buddying 1 Pokemon and have 6 in the background. This takes about 20-30 minutes every night while I'm watching some TH-cam before bed (I've timed it multiple times). Each background buddy gets 8 hearts (9 if they bring me a present) so they will be best buddies in 38 days.
What I do is switch to one of my background buddies, berry it, play with it, snapshot it, then do 3 battles with team leader. (You don't need to finish the battle)
Then switch and repeat with the other 5 background buddies.
Once this is done they should each be at 6 hearts.
After this I go back through each of my background buddies 1 by 1 and feed them again to get the 7th heart, then do one last round feeding them berries to get them the 8th heart.
Once this is done I switch to my main buddy and go to sleep. Then grind as much as I want on the main buddy during the day using poffin or excitement etc..
If this is too much you can stop after the first round with each of them when they are at 6 hearts and they will become best buddies in 50 days instead of 38. Some tips I have to make it faster. All my buddies I'm working on have a tag that I made a keyboard shortcut for to find them easily. When doing the battles with the team leader I have the teams preset with my buddies so I don't have to add them in every time. This should all take 30 minutes max good luck!
What do you mean background buddy
I work with different pokemon at the same time and always get 6 hearts in one shot (Snapshot, 3 Nanab Berry, play, 3 battle with trainer (I exit the battle at the beginning).
I use Puffin with more strategy for getting more candy and Mega Energy. When I know I will walk more, I use Puffin and I do a route so I make between 18 and 22 heart with one buddy.
My best buddy is like my elit team for Raid or Master League because this pokemon need more candy, more candy XL, more power (so 1 lvl Bonus is Good) and more Mega Energy for the Mega Pokemon.
That Winston voice was a great edit , love it :D
Daxi rocking that fresh cut ✂️
Always bro
I have to get 10 best buddies to beat a quest so this helps! Thank you!
I am unsure whether you knew or not, but one of my friends taught me this: you can get more research tasks if you keep the AR spinning task as it won't give you more AR tasks. Thought it was useful, and if you knew this already, I'm sorry lol
Yeah I’ve had the same ar scanning for years
How come this comment was posted two weeks ago on this video that was just released? lol
@@AlvaroCubillosMaes they’re a member, they get to see videos before they release
@@AlvaroCubillosMaeschannel members get an early access to the videos.
Thanks to your heads up I now have a best buddy of each type. A total of 30 buddies.
I used to be able to scan pokestops for poffins, and get at least 5 a day, but it's been months since I've been able to get scan tasks.. I miss them everyday, as I love the buddy feature
If you travel 2-3 routes with your buddy you will get to excite a lot faster, battle master league, in a gym, and you can get it to excite in about 35 minutes.
Yes works well if your out moving!
I just work on 1 buddy at a time. But, since Niantic banned me and some friends (not all, just some) from recieving AR tasks, I learned how to get them excited for free. I guess we were submitting low quality scans. Of course, they never told us why or warned us. We just stopped getting AR tasks last summer. Eh, let 'em keep their Poffins. :)
If you're battling a team leader, you can actually exit the battle and it will still give your buddy emotion points. It's much quicker than fully completing the battle. (I know you said this in the video but the screenshot shown earlier in the video said you had to complete the battle, so I'm just commenting this so people understand)
Finally there's a good way to get best buddies quickly, I've only got 2 done in 2 years 💀
wow kid you dorealize that what he just said in his video is nothing compare to what you can do in the game right!? i do 12 mons 4 ain ones am 8 in the back! righ now i just nedd 12 to finish my 200! if you dont have the time just do it at your own time that's all!
Haha its tedious but can be fun!
If the buddy also finds a new stop for you and you spin it, it also counts towards its bonus by another heart.
6:50 is that a LeShundo cameo?
Thanks for the Tips I will make the Background Buddies Strategy ❤
"Master Buddy Method"... More "Psychopath Buddy Method".
im gonna be using the single buddy method to get my slaking best buddy:) great video!
I am just doing 1 at a time can't be bothered to keep swapping my buddies. 8/10 best buddies currently going for 10 for the special research.
Which research
I didn’t even know that I thought once you switch your buddy the hearts go back to 0
nah they stay - hearts reset at the end of the day
“Not gonna waste your time, let’s get right into it.
So before we talk about the fastest way to best buddy your pokemon..”
in depth lil bro
if you're doing multiple buddies, you can tag them or you can put a symbol at the start of their name (i use /) and sort by name. they'll be there at the top and switching buddies will be lightning fast
Yes! Tags are game changing
I love all the methods 10:58 . Im a newer player, April 1st start date of this year level 41 & candys are still important to me as i havnt had much opportunity to catch like “gible, larvitar, dratini, etc) so when i get my buddy excited i keep him in all day as im traveling for the candies so i can power up. Although global go fest helped for gible, deino, anex, dratini and saved me alot of traveling candies haha! And now this garchomp raids are saving me the 125 to evolve so i guess as time goes on ill be able to do crazier methods like these 🎉
How did you get to level 41 in a few months😭
@@a_towel52 the grinddd haha, im 44 now
@@Therealtoekneee dang lol
Switching to and from buddies allows you to max out feeding berries
I'm at 150 best buddies and love them all. I do wish though that there were better perks to getting them to that level. Like half walking distance for candy/XL once best buddy
Best method for me was a mix of background and focus. Background 9 buddies just doing 3 battles and feed/play/pic then focus on one for the day
I do the same but with 12 mons focus on 4 am have 8 as you called background ones! it is fun it keeps me alert in the game! I am almost done as well 12 more am 200!
You can also create teams of your background buddies for leagues and quickly battle with each 3 times a day. This can get you 6 hearts for your background buddies instead of just 3. Takes an extra minute but you can buddy your background buddies in just 50 days instead of 100
that's what i do as well I do 12 mons 4 teams of 3! 4 main ones am 8 background ones the background ones always get 8-9 hearts!
yes good idea!
Lets appreciate dax for always putting out great content.🎉
I am not going to waste anytime proceeds to waste timw
What
@@cr_chainit was supposed to be a joke they made
@@a_towel52 how funny of a joke when they forgot to do
this
And they forgot to do **this**
And they forgot grammar
@@cr_chain it’s not funny I know
I got larvitar 100% ivs today from a field research and this video came perfectly lol
Glad I could help!
I do the background buddies though slightly different. I have 7 buddies I cycle daily through. I tag them 'cb' and do 3 rounds of buddy after buddy. First round makes sure they get each the play, pic and feeding hearts which are 3 hearts. Then the 2nd and 3rd rounds go through them using more berries to put them at 5 hearts per day. A bit slower but it's a best buddy made in 2 months with 5 per day. If done fast, can take 20-25 minutes in a day.
Hey whatever works works!
gotta love it when your buddy bounces it back for ya
We really need a feature were we can have 2 buddies on the map. It is possible because back when gimmighoul got released it could follow you like a buddy pokemon while your normal buddy pokemon could follow you to.
that's is main game series not pokemon go! see the differences between the 2!
That would be nice! Get the squad going
@@ssj2trunks103 Actually, it was in Pokemon GO. When Gimmighoul first got released, it would follow you and you could tap on it to see which way it pointed to more coins. Although, it was nearly always wrong.
I started with buddies in nov/dec 22 with 3 best buddies and have tried enough to learn some methods that works for me. I Think i have 42 best buddies now.
Aint no body got time for all that lol
Ain't no buddy got time for all that 😂
Thanks this helps a lot!
My suggestion is that if you are trying to farm candies for a Pokémon, don’t make them a background Buddy. What I do is have Pokémon I want to get to Best Buddies but not care for the candies of them as background buddies. Meanwhile, Pokémon I want to get candies for (like my Hundo Gardevoir) I’ll make my main buddy to farm candy
Good play! Great to consider candy grinding
This video is a game changer if we do this with one a buddy in the morning and one buddy in the afternoon we will have two best buddies in 20 days which means 6 in 60 days which means an average of one every 10 days that is 36 by the end of the year 🎉😊❤
thank you very much Dax! i just got my shundo (mareep) from the community day and this helps me best buddy it faster
my methods as followed. I do as many full heart best buddies i can in a day, it usually is 3 for me, as i walk a lot. Then round 10pm before bed I swap between my other 15-17 buddies and do give a treat, play together, battle together, tale snap shot. It dosen't look like too much individually but it actually ends up being around 170 hearts gained a day.
Single Buddy ... I have a life 😛 (great video, by the way)
Great stuff! 👍🏽
it'd be useful to explain what visiting new place means because it's not so obvious
It’s a poke stop with a halo. Dax mentions it in the video. I hope that helps 😊.
@@pokemama9317 Thanks for pointing that out, I was curious about more details on that, for example how it works in general. I'd expect that each buddy has it's separate list of new places to visit but it does not seem to be the case. I also distinctly remember getting a heart on a buddy without spinning the pokestop.
I use the background method with a main buddy! I keep a main buddy that I focus on and I have three or four tagged background buddies that I will get 3 to 6 hearts on occasionally. I used to have more than four background buddies, but it was confusing, too time consuming, and not fun.
ya it can be a ginrd
I didn’t look to see when this was posted, but if I use my buddy to clear a gym, I get a heart for each one it battles. Pokémon, I mean, not per gym. I got confused because of the adventure with evolutions. Some of those, they don’t even have to be in the battle, but to get a heart, it’s per Pokémon.
I'm going to use the "background buddies" method beacuse i don't know wich pokemon is the best for me but i alrery have a best buddy
I knew stacking 44 poffins would eventually pay off
I don’t really care about best budy. I'm just interested in exciting him to get mega energy twice faster. So I focus at one at the time until I got plenty mega energy, by that time they would reach best buddy status. Since I focus on getting around 20+ heart per day if they are not yet best buddy yet. However from my experience they get excited in around one hour only. I do the following: feed buddy , screenshot buddy & excite buddy in few minutes then set a 1st 30 min timer. Battle a full gym (6 pokemon), one PVP battle, one training battle then set a training battle with Candela or Spark or Blanche. Set e second timer to 30 min. When the first timer reach 30 min then give one berry, screenshot & excite, reset 1st timer to 30 min. When second timer reach 30 min, battle a full gym, 1 Pvp & one training. Usually when this is finished the first timer has reached 30 min a second time, then I take screenshot, excite give a berry, then give more until fed. At that point the buddy is excited.
In my experience, I burn out after a while using these methods. I'd suggest a much slower tactic of picking 3 Pokémon that you will give a berries to or a poffin and get your min 6 or 16 hearts if you've used a poffin. One of those Pokémon, go for a walk, follow a route, find a new stop and you'll probably get a gift once you're a the required friendship level, thus earning more hearts. Then with 12-15 other Pokémon just play with them and take a snapshot. Yes, its only for 2 hearts but it's much faster and you're more likely to keep it up if it's not as time consuming.
As someone with 400 best buddies, I used to use poffins a lot but then I got banned from submitting AR tasks because getting over 20 poffins a day eventually meant i submitted enough garbage AR scans that they employed the ban. So be careful. Do not scan from your car. Do not scan in low visibility conditions and don't shake the camera too much
Also I expect even the best scans with a bad camera phone will get you banned. Niantic is extremely picky now.
Did no one else notice the smeargle at 2:35? Just caught me by surprise 😂
Homie always surprising people
Also it deserves to mention that buddy walking distance counts for mega energy
With the disclaimer that you need to have Mega-Evolved that species at least once already (added it to your Mega-Dex) in order to unlock the ability to earn more Energy walking with it.
Pokéwalk is the fastest way to best buddy, no arguments.
Is that the pokeball walking thing
200 Best Buddies is just a grind i cant be bothered with for Platinum its just too many, i just buddy the mons i use the most or that i just like the look of,
How to best buddy your Pokémon fast.
Not going to waste any of your time let’s get right into it
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This was very helpful
Dang $100 each?! I knew Niantic was raising prices but sheesh! 😂
Btw if you guys don’t know if you switch your buddy then switch back you can feed it agian
You can gain 3 easy hearts in the “battle together” category by surrendering and rematching a team rocket leader or grunt up to around 3-5 different Pokémon depending on how long they’ve been there for! Do it at your own risk as they can disappear but if you don’t care about that particular line up then it’s an easy 6 hearts each buddy you switch up! ^^V
Yes works but its better with team leaders as they are always available
@ I didn’t know that!!! 🤯 Always learning something new about the game through you! Thank you!! 🙏🥰
9:31 to 9:33 I’m gonna what? Instructions not clear now my Pikachu is pregnant.
Doing this for the Jirachi research, though I just get 6 everyday
1 for feeding
1 for play
1 for snapshot
3 for battling the trainers
you know you can swap the buddy with a different one and then swap it back to get the feeding Heart again right? You can get 9 Hearts mininum a day.
Don’t forget that you can get free poffins for scanning pokestops. I’ve never paid for a poffin. I usually just best buddy Pokemon that a really like one at a time. I’m not in a rush to get those going
Can also use the 3 battle on background buddies, which to give you total of 6❤.
Yes if you have the time!
Pokemon go plus+ sleep bonus hearts also
I just best buddied my ultra league shadow shiny dragonite without spending a single dime. So happy
Pokemon sleep also gives extra bonus hearts
So a max total of 32
How do you do tht?
@@rickyperea7861it’s an app
If you just walk a route and walk 2km you’ll be done in in 30mins. It’ll only require a berry and snapshot and play with buddy
I do need 10 best buddies and I have 3/10 for the shiny hitachi masterwork research so this should help!!!
I got my first best buddy today!
Congrats!
I get my buddies excited to get some mega energy for them. Often with the primal, I wait till im at 19 km or something and then get it excited, so i have maximum result from it. Best buddies follow just from grinding the mega energy
you can get 27, sometimes you get 3 hearths in the bonus category (rare thing but happens)
You can get 32
max is actually 32
What about the four Bonus hearts; there’s a bonus for Sleep, for getting a gift, and two other ones (folks thought it was three but they did find a fourth one)
Yes you can acatually get up to 6 bonus hearts - great to speed up your main buddy
I did not know about entering the training area and exiting out for battle hearts! Ty.
3:15 Poffin lasts 6 hours only not 8 🙂
opened pokemon go while watching this and casually found a shiny pantimos, thanks lol
I got 30 hearts in a single day once. It was a CD , and I was shocked. I got 4 Hearts from bonus
As a hardcore solo player, best buddy isn't worth it. It takes too long and doesn't give you anything. What you want to do is just get them up to the first heart so that they can bounce the ball back to you when you miss a shot.
I think it only really brings in value for pvp players trying to push legend - other then that its just a flex
@ yeah, and the thing I really dislike about it is that even if you spend money on poffins you still have to do all the other stuff to get the hearts. I guess I wouldn't be too disappointed in it if poffin doesn't expire when you use it, but it does
the look he gave while saying I can play with my buddy :D
We don't has White Kyurem and Black Kyurem in this year Holiday Christmas Event but we mostly will has White Kyurem and Black Kyurem next year Holiday Christmas Event road on the way to Unova Tour!
Without walking the last stage takes 15 days for the last 150... you can earn 10 a day easily, just swap buddies and work on 2 or 3 at a time❤❤ much love peeps
My strategy is doing 6 hearts a day for 21 best buddy's, the first buddy of the 21 I get a puffin for, the hearts I do for each of them are feeding, play, snapshot and battles. In the long run it does take awhile but I get 21 buddy's at a time, as a loving pokemon trainer the main reason I put so much effort to best buddying my pokemon is to show other trainers how strong my bond is with my pokemon having every 20 gyms defended by a buddy
my is very different 12! 4 main ones am 8 in the back the 1st 4 will get 11 hearts the rest will 8-9 no poffin! am you know what I only need 12 more to finish after the ones I am doing! everyone had their own way but I don't spend money in the game!
THis is a great way if you have time!
I got my first best buddy almost a week ago 😍
Hey congrats! What was it!
@ a hundo virizion I got last year! It was my first hundo actually
How to spawn your buddy in the AR, while looking at your computer screen? what file/image to use?
2:53 100 Dollars!? Pretty cheap xD
How long do you have to wait to get a new "Give your buddy a treat" heart?
If my buddy is excited and it swap out, will it remain excited in the background?
give your buddy a treat I think is every hour - and your buddy won't be excited if you swap out
I have a question! what is the idea to have multiple pokes with full hearts? instead of the 4-6 fav pokemons your going to use like everytime?
because, for wath I know, with the ribbon the PC increase only when you have the pokemon next to you, so the extra level doesnt apear unless you have your partenet next to you.
And, for example a Sableye for Great league needs to be be lvl 51, does that mean I have to have it as my partner everytime I want to battle with t?
So.... what is the idea of having a lot of pokemon full of hearts? what am I losing?(honest, ignorant question)
Is it best to max CP before making them a best buddy or can you best bussy and then keep upgrading?
This game is like full time job with how slow every animation in this game is. Sending gifts to friends and getting hearts takes wayyyy to long
What i do is the background buddies, just play and take a picture then switch, sucks since i get 2 hearts daily(sometimes an extra one if i get a present)
Is it true that once you have a poffined pokemon and switch it out it looses the poffin effect when you come back to it?
No, it stays till 12 am. The buddy page resets at the start of new day.