For bug types it doesn’t get more budget than beedrill. Has a mega out currently, is very cheap to power up and weedle is a very common spawn. Not to mention you can get mega beedrill energy just by spinning gyms
I also want to emphasize that for those who are struggling to find good IVs for various mons, best to find a friend or have another account to mass trade with to reroll IVs A strategy I use is to mass catch similar species, coordinate with a friend, and just grab lunch or find some time to chill and mirror trade. I have received various 100%’s and luckies with this tried and true method Daxi already made a video on this but just a reminder PSA
@@johnyprigioni859 I do at times but I actually don’t manually catch it since I get lazy (my low catch rate = less mons available to trade for XL), so I have had a few friends who actually want/need meta mons in my chat that I been helping, plus assistance on their medal completions
If only my alt had high cp mons so i can boost ult & master league & enough stardust to trade my trash iv legendarys that i seem to only get from raids now I did 3 zacian raids & NOT 1 had a iv higher than 80%. Last good iv i got was 96% groudon
I think budget pokemon are absolutely worth building with the following considerations: 1. Caught at level 30+ (don't really need stardust) 2. Evolve with a good move set or only have 2 moves for a guaranteed success with TM (I blew 10 charge tms into a donphan and never got earth move so he's not my friend any more T_T) 3. Trade evolution. Trade crappy iv high level Bois for some free candy, an IV re-roll, and free evolution. Might even get a lucky! 4. it's a pokemon that you love. (I don't care if alakazam is worse than Espeon I traded until I got a lucky hundo and he's going to level 50 one day, because abra is my baby boi. Also he gets a mega evolution eventually, so win win.) Additionaly I am a returning day 1 player, who only played 3 months in 2020 since leaving the game in 2018. I am building budget teams so I can raid and have found the new mega system incredibly budget friendly. A single raid gets you enough mega energy for the only mega evo you ever really need to pay for. More raids = faster road to lvl 3 mega but that's just gravy IMO. Get the megas, they will be occasionally your strongest response and it cost 1 raid pass of investment
Only 6 minutes?😭 Dude I love your Pokémon educational videos or tips videos. Anything educational I always love to watch cus you're not tooo corny and you get straight to the point. You're killing it dude!
Budget video on pokemon that can effectively be ultra and master league as well as raid attackers. Helps those of us starting out to be able to have fun in both areas sooner.
Swampert, walrein, and talonflame with legacy moves are solid for great league and ultra. For master they will most likely use legendaries and the stardust cost will be prohibitively expensive especially for beginners and free players. Best stick to great league and little cup for new players. Even great league power ups will need 200k+ stardust to make a good team. Sylveon, glaceon and umbreon are also good budget pokemons and you can evolve each of them easily once. Do a google search on it.
If you don't have star dust to invest in effective pokemon then you really don't have dust to waste either. On a budget: evolve high level wild spawns.
This!! Especially if you are lower than lvl 35, take those high CP wild spawns and use them until you can invest in better ones instead of tossing them in hopes for evolving a lower lvl high IV mon.
Also, though a mythical, melmetal is a very good pokemon to power up since you can find the candy easily, plus you can trade and may get a lucky Meltan to save those stardust.
Might have been helpful to note that several of those you shortlisted have, or will have the ability to Mega Evolve making them even better for raiding
Those in real need of budget powering up might want to consider the dual typing pokemon from your list. Swampert, Roserade, Excadrill, Ryperior, etc. I buy raid passes so I have lots of legendaries and shadows but a friend doesn't so I often help her decide what are the better pokemon to level up from her dex.
Why is dual type helpful for budget? Are you aiming to split the moveset types between the two? I guess in my mind you normally still go for fast and charge move of the type you are aiming to counter. But maybe that isn't as viable for budget
@@frotes Yes, unlock the second charge move and sometimes if the mon has fast moves for each coverage (that are not legacy) you can use a Fast TM to change it depending on what you want. (Swampert with Mud Shot and Water Gun or Rhyperior with Mud Shot and Smack Down). Also, this doesn't work with mons that have legacy fast moves like Tyranitar since Smack Down is legacy for it and you cannot get it using a regular Fast TM.
Surprised you didn’t include granbull as a budget fairy attacker togekiss is harder to find due to being locked to eggs unless an event happened while snubulls are readily available. While sylveon is available the resource to get it is long and tedious
@@davidbeltran9946 well that's why it's a budget list. It's not meant to be end goal material. All you need is a 30+ granbull with mid to good IVs until you can get those togepi candies. Lucky bunz made an excellent video regarding the topic, but it is weaker of the 3 but it should still be a contender with how readily available snubull is compared to the others.
@@davidbeltran9946 raid contender doesn't need to be lvl 50. Lvl 30 is 90% of its total damage potential and getting a Granbull to lvl 40+ is optional, but it is more than adequate to use in raids, especially as a budget choice. Snubbull and Granbull can often spawn at lvl 25 - 35 in the wild. I have caught a 2534 Granbull in the wild and I think it was lvl 30 + with 2* almost 3* IVs.
An added tip I recommend for a lot of people who are still trying to stack that stardust is to try and catch the highest LEVEL pokemon you can (i.e. if you're raiding for a Machamp, Tyranitar, etc, focus on them when they're weather boosted). If you're able to catch them in the wild while they're weather boosted, like all the Machop during the worlds event, you could potentially be looking at mons close to level 40. These can carry you for a lot of raid bosses while you wait for better IVs or shadows to actually invest stardust into.
When I started, I just evolved level 35 mons, even if they had bad ivs, because it doesn't really matter the ivs for raids. Then I slowly made the top tier mons.
I recently powered up a roserade and it's great! Not even level 40 (around 2500 cp) and it can solo Sierra with blaziken and houndoom. Yeah it does have both CD moves and double moved, but still, recommended for battling.
I think people need to realize that PoGo is a game of patience and long-term investment. You may not have the top-tiers now, but when you do get them (and you will, if you wait), you will wish you had the dust.
I consider ‘budget’ to be non raid non egg and non rare Pokémon so the shadow versions of machamp swampert mamoswine and other useful ones would be on my list still. Melmetal is also easily available and good to have. I think I just tend to think of $$ as budget and not stardust. Also focus all you rare candy on those raid locked or mythicals to save your money.
I don't power-up raid attackers anymore. Living in an area where there are no other raiders, so it's almost mandatory to have an alt for raids. I only up those PVP pokemons that are super useful. Sadly, the PVP is broken in so many ways. But it's the best way to get free legendaries + other extra.
I'm a bit confused. You're presenting these Pokemon as being useful in raids, but you said these are for people that don't do a lot of raids and don't have legendaries? I would suggest this strategy for those on a $$$ budget or a stardust budget: Save up your stardust for legendaries and find a large raid group that can carry you to victory and will lead to your getting good legendaries (sorry rural players, this probably doesn't work for you). Use gym coins to save up for boxes with raid passes and do your 2 free raids every other day (you can save one from the day before and still get a second for that day). You don't need a bunch of each legendary, so just do a few of each. And don't worry about IVs, with legendaries they are minimum 10/10/10, and that's just fine. Power up good legendaries as you can with your dust. Within a few months you will have a good stable of legendaries and you'll be ready to carry others in the raids!
I'm glad you made this video because I feel like with alot of your videos you always recommend super expensive or super rare Pokemon to use and that's just not feasible for most players who aren't level 45+ or spend hundreds on the game.
My main reason I don’t power up much stuff is that I either am waiting to get a really good iv or I dont want to use the candy on them because for example I spent a bunch of candy powering up a metagross and now have none for this event when I can evolve for meteor mash
This is an awesome video.... very helpful... however I am new to the game and dont know all the names you mention so I am struggling to write these down for notes as you say them and list the moves you mention for them... it would be nice if you added a list in a simple word doc with this list... Great work keep these videos up I am learning loads from you
Dose not use an elite tm is way more budget the no shadow. I'm ftp and have plenty of relevant high iv shadows but most mons that need com day moves are going to sit in my bag waiting for an event
LuckyBunz just did a video on this exact topic a few days ago. His is organized differently and more focused on the budget part so I would say it’s different enough but maybe you could shout his out or something :/
For anyone here now, make sure you get brutal swing on your ttar, its better then crunch now and makes it the best dark type raid attacker outside any megas. At least for shadow ttar thats the case, regular ttar is now 5th with bite and crunch for dark types
Don’t bother wasting your dust powering up teams for raids. 6x each type except normal and dragon is 96 Pokémon up to level 35/40 to be useful. Pointless. Power up Pokémon for gbl great league ultra league and maybe a team of 3 to level 40 for masters league. You’ll get way more legendaries from gbl rewards. note: if you play com days you could probably save up the candies and power up 3 to level 50
IV is less important than Moves and Level. More Pokémon at high level is more valuable than less Pokémon at a max level. Try to get by with max level weatherboosted Pokémon (35) Save maxing Pokémon for your meta relevant trophy hundos.
i agree i guess 50/50, some are worth it to power up permanently some aren't as long its a meta pokemon like metagross, garchamp etc. these comday pokemon is must because you can grind it and save up some candies to power it up for example like 1 shadow machamp and 5 normal/lucky machamp is worth to have or worth it to invest its not like you need a full team of shadow machamp that has 100iv or max cp, that's way too expensive, anyway their is a good balance and alternative way. mirror trade it also good because you can get 3-4* lucky easily in some events that has increase odds of getting a lucky pokemon if you have friends or relative to play or just use two device to trade from main to alt account with same type pokemon, and also good moveset can help you in raid attackers, even it budget but you have these legacy moves its worth it to have it, weather you're fp2 or p2win Trainer in Pokemon go you get these to have decent team in raid attackers, just sharing from my experience.. sorry for my English
@@Sikk2 still will be bad as its only fast attack is thunder shock and that fast attack wont be good for melmetal in raids so that pokemon is only good for pvp
@@Zenduted depends on how good DIB will be. Lugia for example has no flying quick move neither and is still a good raid attacker because Aeroblast++ is just so busted
Could use an updated version of the best to powerup series for 2023. Slow down a bit though please even at 3/4 speed I keep having to pause and go back to hear all options
Sorry Daxi but there are better tips for the budget conscious in your comments section. Lucky Pokémon - half the dust expense. Dual type Pokémon - use for both types. Melmetal - fully accessible, tradable and valuable mythical. The other thing to consider is that in many cases a raid caught legendary/mythical/beast can be fairly close to if not better than a level 40 non legendary/mythical/beast Pokémon - some analysis on this would be a great topic for a video. If dust is your issue, it is better to have multiple high-ish level Pokémon than to have a single high-max level Pokémon. Using XL candy is usually a waste save that for your hundos. But at the end of the day play however you want to play and have fun.
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This video focus is best pokemon to power up & less about how to save dust - but those tips could definitely be in a separate video
@ - you covered most if not all types - in reality some Pokémon without stab or just normal effective moves can be better than some of the best with stab. Not trying to be a downer, really like your videos. Just don’t think this one hit the same mark as usual.
Granbull is a decent fairy type that had a lot of play against Guzzlord and has been putting out the raid dps for me for years. Accessible and only 50 candy to evolve.
I think the biggest thing for us casual players that try to get into the “Pokémon we should invest,” it’s hard cause we have nothing to raid with. We don’t have Shadow/legendary/mythical’s and is why we need these budget Pokémon. This is why we’re okay with investing in these. It’s our stepping stone.
Shadow pokemon are free, you don't need to buy raid passes to get them. Fighting grunt is everywhere for shadow machop for example. The best strategy for casual players is to just use the highest CP wild pokemon you have found and slowly power up the top tier attackers in the meantime. It's a long-term project, we can't expect to have the best of the best within the first month as a casual players.
Remember that if you have 6 budget counters in the cp 2000-2500 range, with the right moves, you're already doing way better than most other players in the raid. For budget dust investment, up to level 30 is optimal. After that, each powerup only adds half as much stats to any Pokemon. If you can already raid, it's also nice to get just a bunch of legendaries and never power them up as a budget option. For recent examples the ultra beasts Nihilego (poison) and Xurkitree (electric) are great. 6 unpowered Nihilegos is honestly more than you'll ever need as poison type raid team.
Also, types to focus on: Rock, Fighting, Dark, Fairy, and Steel. Next: Ground, Electric, and Ice. Important for coverage but not the most widely used types. The self-weak types Ghost and Dragon are last. Skip all other types unless you want to get some anyway.
Granbull is 100% best budget Fairy type that is not a legendary. Easier to get than Sylveon (don't have to gamble on mystery evolve w/Eevee) AND its fairly bulky. People sleep on Granbull and if you can get a good IV shadow Granbull, that's quality too!
There is no gamble mystery Eevee evolve for Sylveon. 25 candy + 70 hearts as buddy. Look at silhouettes - choose correct one - get Sylveon. Granbull has an edge on DPS, Sylveon on DPS^3*TDO. Dying less probably the better choice if on a strict dust budget.
@@sambeaumont395 It is a gamble mystery if you do not do the 70 hearts with a buddy, but I am not sure how many know that is how you get Sylveon. If they watch this video, then they'll know. xD Granbull is still far more accessible in my opinion since it doesn't need any evolve conditions like the Eevees do or is a rare egg/raid spawn: Togepi/Togeptic for Togekiss. 70 hearts takes a while to get to on one buddy (if you're not Poffin-ing them) and if you want 3-4 Sylveon, that is far more work/time/money than Granbull. If you wanted 3 Sylveon, that's about 15-16 days total (approximately), unless you can cycle multiple Eevees at once and do all the daily heart challenges per Eevee every day. To each their own, though. Dust budget/overall time & effort - Granbull is the better choice if you can get a few around lvl 25 - 30 and power up slightly as needed. Granbull even spawns in the wild where I am, so maybe I am biased geographically. As for DPS vs TDO, if you can dodge with your Granbull in raids then you can negate the TDO longevity of Sylveon. I'd rather have 3-5 Granbull with good-great IVs over a couple Sylveon
@@kmrskates - wrong. Eevee will only turn into Sylveon if; - use one time name trick “Kira” - after obtaining 70 buddy hearts The mystery eeveelutions are Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon. You can easily get a minimum of 8 hearts for up to 7 Pokémon per day - should take about 30 minutes. That’s 7 (8 with name trick) Sylveon in 9 days without walking and without using a poffin. The video is about working on a budget and ultimately falls short of any real advice - personally I would avoid all fairies as other Pokémon likely do a better job in raids and/or are more versatile and therefore help to save dust. In relation to fairy - I don’t disagree that Granbull is accessible. But I will note it is twice as expensive (candy) to evolve. And is less tanky than Sylveon so likely to need more powered up (costing more dust).
WOW sweet to see that I got three of the pokemons on the list at 100% I got a Electabuzz I caught in 2016 and now after many years not playing I'm back and I got a Bagon today from a Referral Milestone Reward. I got a Staraptor at comunity day with gust and Brave Bird. It looks like he can't learn "Sky Attack" as it say in the video. They are Low lvl so will be expensive to level up, but I guess it's worth it? Should I evolve and power opp these ones, is it worth it? Bagon: 100% IV lvl 15.0 CP 495 Electabuzz: 100% IV lvl 19.0 CP 1267 Staraptor: 100% IV lvl 31.5 CP 2482 "Gust" & "Brave Bird"
I only powerup pokemons for raiding , I use my Stardust in rank 1 of every type cause more damage so more pokeballs and higher catch rate for those 97% and 100% IVs ,and GBL(only great league) not a fan of ultra league have 2 decent master league teams but not use it for climbing after rank 20
I got a galarian legendary bird today in my mini account, but it fleed 😭. BTW I want you to make a video on how to upgrade mini accounts faster please. AND LOVE FROM INDIA 🖤
wondering if there'll ever be a shadow eevee, that could be super cool and useful also I just pulled a Pokedaxi and purified my 92% hydro cannon swampert, please kill me
Me who just 50 maxed my hundo machamp Still hunting for that good shadow machamp Got that hundo excarill been working on for a while Lol not somebody who will complain about not being able to get thexbest stuff but anybody complaining about shadows you get 4 guaranteed shadows per day from team go rocket balloons But got a hundo scuzor through mega raids recently Got a hundo husreigon from eggs (need brutal swing) Got hundo SHADOW t tar so happy about that just elite tm'd smack down Got the hindo sylveon and gardevpir just need more xl Got the hundo darmanitan and emboar I have 2 hundo starraptors ironically Got both before community day I just got hundo gengar I got 50 maxed venusaur (which you can easily mega energy for through research) Got the hundo rampardos I didn't realize Kinsler was actually good lol
Really need someone’s help pretty please, when I use AR mode grass comes up and you have to move the phone around and click for the Pokémon to appear how do I skip this and the Pokémon just show up straight away so I can do the quick catch through AR mode does anyone know please
@@Zenduted - valid point - but at 20% extra dust and 20% candy required to power up, may as well set a floor requirement. As I understand IVs matter more on Shadow Pokémon due to break points. The question should be do I need this right now, if no hold out for a better iv, if yes power it up. And in any case if it isn’t a Hundo be aware that you may get better ivs down the line and want to power up the better one.
@@sambeaumont395 yes they are very expensive and i am pretty New to the game so i also dont have alot of candy. I think i m going to start at 2star and continue from that
@@mister_x5825 - this is just my opinion - but if you are new to the game and don’t have much candy or star dust - I think you should hold off powering anything up, have others carry you in raids. Unlike OG players you have the disadvantage of being able to level up quickly, which essentially means you get the XP gains without getting all of the resources. (Trainer level is near irrelevant, Pokemon level is what matters). If you are going to power something up you should want to be able to get it to level 35, so want to have enough candy and dust to go all the way before going for it, in case something better comes along. Usually it is better to have two Pokémon at level 35 than one at level 40. Who knows by the time you get the candy to power up to 35 (or higher) you will have a better IV version. Daxi mentions the budget options in this video for each type but completely ignores that some types are next to worthless, with non-stab Pokémon or neutral effective sometimes being more valuable. While ignoring Mega (Shadow and Legendary etc) he also doesn’t clarify that … pokemon can mega and therefore while being a more accessible option has that added benefit. If I were you I would look into getting Meltans - Melmetal is very, very good, while an expensive evolution candy is very easy to come by with the mystery box, despite being a mythical Pokémon. It’s a steel type with non steel moves.
any idea when we can change tm on shadow pokemon again, Only got back into go like 3 weeks ago like really back in but see shadow are the best but not sure i want to spend made for the moves any info would be nice
For raids, you want to get as close to perfect IVs as you can, with attack being the most important stat. However, IVs aren't all that impactwful, so I wouldn't stress if you don't get 100% or 98% mons. The difference between a Pokemon with 15/15/15 IVs and 14/10/10 IVs is barely noticeable.
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For bug types it doesn’t get more budget than beedrill. Has a mega out currently, is very cheap to power up and weedle is a very common spawn. Not to mention you can get mega beedrill energy just by spinning gyms
I also want to emphasize that for those who are struggling to find good IVs for various mons, best to find a friend or have another account to mass trade with to reroll IVs
A strategy I use is to mass catch similar species, coordinate with a friend, and just grab lunch or find some time to chill and mirror trade. I have received various 100%’s and luckies with this tried and true method
Daxi already made a video on this but just a reminder PSA
We all know you are trading with your alt account, mate. And I am not against it, actually doing the same
@@johnyprigioni859 I do at times but I actually don’t manually catch it since I get lazy (my low catch rate = less mons available to trade for XL), so I have had a few friends who actually want/need meta mons in my chat that I been helping, plus assistance on their medal completions
@@johnyprigioni859 Is there an easy way to trade with an alt account?
If only my alt had high cp mons so i can boost ult & master league & enough stardust to trade my trash iv legendarys that i seem to only get from raids now
I did 3 zacian raids & NOT 1 had a iv higher than 80%. Last good iv i got was 96% groudon
Or just don't overthink IVs, as long as you got the pokemon and the right move 90% of the power is there
Magikarp and bidof is a lot better to power up
Yeah bro
No.1 and 2
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@Winso what is better then them
@Winso nha
Bidof stronger
I think budget pokemon are absolutely worth building with the following considerations:
1. Caught at level 30+ (don't really need stardust)
2. Evolve with a good move set or only have 2 moves for a guaranteed success with TM (I blew 10 charge tms into a donphan and never got earth move so he's not my friend any more T_T)
3. Trade evolution. Trade crappy iv high level Bois for some free candy, an IV re-roll, and free evolution. Might even get a lucky!
4. it's a pokemon that you love. (I don't care if alakazam is worse than Espeon I traded until I got a lucky hundo and he's going to level 50 one day, because abra is my baby boi. Also he gets a mega evolution eventually, so win win.)
Additionaly I am a returning day 1 player, who only played 3 months in 2020 since leaving the game in 2018. I am building budget teams so I can raid and have found the new mega system incredibly budget friendly. A single raid gets you enough mega energy for the only mega evo you ever really need to pay for. More raids = faster road to lvl 3 mega but that's just gravy IMO. Get the megas, they will be occasionally your strongest response and it cost 1 raid pass of investment
Only 6 minutes?😭 Dude I love your Pokémon educational videos or tips videos. Anything educational I always love to watch cus you're not tooo corny and you get straight to the point. You're killing it dude!
Budget video on pokemon that can effectively be ultra and master league as well as raid attackers. Helps those of us starting out to be able to have fun in both areas sooner.
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Swampert, walrein, and talonflame with legacy moves are solid for great league and ultra. For master they will most likely use legendaries and the stardust cost will be prohibitively expensive especially for beginners and free players. Best stick to great league and little cup for new players. Even great league power ups will need 200k+ stardust to make a good team. Sylveon, glaceon and umbreon are also good budget pokemons and you can evolve each of them easily once. Do a google search on it.
If you don't have star dust to invest in effective pokemon then you really don't have dust to waste either.
On a budget: evolve high level wild spawns.
This!!
Especially if you are lower than lvl 35, take those high CP wild spawns and use them until you can invest in better ones instead of tossing them in hopes for evolving a lower lvl high IV mon.
Also, though a mythical, melmetal is a very good pokemon to power up since you can find the candy easily, plus you can trade and may get a lucky Meltan to save those stardust.
Trading Meltan costs way too much stardust for it to be worth it.
Might have been helpful to note that several of those you shortlisted have, or will have the ability to Mega Evolve making them even better for raiding
For anyone looking for the list: Gengar, Garchomp, Metagross, Alakazam, Sceptile, Blaziken, Charizard, Scizor, Lucario, Swampert, (maybe Pinsir but wouldn’t recommend). Probably forgot some, feel free to add
@@Sikk2 also venusaur, tyranitar, guardevoir and salamence
Those in real need of budget powering up might want to consider the dual typing pokemon from your list. Swampert, Roserade, Excadrill, Ryperior, etc.
I buy raid passes so I have lots of legendaries and shadows but a friend doesn't so I often help her decide what are the better pokemon to level up from her dex.
Why is dual type helpful for budget? Are you aiming to split the moveset types between the two?
I guess in my mind you normally still go for fast and charge move of the type you are aiming to counter. But maybe that isn't as viable for budget
@@frotes Yes, unlock the second charge move and sometimes if the mon has fast moves for each coverage (that are not legacy) you can use a Fast TM to change it depending on what you want. (Swampert with Mud Shot and Water Gun or Rhyperior with Mud Shot and Smack Down). Also, this doesn't work with mons that have legacy fast moves like Tyranitar since Smack Down is legacy for it and you cannot get it using a regular Fast TM.
@@MP-ej9pw ok gotcha, that makes sense
Surprised you didn’t include granbull as a budget fairy attacker togekiss is harder to find due to being locked to eggs unless an event happened while snubulls are readily available. While sylveon is available the resource to get it is long and tedious
I think that it is because to be a raid contender, it has to be level 50. Too expensive
@@davidbeltran9946 well that's why it's a budget list. It's not meant to be end goal material. All you need is a 30+ granbull with mid to good IVs until you can get those togepi candies. Lucky bunz made an excellent video regarding the topic, but it is weaker of the 3 but it should still be a contender with how readily available snubull is compared to the others.
Bend over Ben Dover 😂
@@davidbeltran9946 raid contender doesn't need to be lvl 50. Lvl 30 is 90% of its total damage potential and getting a Granbull to lvl 40+ is optional, but it is more than adequate to use in raids, especially as a budget choice. Snubbull and Granbull can often spawn at lvl 25 - 35 in the wild. I have caught a 2534 Granbull in the wild and I think it was lvl 30 + with 2* almost 3* IVs.
you can also use gardevoir for budget and granbull's cp is trash
now im really realizing how i hit the jackpot with a shadow hundo marshtomp xD (its now a swampert with hydro cannon)
An added tip I recommend for a lot of people who are still trying to stack that stardust is to try and catch the highest LEVEL pokemon you can (i.e. if you're raiding for a Machamp, Tyranitar, etc, focus on them when they're weather boosted). If you're able to catch them in the wild while they're weather boosted, like all the Machop during the worlds event, you could potentially be looking at mons close to level 40. These can carry you for a lot of raid bosses while you wait for better IVs or shadows to actually invest stardust into.
Forfeiting in pvp at a decent rank (and winning once if you want to) can really provide stardust too. I do this a lot especially on Go Battle Days.
machamps are op since machops are all common and if u have a friend to trade with u WILL have machamps
i have like 4 machamps already with good ivs
When I started, I just evolved level 35 mons, even if they had bad ivs, because it doesn't really matter the ivs for raids. Then I slowly made the top tier mons.
“But I do understand that some people’s lives are not centered around PokémonGo.”
I do not want to meet those people.
I recently powered up a roserade and it's great! Not even level 40 (around 2500 cp) and it can solo Sierra with blaziken and houndoom. Yeah it does have both CD moves and double moved, but still, recommended for battling.
I think people need to realize that PoGo is a game of patience and long-term investment. You may not have the top-tiers now, but when you do get them (and you will, if you wait), you will wish you had the dust.
Alolan golem is a decent rock with roll out and rock blast . I used it against the kanto birds and it did some work for me .
I consider ‘budget’ to be non raid non egg and non rare Pokémon so the shadow versions of machamp swampert mamoswine and other useful ones would be on my list still. Melmetal is also easily available and good to have. I think I just tend to think of $$ as budget and not stardust. Also focus all you rare candy on those raid locked or mythicals to save your money.
true shadow machamp is very easy to get, a lot of grunts i see have shadow machop
I don't power-up raid attackers anymore. Living in an area where there are no other raiders, so it's almost mandatory to have an alt for raids. I only up those PVP pokemons that are super useful. Sadly, the PVP is broken in so many ways. But it's the best way to get free legendaries + other extra.
Since when did Staraptor have Sky Attack as a Charged Move. I think this is an error Daxi. Staraptor can only have Brave Bird.
I'm a bit confused. You're presenting these Pokemon as being useful in raids, but you said these are for people that don't do a lot of raids and don't have legendaries?
I would suggest this strategy for those on a $$$ budget or a stardust budget:
Save up your stardust for legendaries and find a large raid group that can carry you to victory and will lead to your getting good legendaries (sorry rural players, this probably doesn't work for you). Use gym coins to save up for boxes with raid passes and do your 2 free raids every other day (you can save one from the day before and still get a second for that day).
You don't need a bunch of each legendary, so just do a few of each. And don't worry about IVs, with legendaries they are minimum 10/10/10, and that's just fine. Power up good legendaries as you can with your dust. Within a few months you will have a good stable of legendaries and you'll be ready to carry others in the raids!
Exactly
I'm glad you made this video because I feel like with alot of your videos you always recommend super expensive or super rare Pokemon to use and that's just not feasible for most players who aren't level 45+ or spend hundreds on the game.
He can’t spend time making videos for the lazy people 😂
Gyarados is a good budget one as its a 1km candy buddy and its a good multi use mon!
Is it worth using an elite TM to put rock wrecker on the rhyperior I already got to almost level 50?
Yes. I just did it for my hundo metagross for meteor mash
My main reason I don’t power up much stuff is that I either am waiting to get a really good iv or I dont want to use the candy on them because for example I spent a bunch of candy powering up a metagross and now have none for this event when I can evolve for meteor mash
Outside of raids these mentioned here are also used in PVP. So if not for raid battles some PVP battles could be useful.
This is an awesome video.... very helpful... however I am new to the game and dont know all the names you mention so I am
struggling to write these down for notes as you say them and list the moves you mention for them... it would be nice if you added a list in a simple word doc with this list...
Great work keep these videos up I am learning loads from you
Dose not use an elite tm is way more budget the no shadow. I'm ftp and have plenty of relevant high iv shadows but most mons that need com day moves are going to sit in my bag waiting for an event
LuckyBunz just did a video on this exact topic a few days ago. His is organized differently and more focused on the budget part so I would say it’s different enough but maybe you could shout his out or something :/
For anyone here now, make sure you get brutal swing on your ttar, its better then crunch now and makes it the best dark type raid attacker outside any megas. At least for shadow ttar thats the case, regular ttar is now 5th with bite and crunch for dark types
Don’t bother wasting your dust powering up teams for raids. 6x each type except normal and dragon is 96 Pokémon up to level 35/40 to be useful. Pointless. Power up Pokémon for gbl great league ultra league and maybe a team of 3 to level 40 for masters league. You’ll get way more legendaries from gbl rewards.
note: if you play com days you could probably save up the candies and power up 3 to level 50
Dont forget that you can get the legacy move Rock Wrecker for Rhyperior RIGHT NOW & tommorow when evolving Rhydon!
Nice video, though, I'm done with raids...2 Zacians, 35 golden berries, several excellent (even 4 o 5 in a row) and both got away...GG
ive never had this hard of a time with catching a raid legendary! they definitely need to lower the catch rate just a bit
I wonder what the IVs we should look for when trying to power up these pokemon
For raids it's all about attack. I think at least 13 is ok. It really only matters for solos or short-manning though.
IV is less important than Moves and Level.
More Pokémon at high level is more valuable than less Pokémon at a max level.
Try to get by with max level weatherboosted Pokémon (35)
Save maxing Pokémon for your meta relevant trophy hundos.
I got a hundred percent ryhorn from resherch during this event Sunday and evolved it all the way up
Have to use an elite tm
@@sambeaumont395 I didn't because it learned it
@@francismendoza7997 oh right, my bad.
I ve been using staraptor and tyrannitar on my main for a long time and whilst staraptor dies really often tyrannitar has been carrying
Great video! Would love to see an updated version later in 2023! Keep up the great work
i agree i guess 50/50, some are worth it to power up permanently some aren't as long its a meta pokemon like metagross, garchamp etc. these comday pokemon is must because you can grind it and save up some candies to power it up for example like 1 shadow machamp and 5 normal/lucky machamp is worth to have or worth it to invest its not like you need a full team of shadow machamp that has 100iv or max cp, that's way too expensive, anyway their is a good balance and alternative way. mirror trade it also good because you can get 3-4* lucky easily in some events that has increase odds of getting a lucky pokemon if you have friends or relative to play or just use two device to trade from main to alt account with same type pokemon, and also good moveset can help you in raid attackers, even it budget but you have these legacy moves its worth it to have it, weather you're fp2 or p2win Trainer in Pokemon go you get these to have decent team in raid attackers, just sharing from my experience.. sorry for my English
These level of guides are great for beginners or people that don't play that much.
I maxed a 96 melmetal. Was that any smart? It’s kinda buget since you can get it from the box every 3 days.
Well technically yes, but it’s not a good Raid attacker. Maybe if it gets it’s signature move someday
@@Sikk2 still will be bad as its only fast attack is thunder shock and that fast attack wont be good for melmetal in raids so that pokemon is only good for pvp
@@Zenduted depends on how good DIB will be. Lugia for example has no flying quick move neither and is still a good raid attacker because Aeroblast++ is just so busted
@@Sikk2 Aeroblast++ gets outperformed by the normal + move
@@Sikk2 and lugia isnt a good fly attacker as you dont see flying types much in raids unless its Verizion
Could use an updated version of the best to powerup series for 2023.
Slow down a bit though please even at 3/4 speed I keep having to pause and go back to hear all options
I'd like a version of this video except for PVP instead b/c Master League is expensive as Hell.
Sorry Daxi but there are better tips for the budget conscious in your comments section.
Lucky Pokémon - half the dust expense.
Dual type Pokémon - use for both types.
Melmetal - fully accessible, tradable and valuable mythical.
The other thing to consider is that in many cases a raid caught legendary/mythical/beast can be fairly close to if not better than a level 40 non legendary/mythical/beast Pokémon - some analysis on this would be a great topic for a video.
If dust is your issue, it is better to have multiple high-ish level Pokémon than to have a single high-max level Pokémon.
Using XL candy is usually a waste save that for your hundos.
But at the end of the day play however you want to play and have fun.
This video focus is best pokemon to power up & less about how to save dust - but those tips could definitely be in a separate video
@ - you covered most if not all types - in reality some Pokémon without stab or just normal effective moves can be better than some of the best with stab.
Not trying to be a downer, really like your videos. Just don’t think this one hit the same mark as usual.
Granbull is a decent fairy type that had a lot of play against Guzzlord and has been putting out the raid dps for me for years. Accessible and only 50 candy to evolve.
No Arcanine for Fire? Also Gardivour for Fairy or Psychic?
Sceptile is also deadly with Leaf Blade if you can't afford Frenzy Plant.
This is so helpful
Daxi you're freaking great lol u do a great job much love
Me always using the recommending team 😎
Heracrosss because I love him
Poke daxi I got a Hundo rhyhorn what should I do
I think the biggest thing for us casual players that try to get into the “Pokémon we should invest,” it’s hard cause we have nothing to raid with. We don’t have Shadow/legendary/mythical’s and is why we need these budget Pokémon. This is why we’re okay with investing in these. It’s our stepping stone.
How can you not have shadow pokemon?
A rocket balloon comes at u every 6 hrs
Shadow pokemon are free, you don't need to buy raid passes to get them. Fighting grunt is everywhere for shadow machop for example. The best strategy for casual players is to just use the highest CP wild pokemon you have found and slowly power up the top tier attackers in the meantime. It's a long-term project, we can't expect to have the best of the best within the first month as a casual players.
Make a video of what Pokémon to use your rare candy on
I think by now it's a running gag that you include that rock wrecker typo in EVERY video about rhyperior XD
Remember that if you have 6 budget counters in the cp 2000-2500 range, with the right moves, you're already doing way better than most other players in the raid.
For budget dust investment, up to level 30 is optimal. After that, each powerup only adds half as much stats to any Pokemon.
If you can already raid, it's also nice to get just a bunch of legendaries and never power them up as a budget option. For recent examples the ultra beasts Nihilego (poison) and Xurkitree (electric) are great. 6 unpowered Nihilegos is honestly more than you'll ever need as poison type raid team.
Also, types to focus on: Rock, Fighting, Dark, Fairy, and Steel.
Next: Ground, Electric, and Ice. Important for coverage but not the most widely used types.
The self-weak types Ghost and Dragon are last.
Skip all other types unless you want to get some anyway.
Bewear is a solid raid attacker
Granbull is 100% best budget Fairy type that is not a legendary. Easier to get than Sylveon (don't have to gamble on mystery evolve w/Eevee) AND its fairly bulky.
People sleep on Granbull and if you can get a good IV shadow Granbull, that's quality too!
There is no gamble mystery Eevee evolve for Sylveon.
25 candy + 70 hearts as buddy.
Look at silhouettes - choose correct one - get Sylveon.
Granbull has an edge on DPS, Sylveon on DPS^3*TDO.
Dying less probably the better choice if on a strict dust budget.
@@sambeaumont395 It is a gamble mystery if you do not do the 70 hearts with a buddy, but I am not sure how many know that is how you get Sylveon. If they watch this video, then they'll know. xD
Granbull is still far more accessible in my opinion since it doesn't need any evolve conditions like the Eevees do or is a rare egg/raid spawn: Togepi/Togeptic for Togekiss.
70 hearts takes a while to get to on one buddy (if you're not Poffin-ing them) and if you want 3-4 Sylveon, that is far more work/time/money than Granbull. If you wanted 3 Sylveon, that's about 15-16 days total (approximately), unless you can cycle multiple Eevees at once and do all the daily heart challenges per Eevee every day.
To each their own, though. Dust budget/overall time & effort - Granbull is the better choice if you can get a few around lvl 25 - 30 and power up slightly as needed. Granbull even spawns in the wild where I am, so maybe I am biased geographically. As for DPS vs TDO, if you can dodge with your Granbull in raids then you can negate the TDO longevity of Sylveon. I'd rather have 3-5 Granbull with good-great IVs over a couple Sylveon
@@kmrskates - wrong.
Eevee will only turn into Sylveon if;
- use one time name trick “Kira”
- after obtaining 70 buddy hearts
The mystery eeveelutions are Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon.
You can easily get a minimum of 8 hearts for up to 7 Pokémon per day - should take about 30 minutes. That’s 7 (8 with name trick) Sylveon in 9 days without walking and without using a poffin.
The video is about working on a budget and ultimately falls short of any real advice - personally I would avoid all fairies as other Pokémon likely do a better job in raids and/or are more versatile and therefore help to save dust.
In relation to fairy - I don’t disagree that Granbull is accessible.
But I will note it is twice as expensive (candy) to evolve. And is less tanky than Sylveon so likely to need more powered up (costing more dust).
Let's just take a moment and recognize dragonite for still being very relevant as an OG mon.
Thanks for this and as for stardust and candy's are great
I recommend 50 maxing a lotad since it’s the strongest Pokémon in the game 🤣
Nice Video thank you!
dang how you misspell wrecker. Rock Wreaker 😭. Might as well give it an additional chance to poison the target cause those rocks wreak
WOW sweet to see that I got three of the pokemons on the list at 100%
I got a Electabuzz I caught in 2016
and now after many years not playing I'm back and I got a Bagon today from a Referral Milestone Reward.
I got a Staraptor at comunity day with gust and Brave Bird. It looks like he can't learn "Sky Attack" as it say in the video.
They are Low lvl so will be expensive to level up, but I guess it's worth it?
Should I evolve and power opp these ones, is it worth it?
Bagon:
100% IV
lvl 15.0
CP 495
Electabuzz:
100% IV
lvl 19.0
CP 1267
Staraptor:
100% IV
lvl 31.5
CP 2482
"Gust" & "Brave Bird"
Will the community day classic Pokémon be in the December community day
I only powerup pokemons for raiding , I use my Stardust in rank 1 of every type cause more damage so more pokeballs and higher catch rate for those 97% and 100% IVs ,and GBL(only great league) not a fan of ultra league have 2 decent master league teams but not use it for climbing after rank 20
pokedaxi I was wondering I have a 11 attack 11 defence 13 hp but it's a two star shadow larvitar should I evoley it or wait please give your opinion
Yes I love this video
How does the community day work in December!?
Is there a updated video of this?
somehow got a hundo galar darmanitan a couple months ago
also got a hundo zamazeta from gbl, first one too
thank you
4got to mention maxing out Shuckle & Shedinja. Demzmadawgs
So if i power up a mon that's good in 2 types, i just TM them into whatever i need for each raid rotation?
I max my 4* shadow swamper, working on my 4* swamper now
Bro we also want for gbl so please make a vdo on it
“hi dragon”
I got a galarian legendary bird today in my mini account, but it fleed 😭.
BTW I want you to make a video on how to upgrade mini accounts faster please.
AND LOVE FROM INDIA 🖤
I thought some of the names you were saying sounded off, then you said Alakazam and I’m like okay yeah he’s saying them wrong 😂
is there some sweetspot to power up pokemons? like 3 Machamp example for raid
Will we be able to tm away frustration anytime soon?
I got shiny larvitar in wild . 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Should i Lvl 50 my 99% IV legacy move hydreigon?
I have a shadow swampert and mega swampert
wondering if there'll ever be a shadow eevee, that could be super cool and useful
also I just pulled a Pokedaxi and purified my 92% hydro cannon swampert, please kill me
Any Season 12 leaks?
Me who just 50 maxed my hundo machamp
Still hunting for that good shadow machamp
Got that hundo excarill been working on for a while
Lol not somebody who will complain about not being able to get thexbest stuff but anybody complaining about shadows you get 4 guaranteed shadows per day from team go rocket balloons
But got a hundo scuzor through mega raids recently
Got a hundo husreigon from eggs (need brutal swing)
Got hundo SHADOW t tar so happy about that just elite tm'd smack down
Got the hindo sylveon and gardevpir just need more xl
Got the hundo darmanitan and emboar
I have 2 hundo starraptors ironically Got both before community day
I just got hundo gengar
I got 50 maxed venusaur (which you can easily mega energy for through research)
Got the hundo rampardos
I didn't realize Kinsler was actually good lol
Really need someone’s help pretty please, when I use AR mode grass comes up and you have to move the phone around and click for the Pokémon to appear how do I skip this and the Pokémon just show up straight away so I can do the quick catch through AR mode does anyone know please
Should I purify my shadow latios is will be a hundo
What IV shadow pokemon should you evolve + Level up
Iv doesnt matter even if its such a bad iv the shadow always outpaces its regular form
@@Zenduted - valid point - but at 20% extra dust and 20% candy required to power up, may as well set a floor requirement.
As I understand IVs matter more on Shadow Pokémon due to break points.
The question should be do I need this right now, if no hold out for a better iv, if yes power it up.
And in any case if it isn’t a Hundo be aware that you may get better ivs down the line and want to power up the better one.
@@sambeaumont395 yes they are very expensive and i am pretty New to the game so i also dont have alot of candy. I think i m going to start at 2star and continue from that
@@mister_x5825 - this is just my opinion - but if you are new to the game and don’t have much candy or star dust - I think you should hold off powering anything up, have others carry you in raids.
Unlike OG players you have the disadvantage of being able to level up quickly, which essentially means you get the XP gains without getting all of the resources. (Trainer level is near irrelevant, Pokemon level is what matters).
If you are going to power something up you should want to be able to get it to level 35, so want to have enough candy and dust to go all the way before going for it, in case something better comes along.
Usually it is better to have two Pokémon at level 35 than one at level 40.
Who knows by the time you get the candy to power up to 35 (or higher) you will have a better IV version.
Daxi mentions the budget options in this video for each type but completely ignores that some types are next to worthless, with non-stab Pokémon or neutral effective sometimes being more valuable.
While ignoring Mega (Shadow and Legendary etc) he also doesn’t clarify that … pokemon can mega and therefore while being a more accessible option has that added benefit.
If I were you I would look into getting Meltans - Melmetal is very, very good, while an expensive evolution candy is very easy to come by with the mystery box, despite being a mythical Pokémon. It’s a steel type with non steel moves.
Woohoo! Been waiting on this one Dax. Hope you’re having fun on vacation!
any idea when we can change tm on shadow pokemon again, Only got back into go like 3 weeks ago like really back in but see shadow are the best but not sure i want to spend made for the moves
any info would be nice
It's roughly every 3 months so we have to wait for ~ 1-2 months I'd say
love your vids im ready for stereo types number 2
i thought rock wrecker was the best 4 Rhyperior?
Forgot Budget Friendly Primirina For Fairy types
Bro I have a 100iv magmer with 2100+ cp
What should I do I didn't even find a single in a week
Can you do it but for pvp?:)
Do iv’s count in raids
What are the best ivs for them?
For raids, you want to get as close to perfect IVs as you can, with attack being the most important stat. However, IVs aren't all that impactwful, so I wouldn't stress if you don't get 100% or 98% mons. The difference between a Pokemon with 15/15/15 IVs and 14/10/10 IVs is barely noticeable.
Steel type melmetal