Transfer
Transfer allows you to send a Pokemon to Professor Willow to receive 1 Candy for that Pokemon. Transfer will permanently remove the Pokemon from your inventory. You cannot Transfer Pokemon you've marked as Favorite. This allows you to prevent accidentally transferring Pokemon.
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What Is Transfer?
- See also: What is Transfer?
So, you’ve gotten your starter Pokemon, tracked down and caught a few others, and you’re on your way to filling up your Pokedex? Great, but by now perhaps you’ve noticed that enigmatic little Transfer button at the bottom of each Pokemon’s stat sheet and are curious as to just what transferring your pokemon means.
Well, look no further, here’s the breakdown on the transfer button and how to utilize it to help you strengthen and evolve your monsters more quickly.
In most of the previous pokemon games before, there has always been the option to Release a pokemon that you’ve caught, effectively deleting it from your possession forever. In Pokemon Go! The Transfer button has a similar function, but instead of releasing your previously possessed monster into the wild, you are transferring it to Professor Willow. Another difference, and the most important part about transferring Pokemon, is that it provides you with a Candy that is unique to the monster that you’ve transferred.
So, for example, let’s say that you have two Weedles and you decide to transfer one of them to Professor Willow. After hitting the transfer button and making sure that it’s what you want to do, the Weedle you’ve chosen to transfer will be gone forever and you’ll be left with an extra Weedle Candy in its place.
As you may have learned already, each Pokemon requires a certain amount of its specific candy to level up and to evolve. By transferring weaker Pokemon that you have multiples of you can make the one that you wish to keep stronger at a faster rate.
By Javon Rainey on July 15, 2016
Which Pokemon To Keep and Which To Transfer
First off I’m going to say that this is my OPINION or what I look for in Pokémon that I’m looking to keep, upgrade, transfer or whatever. It is by no means the 100% guaranteed best way to play, but it is a very efficient way to keep from wasting Stardust, Candy, and those precious Pokémon slots in your inventory.
This guide is generally going to help you efficiently maximize and organize your Pokémon, because as we all know, the space you’re allotted is finite.
You have to decide what’s worth keeping. For me, I keep Pokémon that fall into 3 major groups: Pokémon that I’m collecting to evolve, Pokémon with trade potential, Pokémon with battle potential.
First Group
The first group is by far the easiest to differentiate from the others because it generally only includes Pokémon you’re going to EVOLVE for XP, such as Pidgey, Weedle or Caterpie. Potential others with low evolve costs of 25 can also be added to this group but I generally don’t care for those.
Second Group
The second group is essentially Trade Fodder. In here I put the Pokémon that I really don’t want to keep for myself, but there could be future value in them for trading. For example, Pokémon with a CP of 1,000+ that either have less than favorable IVs, or are more Rare to encounter are Pokémon that I will keep. I myself have no use for them as my goal in the game is to build the strongest team, but I can see the value they might have for other people. (Ex. My 1,200CP Gengar [12/0/12 IV], or my 1,700CP Dragonite [12/3/5 IV].)
Third Group
The third group is where things start to get tricky and a little more subjective so I’ll break it down as simply as possible.
Alrighty, so you’ve caught/evolved/hatched yourself a Pokémon that you think might have battle potential. What now?
- Well first, check to see if the Pokémon is in fact good at fighting by consulting a tier list.
- Trainer Tip: IF you’re looking to power up your favorite Pokémon and it doesn’t appear on this list, you can feel free to skip this first step
- Secondly, check the IVs… My general rule of thumb is to only KEEP Pokémon over 86% IVs or (13/13/13). This rule only changes for Rare and non-farmable Pokémon with good movesets. (Think Lapras or Snorlax). For more info on what role IVs play in battle check out THIS POST, from this you can clearly see that a 90% Pokémon is more than sufficient because it is only beat out by just over 2% compared to a 100% Pokémon of the same species.
- Trainer Tip: Here you have to weigh the likelihood of getting a higher IV rare Pokémon with a decent move set. With Pokémon such as Lapras are very rare so settling for a lower IV might not be a bad thing as long as the move set is good.
- Trainer Tip: A low CP Pokémon with perfect (or close to) IVs is generally worth leveling up. For example, a 10CP 15/15/15 Charizard is worth powering up because it’ll statistically be easier to farm the extra 50 candies/50k stardust than finding a higher CP Perfect Charizard.
- The final thing you need to keep in mind is one of the most important and can ruin a potentially perfect Pokémon, the moveset. Make sure that your Pokémon has its optimal moveset for either offense or defense.
IF each of these categories are to your satisfaction (again, no objective science here unless it’s 100% in all categories) then feel free to use stardust to power the Pokémon up to max. Personally I want to make sure that the Pokémon is in the TOP 10 for either role, with a Moveset that is either the 1st or 2nd best for whichever category along with a 90%+ IV before investing any stardust.