What is Transfer?

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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