What is Lucky Pokémon?

Lucky Pokémon are a new type of Pokémon in Pokémon GO that require 50% less Stardust to power up over a regular Pokémon, and have a special background while viewing them in your Pokédex. While viewing one, you'll also see a new counter displaying the number of Lucky Pokémon you've caught for each species.

What's the point of lucky Pokemon?

One of the many benefits to trading Pokémon with friends is that you have a chance at receiving a Lucky Pokémon. Lucky Pokémon are more likely to be strong opponents in battle, require less Stardust to power up, and appear with a shimmery effect in the Pokédex and on the Pokémon's Summary page.

How rare are Lucky Pokemon?

Obtaining Lucky Pokémon

When trading Pokémon, there is about a 5% chance that Pokémon can become a Lucky Pokémon, which increases based on how long that Pokémon has been in the Trainer's Pokémon collection; the older it is, the higher the chance.

Are lucky Pokemon better than high IV?

Lucky Pokémon have a number of benefits when compared to their non-Lucky counterparts: Minimum IVs for Lucky Pokémon are 12 / 12 / 12. Since IVs go only up to 15, this means Lucky Pokémon are in the top 20% of Pokémon by default. Lucky Pokémon require 50% less Stardust to power up.

Is Lucky Pokemon permanent?

When you are Lucky Friends with someone, the next time you trade with each other, both Pokémon will become Lucky Pokémon. After the trade, your Lucky Friend status will be cleared. You can try to become Lucky Friends again by increasing your Friendship.

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Is it OK to transfer lucky Pokemon?

You're unable to transfer multiple Shiny Pokémon, Lucky Pokémon, or Buddy Pokémon with whom you've reached Good Buddy status or above at a time. Additionally, certain Legendary and some Mythical Pokémon (e.g. Mew, Celebi) are not able to be selected for transfer.

Can a lucky Pokemon be perfect?

Lucky Pokemon the best way to get 100% IV

Should you be fortunate enough to catch a lucky Pokemon, there will be a 1 in 64 chance it has perfect IVs. You will also have a 1 in 64 chance if you decide to trade them, also. There's a reason they are called 'lucky' Pokemon.

Should I evolve high IV or high CP?

You can check out our tips for evolving Pokémon in Pokémon Go for more detail, but generally it's advisable to evolve your high-IV Pokémon before you start spending Stardust to Power Up and increase its Level. That's because each time a Pokémon evolves, although its IVs stay the same, its moveset is randomised.

Should I evolve my Lucky Pokemon?

Yes. Evolving a Lucking pokemon will give you an evolved Lucky Pokemon. You won't lose the *Lucky* quality. Here are a few pokemons that I have received them as lucky and evolved them to their highest evolution.

Are Lucky Pokemon better than shiny?

Where Shiny Pokemon are differentiated by their unique appearance, Lucky Pokemon have a cooler, more useful benefit: they cost less Stardust to power-up. Specifically, Pokemon Go Lucky Pokemon cost 50% less stardust to power up, making them easy to boost the CP of and ready for battle.

Can Lucky Pokemon be caught?

Lucky Pokémon are obtained exclusively by trading – you can't catch a Lucky Pokémon in the wild. Trade a Pokémon, and there's a chance that it will receive the Lucky status.

What is rarest Pokémon in Pokémon GO?

At the time of writing, Salandit and Salazzle are two of the rarest Pokémon in the game. If you want to add their entries to your Pokédex, your quest begins by hatching a Salandit from a 12km egg - the only way to currently obtain one.

How rare are Shiny Pokémon go?

The standard base Shiny rate is 0.2% (1 in 500).

How many lucky trades a day?

Still, the most common way to make Pokemon lucky trade is by performing the same procedure repeatedly with your lucky friend. Trainers can make 100 trades per day, and the game makes it very easy for two players to trade the caught Pokeom back-and-forth.

Should I keep Pokémon with low CP?

It pays to keep and evolve only the best Pokémon you find. In general, you want higher CP Pokémon to evolve over lower CP Pokémon, but just because a Pokémon has a high CP doesn't mean it's actually very good.

Should I transfer low CP 3 star Pokémon?

CP stands for combat power -- the higher the CP, the stronger the Pokémon will be in battle. In general, you want to trade away your low-value Pokémon so you can build up your stronger ones.

How do you tell if a Pokémon is 100% IV before catching it?

You can check your IV on the Silph Road by entering your trainer level and the Pokémon's visible data. They will then inform you of your friend's strength after that. Use the iOS and Android app PokeGenie to check IVs while you're on the go.

Should I evolve a perfect Pokémon?

If you have a Pokemon that is in the highest or second highest IV tier, it really is not that far away from perfect Max CP. So evolving a Pokemon with IV's in the first or second tier is a good idea, you don't need to wait for the perfect IV's. Never power up a Pokémon before evolving it!

Can I get back a Pokémon I accidentally transferred?

No. Pokémon transferred from Pokémon GO to Pokémon HOME cannot be sent back to Pokémon GO.

Can you trade a Pokémon twice?

Pokémon cannot be traded more than once. This is due to the HP and CP changing feature, to stop players "re-rolling a Pokémon's stats through trade" over and over. Though HP and CP of a Pokemon when traded changes, other aspects - such as size and moves - do not.