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r/pokemongo•
hexagrm

PSA: Best friends upgrade and double XP - don't miss out if you can't co-ordinate lucky eggs with the other player.

Discussion

I see a lot of people talking about how they co-ordinate their gift opening for best friends. This is of course the best way to do it so both players can easily get the 200k XP. However if for any reason it wasn't possible or if your timing was off, don't worry it's still possible to double the XP without much effort, you just have to be fast with the menus.

So, if you are aware of being 1 gift away from BF status and there is a gift already in play, what i have done successfully a number of times is quickly open the friends list as soon as you open the game to check if the other player has opened the gift and the friend status has indeed upgraded visually. If it has, all good you haven't yet missed out on the XP.

From here, close the friends list and as quickly as you can open the item inventory, minimising the time on the open world screen as much as possible (you don't want to give the game an opportunity to present the friends level upgrade screen). Now pop a lucky egg and close the inventory screen. Wait a few seconds and you'll receive the friendship upgrade screen with the double XP awarded to you.

Hope that helps anyone in a similar situation as i have been recently.

Posted Jan 4, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC · edited

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mister-fancypants-•

One day too late :(

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hexagrmOPMoltres•

bugger, sorry to hear mister-fancypants - at least you know for next time!

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akzorx•

Try doing that with the unbearable lag from menus

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ramen_robbie•

There should be a DM feature in the game to coordinate it better.

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whatever_matters•

Or give us a “claim the xp reward” option

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KyrieToTheNets•

This sounds like a better idea. People can dm weird stuff to other people.

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Losh666•

The opposite can happen as well, as it did for me: I popped a lucky egg and opened a gift to become BF. Didn’t have time to play so I quickly closed the game. Next time I opened the game, I got the pop up message and received 100k XP instead of 200k XP.

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hexagrmOPMoltres•

Oof that sucks, good to note / reinforce that you must see the overlay appear for the xp to be applied though I suppose.

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voicap•

I got Best friend with a friend 3 days ago and the XP didn’t count. I used Lucky Egg also. 11h later I got Good friend with somebody else and also didn’t count.

In the last 3 days I received the xp only for Great and Ultra friends.

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ForzaTwo4•

I have done this a handful of times as well. Great tip!

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engg_girl•

I've started trying a naming convention to tell ppl when I want to do a level up. Usually I do a bunch at once.

Fr^J12.13EST as my buddy name means Friend level up January 12 at 1PM EST. Does that make sense?

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threemo•

I can’t imagine how anyone would understand what that’s supposed to mean

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Harry_Gorilla•

I definitely don’t read anyone’s pet name

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hexagrmOPMoltres•

yea, i've seen it mentioned before and honestly.. ain't nobody got time for that.

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Rapiecage•

Yeah, Im not going to organize myself around your clock, dude

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Gaindolf•

Eh many wont get it. And many more won't care.

I wouldnt want to wait for your schedule.

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BearEggers•

I've thought about that before. It's really the only in game method for communicating.

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