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davidplusworld

What do to with 100 rare candies?

General Question

I'm not sure it's the right sub for this, but I've finally got 100 rare candies (currently 130)

And I'm wondering how to spend them. The obvious choice would be on a second charged attack for a legendary (or is it the obvious choice?)

The three legendary that I have that are usable are

  • Grass Knot Cresselia (CP 1100) that I just got this week.
  • Giratina A in Ultra League, but I use it less and less as every team counters it nowadays (or at least did in Season 1).
  • Dialga in ML, but I've had decent success without it, so I'm not sure I really need it.

The league where I struggle the most is UL (by the way I'm usually Rank 7 around 1900 ranking, reached Rank 8 at the end of ML last season, but I struggled a lot at rank 8). So, another idea would be to use these rare candies on some rare Pokemon that are quite useful in UL (I use Snorlax and Lapras quite a lot in UL, but do they really need a second charged move?).

What would you advise?

On Cresselia? (but Great League is ending, so I should wait in that case) On Giratina A? On Snorlax or Lapras? On another Legendary that has a rather weak CP? (I have most legendaries I believe, but most of the good ones in GBL have low CP) Something else?

In case you're wondering, my usual teams are: GL: Alolan Raichu, Skarmory and Azumarill (but I'm looking to change it, it worked well Rank 1 to 6, but not so well at Rank 7. UL: variations of Snorlax, Charizard, Machamp, Lapras, Giratina A, Venusaur, Gyarados (I don't have a stable team, I can't seem to find one that works well). ML: usually Dragonite, Metagross, Swampert.

Thanks in advance.

Posted May 30, 2020, 12:44 AM UTC

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UltraGasi•

Since gl is over soon, cresselia is out for now.

Gira can work with only dragon claw.

I would go for Dialga when you have a good one, which is worth to invest in

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davidplusworldOP•

The Dialga I have is CP3930, 91% and Lucky. Does it need a second charged attack?

What about the likes of Snorlax or Lapras? Bad idea?

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TookTheL•

Dialga is so common that you want a near-perfect with 15A before investing, otherwise you're losing all your Dialga mirror matches

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davidplusworldOP•

I see what you mean, that's probably the reason I stopped using it after a while and didn't find it that useful.

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rickdeckard8•

Dialga is a once in a lifetime investment and it’s one of the few pokemons where IV is really important. If it has 15 attack and at least 14 defense I would do it, otherwise not.

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Rustisamust•

Lapras has been a good GL pick for me, but you really want legacy ice shard for the fast move. And legacy ice beam for UL. I don't know if I'd burn rare candy for a lapras anyway, definitely not for a non-legacy.

Snorlax gets a lot of mileage from the second move. It's thick, spammy, and has a terrific giratina matchup, so it's a good UL safe switch if it has the flexibility afforded by two charge moves. Earthquake is the most common pick to go with body slam, but superpower and outrage have a place. For example, dragonite was popular in UL pre-season, so I ran outrage 'lax and nuked a bunch of them.

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davidplusworldOP•

My Laprasses with legacy moves are around CP1100, I don't have enough candy to boost them to around 1500 (not mentioning 2500).

I have two good Snorlaxes one for UL and one for ML, but I rarely use it for ML. I have some Snorlax candy, so with the rare candy I could give second charged powers to both. Hmm... That's an idea here. Thanks.

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Akal3•

Are you looking to add Skull Bash to Lapras? If so, I’ve found a good amount of utility in a second move for my Lapras with Skull Bash. Catch lots of trainers off guard and wins similar typing matchups.

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davidplusworldOP•

I never really thought about what to add as I never had enough candy for Lapras. So that could be an option, I guess.

(it currently has Surf)

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Akal3•

I’ve found that after the first Skull Bash, you can fairly often bait the opponent’s shield following up with Surf. It’s turned matches for me.

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UltraGasi•

Dialga is a beast with best friend and double moves. Iron head alone is okish, but draco meteor won me so many games, I recommend it.

If the 91% has 15/14/12 I would go for it. 15/15/11 is ok too. Both hit all breakpoints

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davidplusworldOP•

Thanks. I've always found Dialga somewhat underwhelming (it didn't win me many matches when I use it, and I defeat quite easily when it's thrown against me), but maybe that was because of Iron Head alone?

The 91% is 12/15/14

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TookTheL•

12 attack misses the biggest breakpoint for Dialga. If it has 15 atk and lvl 41 its Dragon Breath damage increases by 20% against mirror Dialgas

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pokeredditguy•

100 isn't a lot of candies IMO. Are you stuggling for higher ranks currently or care to climb the ranks? Do you raid or care to raid and aren't in full lobbies so need counters?

Most everyone who plays should hit rank 7 and rewards for 8-9 aren't too good.

I've always felt unless it will change your result a lot, investing resources in Go is better saved for more pressing needs.

I wouldn't use RC outside of Legendaries or Mythicals.

To do well at the top ranks, it's always assumed you'll have 2 moves and max powered up to CP per league.

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davidplusworldOP•

I'm afraid we're not playing in the same league (metaphorically).

It's the first time I have so many rare candies, I stop winning more than 2 matches out of 5 when I reach rank 8 and I don't have a single legendary with two charged attacks (and I don't even have competitive legendaries at all except for that one Giratina-A - I even learned today that my Dialga wasn't either, even though I had suspected it for a while).

I mostly play to have fun, not in order to become the best or anything like that.

Reaching rank 8 in the last days of season one was a huge achievement for me, now that I have 100 rare candies, I'm wondering how to spend them best, and that's pretty much it.

As I don't see their use for something other than Go Battle League, I thought that their best use would be to try to have stronger Pokemon and try to win more than I lose once I reach Rank 8, and that's pretty much my goal right now.

Not everyone is playing in order to try to become number one of Rank 10. ;-)

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pokeredditguy•

I am definitely not trying to be rank 10, but my point is that RC, esp for your case I guess is that you can walk any non-legendary/mythical for candy. No point to use RC which is rare for you on common mons IMO.

If using them now will add to your "fun", then yeah, use them on whatever you want. That's most important honestly, but not optimal (again IMO).

Bottom line also is you don't need legendaries to win or have fun, but we all play the game differently and sometimes, people have this shiny thing and just feel forced/rushed to use it.

Again, this is all IMO and you asked what to do with 100 RC. I suppose it goes back to my overall thoughts that in PoGO, it's best not to have "this thing (eh: Elite TM, 1480 Pokecoins, RC, some TMs, etc), then use it right away. What's the rush? Most of the time, it's not going to let you win more games honestly in GBL. I use a non-legendary team in GL and do fine.

Even before GBL existed, I would just slowly build up my rare candies as a solo player/raider so I almost NEVER did ANY Tier 4/5 raids (still no Dialga here and never got Gira-A neither).

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davidplusworldOP•

Ok, I understand better what you mean.

But in that case, what would you suggest that I do with those candies, eventually?

Walking Legendaries is kinda pointless for me, I very rarely walk more than 20km a week (so one candy a week for a legendary), almost never more than 30. And I don't raid enough to need to have the best 'mon to raid solo (I probably raid 3-4 times a week at most).

That's why I'm thinking about using them for GBL as I do play PvP daily, but I'm not always super well-equipped for it. I have decent Pokemon for GL and ML and me losing or winning doesn't depend on the line-up of my teams (it depends on my skills or lack thereof and my opponents'), but in UL, I simply don't have the right Pokemon for it at the moment (no Swampert, my Venusaur doesn't have CD move (but I have an Elite TM for it), no second charged attack for Lapras and Snorlax and so on). I've read tons of stuff here and there, tried different line-ups with PvP and in real fights, I suck at UL mostly because I don't have the right Pokemon. To give you an idea, I'm usually around 50-60% wins in GL, closer to 70% or more in ML (at Rank 7, it drops at Rank 8), but probably 20% or so in UL.

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pokeredditguy•

I would just save them, but that's just me and how "I" play the game (I had ~1000RC earlier due to being a tanker).

What if when ML comes around, some PvP legendary is out and you get a 100% Dialga then? It'll probably take you a year to get another 100RC and you now have 0. My view is I just don't see 1 mon making that much difference, long story short I guess for most people (BB Dialga is an exception I guess).

With no 2nd moves, I'd just use 1 attack Snorlax (Body Slam), maybe Lapras, AMuk, Meganium or anything budget and tanky providing coverage to what you don't have. Use PvPoke to build a team and go from there with what you have.

I've always felt in GBL, it's less about a team making everyone suddenly a great player vs. simply knowing what you fight, what mon you know you can tank all moves vs. etc...and farming down anything that has switch advantage vs. you so if they switch, you just let it die probably and massively farming them down. Togekiss too if you have candies.

I don't walk legendaries neither and with Covid-19, walk less than you.

If you seriously care for GBL, it's better to know your community and trade for stuff IMO. You can get tons of luckys and usually, the community has tons of CD mons...I'm sitting on 12 Rock Wrecker Rhyperiors, but don't trade/bother as that's now how I care to play (only have 1 family friend).

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