Pokemon GO: How To Get Rare Candy and Rare Candy XL
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Want to know how to get some Rare Candy for your favorite ‘mons in Pokemon GO? Check out this handy guide!
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Pokemon GO is a game you’ll need to sink a bit of time into before you, or your Pokemon, are any good at it. Thankfully, the developers are kind enough to include ways to speed up that process.
One of the ways to speed things along is Rare Candies, a rare item you can receive in the game that’ll allow you to boost your Pokemon to new heights. Looking for the best ways to find some of these delicious treats? Read on!
What Is Rare Candy?
In Pokemon GO, players “power up” their Pokemon by feeding them Candy. Each evolutionary line of Pokemon has its own type of Candy; for example, Pikachu Candies are used to Power Up Pichus, Pikachus, and Raichus, but not any other Pokemon. You (usually) obtain Candy by catching the species of Pokemon, trading excess Pokemon to the Professor, and/or walking with your Pokemon as your buddy.
Rare Candy is like a wildcard — it can turn into Candy for any type of Pokemon. This makes it incredibly valuable since you can’t easily obtain Candy for legendary and mythical Pokemon through the first two usual methods. That means you’d need to resort to walking the Pokemon to get Candy, but these rare Pokemon need to be walked 20km (compared to one, three, or five km for other species) before finding a single Candy! As you can imagine, Rare Candy is a much shorter route to take.
How Do You Get Rare Candy?
There are only three methods of obtaining Rare Candy:
1. As A Reward For Defeating A Raid Boss
Raid Boss Battles are fights that appear in Gyms in the Pokemon GO overworld. They vary in difficulty, so some are solo-able while others require a large group. To learn more about how to deal with these battles, check out our guide on the subject!
As a reward for defeating the boss, you’ll get a certain amount of XP (based on the difficulty) and a few items. While you aren’t guaranteed to get Rare Candy every time you beat a Raid Boss, it’s one of only eight kinds of items that you could receive as a possible reward.
2. As A Reward For Completing Certain Research Tasks
Research Tasks, whether they’re Field Research, Special Research, or Event Research, may provide Rare Candy upon completion.
To check whether there are Field Research Tasks available this month that provide Rare Candy, just head over to the Silph Road, where they keep an up-to-date list of all available tasks and what their possible rewards are. After that, if you’re determined enough, it’s just a matter of camping on a Pokestop, spinning it to get new tasks, deleting the ones that don’t give Rare Candy, and repeating.
Keep in mind that Pokemon GO is fully aware of how valuable Rare Candy is, so the tasks that provide it are usually a little more challenging than normal.
3. As A Reward For Winning Trainer Battles
The GO Battle League is a PvP mechanic in Pokemon GO that allows players to pit their best Pokemon against one another.
Each time you enter, you get to play five rounds of PvP. Depending on how many times you win, you’ll earn unique rewards.
The Basic Rewards are…
- 1 Win: 300 Stardust
- 2 Wins: Random Item
- 3 Wins: A Pokemon Appears
- 4 Wins: 3 Rare Candies
- 5 Wins: 600 Stardust
If you’re feeling extra confident in your team, you could go for the Premium Rewards, but this requires you to pay first with one Premium Raid Pass…
- 1 Win: A Pokemon Appears
- 2 Wins: Random Item
- 3 Wins: 900 Stardust
- 4 Wins: 6 Rare Candies
- 5 Wins: 5 Charged TMs
What Is Rare Candy XL?
In a large update, Pokemon GO changed the player level cap from 40 to 50. This meant that all of the player’s Pokemon can have higher CPs than ever before as the CP maximum is tied to the player’s level. However, to power up your Pokemon past the level 40 CP cap, you need a special kind of candy — Candy XL.
Rare Candy XL, then, can simply be turned into any kind of Candy XL, so that you can evolve your Pokemon beyond level 40.
How Do You Get Rare Candy XL?
Rare Candy XL, unlike normal Rare Candy, is a limited resource. There is only a certain number that you can possibly acquire in the game (as of the time of this writing).
In total, you’ll be able to acquire 31 Rare Candies XL, obtained in only two ways:
It goes without saying that you should save these until you’re very confident about which Pokemon to use them on. Hopefully, Pokemon GO will add new ways to obtain Rare Candy XL in coming updates.
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