Candy

How do you get candy?

You can get candy through a few different means:

• Everytime you catch a pokemon, you get 3 candy of their type. This is why i recommend catching every pokemon you see - for the candy and dust.

• You can "transfer" a pokemon to the professor and he will give you 1 candy of the type of pokemon that you transfer - but you lost the pokemon permanently obviously.

• When you hatch an egg, you get quite a lot of candy of the type of pokemon that hatched. For intance, i got 27 candy from 1 egg hatch. Note that the longer the distance required to hatch the egg, the more candy it rewarded.

What is candy used for?

The main purpose of candy is to power up and evolve your pokemon.

*Evolving your pokemon only requires candy of the same type of pokemon - typically it costs around 50 candy (each pokemon is different).

• Powering up your pokemon increases the amount of CP that they have and it will cost 1 - 2 candy plus stardust.

Stardust

How do you get Stardust?

There are a few ways to get stardust - the most common will be to catch Pokemon.

• Each Pokemon caught will grant 100 stardust and 3 candy of the caught Pokemon type
• You can get stardust from leveling up your character
• You get stardust once per day from the "shop" - for each Pokemon you have in a gym, pressing the shield icon in the top right will give you 500 dust - up to a max of 5000.

What is Stardust used for?

• Stardust is used to power up your pokemon. It requires dust + candy to power up your pokemon and its going to be the dust that limits your pokemon progress. So you want to get as much dust as possible.