Pokémon GO is an amazing game, but without the proper items, you essentially can’t play. Without Poké Balls, you can’t catch new Pokémon. Without healing items like the many varieties of Potions and Revives, you can’t heal and reuse any of your Pokémon that have fainted in battle. In this blog post, I’m going to provide you some helpful tips to maximize the utility of the items you carry, since item storage is limited and comes at a premium.
When playing Pokémon GO, especially if you live in a city with lots of PokéStops, you will collect a lot of items along your journey. For the more rural players, you likely experience an item shortage. While this is unfortunate, these tips can still apply to you for when you visit a more Poké-Populated area, to make your return home as Poké-Filled as possible for as long as possible. But, for those players who see themselves in situations where they are overflowing with items, or low item storage numbers that are not financially reasonable for them to upgrade, it is important to prioritize which items you keep to make room for the more valuable, even paid from the shop, items. This is especially important during events or sales where lots of items can find their way into your inventory. You don’t want less useful items clogging the space that could be taken up by Incense, Lure Modules, or Raid Passes, for example.
Btw, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have PokéCoins to spare, I would recommend using them on upgrading your items storage. I’ve upgraded mine to the newly raised cap of 2,000, and there are still times where I feel like it would be useful to have more storage capacity.
This was exemplified in my life when I traveled from my densely populated city to a more rural area, and I ran out of Poké Balls in just a few days. I want to make sure that I have as many Poké Balls and other items in my inventory as possible, so I don’t run out of my ability to catch the new/amazing Pokémon that I will see in my journeys, especially if I’m gone for a long time with no PokéStops nearby.
What items you save will also determined by what type of player you are. If your main focus is just catching Pokémon, items like Poké Balls, Great Balls, Ultra Balls, Incense, Berries and Lure Modules are likely the most important to you. If you’re more of a gym player/raider it is likely that you should hold onto more healing items, like Super Potions and Revives. It is necessary to find a balance between all of these items to make sure that you aren’t missing what you need at any time. I also recommend to never throw away any shop exclusive items, as it’s better to use them for reduced benefit whenever you can and save space that way, rather than straight up destroying them.
When it comes to Berries, it seems that Nanab Berries are the most unused Berry in the game. I find this to be true as well, however I like to always have about 10 on hand in case I encounter any quests (Field Research) that require me to make consecutive throws without the Pokémon dodging, attacking, or me missing. Nanab Berries are very useful in those situations, as they made to reduce a Pokémon's movements and make them easier to actually land a throw on. I recommend, though, that you feed any extra Nanab berries to Pokémon in gyms of your team color, rather than just trashing them. (Remember you can do this from a distance at anytime if you have a Pokémon defending that gym of interest).
I also like to keep about 20 Razz Berries on hand, but I’ve gone down to as little as 3 before and been fine. I always like to keep around 30 Golden Razz Berries for catching those super rare monsters that I would hate to lose, although I do start feeding them in gyms for the stardust when I reach 100+. For players that hardly raid, it’s especially important to treasure these, as they only come from raid battles.
Pinap Berries are extra special. I never feed them to Pokémon in gyms or destroy them, because they are extremely useful when it comes to the likes of the monthly Community Day or anytime you find a rare Pokémon that you want to get double candy from catching. I even Pinap most evolutions that I find in the wild, as the candy reward is even higher when doubled from the Pinap Berry.
The following is one of the biggest tips I can give to those players that hit up gym battles/raids a lot, or even find their items approaching their storage cap. Use the weakest healing items first. Rather than using a Max Revive, Hyper Potion or a Max Potion to immediately heal a Pokémon, use those easier to get healing items, like normal Revives, Potions, and Super Potions. This will use up more items faster, and when item storage is an issue, this can be helpful. Save those better healing items for later, as one item slot for a Hyper Potion is essentially equivalent to 10 Potion item slots.
Final tip. Save your extremely rare Max Revives for raid battles. They are put to the best use when your raid team is having trouble dealing the damage it needs and battling the timer. If it looks like your main team that fainted could be put to good use, you can Max Revive them from the Raid UI to save precious seconds to get back in the battle and beat that raid boss!
Additional note. If you find yourself in an area with lots of PokéStops and your item storage full, spend some time “upgrading” your items. Ditch or use any overflowing Potions/Super Potions, Revives, or Poké/Great Balls to make room for their better variants. If you have a Pokémon Go Plus, or the third party Go-Tcha device, these only use Poké Balls, so make sure you have a decent number of those as well. While these devices are amazing to increase the Pokémon you catch, they burn through normal Poké Balls FAST.
Good luck, and happy catching!
-Jameson (Rubiksguy)
if hardcore talk about min/maxing your item storage really is your type of stuff, consider visiting TheSilphRoad. They tend to write articles deep-diving into the intricacies of this game. Additionally, on Community Days each month, they have a system where you can check in with your fellow community to "check in" and receive a special digital badge signifying that you participated in that special day with your local players.
You can learn more on their site.
https://thesilphroad.com
Finally, if you're all about getting the most out of your items, I'd be surprised if you didn't feel the same way about your Pokemon. The in-game appraisal system for checking IVs doesn't give you nearly enough information, so I recommend using this site, since you don't have to sign into your Pokémon GO account, there's no risk of getting banned or having your account compromised.
https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator?locale=en
if hardcore talk about min/maxing your item storage really is your type of stuff, consider visiting TheSilphRoad. They tend to write articles deep-diving into the intricacies of this game. Additionally, on Community Days each month, they have a system where you can check in with your fellow community to "check in" and receive a special digital badge signifying that you participated in that special day with your local players.
You can learn more on their site.
https://thesilphroad.com
Finally, if you're all about getting the most out of your items, I'd be surprised if you didn't feel the same way about your Pokemon. The in-game appraisal system for checking IVs doesn't give you nearly enough information, so I recommend using this site, since you don't have to sign into your Pokémon GO account, there's no risk of getting banned or having your account compromised.
https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator?locale=en
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