How to Get Candies in Pokémon GO

Reviewed by Ishrak

Last Updated: February 23, 2024

Getting candies in Pokémon GO is sometimes tedious, but candy is essential for evolving and powering up your Pokémon. Luckily, there are some quick and easy ways to get candies so that you can evolve that Magikarp or Swablu.

Method 1

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Catching Pokémon

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in your area. Keep an eye on your "nearby" Pokémon tracking, and watch out for rustling grass near you.
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Catch any Pokémon you find. There is a full guide to the best capturing techniques here. It'll take some practice, but with the right technique and suitable Poké Balls, you will have a good chance of catching them.
- Catching evolved forms of Pokémon in the wild will give you more candy than a normal catch. First evolution Pokémon give 5 candies, and second evolution Pokémon give 10 candies.
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Each Pokémon you catch will earn you some candy.^{[1]
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Method 2

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Transferring Pokémon to the Professor

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Click it.
You will get candies associated with the kind of Pokémon you gave him.^{[2]
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Method 3

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Hatching Eggs

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Tap on the Egg and select the 'Start Incubation' button. Select an incubator and then walk the distance it says to hatch your egg. When your egg hatches, you'll receive your Pokémon and some candies.^{[3]
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- Better eggs give more candies. 10km eggs (purple dots on egg shell) give the most candy.

Method 4

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Feeding Pokémon Berries in Gyms

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Tap on a friendly gym. A friendly gym is a gym that is owned by your team. You don't have to add a Pokémon to the gym to feed berries to Pokémon.
- If you are defending a gym, you can remotely feed berries to the Pokémon in the gym. This will work the exact same as if you were actually at the gym, except that it doesn't fill the Pokémon's motivation as much.
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Tap on a Pokémon. It can be any Pokémon in the gym, as long as it is not satisfied.
- Satisfied Pokémon have been fed 10 berries and cannot be fed any more berries for 10 minutes.
Pokémon have a small chance of giving out candy when you do this.

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Feeding a Pokémon a Pinap Berry will double the amount of candy given when caught.

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You shouldn't feed Pokémon Golden Razz Berries while grinding for candy because Golden Razz Berries are hard to come by.

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You can get candy from Pokémon in gyms even if you've never owned them before. For example, you can get Chansey candy even if you have never owned a Chansey or a Blissey. When you get one, you can use the candy that you have previously collected.

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Warnings

While playing Pokémon GO, always be aware of your surroundings.

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Don't go into locations that are not safe or is marked as private property.

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Never play while driving, even if you're not moving.

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