What is Trade in-game?
Exchange mons with a nearby Trainer (within 100m). Costs Stardust + 1 candy. IVs reroll on the receiver's side.
Exchange mons with a nearby Trainer (within 100m). Costs Stardust + 1 candy. IVs reroll on the receiver's side.
Trades require both players within 100m of each other. Each trade costs Stardust (100-800,000 depending on friendship + special-trade flag) and grants +1 candy of the traded mons + a chance at Lucky.
After trade the IVs reroll on the receiver's side. The floor depends on friendship level: Good Friend → 1/1/1 floor, Great Friend → 2/2/2, Ultra → 3/3/3, Best → 5/5/5. The ceiling is always 15.
A traded mons can't be traded again. CP and HP often shift after the reroll — sometimes a 30 CP trash mon turns into a 1500 GL banger.
Best Friend trade: standard 800 dust, special 800 dust. No friendship: 100,000 / 800,000 dust.
Post-trade IV reroll floors by friendship: Good +1, Great +2, Ultra +3, Best +5 per stat.
See trade in action with the related Hundo Hunter tool.
A trade between two players involving a Legendary, Shiny, or Mythical. Limited to 1 per day.
A trade-exclusive status. Lucky mons have golden Stardust glow + minimum 12 / 12 / 12 IVs + half the…
Universal in-game currency — used for power-ups, trades, second-move unlocks, and purifications.
Per-friend relationship level. Climbs through gift exchanges, raids, and trades. Unlocks trade disco…
What does Trade mean in-game?
Exchange mons with a nearby Trainer (within 100m). Costs Stardust + 1 candy. IVs reroll on the receiver's side.
Trade explained in detail
Trades require both players within 100m of each other. Each trade costs Stardust (100-800,000 depending on friendship + special-trade flag) and grants +1 candy of the traded mons + a chance at Lucky. After trade the IVs reroll on the receiver's side. The floor depends on friendship level: Good Friend → 1/1/1 floor, Great Friend → 2/2/2, Ultra → 3/3/3, Best → 5/5/5. The ceiling is always 15. A traded mons can't be traded again. CP and HP often shift after the reroll — sometimes a 30 CP trash mon turns into a 1500 GL banger.
Is Trade the same as in the main-series mons games?
Mostly yes — but the game has unique mechanics around catching, raids, and PvP that change how Trade works compared to the main-series games. See the full explanation above for GO-specific details.