What is XL Candy in Pokémon GO?
Powerful candy used to power up Pokémon past level 40. Required for L41-50 power-ups.
Powerful candy used to power up Pokémon past level 40. Required for L41-50 power-ups.
XL Candy is the rarer cousin of regular Candy. Each level from 41 to 50 requires a growing XL Candy cost (4 per level at L40-43, scaling up to ~28 per level at L48-50). A full L40-to-L50 push costs 296 XL Candy + ~250,000 Stardust.
Sources: 1 in ~50 catches (10% chance, then a 50% conversion to XL), trades occasionally, raid bonuses (1-3 per raid), Special Research, and Community Day breakthroughs.
XL Candy is the bottleneck for Master League. Building a hundo Dialga at L50 takes months of XL grinding unless you spam Community Day events.
See xl candy in action with the related Hundo Hunter tool.
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What does XL Candy mean in Pokémon GO?
Powerful candy used to power up Pokémon past level 40. Required for L41-50 power-ups.
XL Candy explained in detail
XL Candy is the rarer cousin of regular Candy. Each level from 41 to 50 requires a growing XL Candy cost (4 per level at L40-43, scaling up to ~28 per level at L48-50). A full L40-to-L50 push costs 296 XL Candy + ~250,000 Stardust. Sources: 1 in ~50 catches (10% chance, then a 50% conversion to XL), trades occasionally, raid bonuses (1-3 per raid), Special Research, and Community Day breakthroughs. XL Candy is the bottleneck for Master League. Building a hundo Dialga at L50 takes months of XL grinding unless you spam Community Day events.
What are other names for XL Candy?
XL Candy is also called: xl, xl candy. All refer to the same concept in Pokémon GO.