How do you manage your pokemon bag?

[JoelGilmor]

Provided that you can only keep 250 pokemons in your bag,

What is your decision making process on keeping or discarding pokemons? This is the way I manage my pokemons.

If it's a rare pokemon, like Lickitung or Snorlax I always, keep unless I have a lot of them in which case I always discard the one with lowest CP.

If the pokemon is below level 20. (That is if the amount of powerdust required to upgrade is below 2500) I automatically discard. Regardless of IV Level.

If pokemon is Level 20 or above and the pokemon needs to be evolved (say it's a Nidoran or Poliwag) I check for IV. If the advisor says the pokemon is not worth for battles, I discard the pokemon, unless the pokemon level is very close to the trainer's level. Say the trainer level is 26 and the pokemon I caught was level 24 or level 25. I put that pokemon in waiting to be evolved until I can complete enough candies to evolve to maximum. Say it's a poliwag, I wait until I have 125 candies to evolve all the way to a poliwrath.

If the pokemon doesn't need to be evolved, (say it's a pinsir, or a golbat) I automatically discard if the pokemon CP level is below 1,000.

The pokemons I use for gym fighting I mark them favorite. Say it's a vaporeon with Pulse attack, I don't mark it favorite. Any unmarked pokemons I use them to hold gyms. When pokemons are not strong enough compared to other competing pokemns in my bag, they are not revived. I discard them.

I always try to keep a lean bag between 150 to 220 pokemons. I really believe spending coins to increase your pokemon bag over 300 pokemons is a waste of resources.

 

[ghostshadow037]

You can always try put ur Pokemon in the gym to collect coins

 

[Square]

Pretty much the same here, but I use different management style for different level.

For 35+ account for example, I don't keep golbat, venonat, arbok, butterfree, and other tier 2 pokemons since they don't serve me any purpose at all unless they can be evolved to tier 1.

At level 31, I don't keep pokemon that power up requirement is under is 5000. I am careful though when using powerdust as a gauge since there are pokemon that are weaker than the same type (like 200 CP magikarp and another 220 CP magikarp) and yet requires more stardust to upgrade. So I always keep at least two and use one as a baseline for comparison, then manually transfer the weaker one.

I don't evolve any pokemon to keep until I reach level 24. That is because up to that point, leveling up is easy and fast, and I know that I will catch a stronger pokemon to evolve on the next level. If I evolved a level 24 dragonair and used up all my candies, then 2 days later I captured a level 25 dragonair, I know I will regret it. But I keep them still for possible evolving if I don't catch anything.


When I evolve, I make sure that I leave enough candies to evolve another, because I know that stronger pokemon is yet to be found, and also for powering up. At any level though, I wait until I have enough candies, then I will save all the pidgeys, caterpies, rattata, weedle, then I will use lucky eggs. I don't keep metapod and kakuna, they go straight to prof.


The rest is basically similar to yours.

On unbotted accounts that I used with my daughter though, every tactics goes out of the window. I keep 5 Rattatta because my daughter said she's the one who caught them. I can't get rid of cleafairy and staryu because she said they are cute. I have to keep these annoying ekans because we caught them in Disneyland, and another weak pokemon that we caught when we went to SeaWorld. My bag is almost full, and my strongest pokemon is a 100 CP Paras. And I have to give nickname for each pokemons. Unfortunately she lost interest and quit playing, we don't hunt for pokemon anymore. When we visit those mall and restaurants where we used to get excited and catch every pokemon, I don't even see her taking out her phone anymore, so I don't either. But I'm still keeping those accounts because they remind me of something. Good summer memories.

 

[Pokemon Master]

get in 10 gyms and every 20 hours you can get 100 gold = buy more space. Thats what I do

 

[JoelGilmor]

Square, Definitely those memories are more valuable that the strongest pokemon you will ever find.

I never got to a level 30+ account. My strongest account is level 26. It just feels awkward having to transfer a 1200 CP Vaporeon only because you have 10 other Vaporeon with better attacks and stronger CPs.

Pokemon Master, I don't want to do that, because expanding the pokemon bag only means I will be storing more and more useless pokemons that I will hardly or never use.

 

[Pokemon Master]

Square, Definitely those memories are more valuable that the strongest pokemon you will ever find.

I never got to a level 30+ account. My strongest account is level 26. It just feels awkward having to transfer a 1200 CP Vaporeon only because you have 10 other Vaporeon with better attacks and stronger CPs.

Pokemon Master, I don't want to do that, because expanding the pokemon bag only means I will be storing more and more useless pokemons that I will hardly or never use.

Fair enough, I do it to store all the crap pokemon then drop a lucky egg and do a mass evolve. Ranks me up quick. I only use my top 25 pokemon the rest are just to far down to even use for anything.