What is the best way to obtain rare candies
Soloing T3's ?
3 to 4 people countering T4's or
7 to 8 people counering T5's or
totally at random
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I’ll take some golden berries. Golden berries are almost as good as Rare candies and Charged TMs. Fast TMs are a little bit easier to obtain , but as far as gym control; Mewtwo Raids (haven’t gotten an invite yet myself ) , I can definitely add some more Golden Rasberries to my inventory. It’s all preference based on your playstyle.
I consider myself a counter picker. Don’t really Raid as much. Free player but I have more defensive maxed out Pokemon than offensive (Raid meta). Plus I’m one of the minority still getting 2 items per Pokestop spin so it takes longer for me to fill up my bagspace.
Gold gyms are the only thing helping with the 2 items per stop so Golden Rasberries are definitely useful for my playstyle so I can get more Gold gym Badges.
Just remember, it’s all RGN and is really based on your playstyle on how the rewards you get benefit you overall.
it does predate the potion dilution though.
I seem to get big windfalls on t5s followed by nothing for a few raids
and a steady stream from solo T3.
they both probably work out about the same in the long run. But the T5s give the best chance at charged tms (which a bad run on a change can blow 10 of in a few minutes)
Relying on Legendary raids is mostly foolish, unless your area has such a high population density to your team ratio that every raid you do grants you the damage bonus and can rely on having enough people to complete the raid. Otherwise, power up teams that allow you to solo tier 3 raids, do whichever you can rely on completing daily, and don't waste your premium passes unless you know your raid group can win.
Unfortunately, the reward bundles changed (potions were added) since the silphroad guys finished their research, but afaik the rare candy bundles did not change, only that the chance to obtain candy bundles dropped from 30%.
https://thesilphroad.com/science/raid-rewards-secret-multipliers
level 3 and 4 raids contain only 2 rare candies/bundle while tier 5 raids contain 3 rare candies.
I assume that the chances to get a candy bundle are now approximately 25% (instead of 30%) independent of the raid level
Soloing T3s: you will get 12-14 balls which results in 6 bundles -> 25% * 6 bundles * 2 candy = expected value 3 candy
3-4 T4 Raids: let's assume you get 9-10 balls which results once again in 6 bundles and an EV of 3 candy
T5 Raids: With a little luck you'll get 8-9 balls and even receive 7 bundles on average, resulting in
25% * 7 bundles * 3 candy = EV of 5 candy
but even if you only get 6 balls and 5 bundles, you still get 25% * 5 bundles * 3 candy = 3.75 candy
Long story short answer 1 was correct: always do T5 Raids
T1: at most 2 bundles (7+ balls)
T2: at most 4 bundles (11+ balls)
and only 1 candy/ candy bundle
If you are VERY lucky, you could get up to 4 charge TMs by doing a T2 raid, and catch a perfect Exeggutor in the process. Of course this is not very likely, but I wouldn't go so far and call T2 raids a waste of time. I wouldn't do T1s though
Legendary Raids. Hands down best way to obtain them.
Consistent? Not at all. Not in the least. But when you get Rare Candies from Legendary raids, you're more likely to get a LOT of them (like 6+). T4 raids you might get 3-5 if you get any. T3 and below you're looking at 2 Rare Candies max. (with the exception being about as common as finding a Larvitar in the wild. I've gotten 3 Rare Candies from Magikarp raids in the past, for example - which was amusingly ironic because this was when I was spinning 100 pokestops and getting 3 Revives and 3 Max Revives total, so I was doing any raid I could find just to try to get more Revives. Instead... Rare Candies. ARGH!)
So Legendary Raids is where to get the most Rare Candies. You get them at essentially the same rate as other Raids, but when you do get them you get more.
