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Pokémon Go PSA: Here’s when to transfer your Go Fest 2024 catches

Don’t waste all of that sweet Candy

Marco Wutz

Niantic

Another Go Fest has come and gone, which means many Pokémon Go players across Earth have full Pokémon storages at the moment – but don’t transfer the surplus catches just yet: It pays to be patient.

The Pokémon Go Spotlight Hour on July 16, 2024, with Binacle has a very handy bonus that will provide you with a massive amount of additional resources. Transferring Pokémon between 6pm and 7pm local time – the traditional duration of Spotlight Hour – nets you double the usual Candy rewards.

When you’ve got a few hundred Pokémon to transfer, this is a substantial amount of extra Candy that can then be used for powering up creatures, teaching them new moves, or evolving them – which in turn can help you complete Field, Timed, and Special Research Tasks you’re currently working on. The positive impact such a sudden influx of Candy can have on your account is not to be underestimated.

So if you haven’t emptied your Pokémon storage after Go Fest 2024 yet, remain patient a while longer and do all of your transferring on July 16, 2024, from 6 to 7pm local time during Spotlight Hour.

If you plan on an evolution spree once you’ve got all that Candy in hand, we’ve got another date you should mark in your calendar: The Spotlight Hour on July 23, 2024, awards double XP for evolving Pokémon, so if you’re still chasing after the maximum level, then keeping all of your evolutions in reserve until then is a good move. Add a Lucky Egg on the appointed day and you’ll be swimming in XP.

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Marco Wutz

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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