How to Get Coins in Pokémon GO

PokéCoins, a digital money used in the free-to-play game Pokémon GO, are responsible for the world’s rotation in the game. PokéCoins are currency that may be used to purchase extra Pokéballs, attract Pokémon to your location, and even modify the appearance of your character. Learn how to obtain coins in Pokémon GO, including how to purchase them with real money and how to grind for them for free in this guide.

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Buying PokéCoins

PokéCoins are the virtual currency in Pokémon GO, which is a free-to-play game. The only way to fast get improvements is to pay real money, even though you can grind coins for free (we’ll teach you how to do that right now). Fortunately, PokéCoins are not too expensive.

• 100 coins – $0.99
• 550 coins – $4.99
• 1,200 coins – $9.99
• 2,500 coins – $19.99
• 5,200 coins – $39.99
• 14,500 coins – $99.99

Buying in bulk will save you money because the conversion is around a cent per coin. For example, the most costly package costs $99.99 but includes $145 in coins. Larger packages of coins offer the most value for your money, even though dropping $100 on a mobile game is never a pleasurable experience.

How far you can go in-game with real-world money is mostly determined by the items you choose to purchase. Compared to Lures, which cost a buck, Pokéballs are around a cent each. Buying in bulk can save you a lot of money, and we’ll go over how to do that in the last portion of this book.

Getting PokéCoins for free

While several companies have offered PokéCoin promotions – Sprint handed out $100 worth of coins a few years ago – the only method to get free PokéCoins is to place your Pokémon at gyms. Gyms are governed by one of the three Pokémon GO teams: Mystic, Valor, or Instinct. If your squad owns a gym, you can use it. If not, control will be a struggle. Depending on the number of opposing Pokémon in the gym, beating them all may take time. To take over the gym, you must beat all Pokémon.

Once your team controls a gym, you can temporarily remove one Pokémon from your roster. The gym may reward you up to 50 PokéCoins every day. Every hour the Pokémon defends the gym earns you six PokéCoins (or one every ten minutes). The maximum daily coin earning is 50, regardless of how many Pokémon you place at various gyms. So even if a Pokémon protects a gym for more than one day, you only receive 50 PokéCoins each time you install one there.

After defeating your Pokémon, it will return to you with the cash gained (up to 50). If your Pokémon merely defended the gym for 10 minutes, it will award you one PokéCoin. After the first year, Niantic updated the method for paying players with PokéCoins. The new system is slower, encouraging gamers to acquire PokéCoins.

What you can buy with PokéCoins

The moment has come for you to spend the PokéCoins that have been piling up in your pockets. Here is a list of items that you may purchase using PokéCoins.

Pokéballs

For the most part, you’ll be using your coins to purchase Pokéballs, which are quite reasonably priced in this game. Pokéballs may be used to capture wild Pokémon, albeit only the regular Pokéballs are available for purchase at the shop at the time of writing. PokéStops are a great place to find special Pokéballs if you’re looking for them.

• 20 Pokéballs – 100 coins
• 100 Pokéballs – 460 coins
• 200 Pokéballs – 800 coins

Incense

It is possible to use Incense to attract Pokémon to your position for a period of 30 minutes; however, the Pokémon that you attract is determined at random and is not dependent on the place you are in. Incense, in contrast to Lures, does not deliver a boost to all players within a set radius of your location. If you’re going to utilize it, keep in mind that it only works on yourself.

• 1 Incense – 40 coins
• 8 Incense – 250 coins

Lucky Egg

Lucky Eggs grant you double XP for 30 minutes, allowing you to capitalize on catching new Pokémon, hatching eggs, and participating in gym battles. Like Incense, this effect only applies to you and lasts a half hour, no matter if you’re actively playing the game or not.

• 1 Lucky Egg – 80 coins
• 8 Lucky Eggs – 500 coins

Style options

Aside from practical items that help you catch more Pokémon, you can also use PokéCoins at the Style Shop — in exchange for cosmetics like clothing, hats, various poses, and more. They all have different prices, ranging from 50 coins to upward of 400.

Here’s what the Style Shop currently features:

• Poses
• Hats
• Masks
• Glasses
• Tops
• Bags
• Gloves
• Bottoms
• Socks
• Footware

The shop is updated frequently, with different items being added periodically. Limited items can be taken off the market without notice, so check the shop often to see if there are items you want to snag.

Other items in the Pokémon GO shop

It’s not only Pokéballs that you can buy in Pokémon GO; there are other things and enhancements available for purchase as well. The Egg Incubator costs 150 coins, whereas 10 Max Potions and six Max Revives cost 200 and 180 coins, respectively. For those times when you acquire too many stuff, you may either purchase an additional item bag or enhance your Pokémon’s storage capacity. You’ll need 200 coins to purchase each of these enhancements.

If you’re looking to stock up on a variety of things at a discounted price, you’ll be better off purchasing a box. The Adventure Box costing 1,480 coins, for example, includes 10 Super Incubators, three Incense, three Star Pieces, and seven Egg Incubators. The worth of this package without the Star Pieces is about 3,000 coins.

FAQs

How many coins do you get for defending a gym for 3 days?

When you successfully defend a Gym for an hour, you will receive six PokéCoins (at a rate of one PokéCoin every ten minutes). No matter how many Gyms you are defending in a given day, you can only earn a maximum of 50 Coins.

Are there Pokemon GO cheats?

The spoofing exploit is by far the most often used form of cheating in Pokemon GO. Trainers now have the opportunity to capture a wide variety of uncommon Pokemon, some of which they would not have had access to otherwise. Spoofing is accomplished by manipulating the phone in such a way that it tricks the GPS into thinking it is located in a different area.

How many coins do you get for defending a gym for 2 days?

You will be awarded one Pokécoin every thirty minutes under the new system, with a daily cap of fifty-five coins available to you. This is equivalent to defending a gym for 25 hours per day in order to earn 50 coins.