Pokémon Go: Increasing Your Inventory Space

When playing Pokémon Go, upgrading your bag is crucial. Let’s explore ways to expand your inventory and earn PokéCoins for it.

Maintaining your inventory in Pokémon Go is crucial, and regardless of how efficiently you manage your supplies, there will come a point when expanding your capacity becomes necessary.

With various items to stockpile, including Poke Balls and evolution items, the need for more space becomes evident.

Fortunately, enhancing your inventory isn’t overly challenging, and there are several approaches you can take. Additionally, Niantic occasionally boosts the base inventory size, relieving the need to be overly cautious about discarding potentially valuable items.

Continue reading to learn how to optimize your inventory capacity.

Bag Upgrades:

The Item Bag that comes with your Pokémon adventure may originally carry 350 items. You can buy Item Bag Upgrades from the PokéShop for 200 PokéCoins each to increase your inventory.

Every bag upgrade increases your inventory by 50 spaces, up to a total of 3,500 items. You’ll have to work hard to acquire PokéCoins in order to unlock this additional area. However, these things have a limited impact on how well you develop as a Trainer.

Please be aware that certain items, like stickers and gifts, do not contribute to the limits of your storage bag.

Earning Pokécoins:

Holding Gyms:

The conventional way to acquire PokéCoins involves engaging in Gym battles and maintaining control of a Gym. Through the Defender Bonus, you can earn approximately six coins per hour. If you manage to defend the Gym for a maximum of eight hours and 20 minutes, you can collect up to 50 PokéCoins in a single day.

Buying Pokécoins with real money:

Following the common approach seen in many popular freemium games, Pokémon Go’s in-game Shop allows players to purchase PokéCoins as in-app transactions. This implies that rural and occasional players often rely on purchasing PokéCoins since they might not have access to numerous Gyms or the ability to defend them effectively. Alternatively, it can be an appealing option for those who prefer not to spend hours battling in Gyms for a small number of coins.

Pokémon Go’s Exchange rate:

Please be aware that in certain locations, the price of purchasing 100 PokéCoins is so low that it’s more cost-effective to repeatedly buy them in this manner rather than purchasing them in larger quantities.

Keep in mind that the values listed above are from the web store and are less expensive on the app itself.

To reach the maximum inventory capacity, you’ll require a total of 63 Bag Upgrades, priced at 200 PokéCoins each, totaling 12,600 PokéCoins. Depending on the purchase increments you select, this amounts to approximately R1916.67 to completely enhance your inventory storage through the freemium approach.

For many players, this represents a substantial investment in a single aspect of the game. Nonetheless, shelling out R95.77-R114.97 to expedite progress in the Gym and gain an additional 150 slots might prove valuable in the grand scheme of things.

Maximizing your inventory space:

Pokémon Go frequently offers items that can clog your inventory, which can be frustrating and force gamers to buy more storage space. It becomes more important to hold onto more items as new game mechanics offer items like Shadow Shards and Purified Gems. We hope to provide you with tips on how to manage your inventory well in this part.

The initial point to understand is that these items do not contribute to your inventory capacity:

• Stickers
• Postcard Books or Postcards
• Gifts (though you can only hold a maximum of 20)
• Mystery Box
• Daily Adventure Incense
• Eggs (though incubators do, and you can only hold a maximum of nine eggs plus three Team Go Rocket eggs)
• Pokémon Candy (though Rare Candy and Rare Candy XL do)

All your other possessions will be considered part of the overall count, encompassing items that may not be immediately apparent, such as your Camera and Egg Incubator(s).

Apart from expanding your bag, efficiently handling your inventory comes down to two main activities: discarding items and consuming items.

Using up your items:

Berries are the first items you should consider! If you find you’re often bogged down by berries in your bag, try to use them more freely while you’re playing. Remember that berries aren’t just for using on Pokémon you catch:

• You can feed them to Pokémon in your Team’s Gym, even if you don’t have a Pokémon in the Gym, and be rewarded with Stardust.
• Don’t forget to feed your buddy a treat of berries; you need three to fill a Buddy’s wheel.

If, however, you have just spun a PokéStop and were informed that you are out of item space, you might want to immediately use up your berries. Before eliminating any, adhere to the same two suggestions as nearly as you can!

1. If you’ve placed one of your Pokémon in a gym, you have the option to remotely feed it! Being physically next to the gym is only necessary if none of the Pokémon in the gym belong to you. By clicking on the Pokémon stationed at the gym, you can access the remote feeding feature, allowing you to provide berries to your Pokémon and all others present in that gym from a distance. Gyms have a maximum capacity of six Pokémon, and each player can supply each Pokémon with ten berries every half-hour. With just a few clicks, you can deplete 60 berries!
2. Regarding your Buddy Pokémon, keep in mind that you can switch them up to 20 times per day. By offering treats to each new Buddy, you can quickly utilize 63 berries! Although the affection hearts you earn will be distributed over time, they still contribute to your progress in the long term.

Though it’s still a useful idea to bear in mind, you might automatically think of changing your Rare Candies into the Candy type of a certain Pokémon when you inspect your inventory.

It’s okay to choose a Pokémon you’re sure you’ll want to power up or evolve in the future even if you decide to hold onto them until you’re more clear about which Pokémon to invest in if they’re just taking up space in your inventory.

We advise you to think about utilizing them on legendary Pokémon. Legendary Pokémon are difficult to obtain through catches because they primarily occur in raids, and obtaining Candy through walking with them is nearly impossible because it takes a significant 20 km to obtain only one Candy.

*Also make sure all your Pokémon are revived and fully healed.

You can also utilize your TMs before reaching a point of urgency where you have to delete items. There are four types of TMs:

These may build up in your inventory for a number of different causes. It’s possible that you just neglected to evaluate your Pokémon’s moves or that you’re unsure of the best moves to use.

It will take some investigation to make the most of your TMs, but it’s better than wasting them.

Basically, some moves are highly effective when used against Team Go Rocket members or other players one-on-one, while other moves are really effective when used during battles in gyms or raids.

Review your Pokémon to determine the type of combat you’ll use them for most, then check the best moves online.

While websites like PvPoke identify the greatest moves for a Pokémon in one-on-one battles as part of its League ranking, the PokéGenie app can advise you on effective moves for combat in Gyms or Raids.

Evolution items tend to be among the last items you’ll consider using up. Maybe there’s a Pokémon you’ve been planning to evolve with an evolution item, but you’ve been waiting for one with superior stats.

Nonetheless, following this approach may not free up as many inventory slots, and you might also find it wasteful in terms of Candy utilization.

Deciding which items to delete and which to keep:

When circumstances become more pressing, you may find yourself compelled to remove a few items. Naturally, for individuals residing in rural locations where PokéStops are scarce, these items may hold greater value.

Ultimately, you’ll need to exercise your own judgment when determining what you can do without.

The most obvious candidates for elimination are those that are widely used, ineffective, and accessible, such as the fundamental varieties of:

• PokéBall
• Potions
• Razz Berries
• Nanab Berries
• Pinap Berries

Other things that could be deleted—but may not immediately come to mind—can really take up important inventory space. We have two suggestions: TMs and Evolution Items.

Even though there are hundreds of Pokémon in the game, only a few of them require evolution items, making them unquestionably important when you need them.

You may have five, ten, or even more of these products in your inventory, which is more than you will probably require. With the exception of Gimmighoul Coins, think about lowering this number to just two or three per person.

Basic TMs give your Pokémon moves at random, therefore the purpose of giving you a lot of them is to let you utilize a few of them to get the desired move. These TMs can, however, add up, particularly for players who have already perfected the moves of their best Pokémon.

You’ll discover that you rarely need TMs once your strongest Pokémon have their optimum moveset unless a new Pokémon emerges as a top competitor. We can promise you that you can securely part with a few of them, even though we don’t suggest getting rid of all of them.

Items you should try not to delete:

• Rare Candy
• Raid Passes
• Team Go Rocket items (Mysterious Components, Shadow Shards, etc.)
• Lure Modules
• Star Pieces
• Golden Razz Berries
• Silver Pinap Berries
• Lucky Eggs
• Incenses

Spending PokeCoins is the main way to buy some of these things. You would incur a loss of money if you used PokeCoins to purchase one of these things and then threw it away.

If, however, you won it through a quest or challenge, count yourself lucky to own a valuable item that other players paid real money to acquire. Some of these things can’t even be bought using Pokémon coins.

Using just these few tips will help you to maximize your inventory and bag space.