In Pokémon GO you can earn a total of 50 coins for free every day. In this guide, we will show you how to get the in-game currency of the game.
These are coins in Pokémon GO: PokéCoins is the in-game currency of Pokémon GO. With it, you can buy raid passes, lucky eggs, incubators, and much more.
Every day you can receive 50 coins for free. That corresponds to 50 cents. If you want more coins, you must purchase them in the in-game shop for real money.
How to get coins in Pokémon GO – Here’s how it works
Here you earn PokéCoins: You must assign at least one of your Pokémon to a gym. For the time spent there, you will then receive coins, but only if your Pokémon is kicked out of the gym. So it is of no use to stay in gyms for ages, as you will only be rewarded with being kicked out. The system works as follows:
- You earn one PokéCoin every 10 minutes or 6 coins for an hour.
- There is a cap of 50 coins per day – you cannot earn more in one day.
- You need to sit in gyms for a total of 8 hours and 20 minutes to earn enough coins for one day.
You will automatically receive PokéCoins when you leave the gym. As long as you are still in gyms, there are no coins for you. If you do not receive any coins upon being kicked out, then you have already earned 50 coins for that day.
Basically, you can place any monster in gyms, except for legendary and mythical Pokémon.
Are there other ways to earn free coins? No, you can only get the free coins by sitting in gyms. Niantic had previously tested another system, which allowed you to earn coins through small quests as well, but the developers discarded that option again.
Since then, you can only collect coins for free through gyms.
This is how you earn coins faster: When sitting in gyms, the total number of your hours counts. One Pokémon must sit in gyms for 8 hours and 20 minutes, but two Pokémon in two gyms only need to spend 4 hours and 10 minutes each in gyms.
The more Pokémon you place in different gyms, the less time you have to wait for your coins. So if you want to guarantee your coins every day, you should ideally take over several gyms. It is also not guaranteed that you will be kicked out of the gym that day. So spread out and hold several gyms.
How to best defend gyms? Sometimes it’s not so easy to get to your coins, as you are simply kicked out of gyms too quickly. We recommend that you use the best defenders in Pokémon GO. They at least make it more difficult for your opponents to take over your gym at the beginning. If you instead use weak defenders, gyms can be taken over faster.
But keep in mind that your Pokémon will lose motivation over time. If you place a strong monster with a lot of CP in the gyms, it will lose a lot of CP after a few hours, making it easier for other players to attack. If you definitely want your coins, you should feed your Pokémon in the gym in the meantime. A golden razz berry fully restores the monster’s motivation.
Buying coins – How does it work?
This is how you can also get coins: If the 50 free coins per day are not enough for you, you can alternatively buy additional coins in the in-game shop. The prices are as follows (may vary by platform by a few cents):
- 100 PokéCoins for 0.99 Euro
- 550 PokéCoins for 5.49 Euro
- 1,200 PokéCoins for 10.99 Euro
- 2,500 PokéCoins for 21.99 Euro
- 5,200 PokéCoins for 43.99 Euro
- 14,500 PokéCoins for 109.99 Euro
In general, you can say: The more money you invest at once in Pokémon GO, the more savings you get. It’s wiser to invest a larger amount at once than multiple smaller amounts.
To buy the coins, you need to go to the shop and scroll down to the very bottom. You will find the coins there and can purchase them.
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