In Pokémon GO the Lucky Friends feature is live. But which Pokémon should I use my Lucky Friend on to get a guaranteed Lucky Pokémon?
What Lucky Friends bring: If you level up with a friend to become Lucky Friends, then you get a guaranteed Lucky Pokémon.
You save stardust when leveling up and directly get a Pokémon with good IVs. But for which Pokémon is it worth it? We give you a selection.
Use your Lucky Friends for this
It’s important: Lucky Pokémon are particularly worthwhile for Pokémon that play a major role in the meta. After all, they have at least an IV of 80%. So use this feature on Pokémon that belong to the best attackers and best defenders.
It’s always worth it here: Generally, Lucky Friends are worth it with legendary Pokémon, as these monsters are hard to obtain as Lucky Pokémon. After all, you can only trade one legendary Pokémon per day.
Other Pokémon can be traded more often. So the chance of getting Lucky Pokémon is higher.
To give you a good overview of valuable Lucky Pokémon, we provide you with a selection and explain briefly why each Pokémon is worth it.
These legendary Pokémon are worthwhile as Lucky Pokémon
- Rayquaza
- Best Dragon Attacker
- Super Allrounder
- Kyogre
- Best Water Attacker by far
- Groudon
- Best Ground Attacker
- Surprising charge move with Solar Beam
- Mewtwo
- Best Psychic Attacker
- Other great attacks from Ice, Electric, Ghost, and Fire types
- Extremely high attack value and good allrounder
- Dialga
- Solid Dragon Attacker that can also take hits from other Dragon attacks well
- Palkia
- Solid Dragon Attacker and a good alternative to Rayquaza
- Zapdos
- Best Fire Attacker
- With Sky Attack as charge move, the best Flying Attacker
- Raikou
- Best Electric Attacker together with Electivire
- Effective against many legendary raid bosses
- Giratina
- Best Ghost Attacker
- Important against any legendary boss of Psychic type
- Latios
- Solid Dragon Attacker
- Very good in PvP, as it has a fast charge move
These non-legendary Pokémon are worthwhile as Lucky Pokémon
- Rameidon
- Best Rock Attacker
- Extremely high attack value
- Despotar
- Among the best Rock and Dark type attackers
- Solid Allrounder
- Brutalanda
- Second best Dragon Attacker after Rayquaza (with the move Outrage from Community Day)
- Metagross
- Best Steel Attacker
- Solid Allrounder
- Solid Defender
- Roserade
- Best Grass and Poison type attacker
- Machoke
- Best Fighting Pokémon
- Always important in gym battles
- Slaking
- Best Defender in the game
- Mamutel
- Best Ice Pokémon by far
- One of the best counters against numerous raid bosses
- Snibunna
- Best Dark type attacker
- Solid Ice type attacker
- Electivire
- Best Electric Attacker together with Raikou
You can also do this: You don’t have to use your Lucky Friends immediately. If you already have all the above Pokémon in your team, you can also wait for new ones.
With Garchomp from Generation 4, another top Pokémon is likely to come into the game soon. It would be quite cool to have this Pokémon directly with good IVs in your team.
We have also explained which Pokémon you should use special candies on:
