Now that candy for catches and transfers are doubled, you may want to visit your local nests to stock up on those precious candies. While this may seem like a good strategy, note that since “spooky” pokemon crowd out other pokemon, you may not see as many of the nest pokemon as usual.

If you do plan to visit a nest, here are strategies you may consider:

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You can never have too many eeveelutions in Pokemon GO. If you're lucky enough to have a confirmed Eevee nest in driving distance, consider pack some camping gear for the weekend. With 6 catch candies, 2 transfer candies, and 1 evolve candy for the duration of the event, 1 of every 3 Eevee you catch has the chance to be Vaporeon, Jolteon, or Flareon! B







If you have been blessed with a Dratini nest, now is the perfect time to pay a visit. Since you now receive 6 candies per catch and 2 per transfer, you only need to catch 16 Dratini instead of 32 to get yourself a Dragonite. If you already have a Dragonite, those candies would be useful for powering up as well. Other pre-evolved forms of competitive pokemon would be worth catching as well. 7 Exeggcute, Jigglypuff, or Growlithe will net you Exeggcutor, Wigglytuff and Arcanine respectively. Seel may be another good option if you don’t already have a good Dragonite counter. C





Because of the high candy costs of evolution, you may want to visit the nests of Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle for those precious candies. Bellsprout and Oddish nests may be good options as well since Victreebel and Vileplume are useful in this water pokemon meta. D







Poliwag, Abra, Machop, Geodude, and Magikarp all take a large amount of candy to evolve to their final evolutions. If you don’t have them in your pokedex yet, this may be the perfect opportunity to quickly grab those last few candies. F





If all you care about is experience, catching Caterpie, Weedle, and Pidgey can bring you closer to your next lucky egg session. Assuming you have at least one Pokemon candy right now, you can evolve 3 of every 4 you catch due to 6 catch candies, 2 transfer candies, and 1 evolve candy potentially per catch. Unfortunately, these pokemon may be harder to find during the event.

After exhausting yourself and your buddy from trick-o-treating. It's time to take a hard look at your Pokemon box and do a fall cleaning.

For this event, you get 2 candies for each Pokemon you transfer. It's the perfect opportunity to choose only your favorites, and get rid of the rest.

Because of double candies, it's not a terrible idea to splurge on extra incubators a little this Halloween.

User Action Pokemon Candies Acquired Catching 6 Hatching 10 to 64 Transferring 2 Evolving 1 refunded

One source of Pokemon candies is not doubled this Halloween. Normally, you receive one candy rebate per Pokemon evolution. This extra candy is not doubled during the event.