Bottle Caps are a really uncommon merchandise added to Pokémon video games in Pokémon Solar and Moon, and after many years, you may seize Gold Bottle Caps in Pokémon Go.
This stuff are nonetheless exceedingly uncommon to seek out in mainline video games, which is smart, as they’re used for rising your Pokémon’s stats. It’s no totally different in Pokémon Go. That’s proper — you may flip that 80% IV Mewtwo right into a hundo with a Gold Bottle Cap.
Beneath we clarify how Bottle Caps work in Pokémon Go and tips on how to get them.
What Bottle Caps do in Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go doesn’t appear to have common Bottle Caps but (and we don’t know if Scopely is planning on including them), but it surely does have Gold Bottle Caps, the premier model of the merchandise, permitting you to max out a Pokémon’s stats. Within the mainline video games, common Bottle Caps can max out one stat, however Golden Bottle Caps will max out all six (although sure, Pokémon Go solely has three stats).
These one-time use gadgets can be utilized on any non-shadow Pokémon that could be a Good Buddy or greater. When you apply it to them, you’ll be given a set of analysis duties known as “Hyper Coaching” to finish with this Pokémon, like profitable fitness center battles together with your goal Pokémon in your social gathering or spinning PokéStops with the Pokémon set as your buddy.
The precise particulars aren’t 100% recognized but, as no one has a Gold Bottle Cap but, because it must be earned from a battle move with each day limits (extra on that under).
There’s additionally a time restrict for this. When you don’t full the Hyper Coaching analysis duties inside one year of beginning it, it should expire.
Find out how to get Bottle Caps in Pokémon Go
As of this writing, there’s just one method to get a Gold Bottle Cap: purchase and full the deluxe model of the “Go Cross: Ancients Recovered” battle move ($20). Yep. ☹ This cover additionally expires on Sunday, July 6, at 11:59 p.m. in your native time, so ensure that to make use of it earlier than then, when you do select to purchase it.
This battle move works the identical because the earlier Go Passes, so you may rank as much as 100 after which select to purchase the deluxe model, retroactively incomes all of the premium rewards together with the cap, if you’d like it. Be aware that from June 23-27, you may solely earn 1,000 move factors per day, although this restrict can be lifted throughout the Go Fest World occasion on June 28 and 29. You will want to finish and declare all of the rewards from this move by June 29 at 11:59 p.m. in your native time or else they’ll vanish to the aether.
Picture: Scopely
Similar to the Fortunate Trinket, there’ll doubtless be extra alternatives to seize this very-rare merchandise, however I wouldn’t put your hopes into any of mentioned strategies being free-to-play.
Is the Gold Bottle Cap price shopping for?
Similar to the Fortunate Trinket, the merchandise doesn’t have a coin worth and its price comes from how badly it’s possible you’ll need to flip one in all the one that you love Pokémon right into a hundo (100% IV Pokémon).
On this particular case, the “Go Cross: Ancients Recovered” battle move is fairly underwhelming — there’s no raid passes or Uncommon Sweet XL, with a lot of the premium rewards being issues like Fortunate Eggs and Lure Modules.
That’s to say that whereas $20 might web you round 30 Premium Battle Passes (probably extra, if there’s an excellent bundle), there are some Pokémon which can be uncommon sufficient that you simply could need to simply use a bottle cap on them when you like them sufficient. The Galarian birds come to thoughts with this, or perhaps even you probably have an outdated armored Mewtwo, that’s an alternative choice. (When is armored Mewtwo coming again, Scopely? Hmm..?)
