How To Get Candy For Starter Pokemon (Squirtle, Charmander & Bulbasaur) In Pokemon Go

Blaine SmithJuly 10, 2016

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In true Pokemon fashion players get the opportunity to pick their starting Pokemon at the beginning of Pokemon Go. You can select from Squirtle, Charmander or Bulbasaur but past that, leveling and evolving these Pokemon can be tough. This How To Get Candy For Starter Pokemon will tell you how to get more Candy for Squirtle, Charmander and Bulbasaur so you can level your starter, evolve it to higher forms and maybe even use it in gym battles.

How To Get Candy For Charmander, Bulbasaur & Squirtle

In Pokemon Go the best way to get candies is to catch Pokemon that belong to the same evolutionary tree. So for example, catching a Charmander, Charmeleon or Charizard will give you the Charmander Candy you need to level up or evolve any of the forms in that tree. I’ve heard that it is possible to find Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur in the wild but only very few reports of this exist and I’ve not seen any myself.

This leaves one remaining method of getting Candy for your starter Pokemon, hatching eggs. If you already know where to find eggs in Pokemon Go the next stage is getting Charmander, Squirtle or Bulbasaur in one of these eggs. There are 3 different types of eggs in Pokemon Go. A 2k Egg, 5k Egg and 10k Egg. Each type of Egg can hatch different Pokemon and each Egg requires a certain amount of travel in order to hatch.

Thankfully the Eggs that contain the starter Pokemon are also the easiest to hatch. So if you’re looking for Candy for Squirtle, Charmander or Bulbasaur you want to get as many 2k Eggs as you possibly can and hatch them as quickly as possible. There are other Pokemon that can come from these Eggs so you’re not guaranteed to find the starter Pokemon. For more information on what you can find in every type of Egg check out our Pokemon Go egg hatching guide.