"Expected Raid Rewards (Rare Candy and TMs v. Raid Tier and Premier Balls)"

#PokemonGO: After the nerf to T5 rare candy bundles, raiders now have to strike a balance between lower tier raids for rare candy and T5's for TMs. Using the The Silph Road's research on raid rewards (drop rates, rewards per bundle, premier ball to bundle correspondence), I calculated the expected value of rare candy, fast TMs, and charge TMs, depending on the raid tier and the number of non-friendship premier balls (friendship ones don't affect the number of reward bundles), and then put them in tables. I also included a normalized version of the tables which have entries included as percentages of the maximum possible, so that it was easier to see the relative distribution of rewards, and then color-coded both.​Rare Candy v. Raid Tier and Premier BallsSurprisingly, if someone is only interested in rare candy, they'd be better off doing Tier 2 raids than Tier 5! T3 raids are not far behind T4 in terms of RC rewards, fortunately for solo raiders.Fast TMs v. Raid Tier and Premier Balls​Charge TMs v. Raid Tier and Premier BallsThe TM situation is heavily slanted toward T5 raids, especially charge TMs. This means that legendary raids are still very important to those who do PvP or raid challenges (imagine how many TMs Kieng had to use for the Mewtwo challenge).Hope this helps while T5 candy remains reduced. Drop rates and more are from https://ift.tt/2v1Mk0a . via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/34GynCg