Bag management, balance your activities and bag

And now for some bad news.

Unless you want to spend an unproportionate time refilling your bag you need to find a balance between gym battling and catching pokemon.

Problem being most of us prefer the one over the other.

As luck would have it you can set up this balance in two ways:

• Split time between battling gyms and catching pokemon
• Find the correct proportions between gym battling and pokemon catching for your bag

Rather obviously they can and should be combined.

The part you'll have problems influencing is the allocation of resources from pokestops. So there are limits to how smooth a ride you'll have.

So what, why bother at all?

Well, the thing is that if you don't find this balance, then you'll literally trash an absurd percentage of the items you're given by the pokestops you spin. For every item trashed you need to get another, so you'll be spinning more stops than needed.

Now there isn't a sweet spot that's absolute. You'll have to find out for yourself how much resources you need in your bag for battling gyms and how much for catching pokemon. You should also find the perfect subdivision for yourself, ie how many berries of one type, how many revives, and so on and so forth.

One easy way that helps a lot is swinging between gym battling and pokemon catching. A little like a pendulum going between two extremes.

Spend dedicated time for pokemon hunting, and refill your gym battling resources while you do.

End the run with a shortish bag refilling session.

Later spend those resources at a gym, or several, depending on your taste.

Refill your bag, and you should be set for catching pokemon again.

Rinse and repeat.