Good news Pokémon hoarders! Ahead of Pokémon GO Fest Global: 2025 we have had a storage increase for both the Pokémon storage, and our items bags.
- The Pokémon storage limit has been increased to 10,500.
- The item capacity limit has been increased to 9,500.
You can upgrade your storage via both the in-game shop, and in the Pokémon GO web store. There are bundles available that work out cheaper, so if you intend to expand your storage, we’d advise checking what is available to you in your shop as offers sometimes vary account to account.
We’d also recommend waiting till the morning (or night before) of GO Fest before you expand your storage, so the temptation to start filling it back up again before the event even begins won’t get you!
Don’t want to expand your storage just yet? Here are our top tips for cleaning out your Pokémon storage:
With a whopping 8 hours of play time for GO Fest this weekend, that is a serious amount of Pokémon to catch! Give your Pokémon storage a huge clear out and be brutal, as bag space management is essential for Global GO Fest.
If you keep a living dex, make sure you only have multiples of the meta relevant Pokémon. Transfer community day shinies to Pokémon HOME or to Professor Willow. You are never going to need 20+ shinies of one particular Pokémon (unless it is your fave, I get it, I hoard shiny Turtwig!), it’s time to say goodbye to them.
Trade for better IVs
If you can, meet up a friend and reroll trade some of your more rare Pokémon that you have saved, but you are going to have to be brutal. If you don’t have your bag space maxed out, the morning of GO Fest is the time to go for it. I wait until the morning of GO Fest to max out my bag space, because otherwise I know it’s just going to fill up without me realised. I know I can’t be trusted not to fill that space!
Clear Spinda & Multiples of the Same Pokémon
Do you need one of every Spinda pattern? Do you need to keep that 98% Lapras when you have the hundo? Now is the time to get tough on your collection and get transferring. Have you hoarded a whole bunch of legendary Pokémon for trades? Sorry but it is time to let them go! You don’t need 20 of each legendary, keep your best teams of 6 if you must, but make sure you go through them, you’ll be surprised how many you have. Ultimately, they’ll all be back in raids eventually.
One to keep an eye on is also Costume Pokémon if, like me, you are a fan. I was horrified to discover I had 4 or 5 of some costume Pokémon, for no real reason! Many don’t evolve, so unless they have a gender difference (i.e. Pikachu), I cut it down to one of each.
I also recommend going through your Shadow Pokémon and purifying and transferring them. I say purify first because to hit level 50 you need a lot of platinum badges, and that is a badge you can work on passively. Mind your stardust though, I don’t recommend purifying those 5000 dust Pokémon! You don’t need to keep them all (unless you love them for AR), so get rid of what you don’t need.
Take inspiration from Marie Kondo, does this Pokémon spark joy? No? Off to Professor Willow you go!
