Good news Pokémon hoarders! Ahead of Pokémon GO Wild Area Global: 2026 we have had a storage increase for both the Pokémon storage, and our items bags.
- The Pokémon storage limit has been increased to 13,150 (13,500 with max level up rewards)
- The item capacity limit has been increased to 12,500 (13,250 with max level up rewards)
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 Wild Area 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 Wild Area 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 Wild Area.
If you keep a living Pokédex, 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 Wild Area is the time to go for it. I wait until the morning of GO Wild Area 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.
Take inspiration from Marie Kondo, does this Pokémon spark joy? No? Off to Professor Willow you go!
