How Gold Bottle Caps Work in Pokémon Go — and How to Get Them

How Gold Bottle Caps work in Pokémon Go — and how to get them

If you want to max out your Pokémon’s IVs in Pokémon Go, you can do that now with a pricey Gold Bottle Cap. We explain how it works and how to get them.

Hyper Training is Coming to Pokémon GO!

Since Pokémon Sun and Moon, Hyper Training has played a major role in creating competitively viable Pokémon. It’s a feature that allows you to maximise one of your Pokémon’s IV (individual values), such as attack or speed, giving them an edge in competitive play. The training method has been present in almost every game since its implementation, with one notable exception: Pokémon GO. To be fair, in the early stages, Pokémon GO was more about ju…

What should you use the Gold Bottle Cap on in Pokémon GO?

The introduction of Hyper Training and Gold Bottle Caps into Pokémon GO next week presents Trainers with one of the hardest choices they have ever had to make in game. The Bottle Cap is not cheap, and being one time use, picking the right Pokémon to use it on is a very big call. This leaves Trainers with a major dilemma. Who on earth do you use this Bottle Capon when it releases? A shiny? A background? A mythical? Something for PvP? Something lu…

Massively on the Go: Making the most of Pokemon Go Global Go Fest 2025 and its Bottle Cap option

It’s almost time, Pokemon Go trainers: Go Fest 2025 arrives June 28th to 29th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time each day, and as usual, Massively on the Go is here to help… but not just with Go Fest. This year, there’s a pre-Fest event with a unique tie-in to the big show: […]