After seeing a post earlier suggesting pokemon were giving 3 XL candies each on transfer with the tier 3 deluxe bonus from the Halloween Go Pass, I was curious if that could possibly be true and what that meant for my stockpile of pokemon to trade for XLs on sundays.
I have conducted an analysis of 829 pokemon transfers and compiled it in a spreadsheet by evolution stage, regional, and legendary. I counted the regular candies as well as a catch for mistyped manual entries, but did not encounter any instances of this happening. As always, this is a fairly significant individual sample size, but is a small sample size for the community as a whole. Please take these values with a grain of salt.
The important takeaways for me from my analysis are as follows:
Average XL Candies per pokemon transferred: 1.48
Average XL Candies per Legendary/Ultra beast transferred (sample of 104): 2.4
XL candies per legendary/ultra beast transferred ranged from 0 to 3, but were largely in the 2-3 range when transferring individually and remained a high average during expanded group transfer.
You can view the raw data here as well as a breakdown by evolution stage and regional variant, however some of these have smaller sample sizes than others and should be regarded with skepticism on an individual basis.
Please let me know if your findings are similar or wildly different. I think I'm going to give it a bit more testing tonight and then largely transfer my stock of legendaries that I was holding to do a daily special trade with my partner for the candies and XLs. My initial results do find that I will get more XLs on average from transferring legendaries with this bonus than even sunday 2x XL trades.
by Kleenexz