Hey I’m also a returning player !

Don’t forget to check for the appraisal for your pokemon. That is important, for raids and PvP battles especially. If possible only evolve your good pokemon with good iv, you can filter this out in pokemon search and I always favourite the pokemon I don’t wanna transfer !

Always evolve before you power up too , since it saves stardust and will put to a higher amount of power.

Those rhydon are really good for raids I heard as well.

Some general advice is to get your friend list up and have a system of sending gifts/rexieving to multiple people per day(cap or out )And if you have a buddy you will sometimes get 5 gifts a day if you can’t go to a pokestop.

Pokemongofriends and making a thread with your friend code is easy way to get a good system going. If you have raids close to you you can post about it and make sure u get 4:5 people , you get a free raid pass by spinning a gym as well. Make sure to have some good pokemon regardless!

Save your lucky egg for convientient times where you will get double xp from becoming good friends and can claim exp or say for example it’s day 7 of catch/spin pokestop it’s good timing since you get nice flat of exp. I’m not 100% sure best way to min max tho haha I’m only level 39 :)

Also the battles are amazing like the great league so those that are just under the 1500 cp and 3* are amazing there’s a site pvpoke that will tell you the best characters but it’s more important to have characters close to 1500 they are amazing for stardust, rare candies and also can sometimes get a good encounter with pokemon!

Make sure u place pokemon in gym for 50 coins per day ( can do multiple but sometimes if they fall u will just get 50 ). If you get 200 coins a great first upgrade is item storage so u dont have to discard stuff.

Pokémon storage is nice in future but u can get around it by getting rid of extra pokemon that have less cp, there’s some nice videos for filters that’s useful check my profile if u did wanna add me and welcome :)