Pokemon Botting

Key Points and Optimizing

Monitoring Methods

There are 3 main ways your bot can monitor product restocks:

1. In-Bot Monitoring

  • Bot refreshes product pages manually.
  • Slower, uses more bandwidth.
  • Risk of IP bans if not using proxies.
  • Good as a backup, not ideal for primary monitoring.

2. Serverside Monitoring

  • Automatically enabled for some sites
  • Monitors SKUs on the backend – faster and more efficient.
  • Saves bandwidth vs in-bot monitoring.
  • Still recommended to run a backup in-bot task.

3. Websocket Monitoring

  • Provided by cook groups (paid membership groups)
  • Covers more sites (Amazon, Walmart, etc.).
  • Fastest and most reliable.
  • Essential for early checkout—combining this with serverside gives best results.

Proxies Overview

Proxies let your bot operate with multiple IPs, avoiding bans and increasing task success.

1. Residential Proxies

  • Dynamic IPs; required for checkout tasks on most sites.
  • Charged per GB of usage ($1–$10/GB).
  • DO NOT use for monitoring—only for checkout. Using residential proxies for monitoring burns data quickly.
  • Use multiple pools for best results with PKC.

Recommended Providers:

2. ISP Proxies (Static Datacenter)

  • Fixed IPs with unlimited bandwidth.
  • Monthly subscription (typically $1–$2/IP).
  • Can be banned during checkout; mainly used for monitoring.
  • Available from the same providers listed above.

3. Shared Proxy Servers

  • Cheapest option.
  • High GB/month for very low cost.
  • Use only for monitoring—not safe for checkout.

Recommended:

  • Webshare Proxies – 100 proxies / 250GB for ~$4 USD/month. These are super cheap and effective for monitoring tasks

Best Combo:

  • Ashburn V2 (Residential) for checkout
  • Webshare (Shared DC) for monitoring

SUPER IMPORTANT – JOIN A COOK GROUP

Why Join:

  • Discord access to websocket monitors and exclusive SKUs.
  • Monitors channels available for Shopify stores and other retail sites. Heavy on TCG for Canada and USA.
  • Lowkey flips, TCG, tickets, sneakers, and more! All the hype stuff that can be resold there are channels available
  • Comes with extensions for faster manual/automatic checkouts
  • TCG centering tool for grading purposes
  • Saves bandwidth and gives early access to SKUs.
  • Very quick pings for Pokemon Center/Amazon/Walmart and US, as well as early links to help you set up bots
  • Costco intel for Pokemon in-store and online drops
  • You cannot beat other users who get information to set up and optimize their bots from a cook group!

USA Cook Group Recommendation: Polar Chefs
Cost: $70 USD per month
Sign up by clicking here

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Canadian Cook Group Recommendation: The North Cop
Cost: ~$60 CAD per month
A referral is required to join otherwise you will be on the waitlist indefinitely. You can use referral code: tnc-rkidw

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Platform-Specific Notes

PKC (Pokémon Center)

  • PKC bot module is only active during drops.
  • You’ll need multiple profiles:
    • Unique name, email, phone, CC, and proxies per profile.
  • During drops, SKUs are posted in Discord – edit tasks and run immediately.
  • Pokemon Center now uses a queue system, when the module is unlocked all the profiles are able to queue at the same time
  • When using the queue, enter a placeholder SKU such as “1234asdf” until an item is confirmed to be dropping. The bot can edit SKUs and quantities until it attempts to add to cart the in-stock item
  • cook groups and other monitor groups will provide SKUs as they are live

Amazon

  • Recommended to set up “Request Mode” for Amazon identities – which enables the bot to use 2FA to login and bypasses the need to check emails for 2FA codes
  • Always recommended to run monitor tasks even with serverside monitoring – local monitor tasks are your backup in case serverside goes down during a drop

Additional setup instructions/tips/tricks can be found on the Stellar guide: https://guides.stellaraio.com/