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Ok...

>Thank you for playing Pokémon Sleep!

>Three years have passed since the release of Pokémon Sleep, and the number of available Pokémon has surpassed 230 species.
>We recognize that as a result of this, it has become difficult to level up the main skills of multiple Pokémon at the same time. To address this issue, we are considering solutions that take long-term development into account, such as a new feature that allows players to receive various items, including Main Skill Seeds.

>Also, new Main Skill Seeds will be available starting next week!

>New Main Skill Seeds that can be used on each Pokémon

>New Main Skill Seeds that can be used on certain species of Pokémon will appear starting on Aug. 9, 2026, at 23:00 p.m..
>To commemorate this, we’re giving out Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha) to researchers.

>Distribution Period: Aug. 9, 2026, at 23:00 p.m. to Oct. 8, 2026, at 20:59 p.m.

>• Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha) ×1

>This item can be used on the Pokémon specified in the item name, as well as before or after its Evolution, and it raises the level of their main skill level by one.
>Note: Similar to Pokémon Candies, this item can also be used on other forms of the Pokémon specified in the item name, as well as Pokémon wearing special costumes, such as Pikachu (Halloween).

winrar? also holy shit i got a great biscuit from my daily gift
>>59482778
thank god. but this might be bad for bag space

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>>59483064
fugg :DDDDD

>>59482778
Species specific skill seeds could be a good or bad thing depending on how they handle it.
They straight up need to be cheaper than regular skill seeds, available through other means, and available more regularly.
It also introduces a problem of accruing skill seeds for a species that isn't going to be able to use them; like if you've maxed out a forever helper (no prospects of finding a better one), unless they raise the main skill level cap in the future.

They're probably largely going to be distributed via event boxes and gifts, but I suspect that Munchlax Pickup might be the way to rarely get skill seeds for your napping Pokémon; introducing a massive bias towards napping skill specialists.
The flip side of that, is that if you get skill seeds for Pokémon that you wouldn't use main skill seeds on (like Typhlosion or Gengar), there's no harm in using their dedicated skill seeds on them.

Hawlucha getting a skill seed as the introductory example also suggests yet again that it'll be either a skill specialist (particularly Ingredient Draw S), or an ingredient specialist with an ingredient or cooking main skill.

>>59483066
Pretty damn good, but EXP down nature is gonna make that a slog to level up.

>>59483107
This was also mentioned separately in the bundles announcement:
>Note: Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha) can be used on the Pokémon listed below to raise their main skill level by one. It can also be exchanged for Hawlucha Candy ×70 in the item’s details screen if you do not use it.

So there's no real danger of piling up extra seeds you don't need since they can be converted back into Pokemon candies. Given Darkrai/Mew seeds only give 40x candies, you can imagine these Pokemon-specific skill seeds are going to be very rare. Might be nice to get a seed for each Pokemon Friendship badge rank-up or even a bonus from sleep ribbons. Though in the case of the latter, it seems like it would make more sense to do a straight tied-in bonus than give you an item to do the same thing.

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>>59483107
>but EXP down nature is gonna make that a slog to level up.
i could mint it. i currently have 3 mints (one in the gift box). initially planned to give one to this treecko since i have to use one within the next 19 days. should i give it to bacon instead?

>>59483140
The 70 candy exchange is pretty good, it made me ponder another issue though.
Once a Pokémon hits max level, you cannot use it's candies. The hard level cap is assumed to be level 100, so i have to wonder if an alternative use of Pokémon candies at level 100 will be introduced.
Otherwise, there's only the infrequent Candy Cram-o-matic events (like next week).

>>59483511
That's when you raise a second one of the same species!

>>59483829
Not possible or feasible in the case of special Pokémon, as you cannot run duplicates (and Mew and Darkrai are once per account).

Also not practical for certain team compositions that reward you for having unique team members, like the Helper Boost special Pokémon.

So far the game has been very good about preventing resource waste, with plenty of overflow mechanics.

>>59483511
>>59483922
Realistically, we're at least a couple years away from unlocking just level 80, so you just stockpile those candies until the next level cap unlock. Pokemon candies also have their own inventory with a cap of 9,999 so it's not like you're wasting anything just by having them, or are being forced to manage your storage to make room for others. I have about 3,400 Pikachu candies and have tossed another small amount into the Cram-o-matic, but that's essentially 3 years of candies. Capping out my Pikachu Candy storage would take over 3 more years, provided I don't find a good Pichu to use them on by then.

>>59483391
>670 candies gets it from level 14 to 34
yeah i think it needs a mint

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About 3 hours until maintenance starts. Might want to do your meals early before you get locked out.

>>59483391
I'm one to talk since I'm trying to train up this one, but I think Berry Burst Pokemon need more than BFS + HB to do well. Natures are very impactful, so having a neutral one is a lot of missed opportunity. Not that your Treecko still wouldn't be almost top tier all the way at 80.

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This is actually a decent addition. Before, they used to just give us a notification on the day of, with a nebulous time period. Now they give you a reminder at an actual relevant time.

>>59484902
i mean, i HAVE to use a candy because the third one is in the overflow and at that time the treecko was the one who gained the most. but i think it'll go to bagon instead and i'll try for a better treecko

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Lucario's new skill gives less strength than Charge Strength S (3212)

>>59485975
Disappointing, but you're at least not strictly choosing between dream shard farming and strength generation.

Lucario's new peak RP is significantly higher since the main skill change, with someone's level 70 Lucario on Reddit being >12k RP.

Getting real tired of hungry procs popping up on the few Pokemon that I don't need to feed at all. Also should conserve a bit for the Captain Pikachu/Tinkaton spawns in a couple weeks. Hawlucha too, but I generally don't bother feeding single-stagers unless they're hungry.

>>59486799
These "dual" skills really seem to inflate Pokemon RP. Suppose Dream Shard Magnet having 8 levels also adds into that, despite the actual effects being a bit lacking.

>clear ingredients for ingredient magnet proc
>procs again 5 minutes later
Guys please you spoil me

>>59487200
Heracross being the prime example of inflated RP, but both skill effects are really strong and have perfect synergy.

>>59487355
I rolled expert water / rock / bug with ingredient effect, and my team is nearly all skill specialists.
As a result I'm discarding ingredients to collect ingredients so my skill specialists can function as normal.
Heracross' ingredient magnet pulls aren't always helpful either, and I'm on my sixth fucking consecutive salads week so my stockpiles are fucked because you bank up more valuable ingredients for a meal request change.

>>59487398
Don’t worry you’ll get HUNDREDS of dream shards for turning in those ingredients

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Hawlucha's skill
Dead on arrival

>>59487519
Yikes

>>59487519
With that ingredient set, it was always going to be an uphill battle as far as ingredient accessibility goes. It mirrors Charizard in the ingredients it picks up, though it's likely that Hawlucha will wind up being able to get higher quantities of each. The other parts of Hawlucha's stats will also matter, because there's still plenty of room for its actual specialty, speed, ingredient rate, and trigger rate. It could easily be super fast and be an all-rounder, or still be an ingredient type that doubles up its ingredient gathering with its main skill, sorta like Mawile. In either case, it doesn't seem like an end-all-be-all chase Pokemon, but I imagine it will still be strong for its niche, like all other single-stagers *cough* Sableye *cough*

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>>59487926
It's not just the overlap with Charizard. Unlike the other Ing Draw users he is competing with both Dragonite and Tyranitar, and there is no way he will generate anywhere near the absurd amount of Herb or Ginger that they do.
As for Sausages, he is competing with Charizard and Aggron, two easily-obtainable AAA producers.

Meanwhile, the other Ing Draw users at least have benefits like giving Oil (still no amazing Ing specialist for it), or giving ingredients that are highly desirable (Pumpkin) or still without widespread specialists (Avocado).

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>>59488665
True, Ingredient Draw won't get the same raw quantities as an AAA ingredient Pokemon, but despite Herbs, Sausage, and Ginger being relatively common ingredients among other Pokemon, they're all still broadly useful together. On the other hand, given how common these ingredients are, I imagine Hawlucha will have something else to give it an edge or better niche application.

One upside of Ingredient Draw Pokemon is that you aren't reliant on rolling the right ingredient slots since the skill provides each ingredient equally. And you don't have to get all the way to 60 to have your selection and quantities either. Of course it requires skill seeds rather than candies and shards; the possibility of this being properly alleviated through specific Pokemon skill seeds is remote, but it has been recognized.

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Seems Cyan expert has a more significant boost and nerfs than GG expert, 20% production and 5 inventory spots on main berry compared to 10% on GG, while off berries are at a 35% production nerf compared to 15% on GG.

I'm not super far into my GGEX experience, but the 15% nerf is low enough to just use your off berry boys for energy and ignredients as well as dedenne and accept them being slightly slower, but 35% is almost certaintly too much.

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>>59490270
Yeah, it's more important than ever to have stronger type coverage, with water / fairy / flying being the current progression priority.
The nerfs are particularly cruel to ingredient farmers though, and cooking viable dishes will become a lot harder on expert maps whilst being too heavily subject to favorite berry rolls.
Theoretically you can rely on Suicune to force ingredient farmers to function, but that requires rolling water berries on a 1/3 primary roll, or a 2/17 secondary role if it wasn't primary.

That being said, fairy type options are still pretty limited. Flying type has aces like Braviary and Farfetch'd, whilst Water type has aces like Suicune, Feraligatr, and Golduck.
Clefable falls behind considerably against the competing berry farmers or skill specialists, though it did just get a buff to its skill chance rate (it's not just a skill specialist like Togekiss).
Fairy type's MVP is arguably still Wigglytuff for its E4E role. Game updates have been laying the groundwork for every expert island having at least one viable healer, but a normal, ice, or dark type skill specialist E4E healer is still missing. Blissey or Umbreon do not cut it.

There's no rush to go straight to Cyan Beach Expert though, since going there at 0% bonus is going to be agony. You can just keep going to Greengrass Isle Expert whilst trying to build that team up.
It's suitable for me that's trying to max out my research rank ASAP, since GGEX has the best research EXP gains right now.

>>59490430
That's why it's becoming better to have Pokemon that aren't mono-ingredient. You can't really use all the ingredients that a mono-ingredient produces in a day besides as filler, so AAB/AAC variety holds up a lot better. Though ABC is still less than reliable.

Also important to note that while Expert Area Bonus doesn't overflow into the standard areas and vice versa, GG Expert WILL overflow into Cyan Expert, so you can avoid taking on 0% bonus.

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Got my silver Larvitar badge and I keep wondering if I should cut my losses and just invest in this one I got a year ago. It's good, but not great.

>>59491925
I have a similar but worse one and I regret investing in it.
Ttar isn't a great BFS user, you really want one as a ginger farmer.
ABA is also the worst possible ingredient spread for it (and most things).

Keep looking and configure the silver badge so it doesn't have two guaranteed gold subskills; go for zero or one if you feel strongly enough about it using BFS or maybe rolling HB, but I would prefer to maximise slots that can roll ingredient finder.

Where are you going this week? I had considered trying to M20 on AC with the cooking boost, but I wonder if I go hunting for Farfetch'd instead.

>>59491941
Ideally, I'm looking for AAB spread with BFS. ABA is strictly worse, but it's more useful than basically any other combination. Choosing not to have BFS for a Pseudo is leaving a lot of potential power on the table, so I'd consider it a must have next to IFM.

>>59491990
The Summer event starts tomorrow with Hawlucha, along with the opening of Cyan Expert. I'm just going to go to regular Cyan as the best option, because going to Expert Cyan will play against both the event bonuses and your spawns.

And after that is the Horizons collab event, which we haven't got any details on yet.

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>>59491990
Gonna go to regular Cyan Beach.
I've been stuck on GGEX with salads for too long and need a change of pace, plus it's a great spot for Farfetch'd hunting.
CBEX with 0% expert bonus is a terrible idea.

Hawlucha is whatever, its main skill is a dud but we don't know if it's an ingredient or skill specialist yet. Not all Ingredient Draw users are skill specialists.

Cyan beach is also great for Piplup and Rufflet, important Steel and Flying berry farmers.

>>59492126
As I keep thinking about it, I don't think they're going to give us a skill-specialist Hawlucha. That would give it the same mechanics as a Crustle, but just make it really hard to catch for no reason. And if it's an ingredient-specialist, they gave Mawile its own unique version of Ingredient Draw, so that's a little fishy that Hawlucha seemingly has a standard version. I think there's space for it to be mechanically closer to Slaking, where it's a berry type, but it has both high ingredient and skill trigger rates. And quite a bit faster, I hope.
Bug and Flying are permanently saddled with the debuff of their own berry strength, so they typically fit a much deeper niche than other types.

>>59492645
Well there's the fact they're giving us a free Hawlucha skill seed, which suggests to me it might be a skill specialist, but it doesn't have to be.
Could be their way of suggesting skill seeds don't have to be for skill specialists.

Still, a Pokémon specialising in Herbs / Sausages / Ginger this late into the game, only seems relevant for Cyan Beach Expert, and mostly on Curry weeks. It seems to niche for the investment it's demanding.

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I thought it might be a good time to start training up my barely passable Cleffa, but it's been so long that I forgot that all the babies need 50 hours of sleep time.

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Hawlucha stats fully out. As expected, skill specialist with Herbs on all slots, Ginger on B and C, and Sausage on C.

>>59493133
>only seems relevant for Cyan Beach Expert, and mostly on Curry weeks
And even there you have to get lucky to roll Flying berries since they aren't guaranteed to be the primary one.

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Some more in-depth Hawlucha comparisons. It get more triggers than other Ingredient Draw Pokemon, but loses out in ingredient power because each of its ingredients are only mid to low power. It's pretty fast, so it can also work well with BFS.

>>59494707
This'll never beat my triple-A Dragonite or Aggron for herbs or sausages, but I've not secured a ginger farmer yet.

There's also that a Hawlucha can serve triple duty, and that the three ingredients are broadly useful on curry weeks, so it's not without merit but the investment cost may be hard to justify.

>>59495184
Is that one production comparison or team analysis?
The latter lets you set up a healer so you can evaluate their efficiency whilst topped up on energy.
This is a low-ball figure otherwise.

oh huh I had to unlock master 18 to get the EX Cyan Beach.

The event info says that Hawluch will spawn in non Expert Cyan, but I see that I can't set the Hawlucha incense?

>>59495541
I only ever use Production Comparison. It doesn't always give the most accurate values in regards to self energy recovery, but it's in a vacuum. Also certain skills like Extra Helpful parse better than Team comp.

>>59495793
Not until 3pm local time on Monday, like every new release

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New curry recipes by the way. VERY easy to make, maybe some slight difficulty with the mushrooms.

Also Cram-o-matic is active, so enjoy dumping your excess candies and turning them into possibly more useful candies. But now I need to increase my item space to make more room for these fucking things.

>>59496292
I can make these if I change out a preferred berry bro + helping bonus guy on my expert island, is that worth doing or do you end up with less strength overall than if you just scraped together meals?

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>>59496376
This week has 1.5x cooking strength, so cooking should be a priority.

You should aim to make the Greengrass Curry Bun regularly since it's likely easier to prepare than the Ninja Curry, and considerably stronger.
Work on getting those recipe levels up ASAP.

>lvl 66
>9461-1861-5641

>>59496508
God I hate having low bonus strength percentage when I’m trying to level meals

>>59496557
You only have to cook something like 5-6 times for it to start getting high levels.
Hitting level 20 alone doubles its original strength output, and level 40 triples it.

Or were you talking about your area bonus? Did you go to Cyan Beach Expert with 0% expert bonus? That shit's gonna be painful.

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Oh fuck I just realized this

>>59496583
Yeah just went there without thinking much

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Picked up my Mawile, then immediately dropped it back off because I couldn't decide what else to put on Munchlax Island. You really do get a decent number of candies to feed up whatever Pokemon you put there though, so it's doing what it's supposed to I guess.

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>>59496949
Yup. Also I don't think it was there before, but they clarified which Special Pokemon are boosted per area. AND it states that candy gains are increased in Expert mode, whereas they were previously the exact same as the standard islands.

Among others, it looks like Cyan Expert adds Dratini and Drampa.
And for whatever reason, Mime Jr. remains exclusive to regular Cyan Beach.

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>>59496949
The 35% penalty wasn't actually shared until the new map went live. It was datamined, but it was absent from any news updates.

>>59499462
Game sucks

>>59499462
I considered changing islands just so I wouldn’t miss out on the free 1.5x building up of the new curries but I didn’t want to waste the expert ticket

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Daaamn look at this gard GO

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Lots of mini boosts for this event.

>— All Days —
>• The chance of each helper Pokémon’s main skill triggering will be multiplied by 1.25.
>• Helper Pokémon Sleep EXP ×1.25
>• During the first sleep research of the day, one Pokémon will for sure arrive hungry
>• Final Strength gains from dishes will be multiplied by 1.25 (or 2.5 for Extra Tasty dishes or 3.75 for Extra Tasty dishes on Sunday only).
>• Certain Pokémon will be more likely to appear during sleep research.
>• A few Pokémon of different sleep types will appear during sleep research regardless of your sleep type for that day.

>— Aug. 21 (Fri) to Aug. 23 (Sun) —
>• Drowsy Power ×1.3

The boosted spawns are a little random, but I'm going to assume those are the ones featured in the episode or the anime in general.

>Greater Appearance Rate
>Pikachu (Captain), Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, and Tinkaton

>Slightly Greater Appearance Rate
>Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Chansey, Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite, Wooper, Quagsire, Blissey, Sableye, Happiny, Riolu, Lucario, Sprigatito, Floragato, Meowscarada, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Skeledirge, Quaxly, Quaxwell, and Quaquaval

Looks like Old Gold might be the place to go for maximum Tink and Pikachu spawns, as they're the only ones boosted on that island.

>>59499776
I'm still in desperate need of a potato farmer, and the boosted Sprigatito spawns are what I need.
Unfortunately Sprigatito was removed from the OGPP encounter pool, but it's probably better to focus on getting Tinkatink as it will likely be a meta defining fairy type, where the fairy type has been somewhat lacking.

They haven't announced anything more about the Tinkatink line other than their type and sleep type, but I imagine Tinkaton might get a special main skill like Gigaton Hammer.

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What are you cramming? I've been dumping Wooper candies in hopes of getting more Water candies to boost my Feraligatr up to 60.

>>59500335
I imagine Tinkaton is going to be a berry type, as our only option has been Clefairy, which is also primarily restricted to Full Moon nights. And then we've got 3 skill types and 2 ingredient types.

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Sparkleduckie with hb bfs wtf

>>59501169
I could also see tinkaton being a berry burst fairy type skill mon, seeing as they are trying to push more of these species-exclusive main skill seeds.

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>gardevoir finds 2 berries
>procs skill twice
>check vaporeon, finds 2 berries
>procs twice

You guys spoil me

how do I snooze?

>>59501240
Honestly it's still good, but it'll need that Inventory Up, and one to three subskill seeds.
Also a nature mint down the line.

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According to calculations this guy should be one of my best mons but he never fuckin procs

>>59501240
>>59501451
As tempting as it is to use any possible shiny, I wouldn't. Golduck really isn't fast enough to make great use of BFS, so it really needs as much skill trigger as it can get. Going into 70+, it probably is better to have BFS, but that's on top of the triggers as a base.

>>59501865
Did you check Raenonx during an event with boosted skill procs?
Because Raenonx will just do that by default and skew your perception of what the baseline performance will be.

>>59502069
I’ve had him for a while and it still tells me it should be proccing a lot more than j feel like I’m getting

>>59502069
You shouldn't need raenon to tell you that's a good roll for any skill mon. The only thing is that a good Charge Strength M Pokemon will activate maybe half a dozen times a day on average. It can always seem low if you're checking really often though.

>>59501419
I have to imagine they're going to offer these seeds with every new addition, so that doesn't necessarily lock Tinkaton as a skill specialist. Also, bundles:

Pokémon Raising Bundle (Tinkatink) Vol. 1 (1,200 diamonds)
>• Great Biscuit ×4
>• Growth Incense ×2
>• Main Skill Seed (Tinkatink) ×1
>• Tinkatink Candy ×70
>Note: One available per user.

Collab Bundle S (250 diamonds)
>• Poké Biscuit ×5
>• Pikachu (Captain) Incense ×1
>Note: Up to three available per user.

Collab Bundle M (1,200 diamonds)
>• Great Biscuit ×6
>• Poké Biscuit ×6
>• Tinkatink Incense ×2
>• Tinkatink Candy ×50
>Note: One available per user.

Collab Bundle L (3,000 diamonds)
>• Ultra Biscuit ×3
>• Great Biscuit ×10
>• Growth Incense ×3
>• Tinkatink Incense ×4
>• Tinkatink Candy ×110
>• Handy Candy M ×2
>Note: One available per user.

I'll probably buy some Collab Bundle S to give me a bit of biscuit buffer. Captain Pikachu incenses don't hurt either. But speaking of skill types, I could imagine Captain Pikachu as the Berry Burst user, or even Charge Strength M.

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Well, I did snag a Hawlucha with 2 random crits... Yep.

How do skill rolls work with BFS? Is it one roll when the Pokémon gets berries or one roll per berry?

>>59502133
The point isn't figuring out of it's a good roll, but weighing up and understanding its performance; that's important for deciding whether or not to invest.
Which is to say, Raenonx is fucking up players investment decisions by pre-applying event bonuses.

>>59503739
A skill roll occurs any time a Pokémon produces a "helping", and has room to carry the gathered food items.
A helping will be either a number of berries, or ingredients (equal odds between the unlocked slots).
A Pokémon's speciality and subskills determine the number of berries, whilst the speciality and species determines the numbers and kinds of ingredients.
So yes it's one roll per helping, not per food item gathered.
If it were the latter, ingredient specialists that gather 7+ ingredients in one go would get 7+ chances to skill trigger in much shorter frequencies.

This is how the mains skills Extra Helpful or Helper Boost works, they produce a fixed number of helpings, except they do not incur any skill trigger rolls.

Once a Pokémon is at carry capacity, any extra helpings become "sneaky snacking" and will have a 100% berry gathering rate, with 0% ingredients and no skill triggers being possible.
This is why Inventory Up subskills are particularly important for the overnight performance of skill specialists, but also beneficial for ingredient specialists so they can collect more ingredients overnight.

Inventory Up has a niche use-case for berry specialists that might gather an unnecessary ingredient, and have an unimportant main skill. Feraligatr for example has Charge Strength S and might only gather Sausages.
You can leave them in sneaky snacking and collect only their berries when your ingredient bag is full. This lets them carry a stockpile of filler ingredients that can come in handy later, particularly on Sundays.
This is always what I do when I'm running my Suicune team on water weeks.

>>59503833
Super helpful, thanks.

Three sleeps so far and it's nothing but water types and the occasional Rufflet.
Not a single natural Hawlucha spawn, I still want to register its sleep styles.
Already hit Master 18 at Cyan Beach for crying out loud.

>>59504846
New Moon nights are supposed to give you increased odds at discovering styles (and therefore species) you haven't seen before, so that should give you an edge. Of course some of your drowsy power does get eaten up by Mew and Darkrai now.

>>59506134
I appreciate the info share, but both of those statements are incorrect; either mistaken or outdated.

The increased odds of observing undiscovered sleep styles is a Good Sleep Day (Full Moon Night) bonus; alongside increase odds of finding the Clefairy family, and increased Sleep EXP gains and increased Drowsy Power.

New Moon Day bonuses are Pokémon being more likely to be shiny, less likely to get full during feeding time, and mythical Pokémon having a "special appearance rate", special encounters getting an automatic +3 friendship points.
Special appearances fall outside of the Drowsy Power calculation, where it used to be that they'd eat up all that DP and the rest of your spawns would be weaker.
Special appearances are also a +1 atop any other spawns, including your 8 DP spawns, +1 from incense, and +1 from Good Camp Ticket for a maximum of 11 spawns.

Despite that, I did get my first Hawlucha spawn today, 4* atop belly sleep even.
I also got 3* Mew tonight, which is the first time I've seen that out of 6 encounters.
The Mew also went from 0 friendship points to 22/25 before getting full which was pretty cool, so I'm guaranteed to auto-befriend it next month.
Although, the Mewtwo event is coming up and they've announced something with Mew happening, so we'll see.

Probably asked before, but I rarely check in. Do mons on Nap Island receive credit for time slept (toward ribbon goals etc)?

>>59507292
Nah, they specifically mentioned that time on Munchlax's island doesn't contribute to ribbons or evolution requirements.

>>59507468
Dang. Well, at least I have only put non-evos there so far. Are there diminishing returns for leaving something for two weeks without interruption? I forgot to pick Mew up on Monday, so I was going to continue leaving it until next Monday regardless.

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They need to raise the caps on the inventories already.

>>59507679
The items/candy/shards the napping mon finds caps out at around two weeks, so its worth taking mew home and then putting it instantly back

>>59507732
But leaving a mon for two weeks is fine? I meant I didn't take Mew back after the first week I put him in. I'll definitely take him out next, but was curious if it is more efficient to leave for 1 week or if 2 uninterrupted weeks leads to diminishing returns.

>>59507879
There's no diminishing returns for staying longer than 1 week, just the penalty for removing them earlier than 1 week, or the storage limit after 15 vacation days.

I usually deposit a Pokémon that I know I won't get any use out of for the current week, I've had Entei in there for coming up to two weeks since I haven't needed fire types lately.
Not sure what I'll put in next week, but I know I'm going to OGPP for Tintatink.

>>59507892
Alright, thanks for the clarification. :)

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It's technically good for what it does, but I'm surprised they didn't bother giving Hawlucha a unique style of main skill. Suppose it's good I'm not getting baited into spending more biscuits than necessary with the collab week coming up.

Am i going to need a mon that i'll increase the cooking pot for sunday to make the new udon dish? thats a lot ingredients it needs.

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>>59509159
The Udon needs 112 cooking pot size.
If you've already hit the max capacity of 81, the 1.5x cooking pot size bonus on Sunday has you covered.
81 * 1.5 = 121.5 (rounds up to 122).
You need at least 75 cooking pot size for the Sunday bonus to be sufficient.

It takes a cumulative 2.93m dream shards to get 75 cooking pot size.
Then 3.88m and 5.08m for the next two upgrades to 78 and 81.

It's been a long while since any new Dex Goals have been introduced. The current cap of 510 goals (and maximums of 85% area bonus / 81 cooking pot size) were introduced 10 months ago in October with the launch of Amber Canyon.
No such thing has been done for expert Cyan Beach, and with Amber Canyon's introduction we now have one island each representing the 18 types of Pokémon.

The current trend indicates that the next two or three sleep dex goals that unlock 100% area bonus may be the last, and there might be one final island after Amber Canyon; maybe random berries like Greengrass but with the difficulty dialled to 11.

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>Was at M18 at amber on saturday and worried I would struggle a little to reach m20
>sunday breakfast crit was 799k
No worries

>>59509218
I don't think they'd go so far as to actually block you from using certain types, but they can increase penalties for off-types like they did for Cyan. The only problem comes from how power will scale upwards to meet the ever-increasing tier requirements. If the tiers continue to increase in difficulty like the standard islands, speed buffs will only help so much. A lot of progression came from Pokemon levels, and those are getting harder to reach too.

I suppose Cyan through Amber will all have the same bonus/penalties, just forcing everyone to have better type coverage. A final island could also just reduce favorite berries to a single type, but that might not actually be "fun" enough to actually implement.

>>59510586
Whatever they devise for the final island, should one exist, I think will probably just need even higher strength requirements than Amber Canyon does (duh), balanced around level 80+ Pokémon.

The impression I get is that you should theoretically be able to achieve end-game max ranks with strong level 80 Pokémon with optimal spreads, but scaling berry strength at level 95+ might be enough to also achieve it with poor strategy or understanding of the game. All it would require is to just keep playing even if the EXP requirements become absurd.

How about this, final island still has the random berries, but it has special achievements that recognise reaching milestone ranks with different Pokémon types.
Like acknowledging you hit Master 20 with a Snorlax that likes oran berries (water types).
Eh, maybe not because you could theoretically run a team that doesn't gather oran berries, because you had a skill or cooking focused team.

They'll think of something, all of the new content and additions over time have generally been pretty good.

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>over 9000 hours in MSPaint
It's time to decide where you're headed for the Horizons Collab Week. I'd advise against Expert Cyan with 0-5% area bonus, because you'll just lose out on spawns that way. If you still want to get that weekly 5%, you can always visit Expert Greengrass and let it overflow.

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>>59511787
depends on how good tinkaton is. if its good probably CB or OGPP, they're at 77% and 57% area bonus. if tinkaton is ass i'd probably go to lapis for dratini and sprigattio. i'd also need a better wooper and quaxly, my wooper is... alright but not more.
also i only made it to M17 on CB this week fuck. the lack of any proper berry farmer fucked me. but oh well, i haven't gone to GGEX once because i'm still raising OGPP and AC

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Crits seemed a little low this time around. I only got 2-3 despite using the Cram-o-matic 3x per day .

>>59512125
I imagine Tinkaton will be very strong. Most 3-stage Pokemon end up being so, or at least fulfill a solid niche... The main exception being Magnezone. It could really use a buff since not only is it 3 stages, but requires a stone too.

>>59511787
Probably Cyan. It has the new ones plus Fuecoco line. I need something for apples and/or eggs.

any educated guesses on where the mewtwo event will be held? wondering if i need to increase the area bonus of lapis or tundra or some shit. well, not like natural spawns matter at all

>>59511787
If Captain Pikachu and Tinkatink are worth it, OGPP. We'll get data within a few hours and I'll be able to check after waking up.
Otherwise, GGEX because I want the Sprigatito spawns. Six consecutive salads weeks without a strong potato farmer was agony.

>>59512581
Like most legendary events it will probably be a two-week event where you gather research materials to exchange for incenses, biscuits, and bonus items.
These events always let you run it at Greengrass because it allows all players to participate regardless of progression, but there's a strong chance Lapis Lakeside is featured due to the psychic type berries.
Small chance that a new map might be involved since Amber Canyon was introduced October 2025, and Mew / Mewtwo have a jungle connection. Somehow a jungle feels like a suitable final island. Wouldn't advise going to a new island with 0% area bonus for an event like that though.

I doubt Snowdrop would be featured for the Mewtwo event, but you can at least try for Piplup at Snowdrop now.

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They're out!

Captain Pikachu is a berry farming hat variant with Ingredient Magnet and a slightly lower base ingredient rate. Pretty decent.

Tinkaton is a surprisingly fast berry farmer with Charge Strength M. Its ingredients are Tomatoes/Cacao/Potato.

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>>59513090
Captain Pikachu seems redundant but looks like a viable addition to a Raikou team as it will count as a unique species. It's actually the second best electric type berry farmer and requires no evolutions, but requires 7 pips to befriend.
Tinkaton is unconditionally great though and is a big upgrade over Clefable for pecha berry production, and is purely strength gains focused with a pretty useful ingredient spread. It should be a lot easier to find than Cleffa too.

The Pikachu will be time limited so you should try to get at least one, but long term Tinkatink is definitely priority for expert Cyan Beach.
It might also help address my frequent tomato shortages if I find an AAA BFS Tinkatink, but that's a tall order.

>>59513090
Cool, guess I'll grab a hatchu and hope for the best, and focus on the tinks then. I don't really care for the line but whatever

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whole week of slumbering, a grand total of 2 farfetch'd appereances...
at least i got this heracross. bit of a shame that it needs a mint but otherwise pretty good, especially because as a f2p pleb i'm not swimming in skill seeds

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Hmm? It could work...

Also I'm on Old Gold, but my team situation is even more dire than I thought. I could REALLY use better berry farmers, or even BFS subs to get anywhere. I'm going to have to rely a lot on cooking this week.

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One proc today.

Shame this giraffe sheep.

>>59514867
Okay so my raichu has proc’d like 10 times today, am I misunderstanding his skill procs work? Every time they “find” something it rolls a skill check, right? Or is my raichu proccing way more than ampharos because he’s finding 3 berries at a time compared to 1? I’m shocked how little ampharos seems to proc.

>>59515026
It's every find, so if a berry or ingredient is added to inventory. Doesn't amtter if its 1 berry, 3 berries, or 7 apples, its still only one find and therefore one trigger chance.
Theres no reason you should be seeing that different a proc rate between raichu and ampharos beyond bad luck. Sometimes even the trigger happiest skill mon will just refuse to trigger.

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So if a week is 1,025 EXP, that's 25 individual candies worth. And then you add the pickups, which taking this image as an average, might get you about another 25 candies. So that could get you at least a level a week up until level 55. You'll pay shards for half the EXP, but that's not bad for just forgetting a Pokemon for a week.

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>>59515301
A full 7 days at nap island (without relaxing set) is 1050 EXP, though when you actually withdraw the Pokémon you're likely to have a bit more than that.
That's 42 candies though, not 25.
My Entei's recent two week stay at nap island yielded very similar results to your 1 week stay, but luck will dictate if you get more or less.

Still, two weeks for a passive 50+ candy isn't so bad, but it's also a single days candy boost for 2500 EXP (subject to nature).

Sleep research is still the best source of candies, subject to whatever you encounter though. That includes friend research, since events dictate island attendance and shared photos.
There's also the occasional +2 candies your current team buddies will find. Some time ago, someone identified that your team leader is twice as likely to find candies than the rest of the team, so it's worth picking a team leader that needs the most candies (like any special legendary Pokémon).

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Tinkatink looks pretty big sitting on a GB Snorlax.
And I technically got a usable one, but wouldn't be excited to invest it in without any speed.

>>59515640
For some reason I confused the candies being worth 25 EXP with the weekly EXP converted back into candies... So you basically end up with around 1,600 EXP per week. That's only a full level up to about level 50. Alternatively, you're getting a handful of type or generic handy candies to split into another Pokemon.

>>59517395
You should hypothetically always have a Pokémon you can leave at nap island though, not being in a situation where you put in "whatever" to try for handy candies.

That said, you can certainly prioritise types for the next expert island. I've got my Suicune at nap island for future Expert Cyan Beach visits, and will hope to get worthwhile fairy and flying types also.
BFS Tinkatink is the goal this week obviously. I have a superb Wigglytuff, but that's the only viable fairy type I've got.

>>59513090
good

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I should have skipped out on the incense mission last week, but luckily I'll have more than enough Recovery Incense for this one. I usually try to double up with a random Pokemon incense for a night just in case I miss setting one, but I don't have any for Old Gold besides Raikou and a few single-stagers.

>>59519809
With the upcoming Mewtwo event and likely pre-event for Mew, there's bound to be more incense missions that may or may not be worth using.
Legendary two-week events with exchanges do reward using Pokémon incense and Good Camp Ticket for the extra spawns giving more exchange materials.

Since I'm still climbing to research rank 70, I like to throw on a Pokémon incense on Sunday night sleep with a 5x Research EXP Bonus team, to try and push end of week research EXP gains. I don't have any Focus Incense though, nor will I spend diamonds or money on them.

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Not bad, if I get nothing else with BFS this event I can invest in this Tinka.

I have enough candies to get this straight up to level 30+ Tinkaton too.

But of a shame that Capt Pikachu is only a 1* style, but I'm liking that the spawns are so focused on Old Gold. Almost all of my spawns are Tinks or Pikachus.

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>>59521399
This morning my spawns were exclusively Tinka, save for an agitated Haunter.
Actually, I haven't seen a Captain Pikachu since Monday (when I had two of them).

I think the single 1* sleep style is to avoid frustration with an event spawn being missed, like the previous event Pikachu and Eevee that have two sleep styles.
The side effect of it being 1* seems to be that it's too low value to appear on my radar now that I've surpassed Master 10 and am getting 100 sleep score. Captain Pikachu rewards very, very little research EXP or dream shards.

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Looking for daily active players, pref 65+

>>59522143
Don’t make me type the whole thing out

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Late, but sure. Unless the anime episode just aired or something, I dunno.

Everything I need from Old Gold needs BFS and I still need almost everything.

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Mew Snapshot event returns as the Mewtwo prelude event. It also comes with a guaranteed hungry Pokemon each day, candy boost, and boosted appearances for Psychic types, which will in turn be boosted during the Mewtwo event.

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>>59524657
Finally an excuse to return to Lapis Lakeside.
Also reminder that you can't run Mew and Cresselia simultaneously, so account for that when preparing a psychic team for the Mewtwo event itself.

Some of the stuff I mentioned in >>59512631 was accurate, no new island, though an "unexplored realm" in Greengrass is pretty neat. Sorta jungle like, but really more of a deep forest (like the trailer video).

Mew Snapshot Surprise returning for a mini-event is also very nice, with accelerated Eureka Seed gains. That's gonna be worth using a GCT and excess Pokémon incense.

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>>59524744
The absolute state of my Mew here needs those Eureka seeds, get rid of those dud gold skills.
Maybe Sleep EXP can stay though.

>>59524657
>lapis lakeside area bonus 47%
fugg. i'm going there next week for sure. do i burn an ez travel ticket to go there on sunday? would rob me of a sleep to catch tinkatink, haven't caught a good one yet

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>>59524744
>started sleep during entei week
>Got no entei, two bad suicunes
>cres event, got 4 cres and they all suck
>got great latios and latias recently
Sure would be great to have another shot at cres, people claim the dogs aren't SUPER SUPER rare to run into and that cres is incredibly rare, but honestly I've seen no cres and very few dogs.

>>59524790
My area bonuses look like this
>85%
Greengrass, Cyan Beach, Taupe Hollow,
>80%
Snowdrop Tundra
>78%
Lapis Lakeside, Old Gold Power Plant, Amber Canyon

I'm at OGPP this week, so it'll be 83% on Monday.
That puts me in a slightly awkward spot where if I go to GG/CB/TH, I'll get 82% ST, 79% LL, 84% OGPP, 79% AC.
If I go to LL next week, I'd be at 83% and gain 2% but lose 3% area bonus to the void since there's no overflow.

Seems irrelevant though because I'm planning on going to Expert GG next week anyway, so I can grind out research EXP (due to hit rank 69 soon), and start raising the expert Cyan Beach bonus.
Mew Week I'm definitely going to LL though.

>>59525122
Legendary Pokémon are still pretty decently rare, but with the recent expert mode updates, Raikou and Suicune have been given boosted spawns at expert Greengrass and Cyan Beach respectively.
https://www.pokemonsleep.net/en/news/323932383138363132393037393333363937/
I still need an investment worthy Raikou, whilst I have a good invested Entei and Suicune already, so this works out well for me personally.

Still need a worthwhile Cresselia though.
With Mewtwo's "berry zone" effect, it's looking like the meta (when psychic berries are favorite) will be to buff berry zone and then run a Cresselia team with Gardevoir, Xatu and maybe Sceptile (particularly for Lapis Lakeside).

>>59525160
my concern is more boosting lapis before mew week. if i only go next week i'll be at 52% during the week after, or 57% if i sacrifice an ezz travel ticket (which i have 8 of). if i could get a good tinkatink today that'd make the decision much easier.
during mew week i want to go to lapis in any case to hunt for ralts and natu. i've got a grand total of 0 usable psychic mons

>>59524744
interesting

shiny mewtwo.
imagine.

>>59525317
5% will make no practical difference in what score you'll be able to achieve normally. Luckily Lapis isn't THAT advanced of an island and you can easily make due with Fighting or Grass types there if you're lacking Psychic types.

It seems possible that the Mewtwo event could allow you to participate on Lapis as well as both standard and Expert Greengrass, so if you're struggling that much, then regular Greengrass will still get you the event progress you need without having to rely on Psychic Pokemon.

>>59525752
As a reminder, for the recent Latios event you were limited to visiting event areas, which were Greengrass + Expert, Lapis Lakeside, and Amber Canyon.
And for all event areas, it was guaranteed Yache berries + two random berries, ignoring Snorlax's favorite berries for Lapis Lakeside and Amber Canyon.

That could likely be the same for the event areas for Mewtwo's event, guaranteed Mago berries and two random favorite berries.

>>59526132
Yeah, moreso that you don't need to fight the tiers and spawn counts to get the most event points (Mewtwo DNA) on Greengrass. Although I have teams for most types, you need to be able to do REALLY well, consistently in order to do Expert and make it out with more event points than a standard island.

Guess I'm going to go to GGXP next week, slowly creep up its boost. Otherwise I guess I'd be hunting ingredient mons still.

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Just a step away from being top dawg...

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This captain chu seems alright

>>59528541
Just above the bare minimum, but I wouldn't mind just to try and run a cap. Default activation rate is like 1.5 or something, so you might get 2 with that set if you're lucky.

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Finished OGPP at 5.7m strength / Master 19 last night, which is pretty great for not using a GCT.
1.25x skill trigger and cooking strength with Dedenne on board did miracles.

Went back to GGEX today, and rolled Electric / Steel / Dark with salads and ingredient effects. Pretty similar to last week weirdly enough.
I should have a pretty easy time of cooking this week.
For the use 286 candies mission, I candied my Raichu up from level 66 to 70, unlocked Helping Speed S.

Went to GGEX as well, rolled Rock, ground and ghost with berries, which is a combo I don't have good options for. probably going to be a slow week.

am i being salty or the lvl curve is still fucked? ive been playing for 1000 nights i cant level a full one type team to 70 wouldve making it easier to get to 50 instead of 30 been so bad?

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I keep feeling slightly disappointed investing in non bfs berry bros but this has max speed plus adamant plus hb, just do it?

>>59529189
Bfs + hsm is the bare minimum these days?

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>>59529680
Level 70 JUST unlocked. I wouldn't expect most players to be able to bump up against the max again so soon. Hell, I had trouble securing enough candies to get to 65 for a lot of Pokemon. Considering 60+ is end game stuff, don't expect it to be a breeze.

>>59529914
Speed-only picks up less berries than BFS and no other skills, and less room for improvement from added HB or Extra Helpful triggers. As nice as the skills look, I wouldn't.

>>59529917
The bare minimum being BFS only. Skill Trigger unfortunately doesn't do much for most berry types, but it's better than Inventory Up or Ingredient Finder. You can count the level 70 subskill if you want, but with EXP down, that's realistically not on the table unless you have 3,600 Pikachu candies stocked up. I barely have that much and that's from launch without having trained up a Raichu... I did dump probably a few hundred into the Cram-o-Matic though.

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>>59530062
Ugh that feels so wrong to not use. I have this similar banette that does alright but yeah nothing outdoes bfs berry bros

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>>59529680
>>59530062
Right now I only have the four level 70 Pokémon.
I'm just short on the candy to get my Pawmot and second Raichu to level 70, but could do one if I used some handy candy. Not worth it right now though, we have mini candy boost coming up and I need to possibly prep some psychic types.

Or not, my Gardevoir is very good, my Mew is level 50 (all gold skills lol), and the Mewtwo event is presumed to run two random favorite berries.

By the way, for legendary two week item exchange events, it's better to stick to Greengrass because you can hit the Master ranks for 3 star sleep styles much earlier. The slightly more exchange materials you can potentially get at GGEX aren't really worth it in my experience.

>>59530191
It's a pain that mostly any berry specialist that doesn't get BFS is destined for the grinder.
And I don't feel great about investing in a BFS berry specialist that has absolutely nothing else on it, but covering your bases does matter and will matter more as the expert islands progress.

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Another data point for Nap island.

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>Fairy/Grass/Poison
I think I'll just sandbag this week to get some baby time in and get some overflow into Cyan EX. But maybe I should keep holding out for a better Pichu.

>>59530647
An incomplete data point though.
Proper data needs to show the order of items received, how many, and the exact duration stayed. Moreso, when the Pokémon was sent, and when they when they were taken back.

The number of Chikorita Candy for example, that might be four pulls of 3x, 3x, 3x, 1x, or two pulls of 5x.
Though you can probably infer what the actual sums were by looking at the rest of the items gathered and known received quantities.

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Bundle info went up for the mini snapshot event, but nothing particularly appealing.

>>59532264
Yeah, but I'm not that autistic. I only care about the average candy gains, which seems to be somewhere around 30 per week, after converting all the handy candies. And each pickup seems about evenly distributed anyways.

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Surprise! More bundles. Big, fat, bundles.

Pokémon 30-Year Celebration Bundle S (600 diamonds)
• Poké Biscuit ×10
• Luck Incense ×1
• Growth Incense ×1
• Focus Incense ×1
• Handy Candy S ×4
Note: One available per user.

Pokémon 30-Year Celebration Bundle M (2,000 diamonds)
• Ultra Biscuit ×3
• Great Biscuit ×7
• Good Camp Ticket ×1
• Main Skill Seed ×1
Note: One available per user.

Pokémon 30-Year Celebration Bundle L (5,000 diamonds)
• Ultra Biscuit ×10
• Great Biscuit ×15
• Relaxing Nap Ticket ×1
• Main Skill Seed ×2
• Sub Skill Seed ×1
Note: One available per user.

Huh so expert cyan beach has one guarantee of the three and two other random.

>>59533476
There'll be people like the guys running Raenonx wiki that need more complete data than that. I wouldn't mind learning insights into probable pick-ups, and if there's some unseen mechanic as to when they occur.

To be honest that reply was mostly just to bump the thread anyway.

>>59533856
The 600 diamond bundle is remarkably good value, but also completely invalidates the 250 diamond bundle for the Mew snapshot surprise if you can hold on long enough.

The 5000 diamond bundle with the relaxing nap ticket on the other hand is fucking outrageous, even if it has three skill seeds and all those biscuits.

>>59535331
Yes anon, that was announced weeks ago, and we've had access to Cyan Beach Expert for a few weeks now.
It's not worth going there with a 0% expert bonus though, you're better of biding your time at expert GG.
I've yet to see or hear CBEX but I'm looking forward to that, probably not until next year though it'll take 10-15+ weeks to get the expert bonus to something tolerable.

I was concerned about my Sceptile not having BFS right away, but it seems to be pulling it's weight. Every 2 activations is basically the equivalent of picking up an extra berry. So even without BFS, 4 activations give you as much as a BFS berry farmer. Of course I still need 20 more levels to get it to peak performance... about 600-700 candies that I don't have.

Looks like we're getting solid info on the Mewtwo event now. Here are some standouts:

>Event Areas:
Greengrass Isle, and Greengrass Isle (Expert)
Note: During the event, you cannot select areas other than the applicable areas above.

>— All Days —
• If you have Mew or Mewtwo on your team when you sleep, Drowsy Power will be multiplied by 1.1.
• Each time a helper Pokémon brings you Berries as it usually would, it may also bring you Very Big Mago Berries.
• Each time a Psychic-type helper Pokémon brings you ingredients as it usually would, it will have 1 extra.
• The chance of any Psychic-type helper Pokémon’s main skill being triggered will be multiplied by 1.5.
• The Snorlax in the event areas will have Mago Berries (Psychic type) set as one of its favorite Berries. The other two kinds of Berries are chosen at random.
• Certain Pokémon will be more likely to appear during sleep research.
• Mewtwo won’t get full easily during the first snack time of the day.
• A limited-time Event Exchange will be available.
• During the first sleep research of the day, you can obtain event items.
• A few Pokémon of different sleep types will appear during sleep research regardless of your sleep type for that day.

>Very Big Mago Berries

During the event, each time a helper Pokémon brings you Berries as it usually would, it may bring extra special Mago Berries that contain more Strength than usual.

Other than discovering more as you advance deeper into the heart of the unexplored realm, you may be brought different amounts depending on the helper Pokémon. Please see the following order of which brings the most.
1. Mew, and Mewtwo (brings the most)
2. Psychic-type helper Pokémon
3. Other helper Pokémon

Note: The effects of subskill Berry Finding S will not be applied, and Berries cannot be given to Snorlax while Sneaky Snacking.

"Advancing deeper into the realm" is just tied to the global event power.
The Big Mago Berry thing also might make going to EX worth it.

>>59536930
>Note: The effects of subskill Berry Finding S will not be applied, and Berries cannot be given to Snorlax while Sneaky Snacking.

The fuck. Why?

>>59536968
That only applies to the Very Big Mago Berries. Guess they're technically not berries and more of just a special pickup. Allowing extra pickups of these special berries would probably break the intended progression since there's also a global event attached.

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>>59537234
It's strange, because this seems to qualify as a "fourth kind" of helping.
Berries, ingredients, skill triggers, and now "event items" I guess?
Also that these "Very Big Mago Berries" can be gathered by any Pokémon, instead of only by psychic types, so that potentially produces a bias towards the fastest berry specialists like Raichu. That depends on the frequency of these event berries and how much stronger they are, or if the Pokémon's own level is a factor in the strength of the gathered Big Mago.

The BFS exclusion phrasing suggests that berry specialists can gather two Big Mago at a time, but we'll see.

In any case, this feels like a free boost to strength gains designed to help new players hit higher targets.
Since you know, Mewtwo always draws a crowd. Just look at Pokémon Go this past couple of months.

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kek
You can choose between Classic, Pokemon Sleep, or Stephen Curry.

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6 shinies in august my bag cant handle it

>>59540560
At least it's only 120 diamonds for a little elbow room.
I don't optimise my storage, thinking "they might introduce something that uses all of your box", and just keep buying space without transferring stuff, I really need to transfer something at least. I must have 40+ Pumpkaboo not worth keeping.

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what are we thinking gang

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Oo, shiny Ninetales. Too bad it's useless.

Fuck YES zero proc e4e overnight I LOVE IT

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henlo master i have found you one egg :>

>>59540560
I'm at 210/220 space, 58 of those being shiny, and about 40 in total actually getting any use. I also tend to keep the best-so-far of most species, or ones that I could potentially use. Realistically, a lot of those could be dumped since the chance that I'll actually fold and just fully invest is remote. But in the case of my Dragonite, I had it as a Dratini for at least 6-12 months before I decided to just go for it and train it up.

>>59540948
>speed down
>needs multiple sub skill seeds to perform well, with a chance of one being wasted
>-1 main skill level from being pre-evolved
I'd keep looking.

Instead of the prelude week leading directly into the event, there's actually a week break in-between. And the New Moon is during that week, so you won't get any stacked bonuses for Mew or Darkrai showing up.

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It's better, but hardly. Eh, I'll keep looking.

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I've been playing for two months and I still don't have a good source of chocolate. Making desserts is hell bros

>>59546940
Gotta keep trying for Squirtle, they're good cacao farmers and great on desserts weeks.
Only dedicated cacao farmers are Paldean Wooper / Clodsire, and Absol, but the latter is hard to find and raise.
Pawmot can also be a cacao gatherer, which is a nice perk atop its main role as an Energy for Everyone healer.

1000+ days in myself and I'm still lacking some important ingredient farmers for stuff like tomatoes, potatoes, ginger.

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>>59546940
It took me almost 2 years, so don't worry about it.

I panicked and bought out my remaining Poke Biscuit stock, but there's still a day of buffer left before it actually resets. Either way, the shop it about to reset.
And then the Mini Mew Snapshot event starts everywhere next week, with spawn boosts for Psychic types. >>59524657

>— All Days —
• You will be able to take Snapshot Surprise photos only during the first sleep research of the day.
• Candies gained through Snapshot Surprise ×1.25 the usual amount.
• Research EXP gained through Snapshot Surprise ×1.25 times the usual amount.
• Dream Shards gained through Snapshot Surprise +1,000 to the usual amount.
• During the first sleep research of the day, one Pokémon will for sure arrive hungry
• Certain Pokémon will be more likely to appear during sleep research.
• The limited-time Mini Candy Boost feature will be available.
• A few Pokémon of different sleep types will appear during sleep research regardless of your sleep type for that day.

Even though there are small multipliers for candies and research EXP, you'll still probably get the most out of just going to a standard island. Call me crazy, but I'm partially considering Amber just because it's the only line that I don't have a decent roll on yet.

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>>59548712
>I'm partially considering Amber just because it's the only line that I don't have a decent roll on yet

I'm going to Lapis Lakeside, as it's the island with the most featured Pokémon getting boosted, but it also has a lot of things I need like Bellsprout (dedicated tomato farmer), Treecko, Turtwig, Sprigatito (dedicated potato farmer), Doduo, and Latias / Latios / Cresselia.
I do have an uninvested Natu that's worth investing in though, HB + BFS @ 50 with Helping Speed S>M at 70. Also have a decent Munna I've already levelled up to 44, so I'm good for psychic types just need to candy them up, with Natu being my focus next week.

Of course since the Mewtwo event has two random favorite berries, I may not need rely on the psychic berries at all. Running my BFS Gardevoir is a certainty though.

There isn't really a psychic type I need thats boosted, I have usable copies of both of the berry mons which seem eh anyway, I have a great gard, and already have a good tomato mon.

Like, cres would be sick but isn't boosted, and maybe I should bother just in case of future expert maps rolling psychic, but eh.

i think i'll use my free trial for the premium sleep pass soon, anything else i should buy besides poke biscuits and both skill seeds?

>>59549340
Those are the most important ones, make sure you've banked enough sleep points for the whole stock of skill seeds and biscuits though.
You may want the subskill seeds too as they can be harder to get.

If you do the premium trial, tomorrow's the deadline for access to two premium stocks.

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Shiny buff make this useful? I know I’ll never get to level 70 with it but just pretend.

>>59550478
Technically great but it's backloaded.

>>59549379
i've got 7.5k right now, that'd be plenty. but thinking about waiting until after the mewto event in case i need the master ball

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>>59551252
To get all of the biscuits and seeds in one rotation is 6200 points, so you want at least 12k banked, though you can account for the 2800 sleep points you can earn during the premium trial (up from max 1400).

If you skip the subskill seeds you can afford it, but I'd assume you have few of those and would wait another month.

>>59551389
hmm with the additional 2.8k i could get both skill seeds and poke biscuits. i'd probably skip the great biscuits but the candies might be nice. in any case i think i'll wait till end of september anyway, i have 0 masterballs and if mewto is imba i might want to try my luck even if it's uneconomical.

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Mew snapshots tomorrow.
If you want to set a Good Camp Ticket, do it just after your usual bed time and start sleep tracking.
Then remember to track sleep on the last day before it expires, get 8 days worth of GCT sleep benefits.

>>59551790
I forgot, is there a limit on how many Mew photobombs you can get per sleep session? The bonuses only apply to those, right?

Who won? I fell asleep.

>>59549020
Honestly, I still can't decide where to go.

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>>59552596
I'm not sure if there's a hard cap on Snapshot Surprises per session, but there is a restriction that it's only for the first sleep session for the day.

iirc you could get an average of around 2 Snapshot Surprises, and I think at least 1, and sometimes 3, don't know if more than 3 was observed.
Though it stands to reason that if you maximise your encounter numbers, you increase your chances of Snapshot Surprises.

Also, here are the event missions. Just a tidy sum of psychic candies and dream shards for getting 10 snapshots, which should be easy enough if you track daily sleep.
The main reward really will be the Mew encounter or the Eureka seed; I need the latter to reroll one of the dud subskills on my Mew.

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Woke up to a surprise couple of hungry Pokemon that I would actually want to capture for once. Just regular crits unfortunately, but better than nothing.

i'm somewhat considering of spending a lot for a Go++
my phone's battery is getting a bit raped, and it kinda sucks that I can't just use my phone after setting it to sleep
plus it might help for autocatching some stuff casually on Go

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What are people using their candy boosts on? I'm working on getting this lass to 50

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>>59554568
birb with exp down nature but HB + BFS at 50

Already climbed from level 14 to 21, but I don't think level 50 is going to be attainable by the end of the week.

Also raenonx's EXP calculator fucking sucks now.
You can't disable the candy boost calculation if it's in effect, and you can't specify an EXP up or down nature; probably forcing you to use an account to add Pokémon.

>>59554403
Might as well buy a fitbit. Go++ production and sales have basically been halted for months, so all you're doing is feeding scalpers. Probably some kind of licensing agreement issue, because GO continues to keep pushing on.

>>59555560
the thing with the fitbit is that it's not multi use like the go++
if it's just for sleep tracking, the price is somewhat similar, so why even go for the fitbit at that point?

>>59555593
Plus no nightcap chu on the fitbit.

>>59555593
Because otherwise you're just feeding a filthy scalper.

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Managed to get a bit of a high roll on Nap island this week, 15 pickups within the usual 24hr span. 4x type candies, 4x handy candies, 21x Pokemon candies, and 6k shards; the only low roll being the single instance of 1k shards.

>>59554948
Have to click "leveling plan", then you can change the nature of turn off candy boost.

Still seems like a pointless change for the sake of change though.

>>59556572
See, I completely ignored that levelling plan because it communicates a completely different purpose; candies & nap island & sleep EXP.

If you're hiding critical or unrelated inputs behind a poorly labelled button, that's flat out bad interface design.
The fact that I can't see all of the inputs simultaneously also reduces the effective conveyance of information.

I can understand WHY a change was made though, nap island's introduction.

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That's a lotta candies!

>>59557187
guess i made the right choice to focus the candy boost on mew.

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>>59554568
I have a few Pokemon I can use them on. Torterra might be the least important, but I need to get Cleffa to 50 and evolved for Fairy rolls, and I don't have enough candies to get Sceptile to 70 yet without some candy boost.

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Well now that's just mean.
Might be worth a mint, though. Maybe next year if I still haven't used the two I've got.

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>>59557842
Although, even with the hindering nature it would turn out to be my best potato farmer by far.

I'm at LL this week, I'll find more Sprigatito yet, but this is a hard roll to beat.

>>59557842
Personally, I'm looking for one with BFS. And with the advanced Expert modes coming, I'd rather a mix of ingredients too.

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>>59558953
I have this HB+BFS ABA Sprigatito if I need to ready a dark team, but my current priority is filling gaps in my ingredient gathering teams.
Potatoes have been a sore spot for a while now.

they need to stop making the first caught legendary have fixed rolls. utter waste of biscuits and space. or at least make them somewhat usable

>>59559765
Need to make sure everyone plays through the entirety of the event to get 2, which is the basic minimum for most players unless you've got a Master Biscuit handy or are lucky with biscuit crits/hungry procs. The real issue is that legendary Pokemon are too rare, making it a real hassle to try or not even being worth the effort to go after them if they do finally show up. Luckily I've been able to encounter each legendary outside of its event at least once, except Latios.