#Beginner Advice Please 😭

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sturdy hare
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Hi I'm pretty new to the game only been playing about a week, Rank 7, I've read through most of #frequently-asked-questions and some #infographics plus some posts in this channel but I'm kind of overwhelmed by information, so other than sticking to GG for a long while, (1) what general advice do you have for a beginner that they may not know? (I've numbered each 'question' to hopefully make it easier)

(2) Also how do I decide my teams? Obviously it is important to focus on the favourite berries but what about skills and stuff and RP?

(3) There is the double xp candy thing right now, should I take advantage of that as much as possible and level up my mons a metric ton or is there a way to be smart about it? Follow up, should I use the dream clusters if I'm low on shards during levelling up? I know it's best to save them cause you get more shards the higher rank you are but Im not sure when to save and when to spend.

(4) When it comes to befriending pokemon I've seen a lot of things say unless theres a shiny or something good only use the daily bonus biscuits but I don't really know what to prioritize using it on, for example this morning I had a Flaaffy and 2 Mareeps appear (plus others) I read that going for something with a 3 stage evo line is usually a safe bet because when evolving your skill lvl goes up, that being said, would it be better to go for Flaaffy which has already evolved once or Mareep which isn't yet? I've been a Pokemon Go player for quite some time so it has been a bit tough to stifle the instinct to catch 'em all and then transfer, or in this case blend, whatevers not good.

(5) I've attached my mons below, if there's anything specific I should know about them or something let me know.

Thanks for reading, sorry it's so long I'm kind of just a long winded person cause I find that makes communicating easiest.

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Scratch that last one I'm not able to attach images lol

frozen rock
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  1. Please be more specific
  2. Don't sweat it too much. Two favorite berry mons, two ing mons to fill your pot and a good mon of choice (like an early evolved Raichu) should do the job
  3. Ideally you should take advantage of it, yes. The smartest way to go about it depends on your mons. Generally it's better to spread it out into multiple decent mons rather than funneling. Don't sweat it too much, these candy boosts appear from time to time. It is the third time we have one and we're slated to have another close to Suicune release
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About dream clusters: the late you get, the better they are. Try not to use them.

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  1. Evolved pokemons are generally worse than their unevolved counterparts. Even if it's already evolved, it's not worth it. Berry mons can get away with losing one evolution, ingredients mons are more affected and, for skill mons, catching evolved may as well half their viability if you're f2p due to the scarcity of main skill seeds
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Unfortunately catching them all in this game is far too expensive to do

sturdy hare
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  1. Oh I just meant that as a thing of like if theres any generic advice you have please let me know, I'll edit the post to phrase it better
frozen rock
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Lmao don't worry

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The most generic advice I can give you is: if you haven't filled up your friend list, do that now

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It takes a few minutes to do but it gives you 50 candy minimum a day + a few other bonuses

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The friend list can be even a better source of candy than the sleep research

sturdy hare
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mhmm yeah i added a bunch of ppl from the r/ friend code list

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ive already stacked up like 53 candies for my larvitar in just like 4 or 5 days of having that

frozen rock
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Perfect

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About mons

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Most people here are picky with which mons they raise

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Obviously, you're new, you can't afford to do that right now. But do you understand the guidelines of each type of Helpers and what makes them good?

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Oh, yeah, of course. Are you f2p?

sturdy hare
frozen rock
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Ok that colors a few thinfs

sturdy hare
frozen rock
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Berry mons: you want Berry Finding S (BFS). That is pretty much non-negotiable. You're nee so you get to bend that rule but I still wouldn't recommend candying (unless it's something common like a Pichu) a Berry Mon that doesn't have that. If you go to #rate-my-mon-or-team , any berry mon (slaking is the exception) that doesn't have it is immediately turned down. It's just that meta-warping.
Besides that, helping bonus and helping speed are good to have. You usually don't care about ingredients, with a handful of exceptions like Houndoom that happen to have good ingredient spreads. About main skills, some Berry mons have good ones, but it is also generally a lower priority.

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Ingredients mons: You want Ingredient Finder M, S or Ingredient Finding+ nature. These are harder to talk about generally, as each ingredient helpers has a different ingredient list, so it's a bit of a case by case scenario. Either way, helping speed is also good. Inventory up is also not bad because it allows you to get more ingredients overnight.

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Skill mons: This is the part that gets different depending on whether you're free to play or not. Skill mons are very demanding. You want at least two of skill trigger m, s or main skill up nature. They are more demanding exactly because, in order to be good, they need Main Skill Seeds. Those are premium itens. You can acquire some as a free to play, but they are few, and, even as premium, you can only get one a month (save a handful of exceptions). Also, the range between good and bad skill mons is the biggest gap between best and worst from all of these. Helping speed and Inventory is appreciated for the same reasons as for the ingredient mons

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About team building: yes, you should focus berries. Early game they are paramount. They are technically the best way to play all the way through but cooking is not that far behind once you start having helpers at lvl30

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Ah, yes, since you're premium: always buy both seeds from the premium shop

sturdy hare
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you said that any berry mon without berry finder is bad but what makes a pokemon a berry mon as opposed to something else? is it the skills and natures and stuff and what you use it for or is there like a specific list of pokemon that are best for berries, best for ingredient etc

frozen rock
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It should be on the top right corner of the mon page

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All Cyndaquils are berry

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All Charmanders are ingredients

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All Growlithes are skill

sturdy hare
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oh!! i see it

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rip none of my mons at all have bfs 😭

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okay that all makes a lot more sense now thank u

frozen rock
# sturdy hare rip none of my mons at all have bfs 😭

That's to be expected! Once you catch 10 or more of a mon, you get a guaranteed gold skill in the first slot. At the beginning, your chances of a random bfs on a berry mon are low, but, once you start catching more of the same mon (species doesn't count) suddenly your odds increase dramatically

sturdy hare
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ohh right okay also does tapping the screen for the fan when cooking have any impact on if its extra tasty or not cause my friend thought it might but wasnt sure and then i did it and immediately got an extra tasty but i dont trust it bc it was probably coincidence esp since it was sunday yesterday

frozen rock
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It doesn't have any impact

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Actually, it does have a purpose: it speeds up the animation. But no effect on extra tasty. It's a flat 10% on normal days and 30% on Sundays

sturdy hare
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hahahaha okay cool

smoky rune
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what's about BFS on ing mon or skill mon?

frozen rock
# smoky rune what's about BFS on ing mon or skill mon?

BFS is always good. It's a meta-warping skill after all. But then how good it is depends on the specific mon, because BFS fills up your inventory faster and demands you check more often during the day and diminishes returns during the night (for ingredients and skills specifically). Let's say you have a Dugtrio with BFS and you want Leeks out of it. When you go to sleep, your inventory will fill up faster and you will likely have less Leeks in the morning, however, because it is BFS, it has an extra output of doubling its berry power during the day and night. The question then becomes if this tradeoff is good. I personally say yes, I like bfs on my skill and ingredients mons, but some of them like it more than others.

smoky rune
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ok, thanks you fyi, still learning this game, so far to leveling focus for helping, speed and energy, so i can add bfs too

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your guide above is helpful too

sturdy hare
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does which pokemon is ur team leader affect anything

woven iris
sturdy hare
sturdy hare
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are there certain events that give extra exp and stuff to mons?? just wondering about that like if theres a best time to use growth incense

crimson vigil
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Good Sleep Days?

sturdy hare
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okay thanks

past coral
past coral
sturdy hare
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thank you!

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n yeah i have been using serebii actually lol

especially for the recipea

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been looking into sneaky snacking today tho

and i get the general gist of it and how it works

but a lot of the info out there is a bit murky

like most is abt a nerf on it back in abt jan

i did see this but this is a months old post so idk the accuracy or if this still holds up

frozen rock
# sturdy hare been looking into sneaky snacking today tho and i get the general gist of it an...

Sneaky Snacking is actually an in-game term. Whenever you spend some time without checking your game, like waking up, you may realize that a screen pops up telling you how much power each helper got for Snorlax while you were away. At the top left corner, it will call it Sneaky Snacking.

This mechanic works such as that any help a Pokemon gets that would excess inventory (exception: Extra Helpful and Ingredient Magnet skills) gets turned into a berry. This is a very good mechanic to abuse for Berry Mons, since it means they will stop getting less valuable ingredients. The tradeoff is not only you don't get ings from your berry mons, but also a mon with a full inventory can't procc skills, hence the workaround from that reddit post.

The information about the nerf you're seeing it's because, since the beginning of the game, it had a bug we called n+1. Basically, if a mon got into sneak snacking and got 5 helps, the game would consider it 6 helps. Got 10 helps? The game would add 11. This meant that the strategy became checking constantly as to abuse the extra berry. That was how people got to really high ranks early on. This bug is long gone now, though.

sturdy hare
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ooh right okay i see

so automatically making it all berries in sneaky snacking still counts as that's not related to the bug right??

i was tryna do the workaround in the post but... idk wasnt working

frozen rock
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Not related to the bug, no

sturdy hare
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probs wasnt doing it right but dont rlly know what is the right way to do it

frozen rock
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The bug made it so there was always an extra berry instead of the correct amount. The bug is gone now.

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Sneaky Snacking is just keeping a berry mon inventory full by never collecting them. You can collect a few of the ings/berries but not all then check again later when it's full again to see if the Pokemon procced if you don't want to sacrifice the main skill

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That's all there is to it

sturdy hare
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right but when i checked back later the berries were still on the floor

or does that still count as being in inventory

frozen rock
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Yeah

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That's still inventory

sturdy hare
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oh dope i was doing it right then lol

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tydm

frozen rock
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You're welcome

sturdy hare
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hmm so technically speaking smth w low inventory but really high soh would be best for SS right ?

cause then that makes bfs irrelevant cause SS guarantees that it will be berries

frozen rock
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Yes

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wait what

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No, BFS is even more relevant

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Because if it is a berry procc, bfs will make it three berries

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It is still dictated by the amount of berries it gives. A "help" for, say, Cyndaquil with no bfs, is either one ginger or two berries

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And it counts helps not berries

sturdy hare
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OHHH

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the

'Yes
wait what
No,'

is so fucking funny of a reaction tho 😭

frozen rock
sturdy hare
sturdy hare
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what happens if i hit my pokemon level cap of 25 on a mon but it keeps getting xp

does that carry over for when the cap is raised or get turned into candies or smth

frozen rock
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It does not carry over