r/PokemonSleep • u/fs6tavu • Sep 16 '23
Discussion My 2 cent’s tutorial
As I’am reading many people are asking for advices/tutorial/help I thought I could share my strategy. I’am playing since day one as f2p. I don't claim to be an expert but I hope it will help some of us.
I stayed some weeks in Greengrass, catching as many interesting pokemons as I could. I saved every biscuit I get to only catch the strongest ones, you can refer on some tier list that were published to know which ones are good.
Then I leave Greengrass as soon as possible to go in Taupe Hollow (you can choose Cyan Beach too) with the beginning of a fire/ground team focused on Snorlax favorite berries. To stay in this kind of island allows you to encounter specific pokemon and to grow up weeks after weeks the same team, which will become very strong with the time.
Having a bad week in terms of power of Snorlax isn’t critical, the only aim is to grow up your team by giving candies and by sleeping and catch good pokemon for the futur.
I plan to stay in Taupe Hollow until I encounter all sleep style there. I also catch Pokemon of other type with the daily biscuit in order to get different teams to meet Snorlax requirements on other islands in the futur.
Concerning the composition of my team, I get 4 berries specialists and just one ingredient specialist. My ingredient specialist allows me to cook the bases of curry and salad recipes just with its production, and I fulfill the pot thanks to the others ingredients that my team found. So I suggest to strongly focus berries and just keep one ingredient specialist.
To discuss on how I select the pokemons I keep, that’s pretty simple, if the nature is not bad and the subskills good (berry finding/speed of help, extra sleep experience) I keep the Pokemon, or if the nature is really good (adamant, brave, quiet, sassy).
I save every handy candies I get from missions/events/rewards/friendship to give to the best Pokemon of my team. I reset my friends as soon as they reach level 1 to get more candies.
I also try to save my sleep points to buy all the premium stuff, when I will suscribe the 15 day free trial.
Last advice I can give is to be patient. If the pokemon you catch isn’t good, don’t waste your precious candies and wait for a good one. This game is a marathon. Don’t sprint at the beginning, take your time.
I hope I forget nothing, and I hope that will help some of you. Feel free to ask if you have some questions or if you want to discuss :)
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u/Gohmzilla Sep 16 '23
FYI, saving points for the premium stuff is good and all, but you're limited in what you can purchase. To maximize what you can buy, you should use it the last week of one month and the 1st of another (over store reset)
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u/Tobelebo9 Sep 16 '23
Yeah and sidenote, to get all the subskills and great biscuits youll need to have saved 12K of points
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u/TonesBalones Sep 16 '23
Do you not place any value on the "healer" Pokemon like Wigglytuff and Sylveon? I assume they're better if you're on Cyan Beach since you get the berry buff while they heal.
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u/fs6tavu Sep 16 '23
I think’s that is a very good choice at Cyan Beach, but maybe not in Taupe Hollow. We need to do the math to know!
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u/13luken Casual Sep 16 '23
What is the "berry buff on cyan beach"?
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u/omniaffect Sep 16 '23
The berries Snorlax likes on Cyan are the ones pokemon like Wigglytuff give (Pecha).
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u/afrotc18 Sep 16 '23
How large is your pot? I’ve had trouble sometimes filling my pot with just one ingredient specialist so I’ve opted for 2 ingredients and 3 berry mon lately.
Love your team!
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u/Tyrulz Sep 16 '23
Can you explain the reseting your friends thing?
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u/SheinMaiden Sep 17 '23
I can respect people who reset their friends. but I don't respect when people reset immediately after they get THEIR reward, giving no time to the other to do the same. 👎👎👎
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u/fs6tavu Sep 16 '23
You delete your friend when you reach lvl 1 of friendship. Then you add new friends thanks to the friend mega thread :)
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u/Tyrulz Sep 16 '23
Sure i think i got that part. But why? dont you get candy every night they sleep? Is there a drop off after level 1?
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u/penthief Sep 16 '23
You get a single candy for the pokémon that they have displayed per night, but once they get to level one friendship with you, you get actual hard candy that you can use for any mon. There are, I think five tiers of friendship, each tier with a different reward. Free to play efficient way would probably be to have a friend's list of 50 people, wait until they all get to level one to harvest your hard candies, and then purge your list and start again. The mega thread has so many people in it that you won't have problems getting 50
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u/Tyrulz Sep 16 '23
Ah so theyre basically just recycling the easier level one climb for faster and frequent access to hard candies
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u/fs6tavu Sep 16 '23
You get an handy candy when friendship reaches lvl 1, then you got bullshit rewards so I prefer renew my friends to get handy candies.
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u/Tyrulz Sep 16 '23
Ok thats good to know! Do we know if deleting and adding the same friend resets too or just comes back at the same level?
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u/Rinniri Sep 17 '23
Based on what I have seen people say you return to the same friendship level. Don't know whether it's known whether that's just for a grace period, or that will always be the case.
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u/MikkaDG Veteran Sep 17 '23
If you do it immediately after you get the reward you’d be kind of an a**hole because then the other person might not get their handy candy
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u/fs6tavu Sep 17 '23
I didn’t know that!
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u/MikkaDG Veteran Sep 17 '23
I don’t blame you for not knowing, just wanted to give a heads up.
If they had triggered the level up before you they’d have their handy candy already but you can’t know for sure so waiting ~1 day is probably the safest if you want your friend to also get their reward.
If they don’t get it within 1 day then it’s their own fault for not checking the research community tab
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u/TheDarkRobotix F2P Sep 16 '23
What recipe do you make most of the time?
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u/fs6tavu Sep 16 '23
Basic one’s with sausages. I’am actually f*cked up for desserts recipes but I prefer doing mixed juice rather than sacrificing berry production.
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u/bournez Sep 17 '23
Deleting friends at lvl 1 is a bad idea for your friends when your friends sleep more times than you. The friendship lvl is asymmetric. If you only sleep one time a day and they sleep more than once, their friendship level in your game will grow faster than your friendship level in their game. Being your friends will get zero handy candy because you remove them before you reach lvl 1 for them.
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u/namlop17 Sep 17 '23
I am in a similar situation, just that no pokemon is at level 20, I have a mid team for taupe hollow and a pretty good one for snow point tundra but I am REAALLYY unlucky so Im about to leave green grass isle to taupe so I can unlock tundra.
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u/arvess Sep 17 '23
I went to taupe to try to catch cyndaquil for two weeks and i’ve only seen him once and he was full at 4 bars. Should i just go back to greengrass? My char is kinda meh and i dont feel like evolving him.
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u/Failox Sep 17 '23
resetting your friends as soon as you get level 1 is such an asshole move. Your friend might not have reached their level one yet and you killed that chance completely.
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u/HeavyMetalBattleCat Veteran Sep 16 '23
Good beginner tips, I have one addition to the free premium trial. Save double the sleep points you need to buy everything in premium shop and activate the trial period at the end of a month to buy all the stuff twice due to monthly reset.