u/relaxingcupoftea

Hello,

My Base question is "when to best use pokemon incense."

First day of the week makes sense ofc as there are feweres other spawns and last day of the week are maybe fewer other catchable spawns with evolutions being around.

However when using it in an event week like this at first glance "more pokemon will be hungry" seems like a great idea.

But what if other event pokemon you want spawn that are hungry and the incense pokemon is not?

If one is premium its relatively easy just use the free cookie on the incense mon + 1 pokeball.

But as a f2p you might not even catch it and you can save 2 pokeballs by catching a hungry event mon with the free cookie.

And having 3 tinkertons on the field that might not even be hungry is not even good as you only have 1 free cookie.

So from that point of view it makes sense to use it if nothing else interesting could/is likely to spawn.

But then you lose the +1 hungry probability landing on your incense mon over a random mon you don't want.

Trying to evaluate this breaks my brain :D

Anyones got a useful heuristic here. (Obviously it gets a lot kore complex with evaluating how much you want certain mons)

But it just feels soo bad to use an incense and then not to catch the mon you summened.

I am currently at 33 pokemon and i believe i don't have very high standards but i didn't find one thats decent+ yet.

I am curious when you started how long did it take until you caught the first mon who's stats you where really happy with and what was it :)?.

Hello :)

Some context i am new to the game (2 weeks) i have 27 pokemon but nothing worth investing so far i have a mediocre pikachu that is maybe decent for lvl 25.

My options:

**A:** use free cookie on pichu and catch it with 2 more cookies.

**Ab:**

Throw 1 cookie at ekans and catch it another day if hungry again.

**B:** only throw the free cooky at ekans to catch it.

**C:** only throw the free cooky at Pichu.

I tend to A, because it thought (maybe outdated) raichu is strong and charge is good for me and i am about to invest in pikachu might get a better one

(Option D throw free cooky at magnemite to highroll with cooking power up, into great recipes sometimes to use up ingredients 😉 jk)

Thanks for reading!

People say: Only use the first evolution to invest inas you get 1 free skill level and costs fewer cookies.

What if you 1. Already have a 2/3 evolution one, e.g. because it was shiny or you got it at the brginning.

E.g. pikachu vs pichu. (Bad example because its a berry mon not a skill mon)

If the pikachu has skill level up M vs a pichu that doesn't have skill level up, wouldn't the pikachu be better to invest into?

Or am i missing something

Maybe this is self evident but want to go sure as a noob.

Hi i'm new to the game and plan to stay f2p.

So would it make sense to only ever feed the free daily bisquit and hungry mons? (Would mean you mostly have to encounter the mon again)

What would be exceptions for that? Legendaries? Just s-tier pokemon? Or just very rare pokemon where it might take another week?

I am not sure how many cookies fp2 players will get but so far it seems like its rare.