r/PokemonSleep

Disclaimer: Yes I know Gold Skills can be turned off when you get to a certain friendship badge.

I don't remember when I began playing Pokémon Sleep being inundated with SO many Gold Skills. And I don't mean Helping Bonus, that's a blessing. No I mean the other Gold Skills.. Research EXP Bonus, Sleep EXP Bonus, Energy Recovery Bonus, Dream Shard Bonus and sometimes Skill Level Up (we have seeds!)

And I don't know about you but I see Helping Bonus the least.

So here's the thing, I'm sure there are players out there who love these skills, know how to use them, are strategic about when to use them. Great!

But tell me how these help an Ingredient Pokémon to have 3-4 Gold Skills? Or even one?? Go ahead and put your Ingredient Pokémon through the "Rate-my-Pokémon" on RaenonX and tell me if those subskills tank your ingredient Pokémon. Nothing is worse then getting a AAA with a perfect Nature to be plagued by those Gold Skills.

What I want to know from everyone else, do you notice them more now??? It's so bad, I went through the last month of Pokémon in my box and realized there wasn't one without the Gold Skills! 90% were not Helping Bonus. And if I DID see Helping Bonus? It was with another Gold Skill. MANY had 3-4.

It takes so long to get a good Ingredient Pokémon, if you aren't lucky enough to get a good one before level 10, (which I still get these gold skills before level 10) Then sure enough those Gold Skills fill some important slot.

Am I alone in this?

All this talk of berrymon and ingmon and when to use what seed. I often think sometimes we have too much information and it sucks the joy out of things. All this meta talk in games has ruined the joy of just playing.

I’ve been playing for some months now, I’m rank 60 and have a pot with a max of 66. I’ve gone up to master 18 and unblocked GGEx. Should I use the good camp ticket to get to master 20? Do I get something more getting to M20?

Hey alle of you.

looking for some advice and wisdom here!

I have a BFS and HS piplup, which I have evolved one time and use often!

If I fully evolve it, it changes from water to metal. It also get stronger. On any other Island than Cyan, it will atm go from 14.000 to 17.000 power (only from berries) a day if I evolve it. But on Cyan it produces 28.500 power (from berries) and with the recent introduction of Cyan EX, I'm uncertain on what to do.

Ive only just unlocked Power plant and are yet to go there. I unlocked GGEX at the Mewtwo event, but havnt been there yet.

But Yeah.. What would you all do?

thanks!

pitg.

I really enjoy Expert Mode, and just wanted to share my experience with it.

In the subreddit, we often get questions of "I just unlocked Cyan Beach Expert. Should I go there?" so I thought it might be helpful to see what it might look like.

Despite how long I've played, I'm not exactly the strongest player since I have a slower playstyle. I consider myself a mid-level player since I have a lot of Pokémon above 30, but none are at 60 yet. I thought it might be interesting for other players to see how a "weaker" player might enjoy Cyan Beach Expert Mode.

Based on how much Strength I typically get in a week, I expected to hit Ultra 1, so I wanted to go when there wasn't an event. I made it to Great 4 and then went on vacation, and it turned out I didn't have cell reception the last three days....

So this is actually a story of my 2nd time at Cyan Beach Expert haha.

I got Fairy, Fire, and Flying; Desserts/Drinks; and the 1.25x bonus to Skill triggers.

As far as Skill specialists go, that would really boost my Sylveon for a healer, and Flareon for pot boosting. It's skill level is at 3 (+12), so my pot needs 1 trigger for Zing Zap, 2 for Éclairs or Pancakes, 3 for Waffles. With no triggers, I can make Macarons.

Besides Flareon, fire types don't really help me for Desserts/Drinks, so I rule Entei and Arcanine out. I would love Togekiss, but mine is from the early game and doesn't have good nature/subskills, and have been looking to replace it for a long time. Braviary could be good, but mine is still a Rufflet.

So after looking at skills and dishes, I can tell that these are the Pokémon I'd likely be relying on:

• Sylveon - Healer
• Flareon - Pot Boost (and some Cacao)
• Delibird - Eggs
• Clefable - Berries (and some Honey)
• Comfey - Corn

In order to make strong recipes, I have a bunch of Ingredients left over from the event the previous week, but it's not going to last. I'll need to use some weaker (below level 30) Pokémon and some off-Berry Pokémon:

• Cramorant - Oil
• Cutiefly/Venusaur - Honey
• Luxray/Mr. Mime - Tomatoes
• Absol/Clodsire - Cacao

So how did my week go?

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Day	Pokémon	.	.	.	.	Team RP
Monday	Sylveon-51	Clefable-38	Dodrio-23	Flareon-36	Comfey-37	11,358
Tuesday	Sylveon-51	Clefable-39	Luxray-33	Cutiefly-17	Venusaur-50	11,656
Wednesday	Flareon-38	Clefable-40	Delibird-52	Cutiefly-18	Comfey-38	8,587
Thursday	Sylveon-51	Clefable-40	Absol-51	Ribombee-19	Clodsire-45	13,248
Friday	Sylveon-51	Comfey-38	Cramorant-29	Delibird-52	Clodsire-45	11,925
Saturday	Sylveon-51	Delibird-52	Absol-51	Ribombee-20	Clodsire-46	13,067
Sunday	Sylveon-51	Clefable-40	Absol-51	Ribombee-21	Clodsire-46	13,317

This is just a representative example, I would switch my Pokémon as needed to get the Ingredients I needed. I also used Dedenne on Monday, but other days I was too busy trying to get Ingredients and Pot boosting.

Sylveon is currently my best healer, but I was drowning in Milk, and really wishing I had a good Wigglytuff, since I needed Honey a lot more. But I quickly evaluated all my Cutiefly, and chose one to start raising, and it did remarkably well. I also was short on Cacao, so considered using Pawmot, but I only recently got this one and haven't invested Main Skill Seeds in it yet.

Flareon typically gave me enough triggers. The bigger problem was getting enough Ingredients, so a couple days I had to make smaller dishes than I wanted. Dishes I made:

• "Flower Gift" Macarons: 10x
• "Zing Zap" Spiced Cola: 2x
• "Scary Face" Pancakes: 2x
• "Honey Gather" Chocolate Waffles: 4x
• "Teatime" Corn Scones: 2x
• "Leaf Tornado" Smoothie: 1x

I feel like I did fairly well until I think Thursday or Friday when my Sylveon had an off-day and I wasn't able to maintain a stockpile of Ingredients, and I felt like I was playing catch-up.

Like I said, I had expected to make it to Ultra 1--But I actually made it to Ultra 4, far better than I was expecting based on how I normally do. For this chart, I'll divide out my 5% Expert Bonus so it is a fair comparison for a "first time" post. Compared to my first time at Greengrass Expert, I've come a long ways.

Day	Total Strength	Rank	Strength Gain
Monday	231,687	Basic 5	231,687
Tuesday	556,665	Great 3	324,978
Wednesday	793,436	Great 4	236,771
Thursday	1,022,671	Great 5	229,235
Friday	1,234,913	Ultra 1	212,242
Saturday	1,425,913	Ultra 2	190,954
Sunday	1,796,150	Ultra 4	370,283

My thoughts: The 35% penalty is no joke. It was a struggle getting enough Cacao. My actual first time was pretty similar, Flying, Electric, Fire, same bonus, but with Salads. That week, at times Entei's Helper Boost helped me out a lot with those off-Berry ingredients. But this time, I often had to have multiple Ingredient helpers in order to try and get enough.

In hindsight, I suppose I could have went for a weaker dish that would be easier to get with off-Berry Ingredient Specialists, but when I did have the Ingredients, Flareon really pulled through for me, so I'm not sure I could have done better. Plus, I just enjoy taking advantage of the bonuses if I can. And I felt like they were actually pretty huge.

Anyway, I'll look forward to next time. Thanks for a great week of snoozy studies!

Bonus: my spawns, for good measure:

Day	Drowsy Power	Pokémon	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	Shards	Research EXP
Mon	36,490,650	Dragonair-1	Toxicroak-1	Psyduck-2	Grubbin-1	Psyduck-1	Croagunk-1			8,340	4,586
Tue	58,449,800	Psyduck-3	Croagunk-2	Psyduck-2	Psyduck-2	Grubbin-1	Treecko-1	Croagunk-1		11,410	6,427
Wed	69,147,964	Cutiefly-2	Tinkatink-2	Happiny-1	Squirtle-1	Squirtle-1	Totodile-1	Totodile-1		10,589	6,314
Thur	106,306,695	Dratini-3	Igglybuff-2	Tinkatink-1	Eevee-1	Eevee-1	Cleffa-1	Psyduck-1	Croagunk-1	13,996	7,958
Fri	129,665,900	Tinkaton-1	Ditto-1	Wigglytuff-1	Clefairy-2	Jigglypuff-2	Jigglypuff-2	Eevee-1	Jigglypuff-1	16,458	12,530
Sat	149,716,100	Treecko-4	Dragonair-1	Dragonair-1	Grovyle-1	Toxicroak-1	Croagunk-2	Treecko-1	Dratini-1	24,267	12,326
Sun	188,595,800	Toxicroak-3	Heracross-1	Dragonair-1	Dragonair-1	Toxicroak-1	Grubbin-1	Psyduck-1	Psyduck-1	19,440	10,591

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Just to make sure that Im reading this right, The number beside the apple icon is how many apples will be generated in a day right?

Because I kept fuecoco in my team till evening today and he produced 0 apples. Switched to captain pikachu and he immediately generated 2 apples. Even my wobuffet generated apples more frequently. Did I just get extremely unlucky or something?

Is there any setting in raenox that I could be messing up?

I'd always assumed that Sub Skill Seeds only work on white sub skills, but they apparently work on any sub skill that has a higher quality, including the blue Inventory Up M and Skill Level Up S. I've actually used Main Skill Seeds to max out the main skill of a Pokémon that had Skill Level Up S...