Pokémon Sword & Shield Every Way To Increase Your Pokémons Happiness

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Pokémon Sword & Shield Every Way To Increase Your Pokémons Happiness

Pokémon need lots of love and attention, so make them happier than usual with these helpful tips! There are a ton of advantages that come from leveling up affection and friendship with the members of your team in . From the chances increasing for a critical hit to faster EXP gain, it's well worth your time to improve your relationship with the Pokémon that you plan to use regularly. Fortunately, it's very easy to level up friendship with Pokémon. The games contain myriad ways to improve your Pokémon's affection, so employ any or all of them and you'll be best friends in no time. In no particular order whatsoever, here are all the different ways to improve friendship with your Pokémon in the Generation VIII games. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY

Feed Them Berries

There are available in the Pokémon world — so many, in fact, that it can be quite difficult to remember all of their names and effects. This is why many people forget a group of Berries that will affect friendship and affection with your Pokémon. The Grepa, Hondew, Kelpsy, Pomeg, Qualot, and Tamato berries all have friendship-changing effects. These Berries all raise friendship with the Pokémon that consumes them but in turn, they lower certain stats. Grepa will lower special defense, Hondew will lower physical attack is lowered by Kelpsy while Qualot lowers physical defense. Pomeg lowers HP, and Tamato lowers speed.

Be Mindful Of Your Choice Of Poké Ball

When catching a wild Pokémon, consider how fast you'll want to level up friendship with it. If it's a Pokémon that evolves via friendship like Eevee or Buneary, you might want to reconsider that Ultra Ball you're about to throw. Certain are capable of increasing the base friendship that Pokémon has with you after being caught. A Friend Ball, one of from Generation II, will set a Pokémon's friendship to 200 points. Friend Balls are given to you for the first time by in Turffield Stadium. If you're looking for more, they're one of the many random Balls you can be awarded by the Ball Guy after defeating the League any additional time after your first. Luxury Balls will also affect friendship, doubling the rate at which a Pokémon becomes friendly. Buy them from Watt Traders for 100 PokéCoins.

Use Helpful Items

There are a number of items that increase friendship with a Pokémon upon consumption, similar to the aforementioned Berries but typically without the negative side effects. Specifically, that increase friendship as well as boosting relevant stats. Items like HP Up, Protein, Iron, Calcium, Zinc, and Carbos will all add friendliness between you and your Pokémon. They're much better than the Berries of the same nature, because they raise stats instead of lowering them. This is, of course, why these vitamins are so much harder to find and more expensive.

Keep Them In Your Party

This is one of the most well-known ways of increasing friendship and has been around for years. Simply keeping a Pokémon around can increase its level of affection for you. This means walking with them, battling with them, taking them everywhere you go. Keeping a Pokémon as a valuable member of your team will not just make you fond of them, it'll make them fond of you. This is, after all, a Pokémon game, and you're meant to build a team with affection and cooperation.

Use The Soothe Bell

If the level of friendship between you and a Pokémon isn't leveling up as fast as you'd like it — maybe you're trying to evolve something that needs a high friendship level simply for a Pokédex entry — there exists an item that will improve their friendship gain. A Soothe Bell is exactly what you need. Making a Pokémon hold it makes their friendliness level up way faster than without. You can find one in Hulbury after completing a few quests for the chef at the local seafood restaurant.

Play With Them

It seems that the friendship level you can have with a Pokémon actually caps at a certain point that's high enough to evolve friendship-necessary Pokémon, but not to max friendship. In order to pass this cap, you'll need to go camping. Playing with Pokémon is the most obvious choice when you first set up camp. Get out the Poké Toy and Ball and start playing with your Pokémon, and you'll notice both their friendship level and actual level skyrocketing in no time.

Feed Them Curry

While you're camping, set down that cooking pot and get stirring! will increase friendship with your Pokémon with the efficiency of almost nothing else. Not only does it add friendship level like crazy, it also adds friendliness with your entire team simultaneously, as opposed to one at a time. Better choices for ingredients, including the Berries you choose, will increase friendship faster. Try to match flavors and complete the cooking mini-games to the best of your ability. Higher quality means more friendliness.

Avoid Lowering Your Friendship Level

Of course, one of the most important parts of leveling up friendship with a Pokémon is not doing anything to lower it. There are quite a few different ways to make a Pokémon dislike you, so make sure you're avoiding them at all costs if you want high friendship. Letting a Pokémon faint, feeding them bitter items, and keeping them in storage will all lower your friendship level together. Also, trading a Pokémon resets its friendship to zero. Avoid doing any of these things and you should be mostly good to go!