PokéSurvivor Beginner Guide

Each partner can learn Normal moves and moves matching its own types. Bulbasaur, for example, starts with Vine Whip and can take Grass, Poison and Normal choices. Charmander starts with Ember and can take Fire and Normal moves. The starting move therefore matters immediately, while the learnset determines your later coverage options.

Move behavior matters alongside damage. Vine Whip sweeps a wide melee arc; Ember launches a fireball at the nearest enemy; Water Gun sends out a piercing jet. Choose spacing that suits the active attack. Swords Dance is a buff with no direct damage, so selecting it changes what your active slot is doing. Bonded moves are the exception to separate-slot attacks: a bonded group fires together, occupies one slot and can contain up to four moves.

Raise the base move to its maximum level, take its required stat card during the current run, then select the golden evolution card when it is offered. Reaching level 5 alone does not finish the evolution. Permanent partner upgrades are a separate system and do not replace the requirement to take the matching run card.

Base move damage and cooldown exclude partner bonuses, weather and type effectiveness. Use them to identify the opening attack and its destination, rather than treating damage divided by cooldown as guaranteed combat DPS. PokéSurvivor has 64 base moves, of which 59 can evolve. Buff moves have no evolution mapping; do not wait for a golden evolution of Swords Dance.

PokéSurvivor softens the familiar Pokémon matchups: super-effective attacks deal ×1.6, resisted attacks ×0.6 and attacks corresponding to main-series immunities ×0.3. For a dual-type target, multiply the two matchups and clamp the type result between ×0.3 and ×2.4. An attack that is strong against both types reaches ×2.4 after the cap, rather than the uncapped ×2.56.

Weather can change which of your available moves works best. At full intensity, rain boosts Water to ×1.5 and Electric to ×1.2 while reducing Fire to ×0.5; sun boosts Fire to ×1.5 and reduces Water to ×0.5. Snow boosts Ice and slows non-Ice partners by 10%. These weather effects are separate from the type-chart result. Recheck your active slot when weather changes, especially if your partner carries both a favored and a weakened attack.

You can equip one held item during a run. Finding another item gives you a replacement decision. Leftovers restores 1.5% of your HP per second, while Quick Claw reduces move cooldowns by 20%. Choice Band adds 40% damage but prevents move switching, which changes the matchup strategy above. Life Orb adds 30% damage at an HP cost on each attack; its tradeoff matters when you are already taking hits.

After the run, spend PokéCoins on the partner you intend to play again. Permanent upgrades apply to that specific Pokémon, rather than to the entire collection. Unlocking a different partner therefore does not transfer those upgrades. Check the next-level price and the track's cap before splitting your coins across several partners.

Ordinary boss slots occur at 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 minutes. Rift checks begin after 75 run seconds and repeat every 30 seconds when eligible; a living regular boss prevents a check from counting. A portal is available for 45 seconds, and entering starts a legendary arena with a 120-second combat limit. Check your move coverage before entering instead of treating the portal as a guaranteed reward.

Winning an ordinary rift grants a Bond. It does not directly add that normal legendary partner to your collection; regional gacha is the separate collection route. Ordinary rifts stop opening at minute 28. At minute 30, Arceus begins Judgment, where Arceus is invincible and your objective is survival. A plan built only around defeating the five ordinary bosses does not describe that final encounter.

Use tickets earned by playing in the regional gacha banner containing your target. One pull costs one regular ticket; ten pulls cost ten regular tickets or one ten-pull ticket. Each banner tracks its own five-star pity. A five-star result is a rarity outcome, not proof that the partner has the legendary flag. Check your target's region, rarity and legendary status before using tickets.

Wild shiny acquisition is different: an eligible wild enemy has a 1-in-4096 shiny roll, and defeating a shiny unlocks its shiny partner form. A supported gacha result has a 1% shiny roll. Those probabilities describe eligible trials, not a promise that a particular species will appear within a fixed number of enemies or pulls. First confirm that the partner supports a shiny form.

On the official online site, add friends by nickname, create a room and send invitations. Rooms support up to four players. Experience and team leveling are coordinated by the host, so a group run changes the progression setup from solo play. To revive a fallen teammate, stay nearby for three seconds; the revived player returns with half of their maximum HP.

More players also change the horde: with four players, ordinary enemy HP is ×1.9 and spawn rate is ×3.25 compared with solo, using the game's player-count formulas. Choose partners and coverage together, and leave a safe space for revives. Use the online browser edition for these features; the author's downloadable edition is for offline solo play.