Thanks! I’m sure this kind of analysis won’t resonate with some people but it helped me wrap my head around things more. Excuse me while I go add “did a brilliant thing” to my resume. 😅

I MEAN YOU’RE NOT WRONG 😑

I mean, it’s says 4k but I think only my gameplay footage is. I’m still just Ten Eight EP. Wait, should we start a band of Berry Finding S?

I really enjoy the ingredient play too. What a stacked lineup! Thanks for sharing.

I relate so hard every time you say it wrong 🤣

Oh I am so busted 😅

Also, it's oddly fitting that yours is a female. My 2 best raichus are ALSO female so they'll all match with their slightly shorter tails.

Well now you’ve got me thinking about Alolan Raichu but I think I need a powerhouse for the OGPP 😅

I am honored to honor your honor.

Congrats on the little one! So glad you’ve enjoyed the videos. I learn a TON from watching VelocityRaptor too. Thanks for saying hi and good luck finding that excellent Psyduck. Would love to welcome you into the Golduck Gang!

Don’t worry, champ in making. You’ll find one soon I’m sure. 🙃

Unfortunately I have only caught one good berry specialist in my first 3 months playing this game. But the first totodile I caught was a shiny with HSM at level 10, BFS at level 25 and a speed up nature 😎. That's my flex lol...

When the game was first released, I had no idea about sneaky snacking and invested a totally neutral totodile with BFS at level 100 (!) to level 30 because it had Inventory Up L. Almost transferred my other pre-existing totodile, which, when I finally learned sneaky snacking was a thing, realised was great (BFS, HSM, jolly) and fairly easily brought it up to level 60 (to date, my only level 60 Pokémon). Was so close to transferring it at the time 🫠

Congrats! Glad to hear it!

Oh, so you like to play the game? Sweet, me too. 😅

Sounds like a blast! A berry blast! A berry berry blast! A berry berry berry berry berry blast! Aw man it’s burst 🤦🏼‍♂️😅

Smart play. It one thing to intentionally sneaky snack all day and all night. When we’re not collecting because we’re sleeping, and every Pokemon is going to end up sneaky snacking anyway, we’re better off having Berry specialists in because their sneaky snacking will yield higher strength than the other specialists.

This is valid up until the inventory is full, yes! But once sneaky snacking starts, no more skill triggers. So you’re saying, “don’t sneaky snack up until you are sneaky snacking?” 😅

Just used the example meganium, and the threshold is level 85 if you were to max out its skill level.

Yes, this. I did call out “assuming we caught this as a Chikorita” but said inventory when I meant to say main skill level. All the more reason each berry Mon needs an individual evaluation.

I take personal offense by this comment as someone who uses the other specialties to supplement my berry mons. Lol jk. No shade either way. Playstyle is a huge thing to consoder--do what is fun for you!

Berry Specialists are a little boring right? 😅 Hope you find something epic this week, and the next, and the next, skip a week, then the next

K, listen here Mr. Twelve Great Raichus 😂

I mean the reality is that sneaky snacks are objectively better than regular snacks.

You’re right, my early screenshots would have had a smallish area bonus applied, but i eventually determined that area bonus was still scaling things equally. I didn’t go back and regrab everything. Good call out, thanks!

​@iBenBrownPlaysPokemonSleep yea, for future reference, other than when it comes to minor rounding errors that may slightly benefit some mons ever so slightly more than others at very specific levels, island bonus will ALWAYS impact every form of productivity 100% equally. No need to even bother futzing with it when doing analysis like this. It's, for all intents and purposes, just a flat modifier after all other calculations are done and really only needs to be taken into account in raenon when doing a team analysis to figure where you will land after a week.

So correct me if I’m wrong, but are you saying that a Berry Specialist with Ingredient Finder M would benefit from sneaking snacking earlier than an optimal one? It would just have lower strength than an optimal one as well right? I guess I need to do more tests! 😅

​@iBenBrownPlaysPokemonSleep What he is saying is true. I was doing the calculation on my Alolan Ninetails I just caught because it has BFS and Helping Speed M, but it has an ingredient up nature. The calculation shows that sneaky snacking is more optimal starting at level 40. So sneaky snacking is more optimal for berry finding when ingredient or skill natures and subskills get in the way.

@@RedeemedSteve awesome, thanks for sharing! I would have thought lt the opposite is true! I guess the bottom line is that if we plan to sneaky snack that we should be aware of whether or not our pokemon is better off doing it or not. 😅

​@@iBenBrownPlaysPokemonSleep What is interesting as well is that the value of the ingredient affects it as well. So doing the calculation with the Ninetales at level 25, it is more optimal to sneaky snack because it only gets 1 soybean per ingredient find, but when mine unlocks double corn at level 30, it switches to sneaking snacking being worse because of the value of finding 2 corn as opposed to 1 soybean. It is also showing that it would only trigger it's skill on itself as well.

Thanks for sharing. There are certainly cases where sneaking snacking makes sense, but as a 24-hour and full team strategy I think people are generally misinformed.

Because of the ingredient limit I always collect from my ingredient specialists first then skill specialists and last berry specialists. If I’m close to capacity for ingredients I won’t collect anything from my berry specialists.

Lux like I still have a lot to learn about these new pokemon.

Thanks for sharing these tips!

Thanks for watching whatever amount you do! I appreciate the feedback.

@ of course! I don’t meant to criticize in a bad way at all I like these videos a lot

@@acousticoutlaw8607 sometimes it ends up taking longer than I think to cover things. This one was pretty long. 😜 I’ll be going for shorter for my own time’s sake 😁

@ You’re passionate, I love it! You could even split guides and your account updates into two separate videos, it might help with the algorithm

Can we start a club or something? 😅

Awesome! (For your wife) 😅

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half 😂

I love to hear that, thanks for checking out the video!

Woooow, Neroli really did me dirty 😭

Aw man, hope you find some nap time this weekend! And I hope I helped you get a good start on the day! 😅

Glad to hear it! Thanks for taking a moment to let me know, and thanks for watching!

Thanks PaulyD! Glad you enjoyed the video. Please accept this IOU for a Suicune Candy. 😅 🎟️

Ooo, hadn’t really considered a connection with ZA but that wouldn’t surprise me. Good call! Part of me hopes the next area gives us our first repeat berry, but for your sake I’ll hope not!

If I had more time, my KZbin channel wouldn’t be an alternate timeline 😂

@iBenBrownPlaysPokemonSleep Dad life :). Right there with ya.

You can’t eat Pokemon. You can’t eat Pokemon, Kevin.

If only I had had a Phoenix Down on hand 🤦🏼‍♂️ 🥖 🥖🥖🥖

Awesome to hear! I was worried that this guide was too focused on new players, but if it helped you, Nova, then we struck gold here!

Noted!

You’re cruising! Thanks for watching, and thanks for playing with us!

Thank you guys for the bingo card, it's been extra fun waking up and hoping I got some little things to mark off lol

I wish I could... but I can't. Sorry to anyone who found my channel because of that video, but it is kind of one of my least favorite videos I have on my channel XD

@@VelocityRaptor22PS Don't sell yourself short. It was a valiant effort! I have been sharing it. As least as a 'probably don't waste your biscuits on these E and F tier pokemon'.

@@JorimPalmer I know. It does do a good job at explaining the WORST mons in the game--that was really the reasoning for doing it. I wanted to establish what pokemon would be legal for Sleep Sleepers and that was really the only way I could think of to do it. I think it was a good effort at a tier list, but as @IBenBrownPlaysPokemonSleep discusses in this video, tier lists are innately flawed for this game. I don't hate the video because I think it is "bad", I hate it because it kind of feels like I sold out to the KZbin algorithm since it is consistently my most viewed video all because "tier list" is in the title (even though that was not my intent at all).

@@VelocityRaptor22PS Sell out! 😂

Admitting that you have a problem is the first step to resolving it. 😂

Oh man, bummer! I did the same prep and kept actively reminding myself not to cook when I logged in every time 😅 I was so nervous I would do this!

Awesome! Ing Magnet is so good!

Congrats, what an awesome accomplishment! Probably what I would suggest next is figuring out “what do I have (of any specialty) that’s worth taking to 50 & 60?” Then figuring out what gaps you’d like to fill from there. For the reasons laid out in the video, I like Charge Strength skill specialists and ingredient specialists for this consideration over berry specialists, but I might be biased because I only have have good but not great berry specialists.

@ my next level is going to be better ingredient specialists and a better healer- I might even have to start all over for some of them as I started leveling them up bf I really knew what I was doing. Looks like charge strength is a more valuable skill to get up to that Master 10+ level and then onward to Master 15+. Looks like 4 Sudowoodo and a healer could be another ultimate combo (Sudowoodo is such a sneaky Mon)

@@henryto2176 any of Golduck, ampharos, Espeon, and/or Sudowoodo with the gold seeds invested and a good set of subskills is awesome 😅

A little preparation and a little luck go a long way! Great tip!

It can take a lot of preparation, depending on how much work you’re willing to put into it. You can simply do all dishes x3 and save these ingredients, but you can also check which Pokémon you’ll use next week and save less of these ingredients and more of the other ones. Another strategy is to figure out the number of ingredients you need the most, and save more of those (oil is in all salads, for example). You need far less corn in each meal compared to soybeans, so you can save less of these. On the contrary, you can focus on the rarer ones such as large leeks and eggs. And you can check which ingredients are easy to farm and just skip those if they are not in the top dishes (I have an absolute top golem with potatoes, so I don’t take any to next week). For each week I try to do something like this: 60 large leek 69 mushroom 25 eggs 0 potato 70 apples 27 herb 28 bean sausage 10 milk 17 honey 110 oil 20 ginger 70 tomato 25 cacao 0 slowpoke tail 98 soybeans 60 corn 56 coffee Bonus tip: make sure your bonus Pikachu only has ingredients in his inventory before the start of the week.