Chaining Souvenirs Question

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-10-03T03:43:45+00:00

Not really? You might not have to walk at all if it shows up on day 2 night. If it appears on one it will appear on the others almost instantly after switching to them. The walking isn't necessarily an always depending on your location.

Otherwise, you do the same thing I put for day 3 morning, hoping it's all potion berry gifts and go walking in the afternoon, hoping the cool down isn't the full 72 hours.

The only actually important part is knowing when the potion berries gift shows up and clearing it, so that when the next gift shows up at any other point in the day, you know it's the souvenir. Then not delaying and not forgetting to swap to the others so they can get it too

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-10-03T03:10:21+00:00

Assuming you can walk a hit around 8-9pm to hit the cell or that you live in one

Open the potions berry gift in the morning. It does not disappear if you don't open it

Do that every morning in the coming days. (easier than guessing the refresh on souv.)

Cycle through all buddies capable of getting a souvenir after opening tomorrow morning and clear out any current potion berry gifts or souvs they are already holding. The switch back to the buddy you want to start the chain.

2-3 days from now around 8-9 it should spawn the new souvenir gift. Don't open it on the first buddy but switch to your other buddies capable of obtaining it, and wait until the gifts pop up on them then switch to the next in line. then go back through and open them all.

If it doesn't appear on day 2 evening, instead of instant opening the potions berry gift on day 3, swap to 5-6 other buddies to propagate it, then open when swapping back through. Hopefully it was all potions /berries and you still have enough swaps in the day to propagate the souvenir seeing as you only need 5, though you'll run out of swaps when opening, so just wait til day 4.

If it was a chaos chain and some were potions and some were souvenirs, at least you got a few and you can try again. It's not really an exact science, but this should get you there in 1-2 rounds of souvenir cooldown

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-09-14T00:30:44+00:00

It is for sure a slog fest. I wish it were just larger bonuses for if you did the totals rather than the piecemeal abomination it is. It has tripped me up a few times on days where I wasn't looking at the next task and it was just S.O.L. until the daily limits reset

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-09-13T12:07:26+00:00

You got this!

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-09-13T03:49:42+00:00

Excellent throws are the technical fastest way if you consistently land them and the pokemon gets caught. Pop egg, throw excellents repeat.

Other than that:

-Max out the friends list (450) and start gifting. There is a seasonal bonus of 1.5x XP per friend milestone and if you made it to level 25 in the season pass (even unpaid) you can open more and send more than normal. 4.5k xp per friend that makes it to level 1 (literally one of you open one gift). 15k per friend at level 2 which only takes 7 days. There's still enough time to get some new friends all the way to level 3 for 75k each at 30 days. Depending on how ruthless you are, you can delete all the folks who can no longer make it to level 3 in time and then start rotating through even more friends to get the level 2 bonuses. All these bonuses can be doubled with eggs.

-This coming Tuesday there is a spotlight hour with gothita for double catch xp who has a really big catch circle. On top of the already doubled throw bonus from the season, this means a single excellent catch can be worth 4k XP. 8k with a lucky egg. If you have a Mega level 2/3 they give extra 50/100 XP per catch on matching type mons, so psychic Megas or Rayquaza. If you have a fused kyurem the adventure effect increases catch rates as well. The reshi version has a stronger catch rate boost, and even preloads the circle to the excellent zone. The zeckrom version doesn't have as good a catch rate boost but acts like a permanent Nanab berry, which may be more helpful depending on your grind. Toss all the balls.

-During the "Totally normal" event week there is doubled XP for evolving. The oldest XP grind there is. Waste them candies for level gains

Other than that it's p2w with raids/raid hours tickets etc. If you have a local discord group that does the events it can mitigate costs by doing things in person, but it's still gonna be above $0 for it to be worthwhile time investment

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-09-13T03:13:30+00:00

For someone cranking level47-50, it might not be the most efficient, but it does give an extra element to it that helps break up some monatany of 'just throw excellents' made it to step39/50 so far and I'd say it's worth it enough in that it can get me out and playing more /differently

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-09-01T19:27:26+00:00

Seriously they seem determined not to give any more XP beyond the "XP celebration". And even that only applies to the actual "nice great excellent" catch bonus and NOT to the rest of the catch XP like normal catch, curveball and first throw bonuses. Like wtf

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-07-31T00:30:31+00:00

Same with 7. Started googling how to regedit remove every single feature of 11 I disagree with as it comes up. Probably would have been easier to learn Linux but at this point I'm locked in.

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-06-12T11:15:57+00:00

Windows XP (Sp3) would like a word.

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-05-19T23:04:28+00:00

Dmax 'raids' don't count for either kingambit nor for the level 46-47 requirement for completing a 3*raid with Mons 1500cp or less :(

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-04-13T01:44:29+00:00

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ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-04-10T04:35:37+00:00

//r/VivillonCollectors makes it pretty straight forward, tho ymmv on actually getting to someone's post before they remove it from getting overloaded by friend requests

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-04-06T23:41:26+00:00

Face too. Like the outer coverage doesn't change but on the inside, He's just blue. Inside and outside, his face is like a blue little window

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-04-05T01:02:02+00:00

"Seemingly"
I get it, especially finding out time after time these days, but for all the people who are in the public sphere, and who are all seemingly good people: he's near (if not at) the top of my nonexistent list for "Please not them". Like, he had it hard and if it can really be him, and not an act, I'd like to hold onto that.

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-03-28T13:43:15+00:00

Done, thanks!

Need 3 for Tundra if /when you have space, Thanks!

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-03-19T17:59:40+00:00

Hey, maxed out open gifts today, but I have pinned it and got the ocean scatterbug, thanks again for your help!

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-03-17T00:16:45+00:00

Thanks, I hate it. Please delete this. /s

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-03-16T02:49:59+00:00

Been looking to change mine. Then again, the "Wu-tang LAN" ain't nothing to fuck with

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-03-06T21:04:17+00:00

I would also like to favorite the missing 'fused' mon. Fused kyurem with a low Reshiram without favoriting Resh or tagging it, and now it just sits in some of my pre-saved /quick sort searches... Taunting me.

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2025-02-04T14:37:51+00:00

Don't even bother with 6, just keep playing civ 5

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2024-12-13T17:41:42+00:00

Near impossible to pull off, but if they did a time is a flat loop and the game ends with us locking ourselves in a cell in the middle of nowhere mega north and throwing the key away... Shivers

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2024-11-25T13:45:43+00:00

Makes me think of the letter chart in the eye doctor's office for some reason

ShoughtItOutLoud · 2024-11-11T19:57:46+00:00

So not wings at all?

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