Poké Playtime: Extra Activities

Discover how to pet, feed, and play minigames with your Pokémon in pokemon omega ruby alpha sapphire to raise affection and happiness.

Pet your Pokémon

You can use the stylus and Touch Screen to pet your Pokémon, which raises their affection. Keep in mind some Pokémon have areas they don’t like to be rubbed on: for example, Pikachu doesn’t like being rubbed on his belly. It’s generally individual to the Pokémon. Some Pokémon have areas you outright shouldn’t touch - people familiar with the anime can understand why you shouldn’t touch Pikachu’s cheeks, and general logic tells you not to rub the fiery tail of a Charmander. Other than that type of stuff, your Pokémon is pretty okay with anywhere else; just rub repeatedly and a number of hearts (or a music note) should appear.

Feed your Pokémon

You can feed your Pokémon PokéPuffs by tapping the top-left icon in the interactive. From there, you can grab a PokéPuff. If you don’t like what you see, scroll left by putting the stylus in the middle of the selection area and swiping left. Each Pokémon has its own individual likes, disregarding species. There are several flavors of PokéPuffs: green ones are mint, orange ones are citrus, pink ones are sweet, light-brown ones are spicy, and dark-brown ones are mocha. There are also several degrees of effectiveness: basic, frosted, fancy, deluxe, and supreme. Respectively, they give the Pokémon one, two, three, four, and five hearts. The better you do in minigames, generally the better the PokéPuff you get. Feeding Pokémon PokéPuffs boosts their Fullness and Affection.

Make Faces

Making faces at your Pokémon or the 3DS/2DS requires a bright area and a clean inner 3DS/2DS camera. When a certain green face-like icon appears in the lower-left, you can play this minigame. Do what it tells you (wink this eye, tilt your head this way, open your mouth this much, etc.) and you can raise your Pokémon’s affection. Your face needs to be pretty recognizable - no hair in the face, probably no glasses, and so on, like you would do for general facial recognition stuff.

Attract Attention

You can run your stylus along the Touch Screen in areas where nothing are to mimic waving your finger in random motions. It doesn’t really raise affection, but the reaction’s pretty cute for some Pokémon, especially if you high-five them. It doesn’t work for all Pokémon, though. Similarly, you can use the microphone to speak with your Pokémon. The mic will take just about any random sound into account, though. It also doesn’t really change anything.

Decorate

As you play with your Pokémon, you will occasionally earn decorations to pretty up the play area on the bottom screen. The decorations sadly don’t follow into the actual Pokémon-Amie play area, but it’s a nice option all the same. You can also receive decorations (and Poké Puffs) from visiting Pokémon when you have Pokémon-Amie as your active app while connected online.

Play Minigames

You can play minigames with your Pokémon, which raise Enjoyment and Affection, as well as lowering Fullness. Think of it as a healthy workout for your Pokémon.