Adventure Tips

Master Pokémon Sun and Moon with essential adventure tips. Learn about item management, experience boosts, happiness, evolution, and more to enhance your Alola journey.

This guide provides essential tips and tricks for your adventure in Pokémon Sun and Moon, covering various aspects of gameplay to help you progress more effectively.

Free Space

To manage your inventory, utilize the "Free Space" compartment in your bag for frequently used or important items. You can move items to this section by selecting them and choosing the "Move to Free Space" option. Sorting items by name (pressing X) can also help locate specific items quickly.

Easy Experience Boosts

Increase your Pokémon's experience gains through several methods:

• Traded Pokémon gain 50% more experience. If the traded Pokémon is from a different language version, they gain 70% more experience. Note that high-level traded Pokémon may not obey you; check your Trainer Passport for level limits.
• Pokémon with an Affection level of 2 hearts or higher in Pokémon Refresh earn 20% more experience.
• After beating the game, the Lucky Egg item, held by a Pokémon, grants a 50% experience boost.
• The Exp. Share item gives all non-battling Pokémon in your party 50% of the experience points earned from battles.

Happiness

Pokémon have a hidden Happiness stat (distinct from Affection in Pokémon Refresh) that influences evolutions and certain moves like Return and Frustration. Increase Happiness by:

• Keeping Pokémon in your party and walking.
• Increasing a Pokémon's Level.
• Using the Soothe Bell item.
• Feeding Malasadas, especially preferred flavors.
• Getting massages in Konikoni City.
• Using Poke Pelago's Isle Avue.
• Feeding berries that decrease stats (EVs).

Delaying Evolution

While evolution generally makes Pokémon stronger, there are reasons to delay it:

• Evolved Pokémon learn moves at a slower pace.
• Some Pokémon learn exclusive moves at higher levels in their unevolved forms (e.g., Oddish learning Moonblast at Level 43).
• If a Pokémon requires an evolution stone, it might not learn any new moves after evolving, so ensure it has learned desired moves or has access to TMs.

Evolution Timescales

Some Pokémon have specific evolution requirements or can only evolve after certain points in the game. Here are some examples:

Note that some Pokémon, like Charjabug and Crabrawler, evolve much later than expected. If a friend is further ahead in the game, they might be able to evolve your Pokémon for you.