Update: Fusions 2nd half can evolve now too!

Something cool I just discovered is that if you have caught/hatched a mon 10+ times, then it's starter cost decreases by one

Helpful Tip: Catch/Bring a pokemon with Pickup. Every so often a Pokemon has a Berry or Held Item. Pokemon with Pickup automatically take these after battle, allowing you to take their items and spread them throughout your team as needed, as opposed to the alternative which is losing them.

Lokix with First Impression and Sucker Punch alone punches holes through teams. They definitely should increase the starter level for it imo

What I find most impressive about this hack is the complexity of the ai. The switches it makes are extremely human-like, making predicting its switches/making doubles all the more fun.

I won my first classic mode using ditto becauce you become the final boss and the stat changes with it.

One thing i can recommend is status lowering moves and moves like leech seed, salt cure etc that do continous % dmg are amazing for the final boss and i havent failed against it anymore after using those tactics. Also catching boss mons is not only pretty safe since you get healed up after but they also tend to have more items than regular wild mons so its worth doing.

I hatched Iron Hands from an epic egg, now i just select him as my starter and sweep till like wave 150, at that point I 've either buffed something else to a high degree or hands just sweeps rest of the way. Long live Iron Hands

Helpful tip: you can reorder moves in summary. But they should allow for shift on a keyboard or a+b on mobile like all the games before switch did

I just beat my first classic run last night with a rain team. Absolutely hooked right now

Also seen in your first video, meowth technician fake out is OP early game (lvl 5-20ish). I started meowth, geodude (with egg move body press), and wattrel (for electric moves and speed) and it got me all the way through classic mode on my 6th attempt. Granted, I got lucky with Golem being a heavy sweeper mid game but it's amazing how meowth fake out can carry. Also, leech seed hits like a tank, it takes percentage hp. When I faced the final boss, leech seed did 25% and carried me through fake out stall. Love the entertainment and I'll definitely be using these tips in my future runs! Good luck everyone

I actually did not know the effects of Pokerus in this game, so thanks for that, and the other tips. I also didn't know lures stacked with each other.

I'm glad your first video on PokeRogue did so well in the algorithm. It introduced me to this awesome take on a roguelite Pokemon game! I'm only on my first run, so all these tips are very helpful. Thank you!

Helpful Tip, get the candy jars whenever they are available as a rewards. They increase the effect of rare candies. If you have 1, a rare candy increases your level by 2 instead of 1. If you have 2 jars, you get 3 levels and so on. This is great because rare candies do not respect the level cap. Say you are in the final stretch of the game and have lvl200 Pokémons. You can still use a rare candy on them and they will go to lvl 201 and with jars you could get even higher. I got to lvl 204 with 3 jars.

funny, this video was posted as I was finishing my first winning run. wish I knew how fusing worked before starting the run, but it worked out well enough. I fused a Feraligatr with a Gurdurr, hoping it could evolve with a link cable... but no, it couldn't. he was still one of my best pokemon by the end, water/fighting feraligatr with guts, bulk up and drain punch was insane update: the second part of the fusion can evolve now

Heres another tip: if youre having way too much trouble winning, pick kyogre + nymble/plusle/minun. Kyogre has hurricane as egg move, starts with ancient power and origin pulse that destroys double battles, learns ice beam and aqua ring by level up and can primal revert if you get lucky and aquire the mega bracelet and the blue orb (but not necessary, it clears the game anyway as base kyogre). I actually stopped using it cause I won 4 runs in a row.

I hatched an Arceus in my first 5 pull of eggs and ive been starting runs with it and Beedrill, beedrill actually pulled a ton of weight in my winning run despite never getting a mega one (baneful bunker was incredibly useful)

You can also press the m key to get into the menu. Also, pickup isn’t really totally random in this game. It takes a random item from your opponent after a battle that they didn’t use up. If you want something non consumable, it’s best to repeatedly use lower damage moves when they are at low health to force them to use up their consumable berries

Something that helped me at the beginning is starting with mudkip. It learns rocksmash pretty early on n it does wonders for the abundance of normal types

The early floors are definitely a wall. Rival 2/Wave 25 feels a bit overtuned, without help of decent Eggs (which you can get this early if you roll Gym on wave 20) you kinda need to get lucky with what you get, as by that point you're likely to have only one Pokemon that matches their team and if it's not good enough, it will die and then the rest of your team gets swept. A bunch of my early runs died to that fight, then I got really funny earlygame and I turned my Technician Meowth into a murder machine (Multilens and Grip Claw; it had stolen so many held items that by the end game wouldn't show all of them unless I went into a summary lmao), with the team surviving all the way to wave 195 (where it actually got pretty close to winning). From that funny run got a bunch of Eggs Vouchers, which lead to another murder machine: Parabolic Charge Magnemite (Magnezone with healing STAB move is seriously hard to kill, especially when the rest of the time covers its weakness). After some finetuning, I managed to clear wave 195 (and the final boss) today. Also they rebalanced some things recently, I am pretty sure X Items used to last only 5 waves, and the better Rare Candy used to just give more levels rather than be Rare Candy for entire team.

My classic winning run team - GMax Venusaur, Incineroar, Swampert, Zebstrika, Gholdengo and the GOAT Ribombee. The last fight was pretty darn hard ngl but was fun.

Happend to beat all 200 levels on my 5th try. Hisuian Samurott is crazy, hazards stick around for several levels but go away before the start of a trainer battle. It was so incredibly useful.

I feel like lures just make things worse as they make your team take more damage I've gotten my entire team to lvl 200 without using any lures

Oh dang. I have a run where I'm about to have a fully evolved team before gym 2 minus a Meowth just to gank free items to buff the others with. It's a pretty niche use as a support mon and I love it

PokeRogue seems like such a great game. So much work had to be put into it :o When you told me there are fusion pokemon too my mind was blown. What a feauture rich and amazing game. Can't wait to give it a proper go. I tried it yesterday at the end of my stream, but I couldnt get the controls to work and decided to call it a night. I should have just googled it haha. Imma play the heck out of this game! Thank you for the tips, great video :)

New Update (at least it's different for me since today): When starting a New Game, you now choose the Mode beforehand. Additionally, Endless (and I assume Fusion Endless, I just don't have it yet) now has a Starter limit of 15 Points. Before, and still in Classic, the limit is 10 Points.

getting a technician scyther is a great way to make the early game easier on you and its pretty solid throughout the rest of classic mode.

I pulled a legendary egg yesterday from the shiny up! Love this game!

would recommend using any pokemon (I use garbodor) with toxic spikes and then crobat with venoshock, very good combo or get an annalihape and get hopefully get lucky that lets your pokemon attack twice, not sure about the chance of getting this item but I've gotten it 3-4x in a row already 😅

Always love the info. Helps a lot of people I'm sure and glad to see the sprites updated too

Helpful tip pick up has a chance of stealing the opponents item muchlax being the best user u can have a op snorlax with over ten berries by floor 100 depending on rng

Stufful has been pretty rad for me so far lol. And Meowth with technician/payday is such a vibe.

These are honestly pretty helpful :D Thanks lol

I'm fairly sure that if you have the shiny charm, your chances of hatching shiny eggs also go up. I hatched a batch of maybe 50-60 eggs after I first beat classic and about 4 of those were shiny. Note: It does not need to be the same run, but rather if you have the charm when you pull them from the gacha. I of course have a sample size of 1 and perhaps got very lucky, but it's worth looking into.

I just won with a team of gholdengo + amoonguss to kill eternatus, iron hands for the early carry, alakazam for fast sweeping leaders, skeledirge to get me through wild mons and ice fang gliscor to deal with rayquaza. I absolutely love this game

One of my favorite Pokemon to start with is Meowth. Technician-boosted fake out combined with the free cash from also-technician-boosted payday is great early on.

mega-beedrill is a carry, with adaptability. i can’t wait until fell stinger is fully implemented, at the moment it doesn’t increase your attack :(

I've been enjoying the streams while i also do my runs, and again, thanks for showing me this game

Because of you I started playing this and did my first run yesterday. I even beat it on my first try with Blaziken, Venusaur, Primarina, Excadrill, Magnezone and Lokix. I got very lucky at the final battle though and with Ivy. Lokix was the mvp for sure though.

Power up punch nymble is my goat. Mentioned it in a stream. Still yet to beat 190 though.

A tip I have for people is to run baxcalibur for the sole reason that glaive rush isn’t fully implemented which gives you a 120 stab move with no downsides because the double damage effect isn’t implemented.

Bro thank you for this video i swear i needed this

Really appreciate your tips! Maybe now I can get past floors 20-30. I usually die in that range on my runs. I've been hooked every since I watched your first stream of the game! Usually play it on my phone during my breaks at work.

Cal how did you get your controller setup for playing on your PC? Steam isn't working for me at all, so I am curious how you did it. I know you explained it in a live playthrough, but I'd really rather not comb through them all to find one specific moment.

thank you all the tips, i had no idea shinies had a function !! thats so sweet

For fusions, when you deactivate it, is the second actually gone or is like giganimax/megas where you can toggle them off n on free of charge?

What item rarity tier are mega stones and max mushroom in? Also is the rarity lock capsule a 1 time use?

Also the best legendaries I have used so far are kyorge entei and marshadow if you get marshadow that is by far one of the best mons you have in your team you are gonna need to check the nature but marshadow automatically comes with the elemental punches and technician

Thanks for all the great info!

One good thing to note is that Megas are even better than you realize: they’re toggle-able, even mid fight. It’s really helpful on Mons that change type when they Mega Evolve. Like with Gyarados, for example if you ever wanna drop your dark type from your mega and get the flying type back, you can do that! It’s also relevant for abilities, too? Want Intimate back? De-volve your Gyarados and switch to it. Then you can re-mega them after they’ve sent out.

Honestly love this game! I got my first win today with a crazy tapu koko with bolt beak, which was crazy and if you get a garganacal it chunks the final floor so highly recomend it

I got a random shiny bidoof in my first run that I won on. I got a Manaphy Egg and a Thundurus egg from the 25 pull voucher that I won on. I found that starting with the legendary eggs to get a bunch of mons with egg moves for a bit and then go into move up you get some insanely strong moves for starters. My Bulbasaur got Sludge Bomb from the get go and it swept the early game hard, alongside Litten and cutiefly (yes the last mon is biased but Ribombee has been a hard carry in some of the later rounds)

Thank u i will use these tip in my next run

i didn't know anything about shiny pokemon here, i thought they were aesthetic as always, but now it seems like im gonna switch from getting move up eggs to shiny up eggs

It was VERY useful thanks. Also has anyone noticed how you can take away more than one bar on bosses if you pummel enough damages to one shit the boss ? Is that intended or a bug ?

What I have to do to get the pokerus spread? When the pokerus spreads, it lasts for the run only, or it lasts forever?

My meowth carried me through a lot of earlygame due to the stun and money capabilyties. Well, i was on top of pokescince till gen 4. Now i am glad that the typing of all these new furnituremons and vehiclemons is shown in the battle-ui.

I did not know this existed! Thanks. It looks cool.

One of the best mid to late game sweepers in my opinion is drapion. Skorupi is kind of hard to keep alive if you battle with it, but if you keep fell stinger and night slash until it evolves, you have a decently fast Pokémon with night slash, cross poison, fell stinger and a move of your choice(I normally go with toxic for stays and to help catch rarer encounters). It’s fast, fell stinger can get you up to +6 attack with a little maneuvering, and it’s only weakness is ground. Doesn’t even require good egg moves. It hard carried me to the final fight, which unfortunately still wiped me due to the final boss’s typing. Can’t recommend enough.

Sick thumbnail bro reminds me of those level 1 thug level 100 mafia boss mobile game advertisements

The sound effects remind me of Pokémon reborn makes me want to play it again

How do you keep your progress? When I lose the run and leave the game for a bit, I don’t have any of the Pokémon that I’ve found as starters.

My tip would be always catch Meowth early on/fresh save. Meowth gets technician which boosts fake out plus stab AND pay day plus stab. It falls off and as you get better you'll use it less BUT it makes fresh save/early game so smooth.

Another quick tip, if you have unlocked a shiny for a Pokémon but don’t want to use their shiny, you will still gain the increase in luck whether or not they’re shiny. I believe this only works for starter selection though

Thanks for the help! I got hooked after your first video on pokerogue 😁

My second 5 pull ticket ever was tossed at the legend up machine. Guzzlord with slack off wasn't the featured pull but HAWT DAYM that beast boost still has me going until the upper 70's without any effort at all. It can learn drain punch xD

if i use a pokemon with pokerus today does it still has the xpup when i play the gamefile tomorrow?

What are good targets for shedinja fusion? I fused it with a normal type which was great but he still only had 1 hp and died to dark. Does a shedinja fusion always have 1 hp no matter which spot its in?

Man I'm so mad about finding out about shinies through, this video I have a few of them now but figured they were just a vanity thing like in the main games 😂

Literally after this, I did the egg gacha and got two rare, 1 epic and 2 common.

Does someone know how to evolve into an hisuan or into an alolan form ? Thx for the tips.

Is there a way to fix the refreshing on mobile?

If you're looking for a good starter for your run, might I recommend Duraladon? It only costs 5 points and can generally evolve pretty easily because it just needs an item. If you get lucky with your egg moves as well, it has Recover for healing

this game is so unbelievably addicting bro ive so far only managed to floor 100 in classic mode before kartana kicked my ass rip

I beat the classic mode after a few tries and it was super fun. Now I'm just looking for more shinys and legendaries (my only shiny is a hoothoot, and I hatched a regieleki, chi-yu, articuno and caught an urshifu)

helpful tip: i would do 10 runs and just focus on catching mons, the starters are good but there are certains mons that are broken (meowth being my favorite)

How come you have animation on all the pokemon and a different overlay in battle? I play the game on browser so I don't understand why

Good Video. Thanks!

Floor 110 has been a huge gatekeeper for me, bug gym leader swapping and procs all paralysis/sleep/poison and many mons have alt type moves to sweep a lot of teams. Just recently cleared and saved at floor 130

i got a drifloon with minimize and acupressure and i lost a really good run to a pelipper hitting hydro pump through my +6 evasion and critical hitting me lol

You should definitely make a video with Endless tips as well

i encounter a lugia that super weak(compared to my teams) and super hard to catch, i only got 1 rogue balls,7 ultra balls,15 great balls, and 40 pokeballs. should i catch it or just kill it? i've been stuck since yesterday

How do you pull up the pokemon info screen from 19:08 ?

In case anyone finds it helpful, There's a standard 1/256 change of getting a legendary egg from any gacha. I don't know the breakdown for Epic and Rare. From the Legendary up gacha specifically, you still have the 1/256 chance; however, a single common egg roll gets changed into the featured legendary on the machine that day. So, you'll have 2/256 or 1/128 of getting ANY legendary, and it's 50/50 whether it's the featured one or a random one. If you're looking for a specific legendary from Legendary eggs and see that it's featured, go for it. But if you're looking for a legendary that isn't featured, you've got the same odds of pulling it from the other gachas, and the other two have separate beneficial effects.

I haven't tried it yet but it really feels like a non money grabby gacha game that is just pokemon... thanks for this beginner guide, I'll try them for sure now^^

Somehow managed to win my first ever run of the game with some lucky encounters! Had a team of infernape, greninja, blissey, ursaluna blood moon, and two others I can’t remember haha. Hatched an yveltal with wicked blow after that and swept the game with that 😂 really fun game overall!

I mostly get a tecnictian Meowth on my runs cuz of Fake out, he is really good pushing

How do you catch paradox pokemon? When I played through classic mode it wouldnt let me catch them

I just finished my run recently and have gotten close a few times but I will say it was tough for anyone that might need some help be aware the last ten deals with super tough op Pokemon that you cannot catch the hardest rival battle yet with multiple Tera Pokemon with multiple items and health bars and a mega rayquaza not a big spoiler rival is always gonna have a rayquaza

I can't belive that shiny mons are actually dope Looks like ill be using my buneary & drifloon afterall I still can't belive I almost defeated the final boss with a dedenne

so long as you have room in your party, 12:00 you can catch the wild pokemon like zigzagoon if it stole an item and transfer it back.

does anyone know if you can get the rustic shield for zamazenta? i got to stage 160 and no rustic shield

6:38 how your pokemon have animations? mine stops at gen 5, above gen five they just get regular stading spirtes, how can i make it?

I won my first run after I got a Popplio egg with Torch Song. Punk Rock really helped. 😅

thumbnail has that "LEVEL 100 MAFIA BOSS" energy pretty comprehensive video even if I HATE megas grr snarl grr

Hey quick quiestion, can i fuse no guard with fissure/sheer cold/guillotine?

TIP For whoever reads this, a little tip for a broken non-legendary starter mon (outside of steel/fairy combo). Stufful with fluffy. Once you manage to hatch/catch one, teach it swords dance + drain punch (I got the latter as an egg move), invest all vitamins and berries you get on it, and I'm not even joking, it SOLOES THE ENTIRE RUN, with the exception of fire types and the obvious final boss. If possible, I recommend pairing it with a Water or Rock type for the Fires, a Steel/Fairy such as Tinkatink for the final boss' first phase and a mon with Leech Seed or Salt Cure to stall the second phase out. Then for the 2 or 3 remaining open slots are to be filled with Pokémon with type coverage or useful abilities such as Pickup. I got a shiny Stufful from an egg and I wanted to use it on a run for the extra luck. That's how I found out how utterly broken it was. Have fun :)

Thanks for making this video. This has all the info on was looking for! This is the perfect game for me when I need a break from grinding PokeMMO

The biggest tips I can offer are focus on what moves you have money management what items you have on your mons and keeping them healthy if it helps my first and only winning run so far was agislash secptile blaziken clefable marshadow and archaladon and the only reason I won was king shield and sword dance spam and even then I got lucky because the main boss was an I sacrificed five out of the six members of my team

One question: I got a shiny from an egg but I can't select it as a starter in a new game. Why is that?