Spawning & Catching

Pokémon are here! In this section you will learn everything about the wild spawns, how to catch Pokémon, how to guess them, and so on.

This site is an early work in progress. Many pages may be missing or incomplete. Please let us know at discord.gg/poketwo if you would like to help write or improve a page.

Contents

1. List of related commands

2. Spawning Pokémon

   1. Spawn rates

3. Spawn chances

4. Catching Pokémon

5. Catching rewards

   1. Quests

   2. Catch milestones

6. Pokémon hints

7. Shiny Pokémon

8. Shiny Hunting

   1. How to shiny hunt

   2. Calculating chance

   3. Shiny streak chance calculator

   4. Catching other shinies while hunting

9. Alternate Pokémon names

10. Incenses

    1. Details

    2. Steps for purchasing an incense

11. Setting spawn channels

List of related commands

1. @​Pokétwo#8236 [catch|c] <pokémon-name> - To catch a pokémon that has spawned.

2. @​Pokétwo#8236 [hint|h] - To get a hint for the name of the pokémon currently present in the channel

3. @​Pokétwo#8236 togglemention - To stop the bot from mentioning you whenever you catch pokémon

4. @​Pokétwo#8236 profile - To view your pokétwo profile

5. @​Pokétwo#8236 shop [page_number] - To view the shop and its items on specific pages

6. @​Pokétwo#8236 buy <item> - To buy an item from the shop

7. @​Pokétwo#8236 [shinyhunt|sh] <pokémon-name> - To start shinyhunting a pokémon. Will discard the current streak after confirmation.

8. @​Pokétwo#8236 [pokedex|d] [pokémon-name] - To view the pokédex of a pokémon

9. @​Pokétwo#8236 buy incense - To buy an incense in the current channel

10. @​Pokétwo#8236 stopincense - To PERMANENTLY stop an incense active in the current channel

11. @​Pokétwo#8236 redirect <channel-names|reset> - To redirect natural spawns to specific channels, or to reset the set spawn channels

Spawning Pokémon

Pokémon spawning is based on the activity of a server. Messages sent by non-bot users count towards a spawn criterion and spawn a pokémon when met.

Messages sent by 2 or more users count towards that criterion faster, so inviting Pokétwo to a server with friends who converse naturally is a great place to start. Otherwise, it becomes cumbersome to manually send messages in order for spawns to occur.

Auto-spammers that spam to trigger spawns, Auto-catchers that automatically catch spawned pokémon and other automated activities via selfbotting, made in order to gain an unfair advantage, are strictly prohibited by both Discord and Pokétwo and are suspendable offenses. Read Pokétwo's Terms of Service along with Discord's Terms of Service in order to learn more about what we allow and what we don't.

Spawn rates

The conditions for the optimal spawn rate of pokémon are as follows, under which there will be a spawn every 24 messages:

• When 1 user sends messages

  • The optimal rate of messages: Send a message every 1.5 seconds

  • Time to spawn (at optimal message rate): 36 seconds

• When 2 or more users send messages

  • The optimal rate of messages: Send a message, alternating between 2+ users, every 1 second

  • Time to spawn (at optimal message rate): 24 seconds

Spawn chances

Different pokémon have different chances to spawn. There are pokémon that spawn very often and there are pokémon that spawn very rarely. The spawn chance of a pokémon plays an important role in determining its market value.

Here is a list of links you can visit in order to find up-to-date spawn chances of various pokémon and categories (and their catchable forms). They are all ordered by chance (ascending):

Base pokémon

• Searchable list of All Pokémon

• Starter Pokémon

1. Mythical Pokémon

2. Legendary Pokémon

3. Ultra Beast Pokémon

Forms

1. Alolan Pokémon

2. Galarian Pokémon

3. Hisuian Pokémon

• Latest event pokémon

Regional Pokémon

1. Kanto [168]

2. Johto [105]

3. Hoenn [143]

4. Sinnoh [109]

   • Hisui [7]

5. Unova [166]

6. Kalos [77]

7. Alola [108]

8. Galar [90]

Catching Pokémon

To catch a pokémon, when one spawns, you must guess which pokémon it is. This can seem difficult at the beginning but if you catch enough, it will gradually get easier.

After guessing the pokémon, run the command @​Pokétwo#8236 [catch|c] <guess> to attempt to catch it.

Failed attempts do not make the pokémon despawn, you can try as many times as you want as long as nobody else catches it or another pokémon does not spawn in the channel.

Catching a Marill

You can make it so that the bot does not ping you when catching pokémon via the @​Pokétwo#8236 togglemention command. Use the same to turn it back on.

Catching rewards

Various badges for your profile (@​Pokétwo#8236 profile) and pokécoin rewards can be earned by catching different numbers of pokémon.

Quests

Different quests can be completed to earn badges and pokécoins. Please refer to the following table for the pokécoin rewards.

From each region, there is a quest to catch different set numbers of pokémon for the respective amount of pokécoins. For detailed info, please visit our Quests page.

Milestone (per region)	Reward (pokécoins)
20 Pokémon	2,000
50 Pokémon	5,000
100 Pokémon	10,000
200 Pokémon	20,000
500 Pokémon	50,000 (& respective regional badge)

A total of 696,000 pokécoins and 8 badges can be earned after completion of all 5 x 8 = 40 quests

Catch milestones

If you catch multiple of the same pokémon, you can earn pokécoins at certain milestones.

Total number caught	Rewards (pokécoins)
1	35
10	350
100	3,500
1,000	35,000
10,000	350,000
100,000	3,500,000

Pokémon hints

If you don't know a Pokémon's name, or you just don't remember what it was called, you can receive hints to guess it.

To receive hints about a Pokémon's name, the command is @​Pokétwo#8236 [hint|h]. This will show a few letters of the Pokémon's name, which can help you to guess the name.

For example:

The Pokémon in this picture is Dragonair.

Furthermore, you can join our community server and ask for help with pokémon names in the #whos-that-pokemon channel!

Shiny Pokémon

Whenever you catch a pokémon, there is a 1/4096 or ~0.0244% chance of it being shiny. It is important to understand that shinies don't spawn; it is determined after the catch, whether or not it will be shiny.

There are only two ways to increase this chance:

1. Buying a Shiny Charm from the shop (page 7). This will increase the shiny chance of all pokémon by 20% for 1 week. Shiny Charms can not be stacked.

   • Increased chance: 1/3413.3 or ~0.029%

   • Command: @​Pokétwo#8236 buy shiny charm

   • Price: 150 shards (30,000 pokécoins)

2. By Shiny Hunting a specific pokémon. This will increase the shiny chance of the one particular pokémon that you shiny hunt.

   • Increased chance: 7 + √(shiny_streak) / 28672 (Without Shiny Charm)

   • Command: @​Pokétwo#8236 shinyhunt <pokémon-name>

   • More info at Shiny Hunting

When you catch a shiny, this is the message you will see

Here's an example of someone catching a shiny Espurr.

Shiny Hunting

Shiny hunting will increase the shiny chance, for only the Pokémon that you are shiny hunting, by ~x1.05 at the beginning, and this value decreases and approaches x1 as the shiny streak increases (e.g. it becomes ~x1.003 at 100 shiny streak. and so on). You can shiny hunt only one pokémon at a time.

How to shiny hunt

The command to start shiny hunting a Pokémon is @​Pokétwo#8236 [shinyhunt|sh] <pokémon-name>.

Calculating chance

The formula for calculating the shiny chance % at a certain streak is:

$(1+\frac{\sqrt{streak}}{7})\times\frac{1}{4096}\times100$

$=\frac{7 + \sqrt{streak}}{28672}\times100$

With Shiny Charm:

$\frac{7 + \sqrt{streak}}{23893.1}\times100$

Shiny streak chance calculator

Here is a simple program to calculate the chances at a specific shiny hunt streak

Trinket: run code anywhere

Simple program to calculate shiny chance at a specific shiny streak

For example, at streak 100:

$(1+\frac{\sqrt{100}}{7})\times\frac{1}{4096}\times100$

$=(1 + \frac{10}{7})\times\frac{1}{4096}\times100$

$=\frac{17}{7}\times\frac{1}{4096}\times100$

$\approx0.059$ %

$\approx0.06$ %

Deriving from this formula, there is a 100% chance of shiny at around 823,543,225 streak (570,545,773 with Shiny Charm). This big number may look scary, but keep in mind that this number is purely mathematical, and in a realistic situation, you will have caught the shiny well before ever getting even remotely close to this number.

It is not possible to shiny hunt specifically an event Pokémon or a Pokémon's form (For example, Alolan or Galarian).

If you attempt to do so, it will instead make you shiny hunt its base form.

However, catching that form will count towards this streak and the chance will increase for any form of this pokémon.

As an example, let's say you want to shiny hunt Alolan Vulpix. After starting hunting Vulpix, only catch the Alolan form. You must be careful not to catch the base form or any other forms, as their shiny chances will increase as well and hence break the shiny hunt streak if you get lucky, or rather, unlucky.

Catching other shinies while hunting

You can always catch any shiny and their chance will not be affected by your shiny streak, nor will your streak break if you catch a shiny of a different pokémon, the chance of which is 1/4096 or ~0.0244% and 1/3413.3 or ~0.029% with Shiny Charm.

Alternate Pokémon names

Pokémon have alternate names in different languages that you can use to catch them. To see the alternate names of a pokémon, check its pokédex using the command @​Pokétwo#8236 [pokedex|d] <pokémon-name>.

Here is an example of the alt names of Charmander

So you can type @​Pokétwo#8236 catch ヒトカゲ | Hitokage | Charmander | Glumanda | Salamèche to catch a Charmander.

Incenses

If you wish to get spawns in a server that is not so active, you can purchase an Incense from the shop (page 7) which will spawn pokémon constantly at regular intervals without any prerequisites.

Details

An incense spawns pokémon every 20 seconds for 1 hour. In total, there will be 180 pokémon that will spawn per incense.

Steps for purchasing an incense

• You must either have a role named Incense (not case-sensitive) or have Administration/Owner permissions in the server to purchase an incense.

• Incenses cost 50 shards (10,000 pokécoins). You must have at least 50 shards in order to purchase an incense, having 10,000 pokécoins will not count. To buy shards, do @​Pokétwo#8236 buy shard 50.

• Go to the channel in which you want to buy the incense.

• Use the command @​Pokétwo#8236 buy incense .

• Press the Confirm button. If you wish to cancel, press the Cancel button.

• The incense will now begin to spawn. At any point in the incense, if you wish to PERMANENTLY stop the incense, you can do so by using the @​Pokétwo#8236 stopincense command and pressing Confirm.

• You can do more than one incense at once but in different channels. You can not stack incenses.

Setting spawn channels

To redirect natural (not incense) spawns to specific channels, you can use the command ​Pokétwo#8236 redirect #channel1 #channel2 #channel3 with as many channels as you want.

To view the current set spawn channels, use the command @​Pokétwo#8236 config which will list them all.

To reset the set spawn channels, use @​Pokétwo#8236 redirect reset, which will remove all set spawn channels and make it so that pokémon spawn in the same channels that are active.

This page is an improved version of the original that was made by Sept#8911 (Discord ID: 891522852182982656) ❤️