Talents

Each Talent asks for a list of materials. You hand them in one at a time, always the full amount of each material, and once you hand in the last one, the Talent stays active for good. There are no points to spend and no way to reset them: whatever you hand in is gone.

• Materials in your inventory and in your Depot Stash both count.

• You can pay for a Talent bit by bit: each material you hand in is ticked off and your progress is saved.

Note: The +5% damage Talent with 3 Mythic Orbs and 1,000 drops of each type requires level 350. There are more Talents at level 400 and 500 that this page does not list yet.

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   Step 1:

   Open Profile → Talents in the top bar. In Hotkeys you can bind a key to the «Talents» action; it has none by default.

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   Step 2:

   Pick the tab: Character, Pokémon or a type. At the top you see «x / y unlocked» and a bar with how much you have unlocked.

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   Step 3:

   On the Talent card, each material shows green if you already have the amount and red if you are short. Hover over it to see how many you have and how many it asks for.

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   Step 4:

   Click a material and confirm «Sacrifice [amount]x [item]?». It cannot be undone.

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   Step 5:

   You get «Sacrifice Successful!»; if you did not have enough, «Sacrifice Failed» shows how many you have and how many it asks for. Once you hand in the last material, the Talent is complete.

Each of the 18 type tabs has 6 offensive Talents and 3 defensive ones. Offensive Talents raise the damage of moves of that type; defensive ones, the Defense of Pokémon of that type.

For offense, what counts is the move's type, not the Pokémon's: if Charizard (Fire/Flying) uses a Flying move, the Flying offensive Talents apply. For defense, the Pokémon's type is what counts, and a dual-type Pokémon only gets the full effect if you have the defensive Talents of both its types.

All 18 type tabs follow the same pattern, each with the drops and Orbs of its type (the Steel ones are called Metal Orb):

• 1 offensive and 1 defensive: Pokémon drops only.

• 1 offensive and 1 defensive: 5 Simple Orbs each, plus drops.

• 1 offensive and 1 defensive: 3 Arcane Orbs each, plus drops.

• 3 offensive: Mythic Orbs (3, 3 and 2) and drops; the one with 2 Mythic Orbs also takes 100 Essence of the type (for Fighting it is called Fighter Essence).

Orbs are dropped by shiny Pokémon, always of one of their types: a Shiny Charmander drops Simple Fire Orb and a Shiny Venusaur, Mythic Grass Orb. No normal Pokémon drops Orbs. Each shiny’s page says which one it drops (Simple, Arcane or Mythic).

• Type tabs ask for no Stones: only the Cooldown Talents and the Pokémon tab ones do.

• Sometimes an offensive and a defensive Talent of the same type share the same recipe: you pay it twice, once for each.

• There are two items called Electric Rat Tail: the +3% Electric defensive Talent takes 50 regular Electric Rat Tail, and the +5% Electric offensive one with Arcane Orbs takes 3 Shiny Pikachu Electric Rat Tail.

The Character tab improves your character and all your Pokémon: your character's maximum HP (+300, +300, +300 and +500), your character's speed (+20 per Talent, +80 in total), +1% Critical Chance and +10% Critical Damage for all your Pokémon, and the 8 Cooldown Talents. The +1% Critical Chance is added straight on: a Pokémon with 10% Critical Chance goes up to 11%.

Cooldown and Kanto badges

Each Cooldown Talent makes the moves of the Pokémon stored in your backpack, inside their Poké Ball, recharge 1 second faster, whatever their type. With all 8 you reach −8 s.

Each one takes a badge from a Kanto GYM and 5 to 6 more materials (450 to 1,500 of each). You earn the badge the first time you beat the GYM's leader, and that win also gives Orbs of the leader's type. It is used up when you hand it in, like any other material.

Kanto badges, their leader and their city

Badge	Leader	City
Boulder Badge	Brock	Pewter
Cascade Badge	Misty	Cerulean
Thunder Badge	Lt. Surge	Vermilion
Rainbow Badge	Erika	Celadon
Soul Badge	Koga	Fuchsia
Marsh Badge	Sabrina	Saffron
Volcano Badge	Blaine	Cinnabar
Earth Badge	Giovanni	Viridian

Your Pokémon move slower on snow, on sand and underwater. The Pokémon tab has 6 Talents for each of those terrains, cutting that speed penalty by 10%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 20% and 40%. With all 6 you remove it completely (100%).

Besides Pokémon drops, the snow Talents take Ice Orbs, Ice Stone and Crystal Stone; the sand ones, Psychic Orbs, Enigma Stone and Heart Stone; and the underwater ones, Water Orbs, Water Stone and Crystal Stone.