Guides
PokéSurvivor guides for controls, starters, bosses, move evolutions, gacha, mobile play and saving progress.
Your first run
Getting started: your first PokéSurvivor run
Start PokéSurvivor with a named partner, a card route and a plan for the first boss.
Read guide →Guides · 02Controls: movement, active slots and touch play
Keyboard keys, touch gestures, pause and fixes for controls captured by the browser.
Read guide →Guides · 03Best starters: choose for your attack style
Compare six named PokéSurvivor starters by attack style, HP, movement and evolution card.
Read guide →Guides · 04Level-up cards: upgrades, new moves and evolutions
Identify new attacks, upgrades and evolution cards, with named stat effects and an Ember example.
Read guide →Guides · 05First boss: prepare for the 3-minute fight
Prepare a usable starter attack for 3:00 and read the first boss’s telegraphed patterns.
Read guide →Guides · 06Run timeline: bosses, rifts and the Judgment of Arceus
PokéSurvivor’s boss schedule, enemy-tier changes and the current 28/30-minute endgame.
Read guide →Choose moves and builds
Plan a legal build: one active slot, one item
Build Charmander’s legal two-move active group, then extend it without counting inactive damage.
Read guide →Guides · 08Best moves by target: crowds, bosses and support
Named crowd, boss and support moves with level-1 values, card recipes and legal build examples.
Read guide →Guides · 09Best held items: compare benefits and costs
Choose among all 11 held items with precise effects, tradeoffs and pickup rules.
Read guide →Guides · 10Melee vs ranged: control space, not only damage
Compare Vine Whip, Water Gun and Razor Leaf by range, contact behavior and defensive cost.
Read guide →Guides · 11Bonds: make a fused active slot work
Fuse two, three or four moves into one active slot with a concrete Charmander sequence.
Read guide →Collect Pokémon and tickets
Unlock Pokémon: collection routes and battle records
Get playable Pokémon through starters, regional draws, rescues and shiny captures; separate legend records.
Read guide →Guides · 13Regional gacha: choose the pool containing your target
Find your target’s banner and calculate a named Pokémon chance from the real rarity pool.
Read guide →Guides · 1470-pull pity and the ten-pull guarantee
Worked pity-69 and ten-pull examples, including forced-rarity versus target odds.
Read guide →Guides · 15Ticket farming: rifts, missions and timed opportunities
Compare rift, boss, mission, rescue, locked-chest and thief ticket rewards and make a safe route.
Read guide →Guides · 16Wild shinies: eligible spawns and successful collection
Find the shiny indicator, defeat eligible spawns and calculate cumulative wild shiny odds.
Read guide →Guides · 17Gacha shinies: 1% check and collection-aware rerouting
Understand the eligible 1% shiny draw and rerouting of an already-owned shiny.
Read guide →Guides · 18Rescue events: escort the lost Pokémon
Start the lost-Pokémon escort, reach its marker in 120 seconds and separate rewards from ownership.
Read guide →Survive bosses and hazards
Enemy behaviors: recognize support and warnings
Recognize all 13 enemy behaviors with concrete warning times, ranges and counter-movement.
Read guide →Guides · 20Boss attacks: read the warning before attacking
Read the selected four-attack boss kit, dodge each pattern and prepare for half-HP enrage.
Read guide →Guides · 21Legendary rifts: entry, timer, rewards and return
Enter before 45 seconds, win the 120-second arena and collect the exact rift rewards.
Read guide →Guides · 22Weather: damage, chip damage and movement
Use all five weather multipliers and transitions to choose an attack and protect recovery.
Read guide →Guides · 23Terrain hazards: water, lava, obstacles and traps
Exact liquid penalties and immunities, three trap effects, locked-chest timing and spring healing.
Read guide →Guides · 24Long runs: prepare for the Judgment of Arceus
Prepare before 28 minutes and survive the current Judgment of Arceus at 30 minutes.
Read guide →Spend coins and complete goals
Permanent upgrades: budget for your chosen Pokémon
Budget exact per-Pokémon purchases with a 250-coin example and all 13 upgrade caps.
Read guide →Guides · 26Coins: rewards, duplicates and upgrade spending
Calculate run-end PokéCoins, item multipliers and gacha refunds with a worked 10-minute run.
Read guide →Guides · 27Daily and weekly missions: progress and claim rules
Read all daily/weekly templates, sum-versus-best-run progress and the manual reward claim.
Read guide →Guides · 28Achievements: conditions, rewards and legend records
Follow named early achievements and the three new Arceus targets with exact rewards.
Read guide →Play, install and save
Play on mobile: touch controls and performance
PokéSurvivor mobile controls: landscape, floating joystick, two-finger attack switching and graphics settings, with checks for focus and touch problems.
Read guide →Guides · 30iPhone and Safari: fullscreen, touch and saving
PokéSurvivor on iPhone: Safari Share → Add to Home Screen, multitouch checks, home-bar buttons and save identity before switching between browser and app.
Read guide →Guides · 31Install the original game as a web app
Install PokéSurvivor from its original URL: Safari, Android Chrome and desktop Chrome/Edge steps, missing-install alternatives and offline/save checks.
Read guide →Guides · 32Online and offline: what changes
PokéSurvivor offline versus online: local files, cached cloud saves, guest memory, unavailable friends/rankings and how reconnect merges progress.
Read guide →Guides · 33Co-op: accounts, friends, rooms and revives
Set up PokéSurvivor co-op with both players’ account, friend acceptance, invite, room connection and host start steps; revive and shared-pause rules included.
Read guide →Guides · 34Save and sync: guest, local and cloud modes
Save PokéSurvivor progress correctly: guest/local/cloud differences, cloud indicator, same-account transfer and a concrete collection/coin merge example.
Read guide →Fix a specific problem
Game not loading: isolate page, network and embedded login
PokéSurvivor not loading: distinguish an unstarted embed, input focus, original-site loading and account errors; follow a symptom/action/success checklist.
Read guide →Guides · 36Black screen: version, graphics and long-run fixes
PokéSurvivor black-screen troubleshooting by startup, backgrounded tab and in-run failure; distinguish expected co-op pauses from historical 84-minute bugs.
Read guide →Guides · 37Lost progress: check identity and storage before cleanup
PokéSurvivor progress missing: identify guest, local/cloud mode, wrong account, browser/origin change and pending upload before altering storage.
Read guide →Guides · 38Cloud sync: verify the account and merge behavior
Fix PokéSurvivor cloud sync: interpret saved/saving/queued/offline/local indicators, compare account identity and preserve the unsent browser copy.
Read guide →Guides · 39Co-op not connecting: room, accounts and network
PokéSurvivor co-op connection errors: friend request versus room invite, expired/full/started rooms, host start checks and failed-network retry.
Read guide →Guides · 40Move not evolving: level 5, named card and evolution choice
Fix PokéSurvivor move evolution with named recipes: Ember + Power, Bubble + Sprint, Confusion + Reflexes and Petal Blizzard + Synthesis, then the gold card.
Read guide →Guides · 41Rift not appearing: 28-minute cutoff, timer and blockers
PokéSurvivor missing-rift checks: before 75 seconds, boss/arena/portal blockers, valid 30-second attempts, 20→100% chance and the hard 28:00 cutoff.
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