How to play Poké Idle

Poké Idle is a Pokémon idle game: your character walks the maps, your team fights on its own and you decide who to catch, who to train and where to go. This guide covers the basics and the systems you unlock later.

Pallet Town map in Poké Idle with the player's character and other trainers — The map: your character walks the routes and battles happen right there.

1. Start the adventure

Create an account (username and password, or Google sign-in), design your character and talk to Prof. Oak in Pallet Town to get your first Pokémon. In each new region, that region's professor meets you in the first city and offers you one of its starters. Progress is saved in the cloud, so you can keep playing on PC or phone.

2. Battles and catching

Outside towns, wild Pokémon roam the map itself. Your lead Pokémon runs up to them and fights; the rest of the team waits in line and steps in when it faints. Click (or tap) a wild Pokémon to attack too. To catch one, throw Poké Balls: the lower its HP, the better the chance. Great Balls and Ultra Balls raise the chance.

Auto: your character moves on to the next route by itself once the current one is cleared.
Loop: keeps training on the same route — great for farming experience, money (₽) or a species.
Heal: takes the team to the nearest Pokémon Center and restores HP instantly.

3. Your team and trainer level

Your team holds up to six Pokémon. Each has a nature, an ability, genes (IVs), EVs and up to four moves you choose. Pokémon can reach level 1000, but what you can use depends on your trainer level: at first a Pokémon only fights up to trainer level ×10 + 9. From trainer level 50 the cap is gone. Your trainer level goes up as you play.

4. Gyms, League and regions

Every city with a gym has a leader. Beat all eight gyms to unlock the region’s League and, after it, the next region — nine in total, from Kanto to Paldea (see Regions). Routes also have trainers: the ones with a “!” balloon want to battle and pay you in ₽ when they lose.

5. Train EVs without mistakes

In the World tab, click a location to see which Pokémon appear there, at what time of day and which EVs each one gives. Click the Pokémon to choose who your team fights: once you arrive, the team only attacks those species, so no stray win ruins the EVs you are training.

6. Daycare, Workshop and items

Daycare: leave two Pokémon from the same egg group to get eggs. The baby inherits genes from its parents — the surest way to get perfect IVs and shinies.
Workshop: turns the materials you get from releasing Pokémon into useful items and Mega Stones.
Held items: each Pokémon can hold a battle item that boosts damage, defense or recovery.

7. Raids, clans, trades and market

In the Legendary Den, groups of up to five players fight legendaries in 10-minute raids, with eggs and Mega Stones as weekly rewards. Clans have weekly quests, a shared vault and the Mewtwo raid. You can also trade Pokémon with friends and buy or sell on the market with Diamonds.

8. Offline progress

Poké Idle is an idle game: when you come back you get the experience and items from the time you were away. Join the Discord to ask questions and set up trades.

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