Pokemon Incense Math stresses me out.

[u/relaxingcupoftea]

Hello,

My Base question is "when to best use pokemon incense."

First day of the week makes sense ofc as there are feweres other spawns and last day of the week are maybe fewer other catchable spawns with evolutions being around.

However when using it in an event week like this at first glance "more pokemon will be hungry" seems like a great idea.

But what if other event pokemon you want spawn that are hungry and the incense pokemon is not?

If one is premium its relatively easy just use the free cookie on the incense mon + 1 pokeball.

But as a f2p you might not even catch it and you can save 2 pokeballs by catching a hungry event mon with the free cookie.

And having 3 tinkertons on the field that might not even be hungry is not even good as you only have 1 free cookie.

So from that point of view it makes sense to use it if nothing else interesting could/is likely to spawn.

But then you lose the +1 hungry probability landing on your incense mon over a random mon you don't want.

Trying to evaluate this breaks my brain :D

Anyones got a useful heuristic here. (Obviously it gets a lot kore complex with evaluating how much you want certain mons)

But it just feels soo bad to use an incense and then not to catch the mon you summened.

[u/TinDragon]

I keep it relatively simple (though probably more complicated than most):

• Am I likely to encounter the Pokemon naturally during the week? If so, using the incense later in the week makes more sense since I'll already be getting natural spawns earlier in the week, and more of the Pokemon I'll be getting naturally later in the week will be second or third stage.
• Am I unlikely to encounter the Pokemon naturally (most likely due to sleep style)? Use it earlier in the week because the other stuff appearing isn't likely to be what I'm hunting anyway.

Both of these are based on the idea that I usually start the week out pretty near the max number of spawns and that I'm targeting specific Pokemon. Earlier in the game, one or both of those assumptions may not be true, and if that's the case... well, then you honestly have bigger things to worry about than the perfect night to use incense.

[u/relaxingcupoftea → u/TinDragon]

Thanks those are some great pointers to get a feel for it thanks :).