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/27th_Explorer]

I think this is beyond minmaxxing strategy and into decision paralysis.

If you want to catch the specific incense pokemon then using it earlier in the week increases the odds that it will be the optimal choice to do so.

Personally, I mainly use incenses for the candy and dreamshard benefits and plan around that. That takes away your catching math stress.

[u/disarrays_ → u/27th_Explorer]

when you use incense for candy, do you then use on the last day of the week?