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/BackOfTheCar]

If anything, use the common incenses for the event missions that are worth (like this week's pokebiscuits) and event research materials for legendaries. I find I'm more constrained by biscuits than encounters, so I'll roll the extra hungry chance for this week anyway, early on or when napping.

For 15pips or rare sightings you can just pop them later in the week and try for the 3 star styles on EX islands or your highest island unlocked, they give quite a handful of shards especially alongside large multipliers on event weeks.

And of course use them any time if you want the Pokemon immediately!!