In Pokémon Pokopia, Pokémon aren’t just residents: they’re friends, and 
Ditto chats with them, plays with them and shares moments worth capturing. This guide explains how friendship works, what it gets you, and details the activities that make it grow: quizzes, jump rope, hide-and-seek camouflage and the hunt for Best Moments.
Contents
- How friendship works
- The mini-games Pokémon offer
- Jump rope with Bulbasaur
- Camouflage with Zorua
- Best Moments
- Reactions
- Tips
How friendship works
Each Pokémon has its own friendship gauge with Ditto. It is separate from Comfy Level, but contributes to it. Several actions make it grow:
- Chat with them, especially when they call out to you.
- Complete their Requests.
- Give them a gift : hold an item from your Bag, talk to the Pokémon and choose to give it to them.
- Play with them when they invite you to.
- Pamper them : in the Bubbly Basin Expansion Pass, some Pokémon that accompany you clean the Pokémon you meet, which boosts their friendship and comfort.
An offering with no dominant flavor left in front of 
Mosslax also speeds up friendship progress for the whole day.
What friendship gets you
The stronger the bond, the happier the Pokémon is to see you, and the more gifts it gives you, often materials it has found. As it nears the maximum, it calls you by your name rather than “Ditto”. At the top, it comes to tell you that you have become best friends : a special mark then appears on its Pokédex entry.
The mini-games Pokémon offer
From time to time, a Pokémon comes to invite you to play. It may be a quiz, often about another Pokémon it knows well, or a guessing game where you have to predict which direction it will look, over three rounds. Playing always boosts friendship; winning boosts it even more. So never hesitate to accept.
Jump rope with Bulbasaur
Once 
Bulbasaur has become your friend and the Pokémon Center has been rebuilt, talk to it to start a game of jump rope: press at the right moment to jump over its vine. The pace speeds up every ten successful jumps, then becomes irregular beyond fifty jumps.
| Successful jumps | Reward |
|---|---|
| 0 to 49 | 3 copper ore |
| 50 to 99 | 1 jar of honey |
| 100 or more | 1 small Lost Item |
In multiplayer, touching the vine eliminates the player; the last one standing wins. Eliminated players can speed up or slow down the rope to make things harder for those who remain.
Jump rope challenges
Regularly, Bulbasaur organizes a one-day jump rope challenge at the Pokémon Center, which can also be played with several people online. Rewards depend on the number of jumps:
| Jumps | Reward |
|---|---|
| 5 or more | 5 Leppa Berries |
| 10 or more | 1 Star Piece |
| 20 or more | 3 large Lost Items |
| 30 or more | 3 Rainbow Wings |
| 40 or more | 3 Silver Wings |
| 50 or more | The challenge trophy, with the date and your record |
| 75 or more | 30 Pokémetal |
| 100 or more | 10 rare Pokémetal |
Camouflage with Zorua
After learning Mimic from 
Zorua, talk to it to play camouflage. You are sent far from the Pokémon Center, with three minutes to reach and touch the PC without being spotted by the seeker Pokémon. If one of them finds you, you restart from a different starting point.
- Use Mimic to blend into any nearby object, and don’t move when a seeker is looking in your direction.
- You can also create a diversion by placing objects or using reactions.
- In multiplayer, camouflage becomes a team game: it only takes one player to touch the PC for the whole team to win.
| Result | Reward |
|---|---|
| Win without being spotted | 4 carrots |
| Win | 3 carrots |
| Several wins in a row | 2 Stardust |
Best Moments
Sometimes a Pokémon interacts in a special way with an object or with another Pokémon. A notification lets you know: take out the camera, and a pink frame appears around the scene. Take the photo to add it to your Best Moments, which you can view in the Collect menu. Missing moments only show their title, as a hint. Some unlock a photo frame to customize your shots, and you can replace a photo with a better one at any time from the album.
| Best Moment | How to trigger it | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Nice and warm by the fire | A Pokémon rests near a campfire | Fire Spin photo frame |
| A gust, and round it goes! | A Flying-type Pokémon interacts with a windmill | — |
| Supersonic punches | Hitmonchan hits a punching bag | Impact photo frame |
| A group nap | Two Pokémon rest side by side | — |
| Chatting with a departed soul | A Ghost-type Pokémon interacts with a gravestone at night | Mystery photo frame |
| Drawn to the light | Venomoth interacts with a lit street lamp | Neon photo frame |
| A gentle flower dance | Bellossom dances in a flower bed | — |
| Sandbox fever | A Pokémon plays in a sandbox | Sand Cloud photo frame |
| Yum, garbage! | A Pokémon that likes trash (from the Garbodor or Weezing families, for example) plays with garbage bags | — |
| A good shower | A Pokémon interacts with an automatic sprinkler or a shower | Bubbles photo frame |
| Wooden cube and Kinesis | A Psychic-type Pokémon interacts with a building kit | — |
| Yarn chase! | A Pokémon interacts with a knitting kit | — |
| A cool, light breeze | A Pokémon interacts with a fan that is turned on | — |
| Is there anything in here for a migraine? | Psyduck interacts with a first-aid kit | — |
| Shocking biceps | Machamp interacts with a mirror | — |
| Aerial break | A bird Pokémon rests on a perch | — |
| A nice hot bath! | A Pokémon is immersed in spring water | — |
| Cooling off | An Ice-type Pokémon interacts with a cold stone | — |
| A dance around the big campfire | A Pokémon dances around a big campfire | — |
| The artist’s vision | Smeargle interacts with a blank canvas | Paint Splatter photo frame |
| A fortune-telling session | A Psychic-type Pokémon interacts with a crystal ball | — |
| A little nap by a mossy rock | A Pokémon sleeps in a moss-covered rock habitat | — |
| One hit and it should work… Huh? | Professor Tangrowth interacts with a computer | — |
| Surprise on opening! | A Pokémon interacts with the Surprise Box | No Entry photo frame |
| Money obsession | Gimmighoul interacts with a piggy bank Munna | — |
| Peekaboo! Peekaboo! Peekaboo! | Rowlet interacts with a Rowlet clock | — |
| Psssht! Gas battle! | Koffing interacts with a suspicious diffuser that is turned on | — |
| A martial arts convention | Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan interact together | — |
| Pale cheeks and paw pads | Peakychu and Pawmi interact together | — |
| Sparkling Skylands crafting | Conkeldurr and Tinkaton interact together | — |
| Ghost throwing | Dragapult shows off a throw of Dreepy to another Pokémon | Draco Meteor photo frame |
| An iconic Psychic duo | Gardevoir and Gallade interact together | — |
| Eevee’s companions | Eevee interacts with one of its evolutions | — |
| Two of a kind | Mimikyu and Pikachu interact together | — |
| Genetic ties | Mewtwo and Mew interact together | — |
| An invitation with a sweet scent | Volbeat and Illumise interact together | — |
| A horned rivalry | Pinsir and Heracross interact together | — |
| No more, no less! | Plusle and Minun interact together | — |
| Different armor | Armarouge and Ceruledge interact together | — |
| Good deals | A Pokémon interacts with a Pokémon holding a trade | — |
| A gentle lullaby | Jigglypuff sings | Balloons photo frame |
| Whoever cooks gets to taste! | Chef Dente interacts with a cooking utensil | Cooking photo frame |
| Head in flowers | All 3 of Mosslax’s flowers are open | Shock photo frame |
| A DJ who sets the mood! | A Pokémon interacts with DJ Rotom | — |
Reactions
The reaction wheel is used to communicate with other players or to liven up your photos; you can customize it with your favorite reactions. Six reactions are available from the start, and the others are obtained by reading certain Human Records, as gifts from your Pokémon friends, or by receiving visits from certain Pokémon from another player’s island.
Tips
- Check in on your Pokémon every day: a chat and a small gift are enough to boost friendship.
- Accept every invitation to play: even a loss boosts friendship.
- Don’t miss the jump rope challenges: clearing 100 jumps earns you 10 rare Pokémetal ingots.
- For Best Moments, set up the requested objects near the relevant habitats and keep the camera at hand.
- Turn on electrical objects (street lamp, fan, diffuser): several Best Moments only trigger with a device that is running.
Related guides
Find all our guides in the complete Pokémon Pokopia walkthrough :
- Getting started: the basics and 10 tips
- Story walkthrough, area by area
- All of Ditto’s moves
- Habitat Dex: the 209 habitats and their recipes
- All Pokémon specialties
- Legendary and Mythical Pokémon: how to meet them
- Environment Level, Comfy Level and Mosslax
- Crafting, materials and building kits
- Cooking and gardening: all the recipes
- Lost Items, Human Records and treasure maps
- Dream Islands and Cloud Islands
- Bubbly Basin: access, Dive and habitats
- Pumpkaboo’s Halloween event
- Mystery Gift codes and distributions
Sources: Serebii (friendship), Serebii (jump rope), Serebii (camouflage), Serebii (reactions), Pokébip (best moments), Poképédia (game tips), official Pokémon Pokopia website. Image credits: © The Pokémon Company / Nintendo / GAME FREAK / KOEI TECMO (official site).
