Pokémon Quest Moveset Learning Guide: Mastering Your Team's Abilities

Pokémon Quest offers a simplified yet engaging take on the classic Pokémon formula, tasking players with exploring Tumblecube Island with cube-shaped Pokémon. While streamlined, many familiar elements remain, including the crucial aspect of move selection and customization. This guide dives into the intricacies of movesets and the Move Learning feature, empowering you to optimize your team's performance.

Understanding Pokémon Moves in Pokémon Quest

In Pokémon Quest, each Pokémon is restricted to a maximum of two moves in battle. This limited move count emphasizes the importance of carefully selecting the right abilities for each team member. The moves your Pokémon have access to significantly impact your battle performance.

The 3D battlefields of Pokémon Quest add another layer of strategy, as the positioning and effects of moves become vital. Some moves knock enemies backward, allowing for strategic repositioning to maximize the effectiveness of other Pokémon with close-range attacks. Experimentation and understanding of these mechanics are key to mastering the game.

Move Training and Learning: Retraining Your Pokémon

The Move Training feature allows you to customize your Pokémon's movesets. To access it, navigate to the Edit Team menu and select Training, then Move Learning. This feature allows you to teach Pokémon new moves from their potential repertoire of moves.

Learning a new move requires sacrificing another Pokémon from your existing roster. The species and type of the sacrificed Pokémon influence the likelihood of learning a new move. Sacrificing a Pokémon of the same species and type increases the chances of success. Additionally, the level and evolution stage of the Pokémon learning the move affect the range of potential new moves.

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When learning a new move, you can choose which of the two move slots to replace. Different moves may be restricted to specific slots.

Move Stones: Enhancing Move Properties

Just as Pokémon leveling utilizes Power Stones, moves can be enhanced with Move Stones. These stones modify the properties of a move, making it more effective for your desired strategy. Consider your team composition and battle style carefully before using Move Stones. Move Stones can change the properties of moves, like increasing the number of projectiles a move launches.

Strategic Team Composition

You can include three Pokémon in your party at any time. A Pokémon's type and moves affect your strategy. Some Pokémon engage in close combat, while others attack from a distance.

Pokémon Roles and Battle Dynamics

Pokémon battle very differently. Rattata engages in close combat, and other Pokémon attack from a distance.

Melee Pokémon

These Pokémon excel in close-quarters combat, dealing damage up close.

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Ranged Pokémon

Ranged Pokémon attack from a distance for safety.

Sturdy Pokémon

These Pokémon can endure attacks and tend to be sturdier.

Team Strength and Stage Completion

Team Strength indicates how well your team fits the challenge. Increasing your team strength will help you complete the stage.

Battle Controls and Strategy

While you won't have full control of your Pokémon's movements, they venture toward enemies independently. The scatter button, located on the right side of the screen, allows you to interrupt attacks and avoid damage. This is useful when facing challenging foes.

Evolving Pokémon

Pokémon will evolve at the same level they do in the main series games. Some Pokémon evolve with means other than leveling up, including Pikachu and Eevee.

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Attracting New Pokémon

You attract new Pokémon to your team by cooking. You can cook by tapping the pot located at the center of your camp and selecting ingredients. Be sure to fill it up with ingredients. As the dish completes, new Pokémon will enter your base camp. You can create recipes to repeat dishes later. Different recipes attract different Pokémon, and some are rarer than others. The ingredients you select affect the outcome of the dish. Try to make something favored by Electric-type Pokémon!

Power Stones and Stat Boosting

Power Stones further boost your Pokémon’s stats. You'll gain sockets to equip those stones in by leveling up. Power Stones will be introduced to you shortly after you start playing. Power Stones increase Attack or HP each time you complete a stage. Some Power Stones increase only HP or Attack. Other Power Stones will provide special bonuses in addition to increasing Attack or HP. Some attacks increased Critical Hit Rate or Knockback Distance. You will only be able to keep a limited number of Power Stones in your inventory. You can increase the number of Power Stones you can hold by spending PM Tickets, the in-game currency.

Complete Pokémon Quest Move List

Here's a comprehensive list of moves available in Pokémon Quest, categorized by type and accompanied by descriptions:

Blizzard (Ice): The user moves about while creating a blizzard centered on itself.
Bubble (Water): The user fires bubbles in three directions.
Bulk Up (Fighting): The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, raising the damage it deals for a while.
Close Combat (Fighting): The user gets right up on enemies in front of itself and smacks them with a single blow, damaging them.
Cross Chop (Fighting): The user jumps toward enemies in front of itself and smacks them with a two-handed chop, damaging them.
Draco Meteor (Dragon): The user summons several meteors down around itself, damaging enemies hit by them.
Drain Punch (Fighting): The user fires a punch at enemies directly in front of itself, damaging them.
Draining Kiss (Fairy): The user kisses enemies directly in front of itself and damages them.
Dynamic Punch (Fighting): The user punches enemies directly in front of itself with its full, concentrated power.
Ember (Fire): The user fires sparks in front of itself that split and run in three directions when they hit the ground. Deals damage to enemies they hit.
Explosion (Normal): The user causes a tremendous explosion, dealing huge damage to surrounding enemies.
Fire Punch (Fire): The user imbues its fist with the power of flames, and strikes enemies directly in front of it with a burning punch.
Fire Spin (Fire): The user creates flames all around itself and fires them off in a spiral. Deals damage to enemies they hit.
Flamethrower (Fire): The user continuously breathes out long flames for a while. Deals damage to enemies as long as they remain in the flames.
Flare Blitz (Fire): The user creates a path of flames in front of itself and charges forward along it. Deals damage to enemies.
High Jump Kick (Fighting): After charging toward enemies in front of itself, the user jumps up and deals damage with a knee kick.
Hydro Pump (Water): The user shoots four pillars of water up from the ground and sends them out in front of itself.
Hyper Beam (Normal): The user stores up power and then fires a tremendous beam at enemies.
Ice Beam (Ice): The user fires an icy-cold beam at enemies in front of itself.
Ice Punch (Ice): The user chills its fist and unleashes a freezing punch on enemies directly in front of it.
Icicle Crash (Ice): The user drops frigid icicles in front of itself.
Icy Wind (Ice): The user sends a freezing gust of chilled air at enemies in front of itself, damaging them.
Lava Plume (Fire): The user spouts scarlet flames all around itself. Deals damage to enemies around it.
Leech Life (Bug): The user drains the blood of enemies directly in front of itself, damaging them.
Leech Seed (Grass): The user plants a seed on the ground in front of itself. Enemies in range are gradually damaged.
Lick (Ghost): The user licks enemies all around itself with its long tongue, damaging them.
Mega Drain (Grass): The user attacks enemies in front of itself, dealing damage to them.
Metal Claw (Steel): The user rakes enemies in front of itself with its steel claws, dealing damage.
Mud-Slap (Ground): The user hurls mud in three directions, dealing damage to enemies hit by it.
Night Slash (Dark): The user dashes forward, slashing surrounding enemies and damaging them.
Outrage (Dragon): The user rampages about, attacking and damaging any enemies in its path.
Play Rough (Fairy): The user plays rough with enemies in front of itself, damaging them.
Poison Sting (Poison): The user fires a poisonous stinger at enemies in front of itself.
Power-Up Punch (Fighting): The user delivers a punch with its hard fist to enemies directly in front of itself, damaging them.
Psybeam (Psychic): The user sends peculiar rays of light out in three directions, damaging enemies hit by them.
Psychic (Psychic): The user creates a large, mysterious light and fires it out, dealing damage to enemies hit by it.
Psycho Cut (Psychic): After moving forward, the user deals damage to enemies with blades formed by psychic power.
Psystrike (Psychic): The user creates a large orb of light in front of itself.
Razor Leaf (Grass): The user launches sharp-edged leaves to slash at enemies, damaging them.
Self-Destruct (Normal): The user approaches enemies and causes an explosion, damaging all surrounding enemies.
Shadow Ball (Ghost): The user hurls a shadowy blob in front of itself, damaging enemies hit by it.
Silver Wind (Bug): Scales carried by the wind swirl around the user, damaging enemies hit by them.
Sky Attack (Flying): After flying up and bracing itself, the user charges at enemies directly in front of itself, damaging them.
Sludge Bomb (Poison): The user shoots out a glob of sludge that splits open when it hits the ground, damaging surrounding enemies.
Smog (Poison): The user spews poison around itself, damaging enemies.
Spark (Electric): The user charges its body with electricity and charges toward enemies in front of itself.
Steel Wing (Steel): The user charges at enemies in front of itself and smacks them with its hard wings, dealing damage.
Stun Spore (Grass): The user scatters numbing powder directly in front of itself.
Submission (Fighting): The user spins toward enemies in front of itself, smashing into them.
Sucker Punch (Dark): The user briefly disappears and moves a short distance.
Surf (Water): The user creates a wide wave and charges forward on it.
Take Down (Normal): The user slams into enemies in front of itself with a reckless, full-body charge, damaging all enemies hit by it.
Thunder (Electric): The user strikes the area in front of itself with a lightning bolt. Deals damage to nearby enemies.
Thunder Shock (Electric): After storing up electricity, the user fires it toward enemies in front of itself, dealing damage to them.
Thunderbolt (Electric): The user discharges tremendous electricity all around itself. Deals damage to enemies around the user.
Tri Attack (Normal): The user's body is imbued with three powers as it attacks enemies in front of itself, damaging them.
Vine Whip (Grass): The user strikes enemies in front of itself with whiplike vines.
Waterfall (Water): The user approaches enemies in front of itself and creates a pillar of water beneath them.
Whirlpool (Water): The user creates a whirlpool around itself.
Will-O-Wisp (Fire): The user drapes itself with sinister flames and attacks enemies directly in front of it.

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