Pokemon Players Discover Secret Feature In Sword And Shield

While it's been almost two years since Pokemon Sword and Shield first landed on the Nintendo Switch, players are still finding interesting new titbits throughout the game that are heightening the Pokemon catching experience for all.

Camping out with your Pokemon in the wild area (or various other sections of the Galar Region) has been a much-loved feature of the game since its inception, however well-known Pokemon expert @Sibuna_Switch, also known as Anubis, has recently pointed out the sociability scale that exists within different Pokemon and their abilities. This is apparently tracked very much within the gameplay itself and has been rumoured to increase currymons and more. 

“Sword & Shield tracks the “sociability” of a Pokemon. Some believe it increases currymons. Sociability is tied to a Pokemon, ranges from 0-255 and increases with making curry or playing with other mons in camp. Trading doesn’t affect it,” the tweet read.

In the tweet, Anubis highlights different interactions between Pokemon that have been influenced differently due to the sociability tracker. This sociability number, Anubis claims, ranges between 0-255 and can vary depending on the Pokemon itself - not just how many curries you feed it, or how much you play with the Pokemon. This can also be influenced separately by compatibility in other Pokemon, and whether or not they're naturally programmed to gravitate to one another.

While the sociability tracker has been discovered before, players were unsure about just how the system worked. The following day, Anubis wrote another tweet clearing this up, which said: “If you gain some sociability & leave camp open, the party’s sociability will increase via natural interactions. If your Pokemon fight in camp, their sociability decreases. If all Pokemon in the camp have 0 sociability, they ignore each other.”

So if you've been wondering why your favourite mons haven't been getting along as nicely as you'd like them to, or maybe you haven't picked up your game in a while - this could very well be why!

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