If you’ve been playing Pokémon Sun and Moon, you might not be spending enough time at the Festival Plaza, the game’s online network hub. You can do some amazing things, like leveling up Pokémon, dying your favorite clothes and play games like the lottery. If you’ve been having trouble trying to figure out how to farm the most festival points, or FC, or getting enough bottlecaps, here’s a quick guide to help you along your way. Shout out to reddit user Naskr, who’s amazing guide helped me put this together.
What Shops Are Worth Getting?
Rare Kitchen (4 or 5 Stars)- At the beginning, having one of these on your Festival Plaza is kind of useless. Farming one level at a time in exchange for bottle caps, which are extremely important when you want to max your Pokémon’s stats, will just waste your time and currency. You have to get your Festival Plaza to at least level 30 and have beaten the Elite Four.
Get the Rare Dinner, which gives you seven level-ups for 100 FC. You can’t spam it all the way to 100, but you can get to level 98, which is damn near close. Getting a Pokémon to level 100 is super important now with Hyper Training because you can trade bottle caps for IVs to Mr. Hyper in Hau’oli City, but only when your Pokémon is max level.
Treasure Hunt (5 Stars)- The best lottery out of the three available, the Treasure Hunt stand will give you massive payoffs if you are lucky. Getting a golden bottle cap isn’t easy, but having a Treasure Hunt stand at least makes it doable.
Dye Shop- You can have one of these at any level if you just want to change your colors to something basic, but if you want cool effects, you are going to need rank five. At the rank five Dye Shop, you can get dark, pastel and even bright colors.
Fortune Teller Tent (5 Stars)- Using one of these increases the amount of FC you can get, it’s not as useless as you think. Stack these as much as possible if you want more FC. Getting a “very good” fortune will give you four times as much FC for Wonder Trades, Battle Spots and anything that happens at the Festival Plaza. Reddit user Rajinsouu has a super in-depth guide.
How To Farm The Facilities/Shops You Want
Getting the right shop on your Festival Plaza isn’t easy and requires a lot of luck. You need to have a higher level Festival Plaza if you want to get five or four star buildings.
This exploit essentially tricks Sophocles, Festival Plaza’s caretaker, into giving you the shop that you want. Get enough FC to level up, wait for the confetti, but do not walk inside the castle. Farm enough FC to get close to leveling up again, two or four should be fine, and then go to the GTS or Wonder Trade.
Go offline, quit the plaza and save your game. When you load back in, go inside the castle and talk to Sophocles who will give you a new facility that will always be the same. Talk to the person next to the table right of you that will give you a bonus for the trade. This will level up your Festival Plaza again and you’ll get a new facility or shop. Reset the game if you don’t like it or keep it in your park.
This trick won’t work for most levels, only 2 through 8 or past 100.
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