Crafts

A craft is your trainer's specialty. There are four, and nobody gets them all: the Breeder buys from the Artisan, the Artisan buys from the Researcher, and so on. The Market is where specialists meet.

Crafts live in the Crafts tab, on the Trainer screen.

The four crafts

Craft	Where it earns Expertise	What it specializes in
Breeder	Eggs that hatch	Genetics and breeding
Artisan	Laboratory	Fusion, seals and item recipes
Researcher	Catching	Weather, forecast and spawns
Tactician	Arena and Cups	Reading the opponent and building cup teams

The Tactician opens together with the Cups.

Main and secondary

Slot	Opens at	Goes up to
Main	Trainer 30	Grade 10
Secondary	Trainer 50	Grade 5

Your first pick for each slot is free.
The level that counts is your highest-level trainer on the account.
A craft belongs to the account, not the character. All your trainers share the same crafts, the same Expertise and the same weekly cap.
The secondary slot gets the grade 2 and grade 4 unlocks. Grade 5 doesn't unlock anything new.
The other two crafts stay closed. Doing their activities earns no Expertise at all.
In the secondary slot, Expertise stops at grade 5. You can't bank points there for later.

The screen has a sub-tab for each of your crafts ("My craft" and "Secondary") and the All crafts sub-tab, with each craft's ladder. All crafts is where you pick and switch.

Expertise and grades

Expertise goes up by doing the craft's activity. Your grade depends on how much Expertise you have:

Grade	Total Expertise	Minimum weeks
1	150	1
2	600	1
3	1,350	2
4	2,400	3
5	3,750	4
6	5,400	6
7	7,350	8
8	9,600	10
9	12,150	13
10	15,000	15

The weekly cap

Each craft earns at most 1,000 Expertise per week, per account. The week resets on Monday at 00:00 Brasília time. Anything over the cap that week is lost.

That's why grade 10 takes at least 15 weeks, no matter how much you play. The cap isn't a race to see who plays more hours: someone who plays every day and someone who plays on weekends get there together, as long as both hit the cap.

Where Expertise comes from

Breeder (only when the egg hatches; breeding without hatching doesn't count):

Baby that hatches	Expertise
Common	10
Uncommon	25
Rare	40
Epic	55
Prismatic	70
Mythic	85
Astral	100

Plus +25 when the baby is born with more good genes than its best parent.

Artisan (Laboratory; the higher the step, the more Expertise):

Action	Expertise
Pokémon fusion	3 (Common) up to 21 (Astral)
Item fusion (TM, seal, equipment)	6 + 3 per tier
Chaotic fusion	4 + 3 per average TM tier
Fossils	30
Tempering	15 × target level
Mega Stone forge	60
Seal removal	5 + 3 per tier (whether it breaks or not)

Researcher (catching):

Rarity caught	Expertise
Common	0.1
Uncommon	0.5
Rare	2
Epic	8
Prismatic	20
Mythic	50
Astral or higher	100

A catch made in any weather other than clear sky is worth ×1.5. Weather opens at Trainer 20.
Field record: the first catch of a species in a weather gives +5. Each species and weather pair counts once per account.

Tactician (attacking only; defending doesn't pay):

Action	Expertise
Arena win	4 to 12 (more against higher rating than yours)
Arena loss	1
Cup fight win	15
Cup reward: champion	300
Cup reward: chest (2nd to 10th)	100
Cup reward: Tokens (11th to 50th)	30

What each grade unlocks

No grade gives "+X% damage". Each one changes a decision or opens a recipe.

Breeder

Grade	Unlock	What it does
2	Inheritance table	When breeding, shows the chance of each gene coming from each parent
4	Second catalyst slot	Uses 2 catalysts on the same breeding (everyone else uses 1)
8	Breeder fertility	Each of your parents has +1 breeding in its lifetime
10	Chosen lineage	On each breeding, you pick which parent one of the 6 genes comes from

Breeder grades 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 don't unlock anything new. See Genetics.

Artisan

Grade	Unlock	What it does
2	Bench notebook	4 failures in a row on the same fusion step and the 5th one is a guaranteed success
4	Recipe: Artisan's Tweezers	Makes the Tweezers: removes a seal with no risk of breaking, up to Epic
6	Recipe: Fusion Core + Salvage	Makes Fusion Cores, and the Core comes back when a pokémon fusion fails
8	Recipes: Catalyst and Master Tweezers	Makes breeding catalysts and Tweezers that work up to Divine
10	Masterpiece	Once a week you arm it, and your next Laboratory fusion (pokémon or item) is a guaranteed success

Researcher

Grade	Unlock	What it does
2	Extended forecast	See 2 more weather windows, in every biome
4	Missing records + Recipe: Weather Bulletin	See, by biome and weather, what you still haven't recorded. Makes the Bulletin
6	Trail	Pick a target species: it shows up 1.5× more in its favorite weather
8	Recipe: Trail Lure	Makes the Lure, and the forecast goes to 4 extra windows
10	Almanac	Forecast for the whole week, in every biome

Trail doesn't work on legendaries, Megas, pseudo-legendaries or Ditto.
The Weather Bulletin adds +2 windows on top of what your grade already gives.

See Weather by biome.

Tactician

Grade	Unlock	What it does
2	Cup presets	3 saved teams to switch cup formats without rebuilding
4	Opponent report	In the Arena, see the nature, ability and item of the defenders drawn for you that day, before attacking
6	Rules table	See who acts first and which moves are super effective, without running the fight
8	Recipe: Cup Dossier	Makes the Dossier
10	Captain	5 presets and the extended report of last week's cup (top 100 and abilities)

Recipes

Every recipe has a weekly quota per account, which resets on Monday. The product is tradable: players without the craft buy it on the Market.

Recipe	Craft and grade	Cost	Weekly quota	Expertise	What the item does
Artisan's Tweezers	Artisan 4	300 Dust + 10,000 gold	1	60	Your next seal removal up to Epic doesn't break
Fusion Core	Artisan 6	400 Dust + 15,000 gold	4	40	The usual Fusion Core
Catalyst	Artisan 8	500 Dust + 5 boosters of any element + 100,000 gold	2	120	You pick which of the 8 catalysts
Master Tweezers	Artisan 8	1,000 Dust + 1 Fusion Core + 1 Mega Stone Fragment + 100,000 gold	2	150	Your next seal removal up to Divine doesn't break
Weather Bulletin	Researcher 4	100 Dust + 20 Ultra Balls + 15,000 gold	2	40	+2 forecast windows in every biome for 7 days
Trail Lure	Researcher 8	150 Dust + 1 Catch Elixir + 25,000 gold	3	60	2 hours of Trail on a species you pick
Cup Dossier	Tactician 8	300 Dust + 40,000 gold	2	60	Opponent report and Rules table for 7 days

Recipe Expertise counts toward the same 1,000 weekly cap.
Crafting is instant: there's no wait.
Tweezers are armed first and only used up when they protect something. Without Tweezers, removing a seal has a 50% chance to break it.
If you buy a Bulletin, Lure, Dossier or Tweezers on the Market without having the craft, you use it from your own Crafts tab.

Switching crafts

A craft is a commitment. Switching costs gold, time and part of your Expertise.

Rule	Value
1st switch	250,000 gold
2nd switch	625,000 gold
3rd switch	1,562,500 gold
4th switch	3,906,250 gold
Cooldown	30 days between one switch and the next
Loss	The craft you leave loses 25% of its Expertise above 600 (above grade 2)

Each switch costs 2.5 times the one before. Safira doesn't lower the fee, the cooldown or the loss.

The first 600 Expertise (grade 2) is never lost.
The craft you leave keeps the rest of its Expertise. If you ever come back to it, it's still there.
Swapping main and secondary costs the same fee, but has no loss. Whatever becomes secondary only counts up to grade 5.

Example. You're a grade 8 Breeder with 9,600 Expertise and switch to Researcher:

the first 600 stay whole;
the 9,000 above lose 25%: 6,750 is left;
the Breeder ends up with 600 + 6,750 = 7,350, exactly grade 7.

A grade 10 Breeder (15,000) who switches keeps 600 + 14,400 × 0.75 = 11,400, grade 8.