#yokwai watch 2

[grumpydevilfellow]

After two days of on and off spawn hunting and resetting my game multiple times I finally got BIG. DADDY. 

Yall I’m sorry I gotta rant, but this guy is REALLY hard to get like REAAALLY HARD. Because he literally only spawns in one area in the entire game (during the day not at night; made that mistake and every possible other one I could while trying to get this fucker) AND because he shares his only spawn area with THREE OTHER YOKAI so if you find the wrong one you gotta save beforehand, reset the game, go to the spot again, and hope your yokai watch is picking up a Rank A yokai in the area because that when you know it’s Papa Bolt. to top that off there’s also the chance that area won’t spawn anything at all if you enter it! Which of course results in another reset.

So you literally have a 1/5 chance of finding this dude in his only spawn area. You’d think that would be enough of a challenge right? Oh ho ho we’re just getting started... It’s not enough to just find Yokai and throw some sort of enslavement ball at them no the Yokai have to WANT to be a part of your team in other words, you gotta befriend them and befriending Yokai is quite easily the most frustrating mechanic in the game that really just deadass relies on luck and the stars aligning even for the weaker Yokai.

You gotta have a Yokai on your team with the Popularity ability which makes befriending enemy Yokai more likely. There’s only 5 Yokai in the game with this ability, but realistically you really only have the option of picking 2 out of those 5 for reasons I don’t feel like explaining but will. Just know your real choices are either Cupistol who evolves w the same ability or Shmoopie who evolves w the same ability. Then there’s like one more but he’s S rank and probably only attainable end game or through a lucky draw. So yea 5 theoretically but realistically you’re picking Cupistol or Shmoopie and that’s just your teammate forever if you want more Yokai. (at least their evolve forms are cute to look at)

Speaking of which having the Popularity ability isn’t enough along with the other usual methods used for befriending Yokai. Turns out you need a Superstar Soul that you equip any Yokai you want with and its ability is basically Popularity, but better like oh my god give me a break game. So fine how do I get this Freddy Fazbear ass soul? You gotta do PART 1 of some girl makeover mission then locate the same girl in a different part of the huge ass map, do PART 2 which involves finding a classmate in a ridiculously hidden spot you will def need a guide to even figure out they’re there, and then after completing the mission you get a Love Scepter item which only use is to literally be fused with Shmoopie and make them evolve. So you go to the fusion guy and have him fuse Shmoopie with the stick to make them evolve into Pinkipoo and then you gotta take your new and fairly difficult to evolve yokai, and essentially fucking destroy it and turn it into a soul via the soul guy not to be confused with the fusion guy who does a totally different thing. (rolls eyes) Anyways once you get the soul of one Pinkipoo you gotta fuse that soul with the soul of a Cupistol so you’re thinking hmm this requires fusion right? Better go to the fusion guy. Welp these are souls. Souls aren’t his bag. Fusion is; even tho you’re literally tryin to fuse something right now. So finish wasting that trip, go back to the soul guy. F U S E the Pinkipoo and Cupistol souls together and boom you got the superstar soul. Good Job Superstar! ( I don’t feel good...)

Now you may be thinking at this point 2 things. One may be “Uh what happened to trying to get Papa Bolt why tf do you have to do all of this unrelated stuff and are you done and can get back to trying to get him?”. To answer that question, no not even remotely lmao you want that rare Yokai? Suffer for it.

Your other question may be “OK so you worked hard to get the Freddy Fazbear soul. Got it. Does it stack with the Popularity ability you mentioned before?” And to answer that question...No one really fucking knows. We know Popularity by itself does not stack IE having 2 Cupistols on your team increasing your chances of winning over enemy Yokai, but as for Popularity and Superstar Soul being on the same team and thus stacking abilities and increasing your chances of befriending enemy Yokai, we just don’t know. A bunch of Japanese sites swear up and down they don’t stack, but as far as us American users know, no one has datamined the game and given the exact percentages over this whole deal.

Thing is tho, after all the shit you’ve done and how hard it is to even find Papa Bolt alone, are you gonna risk it? Are you gonna take the chance? Of course not. So whether or not they actually stack is neither here or there. You’re gonna do it anyways for your sanity alone. lmao

Next you gotta buy Papa Bolt’s favorite food like a bunch of it. Turns out his favorite food is suishi and the version that helps you befriend him the most is 7 bucks a piece so get that wallet out. After that you gotta design a team based around catching Papa Bolt which involved me doing a bunch of trial n error battles of finding out what kills him, but doesn’t kill him too quickly so I can do all the befriending options before I seal the deal. Needless to say that process was frustrating.

Would’ve been even more frustrating if I hadn’t made Chummer (cool looking Shark yokai) essentially my Pikachu for the entire game. He has some really great abilities for catching Yokai the two mainly being his Ultimate, Sharkskin Shield, which raises his defense and draws in all enemy attacks and his Inspiriting move (this move which all yokai have, places a curse or blessing on other yokai) Loitering which makes enemy yokai loaf around and literally do nothing for a turn. So my strat for Chummer was make him fairly tanky while still having a strong attack and change his nature to Twisted so he’ll inspirit enemy Yokai with his Loitering curse frequently and keep them docile/inactive.

That worked out really well in my favor for catching Papa Bolt because you HAVE to inspirit him with a curse in order to increase your chances of befriending him. When you inspirit a Yokai and gain the second Yokai watch, you can activate the Poke feature which involves using your stylus to literally poke the enemy Yokai repeatedly for different effects. You then gotta poke around until you find the spot on the Yokai that puts out heart emojis and then hammer away at that spot for an increase in your chances of befriending them. (no it was never the crotch...)

Keep in mind you have to do all of this while not accidentally killing them because your Yokai are too strong...

Inspirit him, poke him (pray you can find the right spot before the poke timer runs out or you gotta start all over and it will be in a new spot this time...), practically shove sushi down his mouth whenever the item button for enemies isn’t on cooldown, while making sure you got Popularity and Superstar soul on your team. I had to redo my equip items and only equip my attackers with items that boosted defense and drained attack because you literally gotta draw the battle out as long as possible and I was killing Papa Bolt too fast. I had already swapped out my team to Chummer, another yokai who mainly healed/had fairly weak attacks, and Baddude who has a ridiculously high attack but misses frequently. I chose Baddude because his attacks miss a lot and his ultimate inspirits meaning I’d have control over when Papa Bolt gets inspirited vs waiting on Chummer to do it which might still take forever even tho his nature is literally to do that first. But Baddudes ultimate also does dmg and that wasn’t working cuz I’d still kill them too fast. So I just ended up waiting on Chummer and was considering swapping out Baddude all together having to raise the perf yokai to take his place. It would’ve been a defensive guarding yokai with a good inspirit ability that like lowers atk or makes them loaf idk.

Turns out I didn’t have to do any of that though because I paused my game when I found Papa Bolt for like the 35th time while I was at work, got home like 8 hours later, opened the game and just ended up befriending him! Heck yea it’s been a wild ride and I’m glad I got him. Def gonna have to work on getting a guarding yokai just so this situation doesn’t happen again. Lmao