Pokebonk Daily Mutation: All 4 Mutations, Stardust & Rewards

The Daily Mutation is a Classic run with a different twist every day, the same for everyone. Every player gets the same map, the same world and the same mutation. Find it in the main menu’s first row, next to Survival. You can play it as many times as you want: your best run of the day counts (how far you got, then your KOs).

This guide uses the official v0.8.79 client’s English release notes and interface text, read on 2026-10-29. We have not finished every mutation in a test run.

The four Daily Mutations

The Daily Mutation has its own difficulty: you do not pick one. The release note calls the last mutation Glass, while other interface text uses Crystal (for example the Crystal Frame), so you may see both names.

During a run you can see the active mutation: a banner at the start of each zone, its medallion next to the top plate, and in Metronome a countdown with each move swap shown large.

Rules

• Any League Pokémon can be used.
• No Bag and no co-op.
• Unlimited retries; the best run of the day counts.
• Save and quit works: from the pause menu, save the run and continue it later exactly as it was.
• An account is required to enter the Daily Mutation leaderboard.
• A Daily Mutation win does not count as a “win” for Looks challenges, which need a Classic victory.

Leaderboard

Each mutation has a daily leaderboard, and you can also view yesterday’s and the day before’s. Ranking is by how far you get, then KOs.

Stardust and rewards

Stardust is paid once a day:

Each mutation also has rewards you keep:

Frames you have already earned appear in the Frames tab of the avatar picker.

Johto Daily Mutations (from November 5)

Announcement id 21 (November 4, 2026) adds two Johto Daily Mutations from November 5, on Nightmare and on the Johto maps. Not playtested:

• Day and Night: at night, Pokémon run faster and hit much harder.
• Pokérus: you gain more experience, but each defeat infects nearby wild Pokémon and makes them stronger.
• Their rewards (title, frame and background) can only be earned with a Johto Pokémon.

Tips

• Glass: with a quarter of your HP, play the first zone carefully and favour range and defensive picks until your build is online.
• Candy Fever: the extra experience comes early, but enemies scale 60% faster, so do not slow down to farm.
• Dynamax Wilds: wild Pokémon are slower but tougher; keep moving and use area damage. Bosses are unchanged.
• Metronome: your first move and fusions stay fixed, so build around your first move and do not rely on a specific later move.

These are suggestions based on the rules above, not tested strategies.

What we have not confirmed

• The client text does not state the reset time or the order the four mutations rotate in. Check the countdown on the Daily Mutation card in the menu.
• Season 3 (v0.9, November 4) rebalances Pokémon and reworks fusions, which can change how each mutation plays. See the Season 3 guide .

Sources & verification

• Official client v0.8.79 (build mvtvh36e): English release notes and interface text, read on 2026-10-29 from pokebonk.com. Version from the official version file .
• The official news feed has no separate post about the Daily Mutation as of 2026-10-29.

This is a client-text check, not a full playtest of every mutation. Spotted a change? support@pokebonkwiki.com

Related guides

• Classic vs Survival
• Pokebonk co-op and multiplayer
• Pokebonk updates and patch notes
• Pokebonk Season 3 (v0.9)