Pokebonk Move Learning: Sources, Slots and Matching Upgrades

How do new moves enter my build?

Check the source → meet its conditions → keep a slot free → choose the offered card. Your partner starts with its first kit move in the checked client. Later attacks enter a pool of possible level-up offers; they are not automatically awarded at each threshold.

New-move candidates also exclude already-owned and banished attacks. The generator checks whether the move has a supported implementation. Mew has a separate broad-pool branch; do not assume every partner follows an identical species-learnset rule.

For the ordinary species-line pool, the checked client compares the learnset level with player level × 2.6 + 10. That is an eligibility conversion, not the original Pokémon games’ promise of learning a move at a particular level. The fixed-kit thresholds use the separate rule above.

Which moves are in the three starters’ fixed kits?

These kit entries and thresholds were checked against the official v0.8.55 definitions on 2026-10-26. The later columns show when an attack can enter offers, provided a slot remains available.

Use the starter comparison for each partner’s role and historical kit observations. The table here verifies current kit order, not damage values, best builds or win rates. An evolution-line or shared offer can compete with the fixed-kit moves, so filling every slot early may prevent a later attack from appearing.

How are move slots different from level-up offers?

An improvement to an equipped move uses that move’s existing slot. A vitamin uses the separate vitamin system. When move slots are full, the generator can still offer move improvements and vitamins, but it stops adding new-move candidates. The fourth slot creates capacity; it does not guarantee a fourth attack immediately.

For the two permanent upgrades and dated price evidence, see the Lab fourth-slot FAQ . Plan around the current in-game price rather than an old screenshot.

Which tags should match before I choose an upgrade?

The card’s element, damage class and attack shape answer different questions. A Fire move is not automatically Physical or automatically a projectile. Read the actual move card and the Affects list.

Some general stats have no move-specific Affects list. Its absence does not prove the card is useless. Compare the displayed stat change, your equipped attacks and your immediate survival needs. The level-up choice checklist gives a shorter decision routine; the build planner is a reference tool whose dataset version should be checked separately from this live-client snapshot.

How do statuses connect two moves into a reaction?

The target’s existing status comes first; a compatible incoming hit triggers the reaction. An elemental move name alone is not enough: the relevant status must actually be active when the hit arrives, and the client’s reaction gate must allow it.

These two ordered examples were checked in the current reaction handler. They do not establish that every Water attack always applies Wet or every Fire attack always burns. Consult the move’s actual status chance and effect. Reversing the order is not an equivalent recipe: the checked handler does not turn Wet followed by Fire into Steam.

As planning advice, combine a reliable status setup with a follow-up you can actually obtain and equip. That is a code-informed idea, not a tested damage ranking or a completed reaction-challenge route. The mechanics glossary contains the broader historical v0.7.3 status reference; its older figures have not all been revalidated by this guide.

What should I check when a wanted move never appears?

1. Capacity: is there an empty move slot? Four offers do not create a fourth slot.
2. Eligibility: is it a fixed-kit, species-line or League-shared move, and have its conditions been met? Check Still to get.
3. Ownership and banishment: an already-owned attack is improved through its upgrade card; a banished move is excluded from both new-move and improvement offers.
4. Random selection: an eligible move can still miss the current offers. Treat a planned later attack as a possibility, not a guaranteed reward.

For default refresh, skip and banish inputs, use the controls reference . Avoid banishing a move you want to improve later in the run.

What was verified, and what was not tested?

Checked on 2026-10-26: official version metadata reported v0.8.55, build mvob1c8t. The game client , shared definitions and English UI dictionary establish the offer sources, starter kit order, slot/offer distinction, matching predicates and two reaction branches described here.

Isolated checks exercised the official pool functions with synthetic move records, and the reaction handler with stubbed visual effects. Those checks verify branches, not real-run drop probabilities or performance. Not tested: a live run, purchases, account progression, all species’ move pools, fusions, co-op timing or device behavior. The screenshot remains a separately labelled historical observation. If the official version changes, read the current cards and pool panel before relying on these thresholds.