Choose a route and prepare for its Guardian
Read node rewards, preserve your team, and plan through eight trials in each region.
Every route spends something: health, a chance to recruit, or an opportunity to upgrade. Choose the path that solves your team’s immediate problem while leaving a way through the next encounter.
Know what the symbols offer
Wild battles and trainers award levels. Recruitment nodes offer three possible companions. Item caches give equipment choices, and Move Training raises a move’s level.
The final fork includes a Healing Center. Its recovery choices let you focus healing on one companion or spread it across the team. Read the choice before confirming.
Explore a mystery
Mystery nodes draw from six events, including an abandoned nest, a hidden spring, and a wandering elder. Read each choice and its outcome: a discovery can heal the team, grant levels, train a move, or offer an item.
Mystery level rewards can trigger evolution and record the new form in your collection. The game shows an evolution reveal with the old and new forms and their changed stats.
Work backward from the Guardian
The Guardian preview reveals its lineup, artwork, and levels. Ordinary trainers do not reveal their full team in advance. Use the information you have to arrange your own lead and decide whether your coverage is ready.
An extra battle can help a companion reach its next evolution, but that is only useful if the team survives. Compare the immediate health cost with the level reward.
Treat each biome as a fresh planning problem
There are eight trials per region and seven regions in the current game. Biome conditions and encounter levels vary as a region progresses.
Guardian victory restores the whole team before the next biome. Review the new map and recruitment possibilities rather than assuming the previous trial’s best order will still be best.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions
Can I inspect a Guardian before fighting?
Yes. Its team and levels are shown in the Guardian preview.
Are there 56 trials in one expedition?
There are 56 trials across seven regions; each region has its own sequence of eight.