Beginner Tips

See also: Guides

• You can press X to speed up battles.

• Know the different types of Food and the shops that sell them.

• Use the stylus to track a hidden Yo-kai.

• Use Passwords and QR Codes to make the game easier.

• You can get a strong Rank A Yo-kai (reuknight) through fusing some early game yo-kai (Helmsman and Armsman). They can be found in the Old Mansion in Blossom Heights and both love vegetables.

• Snartle, the demon that attacks you for failing to use the crosswalk button, gets stronger the higher your watch rank is. If you plan to catch him, you might consider trying to beat him earlier rather than later. (His favorite food is meat). Alternatively there is a weaker version post-game that you can catch but he's a bit harder to find.

• Draggie, a yo-kai you get near the end of the game, has an ability that lets your entire team gain more experience. If you evolve him he loses this ability and you can't get another until the post-game Infinite Inferno. So if you want to use him for training hold off on evolving him.

• There are two really useful skills that you will want throughout your gameplay, Popularity and Greed. Cupistol and Shmoopie have Popularity, which makes befriending easier. Cynake and Wantson have Greed, which increases item drop rates.

• Players can feed Yo-kai on the enemy team once per battle. So if there are two Yo-kai you want on the enemy team you can feed both of them to increase your befriend chances.

• Betterfly and Appak are 2 other good Rank A Yo-kai players can obtain early in battle. Betterfly can be obtained through by fusing 2 Enerfly while Appak is evolved from Walkappa at level 32.

• Understand Attitude for building stats, if you're planning to bring a Yo-kai in your team permanently, get them the book they need ASAP, and use it as early as possible.

• When you're purifying the inspirit that locks your Yo-kai in a glass orb: tap around on it in different areas until you hear the tapping make a different noise. If you hit the weak spot you can purify the inspirit much faster.

• Snartle immediately focuses his attacks on whatever Yo-kai is using their Soultimate. When fighting him, heal up before using a Soultimate.

• When fusing 2 Yo-kai, the level of the resultant Yo-kai is the levels of the 2 parent Yo-kai added together then divided by 2.