What is Sneaky Snacking?

When your Pokemon performs a help, it will find either berries or ings and put them in its inventory (inv). Every help also has a chance to trigger the Pokemon's main skill. When you tap a Pokemon, it will drop its inv onto the ground and use any stored skill triggers. Berrymon and ingmon can store one skill trigger, skillmon can store two.

Each Pokemon's inv has a certain capacity, called the Carry Limit, and you can see this number on the Pokemon's summary screen. Once your Pokemon has reached its Carry Limit, it stops finding ings and checking for skill triggers. Instead, every time it would perform a help, it only finds berries and it feeds them directly to Snorlax. **This is called Sneaky Snacking.**

When your Pokemon Sneaky Snacks, you'll get a pop-up upon opening the game or returning to the home screen telling you how much strength your Snorlax gained this way. This usually happens when you don't check the game for many hours, like overnight, but you can force it to happen by intentionally not emptying a Pokemon's inv.

Why is this useful?

For ingmon and skillmon, this is not useful because it prevents them from doing their job, which is finding ings and triggering their skill, respectively.

For berrymon, this can be useful. Instead of sometimes finding berries and sometimes finding ings, it will only find berries each time. This means it will find more berries in a period of time than it would if it wasn't Sneaky Snacking.

Should I always be Sneaky Snacking my berrymon?

Not necessarily.

1. You may want the ings it finds. These ings can be helpful with cooking.
2. You may want the skill procs.
3. Low level berrymon do not benefit from sneaky snacking. Berry strength increases with a Pokemon's level. Filler ings provide more value than berries at a low level. The level this changes varies by species but it is usually in the 20s.

Misconception About Inventory Up Subskills and Sneaky Snacking

While it is true that berrymon with Inventory subskills take longer to start Sneaky Snacking, the actual impact of this is negligible for two simple reasons.

1. The majority of helps needed to fill the berrymon's additional inv will still be berries.
2. Once a berrymon fills its inv and begins Sneaky Snacking, the additional inv becomes entirely irrelevant. As such, Inventory Up subskills should NOT be viewed as a negative when evaluating berrymon.