The passage of real time is a significant factor in Pokemon Pokopia, affecting everything from the spawning of specific Pokemon species, to the progress of construction. However, instead of waiting around for things to get moving along, players can manually change both the date and the time to achieve specific desired goals.
This is a guide to effectively ‘time travel’ in Pokemon Pokopia and the benefits of doing so for the impatient player.
How To Time Travel In Pokemon Pokopia
Begin by saving your game to fix your progression thus far. Next, navigate to the Home screen and System Settings. The game can remain open in the background without any issues arising.
Scroll all the way down on the left to System, then access ‘Date and Time’ about half way down on the right.
First, toggle the switch for ‘Synchronize Clock Using the Internet’ to Off. This will permit you to manually adjust the ‘Current Date and Time’.
From this screen, you can change the date a whole day forward, or wind the clock ahead just a few minutes, depending on your needs.
Each new day in Pokemon Pokopia begins at 5AM rather than midnight, and if that is what you are looking to do specifically, you will need to set the time to that as well.
Back in the game, you will respawn at your house as the map reloads in the background.
Here are the various macro time slots in the game:
Morning: 6AM to 9AM
Day: 9AM to 5PM
Dusk: 5PM to 7PM
Night: 7PM to 6AM
Why Time Travel In Pokemon Pokopia
There are over a dozen Pokemon that spawn exclusively at Night. This time slot is considered to run from 7PM to 6AM. Being able to manually set the time to within that range will allow you to encounter them whenever you please. These nightly Pokemon include:
- Cacturne
- Clefable
- Clefairy
- Cleffa
- Crobat
- Duskull
- Golbat
- Honchkrow
- Hoothoot
- Misdreavus
- Murkrow
- Noctowl
- Oddish
- Umbreon
- Venomoth
- Venonat
- Zubat
As for construction, buildings can take anything between a few minutes to an entire day to complete based on material cost and size, the Pokemon Centers being a prime example of laborious construction.
Impatient players can just turn the clock forward an appropriate number of minutes or hours to quickly have a completed structure in place.
Once you are satisfied with the results of your time travel, be sure to save before you change the date and time back to what it really is, and you can be assured that your progress will not be lost.
That is everything about how and why you should manipulate the progression of time in Pokemon Pokopia.
