Poffin

Poffins and a Poffin Case

A Poffin (Japanese: ポフィン Poffin) is a type of food introduced in Generation IV. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Pokémon and muffin. However, despite the name, it seems to bear a closer resemblance to a bun or a cookie.

Like Pokéblocks, Poffins are used to raise Pokémon's Cool, Beauty, Cute, Smart, and Tough conditions. These conditions boost the Pokémon's score in the Visual Competition in Pokémon Super Contests. Pokémon favor different flavors of Poffin depending on their Nature.

Obtaining Poffins

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The player receives the Poffin Case from the Pokémon Fan Club Chairman in Hearthome City. Once they have the Poffin Case, they can obtain Poffins.

The primary way to obtain Poffins is to make them at the Poffin House or in the Pokémon Wi-Fi Club.

One time only, the player can receive a level 60 Mild Poffin with 40 smoothness from Jordan at the Hearthome Super Contest Hall. This Poffin uniquely boosts all five Contest conditions at once, which is impossible for Poffins made by the player. In Pokémon Platinum, the player can buy level 32 Poffins with 20 smoothness from Veilstone Department Store B1F. These Poffins always have two flavors.

Making Poffins

Cooking

The player can cook Poffins alone or in a group of up to four players. At the Poffin House, the player can cook alone, or with other players via Nintendo DS wireless communication; in the Pokémon Wi-Fi Club, the player can cook with other players via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

To create Poffins, the players need to stir Poffin batter in a bowl while it cooks. The bowl containing the batter appears on the Nintendo DS system's lower screen, where the player must use their stylus to stir the batter. If the player does not stir the batter quickly enough it burns, but if they stir it too quickly it will spill.

While cooking, an arrow will appear indicating the direction in which the player should stir the mixture (clockwise or counter-clockwise), which disappears once the player begins stirring in that direction. As long as the mixture is not being stirred in the wrong direction, after a short period of time another arrow will appear indicating the new direction to stir; this can be either the same direction as before or the opposite direction. The Poffin will always be cooked after one minute has elapsed, but stirring quickly in the correct direction lowers the cooking time, resulting in stronger flavors in the produced Poffin. Stirring in either direction will prevent the Poffin from burning, but stirring in the wrong direction will not decrease the cooking time. If multiple players are cooking together, they must all work together to spin the same batter.

As the Poffin cooks, the mixture becomes thicker, making it harder to stir, but also harder to spill.

• In the first stage, the flames under the pot are orange and the mixture is pale. It is doughy and easy to spill.
• In the second stage, the flames turn red and the mixture starts to brown. It requires faster stirring to spin at the same speed, making it much harder to spill.
• In the final stage, the flames turn blue and the mixture becomes dark brown. It requires even faster stirring in order to spin, but it is now impossible to spill no matter how fast it is stirred.

Once the batter is fully cooked, the player receives the Poffins they have created. Each player receives a number of identical Poffins equal to the number of players that participated (so cooking alone will only ever produce one Poffin).

Flavors

The Poffin's flavors depend on the flavors of the Berries used to produce it. Each flavor is weakened by another flavor, so the presence of one flavor will decrease the strength of another. The strength of each flavor determines how much a Poffin will affect each of a Pokémon's conditions.

Flavor	Spicy	Sour	Bitter	Sweet	Dry
Weakened by...	Dry	Spicy	Sour	Bitter	Sweet

If each Berry used in the Poffin is different from the others, the flavors in the resulting Pokéblock are calculated as follows:

1. Add together the respective flavors of all Berries being used (sum all spicy values, all dry values, and so on).
2. For each Berry flavor total, subtract the Berry flavor total of that flavor's weakening flavor as per the table below (e.g. spicy is weakened by dry, sour is weakened by spicy, etc.).
3. Subtract 1 from each flavor for every flavor that is negative.
4. Multiply all flavors by 60 divided by the number of seconds taken to cook, then subtract the number of times the mixture was burned or spilled. Round to the nearest integer.
5. Set any flavors that are now negative to 0.

If two of the same Berry are used, or all flavors are 0 (due to a large number of burns or spills), the Poffin will instead become a Foul Poffin, which boosts three random conditions by 2.

Despite being displayed using two colons, the time displayed at end of cooking is actually minutes, seconds, hundreths of a second. However, the game only records the time elapsed to 1/30th of a second, simply converting that value into hundreths of a second.

Base flavor levels when cooking alone

When cooking alone, because only one Berry is used, each Berry can be viewed as having a base strength for each Poffin flavor, which is then boosted by cooking faster than the maximum and decreased by spilling or burning the mixture. Since flavors that are already negative can only become more negative, they can be treated as 0, even though this isn't performed until later in the algorithm.

Poffin levels can be improved by making the Poffin in a shorter time, given by the formula:

File:Poffin Level Formula.png, where B is the base level, T is the time taken, and M is the sum of burns and spills.

For example, when cooking alone an Aguav Berry has a base bitterness of 14 (other flavors have a base strength of 0). This means completing in 60 seconds with 0 burns and spills will yield a level 14 Poffin: 14 × 1 = 14. If, however, the Poffin was created in 40 seconds, it would be 14 × 3 ÷ 2 = 21.

Base flavor levels

Berry		Poffin		Spicy	Dry	Sweet	Bitter	Sour
	Cheri Berry		Spicy Poffin	9	0	0	0	0
	Chesto Berry		Dry Poffin	0	9	0	0	0
	Pecha Berry		Sweet Poffin	0	0	9	0	0
	Rawst Berry		Bitter Poffin	0	0	0	9	0
	Aspear Berry		Sour Poffin	0	0	0	0	9
	Leppa Berry		Spicy Poffin	9	0	0	0	0
	Oran Berry		Dry Poffin	0	9	0	0	0
	Persim Berry		Sweet Poffin	0	0	9	0	0
	Lum Berry		Bitter Poffin	0	0	0	9	0
	Sitrus Berry		Sour Poffin	0	0	0	0	9
	Figy Berry		Spicy Poffin	14	0	0	0	0
	Wiki Berry		Dry Poffin	0	14	0	0	0
	Mago Berry		Sweet Poffin	0	0	14	0	0
	Aguav Berry		Bitter Poffin	0	0	0	14	0
	Iapapa Berry		Sour Poffin	0	0	0	0	14
	Razz Berry		Dry Poffin	0	9	0	0	0
	Bluk Berry		Sweet Poffin	0	0	9	0	0
	Nanab Berry		Bitter Poffin	0	0	0	9	0
	Wepear Berry		Sour Poffin	0	0	0	0	9
	Pinap Berry		Spicy Poffin	9	0	0	0	0
	Pomeg Berry		Spicy-Bitter Poffin	8	0	0	8	0
	Kelpsy Berry		Dry-Sour Poffin	0	8	0	0	8
	Qualot Berry		Spicy-Sweet Poffin	8	0	8	0	0
	Hondew Berry		Dry-Bitter Poffin	0	8	0	8	0
	Grepa Berry		Sweet-Sour Poffin	0	0	8	0	8
	Tamato Berry		Spicy-Dry Poffin	9	9	0	0	0
	Cornn Berry		Dry-Sweet Poffin	0	9	9	0	0
	Magost Berry		Sweet-Bitter Poffin	0	0	9	9	0
	Rabuta Berry		Bitter-Sour Poffin	0	0	0	9	9
	Nomel Berry		Spicy-Sour Poffin	9	0	0	0	9
	Spelon Berry		Spicy-Dry Poffin	19	9	0	0	0
	Pamtre Berry		Dry-Sweet Poffin	0	19	9	0	0
	Watmel Berry		Sweet-Bitter Poffin	0	0	19	9	0
	Durin Berry		Bitter-Sour Poffin	0	0	0	19	9
	Belue Berry		Sour-Spicy Poffin	9	0	0	0	19
	Occa Berry		Spicy-Sweet Poffin	13	0	8	0	0
	Passho Berry		Dry-Bitter Poffin	0	13	0	8	0
	Wacan Berry		Sweet-Sour Poffin	0	0	13	0	8
	Rindo Berry		Bitter-Spicy Poffin	8	0	0	13	0
	Yache Berry		Sour-Dry Poffin	0	8	0	0	13
	Chople Berry		Spicy-Bitter Poffin	13	0	0	8	0
	Kebia Berry		Dry-Sour Poffin	0	13	0	0	8
	Shuca Berry		Sweet-Spicy Poffin	8	0	13	0	0
	Coba Berry		Bitter-Dry Poffin	0	8	0	13	0
	Payapa Berry		Sour-Sweet Poffin	0	0	8	0	13
	Tanga Berry		Spicy Poffin	18	0	0	0	0
	Charti Berry		Dry Poffin	0	18	0	0	0
	Kasib Berry		Sweet Poffin	0	0	18	0	0
	Haban Berry		Bitter Poffin	0	0	0	18	0
	Colbur Berry		Sour Poffin	0	0	0	0	18
	Babiri Berry		Spicy-Dry Poffin	14	9	0	0	0
	Chilan Berry		Dry-Sweet Poffin	0	14	9	0	0
	Liechi Berry		Sweet-Spicy Poffin	18	0	28	0	0
	Ganlon Berry		Bitter-Dry Poffin	0	18	0	28	0
	Salac Berry		Sour-Sweet Poffin	0	0	18	0	28
	Petaya Berry		Spicy-Bitter Poffin	28	0	0	18	0
	Apicot Berry		Dry-Sour Poffin	0	28	0	0	18
	Lansat Berry		Spicy-Sweet Poffin	18	0	18	0	0
	Starf Berry		Spicy-Sweet Poffin	18	0	18	0	0
	Enigma Berry		Spicy-Dry Poffin	29	9	0	0	0
	Micle Berry		Dry-Sweet Poffin	0	29	9	0	0
	Custap Berry		Sweet-Bitter Poffin	0	0	29	9	0
	Jaboca Berry		Bitter-Sour Poffin	0	0	0	29	9
	Rowap Berry		Sour-Spicy Poffin	9	0	0	0	29

Level

The level of a Poffin is equal to the strength of its strongest flavor. For example, a Poffin with 8 sweetness and 12 spicyness will be Level 12.

Poffin types

Unless the Poffin is a Foul Poffin or Rich Poffin, the name of the Poffin depends on the flavors present.

If there is only one flavor present, the Poffin will be named after that flavor. If there are two flavors, the Poffin will be named after both flavors, with the stronger flavor first; if both flavors have the same strength, they are prioritized in the following order: Spicy, Dry, Sweet, Bitter, Sour. These Poffins are colored based on their primary flavor, with spinkles of the second flavor's color for two-flavored Poffins.

If there are three flavors, the Poffin is a Rich Poffin, which is a medium gray color. If there are four flavors, the Poffin is an Overripe Poffin, which is a light gray color.

If a Poffin is created using two of the same Berry, or all of its flavors end up being 0, it becomes a Foul Poffin, which is black in color. A Foul Poffin has three random flavors with 2 strength, ignoring the flavors of the constituent Berries.

If the Poffin is Level 50 or higher, it is a Mild Poffin. A Mild Poffin is gold with yellow-white sprinkles on top.

Smoothness

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See also: Smoothness → List of Berries' smoothness

The smoothness of a Poffin is determined by the average smoothness of the Berries that went into making it and the number n of people who participated in making it, as shown below:

Smoothness = ( ( Smoothness1 + ... + Smoothnessn ) / n ) - n

The result of this calculation is rounded down. The maximum value for a Poffin's smoothness is 99.

The Berries of each smoothness are listed below.

Smoothness	Berries
20	Leppa, Oran, Persim, Lum, Sitrus, Razz, Bluk, Nanab, Wepear, Pinap, Pomeg, Kelpsy, Qualot, Hondew, Grepa
25	Cheri, Chesto, Pecha, Rawst, Aspear, Figy, Wiki, Mago, Aguav, Iapapa
30	Tamato, Cornn, Magost, Rabuta, Nomel, Occa, Passho, Wacan, Rindo, Yache, Chople, Kebia, Shuca, Coba, Payapa
35	Spelon, Pamtre, Watmel, Durin, Belue, Tanga, Charti, Kasib, Haban, Colbur, Babiri, Chilan
40	Liechi, Ganlon, Salac, Petaya, Apicot
50	Lansat, Starf
60	Enigma, Micle, Custap, Jaboca, Rowap

Example

Suppose a Poffin is created using a Bluk Berry, Nanab Berry, and Wepear Berry.

Consider the case where cooking takes the maximum 60 seconds, without spilling or burning.

Step	Spicy	Dry	Sweet	Bitter	Sour
Bluk Berry	0	10	10	0	0
Nanab Berry	0	0	10	10	0
Wepear Berry	0	0	0	10	10
Sum over all Berries	0	10	20	20	10
Subtract weakening flavors	-10	-10	0	10	10
Decrease by the number of negative flavors (2)	-12	-12	-2	8	8
Multiply by the cooking time bonus (60/60 = 1)	-12	-12	-2	8	8
Subtract the number of spills & burns (0)	-12	-12	-2	8	8
Set all negatives to 0	0	0	0	8	8

Each player will receive three Level 8 Bitter-Sour Poffins with 17 smoothness.

On the other hand, if cooking were to be completed in 40 seconds, the flavors would be as follows.

Step	Spicy	Dry	Sweet	Bitter	Sour
Multiply by the cooking time bonus (60/40 = 1.5)	-18	-18	-3	12	12
Subtract the number of spills & burns (0)	-18	-18	-3	12	12
Set all negatives to 0	0	0	0	12	12

Each player will receive three Level 12 Bitter-Sour Poffins with 17 smoothness.

Feeding Poffins

Condition

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When a Pokémon is fed a Poffin, its Contest conditions are normally increased by an amount equal to the strength of the corresponding flavor. If a Pokémon likes a flavor that flavor's boost is multiplied by 1.1, whereas if it dislikes the flavor it is multiplied by 0.9.

A Pokémon's liked and disliked flavor are determined by its nature. Some Pokémon neither like nor dislike any flavors.

No preferences ↘		Disliked flavor
		Spicy	Dry	Sweet	Bitter	Sour
Liked flavor	Spicy	Bashful	Adamant	Brave	Naughty	Lonely
	Dry	Modest	Docile	Quiet	Rash	Mild
	Sweet	Timid	Jolly	Hardy	Naive	Hasty
	Bitter	Calm	Careful	Sassy	Quirky	Gentle
	Sour	Bold	Impish	Relaxed	Lax	Serious

Sheen

Main article: Sheen

Whenever a Pokémon eats a Poffin, that Poffin's smoothness is added to the Pokémon's sheen, up to a maximum of 255 sheen. Pokémon initially have 0 sheen. If a Pokémon has 255 sheen, it can no longer eat any Poffins. Sheen is permanent and cannot be reset.

If a Pokémon eats a Poffin that would cause its sheen to exceed 255, instead its sheen becomes 255 (the Pokémon's condition is still increased as normal). For example, a Poffin created using only a Wiki Berry will have a smoothness of 24, meaning that a Pokémon could consume a maximum of 11 Poffins made from single Wiki Berries.

Gallery

Flavor	Spicy	Dry	Sweet	Bitter	Sour
Spicy
Dry
Sweet
Bitter
Sour

Foul	Rich	Overripe	Mild

In side games

Pokémon GO

A Poffin in Pokémon GO

In Pokémon GO, a Poffin can be fed to a Buddy Pokémon for the following effects:

• Reach an Excited Mood
• Max out its hunger meter (walk with the player for six hours)
• Max out daily affection for feeding treats (up to six hearts)

Description

Games Description GO Feed this special treat to your buddy, and it'll happily join you on the map for an extended duration.

Acquisition

Poffins can be purchased in the Shop for 100 each. They are also obtainable as rewards in some paid Special Research events.

In the anime

Poffins in the anime

In the anime, Poffins were introduced in Oh Do You Know The Poffin Plan!, in which Dawn saw a poster for a Poffin cooking class and convinced Ash and Brock to take the class with her. She told them that Poffins are snacks made from Berries and Ash quickly associated them with Hoenn's Pokéblocks. Dawn also mentioned that Poffins are given to Pokémon to keep them healthy and looking good and revealed that she used to help her mother when she was making Poffins.

The class was taught by Forsythia, who explained that in order to make Poffins, one has to put the Berries in a pot of cold water and turn the heat up while stirring without interruptions, since the constant stirring is what gives Poffins their flavor. Brock wrote down these instructions on a notebook, which helped him when he and the others were making Poffins by themselves. Dawn used the Kitchen Timer on her Pokétch to time her cooking, explaining to Ash that Poffins may burn if kept on the heat too long.

A plate of burnt Poffins

Once Dawn's Poffin dough was fully cooked down, she poured it into the mold, with Brock watching closely and taking notes. Unlike Dawn and Brock, Ash had trouble stirring and ended up with a plate full of burnt Poffins. When the group brought their Pokémon out of their Poké Balls to eat the Poffins, Brock's Pokémon seemed to like his Poffins, while Ash's Pokémon rejected his burnt Poffins to eat the ones Forsythia had made. Dawn's Pokémon did not like the Poffins she had prepared and she became confused since she had used the recipe Johanna always uses when making Poffins for her Glameow. Although her Pokémon disliked the snacks, Meowth from Team Rocket loved it. Later, Dawn tried a different recipe she made especially for her Pokémon, and this time Piplup, Buneary, and Pachirisu all approved the taste of her Poffins.

Dawn giving Poffins to her Pokémon

Since then, Dawn has often been seen giving Poffins to her Pokémon, either to motivate them during training sessions or to compensate them for their efforts in Pokémon Contests. Pachirisu is particularly fond of them and its love of Poffins has been featured in multiple episodes. In Settling a Not-So-Old Score!, Pachirisu came back to its senses after the scent of a Poffin Dawn had tossed in the air captured its attention. In Another One Gabites the Dust!, it started a rivalry with Ursula's Gabite after she stepped on its Poffin. Ursula offered one of her own Poffins to Pachirisu, but it refused, causing Ursula to take offense.

Dawn was also seen making Poffins in Hungry for the Good Life! during her stay at Mr. Backlot's mansion. A gluttonous Swinub living in the Trophy Garden found her Poffins to be delicious and could not get enough of them. It was later caught by Dawn. Dawn's Poffins also appeared in Giratina and the Sky Warrior, where Dawn gave Shaymin some of her Poffins, which Shaymin enjoyed. However, they seemed to cause Shaymin to need to release smoke through its mouth after swallowing.

Gallery

Making Poffins	Poffin dough	Poffin mold

In the manga

Poffin cooking in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Diamond is a natural at making high-quality Poffins. He provided a batch for Platinum in Perturbed by Pachirisu when she was preparing to enter a Normal Rank Coolness Contest with her Prinplup. The Poffins he made increased Prinplup's Cool condition, which was commented on by the judges. Dexter even noted that the mixture used to produce such good Poffins was very difficult and wondered who was the maker.

Trivia

• For Drifloon On the Wind!, Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Encyclopedia is about Poffin-making. He writers this senryū about it: 「かきまぜろ　こがさずこぼさず　ポフィンづくり」 "Stirring without burning or spilling; that's Poffin-making."
• If the player cooks a Poffin without stirring, it will burn 19 times.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 寶芬 Bóufān * 麵寶 Mihnbóu * Mandarin 寶芬 / 宝芬 Bǎofēn * 麵寶 / 面宝 Miànbǎo * Finnish Poffini French Poffin German Knurspe Italian Poffin Korean 포핀 Poffin Polish Poffinka Portuguese Poffin Spanish Latin America Poffin Spain Pokocho Vietnamese Bánh nướng

See also

• Pokéblock
• Poké Puff
• Poké Bean

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