Smoothness

Smoothness (Japanese: なめらかさ smoothness) is a property of Berries in the Generation III, IV, and VIII core series games. It affects the feel (Japanese: こまかさ fineness) rating of Pokéblocks and the smoothness of Poffins made from them.

Smoothness is unrelated to the purely non-functional firmness property which is visible on Berry tags; for example, while the Pecha Berry and Chesto Berry both have a smoothness of 25, the Pecha Berry is Very Soft while the Chesto Berry is Super Hard. The smoothness of a Berry is not directly visible in-game.

Pokéblocks and Poffins

The feel or smoothness of a Pokéblock or Poffin is equal to the average smoothness of the Berries used (rounded down), minus the number of Berries used (i.e. the number of people participating). This can be expressed as the following formula (where n is the number of Berries used):

$${\displaystyle \mathrm {feel} =\left\lfloor {\dfrac {\sum ^{n}\mathrm {smoothness} }{n}}\right\rfloor -n}$$

When a Pokémon eats a Pokéblock or Poffin, that food item's feel or smoothness is added to the consumer's sheen, up to a maximum of 255. A Pokémon with 255 sheen cannot eat any more Pokéblocks or Poffins in the Generation III and IV games (in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Pokéblocks are not affected by sheen).

List of Berries' smoothness

	Berry	Smoothness
		III	IV/VIII
	Cheri Berry	25	25
	Chesto Berry	25	25
	Pecha Berry	25	25
	Rawst Berry	25	25
	Aspear Berry	25	25
	Leppa Berry	20	20
	Oran Berry	20	20
	Persim Berry	20	20
	Lum Berry	20	20
	Sitrus Berry	20	20
	Figy Berry	25	25
	Wiki Berry	25	25
	Mago Berry	25	25
	Aguav Berry	25	25
	Iapapa Berry	25	25
	Razz Berry	20	20
	Bluk Berry	20	20
	Nanab Berry	20	20
	Wepear Berry	20	20
	Pinap Berry	20	20
	Pomeg Berry	20	20
	Kelpsy Berry	20	20
	Qualot Berry	20	20
	Hondew Berry	20	20
	Grepa Berry	20	20
	Tamato Berry	30	30
	Cornn Berry	30	30
	Magost Berry	30	30
	Rabuta Berry	30	30
	Nomel Berry	30	30
	Spelon Berry	70	35
	Pamtre Berry	70	35
	Watmel Berry	70	35
	Durin Berry	70	35
	Belue Berry	70	35
	Occa Berry		30
	Passho Berry		30
	Wacan Berry		30
	Rindo Berry		30
	Yache Berry		30
	Chople Berry		30
	Kebia Berry		30
	Shuca Berry		30
	Coba Berry		30
	Payapa Berry		30
	Tanga Berry		35
	Charti Berry		35
	Kasib Berry		35
	Haban Berry		35
	Colbur Berry		35
	Babiri Berry		35
	Chilan Berry		35
	Liechi Berry	80	40
	Ganlon Berry	80	40
	Salac Berry	80	40
	Petaya Berry	80	40
	Apicot Berry	80	40
	Lansat Berry	30	50
	Starf Berry	30	50
	Enigma Berry	40	60
	Pumkin Berry	65
	Drash Berry	65
	Eggant Berry	65
	Strib Berry	85
	Chilan Berry	85
	Nutpea Berry	5
	Ginema Berry	70
	Kuo Berry	5
	Yago Berry	65
	Touga Berry	65
	Niniku Berry	85
	Topo Berry	85
	Micle Berry		60
	Custap Berry		60
	Jaboca Berry		60
	Rowap Berry		60
	Roseli Berry		35

Trivia

• In the Generation III games, there is an unused string for tasty (Japanese: うまい tasty) between the strings for the five flavors and feel in the Pokéblock Case. In the debug version, it is used to refer to the feel rating of a Pokéblock in the debug menu. The internal data of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl also refer to the smoothness of Berries as taste.
• The lowest possible smoothness that can be achieved is through using 4 players to blend a Pokéblock using exclusively Nutpea or Kuo berries in the Generation III games, creating a Pokéblock with a feel of 1. Due to using multiple of the same type of berry, however, the resulting Pokéblock will be black and have 3 random flavors of strength 2.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 順口度 Seuhnháudouh Mandarin 順口度 Shùnkǒudù * 润口度 Rùnkǒudù * 滑潤度 Huárùndù * French OnctuositéBDSP Onct.RSEDPPt German WeichheitBDSP WürzeRSEDPPt Italian MorbidezzaBDSP FibraRSEDPPt Korean 부드러움 Budeureo-um Spanish SuavidadBDSP MasaRSEDPPt

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