Every Pokémon living in your towns has its own Comfort Level, a happiness meter that tells you how much it likes its home. Comfort is the main ingredient of each area’s Environment Level, so learning to read it is the key to progressing in Pokémon Pokopia. The good news: Pokémon tell you exactly what they want if you know where to look.
The Comfort tiers
| Tier | What it means |
|---|---|
| Awesome | The maximum. Nothing left to improve |
| Great | Very happy, one or two details missing |
| Nice | The basics are covered but the space could be better |
| Average | Where most newly arrived Pokémon start |
| Iffy | Something important is missing, often food or the right environment |
| No home | No habitat or house; counts as zero for the Environment Level |
How to see what a Pokémon wants
- Ask it directly. Talk to the Pokémon and choose “How’s your comfort level?”. It answers with its tier and a hint, usually highlighted in orange: a furniture category (decoration, toys, relaxation…), a flavor of food, or a complaint about light or humidity.
- Check the PC. The PC outside each Pokémon Center lists the Comfort of every resident in that area, which is the fastest way to spot who needs attention.
- Open the Pokédex. Once a Pokémon is your friend, the last tab of its entry shows its favorite things, preferred flavor, ideal habitat type (bright, dark, warm, humid…) and favorite weather.
How to raise Comfort
- Give it a proper home. A Pokémon in a house gains Comfort faster than one in an open habitat. Once it lives indoors, the furniture inside matters more than the scenery outside.
- Place its favorite things. Each Pokémon has favorite categories. Put two or three matching items inside its house or right next to its habitat.
- Feed it. Hungry Pokémon are usually the ones stuck at Iffy. Leave a dish of food in its home or give it food directly, ideally with its preferred flavor.
- Match its environment. Add lamps for bright-loving Pokémon, dig into walls or build caves for dark-loving ones, and add ponds, fountains or plants to raise humidity (remove standing water to lower it).
- Talk and give gifts every day. Daily attention, completing its requests and playing its mini-games (quizzes or “Look This Way”) all raise friendship, which makes Comfort grow faster.
A small heart above the Pokémon means what you just did raised its Comfort.
What lowers Comfort
- Items it dislikes placed near its habitat.
- Sharing a space with a Pokémon that wants the opposite conditions, such as a bright-lover next to a dark-lover.
- Removing furniture it was using. Since update 2.0.0, Pokémon notice much faster when you put it back.
- Destroying its habitat: it becomes homeless until you rebuild it (if you rebuild the same habitat nearby, it moves back in on its own).
Comfort vs. friendship
Comfort measures how happy a Pokémon is with its home; friendship measures how close it is to you. They are separate, but friendship speeds up Comfort. At high friendship a Pokémon starts calling you by your name instead of “Ditto”, gives you materials as gifts and, at the maximum, gets a Best Friend mark in the Pokédex.
Tip: a Pokémon with the Scrub specialty, added with Bubbly Basin, cleans every Pokémon you meet while it follows you. Take it on your daily round of conversations for a free Comfort and friendship boost.
