With the Pokémon party list open, pressing down on the Left Stick/Right Stick causes the RNG state to advance by +1 with each press. This works similarly in the Pokémon, but you must wait for each animation to play completely. To advance quickly, using the party list is recommended since it is possible to press the sticks rapidly without having to wait for animations.

If you are performing a RNG manipulation in Rain/Thunderstorm, you should be doing your final advances on the party list menu. This is because backing out of the summary screen adds extra rain advances that are not predicted by owoow.

Once you click the stick on a frame, you are on the next frame. For example, if you want to advance from frame 0 to frame 3, you would click 3 times to get from 0 to 1, then 1 to 2, then 2 to 3. You would not click the stick at all on frame 3 because this will consume that RNG state which you wanted for your Pokémon.

Use Cases

• Advancing in a predictable manner to reach a specific RNG state/advance (~1-300 advancements away).
• Used in tandem with menu close prediction to hit your target frame.

Player movement involves moving the control stick and stopping (which triggers the advancements). This can also be performed while riding the bike and spawning overworld encounters, which each add about 30-50 advancements.

Use Cases

• Simple movement can be used to get closer to a particular RNG state at a slow-medium rate (~100-500 advancements away).
• Spawning encounters can be used to get closer to a particular RNG state at a medium rate (~1000-5000 advancements away).
• Can be used to trigger a few advancements and then run towards the target when menu close prediction is insufficient for hitting a specific seed (not recommended).

Bike Bell/Whistling involves pressing down on the Left Stick. Increases with number of NPCs within range.

Use Cases

• Used to get closer to a particular RNG state at a slow-medium rate without moving (~100-500 advancements away).
• Can be combined with standing in front of NPCs and Thunderstorm weather for even faster advancements.

Closing the pause menu advances the RNG state in a predictable manner based on the current number of NPCs in the area and the current weather. In most cases, closing the pause menu freezes advances for a short period of time, making this method ideal for hitting a target frame.

Due to the effectiveness of this method, menu close prediction will be referenced often throughout this guide. How to calibrate NPC counts will be explained later.

Use Cases

• Opening and closing the in-game menu can be used to advance the RNG state without movement (~100-500 advancements away). Note that you should avoid doing this too quickly, e.g. with the X button, because this will cause some of the flips to be ignored.
• Will often be the final action used to reach a target since it is entirely predictable.

Mounting and dismounting the bike advances the RNG state by a small amount. The exact number of advances consumed from this action is variable, and depends on the number of NPCs currently in the area and number of Pokémon in your party.

Why does having more Pokémon cause more advancements? When you get on a bike, the game attempts to set the bike memory to Pokémon in your party. If they already have a bike memory, then the check does not occur, and you will experience fewer advances. The bike memory should look like "Calyrex rode a bike with Billo on a seaside road." Memory intensity does not matter.

Keep in mind that using this method in front of activated NPCs will paradoxically cause advancements to be slower since the NPC advancements do not resume until the bike animation is done.

Use Cases

• Used to advance short distances quickly to avoid overshooting (~100-500 advancements away).
• Some example numbers: Bike hopping with 6 Pokémon in party at the Max Lair is about 450 advances per minute, while doing the same at the Dojo with 24 menu NPCs gives about 3000 per minute.
• Should not be used right before biking towards the target as it is very variable and unpredictable.

Standing next to an NPC causes them to become "active" and face the player (as shown in the image above). When this occurs, the RNG state advances rapidly until the player moves far enough away to deactivate the NPC.

Use Cases

• Used to advance medium-large distances quickly (at least 1000 advancements away).
• Can be increased by involving multiple NPCs or Rain/Thunderstorm to increase the advances per minute.
• Completely idle method to advance the RNG state; no effort required.

Changing the weather to, or moving into an area with Rain/Thunderstorm causes the RNG state to advance rapidly. These rapid advances will continue until the weather in the area changes or the player moves to a different area where it is no longer raining.

If the weather is changed to Rain/Thunderstorm while the in-game pause menu is up, you will not start experiencing wet weather menu advancments until you have interacting with menus for a while.

If the weather is changed away from Rain/Thunderstorm while the in-game pause menu is up, you will continue to experience wet weather menu advancments the first few times you interact with menus. Make sure you are at least 500 advances away from your target so you can open and close menus about 5-10 times to clear these.

Another way to ensure that the weather has updated in the overworld is to stop earlier and briefly close the menu to the overworld so the weather changes over completely.

Use Cases

• Used to advance large distances, the fastest natural advancement method (at least 1000-2000 advancements away).
• Can be stacked with active NPCs to increase the number of advances per minute.
• Completely idle method to advance the RNG state; no effort required.

Clicking around and opening any of the different pause menu options will advance the RNG state. The number of advances depends on if you are doing this action in Rain or Thunderstorm. Thunderstorm produces twice the number of advances that would occur in Rain.

As noted under the Rain/Thunderstorm section, if the weather is changed to Rain/Thunderstorm while the in-game pause menu is up, you may start experiencing wet weather menu advancments after interacting with menus for a while.

If the weather is changed away from Rain/Thunderstorm while the in-game pause menu is up, you will continue to experience wet weather menu advancments the first few times you interact with menus. Make sure you are at least 500 advances away from your target so you can press buttons on the pause menu about 5-10 times to clear these. Alternatively, you may stop earlier and briefly close the menu to the overworld so the weather changes over completely.

Use Cases

• The main advancement method used for manipulating Hidden encounters when the player cannot move.
• Is turbo controller viable if using the Options menu by simply mashing the A button.
• Low effort method to advance the RNG state in small doses without allowing the overworld to move.

Using the PvP date skipping exploit to advance the RNG state rapidly. The number of advancements consumed per day skipped varies based on the number of Pokémon currently stored in boxes (excluding eggs). With optimal box management, it is possible to consume upwards of 16,000 advances per day skipped.

target frame / number of advances per day skipped = number of days to skip

There are two versions of this exploit that can be used based on your setup. One requires partipating in a PvP battle, and the other requires interacting with a raid.

PvP Exploit (Recommended)

1. Open the game and enter any Wild Area. Position your camera so you can see some active raid beams or claim the Watts from a nearby raid den.
2. Open the Y-Comm, connect to the internet, and select the Link Battle option.
3. Search for a battle with no code to find an online battle as quickly as possible.
4. Once you have entered the battle, cancel the battle by turning on Airplane Mode.
5. Close any in-game menus and go back to the overworld.
6. Change the console date forward in the System Settings > System, then resume the game where you are looking at the overworld.
• It is possible to skip multiple days at once without resuming the game. To do this, setting the date forward, hit OK, and repeat this process until you have done enough days. You can only skip once each time you hit OK, so changing the date forward by more than 1 will still be treated as 1.
• If you are in the Wild Area, resuming the game after advancing multiple days has a chance to crash your game! If you are advancing more than 1 month at a time, we suggest you move indoors to a Pokémon Center.
7. If you did this correctly, the screen will flash, the currently active raid beams will change location, and any Watts you claimed will become available again.
8. Navigate to an indoor location when skipping >1000 days to avoid crashing the game.
9. Repeat this process from step 4. The exploit remains active until the game is restarted.

Technically, you can activate the exploit without connecting online. This requires communicating in a local battle, which means you will need to have 2 Switches and 2 copies of Sword/Shield.

It is possible to disable the PvP exploit in-game if you no longer want it to be active and you do not want to lose track of your current RNG state by resetting.

Canceling PvP Exploit with Raid Invite

1. Enter any Wild Area and find any active raid den.
2. Start the raid and click Invite Others.
3. Quit the raid.

Raid Exploit (Slower)

1. Open the game, enter any Wild Area and find an inactive raid den.
2. Throw a Wishing Piece into the raid den, then interact with it.
3. Click Invite Others, then minimize the game by pressing the Home button.
4. Navigate to System Settings. Change the console date forward under System, then resume the game.
5. Back out of the raid and re-enter the overworld.
6. If you did this correctly, you should see that you are able to claim Watts from the raid den again.
7. Repeat this process from Step 3 onwards as much as needed.

This exploit is much slower than the PvP exploit. Players should only use this method if they do not have NSO or access to a second console/game to communicate locally.

For the purposes of this guide, "date skipping" refers to using one of these RNG advancement methods, and "changing the date" means to change the system clock manually without triggering a midnight reset. If no exploits are active, it is fine to change the system date to anything you wish without triggering a date skip. If the PvP exploit is active, you can only change the date backwards without triggering a date skip.

Use Cases

• Used to advance large distances, best suited when advancing towards very rare targets (~30,000-advancements away).
• You can calculate the required number of skips needed to reach a target frame.

Figure 9 illustrates the combination of three advancement techniques: wet weather, NPC activation, and bike bell usage. These methods collectively advance the RNG state rapidly without relying on date skipping.

• Wet Weather - Causes the RNG state to advance rapidly on its own. Simply change the date to one where the weather is Rain/Thunderstorm and stand in the overworld.
• NPC Activation - Standing close enough to an NPC to "activate" them further increases the RNG advancement rate.
• Bike Bell/Whistling - Ringing the bike bell (or player whistling) introduces additional advancements. While effective, this requires some manual input.

If done correctly, you should see that the NPC is facing the player, meaning they are now "active", and each time the player rings the bike bell or whistles, the NPC will blink (see the above image for a demonstration of this).

Examples

• Standing next to this NPC and his Diglett in the IOA, while standing in Thunderstorm weather and ringing the bike bell, advances roughly 17,000 frames per minute.