Poke Survivor Enemies: Wild Pokémon, Behaviors & Elites

A run has 6 stages of wild Pokémon. Each stage can draw any Pokémon below 5★ whose base stat total is in its range, and every run picks 7 of them at random, so the Pokémon you meet change from run to run.

“Base” is the stage's value in the game data. “At start” is what a Pokémon with average HP for its stage has when it spawns the moment the stage begins, playing solo and not as an elite. The same Pokémon spawned later is tougher (see below).

Earlier stages keep spawning, but once a stage has been on for 260 s its Pokémon are picked only 3/10 as often, so the newer stages take over.

Bosses arrive at minutes 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15

• Stage 1 draws one support Pokémon (a healer, shielder or summoner; each kind is equally likely) and 6 Pokémon that only chase, charge, shoot or tank.
• From stage 2 on, a stage draws one support Pokémon, one that attacks with a warning on the ground (a bomber, beamer, zoner, fan shooter or jumper) and 5 more of any kind.
• Then, in every stage, the fastest Pokémon that chases, charges or tanks becomes the runner.

How many Pokémon of each behavior every stage draws from. A Pokémon whose base stat total fits two stages counts in both.

An enemy's stats are fixed when it spawns. Its stage's base HP is multiplied by 1 + t/95 and by an extra ×3.3 that rises to ×5 at 5:57; its damage by (1 + t/420) × 2.4; and it moves up to 35% faster (t = run time in seconds). It gives ×5.6 the stage's XP.

Each Pokémon's own stats shift this: ×0.7 to ×1.6 HP from its base HP, and ×0.75 to ×1.3 speed from its base Speed.

Multipliers on the stage's base values, playing solo. Spawns per second keep climbing, but no more than 64 enemies are on the map at once, so after the first minutes the cap is what holds them back.

• Enemies spawn in a ring just outside your view, so they never pop up on screen.
• At most 64 enemies are on the map at once. An enemy that spawns while 55 or more are already there is an elite: ×1.6 HP, ×1.25 damage and ×1.6 XP.
• Surges (the game's “Pokémon swarm!”): 32 s into the run and then every 38–56 s, a pack spawns from one side, of the surge size in the table above as far as the cap allows. There are no surges while a boss is alive, and regular spawns drop to 25%.
• An enemy that stays out of view behind you for 2.5 s while you run, or ends up more than 1,400 px away, reappears ahead of you. Shiny Pokémon don't.
• A wild Pokémon or boss that has a shiny form is shiny 1 time in 4,096, with ×2 HP and ×5 XP. Shiny Pokémon
• From time to time an event changes the spawns: a horde of a single type, or a golden hour with double XP. Events and treasure thieves

A wild Pokémon's behavior comes from its Pokédex number and types, so it is the same in every run. Damage is relative to the enemy's touch damage, and values that change with the stage go from stage 1 to stage 6.

Beams, circles, jumps and explosions are marked on the ground before they hit: step out of the mark in time and they miss.

• They carry an icon over their head (a heart, a shield or a group), so you can spot them in a crowd.
• At most 3 healers, 3 shielders and 3 summoners are alive at once. While one kind is full, another Pokémon of the stage spawns instead.
• On a boss, heals and shields follow your damage, not its HP: a heal gives back at most 0.4 s of your damage, a shield soaks up at most 1.2 s of it, and a boss gets a new shield at most every 6 s. So a boss always goes down in the end.

Every enemy hit (touch, shots and marked attacks) counts as the enemy's first type, so the type chart and the weather apply. It is physical or special according to the Pokémon's stronger attack, and your Pokémon's Defense or Sp. Def reduces it. Type chart

An enemy touching you hurts you once every 0.55 s for its full damage, and after any hit your Pokémon can't be hurt again for 0.45 s, so a crowd can't land many hits at once.

Walking enemies are slowed by water and burned by lava, sandstorms and snow wear most of them down, and snow slows the ones without the Ice type. Weather and map

• Burn stacks up to 8 times and lasts 3 s after the last hit: every 0.5 s it deals 1.6 damage per stack, raised 6% per level of your Pokémon.
• Poison stacks up to 8 times and lasts 4 s: every 0.6 s the enemy loses 1.2% of its max HP per stack, plus 1.
• Above 60,000 max HP, poison counts a smaller HP that grows with the square root: an enemy with 240,000 HP loses poison as if it had 120,000. Nearly all regular enemies and bosses stay under 60,000; it matters most against the Judgment legendaries.

862 Pokémon can appear as wild enemies. 430 of them are chasers; the others are listed here. Each Pokémon's page says when it can appear.

• Take out healers and shielders first, especially near a boss: they keep the whole pack alive.
• Elites spawn while 55 or more enemies are around. Clearing the crowd now and then keeps new spawns normal.
• When the ground lights up, move first and attack after: marked attacks hit hard and are easy to dodge.
• Running in a straight line doesn't shake runners or stragglers: they cut you off or reappear ahead.