Poke Survivor Level-Up Cards, Move Evolution & Bonds

Every level-up pauses the game and offers 3 different cards; you take one. In co-op the team levels up together and everyone picks their own card.

• New move: learn a move from your Pokémon's move pool. Offered only while one of your 4 move slots is free. Moves you have banned never appear, and once you hold 2 buff moves no more buff moves are offered.
• Move upgrade: levels up a move you already have, up to Lv 5. The card shows what the next level adds.
• Stat card: one of 9 boosts that last for the rest of the run. Most of them can only be taken a limited number of times per run.
• Evolution (gold card): evolves a Lv 5 move once you have taken its stat card in the run.

The game first puts candidate cards into a pool, then draws 3 different cards from it. Each draw picks a card with a chance proportional to its weight.

While a slot is free, up to 6 new moves bring up to 60 weight against 20 for the 5 stat cards, so most offers include new moves.

Once every slot is filled no new moves are offered and stat cards weigh more: the 5 stat cards together weigh 35, against 8 for each move upgrade.

Every run has 1 free reroll, which replaces the offered cards with a new draw by the same rules. The Card reroll upgrade adds one more per level, up to 5 (so 6 per run).

Ban lets you pick moves, separately for each Pokémon, that are never offered as new moves; each level bans one more move, up to 3.

Repertoire starts the run with a second attack move drawn at random from the move pool (never a buff or banned move), so one more slot is filled from the start. Upgrade costs

There are 9 stat cards. 6 of them have a limit per run: once you have taken a card that many times it is no longer offered. The others can be taken any number of times.

Percentage cards multiply instead of adding up: 40 Power cards give ×45.26 damage, not +400%. They also multiply what your permanent upgrades already give.

A move evolves once it is at Lv 5 and you have taken its stat card at least once in the same run, before or after the move reached Lv 5. 59 of the 64 moves can evolve; buff moves cannot.

While a Lv 5 move is still missing its card, that stat card joins every offer with weight 14, labelled with the move. Once an evolution is ready, its gold card is one of the three cards at every level-up until you take it.

The effects are the game's own text and are the same for every move of a style; the evolved move keeps its type. Which card each move needs

You get a bond each time you beat a rift legendary; in co-op every player gets one. Rifts can open from 75 s into a run, checked every 30 s with a 20% chance that rises after each miss (never more than 2.5 minutes without one), and no new rift opens from minute 28. The arena fight lasts up to 120 s. Rifts and legendaries

Back on the map the game pauses and you use the bond. If you have a group of 2 to 3 moves, you pick one single move to join it; otherwise you pick two single moves to form a new group. A group holds at most 4 moves, and the moves in it fire together from one slot. If there is nothing to fuse yet, the bond is kept until you learn another move.

Fusing frees slots: two moves that used two slots now share one, so new move cards come back. With 4 slots of 4 moves you can hold at most 16 moves, which takes 12 bonds.

• One copy of a stat card is enough for every evolution that needs it, so a single early card keeps those evolutions open.
• Once your slots are full, offers are only upgrades and stat cards; bring one or two moves to Lv 5 first so their gold cards start showing up.
• A rift is worth entering for the bond alone: it frees a slot, so new move cards come back.
• Keep rerolls for offers that miss the move or stat card your build is waiting for.