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How to raise your Friendship level in Pokémon Legends Arceus

There are many ways to raise your Friendship level in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Keep them in your party as you run around Hisui, and focus on the following activities.

Gathering Resources

This is the most reliable way to increase your Pokémon's friendship levels. Sending out your Pokémon to collect berries, ores, plants, and so on will make them feel closer to you.

These resources are all over Hisui, so you can quickly rack up the friendship that you need with a Pokémon simply by running around and throwing them at every single material that you see.

Levelling Up

This is another reliable way to increase your Pokémon's friendship levels. It is especially effective on lower level Pokémon.

Because Pokémon automatically share EXP after you defeat or catch a wild Pokémon, keeping a low level Pokémon in your party, even if you don't use it, can quickly level it up. This will also quickly raise its Friendship. However, if your Pokémon is already a high level this can be a slower process.

You can give your Pokémon Exp. Candies and Rare Candies, which will give them more EXP points and contribute to their levelling up. These can be obtained by defeating some wild Pokémon or from certain Requests.

You can also buy Exp. Candies and Rare Candies from Bonn, whose stall is left of the Galaxy Hall. (Look for all the bright blue sweets.)

However, they're expensive, with an Exp. Candy S going for 1,600 Pokébucks and the price increasing all the way up to an Exp. Candy XL for 50,000 Pokébucks.

You can also swap 1000 Merit points for one Rare Candy at Simona's item exchange, further to the left of Bonn.

Pokémon seem to get a boost to Friendship from being fed these sweet treats, as an additional bonus.

Battling

Using your Pokémon in battle will raise its Friendship levels. However, be careful, because a Pokémon fainting will reduce its Friendship level.

Because of that, this method can be a bit slow, but if you're playing casually it will help to make your Pokémon warm up to you over time.