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SchoKi's Expedition Rewards Guide
This Guide covers the Expedition Minigame and its Rewards.
What you will find down below:
- some general information about Expeditions
- rewards for doing Expeditions
- how and where to find Expedition-exclusive Promo-Adoptables
- information that might already be on the Expedition-Page
- recommendations for some Virtuadopts to level as Explorers
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(most likely some typos)
General Information
In theory, any adopt can go on an Expedition, as long as you have enough money to buy/rent equipment from Cameron. So technically, all you need to start your Expedition-Adventures is any Virtuadopt of your choice and some money.
Currently, there's nine Biomes/Maps to choose from. Some Rewards are available everywhere, some are specific to the "difficulty"/length of the Expedition, some depend on the Biome you're exploring.
As you already know, any Virtuadopt has a level that is displayed for everyone to see - with Expeditions, there's now a second level only visible to you in this specific Minigame, your Explore-Level. Each adopt starts on Explore-Level 0.
Spoiler for The Two Levels:
There's currently 3 different kinds of Expeditions, which I'll be calling Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 in this guide.
Tier 1 Expeditions (Water Bottle) give one Level when you collect your rewards after 3 hours of exploring. Tier 2 Expeditions (Compass) give five Levels after 6 hours, Tier 3 Expeditions (Backpack) give ten Levels and take 12 hours.
The higher the Tier Number, the more expensive it gets, and the longer your adopt is away. While your Virtuadopt is exploring, it can not gain any (visible) Levels in the Click Exchange!
Tier 1 is always available, even with Explorer-Level 0. Your Virtuadopt needs Explorer-Level 10 to access Tier 2 Expeditions (Compass), and Explorer-Level 100 to access Tier 3 Expeditions (Backpack).
If you would always collect your Rewards right the second your Explorer came home, and instantly send them out again, you would need 25.000 Pokédollar
(Realistically, you're probably going to need over a week if you're asleep and can't instantly send your Adopt out to explore again.)
Expedition-Rewards
Something that every Biome and every Tier have in common is: Virtuadopt Eggs as a guaranteed reward! The adopts hatching will always match at least one type of the biome they are from. Example: you get an egg from the Lost Mine? It will contain a Pokemon that is a Dark, Fighting, Rock or Steel type.
Spoiler for Amount of Eggs:
Spoiler for Amount of Everstones + Coins:
Spoiler for Evolution Stones by Biome:
Spoiler for Incense by Biome:
In Tier 3 Expeditions with a Backpack, the most expensive and most time consuming, you can find special Adoptables depending on the Biome your Explorer is visiting!
Spoiler for Promotional Adopt by Biome:
Who to choose as an Explorer?
As you might have noticed, each Biome has four Types connected to it. Depending on the Type of your Explorer, you might find rare Rewards like Incense or Promos more quickly, and the Type of the Eggs you'll find can be influenced by your Explorer.
Example: You're sending a Dragon Type adopt like Dratini into the Contested Geysers (Dragon, Fighting, Fire, Water). Chances are pretty high that most of the Eggs Dratini brings home will be little Dragon Types, but they can still be Fighting, Fire or Water Types. If you'd send a Plant Type like Bulbasaur into the same Biome, the Eggs would be completely randomized out of all 4 Types. Dratini would also be more likely to find this Biomes Promo, but Bulbasaur can still find it! It might just take a few more tries. If you would send out a Pokémon with two matching Types, it might even find a Promo faster than one with just one type, but you've probably already guessed that. :D
I'd just advise you to use Adopts that actually have a Type, aka are regular Dex adopts - I personally haven't tested using Promotional Virtuadopts yet.
Here is a list of all Biomes and their matching Types:
Spoiler for Biome Types:
Are you trying to "shiny hunt" a specific adopt or type? Level a single Type Pokémon according to this specific adopt/type.
Example: You want to try and find more Eevee, and/or have better chances at shiny Eevee, and/or find any shiny of the Normal Type. You should level a Normal Type adopt, like Eevee or Chansey, and send it to the Forbidden Meadow or the Snowbound Power Plant, as both of these Biomes have Normal Type Eggs. Leveling something that's Normal/Fairy could end up in more Fairy Type Eggs than Normal Type Eggs, that's why you'd choose a single Type adopt - unless you want both Normal and Fairy Eggs!
Are you trying to quickly grab Promotional Adopts + have some time and money on your hands? Level something with two Types matching each Biome. You never know when you might need 9 "perfect" Explorers again.
Example: Lucario for Lost Mine, Togekiss for Forbidden Meadow, Garchomp for Rumbling Vulcano, Joltik for Abandoned Asylum, Poliwrath for Contested Geysers, Quagsire for Rocky Shore, Magneton for Snowbound Power Plant, Snover for Bitterly Cold Woods. (First Adopts per Biome that came to my mind, feel free to choose anything else that matches 2 Types in the right Biome!)
Are you trying to grab Promotional Adopts in a more money-efficient manner? Level 3 adopts that match 1 to 2 types per Biome, and/or level adopts that have two Type matches in multiple biomes.
Example: I first leveled a Quagsire (matches 2 for Rocky Shore, matches 1 for Contested Geysers + Rumbling Volcano), Joltik (matches 2 for Abandoned Asylum, matches 1 for Bitterly Cold Woods and Snowbound Power Plant) and Cacturne (matches 1 in Forbidden Meadow, Lost Mine, Creepy Cemetery and Bitterly Cold Woods). Feel free to copy those, or think about which adopts would work for you! If you've already leveled something, choose matching Pokémon according to the Types you are still missing.
There are some double Type Matches that work for multiple Biomes - like Grass/Fairy (Cottonee, Whimsicott and later on Morelull, Shiinotic, Tapu Bulu) that work perfectly for both Forbidden Meadow and Bitterly Cold Woods. Whenever Alola releases, Tortunator is an amazing option for Rumbling Volcano + Contested Geysers with it's Dragon/Fire Type - or choose Reshiram if you happen to have a migrated one/this re-releases sooner than Alola. There's also Ghost/Psychic working for both the Abandoned Asylum and the Creepy Cemetery - suitable Pokémon for this typing are also currently unreleased, but would be: Confined Hoopa, Calyrex, Lunala, and Dawn Wings Necrozma.
See Sinna's post below this one for some more suggestions!
Hope this helps! :D
Extra-Info: Trading
By the way... if you made it this far: You do not have to level your own adopts. Exploration-Level stays with an adopt, even if you trade it! Aka you could either: level adopts as explorers and offer them away, or try to offer shinys/monthlys someone collects to get a (partly) leveled explorer. You can also lend them to your friends, or swap them so you don't have to start from scratch with type matches for every biome!
The downside to this: You can not see exploration level unless you own the adopt, aka this is very, very trust based. I'd personally recommend doing it with people you know/have traded with before.
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Thank you for reading! 
Anything in this Guide might change in the future - and there might be mistakes or missing information. I'm only one person that gathered information, I can't vouch for all of it to be 100% accurate. Feel free to send me feedback or point out my mistakes in my pms, tho, and I'll be happy to update the guide! :D
Last updated: 03. October 2024 - was reminded that Creepy Cemetery exists and realized i had a typo in that name everywhere, so I fixed that
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