Complete Poffin Recipe Guide for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Poffins, or Pokémon Muffins, are food in the Sinnoh region that you feed to raise one or more of your Pokémon’s five attributes: Coolness, Beauty, Cuteness, Cleverness, and Toughness. These attributes need to be high if you want to win Super Contests in Hearthome City.

However, you can’t just give your Pokémon random Poffins and hope that they’ll get those attributes maxed out. Here’s a Poffin recipe guide to help.

What is Poffin Smoothness?

Before we talk about how to make Poffins, let’s first cover Poffin Smoothness.

Every Poffin fed to your Pokémon makes its Sheen go up (which you can check in the Pokémon’s summary). Once those line of Sparkles at the bottom reach the end, you can no longer feed them anymore Poffins. The value that’s added to your Sheen is dependent on the Smoothness of the Poffin you give them.

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The Smoothness of your Poffin, meanwhile, depends on the Berries you use to make it. Every Berry flavor raises a particular attribute: Spicy for Coolness, Dry for Beauty, Sweet for Cuteness, Bitter for Cleverness, and Sour for Toughness. Each Berry has one or multiple flavors with varying intensity (10 to 40). The stronger its flavors are, the higher its Smoothness (and attribute boost!) will be.

Below are Berry flavor values for your reference, grouped by their Smoothness.

The Poffin’s Smoothness is determined by the average Smoothness of the Berries that you use (rounded down) minus the number of Berries used. Therefore, a Berry with a Smoothness of 20 and 25 together will yield a Poffin with a Smoothness of 20.

But a word of caution: do not use more than two of the same Berries when cooking. This will turn the Poffin into a Foul Poffin. Not only are Foul Poffins automatically low-levelled, but they will also boost three random attributes, which won’t help you if you’re trying to max out certain ones.

How to get the right Poffin flavor

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Successful Poffins can have up to three flavors. If it's double flavored, the flavor that comes first will raise that particular attribute more. As such, a Dry-Sour Poffin will raise Toughness a little bit, but bump the Pokémon's Beauty a lot.

The Mild Poffin that you received with the case, which raises all five stats, cannot be replicated. However, you can still create Mild Poffins by cooking any Poffin that ends up level 50 or higher.

How to make high level Poffins

A Poffin’s levels are determined by the quality of berries that you use and how well you do during the cooking phase. If you don’t burn or spill the mix, the Poffin’s level is equal to the strength of its strongest flavor. For example, a Poffin created with just a Magost Berry will end up a level 20 (because of its Sweetness). If you do burn or spill it, expect to get level deductions.

If you use two or more Berries, its Poffin level amount to the total number of its strongest flavor. As such, a Rabuta (Bitter 20) and Rindo (Bitter 15) Berry together will end up a level 35 Poffin. If there's a Berry that's partially Sour, the flavor value of Sour needs to be deducted since Bitter is weakened by it.

Poffin levels can be raised if you cook faster as well, so try and mix the batter as fast as you can without spilling. The minigame automatically ends at 60 seconds, and the Poffin level is set to its base number when it happens.

How to make great Poffins

And that’s all you need to know, really. We hope this guide has helped you understand why Poffins don’t always turn out the level and flavor that you want them to be, at least. Good luck, Contestant!

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