First Looks

Red:Action Bar/Skills, you can close and open it by clicking the white areas, you can also replace the skills position by dragging and dropping with your mouse. the hotkeys for the actions in this bar are Z,X,C,V in the order of whats set there.

Pink: Chat. You can resize the chat by dragging the gray line, some of the things that will appear in the chat is interactive and you can click to close, or use to learn new perks etc there. Also you can enlarge other character portraits by hovering with the mouse etc.

Green: Pokemon Belt. Those are your active team, you can remove a pokemon from your belt by dragging a closed pokeball from the belt to your iventory! You can quickly sendout and return pokemons from your belt by using Shift + Number (sendout) or Control + Number (return)

M to open Menu (Green)In the Menu, clicking the top bar will switch to the other controls and menus that you will use as you play! You can also resize these windows by dragging the lower corner!

I to open Inventory (Red) When you improve your bag you are able to switch to other pockets by clicking the bag icon! You can also resize these window by adjusting through the lower corners!

In the green area should appear information % you have about said pokemon. If the pokemon shows as a black shadow, means your character can't recognize that pokemon yet, but seen it!

Yellow is where you can teach other people around you the informations you know about said pokemon! It may take some time!

Use the pink aera to navigate through the pokemons you know, scrolling with your middle mouse button will scroll through the pokemons you seen in a Pokedex # order!

Pokémon you know about are shown in the pokémon knowledge tab, This define what your character know about pokemon, knowing more allows you to see more information about the pokemon stats, and also have other advantages as you play! You can learn more about pokemon by learning from other scientists as you investigate them!Clicking the pokemon portrait Icon will allow you to type and search for a Pokemon Knowledge to access quickl

In the Trainer Menu you will see your current fame (stars) and League Ranking (Beginner). Also here is where you will access most of your controls and able to see your stats in depth!Winning Official battles while you have been roleplaying will raise your stars, and if you fight in a Official Gym with full stars and win a battle your ranking will increase! this will increase your profits and fame while doing official battles!	Stats: Show your trainer's stats, if you are controling a pokemon it will show said pokemon	.RP Rating: Show your current rp rating aswell as the global average and other datas
Who: Show informations about the players online and extra world/setting info.	Show: Used to prompt things from your character, like showing a perk you have etc.	Custom: When you are applyable to, this will allow you to upload custom icons.
Build: When you are applyable to, this will allow you to build maps	Season: Have summary and informations about the current wipe	Journal: Here you can access your journal (where you can post reports about milestones moment of your characters)

Controls

You can see the list of controls anytime by clicking this button on your screen!

I just created, what now?! (Basics Progression and first steps)

Most importantly you have to understand this game isnt a generic MMORPG, we have mechanics to promote mostly The Roleplay. with heavy online player to player interactions (Dont be scared, you will enjoy the experience!)

As you talk with other players, walk around, discover and see different things and go through adventures, your character will be receiving Roleplay Points. they are the main thing that will measure your progression across the story, will define how strong your char will be and things he can achieve, learn etc. You can see your RPP in the RP Ratings button in your trainer menu:

There is a catch up mechanic that helps people under the average to gain faster, allowing new players to be able to keep up with the story as they play, however Power gaps is still a thing, might be easy to reach a casual average but the best players will be near the top #1, and all those datas are public/free to check. The Roleplay Points are tied to how many exp your pokemon can easily get, 100 = 1 level up. So someone with 206 rpp can level up their pokemon easily to lv 3 and 6% to the next level.

RPP will also help to organize other things like events requeriments, and when your human will be able to learn more Perk

To start your adventure you need to get a job and a first pokemon! so there are two main ways to do it: Start the journey yourself, or roleplay with a real Professor/assistent/master player that is able to teach you and give you a special starter (Those depend on each player, as they raise and take care of their own starter pools in their farm, a player's starter can be anything!)

If you want to start yourself, the most basic thing you need first, is a job, to atleast buy pokeballs so lets keep going!

Studying and getting the first Perk!

The first perk is needed to get your first job, and to get it you need atleast 50 roleplay points (You will need to play a few minutes to get this, it doesn't take long trust!)

Once you have 50 RPP, go to the nearest school, press SPACE to interact with the books and simply wait for the bar to go up, in your chat the informations about the perks you can learn will start to appear, stop studying and take your time to read about them and decide wich of the starting perk you want:

Breeder (this is a line that mostly take care of pokemon, also great to hatch eggs and raise friendly relatiosnhip)

Trainer (This is a line that obviously trains pokemon, allowing you to decide wich moves your pokemon will forget upon learning new ones etc, also great to hatch eggs and raise friendly relationship)

Scientist (This line is focused on studying and observing pokemon and their behaviors, they can discover and catalogize new species of pokemon and then teach to others or sell their discoveries to schools, professors etc. Advanced science can go toward more complex areas, but they at start might need incubators for hatching pokemon eggs!)

Criminals (This is the cruelty line, the first tier is able to hurt pokemons and extract items from them, eventually killing and endangering species when doing too much, overall this is cruel and can get you in troubles if you are caught! More advanced criminal perks allow more complex crimes, such as stealing other players pokemon etc! this one might need incubators to hatch eggs!)

Once you decided press "LEARN" button in the window in your chat, and now you can go foward to trying to find a job!

PS: Studying a little bit more might allow your char to learn pokemon information that other professor players wrote in this school, and also will get you to unlock skills from the perk you just obtained!

Each character can end up having 6 perks. And they will be learned through your entire journey, the first perk is easy to get but the next ones might take a while! (first at 50 rpp, second at 1k, third at 2k and so on)

Jobs Money and Starter Pokemon

You can find work and jobs nearly everywhere. Sprawled throughout the map are various "Territories" that house jobs. Examples of such facilities are as follows; Pokemon Mart, Pokemon Center, Gym, Lab, etc. You can sign up for a job by speaking to the associated NPC within one of these facilities. Once, you've obtained said job, you can get to work by interacting with the appropriate equipment within the facility. When you begin work, a bar will appear next to your character to showcase the progress of the job you're doing. When the bar fills, that will count as one completed task. Some jobs only require you to fill the bar once while others require more. (The more bars you fill, the more money you can earn.) Once the job is completed, you can turn in your results to the same NPC you got the job from in exchange for your DAILY pay. (Pay is daily based on IN GAME DAYS).

Additionally, if you're just starting your journey, a job can randomly give you a starter pokemon/egg as a reward for the work you do. Different facilities will hand out different starters at random.

Your base salary begins as .5 which means the minimum you can make within a day will be 250 pokedollars, but after your first day of work the base pay increases to 1. (minimum equals 500 pokedollars). Your salary stays the same until you earn a raise by roleplaying and interacting with a Group Head players. Look for your superiors and work well if you want to make more coin!

In order to switch jobs, you need to dismiss the job you have by navigating to the knowledge tab (Click Work to see extra job related commands) and doing so. Once you've dismissed your job, you're free to pick up a new one from a new facility. WARNING!! If you switch jobs, your base pay RESETS back to .5...so be sure a job change is in your best interest.

Hint: Some pokemon can further assist the player in doing their job which speeds up the work bar progress by a lot depending on your knowledge of the pokemon species assisting you. (The more knowledge, the more they can help.)

Projects

Joining Projects means you will be organizing player events toward a specific goal the leading figures of the territory you work on have started, by doing so your salary will also increase. (You can join and manipulate projects by clicking Work in your knowledge tab)

Read more about Projects and how they work in this guide

But this is mostly where player actions, events and roleplays will shape the world introducing new mechanics or literaly changing the map etc!

Criminal Market

The criminal market, also known as the Black Market, is an underground economy that sells illegal goods. This is an exclusive means of making money for criminal type players and incentivizes criminal activity during a wipe. Criminals learn a skill called extract that allows them to harm pokemon and obtain objects from them, injuring and even killing them, potentially permanently affecting the wild habitats. These items are often rare and can't be found in other ways, but can then be sold between players looking for said items or on the aforementioned Black Market for pokedollars. Initially, the Criminal Market is only accessible through Head Criminal players interacting with a computer. This is risky business but can be well worth it for the criminals out there! Good luck!

Starter Pokemon

Now that you have money, and or probably received a common starterball from your job, you can decide if you want to try to get your real starter from a Professor player, or to capture your own. If you choose to capture your own, well, good luck! make sure to knock out the pokemon to have higher capture rates! It might cost you some extra pokeballs!

In Wisteria having a special starter is uncommon and rare, and it only means something if you end up getting the Destiny Duo perk. So don't feel down incase you roll something common, keep in mind we are all commoners in a pokemon world here! While our adventure unfolds we might end up becoming our own legends!

From the capsule shop: WARNING!! This method is THE riskiest method of obtaining a starter pokemon. By default, pokemon purchased through the Capsule Shop WILL NOT be considered starters, with the exception of pokemon obtained via eggs or type starterballs. However, you can make a pokemon purchased through the capsule shop your starter by taking the ultimate risk. If you purchase a pokemon you want as a starter, you can RELEASE said pokemon into the wild and RECAPTURE said pokemon as your starter. For obvious reason, this is risky because you could release your purchased pokemon and end up not being able to recapture it losing out on both a starter pokemon as well as the coin you spent to get the pokemon in the first place. Players might encourage you to use this method, but DO NOT fall for it as some bad eggs just see this as a means of ridding you of a rare pokemon so that they can have a chance at capturing it later. ONLY USE THIS METHOD IF YOU'RE CONFIDENT IN RECAPTURING THE POKEMON. You have been warned.

Perk Loans

Ranked players, heads of main global groups can reward/train you and get you a speed up on obtaining a specific line of perks, usually related to support and world building characters! (very important at early game!)

So roleplaying with people can get you instantly these perks:

-Trainer, Soldier (Usefull for a early game Officer start)

-Scientist, Investigator (Usefull for early game Officer start)

-Breeder, Farmer (This helps to take care and distribute new pokemon early)

-Breeder, Nurse (This lets you help other people recover from battle, and also be a referee for street battles and host events!)

-Scientist, Engineer (Usefull for handling and joining complex development projects early and create science rp!)

-Scientist, Breeder, Chemist (Usefull for handling and joining complex development projects early and create science rp!)

-Breeder, Cheerleader (A support role, usefull to play as coaches, teachers etc!)

-Breeder, Farmer, Ranger (Usefull to control wild pokemon and host cool player events!)

If a player have more then 3 perks they won't be able to receive further perk loans. If your char ends up with 4 perks, at 100 rpp, means that you will only be able to learn your fith perk as everyone else at 4k RPP, notice that no "Power" giving perk is loanable.

Battle Guide

In this game we have a real time-turn battle. The pokémon moves have different ranges and styles, while each turn each pokemon in the battle can walk up a certain amount of tiles giving huge importance to tactics!

The battle system also support roleplays as the game shall wait you to finish writing your roleplays and get into some real emotional scenes, also allowing for the usage of extra tools to define the battle results, such as dice rolls and self status inflicts, also able to prompt perks and other datas!

 

Take your time learning the details of the moves your pokemon learned with wild pokemons! practice with friends and you will eventually get better at this!

Consider some moves styles:

Area attacks: Are special moves that affect a wide area, diagonals etc. Usually their range isn't too big but the positioning and control those moves have, also when dealing with multiple enemies is very powerfull!

Linear attacks: These are moves that will go through a straight line, based on a preset range, these moves usually can't be stopped by terrain and might hit multiple targets on the way!

Projectiles attacks: They usually have the best range, and some are able to pressure foes against obstacles like walls. However they can also be stopped by those obstacles!

Leaping attacks: These will also give you some extra movement, wonderfull for positioning and gives you some extra control over the battle! Leaps can be stopped by obstacles or not, depend on the move!

Supports and Status: Some Damage over Time can be extremely powerful in PWO, raising the tactics needs to play this, so be carefull with support moves and status changes!

In PWO huge battles can happen, including using all your six pokemon at the same time, ofc each pokemon will have their own turn and might end up getting slowier, but this doesnt stop on getting into some real amazing moments as the roleplay goes through!

Training Pokemon

Training pokemon in Pokemon Wisteria is rather unique compared to other games. As your main progression will happen as you get more Total Roleplay Points (By talking and getting into RP situations) as your journey builds up. Your exp gains will be extremelly quick and effortless to reach your RPP cap. However every trainer have another value called "Trainer Power" (See in your Trainer menu, Stats button)

Trainer Power increases based directly based on your trainers achievements, like if you become a super famous league competitor it should increase, or if you gather alot of pokemon knowledge, raises on Street Fame, have multiple Badges, or simply get rewarded through events or is playing important global characters such as a main villain etc.

But everyone starts out with 400 Trainer Power. (Be aware, the trainer power also define the limit of when a higher level pokemon will keep obbeying you!)

While you can easily get your pokemon up to your RPP value, the only way to train it up to your Trainer Power limit is to actually fighting against other trainers! (This goes up slowly as its meant to promote people to keep fighting as the game goes on)

As for literal training methods, we have the following:

Trainer battles (Player-versus-Player); This is by far the best method for gaining experience and is doubly awesome because you can get similar experience gains from simply watching others battle. It is important to note that the current state of the game requires that you "Refresh" your pokemon in order for them to receive exp from battling or watching a battle. What this means is that you need to call your pokemon out of their pokeballs prior to a battle in order for them to gain the exp. Also, the trigger for gaining exp from trainer battles is being near a pokemon when it has been fainted by an opponent and recalled to its trainer.

While training always beware of your pokemon health and safety, so its recomended to get into trainer battles on places with assisted healthcare! (A Nurse player nearby can act as referee and while performing first aids they can guarantee the battle safety near you) you can also get free healthcare at Official Battles inside the gyms (there are NPC nurses there)

Wild battles (Player-versus-npc pokemon); This is the next best method for gaining experience untill you cap to your rpp. You can always take your pokemon out in the wild and have them do battle with wild pokemon to gain a bit of exp per fainted pokemon. Additionally, you can have multiple pokemon out while fainting a wild pokemon and they will all be able to gain the exp similar to exp share in other games. The experience is only collected by the team of the player who fainted the pokemon. Players cannot gain exp from watching wild battles.

Additional information about trainer and wild battles is that pokemon can be injured upon fainting. Injuries are accumulated through the stacking of something called "Death Risk Percentage". You can see this number by checking your pokemon's stats once you have enough knowledge of the species, but the higher the number, the more at risk they are of...death. A lot of new players have lost their team members not knowing this number even exists. Try not to let your pokemon faint while training and heal them often at hospitals or pokecenters when they do. Nurses are able to prevent injuries by standing watch over trainer battles but they can't be everywhere at all times! So, be careful!

Gym Equipment; Workout equipment is located in various parts of the map and can be used to train yourself and your pokemon. As a player, you are unable to gain experience and levels but can increase your overall health, so it's recommended that new players spend some time in the gym and become as healthy as possible. Pokemon can also be directed to use the workout equipment and can slowly gain experience if you're not too keen on the other methods. Simarly, because I didn't want to make a seperate section for this...some pokemon can help players STUDY and gain knowledge... These same pokemon are able to gain some experience similar to using the Gym Equipment while doing so.

Rare Candy; And last, but certainly not least...the OG method of training pokemon is stuffing them full of sugar by feeding them Rare Candies. We all know what these are so...no need to explain further. There are a few ways to find them within the game, but they are Rare. Keep in mind your pokemon will stop obbeying you if their level surpass your rpp+ Trainer Power!

What to read next?

Alot of articles in this wiki is player made and some are extremelly outdated, but you can still join our discord and ask questions and we all are very helpful!: https://discord.gg/MGhhsfx