Pokémon GO Buddy Tracker

If you are anything like me, when you saw page 2 of the Shiny Jirachi Masterwork Research: Wish Granted in Pokémon GO, your heart sank. 'Have 10 Best Buddies' says the challenge, as I stand there with a mere two buddies in over 6 years of playing the game.

I initially used G47IX's incredible guide to getting your buddy excited without walking and without using poffins, which is an absolute essential if you are trying to evolve certain Pokémon like Sylveon as quickly as possible.

However, I soon realised that it would have been too labour intensive in the long run and what I needed instead was a (relatively) quick routine to get as many hearts as possible on 8 of the remaining buddies I needed.

So I decided to earn all the 'quick' hearts with each of them every day:

• Take a snapshot (1 heart)

• Play with your buddy (1 heart)

• Feed 3 berries (1 heart)

• Training battle with your buddy and back out (3 hearts)

At this point, it was just about consistency. As long as I committed to do this for about 50 days, I would have my 10 Best Buddies. So, in order to motivate myself (and because I like spreadsheets), this is the tracker I made to know when exactly I would reach my objective.

In order to use the spreadsheet, all you need to do is update the 'Missing hearts' column and it will automatically fill in the rest, telling you the day you and your buddy will become BFFs.