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In order to unlock it, you need to hatch 3 milcery’s.
That is not an easy thing to achieve because milcery is rare and uncommon to get from the lab.
It is hard to breed because it is an all female species and can only be bred with ditto or other compatible pokémon, but the production of eggs is not very successful because whatever pokémon you breed milcery with it will not form a perfect pair.
The final solution is through gem collector if you already have a milcery registered to pokédex, but since they are rare rarity they cost a lot of fairy gems (60 if i’m not wrong), which are already uncommon to get.

TL,DR: the value of berries or pokeballs you win is not worth it compared to the amount of game chips you spend to spin the wheel.

Unlocking the wheel itself is not an easy task, and after doing so you would probably want to try your luck and see what cool stuff you can win. Now imagine you get a pokeball. One singular pokeball. That thing is only worth 200pd in the item shop, and only <100pd in the gts item market. Remember that you need to spend 1000 game chips, which is 10K pd when converted, to spin the wheel ONCE. You are basically winning back only 0.01% of what you spent. Sounds more like a loss than a win to me.

If the pokeballs could be replaced with great balls or ultra balls, it would be slightly more worth it than just normal pokeballs, even if it’s just winning one great ball or pokeball, because they have higher catch rate than the normal pokeball which makes them more useful. If that can’t be replaced, then maybe replacing the single pokeball with 5-10 pokeballs could be another solution. At least you’ll win something cheap but win more of it, right?

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And now for berries. From my own experience (because the wiki doesn’t say what are all the possible berries to be won) i’ve only won relatively common berries like nanab or rindo berries. These are even worse, costing only 40pd in the item shop and 1 to 5pd on the market. Though you may win maybe 50 or so berries the total is still never enough to be worth the money. You can literally buy just 5 berries from the shop/market, grow and level them in the berry garden, and harvest them to earn even more berries. They can also be obtained from rumbling. You can also get pokeballs and even better, great balls, form some rumble areas too.

so my suggestion is to also replace these common berries with the ridiculously expensive ones, such as starf berries and custap berries, that you can occasionally buy in the item shop. now those cost 10K pd, equal to the amount of games chip needed to spin the wheel. so even getting just 1 of those berries is worth it. of course, since you don’t win berries from the wheel everytime you play it, it would also be nice to win maybe 5-10 of those berries.

(adding on to berries, the expensive ones aren’t really so valuable. on the FAQ page on the wiki

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Q: Are the berries that cost more in the Item Shop rarer than the berries that cost 40 Pokedollars?

A: Expensive berries were originally meant to be a PD trading system, but it's no longer needed since we can gift Pokedollars now. They are expensive for no reason now.

no one will really buy these from the item shop because, as said many times, they’re expensive. yea. the wheel of fortune could serve as a more… “fun” way to obtain these berries without having to use pd to buy them.

“why did you only suggest to replace berries and pokeballs and not other items?”
the two mentioned are the least valuable.
- mystery boxes may not cost that much in the market but they can only be obtained through rumbling or trading.
- sweets are basically the main point of the wheel.
- old vinyl is just a little surprise if you’re lucky, and you can only get it from the wheel or trading.
- evolution stones? i think those are fair because people sell them overpriced in the market, and they’re not always available in the item shop. though i’m not sure if the evolution stones are limited to the stones (fire stone, sun stone etc). because the wiki says evolution item, which would include items such as razor claw, galarica wreath, deep sea scale, etc. those evo items i have just mentioned are more expensive than evo stones in both market and item shop,
- and for game chips, usually you’ll get a few thousand, at least 100% more of what you spent (so you spend 1000gc, you win 2000 at least.) though it is possible to win <1000gc, and that has happend to me before. i’m not really bothered by that because it’s only a few hundred gc lost compared to losing 950gc when winning berries.

“higher or lower literally gives you nothing if you’re not lucky”
there is no wait time for higher or lower. that means you can continuously gamble away with at higher or lower and hope to win some game chips. whereas you need to wait six whole hours (because of the special pokémon treatment) to play the wheel of fortune. this means you only get to play it once a day if you’re not very active, or maybe 4 times a day if you’re chronically online.
Since there’s also no notification to alert you when the wheel cooldown is over you have to remind yourself to play it. if you forget to go play it then you might have just missed your second or third chance of the day to play.

“concentration game has a cooldown too.”
it’s only 1 and a half minutes. besides this game relies on your skill and not random clicking. if you know what you’re doing you can earn a profit of at least 70% of what you spent.
(so for concentration hard mode, you spend 5000gc. if you get like 20 wrong answers you still win back 9000gc more or less, giving you a profit of 4000gc)

“what about treasure hunt? if gives you nothing most of the time and there’s a 15 minute cooldown”
that depends on your luck. besides you’re not guaranteed to always win something from treasure hunt, where as you’re guaranteed to win at least one thing in wheel of fortune. and i for one would expect that thing to be decently worth it. same goes for lottery and raffle.
as for the cooldown, you can skip it with a few nuggets. you can enable notifications (under gameplay settings) to alert you when the cooldown is over. you can’t do either of those for wheel of fortune.

”if you’re not happy with what you win, then why don’t you just… not play the wheel of fortune?”
well you see, i don’t play it for the berries/pokeballs. i play it for the old vinyl. i’m pretty sure many other users do the same too.
everything else that’s not an old vinyl or a sweet is basically a compensation/consolation prize, which is why i would want these prizes to be worth it, not some cheap stuff that i could get from literally anywhere else. you can’t really utilise the pokémon stats thing to control whether or not you can get old vinyl either because the default starting position of the wheel is random.

In a separate pokémon universe, a digital virus caused features of minecraft (yes i’m too obsessed with minecraft) to leak into this universe.

This virus corrupted the world, causing chunks of land from all regions to break off from the main map and form one single new region — Terakrine.

The virus also affected all the poor unsuspecting pokémon who happened to be on those lands, even strong legendary pokémon.

The infected pokémon transformed to either one of these four strange typings: “Over”, “Aether”, “Nether” and “Ender”. (If they were dual type, one of their canon types were replaced. If they were mono type, they would gain one of the new types and become dual.)

Over-type pokémon could any of the 18 type moves, Aether-type pokémon could learn any flying or fairy moves, Nether-type pokémon could learn any fire or fighting type moves and Ender-type pokémon could learn any psychic or dark moves. even if they canonically couldn’t.

These four typings also had some exclusive moves: Over types could learn “Venture”, Aether types could learn “Ascend”, Nether types could learn “Hostility” and “Ender types could learn “Sensitivity”. (someday i’ll probably elaborate more on what these moves can do)

But the virus also gave infected pokémon weaknesses. Over types were weak to all 22 types including their own. Aether types were weak to Nether, Ender, Normal, Fire, Electric, Psychic, Dark and Steel types. Nether types were weak to Ender, Water, Grass, Ice, Rock and Ghost types. Ender types were weak to Normal, Water, Grass, Ice, Bug, Fighting and Dragon types. (probably also will talk more about this one)

And it also affected them physically, making them either weak or resistant to stuff in the environment that corresponds to the type (so for example the grass is grass type, mountains are ice/rock type and the sky is Aether/Flying type, etc) (yes i need to work on the logic for this part too)

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An absol, Enzou, and his siblings (Bane and Rykki) were unfortunate enough to end up as a part of the newly formed Terakrine. Even though they tried their best to keep away from the virus, it was no use. The infection spread quickly and soon they became corrupted.

Bane became a Dark-Aether type, so she now had the ability to learn flying or fairy type moves. Rykki became a Dark-Nether type, and now he could learn fire or rock type moves. And enzou became a Dark-Ender type, so he could now learn any psychic moves.

Enzou was ridiculously clumsy and always kept tripping over rocks and edges in the mountain that he and his siblings lived on. He fell down so much so that a part of his horn broke off. Rykki’s tail broke off due to frostbite… somehow… and his horn was also blunted from the strong cold winds. As for bane, she was perfectly fine, as she was resistant to the elements of the mountain. (yea… that’s about it for now)

(lss, enzou then met a chronically online minecraft addict and the two realised that they had similar personalities and became close allies. and yea. i’ll work on this again another time)

So it was just another day of me being chronically online, playing pokeheroes on my tablet. Feeding mons, watering berry plants, bidding on auctions and what not. It was then i noticed something weird— some sprites were really desaturated instead of them normally being bright and vibrant.

For context, the originally lime and teal muggy castform was now a dull murky green, comparable to sewage water, and its eyes were pitch black. Confused, i went to check other parts of the site. The pokémon that were set up in the gts and auction were slowly becoming more dull and grey each time i loaded page after page. Dang, even the item sprites were becoming black and white. It was then I decided to check my party to see if my eggs and pokémon were affected too.

They weren’t even there.

Yep, my party was empty, whatever pokémon and eggs that were there were now gone. Then i checked my storage boxes. All empty too. I was half confused and half panicked. Is this a glitch?

I went back to my party page, and to my surprise there were three eggs there. But the egg sprites were white, and the spots and markings were grey or black. I tried clicking on one them, but instead got redirected to the index page. It was then i really got a shock, EVERYTHING was all black and white. The background image, the header banner, the pelican art and all the art in the news post were now black and white.

As i was scrolling through the news, hoping to find something, a pop up tab showed up. “One of your eggs hatched into a (8{57)!” Strange name. But I didn’t really pay much attention to it, and closed the pop up.

After a while more of scrolling, i found a strange news post. there was nothing written on it, expect for the title which itself was really weird. It said “ | ??/???/???? | ??:?? | News written by #595*)9}58{ | ???”. Honestly i was just terrified at this point.

I went to view other parts of the site— the berry garden, emerald beach, the forums, but everything was all shades of black and white. Then another pop up appeared. “One of your eggs hatched into a {959„j!” Another very strange name. This time, instead of closing the pop up, i was curious to see what was the pokémon that hatched, so i went to my party page. There was only one egg there, and its ehp was at 5595… out of 5355. I was really confused, this definitely wasn’t normal.

I decided to go check some other places, my pokédex, my storage boxes (which were still empty), event distribution page, and they were all also black and white, but this time the dark shades were darker and the light shades were brighter. Then a third pop up appeared on my screen.

“One of your eggs died !”

…One of my eggs WHAT?! I couldn’t believe what i’d just read. But i didn’t dare go back to check my party page. I wasn’t ready for whatever horrific thing i might see.

The contrast between the black and white colours became stronger the more i checked around. I couldn’t go any further, the contrast in colour was hurting my eyes. At this point i figured the best solution was to log out. But when i clicked “ok” on the log out option, instead of getting logged out a text box appeared on my screen: “Do you REALLY want to log out?” There was only an “ok” option, so i clicked it. Another text box appeared: “Are you sure?” The option still said “ok” which didn’t make much sense but i clicked on it.

Then a third text box showed up: “Your account is now #595*)9}58{. Logged out successfully.” I nearly got a heart attack from seeing that. This “#595*)9}58{” was the same one who wrote that blank news post. Was someone hacking pokeheroes? Then i noticed the “ok” option was now replaced with “595”. I thought, “What is ‘595’ even supposed to mean?” But I clicked it regardless. Instead of being redirected to normal pokeheroes index page, i was redirected to a pokémon’s id page.

The pokémon was a level 595 joltik. The sprite was the one from gen 5. It was white instead of yellow, its eyes and feet were dark grey instead of blue, and its outline was just solid black. All of its stats were 595. it didn’t have a name, but it apparently was a shiny. Or so i thought, because there was a black star with a white outline in the place where a shiny/shadow star should’ve been. The id page didn’t have a “Training” or “Feeding” option, it only said “????????????”. And it appeared that i had already trained this joltik before, but the text said: “#595*)9}58{ has been satisfied for today. It is important for #595*)9}58{ to take control of as many people as possible, to collect a wide variety of victims. Never come back.”

That message was somewhat unnerving to read. Many thoughts were going on in my mind at that point. This certainly wasn’t a glitch or a bug, has the game been hacked? Who was this “#595*)9}58{”? Of all possible pokémon it could’ve used, why a joltik? More importantly, were other users affected? I went to visit some of my friends’ profile pages. They all seemed normal.

Then i realised, i had never once went to check my own profile page the whole time, so i did. Not surprised, but my username was changed to “***********”, Which shouldn’t have been possible because i had already changed it just a few weeks ago. My avatar was the sprite of the creepy joltik, but with the black and white inverted. My party was empty except for that same joltik itself. my contacts and feeds were already not viewable by default, and all other tabs (last visitor, plushie log, shiny hunt etc) were not there either.

By now i just gave up. Maybe closing the browser window and opening it again tomorrow will fix this hell of a nightmare. But right before i could close it, the page then suddenly refreshed on its own, and the page became pure white, with what looked like the eyes of a joltik in the middle, but pitch black with white pupils, staring right at me. There was some text at the bottom of the screen. “You cannot go back. You cannot warn your friends. #595*)9}58{ will have spread. #595*)9}58{ will have control.” I just stared at the screen, reading the text, and after a few seconds, the window finally closed.


Next thing i remember, i was sitting at my desk, with my head and arms resting on the table. I suspected i just fell asleep while playing, and that all of that was a dream. But i couldn’t be too sure. With a bit of hesitation, i opened my browser on my tablet, typed “https://pokeheroes.com”, and clicked enter. The page was blank, it took a while to load the login page. But i swear, for a split second. i saw the same pair of black and white joltik eyes.

I was able to log in successfully. The index page was normal. I checked my profile, everything was as per normal. Checked my notifications, everything was normal. My pokémon and eggs in the party bar were all there, and they were normal. Then one of the eggs hatched. And I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but the pokémon that hatched out of the egg was a joltik.

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(sorry if this is a bit lame lol. if you actually read the whole thing feel free to message me and tell me what you think, what to add or change, or whatever really)