Sandwich

Sandwiches (Japanese: サンドウィッチ Sandwich) are a food item consisting of sliced bread and fillings popular in the Paldea region.
==In the games==
A nondescript is given to the player by their mother at Cabo Poco after the first battle with Nemona. It is used to feed the injured / they discover at the beach near Poco Path.
===Making sandwiches===
In , sandwiches can be prepared at a player's picnic by interacting with the table and selecting to make a sandwich. Sandwiches can be cooked by up to four players in a mini-game, similarly to Pokéblocks, Poffins, and curry in previous games. After the host of a picnic chooses to make sandwiches, any other members of the Union Circle can opt to join in by interacting with the table before the host starts the session.
Players are given a 10-minute time limit to assemble a sandwich with various options of bread and fillings, which provide Meal Powers when the sandwich is completed, similar to Pass Powers in Generation V, O-Powers in Generation VI, and Roto Powers in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. While condiments are applied to the bread at the start of the session, each ingredient used provides a certain number of toppings in a tray. Care must be taken when stacking ingredients and the top half of the bread to ensure that nothing spills over the edge, as any spilled ingredients will be discarded. A sandwich must contain at least one condiment and at least one ingredient - it cannot consist of only one or the other.
Players can choose from a list of premade sandwich recipes in Recipe Mode — with additional recipes obtainable if they talk to people at a sandwich Shop with a specific Herba Mystica in their inventory — or select up to ten ingredients and seasonings in Creative Mode. With the exception of Jambon-Beurres and Legendary sandwiches, each kind of recipe comes in four tiers — Normal, Great, Ultra, and Master — with higher tiers requiring additional ingredients on top of the ones from before. Custom sandwiches (or recipes that have been allowed to have too many ingredients fall off the bread) will be referred to as "A Tasty (Player) Original".
Creating a custom sandwich does not require the top portion of the bread and will not affect the Meal Powers. A useful strategy is to purposefully throw it away to avoid disturbing the ingredients. This is acknowledged in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC, as if this is done during Crispin's Elite Trial, he wonders if it's a Paldean thing.
===Ingredients===
===List of sandwich recipes===
===Meal Powers===
Preparing a sandwich will activate three Meal Powers, which vary depending on the recipe or ingredients used. Meal Powers remain active for 30 minutes from the time the sandwich is made. Only three Meal Powers can be active at a time, so preparing another sandwich while Meal Powers are still active will cancel those Meal Powers and replace them with new ones. The player's currently active Meal Powers, and the remaining duration of their effect, can be checked by pressing the right button on the D-Pad.
 
Meal Powers are divided into three levels depending on the number of points bestowed by their ingredients, and all of them except for Egg Power only provide bonuses for one specific type of Pokémon at a time.https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-ca/news/picnics/
In addition to prepping sandwiches on their own to attain Meal Powers, numerous restaurants and food stalls throughout Paldea offer a range of premade foods for players to purchase, each providing a predetermined set of Meal Powers.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640096160231587844 These foods are consumed on purchase.
Each ingredient has three categories of values assigned to it: flavor values, power values, and type values.
* Flavor can be: Hot, Salty, Sweet, Bitter, or Sour
* Power corresponds to specific Meal Powers, listed below.
* Type corresponds to Pokémon type.
When a sandwich is assembled, the values of all ingredients are summed. The top 3 sums in each category are used to determine the sandwich's effects.
====Flavor values====
The top 2 flavor values will confer a +100 bonus to a specific power value, according to the following tableSandwich math tutorial - Ryik - Reddit:
Highest flavor	Second-highest flavor	+100 power value bonus
Hot 	Salty 	Humungo Power
Hot 	Sweet 	Raid Power
Hot 	Bitter 	Humungo Power
Hot 	Sour 	Humungo Power
Salty 	Hot 	Encounter Power
Salty 	Sweet 	Encounter Power
Salty 	Bitter 	Exp. Point Power
Salty 	Sour 	Encounter Power
Sweet 	Hot 	Raid Power
Sweet 	Salty 	Egg Power
Sweet 	Bitter 	Egg Power
Sweet 	Sour 	Catching Power
Bitter 	Hot 	Item Drop Power
Bitter 	Salty 	Exp. Point Power
Bitter 	Sweet 	Item Drop Power
Bitter 	Sour 	Item Drop Power
Sour 	Hot 	Teensy Power
Sour 	Salty 	Teensy Power
Sour 	Sweet 	Catching Power
Sour 	Bitter 	Teensy Power
If the top 2 flavor values are tied, then the following table is used instead:
Flavor 1	Flavor 2	+100 power value bonus
Hot 	Salty 	Encounter Power
Hot 	Sweet 	Raid Power
Hot 	Bitter 	Item Drop Power
Hot 	Sour 	Teensy Power
Salty 	Sweet 	Egg Power
Salty 	Bitter 	Exp. Point Power
Salty 	Sour 	Encounter Power
Sweet 	Bitter 	Egg Power
Sweet 	Sour 	Catching Power
Bitter 	Sour 	Teensy Power
====Power values====
The top 3 power values (after considering flavor's bonus) will determine the Meal Powers activated by the meal.
====Type values====
The top 3 type values will determine which types the Meal Powers will apply to. However, if 2 Herba Mystica are used, then only the single highest type is considered.
If any of the top 3 type values are tied, then the following priority is applied to break the tie, from highest to lowest priority: Normal > Fighting > Flying > Poison > Ground > Rock > Bug > Ghost > Steel > Fire > Water > Grass > Electric > Psychic > Ice > Dragon > Dark > Fairy.
====Final effect determination====
A sandwich will generate 3 effects: each effect will have a Meal Power, a level for the intensity of the power, and a type that the power is applied to.
Suppose that the top 3 Meal Powers are, in descending order, powers A, B, and C. Assume the same for the top 3 types, types A, B, and C.
* Power A will apply to type A.
* Power B will apply to type C.
* Power C will apply to type B.
If 2 Herba Mystica are used, then Powers A, B, and C will all use type A only.
The level of an effect will depend on the effect's power value and type value:
Effect level	Power value	Type value
lv. 1 	below 100 	below 180
lv. 2 	100 - 1,999	180+
lv. 3 	2,000+ 	500+
===List of Meal Powers===
====Egg Power====
Egg Power has a number of effects on Egg generation as well as item generation in the Picnic baskethttps://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1628463982875930625:
*No Egg Power: Checks whether to generate an Egg or item occur every 60 seconds, with item checks occurring every time, resulting in 33.66% chance to generate an item, and a 3% chance (1.99% if adjusted to account for item checks) to generate an Egg every 60 seconds.
*All Levels: Decreases interval between checks from 60 seconds to 10 seconds, and only checks whether it should generate an item every sixth check, resulting in a 5.61% chance to generate an item. Egg generation rates vary per Egg Power level.
**Level 1: Approximately ×5 Egg generation rateReduces egg cycles by ×1.25
**Level 2: Approximately ×7 Egg generation rateReduces egg cycles by ×1.50
**Level 3: Approximately ×10 Egg generation rateReduces egg cycles by ×2
====Catching Power====
*Increases the catch rate in battle.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640096177826807811https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1610341845543915520
**Level 1: ×1.1 bonus
**Level 2: ×1.25 bonus
**Level 3: ×2 bonus
====Encounter Power====
*Forces a specific type of Pokémon to spawn, if possible.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640102649897922561https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1639063140334723095
**Level 1: 50% to force spawn.
**Level 2: 75% to force spawn.
**Level 3: 100% to force spawn.
====Exp. Point Power====
*Increases the Experience received for defeating a specific type of Pokémon.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640096180649566210
**Level 1: ×1.1 bonus
**Level 2: ×1.3 bonus
**Level 3: ×1.5 bonus
====Item Drop Power====
*Increases the chance for a specific type of Pokémon to drop 1 additional item.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640096185242333185
**Level 1: 25% increase
**Level 2: 50% increase
**Level 3: 100% increase
====Raid Power====
*Increases the item rewards from Tera Raid Battles.
**Level 1: 1 extra item
**Level 2: 2 extra items
**Level 3: 3 extra items
====Humungo Power====
*Increases the chance of large size Pokémon to appear in the wild.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1593324825409462272https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1602863369249488896
**Level 1: Scale 128-255
**Level 2: Scale 160-255
**Level 3: Scale 192-255
====Teensy Power====
*Increases the chance of small size Pokémon to appear in the wild.
**Level 1: Scale 0-127
**Level 2: Scale 0-95
**Level 3: Scale 0-63
====Sparkling Power====
*Increases the chance for Shiny Pokémon to appear in the wild.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640100954593714177https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1602047739751432192
**Level 1: 1 additional Shiny roll
**Level 2: 2 additional Shiny rolls
**Level 3: 3 additional Shiny rolls
====Title Power====
*Increases the chances of wild Pokémon to generate with a mark.https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1640096188031442945https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1625345500869271553
**Level 1: 1 additional Mark roll
**Level 2: 2 additional Mark rolls
**Level 3: 3 additional Mark rolls
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
Though sandwiches have appeared numerous times in , Paldean sandwiches never made an appearance. 
===Pokémon Horizons: The Series===
Paldean sandwiches first appeared in An Unexpected Picnic!, where the Rising Volt Tacklers made some while having a picnic outside Levincia.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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In Discover! The Quaking Earth Titan!!, told Arven that had started following him because it loved the taste of the sandwiches made for him by his family's head chef.
In Battle! Team Star, the Delinquents!!, Arven made a sandwich for Violet. Before Violet could eat it, however, it was eaten by Miraidon instead, necessitating Arven to make a new one.
In PASV08, after Violet, Arven, and Nemona had succeeded in defeating and finding the Sweet Herba Mystica, Arven made sandwiches with the herb. When Miraidon ate one of the herb-filled sandwiches, it gained the ability to dash.
In PASV09, when Nemona caught up with in Artazon, she gave her a sandwich to eat.
In PASV11, Arven made sandwiches with the Bitter Herba Mystica. He fed one to his , allowing it to recover a bit more, while Miraidon eating some restored its ability to move on water.
==References==
==External links==
Pokémon Sandwich Simulator by InfexiousBand - Reddit
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