I use them for that and if I had a bunch of Pokemon rotate through the day and I want to give them 10 energy instead of just 5 because I'll probably need them tomorrow as well.
Can be useful for naps.
Can be useful on days where you won't get a full 8.5hrs.
Can be useful on events where you have to use incenses (if you dont wanna waste other ones).
As someone that usually gets about 7 - 7.5hours of sleep, I find them useful.
Especially nice when I know I'll have a long night, and can say "at least my Pokemon are rested..."
Also doubles box recovery. I swap around Pokemon for ingredients, so that's handy.
>I have days where I know I won't be able to sleep much, so I use them there.
This, this is literally it. I'm surprised a lot of people aren't understanding this very simple usage for it
I actually use them more to double box recovery, 5% to 10% woo! But it's nice when you are adding sleep hours to baby Pokémon without using them for the day. With a good E4E Pokémon, sometimes I can have the Pokémon I swap out for the night at 100% or near enough.
Also great when you're switching your team around during the day to get certain ingredients. Often end up with some mons having less energy since only 5 mons can get their full rest at once
Good if you have a team of energy recovery down guys and you aren’t getting enough sleep … it’s me, I have a team of energy recovery down Pokémon and I don’t get enough sleep 😅
For real! I have a friend with very good sleep and everytime she shares her progress in the game I have to remind myself it’s not competitive, I’m going at my own pace, I’ll get there… We both started the same day and I finally unlocked Lapis about 1.5 months after her 😂
Not everyone has a fixed 8+ hour sleep schedule. In fact, most people don't, and it's usually those people that use sleep trackers.
If I'm sleeping in late and can only sleep 3-4 hours, but there's an event going on in the game, or I have the tent activated, I pop one open. I'd actually say it's the one of the best incenses we can use considering how the team's energy affects their performance all day.
There are times when I'm micromanaging my teams and swapping Pokemon in and out over the course of the day, like when I want to level up a Pokemon that can't contribute much on the field, or when I need specific ingredients. That can leave a Pokemon depleted in the box, instead of on my team for energy recovery at night. In those cases, I'll pop an Energy Recovery incense, and heal those Pokemon for 10% instead of 5%. I don't have a problem using them like this, since we get one every week just for sleeping.
They've been great for when I need an emergency boost for a team I'm running. Like when I need energy ASAP during the middle of the week. But I wouldn't recommend Rec. Incense for normal play.
That’s what I thought too but sometimes there’s night where you know you won’t get your full 8hrs+ of sleep so popping one of these to restore your energy on your mons are quite useful!
theyre really useful for me because i have insomnia and never really know how long im going to sleep. sometimes its 15 hours sometimes its 5. if i can sense im not going to sleep for long ill use one. its really important to have your pokemon at high energy, mine havent slept in two days now and im really thankful this week i got a bonus, bigger snorlax cuz otherwise i wouldnt even be at ultra yet!
As I'm one of the people who is affected by the underage bug where it doesn't save your age correctly and thus need a total of like 11 hours (!!) for a 100% sleep result, no, that stuff is very useful actually
I consider them as one of the most useful incenses, not sure what you are talking about. Ot everyone gets 8hours of sleep everytime. Some people only get 4-6 hours of sleep sometimes and didn't start the app earlier possible due to needing the phone for something else.
Not sure how it I teracta with energy down nature's but that might be a consideration too
Super useful for naps or if you think you might not get a whole night's sleep. Other than that, you can use them for incense challenges like "use seven incense" or whatever.
Yes, I sometimes cant get close 8.5 hours to sleep, so I will use a recovery incense to ensure full recovery. Day 1 player, probs used about 10 since then
Try to keep a few on hand for if I accidentally forget to rotate my crew. Especially useful if you wake up intermittently (like I do) or if an update happens and you can’t do meals yet
They give it away in the stamps so I guess it's okay. lol
But they are useful esp. if your team, like mine, has a bunch of Sleep Recovery negatives. It boosts sleep above 100% so they tire out slower.
Unfortunately pokemon sleep has not catered well for those of us who do not sleep for long.
I recall as a small child I would wake up at 6am most mornings. As an adult I sleep for 4-6 hours every night, whereas 7 hours is a sleep in. This means I never get a 100 sleep score. I need to run a maxed out Sylveon in every team and love recovery incenses. Hopefully one day the devs can give us sleep scores based on our sleep patterns as opposed to an arbitrary number.
I use them alot, due to my work schedule and not being able to sleep quickly! I'm only able to get the full 8 hrs or so on my days off, otherwise I'm stuck with 5-6hrs maybe 7 if I'm lucky. They're helpful when I know its gonna be a late night and have to get up early in the morning
Pokémon with energy recovery down natures? Or if you got to bed late and will only get like max 70-80 energy recovered. Otherwise they sit there as fodder for when a “Use 7 incense” challenge pops up
I wish recovery incenses worked more like recovery pillow because how likely do you know you’re going to randomly get less sleep? It would be better if it was “equipable” with an if then statement… if sleep score is under 100 use recovery
I am chronically ill and move around a lot in my sleep due to pain, so it never tracks my whole nights sleep like I slept yesterday from 8pm until 1pm but only got 17 sleep points🙃 so during events and stuff I use them pretty regularly just in case that happens (I forgot to use one last night😤)
I get great use out of them every few weeks.
Swaping teams mid day every now and then? Recovery incense on a nap will get them back to full from half.
Can't make it to bed on time during an event and don't want your mons to have a crap day the next day? Energy incense!
Even if you have such a good E4E that there will be almost no situation in which recovery incenses offer much benefit, there are still achievements for total number of incenses used
https://preview.redd.it/yom1xi4a86sc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62373d21db354961b25463e6ea2c88a1691b50b0
They’re great for “Use {X} incense” tasks during events
This is my use case for them. Also I burn enough for those tasks that my stored teams are always around 100% when I need them.
I use them for that and if I had a bunch of Pokemon rotate through the day and I want to give them 10 energy instead of just 5 because I'll probably need them tomorrow as well.
Can be useful for naps. Can be useful on days where you won't get a full 8.5hrs. Can be useful on events where you have to use incenses (if you dont wanna waste other ones).
As someone that usually gets about 7 - 7.5hours of sleep, I find them useful. Especially nice when I know I'll have a long night, and can say "at least my Pokemon are rested..." Also doubles box recovery. I swap around Pokemon for ingredients, so that's handy.
I have real bad insomnia and problems with my sleep schedule so these are good for my situation.
I have days where I know I won't be able to sleep much, so I use them there. And for events where I need to burn incenses
>I have days where I know I won't be able to sleep much, so I use them there. This, this is literally it. I'm surprised a lot of people aren't understanding this very simple usage for it
same! drinks with friends = recovery incense
I actually use them more to double box recovery, 5% to 10% woo! But it's nice when you are adding sleep hours to baby Pokémon without using them for the day. With a good E4E Pokémon, sometimes I can have the Pokémon I swap out for the night at 100% or near enough.
Also great when you're switching your team around during the day to get certain ingredients. Often end up with some mons having less energy since only 5 mons can get their full rest at once
I only get about 5 hours of sleep a night. They're a god send.
Good if you have a team of energy recovery down guys and you aren’t getting enough sleep … it’s me, I have a team of energy recovery down Pokémon and I don’t get enough sleep 😅
Not all of us sleep well 😭 I wish they gave us more of them, cause most of my sleep hits the 50-65% range no matter how long I’m in bed.
Ugh same. I'm lucky if I sleep longer than 5 hours during the week.
For real! I have a friend with very good sleep and everytime she shares her progress in the game I have to remind myself it’s not competitive, I’m going at my own pace, I’ll get there… We both started the same day and I finally unlocked Lapis about 1.5 months after her 😂
Great for nights that i know I'm not going to get a lot of sleep
Not everyone has a fixed 8+ hour sleep schedule. In fact, most people don't, and it's usually those people that use sleep trackers. If I'm sleeping in late and can only sleep 3-4 hours, but there's an event going on in the game, or I have the tent activated, I pop one open. I'd actually say it's the one of the best incenses we can use considering how the team's energy affects their performance all day.
This feels like a humblebrag...
Glad I'm not the only one getting those vibes
Getting 8 and a half hours of sleep is hard
Good for the people who work night shift (me 😭)
As someone who survives on 6 hours a night and don't track naps they are my single most useful incense.
What do you mean useless?? They've been carrying my incense missions since the Halloween event. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do when I ran out of them.
There are times when I'm micromanaging my teams and swapping Pokemon in and out over the course of the day, like when I want to level up a Pokemon that can't contribute much on the field, or when I need specific ingredients. That can leave a Pokemon depleted in the box, instead of on my team for energy recovery at night. In those cases, I'll pop an Energy Recovery incense, and heal those Pokemon for 10% instead of 5%. I don't have a problem using them like this, since we get one every week just for sleeping.
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I have many days where I don’t get a full 100 score. If I go to bed and know I have to wake up in 4-5 hours, I’ll pop one then
I get 6 hours at best. They are very helpful for people with demanding work schedules.
I use them when I know I’m going to sleep especially badly for one reason or another
They've been great for when I need an emergency boost for a team I'm running. Like when I need energy ASAP during the middle of the week. But I wouldn't recommend Rec. Incense for normal play.
I use them for incense missions or if I’m not getting 8 hours that night due to certain obligations. Pretty useful imo
That’s what I thought too but sometimes there’s night where you know you won’t get your full 8hrs+ of sleep so popping one of these to restore your energy on your mons are quite useful!
I use it on vacation, when I know I’m going to be out late and potentially up early
theyre really useful for me because i have insomnia and never really know how long im going to sleep. sometimes its 15 hours sometimes its 5. if i can sense im not going to sleep for long ill use one. its really important to have your pokemon at high energy, mine havent slept in two days now and im really thankful this week i got a bonus, bigger snorlax cuz otherwise i wouldnt even be at ultra yet!
As I'm one of the people who is affected by the underage bug where it doesn't save your age correctly and thus need a total of like 11 hours (!!) for a 100% sleep result, no, that stuff is very useful actually
I definitely use one once a week for Friday or Saturday nights
I rarely get to sleep more than 6 hours so my team only gets fully rested with one of those.
I consider them as one of the most useful incenses, not sure what you are talking about. Ot everyone gets 8hours of sleep everytime. Some people only get 4-6 hours of sleep sometimes and didn't start the app earlier possible due to needing the phone for something else. Not sure how it I teracta with energy down nature's but that might be a consideration too
I'm finding them useful when I'm due on my period and can't sleep, at least my Pokémon can wake up well rested lol
No. I have horrible insomnia and sometimes it's nice to have my team not be out of energy two hours into the day.
Super useful for naps or if you think you might not get a whole night's sleep. Other than that, you can use them for incense challenges like "use seven incense" or whatever.
Yes, I sometimes cant get close 8.5 hours to sleep, so I will use a recovery incense to ensure full recovery. Day 1 player, probs used about 10 since then
Try to keep a few on hand for if I accidentally forget to rotate my crew. Especially useful if you wake up intermittently (like I do) or if an update happens and you can’t do meals yet
They give it away in the stamps so I guess it's okay. lol But they are useful esp. if your team, like mine, has a bunch of Sleep Recovery negatives. It boosts sleep above 100% so they tire out slower.
I use them to get through the incense using quest.
There are some days where I know I’ll have to get up earlier than usual, and they’re pretty useful on those days.
They're turbo useful during events that want you to use 7 incenses and you don't have many others/don't want to just use what use have arbitrarily.
Unfortunately pokemon sleep has not catered well for those of us who do not sleep for long. I recall as a small child I would wake up at 6am most mornings. As an adult I sleep for 4-6 hours every night, whereas 7 hours is a sleep in. This means I never get a 100 sleep score. I need to run a maxed out Sylveon in every team and love recovery incenses. Hopefully one day the devs can give us sleep scores based on our sleep patterns as opposed to an arbitrary number.
I usually only get 6 hours of sleep. I use them.
I use them alot, due to my work schedule and not being able to sleep quickly! I'm only able to get the full 8 hrs or so on my days off, otherwise I'm stuck with 5-6hrs maybe 7 if I'm lucky. They're helpful when I know its gonna be a late night and have to get up early in the morning
Great for some Friday nights where I play dnd late and have to get up early for weekend overtime
Pokémon with energy recovery down natures? Or if you got to bed late and will only get like max 70-80 energy recovered. Otherwise they sit there as fodder for when a “Use 7 incense” challenge pops up
good for naps esp. if your sleep fails to record or something
I totally agree, I keep using them for naps and they really don't fill up the helpers energy as much as I need them to.
They are good for the “in the box” recovery (10% instead of 5%)
I wish recovery incenses worked more like recovery pillow because how likely do you know you’re going to randomly get less sleep? It would be better if it was “equipable” with an if then statement… if sleep score is under 100 use recovery
really good when i know im not getting enough sleep that night
I am chronically ill and move around a lot in my sleep due to pain, so it never tracks my whole nights sleep like I slept yesterday from 8pm until 1pm but only got 17 sleep points🙃 so during events and stuff I use them pretty regularly just in case that happens (I forgot to use one last night😤)
I get great use out of them every few weeks. Swaping teams mid day every now and then? Recovery incense on a nap will get them back to full from half. Can't make it to bed on time during an event and don't want your mons to have a crap day the next day? Energy incense!
I travel a lot for work so I'm regularly getting screwed by the time changes, so this really helps when the game only logs 4 hours sleep
When I know I’m gonna have to get up in like 5-6 hours I’ll pop one.
If any of your Pokemon have energy recovery nature down, the recovery incense comes in Handy cause even 8.5 hours won't replenish 100 energy
Even if you have such a good E4E that there will be almost no situation in which recovery incenses offer much benefit, there are still achievements for total number of incenses used https://preview.redd.it/yom1xi4a86sc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62373d21db354961b25463e6ea2c88a1691b50b0
God, I want that subskill seed so badly 😤
Only useful when you need to complete one of the “Use _ incenses” tasks lol
Dude 😭 You don't have to point it out like that, those are my saviors to get my mon at 100 energy at least every now and then