Missions are by and large the best way to obtain lots of Festival Coins. Once your Festival Plaza is at least Rank 4 you can do Missions. Talk to the Dancer by the bridge and you will receive three Festival Tickets daily. Use these to host missions.

Joining missions will not cost you a ticket. When you’re connected to the Internet, occasionally a red banner will scroll across your touch screen informing you of a mission being held by a guest on your guest list. Tap to join and rake in the FC!

Mission Types¶

There are several different missions, way too many to list, in fact, without making it its own book, but they can be broken down into general categories where you’re basically doing the same thing.

Certain missions require you to participate in at least 20 Missions beforehand so if you’re not seeing some, just keep on doing Missions and they’ll pop up eventually.

Language Lesson: Run by your visitors and look at the speech bubbles. Talk to those speaking in the language targeted by the mission. For example, target “Hello!” and “Thank You!” for English Lesson.

Find [x]!: This can range from “Find the oldest sibling!” to “Find Bug-type enthusiasts!” Run by the visitors and look for speech bubbles linking to them fitting the status requirement and then talk to them to earn points. For example, Bug-type enthusiasts will be talking about various Alolan Bug-type Pokemon.

Research [x]!: You will have to research clothing colors! Talk to trainers wearing the specific color targeted

Send people off too… : You will have to send visitors to various facilities and try to make them like it!

Costumes and Disguises: Find and talk to visitors wearing (silly) costumes or disguises, or as an inversion, talk to visitors who are not disguised.

Life and the Universe: A general lump category of missions that usually assign you to finding out about people’s lives. For example, you might be tasked with talking to people who have free time and find out what they do and how much they have.

Type Match-Up Tests: There are two missions, that are inversions of each other. Both involve talking to all the visitors in your Plaza and answering their question which involves knowing the type chart like the back of your hand.

The first mission will involve answering using the standard type chart, the second mission involves answering the questions as if inverse battle is in effect (i.e. all super effective / ineffective matchups are flipped, so Water is super effective against Dragon, for example).

At the end of each mission, you’ll be scored individually and overall as a group (if you were connected to the Internet and other players joined your mission). Afterwards, you’ll be given an amount of Festival Coins corresponding to your individual and total player score.

If you got 5 stars for both, you’ll get the highest advertised FC; otherwise, you’ll get a proportion of the amount. In general, you should focus on your individual performance and aim for 5 stars. That way you’ll stand to get half of the maximum amount of FC, which is usually a decent number.

This is because the total player score needs to be really good to get close to 5 stars–and the only way for this to happen is if there are a lot of players. However, the sad truth is that not all missions get filled up with players. Although when it does happen, you’ll be smiling!

Also, because of this reason, try to avoid joining missions with less than 2 minutes on the timer. Any less and you probably won’t have enough time to gun for 5 stars–and it’s unlikely the other players in the mission will bump up the combined score.

Global Missions¶

Global Missions are technically the exact same as normal Missions, but they are released by the head honchos of the game themselves: the Pokemon Company and Nintendo.

They are released through Global Link and Game Sync so you will need to register a Game Sync ID through the Global Link website to participate. Released infrequently, Global Missions last a certain duration, after which time you will receive FC as a reward.

Succeeding in the mission will reward you with a boatload of FC, but if you don’t succeed, you’ll still get some anyways.