Pokémon QuestHow to Get the Most Free PM Tickets in Pokémon Quest
Pokémon Quest gives away PM Tickets every 22 hours and rains them down when you complete challenges. Energy, on the other hand, is time: MoBee's battery charges set the real pace.
What is the fastest and most efficient way to get PM Tickets in Pokémon Quest?
Pokémon Quest has an unusually friendly economy. PM Tickets are spent on decorations for the camp and on expanding your Pokémon and stone boxes, and the Poké Mart itself gives them to you periodically asking for nothing in return. The other limit is MoBee's battery: each expedition uses a charge, you start with five and each one takes half an hour to come back. Neither the game nor its rewards depend on random pulls, so progress comes down above all to organising your sessions well.
Every day
- 50 PM Tickets every 22 hours
The Poké Mart Membership Service
This is the main source and there is nothing to do to unlock it: you are a member from minute one. The Poké Mart hands over 50 PM Tickets every 22 hours, and the counter only advances once you claim the previous delivery, so leaving it uncollected is wasted time. The 22 hours are designed so the delivery keeps moving earlier each day and you are not tied to a fixed time. Claiming consistently also feeds a run of challenges that reward receiving Tickets 3, 5, 7, 15 and 30 times.
- Five expeditions in a row and a new charge every 30 minutes
Manage MoBee's battery charges
Each expedition uses one battery charge. You start with five and each one comes back in half an hour, so a full session consumes about two and a half hours of recharge. The management trick is simple: some challenges pay directly in battery recharges, so it is best not to claim those rewards until you have run out of charges. Saving them means having extra expeditions on demand. You can also spend PM Tickets to recharge, but it rarely pays off compared with waiting.
- New partners and progress on several challenges at once
Cook and recycle between expeditions
Cooking with the ingredients the expeditions drop is how you attract new Pokémon to the camp, and recycling the power stones you are not going to use returns ingredients. Neither action consumes battery, so they are the natural things to do while it recharges. They also feed several challenge lines in parallel — number of dishes cooked, recipes collected, stones recycled — so the same routine ends up paying in Tickets without you having to chase it.
One time only
- 100 PM Tickets in one go
Back up your save data
It is the best-paid challenge in the game and it is solved in a minute from the options menu. On top of the 100 Tickets, it protects your progress against a change of phone or an accidental wipe, which matters especially if a child is playing. There is no reason to put it off: you do it once, it does not expire and the reward is worth two full Membership Service deliveries. It is worth redoing the backup every so often when you have made significant progress, even though the Tickets are only paid the first time.
- Between 5 and 20 PM Tickets per challenge, and there are over a hundred
Sweep the challenge list
The challenge list is enormous and almost everything you would do anyway counts: evolving a Pokémon, registering species in the Pokédex, cooking a number of times, recycling power stones, reaching attack or HP figures, training moves or getting a bingo with stones. The rewards run from 5 to 20 Tickets, with peaks such as the 20 for taking a shiny Pokémon as your partner. Checking the list before you play tells you which specific action you are missing and turns a normal session into a Ticket harvest.
- Permanent multipliers on what the expeditions drop
Spend your Tickets on decorations, not boxes
The Poké Mart sells two very different things. Box expansions cost 50 Tickets and only give you space. The decorations, on the other hand, improve the game permanently: there are cheap pieces that increase the size of the ingredients that drop and pricier ones that double what recycling returns or improve the odds of stones with several slots. Prioritising performance decorations over space makes every later expedition pay more, and the effect compounds.
What does not work
No generator can add PM Tickets to your Pokémon Quest account: the balance is handled on the game’s servers and there is no way to touch it from outside. If you arrived looking for one, we explain in detail how they work on the inside and why they always end the same way.
See why PM Tickets generators are a scam →Frequently asked questions
How do you get free PM Tickets in Pokémon Quest?
The steady route is the Poké Mart Membership Service, which delivers 50 PM Tickets every 22 hours simply for claiming them. On top of that comes the challenge list, with over a hundred objectives paying between 5 and 20 Tickets each, and a one-off payment of 100 for backing up your save data. Between those two sources you can play the whole game without spending money.
How long does MoBee's battery take to recharge?
Each charge takes around 30 minutes to come back and the initial maximum is five charges, so going from empty to full takes about two and a half hours. Each expedition consumes one charge. Some challenges hand out recharges as a reward: keeping them unclaimed until you hit zero is how you get extra expeditions exactly when you need them.
What should you spend your first PM Tickets on?
On performance decorations rather than box expansions. The pieces that increase the size of the ingredients the expeditions drop are cheap and their effect shows from the very first outing, while the extra space is only needed once you already have a lot stored up. The expensive decorations that double recycling or improve the stones with several slots can wait until your Ticket trickle is steady.
How do you stop a child making unwanted purchases in the game?
By turning on password or fingerprint confirmation for every purchase in the App Store or Google Play settings and reviewing the device's parental controls. It is also worth explaining that paid content is not needed to progress: the game hands out PM Tickets continuously and the only real limit is the battery recharge time, which is solved by waiting.
