Best Helper Pokemon Tier List (April 2024)

Whether you're new to Pokemon Sleep or have been playing since launch, you can find out which Pokemon you'll want to add to your Helper Team through our fully evolved Pokemon tier list and beginner tier list. Find out which Helper Pokemon are the best at what they do!

Best Pokemon Tier List

Best Helper Pokemon Tier Lists for Both Advanced and Beginner Players!

Best Pokemon Tier List Criteria

S Tier Pokemon

Pokemon Helper Tiers
S	A	B	C	D

These are Pokemon that provide excellent help very frequently. They greatly excel in either Berry finding, ingredient gathering, or by having a useful Main Skill that benefits your whole team.

Fastest Pokemon

Fastest Helper Pokemon
Pikachu Base Frequency: 45 mins	Raichu Base Frequency: 36 mins 40 secs	Gengar Base Frequency: 36 mins 40 secs

The first Pokemon you get in Pokemon Sleep is one of the best when it comes to raising Snorlax Strength early on. Pikachu provides incredibly fast help especially compared to other early game Pokemon.

Evolving it makes it even better! Raichu, as well as Gengar, are some of the fastest Pokemon in the game. You can reliably get Berries and ingredients from them frequently, and their Charge Strength S skill can further increase Snorlax's Strength.

It would be optimal to raise both Raichu and Gengar starting from a Pichu and Gastly, so that their Charge Strength S skill can grow to level 3 through evolution.

Best Overall Healer

Best Healer Pokemon
Energy for Everyone S
Wigglytuff	Gardevoir

Wigglytuff and Gardevoir's Energy for Everyone skill raises the Energy of your whole team, keeping productivity up! If you raise Wigglytuff from an Igglybuff, its skill will be at level 3, allowing it to restore 9 Energy every time it triggers.

Best at Gathering Favorite Berries

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Meganium	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Typhlosion	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Feraligatr	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Walrein	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

For the Cyan Beach research area, having a Feraligatr can allow you to zip through the Snorlax ratings.

The same can be said for Typhlosion for the Taupe Hollow area, Walrein for the Snowdrop Tundra area, and Meganium for Lapis Lakeside. All of them also have very useful Main Skills.

Best at Gathering Ingredients

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Blastoise	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

Moomoo Milk is a useful ingredient for all dish types, and Blastoise is the best at obtaining them. Blastoise can also unlock the high-Strength Soothing Cacao ingredient at level 30.

Early Game Best Ingredient Gatherers

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Bulbasaur	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Charmander	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Squirtle	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Caterpie	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

Ingredients may be harder to come by when you're just starting out, and the three Kanto starters are some of the best sources of ingredients early on in Pokemon Sleep.

Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle all specialize in ingredients, meaning they can pick up at least two ingredients at a time and find them often. They also have the Ingredient Magnet S Skill, further boosting their ingredient-finding potential.

Caterpie is a Berries specialty Pokemon that also has Ingredient Magnet S. This allows it to be an excellent source of both Berries and ingredients.

Best Ingredients and Helper Pokemon For Dishes

A Tier Pokemon

Pokemon Helper Tiers
S	A	B	C	D

These are Pokemon that provide fast, reliable help but may not be as generally useful as the S-tier Pokemon.

Berries Specialty Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Butterfree	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Primeape	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Slaking	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Steelix	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

Butterfree, Slaking, and Steelix provide balanced help, being Berries Specialty Pokemon with the Ingredient Magnet skill.

Primeape is an excellent Berries Specialty Pokemon to use on Lapis Lakeside. It's just not quite as good as Meganium since Primeape can only get a maximum of one main skill level up boost through evolution.

Ingredients Specialty Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Venusaur	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Charizard	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Kangaskhan	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Delibird	| Ingredients Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Kangaskhan, and Delibird are all Ingredients Specialty Pokemon that have the Ingredient Magnet skill. If you're short on ingredients for Snorlax's next meal, using one or more of these Pokemon is your best way to stock up.

Skills Specialty Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Ampharos	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength M
Magnezone	| Skills Specialty	Cooking Power-Up S
Sylveon	| Skills Specialty	Energy for Everyone S
Gallade	| Skills Specialty	Extra Helpful S
Raikou	| Skills Specialty	Helper Boost (Electric)

Although Raikou has a very strong main skill in Helper Boost (Electric), it only triggers rarely—about once a day at most without additional main skill trigger bonuses.

Other Skills Specialty Pokemon on this list have very strong skills. They perform better than the Pokemon in lower tiers with the same skills but they're not quite as good as Pokemon in the S tier.

Self-Healing Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Dodrio	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Dragonite	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Energy S
Tyranitar	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Energy S

Dodrio, Dragonite, and Tyranitar have the ability to keep their Energy up for the whole day because of their Charge Energy S skill. This allows them to gather Berries and Ingredients without dropping their relatively fast speed due to exhaustion.

Beginner Helper Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Diglett	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Mankey	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Gastly	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Eevee	| Skills Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Chikorita	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Cyndaquil	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Totodile	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Pichu	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Mareep	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength M
Mime Jr.	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Shuppet	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S

These beginner A-tier Pokemon are very good at whichever they specialize in, and all of them have useful skills.

B Tier Pokemon

Pokemon Helper Tiers
S	A	B	C	D

The Pokemon in this tier have something going for them, but they may be more conditional and less reliable compared to A and S tier Pokemon.

Pokemon with Unique Skills

Extra Helpful S	Arcanine	Jolteon
Cooking Power-Up S	Flareon	Glaceon
Charge Strength M	Espeon

Flareon and Glaceon are a bit outclassed by Magnezone, but they make fine substitutes if you don't have an evolved Magnezone or if you're not looking to expand your cooking pot by much.

Espeon is just a little less optimal than Ampharos but it can be more suitable if Snorlax prefers its Berry.

The Extra Helpful skill of Arcanine and Jolteon look good on paper, but they aren't quite so reliable.

Pokemon with Valuable Ingredients or Berries

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients
Altaria	| Berries Specialty
Ditto	| Ingredients Specialty
Abomasnow	| Ingredients Specialty
Bewear	| Ingredients Specialty
Absol	| Ingredients Specialty
Mr. Mime	| Ingredients Specialty
Dugtrio	| Ingredients Specialty
Victreebel	| Ingredients Specialty
Golem	| Ingredients Specialty
Slowking	| Skills Specialty

Altaria is the only Pokemon in the game so far that can find the Yache Berry, making it a valuable Pokemon to have.

The other Pokemon on this list can gather the uncommon, high-value ingredients Greengrass Corn, Tasty Mushroom, Soft Potato, Large Leek, and Slowpoke Tail most of which are only unlockable starting at level 30.

Obtaining these ingredients is necessary if you want to complete your list of recipes or add higher Strength ingredients to your dishes.

Good Helper Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Primeape	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Pinsir	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Houndoom	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Onix	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Banette	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S

These Pokemon can gather items relatively quickly, and most of them have the useful Charge Strength S skill. Most of the Berries Specialty Pokemon here can also gather some valuable ingredients.

Beginner Pokemon with Unique Skills

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Growlithe	| Skills Specialty	Extra Helpful S
Magnemite	| Skills Specialty	Cooking Power-Up S
Igglybuff	| Skills Specialty	Energy for Everyone S
Togepi	| Skills Specialty	Metronome
Bonsly	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength M

These Pokemon all have very useful and unique Skills that can help you with your gameplay, though the help they provide may not be very frequent.

Togepi may be a bit of a wildcard, since Metronome triggers a random Main Skill. But this does give you a chance to activate a very strong skill.

Other Good Beginner Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Pikachu (Holiday)	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Wobbuffet	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Slakoth	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Swablu	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Spheal	| Berries Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S

The Skills Specialty Pokemon here provide frequent help but cannot collect multiple Berries or ingredients at a time. They also have okay Main Skills—nothing unique or too impactful.

Swablu is a decent Pokemon for the most part, but its Main Skill isn't the best for beginners. Slakoth and Spheal are also good Pokemon all around, but they aren't very fast.

C Tier Pokemon

Pokemon Helper Tiers
S	A	B	C	D

These are average-performing Pokemon. They aren't bad, but they're also not very good at anything in particular. They may be easily replaced in your Helper Team by other Pokemon.

Evolved Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Raticate	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Arbok	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Golduck	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength S
Slowbro	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Marowak	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Vaporeon	| Skills Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Sudowoodo	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength M
Umbreon	| Skills Specialty	Charge Energy S
Wobbuffet	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Heracross	| Skills Specialty	Ingredient Magnet S
Toxicroak	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Leafeon	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Clefable	| Berries Specialty	Metronome
Dedenne	| Skills Specialty	Tasty Chance S

These Pokemon are easily outclassed by the Pokemon in the higher tiers. They're not particularly fast and most have unremarkable Main Skills.

Of these Pokemon, Arbok might stand out and be more useful than higher tier Pokemon if you encounter a Snorlax that favors the Chesto Berry.

Beginner Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Rattata	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Ekans	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Meowth	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Psyduck	| Skills Specialty	Charge Strength S
Bellsprout	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Energy S
Cubone	| Berries Specialty	Charge Energy S
Houndour	| Berries Specialty	Charge Strength S
Larvitar	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Energy S
Gulpin	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Riolu	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S

These Pokemon cannot pick up Berries or ingredients quickly. Their Main Skills also aren't the best. However, the Berries and ingredients they do pick up are still of great use especially if they are Snorlax's favorite Berries or ingredients for a recipe you're trying to unlock.

D Tier Pokemon

Pokemon Helper Tiers
S	A	B	C	D

Pokemon in this tier still have their uses, but not everyone may find them useful. They are not the best at providing general help.

Not the Most Useful Main Skills

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Persian	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Sableye	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Swalot	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Lucario	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S
Togekiss	| Skills Specialty	Metronome
Pikachu (Holiday)	| Skills Specialty	Dream Shard Magnet S

Unfortunately, the Dream Shard Magnet S skill drags down these Skills Specialty Pokemon. Dream Shards are very easy to come by in Pokemon Sleep, especially if you've been playing for a while.

Togekiss's Metronome skill is also too unreliable to have on a team that strives to raise Snorlax's Strength. Togekiss is one of the few Pokemon with access to the Fancy Egg ingredient though, so it has that niche use.

Very Slow Beginner Pokemon

Pokemon	Berry | Ingredients	Skill
Geodude	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S
Slowpoke	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Wynaut	| Skills Specialty	Energizing Cheer S
Croagunk	| Ingredients Specialty	Charge Strength S

These Pokemon are still useful for the ingredients and Berries they can pick up, but you may find it difficult to get more than a few pieces whenever you tap on them.

It may not be a good idea to use these Pokemon if you're trying to raise Snorlax fast. However, if you find yourself needing the specific ingredients or Berries they have, they can still be of great use to you.

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