Survival Mode

Survival Mode (Japanese: ポケロード Poké Road) is a Pokémon Shuffle area that challenges players to make progress into a series of 50 stages without being able to alter their initial selection of Support Pokémon. It was added in version 1.3 (3DS)/1.6 (Mobile).

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Survival Mode is unlocked only after players defeat the first 150 Main Stages. These Main Stages do not need to be defeated at any specific Rank, unlike unlocking Expert Stages. Players may only adjust the initial Support Pokémon they selected before Stage 1 by restarting the Survival Mode challenge. This is the unique "challenge" of Survival Mode, since players will not always know which opposing Pokémon they will face or how many moves they will have to face them. Selecting Pokémon with the strongest Attack power, useful Skills, and a diversified selection of Pokémon Types can be helpful strategies.

Stages in Survival Mode reuse the first 300 Main Stages. In Survival Mode's 60 stages, players are presented with a repeating sequence that includes a short series of randomly selected Pokémon from a Main Stage area or set of areas and then a fixed battle against a particularly challenging Pokémon, often a Mega Evolved Pokémon. The further players progress into the Survival Mode challenge, the more likely they will face Pokémon from further along the Main Stage sequence, following a stage progression that loosely reflects the Main Stage sequence. Starting at Stage 11, a third step in the Survival Mode sequence is added immediately following the challenging fixed battle with a weaker, less challenging Pokémon fix battle for early in the Main Stage sequence. This provides a brief break from what otherwise are increasingly more difficult Pokémon challenges.

• Players pay three Hearts to start a Survival Mode challenge. Individual stages within a challenge have no cost.
• Players start with 5 moves in Stage 1. All subsequent stages begin by adding 5 additional moves, called "Victor's bonus moves +5", to the number of remaining moves left after defeating the previous stage. The minimum number of moves is always 5. Player cumulative performance determines the maximum number of moves.

REWARDS:

Level	1st time reward	Afterward
10	1x Exp. Booster M	1x Exp. Booster S
20	1x Raise Max Level*	2x Exp. Booster S
25	1x Exp. Booster M*	3x Exp. Booster S*
30	1x Raise Max Level	1x Exp. Booster M*
35	1x Exp. Booster L*	2x Exp. Booster M*
40	2x Raise Max Level*	2x Exp. Booster M
45	1x Exp. Booster L*	3x Exp. Booster M
50	5x Raise Max Level*	1x Exp. Booster L
55	1x Skill Booster L*	1x Exp. Booster L*
60	10x Raise Max Level*	1x Skill Booster S*

• Only the "Exp. Points x1.5", "Mega Start", and occasionally "Disruption Delay" Items are available for purchase before individual Survival Mode stages.
• Stage 1 does not start with any Disruptions or randomly select Pokémon that causes Disruptions. After Stage 1, randomly selected Survival Mode stages may or may not include starting Disruptions, Pokémon causing Disruptions, and 3-Pokémon Stages.
• Special rewards are awarded after completing a fixed number of stages during a single challenge (see the Rewards table to the right). An initial set of rewards are provided the first time players defeat a fixed number of Survival Mode stages. Players receive a slightly less attractive set of rewards when they repeated the challenge. It is not necessary to achieve the initial set of rewards during the same challenge, as they are awarded the first time players progress far enough into any Survival Mode challenge to earn a reward.
• Defeating opposing Pokémon rewards 20 Coins per stage, since players will have already defeated these same 150 Pokémon in the first 150 Main Stages in order to unlock Survival Mode.
• Players always receive a fixed distribution of XP per stage. Defeating an opposing Pokémon rewards one Pokémon with 4 XP and the other three Pokémon 2 XP. If players are defeated, 1 XP per Pokémon is awarded.
• Survival modes also offers the ability for players to "Take a Break" between each stage. Selecting this option pauses the current Survival Mode challenge and creates a "temporary save point". Players may have only one temporary save point at a time and cannot use other Pokémon Shuffle play modes while a temporary save point exists. Players are forced to return to their Survival Mode save point once they restart Pokémon Shuffle or their temporary save point will be erased.

Survival Mode was introduced with Version 1.3.0 on March 23, 2016 for the 3DS and Version 1.6.0 on April 26, 2016 for Mobile. In its original implementation, it was composed of 50 stages selected from the first 150 Main Stages. Survival Mode was redesigned on July 25, 2017 to increase its difficulty level by adjusting stage selection choices, expanding stage selection to the first 300 Main Stages, adding 10 additional stages to the challenge for a total of 60 stages, and improving the rewards.

Stages

The sequence of stages is not completely random for Survival Mode. Some stages are set, while the others are random within a specified set of stages.

Current version

Survival Mode Stage	Equivalent Main Stage	Pokémon	Reward	Disruption	Notes
SM1	Stage 5	Eevee from Puerto Blanco		none
SM2	Stage 10	Mega Audino from Puerto Blanco		yes	Breakable-rock Disruption x1 tile (Counter 0, 2)
SM3	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM4	Stage 45	Mega Slowbro from Isla Asul		yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption x3 tiles with Slowpoke (Counter 0, 3)
SM5	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM6	Stage 105	Mega Ampharos from Silbern Museum		yes	Barrier Disruption on bottom 4 rows (Start) then non-Support Pokémon Disruption x5 tiles with Flaaffy (Counter 4) then Barrier Disruption x5 tiles (Counter 3)
SM7	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM8	Stage 135	Mega Gengar from Castle Noapte		yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption with Eevee that also falls in from the top (Start) then Barrier Disruption encompassing center two columns (Counter 3) then non-Support Pokémon Disruptions x1 tile with Haunter three times (Counter 1) then repeat the Barrier and non-Support Pokémon Disruptions sequence
SM9	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM10	Stage 150	Mega Mewtwo Y from Jungle Verde	yes	yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption with Espeon that also falls in from the top (Start) then Unbreakable-block Disruption x2-6 tiles then Barrier Disruption x2 then repeating and mixing at random (Counter 2)
SM11	Stage 37	Meowth from Isla Asul		yes	Coin Disruptions x3 tiles, Coin x1, x2, x3 or Breakable-rock x1 Disruptions (Counter 0, 3)
SM12	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM13-14	Stage 151-209	Randomly selected from Wacky Workshop and Pedra Valley		possible
SM15	Stage 104	Aerodactyl from Silbern Museum		yes	Non-support Pokémon Aerodactyl Disruption x3 tiles, Breakable-rock Disruption x1 (Counter 3, 1)
SM16	Stage 18	Klefki from Sandy Bazaar		yes
SM17	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM18-19	Stage 151-209	Randomly selected from Wacky Workshop and Pedra Valley		possible
SM20	Stage 180	Mega Aerodactyl from Wacky Workshop	yes	yes
SM21	Stage 44	Pidgeotto from Isla Asul		yes
SM22	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM23-24	Stage 151-209	Randomly selected from Wacky Workshop and Pedra Valley		possible
SM25	Stages 148	Heracross from Jungle Verde	yes	yes
SM26	Stage 26	Chingling from Night Festival		yes
SM27	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM28-29	Stage 151-209	Randomly selected from Wacky Workshop and Pedra Valley		possible
SM30	Stage 210	Mega Heracross from Pedra_Valley	yes	yes
SM31	Stage 64	Dratini from Galerie Rouge		yes
SM32	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM33-34	Stage 211-238	Randomly selected from Albens Town		yes
SM35	Stage 230	Medicham from Albens Town	yes	yes
SM36	Stage 111	Vanillish from Mt. Vinter		yes
SM37	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM38-39	Stage 211-238	Randomly selected from Albens Town		possible
SM40	Stage 240	Mega Medicham from Albens Town	yes	yes
SM41	Stage 178	Tangela from Wacky Workshop		yes
SM42-44	Stage 11-147	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte, and Jungle Verde		possible
SM45	Stage 241-259	Randomly selected from the first half of Roseus Center	yes	possible
SM46-49	Stage 241-259	Randomly selected from the first half of Roseus Center		possible
SM50	Stage 260	Deoxys (Normal Forme) from Roseus Center	yes	yes
SM51	Stage 54	Vaporeon from Rainbow Park		yes
SM52	Stage 151-209	Randomly selected from Wacky Workshop and Pedra Valley		possible
SM53-54	Stage 261-299	Randomly selected from the second half of Roseus Center		possible
SM55	Stage 290	Rayquaza from Roseus Center	yes	yes
SM56-57	Stage 261-299	Randomly selected from the second half of Roseus Center		possible
SM58-59	Stage 183-185	Randomly selected Snorlax, Granbull, or Frogadier from Pedra Valley		yes
SM60	Stage 300	Mega Rayquaza from Roseus Center	yes	yes

Original version

This original sequence of stages was replaced with the July 25, 2017 update and is no longer available.

Survival Mode Stage	Equivalent Main Stage	Pokémon	Reward	Disruption	Notes
SM1	Stage 1-5	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco		none	includes Bulbasaur, Charmander, Eevee, Espurr, and Squirtle
SM2	Stage 6-9	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco		possible	includes Audino, Pichu, Pidgey, and Togepi
SM3	Stage 10	Mega Audino from Puerto Blanco		yes	Breakable-rock Disruption x1 tile (Counter 0, 2)
SM4-5	Stage 11-19	Randomly selected from Sandy Bazaar		possible
SM6	Stage 20	Mega Kangaskhan from Sandy Bazaar		yes	Breakable-rock Disruption x4 tiles (Counter 3)
SM7-9	Stage 22-44	Randomly selected from Night Festival & Isla Asul		possible
SM10	Stage 30	Mega Sableye from Night Festival	yes	yes	Barrier Disruption x4 tiles (Counter 0, 4)
SM11	Stage 45	Mega Slowbro from Isla Asul		yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption x3 tiles with Slowpoke (Counter 0, 3)
SM12-14	Stage 31-74	Randomly selected from Isla Asul, Rainbow Park & Galerie Rouge		possible
SM15	Stage 103	Raichu from Silbern Museum		yes	Barrier Disruption encompassing every other column (Start) then x2 tiles (Counter 3)
SM16	Stage 31-74	Randomly selected from Isla Asul, Rainbow Park & Galerie Rouge		yes
SM17	Stage 90	Mega Mawile from Sweet Strasse		yes	Unbreakable-block Disruption x4 tiles twice then Barrier Disruption on a random row (Counter 2)
SM18-19	Stage 76-89	Randomly selected from Sweet Strasse		possible
SM20	Stage 75	Mega Altaria from Galerie Rouge	yes	yes	Breakable-rock Disruption x5 tiles (Counter 0, 3)
SM21-22	Stage 1-74	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco, Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge		possible
SM23-26	Stage 46-74	Randomly selected from Rainbow Park & Galerie Rouge		possible
SM27	Stage 60	Mega Lopunny from Rainbow Park		yes	Breakable-rock Disruption x5 tiles (Counter 3)
SM28-29	Stage 90-119	Randomly selected from Silbern Museum & Mt. Vinter		possible
SM30	Stage 120	Mega Glalie from Mt. Vinter	yes	yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption x4 tiles twice with Snorunt then Barrier Disruption encompassing one or two random columns (Counter 2)
SM31	Stage 1-104	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco, Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse & Silbern Museum		possible
SM32-33	Stage 76-104	Randomly selected from Sweet Strasse & Silbern Museum		possible
SM34-36	Stage 129-131	Randomly selected , , from Castle Noapte without repeating the same opponent		possible	Zoroark: Unbreakable-block Disruption in the two center columns (Counter 0) then non-Support Pokémon Disruptions x3 tiles with Zorua (Counter 1) Ampharos: every other tile is a Barrier Disruption (Start) then non-Support Pokémon Disruption x4 tiles with Flaaffy (Counter 15, 4) Mismagius: on-Support Pokémon Disruption x5 tiles with Misdreavus (Counter 0, single time only)
SM37	Stage 1-119	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco, Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum & Mt. Vinter		possible
SM38-39	Stage 76-119	Randomly selected from Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum & Mt. Vinter		possible
SM40	Stage 105	Mega Ampharos from Silbern Museum	yes	yes	Barrier Disruption on bottom 4 rows (Start) then non-Support Pokémon Disruption x5 tiles with Flaaffy (Counter 4) then Barrier Disruption x5 tiles (Counter 3)
SM41	Stage 1-134	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco, Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter & Castle Noapte		possible
SM42-44	Stage 121-134	Randomly selected from Castle Noapte		possible
SM45	Stage 135	Mega Gengar from Castle Noapte	yes	yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption with Eevee that also falls in from the top (Start) then Barrier Disruption encompassing center two columns (Counter 3) then non-Support Pokémon Disruptions x1 tile with Haunter three times (Counter 1) then repeat the Barrier and non-Support Pokémon Disruptions sequence
SM46	Stage 1-148	Randomly selected from Puerto Blanco, Sandy Bazaar, Night Festival, Isla Asul, Rainbow Park, Galerie Rouge, Sweet Strasse, Silbern Museum, Mt. Vinter, Castle Noapte & Jungle Verde		possible
SM47-49	Stage 136-148	Randomly selected from Jungle Verde		possible
SM50	Stage 150	Mega Mewtwo Y from Jungle Verde	yes	yes	non-Support Pokémon Disruption with Espeon that also falls in from the top (Start) then Unbreakable-block Disruption x2-6 tiles then Barrier Disruption x2 then repeating and mixing at random (Counter 2)

In other languages

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Stages in Pokémon Shuffle Main stages Puerto Blanco • Sandy Bazaar • Night Festival • Isla Asul • Rainbow Park • Galerie Rouge Sweet Strasse • Silbern Museum • Mt. Vinter • Castle Noapte • Jungle Verde Wacky Workshop • Pedra Valley • Albens Town • Roseus Center • Desert Umbra • Violeta Palace Blau Salon • Graucus Hall • Nacht Carnival • Prasino Woods • Zaffiro Coast • Marron Trail Expert Stages Expert Stages Special stages Daily (Daily Pokémon • One Chance a Day!) Challenge (Great Challenge • Ultra Challenge • UB Challenge • High-Speed Challenge • Special Challenge) Resource event (Meowth's Coin Mania • Skill Booster M Stage! • Tons of Exp. Points) Competitive stage • Escalation battle • Pokémon Safari Retired special stages An Evolving Challenge! • Commemorative Event • Score Challenge • Try 'Em Items Stage Survival Mode Survival Mode 24-week event cycle 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24

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