Extra info.

NPCs and their berries.

For your Pokéblock recipes, you can cook with other players or with 1, 2, or 3 NPCs, who will appear in different locations depending on your game.

On the other hand, in Emerald, these contest halls are replaced by battle tents, so all NPCs will appear in Lilycove City's contest hall. Each of the four blending machines has a different number of NPCs (none on the multiplayer machine).

A special NPC has a chance to appear every day in Lilycove City's contest hall (only in Emerald), called the "Blend Master". As it is a timed event, a live battery is needed in order to make him appear (if he isn't already present). He will not only use higher-quality berries, but he also always gets perfect scores while blending, letting you achieve higher RPMs than with any other normal NPC.

As the e-Reader berries are only obtainable in Ruby and Sapphire and cannot be traded to Emerald, you won't be able to use them with the Blend Master.

Most of the time (if not always), you will blend berries with these NPCs and not other players, and while you can't tell each NPC which berry to use, you can know which one will be their choice depending on the one that you throw into the mixer. They will always try to avoid weakening the strongest flavour of your berry, but you can use the following table to check which one they will use:

Flavours.

Each berry has different flavours that end up being part of the final pokéblock's stats, but these flavours get weakened by the other berries used in the mix.

For example, if you were to use a Petaya berry (40 spicy, 40 bitter) and an Apicot berry (40 sour, 40 dry):

• Petaya's spicy flavour gets nullified by Apicot's dry flavour.
• Petaya's bitter flavour gets nullified by Apicot's sour flavour.
• Apicot's sour flavour gets nullified by Petaya's bitter flavour.
• Apicot's dry flavour doesn't get weakened, as both berries have a sweet stat of 0.

This will result in a Pokéblock with only a dry taste left.