Your best option to farm Athlete Points is to simply choose one of the Stamina or Jump courses that you’re best at, and repeat them over & over. This is because they’re usually the easiest courses to master and to repeat out of all the course options.
But for a small list of good ways to farm Athlete Points, we can recommend these 3 methods:
| Method | Why It’s Worth Doing |
|---|---|
| Repeating the Stamina and Jump Courses | These are commonly considered to be the easiest out of all the Courses to get first place in. However, these can also be substituted for whichever Courses you find easiest to score high in. |
| Working together with your friends at Link Pokéathlon | Link Pokéathlon earns you more bonus points for achieving 1st place, which is 500 points compared to the Singles Courses’ 100 points per win. Whoever is playing with you can help make it easier for you to win and rack up high scores. |
| Playing on the Supreme Cup difficulty in Pokéathlon Singles | This will earn you more bonus points for getting 1st Place than the regular difficulty for the Singles Courses, at 300 points compared to 100 points. |
Note that courses cannot be sped up, and their Athlete Point payouts generally aren’t all that high. And the only way to earn Athlete Points is to play through Pokéathlon Courses, so there are no other methods of getting AP in the game.
For reference, a Singles Course usually goes on for at least 3-5 minutes. A non-Supreme Cup run can usually net you around 300-500 points if you do well.
While the farming process is fairly tedious, the suggestions in this guide might make earning Athlete Points more bearable.
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Method 1: Repeating the Stamina and Jump Courses
We suggest farming points by playing the Stamina and Jump Courses repeatedly, because these require little input for you to do well – specifically when your Pokémon have high Performance stats.
Granted, the Speed and Power Courses can be easy too.
However, you might struggle with getting high scores in the Speed Course’s Pennant Capture and the Power Course’s Goal Roll.
Ultimately, this all depends on what you find easiest or the most fun, so try them all out or mix up the Courses you play.
This is the slowest of the suggested methods to get AP, but it also requires no setup on your part.
Why the Stamina Course?
The Stamina Course has:
- Ring Drop
- Relay Run
- Block Smash
Ring Drop is easily won with a team of high-Stamina and high-Power Pokémon, along with a bit of precision on your part. It’s even possible to win the event without ever switching out your Pokémon in the ring.
Just flick your Pokémon forward to ram it against opponents or tap your Pokémon to slam itself down on the other Pokémon.
Either of these methods will help you with quickly knocking out your opponents.
Relay Run only requires you to repeatedly flick your Pokémon forward and occasionally switch out your Pokémon when it gets tired.
As long as you have a high-Speed and high-Stamina team, you should be able to complete a higher number of laps than your NPC opponents even if you run into the obstacles often.
Block Smash only requires you to tap on the blocks in front of your Pokémon.
Even without aiming at the blocks’ cracks to smash several at once, a high-Power and Stamina team combined with some fast tapping and well-timed switches will make it easy to win.
Why the Jump Course?
The Jump Course has these events:
- Lamp Jump
- Disc Catch
- Hurdle Dash
For Lamp Jump, all you have to do is drag and aim your taps at any lit lamps.
You can win pretty easily even if you end up making your Pokémon crash into each other more than a few times. Just don’t get too careless with it.
Disc Catch is a more challenging event than the rest recommended here, since you will need to control all your Pokémon at once against so many other opponents.
But all you have to do is time exactly when you tap your Pokémon so they can catch discs.
You can also push your opponents off the arena to give them fewer chances to score.
That should make it easier to focus on positioning yourself in the higher score regions and timing your jumps.
Hurdle Dash is like a simpler form of Disc Catch since it involves timing your taps to make them jump.
Your Pokémon will move on their own, so that’s all you have to focus on. This is best done with a high-Speed team.
High Jump stats may also help since their jumps will be longer, allowing you to skip over and ignore some hurdles.
Method 2: Playing Link Pokéathlon Courses
A Link Pokéathlon Course takes at least 3 minutes longer than a Singles Course because it has 4 events instead of 3.
The additional time it takes is easily made up for by the higher payout of Athlete Points.
Again, the 1st place bonus amounts to 500 in contrast to Singles’ 100.
The total amount of points you can earn per Course is also higher since there’s an extra event’s worth of points to earn too.
Tip #1: If you’re playing Link Pokéathlon by yourself using another system and game card, you will have the added benefit of having a dummy opponent that isn’t doing anything.
Tip #2: If you’re playing with people who are willing to help you grind Athlete Points, they can deliberately sabotage themselves (or any NPC opponents) to make it easier for you to secure a win.
There are many benefits to this method, but of course, there’s an obvious drawback to it too.
Without at least one other person with whom you can play multiplayer or another system to connect with, you won’t be able to play Link Pokéathlon at all.
Best Courses for Link Pokéathlon
As for which Course to play, we recommend Course E. This is the Stamina and Speed Course. It has Relay Run, Ring Drop, Hurdle Dash, and Circle Push.
We already covered three of those games, but the benefits of Circle Push haven’t been covered yet.
Circle Push only requires you to drag your Pokémon to the most convenient or higher-valued circles and help them stay within them.
High Stamina and high Power will make it easier to push away your opponents.
High Speed will also make it easier to reach your desired circles on time since this allows your Pokémon to move faster.
Method 3: Participating in the Supreme Cup
The Supreme Cup is a Pokéathlon Singles mode that you unlock when you gain access to the Friendship Room. It has the same exact Courses as regular Singles Courses, but it will pit you against smarter and stronger opponents.
This method of getting AP is listed here because, again, it will give 300 bonus points per win instead of the regular 100 bonus points.
However, this method has the most drawbacks:
- Unlocking the Supreme Cup in the first place might be too much of an investment for those who are not good at the Pokéathlon or who only want to earn enough points for a few prizes.
- The higher difficulty will also backfire on you if you frequently lose. That’s because this will earn you lower scores per event overall, not to mention failing to earn the 300 bonus points award.
In these cases, grinding the regular Singles Courses of your choice will serve you much better than this method.
However, if you’re already gunning for the completion of your Pokéathlon records and trophies, it’s likely that you’re good enough at the Pokéathlon to take advantage of the Supreme Cup to grind Athlete Points.
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