Stage Coin Tricks in Shuffle

In Pokémon Shuffle, Coins are essential items. They are used to pay for items that are helpful in order to enhance stage progress, and some stages require them to be expended in order to play. Getting them also seems straightforward enough, by checking in or buying them from the Shop. And yet, these are also earned through playing the stages as well... but a player has to be crafty enough so that these can be earned as well as possible.

The simplest way to earn Coins through stages is to clear Main Stages or Expert Stages. Clearing a Main Stage for the first time rewards 200 Coins, while clearing an Expert Stage for the first time rewards 300 Coins. Thereafter, clearing any of these stages rewards 30 Coins. This is accordingly an incentive to clear as many of these stages as possible in addition to achieving the goal of capturing the Pokémon and earning S Ranks on them. Also, the "replay bonus" might be small, but as stages need to be replayed in particular for the above goals, this bonus can quickly add up, so it's not to be discounted. The real caveat is that the stages must be cleared to get the Coins; failing a stage (running out of moves or time) will reward nothing. A skilled player should be able to fulfill this requirement.

Clearing Special Stages also rewards the same amount of Coins as a Main Stage: 200 for the first clear, 30 for a clear thereafter. However, unlike Main Stages or Expert Stages, clear status is not retained for them after their periods end; this means that when they return for a different period, they can be cleared again to earn the 200-Coin bonus. Thus, it also becomes imperative for Coin seekers to clear these stages when they reappear for a different period. The only trick is to determine which stages can be cleared without spending Coins, which would void the purpose of getting Coins. As well, some Special Stages behave differently regarding Coins earned - Escalation Stages reward 200 Coins for the first level and 30 thereafter, with certain exceptions; the Pokémon Safari rewards 200 Coins on the first encounter and clear of each specific Pokémon, while repeat encounters reward 30, again with certain exceptions; and Competitive Stages reward nothing. This is quite important.

The most crafty way to earn Coins is from a stage itself. Some very specific stages throw in Coins into the actual puzzle grid, and these can be matched just like Pokémon; the reward for matching is a specific amount of Coins. A match of three rewards 100 Coins, four rewards 300, five rewards 500, and the very rare case of six (the maximum in a line) rewards 700. Depending on the stage, however, the typical clear bonuses may be voided, leaving these as the only way to earn Coins off of a specific stage. As well, Coins are treated like disruptions; in particular, they behave like blocks that can be moved and matched like Pokémon but don't disappear with time, which means that any Pokémon skill (like Swap or Stabilize) that may remove blocks also may remove these. This becomes a point of concern when using specific Pokémon while making the effort to earn coins. Needless to say, the stage must be cleared to get the matched Coins, as is the case normally.

All stages in Shuffle have their own tricks, of course, but earning Coins through stages may be the greatest trick in the game, in addition to just checking in for them and buying them outright. To earn Coins, a player has to be crafty about choosing the stages that have to be played and how to play them in order to earn the Coins that need to be earned. Whatever happens, the outcome will enable even more progression in other stages, which is almost a certainty for players with Coins at their disposal.

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