Draft:Super MD:Belly

The belly icon as it's shown when the player takes an action that affects it.

Belly (Japanese: おなか) is a stat and game mechanic in  Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon.

Every Pokémon has a belly stat, however, the player usually only needs to worry about the leader's. A Pokémon starts with a max belly of 100 (internally 20,000), which can be temporarily increased. Current belly decreases or increases when certain actions are performed or occur. Max belly can be increased temporarily up to 200 (40,000). Even when consuming a food item, the belly still internally depletes for that action. This means if players are trying to become full to then increase the max belly capacity, the belly could still deplete by a whole point if they're not paying attention. If the belly is at 0, the Pokémon begins to lose HP. The Never Hungries are Looplets that prevent/reduce the decrease of the holder's belly.

It is shown to the player as a circle icon with a number on the top right corner of the top screen. The more filled the belly is, the more filled the icon is. The icon appears when the belly changes, or when the player opens the menu.

Actions

Action	Change
	Shown	Internal
Walking, waiting a turn, using the Regular Attack or a Move	-0.15	-30
Walking while inside walls	-5	-1,000
Pushing	-0.56	-112
Using an Alliance	-3.15	-630
Deflecting attacks with a Deflect Looplet	-5	-1,000

With Huge Meal Emeras or a Big Belly Looplet

Action	1 Huge Meal or Big Belly Looplet		2 Huge Meals		3 Huge Meals		4 Huge Meals		5+ Huge Meals
	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal
Walking, waiting a turn, using the Regular Attack or a Move	-0.075	-15	-0.06	-12	-0.05	-10	-0.045	-9	-0.035	-7
Walking while inside walls	-2.5	-500
Pushing
Using an Alliance
Deflecting attacks with a Deflect Looplet	-2.5	-500

Huge Meal Emeras combined with a Big Belly Looplet

Action	Big Belly Looplet with 1 Huge Meal		Big Belly Looplet with 2 Huge Meals		Big Belly Looplet with 3 Huge Meals		Big Belly Looplet with 4 Huge Meals		Big Belly Looplet with 5+ Huge Meals
	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal	Shown	Internal
Walking, waiting a turn, using the Regular Attack or a Move	-0.035	-7	-0.03	-6	-0.025	-5	-0.02	-4	-0.015	-3
Walking while inside walls	-1.25	-250
Pushing
Using an Alliance
Deflecting attacks with a Deflect Looplet	-1.25	-250

Items

Max Belly

Eating the following items temporarily increases the max belly size.

Item		Change
English	Japanese	Shown	Internal
Apple (Fresh)	リンゴ	+15	+3,000
Apple
Big Apple (Fresh)	おおきなリンゴ	+25	+5,000
Big Apple
Perfect Apple		+50	+10,000
Golden Apple		+50	+10,000

Current Belly

Item		Change
English	Japanese	Shown	Internal
Apple (Fresh)	リンゴ	+50	+10,000
Apple
Big Apple (Fresh)	おおきなリンゴ	+100	+20,000
Big Apple
Perfect Apple		+200	+40,000
Golden Apple		+200	+40,000
Grimy Food	ベトベタフード	+30	+6,000
Oran Berry	オレンのみ	+2	+400
Pecha Berry	モモンのみ	+2	+400
Rawst Berry	チーゴのみ	+2	+400
Chesto Berry	カゴのみ	+2	+400
Sitrus Berry	オボンのみ	+2	+400
Cheri Berry	クラボのみ	+2	+400
Protein	タウリン	+2	+400
Iron	ブロムヘキシン	+2	+400
Calcium	リゾチウム	+2	+400
Zinc	キトサン	+2	+400
Carbos		+2	+400
Power Drink		+2	+400
Accuracy Drink		+2	+400
PP-Up Drink		+2	+400
Mega Donut	ビッグドーナツ	+2	+400
Sweet Chocolate		+2	+400
Four-Leaf Cookie		+2	+400
Golden Banana		+2	+400
Golden Seed	おうごんのタネ	+2	+400

In addition to the listed items, every Seed increases the current belly by 1 when eaten. Elixir, Max Elixir and Nectar do not affect the belly. If a Pokémon triggers a Reviver Seed when defeated, the current belly restores to its maximum. This does not apply to Tiny Reviver Seeds, as they revive Pokémon without restoring their PP and belly.

Moves

Move		Target	Change
English	Japanese		Shown	Internal
Sweet Scent	あまいかおり	Enemy	-5	-1,000

Traps

Trap		Change
English	Japanese	Shown	Internal
Hunger Trap	はらへりのワナ	-10	-2,000

Strategies

The Big Belly Looplet and Huge Meal emeras use separate hunger reduction bonuses, meaning they don't experience diminishing returns when used together. This doubles the overall bonus, or quadruples hunger reduction.

To somewhat simulate having both the effects of the Big Belly Looplet and one Huge Meal emera simultaneously, players can try wearing the Big Belly Looplet at the start of a Dungeon, essentially starting off with 200 Belly. Then, when the holder's Belly gets to 0, equipping the Well-Fed Looplet to fully replenish the Belly can practically double the effects of hunger management.

This is slightly less effective than holding a Big Belly Looplet with at least one Huge Meal emera as, due to rounding, the aforementioned method only equals 400 Belly, while the latter equals 428.5. However, combining a Huge Meal Big Belly Looplet and micromanagement with the Well-Fed Looplet can basically simulate having 857 Belly. This isn't taking into account increases made to the max Belly capacity. With max Belly capacity and with the appropriate hunger reduction methods mentioned above, players can mimic the effect of having 1,714 Belly.

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Belly
Japanese		おなか

References

• Japanese name.