Pimori evolution: every stage and form

The short version

If you only have a minute, here's how Pimori evolution works, straight from the game's rules:

• Five stages, one body. Seedling, Sprout, Bud, Bloom, Radiant. The round body never changes shape. Only the sprout on its head grows.
• Sparks are the fuel. Feeding, playing, exploring, gardening and chatting all earn sparks, and every spark you earn counts toward growth for good.
• There's a daily cap. You can earn up to 40 sparks a day, so nobody can rush to Radiant in an afternoon.
• Radiant takes at least 14 days. That's the fastest possible pace. Most relaxed routines will take a few weeks, and that's fine.
• Your form is a personality quiz. At Radiant, the kind of care you showed up for on the most days decides whether it becomes a Starbloom, a Moonpetal or a Sunburst.
• Nothing undoes growth. Days away, a sulk or a spending spree in the shop never shrink the sprout.

Every stage at a glance

Growth is measured in lifetime sparks. Each stage starts when the total you've ever earned passes its threshold. The "fastest" column assumes you hit the 40-spark daily cap every single day, which is a lot of care. It's a floor, not a target.

Until Radiant, the flower on its head is the same soft pink for everyone. At Radiant it changes shape and color to match the form it grew into, so you'll know exactly what you raised the moment it happens.

Where it starts: the egg

Every Pimori begins as a spotted egg. Tap it three times and it wobbles, cracks and hatches. Right then its body color, called its bloom, is rolled. Most hatch in one of four everyday colors, and a lucky few hatch Aurora or Prism. That color stays for life and has nothing to do with evolution. (The full odds are in our Pimori blooms guide.)

After hatching you make three quick choices. You name it. You pick how it feels to you: Gentle, Curious or Playful. That temperament mostly shapes how it talks, and it plays one small backup role in evolution, which we'll get to. Then you give it its very first moment of care: a snack, a rest or a game. That first moment already counts toward its personality.

Sparks: the fuel for growth

Sparks do two jobs at once. They're the money you spend on decor for your pet's room, and they're growth. Every spark you earn is added to a lifetime total that only ever goes up. Spending sparks in the shop lowers your wallet, never that total. Buy the telescope; the sprout doesn't care.

Here's what pays, and how much:

Everything except collection sets shares the daily cap of 40 sparks. The cap resets at midnight in your own time zone. Once you've hit it, care still makes your pet happy and still counts toward its personality, it just stops adding sparks until tomorrow.

How long does Pimori evolution take?

It's simple arithmetic. Radiant needs 550 lifetime sparks, and you can earn at most 40 a day, so the quickest possible path is 14 days. Bud is at least 3 days in and Bloom at least 7.

Most people won't max out every day, and they shouldn't feel they have to. At a gentler 20 sparks a day, which is a few visits with a feed, a game and an expedition, Radiant arrives in about four weeks. At 10 a day it's closer to two months. There's no deadline and no penalty for going slowly.

A few things to know about the clock:

• Days away don't count against you. Growth simply pauses while you're gone and picks up where it left off.
• A few short visits beat one marathon. Because of the cap, five minutes on most days grows your pet faster than an hour once a week.
• Collection sets are the only shortcut. Each finished set adds 20 sparks outside the cap, but finishing one takes plenty of exploring, so it's a nice bonus rather than a strategy.

The three Radiant forms

At Radiant, your Pimori's flower becomes one of three forms. Each comes with its own identity line, the one shown on the reveal card:

• Starbloomthe explorer
• Moonpetalthe tender one
• Sunburstthe playmate

Its full name becomes the form plus the stage, so a Starbloom shows up as a Starbloom Radiant on its stage chip. Its bloom color doesn't change: a Rose Pimori that grows into a Sunburst is still rose all over, now with a sunburst on top.

How your Pimori's form is decided

Behind the scenes, your Pimori keeps a quiet tally of three personality traits: explorer, tender and playmate. The form at Radiant comes from whichever trait is strongest.

It counts days, not taps

This is the part most people don't expect. Each trait goes up by at most one per day. Playing ten games on Tuesday counts the same as playing one. What matters is how many different days you showed up for each kind of care. So you can't cram a form in a weekend, and you don't need to. Just do what you enjoy, on the days you enjoy it.

What counts toward each form

One day can count for all three. Feed it in the morning, send it exploring at lunch and play a game after dinner, and every trait ticks up once. Your first moment of care at hatch counts too: a game nudges it toward playmate, a snack or a rest toward tender.

When nothing stands out yet

A trait needs at least three days before it counts as the strongest. If none has reached three yet, your temperament from hatch day breaks the tie: Curious leans Starbloom, Playful leans Sunburst and Gentle leans Moonpetal. Since Radiant takes at least two weeks, this backup rarely comes into play, but it's there.

Nudging toward the form you want

• For a Starbloom, send it on an expedition on as many days as you can. Packing a snack doesn't change the trait, but it does make rare finds slightly more likely.
• For a Moonpetal, keep up the gentle routine: snacks, naps, the garden and a daily chat. Feeding counts here, so many pets lean Moonpetal unless you play or explore on more days.
• For a Sunburst, play at least one game every day. Any game counts, and so does a quick toss of the toy.

There's no best form. It's a portrait of how you two spent your time. Curious which one fits you? Try the Which Pimori are you? quiz.

You can peek at the tally any time. The growth card in the app shows a bar for each trait, labeled Explorer, Quiet nurturer and Playful spirit, along with the one that's leading so far.

The evolution reveal

Every time the sprout reaches a new stage, the app stops for a full-screen celebration in your pet's bloom color. It says "EVOLUTION!" with the new stage name, five pips showing how far along you are, and a hint at what's next.

Radiant gets the big one. The banner reads "FINAL FORM UNLOCKED", the headline says "You raised a Starbloom" (or Moonpetal, or Sunburst), and the identity line appears underneath. There's a button to turn it into a share card, made for posting. Each new stage also gets its own line in "Our story" in the Our Book tab, so you can look back on when it happened.

If you use reduced motion, the reveal skips the spinning rays and the pop-in, and just shows you the result.

Growing together: shared days and chapters

Alongside the sprout, there's a second, gentler kind of growth: your story together. Every day you do something that builds its personality counts as a shared day, and shared days move you through four chapters:

Shared days are the one day count you'll see, with extra celebrations at 30 and 100. A missed day just pauses it. It never resets.

What doesn't affect evolution

Pimori is built so that life getting busy never costs you progress. None of these slow or reverse growth:

• Low needs. A hungry, sleepy or bored pet changes its mood and its greetings, never its growth. (More on that in the Pimori moods guide.)
• Sulking and dust bunnies. They're drama, not damage.
• Days or weeks away. Growth waits for you. You can also pause daily rhythms before a trip.
• Spending sparks. Decor comes out of your wallet, not your lifetime total.
• Your bloom color. Prism and Lime grow exactly the same way.
• Money. Pimori Plus adds friends, voice, deeper memory, rooms and early seasonal events. Its perks don't include sparks or growth.

And the most important one: a Pimori never dies. The worst that happens is a very pointed sulk. If you grew up with the old keychain pets, our Tamagotchi-style app guide explains what's different.

Tamagotchi is a trademark of Bandai. Pimori is an independent app and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Bandai.