Regional and weather forms you can only get by trading

Basic forms you can catch. Regional and weather forms you have to be in the right place at the right time for, which for most players means someone else was. That is what trading is for.

Regional forms

A regional form spawns only in one region. If you play mostly in the Nimbus Fields and the form you want lives in Beast Fang Ridge, you either travel and hunt or you trade with someone who lives there. The catch path is documented well by the map sites and by the game's own distribution view; the trade path starts with finding a player whose home region matches.

On this site, a spare's note can say where it was caught, and a market page lists the regions a creature spawns in, from the publisher's dex.

Weather forms

A weather form appears only under a specific condition, and some carry a different element from the base form. Thunderstorm Thornblade, for instance, was reported as Grass and Electric where the standard form is Grass and Water. Weather is fickle, so weather forms are the scarcest spares of all, and the ones most worth asking for in a post.

Not to be confused with Prismana

A Prismana form is also a form with its own typing, and players use the words interchangeably. For trading they are opposites: area and weather forms are two of the only three variants that can change hands, and Prismana cannot be traded at all. Umbrabow counts as a Prismana form too, so it is out as well. See which rare Aniimo can be traded.

The Best Friend gate

Both kinds of form need affinity level 4, which the game calls Best Friend. A basic form needs level 2 at its Lumin stage, or level 3 once it has evolved. That is days of play together, so:

• Pair up early. The Friends tab exists for exactly this.
• Do a basic-form trade first at the lower level. Trading raises affinity, and it proves the partner is real.
• Keep the lock in mind. A form you receive is locked for 30 days, so you cannot pass it on in a chain.
• Watch the daily cap. Five trades per day with a friend is the ceiling.

Finding the right partner

Match on your server, then look for overlap: the ticket shows the hours you both play, and a spare's note tells you where it came from. If nobody on your server has the form yet, mark it as a want. Every want is a watch, and the first spare that appears sends you an email.