>>55601330Extra Helpful S as a skill "scales" with the Pokémon that it activates against. 5x help at lv. 1 skill level is quite generous too.
Due to how berry strength actually scales with the Pokémon, this means that 5x instant help from a level 50 Pokémon is more beneficial than from a level 10 Pokémon.
Ingredients however, don't scale (recipes scale instead).
Say my BFS Raichu at level 50 for example, each Grepa berry it gathers has a base strength of 84 before area bonus and Snorlax's favourites.
5x help is potentially 15 Grepa berries, which is base 1260 strength.
With the current event bonus of favourite grepa berries and my area bonus of 55%, that becomes 3906 strength. This is the most optimistic outcome, because the random nature of the skill could have it trigger against anyone including the user itself, against another skill specialist, etc, producing much less strength.
Comparatively, (non-variable) Charge Strength S Lv. 3 has base 785 strength, and and Charge Strength M Lv. 3 has 1726 base strength. Charge Strength benefits from the area bonus, too, but only that, so in the same example will return 1216 and 2675 strength respectively.
Raikou's main skill is a variation of how Extra Helpful S works, except triggering on every single Electric type in your team. This is potentially abusable using the "wifi trick" where you drop offline and interact with your Raikou to see if it has a skill trigger waiting. If it does, you restart the app, go online proper, temporarily switch your team to full electric types, and switch back to your proper team.
Don't forget to interact with team members that you're switching out though, because whatever they're carrying will be lost otherwise.
