A simple guide to how buddy upgrades function in WEBFISHING (v1.08).
WEBFISHING: Buddy Upgrades Guide
A quick guide to buddy upgrades in WEBFISHING, explaining their true effects beyond the unclear in-game descriptions.
Buddy Speed
Buddy catches in WEBFISHING use a tick system, like regular fishing. Each tick lasts 1 second, and the buddy needs several successful ticks to catch a fish.
Buddy ticks can succeed or fail depending on the accumulated chance since being placed (or their last harvest). The base chance of a tick succeeding is 0.012, or 1.2%. Every failed tick increases the success chance by 0.004, or 0.4%. Once a tick succeeds, the progress to a buddy catching a fish is increased.
| Upgrade Level | Ticks Required | Avg. Time to Fish* |
| Level 0 | 12 | 6:54 |
| Level 1 | 10 | 5:45 |
| Level 2 | 8 | 4:36 |
| Level 3 | 7 | 4:02 |
| Level 4 | 6 | 3:27 |
| Level 5 | 5 | 2:53 |
* I can’t really think of a good way to measure the actual average time, but this section feels extremely incomplete without some form of time metric. The times presented assume you get a successful tick on average every 34.5s (15% accumulated chance), which matches up with my own experienced times.
Buddy Quality
Buddy Quality is much less complicated than Buddy Speed.
Each upgrade increases the number of tries a fish has to improve its quality and the chances of it being a higher quality. The number of improvement tries is equal to the level of Buddy Quality not including* the initial Normal quality.
| Upgrade Level | Normal Chance | Shining Chance | Glistening Chance | Opulent Chance | Radiant Chance | Alpha Chance |
| Level 0 | 100% | – | – | – | – | – |
| Level 1 | 100% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
| Level 2 | 100% | 15% | 5% | – | – | – |
| Level 3 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 5% | – | – |
| Level 4 | 100% | 80% | 45% | 15% | 5% | – |
| Level 5 | 100% | 98% | 75% | 55% | 25% | 5% |
* The number of improvement tries is technically 1 + the current level as a Normal quality is always guaranteed. This means that Level 3 provides 3 additional tries at improving the quality, instead of just 3 total tries.