You can find the basic information about how friend upgrades work in WEBFISHING v1.08 in this guide.
How to Upgrades Buddy in WEBFISHING
This guide is appropriate for the following version of WEBFISHING: v1.08
Buddy Speed
Buddy catches operate on a tick system similar to how regular fishing behaves. Buddy ticks appear to be 1 second each, and a buddy must accumulate a certain number of successful ticks before a fish is caught.
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.