DSM vs. Strength for Dream Shards

With the release of Musharna, and before that the increased focus on Swalot, there has been a lot of discussions on whether Dream Shard Magnet (DSM) was a worthwhile skill or not for farming dream shards rather than just getting high strength.

The best DSM Pokemon in the game is Swalot, currently. A decent Swalot should be able to produce a minimum of 85k dream shards a week to be worth investing in.

So if we say that 1 Swalot is worth 85k dream shards, how much strength would you have to get to equal that 1 Swalot?

Using RaenonX Map Rewards to look at the number of dream shards earned throughout a week if you are on Old Gold Power Plant and get Slumbering all week and do one sleep session a day at 100 sleep score, we get the following results...

Said another way, running 4 Swalot for the entire week will get you as many dream shards as if you got to 11,100,000 strength by Sunday sleep!

As you can see, you need quite a bit of strength to get the same number of dream shards as you would from running a number of Swalot. Of course, as is common to these types of questions, the answer is that you want to do both. If you can get to 1,600,000 strength in a week while also running 1 Swalot on your team, then it's as if you got to 3,350,000 strength, as far as dream shards go.

As always, your individual situation matters a lot. So you should check your own Pokemon and whatever island and sleep type you get to see what's best in your specific situation.

You can check your Swalot to see how many dream shards it will produce in a week by using the Production Comparison tool and setting the advanced setting to weekly for the output.
https://pks.raenonx.cc/en/production

You can check how many dream shards you'll earn on different islands and for different sleep types and strengths using the Map Rewards tool and adding up the numbers reported there. Note that the Map Rewards is a premium feature.
https://pks.raenonx.cc/en/sleep/map-rewards

One last tip is that when hunting specific Pokemon, sometimes it's best to stay at a certain strength to have the best chance of seeing that Pokemon. Rather than wasting the rest of the week not doing anything, it's a great time to add DSM Pokemon to your team and rake in the dream shards while you're not increasing your strength. Imagine getting 170,000 dream shards while sitting at 400,000 strength!

You can check what the best strength and sleep score to be at to have the best chance of catching a Pokemon using the Pokemon Sniper tool. Note that Pokemon Sniper is a prumium feature.
https://pks.raenonx.cc/en/spawn/pokemon