Champion Stadium

[dark osprey]

at least their HP is like the standard base one. so it would be like a regular Johto or something offtype

[trail smelt]

Who has sentry x2?

[paper summit]

he doesn't have Aggravation, but it sure felt like it lmao

[paper summit]

rock weak Malva does

[dark osprey]

lol. as always.

oh shit. aggravation with a flinching move?

[trail smelt]

Ah right I was confused because the conversation seemed to talk about Wikstrom

[paper summit]

no no, the double defense

[dark osprey]

oh ok. sry

[toxic cobalt]

No OHKO? Winning.

[swift swan]

OHKO if you're tanking with sycamore, I bet

[paper summit]

oh he is 100% killing Sycamore in MM

or close to it

[untold mesa]

15 types.

[main crow]

Only steel, psychic and grass left

[grim bison]

How hard is Kalos CS compared to other region CS

[trail smelt]

Sinnoh and Hoenn level

Lots of gimmicks you need to pay attention to

Mind you, this is type clearing week so it might not look like it lol

[swift swan]

the calm before the storm

[grim bison]

Would Galar get a CS?

[dark osprey]

there seem to be at least a few speed lowering stages

hopefully won't be an issue

[dark osprey]

should be. no one can be certain

[swift swan]

who knows

hopefully

[grand trout]

Oh no

I did 14

I accidentally duplicated electric

Thankfully the last four will be the types for next week

[trail smelt]

Haha glad that worked out

[plush tangle]

Done

[trail smelt]

Oh forgot to mention

I love what they did to the E4 tracks

I think Wikstrom’s is my favorite

[sand karma]

The Kalos cs is real

Can't even do hard mode with this team bruh

[swift swan]

diantha is fully physical

even with reflect, your tanks will crumble

switch to a physically bulky tank instead

[sand karma]

Switched Sabrina for Aaron

There goes my type medal plan

But no biggie

Now i feel how weak Blue is

[swift swan]

he's fine, just takes a while to set up his brutal clarity

[sand karma]

Yep and it's quite a while without Lillie or sselesa

[formal vigil]

You could always grid on pinpoint entry 1

Can get up to +4 accuracy by yourself

[drifting sleet]

I dishonoured my family

[keen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-go-t-game-of-thrones-walk-of-shame-shameful-gif-4949558

[sand karma]

He already is

[rigid flint]

Well that was fun

[queen ore]

It was fine and dandy for me when I used free and 3-4* units to beat Wikstorm, Drasna. I then forgot Colress is a 5* when fighting Siebort.

Then I decided to just fuck it and ram Diantha and Malva with master fairs

[rigid flint]

Lmao fair enuf

[queen ore]

I almost went full ham rock zone hyper beam on Malva but ugh type completion

[iron sky]

Hi guys, I am new here and a returner. Any suggestions whom to use it for? I also have such a ticket.🙂

[old orchid]

for normal ticket, get BP Surge or BP Morty first

[iron sky]

Thanks! Which one might fit better to my sygna suit diantha and diancie?

[old orchid]

for rainbow ticket, visit this forum #1013381922094862387

dont choose the pair based on one pair

Diantha can be paired with anyone, preferly rock type and physical dmg dealers

[onyx ice]

In blade form i guess it has the lowest defenses of the game (even lower than lusamine) but his offenses are pretty solid

[proud axle]

#1012298913279127582 message

[spring fable]

Fighting fairy steel for next week!

[undone ether]

Water, Ghost, Dark
Rock, Ground
Psychic, Dragon, Steel
Normal, Electric, Fire
Fighting, Fairy, Flyingwhat type am i missing? LOL

okay.

Ice-type

[swift swan]

Bug

[undone ether]

yeah i needed someone that can fill Team 2

[verbal karma]

Despite the meme, I did not pick Drasna second

[trail smelt]

What meme?

[verbal karma]

Drasna doesn't like to be picked second for some unexplained reason

[trail smelt]

Lol what

[undone ether]

#1072120373858009088 message

done o/

[trail smelt]

I did a quick search and didn’t find anything about that, where was this

[undone ether]

i think drasna @ 2 just means you're gonna get Paralyzed

for me i went with R4 Drasna

since easy kills.

[verbal karma]

Nonono, not even that

I am referring to a discussion that happened over at #poma-lounge

[undone ether]

?_?

i'm at loss

[verbal karma]

Where someone found a JP wiki stating that Drasna gets annoyed with you if you pick her as the second E4 member in X/Y

[rigid flint]

Yeah

She goes ‘why was I picked second?’ or something along those lines

[proud axle]

For MM, I just started having Ash nuke those. This week isn't MM, though, so it'll probably be fine

...Wait, this is double sync buff, not half countdown

Have I been bamboozled

[magic crown]

Anyone use a similar team like this on the rock stage

[nocturne pawn]

well hard mode wasnt too bad though siebold and diantha took a couple of tries (mostly cuz my team comp was ass)

[nocturne pawn]

i just used olivia + hilbert

still worked well enough

bertha removing malva’s sun helped too

[magic crown]

Nice

[nocturne pawn]

you can tell my team comps got less coherent by the end

[dark osprey]

Just curious since I haven't been able to get to the CS, how are the recommended teams like in the battle tips?

Is it as bad as Sinnoh

[nocturne pawn]

siebold wants status

i know that much

cuz everyone has healthy advantage 4

[grand steppe]

: Fall Allister, SSR Cynthia, SS Korina
: Roxanne, Bertha, cBlue
: SS Brendan, Drake, SS Cynthia
: Sonia, cElesa, SST Red
: h!Rosa, Darach, anni Steven

[dark osprey]

Whoa. Seems kinda nice

[nocturne pawn]

still recommending ss cynthia

[dark osprey]

Maybe except ghost

Yeah. Actually nvm. Not very friendly for non veterans

[nocturne pawn]

the only really accessible pairs there (i.e in tickets) are bertha and darach

[grand steppe]

all of them feature a fair, seasonal, or MF.

[nocturne pawn]

which is funny

[main crow]

I just submas the stage + tech kanghaskan for type

[nocturne pawn]

and also this

[grand steppe]

SS Cynthia, and H!Rosa are at least some old ones.

[swift swan]

even if you're a veteran. I've been playing for 1.5 years and I can only replicate 1 team

[nocturne pawn]

i can replicate one team and even then ss Cynthia sucks

[grand steppe]

Oh, can't take Half HP parameter this week. No -3 : (

[dark osprey]

true. SS Cynthia is the biggest surprise there

[swift swan]

sync cycle 1 nuker moment

[nocturne pawn]

im so glad ghost weak wikstrom wont be returning

[dark osprey]

would probably get SS Serena and a head start unit

[nocturne pawn]

i accidentally got him to post sync and its not even funny how tanky his shield form is

[dark osprey]

they didn't even leave the sync countdown niche with SS Cynthia

[nocturne pawn]

her grid expansion should have head start 5

:)

[dark osprey]

maybe when he comes for MM can just debuff before sync and post sync

[dark osprey]

unfortunately even that won't help her much

[nocturne pawn]

i mean at a bare minimum it should

[swift swan]

i'm disappointed. he would be so much fun in MM

[nocturne pawn]

more like pain

dude is literally pre sync or die

[grand steppe]

Recharging Strike 9, Downside Up, Numbing Blow 9, Book Smarts 5 (+50% for +1 ) for SS Cynthia

[dark osprey]

outsmart as well?

ah ok

[grand steppe]

made up name for a passive that doesn't exist

oh wait, it exists already

[dark osprey]

lol. really? not there for any of them evasion ones?

[trail smelt]

Huh didn’t know that

[dark osprey]

yeah. seemed legit

outmuscle & outsmart

[grand steppe]

yeah those 2 passives are based on % to raise stat when Atk against them misses

[dark osprey]

if wikstrom is debuffed before nuke, he doesn't do much damage right?

[keen jasper]

I mean, does +3 attack and +1 crit sounds pleasant?

[nocturne pawn]

he uses en garde before sync

[swift swan]

that's my philosophy. presync or bust

[nocturne pawn]

so hes getting +3 atk and +1 crit

[dark osprey]

oh ok

[nocturne pawn]

+1 crit on sync doesnt really matter but the +3 atk hurts

uh he did around 250-300

[dark osprey]

so need to use a debuff just after that i guess

[nocturne pawn]

with -2 spdef and -1 def

for reference

[nocturne pawn]

he uses king’s shield

so like

immediately after is just triggering an atk debuff on yourself

[keen jasper]

I think ghost-weak Wikstrom is made for SS Misty rather than SS Korrina, or maybe that's just me

[grand steppe]

These are listed the same way as the team ui, right?
I'm going to do a meme so I want to be sure it's aligned correctly.

[dark osprey]

kinda use SS Misty with SS Korrina if Korrina is 1/5 I think

[nocturne pawn]

nope

for some reason

it doesnt take tactics into account

[dark osprey]

with just 3 spectral thiefs

[nocturne pawn]

just center left right i think

actually never mind theres no pattern this sucks

[sinful garden]

as a release player i can only replicated the electric and dragon teams, they really gotta start making f2p friendly teams

[grand steppe]

It definitely wouldn't take tactics.
Team Ui: [Left] [Center] [Right]
MVP Ui: [Center][Left][Right]

So this then?

[nocturne pawn]

actuall

i think so yeah

[dark osprey]

yeah true. I can replicate only one too

[grand steppe]

did you already erase your teams?

[nocturne pawn]

i just used the same team slot for all of them

but i can check my newest one

so yeah it does look like center left right

[proud axle]

But then they can't entice people to pull on banners

[swift swan]

that's their plan. make the new CS stages super gimmicky built around a few pairs. recommend those pairs, usually limited. profit.

[grand steppe]

Okay cool.

[sinful garden]

yea i understand that but the oddest thing is that they recommend currently unobtainable pairs

they can recommend the pairs that are on banners

[swift swan]

happens a lot lmao

[dark osprey]

to leave a sour taste so that u remember to pull them when they come

[swift swan]

Steel-weak Glacia recommending Raihan without rerunning Raihan moment

[dark osprey]

and then release a better one at that just after the rerun

[sinful garden]

"yea you should use ssr cynthia, who has been unobtainable for 1 year now "

[swift swan]

also, guess you weren't around when Sinnoh recommended SS Giovanni for the first time, when he hadn't even been officially announced yet

[sinful garden]

yea i know its just really odd

[sinful garden]

yea i stopped playing between zerena and johto arc

came back when i saw the ssmorty announcement

[swift swan]

they even recommended SS Giovanni twice in the same week, incredible

[dark osprey]

was expecting something like that tbh with SS Diantha for Rock or something

but at least they didn't design the stage that way

lets see if they recommend SS Lysandre next week

[nocturne pawn]

i mean probably

[nocturne pawn]

malva has sentry entry x2

so lmao

[dark osprey]

yeah. that is there. they could have designed the stage with some flying zone or something but they went for favoring C Blue

[nocturne pawn]

they already did that for her ebe

with talonflame again no less

[dark osprey]

yeah. EBEs definitely they would. at least they didn't do something similar for CS

[old orchid]

Im surprised that Kalos CS doesnt have rebuffs

[swift swan]

idk what's worse. opening a stage with zone so you're forced to change or bruteforce it, or having Sentry Entry x2 when your only option is a limited pokefair

[dark osprey]

ah that too

the rebuffs

[dark osprey]

personally would say zone since sentry entry 2, u could build up an offtype nuker

[swift swan]

yeah, I was completely expecting rebuffs

[dark osprey]

like 1 special offtype nuker & 1 physical

[proud axle]

It wasn't so bad this week with HardLv1 and Double Sync Buff
The reprise on Week 3, though. That'll be a thing...

[dark osprey]

or CSerena for both

[dark osprey]

whats on week 3?

[spring fable]

argh wikstrom was hard

[proud axle]

Rock Malva again

But we'll have MM unlocked

And we may not have Double Sync Buff to work with

That's what I mean by her reprise

[swift swan]

can't wait for malva to open with a flare blitz and oneshot my tank!

[proud axle]

I'm just gonna throw a rain team at it

[polar dome]

ohno

[proud axle]

Archie Cerena and a third

[swift swan]

maxie?

[proud axle]

Fixed

[polar dome]

is it necessary to have rock zone up for malva MM

[proud axle]

Brain tangled due to the entry sun

[swift swan]

gave me a shock there

[swift swan]

no

[hot shadow]

No.

[proud axle]

I mean, it'd help but you can probably win without

[lunar meadow]

It looks like the most challenging (at face value) look like:
Water Malva (aoe burn)
Grass Siebold (aoe accuracy drop)
Fire Wikstrom (aoe satk drops)
Ice and Psychic Drasna (aoe toxic)

[old orchid]

You didnt include Ghost weak Wikstrom?

[lunar meadow]

And maybe Rock Malva, since sun on entry and physical defense boosts, since all rock damage is physical

[old orchid]

You are forced to bring a hazer if you go for post sync

[lunar meadow]

Is he scary? I know it's just hard mode this week, but Drifblim didn't care

[full mesa]

15 types done. Fighting/Fairy/Bug next week.

[lunar meadow]

@old orchid
Does his ghost weak team have a ghost sync? For the sake of setting my own zone

[old orchid]

+3 atk right before sync + Rising Tide makes his sync is deadly

No his sync is Steel

But do note that it has innate Pecking Order too, but he cant debuff your atk before King Shield

[lunar meadow]

Well he might be challenging then.
I'm pretty sure my units won't have to worry much

[old orchid]

Yeah just bring a decent ghost dmg dealer + a hazer like Brycen

[lunar meadow]

Grass siebold dropping accuracy just sounds super annoying

[old orchid]

I find Electric weak Siebold annoying, aoe speed debuff makes gauge worse

Cant setup max Inertia on Elesa and Hau

[vital gazelle]

haven’t tried kalos cs, what’s the consensus on difficulty ?

relative to sinnoh/hoenn

[old orchid]

Same level as Hoenn

[vital gazelle]

was hoping for harder but not bad

[lunar meadow]

Probably around that level.

I don't see as much environment as hoenn, but there are some tough mechanics for longer fights.

[old orchid]

It might be more annoying than Hoenn

Cuz there are some new gimmicks

[vital gazelle]

cool cool

[old orchid]

Like aoe acc debuff

[lunar meadow]

Quite a bit of stat control and aoe status in Kalos, it seems

[old orchid]

At least less Entry x2 stages than Hoenn

[proud axle]

Hm... I think Lillie can get Flameproof and I think one of Champ.Calem's two forms has status immunity, so those're prime choices against Malva

[swift swan]

On par with Hoenn on paper, but since it's still hard mode week I can't say too much

Water weak Malva must be for the frogs, bet

[swift swan]

But it seems bulkier than Hoenn. very few stages have less than 20k HP

[vital gazelle]

i completely forgot abt the medal thing

i phrased the question as if master mode was available

my b

[spring fable]

sentry entry x2 < sentry entry 2 right?

[swift swan]

If by < you mean it's less threatening, then it's the opposite

[old orchid]

Wdym?

[swift swan]

Entry 2 = buffs the stat by +2
Entry x2 = multiplies the base stat

[spring fable]

oh no

so siebold wants special bug especially

^for next week

[swift swan]

Indeed

Alder moment

I can use my alder but where's the fun in that. Lusamine go brrrr

[sand karma]

It took me 2 syncs(one supp ex) to clear Wikstrom with Fantina today
I'm hoping ssrc comes back before ghost Wikstrom returns

[spring fable]

my fantina did peanuts

used allister instead and he was the first to head out

brb teambuilding for next week

[swift swan]

Fantina? Really?

With max smarty pants?

[sand karma]

It was hard enough against Phoebe i had to use Cerena to weaken her

[sand karma]

Nah
I don't think you can set that up that fast without a second debuffer

[lunar meadow]

Drifblim didn't have any issue for me this week

[spring fable]

damn next week just looks like it wants me to keep changing the weather / zone

[lunar meadow]

Used Janine bat to buff... And some tank

[swift swan]

You do need a 2nd debuffer

[mellow linden]

Can confirm that SS Korrina eats Wikstrom for breakfast

[swift swan]

I went with lucian

[sand karma]

still waiting for him my favourite e4

And that first brutal swing took out 40% of Fantinas health

[swift swan]

Oh riiight. Fantina's weak to dark, ouch

...i was about to go to CS to test out fantina but forgor I couldn't reset

Well, i gotta test out my newly EXd fantina in MM then. And who knows when that'll happen

[spring fable]

why are these greyed out?

[swift swan]

Damn ghost weak wikstrom for not coming back

[mellow linden]

They're lower than usual

[swift swan]

Means they're lower than normal

[spring fable]

O.o

[swift swan]

Yellow means higher

[spring fable]

stonks

techno blast go brrr

[mellow linden]

Bug weak Siebold will be an interesting test for Lusamine

[swift swan]

Low resistance to sp def debuffs? ...who's that for?

Ss hilbert huh

[mellow linden]

Bug weak Siebold is very much designed for SS Hilbert, yeah

[swift swan]

Lower offenses means lusamine has a higher chance surviving AOEs!

[sand karma]

I like to put her beside SSHilbert without any buffs just for funsies

[mellow linden]

Probably as compensation for Bug weak Lucian being the one running at his release

[swift swan]

I thought it was for Alder's new grid but I guess it's too early

[sand karma]

(sorry accidentally pinged)

[toxic cobalt]

Who designs this nonsense he literally has a repeating weakness and it's not the first week

[spring fable]

for next week's fighting weakstrom (see what i did there?), should i use 3/5 gallade or 2/5 bea?

[stray sentinel]

Would rock zone override sand. Or is it just weather that replaces weather.

[mellow linden]

Only weather replacesd weather

[swift swan]

run them both with hilbert, like I did

[mellow linden]

Weather, Terrain, and Zones can all coexist with a field effect of a different category, but will override an effect of the same category

[swift swan]

Well, wally's sync is still hard to set up

[spring fable]

yeaaa

[mellow linden]

So you could have Rain, Dark Zone, and Electric Terrain, but not Electric Terrain and Psychic Terrain, Rain and Hail, or Dark Zone and Fairy Zone

[stray sentinel]

Oh cool

I am thinking of Winona rain team vs malva

[swift swan]

With fighting weak wikstrom, I don't think you need to worry about your damage input to him. Just worry about his damage output. High offenses and steel zone on entry

Wait

Steel zone on entry

Ruining quadqueue again wtf

[stray sentinel]

I only have palossand

Lol

[swift swan]

Stop this nonsense

[lunar meadow]

Zones do not exist in the main series game, but you have have a weather and a terrain simultaneously even in them

[swift swan]

Works just fine as a sandstorm setter. Even has 60% flinch to boot

[storm moss]

Honestly hate that I gotta wait till next week for MM

[stray sentinel]

Oh true

I’ll build around palo then

[swift swan]

Challenge: when we get perma field effects parameter, see how many field effects you can set up on the field at once

[stray sentinel]

Lol ohhh

[lunar meadow]

I do MM with preset mono-type teams.

So when there's a new region, I have to be careful to stop and remember to teambuild lol

[swift swan]

Uh, you build around your damage dealer and see where you can fit in palossand

[lunar meadow]

Bring Sableye for a few 😉

[storm moss]

Same 🤣
I was so careful to get the 15 types. I missed Bug Dark and sommet else.

[swift swan]

Don't have her i do have CCalem for dark zone, rain, and MGA though!

[lunar meadow]

I wrote out the 5 types I'd use next week anyway.

So I used 15, but the 3 I missed would be used next week anyway

[toxic cobalt]

Oooh. I can run him, FCait, and... hmmm Jasmine

[mellow linden]

Fall Caitlin + Champ Calem + a terrain setter would get you the most field effects, I think

[stray sentinel]

I was considering diantha

[spring fable]

recommended to change weather and zone for the fights next week right?

[stray sentinel]

Is there a way to filter passives.

[mellow linden]

I believe so

[grand steppe]

Okay meme done, forgot to use SSR Cynthia instead.

[mellow linden]

For specific passives? no

At least not in-game

[swift swan]

Always recommended. With newer CS like this, better change it instead of trying to bruteforce.

[toxic cobalt]

Everyone posting their clears here today

[lunar meadow]

Rock weak malva should not be allowed to keep her sun

[swift swan]

They usually have high offenses on top of their weather/zone related passives. Got serious hands

[swift swan]

Filter like what

[proud axle]

If you're really desperate to be rid of it, you can Defog Zones

[swift swan]

Closest you can do is use the poryphone bot, type /passive and fill in the description

[storm moss]

I just wait for it see the type and go huh yea that'll KO it. Sometimes I don't realise how many good units I actually have. If I have nothing good for the type I can off type with others

[stray sentinel]

Like who takes advantage of sandstorm for example

[swift swan]

#1010274591601598555 sages, smh

[stray sentinel]

Trying with this

[swift swan]

Yeah, I think best you can do is look up surging sand on /passive name or /passive description (type in Sandstorm and you'll get related passives that contain the word Sandstorm)

[stray sentinel]

Oh ok

/sandstorm

Lmao

[swift swan]

Pomatools has a skill finder too

[stray sentinel]

Oh ty

[swift swan]

#bot-zone , type /passive

Then there'll be two options, either put in the name directly, or the description

[spring fable]

👀 i tried using steelix, he was squishy despite having max def buffs

[stray sentinel]

Hmm

Did you switch to hop?

[spring fable]

let me know how she performs for you

[stray sentinel]

Oh okay. Will do

[spring fable]

i malded abit at her on r1, then gave up and swapped steelix for vespiquen since i need to cover steel next week anyways

siebold and diantha the only ones without weather / zone gimmick next week

[swift swan]

You mean the only ones without?

[spring fable]

ah yep

sorry

im tired

[swift swan]

All good

[spring fable]

would sycamore be able to tank wikstrom well?

[proud axle]

Err... wasn't Sycamore weak to Steel

Or am I misremembering

[spring fable]

he is

[keen jasper]

Wikstrom is physical and Sycamore doesn't handle physical that quite well

[lunar meadow]

I just remember one of the LA fights with... Azelf(?) using iron tail. Did not plan for that.

[proud axle]

Sounds like a job for Hop, if you have speed support

...And, more importantly, if you can still make 18 types between this week and next

[stray sentinel]

She survived just until the end with this team lol

[spring fable]

oo grats

[spring fable]

he has more special than physical moves tho

[proud axle]

...Which week?

[spring fable]

next week!

sry, shouldve specified

[proud axle]

Oh, okay

Looks like his team's offense is mixed overall

One pure-phys sidekick and one pure-special sidekick, and he's mixed himself

The guy on the left, though, has this once Wikstrom goes down

Also Standfast 9 so it's not likely to knock himself out in the process

[swift swan]

In master mode? Doubt it

[proud axle]

+6 SpDef will only do so much against 199 hecking power

[swift swan]

Probably a 2 hit KO with presync params, if not OHKO

[proud axle]

And, yeah, it's his weakpoint to boot

[swift swan]

Broooo

[proud axle]

I would definitely not wanna bring Sycamore to that

That's freaking terrifying

[swift swan]

The right side also has an iron head that can go off any moment before sync

So let's just spare sycamore the misery

Sunny

Unplayable game smh apologems when dena

[proud axle]

☀️

[spring fable]

how is this for 10k? or is it just a fever dream

[swift swan]

Is ss kris gridded for flameproof?

[spring fable]

im coping to babysit wally lol

[swift swan]

You need it to counter go viral will o wisp

[spring fable]

yupp she is

i grabbed everything she has at 1/5

i chose her for the rain

[swift swan]

Siebold looks ok, ss hilbert will be the carry ofc, but imo Lusamine works better because of her higher damage overall

[spring fable]

my lusamine is only 1/5

[swift swan]

Wikstrom team, I think you can run Bea too instead of SSB. CCalem carries Wally well enough imo. And with his MGA, gauge should be... Okay. At the very least

Drasna's alright. I guess you're aiming to replace the zone

[spring fable]

thats right

ingo for physical supp

might see myself swapping him for 2/5 sonia for more gauge

replace ssb with bea, should i swap sycamore with ssb then?

[swift swan]

Hmm idk the exact damage comparisons but it's not like burgh has a lot of DPS multipliers anyway. Only charging sun

[swift swan]

Sounds alright. I'm not confident with sycamore tanking diantha next week anyway. She has iron head, left has flash canon

With only 19k base HP, solgaleo should presync fine

[stray sentinel]

Where is the team clear channel I just see stage clear n its empty. Im curious what you guys cleared electric weak siebold with

[spring fable]

okie! ty nov

[spring fable]

rats if i had to guess

[swift swan]

#1010274591601598555 and filter the tags to Champion Stadium for easier finding

#1011173305702690876 message i did, in fact, use a rat and a revived fossil turned mecha robot

[spring fable]

ah my thought process was ss brendan buff + lower spdef, ss hilbert go brrr, burgh for smarty pants nuke

[swift swan]

oh he's nuking? sure I suppose

[spring fable]

i thought it was a good idea with free spdef drops + bug rebuff

[stray sentinel]

most recent post is from november?

[spring fable]

click on any of these to view their post!

[mellow linden]

Hey, it me

[spring fable]

~~i was wondering if after all this years you'd like to meet ~~

[grand trout]

Is Hilda better as a physical striker than a special one?

Ss Hilda*

I think she might be good to use in fire wikstrom is he's gonna debuff sp atk

[hot shadow]

Searing shot has lower bp, and it's aoe. Aoe move have their damage cut if there are multiple targets

[main crow]

She's mainly physical, while you can use her aoe you're better off with v create for the buffs and no aoe penalty

[grand trout]

...

Idk which is the physical and special move of hers honestly

[hot shadow]

Look at her kit?

[grand trout]

Yeah i was about to

[main crow]

Searing shot is special
V create is physical

[grand trout]

Okay thank you

[hot shadow]

Shhh, they were about to learn how to look up kits

[grand trout]

So i guess she can do wikstrom

[spring fable]

blue ripple icon = special
wide juggernaut icon = physical

[grand trout]

Ugh

Oh god

Next week wikstrom has zone on entry

I don't have aura cynthia...

I'll have to defog then 😩

[mellow linden]

Tbf all that means is that you need to look out for his damage

[hot shadow]

For three moves.

Most of their moves aren't even steel type

[manic dust]

Ughhhh I can't even get past round one this week. Is there a best trainer to pick for it? I tried Wikstrom and Drasna and I get soooo close on both but keep getting my teeth kicked in

[hot shadow]

Which teams have you used?

[grand trout]

Oh i see

I might defog anyways because i hate when the zone on the field isn't mine

[manic dust]

For Wikstrom I tried using Allister, Giovanni (Mewtwo), and Skyla. For Drasna I tried Zinnia, Ghetsis, and Skyla, also tried Blue as a support there

[mellow linden]

There's like zero synergy with those teams

[main crow]

Your team lacks... A lot I could say

[hot shadow]

Have you read Teambuilding 101 before?

[manic dust]

I have not!

[hot shadow]

+101

[frozen depot]

Teambuilding 101:

Step 1: pick a damage dealer ( / or with high damage)

• take a look at their moveset; note what they buff themselves in terms of offensive stats (Critical Hit Rate, Speed, Attack for physical damage dealer / Special Attack for special damage dealer)

Step 2: picking appropriate for your damage dealer

• take a look at your through the filter option and the Known Moves tab and pick two teammates that fill in what your damage dealer is missing (Critical Hit Rate, Speed, Attack for physical damage dealer / Special Attack for special damage dealer )

Addendum: if your damage dealer's needs can be filled in with only one support, then your third team slot is more flexible and you can choose defensive (potions, buffing defenses, lowering attack) or a second damage dealer

For more beginner infos, check our #1010307000346878062.

[main crow]

None are self sufficient enough to justify the composition

[hot shadow]

Read this

[manic dust]

Thanks!

[hot shadow]

You can try building your Ghost team starting with Giovanni.

[main crow]

After reading you can drop a screenshot of your available units here

[manic dust]

Yeah I figured Gio was right for the ghost team

[mellow linden]

Tbf Allister would be a good damage-dealer to build the team around as well, but it doesn't really matter too much

[main crow]

Gio can fully buff crit by himself yeah? In 2 turns iirc

[swift swan]

Giovanni was right. but look what stats he needs and which ones he can buff for himself, which ones he can't

[mellow linden]

Yep

[main crow]

As others said, both Gio or Allister are good choices for dps tho in terms on who to use it may depend on their move level

[rigid flint]

Gio just needs some spatk

Even with +4 spatk he does fine

[main crow]

Dunno if a 1/5 Allister could handle Wikstorm, 5/5 Gio definitely can

[manic dust]

Thanks! I'm still obviously new to this, hah. Kiawe seems like a good partner here -- I juuuuust got him

[rigid flint]

So u could pair him with Rosa if u lack pairs

[spring fable]

i ran allister with aaron and rosa

none of them were EX

[rigid flint]

Kiawe’s more of a “finish buffs off” support

Like if a pair gives them self +4 atk and +2 crit he helps them max both stats

[manic dust]

Ohhhhh okay interesting

[mellow linden]

Roxanne would be a good pick. Buffs Speed and Sp. Atk.

[grand trout]

Hold on

[main crow]

Bonus defense too, gives you bit more survivability

[grand trout]

Does ccalem/cerena count for two types?

[main crow]

No

[hot shadow]

By the way, do you have Action Order display turned on in the settings?

[mellow linden]

The Greninjas only count towards the type medal for the type they start as

[hot shadow]

Any pair has only one type

[main crow]

Cerena counts as water
Ccalem counts as dark

[mellow linden]

So Water for Serena and Dark for Calem

Similarly, Gladion counts as Normal type regardless of what type he shifts to

[manic dust]

I do!

[hot shadow]

Music for my ears.

And do you know what Triple queue is?

[rigid flint]

Aw man fighting weak Wikstrom seems like a pain

Guess it’s time to just chuck in Darach

[manic dust]

Yeah, like making sure all three of my mons get in moves before the enemy?

[hot shadow]

Yup, always all three at once

[swift swan]

yup, good. make sure you do that all the time. make sure all 3 of your pairs queue something

[manic dust]

Yep! I always do that! 🙂

[main crow]

Now time to learn quadqueue

[hot shadow]

Well, that's a bit more advanced.

[hot shadow]

How is Teambuilding going?

[manic dust]

I had to pause to do something but heading back to it. The Roxanne suggestion was interesting -- I find I don't have a ton of SPATK raisers. And I'm trying to save my limited units for Diantha

Since I don't have many lol

[manic dust]

I want to! It confuses the crap out of me even watching the vids haha

[mellow linden]

Don't ignore your free and low rarity pairs, they generally range from decent to amazing

[balmy stratus]

So next week, bug bros vs siebold...can they handle him?

[mellow linden]

Keep in mind that Bug weak Siebold has Sentry Entry x2

[vagrant sonnet]

ok ive seen ppl mention quadqueueing before wtf is it 💀

[manic dust]

Oh they have helped me a lot!

[hot shadow]

Check the pins here, there's an explanation at the very bottom

[vagrant sonnet]

Ah. lemme go look lmao. i always check pins but rarely scroll

[balmy stratus]

Yea I know, that's why I asked

Think they can overpower it

[swift swan]

CS forum always has crowded pins, you need to get used to that lol

[swift swan]

has a decent shot at doing so

[mellow linden]

It's probably doable, but you may be better off doing SC Ingo + a special Bug damage-dealer like Lusamine or Alder

[proud axle]

When your sync countdown reaches 3, your next triplequeue will bring it to zero.
You stop requeuing stuff at this point so that your next triplequeue can start with your sync move
Under most circumstances (but not all), the enemy cannot queue something before the sync begins, and they're locked out of the queue until a split second after the sync animation is over.
Cram a move in from the pair that just synced. This is the fourth thing. The quad queue.

[swift swan]

This is the fourth thing. The quad queue.

sounds very legendary

anyway, like gigafreak said. This quadqueue allows you to reach your 2nd sync right before your opponent reaches their first

[manic dust]

Woooo okay got Wikstrom! Used Roxanne to buff Gio's spatk and then Skyla for potion spam

[swift swan]

without this quadqueue or some form of turn denial, your opponent will usually reach their sync when your countdown is at -1

[proud axle]

I'm a little worried you'll run out of powerful supports for later stages, but it's good that you won

Like, if Skyla is just here for potion spam, you could've had Brock or your Pikachu do it

[manic dust]

Ahhh fair point!

[proud axle]

Skyla is an amazing support, you see

[hot shadow]

Planning your teams beforehand would be nice - people here can say whether they're good or not

[manic dust]

That's a good point -- I'll keep that in mind for next time!

[proud axle]

Ah well. You can bring one of them to a later stage if your attacker/support combo can complete the Buff Puzzle on their own

[manic dust]

Well Malva was crazy easy. Took her down on first try surprisingly

And Drasna down! On a roll! I think I'm getting the hang of this guys! Thank you 🙂

[stray sentinel]

IM trying electric weak siebold with ny lizia, sonia w yamper and nanu? Should this be workig. I also trying swapping lizie for roxie to poison

[hot shadow]

Why them, exactly?

[stray sentinel]

Sonia for paralyze and nanu for defense reduction.

then a striker I was hoping could do the work lol

[hot shadow]

Well, if you can't on-type, that should work

Sonia also debuffs defense btw

[stray sentinel]

oh so nanu and sonia is redundant

Maybe I can squeeze another tech here hmmm.

only electric striker i have is zebra elessa lol

[swift swan]

Hau works as a nuker

[full mesa]

November how many types?

[stray sentinel]

oh Hau?? I have been neglecting him lol

[full mesa]

Yeah. Discharge can deal quality damage.

[swift swan]

not a fan of discharge since it's AOE, unfortunately

[swift swan]

#1011173305702690876 message if you're interested

[rotund lagoon]

Waiting for those sweet 100 slots

[swift swan]

Hau our savior for electric-weak aaron if you got no limiteds

[rotund lagoon]

Or BP Sophocles

[nocturne pawn]

is defense crush 2 another roll for it on sonia or is it redundant

[swift swan]

I thought he was physical too

I think it's another roll

but it's really not worth imo

[rotund lagoon]

Also I should do an MC Pika buff af match

[swift swan]

do it

[full mesa]

He is.

[swift swan]

MC pika power reserves DPS shenanigans

[rotund lagoon]

LEGIT

[toxic cobalt]

MC Pika just normal dps shaninigans

[rotund lagoon]

GAME HOLY SHIT

[proud axle]

At least it's gauge-efficient...?

[toxic cobalt]

Very powerful two bar!

Self buffs speed and spatk!

Nukes!

[proud axle]

tbh, TBolt Red can practically win on his own. I sent James and Janine in along with him-- James for group Poison and Janine just to fool around with Venom Drench

[swift swan]

the strongest rat, by far

[proud axle]

Somewhere, Blue is mourning his Raticate

[swift swan]

while I don't buy the dead raticate theory, it'd be funny if we got a blue and raticate unit

[toxic cobalt]

Just you wait for the youngster joey pair I sent to DeNa to become reality

[proud axle]

It is weird that our three generics have all been girls.
Or maybe not so weird, since gacha games are so waifu-heavy

Wonder if maybe we'll have a reunion with that Rising Star who gave us the Torchic.

[mellow linden]

Elesa’s great at 2/5+ though

[hot shadow]

We clearly had a bug catcher

[toxic cobalt]

I should send a Bug Catcher Wade concept to DeNa

Tech/support cater pie with stringshot debuff, mini potion, and full heal

[proud axle]

BugsyBonk intensifies

[proud axle]

This could be unironically useful with Double Drop and Ripple Effect 9, but that might be too good

That'd be Clemont Plus after all

[rotund lagoon]

FULL FREE TEAM
Also MC Pika was doing 6.5k other times, mad it only hit 6.1k in the screenshot

[proud axle]

It's the apikalypse

[glacial star]

Need help hard mode in kalos CS

[mellow linden]

Which fight specifically?

[proud axle]

Have you started already, or are we planning with a clean slate

[rotund lagoon]

@swift swan @toxic cobalt

[mellow linden]

I do have to ask, why MC Pikachu and not Hau?

[proud axle]

Probably just to flex

(Also, MChu is better than one might expect anyhow)

[rotund lagoon]

Scroll up I wanted to try an MC Pika match, since people loooooooove to shit on them.

[swift swan]

BEST RAT FRFR

[mellow linden]

Ah, fair enough

[toxic cobalt]

Any planned teams so far?

[glacial star]

Nop

[glacial star]

All lol

[mellow linden]

Show us your roster then (ideally via screenshots from the Move Level menu)

[mellow linden]

1st off, SS Hilda is a great back pocket option in case you get stuck

As is Champ Serena

[glacial star]

Hmm i see

[plush tangle]

Lvl 1 lvl 1 lvl 1 lvl 1 lvl 1

Man level up your units

[rotund lagoon]

Don’t ignore your 3 and 4 stars either.

[plush tangle]

Lvl 120 is basically free

[plush tangle]

Also

[manic kiln]

usually for type filling you plan for both weeks:

• pick an on type striker/dps
• pick a strong support and a different type if you can, same type is fine as long as you can fill all 18 types in both weeks
• the last slot should be a filler type that you don't have any strong pair (poison/ground...)

[rotund lagoon]

I think as long as you know teambuilding, this should be a piece of cake.

[glacial star]

I will and i do gradually

[plush tangle]

Why is your Giovanni 1/5

Where's your Ghetsis

[mellow linden]

A team built around:

• A. Lillie for Wikstrom

• Hau for Siebold

• Cyrus for Drasna

• Either SS Hilda or Champ Serena for Malva (since your Rock roster isn't the best equipped for Sentry Entry x2)

• Kahili and/or Darach for Diantha

Should be able to pull it off

[plush tangle]

Go finish the legendary aventures lol

[mellow linden]

Also, yeah, go finish getting all the Legendary Adventures pairs

[rotund lagoon]

Get them upgraded.

[glacial star]

Ehh i have his things just need to upgrade

[rotund lagoon]

You’ll have more options by finishing them too.

[mellow linden]

Go finish upgrading him then, and also go get the rest of the Legendary Adventures pairs

[glacial star]

I have ghetsis

[rotund lagoon]

Did you finish all the LA’s?

[glacial star]

Yes

I have EX ghetsis

[plush tangle]

(LA commonly refers to legendary arena, not legendary adventures, you probably shouldnt call them like that)

[rotund lagoon]

This was an exception T~T

[mellow linden]

Gonna be honest, I must be very blind, because I see no Ghetsis

[plush tangle]

You cant see their ex units

[mellow linden]

Ah

[plush tangle]

They ordered by 5, not 5 and 6

[mellow linden]

They filtered for current star ranking of 5-stars

[rotund lagoon]

Yep T_T

[mellow linden]

That's kinda an important thing to fix

[rotund lagoon]

You do not have your EX’s screenshotted. Make sure to filter by ones that are EX’d too.

[glacial star]

Aah i see

I have like 2-4 EXS

Also my giovanni is max

[mellow linden]

Could you screenshot your EXs (either on their own or with the rest of your roster) so we can see them?

[glacial star]

Could u give like specific pairs

Oki

[rotund lagoon]

Do you even know teambuilding…?

[mellow linden]

I could give specific pairs, but it should be pretty easy to build teams for them

And I generally like to encourage exercising teambuilding skills for Hard Mode since teambuilding is more relaxed there

[rotund lagoon]

Agreed.

It’s literally easy if you know how to do it.

[glacial star]

Ik team building but im shit at it

[rotund lagoon]

Practice.

Read kits, remember what everyone has.

[mellow linden]

Then let's walk through the process of building a team for one of them to get a better handle on things. We'll do Hau in this case

[glacial star]

Updated roster

[mellow linden]

Hau can handle the Speed buffs for his Inertia Sync Grid tile himself. He could do Sp. Atk. as well, but that would result in taking too many turns setting up, so we'll want to find someone who can buff his Sp. Atk. and crit.

[rotund lagoon]

Oh nbm

I’M GOING BLIND AGAIN

[mellow linden]

Sabrina can max Hau's Sp. Atk. and do most of Hau's crit buffs, but someone will need to finish that crit buff to get +3. So we can dedicate the 3rd teammate to someone to assist in that regard (note that for Master Mode we'll want to have 1 Support who can handle all buffs so Volkner can fit in, but since this is Hard Mode it's not as important)

[rotund lagoon]

Please note Hard Mode is where we’re trying to fit as many different types as possible.

After finishing the medal, you don’t have to worry about that.

[glacial star]

Hmm

Which type is hau?

[rotund lagoon]

Electric..

[mellow linden]

Electric weak Siebold wants someone to inflict a status on him so Hau can deal full damage. Marley can be gridded to give the whole team +1 critical rate, and she also can get Hostile Environment to Burn Siebold semi-reliably. As a bonus, Marley can buff the whole team's Speed, so Hau can spend even fewer turns setting up and pretty much start spamming Discharge immediately

[glacial star]

I was mistaking him for hop

[rotund lagoon]

Hau is not a 5 star.

[mellow linden]

So one example team built around Hau for Electric weak Siebold is Hau/Sabrina/Marley

This is far from the only example, and you also have SS Hilbert as an alternative to Hau if you'd like to use him instead

[glacial star]

I see

[mellow linden]

But I just wanted to give a sort of basic walkthrough of the teambuilding process so you can get a bit better of a grasp on it

[rotund lagoon]

Also your mindset is just as important. If you tell yourself you can be better at it, you can.

[mellow linden]

The only people who started higher than the bottom when learning this game are the people who had already been told some of the teambuilding principles going in

And even in those cases they still had to learn it, they just started learning before they started playing

[glacial star]

What type is marley again smh

[mellow linden]

3-star girl with Arcanine, Fire type

[glacial star]

Idk the names of most

[rotund lagoon]

You can pull up people in #bot-zone

Just type in the name by using /pair [Name]

[glacial star]

Should i increase the potential of 3 stars or no

[rotund lagoon]

Not needed.

You’ll be fine.

[mellow linden]

There's really no reason not to, especially if you're gonna use them, but for right now you'll be ok if you're short on resources

[glacial star]

I got 173 3 star tix

[mellow linden]

Yeah, no reason not to use some on Marley then

[glacial star]

Time to grid her then

[rotund lagoon]

Also do the monthly exchange with those power ups if you can

[glacial star]

For the spirit things to EX?

[rotund lagoon]

No no no

I mean the to

[glacial star]

Also hau and sabrina dont need to be gridded for hard right?

[mellow linden]

Yeah, don't trade powerups for spirits, it's a terrible deal

[rotund lagoon]

Then the to

[candid juniper]

Well that was super easy, barely an inconvenience

[mellow linden]

Ideally you'll want to get Hau's Inertia tile from Sync grid

[glacial star]

And which grid for marley

[candid juniper]

See you all next week when it’s actually hard

[mellow linden]

Just make sure you grab X Speed All Pep Rally, Team Sharp Entry, and Hostile Environment. Other than those get whatever sounds good to you

[glacial star]

There is flag bearer hype up and defensive utility grid

[mellow linden]

Doesn't matter which one you pick, only the 3 tiles I mentioned matter for this situation

[glacial star]

I will use ss hilbert instead of hau ig

Do i need to grid him?

[rotund lagoon]

Huh, why?

[glacial star]

I can't grid him

[mellow linden]

Why not?

[glacial star]

I have lvl 1

[mellow linden]

Do you have any 4-star Strike candies?

[glacial star]

I can only get him to like 2

[rotund lagoon]

Move Level or level level?

Did you get a candy from event exchenge?

[mellow linden]

Inertia is 2/5

[rotund lagoon]

Like is there one to get?

[mellow linden]

And that's the tile Hau needs

[rotund lagoon]

@glacial star This just started today

[glacial star]

O Good then

[rotund lagoon]

Wait isn’t Hau 3 stars?

[mellow linden]

Now if you wanna use SS Hilbert instead of Hau due to personal preference, that's absolutely fine and the team doesn't really change outside of switching Hau to SS Hilbert

[rotund lagoon]

I think I mixed it up, one sec

[mellow linden]

Hau is 4-stars

[rotund lagoon]

Nvm, got scared there

[glacial star]

So only need inertia there

[rotund lagoon]

I recommend this

[glacial star]

Yea got this

What about sabrina do i like grid?

[mellow linden]

Since she's only 1/5 just get her Trainer Move MP Refresh tile

[glacial star]

Oki

Idk why but smh victini is still squishu even when +6

[rotund lagoon]

Did you buff defenses?

[glacial star]

Yes

[rotund lagoon]

What’s the team?

[glacial star]

Xern hop vic

[rotund lagoon]

Who is this against?

[glacial star]

Anyone

[rotund lagoon]

Huh?

https://tenor.com/view/do-you-have-any-idea-how-little-that-narrows-it-down-that-narrows-it-down-clear-now-its-clear-now-i-understand-now-gif-21256627

[mellow linden]

I would recommend using someone other than Hop and Sycamore with SS Hilda outside of maybe Legendary Arena

SS Hilda is entirely self-sufficient on her buffs, so Hop and Sycamore's kits are almost entirely wasted

[glacial star]

I see

[rotund lagoon]

What match are you trying to off type?

[proud axle]

The fact that you can't use the same sync pair within the same week, means you often need to split your strongest ones up. Or else you might have nobody left who can do the job for a later stage

[rotund lagoon]

This includes Supports as well. Hop and Sycamore are valuable Supports, so putting them in the same team is not ideal, especially for a new player.

[proud axle]

It's especially for Supports, since most teams simply can't function without them

[onyx ice]

Missing grass/fighting/psychic

Are any of those next week?

[formal vigil]

Just fighting out of those 3

[proud axle]

Rosa's Grass and she's easy to put into a team
Psychic, though... Maybe Liza.

[formal vigil]

There sabrina too

[proud axle]

Yeah, Sabrina if you've been around the block

[stray sentinel]

lol

[proud axle]

We've had quite a few newbies with 1/5 Sabrina lately so I kind of automatically ruled her out

[stray sentinel]

I managed to get her on a tix yesterday I think actually. she is helpful

[onyx ice]

Isn't that i didn't had those is that i wanted to use the more troublesome types 1st like poison, bug, ice

[lunar meadow]

Sabrina is excellent, unless you think she's a tank against physical moves haha.

Her reflect helps the team. Not herself.

[onyx ice]

Still can't fit more than 15 types

[proud axle]

Sure, I'm commenting that it won't be so bad to grab them next time

[onyx ice]

Could have used Giovanni for ghost weak

[stray sentinel]

Is this a decent team? Move gauge is snail slow.

[main crow]

Why the Serena? Sleep chain?

Oh wait type medal

[lunar meadow]

When I'm planning for a new stadium, I look at the first two week's 10 types.

Then I remove week two's 5 weaknesses before I start team building one week 1. That way I'm aiming to use the 13 types that won't have advantage next week to get as many done as possible on week 1.

[main crow]

Right

[stray sentinel]

Pretty much sleep or type chain.

[main crow]

I forgot he has healthy advantage too for a bit

The gauge speed should build up over time but since you're sleep chaining it's not happening bc Sonia's not taking any hits

[stray sentinel]

Ohh

Ok I need another unit then

To replace Serena

maybe koga

[rotund lagoon]

Are you planning out teams or just winging it?

[stray sentinel]

winging it per round atm.

[rotund lagoon]

You’re newer so I’d plan more.

[stray sentinel]

For hard mode anyway.

Okay

[rotund lagoon]

Get some slots out.

Then put your 5 teams in there.

[stray sentinel]

oh in the presets.

MY issue is that what if my planned team fail

[rotund lagoon]

Also, if you’re doing Electric weak, use Hau or BP Sophocles.

[stray sentinel]

Hau / Sonia/ Koga?

[rotund lagoon]

Hard mode is not that hard, just know how to make teams.

[stray sentinel]

yeah thats what I am trying to get the hang of

[rotund lagoon]

No, no synergy between Hau and Sonia.

Also try a different type than using Electric twice.

[zealous karma]

That’s also two of the same type

[stray sentinel]

ah true

Hau/Koga/....Sycamore? Idk if its good to use him just yet

[rotund lagoon]

No Crit buffer.

Hau need Sp Atk and Crit.

[stray sentinel]

i see because sonia red def and hau is special attack

hmm

[rotund lagoon]

You have options, just check what you have.

[stray sentinel]

yeah looking now

[zealous karma]

Do you have a 3/5 glacia?

[stray sentinel]

No. I have faulkner tho

He does both right?

[zealous karma]

Could use her for the elusive ice type and she can buff hau cr

He does ye

If you haven’t used a flying type yet he’s good

[rotund lagoon]

Falkner is good.

[stray sentinel]

ok perf

let me try

[rotund lagoon]

Hang on.

Don’t do a match yet, plan your other teams.

@stray sentinel

[stray sentinel]

ok

[rotund lagoon]

I said this earlier

[stray sentinel]

how do I name a team

I already cleared malva but ill include who i used

[rotund lagoon]

There should be a pencil button by Preset [Number]

[stray sentinel]

Io his screen?

this*

[rotund lagoon]

No, go on the team itself.

[stray sentinel]

ok in

[stray sentinel]

oh under edit team I was doing it under team change in the battle

[rotund lagoon]

Hang on.

In that case, it looks like this.

Pencil button.

[stray sentinel]

ohhh ty

[rotund lagoon]

Now for your teams

Always make sure you have a damage dealer that matches the stage weakness, AKA, super effective attacks.

And for a Support, just fit whatever synergizes with them and fits their needs. Usually end up doing a different type anyway.

[rotund lagoon]

Here, Lost wrote this earlier.

[stray sentinel]

Building week 1 noq

[rotund lagoon]

Cool

[stray sentinel]

any passives that give sp def up to a pair or team, looking at drasna battle

[rotund lagoon]

Passives or moves?

Cause in terms of moves, Misty and Liza both can raise it.

[versed meteor]

Sycamore but sync move

[rotund lagoon]

Ok but that depends on the team. If they don’t need Sp Atk, then don’t use Sycamore.

[stray sentinel]

I was plannign drasna with sycamore and gio, and thinking of maybe ghetsis

[zealous karma]

Isn’t she weak to dragon

[rotund lagoon]

That…sounds quite gauge heavy if you do Ghetsis.

Also yeah did you even look at her weakness? :T

[nocturne pawn]

you should use cyrus vs drasna this weak

[versed meteor]

Which team would be able to take on Diantha team if this was csmm

[stray sentinel]

I went off type by accident let me go with cyrus lol

[versed meteor]

The battle looks difficult for f2p

[rotund lagoon]

Knowing us, someone will clear it lol

[nocturne pawn]

physical flying is uh

nate

and darach

[rotund lagoon]

~~I’m gonna off type it ~~

[nocturne pawn]

kahili might work

but idk

[rotund lagoon]

Oh duh Kahli.

Yeah I’d say her.

[nocturne pawn]

all i know is that she debuffs spatk by 2 on entry

which is really cringe

[versed meteor]

Well ghetsis offtype might work

[rotund lagoon]

Kahli is better than Nate tbh

[nocturne pawn]

super preparation moment

[versed meteor]

I used skyla masked royal and zinnia didn't care about crit if she is going to use a crit hit defence

[rotund lagoon]

Zinnia would work if people had her Mega.

[versed meteor]

Also any video of getting to knock out opponents before their first sync?

[rotund lagoon]

But I’m thinking a lot of people who ask for help here don’t

[rotund lagoon]

This is the first day, I’d be patient.

[versed meteor]

For kahili to work i guess this is the only way

[nocturne pawn]

she can probably do it easily

she only has like 25k from my rough napkin math and she definitely hits over that

[rotund lagoon]

As long as you get that nuke in, yeah

I’ll test it later.

[stray sentinel]

Ok week one

[rotund lagoon]

Don’t duplicate types if possible.

[stray sentinel]

I figured I would swap next week for types I’m missing here

[rotund lagoon]

For example, Diantha 1 has two Flying Types. You can just stick with Anni Steven.

[stray sentinel]

Hmm. I had durach for attack down. Who would u out instead. Or what type

Maybe defog altaria?

[rotund lagoon]

One second.

[stray sentinel]

Ok!

[rotund lagoon]

No you’re right, you can make up for it next week.

You have enough to cover and can make up for it the next week.

[stray sentinel]

Yay

Now let’s see if these work for me lol

[rotund lagoon]

Apologies for the hiccup, good luck!

[stray sentinel]

faulkner is so squishy T_T

Hau does like 200 damage/400 damage before synce and 600 after lol

[mellow linden]

Did you status Siebold?

[stray sentinel]

yeah para and poison

[mellow linden]

Well only 1 status can be applied at a time, 1st off

Is Hau critting?

[stray sentinel]

Yeah he is at 3 crit

[mellow linden]

He should be doing more then, unless he’s not getting Sp. Atk. buffs or he’s underleveled

[stray sentinel]

he isnt grided but idk if thats required

[mellow linden]

He has no modifiers beyond Inertia in grid, but he does need Inertia for Sync nuke

[stray sentinel]

I have him at 1/5

[rotund lagoon]

Candy him to 2/5?

Or 3/5

[stray sentinel]

im just frustrated because it should be easy and i can tfigure out team building lol. Ill try your suggestions. WHo can i replace koge with

doesnt make since if I have hau doing the par

[mellow linden]

Koga should be fine if you wanna keep the type number up, but if you can’t 2/5 Hau for Inertia then you may want to pick a different Electric type

Hau’s Paralysis rate is somewhat unreliable

[stray sentinel]

i did 2/5 =]

what should i sync, just inertis?

[mellow linden]

Yeah, Hau should be doing pretty great Sync nuke damage with Inertia and max Speed

You can grid Koga for Mind Games so that once he’s done inflicting Poison he can lower Sp. Def. for even more damage

[stray sentinel]

koga removes paralysis though right?

[mellow linden]

What, no

[stray sentinel]

because of poison?

[formal vigil]

if he poisons you can't para

[mellow linden]

If you inflict Paralysis 1st then Paralysis is there to stay

[rotund lagoon]

You cannot stack status conditions…

That’s how its been in main games.

[stray sentinel]

ohhh

[mellow linden]

But it doesn’t matter what status you use and Koga’s Poison is more reliable than Hau’s Paralysis

[stray sentinel]

No i thought they took over each other idk why

[rotund lagoon]

They don’t

[stray sentinel]

ok

[rotund lagoon]

Get Poison down first.

And grid Hau btw (candy to 3 or 2/5)

[stray sentinel]

for kogatoxic power 2/

ill grid what i can for them both

[mellow linden]

Definitely prioritize Inertia on Hau and Venoshock Mind Games 9 for Koga before getting any other tiles

[stray sentinel]

oh done

[mellow linden]

That way Koga can lower Sp. Def. when he’s done with Poison

[stray sentinel]

every venoshock lowers sp def 😮

[nocturne pawn]

thats how mind games work

[stray sentinel]

sweet

[nocturne pawn]

each time the attack with it successfully lands it lowers special defense by one

[stray sentinel]

sweet

[rotund lagoon]

Works great for both Koga and Hau.

~~I am highly convinced DeNA wants to challenge players in teambuilding and knowing their roster with this ~~

[nocturne pawn]

oh this is elec weak siebold im stupid

[stray sentinel]

falkner is the one not cutting it it seems

ss elessa instead?

[rotund lagoon]

You using Fly?

[stray sentinel]

yeah

i do dire hit plus/soar and fly

[rotund lagoon]

You triple queuing?

[stray sentinel]

mhmm i believe I am

[rotund lagoon]

Guess I’m trying this.

[stray sentinel]

falkner/koga/hau pls lmk

[rotund lagoon]

…I just did it.

[stray sentinel]

How did you set up

[rotund lagoon]

Also may wanna turn your game speed down, this is gonna be a fun queue session.

[stray sentinel]

Falkner can do it at 1/5 ?

[nocturne pawn]

you just want to time fly so he avoids stuff to trigger his passives

[rotund lagoon]

Hau Sp Atk once then TM both times, Falkner Dire Hit All twice and Soar twice and Koga just Poison fangs then Venoshock, but also does X Speed if gauge not available.

[nocturne pawn]

playing at a lower speed would definitely help

[stray sentinel]

ok

[rotund lagoon]

I had to lower my game speed at the last second.

Oofs on me

[stray sentinel]

do you have falker with fly mp refresh?

[rotund lagoon]

I did.

[stray sentinel]

I need that. but he dies when he gets down from his fly.

[rotund lagoon]

Sounds more like the timing of it.

You need to not use it when he syncs, first of all.

Second of all, make sure to queue Fly before an attack is queued on their side.

Maybe I should record

[stray sentinel]

I dont use it if I see sync.

[boreal rose]

Is Kalos CS difficult?

[stray sentinel]

I can only see up to 3 attack queued cant see passed that

[rotund lagoon]

It is more difficult, but is is viable.

[stray sentinel]

His 1st sync kills hau and koga T_T

[rotund lagoon]

Ugh I knew it, as soon as I started recording, I lost T_T
Lemme try again

[stray sentinel]

lol ok

maybe its rng

[boreal rose]

Viable?

[stray sentinel]

Do-able I believe

[nocturne pawn]

doable yes but its not johto levels of easy

[rotund lagoon]

Its always RNG

[stray sentinel]

but with this team especially lol

[nocturne pawn]

i love it when the sides use earthquake 5 resets in a row

and im using kimono grimsley and trying to proc metal burst

[rotund lagoon]

THE GAME HAAAAATES MEEEE

[stray sentinel]

lol

[nocturne pawn]

using glacia on siebold was not fun

i thought he1 would be enough but its a 10% base chance so aaaaaaaaaaa

[proud axle]

Cut in half for AoE, and then HE1 doubles it back to 10% each

Goooood luck!

[rotund lagoon]

WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN

Ok first of all THE RNG, WHAT HAPPENED

Second of all, just do that queuing and you’ll be fine @stray sentinel

[stray sentinel]

lol ty so much T_T

[rotund lagoon]

Also don’t mind my madman queuing, I have hella fast trigger fingers

[rotund lagoon]

@zealous karma You gotta see this

[zealous karma]

Epic paralysis I was ecpecting poison fanf not to flinvh until second sync

(happened to me with koga and bpjanine)

[rotund lagoon]

When the sides got double paralysis, I was in utter shock

LIKE WHAT ARE THE CHANCES????

[stray sentinel]

LOL

[zealous karma]

very low cause the percent is already halved bevause it is aoe

[rotund lagoon]

YEAH

[stray sentinel]

brb

[indigo knot]

The Teams I used:
Wikstorm: Horty, Shauntal and SnoRed
Siebold: Krisolteon, Roshamin, Bluestoise
Drasna: Maylene, Lanconite, Bealluxe
Malva: Dawnelia, Tyrock, Aaron
Diantha: Cynthodon, Elesetic, Cronine

[trail smelt]

Can I just, Pokemas tools Kalos E4 ordering is bugging me lol

[candid juniper]

Just what?

[trail smelt]

Just say

[candid juniper]

Ah

[trail smelt]

For some reason words keep going missing when I type it lol

[rotund lagoon]

Words