#Champion Stadium
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Ye
marshal is easy enough that I can clear with Sycamore and Lisia moonblast DPS paired with a crit buffer, so yeah Lillie will have an easier time since she has good nuke
Which order should I do the rounds?
be careful with grimsley round 1 and 4, the rest are fine
I mean, eliminating the TTar first should be no biggie for R1 Grimsley
sure, but bite becomes 60% flinch which is annoying
interesting cause my F2P did round 1 Grimsley fine
you flinch his bite before he flinches you
Only need to do all 18 types once, to permanently unlock master mode for each region
Trying to make use of Perrserker's power reserves 2
Would be funnier with zone
Nice. Solgaleo power reserves is kinda nice too. Probably slightly weaker than this I guess
Solgaleo has higher attack, but steel beam has higher BP than sunsteel strike
However solgaleo has PR5 while Perrserker only PR2
However i think Perrserker 5/5 hits harder than Raihan 1/5
But raihan has his own Seun and accuracy fix at 1/5
Considering my Perrserker is 4★ at 5★ it would have been even better
At least is 5/5 max affinity
SC Jasmine really makes power reserves usable
The only unit that will probably have some troubles with power reserves is lusamine
Her tm heals and gives evasion
Spamming lunge or bug buzz will trigger the regen
How many regens are needed to disable power reserves from 1 HP?
However even if i had p Marnie, i wouldn't have run her regardless, numbers would have been bigger but consistency would have dropped
Regen is... 1/8th? Or was it 1/16th HP?
And Power Reserves activates at around 1/3rd?
6.25% per regen tick and around 33%
1/16th then. And if this is Master Mode, you might have the half healing condition on
With half healing on, I think regen might actually expire before it breaks your Power Reserves
Without half healing on, it'd take 5 turns to break it
Half healing never affected regen
Used to affect first aid and other healing passives, but now affects only items and trainer moves
Never affected lifesteal
In the past affected passives like recuperation
It was a bug that it affected passive healing
But it did use to affect drain healing
I don't remember getting drain halved in the past
I'm also not sure if it used to affect draining
Now though first aid 4 seems really nice
200 pts extra if there's not many AOEs
I never used it much so can't say if it did, but remember it affecting my gradual healing and first aid
the change helped me a lot in F2P as its extra points instead of hp buff
Now I'm curious to see an older CSMM clear video to check whether regen was indeed affected
i think they did mention that regen was affected in the patch. not sure.
honestly shall read the update notification from last month or 2 months ago i guess
I wanna see this with CCalem and Cerena
And I want her to have all the move multipliers
Prove that she can deal over 330k with B Fiery Wrath
Dark zone, Dark rebuff, and... do Master Skills work on B moves?
I feel like they probably do?
I want this to be proven
PMUN and SMUN work on B Moves so probably
6 stacks of SpMUN, dark zone, -2 dark rebuff, critical HP, SEUN
Too bad SS Cyrus can't do dark rebuff
Does her HP have to be critical?
Yes
PoMaTools is a Pokémon Masters EX tool that helps users to plan their sync grids while simulating the possible damage outputs.
This is my grid for her for max B Fiery Wrath damage
Wait is Aggravation 2 applied to B Fiery Wrath’s effect
Wondering if it’s 80% for all targets because multiple don’t lower the odds
Nah, it's specifically to the normal one
Oh that makes sense
Otherwise it would've been Aggravation 1
For Fiery Wrath and not... Fiery 🅱️ath
Wouldn't 2 SMUN up next be more damaging than 2 dark rebuffs?
CCalem with dark zone gives 2 PMUNs right?
Yeah
He can use his B move twice, it's okay
80% vs 50% dmg increase, so yes
Once as water to give SMUN and once as dark for zone
Oh yeah. Can get that B fiery wrath in then
Nah, dark zone is better than 2 stacks of SpMUN
I think giga meant that we can get both with CCalem
Or CBede and SS Cyrus does seem simpler
Or CBede and CCalem together may be even more crazier
What about the dark rebuff?
Or SS Kris I guess
That's what. Would it be that great to get the rebuff?
Can stack more SMUNs
Cerena can debuff Sp. Def. and rebuff
Not even 10 stacks of SpMUN can compare to dark zone
Really?
Yeah
...How much is each SpMUN worth again
40% right
Like, I get that Dark Zone is better in general since you can use it more than once, and on syncs
But this is specifically to do Funny Bullshit With Marnie's B Move
So one hit is all it needs
Yeah. Not counting sync
6 stacks of SpMUN with dark zone: 333460, 337165, 340870, 344575, 348280, 351985, 355690, 359395, 363101, 366806, 370511
8 stacks of SpMUN without dark zone: 259789, 262676, 265562, 268449, 271335, 274222, 277108, 279995, 282882, 285768, 288655
I guess the 10 stacks was a bit of an exaggeration
Oh, you mean going from 6 to 10 SpMUN does not beat Dark Zone
Since it's multiplicative
So fields will almost always beat out MUN stacks?
Depends how many stacks you already have
Though I imagine if you're stacking them at all, you'll reach the point where fields win very early on
B moves are classified as regular moves
Anything that affects regular DPS moves affects b moves
Wondering it's really worth to candy Moltres to 3/5
Dark zone is +50% multiplicative, 2 stacks is +80% additive, so it depends on the multipliers
The more the initial multipliers the more valuable zone is
For units that only have cs2 as multiplier is 1.2 * 1.5 = 1.8 while 2 stacks of pmun is 1.2 + 1.8 = 2 so for units that have only cs2 the stacks are betterz but the more things you add the better the zone becomes
Seems math fooled me
However master passive still counts as additive passives
Wait, 1.2 + 1.8= 2?
It uses the same cursed math as reward bonus multipliers in this game, I presume
In which 1.6+1.6+1.6 = 2.8
Ah ok
Additive
Technically is 1 + 0.2 + 0.8
Or simply (20 + 80)%
Zone is an 1.5x multiplier, critical strike 2 is a 20% damage bonus
hey, im planning to do 2k presyncs for the most part if possible
could i have some help with forming the teams for the current ones? i havent played in quite a while
got plenty of sync orbs for people not gridded up
gearwise i have a maxed ghost set, thats basically it
Hey why is your Giovanni 1/5 

If you're going for 2k, then I'm guessing you've already unlocked Master Mode so we don't have to worry about spreading the 18 types around?
Against Marshall: Sycamore + Lisia + a critbuffer work well. Defog his entry Evasion away (plus you can add Critical Shield to get another 150pts out of it), especially if you can get some phys def out of it. Hop, Aaron, or SSBlue stand out as ideal; Phoebe can work; don't use Piers because he's weak to Fighting
Marshall is also the only one who gave me any trouble this week.
Because I forgot about Piers' weakpoint and brought him as my critbuffer. ooooof.
Both. Double attacker teamcomp
Sycamore syncs first for the massive buffs and EX Support
There's nothing wrong with Lisia's SpAtk, and while Sycamore's SpAtk is kinda low, he has a massive innate multiplier for Fairy moves (Fairy Power 5)
If the enemy syncs, don't panic. Lisia will probably survive and you can grid her so she hits hard when she's at low HP
so... why are you suggesting Lisia when this person has Palentine Serena? only due to defog?
Because I have no idea how Palerena works. But I have a secondary plan anyway, now that I notice Aaron is 3/5
Grid Aaron for Precision Pals (so you counteract Marshall's entry eva that way), and use him with Sycamore and Anniversary Lillie
That has way better odds of presyncing
...You might even skip Sycamore and use Gloria, though maybe you want her to fight the Steel stage. I don't know a lot about Gloria.
Ah, wait, Sycamore needs to be there for speed. Never mind
You can check their kits lol
But she decreases Speed and Paralyzes and is a decent Sp Attacker
~~You can't make me!
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Her 1/5 gets her damage from ramming speed and hunters instinct. Running a special attack/crit support and covering speed or speed down with someone else is how to build around her.
Steel-weak Grimsley likes using debuffs... I kinda wanna build a team that includes Leaf/Eevee just because it would be funny to hit him with her Iron Tail while laughing at the debuffs with her Impervious.
It'd go something like Solgaleo, Leaf, and a critbuffer
that just makes me think sabrina on the team if its pal+syca
What would Sabrina contribute? Sycamore already maxes the team's SpA and Speed
Just there for Dire Hit?
+acc and dire hit
Oh, okay. Need +2 acc per member to fully counteract Marshall's +2 Eva, though...
Sixth Sense only gives +1acc at a time I think
You might just have to get lucky with accuracy.
Yes he does.
I think I'd still recommend Anniversary Lillie + Sycamore + Aaron with acc from grid
You’ll struggle to get sp Atk consistently with him.
Aaron doesn't even need to trigger MPR if Sycamore is gridded for Team Sharp Entry 1
well ig first ill draft the other teams and come back to that one after ive got a clue what im using for the others
Sure
Moving on to Grimsley then. Following up on that smartassed idea I had just now: Solgaleo + Leaf(Eevee) + Piers
lets see... steel... ive got kimono grimsley, solgaleo, hop, and gloria for the most part.
Ugh, looking up Gloria's skillset
Maybe Solgaleo, SSBlue, Gloria.
Unless you want to use Ingo instead of SSBlue. That might actually be even better
(I like double-attacker teambuilds.)
might need to offtype fighting unless wally or whatever got buffed or bea is good enough cause uh, historically had a bad time with fighting types
uhhh, ig lets figure out dark next
sydney, masked royal, halloween hilbert, karendoom
that looks like my dark dps options
Dark Caitlyn decreases your team's SpAtk by 2 ranks at the start of the fight. So we either need to overcompensate, or focus on phys attacks
Karen's grid update made her kinda cool, but she's Special, so that's an issue here
well good thing the only sp attacker for dark ive got is karen, so ive got plenty of physical options
Masked Royal is always fun to use, and I hear good things about Sidney's sync-nuke capability if he's 3/5. And yours is 5/5
The issue here is that Masked Royal also has a really powerful sync nuke, so... hm.
That's not a bad idea.
think i wanna try sydney cause i havent really used him before
Cools, then. So we want a critbuffer again, for Masked Royal
Maybe Hop, so MR doesn't need to worry about Atk either
He can start (brutal) swinging a turn or two sooner
Hop doesn't have EX, though...
sydney fullcrits himself, both him and nessa need atk tho, hmmm
Maybe it'll be fine
yeah, if im not using hop anywhere else he can prob do a fine job here
Moving on to... Shauntal, I think
ground i assume is ss serena and whatever else
courtney has ground wish, thats interesting
Courtney's personal DPS always disappoints me, but Ground Wish on SSSerena more than makes up for it
That leaves the champion
lets see... if ingos free...
is offtyping still viable?
i could just throw my rock squad at it
It should be. You also have Anniversary May so you could do a Psychic team
or is it better i try out bea and wally first before resorting to offtype
Maybe we can do that as a kind of training.
Wally did get a grid update recently, and it makes him way more streamlined
Bea + appropriate Supports should murder the stage
Your Bea is... move level 2, huh... Let's see what's on her grid
Just two Sync+25 nodes of note.
All her meaningful stuff is in 3/5...
I wonder if post-update Wally might actually be better? But then, his sync is Mega-taxed
You could also put Bea and Korrina together, with Hilbert
And probably obliterate it
Eh, Meteor Assault is nuts and she doesn’t need anything unusual for support
I don’t even think a 2nd damage-dealer is needed
I don't seem to ever get good results from Bea when I try her
if im just trying out bea, i can do like, bea, redlax, and an atk buffer?
Sure
With Supereffective Up there should be zero issues
Since she’s 2/5 any form of gauge support works, as well
Since her only Speed-based modifier is 3/5
ok so now i just need to figure out which order im fighting them in
these parameters dont sound like theyd do much other than the sync buffs one
That’s pretty much accurate
Rounds 1 and 4 work in Grimsley's favor
Round 4 works in your favor for Masked Royal
I'm not sure any status conditions are a thing in your OR the enemy's teams here
Like, Shauntal's sidekicks use Sludge Wave after she goes down, but that's a negligible poison chance
think im just going to throw my ground team for round 1, the additional effects thing doesnt seem important to me
Does it increase the chance of A.Lillie gaining SE Up Next?
...huh... dunno.
Yeah, his new nodes are pretty damn good
Round 1 effect does not affect passives
the fact he can actually give a starting crit chance is nutty to me.
Darn. Thank you
does this look right? found this as "full moonblast" on the list
Yeah, that should be fine if you’re planning to spam Moonblast
2k team for Shauntal approved?
It will probably work, but it still perpetually amuses me that it's a team with no Support
They may not need one, but still...
That’s what I used except 2/5 Courtney and EX Cynthia, so yeah
fairys done
lunalillie + syca + spring burgh used
no idea if status conditions effects confusion
It isn't a Condition but the round modifier does affect it I think
It would affect the duration and chance that the opponent attacks themselves since the effect specifies “status conditions and other conditions”
But it does not affect the chance of getting confusion via secondary effect, since that’s what the round 1 parameter does
Fortunately I think Sidney has a 100% chance to inflict it
Yeah
well i got no other statuses so ill throw sydney here
Wonder what their self-oof chance becomes, with Sidney having Stop Hitting Yourself 5
Combined with that round modifier, that is
12k nuke, not bad
especially considering hes taxed
i already know ssserena doesnt need help, so ill throw steel in sync city
god steel cut it close
wasnt enough gauge to go around both dps with my ssb lol
Oof
sserena under ground wish is funny as shit
"SSB wasn't enough gauge" is a rare statement in this game 
yeah, i didnt hit a mpr
so solga was hurting for gauge
bruhhh houndoom lived on 1 hp
there we go, 10k
thx, and its nice seeing you still here gigafreak 
First time finishing a 10k run without using Ash or SST Red
I probably could just make five offtype bruteforce teams but I feel like I'd gradually get rusty if I did that
On-type is more fun since you get to use more pairs anyways
Five fights where you have to use teams that don't overlap
There’s 5 battles, and each battle needs to have a different team, with no overlap between teams
Normal mode is a low-stakes practice version for you to make all the mistakes you want, and learn from them
Each round also has a unique parameter that affects both you and the opponent
The round parameters can influence your decision on what order to fight the Elite Four
Like, a parameter that amplifies physical attacks... might be risky for an opponent like Bruno, who uses primarily physicals but has special-heavy weakpoints
And by that you mean use as many types as possible in your first week 
Oh yeah, i forgot that normal mode existed
It’s not really practice if it recommends lvl 45 units tho 
It's practice for "Don't use your best pairs in one team or you can't use them in other teams"
But in normal mode you can use the same team 5 times
You unlock master mode by using 18 types in 1 champion stadium, right?
In Hard mode, yes
But it takes 2 weeks to do so, since you can only use 15 pairs in one week (3 pairs times 5 teams)
But on the 2nd week you can reset and do MM
So in total, it takes 16 weeks to unlock all master modes
The stadium region rotates monthly; the challenges within the region change weekly
It takes seven months for seven leagues.
I wouldn’t really worry about not having kalos csmm unlocked rn
Galar doesn't have an Elite Four so it might not end up getting a Champion Stadium; Paldea doesn't have any content in PMEX yet
they'll find a way to milk Galar for CS
The first CS tj have 8 diff weeks
Lol yeah
Maybe they will rotate 4 gym leaders and Leon for the champion
2 cs in a week
CS Hard Level 2?
The Grimsley team will def face gauge issue
That's a lot of Marnie in the teams afterward. I'm guessing you're focusing on just the first week for now, then
Ya
I'm not so sure about that, Solga uses zero gauge for 2/3rds of its turns each sync cycle
O the other teams are general use on other content. Some of them were for legendary fight which I clear all
And the team has at least +2 Speed each
Solga gets Sync Freebie and then B Freezing Glare freebie (Freebie-ing Glare?)
(Free🅱️ing Glare!)
If you do things in the right order, it should go really smooth
Shauntal team is a little uncomfortable but might still work
I should still self buff solgaleo right
Yeah, once. The second buff is probably overkill
Though you will need to wait until Turn 3 before Bede can reasonably fit his own buff in
Confusion, B FGlare, TM
Solga will probably want to TM, Metal Claw, and then use the freebie on Sunsteel
Cait team... I'm not sure Rosa has enough gauge support to keep Marnie shooting
Ice, grass, self speed...
Candice has X Speed. Maybe that instead of Melony, and Marnie's own self speed, will be enough supplemented by Rosa 
I put Rosa it also because she was EX as well. Hahaha
with CBede on the team, I don't think so. besides, Koga's pretty fast
CBede gives a teamwide freebie with every sync cycle. It's nuts
And teanwide +2 Speed on entry
it will be tricky if their Bede is 1/5 i guess but with his innate head start can afford queuing only 2 moves on the first sync cycle
I could Q with koga TM and confusion if needed.
Think possible. Gonna need to try when I done setup
Well May is to fill water. Can switch
I could also switch pheobe for ghost type for acerola with Cynthia
Ya. XD. That's why it is like a different type in each team
So I tried to fill 15/18 this week. Then next week will fill in the last 3 to unlock master
Lol i just set up fairy zone with wally then cleared it with defog using lisia so i could remove opponents crit defence
Iris one not sure that one abit weird
???
Turn 1: X Speed, Bright As The Sun, Confusion (4 gauges used)
Turn 2: X Speed, Metal Claw, B Freezing Glare (1 gauge used)
Turn 3: Move Like A Shadow or Poison Fang, Sunsteel Strike, Triumphant Tenacity (0 gauges used)
I think +2 entry speed is enough to generate one extra gauge between the first two rounds
This is if Bede is gridless. In fact they can get this far with the whole team gridless
What about Marshal and Iris
Oh yeah it does seem to be straight forward
Wait nvm. It's slightly complicated
But manageable for sure
Like, it can be improved by moving Sunsteel Strike to after Triumphant Tenacity
But eh
Every sync cycle, Bede can use B Freezing Glare to make the third round 0-gauge
And Solga can grid for Sync Freebie on top
Yeah. Like if b move is used as the last turn in your team, the free move of the teammates can be used the next to next turn
You don't want the B move used last because of Solga's sync freebie
You use it on the second round so that the third round is free
I could switch red for another buffer XD OR red DPS change willy for C Hop
Oh, if you have Neo Hop, may as well use him there
Yeah true. Just generally
Especially if EX Bede
You could swap Red for Marley and still get the fire medal-- but also give more speed
Also Sharp Entry 1 if you can afford it
That way, Solga will have max crit after Bede uses TM
There's more stuff in the grid that might be useful, but let's not splurge more than that for now
They are 1 of my fav units to use. Was the carry in the acc
Shuantal dont I need to change the weather?
No
She only uses Sunny Day after her sync
Unova is easy
Marshall's the only one who gave me trouble and that's only because I forgot that Piers is weak against him
#ポケマス #寶可夢大師 #pokemonmastersex
Revisit this week's CSMM and try pushing myself a bit harder
0:00 Grimsley
2:20 Marshal
4:56 Caitlin
7:26 Shauntal
10:29 Iris
another madlad
the special parameter do I need to be careful except R4 on Grimsley is no-no
R1: Grimsley
R2: Caitlin
R3: Marshal
R4: Shauntal
dang
r1 grimsley, be careful with bite, it has a high flinch chance
otherwise it's fine
was thinking the chance of freezing him XD
hahaha, but this is hard, so think it should be fine
And then we never heard from them again

XD
Sometimes, it's like we can almost still hear their voice...
Wait, I can explain. It time for bed
May they rest in peace
Isn't freeze just like flinch?
Ya. But it 10%
I mean there are more moves with high flinch chance than freeze
The highest freeze chance in the game is, what, 30%? Maybe 40%?
See it did freeze
Marine team is fast enough to regain energy
Done. @proud axle ty for the help
O, I have enough to make 3 EX now. I think
46% from hleon with cold snap on grid
Meanwhile Flinch, which commonly reaches 60% on a lot of pairs: 
That's actually almost good, then
but flinch regularly reaches 60% and ss lyra has staggering 9
ss lyra has has hassling hit 9 for 100% flinch
it also gives gurateed trap and confustion but meh
joy
it shouldnt
the wording is when the move is successful
so id be under the impression its not penalized if its on an aoe
Ah, so it really is 30% AoE flinch chance on Brutal Swing
Yeah, but she's the only one with more than 60% and a Master Pair to boot, so I kinda felt like the "many pairs have 60%" angle was more fair
Marshall Round 1 ?
For ex I wouldn’t want to face someone who can poison on a round status conditions hurt more. That kind of order
well, then sounds like you can tell how to tackle it
To be 100% fair, I don’t think I could ever in good conscience recommend Sinnoh CS Psychic weak Flint on a round with boosted special moves
Due to that parameter turning him into an ICBM
Maybe to offtype him with c Marnie
well, that still doesn't have a set order, it's more like general pointers
Fair enough
I think that with 3/5 6ex Marnie, flint won't be able to land more than one hit
What a fun and easy 2k offtype lol
SSleaf PB should give her an additional sync buff when she syncs
I think my strongest offtype team is
C Marnie (3/5 6ex) C hop (1/5 6ex) Gloria (3/5)
My strongest off type team is ssbrendan Calem bianca
At least for unova, everyone can land only 1 hit
Calem with the cat?
Yes
that you actually use maybe, you have much stronger characters...
Potentially
objectively lol, I get the favorite thing, but let's be real
My actual easiest off type is prolly Victor PSerena SSLyra
I admit you really know how to do some funny things with Calem
Never thought of calem would have been part of anyone's best team
I mainly use him for gauntlet
For some la is pretty good
I guess the last time i used regular calem for master mode the cap was still 1.5k
we need those free story 5* copies back
Only using Calem for 1.5K is funny to me I like using him for 3K a lot lel
On type
I thought they might add dupes of story pairs in the main story branch of the villain arc, but they didn't...
5* power ups pog
Cheren is the only support that i didn't 6ex'd
3/5 would be usable, but 1/5 is trash
I 6ex'd even Drake
Drake can at least access his full grid easily
I'm not burning 5star candies on Cheren
Though with how bad he is, it does add a kind of comedic weight to that scene where he points out that he, as a (weak) sync pair, can easily steamroll a (powerful) non-synced trainer like Lear
Can I get a team reviews. Planning Marshall first then Caitlyn. Then grimssly. Then shauntal then champion
Why Mew on Caitlin t am
And why Aaron with leon?
And why glacia with Lisia
These teams are for the@most@part overkill just curious
@timid kelp You putting down Skyla for your team?
Yup!
who'd tank?
Skyla. I like to suggest members in tactic order.
ohh alright, nice to know

and about the special parameter?
Third one. Using sync moves as much as possible.
alrighty!! tysm i will try now

Wait, why isn't grim recommended for r4?
On what move?
Looking for others
Also i just realized iris appears 3/4 times this week naurrr
Crunch and Bite have bigger chances, he also has Leer and Rock Tomb for guaranteed drops
Gawd fuck, don’t mind the edits
oh my god thank you so much for real
i appreciate your patience!! :]
I see
i beat it
Glad it worked!
@grand trout You can check the Champion Stadium section in PoMa Tools btw
+pomatools
PoMaTools is a Pokémon Masters EX tool that helps users to plan their sync grids while simulating the possible damage outputs.
Thank you
I just found it funny because
So i screwed myself up and u didn't know it 😭
Well you did it 
I tried to use jasmine for the debuff shield
So you do get free story 5 star last time?
A very long time ago
There used to be (Insert element type here) Training Events
Back before stamina was added to the game
They were events that gave 10x EXP for party members matching the listed type
And the last four of them included dupe copies of story pairs in the shop exchange
This was a big deal for Rosa, Acerola, and Calem, who had just gotten their grids
This would have been a big deal for Flint and Flannery... but those two aren't 5star, so they became easy to just candy up later
So if you see someone with Rosa or Acerola or Calem at 2/5... it's probably because of those very old events rather than from candy expenditures
The boss fights from these events, have been recycled as the boss fights for Gear Events and I think possibly also sometimes Masters Day Co-op
Ew no

Tutoring for the medal
Types
O
I’m a bit worried about gauge on Grimsley (steel weak)
Jasmine won't help much there
Solgaleo is already filling steel, so try and use whatever type you haven't included there for a speed/gauge support if you can
Kiawe is not the most reliable speed buffer, his passive is like 60% chance
Hmm
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This is wild
…….20k????
I didn't even know you can reach 4k in a single battle
wait, what am I talking about? of course I knew lol
but 5 times, that's wild
oh goodness. seems like we're ready for harder CS
i guess sinnoh, kalos & hoenn are decent
I’d never willingly do a 20K CS
don't really want harder content. content that's refreshed often seem better
like twice a week for CS maybe?
what's 5k more points? see your pairs actually struggle to clear!
I’m crazy but not to this extent!
you know, since you hate your faves being meta
True
Considering the units they used I’m not reaching 20K anytime soon and I’m okay with that 
that madlad didn't have all 5/5 units or anything though. just probably the better master fairs and pokefairs
no flinch hacks also
yeah. was kinda cool that way
I’m impressed most of those units even survived the syncs lel
i guess the reduced sync countdown does help a bit so that Power on Hit doesn't go overboard or something
That's what I realize too
Which supports eould pair well with Dragonite for next week?
What move level is he?
CBede
1 💀
And if he’s 5/5 can use literally anyone as a third
Oh i don't have him
not yet
He's bit of an oddball, his dps is special but physical nuke
Calem only buffs +2 special attack
His sync is the opposite of worth using at 1/5
but you need 2 supports for Lance at 1/5 regardless
You have SS Brendan?
He can max it out at 3/5
he wants +6 special attack, +3 crit and gauge support, and accuracy if you don't want Hyper Beam to potentially miss
With Team Sharp Entry
Sabrina!
And reapplying it on mega
So what I'm seeing is lillie
She doesn’t provide real crit
What move level is your SS Brendan?
I guess you could fish for TM MPR?
Yes
So i have to be lucky for it to proc twice
And also Free Move Next if it consume 3 gauges
Why isn't there a hilbert for special lol
CGio kinda?
Yeah
Hilbert can max atk and crit in two moves
Does Free Move Next apply to TMs that consume gauges?
yes
Ah, so you can repeatedly use SS Brendan's TM over and over again if it MP refreshes and your team can potentially(?) have infinite free moves
https://twitter.com/kea_wq/status/1579035938491367429 new challenger approaches
okay this is crazy
So they just keep selecting more buff for the oppo and beat the shit out of them?
it's just your regular CS but harder, and of course with a different approach since presync isn't necessarily possible with any team at that difficulty
Celebi the DPS?
Lol people doing 4k modes now
Oh god 4k
I only have 3 teams that can offtype

Need 2 more high end teams to tackle that bs incase it becomes true
lol they increased 1k5 to 2k, so if they do it again then probably 2k5 not 4k
and not anytime soon 
They'll likely jump straight to 3k if they are doing it
2.5k is still very ez
3k is where fun starts
How long ago they increased from 1.5 to 2
they better add more parameters
more than 1 year iirc
we find this easy but the majority of the player base can't even do hard mode and day 1 players still have to ask for teams to clear 7k5 and 10k 
but still hope for some changes after 4th anni
Ultra Hard CS
either level 2 or more points/parameters
Arceus almighty.
Man i really wish we could do champion stadium twice a week
Odk if i'm the only one but i find champion stadium to be so fun
You can do it as much as you want each week if you have unlock the MM for that region.
I wish we could get the rewards twice a week
I concur
5 * powerups are dripped s l o w l y
A limitation that you can't use a mon you used this week's clear would be not too limiting i think
yeah. that does seem a little more challenging
maybe if it were different type weaknesses it may be still ok
supports will still be the limiting factor
champion gauntlet
people have already been doing CS gauntlet 
oh yeah. solos and all
oh like region specific
Imagine extreme Kalos CS
ah nice. some do get those theme runs

but yeah. it would be quite hard
I lowkey want this ahhaah
It seems fun for a developed roster but there does seem to be a lot of disparaties among the regions too
Ok so...
I usually clear the CS with 15K every week but now there's a problem
It's becoming too easy - should I 17.5K instead lol
the cool kids are all doing 20K
Jump scare
Yeah definitely a good form of end game content
Is this a decent fairy team?
Not really
Trying to do ontype for it
I have Diantha too but she special
Need to adjust right params without “no stat reduction”
I can offtype it, but I’ve powered up Mina and want to test her
If you want to test her, first replace Sycamore with a crit support at least
Someone like Hilbert, Sonia, Aaron...
Aaron is very nice if you have him at 3/5 which he can buff accuracy as well
My Aaron is 4/5 ex
So Mina & Aaron + Lillie/Sonia/Hilbert?
Mina + Aaron + someone can debuff attack/do physical fairy damage
Aaron can max atk and crit for Mina

especially since sycamore is EX
I have both ex’ed
oh nice. sycamore sync with adrenaline & the buffs would be better probably
there's another budget team that would be Lisia, Sycamore and any crit buffer like surgechu but the aaron mina team seems much better
If Aaron is 3/5, you can grid for accuracy buffs to counteract Marshall's evasion nonsense
Me that used Lillie's Clefairy as the Main DPS
1/5 Lillie hours
You still have 1/5 Lillie? 
Really sad that 1/5 Summer Lyra is atrocious, i really like the outfit and Jigglypuff, but i don't want to waste candies for an unit that's mediocre at best at 3/5
It's kinda like Jigglypuff in the main series, i try to make good use of it but it's just bad
At least her sync can kinda work in some legendary arenas
Maybe Gloria + Aaron + Summer Lyra can kinda work for fairy weak, if it doesn't buff evasion
Wondering if i should give her head start 1 to at least give her a niche
Aaron can buff accuracy hello???
Yes but without mpr only +2 and 1/5 Jigglypuff needs +3 to have sure hits against marshall
I don't need mpr

Sharp entry 1 at 2/5
I have her at 3/5
Is lyra that's 1/5
Rare 3/5 gloria owner. Mine's been 1/5 since last year
With MPR you save turns of clicking Lyra's TM twice and Dire Hit+
Had her 2/5 and when the free select came i had all those units and N and Cynthia expansions wheren't a thing yet
At least 3/5 Gloria has headstart so isn't a completely wasted 3/5
At least i can use her in my cmarnie + cbede team
Gave Bede headstart 1 and Marnie is 3/5 6ex so i can sync turn 2

Thought 6 ex on Marnie was kinda overkill, since her b fiery wrath has no AOE penality
But with -6 sync she can deny the side turn 2

You have 3/5 Shauna? 
I guess 0/5 isn't 1/5
Gen pool In ticket scout, I wish I love Chesnaught
Ticket pool units then
Aka the f2p friendly 5★ scoutable units
I have all of them at least 3/5
Wondering if they will update the pool
They rarely do
I think they updated it only twice
They seem to update it every full anni
Yeah, I'm sitting on my tickets until late august for that
There've been seven new genpools since last update, I think
Oh. On that note, there was some kind of limit you can use or something right?
Not sure about that...
...Huh?
I could go through all of mine at once if I wanted. I just wouldn't get anything useful out of it
I've somehow reached the point where
limit me again instead of
, I think?
Don't remember but Absol-utely had mentioned something about the limit before last anniversary. Shall check
At least they’re 1/5. I have 0/5 Courtney lol
Same, 0/5 courtney
Let's see, was it 50
to EX?
I have 1595 (let's round up to 1600) in my bag, so that's 32 EXes
I have 346
and 1810
. If I use a 5/15 ratio, that gets me 18 EXes costing all my
and 270
, and then I can afford another three EXes after (21 EXes total)
And then I have 1711
, 63 Kanto, 462 Johto, 307 Hoenn, 139 Sinnoh, 441 Unova, 397 Kalos, 169 Alola, 174 Galar and my unspent Kantrio ticket from Victory Road.
57+2+15+10+4+14+13+5+5 = 125
, or another six EXes worth
27 EX worth of
and 32 EX worth of
... if I don't do any more pulls (I have 64k after the triple master fair). So I haven't reached the point yet but I'm getting very close
Lodge has added quite a bit to
income.
(I sure hope I'm using all the correct emoji. I can't see what I'm doing.)
huh weird, it looks good on my end
Ya, the post has the right emotes to me
I don’t know how y’all ran out of champion spirits haha
I’ve got 2,640 and it keeps increasing
whaling
my main guess is, the big influx of PUs that Lodge introduced made people go a bit too wild
Right?
I have like 110 EX and the ability to do like 15 more now.
I don't have units worth EXing, but never run out of spirits
I have a surplus of PUs but I still refuse to give 20 to a single pair without using any CS tickets
I'm sure most people spirit broke did exactly that, a lot
Same
Except right now I'm not in a surplus of 
I even have a bunch of pairs at 15/20 queued for the tickets lol
I have so much Champion Spirits that I could EX more units if I have the PU ticks
There was a limit for the 1st banner, don't know if there is a limit again
Back then you couldn't randomly get tickets however
Now you can randomly get tickets from expeditions
Or from lodge guests gifts
I think only big whales and fresh players have that bottleneck
I am neither.
Not even that sure about fresh players since they won't have 5★ power up either
new players have access to Lodge, and they are likely to go too far with PUs on each character
because they don't know any better
it's common they just ignore what the CS tickets even are for at first
a long time player lacking spirits is more a matter of poorly managed resources or too much whaling 
I'm not real sure how I can manage my resources better
It's weird, my
vs
ratio used to lean heavily towards
, but it's catching up fast
could be an unusual high streak of 5* dupes, point is, anyone going for more than one EX per week too often will 100% fall short on spirits eventually
This was happening even in the past few months, where I was doing no pulls at all.
I think the last time I did pulls was the third anniversary. And it wasn't many, as I got two of the three early.
Before that, I think I hadn't pulled since the Johto Master Pair trio
My
were still catching up to my 
I think it's because the Lodge landed in between.
Maybe I should monitor it for the next few months and see if my
continue to accumulate fast enough to threaten to overtake my 
In Pomatools, enter accurate defense values (def & sp.def) to get more accurate outputs.
78 [Strength+0]
99 [Stregnth+7]
108 [Strength+7/Def+1]
114 [Strength+12]
Also make sure the target has Enlightenment 5 as a Skill set.
With the rewards i mean, qmd master mode once you reach 10K doesn't really make any difference anymore.
Maybe that recently-announced event format, modeled after Champion Stadium, will help scratch that itch
Though. Five battles with all the same weakness... that does mean digging deeper into the roster
Or offtyping four times and ontyping once
Depends on your roster. F2p runs will be fun to watch.
Hope this does not dissapoint (sparks recent vlear)
Your middle: It's a bird
Your left: It's a plane
Your right: It's... Superman????

i need help making a team for Iris. I misread how CS worked and went in assuming I could reuse charas from the E4 fights into the Champion round, so I used up all my Built supports. can anyone here, if built, Not Die long enough to let Bea do her thing?
or should i just give up and wait for reset
Where are your Legendary Adventures pairs?
Not all of them are strikers tho
There’s multiple Support Legendary Adventures pairs
if they're not here, then i used them in a prev stage
So you already used Hop and Sycamore?
yup.
Ok
again, idiot who misread and thought the Champion fight let you reuse pairs
Maylene + Marley time, I guess
Or Marley + any Attack buffer, really, if you grid Marley for Team Sharp Entry
marley the girl with the arcanine?
bc of the spd all?
And she can be gridded for Team Sharp Entry (+1 crit for the team on entry)
Plus some other slightly more niche utility options
(Her bulk's pretty good for a 3star, at that)
that's mostly what i'm looking for
everyone else i have left folds fast to that hydregion
are dirt-cheap right now from the Kanto villain events
So you can easily get some 3stars (such as Marley) to 4star for a bit of a boost
oh, stamina, my beloathed.
Because it's balanced properly around it, yeah
To balance "properly" around the old "nothing costs stamina" style, everything had to be a horrifying grind...
Not a big problem if they don't give them stuffs like though skin 5 or something similar
Don't jinx it
I mean not that stuffs like piercing w
Blows units can't brute force
Can't immagine having to on type ice with 5 different teams
However i can't find myself in a scenario where
are the bottleneck over 
However I still have a lot of
waiting for a pool update
You ain't telling me either of rats or any other T0 DD would struggle even with TS5

Tbolt red has piercing blows built-in in b volt tackle so it should be an issue at all
Hm. How many
do we get per 10k? 
35 
To keep up with
we will need 14
each week
I don't think the average non
can get more than an average of 14
a week
We get 40 per month from the monthly shop and the new Lodge Guest
So that's already 10
We get another two or more
from each event, and there are... maybe three or four in a normal month?
Assuming we have the
and the base pair (that can be limited gatcha)
And then there are the
from the 10k itself
Is Gauntlet monthly or is that more of a "sometimes" thing
If it's regular, maybe we should include the rewards from reaching the winstreak for the last main milestone reward
We need 100
to get the 20
from the shop, so isn't a thing i would account for
My
was low until Lodge and has been gradually climbing since, even with 100 used each month
I stopped checking my Rare Cache contents-- just clicking to claim them and dismissing the window without looking at what I got-- but maybe the
income is surprisingly high
100?
5 per, yeah
o
Personally i'm not that high in
and i NEVER exchanged them
Well, more like we need 80
per month since we get 20
from cheapo
trades
(I don't think I've ever seen a stamina-per-
exchange rate as cheap as the current Kanto rerun)
Yes this one is really cheap
Do your Lodge expedition teams both have 10 Rare cache?
Yes they have
Odd indeed... 
But i made 5★ almost every non eggmon unit
Oh. That'd do it 
I mean the primary use for
is to 5★ units, than if i will get a surplus i can start exchanging them
I have... 66 4stars still at 0/20
Because they work fine at 4star
I have some particularly important units promoted to 5star
Like, I don't think I'm going to need to 5star Lucy
Or Jessie or James
I need more
, too bloated on 
Or my default Pikachu
I'd love to be able to exchange another 20 per month. Then maybe my
stockpile will start shrinking instead of growing
I promoted almost every 3 and 4 ★ gatcha, but ofc Jessie and James are still base 4★ until they will get a grid
Expecially Jessie
At least James is decent
It's so bad my ratio is 1:12
James could actually use the stats for tanking a little, but even so...
Like, Janine(Ariados), Koga, and Cheryl were already 5star 0/20 when I did the Kalos Extremes, because they're that good
I didn't realise it was that good of a rate 💀 just assumed it was 20 per
It feels like more because we don't get as many
as 
But we seem to have more income lately
Let's all storm DeNA with this suggestion
Maybe Ketsuban has had less
profit than me because they've been immediately using them on Lodge Pairs? 
Some of those are pretty good...
And quite a few are Supports no less
marley/maylene/bea succesfully nabbed me the trophy! ty for the suggestion!
the best of them is Wulfric
Is this CS easier than sinnoh?
The grid did make him slightly better
Much
Sinnoh's one of the hardest in the game
This one's maybe the "hardest" among the easy ones
Oh, wait, Alola might be in that slot?
I miss when it was only Kanto and johto
Those're jokes with today's level of powercreep
Yeah. Even some Johto ones like that crit shield fire weak kogados, wise entry kogamoth were slightly difficult a while ago
Sinnoh's the hardest for me
...Is Wise Entry even ever a problem without Smart Cookie and Brute Wits?
Wait, what Wise Entry?
Bro's got the 💰 💰
Damn, I have 34 of those, with the exception of Drake and Maylene none of them have been used more than 3 times ever
And I suspect another 20+ would've been able to do their work just fine at 4star
Not an issue
I just exchanged 100 4 star power ups after you told me the exchange rate 💀
That was wise entry before it was cool
Just higher special defense
wise entry 🤓 🤓 🤓
swag bag 😎 😎 😎 😎 😎
Either way: "lmao just crit through it"
Haha. We learned the hard way
Thanks @dark osprey & @old orchid !
Mina test is successful
Had to adjust different parameters than on document, because of the sides killing with aoe
Team was good and is
Can’t wait for Mina’s EX

Mina love, I'm glad to see it
Mina +‘sycamore is a free fairy clear it’s quite swag too
Ex mina with a nice light blue outfit 
Lol am i the only one unable to use Mina well
Do you debuff the opponent to -6 atk first
I wish there was a way for either to increase atk and crit faster
Me too lol
I never see what other people see in her
You just debuff and attack 
Because lack of fairy supports LMAO
SS Wally rerun when?
Sycamore is there with an EX too now
Only +1 Crit is sad but oh well I’ll take what I can get
The others are like Lillie and the Azumarill girl not like fairy supports matter. Sycamore does solid damage too along side mina and crit+attack bigger
Yup, Sycamore helps with sides so much
For Iris I’ve used Bea + new Hop combo
Not sure if I can call it broken
Mina + Sycamore + Hop is completely f2p and can clear drasna fairy-weak
Yeah. That seems to be a good benchmark to measure them
its a cakewalk with her
she can pretty much offtype almost every 2k csmm
Why cant just do mm when already beat hard mode with 15 types. Have to wait for 2 weeks with all content beat is so boring. At least can challenge myself in csmm
In general the combination of Sycamore/Hop/"insert unit" can beat almost every stage.
But for Champion Stadium it’s almost always better to split Sycamore and Hop across 2 different teams
Does this work at 2k? This is round 3. I have this and steel left.
Diantha does work at 2k
Should I change the supports or anything?
I don't think Cynthia is doing much
I guess it's for accuracy
I honestly have no clue, it's an old team I had lying around.
I usually run Hop + Sycamorw when using beta
God I love this team I might have to up the Points a little more to see what I can do
easy 2k right there
that team can 3K lel
More like 4k
yiud need flinch
Iris has low hp
3k is starting to be easy for you. time to make things harder lol
Time for 21.5k pts.
Technically we are still at hard lv1, but the medal is the 1★ one, so technically we could reach up to hard lv4 for the 4★ medal
not ready just yet
Hmmm should I do Valerie or Mina this Fairy weak? 
(Either will be supported by zone)
Kali
Kali Draining Kiss DPS 
Lol I’ll do Valerie, but I guess I’ll try Kali for a test team
Like Valerie plus EX sycamore will be nice
I’m doing SS Brendan, SS Wally and Valerie
Oh yeah forgot zone
Ssbrendan can out DPS Valerie on type without zone I think
….I forgot to set zone 
With that team I guess Kali is definitely doable
Wally's sync does one shot the center or close to it
Wally’s first sync can one shot first sync off type lel
Done in #1073655215363985498
Is ALillie good for fairy weak or Sycamore better?
I don't think many people use Sycamore for Fairy damage.
Horn leech plus boosting sync are his highlights, I'm pretty sure.
Anni Lillie is a striker, so her Fairy damage will be much better.
But no Fairy sync.
Mhm, I see?
Wait a minute, let me make a few makeshift teams
Are you just starting up the game?
Nah
I have done CS before. But just once.
I can make normal teams, the problem is using all the types. That's what confuses me
Who do I use as a steel dps??
Oh well depending on your roster, it could be a pain.
If none of them are good, I can try to off type usi g SSRed
But you have to complete the emblem by winning a fight from the month with an unit for every sync type.
Yeah that's what makes my brain hurt. I can't make teams like that 
Supports can afford to be off-type without much consequences.
What do I use for steel dps?
You'll need to upgrade, but I don't have experience with Colress yet.
Solgaleo could be decent.
I don't really like using any Grimsley, but that's me.
Maybe use something off type??
zerena, cmarnie or ssethan could offtype easily if you struggle
Depends on the types you need to complete, then.


