Champion Stadium

[zealous karma]

I think he has freebies in zone too

[woeful wave]

Ya, zone then free move

Alder I spam hyper beam right

[rotund lagoon]

Once his buffs are up, I believe so

Maybe one TM or Dire Hit then blast away.

[woeful wave]

I could move Rosa there then?

[rotund lagoon]

He maxes Sp Atk himself in one move.

I gotta be honest, I do not see Sycamore as a needed Support

[woeful wave]

Ya, and Cyrus do appreciate more from professor syxamore

[rotund lagoon]

Has Roxanne not been used?

[woeful wave]

Ya

For now. Still planning

[rotund lagoon]

Actually…do you have SS Blue?

[woeful wave]

Nope. Make to choice wrongly

[rotund lagoon]

I’m trying to think who else raises Df lol

[woeful wave]

Aaron

And Hop

Dawn as well.

[rotund lagoon]

My issue with them is the Atk buff. Also regular Hop wouldn’t be needed anyway

Dawn seems fine, I just worry about gauge

[woeful wave]

Could still go for Rosa just for her refill

[rotund lagoon]

Speed is more consistent imo

[woeful wave]

Speed hmm

Move skyla to here

Cmarnie with Hop

[rotund lagoon]

I guess you can do Aaron for Alder Support cause 1 bar spam

Spam Defend Order a ton

[woeful wave]

Or that.

[rotund lagoon]

Sure

[woeful wave]

I guess I will change as I go. Shuantal and Iris looks ok?

Iris is gonna be sandstorm.

Tbh, worst come to worst. I just switch skyla to cbede. Then put Roxanne in iris comp

Well, wish can 10k this week

[rotund lagoon]

I’m sure you’ll be fine

[woeful wave]

Btw, is 1 star deluxe cookie still good?

[rotund lagoon]

There are lucky skills that are on that cookie that the 3* does not have

[cinder summit]

Searching for "Mind Games"

<:COOKIE_DELUXE:968638644082577448> 1* Deluxe Lucky Cookie

Mind Games 2 (8.02%) - Has a chance (30%) of lowering the target's Sp. Def by one stat rank when the user's attack move against it is successful.

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[rotund lagoon]

For example, this. This is on my Lodge Dawn.

[woeful wave]

Ah

[rotund lagoon]

Btw, in-game, you can check what Lucky Skills are on each cookie.

[woeful wave]

Ya, just didn't notice 1 star has some than 2 and 3 don't have

[rotund lagoon]

Fair enough

1 star…does have a ton

[woeful wave]

Well, it is 'easier' to get. And it has everything 2 and 3 stars have. The chances of hitting them are very low

Time to dream 10k clear in sleep

[proud axle]

Yeah, the idea is that higher rarity = fewer junk items in the pool = better chances to get one that is actually good

[calm grove]

does moongeist been break through master mode stuff or no

[paper summit]

that's as vague as you can get...

very few CS battles have a passive where the innate effect of that move would matter anyway

just build proper teams for those stages, much easier than trying to cheese them

[tired sleet]

It doesn’t bypass the Crit shield or defence/strength boosts, if that’s what you meant

But all critical hits bypass phys/spec shields (reflect/light screen)

[proud axle]

I don't think anyone in the Unova league has anything for Moongeist to pierce

Acute Senses and stuff... That's not here

Of course, Acute Senses can be deactivated by just adding Gradual Healing to the enemy anyway

[tired sleet]

They said master mode, not unova cs

[swift swan]

then no. that's the point of master mode, making the battle harder for more rewards. if you cheese all the parameters, there's no point

the only thing cheesable would be removing shields with defog

[paper summit]

and the only one that actually matters is crit shield

[toxic cobalt]

I spend my entire life cheesing MM parameters

HP up? I add more damage

Cheesed

[paper summit]

the others are free points since your crits will ignore them anyway

I mean, that's not cheesing it

[zealous karma]

I could take -1 sync countdown now that I use head start shenanigans as a free parameter but I don’t care enough lel

[fiery canopy]

ummmm
do yall think this seems ok or do i need to upgrade more

[zealous karma]

Should work fine bjt it could potentially be overkill also skipped out on the ex sycamore grid and expansion?

[toxic cobalt]

Switch Giovannicat for Winona

[fiery canopy]

oh ive gotta do that i forgot lol

[fiery canopy]

aight!

[zealous karma]

It’s too late the event ended

[fiery canopy]

oop

oh whale

it seems i do not have winona

wait

[paper summit]

do you know who Winona is?

[fiery canopy]

ok i do lol

[paper summit]

ok then

[fiery canopy]

accidentally had the 5 star filter on

[swift swan]

I've been taking -2 sync countdown for my first sync nukers

what's that? sync with ssa cynthia for ex support? no I just sync with Bea and wipe the stage

[zealous karma]

She can do that?

[swift swan]

with Hilbert as the support, yeah

[toxic cobalt]

Full attack parameters 😎

[swift swan]

full attack parameters, aurochs knows what's up

[zealous karma]

I use it for 3K but don’t use it for 2K doesn’t make sense

[paper summit]

I should start doing this more

I already use like attack +4 anyway all the time, may as well go all in

[swift swan]

join us, odi

and join us in resetting whenever flint opens the battle with fire blast and OHKO your tank

[paper summit]

lol

been there

[swift swan]

what....

[paper summit]

SS Blue dying first turn was legit shocking

[swift swan]

SS Kris getting OHKO'd by Sidney's first-turn Seed Bomb is the most hilarious thing I've seen in this game

[fiery canopy]

hows this

[swift swan]

should be good

[fiery canopy]

yeyyy

[old orchid]

If you dont plan to use a Fire type in next stages, consider using Marley instead of Skyla

[fiery canopy]

hm. paralysis not great
gotcha

[zealous karma]

Ingos sync isn’t strong enough to one shot mid first synf?

[swift swan]

use Marley's TM

[zealous karma]

Is the super prep from grid?

[swift swan]

that's emmet

[old orchid]

*Emmet

[cinder summit]

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> We’re Standing Strong!

Gauge: - | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 1
Target: All allies
Effect Tag: -
Applies the Status Condition Defense effect to the allied field of play. Removes all status conditions from all allied sync pairs.

Sync Pairs with Move:

Marley & Arcanine

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[fiery canopy]

i dont have enough level ups for marley waaaah

perpetually broke

[zealous karma]

This is without super Prep so unless I’m doing smth wrong he should be good

[toxic cobalt]

Stop levelling past 120

[old orchid]

Just keeps her alive until you are 6 turns away from Grimsley's sync

Then use her TM

[fiery canopy]

GOTTEEEEEM

thx fellas

aight uhh. i wanna use roxie and hilbert against marshal but idk who else i should put on

[zealous karma]

You can put a defense debuffer such as Nanu

[tired sleet]

Or a defence buffer

[fiery canopy]

kewl kewl

[swift swan]

both works

probably a defense buffer. hilbert is more of an offensive support

[tired sleet]

One is slightly more aggressive, one is more defensive

[zealous karma]

I think hilbert assuming it’s 3/5 can tank hard mode fine

[tired sleet]

Odd that richu, who normally does strength params suggested the aggressive option and me, who prefers attack params suggested the defensive option

[fiery canopy]

any defense buffers in particular :?

[swift swan]

because we're suggesting to a newer player I'd rather go for the safe route and pick defensive lol

[toxic cobalt]

Skyla

[fiery canopy]

3/5?

aight!

since i switched her out for marley previously, she is still available

[swift swan]

skyla feels like a waste because she buffs speed too and hilbert already does that but I guess her potions can help

[zealous karma]

I take max strength but always go hyper offense lel

[fiery canopy]

maybe not skyla then?

[tired sleet]

Skyla is great, just slightly overkill; you may want to save her elsewhere (looks like you already did that lol)

What round are you fighting marshall?

If you already fought grimsley, you might as well use skyla since everyone else mainly uses Special Moves

[fiery canopy]

i did already fight grimsley, this is my second elite 4 fight!

[tired sleet]

Cool; so i don’t think you need to save skyla for later but if you can do without her that’s cool too

[swift swan]

it's skyla's potions I'm more worried about

you might need that somewhere else

[tired sleet]

Fair

[toxic cobalt]

What other defence buffers are there? Dawn and Jasmine?

[swift swan]

roxanne, maybe?

[toxic cobalt]

You just complained about wasting good units!

[swift swan]

for marshal, right? dawn then

[fiery canopy]

dawn it is! letsago

holy crap my attacks were barely making a dent in them

[tired sleet]

If that’s the case, you may want to consider the poison stall method vs marshall: bringing bad poison and trap and waiting for them to die

Marshall has lower resistance to trap/poison so it’s a more viable strategy

[fiery canopy]

i see
is that something i can do with roxie or will i need a dif poison type?

[toxic cobalt]

Koga Janine and Leaf is the classic team

Of course that assumes Leaf is gridded

If not there are other options.

[fiery canopy]

lemme see

brb

[tired sleet]

This isn’t master mode so idt leaf will even need a grid

Especially considering how without defence params, koga will do decent chip

[toxic cobalt]

True, venoshock will be quite decent

[fiery canopy]

blehhh
i may have to level up koga and janine some more before i manage to beat them x_x

[tired sleet]

Oh you don:t need them specifically

[tame gust]

If you’ve got Lucy she’s very good at the poison stall comp

[tired sleet]

Anyone who inflicts Bad Poison will work

[fiery canopy]

my lucy is lvl 1 unfortunately

ok janine doesnt need to be leveled and neither does leaf but koga doez

[tired sleet]

I think the tank being levelled matters more than the others

But koga (or lucy) does need to survive enough to inflict everyone

[tame gust]

Yeah your tank needs to be leveled. If you spam the co-op event to get level up books.

[tired sleet]

That is a strategy

[fiery canopy]

ooooo
brb then

[toxic cobalt]

Probably easier just to see who is levelled

[tired sleet]

… i hope they didn’t leave

[fiery canopy]

well i just did a bunch of that co op poison event

[tired sleet]

It’s fine, never hurts to have more level up manuals

[fiery canopy]

do i just trade in the stuff i got? the vouchers

ok i got sum

[swift swan]

the vouchers from the co-op event? yeah trade those for gear and level up items

[fiery canopy]

anywayz i got 2 take a break will be back l8r

[fiery canopy]

am back

so for the poison set up, leaf is my tank, correct?

[toxic cobalt]

Yes

[fiery canopy]

how is lvl 125 for her?

he keeps using attacks that hit all my pokemon so having a tank kind of becomes useless for this fight

[swift swan]

Isn't leaf weak to fighting?

[swift swan]

That's why you need a tank with potions like leaf

Though someone with synchro healing can also work... Swimmisty or bp morty maybe

[paper summit]

she is, yes

[fiery canopy]

owie

[toxic cobalt]

Skyla it is

[bleak dune]

which of the four should i fight first? (unova challenge, round 1)

[toxic cobalt]

If you plan to use poison , Marshall. If you are planning to just win through damage, avoid Shauntal and Caitlin on round 2.

[tender shore]

just looked at CS
rock type is gunna suck

[old orchid]

Just use Roark

[tired sleet]

It’s insane how he’s good now

[umbral crow]

What makes him good?

[tender shore]

is his grid new

[tired sleet]

He has Haymaker, Double Down, Accuracy, and Standfast Tiles on grid

[tender shore]

he has super effective up and multiple standfast

[umbral crow]

Oh wow thats big upgrade

[tired sleet]

You often can’t afford the se up tho

[tender shore]

double down that's what it's called

[umbral crow]

Overkill💀

[tender shore]

personally I gridded him with double down + all his standfast tiles but that might not be needed

[tired sleet]

I’d use something like this

Haymaker is just better than double down

[tender shore]

idk the math u might be right

[tired sleet]

Double Down is a 50% multiplier, Haymaker is a 100% multiplier

[tender shore]

alr

[tired sleet]

All of the single stat sync multipliers with no numbers are 100%
All of the single stat move multipliers with no numbers are 30% (check the first pin infographic in #916852044692856834 )

[umbral crow]

Smartypants is the same as Haymaker right?

[old orchid]

Yes, 100% multiplier

[zealous karma]

It’d be ovjerkill with SSDiantha

[tender shore]

he mightve been referring to my clear with neo Bede/hop + roark

[zealous karma]

Oh I know lel

[tender shore]

which I only did because I thought it'd look funny

oh

[zealous karma]

He’s a bit funny

[zealous karma]

I’m jokinf lel he doesn’t need it and it’s insanely overkill even with chop is lel

[tender shore]

fuck I just realized did marshal stall using Morty mismagius
I wanted to use him on Caitlin
probs gunna reset then bcuz I've only done him so far

my electric DMG options are elesa and volkner so I wanted Morty for healing

unless Hau works but I feel like volner/Elesa is better you just need healing

[keen silo]

[subtle forge]

Bit goofy

[hot shadow]

Wait, single stat move multipliers with no numbers are 30%, like Ramming Speed.

[paper summit]

someone didn't get enough sleep

[proud axle]

If that's Zebstrika, then she doesn't need healing if she's 3/5 now that she has her grid expansion

Low-cost Standfast 9 in easy reach

[woeful wave]

Too so much RNG to get this clear

[stray cipher]

Really?

2k or not

[woeful wave]

2k XD. Well, I was dumb as well. In the end, use acerola flinch everything

Didn't think about that part

[proud axle]

I would not use Roxanne with Olivia

Especially if Olivia is 3/5 (her own Amped Up 1+2 allow her to max her speed before first sync, and that plus Sands of Time are enough gauge income to carry the team)

[stray cipher]

Maybe it’s the lack of speed units

It’s hard to know if their team is good because you don’t see their box

[proud axle]

I just said Olivia doesn't need any

[stray cipher]

It does have amped up yes

But that takes a while imo

You wanna set up and nuke first sync tbh

Cause there ain’t no ex so no point support sync

[proud axle]

Dafuq you mean, takes a while.
I just said 3/5 Olivia can max it herself without Support. She needs Atk, not Speed.

Two Stone Edge crits give her +6 Speed

[stray cipher]

Wait lemme see Olivia’s kit

[proud axle]

Amped 1 innate and Amped 2 in grid

+3 speed every crit

[stray cipher]

Oh you are counting grid

[proud axle]

TM+Stone Edge+Stone Edge = max speed before first sync

[stray cipher]

I don’t know if they had grid on

Then yeah it’s useless for rox to be there

[proud axle]

I like to run her with 'Rola and Lillie for Alola region rotation

[stray cipher]

I use Hala

[proud axle]

Lillie TM adds surecrit so Olivia doesn't even need her 3rd stack of crit

[stray cipher]

Liv would be faster tho

Rate this weeks teams 1-10

[teal siren]

What are some good units to pair with alder?

[stray cipher]

I literally just put units there and there

[stray cipher]

Didn’t I show you team building?

Defense raiser would be nice ig

Bug zone if possible

Sp def debuffs on other side help

[blazing narwhal]

Kinda depends on the battle

[dark osprey]

Also what move level is Alder

Assuming 1/5 and you don't have zone, Lucian and a crit buffing support EX is a good budget team

[woeful wave]

Tbh, idk who to use XD

Also was going for the atk up from roxanne

Got other choice. But that run her TM just keep refreshing. So you know

[stray cipher]

Doesn’t she only buff sp atk

I haven’t used her in a while

[cinder summit]

Roxanne & Probopass

<:CATEGORY_SPECIAL:967450752098390077> <:TYPE_ROCK:967452396466884628> Ancient Power

Gauge: 2 | Power: 47 | Accuracy: 100 | Uses: -
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: -
Has a chance (10%) of raising the user's Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, and Speed by 1 stat rank.

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> X Defense All

Gauge: - | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 2
Target: All allies
Effect Tag: -
Raises the Defense of all allied sync pairs by 2 stat ranks.

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> Study Buddies!

Gauge: - | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 2
Target: All allies
Effect Tag: -
Raises the Sp. Atk and Speed of all allied sync pairs by 2 stat ranks.

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> <:TYPE_ROCK:967452396466884628> Wide Guard

Gauge: 1 | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 1
Target: Self
Effect Tag: -
The user takes up a defensive posture. Using this move again will make the user leave this defensive posture. No other actions can be taken when in this defensive posture. Nullifies moves that target all allies when hit by such a move while in this defensive posture, then the user leaves the defensive posture.

<:CATEGORY_SPECIAL:967450752098390077> <:TYPE_ROCK:967452396466884628> <:CONDITION_SYNC:967453032939925614> Honor Student Power Gem

Power: 250
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: -
No additional effect.

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[woeful wave]

O

[stray cipher]

LMAO

[woeful wave]

Well

That may have been the reason why it took so long

Hmmm

It ok. I manage to 10k

Acerola just carried me

Flinching all the way

[proud axle]

Maaaybe you might need some practice with standard teambuilding
Not from me, though. My workplace finally blocked Discord from the network

[dark osprey]

That's sad. Why'd they block discord though? What if you were using it for professional troubleshooting

[proud axle]

I feel like they probably allowed it for so long because of that, but maybe we switched communications platforms

The "Online Chat" category of sites is now in the filter, so... I can only use Discord from my phone (when I can get a 5G signal, and thus am not using the workplace network)
It doesn't look good to be spotted on my phone all day at work, though, so oof

[tired sleet]

Dang it, i’ll fix that

[hot shadow]

You'll make move multipliers scale up to 100%?

[tired sleet]

Yup

[stray cipher]

This is for next week…. Should I be worried about gauges?

[mellow linden]

Not really, absolute worst case scenario Bianca might have to use a Trainer Move outside of Psychic Terrain on turn 1

[proud axle]

That team has +2 speed from Bede just showing up, and a teamwide freebie every round

It'll be fine

Though speaking of freebie effects. I was curious...
I noticed that Bede's freebie works on variable-cost moves such as Elio's TM. Can it cause these moves to behave as though they had the max gauge cost even if you don't currently have that much?
Can it cause Ash's B Thunderbolt to act as though it had 6 gauges even if your max is currently 4?

[stray cipher]

Think so

Ash scales off of gauges?

[cinder summit]

Ash & Pikachu

<:CATEGORY_SPECIAL:967450752098390077> <:TYPE_ELECTRIC:967452395640586290> Thunder

Gauge: 2 | Power: 161 | Accuracy: - | Uses: -
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: Hits against flying pokemon
Never misses when the weather is rainy. Has a chance (30%) of leaving the target paralyzed.

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> Not Gonna Lose!

Gauge: - | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 1
Target: Self
Effect Tag: Heals
Restores the user's HP by approximately 20% of its maximum HP. Charges the user's move gauge by 6. Applies the Gradual Healing effect to the user. Applies the Supereffective ↑ Next effect to the user. Applies the Damage Guard Next effect to the user.

<:CATEGORY_SPECIAL:967450752098390077> <:TYPE_ELECTRIC:967452395640586290> B Thunderbolt

Gauge: - | Power: 400 | Accuracy: - | Uses: 1
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: Quick Move, Sure Hit
Activation Condition: When the user uses any moves three times.
Deactivation Condition: Cannot be deactivated.
Never misses. Uses a maximum of 6 slots of the user's move gauge. The more amount used, the greater the power of this attack.

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> Going All Out!

Gauge: - | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 1
Target: Self
Effect Tag: -
Raises the user's Sp. Atk by 4 stat ranks. Raises the user's critical-hit rate by 3 stat ranks. In addition, raises the user's Sp. Atk and Speed by 2 stat ranks when the user's remaining HP is at half or more.

<:CATEGORY_SPECIAL:967450752098390077> <:TYPE_ELECTRIC:967452395640586290> <:CONDITION_SYNC:967453032939925614> Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt

Power: 250
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: -
Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits.

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[tired sleet]

Ask in #916852044692856834

Ping me if you get an answer 👀

[proud axle]

Wut

[stray cipher]

#Research and Findings

#strategy-and-research

[tired sleet]

That’s been happening a lot lately

[rotund lagoon]

Discord mobile screwing itself again?

[manic mica]

whats the strat against grimsley snatch again?

[tired sleet]

The grimsley in champion stadium does not use snatch

[tired sleet]

Perhaps i misunderstood?

[manic mica]

oh

maybe im just stupid

[tired sleet]

You can check CS stage kits in poma tools if you’re wondering

+pomatools

[frozen depot]

https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs

[woeful wave]

@proud axle well it's fine. That problem is for the next week me

This week I cleared with 10k for the first time. Even though it took so long cause I didn't think just perm flinched the enemy move

[proud axle]

Were you the one who had Masked Royal? If so, then the only plausible problem is Ground

[woeful wave]

I think ground is fine for me? Cynthia should be able to do it

[proud axle]

Then all five fights are cake

Silver for fire, Gio for psychic, Cyrus for dragon, Cynthia for Ground, and Masked Royal for Dark

[woeful wave]

I can go Cmarine for dark

[proud axle]

Then all five fights are completely free.

Have you been taught the basics of teambuilding yet, actually

[woeful wave]

Fire, I could go SSred. The accident EX

[trail smelt]

Oof accident EX

[proud axle]

SSRed, Blaine, and a tank, sure

[trail smelt]

Still as you play you’ll soon run out of MUST EX all the time haha

[woeful wave]

Tank can go Lyra. I also EX her

[proud axle]

Uh, I wouldn't do that for that fight

[woeful wave]

O no?

[proud axle]

Look at those mons. There're phys attacks in there

[trail smelt]

Yeah she folds to physical attacks just like that sadly

[proud axle]

Red can raise his own speed and Blaine has bonkers base speed, so all the support really needs to do is tank

[woeful wave]

Welp, Sonia?

[proud axle]

Sonia could be good if your Red has Haymaker actually

That's not a bad idea here

[woeful wave]

I think he does? 2/5 the other accident

[proud axle]

Alright, then we've nailed one team down

[woeful wave]

Let me build the teams then I show

[proud axle]

Psychic:
Don't use Roxanne, she's weak to Fighting. Instead consider Skyla and Rosa supporting Giovanni

Or use Roxanne with Bianca tanking if you have her

[zealous karma]

its definetely likely cause my roxanne is 5* but I never have had her struggle to survive marshalbut i could be wrong

[trail smelt]

If gridded I think she has endurance so she has enough time to buff

[woeful wave]

My Roxanne is 5 star as well. Yesterday did wonders XD. TM keep refreshing

[proud axle]

Psychic-weak Marshall can OHKO (or slam into Endure in one hit)

It was a whole Problem for me when I tried pairing Roxanne with Gio as normal

[woeful wave]

Ah wait wrong move

[proud axle]

...Why do you keep using Roxanne in sand

[woeful wave]

XD

I switch to Hop

[proud axle]

Try putting Sonia into Cynthia's team, and replace her with Skyla on Red's team

[woeful wave]

If need more tanky for the team. Will switch to Arron

Ok

[proud axle]

Cait team... barely matters, just have Viola use X Speed and it should be fine

[proud axle]

Bede can tank well enough against Marshall, I think, so that team is also fine

[woeful wave]

Ya, cbede is super tanky

Yesterday, his HP rarely reach red

[proud axle]

Iris team looks alright too. If you want to be a little nutty, swap Phoebe out for Hop so that Sycamore can use Horn Leech

[woeful wave]

Forgotten which fight. Ah the bug fight

Ok

Cyrus is grid for the crit up

[proud axle]

Oh, then you don't really even need a crit buffer

Who else knows Dragon moves on your roster? Maybe we can get a little silly with a double-striker composition

[trail smelt]

My old Double Dragon Rush team never failed haha. But you don’t have AIris

I did use Normal Iris + BP Zinnia + Hilbert before but that was riskier

[woeful wave]

I think dragon don't exist in my roster

[proud axle]

Regular Iris, with Lessen Confusion 9 (from a lucky cookie type that would otherwise never be used by anyone else), can do some work... but that costs orbs and meh

May as well just use the team as-is. Hop Sycamore Cyrus

It should serve well

[woeful wave]

The BP zinnia was an accident as well. Now I do have 2 ticket

Ty for help fine tune the teams

[tired sleet]

Regular Zinnia is good too if you can bring weather and crit support

[proud axle]

...If Lyra is 3/5, she can actually handle this

Solarize in her grid to fuel Zinnia/Rayquaza's r a g e

[tired sleet]

Just make sure to bring a solid tank as third

[woeful wave]

my lyra is 3/5 XD

but wasnt the cyrus is better?

[proud axle]

Okay, so if you wanna try something a little risky... Grid her for Solarize and grid Zinnia(Rayquaza) for Clearheaded
Then you can go with Lyra + Cyrus + Zinnia

[woeful wave]

o

[proud axle]

Once the buffs are up, Zinnia can attack with Outrage (unless you've given her Dauntless as a Lucky Skill, in which case use Draco Meteor instead)

[swift swan]

Wouldn't this be iffy on gauge

I guess with sunny side up under sun it wouldn't be that bad

But still, cyrus and zinnia use 3 gauges

[proud axle]

And the first sync cycle is mostly TMs

[swift swan]

And lyra isn't exactly fast

[proud axle]

Zinnia and Cyrus will have +6

Their TMs raise Speed

[swift swan]

I think either zinnia or cyrus will work. Running them together might risk speed

[proud axle]

I'm more concerned about Lyra being glassy against phys attacks, since Iris tends to use those

The original plan (Hop Sycamore Cyrus) is still very stable

This is just a bit of a flight of fancy, and/or limit-testing

[swift swan]

And what happened to that?

[proud axle]

That's plan A. This is plan YOLO

[woeful wave]

XD

I will try the yolo then only the normal one next week

ahahaha

[swift swan]

Good luck

[woeful wave]

ty

also next week zinnia getting buff right, could be fun

since I can get her EX and upgrade next week

[swift swan]

Yes

[woeful wave]

could be fun then

[manic kiln]

12k5 coming

[main crow]

Starting with kanto it's still gonna be a cakewalk

[paper summit]

inb4 Sinnoh, Hoenn and Kalos become 2x harder

[swift swan]

12.5k babyyyyy

[manic kiln]

I want new parameters but they probably won’t add anything new

[swift swan]

oh boy we're gonna need to update the pinned parameters

[main crow]

Sinnoh still gonna be easy ngl now that I'm well nearly a year into playing now

[old orchid]

i wonder what are new parameters

[swift swan]

ooooh

yeah if they're going to raise the points cap, it's only fair to give us new options

[manic kiln]

Oh i somehow missed that part

Great then

[swift swan]

alright, for the cool kids who are already doing 3k per round now... what params do you usually use?

I'd rather still stick to presyncing and probably add some HP since my tech nukers can generally handle it

[manic kiln]

I probably need to pull some more specific units if i want to keep doing mono team kanto johto unova still easy tho

[toxic cobalt]

[zealous karma]

I’m honestly scared of 12.5K

Ik it’s the same

As 3K but less

[paper summit]

[zealous karma]

But some types j already fund difficulty on typing at 3K

[paper summit]

it's 500 less points for each and there will be new parameters, we don't even know yet what they are, relax...

[zealous karma]

Are they adding new params or did I miss interpret the stuff

[lost gulch]

yea they are adding new params

[zealous karma]

Swag I’m less worried now

I can’t wait for a CS relat d event

[toxic cobalt]

I’m burnt by last time when they were all “welp here have 10 BP for no new options”

[zealous karma]

This time it’s gems

[manic kiln]

Time to add more valuable rewards, new players need to stop slacking

[zealous karma]

How to scare new players away from your game

[paper summit]

they already fear the damn thing like they'll actually die IRL, nothing will change that

[manic kiln]

[toxic cobalt]

10k killed the Skyla presync, will 12.5k kill the Skyla EX presync?

[manic kiln]

some people took 2 years to finally do 7k5 cs

When their roster is more than OP

10 bp a week is an insult tho, at least make it 50

[toxic cobalt]

Ribbon system is needed

Can have a ribbon for each milestone

[swift swan]

here's a single as your 12,500 reward

[toxic cobalt]

I’ll take it you know I’m a addict

[swift swan]

it feels like an insult though I agree

how about an extra candy coin

[trail smelt]

I wonder what parameters they can add

How about… add to our sync countdown

No field effects

[swift swan]

acute senses

[manic kiln]

All the up next effect

[trail smelt]

Start with type rebuff

UNIVERSAL rebuff

[paper summit]

honestly this isn't a terrible idea

[trail smelt]

Acute senses + Gradual Healing LMAO

[paper summit]

add passives to the lamest ones by choice to make them more interesting

[trail smelt]

Free points

[toxic cobalt]

Endurance for everyone 300 points

[zealous karma]

I could see it

[paper summit]

nothing a sync wouldn't solve

[toxic cobalt]

Sync endurance +50 points

[zealous karma]

Give the enemy wise entry x2

[toxic cobalt]

Hmm isn’t this free point depending on the striker?

[paper summit]

yeah

you just swap to the other type of damage and be done with it

[trail smelt]

Sentry or Wise x2 being free is crazy but true haha

[swift swan]

actually? hell yeah give me this

[swift swan]

this would be so cool

but that's probably not much different from our usual def/sp def parameters, except just for one stat

[trail smelt]

Ooh maybe field effects only affect the enemy

Or start with steath rocks on our side haha

[zealous karma]

Ew

[swift swan]

yeah you know what just make the new CS options things like acute senses or clear advantage

[trail smelt]

Is clear advantage field effects?

[toxic cobalt]

Yes

[trail smelt]

So MGA works?

[toxic cobalt]

Well weather terrain and zone

[trail smelt]

Ah ok

[toxic cobalt]

Not sure about mega

[trail smelt]

Specifically those 3

[toxic cobalt]

Well who knows how they might miscode it

[trail smelt]

Oh hey shorten field affects could work

Oh like halved healing

[swift swan]

[toxic cobalt]

Crit up +1 200 points

[swift swan]

that would actually be helpful so that field effects that activate on entry won't ruin my quadqueue

[trail smelt]

Man

[swift swan]

slap vigilance to all your units

[trail smelt]

I don’t think I’ll take that Crit parameter lol

Unless yeah all vigilance LMAO

New meta

[toxic cobalt]

Vigilance Ghetsis will come back

[neon kiln]

dang i hv only play the game less than a month and now 12.5k

[trail smelt]

Start low lol

Also it’s Kanto and you probably have to type clear anyway

[neon kiln]

i alr did 10k twice, i just dunno how 12.5k gonna be

[manic kiln]

Well i know some people doing 10k after 2 months of playing

[neon kiln]

[manic kiln]

But you must have/grid the right pairs

[neon kiln]

its only possible coz broken mf unit like cmarnie

[trail smelt]

New parameters should help

[paper summit]

with the units we get these days, newbies have it a tad bit easy, even more if the region is a pushover

so that isn't surprising

[neon kiln]

well klefki support looks good

i think with 12.5k i prolly need to grid lots of units xD

[manic kiln]

Also with the added ex pairs without costume change i hope they give more PU

[swift swan]

please

[zealous karma]

I hope they eventually do give them outfits I’ll be upset otherise

[trail smelt]

This honestly

Is an alternate color scheme really that hard

[manic kiln]

It’s just color change lmao but they’re lazy af

[paper summit]

I'm not gonna judge until I see which are the pairs not getting the alt color

[trail smelt]

Let a fighting game dev in and show them how it’s done

[manic kiln]

5 mins with photoshop, probably less for them

[old orchid]

They are busy designing Lillie alts, thats why

[manic kiln]

[toxic cobalt]

Me theory it's because they didn't give new models to BP and lodge units, and for some reason can't create a second EX model with new colours

[old orchid]

Hey they did give Blue 2 EX colours

[manic kiln]

Ah yes arcanine and pidgeot

[toxic cobalt]

Might be programmed differently as he was an older even tunit

Because there must be a reason right? It's... a pallette swap

[paper summit]

it's called not wanting to spend resources on it

[swift swan]

lucky bastard

giovanni too

it's called kanto pandering

lmao it's gonna be so funny if bugscy reruns with EX unlocked but no palette swap

[toxic cobalt]

Give some college student five bucks smdh

[paper summit]

but again, we don't even know which pairs will not get an alt color, it always rubs me the wrong way when people love jumping to conclusions and call devs lazy...

[swift swan]

I guess from now on, a few units will have 6* EX unlocked but only one of them will get a palette swap

[paper summit]

I'm assuming any alt with the same outfit as the OG will get that treatment until they prove me wrong

[trail smelt]

I mean it is laziness lol

Alternate colors stopped

[paper summit]

whatever

I'm not gonna explain how development works tbh, kinda pointless

[swift swan]

makes sense

[trail smelt]

Dude no need to get pissy lol

Can I get a hell yeah for parameter presets

[main crow]

Hope we're not locked to just one preset available

[toxic cobalt]

I'm so excited

[swift swan]

can they please add lucky skill presets now

[keen jasper]

What will be the recommended parameters for 2.5k now?

[old orchid]

Need to wait for datamine to see new parameters first

[keen jasper]

Are there actually new parameters?

[main crow]

Yes

[keen jasper]

Didn't read neus all too well

Hmmmm

[old orchid]

[keen jasper]

I'm still waiting for Ultra Hard CS

Also, what are your thoughts on the new parameters, what will it be?

Lowered defensive stats to your team?

[old orchid]

My guesses are Endurance on entry and no field effects

[main crow]

Someone suggested acute senses parameter which would be really funny

[swift swan]

no field effects on permanent field effects round parameter

[grand trout]

Finally no zones
Looking at you kalos and hoenn

[keen jasper]

What if there's zones but it only benefits the enemy team?

[grand trout]

Do you guys think that 12.5k means that leveling units to 150 will be recommended

Because I'm not really feeling leveling anyone

[trail smelt]

Stats help but really choosing your parameters well is usually more important

[old orchid]

Some people beat 15k with lvl 130 lol

I agree with Natwaf

[grand trout]

Is there a huge jump in damage from 140 to 150?

[old orchid]

No

[main crow]

No not really

150 is just for simp/flex

[grand trout]

I'll leave my pairs to 140 then

[toxic cobalt]

Level gains are tiny lol

[grand trout]

I'll keep my fingers crossed that the new parameters won't be too hard

[trail smelt]

I wonder if they’re gonna add Acute Senses to the parameters list. Then stealthily fix it so gradual healing no longer disables it LMAO

[grand trout]

Oh boy

I feel one of the parameters will be about rebuffs

opponent gets physical move next up entry, se move next up on entry, special move next up on entry

Opponent gets crit +1 on entry free param tbh

[old orchid]

Damage Guard upon entry

[grand trout]

Use the 1 bar moves for countdown lol

But yeah that means 1 less turn to set up

[old orchid]

Would be 100 points if this was real

[grand trout]

1/3 hp removed upon entry can be likely

[swift swan]

that's why you bring pairs with damage guard on entry or have protect lmao

[grand trout]

Ssteven defense finally be meta

[keen jasper]

That would be easy

[trail smelt]

Don’t we already have half HP?

[grand trout]

Yes

If you choose them together you start the battle with 1/6 hp lol

[trail smelt]

Power reserve Meta LMAO

… wait does half hp already trigger PR?

[old orchid]

No

PR triggers around 33% and below

[manic kiln]

with Kanto coming next month they mess up the cycle again, Alola hasn't been rerun for 9 months

[twin flare]

How can I get more points on master mode? Do you guys use a strategy? I feel like brute forcing isn't enough and I need to use strategies to get more points

[swift swan]

oh, huh. you're right

rip

[manic kiln]

try parameters from pin

[swift swan]

MM absolutely needs strategizing. we have recommended parameters on pins. if you're only starting out MM, we recommend doing 850 points per round

[swift swan]

lmao in two weeks the pins will need some tweaking

[twin flare]

Aren't they going to mix and match from different gens as well? If i didn't misunderstood their message

[swift swan]

that's a new kind of CS they're planning to implement

it will run alongside the usual CS we have rn

[prime warren]

They are updating CS?

[swift swan]

2500 points per round

new options

[manic kiln]

well probably return with alola VA but it's annoying because now there's no pattern

[swift swan]

according to dev letter

[prime warren]

2500

Why didn't they just jump to 3k already

[swift swan]

they've ditched the pattern when they decided to rerun Hoenn CS right after Sinnoh

[prime warren]

Oh well I take what I get

[swift swan]

the previous jump was from 7.5k to 10k, it makes sense if the next jump is to 12.5k

[manic kiln]

we still have some kind of pattern, it is reset everytime they release a new CS tho

[twin flare]

What does Pre/Post-sync mean?

[manic kiln]

kill the mid before/after they sync

usually people aim for presync so you can avoid getting damage from their sync, but post sync is also fine/comfy if you have a tanky team

[swift swan]

new options in CS are gonna be revolutionary. we've never had new ones before right?

[dark osprey]

Yeah. Never. We always thought they'd get hard level 2 or something

[swift swan]

between increasing max points cap or hard level 2, I'm not sure which I'd prefer

I suppose hard level 2 could've been more interesting if they updated older CS regions by giving them more gimmicks

[dark osprey]

Yeah. True. Honestly don't know what they're up to

The 1.5K to 2K was quite a shift in difficulty

Don't know what they've in mind for hard level 2 or even if there would be something like that

[swift swan]

people on their way to edit their #1010274591601598555 forum names to "12.5K CS clear"

[prime warren]

If the new params are mild, I can do 20k clears more consistently

[dark osprey]

Just when they finished giving grids to 4&3*s they had to increase the max points

[twin flare]

What pokemon can be used for stall tactic?

[toxic cobalt]

1. the poisoner 2) the debuffer 3) the infinite healer

[mellow linden]

Poison stall usually consists of a tank, an Attack/Sp. Atk. debuffer, and a Poison inflictor

One of the most common teams is tank/Lucy or BP Erika/Janine

[toxic cobalt]

#1011675077764456519 message are some team examples, better ones are available

[swift swan]

damn, aurochs is so cheap they they didn't even evolve their zubat and ekans?

[twin flare]

What did BP stand for?

[toxic cobalt]

It’s Hoenn CS it’s easy

[toxic cobalt]

Battle Point

[twin flare]

Battle point Erika?

[old orchid]

Battle Point, it means the sync pairs you got from the BP shop

[twin flare]

Oh

[keen jasper]

She's one example

[toxic cobalt]

From the circular icon on the left bar of the poke center screen

[swift swan]

incredible words

even I wouldn't so boldly call Hoenn CS easy

[twin flare]

That Nidoqueen, anyone got an idea what role it has?

[swift swan]

tech most likely

the one with venom drench

[twin flare]

Ah, i have a support Nidoran

Wait nvm, I already have it...

[swift swan]

oh my gosh the 9s.... this takes me back

[twin flare]

Tech

[swift swan]

ah yeah, if you want to do a status stall battle this week, doing it round 1 would be the most ideal

[twin flare]

I'm doing on E4 with electric, barely have any strong ones as electric

[swift swan]

if you have volkner at the very least, it should be easy

[twin flare]

I just realized that misty is weak to electric 🤣

[swift swan]

hau has a pretty decent nuke, given he's gridded properly

[swift swan]

then switch to another tank. you don't have to outright copy aurochs's teams

[trail smelt]

GUYS GUYS GUYS NEW PARAMETER IDEA

[twin flare]

I thought it had a function

[trail smelt]

Fluid fortifications

How many points is that worth LMAO

[keen jasper]

400

[trail smelt]

So I’m curious

I know we have new parameters incoming but

Out of our current ones, what would be the optimal presync one?

[swift swan]

600 just for being a pain

[swift swan]

check the pins- gets shot

I think "optimal" depends on your own comfort

I never follow the presync params on pins

[toxic cobalt]

Cos bad

[swift swan]

full attack

[trail smelt]

ALL ATTACK

[fiery canopy]

still pissed at this damn marshal fight

[old orchid]

do poison stalling then

[fiery canopy]

ik ik
he keeps using attacks that hit the whole team rendering my tank Useless

well. lets give it another shot

leaf you are the shittiest tank ever

[old orchid]

replace her with another tank, she is fighting weak

do you have Dawn or Jasmine?

and what team are you using

[fiery canopy]

was using koga and janine 4 poison stalling

i have dawn, let me see if i have jasmine

[trail smelt]

Aye you gotta pay attention to type weakness and their defense/special defense stats

[old orchid]

replace Koga with Lucy, her bad poison + trap will make the battle end faster
replace Leaf with Dawn, use her TM on Torterra when her HP is really low

do Marshal on R1 for much quicker progress

and use the stall point set pinned here

[fiery canopy]

unfortunate
ooh ty ty

[fiery canopy]

GOTTEM LETS GOOOOO

ok next up: shauntal or caitlin?

[sand karma]

Don't do shauntal r4

[fiery canopy]

kk!

hmm....should i try using cyrus?

[sand karma]

He's pretty good

Do you have any rain setters?

[fiery canopy]

lemme check

winona

[sand karma]

You could do Rosa , Cyrus, Winona

If Rosa is ex

[fiery canopy]

i dont think so but lemme see

would rosa be a good idea? shes weak to fire types and shauntals using fire

oh it says shes weak to flying

[sand karma]

Do you have your sync pair tracker list?

[fiery canopy]

but REALLY-
whats tht

[swift swan]

+tracker

[frozen depot]

https://pomasters.github.io/SyncPairsTracker/

[swift swan]

a handy tool to track your sync pairs so you don't have to repeatedly screenshot

if you want to show your box, just use the tracker and keep updating that

[fiery canopy]

ohh cool

[rotund lagoon]

Me who hasn’t done it yet….

I want to, it’s such a good af tool

[fiery canopy]

en ee wayz i have finished that soooo....what do nyall think? rosa or someone else?

[proud axle]

Rosa works fine. Cyrus and Winona have self speed buffs anyway

If Cyrus is gridded for Crit Focus 2, he can use Spatial Rend as a makeshift Dire Hit

[fiery canopy]

kk!
here goes

drat
would misty be better for this fight?

[swift swan]

is this round 3 shauntal?

I do think rosa is better so cyrus can get sp atk buffs

roxanne would be ideal too, her wide guard can be clutch

[fiery canopy]

roxanne is indeed still available for me to use
oh i mean misty in place of cyrus

[proud axle]

Bruh it's still Hydro Pump but Misty doesn't have Crit Strike 9

I'd approach the fight like...
Turn 1: Cyrus TM, Winona TM, X SpAtk All
Turn 2: Spatial Rend (fishing for a crit), Winona TM, Energy Ball
Turn 3: Spatial Rend (fishing for another crit in case the first one didn't), X SpAtk All, Rain Dance
Sync with Rosa if she's EX, or Cyrus if she's not
Spam Hydro Pump

[swift swan]

cyrus is your main damage dealer there, while misty is a support. don't expect her to dish out numbers like cyrus

[gilded stream]

Started clearing 10k MM recently and now they announced 12.5k MM 😒 this is how my luck works I guess. 🥹

I hope they include gems in the last 2.5k 😋

[subtle forge]

Would be pretty comedic if it was just more BP

[proud axle]

Bright side is, it's Kanto. Kanto is the easiest one

...I am kind of dreading Sinnoh/Hoenn/Kalos 12.5k

[snow solar]

I'm on round 2 of CS and I can't for the life of me down Shauntal, Caitlin or Grimsley. I came close to downing Shauntal with Misty/Starmie, Blue/Blastoise and May/Swampert but couldn't KO Chandelure before the second sync. I think I'm just bad at this point.

[toxic cobalt]

How good is your triple queue

Also that sounds like not the best team

[snow solar]

I haven't played in over a year or so, so I apologize if I don't know the proper terminology. I assume that's using 3 moves before the opponent uses 1? If so I mostly got it down.

[zealous karma]

replace misty with cyrus and grid cyrus fpr ramming spd if you can

[snow solar]

I'll try that, should I keep May and Blue in that team? My Cyrus doesn't have the expanded grid but I'll do what I can

[zealous karma]

yes

[toxic cobalt]

Expand grid mostly for dragon damage and also not needed

[zealous karma]

cyrus doesnt need expanded grid for hydropump he doesnt need his expanded grid much at all imo lel

[snow solar]

Awesome, I'll try that team comp out.

[proud axle]

(What is with people trying Starmie's hydro pump instead of Palkia's today?)

[zealous karma]

Cyrus has easier setup

But I love misty DPS

[bright furnace]

Anime ending + memes

[tired sleet]

Seriously doubt it. The reason why rewards suck so much behind 8k is so that people who can’t do it don’t feel like they’re missing out/so it doesn’t feel p2w

10k pts (and 7.5k points before) was intended to be late game veteran content, but in reality even newer players could beat it

[swift swan]

makes sense

[swift swan]

all the good rewards end at 4.2k. anything higher is just some nice stuff, they're definitely not going to gatekeep great rewards behind 12.5k

inb4 more champion spirits for you whales out there

[tired sleet]

For a new player who’s struggling to grid sync pairs, the orbs up to 7.5k are extremely useful

[swift swan]

that's fair but usually the problem is, they can't grid pairs to reach 7.5k

[tired sleet]

You’d be surprised, lots of players reach 10k after only like a month

[bright furnace]

It’s a ymmv situation as usual

Some have really good sync pairs and I see the “first time 10k clear” sometimes on the subreddit..

[tired sleet]

They always have ssr cynthia

I’ve literally never seen one of those posts that don’t have her

[trail smelt]

Less orbs more BP coins or better rewards plz

[bright furnace]

I don’t think I would want just BP for the extra 2500 lol

[swift swan]

I don't think I would want orbs, even

I'm starting to reach the cap again and this time almost no units to use them on

[tired sleet]

It’ll probably be mostly

[sick inlet]

I hope so

I think I will have to stop my Solo/Duos now

Unless it's SS Morty team

[toxic cobalt]

RIP fun

[zealous karma]

All my units are gridded….

[fiery canopy]

should i defeat the side pokemon before i go for the middle/main one? the game tells me to do that but i like second opinions

[grim island]

Hi! Quick question for CS MM 10k, can I do Grimsley on round 3 and Shauntal on round 4, or is it better the other way round?
VS Grimsley: SS Hilbert (2/5, EX) - Alder (1/5, EX) - Support ???
VS Shauntal: May (5/5, EX) - SS Kris (2/5, EX) and Archie (2/5, EX)

[tired sleet]

It kinda depends on playstyle and the individual match… I personally like taking out one side then the mid, but i know a lot of people take the mid out first to prevent them from using the sync move)

[fiery canopy]

gotcha
think ill go for mid this time first

ooog
not having any healing abilities or moves is rough

[hollow vigil]

Lol I planned this run so lazily, took a nuke into each level bc I wanted to be fast

And now I have to actually plan how to Alder

[fiery canopy]

bluh
need moar sync orbs....

[zealous karma]

At 1/5 alder doesn’t need much

[zealous karma]

It doesn’t matter those teams should have an easy time

Apologies for late response

[grim island]

It's okay! Do you know which support might be good for SS Hilbert/Alder? I'm having a hard time to use Aaron

[zealous karma]

Do you have lodge dawn?

Preferably 3/5

[grim island]

I do, she's not gridded though

[zealous karma]

Is it possible for you to grid her?

She’s a good support for alder due to making his setup only 2 turns and if alder was a higher move level debuffs Spatk by 2 ranks and can max team Spd fairly easily

[fiery canopy]

should i try out something else besides winona/cyrus/rosa?

[zealous karma]

That team should work for water if cyrus has crit focus 2 and ramming Spd on his hydropump but if you have not used sycamore he’s a better option

[fiery canopy]

i dont think he has that
i thiink sycamore is still available? lemme check

[zealous karma]

Cyrus kinda needs crit focus if you aren’t bringing a crit buffer

[fiery canopy]

yeye hes fine
so switch sycamore with ..?

[tired sleet]

Rosa

[fiery canopy]

kk!
and after i dumped a bunch of resources into her too 😔

[zealous karma]

Well if sycamore isn’t Ex which idt yours is rosa would be better than sycamore in an off type settinf

Which is honestly weird to say but support Ex is just that valuable

[tired sleet]

Isn’t this for water weak? Both of them should work

And is this hard mode or master mode

[fiery canopy]

uhhh
hard i think
ive never beaten the league before so

does the little "ex" symbol next to their name have to be rainbow?

[zealous karma]

The rainbow Ex - is a good indication of if they’re ex or not if they’re not ex they just have a golden border around portrait name apposed to rainbow

[tired sleet]

It shouldn’t be needed

[zealous karma]

Correct

[fiery canopy]

it takes that champion spirit stuff to make them ex right? if so then neither of them r ex

golden border? hmm

[zealous karma]

Yes

[fiery canopy]

regardless, i think ill give sycamore a shot, just to see

[fiery canopy]

no rainbows here sadly

should i wait to use sycamores tm or do i use it at the beginning

[zealous karma]

You can use sycamores TM on the second turn or the last move of the first cycle

[fiery canopy]

kk!

dang burns....

is there any way to counter that or do i just gotta gitgud

[zealous karma]

Oh you can save sycamores TM just in general it heals all status conditions

[fiery canopy]

oh yeahhhh
gud idea

[dark osprey]

Or you can just pull through. 2 or 3 turns of burn wouldn't kill usually

[fiery canopy]

aughh
do i just gotta level em up some more? is 125 not cutting it?

[dark osprey]

It's better if you could post your run here so that people understand where to point

[fiery canopy]

like a video or just an explanation of what im doing?

[dark osprey]

Cyrus does hit really hard with ramming speed

Video is better so that the others can see where it's not as per plan

[fiery canopy]

alrite! in a bit tho im takin a break

[tired sleet]

120 is generally enough, 125 is great

[fiery canopy]

maybe its my sync grids or something
gettin these sync orbs is a grind!!!

[swift swan]

Sync orbs really are a big bottleneck for newer players

Have you done the monthly exchange in the shop? Lodge can give you some, too

[marsh crater]

Ah i forgot can exchange some from lodge

[fiery canopy]

i haveee
ok lets give this another shot, ill record it this time

discord is being difficult and not sending the vid >:|

[old orchid]

Upload the video to youtube then drop the link here

[fiery canopy]

aight, gimme a minute

thank you youtube for also being difficult

[grim island]

Sorry for late reply!
Yep will do 🙂 It worked, thanks!

[hollow vigil]

I best CS for my first time!!!

[violet timber]

2.5k sounds hard

But at least it starts in Kanto which is somewhat easy

[civic trellis]

They r adding new params as well

So it depends on what those params are ig

[dusty hamlet]

id bet on something like "no zone/terrain"

[civic trellis]

That could be very useful since u wouldnt need a weather/zone setter for certain stages

[swift swan]

no zone/terrain on infinite field effect parameters

[trail smelt]

Oh there’s an idea

Infinite field affect choosable haha

Though shorted field effect seems more likely

[swift swan]

shortened field effect so field effects on entry won't ruin my quadqueue window please

[proud axle]

Wonder if, perhaps, the new options might make use of mechanics introduced by upcoming sync pairs

[swift swan]

Rebuff on entry

[proud axle]

Actually maybe one of the new options will just be the "offtype attacks deal almost no damage" skill

Watch people still manage to offtype with the rats

[swift swan]

As long as it's a passive skill, you can ignore it

[proud axle]

...Right, and Red can. welp

[tired sleet]

But red can’t ignore the no debuffs or no status param

Params aren’t passive skills

[swift swan]

He doesn't need that to be OP

[swift swan]

If this param turns out to be a passive skill I mean, it can be ignored

If it somehow is integrated into the stage itself then yeah, you can't ignore it

[proud axle]

Hm...

[full mesa]

Keep in mind that CS is weekly content. It can't be too hard for new players. Unlike EBE or Gauntlets.

[proud axle]

12.5k is not meant for new players tho

Also if it's free points for on-typing, that makes the mid-range scores easier for new players

[tired sleet]

7.5k pts and 10k pts were both also not intended for new players; they just happened to become that way

[onyx ice]

Still can't ignore unbending or lithe

Piercing blows effects only ignore damage reductions and crit protection from passive skills

[tired sleet]

That’s what i said

[trail smelt]

Start with omnitype rebuff

INCLUDING normal LMAO

[keen silo]

Could be a level 2 thing or something once 10k points from level 1 has been achieved

[obtuse rover]

iss there champion stadium tier list or guide

[toxic cobalt]

Parameters are in the pins

[obtuse rover]

ssorry for some reasons the pin wasnt showing anything

[tired sleet]

See this?

[swift swan]

cue 1-week-old player dropping their box from the edit team screen asking for team recommendations to beat the elite four when they haven't even completed legendary adventures yet

[old orchid]

they havent completed story mode as well

[zealous karma]

I’ve seen players with all 3 Galar trio but not all legendary adventure units

[paper summit]

rerolling does that

or people that assume free = bad

[swift swan]

mentality carried over from other gacha games, unfortunately

[trail smelt]

Honestly I can’t think of another Gacha game where our free units can carry us through so many contents haha

[zealous karma]

Me too

[bright furnace]

this is the only one lol

[trail smelt]

… oh actually I can think of one

Action Taimanin

But that depends on how good you are at playing action games

[bright furnace]

First time I’ve heard of that game in my life lol

[tired sleet]

The only other gatcha game i play is crk where the lower rarity characters are all but useless except for this one that is almost necessary for this one hyper specific gamemode

[wicked pebble]

Prospective team stuff, how does it look for this week?

The Redchu one is just thrown together, not sure who to put with him (if he even needs support)

[zealous karma]

Looks free

[tender shore]

you can clear all of arknights with the f2p units iirc

Caitlin is going to be the death of me

i did 2k on everything else but I'm honestly not sure if I can clear Caitlin at 2k

[fiery canopy]

greetings i have returned with a video of my gameplay https://youtu.be/we8Am8kubUc

looking 4 tips on this

[zealous karma]

1: You aren’t triple queueing I recommend lowering the game Spd if you struggle to triple queue and for the most part you are either double or Single queueing

[fiery canopy]

ooh, ty ty

[zealous karma]

This is what the first cycle should look like

With support Ex Cyrus one shots shauntal without it he’ll need like 2 hits of hydropump

Also you did not activate crit focus from Cyrus assuming you have it gridded

For that you kinda have to use Spacial rend until@you crit once

[fiery canopy]

thank you v much! i appreciate the tips esp the video lol

im pretty sure i have it gridded

[zealous karma]

Alright good

[zealous karma]

Apologies if this sounded rude I didn’t intend it to but I feel like it comes off as rude or condescending I just didn’t know how to right jt better e

[trail smelt]

Last hour to clear before final week of Unova

You know who you are

[fiery canopy]

HHHHHH

[tender shore]

me rn at 1 am
who needs sleep

I managed an 8k clear though

Caitlin and Alder I did not have the patience to clear on 2k

[fiery canopy]

fuuuuuck im not gonna make it

[fiery canopy]

youre good!

[toxic cobalt]

You can maybe do it!

[tender shore]

hm, wonder if I can do a 10k next week

this week I managed to do 2k on the first 3, but struggled on Caitlin and Alder

ground type is gunna suck

so that's an off type for me, literally don't have ground type damage

[dark osprey]

maybe try and get 3 solid offtype teams and also a couple of poison stall teams early on

then use them for the types u dont have

[fiery canopy]

fuk i dont think i have the crit thing on
and i cant get any more orbs rn
okay which is more necessary Ramming Speed or Crit Focus

[tender shore]

yea
my biggest problem is just supports tbh

[toxic cobalt]

Ground and dark are the tricky ones next week yep, learn to stall

[toxic cobalt]

Crit focus

[tender shore]

I have neo Marnie for dark

[toxic cobalt]

Should be easy then, just ground to worry about

[dark osprey]

thats nice. if u have anyone else who could cover for dark like Nessa & BP Karen, could save neo Marnie for another offtype as well

[civic trellis]

So glad I got ss gio, my only other option is 1/5 5* cynthia who I just got from the select

Oh and naomi too ig

[tender shore]

yea
I'll probably use silver for fire type

and also true I might use nessa on dark type in case I need Marnie

[civic trellis]

Im going to try vilda but I wish I had her above 1/5

[dark osprey]

also Nanu right now is quite good for debuffs, flinch and also kinda decent nuke

[civic trellis]

Does she get anything besides rising tide actually?

[tender shore]

Courtney I imagine is really whatever due to his focus on confusion

[dark osprey]

doesn't she have scorching sync

[tender shore]

psychic might be annoying because Giovanni is super frail, but otherwise probably easy

[fiery canopy]

its Joever

[tender shore]

I haven't looked at the breakdown for special/phys damage next week, honestly that's one of my bigger issues, juggling between units that can support my damage while being able to actually survive

[zealous karma]

We’re you not able to beat the stage/how many fights are left?

30 minutes is a lot of time

[fiery canopy]

i dont think i have enough orbs for the uhh crit focus

[civic trellis]

I think so

[fiery canopy]

oooo
lemme see if i can do that

ugh, cant afford ramming speed
yknow what i think im just gonna take some orbs from a chara i dont use

[old orchid]

you can exchange some sync orbs in lodge

[smoky juniper]

Completely forgot that I hadn't done it this week after unlocking MM last week

[zealous karma]

#1010274591601598555 I’m

[fiery canopy]

dont have enough

[old orchid]

how about monthly exchange shop?

[smoky juniper]

The newer units just wreck. My account is just like 80 days old

Lysandre, SSDiantha and the NCBirds invalidated their stages. I only managed to have fun in rounds 1 and 4 having to strategize

[zealous karma]

Back in my day 80 days old accounts would have to poison stall to clear CS

Also wth

How are

[fiery canopy]

how do i trade all the sync orbs for co op ones

[zealous karma]

How are all those units Ex

[fiery canopy]

already done :-(

[old orchid]

[zealous karma]

Apologies I must go to sleep there’s at least a new CS rotation to look forward to

[toxic cobalt]

You can't trad back

[fiery canopy]

fml

gn gn

aight i give up
my defense is just so paper thin for whatever reason
nbd ill just see if this next rotation will be better

[swift swan]

2023/04/17 13:00 - 2023/04/24 12:59
Round 1: Additional effects of moves are more likely to occur
Round 2: Physical attack moves are powered up (be careful with Lance and Bruno here)
Round 3: When a sync pair faints, debuffs stats of all allies
Round 4: Move gauge acceleration
Round 5: Physical damage reduction at start

REEEEEEEEEE

[toxic cobalt]

Never mind, you get rewards for the levels you did finish!

[swift swan]

I'm gonna hate half sync even more when we have to do 2.5k

[toxic cobalt]

This is garbage

Literally the only nice one is round 1 and that's only a minor buff

[old orchid]

Really? Half sync cd in the first 3k challenge of mine?

[swift swan]

abort 3k challenge abort abort

[fiery canopy]

oh good!

oooof
did yall pick teams out in advance 4 this round

[toxic cobalt]

You need to plan round 4 in advance

[swift swan]

plan everything in advance

both teams and battle order

[fiery canopy]

oh i mean like Week

what r yall gonna do?

[swift swan]

some people plan their teams way in advance, like a week before even. but sometimes the round parameters can screw up your planning

and you'll have to readjust again

[toxic cobalt]

Not sure what your limited units are, but a Silver team a Giovanni team and a Cyrus team will wipe those stages

Ground and dark are the tricky ones

[fiery canopy]

hmm...who should i fight first?

[toxic cobalt]

Depends on your teams!

[fiery canopy]

eep
well uhhh
lets see

silver as in with Ho Oh?

[toxic cobalt]

Yes a very good fire type

[fiery canopy]

kk!

[swift swan]

Marnie pullers are gonna have a field day vs caitlin

[toxic cobalt]

Yep, that's a hard carry

[fiery canopy]

i have her im so hyped

sooo uh for Silver, it seems he meshes really well with sunny weather, and ik he has solarize but would it be a good idea to pair him with another pkmn with sunny day

[toxic cobalt]

That's what most people do

Personally I pair him with a flincher

[swift swan]

is this still hard mode or are you going for master mode?

[fiery canopy]

hard i believe

[swift swan]

can you screenshot your medal progress? which types you've done and which ones you need to fill in this week

[fiery canopy]

ye

ok this is def hard mode
how do i see my medals

it would seem i have no pokemon with sunny day

[toxic cobalt]

You have blaine ponyta maybe