Champion Stadium

[noble plaza]

SORRY SHOULDVE SPECIFIED

[paper summit]

right, tbh even with his powerboost I keep thinking about him only for water damage

hmm, you could put some special defense debuffer or another dragon if you want

[nocturne pawn]

id try lucian

[rigid flint]

OH I'm so sorry 😭

I thought you were using him for water weak 😭

[icy sapphire]

grrr almost

now how do I beat lance

[north crown]

roster? also can you show me your used teams?

[icy sapphire]

right hold on

[north crown]

actually no roster @icy sapphire pls I alr got bookmark.

Just show me your used teams

[icy sapphire]

V used units

[nocturne pawn]

do you have any sync orbs

[north crown]

Water, Grass, Steel, Psychic, Poison, Electric

[nocturne pawn]

cyrus gridded for critical focus should be able to beat lance

[icy sapphire]

i used the teams you suggested, and they worked, though I had to improvise for bruno

[north crown]

We can either:

1. Invest in Cyrus (which is worth it anyways)
2. Use 2 Poison stall teams

[icy sapphire]

I mean I was about to invest some books into cyrus

[north crown]

That just means you're growing as a player! Keep it up

[icy sapphire]

he’s lv 111 right now and after I’m done he’ll be maxed

to the level cap ofc

which is either 125 or 120

[icy sapphire]

yep 120 cyrus

👍

[north crown]

Ok good. Just find a typical Dragon DPS grid in #1009587872342478908 and you're set. I assume u can do basic teambuilding since you improvised.

One question: do you know about teambuilding 101 yet?

[icy sapphire]

I know you need at least one support and dps

and a utility maybe??

[north crown]

eh no one minds if I paste copypasta

+101

[frozen depot]

> Teambuilding 101
Make sure you have done the Victory Road tutorial for an introduction to the game's teambuilding and gameplay.

1. When making a team, you usually want to focus building around a selected damage dealer that hits the stage's weakness (or not if they are strong enough to off-type). This can be a / striker or a tech. Take the time to read that damage dealer's kit in its entirety (moves and passives) to see what they can buff themselves. Critical-Hit Rate maxes at +3 while all other main buffs go to +6. Damage dealers should be in slot 3 for tactics.

2. Once you figured out your damage dealer, pick a to put on slot 1 in tactics so it takes the damage. The support will often want to cover the buffs the damage dealer needs and cannot max by themselves reliably (look for critical-hit rate, attack or special attack for example). If your damage dealer is fully self sustainable, the support can cover healing or defensive utility as needed!

3. Finally your last slot is entirely flexible and depends on your first two picks. You can take a tech focusing on utility like debuffs or weather/terrain that empowers your damage dealer, or another support that focuses on defenses and healing to survive longer, perhaps even boost gauge speed for demanding damaging moves. If your team allows it, you can even pick a second damage dealer! It's important to experiment and remember that a successful team will be able to manage gauge properly for triple queueing and buffing your damage dealer fast so they can focus on pumping out damage as soon as possible!

Want to know more about Triple-Queue and other information about the game? Visit our #1010307000346878062 or check the bot commands pinned in #bot-zone!

[north crown]

oh and before you do something stupid:

+legexchange

[frozen depot]

When completing a Legendary Adventure in the Main Story section, you will be awarded a sync pair, 4 vouchers and 20 power-ups (usable on that pair only)

• Trade the vouchers for copies of that pair (in the shop > legendary adventure tab)
• DO NOT TRADE the power-ups, use all 20 on the unlocked pair (in upgrade > potential tab)
  https://i.imgur.com/gGHPQjd.png
  For more beginner infos, check our #1010307000346878062.

[icy sapphire]

oh no I knew that

[north crown]

so yeah you got some grasp on the swing of things now. You can probably finds stuff on your own both in this server and onwards towards the vast web

NitsuaGamer's Hard Mode Suggestion Bookmark - To: Angie

[icy sapphire]

when you say misty is it misty you have from the beginning misty

or

am i being an idiot

[north crown]

yeah beginning misty. Lance has mixed attacks this week.

[icy sapphire]

alright then

[north crown]

Also Iris in interchangeable with Cyrus; at the time, I didn't know if you were gonna invest in Cyrus.

[icy sapphire]

cyrus is way better than iris

that unintentionally rhymed

[north crown]

well if cyrus is there you might not need skyla, and can replace her with someone similar or something

[icy sapphire]

like uh

hm

so cyrus, misty, and someone else

[north crown]

extra +1 crit would ensure crit on sync cuz Cyrus has innate +1 crit on both SR and Sync

or you could get Crit Focus 2 on Cyrus' grid to ensure max crit too

[icy sapphire]

would I use one of these I found in the doc

[north crown]

Honestly I'll let you pick between the bottom two grids. Hard Mode is already a cakewalk if you know how to build decent teams

Also I trust that you can judge which nodes are important

[icy sapphire]

hm

[north crown]

actualyl hold up

well ig you technically don't need a grid for him, as he as a singular passive, however it's a really good one.

CRIT STRIKE 9

that' kinda his main gimmick

everything else is just QoL nodes for now, tho you will probably not want to deal with the bs that comes without those QoL nodes

[icy sapphire]

just build a grid anyway?

[north crown]

yeah

worth

[icy sapphire]

alright

[north crown]

especially if you use his Hydro Pump grid later. He is one of the few F2P dmg units that can offtype 2.5k MM with minimal, but optimal utility.

idk about 3k tho

Tho don't use Hydro Pump for this stage as SR DPS ontype beats HP offtype by a small but noticeable amount

However, that changes once you get powerboost

[icy sapphire]

does cyrus have free orbs?

[toxic cobalt]

Don’t think so. You only need Crit focus.

[icy sapphire]

mmmyeah

[north crown]

unless you plan to bring crit buffer but like

[icy sapphire]

nah i'll be fine

huh

that's weir

d

i can't unlock crit focus 2

like the node is still locked

[toxic cobalt]

+legexchange

[icy sapphire]

my cyrus is at 5/5

[frozen depot]

When completing a Legendary Adventure in the Main Story section, you will be awarded a sync pair, 4 vouchers and 20 power-ups (usable on that pair only)

• Trade the vouchers for copies of that pair (in the shop > legendary adventure tab)
• DO NOT TRADE the power-ups, use all 20 on the unlocked pair (in upgrade > potential tab)
  https://i.imgur.com/gGHPQjd.png
  For more beginner infos, check our #1010307000346878062.

[north crown]

bruh

[icy sapphire]

w-

oh my god

facepalms

i forgot to exchange vouchers..

do i need the 6 nodes surrounding the middle?

[toxic cobalt]

No

You only need crit focus

[icy sapphire]

it wouldn't help anyway. i need 245 orbs

i have 141

[old orchid]

You have a whole week

[icy sapphire]

lord help me

thats true

[toxic cobalt]

Did you buy from the monthly shop?

[icy sapphire]

thank you for reminding me

and i needed vanilla misty right

[toxic cobalt]

Don’t need her but she’s fine

[icy sapphire]

yknow what nah i'll figure sum out

thanks lads

aaaactually nvm

is 1/5 vanilla misty good enough?

[north crown]

yeah unless you need speed, which if you're still running skyla for some reason, isn't a problem

[icy sapphire]

i think i'll use skyla instead

sigh

alright.

cyrus, skyla, uh

maybe another dmg dealer??

i'm considering ss red but idk if that's needed

[north crown]

.. huh you haven't used fire type yet....

[icy sapphire]

no

??

[north crown]

tho I'd suggest a filler type you think you'll never use

perhaps ground?

[icy sapphire]

i've got courtney

haven't used her yet

let me see if this works

[north crown]

oh waitaminute wasn't she good dmg unit for hard mode? I take it back there must be a worse type for your roster @icy sapphire

[icy sapphire]

gah

i was almost finished w lance too

one spacial rend away from finishing

should i just get it over w or just quit

[nocturne pawn]

you have the rest of the week

no need to force yourself

[icy sapphire]

i'll find a way around it

maybe i'll knock out e4 and blue in one day

hard mode **

les go first try

alright

alright.

it's time for blue

• just doing this for later purposes

[manic mica]

I finally beat hard mode on champion stadium! I pulled Serena on a single pull from the banner, used her and it was so free after

[icy sapphire]

gj!!!

[north crown]

@icy sapphire FYi grind Sycamore/Xerneas Leg Adv

[icy sapphire]

already done

5/5 syca

[north crown]

oh wow... u can probably beat champ now

tho if u want to be safe, get both Horn Leech: Master Healer 1 tiles

bro becomes god

[icy sapphire]

extra parameter?

[icy sapphire]

big ouch

well uh

that’s not good is it

[junior solstice]

So what do I do?

[icy sapphire]

well uh

can your damage dealer survive it?

[junior solstice]

no

its 3k

wait a minute

im gonna go toxic stall it

[icy sapphire]

alright then

[junior solstice]

if that doesnt work then idk

[icy sapphire]

@north crown what do I do?-

[junior solstice]

What are you doing?

[icy sapphire]

champ

5/5 syca

[junior solstice]

are you doing cs blue?

how many points?

[icy sapphire]

..on hard

[junior solstice]

seems fine

no master mode right?

[icy sapphire]

no master

[junior solstice]

its bug weak right

[icy sapphire]

yep

[junior solstice]

show me your roster

you can definitely do no points

[junior solstice]

can ss red not do it?

[icy sapphire]

I’ve got ss red

unused

[junior solstice]

try ss red sycamore and lucian

should be very easy

[icy sapphire]

extra parameter?

[junior solstice]

uhhhhh

stat drop or effects that make you stronger

[icy sapphire]

I’ll pick stat drop

[junior solstice]

any is fine

Spam Growl with Lucian, Sync with sycamore dire hit+ with ss red

do until +3 crit rate, sync with sycamore and spam heat wave with red

then you should be home free

[icy sapphire]

lucian is the uh

the uhhh

what type is uh

[junior solstice]

Psychic

Giraffe

Hes pretty good without copies

[icy sapphire]

lucian is lv 1..

[junior solstice]

he doesnt need much investment

just level 100

then just slap him on a team

[icy sapphire]

aaand I have no books

[junior solstice]

sycamore is first targeting lucian is second ss red is third

[icy sapphire]

that’s just great

[junior solstice]

no books is just

[icy sapphire]

tell me about it

it’s just

[junior solstice]

me when i spam level up cap and run out of materials

[icy sapphire]

YES

I’d grind level up trial but my stamina is not lookin too hot

[junior solstice]

wait

just use level 1

trust

trust

[icy sapphire]

what

[rigid flint]

God I swear I never have enough of those pesky plus drinks

[junior solstice]

blue doesnt use aoe moves until sync

so just spam growl

[toxic cobalt]

lv 1 trust

[icy sapphire]

target blue first, right?

[junior solstice]

okay heres the rotation

spam growl on lucian

dire hit+ 2 times on ss red

sync with sycamore

once the dire hit+ are used, spam heat wave with ss red

then you're home free

[icy sapphire]

no my destiny?

[junior solstice]

no

sycamore provides the special attack buffs

[icy sapphire]

wait what else do I do with sycamore

besides sync

[junior solstice]

dazzling gleam

idk

yeah dazzling gleam

the world is vast

then dazzling gleam spam, your sycamore shouldnt die gridded

[icy sapphire]

after sides are down do I keep heat waving

or do I blast burn

[junior solstice]

blast burn

[icy sapphire]

also second sync should be red right

or is sync not needed

[junior solstice]

yeah red

[zealous karma]

Do not use heat wave it’s a terrible move and blast burn will always do more than it, also you should be using my destiny but i wouldn’t use sycamore as a support for SSred as his buffs are redundant for him idk if this is 1/5 or 2-3/5 red but red wants a more designated crit buffer

[junior solstice]

you dont have to overthink it, should be easy unless theres points involved

[junior solstice]

They're doing non master mode as a new player 🤷 (1/5 ss red)

[zealous karma]

That doesn’t change much you shouldn’t be using heatwave

[icy sapphire]

hm

well I need 7 more pieces for the medal

normal, bug, dark, ice, fighting, rock, and ghost

[zealous karma]

What stage on your on my apologies

[icy sapphire]

what stage—?

[zealous karma]

Like who are you fighting and what round ?

[icy sapphire]

well I just finished kanto challenge

round 4

[zealous karma]

Oh so you’re on blue is that right?

[icy sapphire]

^ just need these

for the medal

[zealous karma]

Do you have lusamine?

[icy sapphire]

don’t know if I do

what type are they

[zealous karma]

She’s a bug type with pheramosa

[icy sapphire]

nope

[icy sapphire]

like they said, im a new player

[toxic cobalt]

Do you have Leaf eevee?

[icy sapphire]

yeah

one of my favorite pairs

[toxic cobalt]

It's an easy stall then if you want

[icy sapphire]

with tackle?

[toxic cobalt]

no with poison

She is the tank

[icy sapphire]

wh

OH

OHHHHH

[zealous karma]

A stall clear, short for poison stall is when you inflict poison on the enemy and try to out live your opponent

[tired sleet]

(Consider bringing Viola too, in case you haven’t bought a bug yet. This stage is also weak to SpAtk drops, which she provides)

[toxic cobalt]

R5 has a status effect parameter which means stall is even easier than usual

[zealous karma]

Is she not weak to flying?

[toxic cobalt]

Viola or Ghetsis both work

[icy sapphire]

hm

[tired sleet]

Oh nvm i thought they were fighting Blue

[zealous karma]

I think they are

[icy sapphire]

oh right I forgot you can’t fight after beating cs

[icy sapphire]

no???

[toxic cobalt]

Richu we week 4

[junior solstice]

also does anyone know the parameters for poison stall at 3k points?

[toxic cobalt]

2.5 params + strengh and gradual healing

[zealous karma]

For stall? Gradual healing?

[toxic cobalt]

unless you want more strength

[zealous karma]

I also thought they were on blue

[tired sleet]

Which stage are you fighting?

[tired sleet]

Then flying weakness doesn’t matter, he’s bug weak

[zealous karma]

No I meant isn’t Viola weak to flying

[toxic cobalt]

Is Blue's alakazam liable to use flying moves?

[zealous karma]

There’s enough hp params and damage reduction to have more than 3k

[tired sleet]

She is but that’s irrelevant

[icy sapphire]

I finished CS, I was talking about what I’m gonna do to get all the medal pieces next time

[zealous karma]

Oh my bad I just saw a clear where he was using pidgeot my apologies

[icy sapphire]

well then, now what?

imma just work in exing ssred

[zealous karma]

Well Kanto won’t be rerunning for a long while so you have a lot of time to prepare next cs we should be looking to alola or I believe hoenn (hoenn is a very high spike in difficulty)

[tired sleet]

You’d have to wait a few months for Kanto CS to rerun but Ghetsis, Viola, Roxanne, and Leaf would be solid

[zealous karma]

When you are new I would focus your resources less so on strike ex and more on support ex

[icy sapphire]

so units like uh

ss blue, vanilla leaf, so on?

[toxic cobalt]

What would you change here?

[toxic cobalt]

Both good options

[icy sapphire]

well then

[toxic cobalt]

Have you cleared Blue?

[icy sapphire]

gah

[toxic cobalt]

If not just whack Lucy Leaf and Ghetsis on him and call it a day

[icy sapphire]

i did-

beat blue already

[toxic cobalt]

Nice work!

[icy sapphire]

[zealous karma]

Sorry for the confusion

[icy sapphire]

no no it’s fine

[toxic cobalt]

Ah yeah, strength +6 . Do not want.

[icy sapphire]

im gonna hate grinding for 5* power ups

especially as a new player

[toxic cobalt]

If you clear CS every week they become quite regular

[icy sapphire]

it just depends on how hard it is

[toxic cobalt]

You just need to get over the sync orb bottleneck

[icy sapphire]

yeah what am I supposed to do about that-

[toxic cobalt]

Give it a couple weeks, it'll happen!

[icy sapphire]

because if I’m right coop10so=~1(pair specific)so

[manic mica]

Yeah I’m also scared to do master mode for champion stadium too

Feel like I need to have maxed out people to even survive

[toxic cobalt]

You only need 5 maxed out people!

One per stage

more helps obviously but teambuilding can overcome it and you only need to get 4.2k (or 7.5k for sync orbs)

[icy sapphire]

I mean I’ve played poma before but I lost that acc, hence why I started new

I’d say I’ve been given good units to start with at the cost of all my rng

[toxic cobalt]

Rng is a valuable resource, spend it wisely

[icy sapphire]

hhh

im not even gonna try challenge the strong

[zealous karma]

How come?

[mellow linden]

That’s the Anabel fight, isn’t it? Don’t worry about that one, that’s like, endgame endgame

It’s the only content that exists thus far that actually required at least 1 limited pair, and the only reason that’s not an issue is because it’s permanent content with very minor rewards

[icy sapphire]

i see a lot about good dps pairs, and I think the best I’ve heard about is either ash/pikachu or the ice red pair

[zealous karma]

Even some veteran players like myself dont have the power level needed to clear it and I have a lot of strong units its a pretty difficult battle

[mellow linden]

There’s tons of strong damage-dealers

[icy sapphire]

which is true

but I’ve seen those two popping up a lot

especially ash

[mellow linden]

Because they’re overkill on top of overkill

[zealous karma]

they're popular characters with extreme levels of power many pulled on them but they're also not required

Ash getting a rerun is something that we're not even sure will happen due to liscencing issues
but as is master fair reruns are rolled out very slowly

[toxic cobalt]

This kills some of my tanks

[icy sapphire]

I feel like I should work on vanilla leaf for my first support ex

what do y’all think

[icy sapphire]

(favorite pair of mine ofc) also because I think she has potential

[zealous karma]

Oh interesting I didnt think of it from a less invested perspective I recall my cheryl was able to tank fairy cynthia fine with those params but I believe I had more strength as this was during the Battle Factory event

[mellow linden]

She has incentive to Sync anyways, so if you use her regularly she’s a great EX option. Though for future questions about who to EX we actually have a dedicated thread, #1017681879614377984

[icy sapphire]

oh wow

that’s convenient

[zealous karma]

we also have a sync pair tracker so you dont have to take multiple screenshots of your roster if you dont mind taking time out of your day to fill it

+tracker

[frozen depot]

Link : https://pomasters.github.io/SyncPairsTracker/
Use this video guide to properly filter your pairs : https://imgur.com/a/2ONrAcl
Fill your pairs > Turn Visibility only for "Have" > Filter by Type then Role > Turn On "Separators" > Print with "Image" button

[whole geyser]

just sharing my team for this week's cs🤝

[pearl shale]

[fleet cove]

Kanto, Johto and Unova CS tends to be easier in general

the other regions came later with an increased difficulty spike

[manic kiln]

hoping for a something different than sinnoh in jan, with the new region fields they might add paldea or galar

[silver dirge]

Oh so it is Alola now?

Next week

[manic kiln]

yeah

[silver dirge]

[main crow]

Alola

They finally reaching the power of 2k Sinnoh

[silver dirge]

[swift swan]

good for them, good for them

[grand trout]

What's easier, alola or johto

[keen jasper]

Yes

[wide adder]

How easy or hard would y’all say alola cs is? I don’t remember it too well

[manic kiln]

same as unova, johto

[old orchid]

slightly harder than Unova, but the difficulty may vary a bit depending on your roster

[manic kiln]

only harder in some specific stages

[wide adder]

So the difficulty jump between kanto and alola shouldn’t be too staggering for 3k?

[silver dirge]

Not really

[wide adder]

Oh that was quicker than I expected for alolas schedule to be Infographed. Bummer, no hint on newyear units with it from looks of it

Just noticed it’s already in pins

[manic kiln]

for some reasons there's no poison weak stage

[wide adder]

Is that the only missing type?

[old orchid]

thats not surprising actually. the first run of Alola CS didnt have Poison weak either

[manic kiln]

yeah usually we have enough slots for 17 types

4 weeks only + the mix of hala/molayne and kukui/hau so

[wide adder]

Alola didn’t have any wise/sentry shenanigans did it…?

[old orchid]

Electric weak Acerola has 1.5x boost on spdef

[silver dirge]

Wise Entry x2 at home

[main crow]

https://vxtwitter.com/absolutelypm/status/1729450397335724402?t=rowqF__iDe9sjq2CVCHdrQ&s=19

[old orchid]

the pin is already updated, but thanks anyway

[calm marsh]

No poison weak

[old orchid]

not enough slots smh

[plush tangle]

i sure wonder what psychic unit drops at the end of december

[old orchid]

it is still missing a Fire weak and a Grass weak stage too'

[main crow]

I always forget old messages can be edited like that now

[swift swan]

[main crow]

Second month of being Warden Ingo copium free

[trail smelt]

Ooh Alola, medium difficulty

[manic dust]

I'm relieved we're getting Alola next month to keep polishing our 3k skills instead of like...Kalos

[trail smelt]

Yeah baby steps haha. Don’t jump from easy straight to hard

[manic mica]

We good

1410 days in the game gets you a fucked up Dragon stage

[main crow]

Been a while since I used Silver

Got too many fire pair to rotate around

[rich needle]

I feel that

[full mesa]

I need to do something about flying type...

It's probably my weakest link

[dark osprey]

Blue, Kahili and eleSSa are decent

[rich needle]

Kahli what

[dark osprey]

There's two MFs which aren't that good and there's one seasonal that's great but rare because of it being seasonal

[potent wadi]

[rich needle]

That champion team is Uber overkill

[main crow]

I'll get my own Bulu soon

Just 6 more days

[dark osprey]

Was about the flying pairs we have right now

[swift swan]

SS Ethan is fine ontype come on y'all 😭

or just use Blue smh

[main crow]

SS Ethan can still handle 3k what is blud on about

[left storm]

https://vxtwitter.com/TALDYSJfJNLjkzP/status/1729441254474424483?t=sKxhRN7L1-wi79G8vhKDLw&s=19

[silver dirge]

yeah on-type pre sync is pretty breezy, even higher HP/strength. If you're offtyping with him at 4k pts or something then yeah, you'll have a tough time

[left storm]

New Lvl1 only clear yay

Offtype too

[civic trellis]

No water CS graph yet?

[swift swan]

doesn't look like it

[paper summit]

likely will take a bit more, since it's not as straightforward

[rich needle]

I mean

It’s only got one harsh gimmick stage yeah?

[twilit knot]

whats the next cs?

[paper summit]

[twilit knot]

[surreal forge]

Wait
Water stadium is 15k points?

[nocturne pawn]

yes

it has master mode unlocked by default

[surreal forge]

Like a hse event
But less painful

[olive aspen]

We have type stadiums?

I thought it was only the regional league themes

[mellow linden]

Every so often we get a special CS where all stages are weak to the same type

The Elite 4 are copy-pasted from the various regions while the Champion fight is new

[olive aspen]

Oh thats pretty nicee! Cant wait to try it. Thanks cobalt

[undone ether]

Who'd be the better tank for upcoming Hau (Dragon)?
V. Lorelei (2) or Argenta (1) ?

[mellow linden]

Which one is better depends mainly on the team you’re running

Either one will probably work fine if both provide what you’re looking for

[undone ether]

hum. guess its V.Lorelei

that Restoring Strike is nice

hum. this should do it for the next 2 weeks.

[mellow linden]

What purpose does NC Calem serve on an SS Steven team

Replacing him with Bianca is an instant upgrade

[undone ether]

oh right.

Anni May at 3 should suffice as well.

[mellow linden]

Yeah, any Psychic Terrain setter

Argenta and V. Lorelei serve little purpose when running SS Serena for a Dragon weak stage, you’d be better off replacing them with a crit and/or gauge Support + a Sp. Def. debuffer (Lucian and a crit buffer would be a great set of teammates, as an example)

[undone ether]

Argenta's a crit buffer, while V.Lorelei's a really solid gauge support

[mellow linden]

I guess since no other team would appreciate those 2 significantly more it’s fine, but do keep in mind that, being physical-oriented Supports, a lot of their kits don’t help SS Serena all that much when she’s being used against a Dragon weak stage since she’s entirely special damage outside of the single time she’d use Thousand Waves

So in future weeks you’d likely wanna use them elsewhere

[undone ether]

gotcha

thanks~

[weak sleet]

Do we have an image for the new special stadium?

[rotund lagoon]

No infographic yet, may be a while since this one has a lot to it

[weak sleet]

Why what is going on with this one?

[rotund lagoon]

I haven’t checked it that much so idk tbh

[weak sleet]

Oh

I hope they didn't actually change the 4 side pairs they were always so easy

[trail smelt]

Ready for next week whoo!

[sand karma]

Water cs infographic hasn't been made?

[silver dirge]

^

[paper summit]

if you don't see it pinned, then no

the info is on pomatools tho, so you can see it there

[grand trout]

Man

I hoped i could use emma this month for cs

[sand karma]

Alr8

[undone brook]

trying to build around nc red, can i get greedy and use red as a tank for cs and run double striker + glaceon?

[rotund lagoon]

Dana is not a bad choice.

[nocturne pawn]

i would run dana

[rotund lagoon]

Dude (meaning Red) cannot tank

[nocturne pawn]

for the extra master passive and seun access

[nocturne pawn]

as is the case with most strikers

[undone brook]

alr so something like glaceon dana and nc red?

[rotund lagoon]

That works!

[undone brook]

gotchaaaa

if i wanted to try something more budget sometime (for whatever reason), how functional is 2/5 summer steven compared to 1/5 ss n?

for 3k cs

[nocturne pawn]

both are kinda not great

but nc red carries so it’s whatever

[rotund lagoon]

I would not do any of them for 3k tbh, 2.5 is enough

[undone brook]

D: darn, good to know, thanks all!

ghetsis is sm fun tho

[rotund lagoon]

Ghetsis PB’d is fun, I agree.

Too bad you don’t have Irida Glaceon, she’s like his best partner

[undone brook]

i'd love to get her maybe someday but likeeeeeee

not a fav so it'd only be for power/fun factor

[keen jasper]

She's the best partner for all ice types, especially special ice damage dealers

[undone brook]

and i already have the rats + honorary rat so i'm not hurting for overkill

[rotund lagoon]

Nah it’s your preference anyway

You got Eevee egg, which is good too

[undone brook]

i can't believe they've been releasing eggmons with fields

[rotund lagoon]

Not long after the Paldea eggs, damn

[undone brook]

like paldea starters

yeahhhhh

it's wild

are the galar starters good?

[old orchid]

They are decent at best

For non CS questions, please head to #poma-questions

[dense birch]

Hello, looking to try and tackle CSHM Lv1, what units should I be building to get there? Would also appreciate if I could get any advice for future difficulties as well (e.g. CSMM)

I already did Bruno and Lance. So i got 6 units that are no longer useable

[tired sleet]

Is this your first time (do you have the medal)?

If so, you should focus on trying to get as many types as possible

[dense birch]

Yes first time

[tired sleet]

What units did you use for them?

[dense birch]

Sycamore/Xerneas, Rosa/Serperior, Skyla/Swanna, Serena/Greninja, Cyrus/Palkia, Leaf/Eevee

[tired sleet]

So Fairy, Grass, Flying, Water, Dragon, and Normal

[dense birch]

Was thinking to try Korrina/Lucario for Lorelei but unsure how to set up supports for her. Also not sure what to use for Agatha. I got no Ghost type, but Giovanni/Mewtwo has Shadow Ball

Otherwise does Gladion type changing count for Ghost medal? Lol

[tired sleet]

Gladion only counts as normal, its based off of the theme skill

[dense birch]

Ah i see

I will have SS Red/Charizard for one of them at least, so maybe I save him for champion?

I wonder if MC/Pikachu can work as Potion spam too

Also i somehow don’t have Torchic despite completing all of PML arc (both Normal and Hard)

[graceful path]

do i need to 150 my pair before trying to challenge elite 4?

[sharp willow]

No

150 is like, barely an increase over 140

And even that isnt a significant increase over 120.

[dense birch]

4* Agatha seems deece for a Ghost type? Probably gonna eat a lot of sync orbs but i have her at 4/5 and I am thinking of going for the nodes that increases her dmg when speed is increased, sp atk up on the speed up skill, and maybe raise sp atk on entry

[tired sleet]

It’d be easier using Giovanni or Shauntal if gridded

[dense birch]

Ok. I guess Giovanni it is

Seems like Blue is weak to Bug so I can probs Lusamine that one

[tired sleet]

In the event that you find that you can’t beat a stage, try using Poison Stall (bring a pair with Bad Poison and allies with defensive buffing/heals and let the Poison do the damage)

And try to use as many types as possible

[dense birch]

Hmmm ok. For Poison type I think I should probably up Drasna

I have her at 2/5 for some reason lol

Given that there are only 5 battles (which means a possible 15/18 types), how do I get the remainders?

[mellow linden]

Next week

Type medal progress is permanent for that region as long as you beat the Champion the week the progress is made

[dense birch]

Right. So theoretically that means it’s ok for me to re-use some types as long as I get them cleared out eventually?

[mellow linden]

Well, in this case you’ll start from scratch because the region changes next week, but when Kanto CS comes back the progress will be saved

[mellow linden]

Yeah, generally 9-12 different types is fine for week 1

[dense birch]

What does unlocking all the types do?

[mellow linden]

Unlocks Master Mode

[dense birch]

Oh i see

[mellow linden]

Which lets you add special parameters to get more rewards

[dense birch]

Ok cool. I’ll see what I can do for this week based on what I have then

Might just skip leveling Giovanni for now and see if I can take down Agatha with SS Red

[north crown]

you can also consider carrying a filler type by building the following team: OP Support, OP DPS, filler

almost an hour later, but ik that relatively newer players tend to stagnate more so here u go + for future reference

[dense birch]

I tried tanking Agatha with Lv100 Erika/Vileplume but it didn’t end up well haha

[north crown]

u trying to use all new types? that's gonna be rough since you used the best f2p options in the first half

[dense birch]

Hmmm i think my first priority should be to clear it first i reckon?

[north crown]

basically yeah. btw what round u on?

[dense birch]

First round i guess? I haven’t cleared CSHM before

[north crown]

wdym???

[dense birch]

Like did you mean first round of clearing CSHM? I’ve only beaten Bruno and Lance but I haven’t beaten the others

I still have to beat Lorelei, Agatha and Blue

I haven’t entered hall of fame yet

[north crown]

so that means you're on round 3

[dense birch]

Oh ok

[north crown]

oh thank god it's permanent field

we can do some crazy shenanigans with this parameter

[dense birch]

I’m planning out how to level new chars, and also to farm events. Seems like a pain splitting my energy between event and training area

[north crown]

yeah I understand that kind of fustration

well since Kanto isn't gonna come back in AT LEAST half a year, you should probably not focus on types so much.

For starters, we could start off with using a sun team for whatever stage you want. Since you seem pretty new, I'll build teams for you. While I do, lemme ask you this:

Do you know about teambuilding (101)?

[dense birch]

Beyond having a tank and a dps, not so much. I guess i feel like i want some kind of speed buffer and sometimes a healer

I kinda got lucky with the events and was able to mostly beat everything with SS Blue, Champ Serena, and Elaine/Eevee. Swapped Blue for Sycamore for the Kalos events. Extreme battles feels a lot harder than events even with a lower recommended level, so those are the only ones I haven’t touched yet

[north crown]

+101

[frozen depot]

> Teambuilding 101
Make sure you have done the Victory Road tutorial for an introduction to the game's teambuilding and gameplay.

1. When making a team, you usually want to focus building around a selected damage dealer that hits the stage's weakness (or not if they are strong enough to off-type). This can be a / striker or a tech. Take the time to read that damage dealer's kit in its entirety (moves and passives) to see what they can buff themselves. Critical-Hit Rate maxes at +3 while all other main buffs go to +6. Damage dealers should be in slot 3 for tactics.

2. Once you figured out your damage dealer, pick a to put on slot 1 in tactics so it takes the damage. The support will often want to cover the buffs the damage dealer needs and cannot max by themselves reliably (look for critical-hit rate, attack or special attack for example). If your damage dealer is fully self sustainable, the support can cover healing or defensive utility as needed!

3. Finally your last slot is entirely flexible and depends on your first two picks. You can take a tech focusing on utility like debuffs or weather/terrain that empowers your damage dealer, or another support that focuses on defenses and healing to survive longer, perhaps even boost gauge speed for demanding damaging moves. If your team allows it, you can even pick a second damage dealer! It's important to experiment and remember that a successful team will be able to manage gauge properly for triple queueing and buffing your damage dealer fast so they can focus on pumping out damage as soon as possible!

Want to know more about Triple-Queue and other information about the game? Visit our #1010307000346878062 or check the bot commands pinned in #bot-zone!

[dense birch]

I’ll need to read up on triple queueing

[north crown]

you can easily goto #1010307000346878062 for some of the basics like tri. queue

@dense birch What type do you feel more comfortable with? I need to decide this before I can proceed with more teambuilding.

actually lemme rephrase that:

What type do you want to do an ontype clear with: Fighting or Ghost?

[dense birch]

Fighting is preferable, i guess because i have a lv120 korrina (no sync grid though)

[north crown]

oh dang that's actually pretty good for a newer player

literally no one uses Korrina for some reason

[dense birch]

I remember trying to look up some resources early on and i think it was gamepress that suggested using korrina and hau as early game dps

So i leveled those two to 120 haha

[north crown]

just reminded myself that I was dumb

[dense birch]

LOL

I definitely went ham investing in a bunch of random units. Early on it was because i liked them from their OG games (e.g. Lv100 Erika/Vileplume)

I think i probably overinvested in SS Red as well at this stage. He’s like 135

[north crown]

eh he's good eearly game

[dense birch]

MC/Solgaleo is 125 too, i was originally planning to use it to try and ignore dmg reduction for the Hugh stage because i thought i didn’t have a debuffer, until i read Elaine…

[north crown]

not saying he's bad the more you play

SSRed is solid

[dense birch]

Ya i know he’s solid

But yeah at the moment i am thinking i will probably invest in Hop/Zamazenta for a tank slot

I think most guides also recommend Misty

[north crown]

@dense birch teambuilding fun

Round 3 - Perm Field: SSBlue, Giovanni, Volkner/filler (random dmg unit you want to use)

• Move Gauge Acceleration go brrrrr. I onnly suggested Volkner because of Perm Field parameter, tho he can be replaced.
  Round 4 - Phys Reduc: Elaine, Korrina/Solgaleo, Masked Royal (Incineroar)
• Standard team. Masked Royal provides so much, just wait and see.
  Round 5 - Stat Cond+Perm Field: Lyra, SSRed, Blaine
• Sun team go brrrrr + Nice survivability with Light Screen

[north crown]

yeah she's tanky, esp SPDefensively, and has an evasion kit w/ chances to heal on miss

[dense birch]

Thanks! I will have to level Giovanni and Blaine

[north crown]

just level them enough for them to deal damage/live long enough

especially Blaine. he's just there to set up sun

[dense birch]

Ok i will try them at 100 first. Blaine I can try for lower

[nocturne pawn]

she has healing on tm

[north crown]

*grad healing

[dense birch]

Not sure if Lyra can tank Blue? Her defenses seem a bit weak

[north crown]

ACTUALLY SHE DOES HAVE INSTA HEAL ON TM, ALBEIT WITH GRID

oop caps

[north crown]

thsi is why I chose perm field. light screen blocks a noticeable amount of damage

• SSRed has p good damage overall so

[dense birch]

Hmmm ok

I will try it out

[steel kelp]

Lyra folds to anything physical

Or really anything

[north crown]

make sure you choose perm field when u get there

[dense birch]

Ok

[north crown]

man I love abusing the permanent field parameter

[keen jasper]

Grass-weak with Unflappable when

[north crown]

no interferences option:

[keen jasper]

I want DeNA to make Lyrabi players sad when trying to solo that grass-weak stage

[north crown]

bro they alraedy did this when they made her specific EBE

that stage can't be easily cheesed with her flinches

[keen jasper]

Then make more stages where she can't flinch cheese

[olive aspen]

Any evident hole in these comps against those targets?

(Besides blue and red on agatha hahah)

[north crown]

seems obvious enough, but this is for this week right? hard mode or mm?

[olive aspen]

Yess master mode this week

So Ive hit 11k before, and have settled for 10k which feels easy enough but gonna need at least 11k this week to guarantee an EX without master mode next week

[north crown]

I just want to say that all of these teams looks janky af

[olive aspen]

Lmao I can imagine tbh

[north crown]

lance: cyrus is self sufficient so why is rosa and leaf there?

[steel kelp]

What’s the SS hilda and n doing together

[nocturne pawn]

hilbert really doesnt belong on that team ss blue is not a fast buffer

[north crown]

blue is... ok...?

[steel kelp]

Along with hilbert

Hilda literally does everything by herself

[north crown]

Lorelei seemed decent, tho that team can and will be slow to play

[olive aspen]

Going kinda unga bunga so thats why I wanna see some opinions like that for more general knowledge on proper team building

[north crown]

I don't see that Korrina team presyncing

[olive aspen]

You think?

[nocturne pawn]

what is the point of korrina

[olive aspen]

Yeah not enough dmg

[nocturne pawn]

do you not have a 3/5 bea

[steel kelp]

It’s korrina

[north crown]

damage

[olive aspen]

Korrina is my only fighting striker lmao

[steel kelp]

She’s like bottom of the barrel

[olive aspen]

Maybe its better of type with someone like blue

[nocturne pawn]

just off type honestly

korrina is not good

[nocturne pawn]

ehh

[steel kelp]

Use SS n or SS hilda

[nocturne pawn]

hurricane is 70% even with max accuracy it’ll suck

[olive aspen]

Aw I love lucario ;’) cynthia when

Blue kinda gets accuracy with grids no? I rarely miss those hurricanes

For CS uses he has been a reliable off type sometimes (2k+ at least)

[olive aspen]

And then a another support instead like a healer maybe

[north crown]

Solgaleo Focus Blast:

[olive aspen]

Oh but lorelei is another case with her evasion

[olive aspen]

And lmao even that is better? XD

[north crown]

xd...? bro actually has a damage multiplier even without pboost

u can run ssblue, solgaleo, spdef debuffer

you also don't have to worry about Lorelei

[olive aspen]

Lucian?

And can SS leaf basically check lorelei even at 1/5?

[north crown]

oh wow that works. u can replace ssblue with a full crit buffer if u want to do that since lucian carries debuffs and gauge

[north crown]

also as I was saying here, u don't have to worry about Lorelei's evasion since.. GUESS WHAT? SOLGALEO HAS MAX ACC BUFFS!!

[olive aspen]

Ahhhh

I really like solgaleo so its nice to actually make a team with them

[north crown]

u will want to grid Solgaleo for at least beainteaser, and maybe sharp entry 1 if you're running a +2 crit buffer support

[olive aspen]

I see

[pearl shale]

I did it guys

For the first time ever I beaten a 3k point stage

[north crown]

@pearl shale mind telling us (me) the team?

[pearl shale]

NC Blue, NC Serena and May Swampert

On Bruno

[north crown]

ok nvm that's basically baby mode

[dense birch]

Just wanted to say thank you for the help! I just managed to get it done, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to use the exact teams

[grand trout]

What alola stage has the poison usually

[dense birch]

Used MC/Pikachu instead of Volkner because I needed potions. And ended up doing Shauna/Chesnaught, SSRed/Charizard, Viola/Masquerain for Blue

12/18 types down now

[toxic cobalt]

MC Pikachu represent

[north crown]

damn this is the first time I've seen a newer player acknowledge that Haymaker exists on SSRed's grid

[trail smelt]

Old players relied on it a lot lol

Only reason I beat one speed challenge

[hushed sorrel]

O they have 3/5 ss red already? Pro

[dense birch]

2/5 red, but not enough sync orbs anyway lmao

[keen jasper]

Hmmmmm, did we have a Wise Entry x2 dragon-weak stage yet?

[swift swan]

nope

[main crow]

it'll come with Paldea CS trust

[olive aspen]

No way I beat lance at 2900 with this lmao

Whoever said N wasn’t a good dragon dps (copium but I love to use him any opportunity)

And its only 2/5. Lucked out with not getting confused before dragonite was gone tbh

[rigid flint]

Remind me but does N have lessen confusion at 2/5

Cos that’s an impressive clear tbh

[silver dirge]

I don't think he ever has Lessen Confusion does he?

[cinder summit]

:information_source: | No passive found with that name

[silver dirge]

[rigid flint]

Oh what I swear he does

[silver dirge]

Ohh clearheaded

at 3/5

[rigid flint]

Yeahhh

I was sure he had some sort of confusion related passive

He does have confusion boon 3 but I doubt anyone would use that

[silver dirge]

Smh

[olive aspen]

yeahh at 3/5 he doesnt get confused anymore

I used the outrage power tiles and the power up while confused you get at 2/5

but another big thing was greninja lowering the sync count with both grids (the pinch one and the TM one)

did like 4 syncs overall lmao. That ramped up outrage dmg a lot. Like 5 hits for dragonite and 2 for each side

Im doing bruno now, but I can take it easier with points on this one thanks to lance's. For some reason I find bruno the hardest (can Cyrus work?)

[swift swan]

yes absolutely

[olive aspen]

Well ended up doing my first 12,500 and now can guarantee an EX next week even without master mode

[full mesa]

Good. Keep it up. Probably by the second half of unova you'll be able to start hitting 15k.

[reef sierra]

woo just did my first 15k tho it probably was overkill on some parts

[mellow linden]

If it works it works, worst case scenario you might want to adjust teams next time around

[reef sierra]

I mean like I used NC Calem and Serena with SS Lysandre on bruno is that too much?

I had a hard time with lorelei because she loves spamming Hypervoice and i was using rei and bea which was 4 gauges lol

[silver dirge]

If it cleared the stage & you didn't need those units elsewhere, what's the issue?

[reef sierra]

fair couldve used calem on lorelei for the team sturdy thing

[full mesa]

It's ok. It doesn't matter as long as it's a win. The more you play and advance your account the more you'll learn to manage your resources based on each week's difficulty.

[nocturne pawn]

im not excited for sinnoh 3k

2.5k lucian was one of the hardest things ive ever done

[paper summit]

you are in for a treat, since the water stadium has both Flint and Malva to give us a taste of 3k Sinnoh and Kalos

granted water in general is somewhat easy mode

[hushed sorrel]

Nothing a masterfair can’t fix 😂

[old orchid]

But can Anni Steven fix himself?

[undone ether]

Do we have the upcoming pasio stadium stuff yet? :o?

[rotund lagoon]

You can check the pastebin, infographic has not been made yet

[dark osprey]

Also on pomatools

Wonder how C Leaf sets sun on the pasio stadium battle

[old orchid]

The side Ninetales has Sunburst

[paper summit]

she doesn't, it's the Beauty's Ninetales that does

you just replace it with rain and be done with it since it's only once

[undone ether]

ou thanks

haha. pain.

[hushed sorrel]

all water weak?

[old orchid]

Yes

[hushed sorrel]

O so there is actually a use for all the water units I pull 😂

[undone ether]

you can off-type if you are lacking water nuke

[undone ether]

hum. i'll work on this later i guess.

[nocturne pawn]

seems like only flint and maybe leaf would actually be trouble

feels like leaf is meant for vlyra

since i dont think anyone else has consistent spdef drops

[undone ether]

NC Serena is solid for NC Leaf

but that leaves you open for Flint's stacking of stats.

he's got rising tide AND Good Form

the rest of them except Malva is doable.

it'll also depend on round params as well

[dark osprey]

Ss Misty's probably for flint

[silver dirge]

Is it this reset?

Nvm it's like 20 days away

[undone ether]

haze huh

could work

[olive aspen]

Seems like I need more water dps

[old orchid]

Seems like you want to offtype and poison stall instead

[undone ether]

Oh i can use ball guy for flint hum

[hushed sorrel]

There is also… nc leaf… nc blue… plenty of gosu Debuff choice 😂

[mortal pine]

easy lance

don’t ask why i brought a level 1 4* it was just for the medal

[keen silo]

Gj

[versed meteor]

Well nc red for any evasion strat form now on

[sick inlet]

No

[old orchid]

[silver dirge]

Rosa will fix him

[wide adder]

Starting to decide my stuff for water cs, other than my three exs anyone I should consider trying for dps/nuke or should I just be lazy and do two offtypes

[manic mica]

Are these really all your waters

[wide adder]

All water strike/tech

[manic mica]

Rain setters?

[wide adder]

Plenty (haven’t evolved vaporeon yet)

[manic mica]

Hmm well

Kris Nessa Calem

Should work out fine

Maybe even Silver?

I see you have both frogs which could also carry the stage for you

[wide adder]

I’m figuring out my dps to start. This is for water pasio planning.

Which means five water teams

[manic mica]

Water cs yeah

[old orchid]

dont ignore Cyrus too

[manic mica]

Oh high score event

You said CS

[wide adder]

Not high score it’s pasio cs

Later this month

[manic mica]

Oh

It's water

[wide adder]

We all had water hse

[manic mica]

It's easy

[wide adder]

So Serena, Kris, Grimss, Cyrus, Gladion for my five dps maybe?

[manic mica]

Basically

[old orchid]

i would use Nessa instead of Gladion

she is better than him regardless of move level

May is good with Cyrus because of Water sync

[manic mica]

Use a Gyarados

[undone ether]

You can off-type if you can't clear with them.

[old orchid]

their Water roster is really good, no reason to do offtype unless they want to challenge themselves

i doubt they will struggle at all

[north crown]

siebold's ontype sync nuke is respectable for one of the easier cs stages

same with barry

bro can ontype dps with alot of these pairs actually

[hushed sorrel]

Do you think it's possible to duo Lance with Zinnia? Can't seem to do it

[mellow linden]

Would probably need to run SS Kris for the combination of weather + big offense boosting

If it's possible

SS Acerola could also maybe function as the Support for Outrage Zinnia if duoing is even possible

But Zinnia's damage is probably just low enough that you need a weather Support with stacked offensive boosting to duo

Duoing doesn't make any difference in rewards though, so I wouldn't bother unless you really wanna have that kind of challenge run

[hushed sorrel]

Tried ss kris can't survive lol

Need ss morty for defense

But not enough dmg

Might try NC Leaf

[old orchid]

have fun with Eagle Eye

the only source of crit

[hushed sorrel]

Well if we don't challenge ourselves in this game, then it gets boring real fast haha we are just really piling up resource

[mellow linden]

Whatever floats your boat, I guess

Also no need to ping

[toxic cobalt]

True gaming

[nocturne pawn]

on aerial ace no less

[hushed sorrel]

I may as well set the params for Nc leaf and make zinnia support 😂

[hushed sorrel]

I give up on this zinnia duo pursuit prob better time spent in LG lol

[rose ermine]

I really hope alola 3k isn't too bad

[silver dirge]

shouldn't be a problem for those teams

[trail smelt]

Why censor the Villa team of Lucian, SSSteven, and KriSS?

[undone ether]

https://fxtwitter.com/absolutelypm/status/1730897778145194242

So May for Shauntal huh

[dense birch]

Is that the champion stadium rotation after the next one? Will it be the same for Hard Mode too?

[undone ether]

Yeah next week for Alola Rotation

if this is your first Alola Stadium, you wont have access to Master Mode from the get go, you have to clear the Type Medal for Alola

[silver dirge]

I believe they're asking about the infographic you just posted, for Pasio CS

[dense birch]

Yeah that point stadium stuff where everyone is weak to water

[silver dirge]

It's a special stadium event starting in 2weeks or so. Works the same as regular CS so you'll have both hard & master mode for it, the gimmick is just that it combines several stages from different regions of the same weakness

E.g. Water weak flint from Sinnoh, water weak Malva from Kalos etc

[dense birch]

Oh i see. I should be leveling some water damage dealers for it yes?

[silver dirge]

The champion is a new stage with a certain neo champion, it's Leaf this time

You can off-type it too, but ofcourse water types will be easier

[dense birch]

Currently only have serena/greninja for water dps haha

[silver dirge]

Have you attempted regular CS yet?

Ah

[dense birch]

I have just cleared the kanto one

[silver dirge]

On hard mode?

or master mode?

[dense birch]

Hard mode

Still got 6 types to go

[silver dirge]

Right you'll have to wait til Kanto CS is up again because it's changing to Alola from next week

[dense birch]

Yeah

[silver dirge]

You should be able to get Alola's medal tho in 2 weeks, then you can start attempting master mode

[dense birch]

Maybe kris/totodile might not be bad. Barry/piplup i heard is good for budget too. And i heard ss misty/vaporeon is bad sadly

I’m hoping i can get the 18 alola medals over the 2 weeks!

[silver dirge]

At 1/5 Kris is going to need a lot of hand holding too unfortunately

[dense birch]

Oooft. Pray i can get through with off-types then

[silver dirge]

You may want to off-type or poison stall some stages, but if it's just hard mode then it shouldn't be too difficult either way

[dense birch]

I am hoping that will be the case

[old orchid]

Dont forget about Cyrus!

He has the best dps (Hydro Pump) among accessible options

[main crow]

Oh easy Kris for NC Leaf lol

[undone ether]

u going for presync?

[dense birch]

Oh true cyrus

[main crow]

Hmm should be possible

[silver dirge]

PB Kris can definitely handle it

[trail smelt]

Oh right I should recreate my old water HSE team for the special stadium

[trail smelt]

Probably gonna regret these teams but oh well

[undone ether]

Is that a 3/5 V.Lyra? o.o?

[trail smelt]

Nah just 1/5

Got her from the free eevee tix

[undone ether]

NC Leaf gains power if she has SP.DEF+ (Sync move and Sync Damage) so perfect for V.Lyra

Flint has Rising Tide and Good Form so uh... i think NC Serena's better for Flint + an Impervious Tank.

[trail smelt]

Ah ok thanks

[silver dirge]

Don't need to worry about Rising Tide if you just pre-sync, nor Good Form tbh

[undone ether]

Malva has Sunny Passives + Go Viral Burn so, SS Kris is perfect for her.

[swift swan]

if i had a nickel for every time a water-weak fire stage is centered around VLyra this past two months, I'd have two nickels, which is not much but it's weird that they're promoting her so much what the hell

[silver dirge]

Who is VLyra? I only know Water Shuriken: Rainy Mind-Blowing Strike 2

[trail smelt]

Wait what does KriSS do against burn

[old orchid]

she has Flameproof on grid, but you can just bring a rain setter and clear the stage before WoW

[silver dirge]

She has flameproof but Malva sets sun

So rain

[trail smelt]

Oh never saw that flameproof on the grid LMAO

[silver dirge]

That's pre much only relevant for post sync

Which is lame

[trail smelt]

… dangit I just remembered this special CS is gonna be 3k

[nocturne pawn]

yeppp

3k flint

what fun

[devout sluice]

Ya I’m not gonna enjoy flint.

Every time flint is seen, I just, wait for clears or try to stall.

[old orchid]

Flint as the boss vs. playable Flint

[undone ether]

you can definitely run stall with Ball Guy

[devout sluice]

Lack him.

[silver dirge]

You can run stall with any of the relevant units

BP Morty, Lucy, Janine. There you go

[old orchid]

Janine Fire weak so hype

[nocturne pawn]

oleana not weak to fire

stonks

[undone ether]

ooof. just be sure you have a stat debuffer for Flint though.

[old orchid]

Oleana better using in an offensive team

:stink:

[silver dirge]

Stop being weak to fire then

[nocturne pawn]

well off type oleana at 1/5 isnt that impressive

[old orchid]

she is the enabler tho

Emma sweeping ftw

[silver dirge]

Emma supremacy so true

[old orchid]

thats the only thing we both agree on

[nocturne pawn]

i dont have emma

[old orchid]

[silver dirge]

Real

If only you had better opinions

[nocturne pawn]

wdym L ss diantha forced me to pity 😭

[old orchid]

[nocturne pawn]

i wanted emma a lot cuz my poison was struggling but i had no gems

[silver dirge]

Emma is nuts for sure

[nocturne pawn]

well oleana is also nice

[old orchid]

Tech Nidoqueen is also nice

[silver dirge]

[old orchid]

for Janine's place

Arch you were too fast

[silver dirge]

You were too slow

[onyx ice]

Wanted to try Hugh with NC Nate support

[untold bridge]

Struggling to use skippingmud’s clear for Lance this week I have the exact grids for everything
Lodge Blue just can’t tank anything… I really want to use this team especially with Glaceon

Am I going to have to grind skill gear 😭

[silver dirge]

3k points?

Might be a parameter issue

[left storm]

Weird team option

And composition

Frfr

[silver dirge]

it should still work

[dark osprey]

Guess it's flinch based with offensive parameters

[untold bridge]

N’s Freeze Shock sync countdown + flinch strat

If this doesn’t work can anyone recommend me a team? I have SS Leon, Battle Tower Leon, Raihan/Flygon, & a few others let me see

[dark osprey]

Any reason you're offtyping here?

The others would be easily able to clear on type

[untold bridge]

I guess I just wanted to try Glaceon this week I don’t think I should off type without skill gear at least

[silver dirge]

Skill gear is pretty min-max, you should be able to clear w/out it pretty smoothly

[left storm]

Glaceon + BP Candice can probably clear more easily

Just because you gain 100 points from Phys 8 and can run debuff glaceon

[manic mica]

help me with 3k csmm im using sc diantha argenta and wally

they keep dodging my attacks

and diantha doesnt do enough damage

[left storm]

Spam aura sphere on mid

[keen jasper]

You need an accuracy buffer for Lorelei

[keen jasper]

What?

[left storm]

Then sync nuke mid

No risk of missing that way

[keen jasper]

Doesn't that just increase Lorelei's evasion?

[left storm]

Yes but aura sphere can't miss

And once at -3 stats sync just kills

Usually

That's how I did it with chop too, just buddy into sync

As long as you can turn denial or just sync twice before her, it's a W

[manic mica]

i do sync on mid

but it doesnt do enough damage

[frail tiger]

What parameters did you select?

[left storm]

Sounds like a parameter issue

[manic mica]

HP ones

and defense

[spring fjord]

Well see?

That's why they don't take damage

[manic mica]

what

[left storm]

You're supposed to run STR or hp + atk

[dusty crater]

don't increase defense.

defense just makes you take more damage in the long run

[left storm]

Defence increase is not worth the few points it gives

300 points for +80% defences lol

[manic mica]

but if i take strength or atk then they do too much damage

[frail tiger]

Defensive parameters is good for poison stall tactics, otherwise you are killing yourself

[manic mica]

my tank dies

[left storm]

Tank dying is fine if you can kill stage anyway

And tbh, tank shouldn't die too hard to Lorelei

[manic mica]

ok i will try it

[left storm]

Her moves aren't remotely strong aside maybe dragonpulse

[dusty crater]

what units are you using

[manic mica]

thanks

[dusty crater]

i need to see exactly what you're using here to see what's the strat you're using.

[manic mica]

@dusty crater

[dusty crater]

wait, why wally?

[manic mica]

fighting type

[keen jasper]

Why not run double support and focus on SC Diantha?

[manic mica]

she doesnt do enough damage so i put wally but he doesnt either

[dusty crater]

because of your params

you have too much defense

[keen jasper]

Did you have Special Damage Reduction parameter active?

[manic mica]

no only standard daamge reduction

[versed meteor]

So 3k special stadium too?

[manic mica]

ok

i will try without

[dusty crater]

if you need help, I will go out of my way to make a team for you too.

and record it

[keen jasper]

Too much defense parameters is significantly worse than your tank immediately dying

[dusty crater]

but it can be done with SCDiantha easily

[manic mica]

ok

[dusty crater]

what Move Level is everyone?

[keen jasper]

I know that their SC Diantha is 5/5

[dusty crater]

bruh....

HOW

did you work on their sync grid?

because if not, that explains eveything

[manic mica]

5 sync level diantha

[keen jasper]

Did you grid SC Diantha?

[manic mica]

1 sync level argenta

[manic mica]

i just use my old grid

5 sync level wally

[keen jasper]

What's the build?

[frail tiger]

Can you show us your grid

[manic mica]

how

[dusty crater]

oh i read that as 1 synv level diantha

[keen jasper]

Screenshot or PoMa Tools

[manic mica]

Send a screenshot