Champion Stadium

[lunar meadow]

Makes his sync damage much higher. If you speed is upped

[crystal quartz]

I CANT BEAT LUCIAN

THEY SYNC MOVE THEN EARTHQUAKE AND It killes selene

[mellow linden]

Did you beat Aaron?

[crystal quartz]

No

[mellow linden]

Try and see if you can beat someone other than Lucian for Round 2 then, the fact that your best Ghost option for the fight is Selene means the faster Sync Move is a more significant difficulty spike against Lucian than it is against anyone else

[crystal quartz]

I tried Aaron a bunch

And flint

I never tried cyrus against flint

[mellow linden]

Who did you replace Piers with on the Nessa team?

[crystal quartz]

I dont remember

That team is gone

I used up piers

For bertha

[crystal quartz]

Who is the easiest one

[mellow linden]

It really depends on the team(s)

Anyway, try a Nessa team against Flint, and make sure to use Jaw Lock before Nessa Syncs (and that her Attack and crit are maxed by the time she Syncs)

And make sure you’re triple queueing

[rotund lagoon]

Btw to see who you used so far, go to your edit team screen while at the CS stage, and scroll to the bottom. You will see a Ø on the pairs used.

[crystal quartz]

I know that

[crystal quartz]

Who do I use on nessa team?

[mellow linden]

A Support who can buff Attack and critical rate reliably and quickly (so +2 Attack and +1 critical rate per use on a 2 use or more move) at minimum. The 3rd team member doesn’t matter a ton, but Rain or Defense debuffs would be ideal

[rotund lagoon]

Ok I was just offering since you said you didn’t remember ^^;

[full mesa]

Not gonna lie, Cynthia was tricky.

[carmine sinew]

Looking for help in clearing the remaining 3 champs on Hard, I defeated Aaron but kinda wasted some great units (SST Red/SS Blue/Serena.Delphox) since I thought I could reset whenever Here are my units, any team recommendations?

https://imgur.com/a/v1FyOkL

[verbal karma]

Which opponent is the least risky for R2 this time?

[north crown]

who did you beat with the "OP" team?

[north crown]

your most OP team

[verbal karma]

I said opponent

[carmine sinew]

Aaron

[north crown]

opponent doesn't really matter for half sync

ok thank god you beat a relatively difficult stage

[sharp willow]

none of them really get particularly stronger by syncing

i went for Aaron so the heal order came earlier and i didnt need to worry about him undoing a significant amount of progress

[north crown]

wow that's actually smart

[sharp willow]

thank you, i have my moments

[north crown]

I would have wanted to use that strat.. if I didn't favor pre sync

[sharp willow]

yeah im more of a post-sync person so i figured that would work nicely

[peak stirrup]

Would BP Valerie or Mina be better vs Cynthia? Or both?

[sharp willow]

i'd go Valerie, stronger in general plus she has accuracy buffs on her TM

[crystal quartz]

If I cant even beat the champion stadium with a bunch of 5 stars meanwhile everyone else can do it and says that there is no grinding needed them Im never gonna be good at this game

[north crown]

Honestly depends (If you want supports to sync, roster/unit availability, whatever)

what's your current plan for this? Hard Mode or MM?

[peak stirrup]

MM 3k

Tried with Wally and Hilbert for Atk crit and fairy wish but didn’t go well

[north crown]

ah yeah Hilbert isn't that tanky

You should consider a more bulky, atk buffer as Mina has crit buffs in her grid. She can still spam Charm and TM 3 times for max nuking capibilities

[peak stirrup]

Already use SS Acerola but could use Sonia or hop

[manic mica]

Finally I finished my type badge

[rain turret]

can ss red 1/5 do 3k on aaron?

[north crown]

Perhaps if you use his Special Max Move after sync 2 on pre-sync params..?

Actually that's a bad idea cuz Aaron has heal order 💀

uhhhhhhhh just bring Hau

crit buffer, Hau, SSTRed ez w

[rain turret]

you talking about hau and raichu,right?

[north crown]

yeh

unless you do have SSHau, cuz if you do, Aaron should be free 3k

[mellow linden]

While by this point this advice is probably not gonna have an immediate impact, half-Sync Rounds are usually far more dependent on the power level of the teams you're using for that week rather than the opponent you're facing

For example, despite Aaron arguably being the least threatening in terms of post-Syncing, I didn't pick him for my half-Sync Round because the team I ran (Lodge Elesa + SS Elesa + C. Elesa) works better when I have more time for C. Elesa to set up Power Play

[north crown]

That's what I've been trying to say the entire time

[mellow linden]

And the team I ran for Lucian (Festival Hilda + SS Korrina + SSR Cynthia) is much more adept at throwing out high damage very quickly, so I chose Lucian for my Round 2 this week

[wide adder]

Is sstred Gilbert and ncblue good for the electric stage? Or should I replace red with something else?

[mellow linden]

Should be fine, SS Hilbert under Electric Terrain will shred and SST Red at worst helps with cleanup duty

[north crown]

Origin Volt Tackle also synergizes with SSHilbert via SpDef debuffs

[wide adder]

Now I just need my ghost team on r4… ssrc I assume should get used… cause it’s wise x2 right

[steel kelp]

I’m so tired I keep forgetting hilbert can just destroy like 5 types

[mellow linden]

If you can record your gameplay for a given stage it'll help with pinpointing ways you can improve your chances of success for that stage

[steel kelp]

Hold

[wide adder]

Yeah he’s so useful on cs lol

[mellow linden]

The more information about what's going on that we have, the better the advice we can give

[steel kelp]

Surely I can dual dps with him and n for ice Bertha

[wide adder]

89k on max strength just now

For my electric team post blue sync

3 rebuff and like ~-4 spdef or so

[steel kelp]

Damn wish I did that and I have nc blue too

But I had celesa so it was free anyway

[wide adder]

Think I’m gonna try dual striking with Selene

Me wishing chcalem buffed speed:

My minds drawing a big fat blank for fast atk speed buffs other than hilbert in my box lmao I already used hilbert this week

My limited supports are so skewed for special

[dark osprey]

Might as well try regular Morty for phantom and shadow force memes

Support could be anyone that buffs attack then

[wide adder]

I’m low key surprised Selene kiawe worked with 1/5 ssrc

[dark osprey]

With the sync buff it should

[wide adder]

Considering I just left on my 12 str 8 hp

I expected to have a bit of a problem

Sooo which param helps SuMarnie the most at 1/5

Prob gonna be doing SuMarnie sylveon ncrosa

[old orchid]

R4

[wide adder]

Thanks

[peak stirrup]

Wow Mina sync did nothing at at -6 Atk

[old orchid]

How much did her sync do?

If its too low its probably parameter issue

[peak stirrup]

3k

Parameters are correct

[old orchid]

Could you send the parameters? 3k is way too low

Also no need to ping me

[peak stirrup]

Pics or a list?

[old orchid]

The params are fine. It seems the sync was not a crit

[peak stirrup]

3k won’t crit to 10k

[old orchid]

Try again then

[peak stirrup]

SEUN sync hit 4.4k

[mellow linden]

That’s definitely failure to crit or something

[peak stirrup]

I have +3 but I know sync has innate failure

[mellow linden]

Yeah, innate -1 crit rate. It happens

[peak stirrup]

I could bring an auto crit like Lillie

[mellow linden]

Assuming proper grid it’s just a reset and hope you don’t hit that 20% chance a second time, tbh

What’s the team, btw?

[peak stirrup]

Hop SC Jasmine

[mellow linden]

I assume you mean Holiday Jasmine

[peak stirrup]

Oh yeah

I forgot about her celsteela pair

Considering that event never re ran

[mellow linden]

That event reran at least once

But regardless, it’s just a matter of RNG being RNG sometimes and messing up your Sync nuke with failure to crit

It happens, resets are a fact of life when it comes to CS

[peak stirrup]

Even crit not even 10k

[mellow linden]

What potential is your Mina at and what’s her grid?

It should definitely be doing more with a properly invested Mina

[peak stirrup]

5/5 but not EX

I took build from sparks doc

[mellow linden]

Her Sync should really be doing more then. Could you record a run so we can see what might be happening?

[peak stirrup]

I can try but usually file is too big to upload to discord

[mellow linden]

Can try uploading to a site like YouTube and linking that if need be

[peak stirrup]

I finally cleared because comforting light from Jasmine gives endure. Otherwise I lose.
And Jasmine has passive endure. So I survived 2 hits I shouldn’t have

[nocturne pawn]

fairy weak cynthia is extremely mean

hits hard at base has evasion hax and wise entry x2

[trail smelt]

I know right lol

Also almost made me cave and try to pull for NY Lisia at 0,33% chance of drawing her LMAO

Without pity

[lean lion]

I have to say, I learn so much just by going over your discussions with other advice seekers. The vets of this game are amazing.

[crystal notch]

What the

Do not

Cynthia is very much off typable

[paper summit]

it really is fascinating to see the BP Valerie erasure in this channel

[steel kelp]

There is no bp Valerie

She can’t hurt you

[nocturne pawn]

i always recommend her

but like

she didnt come out until like after a year sinnoh cs first happened

[crystal notch]

I don't do on type f2p fairy 3k when I have favs I can offtype with my built but sad mina in the bg, and I don't even have bp valerie

[nocturne pawn]

it was for summer marnie

[paper summit]

that is true, but it's not the case anymore, she exists and she is good, so I'm not gonna tell anyone to go use Mina when Valerie is so much simpler to use

or you can use both if you want or whatever, but she should be a consideration to get when you have a ticket to exchange

[toxic cobalt]

Mina erasue?

[steel kelp]

Who’s Mina

[nocturne pawn]

minawho

[paper summit]

that's fine, if you actually have the ability to comfortably off type, it's different when people are stubborn and go with self imposed ridiculous restrictions and then proceed to suffer and complain

[crystal notch]

Lmao true

[dense birch]

planning for next week's CS - seems like Lucian doesn't have Wise Entry/Satisfying Snarl anymore?

the 2 additional guys also have no skills

also since it's Dragon-weak Cynthia next week, is it just going to be the same as Week 1's Cynthia?

also weather and terrain are 2 different things right? e.g. if i use Courtney/Camerupt for Aaron, and it says he has Clear Power-Up/Sync-Up 5, it means i need to use Rain/Sun/Sand/Hail instead of just Ground Wish

[toxic cobalt]

Cynthia is the same
Weather and terrain are different, but sometimes things affect both. I believe clear power up requires weather specficially.

[dense birch]

mmm ok

[noble plaza]

Is this good enough for Flint?

[old orchid]

Use a better tank than Hilbert

[grand trout]

Bertha steel weak has sentrt entry right?

[swift swan]

wise entry x3, and only the sides

it's glacia steel-weak that has sentry entry x2

[grand trout]

Ooh okay

So rose will be good for her

[dark osprey]

Rose will be very good

[grand trout]

Assuming he gets to 4 gauge

[dark osprey]

Yeah. Need to manage gauge and hopefully you can finish with Max move before your second sync to manage head start on Bertha

[grand trout]

Oh ..m

[dark osprey]

Or can just nuke with kimono Grimsley if you have him and if possible add rose as well

[grand trout]

I use max moves at the start usually so that i don't get ruined by quad queue lol

[grand trout]

While krimsley is certainly powerful, I'd rather use someone who can nuke everyone rather than a single target

[dark osprey]

Head start Bertha usually does not allow you to second sync without turn skips

You could use Grimsley for centre and Rose for the sides

Both are quite slow but could find a way

[silver dirge]

Bring a good gauge support with the two

[grand trout]

Hop has adrenaline right

[silver dirge]

Doesn't matter, Bertha has Head Start 1. You would need -3 CD to 2nd sync before her

Or much easier would just be any form of turn denial

[north crown]

AKA Rose:

[silver dirge]

Yeah it should be a cakewalk with Rose

[grand trout]

Rose can turn deny?

[dark osprey]

Adrenaline gets rid of one on the sync countdown. If you're denying the left after Hops EX sync, you would skip a whole -3

[silver dirge]

KO

A side

[north crown]

use max move last or something

[grand trout]

I'll just wing it next week lol

If all else fails, i have countdown reducers like red

[dark osprey]

I mean Roses max move after the EX support sync should act like the second sync either ways

[grand trout]

True as it's aoe

Either way i think I'll bring red anyways, been a while

[silver dirge]

RedLax? Rip your gauges

[grand trout]

I'll bring rose, red, and something for gauge

[vast dome]

Noob question: best order?

[toxic cobalt]

Whatever order allow you to beat round 2

[vast dome]

OK

[vast dome]

My teams are as follows:
Aaron - Hau, Volkner, SC Jasmine (All EX)
Bertha - Brendan, Lyra, SS Morty (All EX)
Flint - Dojo Gloria, SS Misty, SS Blue (SS Misty not EX)
Lucian - SSR Cynthia, Dojo Korrina, BP Morty (SSR EX)

Anything I should change?

[old orchid]

Replace Lyra with a grass terrain setter. She does nothing useful there

I would replace SS Misty with a rain setter, especially if Gloria is below 3/5

The rest is good enough, you should plan for Champion stage ahead as well

[vast dome]

OK, I have egg Leafeon

And Gloria is 3/5

Fairy is physical

I don't have any strong physical fairy pairs

so imma go with

[old orchid]

You dont have BP Valerie?

[vast dome]

Diantha, Bede, Sycamore (All EX)

[vast dome]

I do

[old orchid]

Use her then

[vast dome]

ok

[old orchid]

Bring egg Sylveon for zone as well, if you have it

[vast dome]

ok

[tulip python]

30 mins of trying to clear Cynthia

And I followed a meme squad

How did they work

Nate is better than I thought for physical

I need to figure out better parameters for these max clears

[silver dirge]

I mean that's not really a meme, it's Nate & one of his best partners with a tank

[tulip python]

Why are all of the winning ones with HP+20

[tulip python]

My tank died in like 3 hits

[silver dirge]

That's long enough for em to clear

[tulip python]

True

Not even red and Articuno could do it as easy

But I guess the physical damage bonus her stage gets

[paper summit]

that's not a bonus, fairy weak Cynthia nerfs special damage, it's not the same thing

[tulip python]

Ah.

Also, what fairy types would I have used, considering Rapidash and Gardevoir die on the first sync

[old orchid]

Keep them and change your parameters

[verbal karma]

so Aaron is the least dangerous one for R2, yeah?

[swift swan]

depends on your roster

putting him on R2 means he uses heal order early

[spice turret]

I got new red

Should I build him?

[toxic cobalt]

Which Red?

In general probably a good unit but why ask in this thread?

[spice turret]

Ss Red

I hope he helps in aaron battle

[silver dirge]

You're talking about SST Red with Pikachu. SS Red is his base with Charizard

[spice turret]

Oh mb

[verbal karma]

hmm...well, Aaron this week is electric weak...and I do have Ash

[main crow]

HP parameter bro got fucking paralyzed on his heal order turn

[verbal karma]

alright, R2 Aaron, I guess

[silver dirge]

You should not struggle on R2 Aaron in the slightest with Ash, he's the perfect counter to the stage

[north crown]

... why was there hesitation w/ Ash...?

[silver dirge]

Don't respond with he's 1/5

That doesn't matter

[verbal karma]

I was wondering if maybe Aaron would be better suited for a different round parameter

or if there was, like, a better suited opponent for R2

[silver dirge]

It depends on your team, not the stage

[verbal karma]

since in the case of Water weak Flint, I do have my trusty Rain team

[silver dirge]

You have Ash, that automatically makes Aaron an ideal R2 target

[north crown]

Just use Ash for R2 then. I beat him 3 without supports cuz Ash is broken.

[verbal karma]

(my trusty Rain team being Archie+May)

[silver dirge]

I solo'd him with Ash

[verbal karma]

anyway, if Aaron is R2, then that automatically makes Flint R1

oh my FUCKING god

why does Iron Tail hit so god damn hard?!

whatever, I won

[main crow]

Haven't off type in ages so this was fun

[silver dirge]

Sync accel

[main crow]

Haha sync countdown go nyooom

[main crow]

What if I use this team on half sync param

[keen jasper]

I wonder how much Clemont will do against Aaron this week

[silver dirge]

Do it

[verbal karma]

...oh no... 😦

my Poison Stall team can't beat R3 Bertha

this is a complete disaster

it completely destroys my plan entirely

[silver dirge]

I'm going to go on a whim here and ask if you're disabling Bertha's weather?

[verbal karma]

...I don't have anyone in the poison stall team who does that, no

[silver dirge]

See I'm not surprised in the slightest. How do you expect to efficiently beat a stage without tackling the stage gimmicks

[verbal karma]

and I don't have anyone I can replace either tbh

[north crown]

BPMorty, Lucy, random ass weather setter

[verbal karma]

...BP Morty?

[north crown]

synchro healing.. duh

[verbal karma]

oh, that

[silver dirge]

BP Morty is an ideal poison stall pair, don't understand where the surprise is coming from

[spice turret]

Finally got crit strike 2 on hau

[silver dirge]

Flinch, defenses, healing

[verbal karma]

problem is that my BP Morty isn't EX'd

[north crown]

pls tell me you're doing o.k..

[verbal karma]

and I kinda need an EX support

[old orchid]

EX is not needed in stall teams

you are supposed to not deal gigatic dmg

[spice turret]

I was grinding cookies

[old orchid]

your logic doesnt make any sense

[silver dirge]

I'd strongly, strongly suggest trying to remember & build on the advice we give you every week, because we repeat ourselves each time. You cannot expect to beat a stage if you do not tackle the stage gimmicks

[verbal karma]

...isn't the EX support sync buff supposed to boost poison damage even faster?

[silver dirge]

No.

[spice turret]

Didn't tried the stage cause of sabrina grid isn't done

[silver dirge]

It only boosts attack damage.

[verbal karma]

so wait

what DOES boost poison damage?

[silver dirge]

The round parameter. That's all.

[verbal karma]

nonono, there's another factor

[silver dirge]

What's your team?

[verbal karma]

I am 100% sure of it

[silver dirge]

Bad poison vs poison ?

[verbal karma]

not talking about that either

I noticed that the longer the battle goes on, the more the poison damage increases

[north crown]

@spice turret Want me to plan out your CS run? Also Hard Mode or MM?
Also iirc, you got some types down for the type medal from last week (Unless you completed the medal urself). Could you check what types are left?

[spice turret]

Been thinking about what to avoid

Just wanted to unlock crit squad

[silver dirge]

Well yes ... that's how badly poison works

[verbal karma]

yeah, that's what I am using

but I want that poison damage increase to happen faster

[old orchid]

just go straight to Critical Squad

[silver dirge]

There's nothing else you can do, it's called stall for a reason

What is your team?

[north crown]

oh they're trying to make a team for Hau... icic

[verbal karma]

Janine, SS Leaf and support

[old orchid]

i did recommend a good team already, they just have to wait for resources

[north crown]

you can't afford Janine due to weather. prioritize gimmicks pls.

[spice turret]

Dire hit mp necessary?

[north crown]

very

[spice turret]

Ok

[verbal karma]

but what about her Venom Drench?

[old orchid]

picking Critical Squad makes MPR redundant

[silver dirge]

Either bring a weather setting support who can deal with the gimmick or one that debuffs their offenses in-place of Janine, so she can be replaced by a weather setter

[old orchid]

just ignore Janine

[north crown]

Dealing with offensive weather multiplers is significantly worse than having no offensive debuffs at hand.

especially in hard battles like Sinnoh CS Bertha

[verbal karma]

hmm...I have a grand total of one support who can change the weater, but...I don't know if she's a good pick as a support for something like Poison Stall

[north crown]

depends on who it is

[verbal karma]

Bulurola

[silver dirge]

SS Acerola? Probably not, she has more value as an offensive support

[old orchid]

[verbal karma]

kinda need to replace my current support anyway since my current support is Ground weak

[north crown]

What if you ran something like SSAcerola, TLLillie, SSLeaf. You got everything you would personally want Trin.

[verbal karma]

then again, Janine somehow takes more damage from the ground attacks than the actual ground weak sync pair

so who knows

[silver dirge]

Wait, Bertha is grass weak .. you have 3/5 SS Erika who conveniently deals with the gimmick too. Why are you poison stalling this stage of all of them?

[north crown]

what they have SSErika? bro is stupid.

[verbal karma]

because of the R3 gimmick

[silver dirge]

Stop obsessing over the damn round parameters

[north crown]

bro

Unless you're in dire need of status conditions for a particular team/unit, treat those kinds of parameters as if you don't have one.

[halcyon sail]

Exactly, much easier to bonk the stage with SS Erika

Than try to force a poison stall

[silver dirge]

Deja Vu cos we say this every single time, yet the same repeats the very next week. I simply fail to understand

[north crown]

You even have Bulurola to make your life so much easier

[silver dirge]

SS Acerola & SS Erika demolish everything, this is on-type

[old orchid]

if you keep being stubborn with your illogic sense and not open minded to better suggestion, expect to be suspended from help channels soon

[spice turret]

@north crown

I think I'll give it a go

[old orchid]

take off TM MPR

it does nothing

[spice turret]

Dire hit mpr?

[old orchid]

i mean dire hit, sorry

[spice turret]

Done

[old orchid]

no need to flood channels with unnecessary screenshots, and pick TM MPR up

i was mistaken Dire hit MPR with TM MPR tile

[spice turret]

Oh

So which one is not necessary

[astral jolt]

These are my pairs I need help with cs

[spice turret]

Ah

[old orchid]

like i said twice before, Dire hit MPR

[astral jolt]

My badge

[old orchid]

plan a dmg dealer for each stage first

[spice turret]

Don't flood

[astral jolt]

Oh mb

[old orchid]

no they dont

they are providing necessary screenshots

[spice turret]

Use pomotool

Much better

[astral jolt]

Yeh I gotta make my account there adding those chars is a pain

[old orchid]

could you show the progress in team building menu? showing this image does not help

[astral jolt]

Alright a moment

So many ss

Need 20 spirits to ex cynthia

[spice turret]

Everything was going fine but

[dense birch]

bro has so many better units than me haha

[old orchid]

first, try to plan each dmg dealer out for each stage

[versed mural]

You need to triple queue properly and lower your speed

[astral jolt]

I'm thinking Emma for Aaron, NC Nate for Bertha, NC Sarena for flint, and maybe ryuki/allister for lician

I dunno if that'll work

[dense birch]

SST Red should go somewhere i think?

[old orchid]

Aaron has Sentry Entry x2, so using physical units is not effective on him

[spice turret]

Idk what move should I use

To triple queue

[silver dirge]

Send a recording

[old orchid]

SST Red + 2/5 Hau + an offensive support for Hau should be enough for Aaron

Lucian has Wise E x2, so bring a physical dmg dealer

[dense birch]

since you're just going for medals, MC/Solgaleo should be able to one shot one of them easy too. i used it on Lucian

[old orchid]

mb, Lucian has Wise Entry x2

[astral jolt]

Hmm

Okay so for Lucian mc/solgaleo with which supports?

[dense birch]

You can try something like this. Janine and Bruno were fillers for Poison and Fighting medals respectively. Especially if you can just two unit the opponent

[spice turret]

Srry if I did bad triple queue and delayed the sync

[astral jolt]

I don't have lefeon and the watchhog

[old orchid]

sounds good

[dense birch]

just use whoever. the watchog is just a sp def tank

[astral jolt]

Oh alright

[dense birch]

leafeon is a physical sun dps

so you could very much just run like blaine for sun + something

[astral jolt]

Lemme complete Aaron and Lucian then

[spice turret]

.

[old orchid]

again, you didnt use 3 moves at the start of battle

[astral jolt]

My hau is 3/5 which grid do I get?

[old orchid]

and you delayed sync again

[astral jolt]

Also should I 5* him?

[old orchid]

if you dont try to fix, sadly you CAN'T beat any battle

[old orchid]

get Inertia at minimum

4* is fine

[astral jolt]

Ight

[spice turret]

All 3 moves

Like psybeam discharge and bullet seed

[old orchid]

be sure to buff Hau to max

[spice turret]

I did

[old orchid]

by maxing his crit

[spice turret]

Sp atk

[old orchid]

then try again

[dense birch]

@astral jolt i think you can also do SST Red + Colress/Klingklang + Sonia/Yamper if you don't want to touch Hau. one Screech from Colress will get rid of the def up. Colress just there to spam Screech anyway

assuming you are ok with medal requirements

[old orchid]

Sentry Entry x2 is not stat ranks

it doubles the base defense

you cant ignore it by any means, hence i recommended Hau instead

[dense birch]

oh

is that how it works. i thought it's just Def Up 2 or something lol

so Screech spam dropping it to -6 just negates it then or...?

[astral jolt]

Which of these

[old orchid]

it doesnt

[old orchid]

Full Boost, ofc

but only get Inertia if you are low on orbs

[astral jolt]

Okay btw which offense support should I use?

[spice turret]

How do I check the stats when I'm in the match

[nova imp]

Who do y’all recommend for R2?

Like who has the weakest sync

[old orchid]

depends on your teams

[nova imp]

Ima send them

But I would’ve used Zerena

Thing is she has spread

So she can’t kill mid before sync

[old orchid]

look at icons above your pairs' HP bar

[old orchid]

Zerena is not ontype this week, so its normal for her to not clear with her first sync

[nova imp]

Yeah

I sync twice though

I got ss elesa in the team with Zerena always

[old orchid]

you can go post sync just fine, or if you happen to have a strong ontype dmg dealer, consider using them on R2

[nova imp]

Been thinking about

Removing proton

Adding a tech

And then exing ss elesa

[nova imp]

Yeah makes sense

I don’t have any strong grass types

Ima go post yeah

[silver dirge]

No SS Erika, Brendan, Mallow?

[nova imp]

I got brendan and mallow

I’ll see what I can do if it doesn’t work

[nova imp]

Damn that sure is a team for sinnoh csmm

might be the hardest

Kalos is hard as well but idk

Heal with Aaron, sandstorm with bretha

[spice turret]

Idk why but I can't put him on sleep

[nova imp]

you probably put no status condition

check that

[spice turret]

I tried and tried

[spice turret]

Sleep powder

[silver dirge]

You refuse to fix the problems we've mentioned several times, Gakon explicitly said you won't be able to clear it if you continue to delay sync & don't queue 3 moves at the start. What's the point of asking for help if you don't try and incorporate the advice in your attempts? Trying the stage without changing anything will have the same results

[spice turret]

And nobody told me what's the combo

[silver dirge]

Some things you need to figure out for yourself, we cannot sit here and tell you what to click for all 9 moves before you sync

[versed mural]

First of all your not lowering speed to triple queue your not resetting for sleep and then you delay sync

[silver dirge]

Buff your damage dealers fully using the relevant TMs, then start doing your damage

[spice turret]

Stupid heal order

And def order

[old orchid]

thats why Ramos is in the team

he use Sleep Powder to deny Heal Order

[spice turret]

Did

[old orchid]

did it land?

and be sure Sabrina not die too early

[lusty wagon]

Wat units you have tenz 21?

This is best sync grid for hau for his sync move. I use long time ago it in high score event.

[silver dirge]

They're very low on resources unfortunately

[old orchid]

they are very new so they dont have much orbs to afford full grid

yeah

[spice turret]

Leseen sleep is pain

[silver dirge]

But it's also hard mode so it shouldn't be too much of a struggle with the correct queuing

[lusty wagon]

Yeah i feel pain all off us start this pain

[spice turret]

Ya gotta be kidding me

[old orchid]

you only need to deny that Heal Order

[spice turret]

Time to took down the gollisipod

[old orchid]

have you tried using Reflect to take less dmg from the sync?

just focus on mid

[spice turret]

Always finds a way to lower the def

[silver dirge]

Use Sleep Powder right before Aaron uses Heal Order

[spice turret]

Did 2 times

[old orchid]

no need to ping me

[versed mural]

Key word: right before

[old orchid]

focus on mid until it dies

[versed mural]

2 times is less for all your doing

[spice turret]

Need to know which turn he uses it

[old orchid]

thats why we recommend using pomatools to read stages' info

[spice turret]

Reflect has only 2 use

[old orchid]

he always use Heal Order before the first sync

[silver dirge]

Right before he syncs, we mentioned this earlier

[spice turret]

Did

Mb

I've red but I need make him 3/5 to use him

[old orchid]

he doesnt need 3/5

sigh

[spice turret]

Then

[old orchid]

okay, replace Ramos with him

and use terrain to boost Electric moves

[lusty wagon]

Tenz you have red?

[versed mural]

Dont ping me

Red is way more than viable at 1/5

My messages are so delayed

[spice turret]

Go to hel

[lusty wagon]

Lol bro i you have red why didnt use him?

[spice turret]

I already said it few mins ago

[silver dirge]

The misconception that units need 3/5 to function, which they don't - most modern units are just fine at base

[spice turret]

Next is old lady

[versed mural]

Judging by the pins you should've known how good he is

[spice turret]

I've only this idk which one is dps

[silver dirge]

Read their kits

[versed mural]

Good luck

[spice turret]

Sand team again

[old orchid]

apply what you have learnt and stage gimmicks into team building

[versed mural]

Then we will give feedback

[spice turret]

And yep it's gonna use sp def all and others to boost stats

[old orchid]

watch out for Bertha's moves

does she use special moves? if not, buffing spdef is pointless

[spice turret]

I guess i need weather setter again

High horse power
Sandtomb
Bite

[old orchid]

what is the category of these moves?

physical, special or status?

[spice turret]

And yep I see x attk all

Which is phy

Can't i just use sycamore

Sandtomb is trap move

Which deals dmg

[old orchid]

choose the dmg dealer first, then build the team around the said dmg dealer

[spice turret]

Bite has a chance to flinch the target

[old orchid]

Sand Tomb is not a big deal if the tank has strong heal / way to cure trap

you shouldnt care about these effects, just restart the battle if the tank gets flinch

[spice turret]

Selene?

[old orchid]

Selene is an okay pick

[spice turret]

It has sp def all

[old orchid]

remember to evolve Rowlet to max stage and read her kit carefully to make best use of the kit

Selene DOES NOT buff spdef to all allies

again, please read carefully

[silver dirge]

If you're talking about Bertha, defense buffs are bypassed by crits - you don't need to worry about those

[spice turret]

Ik why it gonna use sp def all

Sp def lower

[silver dirge]

No ...

[versed mural]

Bruh that's NORMAL POKEMON STATS

[silver dirge]

Mainline stats don't carry over to PMEX

[spice turret]

Do i need support

[silver dirge]

Forget all of that

[spice turret]

Can I use Shauna as well

[silver dirge]

If you want to look at kits, use pomatools

[silver dirge]

What's your team so far?

[spice turret]

Deciding

As tank or support I went for Shauna

[silver dirge]

You want to use Selene yes? Tell me which buffs she does herself & what buffs she'll need

[spice turret]

Phy atk

And crit

[old orchid]

how much atk and crit does she need?

[spice turret]

Max

I believe

[old orchid]

and what she needs to do to activate her base passives?

[old orchid]

how much is max?

[spice turret]

+6

[crystal notch]

Oh also

Evolve her

She's still a rowlet

[spice turret]

Selena or rowlet?

[old orchid]

does Shauna fulfills what she needs?

[crystal notch]

The rowlet

[spice turret]

Yes

She raise the crits by 2

[silver dirge]

Yes, and?

[spice turret]

?

[crystal notch]

(Attack boosts?)

[spice turret]

I want to give Selena an Lucky skill

[old orchid]

alright, make sure to buff Selene's atk and crit to +6 and +3 respectively, and evolve Rowlet as well
She needs targets to be restrained to activated her passives (which can be done by unlocking Spirit Shackle)

[silver dirge]

Can you think of a 3rd that would be helpful for Selene? She already has her stats boosted with the help of Shauna. Now you could look for a pair that debuffs defense so she does more damage. Find a pair that does that

[spice turret]

Is tserna a good option

[old orchid]

Tsareena does not debuff defense, if you are following Arch's advice

[silver dirge]

But she is relatively fine as a 3rd, although you might have issues with gauges

[spice turret]

How about grimsley

[silver dirge]

Which Grimsley?

[spice turret]

He has snatch

[versed mural]

Nope

[spice turret]

Liepard

[cinder summit]

<:CATEGORY_STATUS:967450751955771402> <:TYPE_DARK:967452395858710598> Snatch

Gauge: 2 | Power: - | Accuracy: - | Uses: 2
Target: An opponent
Effect Tag: -
Returns the target's raised stats to normal, then raises the user's same stats by the same amount.

Sync Pairs with Move:

Lear & Hoopa
Grimsley & Liepard

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[old orchid]

Snatch does NOT debuff defense in any ways

[silver dirge]

Snatch steals stats, doesn't reduce them. Find a pair that reduces target defense

[spice turret]

Ss grimsley

Has liquidation which lowers the def

[versed mural]

Not consistent

[silver dirge]

Okay at least you've found one, but that's chance based. Keep looking

[old orchid]

look for ones having guaranteed chance

try to make use of ingame filters

[spice turret]

I've this as def down unit

[old orchid]

look into each one's kit

[silver dirge]

& find one that has a guaranteed chance to lower target's defense

[spice turret]

Peirs

[silver dirge]

You can still find a better one, Piers needs to block a physical move to do that, and it messes with your countdown

[spice turret]

Jasmine?

[silver dirge]

Read all the units & their moves, remember, we want a guaranteed drop, not "has an X% chance"

[spice turret]

Nanu

Which has screech

[silver dirge]

Ay that's the one

Yes

Congratulations

[versed mural]

Now make your team

[spice turret]

Done

I also saw kawie

[silver dirge]

Alright, I want you to explain to me what you're going to do in the battle. What moves will you be using first?

[old orchid]

Shauna already buffs Selene's necessary stats to max

no need for Kiawe

[spice turret]

Good

[silver dirge]

Yes

[spice turret]

Increasing the stats of Selene

[silver dirge]

Good, remember to queue 3 moves as soon as you enter the battle. Lower the game speed if you need to

[spice turret]

Already

[silver dirge]

Remember to use Spirit Shackle on Selene ONCE after she's buffed, to set up restrain. Then you can use Leaf Blade

[spice turret]

Umm

Aight

2nd time

[silver dirge]

Let's replace Nanu with someone who can change Bertha's sand

My bad I should've realised that earlier

[spice turret]

Weather changer

[silver dirge]

Mhm, find someone who can set Sun, Hail or Rain

[spice turret]

I've may

[silver dirge]

Also in this image you're using Spiky Shield, don't do that before the mid dies. It messes with your queuing because it's a two turn move

[spice turret]

And the peliper

[silver dirge]

Okay, just do Winona in case May is useful on another stage

[spice turret]

Winnona is 3*

[silver dirge]

That is fine

[spice turret]

Should I grind some gears

[silver dirge]

Which gears?

[spice turret]

So the strategy is after using Shauna off we go 2 times I've to use spirit shackle

[silver dirge]

Nah leave that for now

[spice turret]

Ok

[silver dirge]

Yes, but make sure you're also clicking Selene's TM so you always have 3 moves queued

[spice turret]

Which

X atk.

[silver dirge]

You tell me, which one should you be using?

How many times should you use X Atk?

[spice turret]

Stare dem down

[silver dirge]

How many times will you use that & how many times X Atk?

[spice turret]

2

But I've to use it before sync

[silver dirge]

You should use both of them once on Selene. Because Shauna will finish off the rest of the buffs with 2 TMs

[spice turret]

You mean Shauna tm twice and Selene tms also

[silver dirge]

Turn 1

• Selene clicks TM
• Shauna clicks TM
• Winona clicks Rain Dance

Turn 2

• Selene clicks X Attack
• Shauna clicks TM
• Winona clicks Air Slash

Turn 3

• Selene clicks Spirit Shackle
• Shauna clicks Mini Potion or Vine Whip
• Winona clicks whatever you want

Sync with Selene & click a move on both Winona & Shauna

Then you can start clicking Leaf Blade on Selene, and whatever works on the other two - just make sure you are ALWAYS queueing 3 moves

[spice turret]

Noo

[silver dirge]

Can you send a recording?

[versed mural]

How did Selene die before Winona?

[silver dirge]

Make Winona target 2

[spice turret]

Drill runnn

[versed mural]

No pings pls

[spice turret]

Can I pls deal with this annoying mons first

[silver dirge]

Okay you can take down the mid that's a good sign, once the mid is down you can use Spiky Shield on Shauna to block some attacks & Mini Potion to heal up

You have to take out the mid first, otherwise you'll be wiped by sync

[manic kiln]

is winona gridded, she can flinch the sides

[silver dirge]

They're extremely low on sync orbs so I was holding off recommending the aggravation, but that would work yea

[spice turret]

Imma take down that marrowak after hippo

Made up an plan
After taking down the hippo I'll Target marrowak

This damn sidekicks

Does grass terrian works?

[manic kiln]

grassy terrain boosts your dmg but it doesn't clear weather

[silver dirge]

What grassy terrain unit do you have?

[spice turret]

I don't have any

[silver dirge]

Right

Can you send a video of your clear? Maybe there's something we can fix there

[spice turret]

Sometimes I use wrong move cause hurry

[lean lion]

How many points is this at? 3k?

[silver dirge]

It's hard mode

[silver dirge]

That's fine, don't worry 'bout using the wrong moves, it's a learning experience. I'm not asking for the recording to criticise, I just want to see what the output is like. Maybe we can do first sync on a side. But I need to see the clear in action

[spice turret]

I use x atk first turn instead of tm

[silver dirge]

That's okay those can be swapped around

The TM & the X Attack

You're still buffing

[grand trout]

for ground aaron next week, i plan to use cynthia, ingo ex, and some other third unit (prolly nita?)

anyway my question is, who should i sync first, cynthia or ingo?

[spice turret]

Is grooky an good pick?

Don't have Nitro to send 3mins vid lol

[undone ether]

Send it on Youtube

[spice turret]

Uploading

[old orchid]

Either is fine. Cynthia doesnt need to sync first

[versed mural]

Where is the chart for next week's E4 weaknesses

Nvm found it

[spice turret]

https://youtu.be/LjCBtzYiNds?si=ocVw70pJVtc40tOz

Check if I did an mistake or not

Don't mind the caption

[versed mural]

First of all set Rain dance first to not take damage then you don't use the second X Attack its a waste and third after using both Shauna's TM I recommend using Spiky Shield

[silver dirge]

No, I explicitly advised against this since they're learning to queue and Spiky Shield will interfere with sync countdown. It's best used once the mid goes down

[versed mural]

Oh ok

Sorry then don't take my advice..

[silver dirge]

You're queuing 3 moves at the start now, that's progress, well done. You're still delaying queue though, I'm going to explain when you should sync & I want you to follow my instructions carefully

See this image from your clear, see how the number on the sync move says 3?

Can you tell me which one of your pokemon is going to use their move after Hippowdown? Look at the right

[spice turret]

The refresh takes long

[silver dirge]

Wdym, what refresh?

[spice turret]

Move or tm

[silver dirge]

I'm not sure what you're saying

If you look on the right, Selene will use "X Attack", then Shauna will use "Off We go", then Winona will use a move.

Because the countdown is at 3, don't queue anything with anyone until it goes to 0 (your sync is available). Then, you click on the sync with Selene and immediately click on a move with Winona & Shauna

If you're still confused just ask and I'll try to simplify it further

[spice turret]

I've to wait until I use another move

[crystal notch]

You can wait

You can queue the sync move

While the enemy is attacking

[spice turret]

See that's what I was talking about

That the one thing I'm aware of

[silver dirge]

If you can get an extra hit in by not delaying your sync, it will help. I explained above

[spice turret]

Ahhh i did that again

Click mini potion all instead of tm

[dreamy sigil]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_VaeuaLt4ORDbCP2_idaQ7tK96uRnNmm need some help for 850 mm, cynthia was making off typing hard with evasion/accuracy hax so I decided to reset

[old orchid]

next time, you should fill the sync pair tracker out for better understanding of your roster

[spice turret]

Me?

Whenever I try to triple queue I made mistake and that's my problem

[old orchid]

we cant help with that

also that was not for you

[dreamy sigil]

I do have it filled out it's just that I'm on my phone and redoing the tracker on it is not very easy

And it looks like you can't search messages in threads anymore

[spice turret]

Do you want me to make it easy for you

[old orchid]

okay then, but at least dont put them in a google drive folder

just post them here

[dreamy sigil]

I put them in a drive because they wouldn't send here last time I asked for help

But I'll do that now

[old orchid]

try Hop, Sycamore and Lillie

or NC Rosa instead of Hop for SMUN stacking

[dreamy sigil]

Cool they sent this time

[spice turret]

Click image after you done with selection all the sync pair you have

After clicking it will make image of your sync pair click it and download the image

[old orchid]

they cant fill in the tracker atm...

[spice turret]

Ah

[dreamy sigil]

That would require some team changing

My current teams excluding Cynthia are
R1 flint: lucian/lodge may/sycamore
R2 bertha: elio/ss erika/skyla
R3 aaron: ss blue/hau/bp morty
R4 lucian: fantina/nc rosa/nc calem

[old orchid]

Fantina is only 2/5 and Lucian is anti special tho, so you should use a physical dmg dealer or toxic stall on him

Elio is not a good choice on Bertha tbh, better add an additional sun setter or another Grass dmg dealer

on Flint, better using Cyrus + a good support who buffs crit

im not too sure about your Aaron team. you have Volkner who setup terrain for Hau, but you run out of +3 crit support

[spice turret]

That old is giving me Hard time

First her team Lowers the spd and then she use sandtomb

[dreamy sigil]

Would morty be an okay option?

And could silver work as a sun setter

Or could i grid erika for mpr on sunny day instead

Which I think I've done

[old orchid]

Morty is not, sadly

[spice turret]

Help xd

[old orchid]

he needs 2/5 at least, but he is awkward to use

i would use Blaine as a sun setter

[old orchid]

keep trying

[dreamy sigil]

Oh blaine sets sun, cool

[rotund lagoon]

We’ve told you everything we can, just go over it and try the match again.

[spice turret]

She flinched my tank before I use spiky shiled

[old orchid]

then try again

[spice turret]

I guess I'll bring sycamore

[rotund lagoon]

We did not tell you to do that.

[spice turret]

Or maybe someone who can cure flinch

[old orchid]

Sycamore doesnt help

just reset when it happens

[mellow linden]

Resets are a fact of life in CS, for a wide variety of reasons

[spice turret]

Should have used spiky shiled first when the sandslash uses bulldoze

[mellow linden]

I would recommend avoiding Spiky Shield unless your Shauna is 3/5 and gridded with a specific tile. The move order isn’t fixed in CS anyway, so it’s not guaranteed to use Bulldoze

[spice turret]

She is 1/5 😦

[keen jasper]

Also in CBs, EBs, and UBs

[spice turret]

I don't have any support or tank

[mellow linden]

Shauna works fine as a tank, she is a Support

[spice turret]

I'm skipping this battle

Until I get something better

[rotund lagoon]

You’re gonna have to do it if you wanna complete CS. Your team should work, can you record for us again?

[old orchid]

I think the problem is Bertha's TM post sync which gives everyone +1 crit

Its 50% chance to crit so get lucky I guess

[rotund lagoon]

Ouch T~T

[spice turret]

I've thinking Bertha uses phy atk right

Can I use her?

[rotund lagoon]

She is not any better than Shauna. I’m sorry, but is there a reason you’re insisting on using units other than our recommendations?

[spice turret]

Or should I use bring haze user

Cause I've seen them using x atk and others

[mellow linden]

It’s not gonna make enough of a difference to bring Haze

[verbal karma]

so...R4 Bertha or R4 Lucian?

for R4 Bertha, I would use a Sun setter team involving SS Erika and SS Acerola

for R4 Lucian, I would use a Ghost team involving Renegade Cynthia and Fallcerola

or would R3 Lucian be better because of Fallcerola's confusion?????

[mellow linden]

It doesn’t matter

[verbal karma]

I mean, it kinda matters to me

[mellow linden]

Neither of the parameters are very impactful

[steel kelp]

It literally doesn’t matter

You get told this every time

[mellow linden]

There’s good arguments to be made for either order since Fall Acerola uses Confusion but also likes the damage boost from enhanced Sync buffs since her base damage is on the lower end of Ghost

[rotund lagoon]

I just did it using the team you were recommended. Do you want the video?

[mellow linden]

So follow your heart, I guess

[verbal karma]

...what if my heart is indecisive?

[nocturne pawn]

[mellow linden]

Do a coin flip, the difference is minimal

[nocturne pawn]

^

[mellow linden]

If you don’t do a coin flip then I will

[verbal karma]

please no

[rotund lagoon]

I call using the Pokétch!!

[mellow linden]

If you don’t like the answer I come up with then you had the true answer in mind already

Coin flip says do Bertha 1st

[wicked junco]

I also try to go for the most optimal order each week even if it really doesn't matter much or doesn't fit with the team, but this one I only felt like R1 was for Flint (since he's the only special attacker) and R3 for Bertha (since confusion takes advantages of longer status and also more prone to proc)

I did Lucian R2 (since FallMorty enjoys early Mega) and Aaron R4, picked less specials for Cynthia

[mellow linden]

I will say that if you feel a team could be lacking in damage output then Round 4 is the one to save for that team

In case you want to ignore the coin flip

It shouldn’t make any significant difference, but if you have to be precise about this keep that tip in mind

[spice turret]

Sure it would help me

[silver dirge]

What would help you?

[spice turret]

The machanic how to use moves and queue

[silver dirge]

Ah, the video. You should reply to the original message Annie sent since it's been a while. @rotund lagoon

[spice turret]

The lowering speed is kodna problem to me

[rotund lagoon]

Hullo, here be the video!
Before you ask me “Why is your Shauna EX?” or “Everyone is 5/5”, note that I turned off everyone’s grids and I only sync’d with Selene. All gear is also turned off.
Make sure to pay attention to my queuing in the video too.

My speed is also 2, but I recommend putting it to 1 as you are not so skilled in queuing like I am.

[spice turret]

Umm

[dreamy sigil]

So what exactly is poison stalling? And how does one accomplish it

[raw halo]

Step 1. Badly poison everyone
Step 2. Tank all attacks
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit

[plush tangle]

we should have a YAGPDB command just to explain toxic stall lol

[silver dirge]

that might be a good idea actually

A quick guide would be useful especially since 3k can be difficult depending on roster

[dreamy sigil]

Is that a sharpedo plush with rosé's hair

[raw halo]

Perhaps

[dreamy sigil]

Bazed

[mellow linden]

A Poison stall team generally consists of a tank (usually a Support with ample defensive buffs and Potions), a Poison inflictor (usually one who can inflict Bad Poison from Toxic or Poison Fang), and a debuffer (Janine is the top pick because of Venom Drench, but depending on the stage other options like Ghetsis or Viola can work great).

The goal is for the Poison inflictor to apply Poison to all opponents (if they can apply Trap then that’s also fantastic) while the debuffer lowers their offenses to -6 and the tank buffs everyone’s defenses and, well, tanks

So you end up letting the opponent die to DoT

[dreamy sigil]

Hmm alright, thanks

I think I can do that

[north crown]

Using Colress, a steel type on a steel type when ur going for medal🗿

Ok what they hell happened regarding Tenz22..?!?

Welp… based on the lack of expereince exuding from those words, I doubt building a list of teams would help much. I hope they got the hang of things now that they literally have a video they could refer to.

[lean vine]

this is my roster, what ubits should i use for champion stadium

im not really sure how to teambuild atp so ive never beat it

[nocturne pawn]

+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!

[nocturne pawn]

if you’re unsure read this first

try making your own teams following this format then we can better advise you

[lean vine]

i think i need to take a better look at my units then

i only really know what the master fairs do

[nocturne pawn]

yeah reading what your units do is also really important for team building

[mellow linden]

Can build a team around:

• Nessa for Flint.
• Clemont or NC Red for Aaron.
• SS Erika for Bertha.
• Selene or SST Red for Lucian.
• Mina or (if you have her) BP Valerie for Cynthia.

And probably be fine. Make sure to follow the Teambuilding 101 guidelines above and try to include 9-12 different types (as in, the type of the Sync Move) across your 5 teams

[nocturne pawn]

i mean tbh 3/5 nc red is a literal free win

tbolt 1/5 also is pretty free but not super free

[lean vine]

i was thinking id just offtype cynthia with red

[lean vine]

ill try building according to this though, i think itll help me get better at teambuilding

[north crown]

@lean vine FYI there's a regional CS type medal, which gives acess to Master Mode, thus more rewards. Due to type medal requirements, you should try to use as amny diverse types as possible.

[spice turret]

Should I work with this

I remember sandslash uses bulldoze to lower the speed

[old orchid]

it does not help you in anyway

[spice turret]

Trying to get critical strike2

[old orchid]

thats not the cookie which gives CS2

[spice turret]

Which is it

[old orchid]

+lskillrate

[frozen depot]

Lucky Skill Rates:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JCa0gwUy0iYdOSKR_UuileID_J6xQytZl4c2teTwxhU/edit#gid=723952220&range=A2:O2
For more Lucky Skills: https://serebii.net/pokemonmasters/luckyskills.shtml

[keen jasper]

Crunchy

[old orchid]

also, you can check the pool of each cookie ingame

try to look around the UI of the game, you can discover something new and helpful

[keen jasper]

Yeah, each of the cookie will state which cookies gives what lucky skill

[north crown]

wtf is sudden sprint..?

[grand trout]

Lowers speed reduction or something

Aka niche skill you're better off not using

[spice turret]

I guess I'll shoud take a break from Bertha the old lady

[spice turret]

Will grooky help in the match as dps ?

[old orchid]

not as good as Selene

[spice turret]

Oh

Is any better support or tank

[versed mural]

Your fine as is just follow the advice given

[spice turret]

Trying

I'm thinking about putting surging sand to Selene

[old orchid]

its either CS2 or nothing

play through Battle Villa (as well as coop in there) and Blissful Bonaza to get more cookies

[silver dirge]

You may want to attempt a different stage on half sync round 2 and do this one after

[spice turret]

Can I do co op bonza

[mortal pine]

can’t even do 1k csmm round 4 with the pairs i have

where are all the good special electric types

[old orchid]

show your Electric roster here

Hau + Volkner + an offensive support should be an easy win

[mortal pine]

i managed to beat the stage, this is my elec roster

champion time now, and i have no good fairy dps

[versed mural]

Mina

[old orchid]

BP Valerie

[versed mural]

Or that

[old orchid]

Summer Marnie is good enough

[mortal pine]

needs 4 gauge to even attack tho

[old orchid]

bring a speed support along

thats one of the easiest problems to fix

[mortal pine]

speed support?

[versed mural]

Support that can boost speed

[mortal pine]

so like, someone with x speed all?

[versed mural]

Not necessarily but yes someone who can boost everyone's speed

[mortal pine]

i genuinely didn’t know speed did that

[old orchid]

now you know

[versed mural]

The more you know

[old orchid]

the higher speed your team has, the faster the move gauge charges

[mortal pine]

these are some of my supports i have available

[old orchid]

SS Blue + Lillie should work

only use Blue's TM when Move Gauge Acceleration is not in effect

Leaf also works, tho she wants to sync first

[mortal pine]

now for parameters

im at 4.4k points rn

if i can do 1.6k champion it’ll be 6k

i can afford both special reductions, strike x3 damage, and standard reduction

500 points so far

[swift swan]

Ally move gauge -2 is always free

No stat reduction, ally healing down, no weather/zone/terrain are free ones too depending on your team

[mortal pine]

i need 500 more points

i tried the strength ones they’re too hard for my current team

[old orchid]

with Marnie that shouldnt be a problem

[spice turret]

Which turn that sandslash uses bulldoze was it turn 1 or 2

[mortal pine]

she doesn’t do shit against spiritomb it takes like 5k with two boosted sync buffs and maxed stats with Super Effective up next

[silver dirge]

Do you take any defense parameters?

[mortal pine]

no? i don’t think i do

i don’t take defense parameters ever

my parameters are:
special reduction
no status
strike take x3 damage
healing down
special reduction 8
no weather
strength 2
strength 3
gauge max down
standard reduction

[neat galleon]

Would this be a decent team against Bertha? (Hard Lv1)

[main crow]

Do not monotype

replace Mallow with a support that can help Erika ramp up faster

[north crown]

Hard Mode or MM? Also what's your CS regional type medal looking like atm?

[main crow]

It's hard mode

[north crown]

still need dat type medal info

oh and preferably round info too

... I shouldn't stap up for so long

You guys can handle this

[neat galleon]

Sorry, I don't know what a regional medal is, but this is the round info I believe?

[silver dirge]

It is yea, but it'll be much easier if you go to PoMatools and see the gimmicks & passives there

Those don't really tell you much, and the tips are often a little random

[swift swan]

Since you're doing hard mode, we'd like to see what types you've used

In the start battle screen you should see the types in progress

[neat galleon]

Is it this?

I used SST Red, SSA Cynthia, and Misty/Starmie against Aaron

[keen jasper]

Fighting = Aura Cynthia
Electric = SST Red
Water = Misty

[main crow]

Hop/SS Erika/speed support should be enough for Bertha I think

[neat galleon]

Okay thank you! I'll try them out! What level should I get them all to?

Also, these are the techs that I have currently

[main crow]

120 is a good stopping point imo

[neat galleon]

Would Skyla or Marley be good as the speed support for the team?

[mellow linden]

Marley has less overlap and lets you save Skyla for another stage if need be, so try her 1st

[spice turret]

How good is that rilaboom in Bertha stage

[mellow linden]

Do you have him?

[spice turret]

I am planning to pull on him

After all I got shiny grooky

[lean lion]

Doing Bertha for my 3rd fight. Can't seem to get past 1800 on her. Been using Silver Blaine NC Rosa. Would any of these be better instead?

[nocturne pawn]

sceptile would probably be better

but you dont need blaine with him since he has no sun stuff at 1/5

[old orchid]

you still need a weather changer anyway

Brendan demands Dauntless tho

the Silver team would work if you replaced Rosa with a spatk buffer

[lean lion]

Wouldn't Brendan max buff his own sp atk with TM?

[old orchid]

Leaf Storm drops 2 spatk per use

which is not really good

[lean lion]

Even with dauntless?

[old orchid]

with Dauntless, its not a problem anymore

[spice turret]

Is the rillabom good

[lean lion]

Imma give him dauntless

[spice turret]

Thinking about getting him

[grave wyvern]

he needs dauntless, yeah

[lean lion]

Got scrolls from the event now

[grave wyvern]

with Silver you could (ironically) use base Rosa to buff his SpAtk, as a cheap option

[old orchid]

Arch recommended you to go for other stage other than Bertha earlier

[spice turret]

Lucian?

Or flint

[old orchid]

that's... up to you

see which stage you think you can beat with your roster on R2

[spice turret]

This is what I've for flint

For Lucian

[old orchid]

try to build a team with your current units, and remember to use units with remaining types in the medal too

[spice turret]

I heard Misty is good nuker

[old orchid]

your Misty is not well invested

[versed mural]

I didn't utilize week 2 for medals at all...

[mellow linden]

Eh, 1 missed week of Master Mode won’t make a huge difference, just make sure to unlock it next week

[spice turret]

Is there any water dps

For flint

[formal vigil]

Try Cyrus palkia hydro pump with may swampert

[old orchid]

try using the in game filter, turn on Water moves filter

[old orchid]

thats Water type, not Water move filter

but James did recommend you a solid option

[spice turret]

Here

[old orchid]

be sure your Cyrus is 5/5 and 20/20

we have told you to upgrade legendary adventures pairs to 5/5 and 20/20 several times

[mellow linden]

+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.

[mellow linden]

For reference

[mellow linden]

He doesn’t need EX here

[old orchid]

you can only get his spirits from upcoming Sinnoh Villain events

[spice turret]

Oh

He is at lvl110

Is that ok?