Champion Stadium

[left storm]

I've used that for every fairy weak

Syca + val + SS elesa, only syca exed

[calm marsh]

Can they off type ?

Also most Rock stage is Physical heavy too

[left storm]

Oh i thought there was a fairy stage

Guess i can still make it work without f2p worst case

[left storm]

Anyone else?

[hollow swan]

base Rosa

but make sure she uses Solar Flare

unironically complements ss acerola very well due to the fact that ss acerola does not have sp,def

then again base Rosa SS Acerola and SS Lyra would be too easy

so

that's my request

Solar Flare 10 Base Rosa

[left storm]

sure

i haven't done her sync in like

2 years

[hollow swan]

man

it's hard to slot in like

rebuff

i mean i guess adaman works

[left storm]

i just usually do hard 2v1s since third anni

[hollow swan]

imma try to hit the max nuke with it

[left storm]

slot seun instead

[hollow swan]

idk man you do it

i'm just thinking of adaman rosa and ss acerola

[sharp willow]

You could put in Dahlia over SS Acerola there tbh

If the goal is max nuke

[hollow swan]

oh right

dahlia

if only i had her

@calm marsh stole her so he has 4/5 😦

[supple reef]

15k Poison Stall Stadium

1 BP pair, 1 lodge pair, 1 event pair, and 12 limiteds so I think this might just be the most expensive poison stall I’ve ever done but it was super fun for a change

and yes I left NC Blue on the bench for no reason whatsoever because I miscounted my strong supports

[calm marsh]

What do you mean i stole her ?

She clearly came to me

[hollow swan]

you and your lucky pulls haiyaaa

[swift swan]

poison stall!!! it's been a while

[hollow swan]

poison stall

damn

i haven't heard of it since AGES

[supple reef]

it's been since whenever I did 8 pairs vs champion stadium, my only poison stall this year was Rika and tech Golbat

I could try 15 limiteds poison stall to get NC Blue in there but this was a fun mix of trying out different survival methods like Arven healing into the half healing parameter

I also kept no WTZ off the whole time oops (Hilbert)

[trail smelt]

So I came in planning to use all my arc suits and fight blue with my monorock team… then I realized I already used two teams and didn’t use my arcs yet

So screw monorock and I just half synced Blue because I can LMAO

I got goddamn Arc Suit and I’m damn well using them

[nimble shell]

anyone have blue stage condition?

[sharp willow]

perma field

[supple reef]

with rain on entry for sure hit thunders

[nimble shell]

aight thanks

[undone ether]

Really? He used thunder 4 times under sand, and he hit all 4 ;-;

It took 2 resets but oof.

[sharp willow]

replacing rain doesn't mean his thunders are guaranteed to miss

it just stops them from being sure hit

[undone ether]

I should really just use 2 flinchers for easy and long hits.

[clear breach]

Blue was a pain in my butt Diantha didn’t want to crit took me at least 5 resets

[supple reef]

this is about as likely as the Dragonite on Drake having a 67% crit rate against me, doesn't mean its crit rate is 2/3

[undone ether]

Actually yeah, 2 flinchers and 1 hitter should be able to flinch trap nc blue and his team

[true bloom]

This is amazing clear
Didn't know Roark and Lodge Steven could deal such huge sync damage with f2p support too

Also it's amazing he kept surviving with 1hp and the egg Aerodactyl kept flinching

Normally I don't use my strongest pairs on CS but I was tilted with my pity yesterday and decided to destroy everything

[left storm]

@hollow swan sadly no way to get spdef drops so I'll call it good enough

[gleaming jolt]

Dang Alt Elio and Selene!
You must be feeling chill for the upcoming HSE!

[sinful heron]

Ok, prepping for this, struggling in terms of DPS options. Rather not be offtyping, how best do I distribute these? Obviously saving SS Diantha for NC Blue

Thinking Aeroblue/Paulo for Malva, idk on the rest

I might bring out geeta as an off-DPS

[left storm]

Aerodactyl malva
Geeta any other E4
ss Diantha vs Blue
Paulo + Olivia any E4
Kukui, gordie or DC nemona for the remaining one

That's basically solved if you wanna only use rock types

[sinful heron]

I'm looking for ontype DPS at least

[true bloom]

At least I can guarantee 200k
You should be able too with your Red

[sinful heron]

Iirc Kahili and Karen are kinda free so I might throw Olivia/Geeta at those

Drake is the one I'm concerned for

Iirc he wants def drops

And idk if I have a good enough debuffer

Oh shit we have halfsync?

[gleaming jolt]

I hope yes!

[calm marsh]

Olivia crush half Sync very easy

[sinful heron]

Olivia might struggle

Don't have many good sand setters

[sinful heron]

And she isn't EX yet

Oh right eggmons exist

But yeah with no EX I think she'll suffer aggressively

[calm marsh]

Yup

[sinful heron]

Actually

HSE is coming up

I should EX her anyway

[calm marsh]

If you dont have any options yeah

Bc Olivia definitely really hard to use bc how limited sand setter is

[sinful heron]

Tbh I think the main limitation is less how few sand setters and more how few Rock-type sand setters

Like, Paulo has one shot of sand

And then after that... My roster is into eggmons

So many Rock DPSes run on sand

And virtually no Rock pairs set it

[left storm]

geetas rock dps at 3/5 is kinda unreal

i did break through SEx3 vs arc leon deity fight with her

she just dishes out some absurd damage with those PMUN boosted rock slides

[grand trout]

Thank Arceus for raihan's sandstorm

Why are there so little rock types that can actually call for sandstorm

[mortal dirge]

the malva fight is so stupid hard

[fading cradle]

that’s kalos for you

all of them are stupidly hard, malva just screams “you need to replace the sun right now or all of you die!!!”

[sinful heron]

Replace sun isn't mandatory but you do need big output if you don't

[mortal dirge]

nothing takes the 1st sync

everything gets deletes

[fading cradle]

replacing the sun should help a lot though since a lot of malva’s gimmicks come from sunny weather

[left storm]

you lack any form of rock striker exed?

because malva is the easies kalos E4

by not short margin

olivia always did enough for me along any sand setter

[mortal dirge]

No i dont

[left storm]

you don't have any rock striker exed?

[clear breach]

Who are you using? Are you removing or replacing sun ?

[grand trout]

Why is malvas quick attack stronger than flame charge

[sharp willow]

quick attack is an MP limited normal move with no beneficial effect, while flame charge is a fire move with a beneficial effect

quick attack being stronger is just kinda logical with how this game works

[sick inlet]

Couldn't even fully Mono it

[hollow horizon]

wow

[balmy folio]

12.5k last two kinda annoying but good enough for me

[left storm]

🥱 good enough ig, those two offtype clears were pretty fun

Roark shooting a 55k head smash and insta self koing is always funny

Tbolt 1/5 literally being just there for para

[calm marsh]

Smh i’m disappointed on you, need more flinch

[gleaming jolt]

Do you guys think we can do duos for this special champion stadium?

Offtype

[sick inlet]

Yeah

[sick inlet]

To be fair, other than Kukui, all the rock type flinchers actually suck.
Brock sucks and i consider him the 2nd best idk

[calm marsh]

I used eggmon

[sick inlet]

Yeeeeee do that in hse

[calm marsh]

Ofc no lol

[sick inlet]

That's why rock sux hard

No good utility

[calm marsh]

My Mono Rock

Just mess around with flinch tbh

[sick inlet]

I mono'd plus Bertha

Did duo last to make up for bertha

[calm marsh]

My Roark kill Malva i’m so proud of him

Under Sun too

with ton of flinch

[calm marsh]

Tbf, Rock type just so bad at setting sand lol

[gleaming jolt]

Hmm!

I will give it a try! Maybe not dual Serena but still I will try!!

[mellow dune]

Who should I use against Malva..?

[swift swan]

anyone who can remove her sun would be great. there are a few rock pairs that like sandstorm, such as Olivia

[undone ether]

Use special attackers against Malva iirc.

She has sentry entry x2

[swift swan]

yeah, that too

[merry burrow]

What are good debuffs for special CS if i dont have any good rock types?

Like yknow, those things you need for points

[old orchid]

there are some offtype parameter sets found in the pins

[merry burrow]

Ty!
Also damn didnt knew these gave crystlers 👀

[mellow dune]

Just need sth to overwrite her sun? Does hail work?

[mellow dune]

What’s this?

[old orchid]

any weather that is not sunny day works

Sentry Entry x2 doubles the base defense stat of the enemies, thus making physical dmg dealers less effective

the special equivalent of it is Wise Entry x2

[merry burrow]

12k and did blue with all the bulky parameters (including the lower damage offtype attack one)

Though karen and kahili were probably the hardest 💔

[mellow dune]

I cleared the Kanto stages, thanks guys!

Tho only 5k points..

[old orchid]

That's nothing to be ashamed of

Everyone starts from somewhere

[left storm]

Getting more than 4.5k is what matters

[trail smelt]

We have Kanto?

[gleaming jolt]

They mean special stadium

Champion is Blue you know

[trail smelt]

Oh right right

[exotic heath]

man this special stadium is kicking my ass

[wind plinth]

I never noticed this channel mb!

So I kinda messed up by using my strongest units early because I first didn’t know you couldn’t re use them and I somehow managed to beat elite4

But final fight is damn hard to me

Do I need to show my 3stars also?

[clear breach]

You could always try to reset, I’ve noticed that you didn’t even complete the typings shown on the bottom

[wind plinth]

I tried to but they don’t let me

[clear breach]

Ah wait yeah I don’t think you can

[fading cradle]

i don’t think you can reset hard mode

[clear breach]

Well in that case

[grand steppe]

He's still doing the medal, so they can't reset.

[wind plinth]

Usually in my attemps I kill the boss and then die to the others or right before killing him

[clear breach]

Hmm it could be your gauge that’s slowing you down

Since Ghetsis + MC can take up all gauge if you use Glaciate and Sunsteel Strike

[mellow linden]

Also Ghetsis isn’t getting enough help on his Sp. Atk. buffs

[wind plinth]

Oh actually i just added ghetsis last attempt

[mellow linden]

Is Cyrus still available?

[clear breach]

Maybe Skyla could help

[wind plinth]

It was originally drattak

[clear breach]

Or yeah Cyrus

May, Skyla and Cyrus could work?

[grand steppe]

also what types did you do the medal for?

[wind plinth]

Um i have no idea tbh

[mellow linden]

Assuming Cyrus is still available (not likely based on who they’ve shown us, but it’s possible they haven’t gone to get him yet) he can on-type, so May isn’t necessary

[wind plinth]

I have beaten victory road and then went to elite4 I wasn’t expecting it to be so hard

[cinder summit]

Cyrus & Palkia

Acquisition:

Main Story

Alternates:

Sygna Suit Cyrus & Darkrai

[clear breach]

Oh wait my bad for some reason I thought Iris stage was Water Weak

[mellow linden]

Have you obtained him from Legendary Adventures yet?

[wind plinth]

Not him

[mellow linden]

Go get him, get him to 5/5 & 20/20, and then build a team around him

+101

[frozen depot]

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

1. Build your team around a damage dealer that hits the stage's weakness (or off-type if they're strong enough). This can be a / striker or a tech. Read the unit's kit carefully - moves & passives - to see what they can buff themselves. Ideally you want to be at +3 critical-hit rate and +6 attack or special attack depending on the unit. Damage dealers should be slot 3 in tactics

2. Choose a support to put in slot 1 tactics so it takes the damage. Your support should cover the buffs and damage dealer needs they cannot max by themselves reliably - critical hit rate and SpAtk/Atk being the main ones. If your damage dealer is self-sufficient, you can look at defensive, healing or other utility supports instead.

3. The 3rd slot is flexible and depends on your other two pairs. You could take a tech focusing on utility such as debuffs or field effects to enhance your damage dealer, or another support that covers a team need like defenses, healing or boost gauge speed for demanding damaging moves. If your team allows it, you can even pick a 2nd damage dealer! It's important to experiment & remember that a successful team needs to manage gauge properly for triple queueing and buffing your damage dealier efficiently so they can start attacking as soon as possible!

See the image below for a visual guide. And check out #1010307000346878062 or the bot commands pinned in #bot-zone for more information on Triple Queue & other game information!

[mellow linden]

Follow those guidelines and try to avoid doubling up on types you’ve already used too much

Since it’s just Hard Mode Cyrus should win handily

[wind plinth]

Oh okay alright I’ll do that ty

I go in like this for the first attempt

I won!! Tyvm haha

[mellow linden]

If it works it works, though next time it’d be better to have the 3rd team member be someone who can help the team more and/or fill another type instead of Drake (who really doesn’t do much of anything for that team)

Regardless, congrats!

[livid jacinth]

15k
Full Powercreep 😂😂😂

[night thunder]

Can 1/5 NC leaf off type pretty reliably?

[mellow linden]

For Hard Mode and low-point value Master Mode probably, for high-point value Master Mode you’d likely need to at least run a dual damage-dealer team with a 2nd Fire damage-dealer

[vague solar]

First F2P 15k clear woo

I might be pushing it with the Tina and Bianca but eh

[sharp willow]

Tina i think is the big thing that makes me go "ehh"

since she's technically a pokefair, you can get her from the daily scout but the rate is still quite unlikely

[vague solar]

The daily scout odds aren’t that bad for her since she’s just as likely as any other 4*

plus that’s how I got her

[sharp willow]

4*s as a whole are uncommon from that is more my point

[vague solar]

That’s valid. I could probably replace her with someone else, her fight wasn’t super close

Still gonna count it tho woo

[sharp willow]

thats fair

idk if i've ever done a full on f2p run of CS

perhaps thats something to try next month

[vague solar]

This month is a good time to do it, it’s mad easy

[sharp willow]

i did 4*/3* only a few weeks back, and that was interesting, but also not f2p bc i used a bunch of limited lodge pairs lmao

i think like 4

[vague solar]

Got 0/20 lodge sycamore hitting 3k you can prob do it

I almost used lodge Steven, forgot he was technically limited

[gleaming jolt]

Forget to add that it's all offtype and I tried to handicap myself with some F2P supports because I don't want the entire stadium to overkill with NC Kantrio

[true bloom]

Props for f2p clear

[lean lion]

Tysm!

[woeful wolf]

Im really struggling get past the special champion stadium no matter what parameters or team i try

I wanna save my rock team for blue

[clear breach]

Send your roster

[woeful wolf]

Ok one sec

[karmic zephyr]

NC Marnie is great if you haven't used her yet

Tbh with this roster you shouldn't struggle but okay

You even have Ash

You have Zerena

SC Irida

These are all amazing pairs and you have them already at 3/5

SST Red

These are literally all the best units in the game

[clear breach]

I agree you definitely shouldn’t be struggling

Especially because I’ve seen more difficult runs in the Pasio Stadium

[radiant lark]

hi, relatively new here (as in i started a month ago) and was wondering if i should even consider the pasio stadium

ignore arc leon, nc leaf, and nc blue cause like an idiot i threw them at karen first thinking i could reset lol

and dw about levels, i can fix that

mainly just trying to get as many gems as possible

[crimson wolf]

i dont know how you pass Malva but i did some try and error. Turns out i meed sand and stealth rock but I suddenly used Bertha on the first round. So this what i been using

one sync and all units will be wiped

[left storm]

You need a sand setter for olivia

Use acerola if you have literally zero Sand setting units

[nova vector]

im basically new to this game (played a bit before ash joined and mainly only now and then, recently decided to get back into it and know almost nothing about this game or how to grind properly or really anything)

and i was wondering how do i beat iris

i beat all the others with my strongest characters because I thought I would be able to reset

ill send my roster

wait i saw someone beat it with a team similar to one I can use (Cyrus, Drake, and Hop), so I’ll try using that

[zealous karma]

Olivia doesn’t need sand as her sand tiles are optional, the reason they’re struggling is because center has sentry entry

[karmic zephyr]

I happened to be at a similar spot when I started (there was also a pasio stadium event then) and I didn't even try. After playing the game all these months, and understanding the mechanics better, I would say it's doable. But, you just have to understand how everything works. Both your enemies and your pairs. When I started the game and people were trying to explain things to me, I didn't understand a word or I understood the bare minimum. The thing about general pool pairs, is that they need the perfect setup to work. Contrary to the limited ones that are a lot more simple/powerful. So if it's doable? Yes it is, most likely. But, are you gonna have a hard time with it? Yes

There's also a pic, a couple messages above yours with general pool pairs that clear it. The thing is, move levels and grids and EX, matter a lot more than you think.

[woeful wolf]

Sorry just got back on. So went try again with different pairs and stuff still not making a dent

[old orchid]

which team are you trying

[woeful wolf]

I tried My NC Red ice team. I tried my Posion Getta team. About to try the Electric team with the Pikachus and NC Blue.

[karmic zephyr]

Can you send the parameters?

[woeful wolf]

Im starting to think that’s the issue

This is the standard one i run usually for most content

[old orchid]

do not pick standard damage reduction when you are offtyping

that's the biggest issue

the pins here have recommended presets of 2.5k params, and at the bottom of the pins there is a 3k guide

[karmic zephyr]

And also make sure to swift between special and physical damage reduction depending on who you use as your main damage dealer

[woeful wolf]

That i do constantly

Depending on what i need

[nova vector]

turns out that the auto battle mode kind of just sucks because i lost my first battle, turned auto off and won practically instantaneously

[zealous karma]

Never use auto battle it only queues one move at a time

[radiant lark]

well can i have some teams to build for it? cause i need to like 5 (now 4) teams right?

[nova vector]

It has somehow carried me up until now

[clear breach]

Auto battle is useful when grinding easy stages with strong pairs but once you get to actual difficult fights it’s not really useful

[old orchid]

it's totally useless, to be honest

[clear breach]

Not completely, I let it run during LG to just farm the cookies so that’s kinda useful

[paper summit]

well, that's as situational as it gets, a mode that barely happens nowadays and not every team can manage, point is for most of the game you should just not touch that button

learn the game and you'll have a better time in general

[clear breach]

Yup

[nova vector]

What is LG

[gleaming jolt]

Legendary Gauntlet is a time limited battle event, where you fight any three of the Legendary Arena Boses!

It's the best way to farm Lucky Cookies

[nova vector]

oh

Thanks

[left storm]

Yeah but the stage is not bulky at all

Olivia never had problems killing malva for me

And since malva sets sun you definitely want to turn it off anyway

[weak sleet]

What character is blue designed for in the special champion stadium?

I'm assuming champion silver?

Please ping me

[sharp willow]

Combo of SS Diantha and NC Silver, I would assume

Diantha has team unbending for his defense dropping, Silver replaces his weather

[weak sleet]

Ah so he is easy picking as I have both of those

[left storm]

No crit buffs no EX clears are so funny

[warped jungle]

Hi, need help with CS rock thingy.

I don't have much

These the rock types

[clear breach]

Send all your pairs as well

[warped jungle]

Uhhh that'll take forever

[clear breach]

You don’t have to specifically use rock types

[warped jungle]

gimme a sec

[clear breach]

You don’t have to send them by type just send them all together if you get what I mean

[warped jungle]

What's that thing where you upload all your pairs??

[clear breach]

+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

[warped jungle]

Oh god I fucked up my save file

I was gonna update like 10 new pairs I got and it deleted everything

And my dumbass overwrote the old notepad save

[warped jungle]

This is what I have

[left storm]

This was definitely fun, a very interesting 15k

[left storm]

https://streamable.com/nwp1ei

Funny

[fading cradle]

lodge steven gaming

[left storm]

Non exed btw

[fast ruin]

1.6k Karen and Blue, 3k everything else =,)

I probably should've used the sun team on drake and held onto the electric team for blue but I can't be bothered to redo it lol

[zealous karma]

How come you couldn’t of 3K Karen?

[fast ruin]

Uhhhhh honestly I couldn't tell ya I think it's partially that my presets suck and I couldn't be bothered to change it much

[zealous karma]

I see

[fast ruin]

• my fairy team is good in theory but they're all 1/5 so that's probably not helping

[toxic cobalt]

Why does blue zapdos have downpour

Nobody better excuse it as thunder always hits in rain

[mellow linden]

Reference to Primordial Sea Zapdos in some Smogon metas (like Almost Any Ability) on Showdown?

[gleaming jolt]

How did you solo with just Zerena???????
I tried it but the gauge is very slow and Serena was dying!

I have 3/5, +6E and EXR SS Serena. Is your Serena more invested???

[stoic pawn]

https://youtube.com/shorts/w49uBHWzaKg?si=u4evLd5gBQ-ig-S9
Play again and record.
Lucky skill is Speedy Entry 2.

[gleaming jolt]

Thankyou!
I see you used half sync reduction round to get less hits!

Thanks for doing it again to show me!

[dim depot]

Okay so the special stadium is actually kinda hard. I'm counting like 4 good units, but there are 5 battles. Having to resort to Olivia like the old days lol

Anyone who particularly benefits from the first round gimmick?

[gleaming jolt]

It depends on your team!

The first round is easiest to flinch lock I think!

And poison stall maybe

[toxic cobalt]

Yeah literally any stall lol

Easiest battle ever

[dim depot]

I ended up winning without any status after several attempts

[swift swan]

updated!

[thorny wind]

Half sync my beloved

[gleaming jolt]

Thanks again!
It worked lol!
I used Damage Guard tile instead of MG Refresh, and SP3 Lucky skill, because less time to reroll other lucky skills!
I did it after reset too lol!

I rushed through other battles to get to Iris!

Nice strategy for Half sync rounds!

[fading cradle]

WHY THE FUCK KS THWRE HALF SYNC, NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[keen jasper]

[clear breach]

Hmm I wanna challenge myself a bit with this weeks CS

But i don’t know how…

🤔

[dim depot]

I have always wanted to complete a CS with either only the same trainer on a team or somehow the same trainers for every round

[keen jasper]

Higher points

[clear breach]

?

[keen jasper]

Do more than 3k pts. per stage

Like I did 4k pts. per stage before

[clear breach]

Isn’t the max 3k though

Oh wait

I get what you mean

[swift swan]

Do higher points. Use the wrong damage reduction. Build ontype teams but use them for the wrong E4. The world is oyster

[dim depot]

It really was an inverse difficulty curve. Or I over prepared. First battle was soooo difficult. Then for the last one, I handily pre-synced even on the fast sync gimmick on my first try.

And for all the rewards, which I almost never do. That one level up for someone better be worth it lol

[zealous karma]

Those are basically the ended pairs for the final fight

[left storm]

Half Sync is extremely Easy to abuse for solos yea

Almost any decent MF can win with it

[trail smelt]

As time goes on and people’s rosters get better with the power creep, yeah it changes from a major obstacle to “so you have chosen a swift death.”

[left storm]

It's not hard even with f2ps tbfh

As long as you have a grasp of the parameters

[trail smelt]

Nah it was BS early on

[left storm]

Idk, never had trouble

[trail smelt]

Ready for next week

[trail smelt]

You didn’t everyone else did with their crap units lol

So many complaints and dread when that week had half sync

[left storm]

I meant with my f2p clears I did for years

I basically never used limiteds

See how i did exless og Valerie, exless syca and exless SS elesa vs every fairy weak stage in every region

[trail smelt]

Yes yes you’re better we’re worse doesn’t change that people hated it

[left storm]

I feel like it's just a matter of understanding how parameters work

[true bloom]

First time duo stages in CS YIPPIEEEEEEE
Yes, I know it's possible solo too but I sucks so

[gleaming jolt]

Great job Touya!

Going support less against Marshal!
Nice

(Tbh I don't know Anni Skyla roles)

[trail smelt]

She’s Tech with Strike EXR

More importantly her kit is very team supportive lol with Mini potion all, Flying Zone, and high Confusion/Flinch AoE chance from her air cutter attack

Massive nuke too

[true bloom]

Sankyuuu XD
Also Chase is just toooo op for special damage support

[true bloom]

I was hoping she got field or support EXR

[gleaming jolt]

Flinch I see!

[gleaming jolt]

I will someday scout him!

[keen jasper]

Someone do solo 4k pts. per stage

[gleaming jolt]

I believe 3/5 AS Steven can do that ontype

[left storm]

Now that's some based solos

(the maxie & marnie ones)

[hushed burrow]

ground weak is always annoying

im met with a decision

who shall glorialt sweep 🤔

[keen jasper]

Marshall because fire is hella stacked anyways

[gleaming jolt]

Who will substitute Gloria in both cases?

[analog wolf]

Reiterating: I'm having problems with the hard champions battle, I can't seem to damage any mons on the enemy, can you recommend me any team to work on?

[supple reef]

You’re against Alder, correct?

[analog wolf]

Currently going against any of the E4

I tried going against Shauntal but i got pelted lol

[clear breach]

Are you attempting mastermode or just hard mode

[analog wolf]

Just hard mode

[clear breach]

Give me a sec

[hushed burrow]

ss red or blue and pidgeot

i would prob off type marshall tho

if i dont use her

[clear breach]

Oh wait I tested out the wrong one I though Shauntal was ghost weak this week so I went with Ghost Weak Caitlin not realizing it was Caitlin

But I tested this team out for Caitlin

[analog wolf]

Shauntal is ground weak i presume

[clear breach]

Yup

I’m guessing you don’t have Courtney

[supple reef]

Constructing for Shauntal around Cynthia/Hop seems pretty reasonable, maybe Sonia as a third for an extra type

[clear breach]

For Shauntal you could do Sonia, Cynthia and Hop

[supple reef]

lol great minds think alike

[thorny wind]

Oh hey this is great

[analog wolf]

I don't

[clear breach]

Anyways this could work so test it out

[analog wolf]

Ill try it out

[analog wolf]

I tried the team out, zamazenta feels too squishy when taking hits from sun boosted chandelure but garchomp deals good damage once i got its mega

I'm gonna need something that will negate the sun

[supple reef]

Tank with Sonia instead? Or throw Acerola in there over Sonia and click Sandstorm turn 1

[thorny wind]

So I was halfway through my CS run when I realized a theme was going on. So presenting: Johto vs Unova!

[hidden ore]

Is there an order of how to tackle Pasio rock CS rounds 1-4?

Who to avoid on specific rounds

I’m gonna save NC Silver and/or ss Diantha for Blue

[sharp willow]

Id probably recommend Karen for round 2, none of the bosses have an incredible amount of special moves they utilise but she has the least

Otherwise, not really

[dim depot]

Wasn't round 2 basically meant for the one you needed Classic Blue for? I mean, special attack boost? There's only only special rock attacker relevant here

[sharp willow]

I mean, alt Selene

But realistically, none of the stages need special rock damage. Even Malva, who has Sentry Entry x2, isn't too bad with physical attackers due to the fact that there was exactly half a special rock damage dealer when she was released

Since Classic Blue's sync is still physical and all

[supple reef]

or you could always poison stall which is definitely not anything I have experience with

[balmy folio]

15k. Caitlin was the most annoying for me lol.

[dim depot]

His sync was really bad anyway. I think that battle was intended to be won with pure Hyper Beam.

[sharp willow]

i mean

i don't fully believe that, tbh

there wasn't a special rock sync at the time except for Roxanne, who was not doing damage for obvious reasons, I think they intended for you to sync with Blue for the sake of the mega stat boost

[supple reef]

if you throw on physical dr8 then I believe it (unless that parameter doesn’t impact syncs)

[sharp willow]

it does

i'd need to look at the team recommended in the tips for the stage

[supple reef]

it is also a 192 BP sync, oh

[sharp willow]

it has 6 power tiles and haymaker though

still not particularly good, but

[supple reef]

okay 1/5 CBlue syncs for 160BP with none of that stuff

curse you mobile pomatools for defaulting to 5/5

[sharp willow]

okay, intended team is Roxanne, Bertha, Classic Blue apparently

i guess the plan is to DOT the sides with Bertha

oh yay, more half sync this week.

[left storm]

If only haymaker wasn't locked in such shit grid location

He'd be much more usable

[zealous karma]

Does his grid even have enough good tiles for that placement to matter?

[left storm]

It definitely does

[zealous karma]

Which passives because I’m not sure I’m seeing them

[left storm]

Its not inherently about the passives

Its about the required routing to get either FA4, HB +10 ACC and cs1

Along sync tiles

[zealous karma]

Why first aid

[left storm]

Because it's a useful safe button that fills you to 100% with a potion on top of it

Because being forced to grab hs1 & SE1 for haymaker wastes a ton of energy

I know conceptualization is hard

But you need to imagine the grid in a different way than what it is

Grids aren't just about tiles

They're also about how much the decent tiles allow you to pickup anything else

With more HB bp and Sync tiles freed up the performance the unit could output would be much less precarious

[zealous karma]

I’m not sure how much that really matters in the context of blue like yes if he didn’t have his tiles placed in the way they were he’d be able to get more stuff from his grid but his grid doesn’t really have any useful tools for it to realistically matter. It’s pretty obvious for any pair if they had better tile placement they’d have better grids lel

[left storm]

So the point is "it doesn't matter because it's the way it is"

Sure

+25 Sync tiles are definitely "good tiles" for me

So a different layout letting players grab 4-5 of them instead of 2-3 would definitely make the sync more worth entertaining

[dim depot]

Then get him to Tech Role EX and his sync might finally start to boil lol

[vague solar]

Steven so broken he can 3k solo at 1/5 lol

[nova vector]

oh dear god

[clear breach]

Oh my god Round 4 Grimsley did not need to take that long

I had to switch my params around to avoid SS Hilda getting one shotted by Grimsley’s sync

And then had to reset multiple times because SSMorty’s Sunny Day MPR wouldn’t proc

And in the end I beat it without the Sunny Day MPR

[undone ether]

Im waiting for Giovanni to work.with my flying team o.o

[velvet light]

Do you think my rosters ready to start taking on special stadiums?

[old orchid]

you totally can, but i think you should warm up with lower points per stage instead of going to 3k points right away

offtyping the whole stadium is totally fine and it's a legitimate strat when you lack good ontype options

poison stalling is also good

[velvet light]

alright, any rexommended begineer ones i should equip

[old orchid]

i suggest checking the pins first to study the gimmicks of each stage

for example, Malva requires you to shut down sunny weather and preferably bring special dmg dealers thanks to her high defense stat (Sentry Entry x2)

[velvet light]

oh i was meaning base stadium as well but i could try special

[old orchid]

is this the first time you attempting this gamemode?

[velvet light]

yep, i figured my roster was finally good enough

[velvet light]

master mode i mean, i've done base heaps

[toxic cobalt]

Your roster is good enough!

[velvet light]

just finished a 4250 run it was doable with only one hard fight and that was due to bad rng

[toxic cobalt]

Nice work

[left storm]

https://youtu.be/zGdUdvIT_mE?si=FHCUHzwKidIxhjOi

🥚

[toxic cobalt]

That’s what I’m talking about

[thorny wind]

https://youtube.com/shorts/nkjBuTku2WQ?feature=share

[hushed burrow]

So close

Bro got 3 dodges with +3 evasiveness but my grimsely with +6 evasiveness gets hit thrice in a row

[thorny wind]

That is definitely more than 3 lmao. This was supposed to be me just trying for fun before realizing "oh wait wtf I can actually do this", and then it happened

[lean lion]

The year long wait for C Leaf was totally worth it. Love this pair so much!!

Her victory ofc

[exotic heath]

first 10k for me 🙂

[clear breach]

A tip for ya: Spread the NC Kanto Trio evenly between your teams so you’ll have more team comps and be able to do higher points

[gleaming jolt]

You should have used NC Leaf with AS Leon and SS Erika with Adaman!
I suggest you try resetting it and I believe you can 15k easily with that many amazing pairs!

But still gratz on the first 10k!

[exotic heath]

I'll take a look-see

appreciate both of your advice

[zealous karma]

Ye the NcKantrio don’t have much synergy apart from Blue and red

[exotic heath]

I was saving them for... nothing apparently

[zealous karma]

If you have sseirika she makes a great third for Adaman + SsAce

[exotic heath]

Something in my head was telling me that Alder was going to be an insane check for no reason

[zealous karma]

Alder doesn’t really have a difficult fight neither does ciris

[exotic heath]

Copy

[zealous karma]

Unova is on the easier side I’d say it’s like the third easiest cs (1st being Kanto, second probably Alola) as some unova stages do have a 1.5x stat like dark Caitlin

[old orchid]

Johto is found dead

[zealous karma]

I find johto a harder region

[old orchid]

After rethink about it, i can see it now

[zealous karma]

All of koga is annoying lel

[old orchid]

Lance is considered slightly harder than both Iris and Alder

And yeah obviously Koha

[zealous karma]

Crit shield right before sync
Different entry x2 on mid and sides

Imagine him with a real high up stat

[gleaming jolt]

If you wanna read about fights :- #1289967103302176798 message

[grand trout]

Kanto again? Didn't we have kanto recently?

[old orchid]

Nope

[hushed burrow]

Well three that I saw lol

[thorny wind]

For those who used Olivia in Pasio CSMM, where did you use her?

[undone ether]

I wouldve used her against karen or kahili. If with sand against drake with ingo.

[thorny wind]

Okay thanks

I'll look at them once I get Selene

Although I would attempt mono rock so Ingo would be out

Also I do not have Ingo

[swift swan]

Mono rock with Olivia is possible if you have tech kabutops!

[thorny wind]

I do

I used it to duo with SS Diantha on a CS stage I forgot

[old orchid]

[thorny wind]

Actually yes it might have been Malva

[left storm]

Malva

[idle warren]

I can ask about the pasio stadium here right? What order should I fight them in?

[gleaming jolt]

It mostly depends on your team, who can take more benefit of that Round!

[idle warren]

Hmmm so if I wanted to use emmit id probably wanna use him round 1?

Ingo*

And probably not against drake since he has eq

[gleaming jolt]

The round one parameter is good for flinch locking and poison stall!

R2 you can use special attackers against physical opponents

R3 can benefit Gauge heavy team

[idle warren]

Thank you!

[gleaming jolt]

I don't have Ingo so I can't tell!

[swift swan]

Sandstorm doesn't innately boost ground moves

[mellow linden]

Sandstorm and Hail do not provide any benefits (outside of some chip damage against the opponent) unless a Sync Pair specifically has passives that require them to be active. That’s why we have Rock, Ground, and Ice Zones

[clear breach]

So close

Maybe if I time the rain dances

[eternal python]

Last stage bros..

Out of sync pairs

[supple reef]

Can you scroll down a bit? I don’t think you’re out of options fully, you just may need to build someone new

[eternal python]

uh here

I believe u are searching for Rock type, i haven't used any of them

[supple reef]

I’m actually not. Have you used Lucy yet?

[eternal python]

Lucy ?

[supple reef]

She has Seviper as her Pokemon

[eternal python]

Ah

I haven't

[supple reef]

Perfect, poison stall is on the table then and it’s the perfect thing to counteract the feeling of “I have nobody left”

[eternal python]

Get her to 125 ?

[supple reef]

Healing is going to be sketchy but let me have a read over Liza’s grid real quick. I assume you haven’t covered poison or psychic yet for type medal?

[eternal python]

Type medal isnt a big deal

I did psychic

gonna complete them next unova anyway

I covered most of them

[frigid wedge]

In the other channel, it came up that this is his first week, so he’ll have a deeper roster and an easier time completing the medal when Unova comes back around.

[eternal python]

These few days has been rough but im learning

[supple reef]

Then SS Blue/Liza/Lucy is probably your best shot. Grid Liza for S-Move: Team HP Recovery (M) 1 and otherwise nothing else matters. Lucy needs her Hostile Environment/Pokey Trap tiles and nothing else matters. Blue is 1/5 so nothing really matters there

Inflict bad poison and trap on all enemies with Lucy while you buff your defenses, Blue takes first sync, Liza takes the rest, and then just keep triple queueing and Liza syncing while the enemies slowly wither themselves away

You’ll get to 11/18 on the type medal, which is pretty perfect for your first week

[eternal python]

Which to choose here

Stat lowering effect against opponent ?

[supple reef]

Either the second or third one is fine. You don’t want to give Alder gauge help since that leads to Hyper Beam spam (kills them faster at the cost of less syncs from you), and half sync seems like it adds too much risk into the fight

You likely won’t damage them much with your attacking moves, the strength in poison stall is they’re going to do most of the damage to themselves from the toxic chip ramping up over time

[eternal python]

Preset

First target

The tank is SS blue right

Blue
Liza
Lucy

[supple reef]

Tactics should be Blue/Liza/Lucy in that order

Blue setting Safety Net on sync gives you an extra safeguard in case the damage starts getting to be a lot at the end, all your healing comes from Liza’s sync moves

Unfortunately I don’t see room for Ghetsis on that team even though Noble Roar would help with the survivability, I just don’t trust Liza as a primary tank

[eternal python]

uh

yea

i failed

[supple reef]

At what point?

[eternal python]

Somehow alder's pokemon have lessen poison 9

Lessen trap 9

and SS Blue doesnt tank enough

2x hyper beam and he's dead

[supple reef]

Did you use Liza’s X SpDef All?

[eternal python]

yes\

[supple reef]

and you’re triple queueing?

[eternal python]

yep

[supple reef]

These mitigations are standard, doesn’t stop poison stall from working

[eternal python]

do u stack poison?

[supple reef]

Could also just go Cyrus + SS Blue since your Cyrus is built enough to handle hard mode

[supple reef]

You can’t stack poison and bad poison. Bad poison has its damage increase over time, and stall is about getting to that point

[eternal python]

what happen after all enemy is wrapped and poisoned

[supple reef]

You’re supposed to just get to as many syncs with your Synchro Healing pair as possible

In this case that would’ve been Liza

If poison stall isn’t working then just go SS Blue/Aaron/Cyrus (Aaron’s Heal Order comes out after Cyrus uses his TM twice) and brute force the fight that way. Cyrus’s CS9 means you shouldn’t be struggling damage wise

[eternal python]

when liza use sync

it suppose to heal ?

[supple reef]

Yes, I told you to grid for that tile

[eternal python]

woah

[supple reef]

The 20% teamwide heal is really crucial since you’ll probably fire off 4-5 of those

[eternal python]

After several deaths of turtles

that was such a crazy strat

didnt expect the poison and trap suddenly deal 1/4 of their own health

[supple reef]

Congrats! And you’re in an amazing spot for when Unova returns, your account will be a lot more developed then and it should be pretty easy to get the rest of the types you need for Master Mode

[eternal python]

i can take on battle rally now

no idea what it is

[supple reef]

Poison stall’s always fun because of that imo

[eternal python]

@supple reef

For battle rally

Team will be

NC Red
NC Blue
Hop & Zamazenta

[supple reef]

Yeah just run it through for now. Be wary, MP usage carries over between battles

[eternal python]

do i buy anything from rally shop

[supple reef]

Should probably move over the BR channel but I wouldn’t worry too much about minmaxing right now, you’ll definitely need to make purchases to clear the rally so just use your best judgment on what to go after

[eternal python]

ah theres a channel for it

ok

thanks

[vague solar]

Worth it.

[ebon stirrup]

Why did I not thinking about Poison stalling

[toxic cobalt]

Blue is not falling to my f2p teams why is f2p rock so bad

[proud vapor]

How do i beat this? Im kinda of a new player. Please help?

i did the sync tracker these are the result

[fading cradle]

are all your sync pairs move level 1/5? we can’t really give you detailed information if you didn’t update their move levels

[proud vapor]

oh yes

yeah the move levels aee low i dont have any maxed

[toxic cobalt]

Hello! Have you read our team building FAQ?

Please max out the free legendaries

+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.

[proud vapor]

yeah but i still dont fully understand how to team buidling works

[toxic cobalt]

That’s okay, comes with practice

But for this you start by picking a striker to match each stage’s weakness

[proud vapor]

i know i need to pick 1 or 2 dmg dealer and 1 support. but i dont know which dmg desler to choose or the support

so if the enemry weakness is grass. do i choose any grass type dmg dealer and support i have? or does the stars rank matters of the pokemon?

[toxic cobalt]

Just 1 dmg dealer to start. Support depends on the dmg dealer

Support type doesn’t matter stars aren’t that important either

Anyway you can increase the star level if needed

[proud vapor]

so support can be any type? and how do i know what support to choose? like what skill does the support need to be compatible with the dmg dealer. do i choose a support that raise crit hit?

[toxic cobalt]

If your striker doesn’t raise their own crit then yeah you need a suppport to do it

[proud vapor]

what are the free legendaries. lol im not sure if i got them or not

[toxic cobalt]

And you want support to raise the attack or special attack depending on the striker

[proud vapor]

ok, can i filter out which support does that?

[toxic cobalt]

From the legendary adventures

[toxic cobalt]

Yes the filters work

[proud vapor]

ok, i will try thank you

[paper summit]

that's a strange looking CS stage

[gleaming jolt]

Because BR has CS stages mostly!

[fading cradle]

i’ll be honest i’ve never seen that cs stage before. a new stadium perhaps???

[hushed burrow]

(thats area 10)

[gleaming jolt]

[true bloom]

Imagine if we only can do cs with certain roles like BR

[gleaming jolt]

We do that with Master Mode parameters!

[toxic cobalt]

Annoying Blue #1011675077764456519 message

[noble plaza]

About to do the special stadium. Who should go where?

[clear breach]

You don’t have to on type the stadium

[noble plaza]

And who should I do first?

[noble plaza]

Yeah true, but it'd be good to on type some of them

[clear breach]

I’d say you could put Olivia against Malva or NC Blue mostly because both have Wtz on entry (Malva has Sun, Blue has rain)

[noble plaza]

I'll probably use olivia for Malva and Emmet for Blue

[clear breach]

And I believe Olivia has sand multipliers so you could replace the weather with sandstorm

[noble plaza]

Ye she does

[clear breach]

Other than tbh idk much about the others, I pretty much off typed all of the stages except NC Blue

And for that I used 3/5 EXR SS Diantha

[zealous karma]

If save emmet and Diantha for red

[hushed burrow]

Where does this special stadium lie in the difficulty spectrum of CS

[zealous karma]

I’d say somewhere in the middle I feel like we’ve had harder special cs’s and this doesn’t feel like sinnoh or hoenn level

[toxic cobalt]

Yeah 2 dead easy 2 mid and champion is relatively tough but not toooooo tough

Mostly champion asks for role compression

[hushed burrow]

Wdym role compression?

So harder than unova but easier than kalos?

[toxic cobalt]

As in it needs weather and combatting debuffs as well as normal things

[balmy folio]

Is drakes team just special bulk. Trying to offtype with SS Lusa. Even with the standard 3k parameters.

I got 2.5k with physical grass team Adaman/SS Erika/Dawn. But don't think it can push 3k.

[old orchid]

What team are you trying with Lusamine?

Do note that there are factors that prevent you from getting successful run, notably the power gap between Adaman and Lusamine, team comp and parameters

[balmy folio]

SSLusa/Sabrina/Bianca figured terrain Nuke.

Usually my offtype team for regular CS.

[old orchid]

Drake has low HP (17k) and nerfed offensive stats

So it's more like the comp's problems

[balmy folio]

Hm. Maybe I shouldnt have saved drakes for the final match

You're right. Just tried my significantly less invested Ice team. It can clear the stage. Comp issue

[balmy folio]

15k in this special stadium. Zzzz...

[gleaming jolt]

Kantrio in every round

[balmy folio]

Lmao. I just noticed that

[thorny wind]

https://youtu.be/l-CWu91CFGA

[wicked pebble]

question, what pairs work for the speical CS?

I've got at least three picked out, rock type wise, but there's still two more.

[clear breach]

Like on type and stuff?

https://youtu.be/AsQ6uWreOK4?si=gM8kZyzSrxte8LP7 forgot to post this here

I was too lazy to make a thumbnail

I also accidentally muted the first battle so I just looped some random audio I had

[mellow linden]

Anything that would work for the regular CS stages that’re copy-pasted + a way to remove Rain and a good amount of Defense buffs for the Blue fight

Don’t need to on-type, so if you’re not comfortable enough with your Rock roster to on-type all 5 stages don’t pressure yourself

[hushed burrow]

More points than last time so that's a win in my books

[trail smelt]

Nice

Slowly getting better

[toxic cobalt]

More points is good points!

[night thunder]

Alright i think thats the best i can do right now! Not to shabby considering last week i couldnt hit 10k i only have 3 reliable 3k units and leaf can 2.5k on type and my adaman can only get like 2.2k right now off type

[zealous karma]

Nice work! I’d work on the supports you choose for your Allie’s neither hop nor Sonia help Steven in a meaningful way as he’s not a physical attacker and Penny doesn’t provide any value to Adaman and SsEirika who are physical not special

[versed osprey]

finally got 15k for the first time after getting some more good units

[night thunder]

woot woot!

[keen jasper]

Who needs sandstorm

[keen jasper]

Also I cleared Alder when reset happened

Half sync is best and anyone who disagrees sucks

[fading cradle]

u suck /j

[swift swan]

updated

[hushed burrow]

Missed special stadiu

But I deserve that for how lazy i am

[balmy folio]

Honestly was gonna try some cooler things, i might still do it later. But couldn't be fucked rn.

15k ez pz

Only Triple Leafeon was based.

[frosty pilot]

tried some silly things

[trail smelt]

No half sync this week so I don’t get to be funny

Perma field effect though

Bro wrote his own death warrant allowing that lol

Ready for next week and yes I double checked Bruno is weak to Grass AGAIN next week lol

[supple reef]

First 15k solos only even though my account has probably been able to do it for a bit. Marnie clutched and lived almost an entire sync cycle against Agatha on 1 HP

[hushed burrow]

Ontyping cs just makes it so much easier for me, not as fun but it's whatever ig

[clear breach]

Oh my god the champion battle is rock

AGAIN

I’m getting tired of rock stages be more original DeNa

[supple reef]

Doesn’t matter what type it is if you sleepchain em

[paper summit]

it's Kanto anyway, we are literally on baby mode

[supple reef]

yeah I couldn’t figure out the solo params to ontype Blue but it’s a solo I feel like that’s not the intended way to do it

[clear breach]

Wait are the rewards different for Kanto? It looks like we only get a sprint candy coin from the whole thing

[paper summit]

that's normal

not sure why you think we get more than one

[fading cradle]

there’s always been 1 candy coin from csmm rewards

[clear breach]

Fr I swear we always got more than 1

[fading cradle]

nope

[zealous karma]

I wish

[fading cradle]

an additional support coin can really be used rn

[gleaming jolt]

Is it just me or this week was harder than last week?

[fading cradle]

for some reason it was

kanto is still a baby compared to other regions but this week felt unnecessarily hard

[clear breach]

I didn’t feel like on typing Blue

And I wanted to use Karen instead of NC Marnie thanks to the Johto EBE

It was pretty easy tbh

I’ll post the video later

[frozen bane]

Oki so here's my teams that I've made for the Kanto challenge

And here's my box

[vague solar]

Those teams should work, since it’s not master mode

Honestly might wanna swap Gloria for someone who fills an extra type piece. Solgaleo can pretty comfortably do the fight so long as it’s gridded

[frozen bane]

What should i grid solgaleo for?

Because it's empty rn :3

[toxic cobalt]

Steel I suppose

I would remove Nita and put Skyla there.

Marnie apprecaites the speed

Replace Skyla with a support from a new type

[clear breach]

I’d say to focus on type pieces instead of trying to mono type everything

(Steel team)

Using two gauge heavy steel strikers will hurt

[toxic cobalt]

Sonia, Leaf, and Mistyduck are very decent, and you can level up Elio, Shauna, and Dawn when you have time

[clear breach]

😭

[frozen bane]

I changed lance & bruno fights

[clear breach]

Hmm try using someone other than Jasmine

So you can get a different type medal

[balmy folio]

You can use Leaf/Eevee for normal medal and gauge and potion

I guess

[vague solar]

Yamper is a really good choice on Cynthia tho

[frozen bane]

This is the teams now, any other recommended changes?

[clear breach]

You have SS Diantha no? Why not use her for Blue’s stage

And replace Falkner with Leaf & Eevee

[vague solar]

Both could probably clear it, but SS diantha gives you an extra piece yeah

[clear breach]

There ya go, that should work

I’d swap around NC Blue and Sycamore though since SS Diantha doesn’t really benefit from Blue

[frozen bane]

Mhhhh

I seee

[toxic cobalt]

15 types, maximum efficiency

[exotic heath]

Think i’m gonna try for 12.5k this week

Gotta copy the presets when i get home

[supple reef]

14, no? Doubling electric for NC Blue and Sonia

[frozen bane]

Sonia also has normal type though no?

[fading cradle]

she counts as electric

[supple reef]

all sync pairs count as the type of their sync move when they enter battle (it is also the type of their theme skill)

[mellow linden]

Specifically the type of the Sync Move that they start the fight with

So Gladion will always count as Normal for type medal, regardless of what type he changes to via his Trainer Move

[dim depot]

These the same old battles from before?

[mellow linden]

The Rock weak Special CS is all copy-pasted from the various CS regions except the Blue fight (which is original)

Kanto CS is same old same old

[dim depot]

Oh nice. Gonna see if I can pull off a crazy win for Kanto CS this week then

[exotic heath]

BOOM first 12.5

[clear breach]

NC Blue in a comp that doesn’t really have use for him

[exotic heath]

was very much a “here damn”

i was trying to make mix torterra work for the ground zone

just was getting turbo chunked sadly

[toxic cobalt]

Let blue cook

[manic mica]

Idk if this is how you make a 18/18 pieces team

[fading cradle]

you can only get 15 types at maximum in one week

you’re gonna have to get your 3 missing types next week

[manic mica]

Im planning on using
SSilver on Lance
SSRed on Agatha
SSEthan on Bruno
SSKorrrina on Blue

[fading cradle]

assuming that you manage to beat the champion

[manic mica]

Ohh

Why didnt it carry on from the last one then?

[fading cradle]

the region changed

pieces don’t carry between regions

[manic mica]

Oh

I see

Any tips on these teams? I ran out of types for my blue team so i just put viola there

[fading cradle]

i’m not really an expert on giving out tips for teambuilding tbh, maybe someone else can come in here and help you a bit

[manic mica]

Ah alright

[clear breach]

That’s 14/18 unfortunately, N is electric type and so is Sonia

[manic mica]

ah i thought that counted as a dragon type

gimme a sec

[clear breach]

Their sync moves and theme skills determine their type

[manic mica]

i exchanged him for lisia - altaria

[clear breach]

Hmmm I’d switch around Sycamore and Lisia, just so each team can have a support

[manic mica]

alright done

[clear breach]

You’re attempting Hard mode right? Try out the teams and see if they work

[manic mica]

Alright

[wicked pebble]

aaaaand I missed the special one.

great...

[gleaming jolt]

Wait is it gone already?

Dang

Duo offtype with Standard Damage Reduction 8 selected!

[toxic cobalt]

They last two weeks

[thorny wind]

https://youtube.com/shorts/d7GLi6J1Gpg?si=qpfGotN8JE_1zWeb

[frozen bane]

I'm currently struggling on the last fight before blue, i can't beat lance

[frozen bane]

this is my box

[hard notch]

Zacian isn't that good

[frozen bane]

could i sub another steel type?

[old orchid]

Zacian is alright, but you need to replace either of Lisia or Leaf for a crit support

[frozen bane]

do i have a crit support?

[old orchid]

Yes, try giving your units' kit a read to see if any of them has crit buffs

You should always max the dmg dealer's crit buffs

[frozen bane]

i'd read their kit but i'd prefer not to read through all of my characters at once

[old orchid]

You can just filter out non support pairs

Understanding what each pair does is vital

[balmy folio]

You can sort for a pair that applies crit buffs to allies or an ally.

[old orchid]

Do note that the sorting doesn't take account of effects from passives

[frozen bane]

i have
Phoebe Dusclops
Kiwame AMarowak (2/5)
Piers Obstagoon
Sabrina Alakazam (3/5)
Sawyer Honchkrow (3/5)
Bugsy Scyther
Giovanni Persian
Player Torchic
Shauna Chesnaught

[balmy folio]

Kimawe is,good

[frozen bane]

all others are 1/5

[balmy folio]

About the same investment

No gear no grid

[frozen bane]

what's the startup? just buff up and spam sword?

[balmy folio]

Save Lisia buff up to take hits away from. Kiawe. He has potions. Buff up with Gloria and Kiawe. Spam blade.

Use move gauge boost if your bar isn't fast enough

[old orchid]

For Kiawe specifically you want to take his TM Move Point Refresh on his grid and hope for one more proc in order to max crit buffs

[fading cradle]

what move level does he get that?

bc their kiawe is only 2/5

[balmy folio]

2/5 i think

The grid tile is not all the way at the edge

[fading cradle]

oh nice didn’t know that, yeah, definitely wanna take that node then

[frozen bane]

i didn't even take the node and i dids it! :3

[balmy folio]

Cleared?

Nice

[frozen bane]

ok so which parameter should i take to fight blue?

[balmy folio]

What's your team for that fight

Oh I sse

I just scrolled up

[fading cradle]

what are the params for this week anyways, hold on

[frozen bane]

i could just rock wish and spam diantha diamond storm

[fading cradle]

perma field might be an easy cheese if you’re using ss diantha

[balmy folio]

I was gonna say

[frozen bane]

blue was the easiest one

by far

rock storm actually just shredded 😭

[balmy folio]

Diantha doin work

[frozen bane]

13 types done

[balmy folio]

Nice

Off to a good start

[frozen bane]

i will bring my goat guzma to the next round

because i need the bug shard

hafta wait until the 13th thoughhhh

[balmy folio]

You don't necessarily have to bring a striker

For shard

[frozen bane]

ikk

[balmy folio]

Offtyping is possible and use bugsy scyther support

There's your shard

[frozen bane]

i just really like Guzma :3

[old orchid]

Based

[balmy folio]

Indeed

I've only ever used Guzma maybe once. My bug go to is Lusamine

[frozen bane]

i have Viola, Noland, Bugsy/Scyther, Bugsy/Beedrill, Burgh, and Guzma

[fading cradle]

i use sc barry. he’s been a little eh though and i blame

[frozen bane]

no other bugs

[balmy folio]

I just looked at Guzma. I forgot how bad it is. At least buzzwole Guzma exists

I think I used him once on some battle that was a physical bug attacker recently

[frozen bane]

i wamnt buzzwole guzma rn :3

[fading cradle]

guzma golisopod really wants ex to shine

[frozen bane]

is he general pool?

[fading cradle]

guzma buzzwole has a goofy kit lmfao

[fading cradle]

no

in fact, he ran a little while ago. you missed it

[balmy folio]

Cant be worse than golisopod

But at least it can Nuke

I guess

I just prefer Lusamine phermosa for bug typing

She was my first 5*

Lol

[old orchid]

Another based choice

[frozen bane]

halfway to 6* on guzma

[old orchid]

Guzma is like, the best accessible Bug type as of now

[frozen bane]

i hope i have the legendary spirits for him,,

[balmy folio]

You wanna know what else is based

[fading cradle]

i remember guzma was like the savior of the first ever bug type damage challenge lol

[balmy folio]

Striker ex role for SSErika when

[fading cradle]

based triple leafeon

lorelei didn’t see it coming

[balmy folio]

3k points

[fading cradle]

very real

[balmy folio]

Just wish Erika's stats were a bit better

Her overall kit is neat

[fading cradle]

she really needs that strike exr

[balmy folio]

Yeah.

[frozen bane]

i will request a Guzma EXR right now

[hard notch]

Still need him to be like 3/5

to get no quarter and other upgrades

[exotic heath]

Weafeon

[vague solar]

Decided to have some fun this week since I can’t run master mode yet

Clay kinda surprised me, he did not awful damage and he has a solid nuke

Really hurting on the stats tho and he wants speed/spdef buffs + attack and crit cuz he has zero self-sufficiency for some reason so teambuilding was a pain 😭

[merry burrow]

How did the eve battle go down lmao

I accidentally one shotted the dark and ground weak battles cause arc cynthia and giacomo 💔

[vague solar]

Giacomo is a drug

[vague solar]

She’s completely maxed out so her stats are solid. Her nuke nearly took out the center in one hit and with enough dodge luck and ridicure she finished the rest

[merry burrow]

Oh damn

[clear breach]

https://youtu.be/2u_BtXUGS4M?si=lrbmwdeWWJsUMdOt

Forgot to post here so here it is

I love infinite field effect time

[digital sleet]

may i get help making 5 teams for champion to reach alot of points

[mellow linden]

How many points are you shooting for?

[toxic cobalt]

Have you checked the pins for general points tips?

If you pick a striker for each type we can help build teams for them

[digital sleet]

i was told 2000 each fight seemed to be good

[digital sleet]

Striker like the role or striker like any attacker

[mellow linden]

Damage-dealers in general

[digital sleet]

okay

Ground : SS Serena
Grass : Adaman
Steel : MC & Solgaleo
Dark : Akari
Rock : Olivia and Lycanrock

[clear breach]

Do you mean SS Serena?

[digital sleet]

oh yeah

My bad

[mellow linden]

Honestly just making sure the teams have good synergy should make 2k per stage pretty doable

[digital sleet]

okay

okay how about

[clear breach]

SS Serena, Kukui and Sonia could work

[digital sleet]

Okay

[clear breach]

Skyla can too but she’s rock weak

[digital sleet]

Adaman Ss Acerola and Ss Erica is already a team

[clear breach]

Mhm

[digital sleet]

Ss Cyrus and Akari

And

Skyla?

[clear breach]

Yeah

[digital sleet]

But what should the team be for blue rock weak

[clear breach]

You could either on type it with Olivia or off type with NC Red

[digital sleet]

off type works

[supple reef]

Your SS Cyrus can solo Blue on 3k, I did it earlier this week

there I go being extremely late as usual (getting a nasty cold has not been nice to me staying connected and/or reading timestamps)

[digital sleet]

dw dw ur fine!!

I used ss cyrus with akari

he was very useful

Because they kept dying