Champion Stadium

[digital sleet]

and sleep helped disrupt

[hushed burrow]

Yes

[hushed burrow]

Fun

[clear breach]

Now I gotta do it again to record the run

I had to give AS Steven Unflappable LS because he kept flinching

[clear breach]

https://youtu.be/cbKH4DuQxts?si=HOc2kFoSL6IRuZ14

[trail smelt]

Another week of Grass Weak Bruno, another week without half sync, another week with Perma Field effect

[keen jasper]

You mean grass-weak Lorelei

[trail smelt]

Ah yeah my bad lol

Ready for next week

[merry burrow]

My first 15k....

Easiest were lance and Agatha
Hardest Bruno (almost 1 hour of rng 😳)

Basically i just needed enemy aoe to not be used much and for GioGio TM to proc

[trail smelt]

Congrats

It’ll just get easier from now on

[merry burrow]

Tyty 🙏

[swift swan]

updated

[frosty pilot]

F2P duos 15k

[velvet light]

hey can someone send me the champion stadium presets, the doc isn't working

[frosty pilot]

I tried 6 different units for Brendan before dc cheren

he is built like paper

[toxic cobalt]

Skyla duo nice

[velvet light]

First 12.5k only difficult fights were Bruno and lance rest were cake walks

[digital sleet]

May I get help against flying weak bruno

my flying roster sucks

I can send all my units

[old orchid]

Your Blue is 3/5 so he does not suck

Is his grid invested?

[digital sleet]

he takes a lot of damage

after the first sync he dies

[old orchid]

Are you attempting hard mode? And could you tell me about the team?

[digital sleet]

I was using Sabrina Skyla and Blue

[digital sleet]

Yeah hard mode

[clear breach]

Oh my god grass weak again

[old orchid]

That doesn't sound right. Skyla's defense boosts + Reflect should reduce sync dmg significantly

[old orchid]

@digital sleet

[digital sleet]

yeah

should I send it to you?

[toxic cobalt]

Dunno if h eeven needs a grid invest, how is Bruno getting to sync

you can screenshot the grid

[digital sleet]

okay

[toxic cobalt]

He should be fully self buffing so you can use the other two team slots for genuinely anythign

[old orchid]

Yeah but he will come handy whenever you need to clear a Flying CS so i still suggest investing in his grid

[toxic cobalt]

Oh yeah it's a great grid

[old orchid]

I think Skyla + Sabrina is a great combo already

[toxic cobalt]

Why are we avoiding free tiles

[old orchid]

Oops this is not a really good grid. You avoided free stat tiles and some crucial passives

[digital sleet]

o

I thought it was good

going for the ultimate tiles

[old orchid]

Getting a lot of sync boost tiles doesn't mean they are worth it

Picking dmg multipliers gives more significant boosts

[toxic cobalt]

This is my grid, although I’m sure it can be improved

[digital sleet]

okay

ill est try that one

thank you !

[toxic cobalt]

It’s a smell you later mpr build

[old orchid]

Aurochs when will you EX him

[digital sleet]

Do you need 65 energy for this?

oh wait nvm

[toxic cobalt]

hmm I am close to the cap though thanks for the reminder

Anyway I'd go Blue, a good defensive support, and a sleeper.

[digital sleet]

yippee

[exotic heath]

very dumb question what is that cap

nowhere near it but am curious

[supple reef]

It’s 999,999

[exotic heath]

heard thank you

[exotic heath]

considering it’s Kanto i think it’s time i try for my first 15k

[toxic lava]

What rounds are best for what E4 member? I'm trying my hardest at Loreli on Round 1 but she's still kicking my ass hard

Doesn't help that my only Physical Grass user is also weak to Ice 😅

[fading cradle]

doesn’t matter as long as you be careful with lorelei and agatha r4 (probably better to avoid them that round)

what team are you also running for lorelei?

[toxic lava]

This is the team I had the closest time of winning on. Then she used her 2nd Sync and one shots my crew

I tried taking her down first, but then her allies kill me. I tried taking her allies down first but then SHE kills me

Very lose/lose

Here's my full roster in case you want it

I could wait til R2 to fight her so I could use Perma Sun/Erika but then my question would be who should I target for R1 then?

[frigid wedge]

Is this your first week at the Stadium, so you are working on as many types as possible for medal?

[toxic lava]

It is my first week....well, week and a half. Just started not to long ago.

There's a medal?

[frigid wedge]

When you complete a battle, you get part of a medal filled in based on which types you use—when you get all 18 for a region over 2+ weeks, it unlocks the next level of Stadium with more rewards.

For this Lorelei team, I am not sure Pikachu is doing much for you—he’s a special strike, so any damage he does is cut down by the stage effect.

[toxic lava]

I have him for potion botting

[frigid wedge]

Generally, SS Erika is one of the stronger general pool units, so you might want to try her even without the infinite field stage. You could also try Meganium instead of Pikachu, who has special damage reduction on top of what the stage effect provides—she and Erika both benefit from sun, so you can get some team buffs from her and the shield to help keep Crawdaunt healthy without needing a pair just for potion. With Sunny up, Erika has good damage output, so she might help you finish ahead of the second sync. Alternatively, instead of Meganium you could try Ho-Oh, who creates sun on his sync, to help keep Erika’s damage output up. He’d also add some damage from his physical attack + burn damage.

I’m not an expert, but some things you could play around with to see if they help.

[zealous karma]

You’ve got it nailed down!

[frigid wedge]

If your grass team gets through Lorelei, I think you should be able to do Dragon-weak 2nd with Leaf and Gordie. He adds fire rebuff with his move, letting her set infinite sun early for fire buff and boost their fire damage a bunch. And for the medal, you’re getting both fire from her and rock from him, which helps. Throw on another support that lowers a non-defense stat, maybe, from a type you don’t have strong options from, to fill out the medal while boosting Leaf’s sync damage from the debuffs.

3rd try Articuno vs Agatha, he should be strong enough to carry it pretty heavily on his own, so you can be flexible with who supports him, might not need to use up any big players.

Fourth, against flying weak, Pidgeot is a decent start, and he’ll have buffed Special from the stage. Maybe Watchog to lower SpDef as one support, to get your Normal medal. Blue/Blastoise will be a useful support for one of these, if you feel you need more regular defense and/or gauge, can try him here and see if that’s enough.

For the last fight, you hopefully won’t have used Zapdos yet, so pair him with a Sp Striker. Maybe Giovanni or Musharna to check off the psychic badge.

[balmy folio]

Was trying to ontype Bruno with Blue.but was tired of the rng. 15k another week.

Love grass weak tho. Based

[toxic lava]

I tried Meganium before. It was Her, Leafeon, and I think Tierno cause he helps with Leer.

Meganium is way to slow on buffs and the Light Screen did nothing to stop the wipe

[frigid wedge]

Just realized, do you have Xerneas from Legendary Adventures? He’s a great support to have as an option for Stadium, he accelerates your move gauge and applies gradual healing to the team. Not specifically for this fight, but generally good.

Since you’re having a lot of trouble with the grass fight, you may want to try Blastoise—he gradually raises your SpDef when he uses moves, which could help you with survivability. And a sync from him gives everyone Enduring to try and survive a big Sync hit with 1 HP, plus makes him beefier.

[toxic lava]

No not yet. I'm still trying to get through all of them. I'll make him top priority then.

And then try Blue if he doesn't work

[clear breach]

Of course Bruno has impervious

I wanted to test out Lodge Serena

[clear breach]

15K

Plumeria run was fun to do

[balmy folio]

Is this for points or just clearing?

[toxic lava]

Clearing is all that's needed. Points would be NICE but I never expected it

[balmy folio]

What's the investment on SS Erika. Maybe we can finagle some points

[toxic lava]

I only have her at 1/5 so I didn't invest much

[toxic cobalt]

I feel 1/5 SS Erika should be fine

What is Tierno for

[toxic lava]

Attack Buff and Leer

also Defense Buff

[balmy folio]

Tiernos fine. I'm thinking we swap meganium

Do you have the free Rosa unit?

[toxic lava]

I do

I also just got Sycamore too

[balmy folio]

Is Rosa EX'd?

[toxic lava]

No, still have a few days and levels before I get her event bingo stuff

plus I don't have her Champion spirit thingies

[balmy folio]

OK

Hmm let me try sycamore

What match number

[toxic lava]

round 1?

[balmy folio]

Tierno/SSErika/Sycamore should be able to clear 2k points without Ex on the supports.
My Erika is 5/5 so not the most comparable. But I took off her grid to lower her power.

Can lower the parameters to make it easier. Hold let me get some screenshots

[toxic lava]

I finally did it. Sycamore carried and won it after everyone else died

[clear breach]

Congrats!

[balmy folio]

Oh nice

[toxic lava]

finally...

I know I as a first weeker shouldn't be doing this but dammit I'm gonna

[balmy folio]

Hey. Get it

[clear breach]

Nah it’s fine to do CS

[balmy folio]

Get the experience

It will become easier the more you do it

[clear breach]

It’ll also give you a feel on how to strategize and handle gimmicks

[toxic lava]

Ok. I'm gonna follow some advice and try Lance with a Sunny Day team.

NC Leaf and Gordie and then a good tank...

[clear breach]

Hmm SS Cyrus should be able to do it

Wait

Not SS

I mean regular

[balmy folio]

Palkia Cyrus. Save the sun team for a more difficult match like Bruno or Blue

Depending on what you have

[toxic lava]

lemme send my whole roster again

[balmy folio]

I just scrolled up

[toxic lava]

Ok cool. So you think Sun for Bruno eh?

[balmy folio]

I did because i was going for 3k. You should be able to clear with Blue/Pidgeot

Let me check one more time

[clear breach]

2/5 Blue…. Should still be able

[balmy folio]

Yeah

[toxic lava]

I only got the base 1/5

[balmy folio]

Sun team for the last match maybe?

You have 2/5 Blue Pidgeot

[toxic lava]

oh I do?

[balmy folio]

Yes

[toxic lava]

nvm then

[balmy folio]

You have Blue Blastoise at 1/5 which is fine for a tank

[clear breach]

I’d say he can use NC Red for the last match

[balmy folio]

I'd use NC red for agatha

But that's just me

[clear breach]

Oh yeah

[balmy folio]

They also have mewtwo

[clear breach]

I forgot she’s ice weak

[toxic lava]

Yeah NC Red is Agatha. He's to good to not use

[balmy folio]

OK. You have 5 strikers you can use for this week's CS.
Lorlei-SS Erika which you completed
And in no other order
NC Red
NC Leaf
Mewtwo is very usable
And Blue for Bruno

That's what I'd focus on for the week

Mewtwo or NC Leaf can offtype the other matches

I'd say NC Leaf for Blue
Mewtwo for Lance

[toxic lava]

So just say "screw sun" for Lance?

[balmy folio]

You can do sun for Blue.
Can do Psychic terrain for Lance

The gimmicks dont have to be in order of the matches. You can do any match any round except for the last one

[frigid wedge]

Nice, glad you got past that one!

[hushed burrow]

Lance makes me sad

The rest were monotype

[toxic cobalt]

I mean there’s what, SS Brendan?

Drake?

[fading cradle]

didn’t know ss blue was ice type

[hushed burrow]

Oh mb, I looked blue blue and my brain went monotype

[hushed burrow]

Off type

[toxic lava]

...I won. Lorelei was the worst roadblock...

11/18 types ain't bad for my first time

[toxic cobalt]

Not bad at all, the others next week!

[undone ether]

god i hate Bruno (Flying) 😦
Impervious ;_;

[balmy folio]

Oh that explains why I had such a hard time 3k with Pidgeot.

I didn't notice lol.

[frigid wedge]

I think the in-game tip helpfully recommends just “use flying moves” instead of flagging that his stats can’t be reduced—helpful!

[vague solar]

3/4 star challenge run was a mistake this took an hour

[toxic cobalt]

never a mistake

[vague solar]

Huge wall of stuff I know but man I’m proud of this

15k with only initial 3 stars and 4 stars

Half the fights were an RNG nightmare (Lorelei my behated) since I had to rely on not getting hit by spread attacks while also getting lucky with flinches

[toxic lava]

Congrats on the F2P run

[cinder coyote]

General strategy for Bruno this week? Having trouble with his impervious status

[mellow linden]

What team(s) are you currently trying? Impervious shouldn’t be causing problems unless you’re either 1) not properly buffing your damage-dealer’s critical rate or 2) running a debuff-reliant damage-dealer

And if the issue is 1 then Impervious is the least of your worries anyway

[zealous karma]

Blue is great but you don’t want to bring a debuffer as a supplement due to impervious

It’s a free 100 points if you take the no stays down Parma

[cinder coyote]

I usually use Skyla (non 6ex) with max defense and speed, 6Ex and sprint Lysandre, and usually a supporting dps (non 6-ex Blue and pidgeot or 6EX Gladion)

Maybe my points are messed tho

[mellow linden]

You don’t need to force a monotype team

Skyla is not providing the offensive buffs your damage-dealers need

So they’re spending too much time buffing themselves

[cinder coyote]

No I know but generally Lysandre works and skyla is good defense and speed

[cinder coyote]

Ooh okay

I was about to say Lysandre does all his buffing on his own

I think I get it now

I understand it now

[mellow linden]

You generally don’t want your damage-dealers to spend more than 1-2 turns buffing themselves, as a benchmark

[frigid wedge]

Why did I not think to do that 🤦

[cinder coyote]

Gotcha

[night thunder]

What exactly does the “sync buffs are more effective” do?

[trail smelt]

Increase the multiplier each sync buff gives

If you have a team whose Support EX is the one syncing you might consider doing this round with that team

[mellow linden]

Specifically, the boost becomes 75% per stack instead of 50% per stack with that round parameter active

[clear breach]

https://youtu.be/ZI83Ay83egk?si=8EPJ4Wpd64MZgUfb

11:21 if yall wanna see Eggmon Tentacruel vs Blue

[night thunder]

My first 15k!

[hushed burrow]

At what level of investment can people start reliably doing 15k

[old orchid]

It all comes down to teambuilding skill

[manic kiln]

you can 3k/stage using 3 non-ex f2p units, might be tight sometimes but with a few limited units it's much easier, 2 supports + 1 dps if you can nuke the mid or 2 dps + 1 sup if you need more damage

[hushed burrow]

Without ex wow

[hushed burrow]

So what if a person is mid at best at team building

[old orchid]

Then they can ask for help here to get assisted

[toxic cobalt]

You can 15k with just five sync gridded units on the easier regions. It is very much about team building.

[hushed burrow]

Well alright

[frozen bane]

These are the pairs i have, i need normal, poison, bug, ghost, and fighting for my full badge, team recommendations would be great :3

Alright, this is what I've made, any team fixing needed?

[mellow linden]

A few notes:

• Wally isn’t a particularly great choice for the 3rd team member on your Bruno team, especially if your Sonia isn’t 3/5 or higher yet. If you’re trying to fill Fighting on the type medal, Maylene is a good choice.
• Neither Guzma nor Summer Steven is getting the buffs they need (or aren’t getting them fast enough) on your Agatha team. Replace Skyla with an Attack + crit Support.
• NC Blue is going to do better on your Lance team since he provides all the buffs SS Leon wants and Brendan is near self-sufficient. You can run a crit buffer (specifically Dire Hit All+ or someone else who can max crit in 1-2 turns) in Blue’s place and give Brendan the Dauntless Lucky Skill so he doesn’t debuff his Sp. Atk. with Leaf Storm.
• NC Blue would replace Kiawe on your Lance team. Depending on who else you have there may be better options than Morty for 3rd team member, but since it’s just Hard Mode it’s not a big deal.
• Blue team is fine for trying to maximize type medal, just keep in mind that you’ll want to work on getting better team synergy later on when type medal isn’t a concern.

[frozen bane]

what support do i put on the lorelei team?

[mellow linden]

Like I said in that segment, a crit buffer

[frozen bane]

Oki! Here's the teams now

[mellow linden]

Kiawe doesn’t buff Attack + crit enough

Hop is a free pick who’s quite good as an Attack + crit buffer

[frozen bane]

alrighty

any other big changes or am i fine.

[mellow linden]

Should be fine for Hard Mode

[frozen bane]

oki then, i'll go through the units that i don't have gridded yet and do them

[mellow linden]

Outside of a few specific tiles (namely Hop’s “Hop to It!: MP Refresh”) grids shouldn’t be necessary for just Hard Mode

Just make sure you give Brendan the Dauntless Lucky Skill from so he won’t lower his Sp. Atk. with Leaf Storm

[frozen bane]

i have my supporters and main attackers gridded

and i made sure to have the dauntless skill on brendan

[frozen bane]

how should i run each fight?

lorelei's extra mons beat me

[hard notch]

It does what kind of moves your characterw use

[frozen bane]

these icy winds are beating me

[hard notch]

and I know one modifer is weather/field based

[mellow linden]

What round is this?

[frozen bane]

first

[mellow linden]

Who’s doing 1st Sync?

[frozen bane]

brendan

for mega

[mellow linden]

Try aiming his 1st Sync at the left side then

That way you should be able to both ensure you can Sync twice before the opponent Syncs and eliminate one of the sides so there’s less to worry about once center goes down

[frozen bane]

i swapped to lance

his team didn't even get a chance 😭

ss leon just obliterated the team 😭

[frozen bane]

i actually can't beat lorelei

[mellow linden]

What round are you trying her on?

[frozen bane]

4th

[mellow linden]

That’s certainly a problem then, considering that’s arguably the worst round to face her on

[trail smelt]

This is type clearing?

[mellow linden]

Hard Mode, yeah

[frozen bane]

oh i wish i would've known that

[mellow linden]

We have info on stuff like that in the pins

[trail smelt]

Yeah knowing which rounds to avoid having a parameter is key to early Champion Stadium clearing

[mellow linden]

Can you show us your full roster?

[frozen bane]

^

just normal and poison is needed

[trail smelt]

So probably Falkner isn’t needed, but someone that can buff special defenses immediately…

[frozen bane]

i have misty duck

[trail smelt]

Should help

[mellow linden]

It’d be a very risky option due to lack of Sp. Def. buffs and the Support in this being weak to Ice, but another thing you could try is Aaron (gridded with his MP Refresh tile)/SS Erika/Gladion (Syncing with SS Erika), target the left side with your 1st Sync, and have Gladion target exclusively the right side until it goes down (where he’d then switch to center)

Would net you Normal on type medal

[trail smelt]

Ooh risky but sounds fun haha

[frozen bane]

i'll do it but i need to level and grid them really fast

[mellow linden]

Should only need to grid that 1 tile on Aaron

[frozen bane]

wait SS Erika is so pretty

[mellow linden]

Unless you have a huge orb stockpile I wouldn’t worry about gridding the others yet

[frozen bane]

mmmm

i can't figure anything out

neither of the teams are working

[mellow linden]

Honestly you might just have to reset the fight a lot to avoid stronger special moves and/or Ice type moves

Are you making sure to triple queue and targeting the left side with your 1st Sync like I recommended? And are you making sure you have Sun active?

[frozen bane]

yeah

[mellow linden]

I guess at this point you could try Poison stall then

Would run a tank (someone who can buff defenses and has a lot of healing via Potions and ideally something like Synchro Healing), a Poison inflictor (Lucy’s a good one since she inflicts Bad Poison and can apply Trapped), and a debuffer (Janine is the general pick due to Venom Drench)

Should’t need any grid on Janine if you use her as the debuffer

And minimal grid on Lucy if she’s the Poison inflictor (Pokey Trap and Hostile Environment tile)

[frozen bane]

i managed to get both of the side units out

sun drops so fast

i didn't notice how quickly it goes away

[mellow linden]

It should last for roughly 1 Sync cycle (3 sets of team’s 3 actions)

A way to ensure you have it up when Erika Syncs is to use Sunny Day as her 2nd action before each Sync

So her actions would go any move -> Sunny Day -> any move -> Sync -> any move -> Sunny Day -> any move -> Sync

[frozen bane]

what would setup look like

i assume aaron defense order gladion "my mind is made up" and then what for erika

[mellow linden]

Aaron uses his Trainer Move 3 times for his 1st 3 actions

If you’re not buffing the team’s offenses early then that’s a huge part of why you’re struggling

You can do X Speed for SS Erika’s 1st action and then have her use Solar Blade when she’s not using Sunny Day or Syncing

So her actions would look like X Speed -> Sunny Day -> Solar Blade -> Sync -> Solar Blade -> Sunny Day -> Solar Blade -> Sync

Gladion would just use his Trainer Move as his 1st action and then only click Multi-Attack. After he’s finished his 3 Trainer Moves, Aaron would click Defend Order or if needed Heal Order

[frozen bane]

I GOT HER TO 10% UGHHH

wait aaron only has two ticks of his trainer move

is it a grid upgrade?

[mellow linden]

That’s why you reset for his MP Refresh

MP Refresh tile in grid, yeah

That’s the only tile you should need

[frozen bane]

40% chance reminds me of dokkan great chance to dodge

[mellow linden]

It’s a bit higher than that since each use has a chance to trigger it

But unfortunately resets for MP Refreshes on buffs are just a part of CS

[frozen bane]

any lucky slot reccommended for SS Erika?

[mellow linden]

She shouldn’t need any, but the standard Critical Strike 2 works if you need one rn

[frozen bane]

i rolled it first try :3

ugh i did even worse this time

[mellow linden]

Probably just bad enemy move RNG

Unfortunately you’re likely just gonna have to either deal with that or try Poison stall out

[frozen bane]

who would be a good example of a tank for this setup, i have kiawe, mistyduck, Nita Lando, Leaf, Sabrina, Skyla, Dawn, Aaron, Cheryl, and Shauna

[mellow linden]

Sycamore is actually a decent pick if you grid him for his heal-on-Sync tile and Horn Leech Master Healer tiles

[frozen bane]

oh well i have him too

[supple reef]

Event Misty is actually a pretty reasonable tank for poison stall due to Synchro Healing, Sycamore works as well

[mellow linden]

Since doing that would allow him to basically outlast the opponents even if he ends up being the only pair standing at the end

[supple reef]

Is this just CS or MM?

[frozen bane]

hard mode CS

i'm doing the rest of my medal

just normal and poison are left

[supple reef]

perfect, Sycamore would be more than adequate then (at high strength MM, he struggles to tank for a long time unless the enemy is grass weak already as that gives you more parameters you can freely take)

[frozen bane]

ok so i run Sycamore, Lucy Seviper, and Janine Ariados?

[supple reef]

That would be adequate, but you still need to find a solution to get normal on your medal unless I’ve missed that

[frozen bane]

i can get that on blue

[supple reef]

Alright, so long as you have a plan and aren’t getting stuck at 17/18

[frozen bane]

wait wait wait

my blue team has sycamore AND Lucy

i could swap to a nuke setup with Champ Marnie if that would work...

ok yeah marnie actually just tore through the team

[supple reef]

That definitely would’ve been the ideal place to start, poison stall is usually reserved as a last resort when you don’t think you have anything to beat the fight the normal way with

[frozen bane]

and blue was simple

braindead diamond storm spamming always works for me :3

[supple reef]

good good, 18/18 now?

[frozen bane]

mhm!

[supple reef]

Nice, you can reset now and get some Master Mode rewards if you’d like. 4250 (850 per fight) shouldn’t be that much harder than what you’ve already done, but if you think you can go higher feel free to do so

[frozen bane]

so now i don't need to worry about getting types?

i can just teambuild the strongest team for each fight and do it?

[fading cradle]

basically yeah. you never have to fill out the kanto medal again

[clear breach]

Yes, you’ll only have to do the medals again once the region changes

[trail smelt]

Time to crush them with all your might haha

[frozen bane]

So what characters could i bring for MM?

[clear breach]

You can bring pretty much anyone, just as long you get the rewards

You can use Cyrus for dragon weak stage

And someone who can help him

[graceful oriole]

paldea cs when

[supple reef]

well we still need Galar CS so that first

[hushed burrow]

Which units do I use along with nc red (for Agatha) cyrus (for lance) rei(for blue) and glorialt (for bruno)

I need to do master mode

[hushed burrow]

• morty 1/5 and egg glaceon

[hushed burrow]

Nvm I did it

My first 7.5k :D

[keen jasper]

Oh nov, it's the weekly reset

[swift swan]

updated

[clear breach]

Let’s goooo Mina gaming

[merry burrow]

Finally a CS i have full teams for

[keen jasper]

Boo, no half sync

[merry burrow]

Pre sync 3k

Unfortunately Lana didnt live to tell her story

[hushed burrow]

Fairy is ouch

Atleast fairy zone

Psychic is also pain with no Giovanni ex

Ok this week is doodoo for me

Only ones I can really ontype easily are blue and agatha

[merry burrow]

Lorelei is a bit annoying with no evasiveness reduction or accuracy increase

[hushed burrow]

My best bet is hau and raichu

I mean blue can help

But like

Eh

[swift swan]

powerboosted caitlin is a good option!

[swift swan]

Hau and NC Blue will destroy lorelei dw

[fading cradle]

wait lorelei has evasiveness buffs?

wait wait think i remember from the last time kanto stadium was active, i remember lorelei giving me pain bc of that, nc blue made it so much easier so i forgot about that 😭

[hushed burrow]

I don't have her

[hushed burrow]

Hau is not exed and nc blue is 1/5

It should still work but at low points

[merry burrow]

Another 3k pre sync....

[clear breach]

The only tricky fight was probably Giovanni, Bruno hits like a damn truck even without strength params

I’ll upload the vids later today

All these were full or most HP params iirc

Also reason for using Gio was because I was bored of using SS Lusamine so I decided to use him

[unique sand]

Monotype runs.

[merry burrow]

Kanto is kinda easy ngl 😭

[paper summit]

kinda is a bit of an understatement, Kanto and Johto are essentially baby mode

[undone ether]

Wew... Hol lillie is funny damage. Killed the sides

[keen jasper]

Can't wait for Hoenn/Sinnoh/Kalos eh?

[merry burrow]

Kalos CS sucks

[swift swan]

nc blue works just fine to support Hau at 1/5

just set up Hau's nuke, the sides should go down with discharge

you're underestimating how good hau can be and how weak Kanto CS is

especially if you have terrain. if not, debuff sp defense

[merry burrow]

Only said kinda because flying i had to use lodge skyla against bruno past week and uhhh lets just say it was... something

Flying type may be my weakest link rn

[swift swan]

powerboosted blue is really good too

and lodge skyla is a very good f2p option

[trail smelt]

Out of curiosity I let Optimize build my teams for me.

What the hell was it smoking

[trail smelt]

Anyway ready for next week

[hushed burrow]

i can do neither lol

[toxic cobalt]

I don't see them losing still. Throw another flincher in then.

[toxic cobalt]

Optimize loves SS Morty. Always throws him in first.

[keen jasper]

SS Morty best unit after all

[trail smelt]

Is that you mention I seem to recall that lol

[hushed burrow]

alright ig

[marsh void]

I has these chars and I need help to build teams for the elite four

[stoic pawn]

Galar

[pale oar]

Who should I use against Lance?

[toxic lava]

What round are you fighting him? Also who are your other units you plan on taking?

[pale oar]

Mostly fairy types

[toxic lava]

I'd advise not to with what you have. Sycamore and Lillie are great support units but in terms of punching power you got jack diddly.

What are your heavy hitters that are still usable?

[pale oar]

My strongest damage dealer is mela (level 150). But I am saving her for blue

[clear breach]

It’s better if you sent your whole roster

[toxic lava]

^^^

[pale oar]

Most of my 5 stars

[mellow linden]

Is this Hard Mode or Master Mode, and if Master Mode how many points?

[pale oar]

Hard mode

[mellow linden]

Can probably roll with a team built around Gladion then

[pale oar]

Which team would you suggest based on what I have?

[mellow linden]

+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]

I’d recommend following the above teambuilding guidelines

Teambuilding is one of the main pillars of success in this game, so it’s best to try and get a good grasp on it in environments like CS Hard Mode that aren’t too punishing

[toxic lava]

Speaking of teambuilding...

I'm also trying to tackle Hard Mode E4 with the leftover types I had from last week. Here's my teams as well as the rounds I planned on using them. I need at least one of the following types to join:

Normal, Bug, Poison, Fighting, Ground, Ghost, and Dragon. I'll send a roster list here shortly

[clear breach]

You dont need Drasna in R2 if you’re planning to use Zinnia

You might as well replace Zinnia with Drasna too

[toxic lava]

She is mostly there as Toxic setter, but I can swap her for someone else entirely

Full roster

Roster of needed types

[clear breach]

Cyrus instead of Zinnia

[frozen bane]

any reccommendations for the MM this week? point reccommendations too if ya could :3

[supple reef]

This week’s poison stall highlights 👀

[frigid wedge]

One general note—you should evolve any pairs that are able. Elio, for example, who is a useful support.

[frigid wedge]

FWIW, I would use Lenora for your normal medal instead of Cheryl—she has a teamwide SpDef buff + helps debuff the other side’s defenses

[toxic lava]

Does she debuff SpDef too? If so that would be a good choice indeed. Lemme see

Ooo she does! Good point. I'll swap her around then

[frigid wedge]

Not currently planning to using Zapdos or Moltres, btw?

[toxic lava]

Oh I had to eventually. I wanted to try without them but I got my butt kicked in to hard lol

Still...

Not bad for my 2.5 weeks being here~

Hard was Hard enough tho. Idk how I'm able to hand Master Mode. I'm still pretty weak all things considered

[frigid wedge]

Great—for Master Mode, you get to set how high the difficulty is, and you have no limits on who to use

Even if you just run through it with a couple parameters—like reducing your physical damage when you are running special attacks—you’ll get extra rewards that help buff your team for next time. You can reset right now and start with the fights you just did, since you already know them. No risk!

[toxic lava]

So I can run Zapdos on all 5 groups?

[frigid wedge]

Sorry, I meant no limits on types—you don’t have to worry about the medal anymore. It is still one fight per pokemon, for 15 total each week.

[toxic lava]

Ah. Well, I at least have a few pot bots to help

I'll see what I can cook up and ask for tips later

[balmy folio]

15k. Grass offtype for Lance cuz why not.

[toxic lava]

This is about as good as I can think for Master Mode. If anyone else could help me find better options and kinda some options to get the most tickets/points

I don't have much as I'm still a relatively new account, so any help would be nice

[frigid wedge]

Have you used Musharna at all? Decent psychic damage when buffed, and provides terrain for Giovanni.

You could also use Kyurem with Articuno, he also has SpAtk reduction, but also can contribute some damage when you have more gauge and benefit from any ice boosts you’re getting on gear.

Teams with two supports can work, but for CS it’s often the goal to win before or right after the other side’s first sync, in which case you’ll want either supports that directly contribute to your damage dealer being able to clear fast, or another damage deal to help seal the deal. I think you can lean more aggressive.

[toxic lava]

I haven't tried Musharna at all honestly. I'll give her a go tho.

You mean Kyruem? I don't have a Kyogre. Yeah it doesn't help that I mostly got Support units and the Tech or Strike ones are a little...on the weak side.

Also I haven't really gotten into doing the gear stuff...honestly I'm a bit confused on the white ones and how to make those work and didn't know if doing the normal ones are worth the effort of maxing them out

[toxic cobalt]

Have you read the team building 101 guide?

[marsh void]

Jes i have read it i underdtand the most because my English is not the best and i try more to understand it more and more and now i must find out how good the char they i want to play

[frigid wedge]

Yes, meant Kyurem—will edit

[toxic cobalt]

Okay! As a start, pick one damage dealer for each type?

[marsh void]

Ok i understand

[toxic lava]

Ok. I mulled about and made my teams for Master Mode.

I don't think I can clear 15k with what little I have, but if I can get 10k I'll be happy.

I took a look at the imgur guide on where to allocate points to, but some of the terminology confused me like Pre and Post Sync.

Any more tips or advice on my teams?

[gleaming jolt]

You can clear 15k with these sync pairs, but initially you can try with less points and gradually understand your way to 15k.

Pre sync is you kill the opponents before they sync and vice versa for post sync.

There is 2.5k preset pinned in this channel, so you can read it.

But don't start with 2.5k, 1000 points is good enough for starting I guess.

And some parameters do not increase the difficulties much, so you can do 1k initially.

Parameters you chose are mostly depends on the team you use

[vague solar]

Seconding what Tony said. If you have the patience to mess around with parameters and stuff you can 100% clear 15k with that. Going for 1500-2500 points is plenty for the important rewards though so feel free to try it there and kinda dip your toes into the mode

[toxic lava]

Thanks for the support you two!

Yeah I wanted 10k to really be the end goal due to that is where BP caps at. I didn't think I could achieve 15k but I may just try it later if 10k goes smoothly

[hollow horizon]

giovanni did 600 se damage on sync, pointless off typing endeavor invalidated

[toxic cobalt]

Good teams! Some redundancy but I don’t think any will greatly mess up

[toxic lava]

I hit a brick wall with Bruno sadly. Banged my head against him for like an hour and then gave up

Agatha was doable with 2k points but Bruno just hits to hard

[gleaming jolt]

Reduce some difficulty for now!

1.5k points

[toxic cobalt]

Replace Bianca with Agatha

Sleep him away

[toxic lava]

Huh. Interesting. I was trying Barry and Roserade since they say go for para but...never considered Agatha

[toxic cobalt]

Sleep is much better than para

With troublemaker LS it’s also basically 100% consistent in most cases

[toxic lava]

Still getting my butt handed to me. He only sleeps for one or two turns it seems and makes it hard to be offensive AND defensive at the same time. Especially with the Move Gauge depletion points

Owell. It's getting late. I'll try and mess around with him tomorrow

[toxic cobalt]

Sleep is there to interrupt. So you queue giovanni and Rosa first, then sleep.

After that Giovanni and Rosa get a free turn and then you can sleep the right side

[dull ledge]

Man i have to use a normal type to finish the trophy

[fading cradle]

at least once you finish the kanto medal, you never have to fill it out again

[karmic zephyr]

Do we know which one is the next region after kanto? I feel like I've done most medals if not all but I can't forget what I've not done. I think when I started playing stadium, the first region was Sinnoh. Around September I think.

I think I still miss a medal or two but can't remember

[frigid wedge]

You can see which you’re missing in the event missions list, FWIW

[karmic zephyr]

The event missions list? Let me check

Yes, I miss Alola and Sinnoh

So I guess next region should be Alola

And the next after that, Sinnoh

[supple reef]

Not necessarily, it's not been historically predictable so we'd only know once we get datamine

[sharp willow]

the pattern of the regions has been consistent outside of new region additions however

so assuming no new region is added, Alola then Sinnoh is what should be expected

[supple reef]

ah must be confusing that with the sequence of villain arc reruns when those happen because they definitely aren't on a set order

[toxic lava]

8,000 points. Overall a great run, despite Bruno giving me a super hard time.

I'm happy with this

[frigid wedge]

I’m just missing Alola and joined in August-ish, so that tracks, I must have started with Sinnoh. Here’s to not having week 1 slowdowns soon!

[karmic zephyr]

yup! agree! I really want not to miss the first week every time! I also started in August but I was too ignorant of most game mechanics to do stadium.

soon!!!

[frigid wedge]

Nice thing, as you get rewards from this and Battle Rally, it’ll help you increment points upward—cake roles giving you extra bonus points in rally, benefits from the ex roles helping your strongest units max out parameters, etc. So it’s a positive cycle.

[toxic lava]

To bad it's such a long one. At least BP wise.

I was foolish and picked Valerie/Mawile as my first ticket pick and not Barry/Roserade. Because of that my damage challenges are ass and I have to grind another 4,000 points before I can make Barry become the stall monster

Battle Rally is something I'm still trying to get a grip on. Plus don't wanna blow the 3 tickets I got all at once

[vague solar]

For what it’s worth BP Valerie is still a great unit

[flat leaf]

what should i use for MM round 2 lorelei with these 5*s

going for 5k points and need to make up 150

or should i reset and go for 1k points each instead of having to get an extra 150 on one

[clear breach]

Is that all?

[flat leaf]

i have all the legendary adventures 5*s already just thought that was a given

[flat leaf]

decided to reset, what should my order be

[toxic lava]

I did Agatha, Bruno, Loreli, Lance but Bruno kicked my ass hard for a while

finally got him with Giovanni/Mewtwo, The Kinono Girl/Kirlia, and Rosa

[toxic cobalt]

Filter for electric not for five stars

[toxic cobalt]

Oooh Marnie

But if Marnie is a bit complicated, just use Hau

If you have candies for Hau that would be good. Also you don't have MC Pikachu?

[supple reef]

MC PIkachu is there, far left on second row

[toxic cobalt]

Genuninely thought that was one of the various children

[supple reef]

To be fair, that haircut is close enough to Katherine's that I believe it

unless you meant Petey, in which case he literally wears a Pikachu onesie how could it be him

[toxic cobalt]

look, i

am not on a first name basis with the Pokekids

[flat leaf]

marnie hau and player pikachu for lorelei?

i only have one move candy for hau but still

[old orchid]

that's not a good team

2/5 Hau unlocks Inertia so candy him

then you build a good team around him which fulfills his needs

[flat leaf]

i thought that was what people were saying i misunderstood what should i use with hau

[clear breach]

They were discussing your options, not the team you should use

+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!

[clear breach]

I suggest trying to learn on your own how to build a team

We can give feedback once you make that team

[flat leaf]

trying hau iono ghetsis for r1

was using pryce at first but ghetsis

yknow

takes more damage than a wet tissue

[old orchid]

i assume you need an Ice type for the type medal?

[flat leaf]

i’m doing master mode

[old orchid]

then neither of them is a good choice

Iono is the right call for offensive support but the team is not good at defensive side

you should bring a defensive support

[flat leaf]

just needed a speed reduce

i already beat lorelei so

[old orchid]

i don't get why did you need a speed debuffer because there is no one benefits from it

[flat leaf]

ah

[old orchid]

you pretty much only need speed debuffs when the dmg dealer(s) has damage multipliers related to them

[flat leaf]

what should i do for off type agatha (already beat bruno)

[old orchid]

can you take screenshots of your available roster?

we need to know the full context in order to help you

[flat leaf]

used rosa, gio, iono, hau, ghetsis, roxanne already

[old orchid]

you can do stall team

Skyla, Lucy and Janine, with Skyla having her grid tiles related to Potion

[torn helm]

message #100k

[dull ledge]

I don't have a good dark unit for agatha

I literally just have the two free ones from main story

[undone ether]

No Karen yet? 😮

[old orchid]

You can do offtype or stall clears

[undone ether]

if you're going to do stall clears against Agatha, make sure she doesnt get SPD buffs.

[toxic cobalt]

My Nanu clears were always fun

[hushed burrow]

Egg eevees carrying

I might just use egg eevee in all of them

[vague solar]

Probably could’ve figured out the leaf and Cynthia solos but I didn’t have the time for it 😭

Was able to get this really dumb Marnie clear though so that’s cool

[true bloom]

That's amazing damage for field/support

[vague solar]

Did it again with weathered warrior oops and wow this unit is good

[hushed burrow]

My first 10k+ points :D

With all egg eevees as well so that was fun

[gleaming jolt]

Nice!

[true bloom]

[swift swan]

updated

[clear breach]

Permanent field effects by beloved

[keen jasper]

No half sync again? DeNA is weak

[paper summit]

you really keep asking about a thing you can just do yourself with params every single week on every stage

[thorny wind]

Okay but we want half sync on our team, not just the enemy

[paper summit]

fair, but that's not hard to do either

[clear breach]

Water weak my beloved

[merry burrow]

I really have nothing for fighting and ghost weak 😭

Wait i forgot i got victespectrier

[toxic cobalt]

And the free Giovanni?

[hushed burrow]

W for egg eevees

[hushed burrow]

I mean shauntal is good

Bug weak sucks

Also like no egg eevees are usable :(

My main offtypers are gonna be used so I gotta figure out something for blue

[toxic cobalt]

What are you using your offtypers for?

[sacred scroll]

I feel like UB Giovanni is one of the best indirect buffs to Lusamine

[merry burrow]

Wait youre right o.0

Just tried and she did more damage than victespectrier

And her sync is a bit easier to set up

Luckily i got ss hilbert for bug

Did done

15k

[hushed burrow]

Dman

[hushed burrow]

Fighting and steel

(rei and mc solgaleo)

I mean Giacomo could probably help

[merry burrow]

Also ty for recommending shauntal btw, she was real good

[hushed burrow]

But without super effective he is meh for me at 1/5

[hushed burrow]

Np, she has been carrying me in ghost dps

Kinda surprises me every time

[merry burrow]

Her damage is too high for a 4 stars 😭

Ok nvm lodge skyla exists

Though funny i rolled gritty 3 first try with a level 2 cookie

[hushed burrow]

Is she a gen pool?

No

[merry burrow]

Skyla is 3 stars and yeah you can get her easily for lodge

[hushed burrow]

So like shauntal is probably the best 4* gen pool

Especially given her type

I'd say atleast

[merry burrow]

True

Lodge skyla still peak for a 4 stars tho

[undone ether]

dang, poppy is really strong, Full HP and Levels. lmao

she took out Lance before he could actually move.

2 rebuffs, Steel Zone and 1 PMUN

[toxic cobalt]

Her move is really stupidly strong

[undone ether]

Forgot about her Eva sheningans. Thankfully this team doesnt care xD

And the crit shield

[trail smelt]

Perma field effect is the game’s way of telling us to put them out of their misery lol

[hushed burrow]

Except for people like me whose only fields are egg eevees and there are none except vaporeon that are usable in this one!

[toxic cobalt]

Weather also counts as field

You can for example just run Silver in permanent sun

[trail smelt]

Yep

[hushed burrow]

yea ik, but whats the point, what round will i use him in

is non pb silver any good even?

[toxic cobalt]

Yes of course he is

This week there is water weak, you can easily set up permanent rain

[toxic lava]

Wanting to bring a Bug DPS for Blue. Which one would you think (after leveling up and maxing to 130+) would help bag the win?

[supple reef]

Hard or Master Mode?

[toxic lava]

Master

[supple reef]

and if the latter, how many points?

[toxic lava]

8-10k at most

I'm still to weak to try 15k

[supple reef]

for that high, I would probably suggest looking into offtype options instead, you’re still missing move levels on Guzma who is probably the best option you have

[toxic lava]

Shame. Ok. Want my full roster then?

[supple reef]

it’s more that bug is an exceptionally shallow type even with the limited pairs included

[zealous karma]

Bugsy isn’t a terrible option for 2K but requires grid investment

[supple reef]

3 star Bugsy though? I’d be worried about him being too frail at 2k without those extra stats

[zealous karma]

I cleared 3k with bugsy after he got his grid at 3*

With Hop and Noland dual strike but noland can be replaced for any def debuffer

Side denial helps bugsy a lot and he’s more than capable of it whether that be just fell stinger (ideal for super victory) or a sync

[toxic lava]

I can at least get Bugsy up to 4*

Sadly not 5* cause I think I just got Skyla/Swanna up to 5*

[zealous karma]

I’d save the resources and try to do the battle first because it might not be needed

If you’re low on sync orbs you can do this

[toxic lava]

Nah I had plenty to do his Twinneedle Nuke option

[zealous karma]

Twineedle does much less damage even with all the modifiers

I think it only out scales at +10 E (which I’m not going to recommend for a demote lel)

[toxic lava]

So something like this then?

[zealous karma]

That’s fine if you don’t can’t fully buff your attack with your support

[hushed burrow]

Bugsy can do blue hmmm

Even at 2k damn

What checks would u need to know

Like what do u need from a support/tech to use along with bugsy

[toxic lava]

He said he used Hop and could do it with a debuffer

Speaking of. Here are the teams for Master Mode 8-10k

[hushed burrow]

Ah

[hushed burrow]

u got the entire kantrio damn

[polar cliff]

does anyone have and advice for this kanto league in master mode? I can’t do much since I only have 3-4 good sync pairs and can’t reach 15k point for the champions spirit I need to upgrade my team (I started 1 month ago) and kinda frustrating

[clear breach]

You won’t get to 15k points immediately as a new player

You gradually increase your points as your roster grows

• 15k isn’t required to get the necessary rewards

[polar cliff]

yeah I know but to exs my team I need the champion spirits

it’s that or using 5 starts power ups to get some spirits idk if it’s worthy

[clear breach]

It is not

[polar cliff]

yeah so I gotta get those from the master mode

I need all the pokemons at 140 right?

[clear breach]

No

120-125 is good enough

[polar cliff]

I’m guessing that for 1-2k points right?

[clear breach]

Try around 1k points for each stage

[clear breach]

Yes

120-125 is good for anything, you can clear a 3k points stage with a 125

[polar cliff]

fr? I kinda struggling maybe some of these free syncs aren’t that good

[clear breach]

Which stage are you attempting?

[polar cliff]

metal , I’m suing zamazenta 125 , solgaleo 140 and some random support at 125

maybe I’m not choosing the good options for my team

[clear breach]

You should be able to beat it, what are your parameters?

[polar cliff]

maybe that’s the problem

[supple reef]

Isn’t Sunsteel Strike physical?

[polar cliff]

yeah

[supple reef]

so then physical DR combined with full offensive parameters is surely a death sentence

you’re dealing 20% of the damage you should be against an opponent with basically maxed offenses

[polar cliff]

damn

didn’t know that

[supple reef]

Genuinely I think you only messed up one parameter but I might still take off some of the offenses for some of the lower-point defensive options

[clear breach]

You’re also wasting free points, the 50 damage reduction params are pretty much free since crits ignore the damage reduction fields

[supple reef]

50 point physical DR is also reflect which is bypassed by crits

[polar cliff]

I just copy that from those top tiers u can see their replays

I’m delusional

[supple reef]

Well the apply button doesn’t save those parameters to a preset either

[polar cliff]

I mean I saw it and copy it

[polar cliff]

ohh okok

let me update that and try

[frigid wedge]

They also have crit-defense checked, btw, since crit to get through defenses came up

If recommending parameters that rely on crits to balance, may also need to talk about making sure he has enough crit buffing in place at the same time

[clear breach]

You rely on crits for your overall damage

That’s why I suggest to never use the parameters from the suggested teams

[polar cliff]

ok ty

I still have some issue w the damage tho

[clear breach]

Can you record?

[toxic lava]

@zealous karma @hushed burrow

I got it! 8.5k total!

Agatha was horrid tho. I had to EX Rosa to get it by the skin of my teeth

[vague solar]

Rosa is a free ex so you were prob doing that anyways eventually, nice to get her early

Congrats on the clear!

[supple reef]

*free 20/20

[toxic lava]

Yeah I wish it was free...I was gonna EX Leaf with em this time but owell

[zealous karma]

Nice work!

[polar cliff]

my problem is the sync buff I don’t have other support that can give me x2 in the first one

[clear breach]

Try doing 1k points instead of 3k in one battle

If you’re new you shouldn’t be attempting 15k points till your roster is more developed

Look at some of the rosters above you, BluLed is still pretty much new and wasn’t able to do 8.5k before but by playing the game and such he was able to get to even higher points

[toxic lava]

It's true. My account is about three and a half weeks old.

[polar cliff]

yeah I did it w 2.4K points

[toxic cobalt]

Replace Barry with Winona, otherwise works well. Poor Lorelei.

[toxic lava]

Lol yeah she got OBLITERATED

Makes me wonder if I should swap out Moltres and put them in the Aga team cause the stat debuffs would be nice

[toxic cobalt]

Probably, people just solo with NC Red these days

[toxic lava]

Sadly I'm not that smart and only have a 1/5

So he needs help

[toxic cobalt]

Even 1/5 doesn’t need NC Leaf lol

You could run say Lucian with him I guess

[toxic lava]

My brain just said "oh stat debuffs. I knoe just the gal" lol

[toxic cobalt]

True!

[toxic lava]

Mmm. I'd have to see what Lucian can do debuff wise and if I got them. If they work then I'll pop them on

[fading cradle]

lucian has growl. think his passive or whatever allows him to debuff special defense

[toxic lava]

So I saw. Interesting....would deffo help

Oh! I just had a good idea too.

With Winona instead of Barry I can set infinite Rain in R4 and I can just mop Bruno with that!

[fading cradle]

perma field

[supple reef]

perma field, perfect for my mono-ice poison stall team

[toxic lava]

I will be and kinda won't be surprised if that exists

[supple reef]

oh I'll record it don't worry

PalBea, FShauntal, and VHilbert

[toxic lava]

HOO BOY

10k with the Bee

Thank you all for the brainstorming

[toxic cobalt]

Ping me

[supple reef]

I'll do a 15k of increasingly interesting stall teams this week so that'll be my round 4 and then round 5 I'll bring poisonless stall

[supple reef]

so fun fact, the ice team was the fastest stall I did this CS (6:53) making it an entire minute faster than the one with NC Blue and Atticus in it

[balmy folio]

Is this Bruno match just that bulky.

Dunno why I'm struggling lol

[supple reef]

It does have about 50% more HP than the other fights this week

[balmy folio]

Wild. I'm like usually no problem with water stages with SS Grimsley. Or even offtyping. Just seemed different than everything else.

[toxic cobalt]

SS Grimsley was my first 5 star. RIP to him though, useless unit.

[calm marsh]

Yep, he just bulkier than normal stage

[supple reef]

He got a grid expansion 2 days ago!

[toxic cobalt]

He WHAT

[calm marsh]

He is really good now

[toxic cobalt]

He WHAT

[calm marsh]

Not Kris level but still really good

[supple reef]

haymaker + furious brawn and some survival stuff

they cooked with it but he's still probably too squishy for me

[toxic cobalt]

THEY GAVE HIM ENDURING

THEY GAVE HIM DAMAGE GUARD NEXT

[calm marsh]

Yep

[supple reef]

as I said, they cooked

[calm marsh]

Just to make sure he’ll survive after Tm

[toxic cobalt]

3 energy furious brawn??

(TM is probably still bad, but like, wow)

Okay, I have a brand new SSGrims grid

[hushed burrow]

Damn nice

[hushed burrow]

Oh yea I can ex rosa, I have way too many spirits

[hushed burrow]

Nvm maybe not

I thought we got 40 a week from just doing the battles

[frigid wedge]

The nice thing about the cycle is, the more upgraded your units are, the easier it is to get more upgrade materials.

[hushed burrow]

And we needed 40 for ex

[hushed burrow]

Hm

I just don't see when I will use rosa tho

[supple reef]

@toxic cobalt were you just interested in the ice stall team? I've got a video processing for all five (with some jump cuts on the longer battles because nobody will watch me DPS down a sidemon for 10 minutes) but I can upload the ice battle separately before I go to sleep

[toxic cobalt]

I'll watch all five

[supple reef]

cool I will ping again probably tomorrow for me, I'll let YouTube do its magic while I sleep because this is a 40 minute video iirc

[toxic cobalt]

Very soon you end up just EXing for flex

Phone shuts off, upload is cancelled

[supple reef]

I transferred all the recordings to my PC at least, I'll stay awake until it's done uploading to YT but after that I should turn in for the night

I will flex the team comps though

[toxic cobalt]

No burn stall?!

[supple reef]

next week

[toxic cobalt]

omg Raihan stall

[supple reef]

bringing LuSSa to a poison stall comp certainly was a choice but I wanted aoe accuracy debuffs

[toxic cobalt]

I thought Lussamine was just there for flex

[supple reef]

basically in my mind it was:

f2p
why are you poison stalling
seriously, do I hate myself?
come on this is too much featuring hail damage
Raihan.

[supple reef]

nah she took first sync and everything!

[toxic cobalt]

ngl I saw the first one and was like I thought these would be interesting

Stall with that in my sleep

[supple reef]

the first one is a throwback to my very first poison stall team, and I've forgotten how to play it

the pal victor clear was 22 minutes unedited 💀

[hushed burrow]

What

[hushed burrow]

Ok lol

[supple reef]

threw it on main because why not lol
https://youtu.be/ZN77Iy0_zTs

[frozen bane]

These are all the pairs i have, what teams could i bring for this MM CS?

[toxic cobalt]

Get your 4/5 Wally into play. Water is easy Cyrus, steel is easy, Slowgaleo. Ghost use Giovanni. Then figure out bug.

[vague solar]

Any chance 15k is possible while only using 3 star initial pairs?

[toxic cobalt]

Yes, has been done many times

[vague solar]

Oh bet

[toxic lava]

I was able to at least get 2K with a grid invested Bugsy/Beedrill 4*, Lenora, and Hop. I see you have at least two pieces of that puzzle and so long as you get a stat debuffer you should be set

[toxic cobalt]

Have you tried Bugsy Noland and Hop? That's a 3k team I sometimes use.

[hushed burrow]

kukui bugsy and hop good do it

both lenora and kukui have leer

[fading cradle]

wait what difficulty tier would yall say alola is again

i remember it being somewhat difficult for me to 15k but my roster wasn’t developed well at that time 💀

[keen jasper]

Among the easy ones

Except bug-weak Hau

[fading cradle]

ofc, that has to be one of my weaker rosters being harder. this does not bring any number of solace to me. sigh

[toxic cobalt]

Just stall him

[gleaming jolt]

Offtype works fine too!

[mellow linden]

Poison stall is likely going to be the easier 3k setup if you can’t on-type

But it of course is roster-dependent

[gleaming jolt]

Wow!

[toxic cobalt]

Do not offtype with turtwig

[gleaming jolt]

I don't mean Dawn!

Lul

[polar cliff]

what can i do against the fighting type battle? that lapras just keep raising its evanises every time

[supple reef]

Piercing Gaze, stall, and just nuke Lorelei all immediately come to mind

[mellow linden]

Accuracy buffs can also help

[polar cliff]

i gotta go for stall then, i dont have for now strong sync pairs

[mellow linden]

For just Hard Mode you should be able to on-type

[manic kiln]

if you don't have many OP pairs then maylene is also a good choice, she has sure hit next for the team with her buff

[polar cliff]

i mean i have gallade but i cant take her down befores lapras uses critical shield

[mellow linden]

Are you focusing on the center opponent 1st?

[polar cliff]

maybe i can try to deal as much damage as possible and then star to stall

[polar cliff]

ye

[mellow linden]

What team(s) are you trying?

[polar cliff]

primarina serpiver and gallade

the first one to raise my special atk def all that

seviper for the stall

[mellow linden]

You’d probably want to run an Attack + crit Support as one team member instead so Wally can spend less time being forced to buff himself

[polar cliff]

yeah i gotta try that

ty

[sudden gust]

Is there a recommended set of master mode options to choose, or is it always just team-specific?

[toxic lava]

It's more team specific, but there are a general catch-all for them as well. Lemme get the chart

This only goes to 2.5k so you'd have to pick the last 500 to max out to 15k

[sick inlet]

Oh I didn't do mine

[toxic cobalt]

Generally it’s just more strength

[sudden gust]

Thank you for that chart. Using it I was able to clear with Fantina, which I didn't think I could, but Blue and Zapdos were an even better support than I expected

[toxic lava]

BlueZap is so good, man. He helps carry so many SpAtk teams

[sudden gust]

I just got him right before the banner ended, and that fight alone made me a believer

[vague solar]

I got shafted by nc leaf 😭 wish I could get him too

[gleaming jolt]

[fading cradle]

think you’re in the wrong channel

[toxic lava]

I hope you do too. Stay strong bro.

[grand trout]

Yay unova