Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[lunar topaz]

You don’t have a. Pity so it’s extra don’t spend

[half laurel]

K I shall save up more then

Hopefully next banner is better and also just as cool

[lunar topaz]

The new SsN the general consensus of him is he’s not a very interesting unit and his buddy move makes him lose out on to much DPS he also doesn’t have anyone that likes to be paired with him but he wants units so it’s kinda awkward he’s a rather odd unit and not the greatest I guess they expected N to carry a poor kit, this month definitely feels like an experiment from dena…

[tardy fiber]

Also as a SE up unit, he kinda good ontype but not offtype, might need huge investment on him to make him able to offtype like 3-5/5 move levels...unless you really like him or black kyurem you can skip him, if you are chasing meta like person he kinda not that meta.

He kinda gauge friendly even at base 1/5 well as he only attacks once in 2 turns, or 3 turns if you use buddy noble roar...he better be gauge friendly for secondary damage dealer like Ghetsis convenience

[tough oriole]

BNoble Roat also gives free move next

So if you use that playstyle, you never use gauge

[tardy fiber]

Yep he is gauge friendly so a really great partner to ghetsis as his bnoble roar debuffs all stat debuffs ghetsis need including speed

[signal halo]

N has likely my favourite theme. I'd pull for it alone, but

His kit felt so strange to me that he's another reason of my disappointment with the unoVA

Colress and Hugh were the ones I was happy about

[tardy fiber]

Hugh have too much gambling but luckily he is only a spotlight, i hope i can get him in the future

[lime hill]

I've been contemplating pulling for N, but I've been saving all year for Alola VA, as well as any seaonal/fair Alola pairs that may debut before then
I've already spent ~90k gems this year for other regions, but I've said before I predict about 5 pairs will run when Alola VA comes

[tardy fiber]

Big gems, thanks SV login

[lean mango]

I'm now at 53k

[tardy fiber]

Im officially leveled 100 all of my lodge guests...hope next month got 2 guests or a general pool guess like elesa

If i got a workable guest next month, i can claim 500 gems mission rewards for 10 lvl 100 lodge guests

[mental skiff]

gonna take me 2 more day till 100 all 9 of my lodge

gonna have no more free stuffs

[ashen thunder]

Waiting for inevitable Archie and Maxie rate up in lodge so I can actually consider throwing gems in there

[tardy fiber]

I already make 5 guests level 150 ...i guess i can make 2 more pairs level 150 with those

[ashen thunder]

I am at 9 150 units

[tardy fiber]

DeNa will rope me if they release Lodge alt that have legendaries, mythicals, UBs

[mental skiff]

wait for update of lv 100+ reward

[tardy fiber]

Nice

I forgot how much i have

[ashen thunder]

100 honestly feels too low

They should bump it to 500 or smth

So it's like 1 unit per month to max level

[mental skiff]

the more the merrier

Although they will give us 3 star pu tho

[tardy fiber]

Oh i have 19 level 150 and 1 level 147

[ashen thunder]

[mental skiff]

i have 3 row 4×3=12

[tardy fiber]

I already done lvl 150 mew, bp master units, legendary adventures units and now finishing master fairs

[ashen thunder]

I am buying 2 copies of the lodge pair from shop
Maybe I should avoid doing it

[mental skiff]

same

I bought 4 or sth

[tardy fiber]

I checked their kits and i saw, not that gamebreaking and i can wait for candies from events so i skipped buying dupes

[mental skiff]

support candy is never enough

[mental skiff]

LG about to come

[ashen thunder]

Who cares abt LG

[tardy fiber]

I only do 10-12 streaks anyway

[ashen thunder]

Just do 10 stages

Good for health

[mental skiff]

want more

[tardy fiber]

I will care for more streaks if they add 11-20 rewards that is similar to 1-10 streaks rewards

[mental skiff]

I need some cookie for wally head start 1 and hilbert super power

[ashen thunder]

Make it a free move candy at 100 streak

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

I didn't put sp3 on sshilbert due to this...due to these grids, he can also work offtype

So i just use cs2

[mental skiff]

gonna be long before hilbert get a candy from me

[ashen thunder]

Doesn't offtype Hilbert sync nuke

Those tiles feel like waste of slot

[tardy fiber]

It does help to do chip damage while debuffing

[ashen thunder]

Can't wait for ice zone unit to have a passive that allows allies to fire charge moves without charging

[tardy fiber]

I hope they give ice gear

It will be a big boost to ssN and Ghetsis

[mental skiff]

Cough cough wait for a support has recoil protection

[ashen thunder]

Ghetsis my beloved

Best ice type for me

[mental skiff]

Although he is kinda weird character

ex dont help

[tardy fiber]

I dont think ice zone will help ssN much especially when he only hit once in 3 turns...freeze shock took 2 turns and bnoble roar took 1 more

Just gonna pair him with ghetsis

Ice zone will help my hleon a lot

Cmon DeNa, articuno/regice ice zone

[mental skiff]

SsN isnt that helpful to ice type

[ashen thunder]

Depends on unit
Look at Cyrus
Works perfectly with Karen

[tardy fiber]

I use my sscyrus with lysandre

Dark pulse with dark power 5

[mental skiff]

Wait for ice zone tho :v only has genshis for ice stage

[ashen thunder]

SSN for gauntlet but imagine rolling for gauntlet exclusively

[mental skiff]

not me

[ashen thunder]

Lucksacc 2/5 hala to put ghetsis in retirement home

until stage has sentry entry

[tardy fiber]

Ghetsis for sentry x2, hleon and ssN for wise x2...im set

Still waiting for more fairy/dark/poison faves

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Only fairy legendary, mythical, UB currently is Sycamore

[mental skiff]

To be honest only LG matter now

[ashen thunder]

Sinnoh CS

[mental skiff]

imagine rolling for CS.. Outdated

[tardy fiber]

I like LG, it caters to lazy players also to hardcore players...lazy guy like me just gonna do 10-12... hardcore can do how much they want to

[ashen thunder]

Tho I did miss out lot of good units during my hiatus

I wish going for streaks was more incentive

[mental skiff]

i miss all my fav which is 3 marnie

[tardy fiber]

Oh in which period did you take a break?

[mental skiff]

Still have 0/3

[ashen thunder]

Left game right after day 1 of SSmorty banner, came back for anni

I was busy with work

[mental skiff]

poma is time consuming at the start tho

but now we have nothing to do... perfect for me

[tardy fiber]

Let me check my roster period filter ...oh you missed Johtrio MF, djgloria+sskorrina, hoenn VA

[mental skiff]

SS Giovani

[tardy fiber]

Oh right I skip him so i forgot

[mental skiff]

[ashen thunder]

Its so messy after missing those

[tardy fiber]

Well last time i checked nidoking aint a Legendary so based on my goals, its a skip

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

FallIris fixed my poison roster

So I'm happy, please DeNa give me magearna or enamorus next

[mental skiff]

I like fall iris tho... Pretty cute... poison roster still suck

[ashen thunder]

Good thing I have 2 good electric teams
Means I can slap SSTred in the shittiest CS fight possible

SST red, clearly best poison type

[tardy fiber]

Oh right I don't need to worry about elec weak aaron anymore

[mental skiff]

Who

[tardy fiber]

Genesect change shock driver

[mental skiff]

Aaron is artifact of the past now

[ashen thunder]

Hope next free legendary is poison type

[tardy fiber]

It is a nightmare for me as my zekrom still 2/5 back then, now he already 3/5 and got that 2/5 new grids so probably he can clear it

If still hard, just gonna use genesect

[mental skiff]

Tapu

[ashen thunder]

How tapu?

Solgaleo is Alola

[mental skiff]

It has poison weak

[tardy fiber]

Hope dena took my feedback, i ask for alola legendary adventures due to solgaleo doesnt have alola tag

[mental skiff]

Oh

[tardy fiber]

The only alola in solgaleo LA event is Hau's appearance in the event

[ashen thunder]

Alola EB gonna be nightmare if they scale it like rosa EB

[mental skiff]

Gonna give lussamine power boost then

[tardy fiber]

Hope we got psychic terrain tapu lele for alola VA, time to boost lussamine even more

[mental skiff]

i meant normal lussamine

[tardy fiber]

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Nevermind i have her as well, even already 150

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Gladion too

[mental skiff]

Hope nihilego come tho

[ashen thunder]

Lusamine gonna get +20 def/spl def in her expanded grid for free tiles

[mental skiff]

cant wait to spend gems

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Lusamine kinda weird though, her 140-150 stats boost a bunch of her atk spatk...while def spdef only+2 stats

[mental skiff]

matter tho

[tardy fiber]

From 109 to 111

[mental skiff]

Before: get k.o by 1 hit
Now: 1 hp left trigger power reserve 5

[ashen thunder]

Run unyielding so she can tank another hit

[mental skiff]

I used her quite a lot after ex+150 tho

[tardy fiber]

But her atk spatk increased from 556 to 584

Hefty increase

[mental skiff]

[chrome nest]

We talking about stats?

[tardy fiber]

Yep not all pairs got +12 stats across the board, i noticed lusamine pour all of her increase as atk spatk

[ashen thunder]

Coz the increase depends on initial stats

I remember SSred also hits very high offenses

[mental skiff]

bye gonna leave, meet again in datamine hope winter is skipable

[tardy fiber]

AnniN and annisteven only increased from 294 atk spatk to 306

I hope none of my faves appears as xmas alt again

Santa suit outfit looks totally uncool

[ashen thunder]

Xmas is ez skip
Coz it is bait before next VA

[tardy fiber]

I hope DeNa remove hleon santa hat in the future, that will be cooler

[mental skiff]

Santa leon make rerun christmas banner death to me

I rather have pity than hit a santa leon on first single

[tardy fiber]

He still the unit that have highest chance to freeze enemies iirc

[mental skiff]

but he looks weird

[ashen thunder]

I remember genesect had some freeze shenanigans in grid
It's not better?

[tardy fiber]

Yep luckily i only see pokemons, if i also consider outfit i already skip him

[tardy fiber]

Hleon have 10% higher chance due to cold snap 3

Out of all of my faves, i hate hleon outfit and scguzma color...for now others are fine

[ashen thunder]

SC guzma matches buzzwole tho

[tardy fiber]

Buzzwole shiny only have little bit of green, but his EX become full green

Im fine if its little bit like this

[ashen thunder]

Eh EX most cases look cringe

[tardy fiber]

Yep like redlax ex

[ashen thunder]

Only few ex actually good

[tardy fiber]

They able to change sabrina and cynthia EX color to be different from shiny theme...i wonder why they didn't do that for all

[ashen thunder]

They stopped bothering

Old EXs are based

Like elesa, N etc

New ones are the lazy ones

Like dawn

[tardy fiber]

Now the only different color EX for new units are the pairs that have pairs that are shiny like annisteven suddenly white color if EX and ssmorty becomes black

[tardy jolt]

Ash and SST Red

[broken mulch]

SSHilda turned into the color of Victini’s eyes at least

[vestal leaf]

SSN is Gucci

Sans undertale Ghetsis too

Hugh also look good

SCRosa is interesting, and Firis is so good

Exwise

[umbral meteor]

if you care abt LG just pull everything

coz thats the LG's meta

[umbral meteor]

i never knew ss lusamine was ez skip

[broken mulch]

Yep

More bodies to throw at LG IS the meta

[upbeat lotus]

How to beat LG: just get every pairs in the game smh

[tawny dagger]

Well you can't beat LG

There is no upper limit

[umbral meteor]

exactly

[cunning swan]

I think SS Hilda's EX looks fresh

[violet nebula]

It should of been the blue first then red

That would of been better/ more "thematic"

[broken mulch]

Nah blue’s better

More striking

[sturdy flower]

she's pretty and that's about it

with the ugly lightbulb necrozma

[umbral meteor]

Im actually 50/50 on her outfit tbh

[willow pollen]

Colress really got cucked out of a good ex

[signal halo]

I like lightbulb necrozma

if she had a remix of the ultra necrozma theme, she would be my next in line fave after colress

[tardy fiber]

I like that lusamine braids her hair. I like when alts have a vast difference than their original appearance

Although ssbrendan does looks a bit goofy but seeing him without headband is quite refreshing

Oh sskorrina without her helmet also quite neat

[lean mango]

That's my favorite part about alts when they change their hair

LuSSa is probably one of my favorite alt designs

[upbeat lotus]

Her EX outfit is easily the best EX in the game imo

[tardy fiber]

Oh ssserena with short hair is also good

But man, these recent 3 new sygna suit alts doesn't change much hairstyle design

[upbeat lotus]

Hilbert still hides his hair

[lean mango]

I feel like Hilbert would have a crisis if he didn't have a hat

[tardy fiber]

Sad no short hair N

[lean mango]

Oooo that would look cool

[tardy fiber]

But i wonder if they won't change much of VA alts due to in the progress of VA they are transitioning between og outfit to VA outfit so no time to cut hair and such

[tough oriole]

Blue = Top Tier Outfit

[cunning swan]

bald N

[cunning swan]

ikr, wish he took off his hat. I want more hair lore, like with Ethan and Brendan

[tardy fiber]

Long hair ssKris

[tawny cedar]

My saving going fine do far

Should be able to get xbold and 1 ny unit unless dec has bad gem count

Then I'll skip xbold for ny

[tardy fiber]

Same, hopefully December is fine for me...only have 57k for now

[hardy creek]

so uhm............. I updated my list teehee 🙈

[upbeat lotus]

a Melli fan

[hardy creek]

😌

Melli's the best

[tawny cedar]

Oh yeah scarlet is out now

Time to find every single spoiler so i can see if anyone interested me

[tardy fiber]

Oh talking about SV ||i gonna add paradoxes to my faves list|| so i got additional 22 faves

[tawny cedar]

Lol

[tardy fiber]

Might be 25 if include ||paradox suicune, virizion, 3rd legendary||

[umbral meteor]

|| but we hardly know 3rd legendary's design yet lol ||

[lean mango]

I got about 3 chara to add to my list, maybe 4 I'm letting that do it's own thing

[cunning swan]

The two professors sure interest me

Can we have more professors in the game

[umbral meteor]

they gonna carry

Great designs

[lean mango]

I have at least one SV that they won't shaft at least

Geeta the beloved

[tough oriole]

Nemona ||might be a poke fair since she is a champion||

I’m gonna make a fav mon list for paldea now

[hardy creek]

winston how spoilery is that spoiler can I click

[umbral meteor]

its a spoiler

depends how far you have played the game

[umbral meteor]

lmao geeta just seems iris 2.0

maybe a bit better but wtv

iris 2.0 in poma standards probably

[hardy creek]

||only beat the first gym|| so not sure if I can click or not 😌

[tough oriole]

You learn it after like 10 minutes of playing the game, but it’s clarified after going to the academy

[tough oriole]

You can click then

[hardy creek]

ah kk so I can click

[umbral meteor]

Yes

[umbral meteor]

I dont think || paldea CS will feature nemona tho since you become a champion by beating geeta alr altho nemona is champion ranked ||

[tough oriole]

||So you beat Grusha ||

[cunning swan]

.. going on the internet before finishing the story is a landmine

[tough oriole]

||Yea, but she can still have champ theme skill||

[hardy creek]

||no, only the bug leader||

[umbral meteor]

|| yes ||

[hardy creek]

but ye I will happily surrender my entire life savings for nemona the moment she drops

[tough oriole]

Besides, they’d never give up an opportunity to make a Poké Fair

[hardy creek]

master fair nemona let's goooooooooo

[umbral meteor]

idt she will be mf

probably just pf

[tough oriole]

I need mf mustard… i’m not even a mega fan of him but he logically should be one

[umbral meteor]

her signature is just a starter anw

[hardy creek]

dw I was joking

[umbral meteor]

he logically shuldnt be one since japan hates him

[tough oriole]

Just make him a fighting wish mf, he’s canonically on par (actually slightly higher levelled) than leon

[umbral meteor]

its dumb to make him mf

and i dont think they are that dumb so

hes on alder tier popularity

obv a bit above but wtv

[tough oriole]

Is mf just about popularity
Surely making him strong is enough

[umbral meteor]

no its not enough

-.-

[hardy creek]

needs to be popular enough for ppl to risk the 1%

[tough oriole]

Also i freaking love this pokémon, it’s so derpy

[umbral meteor]

japan doesnt like old characters unfortunately

pog

[tough oriole]

The ||little feet|| crack me up

[lean mango]

[umbral meteor]

she is tho

[lean mango]

I mean I still like her and Iris

[umbral meteor]

doesnt mean they wont shaft her tho

[lean mango]

Also absolutely love her design

[umbral meteor]

well she will still get pokefair treatment anw

[lean mango]

?

[umbral meteor]

because new gen

[umbral meteor]

^

[lean mango]

They'll make her a Pokefair and I'll enjoy that

[umbral meteor]

[lean mango]

More chance to keep my gems for me

[umbral meteor]

keep gems?

[lean mango]

Ye

Save

[umbral meteor]

ah

[tough oriole]

You know that you can still go to pity on a poké fair

[umbral meteor]

well not as likely as mf

[tough oriole]

7% chance is worse than air slash

[umbral meteor]

something is better than nothing

[lean mango]

I know

There is a reason why I said chance

[tawny dagger]

Twice for me

SSCyn and SSBlue

[umbral meteor]

wonder who will be paldean leon/gloria/marnie

[lean mango]

Penny probably

[umbral meteor]

yea possible

she might be one of those

probably marnie 2.0

[lean mango]

The rivals this gen haven't wowed me so they're not going on the list

[broken mulch]

Gonna hit pity shortly after datamine

[umbral meteor]

there are 3 rivals so

same as galar

[lean mango]

Ye

And those rivals aren't on my list, 2 of em are pretty down

Only Bede is somewhat high

Galar fav list was saved by Klara and Avery

[tough oriole]

I was kinda meh to them at first but arven grew on me like something that grows fast

[lean mango]

They've all been "ok cool you're here"

[umbral meteor]

how far have you played?

[tough oriole]

I don’t even have a switch, i’ve just been watching playthroughs

It was around the 2nd titan that i started to like him

[umbral meteor]

ah

|| he has a backstory too ||

[tardy fiber]

||i thought its the giant egg like thingy, got people posted it||

[cunning swan]

OMG my brethren

[thorny pelican]

Resource talk sounds good

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if i should consider a spotlight fave step up now with the existence of gem bundles

[umbral meteor]

|| yeah but is that enough to add into a fav list lol i mean virizion and suicune had much clear designs ||

[tardy fiber]

Well as long as it legendaries, mythicals, UBs, paradoxes...i will add to faves list

[umbral meteor]

ah

ub's are also sub legends so dont need to mention them separately

[tardy fiber]

Well they are classified differently by official sources so i gonna separate them

[umbral meteor]

oh

[orchid brook]

I want to use candy to 3/5 archie, he’s my top favorite but i’m p sure i won’t use him often because i don’t have proper supports to back him up

Trying hard not to use candies right now kek

[ashen thunder]

If you like him he's worth candying

Also Archie works fine with Roxanne

So idk what's the meaning of "proper support"
If hes a fav you just make him work regardless of the roster situation

[oak crest]

he's worth candying since he's a fav and a MF

plus striker candies are more common compared to tech

[drowsy saddle]

Just because a unit is a masterfair doesn't mean he's worth the candy.
Fave point still stands.

[umbral meteor]

mainly only worth because fav

otherwise his grid is whatever

[oak crest]

the mf part is more of a point to strengthen a fav unit reason

otherwise its not a valid point

[umbral meteor]

then the point is only that its a fav

[ashen thunder]

His grid is fine 3/5 for LG

[oak crest]

yea that

[umbral meteor]

erm no

there are far better LG pairs to candy

the ones who can solo

[ashen thunder]

I know

Also imagine telling strike candies are common

When all recent 5/5 expansions are strikers

And they tend to drop strikers back in the day

[umbral meteor]

candies arent common its just that techs release are more frequent than strikers

[oak crest]

idk if i will even aim 5/5 on any unit tbh

[ashen thunder]

5/5 fav

[tardy fiber]

I got plenty of 5/5 faves...lusamine, gladion, legendary adventure units and prof oak

[umbral meteor]

spotlights and free units in simple words

[ashen thunder]

Oh god my gladion is still 3/5

[oak crest]

as for the common part, maybe its just me, but I seem to form striker candies the fastest among the 3

[tardy fiber]

Well most spotlights are not my faves, there's only 2 for now

[umbral meteor]

maybe because you tend to candy strikers a lot less

since the rate is almost equal for all 3

[ashen thunder]

Well they do release less strikers nowadays

[umbral meteor]

its tech > strikers > supports

[oak crest]

actually, support seems the slowest to me tho

[umbral meteor]

in being release rate

[ashen thunder]

Till last year it was a striker fest

They kinda went full on tech and support ever since zones

[oak crest]

altho only certain supports do catch my attention

[umbral meteor]

giving a tech ex expanded sync ruined logic of striker exes 🥱

[oak crest]

im very picky esp when it comes to support, so idk

[tardy fiber]

Well if you pulled for MF banners, in 5 multis you will get 3 strike coins, 2 tech coins and 1 supports...that already give more strike coins compared to others

[oak crest]

ah, must be that reason

[ashen thunder]

Well there's only 1 so far

[umbral meteor]

yes

[oak crest]

since I chase mf units often

if dec has no mf, probably an easy skip for me, unless they release something that catch my attention

[umbral meteor]

why do you think it wont lol

there never has been a gap of more than 3 months so

[ashen thunder]

They are dropping ice zone atleast
Coz Xmas

[umbral meteor]

xmas also goes in jan datamine

[ashen thunder]

Not like that'd bait me
Coz I don't have a good ice type

Xmas datamines happen on 15th no?

[umbral meteor]

21st/22nd

[oak crest]

idk, if they can do 2 pika mf on anni idk what else can they cook up tbh

[umbral meteor]

that has nothing to do with increasing gap

[ashen thunder]

Pika MF already sucked me dry

[umbral meteor]

which is worse for them not better

[oak crest]

nth against red and ash but i just disliked pika

[ashen thunder]

Both ate up pity

[oak crest]

lol

[ashen thunder]

Thank goodness I had the gems

[umbral meteor]

ppl dislike the mascot of franchise?

[oak crest]

thats me

i liked the gameplay

but that doesnt mean I must like the mascot

lmaooo

[umbral meteor]

ofc

[ashen thunder]

Tbh I just rolled coz it's red
And ash felt like smth that'd never return for a long time

Personally wanted to roll cynthia more but my luck was bad

[oak crest]

cynthia ate up my pity as well

with alot of dead multis

[ashen thunder]

This year my luck is bad

[oak crest]

probably 1 of my worst ever

[ashen thunder]

5 units ate up pity

And jasmine ate up pity last year as well

[oak crest]

12% indeed a lie for me on that banner

[ashen thunder]

Thats why I hope next month is also skip

So I can have a much bigger gem count

Likely skipping kalos MFs for alola

[oak crest]

im back to 4 pities by next reset i think

[umbral meteor]

not like theres any guarantee it will get any mfs anw

[oak crest]

yea

unova is a gd example

[ashen thunder]

I kinda expect 1 MF, 2 PF

[umbral meteor]

No its not a good example

unova is in november

lol

[ashen thunder]

For kalos

[oak crest]

oh

[umbral meteor]

huh why would you not expect 1mf 3pfs lol coz 2pfs would be run up and if it gets mf it would be end dec so probably there would be a pf for part 1 during mid january too

[ashen thunder]

Jan will be the hot month

[umbral meteor]

its most likely gonna be 3pfs or 1mf+3pfs

[ashen thunder]

I am expecting lot of spotlights for kalos

Coz kalos roster is basically ded in gen pool

[umbral meteor]

not like they care

[oak crest]

actually is there a pattern to mfs?

[umbral meteor]

max 2 spotlights probably

[ashen thunder]

But my 200 kalos tickets

[umbral meteor]

so far they have been in march , june , september , december , january datamines

[oak crest]

kalos gonna have a cs update as well

[umbral meteor]

doesnt have to be same month tho

[oak crest]

yeah

but normally they will follow shortly

[umbral meteor]

probably

[oak crest]

hopefully its not like when sinnoh first debutted

[umbral meteor]

maybe like hoenn

[oak crest]

hoenn was kinda ok for me

sinnoh gave me a very hard time

[ashen thunder]

Sinnoh was hell

But the tickets were nice

Coz once Bertha and co were added to pool those tickets helped

[umbral meteor]

both were fine for me

[oak crest]

the 2 responsible for most of my suffering back then hasn't appeared yet(1 in next week, the other on the week after)

[umbral meteor]

but sinnoh was obv most difficult

[ashen thunder]

Tbh I wish they gave MF passive to Cyrus/lucas instead of cynthia

Coz they wouldn't have had to repeat flagbearer if that were the case

[umbral meteor]

i dont think its a good decision to do a lucas MF around christmas

and cyrus is a terrible choice for a mf lol

[umbral meteor]

oh for anniv?

[ashen thunder]

Ye

[umbral meteor]

but why would lucas or cyrus be anniv

I think you mean dawn

[ashen thunder]

Oh I meant as in
If they got MF passive it would likely be spirit passive

So there wouldn't be 2 sinnoh flagbearers now

[umbral meteor]

i mean they repeated cynthia for anniv

and you couldnt do lucas or cyrus for it anyways so

it should have been dawn so they didnt had to repeat

But they probably wanted to repeat anw because lucario was support

[ashen thunder]

Maybe

[umbral meteor]

i think its more because of it being support rather than cynthia repeat

with same name trainer update maybe we even get other repeat character mfs but diff master passives coz we will be able to stack them anw

[ashen thunder]

Yea they can now limit MFs among few trainers instead of giving MF tag to random people

[umbral meteor]

yeah

[upbeat lotus]

If december datamine has around 22000 gems, i will have a pity at the new year

Hope Holiday Sonia doesnt happen next holiday

[umbral meteor]

it will probably be 30k atleast no way its 22k

[upbeat lotus]

i always expect the worst scenario

[umbral meteor]

dec is always 28-30k

so

[maiden kayak]

whos the green hair girl in pokeball man tier?

[tawny dagger]

Wendy

[maiden kayak]

from?

[tawny dagger]

Pokemon Rangers

Shadow of Almia

https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wendy_(Ranger)

[maiden kayak]

oh

[signal halo]

22k December would be a little disaster, though I think it could be just enough to get me to the second pity

Which, in turn, would allow me to finish all the canon unova pokefairs

[violet nebula]

Insignificant but finally at 2 pitites in preparation for any MF they get the urge to release

If next month dry then these Unova pairs will do as pretty good (will not summon on spotlights as they get added later)

[signal halo]

Dry December sounds strange

[sturdy flower]

it will be dry if the temperature keeps under 0C... oh wait, that's not what you are talking about

[tardy fiber]

Only 1 fave would be good

But i got 2 on last December, lussamine and hleon

[fallen path]

Dena giving us a low amount of gems would be classic dena lol

[tough oriole]

I wonder how they’ll react when ||Larry|| (an SV Gym Leader) turns out to be super popular... he doesn’t seem like the type of person who’d dress up in outfits

[tough oriole]

Then again, if ||his boss forced him to dress up, he would||

Much like gladion i feel

[sturdy flower]

ah yes, all the outfits of Gladion we have

[tough oriole]

I meant that he isn’t the type who’d dress up voluntarily

Who knows, i can cope for him to get a va alt

[sturdy flower]

also ||Larry can have 2 units in his regular outfit, due to his multiple appearances||

[tough oriole]

I can’t handle another lillie alt, my gems would not be safe

[tough oriole]

Probably ||like a bp unit||?

||His aces are dundunsparce (or staraptor) and flamigo|| afaik

[exotic sparrow]

He actually ||has 2 different outfit, though with minor changes. In his 2nd position, he wears the League gloves, changes his shirt and tie to blue||

[tough oriole]

Wow

[summer goblet]

if Dena is gonna give us low gem count month, then they should skip the MF

its only fair

[umbral meteor]

but its a bit copium that it will be low GC month or there wont be MF lol

[umbral meteor]

|| larry being popular lol? idk ||

[tough oriole]

I’ve heard only love for him so far

[lean mango]

He's kinda like Nanu which is popular

[tardy fiber]

December having new xmas event and hleon event rerun, so it might have more gems

[umbral meteor]

dec is min 27k+

so

[umbral meteor]

yea but not that popular

lol

he has no alt anw

gladion is tho

[lean mango]

Yet he has no alt

[umbral meteor]

Probably because his personality is funny

[lean mango]

Nanu is 9th in popularity

I think

[umbral meteor]

top alolan male is gladion so

[lean mango]

an?

[umbral meteor]

It was 9th in alolan poll yes iir

iirc

[tough oriole]

9th is top male? Wow, we live in a society

[umbral meteor]

gladion is 2nd

im talking abt nanu being 9th

also top "alolan" male

[tough oriole]

Ah

Welp, my dreams for larry alt have been dashed

Oh noooo, i’ll get to save more

[lean mango]

Hey still have hope

[tardy fiber]

Neat, plus the daily gem bundle i can form another pity amount on December

[tough oriole]

I’m gonna do bv now , time to watch gem count go up

I’m going to go on a strict diet for realsies now

[tardy fiber]

I should use more pairs for BV, i didn't notice that bv thorton can iron head my sycamore to kill him easily

[tough oriole]

Lillie and N are not allowed to get alts for the next 4 months

[tardy fiber]

4 months? Just in time for alola VA sygna suit lillie

[sturdy hatch]

Wow we really don’t have a Sygna suit Lillie

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[tardy fiber]

Inb4 the tapus went to ss selene, elio, lillie, gladion

[tough oriole]

How would misty terrrain work in this game

[tough oriole]

4 months shouldn’t be enough for 2 more vas

[umbral meteor]

5 months is tho

[umbral meteor]

i dont even think there will be a ss gladion in arc

they will probably just do protags and lillie and over

like hoenn and unova

[tough oriole]

It’s not even a matter of if there’s gonna be a new lillie alt, but when

[tardy fiber]

Probably just a 50% fairy damage boost like zone just its a pokemon move so cannot be cast if flinched or asleep

[tough oriole]

That would make fairy types op tho, unless they make fairy zone and misty terrain not stack. Wally’s rebuff already gives fairies a big buff

[tardy fiber]

Yep probably cannot stack

[weary spire]

my guess is that it might actually just be like the games, not any kinda game-changer. maybe on some defensive support, so you can set misty terrain (which prevents status & weakens dragon moves), along with some other passives that might have you recover HP under it, receive less damage team-wide or whatever else they wanna do

in a game like this, it doesn't matter as much what the actual terrain does honestly, when you can have passives, multipliers or whatever else activate as a result of it

[tardy fiber]

Oh right they can do like hail, like it got move damage and sync multiplier but its limited to certain unit's grid

[weary spire]

obv it does to a degree, like electric terrain, psychic terrain & grassy terrain get to have an inherent boost to damage, etc

[tough oriole]

If they make the setter as good as ingo it won’t be a problem

Problem is, they can’t give old pairs misty passives without their grid expansions, which come really slowly

[tardy fiber]

But they already do experiment with weather/terrain giving other stuffs than damage boosts...on those eeveelutions passive

[tough oriole]

I wonder how badly the eevee scout will flop

[tardy fiber]

Well I won't pull it, but i might change my stance if they do the same stuff but with legendaries/mythicals/UBs

Like even with they are without , they will still be my faves like bp master units

[tough oriole]

I like the idea of a scout where there are multiple similar sync pairs being together, but they don’t have EXs or outfits

If this was for regular spotlight units, i’d love it

[tardy fiber]

But them being a base 5* is kinda demerit for me...if its 4*, they will be easier to candy like rachel and sawyer

[tough oriole]

Ok, i felt like i remembered something, and I was right. When Guzma and Plumeria first launched, they came together, but with 1% rates each

[umbral meteor]

Misty terrain does not boost anything

It just reduces dragon damage

[umbral meteor]

either holiday or arc probably tbh

[tardy fiber]

Also prevent pokemon from being afflicted by status conditions

[umbral meteor]

ye but it doesnt boost anything lol

its just like hail and sand

[tardy fiber]

Yep thats why i also said this below

Lol

Can do like hleon grid having damage boost or sync damage boost when hail but only due to his grid.

[umbral meteor]

well thats very diff so

Its not the traditional 50% boost

innate one

maybe dianthas expanded grid

[tardy fiber]

Yep ron already explained explained misty terrain for me so you are kinda late

[umbral meteor]

i thought you would knew it doesnt

[tardy fiber]

Well probably read the whole conversation before mentioning me

Keep mention my old messages recently

[summer goblet]

the ultimate path of saving

is to skip your favourites and save for another day

[tardy fiber]

I thought we would save for favourites

[summer goblet]

we would

[maiden kayak]

man

[summer goblet]

but you save to get better positioning

[maiden kayak]

sv made me add another 6 favs

[summer goblet]

like if you feel insecure with your current gem count of 36k gems

you could skip and save up to 72k

[summer goblet]

let me guess, there all girls right

[maiden kayak]

of cos

[summer goblet]

like Geeta and Nemona

[maiden kayak]

Mela too

[summer goblet]

right

well you have a year

and 6x36

[tawny cedar]

I need to check sv spoilers to see if there are any cool people there

[tawny cedar]

I think more than that

Considering we still have hisui to get through

[summer goblet]

you only need to spend 216k gems at most

[maiden kayak]

coolest one is actually not in the trailer

at all

[umbral meteor]

are you done with the game?

[summer goblet]

so just enough gems from your postion

[maiden kayak]

yes

very good game

[summer goblet]

i only watch the stream

don't have a switch

[umbral meteor]

they can skip it anw

[umbral meteor]

same

[umbral meteor]

indeed

[tawny cedar]

Same

I gave up after 5 years

[summer goblet]

i see

[tough oriole]

Imagine owning a switch

[maiden kayak]

i cant wait for sv favs to come

[umbral meteor]

is sada included?

[summer goblet]

each have their own defintion of favs

[maiden kayak]

no

[umbral meteor]

you mean taste

[umbral meteor]

interesting

[tough oriole]

Cetitan really grew on me

[summer goblet]

pretty much

[umbral meteor]

i thought sada has a really good design

[summer goblet]

i go with the Chad Professor Turos

[maiden kayak]

im not into skimpy outfits

[umbral meteor]

violet gang

[maiden kayak]

sada had it

[summer goblet]

oh yeah that reminds me

[umbral meteor]

ah

[tough oriole]

So far, I like Grusha, Arven, and Penny. Jacq and Iono are also neat

[umbral meteor]

i like sada , turo , iono , penny , arven , nemona , mela the most so far

[tough oriole]

Nemona is also quite cool, just not as much as the other 2 frens

[maiden kayak]

cool as in?

u not supposed to story spoil here btw

[summer goblet]

hehehe

[tough oriole]

[summer goblet]

i'm cool with spoilers

[maiden kayak]

not here tho

[summer goblet]

yeah def not in there

[umbral meteor]

sada is my favourite prof design now

[tough oriole]

Turo is quite the gigachad, but that feeling kinda fell off over 5 months (kinda like how i’m a lot more neutral towards lechonk)

[umbral meteor]

i like turo less than sycamore but still amazing design

sada tho

[summer goblet]

yeah

[tough oriole]

I typically like the more shy characters, or those that have more than just battling skills

[umbral meteor]

scarlet has the better proffesor

[tough oriole]

Like allister is one of my favs

[cunning swan]

are we talking about the SV professors because hell yeah bring them in the game dena

[umbral meteor]

they will what

you just have to wait for about 1.5years

[cunning swan]

👉 👈

[tough oriole]

1.5 yrs is pretty hopium

[umbral meteor]

1.5 is for prof

they wont just start with prof

probably protags

which shuld be in 1 year

[cunning swan]

SV protags aren't popular though

[maiden kayak]

really wanna have nemona alts

[summer goblet]

nah

[tough oriole]

It took over 2 years for sonia, and she’s also super popular

[cunning swan]

I always thought Gloria became the first galar character to get in the game because of her immense popularity

[summer goblet]

i think Nemona will be the first to start off

[umbral meteor]

that doesnt matter tho lol

[summer goblet]

next year

[umbral meteor]

well yes 1.5-2 is possible obviously

[umbral meteor]

maybe

[maiden kayak]

watch protag EX be just scarlet and violet uniforms

[umbral meteor]

but to compensate for the lack of popularity they can just do juliana and florian tgt instead of like they did only gloria

[cunning swan]

lmao wouldn't it be funny if the colors just switch

the scarlet uniform becomes violet and vice versa

[tough oriole]

I wonder if protags og outfit will have starters or legends

[umbral meteor]

probably december23 or even jan2024

[cunning swan]

true, just release them in one same event

[umbral meteor]

i dont think they would get legends

probably starters

[umbral meteor]

yeah that compensates for the lack of popularity so

instead of 1 you debut with 2

would be almost 2024 anw by when we get them

[tough oriole]

Hopefully by 2024 i’ve gotten all rerun favs

I wonder when the successor to the switch will come

[umbral meteor]

maybe for gen10

[summer goblet]

maybe by then i will 500k gems next year and be well prepare to grab some gen 9 characters

[umbral meteor]

or wtv remake game we get for 2024

[summer goblet]

mostly to fill the gen 9 theme team

[umbral meteor]

gb: 1 gen
gbc: 1 gen
gba: 1 gen
nds: 2 gens
3ds: 2 gens
ns: 2 gens ( so far )

[tough oriole]

I kinda feel like the switch might last longer, but then again it took a while to get a normal main series game on the switch

[umbral meteor]

gba: kanto remakes
nds: johto remakes
3ds: hoenn remakes
switch: sinnoh remakes
??: unova remakes?

[tough oriole]

That’s one way to look at it

[lunar topaz]

I don’t think they’ll make a successor for the switch not to recently Nintendo had like a meeting and said they didn’t know how to go past from the switch and stuff and people didn’t think we’d get 2 Splatoons on the same console so we may get 3 mainline Pokémon games on the switch cause they’re def not making a new switch just to put the next Pokémon ina. Diff console lel

[umbral meteor]

yea its hard to beat switch

[chrome nest]

Switch also has another kanto remake

[umbral meteor]

yes but it was remake of pokemon yellow so

[thorny pelican]

Resource thread, resource thread

Topics for resources are dead

Rip resource thread

🪦

[lean mango]

Save™

[thorny pelican]

Sa™️

[lean mango]

S™

[tawny dagger]

™

[vestal leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/sas-tish-amici18-gif-15123165

[tardy fiber]

Big gems next reset

And i want to see how's eevee banner rate

[umbral meteor]

1.5% each and 7% 5*

[tardy fiber]

Oh neat quite high rate

[umbral meteor]

Limited spotlights

[tardy fiber]

I might grab if its Legendaries, Mythicals, UBs but eeveelutions aren't those

[cunning swan]

limited units with no EX... this is so stupid

I hate the banner but love the featured characters

[tardy fiber]

Like rachel and sawyer

Luckily I didn't care about Gauntlet much so i can understand if got people pull it for more pairs

[cunning swan]

I'm not a hardcore gauntlet streaker, I just like the characters

[rotund sleet]

isn’t it just protags with a random eeveelution

[rare swan]

yes

please do not waste your hard-earned gems on it

[fallen path]

I’m sure those characters will have other alts with much better units. Dena were hella lazy with these upcoming ones on Monday

[sturdy flower]

I'm just going to do the FFB and wait for datamine

[lament hornet]

not even espeon

[cunning swan]

I collect every male game protag in the game so far and that eevee day Lucas is the only thing standing between me and a complete collection

[rare swan]

if you are planning to pull, i wish you luck

[broken mulch]

Oh it’s tomorrow?

Easy skip for me haha. Love Kris but I hate eeveelutions more

[upbeat lotus]

I really like them, would probably ||spend gems on that banner|| but Im saving for my targets

[weary spire]

I hope they don’t make a habit out of banners like that personally, but we’ll see ig

[south scroll]

Nemona is making it onto my faves list

[signal halo]

It took them a whole year to introduce galar in PoMa, didn't it?

[tardy fiber]

Cmon DeNa, give me paradoxes 25 new faves

[fallen path]

You don’t want them all at the same time lol

[tardy fiber]

They probably spread it like UBs, they didn't have any special trainer associated with them...they're gonna give a bunch of type coverage

[south scroll]

You're including paradoxes as legendaries?

[tardy fiber]

Well ||koraidon, miraidon are paradoxes of cyclizar also there's upcoming suicune and virizion as well||

And they all have stats of 570 like UBs

[fallen path]

Spoilers

[tawny dagger]

||Aren't they supposed to be like UBs||

Yeah

[tardy fiber]

I also collect UBs

[fallen path]

Phew

Vantner we don’t even have the Kanto birds. Who knows when paldea legends will be here

[tardy fiber]

So i really really cannot do random pulls, too many faves

Im glad that i skipped this year's anniv MF

[tawny dagger]

But they added 25 paradoxes?

[fallen path]

It’s like spain without the s for you

[tardy fiber]

18 ||if include suicune, virizion||

Oh so only 23 then

Only 5 legendary

[fallen path]

Save that bonus money, vantner

If there is 23

[tardy fiber]

Well not like all of them gonna release in a year

[tawny dagger]

4 right?

[fallen path]

I mean

A legendary or mythical is always around the corner lol

[tardy fiber]

||got third legendary rumor, egg shape thingy||

[tawny dagger]

Oh

[tardy fiber]

Yep that's why i gonna avoid other normal pokemon pairs no matter how op they are

I think i only have 3 months that i able to fully skip

In 500+ days of playing

Tea party sc month, last year's fall and few months in gap between maxie archie release to lear release last year

Oh maybe more than 3 months

[drowsy saddle]

How many days were no new Legendary banners present?
We want numbers

[tardy fiber]

Hard, need to cross check the dates but luckily it was sorted by obtained order in my collection

Although level 150 kinda ruin the order a bit

[tardy fiber]

Ok this is the period that i got my banner faves, kinda surprised that i got quite a lot of skipping months

[fallen path]

So this is from when you started playing the game

[tardy fiber]

Yep i started on few days before maxie archie banner dissappears

I remembered that i can still pull them but cannot do their event due to its ending soon

[drowsy saddle]

what do you mean you actually did it

[tardy fiber]

After i got groudon, kyogre, solgaleo, mew, gladion as my starting point. I start to set them as my goal

[tardy fiber]

Did what?

[drowsy saddle]

The tierlist

[tardy fiber]

I just modify it from sages tiermaker and sort by obtained dates

I didn't say i did the tier list in any of my messages

[drowsy saddle]

Nah, that's just me being slightly confusing, you're fine.

[tardy fiber]

[signal halo]

seeing the johto va bit pains me, because while I did great meta decisions, I still regret getting the pairs I've got back then, or rather, regret not trying harder to get the ones I really wanted

lugia looked fun to play and I really wish I went for red and lucas instead of ss kris and ss lyra

favewise

even getting ss leaf or ss red instead of ss blue

red in particular, since he's got so many reruns he likely won't see the light of the day for quite a while

[tardy fiber]

Although people said ss kantrio banner is good for newbies but i skipped all of them because they are all not my faves

Well i did have one due to victory road

[signal halo]

blastoise is the starter I like the least

but went for it due to the general view that damage dealers are replaceable and, being strongly meta driven myself, I chose him

[tardy fiber]

I got swayed by zone meta when they first introduced and got palmarnie but after that i no longer chase meta. Especially when i see recent pairs are all being competent enough to do things even with 1/5 move level

[lean mango]

I didn't pull on the trio banner when I first played cause I was and had no idea on how to play so just pulled only on FCaitlin which tbh was worth it

FCaitlin one of my favorite units

[tardy fiber]

Don't worry you probably better than mine like ive been using 3 strikers for about 2 weeks

I use solgaleo, groudon and kyogre in 1 team and i wonder why they have difficulty to clear stuffs

Till i found this discord in Reddit after poce video

[lean mango]

It took me like a few months to find communities for this, I think it was around tech anni to find the reddit then Discord

[tough oriole]

Tech anni? Is that 2.5?

[lean mango]

Ye

[signal halo]

After my most recent gem spending, I low-key wanna spend on supports next

I got way too many strikers

[thorny pelican]

And uh

Is that a statement made in a purpose to ask for help on how to save your gems instead?

Like some kind of contradictory self-disposition?

Cuz this is like the Resource Saving Support Thread and the kinds of things I would imagine we'd be wanting to talk about is how to avoid pulling for certain sync pairs or questions in asking for help in what is worth pulling and liiiiike not so much about declaring who you're going to pull in a weird self-flex 👀

Humph hum hum I've got wayyyyyyy too many strikers

[tough oriole]

Alternatively, use f2p supports, if you pulled for strikes, they likely won’t need crazy supports

[thorny pelican]

Let's be honest here, the absolute necessary minimum amount of sync pairs an account needs comes to 30 - Ideally

Of course with all the nuances of Legendary Gauntlet and Extreme Battles, variety is welcome

[rare swan]

Regardless, let's keep our focus on faves

We got gems coming this reset

[thorny pelican]

I should get my stuff all set for the night so I don't need to worry about it anymore

[sturdy flower]

me over here preparing to get over half of Paldea roster and we didn't even have the dlc

[sturdy flower]

are you a con artist now?

[signal halo]

As for saving or not, I believe it was mainly that I was thinking about restricting my pull choices, aiming towards supports for a while

I don't know for sure, but I feel like my playstyle relies heavily on using multiple supports

And I wonder if that should translate to focusing on such pairs in the future

It usually goes for offensive support, defensive support and striker/tech

[sturdy flower]

unless you want to do the stuff chest does being able to save is just maximizing the satisfaction you get out of your account

[signal halo]

I still feel some areas of my account are lacking

[tough oriole]

Everyone feels that from time to time

[signal halo]

I can live with gladion being my fairy pair

[sturdy flower]

embrace the offtype

that's the true happiness

[signal halo]

I hate that idea, because it would kill most of the purpose of saving gems for me

I have just enough pairs to form 5 cracked off type teams

[sturdy flower]

what is your goal

[signal halo]

I feel it is to have offtypable teams for every on type

Example

Any team with ash or SST red can offtype

And they count as on type electric

Cyrus can on type dragon pretty easily or offtype anything with SS kris

[rare swan]

That's quite an intense goal

[signal halo]

I feel like SS Kris and may can comfortably offtype while on typing water

SS Morty could likely solve grass and fire two in one for me

[tough oriole]

You don’t have boosted silver, right?

[signal halo]

No

[sturdy flower]

silver + ex support + sun solves anything

[signal halo]

My fire pairs are like 3/5 Hilda, blue and arcanine

And I think I have 3/5 serena

But my sun setters are hell

I really can't enjoy playing Blaine

Or eggtales

[sturdy flower]

ss erika?

[signal halo]

She feels much more comfortable in grass teams

Which for me, might be close to strong enough for offtyping due to her and SS lyra

[sturdy flower]

ss lyra in team pretty much means it's a free cs stage

you just need to know how to flinch lock

[signal halo]

I know for sure I can offtype with electric, water, ground, rock and psychic

Arguably dragon and ice too, since Cyrus and Ghetsis should count

[sturdy flower]

you could probably offtype with way more if you got creative

[signal halo]

Grass could likely do as well

[sturdy flower]

and fine-tuned the parameters, just like Zinfogel does

[signal halo]

Dark, I forgot dark

[sturdy flower]

just go for meta units but only from the missing types then

[signal halo]

Perhaps steel, wouldn't exactly be too strange

[sturdy flower]

every new unit ask yourself

[signal halo]

I recently missed pairs for 3 key types

In fighting (SSA Cynthia), fairy (Wally), poison (Iris) and ghost (the gourgeist dude)

4

Not 3

[sturdy flower]

"does it improve my situation? and if so by how much? how does it compare to other types i have in general?", then wait till people give their opinions of the units and cross validate with your own

[signal halo]

Fairy is by far and wide, my most miserable type

[sturdy flower]

at least 3 of them are whatever

[signal halo]

I can't offtype with it unless sycamore is the personal Jesus

Because I have no 5* gacha fairy pair

[sturdy flower]

Wally is locked to mega evolution which is a dying mechanic

Ghost rebuff is unnecessary

any worthwhile tech will delete the middle anyways

[signal halo]

For on type it would be helpful, since my ghost pairs aren't exactly amazing

[sturdy flower]

ssa Cynthia is awkward for most fighting pairs

[signal halo]

And DeNa loves to make any decent ghost pair an one time wonder you won't ever see again

Two master fairs and a seasonal

[sturdy flower]

poison needs good offensive units first and foremost since you don't consider SS Gio one

supporting weak units is not your goal

[signal halo]

She's still the strongest poison pair herself

[sturdy flower]

outnuked by potential Koga EX

laughable stats in a world without poison 3* gear

that will also be featured alongside a poison pair

you should aim higher or you will just get baited by anything DeNa throws your way

do you have 4 sparks to get all these pairs you missed?

[signal halo]

I could at most have gotten two

[sturdy flower]

and then they will throw something that makes SS Hilda look bad for fairy or poison and you will miss it

[signal halo]

DeNa tends to keep throwing strong pairs in overcrowded types

SS Hilda herself

[sturdy flower]

because they just have better representation in the main game as well

[signal halo]

Meanwhile N gets the most cursed kit I have ever seen

[sturdy flower]

name a poison legendary

[signal halo]

Eternatus

[sturdy flower]

earlier gen

[signal halo]

Poison Arceus is the only one

[sturdy flower]

yep

and he doesn't really count

[signal halo]

Yet they still made eternatus a dragon

Despite being a primary poison pokemon

[sturdy flower]

because his iconic move is dragon

[signal halo]

They didn't even give him poison coverage

[sturdy flower]

he doesn't have a poison one

[signal halo]

Naganadel and nihilego weren't exactly legendaries either

[sturdy flower]

and poison trainers are dime a dozen

[signal halo]

Meanwhile

They all end up as 3/4 star pairs

Or as some abomination like looker

Who's an one hit wonder unnecessarily so

[sturdy flower]

it's all done with premeditation

[signal halo]

He likely could get out damaged by some rogue offtype spotlight pair

[sturdy flower]

you will run out of gems constantly if you want that many marginally better pairs

[signal halo]

They keep pairs for needing types scarce, but they don't even release some one time master fair to make bank off it

I guess the one type they actually did that for was electric

[sturdy flower]

they will do that for other types surely

[signal halo]

Though ground back at the time technically could need a pair like Groudon, just not anymore

[sturdy flower]

that's why YOU should save gems

so you aren't caught with empty pockets just because some slightly better pair released

and if you get lucky you will have enough leftover gems for some guilty pleasure "i just like the character" pairs

[signal halo]

Wally wasn't slightly better than what I had, he was an actual pair, but yeah

I'm unsure if Bea can achieve fighting offtype, since I don't exactly trust her for ontyping yet

Likely could get done after EX

[sturdy flower]

with def drop and some flinch likely

[signal halo]

Makes me miss colress a bit

[sturdy flower]

if fighting rebuff happens it will help her more than SSA Cynthia

you only need def drop on the middle, she should finish off sides

[signal halo]

Guess something like BP clemont could do

As for the buffer, I have Hilbert to cover her

[sturdy flower]

gtg now

[vernal glade]

Guess it’s time for me to save 5* power ups. I don’t have anymore faves to use them on.

[honest fulcrum]

Nice!

I remember the datamine for Dec 2021 was kinda early, I wonder if we’ll get the datamine this week or beginning of next week

[lean mango]

I have 2 Poison units left to 20/20 then I can finally save

[chrome nest]

How are we getting 2.1K gems today

[fallen path]

New event

[sturdy hatch]

Oooh yellow candy coin event don't mind if i do

[tough oriole]

Pretty good for gems in general, too

[tardy fiber]

neat, 64k gems thanks to eeveelution event

sad that rachel didnt get event bonus though

[weary spire]

if you can have on-typeable teams for every type, is there even a point to going out of your way to spend for more pairs that can off-type? what's the purpose of having both at the same time?

it just sounds like it's not only beyond overkill, but also setting a goal that necessitates way more spending for something that won't even change all that much in practice. but that's just me

if you're willing to spend real $ to make up the difference with selects and so on, maybe even candy coins bc that'd also take a crazy amount of investment, it becomes more feasible, but still. not even whales would necessarily go for that goal

not saying you can't do it, just that it's harder, but I'm wondering why

[tardy fiber]

yep i had to spent real $ to help me collecting all of my current faves, well more units will cost more gems

[weary spire]

yeah, but as well that for you, it's for collective purposes. you're not looking for an on-type team for every type, that can also off-type every other type anyway

[tardy fiber]

i thought only need 5 offtype teams at most for cs and sometimes you only use 1/2 offtype teams at most as your roster builds up over time

[weary spire]

ye, 17 on-type teams that can also make 17 off-type teams sounds a bit unnecessary to me, unless it is still for collective purposes in a roundabout way

[tardy fiber]

well one of the objective that i have bunch of faves for collection purposes is to actually having more units to clear on-type and not off-type i prefer not to off-type if i doesnt need it

i think even gauntlet also prefer to on-type

[weary spire]

yeah, makes sense, generally the benefit of off-typing is that if you can't on-type or lack what's necessary, an off-type team can clear just fine

but if you can on-type, then you're fine

[tardy fiber]

Yep but 17 offtype teams, the only benefit of it that i can think of is you can at least score 17 streaks Gauntlet every 2 months...thats way more than what is needed for csmm

[weary spire]

pretty much, but if extra LG streaks serve as justification for pulls, that's a sign you're gonna be spending a shitton in the first place

just every good pair (which is almost every other new pair nowadays) works for that

[tardy fiber]

luckily we still not yet move towards that, current LG only give good rewards for 10 streaks so i can be at ease with collecting faves

[thorny pelican]

Good day for saving gems

[tardy fiber]

i still have 500 gems locked behind missions

[lean mango]

Nice gems

Also I've checked how much stuff I'll get from Lillie

If I'll be able to finish her before the month ends and from stuff like CSMM and the Eevee event I'll be able to 20/20 before next month

And then all will be left for Roxie to be fully maxed

[tardy fiber]

nice

[lean mango]

Hope for next month to be an F2P unit

for lodge

[tardy fiber]

having no more new lodge guest feels slow to 150 pairs

[lean mango]

no more prizes

Lillie will be my last one then off to throwin all of my keys to Silver

Guy is at 150

[tardy fiber]

oh i alreadyy level cap up to 150 all of my lodge waifus, elesa/rosa/may/lillie/marnie...now doing Rosa

feels like they should bump it to 2 new guests monthly

[lean mango]

I don't really care as much for the others, especially since I don't have N and so think it would be funny to see how high Silver would go

[lean mango]

Yee, I feel like I finish a lodge in a week

[summer goblet]

true, i am running out of new trainer lodge character soon

[summer goblet]

There is another rising dark house saver amongst us

[lament hornet]

9 months and my free gem pool never exceeded a single pity, i should say "ewww saving" to cope

[tardy fiber]

Still 5k free gems this month

[umbral meteor]

signature is dragon