Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[tardy fiber]

Im out of lodge guests again

[sly breach]

Well just blew 9k of my savings

Under pity for the first time in a month

[round mason]

im gonna start saving these

[valid flint]

I've been complete garbage on saving gems.... but I sure am a god on saving powerups ig.

[viscid flare]

But why

U were the one complaining being unlucky then u go and yolo pull a day after

[sly breach]

Well sometimes most times my phone gets that boring

[viscid flare]

U know u can go outside

Go do something else

Not being stuck on the game all day helps

Play it once or twice a day

[lean mango]

I've been busy with my free time which makes me just open this game do all my daily stuff and log out to continue to finish work

[mental skiff]

[timber wren]

last year the newest units in it were the previous fall seasonals

it was three selects with four units each i think?

i think the next one will model more like the seasonal select we got at 3rd anni

which was one select with all previous seasonals up thru palentines this year

[sand crown]

Anyone’s guess. The fact they weren’t masters last year threw me for a loop

[feral vale]

Hopefully one comes soon, I wanna get Palentine’s Serena and Furbert.

Let’s see.

[mental skiff]

👀

[feral vale]

Dang it, seasonals haven’t been updated in Poryphone for banner times.

The combo seasonals I can definitely see for Anni.

Palentine’s is in a couple months, so there’s that.

[mental skiff]

Yeah im saving for it

hopefully

[feral vale]

Did you click on it for info or dates?

No I think it’s just naming.

None of them are general pool ^^;

[mental skiff]

No i know they are not general 👀

[willow pollen]

If that is older units a lot of them have aged poorly.

[feral vale]

Did you tap the link??

[mental skiff]

No

[feral vale]

Check it, see what it says.

It’ll probably give insight as to what that banner is.

Because I cannot remember for the life of me

[willow pollen]

Well. That’s a year ago.

[feral vale]

Oh I didn’t think it was a new thing, I wanted the context of when it happened.

Seems to be around anniversary.

They are called seasonals after all, doubt there are much reruns other than those.

[willow pollen]

The season banners are a risk there are 6 units on those I think.

The math says pitying is very likely

[lunar topaz]

Id outside of the Christmas units most seasonals have aged decently to well

[timber wren]

it had four, there were three selects ABC

[mental skiff]

[timber wren]

right

[willow pollen]

Wasn’t it paid?

[timber wren]

but at 3rd anni they only had one with the entire seasonal pool

yes

[willow pollen]

So it was more or less 30 bucks for a unit.

[timber wren]

which i think they’ll continue with since paids gems are easier to come by now

[timber wren]

with the EX bundles 3k paid are $3 usd

i wouldn’t expect to see her in a select until 4th anni

[mental skiff]

I see

[willow pollen]

I keep forgetting about the bundles. Thank you for the reminder.

[mental skiff]

👀that is sync orb bundle

[timber wren]

but they’ve been constantly changing how often and what goes into select scouts so who knows

im not expecting a seasonal select at NY bc it would fall right when they’re doing seasonal reruns for NY units

doing them at half anni and anni makes sense since there aren’t any seasonals running in those months

probably a PF select, maybe an SC select

[mental skiff]

[timber wren]

this is all a roundabout way to say that you should wait for datamine before planning how you will allocate your resources

[mental skiff]

👀

[tough oriole]

Lillie was a 2021 new year unit

[nocturne spade]

Do u have b and c too?

[tardy fiber]

Oh i remembered getting dupe hleon from one of those selects...gonna hopium that it will have fall iris then i will save a bit of my tech candies.

Thank god, i didnt have any missing units so selects = dupes

[signal halo]

the lance hilbert skyla seasonal would be very tempting for me

3 coveted pokemons

[maiden kayak]

please delete that

[mental skiff]

👀why tho

[tardy fiber]

I thought those are old selects pictures

[mental skiff]

sept 2021 and march 2022

[tardy fiber]

Yep cannot even tempt with something that no longer exists

Good for future planning though

So save bunch of paid gems by march and sept

[round mason]

gem count for today

[honest fulcrum]

On the topic of select scouts, I wonder if and when they’d do a MF select and how much it would cost

Food for thought for the savers who have access to paid gems

[tardy fiber]

Probably 10k paid, well because tiered rerun for super seasonal scout costs the same in total for all tier

[oak crest]

I think after the rerun at the end of this month idt I'm lacking any MF pairs that I desire

Those that I still don't have are those that I either have no intention of getting even if they rerun or I skipped them intentionally due to lack of interest on those units

If they really run selects I probably won't even pull since my existing pairs are all 3/5

And I got enough candy for the 1s I'm intending to get for the mf reruns at the end of this month

[tardy fiber]

I hope we get an early datamine, skip month feels slow

Im happy that they also rerun 2021 anni MF EBE as well, VA rerun didn't do that

[upbeat lotus]

im expecting datamine in 20th - 22nd Dec

[tardy fiber]

But hurm the 2021 anni MF being revealed early does feel weird, i thought they were gonna hide it for the next datamine

[cunning swan]

inb4 they jumpscare us with another new master fair

[upbeat lotus]

Renegade Cynthia moment

[round mason]

no pls

[tardy fiber]

Im ready but i will skip it if its not faves like sstred, ssacynthia, ash, leon, ccalem, cserena

Pretty sure arceus will be a master fair at least

Too cool to be a normal pokefair or seasonal

[oak crest]

I will skip it if I don't really like the kit

As my roster grows, I find skipping mfs getting easier if I don't like their kit

[cunning swan]

Ever since skipping Ash in 3rd anni, master fair FOMO doesn't get to me anymore and I'm forever thankful about it

[tardy fiber]

Yep especially now, even pokefairs and seasonals units are already strong, so I don't feel the need to chase MF if they are not faves

[oak crest]

Lol, I will never have that FOMO feeling if the sync pair's poke is smth I dislike

automatic skip

if its a free pair I will take it, but I won't spend gems to get it

[drowsy saddle]

What if you will grow to like them in the future but they will never rerun?

[oak crest]

unlikely

[tardy fiber]

Yep, there might be a scenario where i miss my fave due to lack of gems...so if its like that its still a fave but just cannot get the unit this time, but if a unit i skipped due to not a fave so probably won't grow to like them in the future.

[white sparrow]

i been savin

[timber wren]

first 3k, then 6k, all the way to a pity, then keep going from there you got this

[white sparrow]

I'm trying to do trainer lodge for 5 star level up thingies

but no matter how high my expedition level is, or how much I chat with people, I can't get anything from anyone

[upbeat lotus]

the mainly come from friendship rewards

[white sparrow]

yeah but you also get em in expeditions

[upbeat lotus]

the rate is really low

you shouldnt put high hope of getting many of them

[white sparrow]

well it's an easy way to get extra of those chat thingies

[grim plover]

Give arceus that changes to the type of its gear

[chrome nest]

Mega super master fair

With a 5* Rate of 20% but the featured unit is 0.1%

[signal halo]

Sounds like the dream banner for newer players

25 5*s on average

[cunning swan]

This can't hurt me because I'm always prepared for pity

I'll take all the 5*s though. Maybe then Phoebe will finally decide to come home

[tardy fiber]

Yep i got pity, but hope to finally get looker, melony, gordie, hugh, colress from it

[upbeat lotus]

what if the pity of that banner is 1000 points

[tardy fiber]

we riot

[broken mulch]

Give us 18 DIFFERENT ARCEUS

[summer goblet]

i need 22k gems to get 2 pities above 300k and pray for good luck. I need those gems for gems for future MF, PK VA, and gen 9 characters

like at least 500k to be on the safe side

[summer goblet]

gonna wait till the end of the month to do so

[honest fulcrum]

500K???????

Goddamn

[sly breach]

What the hell, have they done any pull this year?

[rare swan]

I really don't think 500k is necessary in general....

But if that's your personal goal then good luck

[signal halo]

I feel like I'd need more than that if I opened the floodgates on my pull list

[sly breach]

If i have to pity Jasmine i aint saving gems no more, just going to FOMO my way through the game

[lunar topaz]

[lunar topaz]

Isn’t that why you saved a pity tho to guarantee jasmine in case you didn’t get her?

That seems a bit counter productive to me at least

[signal halo]

Lemme see
Red and Lance would be the big Kanto ones
Don't think there's any base Johto I want
Steven would be the biggest one, but Archie and Maxie would be fun, despite the fact that I've skipped them
Lucas would most certainly be my Sinnoh pick
Ciris and Celesa, besides colress and Hugh from Sinnoh
Idc a lot about Kalos, but I'd like lysandre and diantha
I don't recall any base Alola pokefairs
Glojo, Bede and Leon would likely be my big galar picks

[lunar topaz]

Everyone has bad luck at times I had to pity 2 of my favs this past reset and now I’m forced to miss out on another I’m very happy I was even able to guarantee them because I couldn’t even think of being forced to skip them because I kept doing one off pulls for a unit

[signal halo]

That alone already puts me at past 400k gems needed

And I'm not even including sygna suits

Or seasonals

[lunar topaz]

I personally like/enjoy pityint my favs

Even if devastating the satisfaction fo getting them is more than the short term devastation I have from nkt getting them

[signal halo]

I've only pulled out of meta once

It was N

Overall it had the best return out of any banner I've pulled on

4 undeniable faves

[lunar topaz]

(Albeit I don’t exactly get devastated by pitying lel) I’m not saying you have to think like me @sly breach but I did want to put in perspective stuff lel

[signal halo]

2 pairs I also wanted

And a bazillion lodge resources

Actually the fave count could be technically bigger

If I include the lodge pokemon I wanted to have

N, Cynthia and Raihan are all big ones. Marnie not so much, but all their lodge pokemon are among my favourites

So 7 faves, then kukui and plumeria also arrived while pulling

9 faves for a pity sounds obscene

And overall that really managed to calm down my pull urges for a long while

Since I can unlock some faves to play with like lodge cynthia

[lunar topaz]

I have a lot of favs and have only missed out on 3 and I believe I have ost my favs and I’ve been playing consistently for a year

[signal halo]

Lucas and Red would be the ones I missed out on while I was playing

But 3/5 SS Kris grew on me

So I feel like the exchange wasn't bad

[maiden kayak]

then why are u here annoucing such blasphemous sin

[sly breach]

Cause i feel like i am getting shafted like crazy

[maiden kayak]

that doesnt mean u should be spilling such shit here

eww

most ppl expects a pity to pull here anyways

no such bs as luck in play

luck is just a privellage if anything when saving

[tardy fiber]

Prepare a pity but if got the unit early, carry the balance to form next pity

[nova lynx]

I might just have to skip Calem at this point to save for the eventual Alola VA

Oh well

[signal halo]

UnoVA felt a bit disappointing for me

So I'm unsure if I look particularly forward to any villain arcs but galar

Since galar most certainly will introduce chairman rose

[nova lynx]

Fair enuf

Ah true

[signal halo]

Given it's his silhouette in the villain stories

[nova lynx]

I'm really scared for Alola VA since I have no clue who else will get alts other than Elio and Selene

Will it be 2 random Kahunas? Lillie and Gladion? Hau?

[signal halo]

Lusamine and Guzma will be involved

Their silhouettes are both in the villain thing

[nova lynx]

I'm still confused as to how Lusamine and Guzma will do something evil

Lusamine's reformed

And Guzma was never really a villain to begin with

[tardy fiber]

Brainwashed by nihilego

Or it will be similar like Hoenn VA, maxie archie are not even the final boss of hoenn VA...they might even be a hero trying to beat Matt and Courtney using Camerupt and Sharpedo

[compact pasture]

Oh no, another alt?

[dark oar]

hi....

sadness

so i've got 10k paid gems

300 nonpaid

[compact pasture]

Save gems!

[dark oar]

should i still go for Jasmine/Xmas? 😦

[compact pasture]

No, wait for a paid select scout

[dark oar]

tiered scout is 10k for 1 copy right?

[compact pasture]

It depends

But there’s select scouts which were cheaper

[dark oar]

tbh, i can go all 36k paid gems as well

since i still have my Champion + Story Bundle

[compact pasture]

We encourage saving gems here

[dark oar]

then... i guess i wait for a whole year for Jasmine? 😦

[sturdy hatch]

There will also be other units you will want next year

[dark oar]

oh also, are there any select scouts incoming?

[tardy fiber]

This is for super seasonal scout rerun, xmas jasmine is new

If you want hleon, it costs 10k

Hjasmine, close to 20k i think

[dark oar]

D:

is it HLeon and HNessa as well?

[tardy fiber]

Yep tier scout for new unit is different

[dark oar]

I see.

[tardy fiber]

Yep i think all old xmas unit in it

[feral vale]

I apologize, I can never remember the numbers for the tiered scouts

[tardy fiber]

Including hsiebold

[dark oar]

i already have HSiebold

[tardy fiber]

Yep although you already have him, he is still in it so might get dupes

[dark oar]

that works for me.

so just 3-4 multis basically?

for a select?

and each time, you have higher chances to get them?

[tardy fiber]

Yep but halfway got the 50% ticket iirc...50% to get xmas unit and 50% for general pool 5*

[tardy fiber]

Nah not higher

Just the final step got select

So you can choose the unit you want

[lean mango]

Close to getting my 2nd pity

[tardy fiber]

It costs 10k paid in total to do that rerun tiers

[tardy fiber]

Im still far only 55k for now

[lean mango]

Next month also a skip month

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, but January usually have plenty selects...and they might release my fave as NY alt

[dark oar]

is it 10k actually in total or wut?

[tardy fiber]

They already released legendary and UB fot xmas and fall

[tardy fiber]

Yep for the old xmas tiered is 10k in total

[dark oar]

hum

[tardy fiber]

If jasmine or whitney costs 20k total

[dark oar]

guess i'm going for either HNessa/HLeon

Jasmine will probably be next year 😭

[nocturne spade]

[lean mango]

||With the NY alts leaked characters I don't see them with any legendary||

[dark oar]

do we have other Select Scouts for this month?

just the Pokemon Masters Day one

is it select or nah?

[tardy fiber]

But pretty sure January wont have only 2 characters, we usually have 4 each month

[dark oar]

cuz, if its true, then i'm getting Hala from it instead of paidtiered seasonals

[lean mango]

Ya I know but I'm just talking about Seasonals

[tardy fiber]

Might pop like ssrcynthia

[dark oar]

;o

[lean mango]

Nihilego

[tardy fiber]

Ssrcynthia released right after sslusamine with no gap

[dark oar]

big chance for NY Tiered into Select for 10k as well right?

(for Sabrina & Volkner) ?_?

[tardy fiber]

Well the 10k ny tiered only have nylance, nylillie, nysabrina, nyvolkner

[dark oar]

nysabrina for sheningans.

i kinda want her back then but i just didnt have gems.

[tardy fiber]

At least smaller pool than xmas, xmas have 6 old xmas units in the tiered

[dark oar]

that works for me

[tardy fiber]

Ny will only have 4

[dark oar]

guess i didnt need to buy that 5k Paid Gem xD

[tardy fiber]

I buy the 20 days 3k paid gem because they are cheap and timegated...good for future preparations

[dark oar]

yeah i bought that as well

• the EX+ one

i also bought the 3USD for 1500 one i think?

[tardy fiber]

[dark oar]

we're gonna get more of those right? event deal and seasonal deal?

[lean mango]

They did that 100 ticket pulls last year right?

[dark oar]

i think so too

[lean mango]

Cause I want PUs*

[dark oar]

same

[tardy fiber]

On February iirc during run up, i forgot if it happened on new year

[dark oar]

@tardy fiber oh right

the master day select one

its decent right? 😮

[tardy fiber]

Ny got 2 5k paid select

[dark oar]

wait what

[tardy fiber]

We got master day select?

[dark oar]

this one i think :O?

[tardy fiber]

Thats not select

[dark oar]

Its not?

[tardy fiber]

Just guaranteed you get at least 1 5*

[lean mango]

It says 5* guarenteed scout

[dark oar]

oh sad

[dark oar]

wait, what 5k paid select?

[tardy fiber]

The cheapest select currently is the gauntlet weakness select i think...i once buy that to get may and hilbert, costs 2k each

[dark oar]

oh was that from the 3rd anni one?

[tardy fiber]

Yep last January got 2 5k select, i got my Lysandre 3/5 and N 1/5 from it

Spent 10k paid

[dark oar]

HUM

i guess i'll just buy any event deals/seasonal deals that's cheap

[tardy fiber]

Im stingy so i only buy if its the same rate like 20 days 3k paid bundle...this thank you offer costs the same but only give 1.5k

[feral vale]

Ew

[dark oar]

oh

there's a 3k Paid Select Scout, but its gen pool units only 😭

[tardy fiber]

Just wait for fair or seasonal select....they usually happens on new year, half anniv, and anniv

So three times a year

[dark oar]

okay

oh i'm currently in uh

[chrome nest]

I was wondering supreme entry kyurem and mgr 2 Raihan could work

[dark oar]

11k Paid Gems, and i'm like 12 days left for EX+ and EX Bundle

guess i'm waiting xd

fat chance we're gonna get datamine before xmas units go poof right?

[feral vale]

??

[tardy fiber]

Three times but might have multiple on same time ...like recent anniv have 2 fair select and 1 seasonal

[chrome nest]

Thoughts for special lucky skill came to my brain rent free

[feral vale]

This is the gem saving thread…

[dark oar]

;-;?

[feral vale]

We usually do?

I don’t get why we won’t.

[dark oar]

okay good

[chrome nest]

Oh hell

[dark oar]

if so, i'm buying 20k paid just for jasmine if any. 😦

[feral vale]

Idk if that’s a good idea to say here

[tardy fiber]

Yep, new xmas units end on 1st January

So will have datamine before poof

[dark oar]

okay

well thanks for answering my questions uwu

[tardy fiber]

Can check the dates at #1012256199128915968

[dark oar]

its so hard to roll with paid gems orz

[feral vale]

And that’s why we encourage saving

[dark oar]

uwu

i'm saving now

but ugh

Cerena really took my wings

[feral vale]

These things happen, you know? I screwed up pulling for Zerena so I want to be more prepared when she reruns.

[tardy fiber]

Well paid gems are exclusive currency because it costs real money, so spending it on normal stuff that can use free gems feels less efficient

[dark oar]

mmhmm...

but yeah if we get some big things for january, i'm going all in for jasmine and skip HLeon/HNessa

or something

xd

[tardy fiber]

Would be fun if people spend 10k for xmas rerun tiered and a 3k seasonal select appears on half anniv

[dark oar]

there's not much need for the 10k seasonal

HLeon is Strike right?

[feral vale]

Yea, he’s Strike.

[tardy fiber]

Just gonna hope next January selects costs cheaper like i don't want to pay for extra pulls for 2k more paid gems...select x11 costs 3k but select x25 costs 5k

[dark oar]

then Hala's probably better if i can get 3/5 or more 😭

[tardy fiber]

I got hleon and if your hleon 1/5 or 2/5, your 5/5 ghetsis is much stronger than him

[feral vale]

True, Ghetsis be good

[tardy fiber]

And he is kinda dependent of hail, or enemies being frozen for his sync nuke

[feral vale]

And it’s good the LA pairs are being upgraded tbh

[tardy fiber]

Also if we are talking about ice unit thats a striker, and have freeze and hail gimmick... there's this guy ->

Also have EX too

[feral vale]

BP Candice is probably worse, huh?

[lean mango]

Still a missed opportunity to give Glacia hail sync

[feral vale]

You do be right about that.

[tardy fiber]

BpCandice still nice for having hail, i rather use her than eggmon Jynx or lapras

[lean mango]

~~Still an opportunity to give it to Glacia alt ~~

[tardy fiber]

Glacia Regice lets gooo

[dark oar]

unfortunately this whole

Champion Stadium this week

was pretty bad.

[lean mango]

[dark oar]

i only got 4k for the entire thing.

[lean mango]

Haven't done CSMM yet

[dark oar]

it is master mode

[tardy fiber]

Wow you need to visit #1009554906568462476 often

[dark oar]

i did

they tried, but got nothing 😭

[feral vale]

Off type, out of curiosity?

[lean mango]

Tbh, as long as you get the doesn't really matter after

[dark oar]

ontype.

[tardy fiber]

Had to offtype Glacia...my hop gloria cannot clear

[dark oar]

i dontknow offtype sadly

(It happens when you dont do meta very well 😭

[lean mango]

What is Glacia weak to?

[dark oar]

Steel

[feral vale]

Steel.

[tardy fiber]

Steel sentryx2

[dark oar]

i won with Steven.

[lean mango]

time for K Grimsley shenanigans

[feral vale]

I offtyped it with Ash lmao

[dark oar]

hum

maybe i should try it off-type

for Drake, Sidney and Phoebe.

[tardy fiber]

Probably can pass if i use 3/5 djgloria but i accidentally use yellow candy on nita instead of her, well her 3/5 progress is gonna be a month late

[dark oar]

one last chance i guess

[lean mango]

Does Glacia have any annoying gimmiks?

[tardy fiber]

Sentryx2

[lean mango]

ah

[tardy fiber]

They trying to sell raihan

[feral vale]

And high attacking stats.

Hate that, never got him, never will.

[dark oar]

she also has +6 ACC

[tardy fiber]

Same like bug weak wisex2 lucian...trying to sell sc submas

[lean mango]

My K Grimsley has so far been able to defeat any steel weak stages so I wonder if he'll beat this round

[dark oar]

so blizzard

[feral vale]

Definitely never getting them either lmao

[tardy fiber]

Sshilbert fixed it for me...here lucian, grab a bug rebuff

[lean mango]

Imagine having a bug fav

[tardy fiber]

Pheromosa and Genesect

Might add some more from SV

[dark oar]

yeah #1009554906568462476 is dead.

guess i'll just not get that BP points 😭

[lean mango]

Poison fav with bug move

[tardy fiber]

You have zerena and lussamine probably bring lussamine and beat glacia offtype

As zerena weak to ice

I beat it with a space virus alien

[lean mango]

How could I offtype Steel weak when I got my fav that is steel

[tardy fiber]

Raihan?

[dark oar]

lulraihan

[lean mango]

K Grimsley

[tardy fiber]

Wow playing dangerously with her sentry x2

[lean mango]

Ye but I'll try and find a way

[dark oar]

oh wells

[lean mango]

Leer shenanigans

[dark oar]

thanks i guess 😭

[tardy fiber]

I tried to ontype with hop and his 2 glorias, but still cannot clear although -6 def ...maybe need 3/5 djgloria or hop although the latter is kinda hopium

[dark oar]

i might just do

oh nvm

i give up

😭

[lean mango]

Should actually go and attempt CSMM

[dark oar]

CS dead

[unkempt vortex]

Just wait for others when they’re awake

[tardy fiber]

Oh i haven't formed my team for next week cs

Hope its easy

[unkempt vortex]

It’s probably really early or late for a lot of people

[dark oar]

next week CS is easy

[unkempt vortex]

So they’re asleep

[tardy fiber]

Fairy kinda a problem, so offtype we go

[unkempt vortex]

don’t let the Mina enjoyers bully you

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna use play rough gloria

[dark oar]

Valentines Serena - Sidney, Pikachu for Phoebe, SS Morty + SS Hilda, SC Hilda + Sand Sheningans, and Grass Weak Wallace.

[tardy fiber]

Gonna use sshilbert as metal sound spammer next week

[unkempt vortex]

You could just do this week now

[dark oar]

with what

[unkempt vortex]

What you have

[dark oar]

ontype i tried was decimated hard.

[unkempt vortex]

Did you read the pins

[dark oar]

i did

i even watched how to beat Drake

but drake hits waaaaaaaaaaay too hard.

[unkempt vortex]

Just use one of the pikachus and change weather

[lean mango]

Save gems

[spare swift]

Pikachu doesnt change weather, it sets terrain

[unkempt vortex]

I know

Bring someone to change weather

[signal halo]

I had SS Kris

Used ghetsis despite the entry

And made up to it with lucian

[unkempt vortex]

SST red, SS blue and Winona is what I used

[spare swift]

What's the problem with drake's battle?

The sandstorm?

[dark oar]

and Earthquake

[spare swift]

Ou

[vestal leaf]

Lana can carry in that fight if mpr5 collaborates

Because they love spamming EQ

And sand superiority is super annoying with STR/ATK up

[upbeat lotus]

15k gems reached the next goal is 18k

[tardy fiber]

55,265 i wonder if i can reach 2 pities before next fave release

[dark oar]

i should have spark in january

[lean mango]

Gem count, 70k! 3k more to go

[lean mango]

What need to pull just use fav

[tough oriole]

For your 2nd pity?

[viscid flare]

Not bad!

[lean mango]

Tho I do wanna get to 100k

I'll see about next month if I can reach it

[viscid flare]

U def can

It becomes easier the farther u go

[lean mango]

wdym?

[viscid flare]

There is a point where u dont rlly wanna pull

And just keep saving

Like i went for 6 months not pulling and i was fine

[lean mango]

I've stayed true to my policy of only going for favs if they meet the criteria ever since I started saving, if I have a fav next month then I have a fav so lose gems

[tough oriole]

My gem count will probably go down significantly soon, but as long as its for favs i’m happy

[vernal glade]

My gem count won’t go down for a while some my faves were recent.

[tardy fiber]

But man, im still conflicted... should i grab future select for 4-5/5 grid units? But they already done the job well with 3/5... although 3k paid for a dupe consider affordable but i worried that once i start to do it, i will keep spending as more 4-5/5 fave units are released

[rare swan]

having had two faves drop this month and ||having spent a decent chunk of gems obtaining them||, i have to say

....100% worth it

[upbeat lotus]

Glad to see their rerun but at an unexpected time

Have to skip Anni Steven the second time

[tardy fiber]

How much less? Iirc the amount of gems is till 25th so anni 2021 event gems doesn't count

[lunar topaz]

Same lel except jasmine and diantha those two consistently drop at the worst times for me

[rare swan]

I feel you

this is why saving is so important, you never know when a fave will drop

if you'd told me TWO Kalos MFs would be dropping in December.....

[lunar topaz]

I wouldn’t believe hearing this info lel

[rare swan]

exactly

so you gotta have those gems ready.....

(love my froggies though 😌 )

[upbeat lotus]

5k gems difference

[tough oriole]

Also I think more protags will get Neo Champ alts, so people who’s favs they are need to save more

Hopefully there’ll be neo champion nate

[upbeat lotus]

Nah Neo Champion Hilda and Rosa

[rare swan]

Neo Champion May? Done

[tough oriole]

I wonder|| if I should pull for a Neo Champion Elio… He was my first Playable Character, after all… I’d have to see the Pokémon, first||

[tardy fiber]

Well iirc annisteven is till February

Ends in February 6

[upbeat lotus]

Im saving for Palentine rerun

So no gems for Steven

[upbeat lotus]

Im waiting for Neo Champion Hilbert

[tawny cedar]

I want neo champion ethan/kris

[cunning swan]

Neo Champ Elio and Selene pls, they deserve it

[tough oriole]

I was annoyed when they made elio/selene’s battle at the summit theme kukui’s theme instead, so they get a chance to redeem themselves with an Alolan Neo Champ theme

[lunar topaz]

I hate that my brain is telling me to pull without a pity for jasmine because she’s a favorite even though I know it’s wrong to not pull without one

[rare swan]

have you had a look at the gem count up to when she leaves? can you earn a pity?

[lunar topaz]

I hear she leaves on Jan 1st and I’ll have like 20k by then (I think) idk how much is left of the month but I’m at 11K rn

[rare swan]

18k is left, according to Jass

[tardy fiber]

This is till 25th though, it doesn't include 2021 anni events and EBEs

[lunar topaz]

29K just barely lel

[rare swan]

good point!

[lunar topaz]

praying on a very random 4K gems this month lel

[lunar topaz]

Oh amazing

That’s 1.5K gems from the EBE’s alone

[tardy fiber]

1.8 i think, because got 3 EBE for annilillie, annisteven, anniN so 600 x 3

[glossy isle]

the 2021 anniv EBE will have its own region bonus, yes?

[upbeat lotus]

Thats right

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if we got more alola alternatives now...like annisteven EBE can just use sssteven for it, both have downside up

Iirc annilillie EBE was the one that's hard

[upbeat lotus]

The 4 new alternatives are Kimono Grimsley, SS Lusamine, SCLillie and Lodge Lillie

Hmmm i think LuSSamine and SCLillie are very good alternatives for the EBE

[drowsy saddle]

We also have new grids for alolan pairs, so that's a thing

[spare swift]

Yupp, that's against lear

Who uses snatch

[broken mulch]

And a chance to restore endurance when it gets used lol

That was nasty

[maiden kayak]

tbf tho

at that point

alola already has pretty good variety of units a

[upbeat lotus]

most the good ones were gacha and the f2p ones didnt get grid yet

so many people were struggle to beat the EBE

[tardy fiber]

Iirc need kiawe and some other units for f2p clear that time

[upbeat lotus]

and even Elio had to be 2/5 and not to buff stats so that Lear could only snatch +1 def

[broken mulch]

I remember Olivia had a miserable time lol

Kept rock throwing but endurance kept proc’ing

[upbeat lotus]

the stage has Sentry Entry x2 iirc

[tough oriole]

Indeed

[round mason]

Does the 2nd Anni EBE have type dmg up?

[tough oriole]

You mean Tough Skin? The passive that reduces not Super Effective Damage?

It does not

[round mason]

ah ok

[timber wren]

it just has boosts for alola unova and hoenn units

[tough oriole]

N’s has Robust Physique (blocks crits unless they have status)

[lunar topaz]

I remember trying to do those EBE’s when j was brand new to the game and I had no idea it was region boosted so suffered lel

[tough oriole]

Back in those days i had an awful device, and couldn’t even edit teams manually without the game crashing, so I never bothered to do hard events

Good times

[lapis pine]

I had the same experience with the daily BP battles. Took me a week or two to figure out that there was a bonus

[chrome nest]

I can go sky high battling hoenn Anni Eb

[tardy fiber]

Same, and i wonder why i can only do the easy difficulties at start

[upbeat lotus]

Power boosted Zinnia makes the Hoenn EBE super easy now

[timber wren]

the alola one will give the most difficulty since there’s no free legendary unit

[spare swift]

Shadow bone kiawe

[viscid flare]

shadow bone kiawe underrated

[upbeat lotus]

Astonish Acerola

[deft glen]

Me too lol, I remember struggling to complete the Alola one

[timber wren]

the big issue with the previous alola EBEs is just missing one of the few alola supports since they’re all gacha

it was the same thing with the ss lusamine EBE

[upbeat lotus]

Is there any non gacha Alolan support?

[willow pollen]

I don’t think so.

[upbeat lotus]

[willow pollen]

There is not

[upbeat lotus]

Well at least gacha Alola supports are very good

[lunar topaz]

I couldnt beat this one at all lel

[tough oriole]

I believe that Gladion could clear it, but you’d need Red or Kiawe or smth

[lunar topaz]

I had no alola units at the time

[chrome nest]

The Gladion eb

The nightmare

[tough oriole]

Not even hapu

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for holiday event

I want my 1 support coin

[compact pasture]

Are there rally gems?

[upbeat lotus]

Sadly no

[tardy fiber]

Lets cope there's new year rally gems

Iirc we got that lottery gems which i get 300 gems, the consolation prize

[upbeat lotus]

I was a bit luckier than you

Got 600 gems

[cunning swan]

I also got 300

[tardy fiber]

Who knows i might win grand prize next year

[cunning swan]

I hope they do it next year

[tough oriole]

Wth that’s crazy lucky

[lunar topaz]

I got nothing lel

[lunar topaz]

The recovery process

[upbeat lotus]

bruh i didnt pay attention when doing daily and accidently clicked on pull x11 button 😭

3k gems wasted

[lunar topaz]

)))):

[upbeat lotus]

||i did get Serena from that multi, but i was a bit sad cuz gems loss and i just wanted to do dailies on her||

[ashen thunder]

||Goddamnit cerena ate up entire pity, this is like 6 pities already from just 1 year but atleast I am glad I got her|| now I am at like 4k gems, gotta see the datamine for NY

[tardy fiber]

57,265 gems...going strong lets goo

[round mason]

gem count for today
Entei is ez

[mint mauve]

for a new player w access to 2-3 more lodge pairs, wud yall recommend doing 10/10 or 5/15 for ticket/PU ratio? i remmebr someone recomended 10/10 but im wondering if thts still the best wya to go

[uneven pewter]

Selectors are always worth hoarding for, especially around new years

[uneven pewter]

Some do 7-13 as a middle ground

But really it’s about time and patience

I personally always do 5-15

But i am at 87 ex pairs. Someone else might not have the dupe income i have whenever new pairs release

Generally for all you guppies and dolphins

The times you want to have a stash of paid gems are new years, the half anni and the anni

You know they are going to drop a ton of new pairs

And given the track record nearly all the anni pairs take forever to rerun and have yet to show up on a selector

So use that for what you will, just remember last new years they had a bunch of bait banners as well

Anytime you see the “guaranteed 5 star seasonals” always check the rates

Kinda like the xmas seasonal rerun banner

Your best bet for a seasonal you want is always a selector

Because 9/10 times you will be hitting that hard pity chasing for@them

#seasonalsarethedevil

Good night everyone

[tardy fiber]

Even for 4-5/5 dupes?, conflicted because the pair is already working with 3/5...I'm just worried that when i start with getting 4-5/5 dupes, i will need to keep chasing for more thus spending more paid gems in pursuit of that goal...

[ashen thunder]

Thats what the move candy bundle is for

[tardy fiber]

Its kinda expensive...can buy myself 5 McDonald's set meal

Or 4 movie tickets

Like if its for my current 3/5 faves goal, i only need:
Strike : 5 candies
Tech : 5 candies
Support : 5 candies

But if i also factor faves that have 5/5 treatment, the amount of candies needed will jump to:

Strike : 11 candies
Tech : 9 candies
Support: 5 candies

[ashen thunder]

Good thing all my favs are already atleast 3/5 so I don't have to suffer

[tardy fiber]

I think i just gonna keep my goal at 3/5...5 to 11 candies jump are pretty steep

[maiden kayak]

macdonalds is not even worth it in the first place

[tardy fiber]

Well i choose that comparison because most countries have McDonald

[ashen thunder]

Well their candy influx balancing for introduction of 5/5 grids is that bundle is

[tardy fiber]

Pretty sure they wont understand if i say nasi lemak

[maiden kayak]

that thing is also shitty

[tardy fiber]

Too expensive if want to rely on that to 5/5 faves, well maybe can if you didn't have many faves

But my collection are growing

Plenty faves yet dena being stingy of releasing more fairy and elec fave

I guess i just gonna hopium that i will get 4/5-5/5 fave dupes in fair select scout multi

[ashen thunder]

All my favs are already in game so I can just do gameplay roll at this point

Unless any of the sv Pokemon or character interests me

Ofc the obvi way is to boost favs with optimal teams for em

[tardy fiber]

Still plenty of legendaries, mythicals, UBs unreleased

[signal halo]

I feel like I'm growing pretty close to the conclusion that I'd be happier as a meta chaser for just a while more

Mainly around supports

And fairy

This week sorta settled that having comfortable on type teams takes precedence over faves for me

Having to draw a fight out with sycamore in this week's csmm made things pretty uncomfortable

[tardy fiber]

I offtype with faves for elec and fairy weak this week

[signal halo]

I on typed fairy this week

However having to plan out sycamore surviving 3 syncs at 2k wasn't all that interesting

It's funny that you can likely have a fave team beat it

If you can swap Lucian for something else that does his job

[ashen thunder]

I can ontype everything except fairy and flying weak
Usually

[tardy fiber]

I still cannot ontype fairy, but if I consider physical/special damage coverage...lack electric (special), dark (physical), poison (physical), steel (special), psychic (physical), rock(special)

But i think can bruteforce if got support EX...so DeNa give me those sycamore and hop

[south scroll]

I hope we get good selects soon

[tardy fiber]

NY selects

I just hope its not all 5k again

[cunning swan]

isn't physical dark more common?

Furbert, Masked Royal, Sidney, Jaw Lock Nessa my beloved...

[tardy fiber]

Yep but they are all not legendaries, mythicals, UBs

So not faves

Gonna hopium for single strike urshifu

Guzzlord also might have dark physical

Or hoopa unbound hyperspace fury

Oh i will add ||paradoxes|| as well to my faves list so it grows bigger

[tough oriole]

Guzzlord with Crunch Hit the Gas would be funny

But ||Brute Bonnet|| would be even funnier

[upbeat lotus]

dont forget ||Chien-Pao and its friends||

[tardy fiber]

Yep thats why after i think back, i still gonna make 3/5 faves as my goal

If i start to venture to 5/5, i will need to have more candies

And buy more select scouts

So more gems and paid gems will be needed

I guess i just gonna make do with 3/5 faves

[signal halo]

I've used sycamore to bruteforce this week in hoenn

Given Hoenn is likely the hardest csmm

Sycamore might pull it off

If you lack enough humanity to go for it

Still, I don't want to bruteforce stages

I want comfortable clears

I think some specific supports enable that better than others, but there aren't a lot of types I have big struggles with

[deft glen]

The only type I still kinda struggle with is Rock. I can ontype Hoenn but not Sinnoh.

32.6k now

Saving for Palentines Serena rerun

😅

[tardy fiber]

Im ok with rock, thanks to regirock and diancie...but rock weak sentryx2 if it happens will stink, will need to offtype as i ain't gonna pull an aerodactyl

[tawny dagger]

Roxanne dps

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if she is stronger than striker omastar and kabutops

[tawny dagger]

Her spatk is abysmal

So probably not

[tardy fiber]

I don't think any of my unreleased rock faves like terrakion or stakataka will have special rock damage...so offtype it is

[timber wren]

nihilego?

[tardy fiber]

I hope it will be poison

No other poison faves left i think

DeNa could play the hyper beam card but i think only one for each type currently

Flying-ny lance
Water-gyarados eggmons
Fire-bluecanine
Rock-cblue
Bug-alder
Dragon-lance
Poison-falliris

I wonder if i missed someone

[south scroll]

You didn't get fall Iris for poison?

She has naganadel

[lean mango]

But more for poison

[dire meteor]

Oh gods Hoenn Buddies
I remember how much of a hell that was because of the rampant debuffs

[tardy fiber]

I got just i want more poison so i hope nihilego become poison

[willow pollen]

Haha meteor beam!

[upbeat lotus]

How about both? can switch type like the frogs

[tardy fiber]

Yep I won't mind shiny versions as shiny version in pokemas is better than maingames as they have different stats/roles/kits

Mainline game shinies are just appearance change

So nihilego, naganadel, eternatus, ||iron moth||

[upbeat lotus]

Imagine none of them being poison

[tardy fiber]

If got 1 more poison, my falliris can become assist build...with acid spamming and poison wish mp refresh

Cannot imagine because naganadel already poison

[tough oriole]

At least there’s gladion

[upbeat lotus]

I always forget Naganadel is in the game

[broken mulch]

I hate all my fairies

Had to miss out on SS Wally because of the unfortunate timing

And I hate Bede

[tardy fiber]

My only fairy fave currently is xerneas, cmon DeNa where's magearna and enamorus

[rare swan]

I have heard decent things about Lodge Lillie if you guys need to try a fairy nuker

[tardy fiber]

I still got hope for special steel coverage, flash cannon registeel and doom desire jirachi

Oh i just offtype if no faves coverage

In this situation, its good to have offtype teams

Well at least my Nita will be 3/5 this reset

[timber wren]

i keep talking her up myself since she looks good on paper but i haven’t tried her out

[rare swan]

yah the only Lodge pair I've ever used is Sycamore, and that's just for Kalos-only clears

the others don't really interest me but I've heard Blue is supposed to be quite good

[timber wren]

i’ve had fun with blue cynthia and raihan’s lodge pairs

but supports are easy to slot in

[tardy fiber]

Yep i like blue

Can buff def, atk, crit iirc

Also kinda f2p as all players get free bluegeot

[weary spire]

I’ve tried Lodge Lillie, she’s solid, yeah. Can’t clear everything on her own (idt), but that + whatever else you may have should be good to go for Fairy-weak

[cunning swan]

...oh yeah, I forgot I have lodge lillie now

should've tried that for fairy-weak

[upbeat lotus]

She can dou with Mina or Valerie for fairy weak

Add an ex support as the third and Sidney should be dead

[weary spire]

[sturdy hatch]

Valeria adds what to this duo?

[weary spire]

I mean, extra damage I presume? I've never really used Valerie myself, I just know she was buffed

I'm guessing the damage was also buffed to be not completely terrible? Surely she can do something for the sides... right?

Superduper Effective 5, HP Advantage 4 & Smart Cookie amount to something?

'Cause I feel like you could still worst-case get away with Sycamore offensively as a 2nd, for example. Shouldn't take a ton more

[sturdy hatch]

Well, there’s a special damage up CSMM which could be tried

[weary spire]

Is Fairy-weak on this week? Haven't checked

[sturdy hatch]

Sidney

[willow pollen]

Just use mina instead of Valerie. Poor Valerie did not age well.

[weary spire]

Easier for me to say that as well bc I've actually used Mina, but yeah

[upbeat lotus]

Mina is better, but the support has to buff both offensive stats

[cunning swan]

Valerie

[cunning swan]

first stage of grief: denial

[summer goblet]

A true dedicated gem saver will find a way to login everyday even if their home wifi is out

Whether its data or go outside in a cold night weather to find public wifi to use

[sturdy hatch]

Please don’t risk your physical health for PoMa

[summer goblet]

Don’t worry I know what I’m doing

As long as its not risking death or the law, it should be fine

[tardy fiber]

I need to keep being strong and skip non faves cmon Datamine

[hardy creek]

missing a single day of gems is not the end of the world
<-- she who keeps forgetting to do her dailies before reset

[tardy fiber]

Dailies are troublesome now especially because they need lodge interaction...lodge interest is reduced when i didnt have no more available lodge guests to work on

The only thing that makes me stay strong is my desire to 150 faves so i need a bunch of lodge stones

[hardy creek]

I forgot to do lodge a few times even when I had someone to work on but with only 1 new pair a month, that single day won't matter much. But yeah, don't worry too much if you can't login and get your gems for the day. They're nice to have but they're barely a drop in the bucket in the long-term

[sturdy hatch]

Now forgetting BV on the other hand…

[hardy creek]

I didn't bother with BV for the longest time until skipping was introduced. forgetting BV will definitely hurt more than just missing dailies, but even then you'll recover. Do your best to save gems, but don't beat yourself up if you miss some

[tardy fiber]

Im lucky I didn't forget about BV, i usually do that, gauntlet and csmm on the first day it is available

[summer goblet]

Sure sure, you skip one day may not be hurt if its an oopsie

But what if you skip more than a day

Like 2 days

Or even a week

[ashen thunder]

Missing lodge doesn't rly hurt

Coz it only takes like a week to level 100 1 character

[summer goblet]

The most important is consistency and discipline

[ashen thunder]

And they only release 1 char per month

[summer goblet]

To be fair for lodge

[ashen thunder]

If they did 3+ chars per month it would be understandable for why skipping would hurt

[summer goblet]

You only need 1 interaction to get 80 gems per day

With my home wifi dead

I’m going to relied on intuition and memorization for Serena and Sycamore

Which honestly isn’t too bad

It just slow me down which is not bad at all

[sturdy hatch]

I haven’t cared about efficiency for awhile. Just click what feels best

It’s only one unit a month

Easy to do

[summer goblet]

Easy for you say, you don’t have a huge list of favs. But I have alot of favs in my list so I’m on a tight leash and my margin for error is thin

[summer goblet]

True, I do plan to finish them by the end of December

And only have 2 left afterwards

[sturdy hatch]

Surprised you’re not done already

[summer goblet]

Well aside from serena and sycamore

I have lillie and Marnie left

Yeah i was a bit slow in September taking on 5 characters

Before settling for 2-3 characters per month interchangeable

[sturdy hatch]

[summer goblet]

And also bad rng plays huge

[sturdy hatch]

Just do them one by one so you know all the prompts

[summer goblet]

Hmm yeah i guess so

I did finish silver in 1 week

Hyper focused on him for lg purpose

[sturdy hatch]

Are you buying the extra interactions and relevant items?

[summer goblet]

Oh def

I’m just getting a bit unlucky

And also splitting 2 characters a day

So for example

I do Serena for 3 and Sycamore for 3

[cunning swan]

I used to split 2 characters a day when I first did lodge but it just slowed me down

[summer goblet]

I did 5 charcters cause i like hanging out with them

Now i do 2-3 characters a month

I be done with all characters by end of Jan

[cunning swan]

I'm already done with all the characters I have...

[tardy fiber]

Same, now im working to 150 guests

[summer goblet]

I just need to do lillie and marnie next

Along with some unreleased lodge alt

[summer goblet]

Anyway, I’m done with my daily gem collecting and stamina usage

So i shall be heading home with no wifi

GN everyone

[hardy creek]

you don’t have a huge list of favs.
I thought my list was one of the bigger ones

[tardy fiber]

Mine is one of the biggest

Kinda why I'm not rushing with units

Because in the end, i might have 70-80+

[signal halo]

Your fav list is all legendary/mythical/ub/similars, right?

I try not to add pokemon since my categories tend to be way too random to be consistent

[lunar topaz]

Paradox too

[signal halo]

But I likely would want to go for something like Unova dex if there weren't so many limiteds among them

I like way too many pokemon

To the point I could likely find type faves among every gen

And that's like 136 pokemon already

For now what I truly want is an excuse to pull a pokefair

So I can get colress

Jasmine feels weirdly tempting due to how much I want to expand on my support roster in order to be comfortable with my carries

[lean mango]

When it comes to Pokemon I soley go for Poison mons/units and Crobat

DeNa give me more Poison types

[tardy fiber]

136 bigger than me

[tough oriole]

I kinda doubt you’ll actually get colress tho, unless you’re willing to pity him if you get featured beforehand

[flint sparrow]

i want colress but im not willing to spend so im waiting until half anni until he gets added to ticket pool >:)

[timber wren]

they’ve only updated the ticket pools at anni

if we get 100 free pulls at NY like they did last year he’ll probably be in that pool

[summer goblet]

Oh trust me, I do. I’m just far more willing to skip them for better positioning and far more decisive to pick my battles carefully

This includes Pokemon as well

[signal halo]

The point is to pull on pokefairs until I get one early

Then use pity on colress

Same for hugh

I can't do this on master fairs due to the lower rate

Since the odds of getting a pokefair before pity are around 93%, as well as the odds of getting colress being on a ballpark of 15% through a pity

As long as I am pulling a pokefair I'd be willing to pity on regardless, it shouldn't take a massive amount of banner tries to get him

That said, I must choose the pokefairs I'd be willing to pity on

While chasing for him

[summer goblet]

Agree, go for the 2 for 1 deal

Or wait for ticket scout

[grizzled smelt]

It's just one time purchase right? Or does it reset after 20 days

[drowsy saddle]

Resets iirc

You can keep buying it if you can afford it

[grizzled smelt]

That's really nice than

Better buying this bundle instead of gems , even though the holiday discounts

[feral vale]

Are you allowed to ask that sort of thing in here?? •.•

Because not everyone can buy paid gems, you know.

[willow pollen]

I think it’s more about avoiding flexing than it is actual discussion of value.

[timber wren]

we give advice on how to save and manage all resources, which includes paid gems with the caveat that you should not buy them if you can’t afford it

[feral vale]

That’s fair.

[tardy fiber]

I already stopped buying the coin bundle, my candies demand for my faves already remaining in kinda good amount...will buy back when one of the roles skewed more than the other roles, currently all Striker/Tech/Support need 5 move candies

[fallen path]

Are you rebuying the other bundle vantner?

[tardy fiber]

Yep i still buy the 3k

For good measure if multiple select scouts appear

9k paid gems in 2 months is kinda good

But i wonder if i should consider 4-5/5 faves that get 5/5 treatment...this will cost more paid gems as i might had to buy paid select that i already have all of the units 3/5 in the pool but need to 5/5 instead...so more paid gems in the long run

Maybe i should just focus on 3/5

The remaining paid gems can be emergency fund for faves

Like if i am close to pity or something like that and no free gems left

[summer goblet]

after 2 days of painful no home wi-fi, I learn 2 things from this ordeal

1. always complete your login dallies and missions at your earliest convenience, you will never know when wifi just died on you

2. do whatever you can to login into Pokemon Masters to get your gem dallies like going on public wifi, phone data, etc if you are dedicated to the game and can't afford to just skip daily gems

[tough oriole]

[summer goblet]

also, I have way too much pride and and perfectionist attitude to just simply skip the whole day of Pokemon Masters, I never skip a login ever since launch

and also, i have razor thin margin of error this month to even think about not getting extra gems this month as I worried i will get shafted on Serena and Jasmine banner (my 2 favs)

[upbeat lotus]

Reached 15k gems again, after ||accidently clicked on multi button and wasted 3k gems||. I will get to around 35k gems after December datamine

[cunning swan]

I've reached the 60k mark! Will be ready with two pities for whatever comes at me in january

[tardy fiber]

Nice, im only 57665

[sturdy hatch]

Seems high for you

[tardy fiber]

Gotta prepare for January...well i won't mind if its another skip month, pretty sure my fave will release during any VA

[upbeat lotus]

Hope i can skip January comfortablely

This month has 3 favs of mine

At least i can skip Jasmine

[cunning swan]

this month only gave me Calem as a fave

[upbeat lotus]

||One of the NY seasonal|| is a fav of mine next month

[tough oriole]

||The “leaked” one?||

[upbeat lotus]

||yeah||

||leak isnt allowed here so i wont say the name||

[tardy fiber]

There's ||no partner pokemon leak for the pairs right?||

[weary spire]

It most definitely is

But yeah, missing a day or whatever is far from a big deal, it’s more about your habits in general when it comes to saving

[sturdy hatch]

You’d have to miss a whole month of dailies until it is even equivalent to making a yolo pull

[weary spire]

Now if you make a habit out of missing days, not finishing up w/e event missions for gems, etc

That’ll definitely add up. But a small mistake once in a while isn’t what makes you go from few gems to many

[hardy creek]

am waiting for art of the rest of the SV charas to add them all to my list 😌 I'm in danger 😌

[weary spire]

lmao

Well, I’ve got a few to add as well At least 3

[hardy creek]

only 3
god I wish that were me

[weary spire]

lmao, well idk, maybe that’ll change over time & I’ll come to love a few others even more

I just know 3 are 1000% a given above the rest

[hardy creek]

at the very least, so far only 1 SV chara is in the 5/5 tier 😌

[weary spire]

I wonder who…

Hmm…

[hardy creek]

certainly not nemona 🙊

[weary spire]

Certainly not

1 of my 3 1000% favs as well

[hardy creek]

[weary spire]

Also ||Larry. Larry who I already loved, then found out he had my favourite Pokemon, Staraptor, and the fact that he showed up as E4?! After I answered that I found Larry hardest in the interview? ||

[hardy creek]

😌

he's great

[weary spire]

Find me a single person who doesn’t like him. Honestly my vibe check

My 3rd is Arven

[hardy creek]

my fave is also nemona but I also really like ||geeta, rika, dendra, grusha, and raifort. then all the other teachers are great, then iono is fun, then I like poppy too. oh and sada is great. then mela and orgeta and eri. katy is also cute. and I want kofu to adopt me. also tulip is pretty and ryme is fun and larry is larry and wah so many good charas||

||oh and of course arven||

[weary spire]

Honestly tho, true. All of them are good too

[hardy creek]

I Am In Danger

[weary spire]

[hardy creek]

good thing we'll probably have like, a year to prepare tho

[weary spire]

Yeah

[hardy creek]

need to make sure my savings are ready for gen 9 charas

[weary spire]

There’s a few in there I kinda like a decent bit more as well, I just feel like time will let how much I truly like them settle

[hardy creek]

wondering who's gonna be dena's moneymakers

nemona is a girl and one of the main cast so am Scared that it might finally be my turn to have a popular fave

[weary spire]

I can tell you that is definitely the case

[hardy creek]

I mean I deserve it but also am just imagining like....... 3 alts in a year and I have to 5/5 them all

but also slay

[weary spire]

[hardy creek]

gimme

[weary spire]

At least we’ve got the time, yeah

[hardy creek]

until they drop hisui next month to make sure we can't save 😌

[weary spire]

And most of these probably? Aren’t getting multiple alts in the same year

[hardy creek]

but nemona feels like one of the more likely candidates for multiple alts in the year

[weary spire]

The fact that we still have a bunch of trainers missing from other regions

Oh yeah definitely

[hardy creek]

probably her, iono, and ||rika||????????????

[weary spire]

Prob most likely actually

[hardy creek]

might start seriously looking into a job to have money not just for nemona alts, but also for any merch she may get outside of the game I'm not used to having a popular fave weh

[weary spire]

True true, especially Iono, but ||Rika|| maybe too, I think a lot more I’ve been seeing say they love them as well

Lmao yeah fair

[hardy creek]

I feel like I see ||Rika|| fanart the most

[weary spire]

Reasons to work: Nemona

[hardy creek]

nemona gets a lot too but it's mainly memes

Iono also gets lots of fanart but it's kind of died down a little recently. tho there's still a ton

[weary spire]

Hits the mark for a Pokemon chara design that people have been wanting imo

It makes sense

[hardy creek]

idk, those 3 feel the most likely to be dena's cash cows

and I like them all wahhhhh

[weary spire]

Well, we’ll see how it goes

I’m one of the less confident in Hisui content, but what happens with that will be important as well

[hardy creek]

yeye I've started to lose hope in hisui, but it also still hasn't been a year since those games released yet

[weary spire]

Feels like most are expecting it tho, that’s at least 1 reason to deliver

Oh nah yeah, it’s def not time for it to drop yet

I just meant I was always not as hopeful as some others, but I’d love to see it & think they should

Only a month and a half ‘till it’s been a year… crazy

[hardy creek]

wonder how many hisui charas on my list I'd still wanna pull for by the time they actually drop

the higher tier ones are still must pulls but might remove some charas from the lower tiers

[weary spire]

That’s basically me in reverse lol, I like some charas that I might settle on loving more in months time
Yeah, will see. A year’s time is prob a good buffer for that Only 3 are guaranteed for me so far

[rotund sleet]

i think hisui mons being a part of the dex is reason enough to expect them, i’d say if they aren’t here by like may next year, it’s game over

[signal halo]

I was wondering if now is the time to make a decision on jasmine

She feels tempting because I really like ampharos

[weary spire]

I think there’s even a possibility of Hisuian mons without Hisuian charas tho, as crazy as that sounds

Assuming Hisuian mons

[rotund sleet]

was just about to say that, i think it’s unlikely

but i can see it

[signal halo]

And because she's slightly similar to red in the sense of being a seup mon

[rotund sleet]

another reason for hisui is just more content for them to farm i guess

we’re down to like 3 or 4 VAs left

[signal halo]

It really makes me wonder if she'll be a good find for my account, otherwise I'll have to postpone colress even further

As for hisui

I'd look forward to hisui zoroark

Could even be the fated normal zone mon

[hardy creek]

I would wait until datamine

see if you still want her once all the hype has moved to newer pairs

[summer goblet]

it be cool if Hisui characters will show up

but i wonder how they will show up due to different time period

another time travel bullshit

[hardy creek]

I just wanna know what they'll do with ingo

pls give us hisui ingo because it opens the door for other timeskip vers of charas such as BW cheren or platinum caitlin or SM red & blue (or both the sm and emerald vers of anabel)

[rotund sleet]

this is the only thing that makes it seem unlikely but there r like time travel pokemon that they could justify it with

idk, the end goal for them is profit, not narrative consistency

[cunning swan]

I've made a tierlist of SV characters I'd pull in pokemas

basically I have 4 must-haves

3 favorites, 1 that I must pull to complete my game male protag collection

although, I don't think florian and juliana are popular enough to come to pokemas any time soon

[sturdy hatch]

Really anonymous that last one

[summer goblet]

ah yes, making money is tight

[cunning swan]

we've seen duplicate legendary pokemon showing up with no explanation, I'm sure time travel will make more sense

[summer goblet]

well Celebi exist so yeah

and Dialga

[upbeat lotus]

Hoopa can kipnap people from different timelines too

[rotund sleet]

yeah no doubt

[upbeat lotus]

do you really really like her?

and you event dont have a pity saved up

[sly breach]

Lets just say am back to hanging with you'll down here

[upbeat lotus]

the tiered banner isnt bad, but its costly

[grizzled smelt]

I mean, she's really good, but I'll save for now till the next data mine

Like I need some good electric type Pokemon

[upbeat lotus]

she is a support, so if you are looking for a good electric dmg dealer she isnt the one you are looking for

[grizzled smelt]

Yeah I know

[summer goblet]

while all of you are pulling gems for Jasmine

i will be cross-legging meditating and waiting for the right moment to strike

[sly breach]

Looks like wrong choice on this jasmine pair it is only good as long as you get lucky which in turn requires 3/5 to get move refresh on her triner moves

[maiden kayak]

please do not post such banners here

delete it

@hardy creek

[upbeat lotus]

he asked for advice

to pull or not

[maiden kayak]

he posted the screenshot

he can ask while not posting that banner

[upbeat lotus]

its fine imo

[maiden kayak]

rules are rules

here im trying very hard to zen

and this screenshot is annoying

||im very close to pull at tier 2||

[hardy creek]

I deleted the screenshot as the pinned rules state Please refrain from posting images of new units/their banners.

[weary spire]

tbf yeah, it's easy to say it's fine for those of us who are less likely to give into temptation anyway upon seeing banners, but it probably isn't for those it'd concern more / are on the edge

ty Gon

[maiden kayak]

its been awhile i felt that way ever since fall caitlin banner

[upbeat lotus]

oh i thought the rule was not posting your pull result