Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[upbeat lotus]

Guess i will read the rules again

[maiden kayak]

thanks gon

[hardy creek]

I understand that they were asking for advice and I don't want to discourage that, but when asking about the current banner, please either spoiler tag images of the banner or simply describe it verbally

[weary spire]

posting banners here for those who are really on edge & come here to avoid such temptations is, y'know, kinda rough for them

[maiden kayak]

1 more week to datamine

i hope i can endure

NY is gonna be a bomb

[hardy creek]

gl aqua

[maiden kayak]

oh are u resisting too?

||jasmine outfit is really tempting||

[weary spire]

as for what I had briefly seen of them asking, it is somewhat up to you & how much you're willing to spend $ but honestly, seasonals etc will just come up later on for 3k which is a lot less than half that iirc

[maiden kayak]

||the only reason im still zenning is cos her Ex sux||

[hardy creek]

am not pulling for jasmine, but am not that tempted to begin with

[maiden kayak]

thats great

[hardy creek]

||but zen dies in 2 days||

[maiden kayak]

||oh whitney||

rip

[hardy creek]

but this is why we save, so we can afford our faves 😤

[maiden kayak]

sv favs are making me hold back my spending

[hardy creek]

I don't even wanna think about what SV will do to my gems aaaaaa

[maiden kayak]

yea its gonna be hella brutal

and its not even counting dlc yet

lol

[hardy creek]

What if nemona becomes the cynthia of paldea and I have to 5/5 her like twice a year

[maiden kayak]

i think i know what mon shes getting in poma

[hardy creek]

Maybe dena will write her badly and all my desire to pull on her will fade and I'll be free thanks to bad writing 😌

[maiden kayak]

i hope not lol

[summer goblet]

||i already made plans to pull her and Serena, but only on the last day||

i like to leave it to the last day to strengthen my dicipline

[grand bramble]

Hello!
Happy holidays!!

[summer goblet]

happy holidays to you

[cunning swan]

I can see this happening ngl

if there's any Paldea character who's gonna get a billion alts, it's nemona

so you better be ready gon

[summer goblet]

why do i get the feeling that I'm going to hate her in the future

[hardy creek]

It's finally my turn to have a popular fave 😌

[cunning swan]

speaking of SV, do you guys think they'll continue giving a free box legend via legendary adventures

I'll take a free Koraidon/Miraidon please

[summer goblet]

i hope so

but not counting on it

[hardy creek]

but they'll ruin her by writing her super generically and getting rid of all her weird quirks

Gimme koraidon

my baby

[summer goblet]

i think the anime will do that first

[cunning swan]

I hope not... so far I think pokemas fleshes out the characters more, I doubt they'll dumb down a character, especially someone as popular as nemona

[hardy creek]

[cunning swan]

ah yeah the anime though I can see doing that

[summer goblet]

Pokemon Masters will follow through

[summer goblet]

they wasted Hau and Hop lol

[hardy creek]

Eh, after what pokemas did to lusamine I'm not hopeful

[cunning swan]

[summer goblet]

they using ultra Sun Ultra Moon version

[hardy creek]

Either way will pull on nemona but

I hope she's still an unsettling weirdo

[summer goblet]

plus its implied that Sun and Moon Lusamine is not crazy to begin with

according to Lillie

hehehe

i have a like/dislike view on her for the exact same reason

[signal halo]

I wonder how nemona would acclimate to ash

I wonder if ash would agree on starting over without using Pikachu on gym battles

Along with nemona

[hardy creek]

that's probably a topic better for the anime thread #1030877293477900298

[signal halo]

Fair

I passed by mainly because the next threat to my gems is upon me

By the way

Has DeNa ever mentioned something about allowing to change trainer styles?

Such as getting say, alt Cyrus and using the base Cyrus visual with Darkrai?

[upbeat lotus]

no

[reef river]

Omg

||the ampharos isnt even Amphy!!||

I feel lied to. Reader beware, if you thought you wanted Jasmine

[tardy fiber]

Im still staying strong and skipping everything this month but will pull the pokemas day multis though 125 gems will be gone

Oh guys, where's the datamine dates compilation? I remembered seeing it before but i checked #1006331343300473022 and nothing in there

[upbeat lotus]

#1012256199128915968 here

[reef river]

I forgot to grab my 80 gems from daily missions yesterday... i did them in the morning but i was waiting to grab them so i could refill my stamina + the 200 daily stamina at the end of the day

So now im 80 gems and 200 stamina short

[sturdy hatch]

200 stamina doesn’t feel worth 80 gems

[tardy fiber]

Not the current one, but past datamine dates...i want to check when last January datamine release date

[reef river]

Thats not what i was implying

[sturdy hatch]

Well you gambled 80 gems to get 200 extra stamina

[reef river]

No i just forgot to claim it at the end of the day

[sturdy hatch]

Forgetting is indeed the gamble

[reef river]

😦

[upbeat lotus]

sorry i dont remember its place

[tardy fiber]

Ok found it, wow 21st December datamine

Thats early

[upbeat lotus]

where is it

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully it is also early this year

[tardy fiber]

I just search for electivire in #datamines

Ny volkner electivire

[upbeat lotus]

i remember there is a doc listing all the datamine date

lemme search again

https://pm-random.github.io/timeline

here is it

located in Timeline section

[tardy fiber]

Thanks

Last time its in the old datamine discussion

But it goes ppoof

[upbeat lotus]

its still pinned in #datamines

[tardy fiber]

Really?

Cannot find it in my #datamines pins

[tardy fiber]

Ok checked this one gives dev letter dates so its 3 days later than datamine date

[upbeat lotus]

oh i searched "random" in the datamines channel

it used to be pinned

[tardy fiber]

Gonna hope that all DeNa staff will use all of their stocked up paid leave and release the datamine early like last December

[upbeat lotus]

its guaranteed that the datamine will be released early

cuz xmas and new year

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully

I still have 0 NY seasonal fave, would be nice if they release one

Already got 1 for xmas and fall

[sleek whale]

So I am kinda in a tight spot:
I kinda want champion calem but I don't seem to have enough to pity with my current gems + the gems left this month and finding hard to restrain from summoning

[tardy fiber]

Just wait for datamine probably, even the remaining gems is till 25th so it didn't count 2021 anni MF event

[maiden kayak]

then dont

not enough= straight no

just switch off your app once u are done with your dailies

no need to further revisit the game until the next day / or clearing stamina

[grizzled smelt]

Why?

[rotund sleet]

i personally don't summon to spite my natural impulses

i forcibly grasp my autonomy and it makes me feel liberated

[maiden kayak]

its in the rules

banner pics tempt ppl which defeats the purpose here

[tardy fiber]

I survived mid month without pulling non faves, lets goo

[grizzled smelt]

Ok

[lofty forge]

So I just back to this game and rumor say that N master Fair is coming back?? Is it actually true?

I thought master fair is only happening one

[rare swan]

That's correct - he's returning at the end of the month

[tardy fiber]

Yes

[rare swan]

#1012256199128915968

that has a date/countdown

[lofty forge]

Ah...damn the game changed

Thought I would never get him , 2 months master fair?

[tardy fiber]

1 month i think, until feb 6 or something

[lofty forge]

Ah , so I maybe can save enough gems for it

Have a lot of legendary arena to do though

[tardy fiber]

Yep still got 13.9k till 25th and you got whole January to save on top of that

[lofty forge]

Isnt Jan usually give lots of gems?

[tardy fiber]

Well as much as it will give, it probably won't reach a full pity amount so better save remaining gems in this month as well

[unkempt vortex]

I’m at 32.5k now what’s the pattern for end of year stuff

[tardy fiber]

End of year? Anni MF 2021 rerun

[unkempt vortex]

I should’ve said like what happens NY and January usually

[tardy fiber]

Select scouts

Got 2 5k fair select last January

[unkempt vortex]

Ah

[tough oriole]

Expect a new master fair too

[rare swan]

always expect a fave to surprise you

if you're really lucky/unlucky (depending on how you see it) you'll get two

speaking from experience

[unkempt vortex]

I was gonna pull on the holiday rerun for nessa or skyla but I’ll skip

It’d be nice if those rates were higher

[cunning swan]

that's not a banner you go in without having pity

the rates are atrocious

[unkempt vortex]

I’ll wait for next datamine then

Should have a pity and decide

[tawny cedar]

This is hell

WJasmine is the literal perfect pair id pull

But i can pity only calem and I'm dead set on getting alteast him

It came to the point i wanted to do a tiered scout even tho i only got 3000 paids

[cunning swan]

You're probably better off waiting for a seasonal select to grab jasmine

[tawny cedar]

Ik but how long could that take?i lose my ability to be patient once school started

[timber wren]

im betting 4th anni

3.5 seems too soon, last half anni only had up thru the fall seasonals

[cunning swan]

didn't we have some kind of select during new year's or was I tripping

[timber wren]

we did, it was the first 5k PF select

[tawny cedar]

1 year

[split thicket]

Hey, January brought back a ton of Poké Fairs to commemorate the New Year, right?
Should I just hang onto my paid gems until then?

[timber wren]

given that we expect at least one limited select it’s wise to hold your paid gems until next update

which may come as early as mid next week

[summer goblet]

Unless you are well prepare to feel disappointed, its best to skip and save for better positioning in the future

[viscid flare]

Also who knows of they do MF select sometime in the future

[lunar topaz]

I feel like I have been going down the list of all Gem zen “don’t do’s” recently and I’m really upset with myself it was in the pursuit of my favs but I am still frustrated I went against my priority list for which favs I would prioritize and not and then I ||pulled for jasmine without a pity|| I am just to weak when I see a favorite on a banner…

[fallen path]

Are you at least guaranteed before the unit leaves..

I think when we had this discussion || about the eevolution banner || we did talk about the pros and cons of summoning vs waiting for datamine

[lunar topaz]

The ||eevee banner didn’t effect my gem count as it took me like 3K to get both lel|| but I don’t think in guranteed jasmine as I used 17K

[sly breach]

I swear i hurt anytime i open gacha and flex

[drowsy saddle]

Don't open it then? Mute it, hide it, spaget about it

[sly breach]

Hide it ? How

[unkempt vortex]

You can just not open it

[fallen path]

or just right click and mark as read, or however you do it on mobile

[unkempt vortex]

Hold then mark as read

[south scroll]

I thought we could do new year saving resolutions

Might be fun

[summer goblet]

that would be cool

i wanna remove dailies from seasonal and MF for the entirety of 2023

and i want to achieve 500k f2p gems by the end of 2023

[south scroll]

Nice resolutions! Dailies are a bad investment

Best of luck with your savings

[tardy fiber]

My resolutions are gonna still be the same i guess, pull faves and skip non faves

[summer goblet]

to be fair, i been way too lucky getting the dallies and cheating the system far too long

so i didn't really zen too hard

[summer goblet]

always sticking to your plan very nice

[tardy fiber]

Yep already halfway this month and im skipping everything

[lean mango]

I'm so close to my 2nd pity

I need to complete one of the EBEs to get just enough

[south scroll]

I think mine will be getting over 10 pities

[lean mango]

I don't really have anything to put on my resolutions, Ig just do the same thing I've always been doin

[summer goblet]

how far are you there in terms of gem count?

[south scroll]

I'm almost at 350k

But will it last?

We shall see

[summer goblet]

nice, i'm at 354k so far

but my gem count will soon be dipped by next month significantly

gotta get my favs this month

[south scroll]

Who are you pulling for?

[summer goblet]

Serena and Greninja and Jasmine

i like to pull it at the last day for the purpose of discipline training

[south scroll]

Nice, good luck!

[summer goblet]

thanks

[tardy fiber]

58,815 gems hopefully can form 2 pities with remaining unearned gems

[summer goblet]

awsome

just make sure you don't skip a day off

i mean i know other tells me its ok to take a day off and not collect dallies when my home-wifi is out

but i am way to determined and have a all-in mentality that i will go find a public place to grab my dallies

[south scroll]

Hopefully you'll get a rest month

[lean mango]

Always great to have a rest month

[summer goblet]

i hope Jan is a rest month

i mean they are running the 3 anni MF in Jan so i hope there is no new mf in Jan?

or any va for that matter

[tardy fiber]

December is a rest month for me

[tardy fiber]

Yep if got, they already hint it in dev letter

But nothing mentioned

[summer goblet]

yeah could be, but always be well prepare

if Diantha gets somthing awesome, that would be so cool

[tardy fiber]

Probably got Volcanion because other than it and hoopa unbound, everything already released

[summer goblet]

yeah probably, Kalos legendary is so freaking thin for some reason

[tardy fiber]

Dont worry, battle Chatelaines gonna steal 4 for Kalos

Oh i just noticed that this month doesn't have new 3* gear so probably we will have a new one next month ...

[mental skiff]

👀Hey guys gems count of Jan 2022 is 30000+... Is that the result of datamine come soon in Dec or an outstanding event happened?

and why Feb 2022 is 40.000+ gems

[timber wren]

update from end of dec to end of jan was very long but also included NY gems iirc

feb 2022 included the half anni gems which are front loaded at the end of feb, plus we got victory road which was an extra one time boon of gems

[mental skiff]

ah i see so actually Jan 22 is just around 26-27k gems.

And i thought we had overflow of gems in feb.... Victory road is huge amount of gems tho

Thanks tho

[timber wren]

likely that we will see more gems than average in those two months but never plan your budget around gems you don’t have

[mental skiff]

👀just want to check if i can have enough for a pity in summer

Gonna have 30k gems by the end of this month (25th) so i well prepared for palentine

Updated new scout plan

[tough oriole]

I should make one of these, but i find them a pain to use on mobile

[mental skiff]

👀it is nicer to use on mobile

Since the words wont space out in weird way

https://tiermaker.com/create/pokmon-masters-ex-sages-type-colored-1132341

[upbeat lotus]

Wow your saving list is bigger than mine

[tough oriole]

It’s kinda hard to drag the icons up to the tier list

[mental skiff]

it is actually small because i just have to plan for palentine and summer (Gloria and Marnie is in same banner). Kris is next year

[tough oriole]

Here’s mine

[mental skiff]

2 pity this end of dec

[tardy fiber]

I'm lucky that i didn't need to chase any reruns....but as consequences are my savings are not as much as other peoples.

[mental skiff]

still better than mine i have to re-sharp the scout list every time i try to get a unit

[mental skiff]

highly likely they will come in selected scout this half anni tho

[tough oriole]

Which ones

Also|| i really want a moltres + latias gauntlet so that emmet + ss wally can be together ||

[mental skiff]

Last selected scout had newly come fall unit so alister is possible. Summer N is likely to come.

Only Lilie is on last selected scout so she has lower chance i guess

assume if they still do A,B,C banner

[tough oriole]

I’d assume they’d just use the mass select scout

[mental skiff]

that is on Anni only

[tough oriole]

We never had a mass select scout before this recent one

[mental skiff]

👀oh

I thought we had 2 mass selected scout

[tardy fiber]

Hope pokefair select also become mass select like recent seasonal

Just give the option to buy it twice

If people worry that by doing that will reduce number of fair select

[mental skiff]

Dena plan to make money from monthly poke scout so that wont happend

[tardy fiber]

People that want ssdawn and sscyrus rerun had to get them through fair select

Not like they rerun during sinnoh VA rerun

[viscid flare]

Im sad i got cyrus and not gio now

Next time ill get the unit thats better at 1/5

[mental skiff]

May be they will rerun SS cyrus on LG with Cressselia

[mental skiff]

||SS Gio isnt that fun on 1/5 he is kinda slow tho||

[lean mango]

Kinda changed my fav list a bit cause couldn't resist Mina

[mental skiff]

[lean mango]

I just love her chillness

So list rn

[mental skiff]

hope mina come with her signature pokemon ribombee

[mental skiff]

👀Morty may come supa soon tho i can see it

[lean mango]

How so

[mental skiff]

New year tradition to give 1 male alt and 1 female alt

[lean mango]

Morty in a kimono

But don't think they'll do that

[cunning swan]

how about just... falkner at that point

I want falkner seasonal

[lean mango]

Morty bias

[mental skiff]

[upbeat lotus]

I want to see Sonia in kimono, but my wallet will hurt

[tardy fiber]

New year Ethan with Raikou when DeNa?

[upbeat lotus]

Dena: "Your wish granted, NY Lyra & Raikou next year"

[mental skiff]

dont think pokemon company remember raikou exist

I cant recall anything with raikou

[tardy fiber]

I dont mind, i favor pokemon more than trainers

Just give me another elec fave

Zekrom barely hold on

[mental skiff]

New year Zeraora

[cunning swan]

yeah, raikou really got shafted compared to the other two

[sturdy hatch]

I think raikou was in one anime episode?

[signal halo]

Imagine regieleki as some obscene gauge support

Something to allow stuff like double/triple 4gauge queueing

[upbeat lotus]

I can see Regieleki as a speedy tech with electroweb and thunder cage

[signal halo]

This month has me hard questioning my choices in the game

Strong supports really end up being my most used pairs and having two simultaneously is almost making me forget about my Unova chasing at this point

It also doesn't help that I want colress

And Hugh too

Like, it feels much more annoying to wait for pairs I know are already available

[mental skiff]

just stop thinking about them

[cunning swan]

iirc it was in legend of thunder, some kind of spinoff short series

but like, it didn't get a solo movie like entei and suicune lol

[maiden kayak]

seasonal select is always 3k right?

[exotic sparrow]

Yes

[lean mango]

Gem count, 2 pities achieved

Now time to aim for 100k

[upbeat lotus]

i will reach 18k tomorrow cuz villa

[mental skiff]

villa is sugoi

[signal halo]

I'm not far away from two pities

Will jasmine and calem both remain for the next datamine?

[maiden kayak]

should be

[tardy fiber]

60,215...hope can get 12k before this month end

Not sure why but i feel January kinda dangerous...smells like faves coming

[signal halo]

I guess I can wait for it, then

Jasmine is interesting due to her SE up and move up boosts, which directly affect my long term goals

[tardy fiber]

I think i gonna skip fair select that i already have all pairs in it that are already 3/5

Even though they have 5/5 grids

I worry that once i start to chase 5/5, it will increase my expenses

[signal halo]

Do you wanna 3/5 everyone?

Or just the legendaries that need it to function

[tardy fiber]

Yep its my goal for my faves

Only for faves

Like my 1/5 palmarnie and emmet can go die

[signal halo]

Your faves are legendaries, right?

I think you could just go for 5/5s on a select few that are way behind the schedule

[tardy fiber]

Legendaries, Mythicals, UBs and ||Paradoxes||

[tardy fiber]

Would be bad, like now got 52 faves so if i need to 5/5 them will need close to 100 candies

And still many unreleased faves

And they can play shiny version card again

[signal halo]

Do you need all of them to hit 5/5?

If one does

[tardy fiber]

Thats why i dont want to pursue 5/5

They can already work with 3/5

[signal halo]

I guess you shouldn't do it, then

Overall I don't have many legendary faves due to a generally negative impression from playing them in the main games

But I wish I had Lugia

[tardy fiber]

Plus they aim to give pokefairs 5/5 grids...thats already 20+ from my collection

[signal halo]

My current struggle is mostly aimed at when to shoot for colress

[tardy fiber]

Probably during steel weakness gauntlet scout if got regirock in gauntlet

As you already missed his spotlight banner where he got a higher rate

And you a f2p player

If dolphin or something, i can suggest gauntlet weakness select or just normal 3k select

But if f2p...the prior method is probably the best

[signal halo]

I was considering to use the same approach I had to get cynthia

But I could be baiting myself

Since what happened on that banner was a massive abnormality imo

[tardy fiber]

Oh right that might work as well, any pokefair that you aim for rerun which is also a base alt for the character? Like lucas or lance or steven?

[signal halo]

I pulled on N aiming to pity Cynthia if I got him early

[tardy fiber]

If you got them early can pity for colress

[signal halo]

Likely all 3, honestly

Got N halfway through pity

Decided to keep pulling

Walked away with all 4 pokefairs

And I fear that good impression would end up baiting me into a bad decision

[tardy fiber]

But aiming for a pity means need to prepare of going all in of 36.6k...as getting colress by chance in monthly lodge pokefair have abysmal rates

[signal halo]

I won't be pulling on lodge for a while

Due to the aforementioned fact of getting all 4

[tardy fiber]

But who knows you might get him during new year, last january they give few multis for free...i got my kimono grimsley from it

But no free pokefair units, didn't get steven/lance/cynthia/sscynthia

[signal halo]

I think canon alt wise

What I want is uh

[tardy fiber]

Kimono grimsley is canon

[signal halo]

Lance, Red, Classic Blue, Steven, Lucas, CIris, Celesa, Colress, Hugh, Diantha, Lysandre, Lillie, Leon, Gordie and Melony

Not all of those are big pairs

Also Bede

Forgot Bede

Lysandre was skipped twice already because his banners are all cursed

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if Lysandre will ever be added to monthly lodge pokefair...but he is a villain so probably not

[signal halo]

There's dojo gloria

Iirc she's canon somehow

[tardy fiber]

Canon due to isle of armor

[signal halo]

And having a canon pair being as busted as her would make her unskippable

Because she fits my eye candy for meta

While also making speed multipliers much easier to achieve

[tardy fiber]

Part of reason that i make legendaries, mythicals and UBs as my faves are ||they rarely suck in strength and utility||

[signal halo]

Some of my faves are flat out bottom of the barrel

And I've set myself up for being screwed with my fave list

Brycen and cryogonal, like...

[tardy fiber]

Well people said bp master units are trash, i still use them every week in csmm and they did their job well

[lean mango]

Bro Nita is great smh

[signal halo]

Or just the entire Unova E4

Even the champions are questionable at times

I'd be very thankful if alder got a 2/3/4/5 grid expansion and they gave him like 2/5 unbending

[tardy fiber]

Even Regirock is great

[signal halo]

Also ciris doesn't seem to be held at a high standart, as a tier 5 pair

But that could be due to the hybrid tier being absurdly stacked

[tardy fiber]

If you like the unit, you will find a way to make them work...many stuff that can buff faves nowadays weather/terrain/zone/rebuff/support ex/phy move up/spec move up/ super eff up

[mental skiff]

that is because you have 3/5

[tardy fiber]

Well not my fault that people doesn't want to 3/5 theirs

[signal halo]

I have 0 seup or pmu pairs

[tardy fiber]

If the unit is fave, they should prepare to invest on the unit

[mental skiff]

true

[signal halo]

Kinda puts jasmine in a dangerously appreciable position

[mental skiff]

Aaron has spe up

[sturdy hatch]

Silver is his own SEUP pair

[signal halo]

Wait, does he?

Is that a 3/5 thing?

[mental skiff]

Yeah one time trick on his healing move

[tardy fiber]

I didn't grab his SE up grid...will mess with my timing...i like to use his tm twice

[signal halo]

Eh, would still be more inclined to go fo another seup pair

[mental skiff]

👀spotlight unit cover all mechanic tho so dont think you will miss any

[tardy fiber]

Also he is already plenty strong with that solat flare 14

[signal halo]

I hate my fairy clears

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

I clear fairy weak with non fairies

[signal halo]

I even invested on mina, but she was worse than sycamore

[tardy fiber]

I rather offtype than use non faves

[mental skiff]

Hey she is good

[signal halo]

She can't take Sydney out before she's dead

Meanwhile sycamore just tanks 3 syncs

[mental skiff]

I havent used sycamore eversince i upgraded her

[signal halo]

And bruteforces it

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for kalos VA, that support upgrade for sycamore will be spicy

[mental skiff]

2 sync is enough

[signal halo]

She died on first sync

[mental skiff]

Even without ex support

[mental skiff]

use atk params always

[signal halo]

She didn't deal enough

Still, at this point

I just want something that does it easier

On type too

[tardy fiber]

I probably gonna 5* mina later...5* her just because granbull looks cool

[mental skiff]

👀

[signal halo]

Like

I don't dislike mina

As a character, at least

She's an Alolan artist

[tardy fiber]

I already 5* all kanto e4

Wait i forgot, i didn't pull lance

So not all

[signal halo]

But at this point I just want someone at DeNa to mess up a code

And release the fairy SST red

Something ridiculous that isn't fire, water or psychic for once

[tardy fiber]

I only have 3 water faves for now...but yep fire, psychic and dragon are really stacked

[cunning swan]

Can we please get fairy spotlights

I'm not inclined to pull on fairy types unless big faves, no matter how broken they are

[tardy fiber]

I hope they release back legendaries and UBs as spotlights

[compact pasture]

Are there fairy type legendaries?

[tardy fiber]

Xerneas

Enamorus

Tapus are all dual type fairy iirc

Magearna is a mythical fairy

Also lunala iirc

[cunning swan]

Zacian is part fairy too, no? Or am I tripping

[mental skiff]

It has play rough

[tardy fiber]

Yeap steel fairy

Victini i think ...need to recheck

[cunning swan]

Psychic fire

[tardy fiber]

Oh

[mental skiff]

New fairy unit
Gloria expanded grid

[tardy fiber]

I just hope that next fairy fave coming isnt a support

As i want to sync with sycamore

In my fairy team

[mental skiff]

the more support the merrier

[tardy fiber]

A damage dealer would be great

[mental skiff]

stall long enough and all unit become striker ... If they havent died

[tardy fiber]

Well support is good, but i didn't use a lot of supports because i am not even a hardcore gauntlet streaks chaser

[cunning swan]

She desperately needs it

[tardy fiber]

I hope gloria got good 2/5 grids

As i probably wont make her 5/5 for a looooong time

[cunning swan]

I desperately want more supports

[mental skiff]

Same

I have her at 2/5

[tardy fiber]

Only use these twelve yet still surviving all of the contents

[mental skiff]

only use them for Cs

[cunning swan]

I run out of supports for my damage dealers in LG
I ||pull for more supports||
I use supports to solo LG
Repeat

[mental skiff]

cant relate

[white sparrow]

first 3000

[cunning swan]

[upbeat lotus]

keep going

[tardy fiber]

Yep i mainly use them in cs, thats why i didn't rush getting non fave supports much...well i did falter for redlax because i heard that he can carry all other weak faves

[mental skiff]

redlax is overated

I also got tempted by red because of spe up but then i realized i have aaron and the temptation was gone

Not much a meta chaser but if they release a mechanic i dont have... That gonna be a problem

[sturdy hatch]

I was very annoyed at the dynamax mechanic before they released Allister to gen pool

[mental skiff]

yeah alister helped me combat the need to pull for dynamax pair

[tardy fiber]

But his biggest selling points that rope me was he is the best friend for gladion

[mental skiff]

Although i never use him

[cunning swan]

I rarely use allister too

[mental skiff]

why tho

[cunning swan]

Because Gladion needs all the help he can get

[mental skiff]

Gladion is find as long as he has crit buff doesnt he?

[cunning swan]

SEUP next from Red is super powerful for him

[tardy fiber]

Both normal, gladion always be effective on enemies and redlax can give him SE up

[cunning swan]

Gladion just has terrible stats so

[sturdy hatch]

Normal Gear when?

[cunning swan]

Normal zone, normal rebuff

[mental skiff]

i see

[tardy fiber]

Yep normal gear better come with palmer Regigigas

[cunning swan]

And give Gladion freaking haymaker or something, please

Haha, I forgot Palmer is in the trailer and still isn't in the game yet

[mental skiff]

but Normal zone is useless on Gladion tho

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Just don't use his TM

You will get normal type multi attack

[cunning swan]

Hugh then or Whitney, both OG and seasonal one

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Normal zone? Norman gaming lets gooo

[mental skiff]

yes

Havent success in 2000pt with Norman yet

[tardy fiber]

Who needs 50% recoil removal of hugh when you can get guaranteed recoil from norman

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

I probably just gonna use him as paralyze spammer

[mental skiff]

Hope norman has ex tho

[tardy fiber]

Him being a non eggmon pair already make him better than eggmons

[mental skiff]

use him as support

Infinite heal and gauge refresh

[sturdy hatch]

I’ve done it, don’t do it

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

We need normal zone and rebuff, cmon arceus and Regigigas...make Normal great again

[sturdy hatch]

Just give us a normal weak event.

[mental skiff]

Normal gonna be new meta

[compact pasture]

But how?

[mental skiff]

Release a strange type

[cunning swan]

Again? Since when?

[tardy fiber]

Its always offtype with normal ...normal type gaming is hardcore

[tardy fiber]

Since whitney gets her grid

Miltank can deal huge damage

[sturdy hatch]

In the bit of code for weakness they select normal

Easy

[mental skiff]

New whitney also normal so i think with 3rd whitney alt we will have normal zone

[tardy fiber]

Probably give normal type pairs boosts like region locked content boosts

Doesn't care about weaknesses

[mental skiff]

will be hard

[tardy fiber]

But normal pairs got buffed

[mental skiff]

Has 7 normal pair and all of them suck not good

[tardy fiber]

My gladion is good

[mental skiff]

oh forgot Gladion normal type

[tardy fiber]

Also his multi attack and sync can get buffed by zone/terrain/weather

I try it for fun before and it works

[sturdy hatch]

Whitney nuke

[cunning swan]

The thing is, Gladion's base stats just suck ass

[tardy fiber]

Need 3* normal gear

+60 attack

[mental skiff]

Extended grid

+40 atk for free

[upbeat lotus]

hope he will get Kris' treatment

[cunning swan]

+40 attack, haymaker, super powered

[tardy fiber]

Super powered 9 please let him get similar treatment like silver...9 plus lucky skill will be 12

[cunning swan]

[spare swift]

Out of these 12, I have only 2, that too the first 2

[tardy fiber]

7/12 of these units are f2p

And next anniv, might be 9 units

Slowly but surely my faves roster becoming bigger and stronger

[spare swift]

Just wait for 6 MF, all legendaries

Legendary birds, and their Galarian form

All at once

[tardy fiber]

For now my biggest nightmare is still pokewar sc

4 faves in a dry gems month

I cried when watching the trailer

Luckily i skipped October

[sturdy hatch]

Save 150k gems

[tardy fiber]

While everyone keep talking fallcaitlin is damn strong and break support meta

I stay strong and skip her and the rest of October

I like my scjasmine especially after gave her sentry entry 2

Now she's tanky for both physical and special damage

[ashen thunder]

What support meta when every recent unit buffs everything in 1 TM

[spare swift]

Supports will always be the meta

Since except some units like annilillie, buzzwole, etc, most of them buffs either only a part of their offensive stats, on takes 3-4 turns to buff

In a fast paced battle like CS, where offense is the best defense, you need to buff as fast as you can, so that you can hit maximum number of times. And that's where supports come

Atleast, this is what I learnt from doing 2v3 CS for so many months

3v3 CS is like a cakewalk

Also, Sinnoh and Hoenn CS is a lot harder than Kanto, Johto or Unova. They are a complete shift from them

So, you need bulky supports for that, which can support whole team.

[compact pasture]

Or you could use 3 supports?

[mental skiff]

Sc Jasmine let's gooooo

ever since || i got sc Jasmine || my life completely changed

[upbeat lotus]

One of my best move in the game was ||pulling SC Jasmine||

[mental skiff]

shared experience

Speaking of Special costume... If they rerun, will they come in same banner or seperated

E.g. Tea pot lilie, Sonia and train bros?

If so it is 2% right?

[upbeat lotus]

The first SC set reran in a shared banner

So 0.5%

If they are seperated it would be 2%

[mental skiff]

nice 4 in 1 banner

I should make a pity for that

[upbeat lotus]

It seems good on paper but 0.5% is ass

[mental skiff]

It come before or after summer?

[upbeat lotus]

Better save a pity

[upbeat lotus]

During 3rd anni

[drowsy saddle]

4 in 1 is pretty bad due to 0.5% rates for each one.

[mental skiff]

It isnt matter since i like all 4

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah should save a pity

[drowsy saddle]

Can take you 4 pities then

[mental skiff]

too much for me

I prefer tea pot lilie but all 4 is good

Atleast get pity lilie and wish for lucky spook

[upbeat lotus]

Its said that Sconia is the worst of the set

Ingo has zone, Emmet is an excellent striker and Lillie is a very good support

[mental skiff]

I have grassy terrain tho so all grass unit x2 atk

But i have to agree sonia is the least favorable of the set

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah grass type is bloated

[tardy fiber]

Kinda want to see scrosa rerun, first sc that is not released in a set of 4

[ashen thunder]

Grass type boated?

I never rolled for grass types so

It's one of my weakest rn

[upbeat lotus]

Even in gen pool Brendan and SS Erika are enough

Not counting Gardenia and LSycamore

[ashen thunder]

I don't have terrain so Brendan hits like wet paper

And sserika is scuffed due to 2/5

Redlax already overworks like my other worse typings like poison and fairy

[vestal leaf]

Brendan still should do enough without terrain

[timber wren]

and ss erika still does phenomenally at 2/5

[ashen thunder]

That's copium

I want my 10k ontype damage pre sync

Coz "phenomenally" performing is way less req to cover anyways due to contents being a meme

[tawny cedar]

If ny 5k paid selects has WJasmine i will explode

I have only 3k

[lapis pine]

It will not have Wjasmine

[weary spire]

SS Erika & Brendan were both overkill for me non-EX, 2k CSMM every time

I genuinely do think that’s either on your params or grid

SS Erika’s one of the most powerful gen pools

She can duo pretty decently as well

[maiden kayak]

whats this year gem count

i hope i saved over 200k out of this years gems

ok i just checked from historical gem income

jan to nov seems to be 340703

adding dec would be around 370k

correct me if im wrong

[timber wren]

should be right around there yeah, tho we may get a little more at the end of dec bc the update is expected next week

[maiden kayak]

nice

[ashen thunder]

It's more like I want to see bigger number than just "hey it works" coz everything works in this game afterall
Unless you are Marlon

[vestal leaf]

Someone post the gif

Actually I'll look it up myself

https://imgur.com/AvsayWJ

[deft glen]

gotta love the Skyla + SS Erika combo

[cunning swan]

a CS run that doesn't take -2 move gauge

[lean mango]

I'm so accustomed to having -move gauge

[mental skiff]

oh man i wont have enough for this half anni selected scout

Get enough money to buy sync orb bundle at the start of March. But by the time i collect all gems, selected scout already ended

[ashen thunder]

I said pre sync smh

[glass abyss]

There’s a select scout for Anni?

Or just the three ANNi pairs we know about?

Because that’s an easy pass from me

[tardy fiber]

Select scout during anni? The one that have gio+sscyrus+celesa and ssmorty+ssdawn+ssleon

If talking about annilillie+anniN+anniSteven, its not even anni month... but January have select scout before this

[broken mulch]

Seeing all 6 gauges in CS puts me off lol

[tardy fiber]

What gauges?

[weary spire]

Sure, I’m just saying her numbers are good as she’s pretty strong with sync considered as well

But ye if going for simply bigger numbers for every type, idk, I personally just don’t see the point of it if nothing reaally changes

[tardy fiber]

Talking about this, i came to the same conclusion and gonna not put chasing 5/5 grids for my faves as one of my goals...the pairs are already good 3/5 and 5/5 are just bigger numbers...also those extra candies can go to many of my yet unreleased faves plus select scouts that already have all fave units 3/5 in it are no longer worth to buy so i can save more gems

[broken mulch]

Move gauges

[tardy fiber]

Oh you forgot to do -2 gauge params?

[ashen thunder]

I mean, all my favs are already in the game at this point, it's just a matter of them getting rerun banner or getting spooked along the way
So might as well roll for power at this point

[sand crown]

Holiday Jasmine marks the last major fave I was waiting for so I get that. I guess it'll be easier to save for triple banners and such

[slow hare]

Nice

Nothing in Paldea or Hisui sparks joy?

[sand crown]

Unfortunately, no Switch and I'm an old-schooler. The newer games never have the impact as your first couple

[slow hare]

[sand crown]

I think Hisuian Zoroark looks amazing though and that would be something I'd keep an eye out for

[slow hare]

I admit I ||pulled for some stuff that didn't spark major joy but I had a bunch of gems||

||kinda wish I held out a bit more tbh but hey we'll see moving forward||

[lime marlin]

Qn although holiday Whitney has 3 different zone options, it's considered clunky to set up right? And there being a max of 2 MP for it makes it a bit hard for any non-nuke comp?

[rotund sleet]

this is a good gif to teach beginners about triple/quad queuing

[timber wren]

she can get three uses at 3/5 but yes her kit is extremely clunky

[mental skiff]

erika trigger sync count down skill tho

[signal halo]

Select scouts are the paid ones, right?

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[rotund sleet]

happened on the last cycle, so wouldn’t have made a difference

the countdown was at 3 with 3 moves queued anyways

i’m just talking about what happens until the first quadqueue, after that it doesn’t rlly matter that she got more propulsions

the demonstration is done

[tardy fiber]

63215 gems...also already 9390 BP closer to 2/5 cobalion

[mental skiff]

noice

[tardy fiber]

Hurm anni is kinda on late august right?

I guess i can form 2 more rainbow tickets before anniv

So i can 3/5 coba and save the other for new bp master units

[upbeat lotus]

Wow im really close to 21k gems villa and the rally give so many gems

[tardy fiber]

Still 10880 gems left

Im in good track for 2 pities

[upbeat lotus]

And around 5k gems from 2nd anni trio events not counted i can get a pity after december

[mental skiff]

same as you

Gonna reach exactly pity by the end of december

2 pity by the time palentine start then i can get all palentine pair

[tardy fiber]

Including new palentine units?

[mental skiff]

if they have lovely outfit

[upbeat lotus]

Unless jan and feb have must have favs of mine, i will spend a pity on Palentine rerun banner

[south scroll]

Reached 350k today

[mental skiff]

[maiden kayak]

another dark horse rising

[unkempt vortex]

Close to one pity

[sly breach]

350k? When was the last time you actually made a pull

[mental skiff]

9k paid gems bellow

[sturdy flower]

cant wait to see us use one of the 2 new hairstyles next month!

[mental skiff]

poma give new hairstyle to main?

[sturdy flower]

yes

should be datamined next week tabun maybe

[mental skiff]

Leek

Hope that is true

[south scroll]

I pulled for SS Hilda last month

[south scroll]

Which are sadly not being used due to a lack of good select scouts lately, I've only ever used paid gems to select scout Sonia and then Pal Marnie

[sturdy flower]

good selects soon

[reef river]

Lucas select

Ill accept ss steven too

[sturdy flower]

[south scroll]

Personally I want Bede and Glojo the most

[reef river]

I completely forgot bede exists in this game

[sturdy flower]

that's a common thing

[tardy fiber]

Hope our hairstyles stay for story cutscenes as well...i dont want that it stays in profile and battles but suddenly event cutscenes is still MC with a cap

[sturdy flower]

i imagine it does

our hair and eye color does

cutscenes aren't prerendered

[tardy fiber]

Neat

[willow pollen]

I hope they put additional unlockable styles behind different events and challenges.

[sturdy flower]

would be a great way to reward super hard content without really hurting anyone newer

raids for new shirts

[tardy fiber]

They are moving towards that i guess, i noticed some events recently have unique jukebox tracks. Oh i need to send feedback so that we can save event scenes if we have 4* event badge of that event...would be neat to view sslusamine and ssmorty event cutscenes anytime

Like new players will be shocked to play Johto VA and suddenly ssmorty pop with shiny ho-oh because they missed his event scenes

[willow pollen]

The unique jukebox tracks are accessible to everyone which I like.

I want a shirt that says I bashed my head into a wall for 10k csmm

[tardy fiber]

50 streaks gauntlet shirt maybe i will do more than 10-12 streaks if that happens

[unkempt vortex]

Should I count my gem total as a whole or separate between free and paid

Since paid has it’s own banners

[timber wren]

i prefer to only count free since i never want to use paids on a free banner

[tardy fiber]

Depends on your mindset, like i count as a whole because if i lack bit of gems to pity, I won't hesitate to use my paids to reach that pity amount

Better that i spent some than i lose the fave unit

[timber wren]

so you can see it’s a preference

[tardy fiber]

Like if i have 33k free gems and 3.6k paid, i wont let the unit slip pass me if i still didn't get the unit even with 33k free gems

[sturdy flower]

i won't roll if i have only 33k

simple as

[tardy fiber]

But luckily i can form 2 pities before 25th, ample gems for January and due to my new goal of not chasing 4-5/5, i probably can save more paid gems as i wont grab it if all the units in it already 3/5

Also getting 9k paid gems every 2 month does help

[tough oriole]

The cheap deals are so nice

[tardy fiber]

Yep as select scouts are pretty rare, i think i will have some leftover paid gems to consider as expendables when chasing a pity for a fave

Only NY, Half Anni and Anni have selects

[timber wren]

so far

[tardy fiber]

Also there's only 5 pairs that i need more dupe of

Others are already 3/5

So i will skip select like the recent 5k fair select

I throw 5/5 grid existence in the dustbin as if all of my faves have 5/5 grid...would need extra 80 move candies

Wait 70 probably

Only these left that need to complete:
Annilillie 2/5, cobalion 1/5, mesprit 1/5, ssleon 2/5, ssethan 1/5, sskorrina 1/5, djgloria 2/5, falliris 1/5, sshilda 1/5...as some of them are pretty recent so probably i will skip some of upcoming select

[sturdy flower]

i'm very much content with what I have

wouldn't mind more techs tho, I noticed that I barely use strikers at all

techs not only deal comparable damage, they also have about 50% more defensive stats on average

[deft glen]

I want a Lucas select so much ;-;

I think the only old units I still really want are Pal Serena, Summer Marnie and Lucas (cuz SS Serena best partner)

other than that, I guess just saving for Serena, Marnie and Korrina alts

and Irida if she is ever released

[tardy fiber]

I like that techs can also be assist role other than just nuking...like sscyrus if not nuking can be a zone setter+sleep spammer+debuffer+chip damage...fall iris also if not nuking, can be acid spammer for all target spdef down aside of zone shenanigans, sshilbert can put rebuff + metal sound on a roll spam and its basically free due to catalyzing affliction 2 grid

Striker can just nuke

[mental skiff]

too much tech lately tho

Before anni i just need 1 tech candy now i need 7 more

[sturdy flower]

they start the design with a striker, and decide it's actually a tech about halfway

[mental skiff]

[lean mango]

Lucas in a nutshell

[mental skiff]

#Justice For Striker

[lean mango]

Lucas was meant to be a Striker

Change my mind

[mental skiff]

Lucas is a bad tech tho if use him to set terrain he just out damage the striker he support....

[tardy fiber]

I use my Lucas as assist role, with his roar mind games

Good chip damage as well

[mental skiff]

chip damage

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-dragon-ball-z-unlimited-power-over9000-power-level-gif-12316102

[sturdy flower]

roar of chip damage

[lean mango]

They gave him tech cause apparently strikers can't have zones

[sturdy flower]

and debuffs

and rebuff

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Chip damage assist build lucas

[mental skiff]

can be a good tech if they nerd damage

[sturdy flower]

ah yes, a support for your Iris

[tardy fiber]

I use him mainly with Cyrus, zerena already too OP with 2 chatelaines

3 kalos and 3 master passives

[mental skiff]

I wondered if i should get him to support zinnia... but he probably make her outdated

may be if he comeback in another LG banner

[tardy fiber]

He rerun in protag banner iirc

[mental skiff]

skipped that due to pity SS lyra

[tardy fiber]

Kinda worried about VA units...only lucas rerun, sscyrus and ssdawn need paid gems and they doesn't even rerun on VA rerun

Only kanto VA reruns their VA units

[mental skiff]

kinda hard to rerun them without Giratina Cynthia

[tardy fiber]

Yep so i need to save bunch of gems for VA

[mental skiff]

I have SS Dawn in scout list too

But dunno when she will comeback so cant save gems properly

[sturdy flower]

i have no idea when is a good time to rerun VA units if not on VA rerun

but their idea of rerunning anni units is new year so... yeah

which is also curious as they usually don't rerun stuff without a reason, will they appear in the new year event or what?

[mental skiff]

Datamine is stressful experience tho

[sturdy flower]

for who? DeNa?

[mental skiff]

for me

Low on gems but Dena keep sending fine unit and random rerun that i cant predict

[sturdy flower]

you need gems for that new hairstyle!

[mental skiff]

[lean mango]

.. I want drip tho

[reef river]

Im ready for datamine

[tardy fiber]

Im scared for alola VA...the worst situation for me is if they release 4 tapus pokefairs plus spotlights that have UBs

[feral vale]

That honestly sounds a little excessive even for them •.•

Also hang on

There’s already two Ultra Beast limited pairs.

[tardy fiber]

Well like unova VA in total is 4 pokefairs+2 spotlights...and if they release ultra recon squad, they might have UBs and they aren't popular enough to be pokefair

[sturdy flower]

at least Kalos is unlikely to have many

[tardy fiber]

They might use the shiny card

[mental skiff]

nihilego and Lusamami

Will come soon

[tardy fiber]

Kalos VA first

[upbeat lotus]

I dont know how they handle Kalos VA units

The only unused mythical or legendary is Volcanion

Guess they will make shiny forms of Kalos legendaries

[willow pollen]

Unbound hoopa

[upbeat lotus]

Oh yeah forgot about unbound

Maybe Lysandre will get it

[mental skiff]

Doggo Z 👀

20% form sound not bad tho

[mental skiff]

they will save that for SS Lear

[tardy fiber]

Shiny zygarde doggo

[mental skiff]

We forgot Pasio VA

[willow pollen]

Zygarde 1% support

[mental skiff]

I will take that tho

[summer goblet]

congratz, I think you might be above Gon right now

[signal halo]

I wonder if they will remake the VA logo to include someone from paldea

Though I'm completely unaware as if paldea even has someone who'd classify for a VA

[hard wave]

We’ll prob be done with all the VAs up until galar (maybe even hisui) by the time we get paldea stuff tbh

[signal halo]

I hope they include hisui

I have some would be fave pokemon there

[tardy fiber]

63,715 gems

Need to wait for Monday reset for big gems

[upbeat lotus]

Monday is Holiday 2021 rerun right?

[tardy fiber]

Yes ...another 10 for me

[upbeat lotus]

[mental skiff]

this Johto VA is the first time i got refund for medal

[tardy fiber]

Maybe i will work on to make more of EXable units to 5*...time to 5* erika vileplume

[mental skiff]

No wonder why people has so many

[tardy fiber]

Its still far to catch up to older veterans

50 more units left to be 5*

And after i done all, i gonna 5* shiny eggmons

[mental skiff]

i only need 8-10 unit ex till finish fav list

[cunning swan]

I don't think I want to commit to raising a lot of units to 5* yet

[upbeat lotus]

i mainly raise units to 5* for LG purpose

5* Marley tanking Bulu's ban hammer

[mental skiff]

5* is not that important what matter is grid

I just need more sync orb... missed few streak on tornadus this LG so only end up at 53 streak

[mental skiff]

+2 def ? I think they refresh TM few time too

[tardy fiber]

Oh i forgot, my remaining units might be 52 if they rerun Jessie and James

[upbeat lotus]

yeah +2 def

i was really surprised

[mental skiff]

never happen again

[tardy fiber]

Noooo

I want James's poison gas

[mental skiff]

want them for team strength tho

[lunar topaz]

Lodge is so cool I have been getting so many resources from it

I never have power up shortages anymore

[tardy fiber]

Its cool when you have the guest pair

[mental skiff]

till you run out of lodge pair

[lunar topaz]

A lot of them are F2P

[tardy fiber]

Cynthia and Raihan drought month stings

[lunar topaz]

I’ve only done 4 so far

[tardy fiber]

Oh nice

[lunar topaz]

Praying for diantha lodge unit

[tardy fiber]

I already done 10

[lunar topaz]

There’s 10 lodge pairs ?

[tardy fiber]

Already 150 4 guests

[mental skiff]

Current goal

[tardy fiber]

I got Marnie and N

[tardy fiber]

[lunar topaz]

Idt I’ll exceed 100 unless I run out and am boted

[tardy fiber]

I gonna save some of that keys for January's guest

I already ran out so i 150 lodge waifus

[upbeat lotus]

already ran out of lodge pair to interact with

[tardy fiber]

All waifus get 150 treatment

[mental skiff]

Now i just visit to get 100 lodge stone

[tardy fiber]

But its worth the effort, on my way to 25th 150

[upbeat lotus]

i only raise my big favs to 150 so far

well Gladion and Evelyn are my minor favs

[tardy fiber]

I 150 based on legendary adventures > spotlight faves > bp master units > master fairs > seasonal+sc > pokefairs

Almost halfway now

25/52

[lean mango]

I only have 30 cerfs , feels so slow without any available lodge pairs

[mental skiff]

already 22 lv 150 pair...

Spent 2000 lodge stone on 3/5 support lodge pair tho

now i overflow with 4* support candy

[cunning swan]

Same, except for me it's usually 4*s. I've been raising eggmons to 4 stars for LG purposes. Anything for extra speed stat

[dark oar]

how long does the rerun banner for the tiered scout is?

or rather, how long does it last for?

[upbeat lotus]

#1012256199128915968 has the date

[dark oar]

hum hopefully we can see January's datamine

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully it release early

[mental skiff]

why you need it release early

That mean they might combine Dec gems left to total of Jan

i hope the gems count from Jan 1st to 25th is 30k+

[tardy fiber]

Well because they released on 22nd last year iirc as DeNa's staff need to go to holiday. Well early information is always good for gem planning

[mental skiff]

all banner last till 1st Jan tho so not that important

[tardy fiber]

They are always not important because December is a skip month for me

[mental skiff]

I think the early datamine will mess with gems count

[tardy fiber]

Well its just early datamine, the event still starts late

They just put the files in database early

They did it for last 2 years

So hopefully it continues

[mental skiff]

at least it mess with my gems plan

Planned to get 30k at 25th before datamine

[tardy fiber]

But why? It just information, the event still gonna be late December

[mental skiff]

👀 doesnt it make next month gems count go down?

[tardy fiber]

It wont mess gem count especially for 25th...new datamine event usually at 28-30th

[mental skiff]

hope so

[tardy fiber]

It will only disturb anni 2021 event gem count as it clashes, the current gem count only till 25 so 2021 anniv event rerun doesnt count

[mental skiff]

hope 2021 anni gems count isnt part of gems count Dena plan for January

btw this new year gonna be skip month for me

Planning to get new year rerun of 6 NY unit next next year

[tardy fiber]

I won't say its a skip month till i see what's in that month. So it's still uncertain for me.

[mental skiff]

hope so

Eversince anni i actually had no skip month

[weary gull]

Is there a sheet where we can check how many gems are remaining till datamine? (Not full tally), kinda lost count 😂

[tardy fiber]

At the pins

The daily gem count sheet

[signal halo]

I think this will be my third skip month since anni

Wait no, second

I pulled N

Not having colress while colress is available in the game is something that bothers me greatly

He's such a nice pair for physical EX strikers

Which means he has direct usage among my weaker teams by enabling Bea

Don't remember any big benefactors of paralysis among my available pairs, but I feel I'm bound to have someone

[sturdy flower]

you think too much

[signal halo]

There's also Hugh, who I'm pretty much obsessed with as well

Not pulling makes me grow bored pretty fast

Which makes me overthink

So yeah, I agree on that

[sturdy flower]

just do dailies and scram

pretty much

[signal halo]

Despite playing a gacha like that for two years, I feel like I'm not really used to do that

To the point I feel comfortable doing that

Saving for unoVA was relatively easy since I had colress in mind

Saving anything past that is hard because I still have colress in mind

[sturdy flower]

we might get 100 scouts soon

with Colress on them

[signal halo]

At this point I found myself thinking that I don't even care a lot as for which pokefair I choose to pull him on

Specially because ampharos is in the game and I'm fond of them as a tank pokemon

So there's even an available pulling target

I can wait for the 100 pulls

But I'm unsure if my gem count will remain intact

Overall I think I'm not particularly good at zen

If good at all

I can do the basic "only pull when you have pity"

But beyond that, it often feels bad

[mental skiff]

👀to zen is to spend gems wisely

That is why first rule is "fav>>>"

[glass abyss]

I only go crazy if they are an absolute Fav like SS Brendan

[signal halo]

Colress is my top 1

[glass abyss]

Otherwise, save and get lucky

[signal halo]

Hugh is my top 2

And even among hypothetical pairs

There aren't many that match up to those

Likely Benga, alder's grandson

Mainly because his name is an inappropriate slang in my language

And Cyrus Weavile/ghetsis cofagrigus

Perhaps Lenora would be one, or one of those Eevee banners, but with cilan, chili and cress

[deft glen]

it kind of is in my language too lol

[signal halo]

Those are all hypothetical characters that might or might not ever be released

[mental skiff]

If Colress and Hugh is your fav and you want them then you should sav for pity

[signal halo]

I already got past that point

I'm nearing my second pity

And I even ran calcs to think of the likelihood I walk away with both of them on a single banner

[mental skiff]

👀then next time you got a limited and almost reach pity then pity for them

[signal halo]

If I get a limited and it isn't like first multi

I'll go all the way

[mental skiff]

Yeah like that

[signal halo]

Had that strategy with N and walked away with a treasure trove

[mental skiff]

But probably they will get added to ticket soon so not much a hassle to wait

[signal halo]

Don't they wait like a whole year

[mental skiff]

Falkner case i heard they add like in 2 month or so

Depend on Dena mood

May be they will upgrade ticket pool this half anni

[signal halo]

Can't really count on that, given how much I dislike hoarding gems without a big goal in mind

[mental skiff]

have no other pair in pursue?

I have both rerun and future pair list to keep this game rolling

[signal halo]

In theory I'd say the Unova canon completionist chase

[mental skiff]

Had all unova yet?

[signal halo]

But pulling for N sorta cooled my head on that

I lack 4 pairs

[mental skiff]

Which are?

[signal halo]

Ciris, Celesa, colress and hugh

Only canon alts count

So no seasonal or SS

However ciris might be outright pointless to have

[mental skiff]

Who is Celesa

[signal halo]

Classic

Elesa

[mental skiff]

Ah