Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[oak crest]

I'm kinda good at nitpicking at most setups which is why I can go after meta cos many pairs tend to have a flaw or 2 that turns me off

[tardy fiber]

My morty today stops exactly at level 30

[oak crest]

Since I don't really have much favs

[tardy fiber]

[reef river]

Elesa is a terrible pull unless you are a big elesa fan & dont care that she's bad and think metronome is funny

[tardy fiber]

Yep usually fave factor can outweigh some reasoning during the decision making

Well if its fave, you will already be happy by owning the unit although probably wont use the unit much

[sturdy hatch]

The true story of Typhlosion

[tardy fiber]

I got plenty of units in that criteria because i got a big fave list..
Well csmm needs 5 teams with 5 particular weaknesses if you want to on-type. And certain typing already has an abundance of my faves in it.

I only use lear for gauntlet, nothing that he has that will prompt me to use for psychic weak...same with Oak

I think Giovanni is also quite a bit dusty due to lack of usage

Well never mind, faves are faves

[cunning swan]

Next you're gonna tell me you EXd Cheren too

[cunning swan]

Typhlosion my beloved, my first ever pokemon starter... Left unused forever

[rare swan]

What's wrong with EXing Calem

He's GOOD (he is not)

Oh right I came here for a reason

I just hit my 7th pity 😌 I'm ready for those faves

[cunning swan]

First stage of grief: denial

[cunning swan]

Hoooly shit just how long have you been saving

[rare swan]

A while I spent a lot of time here before I was a mod

[dire meteor]

god i will need a good mental fortitude to build up my gems again

[rare swan]

You can do it Zeen!! Think of Flannery

Surely she'll get something this year

Surely

[dire meteor]

True!!

[past gate]

why yes I did!

[ashen thunder]

Anniversary Flannery and shiny entei

[cunning swan]

I cannot stop you... From making bad decisions

[tardy fiber]

Still need quite a while before they release Hop , Hop will be a good boost for my Gloria...well if a unit is a fave but have mid performance, you will pair them with any other pair that can help to make the unit good

[cunning swan]

you have won

[ashen thunder]

I want a support that gives sync buff to opponent

[past gate]

[ashen thunder]

So that Gloria and ssleon can do real damage from start

[oak crest]

Hop EX will be good for my galar team

Since I haven't bothered with Sonia yet since she still 2/5

[cunning swan]

Oh btw tai you're ||getting LySSandre to 5/5 immediately right?||

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for Alola VA as well, MC

[rare swan]

But I have 6 strike candies, so

[oak crest]

Will be interesting on how they handle that 1

[cunning swan]

Via candies or pulls?

[cunning swan]

The prospect of MC EX sounds so boring

[tardy fiber]

They better give MC bp master units EX as well

[rare swan]

||He'll be getting 36.6k from me regardless, I'm just hoping to get more than one copy in that - then I will candy to 5/5||

[oak crest]

Since it might pave way to more mc EX

[dire meteor]

based

[past gate]

||going for break I see||

[cunning swan]

I'm not excited for Alola VA for two reasons:

1. Definitely another Lillie alt
2. MC EX
   I'm excited for Alola Va for two reasons
3. Coping for Gladion alt
4. Coping for Hau alt

[past gate]

Listen

If they drop ss nanu I will go for broke

[cunning swan]

If only

[past gate]

I need a nanu alt so I can get more voicelines

they give us a siebold line for mallow

but no lines for nanu for looker and anabel

[cunning swan]

Does mallow have a line back for siebold? Haven't checked

[past gate]

yea

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if one of the Tapus will go to MC for bp master units, well we already have bp units related to LA bosses...
mc cobalion, mc regirock, mc mesprit, nita landorus, evelyn entei, well dana might get one of the birb, and morgan one of the sword trio,

For cresselia, latias, latios there's already pokefair units for them. So only the tapu boss left because we have tapu bulu LA boss, one of the tapu might go to MC as bp master unit this anniv

[cunning swan]

Give me more 5* BP units that can max crit pls

[tardy fiber]

please

I kinda like them after using them a lot

At first, its just about my stubbornness to not use non faves supports, but after a while and getting them to 3/5...they are not as bad as i thought

Even Regirock

Well that type teamwork is kinda a saving grace as well

[ashen thunder]

I hope tapu Koko is alola flag bearer MF and support so that rats get even stronger

[tardy fiber]

What if Tapu Koko MC or Dana Zapdos electric flag bearer?

Will still give the rats 20% damage boost and 14% damage reduction if use all electric type in team

[normal lotus]

Mc master fair banner

[oak crest]

will be really curious to see the EX version of MC if it happens

[tardy fiber]

Probably just a different color for MC regular outfit and hat based on pokemon pairs

[upbeat lotus]

Just let me take off the hat idc about the clothes or colour

[clever oyster]

The hat stays ON during Pokémon battles!

[maiden kayak]

maybe u could start like spoilering it

instead of talking about the units openly

[sly breach]

Looks like a lot of people are taking the saving route, there is a lot less salt on new banners these days

[tardy fiber]

Well because we know that there will be good stuff next month

Half anniv

[deft glen]

New clothes pls, I hate his outfit so much

(Scottie's, not Bettie's)

[timber wren]

theyre talking about trying to resist the temptation for these new units, that falls entirely into the purview of this channel

[maiden kayak]

yea at least spoiler the units name or smth

i get the struggle against such temptation tho

[buoyant elk]

I think that a resource saving support to be effective should take consideration of every bit of avaible information

I've heard there should be a rerun of old palestinesi, somebody knows the rates and what units are in the banners?

[upbeat lotus]

Probably will have Pal Serena, Pal Dawn, Pal Marnie and Pal Bea, each one has 0.5% rate

[vestal leaf]

^ 99%

[upbeat lotus]

Like other past seasonal reruns work

[timber wren]

there will also be a rerun tier scout, which in total costs 10k paid

[maiden kayak]

oh

like sc paid banner

that thing is brutal for dolphins and small spenders

[upbeat lotus]

I often forgot about tiered reruns because idc about them

[timber wren]

i think these rerun tier scouts are a much better value than the new seasonal tier scouts but theyre still much more expensive than a 3k select

[sturdy plank]

back at almost 2k gems

[timber wren]

for reference, new seasonal tier scouts are around 20k paid

[tardy fiber]

||i grabbed sc pokewar rerun tiered scout, because i want 3/4 unit's dupes. Also because Ash gem deal was present, managed to get all 3 that i wanted||

SC select and anniversary pokefair select are still unknown yet

I thought they will put half anni pairs on select but its almost a year and nothing

[timber wren]

we'll find out soon enough

curious that there's two selects just before half anni but based on their banner images they only contain very old PFs

[tardy fiber]

I hope there's seasonal select at least

I'm holding of candying Fall Iris in hope to select her

Also because tech candy is valuable

[vestal leaf]

Funnily enough I think tech candies lost a bit of value lately

Because a ton of recent techs have been getting fire 1/5s

So no reason to candy I feel

[rustic heron]

lucky

||i wasted so many paid gems and got nothing for it except a guaranteed jasmine||

[rustic heron]

ss wally and ss hilbert would like to know your location

[vestal leaf]

Both 1/5 over here

Been using them often too

[rustic heron]

same here lmao

but i WISH i had both of em 5/5

hilbert’s aim sync tile

[vestal leaf]

Aim sync tile?

I'm tempted to 3/5 Hilbert mostly because faster setup and better multipliers but tbh he works pretty fine for 2v3 2k already

[drowsy saddle]

Second copy of rebuff-applying passive, grid tile.
Not that useful, one rebuff is more than enough, considering you're already hitting for SE damage. It's also pretty expensive energy-wise.

[vestal leaf]

Abhhhh

That one

My b

Yeah it's good but I feel like it's...mostly for LG?

[clever oyster]

time to update my most wanted list for the future

Flannery
[empty]
[empty]
Flareon
Weavile
[empty]

would you look at that, 2 empty trainer slots and one empty Pokémon slot

[maiden kayak]

flannery alt

wishing for it for 2 years

and still no avail

[sly breach]

How many characters dont have alts?

[maiden kayak]

alot

[sly breach]

Lets exclude main characters

I feel like she gets an alt in next summer lineup

[maiden kayak]

but now we are seeing extra alts ||like mallow||

and whitney

[past gate]

waiting for my nanu alt

[timber wren]

mallow, lisia, whitney, allister. the past four seasonal groups have all had alts for characters who previously had none

[maiden kayak]

next seasonal is like 4-5months

summer

[timber wren]

actually i think last summer was the only season where that wasnt true

[sly breach]

Was thinking that for alolan VA the island kahunas would get their tapus as fairs but that feels like dena would be demanding too much

[timber wren]

sabrina, volkner, bea, sonia, ingo, emmett

[maiden kayak]

i think whitney was the true trend change since allister was kinda still in galar phase before paldea came in

[clever oyster]

hmm...I actually have a hard time filling the empty slots, but for different reasons

the empty Pokémon slot is hard to fill because there are too many candidates to choose from

the two empty trainer slots have the complete opposite problem of there...not really being any other candida-

...wait

I forgot

I still haven't gotten a Sabrina alt

'cause I failed to get NY Sabrina

updated most wanted list:

Flannery
Sabrina
[empty]
Flareon
Weavile
[empty]

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna 3/5 faves, i will treat 4/5 and 5/5 grids to be non existent , but i will still consider taking 2/5 grids and power boost grids

[timber wren]

assuming we wont get spring again for a new SC?

[clever oyster]

nah

actually, wait

I forgot Easter exists

[maiden kayak]

i count sc as diff

[clever oyster]

they might do something Easter-related

[maiden kayak]

spring was kinda scraped and revamped as SC

[clever oyster]

considering it's the Year of the Rabbit

[maiden kayak]

which was better idea imo

[clever oyster]

inb4 they are gonna revert back to Easter Seasonals

[vestal leaf]

Right, makes sense

[buoyant elk]

If it was 2 separate banners Marnie + Bea and dawn + Serena at 1.5% i would have been tempted, but 0.5 no way, guess i will have to wait another steel zone unit

[upbeat lotus]

Thats why you want to save a pity for every saving goal

[buoyant elk]

Yes i have a pity ready, but still i don't wanna summon in a banner that is extremely likely to cost me the pity

We have already master fairs that are really likely to cost me the pity, definitely don't wanna summon for a banner that has half the odds of a master fair that has already half the odds of a "regular banner"

[vestal leaf]

That's kinda every banner tbh

The point of quad 0.5%s is when you're 0/4 on the units

It's still one of the worst rates, no doubt

[buoyant elk]

I'm 2/4 so the odds of getting something new is 1% but i care much more about Marnie than bea

[vestal leaf]

In this game

But if you lack all 4 and you don't hate them they're good banners imo

Especially if you really only want 1-2 of them

[buoyant elk]

I mean still combined rates of 2% but if i need all of them by pity there's a chance i got some of the units already

[vestal leaf]

In my case for example

I skipped for two years just to scout the quad because I didn't have the resources for two 2% in 2021 and for two 2% and one 1+1%

In 2022

[tardy fiber]

This year xmas seasonal rerun will be magnificent...8 units pool

[vestal leaf]

And I'm skipping mallow & elesa for their dual next year too most likely

[oak crest]

0.25%

[vestal leaf]

Because as much as I like mallow, I don't wanna risk an extra pity rn

[buoyant elk]

However in the end i don't really need steel zone, my steel types are good enough to 2k mm but not busted enough to mindlessly offtype

[tardy fiber]

Its moving towards this for seasonal pairs:

1. have a pity and select the seasonal unit
2. wait for seasonal select, fork real money
3. grab a new seasonal unit the first time they release
4. do the seasonal rerun tier for 10k, do the new seasonal unit tier if you are a

[buoyant elk]

For non whales seasonals feels like get them at launch or skip forever

[tardy fiber]

Can opt to spend a pity later well probably pity as the rerun pool will be bigger every passing year

[oak crest]

and the rates getting more terrible with each passing year

[buoyant elk]

Yes i Guess a pity may be worth if the pool has lots of missing units

[oak crest]

it makes MF rates look fantastic for sure

[tardy fiber]

Seems like VA units are the same as well, not like they rerun in a scout that can use free gems

[oak crest]

pokefairs will kinda depend on Dena

[buoyant elk]

If you need all 4 of them i guess is still better than MF

[tardy fiber]

Only cblue, redlax and lucas does rerun

[oak crest]

redlax reruns for like so many times within 1 year

[tardy fiber]

Because he is the simple answer for gauntlet weakness pokefair banner, oh this gauntlet boss is weak to bug, we don't have bug pokefair unit that are not VA unit...rerun redlax because he give SE buff

Same for ghost weak

The don't rerun sskorrina, instead rerun redlax

[buoyant elk]

Sad alder noises

[oak crest]

they gonna be SSKorrina is too recent, lets rerun redlax

[tardy fiber]

Oh i forgot alder, so ghost weak for sure then

If moltres gauntlet, they can rerun ingo/emmet i suppose

[vestal leaf]

I skip seasonals if

• both interest me (gonna go dual rerun)
• both aren't my thing (full skip)

If one interest me I go for it in first run

It worked well til now tbh

[buoyant elk]

The only thing that i can still hope to collect them all is master fairs, even if the rates are bad, at least they rarely run multiple master fairs at once

And they don't release new master fairs every month

[hard wave]

No hilbert but I think 3/5 wally is pretty broken already

Dont think he gets much from 5/5 except zone extension

[buoyant elk]

Even 1/5 wally is pretty good

At least as utility

However that single b dazzling gleam still hits pretty hard in mm

[hard wave]

Ye and his disarming voice isnt terrible either

Tho u’d prob sync w him and nuke mid so ur just dealing w the sides

[reef river]

Forgive me if im wrong. But arent the rates on reruns nowadays so bad because they bunch every year together? Its like .5% for each holiday unit. I feel like youd have better odds getting both new units on their original banner in under 36k gems than getting both on a rerun in a full spark

[tardy fiber]

Yep there's no more dual seasonal rerun, even the upcoming palmarnie and palbea event rerun also have those units being tossed in the super seasonal scout with other old pal units

[silk mirage]

Guys

I have 50k gems

Is elesa good ?

Im in the point that i can pull any unit i like,faves

[feral vale]

I don’t think this channel is the right place to ask about straight up pulling.

It’s good to save for sure lol

[silk mirage]

But in same time if a unit isnt good i can skip even if i like character,im tempted to pull some units i dont know what to do

Yeah....

[feral vale]

Elesa is a huge “only get if fav” unit

[timber wren]

unfortunately elesa doesnt stick around for the next update so you do need to decide on her soon

[silk mirage]

I like her as character but in same time i dont wanna spend/risk pity for her i can be fine without her tbh yeah better to save

U all,Is there any unit that you like atm? Or thinking to pull cause fave?

[feral vale]

I just want favs

[upbeat lotus]

I was a meta chaser, now im ||just pulling for favs||

||will pull for past palentine banner and Emma this month||

[silk mirage]

Same,im meta chaser but i like using fun units

[timber wren]

anni green and bede lets go

[feral vale]

Meta chaser is not a good way to go tbh…

[lean mango]

Faves, ||dropping a pity on Emma garenteed ||

[maiden kayak]

meta chasing is fine

but have to be smart about it

[feral vale]

I mean as long as you are careful, sure. Most people just aren’t tho

[maiden kayak]

elesa kit will age like milk imo

[clever oyster]

...okay, in terms of trainers I wanna get, I actually have 4 categories:

1. I need it NO MATTER THE COST
2. would really like it, but the partner Pokémon might make me second-guess
3. only if you have a specific Partner Pokémon
4. I really want that trainer, but I just know it will never happen, not even in a million years

[feral vale]

Yup

[maiden kayak]

generally strikers in general will but this kit terribly ages super fast

[feral vale]

Yeah hers is just a bad case.

[maiden kayak]

the only dps dealers that actually lasted long well was zerena

and lear

[feral vale]

SS Red tho

[maiden kayak]

yea

[feral vale]

He’s still one of the best ones

Ok well tbh

[clever oyster]

thanks to Pal Elesa satiating my Classic Elesa thirst for a while (and not really knowing where else they could possibly go with Skyla), Flannery is the sole trainer in category 1 right now

[feral vale]

My reasoning for that is he’s an option for newer players.

If they get him, great. If not, that’s fine too.

[clever oyster]

meanwhile, Sabrina is moreso in category 2

I really like her, but not enough for me to choose NY Sabrina over Pal Elesa

because I really couldn't care less for NY Sabrina's partner Pokémon

[reef river]

Ive said it before but elesa is 100% a unit you only pull if you both like/love elesa, AND accept that her kit is a meme and only for fun

[maiden kayak]

yea

[clever oyster]

category 3 for me is occupied by Eusine (of course)

[reef river]

You have to be accepting that you are spending your gems on a meme

[clever oyster]

because I only want Eusine if he's teamed up with specifically a Suicune

[maiden kayak]

meta doesnt apply to ||pal elesa || one bit

[clever oyster]

and then there's category 4, which is occupied by...literally the entire population of the Orre region

[feral vale]

Yeah hers is….special.

[lean mango]

It's unique gotta say

[feral vale]

You’ve said that before, you know

[clever oyster]

yeah, I just wanted to reiterate

so it's fresh in everyone's memory

[maiden kayak]

||anabel , ive been waiting for her for 2 years||

[clever oyster]

and to let you all know that Elesa has temporarily left my most wanted list

which freed up some space

[lean mango]

The Anni trio end at the 5th right?

[maiden kayak]

think so

dont bother with those

[lean mango]

I know, just a bit painful having to skip Anni Steven

[maiden kayak]

i mean

imho

if u cant get him the 2nd time

its time to forget and let it go

[lean mango]

I wasn't here the first time tho

[maiden kayak]

oh

[lean mango]

I joined right after anni sadly

[hardy creek]

||will be 5/5ing Anabel because she was fave pokemon girl prior to Nemona, and she was my main saving goal since I started this game during the beta 3.5+ years ago. Also liked Emma's story in the XY post-game, so will grab one copy of her||

[hardy creek]

still nice to keep a pity on hand for those category 4 charas, just in case

have an entire tier in my list just for charas that are never happening

[clever oyster]

...you do realize that DeNa would NEVER even acknowledge Orre region's existence, right?

let alone actually adding someone from it

[lean mango]

Still nice to have hope

I would've dropped Eusine ages ago if so

[drowsy saddle]

You can't know for certain

[clever oyster]

I can know for certain when it comes to Orre region, though

especially considering TPC is doing some MASSIVE revisionist history just to wipe out Orre region from existence

[drowsy saddle]

Eh? Where did that come from?

[broken mulch]

Lmao revisionist what

[clever oyster]

I dunno, I feel like TPC doesn't want ANYONE to remember that Pokémon once had a spin-off series that is "darker" and "grittier"

since it would go against Pokémon's "family-friendly" image

[drowsy saddle]

You're just making stuff up

And overthinking it

[broken mulch]

…?

[maiden kayak]

wtf does that mean

[hardy creek]

I have characters from ranger on there, they don't even battle 😭 trust me I know ur pain but....... I also thought Ash would never happen so

[broken mulch]

Ask him

[hardy creek]

ash and obscure spinoff charas are in completely different ball parks but

never know what will happen a few years down the line when they need new ideas to keep the game fresh

[maiden kayak]

||so excited||

[hardy creek]

||yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee||

[maiden kayak]

||rip gems ||

[hardy creek]

||anabel's worth it tho ||

[maiden kayak]

||for sure||

||i think i gonna 4/5 her||

[hardy creek]

||4?????||

||why 4????? not judging just curious cause usually I feel like ppl either do 1, 3, or 5. so why 4 specifically????????||

[buoyant elk]

At 1/5 is Terrible, at 2/5 it has some multipliers

[reef river]

Ive asked before but are you anabel fans ok with snorlax instead of raikou

[buoyant elk]

I don't feel we really needed another g max support Snorlax

[broken mulch]

If you’ve asked before why ask again lol

[hardy creek]

I'm happy with snorlax because

1. my favourite pokemon is munchlax so fave chara getting evolved form of my fave mon is Based
2. I can still be delusional and hold out hope for emerald Anabel + Raikou (I feel like her emerald design fits raikou 1000000x better)

[buoyant elk]

|| 4/5 grids are a thing now ||

[reef river]

Different ppl

Different opinions

[feral vale]

Friendly reminder that this is a game in the end and it’s good to touch grass once in a while!!

[lean mango]

I would've been fine with Snorlax if they gave it it's z move

cause she's an alolan unit

[hardy creek]

Yeah I do wish she has the z move but

[feral vale]

Here’s my version of touching grass btw

[maiden kayak]

||grid||

||she just performs optimally at 4/5||

imo

[hardy creek]

||guessing her 4/5 grid is p good, but 5/5 isn't worth it?????||

Ah I see

[maiden kayak]

||at least in my playstyle||

[ashen thunder]

Me waiting for datamines to see if I can roll this month stuff or to hoard

Imagine rolling day 1

[maiden kayak]

yea ||5/5 nodes are just okayish just not worth the dupe||

[ashen thunder]

Also at this point y'all can talk in lounge without the spoiler tags

[hardy creek]

But also for everyone else here, let anabel be a reminder that faves can drop when you least expect them no one expected Anabel before Alola VA, so u should always try to have gems saved for your top faves, even if you're convinced there's no way they could happen next month or whatever

[maiden kayak]

oh yea

that was a flank

[hardy creek]

Ur faves are always "never happening" until suddenly they do, so u gotta prepared for whenever dena decides to do smth out of left field

[feral vale]

YEP

[lean mango]

Reason why I always keep an amount to Max a unit immediately just in case Eusine is around the corner

[hardy creek]

[little briar]

Forever a mood

[tough oriole]

Yea, I didn’t expect the Anni Reruns (that contain my 2 favourite characters) to rerun in December, so anything can happen

[vestal leaf]

Sure, but I'd have to risk different banners at 2% each

I'm usually more happy about investing in one banner at split 2% instead

[reef river]

Its more like split 1% or less if you only want the specific units...

[hardy creek]

I'm waiting for SC reruns since I want both ingo & emmet since the possibility of getting both of them within 1 pity is nice, instead of having to restart the pity from scratch once I get the first one

[past gate]

would a tierlist of what sync pairs I want to pull in the near future would be fine? kinda learning stuff in here

[timber wren]

if it helps you prioritize and budget better sure

the common pitfall for a lot of people is focusing too much on reruns tho which leaves very little room in your budget for new units

usually raise an eyebrow when people are aiming for 6+ reruns and all of the units were relatively new

[past gate]

fair

[hardy creek]

Yeah, we generally try to encourage people to make lists of the trainers they like, rather than specific sync pairs. That way the list is future-proof, and it can still account for past units of faves on said list

really hoping the twitter API stuff doesn't ruin tiermaker, since all tiermaker accounts are thru twitter. I need to be able to update my tierlist

[rustic heron]

the only reruns i want are fallister (who i WILL be getting, i am never going below 36.6k gems until his banner rolls around again) and raihanni (would be neat, probably the pokefair i’m MOST excited to rerun, but not a need by any means)

[eager ivy]

though we could get Easter or Special costume

[feral vale]

I feel like SC’s are a way for DeNA to plop unpredictable seasonals

[vestal leaf]

Well as I said I don't skip if it means the unit will share with one I don't care about at all or I don't like

In my case all 4 SC1s and all 4 pals are units I like

So the chance of getting any mix of them and then pitying the fave one is good

Gotta wait long and resist thi

Tho

[broken mulch]

Did the tea party and orb war special costume events happen in the same month?

[timber wren]

no

pokewar was nov21, spring sc was apr22

[vestal leaf]

Yeah march datamine will tell

If Easter seasonal will exist again

[broken mulch]

Ah thanks

[vernal glade]

April could be another SC event.

[tardy jolt]

Hopefully it is a SC, 4 alts, with a lot of them being new characters like the previous ones would be great (I think only Rosa and Lillie already had one alt before their SC)

[unborn pier]

Lillie had both anni and NY

Unsure if there were more though

[lunar topaz]

I’m so week when it comes to seeing a fav on a banner does anyone have tips for that lel I wanted to skip elesa so I could give me some save time but I broke and went after her

[tough oriole]

You have a ton of faves, and elesa already has a billion alts and will likely get a billion more

[feral vale]

Cause we all know what region DeNA favors the most

[fierce dust]

Is it worth pulling palentine elesa? I actually rlly like the sync pair but at the same time I want to have good amount of gems for half anni and the whole month of March

[reef river]

No, unless you are OK with spending gems on a non-functional meme unit

Like if you are ok with clicking metronome or being Nate but a girl

[sly breach]

Meme unit|| if you got a like 3 pity worth of gems go for it||

[fierce dust]

She’s a meme unit?

I thought she was actually a solid flying type strike pair

[reef river]

Metronome is a meme

[fierce dust]

Oh right

[sly breach]

Nope well she can nuke but there is nate so why her

[reef river]

And fly is usually not as useful as a regular flying move DPS-wise

[fierce dust]

Alr then I’ll save my gems

[feral vale]

It’s better to use Blue

Or Kahili

[vernal glade]

She has a SC version also.

[unborn pier]

These were alts they had prior to the SC event

[vernal glade]

Oh.

[fierce dust]

Yeah blue and skyla are the only two flying type pairs I use

[glass abyss]

Me when I have 5/5 Lysandre EX

But yeah, only worrying about how much I will have saved for this end of the month

I have like 11k right now

So I should have enough for a pity in March depending on Datamine

[sly breach]

||all i hope for is that i would not be tempted to pull Lysander when people start using him and he is very broken|| already had to pull frog because of that

[bleak falcon]

If you get convinced to go for every broken Sync Pair then you’ll be perpetually out of gems

[sly breach]

I dont think it might work this time tho back then i only had a 1/5 archie so i pulled now that i have both archie and frog i doubt i would do the same

[lunar topaz]

~~been running out of gems because too many favs ~~

5 months in a row

[feral vale]

Maybe for Water, but what about other types? What Cobalt said could still apply.

[sly breach]

Well ||already have plan to sink my gems into broken poison type so there is that|| am sure it will work it self out

[feral vale]

Good luck with that I guess….

[willow pollen]

Best of luck holding out.

[glass abyss]

Same

I just want to pull for my boys

If a Month was just girls I would be probably safe

[rustic coral]

Both the new Palentines units suck right

[tardy fiber]

Not directly suck but yep kinda mid

[lunar topaz]

I’ve heard mallow be called pretty solid in terms of utility but elesa is like Nate tier

[oak crest]

Mallow is fine, but not really fantastic, elesa is easy skip unless fav

[hard wave]

Most seasonals r pretty mid I think

Volkner’s pretty good if u dont have ash, lisia is apparently a tier 0 striker, marnie has steel zone ig, bea is apparently rlly good for LG solos, dawn is a good debuffer, serena is a good nuker (tho there’s other options better than serena and dawn), gloria may be good but she’s a special water, marnie is good for fairy I think, N maybe? But karen’s general pool, faitlin and fallister are decent supports iirc, firis has poison zone, ig jasmine/whitney r good, and leon is a pretty good ice striker but I think he’s about as good as hala anyway

[lapis pine]

I mean your list is kinda weird because you’re looking at old and new units with no distinction between them. Most seasonals are a small step down from the pokefairs releasing at that time

However there are plenty of outliers of amazing and terrible seasonals

Holiday Jasmine and NY lisia stand out as being amazing

While pal elesa is pretty bad

Generally though they tend to be a bit worse than pokefairs that are released around the same time

[maiden kayak]

pretty bad ?

na its poo poo in the stick

[tardy fiber]

But if it's a fave, you will find a way to buff the unit up. Either throw them with support EX, zones, weathers, terrains, rebuffs with it... so fave factor is the most important factor

[hard wave]

Ye ofc, but if ur pulling based on power seasonals usually arent the best options

[hard wave]

I was just thinking about how they may be currently, and some of them r prob not as good now as they were on release

[lapis pine]

Yeah but you can say that about any old unit type

I can say master fairs are not that great on the whole because a fair chunk of them have been outdated by modern pokefairs and seasonals

It’s honestly kinda weird to say “this type of unit is not very powerful” when there is such a difference between unit strength inside that category

[hard wave]

I didnt mean any mf/pf/spotlights havent been outclassed

Just that seasonals usually arent the most meta pairs compared to pf/mfs

[tardy fiber]

Thanks to this, I don't feel tempted to pull non fave MF, a fave PF or seasonal can catch up to their performance lately

[lapis pine]

Honestly I try not to think of a unit as being a seasonal vs a master fair vs a pokefair. Those are just arbitrary labels not related to any of my pulling criteria

Master fairs should actually be units that people pull for less because of the 1% chance

Even if you pull for meta, why pull for the 1% chance unit when modern pokefairs do the same/better often

[tardy fiber]

They want those shiny master passives yet throw bp master units under the rug smh

[hard wave]

Ye I dont care about what type of unit it is, tho if I miss a seasonal I dont think ill be getting them on their rerun

I think HLeon and Faitlin would be the only ones I want but the rates r terrible and last year I didnt have pity and had other units I wanted

[glass abyss]

I like Mega Sableye but don’t like it enough to pull on Caitlin

Sort of sad that Phoebe doesn’t have a Mega Sableye or Mega Banette

[maiden kayak]

well

sales would be shit if that happens

[upbeat lotus]

Dont worry BP Phoebe and Sableye will happen

ofc without mega, to make you suffer even more

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for sycamore power boost, that freevenge and stuff will really help... especially because i'm gonna use sycamore a lot in the future as well, even better if upcoming fairy faves are techs or strikers

[tough oriole]

[tardy fiber]

I think i need to change my plans a little, i will 150 form change pairs first after I'm done with N this reset . They seem to benefit well with the extra stats.

Only need to 150 5 pairs so a minor setback

[gloomy holly]

Now I'm down to my amount of gems for Emma

[sturdy hatch]

No pull results please

[gloomy holly]

Sorry yeah

[rare swan]

Just spoiler those pull results

[gloomy holly]

Ok

[rare swan]

[tough oriole]

Reminder everyone to finish all the missions in the Rival Challenge FFB event; there’s only 3 days left :)

[timber wren]

also keep doing your daily kalos battles for those extra tickets, which will probably come in handy at 3rd anni if they update the ticket scout

[hard wave]

I may have gone for her if I played in 2021

[tardy fiber]

Luckily i almost done with pal event exchange shop, later its old pal event rerun turn...more farming

[hard wave]

I still need 593 regular tickets and 618 for the + ones

I want to get more seasonals but I either dont like them or I kind of like them but they r older ones and I dont want to go for their rerun

[tardy fiber]

I only need to claim few more

[hard wave]

• not worth to pull just for the rates

[hard wave]

I still need the sync/theme orbs, codexes, 4* strike/3* support candies,

[tardy fiber]

I only get seasonal if they are faves but sad, due to their seasonal status, i hold off candying them till a seasonal select appear

[hard wave]

I only have 2 and one I just got lucky when I was newer

[sly breach]

So many pairs, so little gems ||sometimes mallow just looks too good as a support to pass up||

[lean mango]

if you have too little gems maybe don't go for any pairs even if they're "too good"

[sly breach]

Not my fault my damn outlook on this game is affected by how well i had it on my old account

[lean mango]

Old account?

[sly breach]

Yeh i lost it on that account i had a lot of pull luck

Never pity anything but i had a crazy amout of limited pairs

[lean mango]

That sucks, but really can't win em all and rush to get back to the status of your old account

[tardy fiber]

Yep, due to the nature of the units of only being available for a limited time. Even a lot of whaling in a short time also wont help much to catch up to veteran's rosters

[tardy fiber]

Wow 200 gems reset consecutively

[upbeat lotus]

dead dailies until next Monday

[lean mango]

Oh ye missed my dailies so I didn't get my 80 gems

[tardy fiber]

[lean mango]

It was for health reasons so I'll excuse it

[tardy fiber]

Still so far till 13th Feb

[lean mango]

Got to wait for 14 days. the waiting is nerve-racking

[rare swan]

Quiet periods can be tough

Keep saving those gems

[spare swift]

Hello everyone

[upbeat lotus]

[upbeat lotus]

yeah you are easy to let your guard down when there is nothing to do

[lean mango]

I'll survive for the long period but the anticipation after waiting for ages

[chrome nest]

The game feels boring to the point that I almost miss to login to get my 7 day streak going

[tardy fiber]

Luckily i am too deep in collecting my faves that i feel less tempted on non faves, well ||before this i did get tempted on some non faves like i even did select scout for May|| but nowadays my faves roster becomes quite big and i'm well covered for most type coverage

[lament hornet]

almost back to 9k savge

[broken mulch]

Oh so it wasn’t just me that felt the February events are oddly spaced apart?

[upbeat lotus]

Omg eos soon

[sturdy flower]

oh noes

[hardy creek]

this is savings related so: a friend of mine was asking, about how many gems would one expect to spend to 5/5 a unit????? (I mean I know there's the whole "prepare for the worst, save 5 pities" thing but like, on average)

[broken mulch]

Gambling on an average is bad mentality lol

[past gate]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/651487075576709166/878621708804816926/tooslow.mp4

[past gate]

depends on the banner

[timber wren]

what kind of confidence interval would you want to see? 80% of players get 5/5 within X number of gems?

[maiden kayak]

tell him 180k gems

[timber wren]

if you spend 2 pities you would have a 90% chance of picking up at least three copies by the second pity (2% banner)

[sturdy flower]

36.6k gems and 4 candies

[hardy creek]

ig???? I know there used to be a post that would go around reddit with like, the average amount of gems it would take to 1/5, 2/5, 3/5 so....... smth like that

Am of course gonna tell them that safest way is to save 5 pities but

[timber wren]

i remember those but idk exactly how they were calculating their statistics

[hardy creek]

too much math involved weh

[timber wren]

but two pities puts you in a pretty safe position to 5/5 or at the very least 4/5 and then candy

[sturdy flower]

the old sync thingy had a tool for something like that

i think it's still up

[hardy creek]

oooooo if u can find it, that would be great

[rare swan]

i don't think i'd have the strength to spend 5 pities on a single banner

[hardy creek]

For now will tell them this but with multiple asterisks that the only way to guarantee is to either save 5 pities, or save the candies to make up for it in case of a shaft

[sturdy flower]

https://pokemon-masters-stuff.github.io/#/gacha-odds-calculator

here you go

[rotund sleet]

not sure anybody does, i've never heard of such a feat

[hardy creek]

Tbh yeah I'd probably cry even having to spend 2 pities on a banner

[sturdy flower]

2 pities feels real

[timber wren]

keep in mind thats for 2% banners

[maiden kayak]

who is he/ she going for anyways?

[timber wren]

if we ever get 5/5 grids for MFs its another story entirely

[maiden kayak]

most of the time 5/5 is extremely unnecessary

[rotund sleet]

5/5 grids for MFs is doomposting

[maiden kayak]

unless og lysandre and SSN

[rotund sleet]

it's always unnecessary

[sturdy flower]

the chance to get one copy within 2 pities is 99.5548%

[timber wren]

you need to spend 3 pities to have a 91% chance to pull two copies

1% rates are dire

[maiden kayak]

if u have to go 3 pities to get only 2 copies

its actually really unlucky

lol

[hardy creek]

They're planning ahead for Rika & potentially Arven

[sturdy flower]

MF are tough, but not a bad as targeting a certain seasonal from the giga banners

[maiden kayak]

Rika might be gen pool

are they f2p?

[hardy creek]

But ye told them that u don't need to 5/5 most units then they made it clear it was for fave reasons

Probably f2p

[maiden kayak]

Arven might be limited but if he/she has 2 favs only

just use candies

moreover im sure theres paldean pool vouchers anyways

[sturdy flower]

hisui never

[buoyant elk]

I really hope MF and seasonals will get the spotlight treatment

Still not free upgrades since the spotlight upgrades are up to 3/5, and for limited units 3/5 is never free

[sturdy flower]

but these are more like buffs for outdated/unpopular pairs

[buoyant elk]

There are outdated mf and seasonals too

[rotund sleet]

outdated =/= bad. i don't think any of the MF are in dire need of a buff

[sturdy flower]

Leon is getting buffed without new tiles

[buoyant elk]

Ok maybe not much outdated mf

Maybe anni Steven

[rotund sleet]

outdated in gacha terms is not up to speed with the absurdly fast rate of powercreep

[sturdy flower]

anni Steven was always like that

[rotund sleet]

powercreep is multitudes faster than game difficulty incline

[buoyant elk]

Anni Steven isn't bad, but isn't mf busted

[hardy creek]

But thanks y'all

[sturdy flower]

he will appreciate flying gear

[rotund sleet]

a steven is prob the worst master fair, but still seems serviceable enough ig

don't have him

[buoyant elk]

Yes is just "weak" by MF standards, but is pretty serviceable

[sturdy flower]

we just got Pal Elesa this month

it's just the flying curse

[rotund sleet]

is she actually bad - or just relatively

i thought she'd be half decent

[buoyant elk]

For on type damage she's fine

Personally i feel that the weakest seasonal is Siebold (at least for my standards)

[sturdy flower]

he's very old

[buoyant elk]

Ok it has a solid water nuke, but it need burn (and he doesn't have guaranteed burn) plus his DPS is quite bad, and it requires 3/5 to be usable

[valid smelt]

Do@you guys think a ten pull@is worth the move candy coins. I keep seeing initial prizes on the banners

[sturdy flower]

no

[valid smelt]

Ok

[buoyant elk]

I think it's only worth pulling if you can continue to pull till you get the unit

[valid smelt]

For anniversary is it too much to hope for scarlet and violet pairs lol

[buoyant elk]

And i mean having at least enough for pity

[sturdy flower]

not even 3 coins at once if it requires you to go through rolls with less

[valid smelt]

Ok

[buoyant elk]

Coins are nice, but gems are better

[sturdy flower]

depends if we get Hisui at all, but the half anni seems unlikely

[buoyant elk]

Even 3k gems may be the difference between having to skip or pulling

[sturdy hatch]

Made it to six figs again!

[maiden kayak]

its never worth and they should only seen as by product for the unit u really wanna go for

[buoyant elk]

I read that like 2.75 guaranteed banners

[sturdy hatch]

Yes I’m gunning for 3 before I pull again

[buoyant elk]

I mean i can pull even with 1, the catch is if < 1, it's forced skip

[sturdy hatch]

I’d feel very uncomfortable getting to 1

Not that it shouldn’t work for you!

[sturdy flower]

i like to have a good number of pities because it saves me the hassle of having to wait for datamine

[buoyant elk]

Yes it is, but if i have 1 and i get a must have unit, i can't really skip

However sometimes i skipped units i wanted because at 1

[sturdy flower]

been there

[cunning swan]

Me with summer N and Bede's first run

[deep mantle]

i wanna pull so bad

i don't even want any of the current units i just wanna pull

[feral vale]

Don’t you have any favs?

[deep mantle]

i mean i do

it's emma who isn't here for two weeks

i just have an itchy trigger finger bc i can't wait til she gets here

[feral vale]

Imagine if you get low on gems before Emma comes

What then?

[deep mantle]

i knowww

[feral vale]

Then go take a break and get your mind away from the game.

[deep mantle]

[feral vale]

Exactly. Go touch grass.

[deep mantle]

ill do my best and do some grading

[lament hornet]

funny how one experience made me save much easier

[sturdy hatch]

A good saving story!

[lament hornet]

shame i needed to learn after spending way more than i'd like to admit

[valid smelt]

Gacha tips: Save save save. Maybe one random ten pull a month for relief? lol

[sand crown]

Thank goodness for PoMa day

[valid smelt]

fr

[feral vale]

I wouldn’t do the random multi, but PoMa Day is an opportunity to do the 25 non paid and 100 paid

Because one multi per month can add up.

[sullen hedge]

Mallow theoretically can appear in the season select scout if there's one this year's Anni right

I'm just waiting for that then

[sturdy flower]

that's what i did with firis

skip for select

[sullen hedge]

Oh crap yea there's firis

Anyways I don't need poison wish

My SS gio will handle poison for me

[timber wren]

the pal22 units appeared in the 3rd anni select yes

[sullen hedge]

I still want a poison on type DPS so I don't have to think about off typing I'm waiting for 3.5 datamine to see if I want emma

[hard wave]

Looker is pretty good for poison I think, same with plumeria if u EX her

[sly breach]

Looker

[valid smelt]

I want Looker the most!

[hard wave]

Same, still havent gotten him

[sullen hedge]

Really? need to take a look at him again

I only have 1/5 so it won't be much

[valid smelt]

My fav character besides maybe alisatire

[hard wave]

But he has a ton of on type multipliers so im assuming he has to be good for poison atleast

[sly breach]

Looker aint that good not even as good as plumeria

[sullen hedge]

I've been using plumeria but I don't really like her

Ive just been putting op supports with them and hope for the best

[valid smelt]

Looker is my fav in the series

[hard wave]

Oh, well there’s always jessie rerun/grid and ex

[sullen hedge]

I wasn't here when Jessie was a thing

[hard wave]

Me neither

I just use ss gio/plumeria for poison weak

[sullen hedge]

3/5 gladion

[feral vale]

Guys

Roxie and Koga

[sullen hedge]

I don't like Roxie either

Crap I don't like any poison person really

[feral vale]

Then use Koga :T
And if you’re gonna say cause Roxie is bad, she is not.

[hard wave]

Forgot about them

[sullen hedge]

maybe I'll just offtype

[hard wave]

Maybe we’ll get atticus or wtvr his name is

[feral vale]

You have SS Leaf?

Or BP Erika?

You can do poison stall.

[sullen hedge]

Nah I have strong units to offtype

[hard wave]

I use ss leaf w plumeria usually

[sullen hedge]

So it's not an issue

I just don't like off typing

[feral vale]

That’s what I do too but BP Erika can take Leaf’s place

[feral vale]

Then learn the poison……….

Do not have bias over free characters that are good…

[hard wave]

I like Erika too but leaf can do aoe poison and debuff defense which helps do more damage

[ashen thunder]

I am never getting a poison dps until Cyrus gets his deserved crobat

Or Jessie gets grid

Coz mine is 5* and still waiting

[hard wave]

doesnt like every evil team leader have one? Atleast gen 1-4 and 6

We already have 3 too

[feral vale]

Also this is like that one guy that won’t use Hop to clear the Region Rotations cause they don’t like him
GAWD THOSE ARE EASY

[ashen thunder]

Giovanni got his nidoking

But it's fake poison type

I ain't rolling him and get locked out of poison ebe

Already got my beloved cynthia for ground

[hard wave]

Cyrus and Crobat (flying tech)

[ashen thunder]

Honestly

I'd take flying too

Coz my flying sucks yes I have level 150 blue and he still feels pepega

[hard wave]

Same, I EXd my 5/5 blue and just off type flying stages

Tho the last ones were sidney and koga so not very good for him maybe

[ashen thunder]

My only shitty typings are flying, poison and fairy

Just like most of the playerbase

[hard wave]

I hope he gets a good expansion like karen fantina and kris

[ashen thunder]

I don't care abt koga grid expansion

It's already strong enuff

He just needs ex

[hard wave]

I have alot of fairy but my fighting is pretty bad and I think one other type

[hard wave]

I mean blue

[ashen thunder]

Ah blue

I doubt he can be fixed at all

Unless it's a raihan tier buff

Where they rework everything

[hard wave]

Prob something like karen

Since both r mega strikers

[ashen thunder]

Yes
Karen was also rework

Her current gameplay isn't same as what it used to be

But Karen without zone still feels kinda pepega for me

Since now she lacks the dps

But well blue has 500+ atk and 150 BP move

So it's easier for his case I guess

[tardy fiber]

They haven't touch story units yet right? Power boost grids currently are only for 5* general pool right? Kris, Karen, Wally, Glacia and now Elesa. So i got hope for Gladion and Lusamine power boost

[feral vale]

Have not seen story unit power boosts

[tardy fiber]

Well at least story units got now and pokefairs gets 5/5 grids

[hard wave]

Personally I use ss kris and ccalem with her so she can just debuff and I can boost crit/sp atk with the other 2

[willow pollen]

I hope they power boost the story units. They could use the extra tiles

[sturdy flower]

alongside free candies for them

[hard wave]

Ye I want my serperior frame

[tardy fiber]

They could do custom , I don't see the trouble of doing custom candy for rosa, cheren, calem, acerola...cmon DeNa

[rustic heron]

even if cheren did get an event to boost him

i'd probably just keep the resources lmao

out of spite

[sand crown]

Sent this suggestion in a number of times since those exclusive type trainings stopped…

At this point I wonder if they’re not implementing because some players have used 5* candies on them already and want to seem fair?

[tardy fiber]

Yep, probably due to this reason.

They could add cheren, acerola, calem dupes in bp rainbow ticket pool

That way people will be less angry probably

Those that already spend on them, can instead choose evelyn/nita/mc dupe

[rare swan]

I would LOVE that - I want to get Calem to 3/5 but I just can't justify the candies, especially tech ones

[tardy fiber]

Yep i think this is the best win2 situation even for those that already spent candies...bring it up to DeNa Tai

[tough oriole]

That’s the power of discord mods

[tardy fiber]

Probably easier to fulfill than a sygna suit sycamore

[rare swan]

[sand crown]

I am 100% for this

I'd much rather use these on them

[upbeat lotus]

I would instantly spend all my tickets on Calem

[hardy creek]

I wish they'd just add story pairs to the general pool

[tardy fiber]

not many bp master pairs lover

[tough oriole]

That would be nice (and I think most gatchas do this?), but the Unova/Alola ticket pools are already too bloated ||(i still don’t have 3/5 lillie )||

[rare swan]

MY KIAWE IS STILL 0/5 😭

[tough oriole]

I got my first ||3|| Kiawe in December|| over the span of 2 weeks||
Masked Royal still 0/5 tho 🫠

I hope that someday, they make a free spotlight select scout, even if it’s only for the older spotlights

[deft glen]

||My Masked Royal went from 0/5 to 5/5 on the SST Red banner||

[tough oriole]

||How many SST Reds before pity?||

[deft glen]

0

[reef garden]

I have 30k gems now

[deft glen]

|| he was my first pity||

[hard wave]

Cheren didnt even get one I think and the other 3 got 1 copy

[hard wave]

Me but lana

[hard wave]

Maybe they could return the candies to people who used them somehow?

Or r they not able to figure out how many candies u used on a pair

[cunning swan]

Me but Phoebe

Screaming

[rare swan]

PHOEBE?

HOW?

[hard wave]

I didnt get her until hoenn VA

[cunning swan]

Idk??? Even with all the hoenn tickets we got

Phoebe still eludes me

[rare swan]

Omg

[cunning swan]

Screaming crying stomping the floor

[hard wave]

That was me w sidney, I just got him in december

[cunning swan]

I didn't have any hoenn crit buffer before ||I pitied ss brendan||

[hard wave]

Got every other hoenn pair from those tickets/general tickets too

[opaque cargo]

How much nonpaid gem we got per month excluding event

[feral vale]

#1012256199128915968

Or check the pins here.

[sturdy plank]

i have 2,475 gems and i hated that i was impatient

[tardy fiber]

Waiting patiently for kalos VA part 2, 113885

[sly breach]

Damn this wait game is hard

[rotund sleet]

if i find myself lacking patience, i remind myself poma is a minuscule 10 minute portion of my day-to-day

it is wildly insignificant, so best to stop thinking about it disproportionately

[tardy fiber]

Yep, its a game that doesn't require us to online much. That helps a lot in curbing temptations

[rare swan]

This is actually really good advice

The best way to stop the spending urge is put your phone down and do something else

[feral vale]

Touch grass is what I say!

[past gate]

but what if there is none

[rustic heron]

then touch snow

[past gate]

there is none

[fallen path]

Touch water..touch air

[rustic heron]

touch anything other than Predatory Gacha Game

really

[spare swift]

Finally, after all the boredom that prevailed this whole time due to no action and suspense..

I FINALLY REACHED PITY FOR THE FIRST TIME!! I AM SOO HAPPYY!!

Thanks you all for your support!

[timber wren]

well done it’s a huge accomplishment!

[spare swift]

Yess bro! Thank you very much!

The only thing which stings here is that I would have reached the milestone sooner if my sister wouldn't have spent 1.2k gems on doing singles in diantha banner

But that loss is nothing in front of this happiness

[lofty relic]

congratz!

anything in particular you're looking for that is not in the game yet?

[crisp oracle]

asphalt?

[spare swift]

Nope, since I have no favs

But I do have a certain liking to Lysandre, so just saving for him

Most of the time I play along with meta

Oh yes, also I am saving for a surprise zerena rerun, so that I can complete my aura trio

So I have decided that I will always maintain atleast 36.6k balance till I get a Zygarde

(This decision will be implemented from the point when I get SS Lysandre)

[rustic heron]

same for me, but with fallister instead of zerena

[crisp oracle]

Boring grind day, but on the bright side, 28K!

[rustic heron]

not bad at all

keep at it

[feral vale]

Dead resets happen lol
But there’s still gems at the end of the day

[rustic heron]

Man

starting to get kinda bored with the game

cuz there's been no new Game Content in 5 months

[tardy fiber]

There's trainer lodge

[rustic heron]

i know

that's why i said 5 months

i just want something harder than champion stadium

[tardy fiber]

Gauntlet

[rustic heron]

that isn't repetitivity incarnate

[tardy fiber]

EBE

I kinda like Poma's casual gameplay, it does help with lessens the urge to pull new shiny meta units.

Well at least we got kalos cs in next 2 resets

Toxic go on viral lets go

[feral vale]

Kalos CS is gonna be so fun, no sarcasm.

[hard wave]

I kinda want like a galarian star tournament or smth instead of galar CS

I like CS but smth different

But still excited for kalos CS, too bad we cant unlock MM tho so no coin 5* tickets spirits etc.

[willow pollen]

Just not for week 1

[hard wave]

Ye tru

[bleak falcon]

Yeah, I’m hoping they use Galar for a new mode over another CS. The big thing I think SwSh nailed is making the Pokemon League feel like a proper sports event, and I’d be kinda disappointed if the PMEX implementation of the Galar league didn’t at least try to capture that same feeling

[upbeat lotus]

imagine having to remix the same theme 11 times

huge copium

[hard wave]

Why 11 themes?

[upbeat lotus]

there are 11 Gym Leaders, if they go for CHampion Cup format

[bleak falcon]

The Galar Gym Leaders all use the same theme tho, I don’t think anyone would mind if it were the same case for PMEX

[hard wave]

Theres 11?

I thought there was 10

[bleak falcon]

I guess if you count Bede as a Gym Leader there’s 11

[hard wave]

Oh right

Marnie too

[bleak falcon]

That’d make it 12

[upbeat lotus]

i actually miscounted lol, i didnt count Bede and Marnie

[hard wave]

Was peony or mustard a GL or?

[upbeat lotus]

but hearing the same theme 4 times every week is easy to get bored

[bleak falcon]

Fair enough, I guess

[upbeat lotus]

they are former GL and champions

[hard wave]

Oh ok

[fallen path]

I’m gonna be honest, new gameplay mechanics and new game modes take time to implement. There’s planning, testing and what not that devs and QA have to do. We all want new modes (I do too) but these things take time

[hard wave]

Ye ofc but that means we may still get a new mode eventually

[weary spire]

Grats!

[fallen path]

It’ll happen I don’t see EOS on the horizon as long as the money is coming in lol

[upbeat lotus]

this game is going well, it should live for 5 more years

at least

[tardy fiber]

Give me paradoxes and legendary birbs before eos

[clever oyster]

Give me Orre region before EoS

but most importantly, give me a GOOD mainline Pokémon game before EoS

[deft glen]

Give me legends Arceus characters pls

[tardy fiber]

Yep do more collab with other pokemon series, just dont do collab with hatsune miku or something

[bleak falcon]

Oh, I'm not asking for it to be soon, I'm just hoping that whenever they do implement the Galar League it's as a new mode, regardless of how long it takes

[cunning swan]

neo champion stadium moment when we thought it'd be a new mode

[tardy fiber]

Battle frontier mode we have plenty of frontier brains and other battle facility leaders as materials

[cunning swan]

plenty of frontier brains

[tough oriole]

Battle Villa

[cunning swan]

clearly not enough in the game rn

[bleak falcon]

Imagine, Battle Pike where each round it gives you a random set of Sync Pairs

[sand crown]

It's plagued the game since the first year

[tardy fiber]

there's 7 hoenn frontier brains and 5 sinnoh frontier brains and not include other facility leaders like battle tower leon, subway bros and chatelaines so plenty materials

I didn't state those that are released in my statement

So plenty of materials after implementing all cs

Well they might even become bp master units after we are done with chatelaines...bug teamwork greta shedinja

[cunning swan]

that'd be cool. we get tickets for winning that we can exchange for items like in the regular event shops or we can use them to rent for more sync pairs

[sturdy flower]

or exclusive eggmons as a reward for tickets

things that don't really powecreep gacha units in any ways but are nice to have

[tardy fiber]

Yep, i like this. It will add more varieties. Kinda why i have soft spot for lodge units. They don't powercreep but are nice to have

Even that mgr grid plus region and some other theme tags already made these pairs better than eggmons

[oak crest]

Lodge serena is a pretty good unit esp, she can put up reflect with no guage cost...

not to mention her 1 guage move can debuff + may cause flinch

[sturdy flower]

that on a roll tho

ah, that's Dawn

[cunning swan]

[umbral meteor]

money is quite well if we ignore the fact that increased apple prices post 3rd anni contributed in ruining the sales as compared to year 3 so far

[tardy fiber]

Well dena able to grab my 3k paid gems 20 days bundle at least i never missed buying it

[feral vale]

New tip: can’t think about banners when your stomach hurts

[tardy fiber]

What if I bring my phone and play poma while in the toilet?

[violet nebula]

It has to be done

It is multi tasking

[tardy fiber]

But if your willpower is strong, thinking about banners is good... especially if you think of a particular banner and that made you skip other bait banners

[lament hornet]

accidentally used 1 more daily paid gem pull than i was supposed to lmao

got absolutely nothing btw

[tardy fiber]

I learned not to hope on dailies just from the new year free ticket results

We can only pull one at a time so its like daily discount

And results are 3*

[lament hornet]

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

||if it wasn't for paid dailies i wouldn't have dojo gloria and ss diantha||

[vestal leaf]

You could've saved those for selects or rerun step ups tbh

Dailies are fine if done on banners you REALLY care about imo

30-50 dailies are fast to go by while getting barely anything in exchange

[sturdy flower]

dont apply logic like that to spending money

🤣

[sturdy flower]

i'm tempted to try dailies on triple 1.5% banner, bad idea?

either of them would be a win

[vestal leaf]

I do one or two dailies per month at worst because I'm 99% f2p, they're my way to shake off the itch when it gets bad or when I'm waiting to pull on a banner for datamine, so i go "i can afford ONE daily in advance in case I have to go to pity since pity is 399/400", but I do it on banners I know I'm 99% pulling on, and i do it because I bought the big bundle on anni, which is still 90% intact after 6 months

In general, dailies aren't THAT worth imo

[vestal leaf]

What one exactly?

[sturdy flower]

it was like... Cynthia, Iris and either Lance or Steven

Champion Fair A or B

[vestal leaf]

And you want...?

[sturdy flower]

i'd take any of the 3 (4) 1x

[vestal leaf]

Mhhhh

Depends on your pockets tbh

[sturdy flower]

i have a bit under 3k right now, was supposed to buy another one but been kind of lazy about it

[vestal leaf]

I'd save it

[sturdy flower]

then again, if some select is more interesting I will just scrap the idea

[vestal leaf]

Because next month has likely selects of some sort

For 1/2 anni

And those might be way more worth

[sturdy flower]

yeah, for select I'm interested in DGloria and Firis

but the bonus select draws are such a scam

nevermind getting something special, i dont get 5* at all from them

[hard wave]

Cynthia iris and lance r one and steven alder diantha r another

And they release feb 27th anyway so u have until after datamine to decide

[deft glen]

|| my weird thing is that do One daily on banners I have a bit of interesting in on the day they come out, that amount gets subtracted from the daily sync orb bundle I get ||

[deft glen]

I want a Dojo Gloria select so much

And Summer Marnie, I don't want to go through that awful rerun banner

[clever oyster]

1255 gems now

[deft glen]

The biggest gem count I've ever hit, last time b4 || 36.6k goes away next reset ||

[sturdy hatch]

Well done!

[lament hornet]

i am saving paid gems all things considered, i'm sticking to my ruleset

so i have enough for selects

[vernal glade]

8k to go.

[rotund sleet]

the final total ||before they’re gone on reset||. my all time highest too

[sturdy hatch]

[rustic heron]

damn y’all really want the old palentines pairs huh

[rotund sleet]

||anabel later too, i’m probably going to lose a majority of my current total ||

[vernal glade]

||Actually after Zeraora, more N alts, more Shaymins, more Lucarios and most importantly, more Zoroarks||

[mental skiff]

can we get 26k gems next month so i can get 2 pity

[upbeat lotus]

next month is anni, the gem count should be higher than 30k

[mental skiff]

Nice

Overflow in gems

Forgot to calc 1000 gems left today and 1000 gems on general mission

only need 24k gems for 2 pity

[upbeat lotus]

[vernal glade]

Back to saving power up tickets.

[mental skiff]

Is there any event in april?

Just curious if the month follow half anni is anything crazy... Or chance of alola VA

[sturdy hatch]

Spring

[mental skiff]

👀what come in spring?

Easter egg?

[sturdy plank]

spring units

i think last year they were replaced with special costumes

[mental skiff]

Who is spring unit?

[sturdy plank]

unknown

[mental skiff]

[sturdy hatch]

We won't know the upcoming units until the March datamine

[mental skiff]

Bruh cant prepare

[sturdy plank]

i forgot when spring burgh came out

[mental skiff]

No i just wonder what event usually take place in april

[sturdy plank]

april fools

[mental skiff]

I thought they are easter egg

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if it will be sc again

[sturdy plank]

who knows it could be special costume (again)

[sturdy hatch]

2021

[sturdy plank]

thanks

[mental skiff]

Last sc is teapot lilie ?

[sturdy plank]

no

[tardy fiber]

Scrosa

[sturdy plank]

rosa

[lament hornet]

broke 10k again

[sturdy plank]

rosa & shaymin sky forme

[mental skiff]

I mean last sc in april

[sturdy hatch]

Not that Rosa was tied to antyhing

[mental skiff]

Rosa come alone tho :v probably wont comeback soon

[sturdy plank]

there was lillie, sonia, ingo, emmet but i don't know who came first

[sturdy plank]

well then i'll never unlock her lodge album then

[mental skiff]

gonna be a hard month for me

[tardy fiber]

Naomi tied with scrosa event so uncertain when she will rerun...at least helena is tied to fall

[mental skiff]

👀true tho Naomi will always come with SC Rosa so it lower the chance they appear

[tardy fiber]

Only missing Jessie and James now, please DeNa

[mental skiff]

March: Half anni
April: Spring/SC
May: Alola VA seem like i have to skip april

[lapis pine]

Damn vanter you have bp bugsy?

[mental skiff]

pls

[tardy fiber]

Bugscyther? Yeap

[lapis pine]

Nice

[mental skiff]

i want him too

[ashen thunder]

Having Jessie is flex

[lapis pine]

I’m just missing him and team rocket

[tardy fiber]

I even 5* 20/20 him for fun

[ashen thunder]

Lemme flex

[mental skiff]

[ashen thunder]

Giving em again means it loses the flex potential

[mental skiff]

this month mewth next month jesse and james let's gooooo

[tardy fiber]

Only jessie, james, torchic, lorelei are left without grids...so my hopium is kinda high

[mental skiff]

👀Dena surely will forget lorelei

[tardy fiber]

[mental skiff]

Next month new gimmick

[tardy fiber]

Just wait for lorelei anniversary 2023 for half anni

[sturdy plank]

flint is the only sinnoh elite four to not have ex

[tardy fiber]

Kanto elite four only have 1 EXable unit

[mental skiff]

Cough... No fan.. Cough

[ashen thunder]

I wonder if they'll expand grids low rarities now that they are about to run out of em

[sturdy plank]

i forgot who are the kanto's elite 4

[tardy fiber]

Lance, agatha, bruno, lorelei

[sturdy plank]

i only remember agatha

[ashen thunder]

Charizard master, old lady, macho man and unknown woman

[mental skiff]

Lance has charizard?

[ashen thunder]

In main games
Yes

[mental skiff]

[ashen thunder]

He has Charizard, aerodactyl and gyarados

[mental skiff]

Learn sth new

[ashen thunder]

[mental skiff]

All are dragon