Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[hard wave]

Iron valiant scream tail and flutter wing may be fairy

[lean mango]

Only thing getting me through this

[hard wave]

I want a bugscy and J&J rerun bcz aside from lodge pairs I have all 3/4*

[tardy fiber]

Woohoo kanto VA rerun in 2 resets, that will be 20 right? Iirc it has 2 event badges

Gonna 5* lodge silver

[sturdy flower]

they hate ice

[tough oriole]

I don’t think the 2 parts are on the same day

[hard wave]

I can finally EX Giovanni last legendary EX I needed

[hard wave]

Its like one reset apart tho

[sturdy flower]

we still don't know if it has master mode, chill

[tardy fiber]

Datamine summary shows same time

[hard wave]

This reset, then the special one w the rival trio like they did w kalos MCs, then EX rerun, dead reset(?), PB

[sturdy flower]

where are the selects DeNa

I'm not asking

you owe me one Firis

[tardy fiber]

I will grab select if there's falliris/ssleon/sshilda

Other than those 3 are skip

[rustic heron]

you owe me a fallister

[tardy fiber]

Also thanks to DeNa's generosity, i got free Cynthia and done collecting em all....so i wont select for lodge guests as well

[sand crown]

I’m so disappointed we didn’t get selects this month

[hard wave]

Im coping for free seasonal select would like to have hleon but doubt ill have a pity when he reruns again

[tough oriole]

Having the ancient seasonals like lilliebee be in a free select would be awesome

[tardy fiber]

Yep i will just grab any unit, the ones i didn't get are all not my faves anyway...so thats a good 10 gems sync pair story

[tough oriole]

Many seasonals don’t have a sync pair story so they have 4-5 stories in their sync pair story instead

I think only Holiday Rosa/Siebold have them

[tardy fiber]

Iirc the old herika has only 1 sync pair story and unique sync move right?

[tough oriole]

No, she has the full thingy

[timber wren]

herika and hskyla are the last seasonals with unique sync moves and stories

[lean mango]

I can get Summer Steven if so

[deft glen]

they owe me summer marnie

[timber wren]

nylillie and nylance have flying and bug impact

[hard wave]

Im hoping its 2019-2021 atleast

So do summer steven and lyra, fall hilbert and acerola, and holiday skyla erika rosa and siebold all have unique stories instead of the event or?

[timber wren]

yes

[tough oriole]

No, it’s just holiday rosa/siebold with unique single stories

[timber wren]

oh youre right idk why i misremembered that

i checked and my mimirola and herika/hskyla all have the event stories

[hard wave]

Ah ok

[timber wren]

hrosa has "a day with rosa"

[sand crown]

I used to collect the earlier seasonals so I have a few covered in dust at 1/5…I’d love this

[rustic heron]

have we ever had a free select?

[lean mango]

Yes

Right now

[hard wave]

I wish there was a way to get the medals I dont have holiday 2020, NY 2021, Palentines 2021, Spring 2021 (until next month hopefully), Summer 2020, and Fall 2020

[timber wren]

we had a free select of older PFs earlier too

[rustic heron]

forgor the champions

||i was thinking of a free gem scout||

not a ticket

[hard wave]

We’ve had 3 total; Kantrio select from victory road, champ select w all base champions (excluding leon ofc), and all 2020 PFs (excluding kantrio)

[vernal glade]

So technically a free seasonal select scout, they could try that idea.

[sturdy flower]

if they follow the traditional mobage way, at some point old events will be permanently added in some tab

[hard wave]

Hasnt that only happened w leg arena/adventures?

And these r seasonal events so idk how they’d do it

[sturdy flower]

just wait and see

[opaque cargo]

Yea but to be fun is to get what u want. Hence…oh well do whatever u want i suppose

[rustic heron]

when was the 2020 PFs one?

[vernal glade]

I don’t remember.

[sturdy flower]

after summer event before hoenn VA

[hard wave]

That was the anime collab one in july(?)

Gloria, N, Alder, Steven, Lance, Cynthia (base and SS)

[rustic heron]

ohhh yeah that one

i think i got N from that

v worth, considering he was one of the first lodge units

[hard wave]

I chose alder cuz I lacked a good bug pair

Tho N or Gloria would be nice to get since they r my only missing lodge pairs

[sturdy flower]

i enjoyed clearing unova's EB with Alder

[tardy fiber]

We will get twitter rally gems this reset right?

[vernal glade]

Should be.

By the way, did we actually clutch the 3000 gem goal on the retweet?

[rustic heron]

i think we did

[glossy isle]

#game-announcements

[vernal glade]

Ah nice.

So this reset won’t be dead

[slow hare]

Good template for who's likely ahead in line for 5/5 grid expansions

[tardy fiber]

3200 gems this reset

I only have 3 support faves that buffs attack, hope they add more in the future

[sturdy flower]

I bet on Steven getting into lodge before Lance

we will see if I was right next month

[tardy fiber]

Yep there's a sus Cradily added this datamine

[sturdy flower]

there's hoenn arc rerun at the end of the month

[tardy fiber]

Iirc Steven uses one

[rustic heron]

ok that makes a lot of sense

[sturdy flower]

and he's the most popular Hoenn dude, region that has only a girl added

[rustic heron]

i would like steven getting into lodge a lot

[slow hare]

that's why I'm waiting until datamine to use my champion select ticket

[rustic heron]

he doesn’t have 5/5 grid yet either, right?

[sturdy flower]

yep

[tardy fiber]

Sus cradily

[rustic heron]

hmm

[sturdy flower]

i bet it's for some event though

[rustic heron]

seems like it’s all but confirmed

[sturdy flower]

they wouldnt make such a blunder

[lean mango]

plsss Lodge Steven & Cradily

[tardy fiber]

It won't be poison

[lean mango]

I've said this every single month since Lodge, Steven has to get into lodge next month

[lean mango]

Cradily transcends my Poison bias

[compact pasture]

Probably a rock type?

[sturdy flower]

rock and Steven go together

[slow hare]

Pls be grass anyways

[sturdy flower]

both lodge episodes will be just him talking about a darn stone

[slow hare]

No more rock tomb units

[sturdy flower]

what if rock and Fletchling level nuke

[signal halo]

Wait

Is fletchling a nuker?

[cunning swan]

Lodge serena? Yes

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if i can ever finish 5* all non eggmon pairs.

[cunning swan]

I think I'll eventually accomplish that. I've finished 4*ing all non eggmons

[deft glen]

I've finished that as well, now I'm focusing on 5*ing non eggmon supports

5*ing everyone will take me a veeeeery long time

[tardy fiber]

I only left the turtle guy and lodge cynthia for support that not yet 5"

[topaz compass]

If you stop trading 4* for 5 it shouldn't be too awful

[signal halo]

I have considered doing every 4*

But for now, I feel I should just get as many exes as I can going

Perhaps when I achieve 50 overall, it could be a nice moment for leveling pairs to 5*

There are 15 supports I haven't exed yet

Among those who could

[summer goblet]

more gems yay

[violet nebula]

Dark Lord of the Gems

[tardy fiber]

2210 gems next reset

[upbeat lotus]

Most of them come from time gated event tho

[tardy fiber]

Oh challenge galar worthiest is time gated?

[summer goblet]

a huge windful of gems

[tardy fiber]

So next week will be challenge galar worthiest > kanto VA > terrakion LA+blissful bonanza

[violet nebula]

Yus

[tardy fiber]

Just give me gems

[broken mulch]

What do you mean?

All events are time limited

[tardy fiber]

Time gated and time limited are different

Time gated some content locked after few days

Stage 2 open after 2 days or something

Or like bingo only open after 3 dailies

[tardy fiber]

Oh got BV as well on terrakion LA day

[tardy fiber]

Hope you understand their differences and explanations already given above

[chrome nest]

So many gems

[tardy fiber]

Finally a LA thats weak to psychic

[summer goblet]

overkill

[tardy fiber]

I just checked all galar worthiest stages starts on same day so probably only blissful bonanza are time gated

[summer goblet]

||anyway time to pull my fav||, I have saved enough gems for the last 2 months

284k f2p gems

[tardy fiber]

Good luck, its always good to finally pull a fave after a good saving

Cynthia left after max vibes again

[summer goblet]

yeah, it sucks

happens to me often

[tardy fiber]

If this continues, i might not even finish her this month

[summer goblet]

well, if you focus on her exclusively

she won't take a month

a most half a month

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully, i still need to work on gloria as well

Need their coins to form yellow and strike candy this month

[summer goblet]

yeah true

[tardy fiber]

I form a lot of candies this month, that means on april, my candy stock will be dry as need 2 months or more usually to form a candy

[summer goblet]

i keep my candy stocked at all times

but surprising i have yet to spend my yellow candy

[summer goblet]

trying to get her to 5/5?

[tardy fiber]

I just use my yellow candy, as more of my faves get to 3/5...i will have less need and can be picky to buy select scouts, like why should i get select scout in which all of my faves already 3/5 in it. So it will save my money on long term

[tardy fiber]

Nope, just lodge gloria...i dont chase 5/5 grids, i will be dead if all of my faves need 5/5 grids

I will need like 20+ more candies

So better that i don't even start on 5/5

Also hop and power boost later on galar VA will already be a good boost for my 3/5 Gloria

Sync with hop and for sure her behemoth blade damage will go flying especially with the new cs2 2/5 grid

[summer goblet]

yeah fare enough

I don't chase 5/5

but in Gloria's case, i have her at 5/5 by accident

[tardy fiber]

But 2 of my limited units are already 4/5 though because i got them during fair select scout multi

[summer goblet]

ah

[upbeat lotus]

Thats good news my Emma will be 3/5 next reset

[tardy fiber]

Nice, i need 2 resets to 3/5 my next fave

Need the support coin from kanto VA rerun

[upbeat lotus]

[tardy fiber]

I can form rainbow ticket next month, just if i use it, i can still form another one as there's like more than four months to anniv...just i hope that DeNa will still give us free rainbow ticket on anniv so that i wont regret my decision to dupe mesprit next month

[summer goblet]

||Now that SS Diantha is outta of the way||

i earn a total of 193,360 gems between the month of March 2022-Feb 2023

[uncut pewter]

PSA: never play this game when you are drunk and sad.

[tardy fiber]

I did play it while sad, seeing my faves roster does make my mood better

It gives the feeling of accomplishment

Worth it to skip other baity banners before

[summer goblet]

||oof, i kinda today when i'm slighty drunk, but that's cause I've hung out with friends earlier and just went with it||

[uncut pewter]

|| I was so close to destroy my gems stash, thak god I managed to stop after a couple of multies ||

[summer goblet]

||nice, we may have slip from time to time but the most important thing is to pick yourself up and try again||

[uncut pewter]

Yeah it was a really bad time for me. I was having a nice dinner with some friends when suddenly one of them shared a story that reminded me of my ex girlfriend, so I blacked out and used Masters to distract me a little...alcool did not help lol

[summer goblet]

yeah, i got drunk for the first time in a while with friends and feeling way too great

granted, i did control myself when i only go for SS Diantha

[uncut pewter]

Welp, back to zen mode now.
Don't drink and pull guys

[prime grove]

i only just realized Bede has vigillance

whats his best lucky skill?

[upbeat lotus]

#poma-questions for gameplay question please

[clever oyster]

holy moly, over 40k gems now

[hard wave]

Is that rally not included in the breakdown?

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah

But it got counted in the total gem count

[hard wave]

Oh alr

[topaz compass]

Head Start so you get -3 when paired with one of the other birds @prime grove otherwise probably Healthy Healing

[dapper kelp]

aight im finally gonna start saving again

got everything i wanted

[weary spire]

Can’t pop on to do my dailies ‘cause I’ve apparently gotta redownload the app, but my power is out

Not gonna use all my data on that

[weary spire]

Oh yeah, also gotta do CS too, so here’s to hopefully not losing out on too many resources by getting my power back soon Stamina already being wasted

I should probably still have more than enough stamina to finish off all events including Giovanni’s, though. Left most of it to dailies

[slow hare]

Just beat the Extreme Battle with Karen EX... who needs Marnie!!

Nooo sorry to hear that Ron....

I'd offer to do your dailies for you tbh

But probs not worth the hassle for 80-100 gems

Hope you get your power back soon

[rotund sleet]

can do your dailies if u need. we’re same timezone iirc

[crisp oracle]

Copium injected into blood vessels
Copium is slowly working

[uncut pewter]

Damn I feel so bad for the gems I've wasted last night

[wind nymph]

Poor gems

[slow hare]

It's ok, learn from this and save next time Oreo

[cunning swan]

The 3k gems from today put me back at 130k

[hasty umbra]

hand them over

[past gate]

[deft glen]

[lament hornet]

i have received an unconfirmed information that might make me keep saving until march ends

[sturdy flower]

congratulations, is it a boy or a girl?

[sly breach]

Lol

[lament hornet]

||a woman with giratina||

[sly breach]

||No way ||

[mighty scroll]

Ez pass

[robust shore]

big if true 👀
[easy skip for meee]

[sly breach]

Well that means ||i cant try for bede after redlax||

[sturdy flower]

remember there are always at least 4 new units every month

[hard wave]

|| She’s coming back before LuSSa? Fine w me since I already have SSR Cynthia so I can skip and save for LuSSa or other pairs whats the source tho ||

[sturdy flower]

rumours are just that

[deft glen]

Ngl I hope it's true

|| It's the MF I want a rerun the most ||

[hard wave]

Same, one less temptation

[reef river]

I hope its true and thats the Big Thing missing from the datamine

[deft glen]

Though I never believe those, I didn't believe the Victor one

[reef river]

||because i already got her||

[hard wave]

Same || 3/5 EX, so glad I got her on debut or else my gems wouldnt have a chance of recovery for april ||

[reef river]

||that was a dark time for my gems. A triple whammy of ss lusamine, ny sabrina, and ssr cynthia||

[hard wave]

|| I just joined that month and got extremely lucky, I was so bad at saving id just do singles as soon as id get them but when I finally saved up for a multi I got her ||

[sly breach]

Damn if true ||looks like i might end up emptying my gems ||

Came at not a bad time but could have chosen a better timing

[sturdy flower]

well, speculating that an unit is rerunning and you should save if you want it

is not a leak... i guess?

it would be a leak if you guys hinted at a new character

i mean, it's about time ss lusa or cynthia rerun

ss lusa might get pushed to Alola VA

[hard wave]

Hoping she does and the other VA units or skippable or I have enough

[sturdy flower]

lets just not hold it the next month...

[tough oriole]

It’ll be a bit over a year and a few since LuSSa’s introduction, so I think Alola VA would be a great time

Unless maybe if they give her an alt

[sturdy flower]

why not both

[reef river]

I mean nothing beats leon's 2 year wait

[topaz compass]

I expected MF reruns to not just pile on top of new ones. So even many MF reruns when I already have 3/5 doesn't help lol

[sturdy flower]

they rerun them at once trying to create gem drought

and force non zenners to pay

[broken mulch]

I don’t understand

Is the difference that time gated means time limited but very small window of time?

[tardy fiber]

No, next event content only open after few days...another example of it are pokewar and tea party sc event in which you get second key few days after first one

So its timegated, because all 4 events already available on first day but you only have 1 key and need to wait 3 days to get second key till fourth key to finally complete that event

Blissful bonanza also have 300 gems from completing all missions but you cannot clear everything day 1 because you cannot buy enough items from exchange using event vouchers so its timegated as well

[broken mulch]

Ohh ok gotcha

[tardy fiber]

Its useful to know the difference so if tlim said got 2k gems reset, but actually you might not get all 2k so better to see detail breakdown of the gems come from which event so you wont miscalculate if there's a banner that you want almost expiring.

Well if you saved plenty, it wont be much trouble though

[lunar topaz]

So close to pity I can taste it

[fallen path]

Nickname checks out

[lunar topaz]

I can reach 60K this month

[prime grove]

already gave him tjat. thanks!

[hard wave]

Ive been able to multiple times, but u need to wait for day 4 to complete it cuz u have the missions which tell u to play the stage 5 times (since day 4 and 7 have that extra battle)

[lean mango]

Gem count, 80k now

[tardy fiber]

Yep because need day 4 to clear it, that means its timegated as cannot clear every mission day 1

Not even purchasing or stacking stamina can help you

[sturdy hatch]

Final Kalos gains

[fallen path]

Just needed 5 more

[tough oriole]

2023

[fallen path]

[topaz compass]

I skipped Emma and SS Lysandre. Emma hurts but I know when another limited poison striker comes it will be better

Or at least a more interesting kit and pokemon

[lean mango]

Hope it's something like Nihilego

Would love to add it to my collection

[ashen thunder]

I want datamine already

Bede is tempting for kit but I don't like him

[lean mango]

I'm waiting for a CBede rerun

I want to make this month a skip month

[sturdy hatch]

Just never learn kits

[lean mango]

I didn't even know what Emma's kit was at all until a few days before

[ashen thunder]

Unlearning in 3...2...1......

[turbid sapphire]

hoping if rika comes to pasio that clodsire is a poison/ground striker

[lean mango]

Hoping that Geeta is a Poison striker unit

[vernal glade]

Emma hurts for me as well but I know a better one will indeed come.

[lean mango]

Only reason I'm conserving my candies

[turbid sapphire]

that would be coollll, a passive that puts rock damage field might be nice

[robust plaza]

Current gem count. ||Got cede in 1 multi but had to pity carnie||

[lean mango]

I need to save up as many striker candies because of how much I get shafted on their banners

Pities are important people

[lean mango]

Poison spikes is what I want, especially because of the ability

[vernal glade]

I’m horrible at saving candies. ||I rather save them for a VA that’ll make me struggle||

[lean mango]

Half the time I just forget candies rxist

Good strategy tbh

[ashen thunder]

I am hoping alola VA gives good electric terrain and grass terrain enablers

Or ice zone

[turbid sapphire]

oooo, like poison type damage or a delayed toxic?

...is toxic in this game?

[lean mango]

yes

I imagine a badly poison on all opponents on entrance

[turbid sapphire]

ewwwww god that sounds so fun

cs poison stall bwahaha

[lean mango]

Geeta meta

[tough oriole]

So someone that replaces james

[lean mango]

I'm preparing myself for Poison CS

[tough oriole]

I guess you’re hoping for her to be a poison type

[lean mango]

Mhmmhhm

Glimmora is one of my top favorite Poison types in a while

[tough oriole]

Imagine she’s a poison type with a rock tera

[lean mango]

~~Galar was a disappointment ~~

[lean mango]

As long as she's considered a Poison unit

[tough oriole]

What even are galar poison types? Eter, Weezing?

And the slows

[lean mango]

G Weezing I like, Eternatus too but half the timr I forget it's existence

I don't like Troxticity

[ashen thunder]

Shiny eternarus for poison

[lean mango]

It's Poison sure, gives it some points but it by a long shot my least favorite Poison type

It's Gmax form saves it for me

[tough oriole]

Eternatus can’t even dynamax manually so idk if a poison one would have max ooze

[tardy fiber]

Oh i also don't have many ground types, but i guess it will be easier than poison as iron treads, great tusk, sandy shocks, ting-lu might be ground here

[vernal glade]

Ice type be Chien Pao

[tardy fiber]

For unreleased poison faves there's only nihilego and iron moth...if DeNa does make them poison

[upbeat lotus]

Dont forget the shinies

[vernal glade]

Shiny ubs when

[hasty umbra]

give me Kartana first

[lean mango]

I need Xurkitree in my life

[tough oriole]

My adorable little bundle of wires

https://tenor.com/view/xurkitree-gif-9674416

[smoky stratus]

he looks oddly cute when he moves like this

[tough oriole]

Not oddly cute, incredibly cute

[lean mango]

Just a cute lil lad

[hasty umbra]

funny to call a 3.8 meter tall pokemon lil

[lean mango]

Take a ruler to that gif, he's smol

[upbeat lotus]

i nicknamed my Wailord "Lil' Whale"

[hasty umbra]

tbf that's valid given how terrible the scaling became in gen 8

except for that one Wailord in the Isle of Armor

[lunar topaz]

Mfw poma has more accurately sized models

[tardy fiber]

I only recently know that shaymin is tiny, thanks to PoMa...victini as well

[vale ivy]

Wish xurkitree was tiny tbh

It looks better being smol

[cunning swan]

#1022413718199476255 message ehh judging from how tiny Player & Regirock is...

[lean mango]

don't worry, he's just in the way back

[glossy isle]

Like a lil girl happily and excitedly run, thats what i always think about it

[patent haven]

how many gems can we get from kanto Va

[tardy fiber]

1230 gems for looming shadow and 1220 gems for spreading shadow

[upbeat lotus]

And a ton of Kanto tickets

[sly breach]

So is the ticket pool for kalos not getting updated anymore?

[upbeat lotus]

Not until 4th anni

[tardy fiber]

probably need to wait for anniversary

[sly breach]

Thats a long ass time

[tardy fiber]

they always do it like that these past few years

new bp units as well

more f2p legendaries please

[upbeat lotus]

6 months are too long for you?

[tardy fiber]

shorter than master fair reruns

[oak crest]

hopefully i get leafeon from the kanto tickets

think its the only unit left for mine that is 1/5

rest are either 3/5 or abv

[tardy fiber]

46,560 gems...its healing

[chrome nest]

||I should just stop being an idiot and move on (What yoloing on a mf with 200+ scout points does to you)||

||Im actually gonna resave this time I promise||

[vestal leaf]

59k paids

[cunning swan]

good on you that you learned from mistakes

[sturdy flower]

Go Gogoat

[lean mango]

:crypain:

[rotund sleet]

just hold on for 20ish days

[worldly flicker]

One thing that helps me saving is the candy drought it encourages me to chill and take time to max out my current units

[indigo lion]

You can scout again for move levels though.

[cunning swan]

That's highly discouraged unless you're very close to pity

[indigo lion]

There's just this little thing called gacha addiction.

[vestal leaf]

If you're addicted you should direct your need to pull at newer units over dupes tbh

It's more optimal at least lol

[upbeat lotus]

[chrome nest]

We’re arguing about scouting?

[worldly flicker]

That's even worse than pulling for every new fancy pair

[maiden kayak]

u have to reassess how you managing

cos it seems like u are making the very same mistakes again and again

[chrome nest]

Repetition is really my main problem

[smoky stratus]

I learned how small mewtwo y is

[glossy isle]

And then comes bulky mewtwo x, dunno the size of it, perhaps bigger than mewtwo y?

[tardy fiber]

Mewtwo X please cmon DeNa i only have 2 kanto faves for now, add 1 more so that i can make a full team

Hope the next chatelaine is a spatk buffer. We already have +4 def spdef and +4 atk spd

[glossy isle]

[vestal leaf]

Might be +4 spd/spdef spa

Would be cool

Maybe on raikou? Or smth

[tardy fiber]

Well Dana uses both kanto birbs trio and regi trio

Morgan uses swords of justice trio and latias

If they want to introduce new mon as pairs
There's zapdos/articuno/moltres/regice/registeel for Dana and only terrakion/virizion for Morgan

[vestal leaf]

I'd expect moltres

Because of LA

been saying for a year now

[tardy fiber]

But Mesprit doesn't have LA but got chosen to be a BP MF, landorus as well

[vestal leaf]

"sun and maybe spa+spd"

[tardy fiber]

Flying teamwork moltres because we already have fire teamwork entei

[vestal leaf]

Well yeah but most of the BP 5* are LA themed

So that's what I expect

Might get it wrong after all

[sturdy hatch]

Hey a 3000 gem present! I didn’t even know

[tardy fiber]

As BP MF follow bosses from LA, next anniv we might get MC with one of the Tapus

[tardy fiber]

Yep from twitter rally

[round mason]

im at 30k gems rn
6k more

[tardy fiber]

Im already saving mode till next datamine news

[sturdy hatch]

I’m riding so high on gems right now

More twitter rallies please

[tardy fiber]

Yep maybe some twitter rally for white day

[rustic heron]

||it is really hard not to pull for bede rn||

[reef river]

Dont do it hes a dork

[rustic heron]

but i love dorks…

[tawny cedar]

When does summer lyra rerun?

I wanna see how much I'll have by the time she comes

[rustic heron]

iirc june

[upbeat lotus]

July

[cunning swan]

summer event is around july. there might also be seasonal selects, if that's an option for you

[rustic heron]

i really wish there were selects this month

need me some fallister

[tawny cedar]

If selects come up,I'm getting farty or hjasmine

I'm lacking a ton on johtomax

[sly breach]

I hope no new support for summer

[sturdy flower]

at least today we got easy 1800 gems

[tardy fiber]

Next reset has plenty of gems as well, looming shadow kanto VA

[sturdy flower]

shame they don't rerun EBs without units

i didn't manage to do all of them because i was just 4 day player

the friendiversary round 2s were hard for me too

[topaz compass]

@robust plaza you going to have to start dailies if datamine doesn't show any selects

Or stop buying any bundles haha. The limit for paid is 80k right?

[compact pasture]

Will Ball Guy banner last until datamine?

[topaz compass]

Yeah it is like April 7 end or something

[tardy jolt]

Is it actually? That’s crazy

[drowsy saddle]

Limit for paid gems?
Care to elaborate?

[vestal leaf]

Yeah paid gems limit is 80k iirc

[drowsy saddle]

Is there a source for that?

[vestal leaf]

Uhhh years of people playing?

[drowsy saddle]

I see, haven't heard about it before. No in-game note, I assume.

[vestal leaf]

No idea actually

I just know secondhand

Because it's been brought up multiple times in the years by whales

That you can only have 2 pities at one time

[drowsy saddle]

What happens to the paid gems you would've received? Do they go to the inbox?

[topaz compass]

I would hope it blocks you from buying the bundle at all if any part of it makes you go over the cao

Cap*

[vestal leaf]

I think they just remain there to be claimed?

[timber wren]

it’s in there

it’s linked on the page where you buy gems

[drowsy saddle]

Ooh, interesting.

[reef river]

The only way to find out for sure is to buy that many

Better double check

[patent haven]

How good is Chop if i already have SSA cynthia

[lean mango]

Not really the right place to ask that maybe #poma-questions will help

[patent haven]

Well im considering going after him after im done with C marnie So im wondering if i should save

[timber wren]

they’re entirely different units, the only thing they have in common is zone

[lean mango]

But you're asking how good he is atm, I'd say save regardless

[patent haven]

Alright then

[robust plaza]

Tea party tiered scout

[atomic oar]

How many more gems do I need to pity this banner

[tardy jolt]

So basically you get to the cap by purchasing the bundle 26 times (roughly 80 dollars, in like a year and a half), not that bad lol

[tardy jolt]

10 k more

[atomic oar]

Ok

[tardy jolt]

If you want more than one unit though, it’s kinda rough

[atomic oar]

I wouldn't mind Brendan dupes I just want may

[vestal leaf]

I mean a pity for 1/5 is still possible

[tardy jolt]

Okie, then 10k should give you her easy! I’d still wait for datamine, since it’s quite late in the month and you can better evaluate your choices

[vestal leaf]

That banner will start most likely post datamine anyway

Iirc

27/3 I think

[tardy jolt]

Yep, so even if datamine isn’t out it’s a matter of days, so better wait that extra 48h

[atomic oar]

Yeah I'll probably just wait till what the next datamine is before I pull for anniversary may

[hard wave]

10.1k

[atomic oar]

Thank you

[sly breach]

Lol, got a 2 dollar gift from google to use in game can't find anything to buy with it

[slow hare]

Well only the MF gem deal will cost you $2 or less, however the best value in terms of $/gem is the cheapest daily gem bundle.

So if you're going to spend money to get gems, get that

[sly breach]

Cant spend it, i think i should have posted that to salt instead cuz i cant fund my account even by a dollar to purchase anything

[lunar topaz]

I’m victory screens they do appear tinier but Ib battle they’re typically accurately sized

[rustic heron]

i lied :(

||i was rewarded with bede from only 9k gems tho||

[sturdy flower]

even spoiled not a good thing to mention tbh

[lean mango]

||Glad you got him early ,but best thing to do is resist and stay true to your original plan, ignoring insignificant banners is one thing but you got to build up resistance even to the banners you do like||

[lunar topaz]

||not to rain on getting him, congrats !! Just keep im@mind what if you had to pity him and potentially miss out on ARaihan just smth to keep in mind glad you got him early!||

[idle estuary]

||This is a good topic actually -- I got Marnie and Hop, and was like oh I really don't like Bede as a character and people weren't excited with his kit. But now I'm feeling pressure to pull him because he's supposedly amazing. I should stay strong right? I don't even know if I can get back to 36.6k before 4/9 anyway (I'll finish out the month at 16k thereabouts)||

[sturdy flower]

yep, resist

[hasty umbra]

well, people dunking on his kit were either hating for the sake of it, or misunderstanding, but it's silly to get a character you won't enjoy using anyway, so that takes precedence

not to mention the lack of pity, so just ignore the guy

[idle estuary]

Okay, thank you gang. 🙂 I was happy with Marnie and Hop -- got what I needed in a big hammer and a zone setter. I have lots of good supports anyway

[sturdy flower]

my rule of thumb in case of trying to gamble is dedicating 4th or 5th pity, and it doesn't feel bad even if I lose it, I don't follow zen the same way as most are though and I'm ready to pay in missing units if it goes badly and 3-4 following months have things I want (if they somehow kept releasing my favs it would be heaven and they would go bankrupt though)

[sturdy flower]

SC Sonia and crazy...

Bede isn't crazy either, the pairs he works best with unironically would rather get additional def

[idle estuary]

Yeah I can see that. I think it's a good place to be honestly. I am trying to follow my gut more than the meta these days

[sturdy flower]

compared to atk/spatk bufs on TM

in about 2 weeks year ago Zerena will be the unbeatable top damage dealer

[idle estuary]

Always another broken unit around the corner!

[lean mango]

I hear it'll be Poison

[sturdy flower]

ah yes, Shiny Eternatus

[vestal leaf]

I mean she beats zacian more easily than most other galars, that's something

[feral vale]

Gawddammit

I starred this

[vestal leaf]

I think she's severely underrated, but the silver lining of being a grass type means she's easy skip unless fave

[sturdy flower]

beats Zacian?

[vestal leaf]

The ebe

Yknow, the Leon one

[sturdy flower]

i cant recall what I beat it with, very likely it was the pikachus

[worldly flicker]

ppl found a way to doompost ss kris and aura cynthia

i cant

[vestal leaf]

SS Morty too

[tardy jolt]

Sonia is one of my favorite alts from this game, probably top 5 alongside SSR Cynthia, SC Diantha, C Marnie and SS Lusa for me, such a cool design

[reef river]

Amazing supports are way more skippable ||unless they bring weather/zone/somehow majorly facilitate an entire playstyle||

And to me bede is just generally good, but not specifically good like some other supports

Apologies for meta talk in here

[sly breach]

||Really which supports would you rank above him||

[reef river]

SS Kris and SSA Cynthia, simply because I value weather/terrain tied to a support. But, i also havent read his kit because bede is an autoskip nerd for me

[sly breach]

||Bede kit is good thats the annoying part of me having to skip||

Like if that was hop i would have ignored my previous gem engagement

[reef river]

There will be more supports who do what he does, i think

Hes good at "everything" youd want a support to do, but you dont need "everything" from a support at all times. Your dps often brings their own buffs to the table too

[sand crown]

I popped for this

[reef river]

Also is sc sonia considered a crazy meta threat

I literally have her 3/5 and only use her Sometimes for grass weak when any grass striker could do

[hasty umbra]

I mean, you can apply the same logic to all types, on type battles are easy

[sand crown]

She’s the weakest link as far as the meme goes but we’ve gotten to a point where “bad” pairs can delete anything with proper help

[hasty umbra]

like, the dumb meta tierlists base their ranks in overall/off type potential

[sturdy flower]

he's bad at one thing, healing your team, because they wanted him to work with Marnie

[hasty umbra]

if a unit happens to have most of their strength tied to being super effective then they are not valued as much

[glossy panther]

help me save gems guys :(

should i get lance to 5/5 by pulling in the banner next month or using candies?

[vestal leaf]

Depends on your candy and gem stash

In general I'd recommend avoiding dupe scouting

What move level is your lance at? Is he a fave?

[glossy panther]

definitely a fave, and he's at 2/5 right now

i have about 7 strike candies and 126k gems

[hasty umbra]

strength wise he is fine at 3/5, that's where he has access to multipliers for both dps and sync

4/5 and 5/5 are QoL tiles to make it even easier to support him, but 3/5 already fixes some of his self sufficiency issues

he is a fave, so if you want to 5/5 him then you can, you have the resources to avoid pulling

I take it you picked him from the Champion Select?

[glossy panther]

yeah, i did

[chrome nest]

Let’s say in the lodge scout there’s a pokefair that I like (example: lysandre) now do I skip out or do I well you know scout

[hasty umbra]

I'd rather wait for a shared banner with other units I'd like to get

[chrome nest]

Alright

[hasty umbra]

but you know, opinions

[broken mulch]

Aww gems tally confirms it, I ain’t getting double pity at the end of the month

[hard wave]

I hate having to skip MF favs bcz they take so long to rerun

[sturdy flower]

||CCalem, SS Morty, SS Kris and maybe SSA Cynthia||

[hard wave]

|| what about ingo? He’s the only sandstorm support besides laihan who only sets it on entry ||

|| there’s pbea too but sandstorm is alot more useful than hail ig ||

[sturdy flower]

||I'm currently using exactly 0 sand units and outside of sand Bede does everything better than Ingo + I'm expecting we will get a premier attacker with sandstorym anyday now||

[feral vale]

This is how I feel seeing all these boxes I stg https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1039290228625641603/1050817414440439878/Oh_my_Spoilers.mp4

[hard wave]

Ah ok

[hasty umbra]

ngl, I find it silly, if you want to talk about pulls better go to a different channel tbh

[maiden kayak]

please spoiler your pulls

[idle estuary]

Sorry, will do

[robust shore]

||Welp...I had to pity Hop. Which puts my gem count at less than desirable. Current plan now is to wait for Datamine, and see if anything interests me and if not than stack up as many gems as possible for Bede. Which sucks, because I was really hoping to grab Leon since he's a fave of mine, but his banner ends too soon and I have too few gems to even consider sinking some pulls into him. Not worth it.||

||[and yes i'm well aware i won't have enough gems for bede either by the time he leaves but...let me cope lol]||

[rare swan]

Good on you for knowing not to ||try for Leon without enough gems|| - I know it sucks but you'll benefit from the decision in the long run

[crisp oracle]

Someone pls help, I am getting tempted rn, pls give me some advice pls

[rare swan]

What is tempting you and why?

[sturdy flower]

if you don't save a horrifying monster will lick your toes while you sleep tomorrow

[crisp oracle]

||Bede. Looks like a solid unit, I have a pity, I just don’t want to spend rn||

Hmm, if i do not pull i will be rewarded with a strike galarian perrserker

Thats motivation enough

[rare swan]

Definitely sounds like you wouldn't be pulling for the right reasons - he's a good unit but he's 100% skippable

Don't get caught up in the half-anni hype

[crisp oracle]

I’ve wanted ||Hop for a long time tho||

I just need to save till mine

[rare swan]

iirc he should be here past the 'mine

See how you feel then

[crisp oracle]

||all the units look amazing but i only want the units im going to have fun with||

[rare swan]

That's a good strategy!

[crisp oracle]

See, favorites is hard for me because my favorite list is kinda small and i want to stockpile my roster

[signal halo]

I am in a similar spot

[crisp oracle]

So i ||pull for cool outfits or fun gimmicks usually||

[signal halo]

But I think I have most of the types in a solved state, for my personal standards

[tough oriole]

Why would I do that?

[crisp oracle]

Same, ||at this point im pulling fun units only||

[signal halo]

I like clearing csmm comfortably, without thinking much and using strictly on type carries

That makes it so I end up """needing""" a lot of pairs to fulfill that goal

It isn't as bad as it looks, however

[hasty umbra]

when you clear everything on type then it's much less of a reason to go pulling for anything tho

[signal halo]

Since there'll be cases where F2P is enough, carry wise, such as say, kris

[tough oriole]

What types don’t have accessible “carries”? I can only think of Dark

[signal halo]

Electric is tricky

[crisp oracle]

I honestly don’t bother with 2K, ||i just pull who I want as long as it gets me my vouchers and I can have a little fun frying bosses with dps every monday afternoon||

[signal halo]

So is bug

[reef river]

Bede is a nerd! Look at that dork! You really gonna pull for some kid in a wizard outfit!!

[signal halo]

Flying also feels weird

[hasty umbra]

Dark has Sidney, MR and Nessa, they steamroll anything that doesn't have Sentry Entry x2

[crisp oracle]

Spoiler

[robust shore]

Ty! And yeah, it sucks but there will always be more faves :)

[reef river]

Go

[signal halo]

Dark isn't a bad type for f2p

Which is why I wasn't convinced to go for dark zone or any dark carry, really

I also have plans for further pushing the Mr + Sydney duo with a fave I saved for

[robust shore]

karen works just fine for me, even outside of zone ¯_(ツ)_/¯
the buffs she got really helped her a lot, she's my go to dark unit [even if i have other "better" ones]

yeah + MR and Sidney
dark is stacked F2P wise

"stacked" might be an exaggeration
it isnt struggling

[signal halo]

Ghost is in incognito mode for me

Since I don't know the extent of fantina's power boost

But before the boost, despite being able to clear ghost with morty

[crisp oracle]

||I saved up a fortune for Anni Lillie. I wanted her a good bit as I my first experience with Pokemon was seeing her do damage||

[signal halo]

I would put it in the "needs a carry" personal box I have

[crisp oracle]

Probs most rewarding to see her in december datamine

[sturdy flower]

Ghost is probably on the lower side of powerful units in general

[maiden kayak]

malva coming

[signal halo]

I think marshadow likely does enough for my parameters

[lean mango]

Malva and Drasna

[signal halo]

Or SSR Cynthia, if she has a decent venue of playing

[sturdy flower]

on type you can run 2 shadow ball users and destroy the enemy too

[crisp oracle]

Do we use the last week of CS as clues for next datamine?

[maiden kayak]

Malva and drasna in fact

[signal halo]

Is she stuck to the ghost esque fly?

[sturdy flower]

SSR Cynthia is gauge free at least if she uses that

she's more of a secondary damage dealer like most zone setters

[maiden kayak]

and gauge boost

[sturdy flower]

so you slap her + for example Shauntal and are golden

[signal halo]

I could enjoy that

So far

[sturdy flower]

if they do these "one type weakenss" CS events and that has master mode you will have to learn to embrace offtype at times tho

i usually offtype on purpose because that makes the broken damage dealers a bit more enjoyable

otherwise i end the battle at first sync or before that

[robust shore]

off typing for weaknesses i can easily sweep through is so fun

[signal halo]

I'd rather use broken damage dealers ontype, because I get higher highs from blasting a stage than challenging myself

[sturdy flower]

it's not even a challenge though, i wish it was

[signal halo]

When I eventually get to the point where I feel 100% comfortable with all types

[sturdy flower]

challenge is trying to use Korrina as the only damage dealer offtype

[signal halo]

I'll start mixing it up

[sturdy flower]

on a stage with aoe attacks

[signal halo]

Can she buff herself to any extent?

[slow hare]

GamingEevee does that kind of thing all the time with their F2P clears!

[signal halo]

I don't think I'm a master at the game yet. That said, many of my lesser pairs still could see more investment

Korrina included

[crisp oracle]

I’m slowly working my pairs to level 140 and slowly uping move levels

It takes time, and a bit of patience

[signal halo]

For now

I think my highest priority is flying

I can't tolerate darach

I think he feels awful

If I am to play staraptor with recoil, I'd rather see him toss himself a la see you space cowboy

And die to recoil after dealing a 99.999 brave bird

Lame explosion VFX included

I also feel blue is less than amazing as well

[sturdy flower]

plying so happens to not have many units that are good at dpsing in general

because they just keep giving units Fly

[sturdy hatch]

But no one gets dig

[hard wave]

Im hoping to just get ss ethan on a rerun, he’s a fav as well anyway

[crisp oracle]

Would dig be like fly or defensive (like obstruct because how would they do dig in PoMa)

[hasty umbra]

same as Fly

[crisp oracle]

So it would have that charge time then it would strike

[lunar topaz]

Pity!

[tough oriole]

For a second I thought you pitied for someone

[smoky stratus]

I’m encroaching pity as well

[lunar topaz]

Would be the 9th time

[hearty blaze]

Same here, I can’t bear using blue anymore

[opaque cargo]

Anni steven?

[ashen thunder]

Blue grid boost

[cunning swan]

give him nuke multipliers

[vernal glade]

Ya and he should be a bit more better

[hard wave]

Same, rlly hoping I can get ss ethan or atleast a better flying striker

[ashen thunder]

I am fine with blue's performance, mostly just offtyping MM and for last year flying ebe he performed just fine

[cunning swan]

Same, his DPS is satisfactory

[hard wave]

He works well for bulu but not rlly CS imo, prob cuz of mega sync

[ashen thunder]

Just need 5 busted team for CS so

[hard wave]

Tru

[ashen thunder]

I am happy with my lv150 blue
If they buff him, he just becomes a potential offtyper for me

[upbeat lotus]

all he needs is just a stronger sync

[ashen thunder]

Or sync Accel

[hard wave]

I think they just need to make him like karen

Unless they have different issues

[ashen thunder]

Coz I don't mind weak sync if he can spam hurricane early

[upbeat lotus]

they have the same issues pre boosted

weak sync and strong move locked behind mega

[topaz compass]

A true resource saver would want to do LG streaks

[ashen thunder]

Ew

LG streak

True resource saver would have resources even after stopping at 10 streak

[topaz compass]

I hit 100+ EX'd units recently. LG streak gets me an extra EX or 2

[hard wave]

LG is boring imo and doesnt give great rewards for the amount of time spent post 10 wins

[ashen thunder]

I already prebuilt 10 teams so that I can slack

[hard wave]

Same, and 6 of them were copied from past 2 LGs, just needed moltres teams and one bulu clear

[ashen thunder]

Would just do some minclick comps for some deluxe cookie farming

This time minclick comp is annoying
I have to resort to rats

[topaz compass]

I get to use 100% of limited units in an LG basically so it means everything I ever pulled has value

[hasty umbra]

I think someone able to go for a streak long enough to be worthwhile doesn't actually need the tickets at all...

it's only a flex, bragging rights, personal accomplishment or whatever you wanna call it

[ashen thunder]

I can go long streak but I already have the stuff I use at 5* atleast

And cookies farming can be done with 1 overpowered team through reset abuse

Oh yea I still have to ex jasmine and korrina out of my favs

At 12 and 120

Don't rly think I have to rush high streaks for that

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna do lg with my faves and done,the more faves i will have later, the more streaks i will do

[deft glen]

Moltres though

[topaz compass]

I think I should hit 50 streak no problem even with moltres to worry about. I got 70 streaks the last 2

It would be nice to EX everything decent on my roster by 5th anni and this helps me work towards that

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna do 10-12 ...i appreciate my mental health and want to avoid stress thinking strategies, well i might do more if DeNa add more good rewards beyond 10 streaks

[cunning swan]

the rewards beyond 10 are fair enough for me imo. anything higher will just demotivate most I think

[clever oyster]

43430 gems

[sly breach]

Lmao would be surprised if i get to 6

Hate that fucking fire chicken

[tardy fiber]

Hope moltres still strong when we got playable version of it. But please not flying teamwork moltres with Chatelaine Dana

[uncut pewter]

Still a long way to pity, but it's something at least.

[compact pasture]

I can't believe Chest reaches 1 million next month

[sly breach]

Where? Wtf

[sturdy plank]

#poma-lounge message

oh someone achieved 1,000,800 gems

[flint bane]

Hi I already have the new Bede Marnie and Hop (I got him twice) do go for dupes, summon on an another banner or do I just save my gems?

[rare swan]

Hey there, the best option would be to save your gems! You've got them all and can always use candies to bump up the move levels - save your gems for new pairs

[lunar topaz]

Who?

[vestal leaf]

Chest

Most likely

[lunar topaz]

No he didn’t

He’s at 963K

[vestal leaf]

Oh right I read 3/2/2023

Thought it was last month

[tardy fiber]

I just calculated, my gems will only be around 68k with remaining gems from this datamine, hopefully no faves next month

[flint bane]

Ok thanks

[topaz compass]

@flint bane if you are only a couple multis from MF pity, smarter to get dupe

We need your total gem count, and how far /400 you are for each

[flint bane]

I'm not even at half of the pity for each one

And I only have 4k gems because I tried to get Volcanion Lysander

[drowsy saddle]

Just save then. Pulling without a pity is a bad idea.

[topaz compass]

Oh yeah if you are less than half that is good luck for a MF

[cunning swan]

134k atm

[feral vale]

68k!

[wind nymph]

Guys should i go for lucas & dialga banner when its comes or should i save till 4th anniversary

Currently i have 38k gems

I am tempted to his banner

[violet nebula]

Save til 4th Ani

[drowsy saddle]

Is Lucas a fave?

[violet nebula]

Given the name

[wind nymph]

Not fave mate but tempted to dragon wish

[violet nebula]

All signs point to no

[violet nebula]

If you got Zerena and others, they don't need dragon wish to be fair

[drowsy saddle]

Huh?

[cunning swan]

if you're just tempted for meta then I wouldn't recommend. lucas is great but he will rerun eventually

[violet nebula]

Mission Zygarde this user is known as, Lucas won't be a fave 😆

[drowsy saddle]

So, are there any other pairs you'd like to get in the future?

[drowsy saddle]

You do know people can have more than one fave, right?

[wind nymph]

Is dragon wish makes huge change i am lacking with good dragon damage dealer thats why

[drowsy saddle]

Cyrus is free

[cunning swan]

dragon is one of the most busted f2p types, what

[violet nebula]

It is

[cunning swan]

it should be one of the least of your worries

cyrus is free, rayquaza's powerboost is rerunning later this month

[violet nebula]

Yep

[wind nymph]

For one & only Need zygarde my all time fav but he is not re running

[feral vale]

Don’t forget we encourage saving here!

So if you want to ensure you get your fav, keep a pity ready and pretend that pity is nonexistent until Zerena comes around.

Zerena is who I’m waiting for too

[cunning swan]

no guarantee. MFs have been proven to rerun

just like her debut, she might rerun suddenly without anyone expecting it

[feral vale]

Her debut run was extremely unexpected for sure.

[wind nymph]

Ok so how can i control my temptation and save gems till 4th anni

[feral vale]

Have you made a favs list?

Like with a few names?

[wind nymph]

Yes yes

[feral vale]

Basically, do not pull anyone else but anyone under that list.

[wind nymph]

Serena zygarde
Ash pikachu
Sst red pikachu
Lusamine & physic pokemon (name forgot)

[feral vale]

Necrozma.

[wind nymph]

Yes yes

[feral vale]

So save for them and them only.

Everyone else, you skip.

[wind nymph]

Damn controlling temptation so dad in this game, i will save till 4th anni hope they re run at 4th anni

[cunning swan]

do your dailies quickly and dip. don't stay too long at the sync pair scout screen. reach the daily scout by swiping left on the small thumbnail in the pokemon center

you want to distance yourself from the Scout button as far away as possible

[feral vale]

The less you look at scout and the more you decorate your Lodge, the less tempted you’ll be.

[cunning swan]

decorate your lodge, everyone! it's very therapeutic

sure you get broke after 3 plushies buuuut

[feral vale]

~~Me who cannot afford any of them ~~

[wind nymph]

Ok guys, I will follow the guidance and sure not gonna see the scout screen more

[cunning swan]

another strategy that a lot of people do is to put your gem count next to your server name and keep updating it, so others can keep you accountable

(as in, if your displayed gem count suddenly decreases, we know something happened)

only if you're comfortable though, no pressure

feel free sharing your gem count here too

[feral vale]

I did that when I was waiting for Kalos VA. Got quite a good gem count.

[wind nymph]

No issue i wiil

Done guys

[cunning swan]

nice, you have over a pity

keep it up!

[wind nymph]

Hop it helps me

[sturdy flower]

save, 2 of them are not unlikely to rerun in the coming months

if you use paid gems you can keep 3-5k on the side for the next time Lucas is in a Select Scout

i have noticed he reruns often in general because of being the base version of a protagonist/rival

[topaz compass]

I haven't updated in a few days. Feels good

How dynamically does it update

[sly breach]

||Almost gave into doing a yolo|| lol

[sturdy flower]

i'm not sure if electric collars are legal, so you can try threatening yourself with a rubber band slap for every yolo you do

something that doesn't result in an injury, just is a deterrent

sadly human brain often associates gambling with pleasure, and that's what yoloing scouts is

[sly breach]

I just need to hold on some more

This time immediately i thought of it i closed my game

[sturdy flower]

just always remember, if you are lucky your gem count will get high enough to comfortably take units you kinda want but not really

if you aren't lucky at all you still have all your faves

instead of going into a situation where if you aren't lucky you get nothing, if you are you get your fave

and the more units you skip the easier it is to justify skipping

"i skipped this character that can do x and y, and now this one is very similar and I don't really care about either of them and their pokemon, so I can skip them too"

[topaz compass]

That is the biggest truth I think. Easier to do the same scenario you already did

For example skipping Emma was way harder than Volcanion even though Volcanion is "better"

[woeful bolt]

I use all my gems cause I like to collect the strong units, even if I don't need them

[bleak falcon]

That’s a poor mindset, tbh

[sturdy flower]

see you in the future where you will miss some of the next strongest units that won't be powercreeped for whole 5 months

[lean mango]

That can easily fail

Chasing meta can work, just not by "collecting the strong units"

[topaz compass]

Yeah my strategy is go for MF and zone/rebuff/weather units because the latter ones are rare to get replaced

[vestal leaf]

Especially when 95% of units are strong

[sturdy plank]

i think its a japanese player

[woeful bolt]

?

[woeful bolt]

?

[sturdy plank]

the one with 1 million gems
#poma-lounge message

[woeful bolt]

Me too

[bleak falcon]

If you constantly spend gems as you get them purely for chasing meta, then you’ll find yourself constantly out of gems and likely missing several Sync Pairs you wanted

[woeful bolt]

So tell me how do you not miss some sync pairs if u're constantly skipping

And holding till u have pity

[bleak falcon]

You’ll miss pairs either way, but by saving you can guarantee the Sync Pairs that you want

[woeful bolt]

It's a game you can't not miss pairs without paying

Ok. But I want it all

[sturdy flower]

then what the hell are you doing here to begin with

[lean mango]

This is a saving support group

[woeful bolt]

Trying to understand ur pov

[sturdy plank]

you save for favorites

[sturdy flower]

my pov is i'm not going to pay and want to have the pairs I will enjoy

[bleak falcon]

Most of us don’t want every Sync Pair

That’s all there is to it

[woeful bolt]

Ok

[sturdy plank]

this is not "gotta catch em all"

[lean mango]

This place is here to help people not regret and not fall into a gambling addiction, and to accomplish that you have to miss pairs

[sturdy flower]

you won't have all the pairs if you keep using all your gems on every single new pair

[woeful bolt]

I don't want Anabel, or Emma, so in the end I have Lysandre Diantha who are strong

I mean you're right

But there's always a good unit to get, how not to spend ?

[lean mango]

Pick and choose

[bleak falcon]

That’s why we don’t recommend chasing meta

[hasty umbra]

especially since this is a gacha, going with the "I want them all" mindset is not only unreasonable but also crazy expensive

[woeful bolt]

Greninja duo, SS Diantha, Galar trio... always.

[lean mango]

Ignore everything else

[bleak falcon]

We get a new gamebreaker basically every month, so if you save for favorites then you’re basically guaranteed to get someone who’s a gamebreaker and a favorite sooner or later

[hasty umbra]

me gladly ignoring the heck out of Marnie

[lean mango]

Favorites are usually recommend if you wanna safely save

[bleak falcon]

There’s also the fact that content powercreep is far slower than Sync Pair powercreep

[sturdy flower]

I'm not too different from the way you spend gems, but I always keep a financial cushion (70k-100k gems) in case there's something I REALLY want

[bleak falcon]

SS Red is a year 1 pair and still like top 5 Fire damage-dealers

[sturdy flower]

and I'm willing to skip meta pairs to maintain that stability

[woeful bolt]

My plan is to pay the 20€ bundle every 20 days with yellow candy + the 1€ bundles for 350 gems each + the other 20 days bundle at 5€ and spend gems until I have them 1/5 then hold to pity a unit I rly want

[lunar topaz]

o wow

[bleak falcon]

Buying gems is like, the opposite of what this channel is for

[woeful bolt]

I know... Sorry

[sturdy flower]

spending 40 euro per month on the game already puts you in maybe top 20% of spenders

and only because some people can drop 200$ for a single MF because they cant save and it's their fav

[woeful bolt]

Ye but I'm top 20% income irl

[sturdy flower]

im not saying you aren't allowed to spend the money

[timber wren]

its fine to spend money on the game but we just want to avoid spending outside of our means, and in here we can help recommend the best uses of paid gems (its not spending them on multis)

[sturdy flower]

just that your point of view will be different

[lean mango]

As long as you don't risk yourself with spending I'm fine with it

[woeful bolt]

I actually am concerned by this. I alrdy have spent outside of my means

[sturdy flower]

you are contradicting yourself

[woeful bolt]

My plan is to limit myself

but in the past I've alrdy spent more

[sturdy flower]

have some free gems for masterfairs, skip some meta pokefairs and plan to get them on selects

[woeful bolt]

• I had no income 2 months ago because I was still a student

[timber wren]

then i would recommend against spending on the game at all

[woeful bolt]

ye selects are good alternative too...

[timber wren]

or if you do, just the EX bundle for a few bucks a month

[woeful bolt]

I'm financially very fine

[timber wren]

and use those gems that accumulate on selects

[lean mango]

hmm

Maybe spoiler that

[topaz compass]

"I just graduated school". "Top 20% income". Hmmm

[woeful bolt]

I have a masters degree in management and work for an international consulting firm

and the state is giving me 550€ each month on top of my salary cause I still have student status

But I've alrdy spent money on gachas when I needed it to pay for food or loan 💀

I have too much tendency to pay for virtual items and I wish nobody to have that tendancy💀

[timber wren]

we arent a replacement for gambler's anonymous but if you need a place to come when youre feeling tempted to spend real money or the gems youve saved you can stop by here anytime and we can help talk it thru

[bleak falcon]

I’m gonna recommend making a list of favorites, be that trainers or pokemon (or both).

Once that list is made, only go for pairs on that list, regardless of how strong the pairs you’d miss out on are.

The longer you stick to that, the easier it’ll get

[woeful bolt]

Ok thank you

[woeful bolt]

I'm gonna make my own tier list of units I want

[lean mango]

Restricting yourself to certain extent on what you can get can help with preventing temptation so you don't lose more than what you can get

[woeful bolt]

So that I don't feel obliged to pull for meta

[lean mango]

On the right track

[topaz compass]

Just think really hard on what you like about the game and focus on getting pairs that fulfill that the most. But you pretty much have to set a $ amount per month you are willing to spend and never go above it. And set a realistic % of units to obtain (0-2 per month is realistic depending on how quick you get the first one)

[hearty blaze]

I wish I had him

[sturdy flower]

not much of an upgrade...

[topaz compass]

If you have gems saved then Anni Skyla is likely to rerun in a double or triple early April

[hard wave]

I dont but ill see if ill be able to

And currently ill only be able to pity CHop if I have to

[broken mulch]

Ball Guy is the only new temptation for me this month haha. Unfortunately his banner sucks so skip.

I’m also interested in SS Brendan but he shares a banner with Anime and I already have her so eh. I’ll wait for April datamine and gem count

Speaking of, aprils are usually dry right

[tardy fiber]

I like that he have tiered paid pulls, well not like i gonna pull him but good to know if my future faves become a variety banner unit

7.5k for guaranteed ball guy, same price as spotlight tiered

[robust shore]

Last it was SC tea party, but it could be another VA as well..
Worth it to wait though

[vernal glade]

VA possibly likely

However can’t determine what Pokémon gonna be because of last week of March.

[robust shore]

mhm

Generally if you’re not a fan of Alola than you’re in a good spot lol

[vernal glade]

The best I can guess of next month is Tapu Fini or Lele.

[sturdy flower]

if it's a VA then should be 2nd part of the month

their "big" event for the beginning of the month seems to be that CS thingy

i really hope they will give one of Alola protags a MF instead of giving Lillie another, but I guess even Alola PF will be nice, currently the only one we have is Anabel

who isn't even a native to these islands

[vernal glade]

However dark, I’m not too sure, same as fire, ground and dragon.

[robust shore]

All of the VAs the protags have gotten alts so it’s a good chance our protags will get them

[vernal glade]

Those last 4 could be anything

[robust shore]

Well…except Leaf

[sturdy flower]

poor Nate

you mentioned her instead of him

[robust shore]

I forgot about him 💀

Even Nate!!!

[vernal glade]

But, what if it isn’t VA next month?

Maybe a new SC?

[sturdy flower]

i assume whatever type of that CS event we get will have 1-2 new units

[vernal glade]

Well, prepare to wait for a long time. We got a long journey in March.

[sturdy flower]

March barely began, yep

I'm only truly "waiting" when I know datamine will land, otherwise I'm just living my life

and the time goes way too fast

[tardy fiber]

Excited for SC, i want to see if they are going to continue with only 1 unit or back to 4

[sturdy flower]

nothing is more dead than a month of SC event

and nothing saves me more gems

[tardy fiber]

Well if got part 1 alola VA, it might be only 1-2 sc + 2 alola VA, or it can be spring seasonal return 2 + 2 alola VA...or back to pokewar/tea party with 4...they never exceed 4 limited units per month iirc

[robust shore]

Nothing would be better for my gem count than a 4 unit SC with no faves

[sturdy flower]

SS Morty was for the golden week celebration

so Alola might get a golden week pair this year

i wonder if magikarp will return or we get something new

[tardy fiber]

Oh next month is golden week, theres 2 more golden shiny faves...shiny volcanion and shiny hoopa

[sturdy flower]

i feel like they will want to save Hoopa

it's too important to the LORE

Gholdengo fits perfectly... but too early

maybe next year

[tardy fiber]

Oh shiny latias is kinda golden as well

Shiny raikou also might be on the table as smhilda got shiny grapploct and nylisia got shiny grapidash before normal non shiny versions

[sturdy flower]

Luvdisc, Altaria, Meganium, Meowtic, Luxray, Steelix, Mightyena, Azumarill <3, Lucario (heh), Lickitung/Lickilicky, Latias etc

there's plenty

Drifblim

Kingler

[lean mango]

Where's Milotic

[tardy fiber]

Yep but if non legendaries/mythicals/UBs just gonna be another skip for me

[sturdy flower]

it's a bit too early for another Volcanion

[tardy fiber]

So i only check my faves shiny

[sturdy flower]

do you consider Azumarill a legendary

[tardy fiber]

Nope

[sturdy flower]

shame

Stakataka is golden too

he looks like a golden temple

[tardy fiber]

Oh neat, stakataka is a cool mon

[lean mango]

Naganadel

It's a bee as a shiny

[tardy fiber]

Make stakataka a rock support for me to kick regirock from team

[lean mango]

2 Naganadels

[tardy fiber]

Would be nice

Like ssdiantha assisting schilda

[sturdy flower]

double Naganadel double Iris one Emma

[lean mango]

I do hope they give me at least a month for a break from Poison

[tardy fiber]

They do, if you carry ball guy till april

[lean mango]

Not what I meant

[sturdy flower]

You might hate me for this, but I don't want Eusine to get Suicune

[lean mango]

WHAT

[sturdy flower]

I want him to get a Walking Wake instead

[lean mango]

[sturdy flower]

with a whole event about how he's coping that it's close enough

[lean mango]

I just want him to have a Suicune at least

[sturdy flower]

while SS Kris keeps passing by

[tardy fiber]

Probably still shiny suicune for eusine, walking wake is his sygna suit

[lean mango]

SS Kris in Center telling us she wants to flex on Eusine:

[timber wren]

just jumpluff

is enough

give him a shiny one why not

[lean mango]

I'll be happy with Jumpluff, but Suicune plsssssss

[tardy fiber]

Sad that ssmorty in pokemon center keep talking about one of his friend also chasing a legendary...but he ended up with jumpluff

[lean mango]

I have a sketch of Eusine crying in the corner while SS Morty and SS Kris are in the main ground

[tardy fiber]

I don't mind shiny suicune, for now my water faves are only 4...so still a little than types like psychics or dragons

Although there's manaphy/phione on the horizon

[sturdy flower]

pink whale is inevitable

[tardy fiber]

Neo champ brendan and may probably

With shiny primals

Also good excuse for them to duplicate hoenn pride and spirit by making them neo champs

[sturdy flower]

neo champ are rivals so far

i think they would include Barry and make it a trio

no wait, wrong gen

[tardy fiber]

Calem and serena

They are protags

[sturdy flower]

and rivals, but this applies to May Brendan too

[lean mango]

If he does get Walking Wake, it's either Water or Dragon so pick your distilled water

[tardy fiber]

Yep so may Brendan is nice

[sturdy flower]

his signature is water

[tardy fiber]

He will be nice to pair with his friend, because ssmorty summon sun and hydro steam boosted on sun also protosynthesis

[sturdy flower]

if we get 2 or more new MF before anni it will actually be insane

[lean mango]

20% Dragon asking DeNa

[sturdy flower]

best part is he requires sun for damage on his signature

[lean mango]

That would be awesome

[sturdy flower]

so can't be boosted by water weather...

Virizion is the same, but electric terrain