Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[lunar topaz]

Pain

[opaque cargo]

I shouldnt have reason to pull anymore since i can beat anything now. But ||legendaries man. I should change my name to legendary puller. All legendaries are favorite and blaziken||

[ashen thunder]

Good, join vantner's cult

They'll be your senpai at saving for legendaries

[tardy fiber]

Legendaries are good, they rarely have bad kit

[buoyant elk]

[sly breach]

I have made a mistake|| i violated my 3 multi a day rule on banners am pulling am sure thats why my bede pull went to pity||

[tardy fiber]

To keep my will strong to skip non faves are perceptions like this "why should i pull pikachus if i will kick them if i have raikou/tapu koko/zeraora/xurkitree/zapdos/regieleki later"

[glass abyss]

Might not ||Lucas and that’s fine||

I got ||2/5 Red and 1/5 Raihan from it. Don’t want to pity, so unfortunately I think this is a pass from me. Or fortunately because it means more savings! ||

[signal halo]

I think I can now finally save in peace

[tardy fiber]

Eon duo banner still not yet arrive, i thought you are aiming that one

[round mason]

i got both of my faves
i can now save

[topaz compass]

I'm kind of hoping for all reruns next month since I got 3 of the 4 SC units last year

[tardy fiber]

I hope for tea party sc rerun as well, due to i being able to clear all of its contents without pulling those units so pretty sure i can do the same on its rerun

[round mason]

I really want skymin rerun

[topaz compass]

Yeah I want SC Rosa too. Not sure a solo banner is worth though, would prefer a paid select for her

[tardy fiber]

Sc Rosa had to rerun, if not, new players wont ever get Naomi again

[feral vale]

Skyrim?

[placid token]

shaymin?

[upbeat lotus]

[fallen path]

[cunning swan]

Nice gem number

[severe bridge]

When's the next big gem day

[upbeat lotus]

March 21st

[turbid sapphire]

any tips on waiting out until datamine besides staying away from the game?

[feral vale]

Decorate your lodge with pretty things

Jokes aside, try to find other ways to have fun with the game. Richu loves to do challenges with CS and I love to do test teams with 3/4 star units.

But we also say to not touch the scout button. And for Daily Scout, swipe right to skip the other banners and go right to it.

[lean mango]

Or just spend days admiring your units

[turbid sapphire]

Is trying to push for "normal" LG streaks a good one too?

[feral vale]

Like the 10-11 streaks? Or more?

[lapis lodge]

||I did a pity and got 1 CRed, 2 Lucas and 1 AnniRaihan. Now I have 70k gems. I don't really want to pull another banner this month. Should I go for another pity (since it's kinda difficult and time consuming to collect candies) or not?||

I would like to have them at 3/5.

But I can live without it.

[timber wren]

theres a reality in which you drop a pity and get nothing else along the way, so 36.6k for one candy on three units you already own

[turbid sapphire]

more, like 13-16 maybe?

[feral vale]

If you want to, sure. I personally don’t care for LG myself (I just do the 10 streaks then yeet myself out), but you can surely do that.

[feral vale]

Do you mind spoilering the pull mention?

[lapis lodge]

Here.

[feral vale]

Thanks

[hard wave]

Not worth pulling for dupes, unless ofc the dupes u want r in a banner with someone else u want and dont have

[lapis lodge]

Not really. It just will take more than 3-4 years to build all my current units with candies.

[hard wave]

Well if ur going to pull for dupes atleast wait for datamine imo

[sonic cobalt]

This hurts me on a personal experience level.

[ashen thunder]

Rolling dupes is fine as long as you are sticking to some sort of contingency plan

Like willing to skip next patch entirely

[timber wren]

the white day banner lasts long enough to see the next patch so

[glass abyss]

Yeah I am saving until Datamine, sort of wish that Ball Guy had better pull rates but I choose to pass on him because of that+Cede

Would just be nice for the people who do pull on him

But yeah, Variety Banners are sus to pull on and I am not sure what’s DeNa’s plans with those

[topaz compass]

I'm seeing more value in 4.5% dailies even with bad luck than paying 7500 for maybe 2 copies of Ball Guy

[weary spire]

I blamed my friends? You must be mistaken Procrastination is king if you aren't aware

Agreed yeah, literally just like 10BP lost

[topaz compass]

Just ignore friends next time if you insist on procrastinating

[weary spire]

🤝

[weary spire]

? You have a weird understanding of procrastination

Even in this odd understanding of 1 or the other, I would choose my friends, the game isn't serious, but that's not how it works lol

[timber wren]

slaps the side of my head this baby can fit so much adhd

[weary spire]

🤝

[topaz compass]

You literally said you waited until right before reset to do CS and then had to stop to hang out with friends. If you don't understand I was joking to prioritize the game over IRL stuff, okay

[weary spire]

The bit about insisting on procrastination? It's a little less clear the understanding of procrastination or even the joke is all, some people really don't quite get it, so I was responding to that strictly, that's all

[glass abyss]

?

[weary spire]

Some will say "give yourself more time" vs. the reality of it where sometimes, I'm just doing a bit of mental gymnastics in my head calculating exactly the bare minimum that is needed to do a task, then distracting myself with something else until that exact time remains Not accounting for hiccups which make you just barely miss the deadline

[glass abyss]

I don’t understand what this means

[weary spire]

But it's true you should avoid that in all seriousness I'm getting better with that overall, sometimes it's best to act like you have way less time than you actually do

[weary spire]

The dailies, or procrastination thing?

[karmic bobcat]

Is it fine to save for 4th anniversary starting now ? Got Galar Trio and I'm pretty much a beginner

[weary spire]

They're saying they like the odds of dailies spending their paid gems on a triple banner basically

I wouldn't suggest it generally, and it also depends on how much you're willing to spend, but that's up to them

Always count on the worst luck and take that imo

[vestal leaf]

Well one gives you dupes you could solve with candies, one gives you a guaranteed new unit copy if you have 7.5k saved up

Both are easy skip if not faves

[glass abyss]

Dailies

[vestal leaf]

No reason to invest dailies on banners you're not ready to pity for anyway

[glass abyss]

See it’s more of a matter of, if I have enough Gems and Luck

[weary spire]

I'd say you're in a great position to save for it, yeah. Because regardless, those gems will be in your balance prepared for anything until then You should be fine to deal with content in large part until then

[weary spire]

I'd never count on the luck, but greater odds can be a bonus on something you're already committed towards for me personally

[vestal leaf]

^

[weary spire]

Like if that were a target banner already, it could have more value, yeah

[vestal leaf]

No reason to do dailies on a banner whose featured you don't care for

[weary spire]

If it's purely paid and you're willing to abandon it empty-handed thousands of paid gems later, ehh, wouldn't suggest it, but yeah, it's your money, everyone's in a diff position tho my advice remains more or less the same

[feral vale]

Fucking me

[glass abyss]

But Variety Banners have worse Rates than MFs for both feature and 5*

[feral vale]

One of my biggest favs came to me in a pity, so be prepared for anything.

[drowsy saddle]

Wait, what was that about featured?

[glass abyss]

Yes

[feral vale]

@glass abyss

[weary spire]

You mean better for featured?

But worse for 5*

Featured being the key regardless, you don't select a banner by its 5* rate and not the featured

[glass abyss]

Oh wtf

I thought it was worse across the board

[topaz compass]

I think Ball Guy kit is just okay, so I'd rather go for copies with a higher expected value, even if I risk not getting any. 75 daily pulls on triple banner 4.5% is likely to get way more than 1-2 limited units that you'd expect from Ball Guy. Obviously 3k or 5k selects are best but clearly they are scaling back on those

[drowsy saddle]

Triple featured had 1.5% for each, like usual

[weary spire]

Poke Fairs are the closest to giving you the best of both worlds at least, but nah, Master Fairs will always be worse for featured with the exception of shit like those terrible seasonal banners where they throw in like 6 of them

Multiple typically make it bad anyway, but triple featured banners are pretty nice if you find yourself in a position where they contain multiple target units in the same banner

1.5% each kinda can't be beat in that particular situation

[glass abyss]

ball guy is underrated for real

he's so good

Best unit for gauntlet

Amazing utility

Plus he's hot

So literal uber

[lunar topaz]

He’s hot???

[feral vale]

HUH????????

[hasty umbra]

[feral vale]

[lunar topaz]

Distaste

[deft glen]

[hasty umbra]

this is incredibly cursed, unfortunately it's not the worst fanart I've seen

[lunar topaz]

I know I’ve seen it before

[fallen path]

It was bad timing for me to see this chat and see that art

[sand crown]

Well this was an interesting time to check on this channel

[glass abyss]

Blessed

[glass abyss]

He is

[midnight chasm]

i'm at 91k right now, thanks everyone that drilled the gem zen way of life when i joined the game 🫡

[vernal glade]

181k next goal.

[signal halo]

the priority on that is a lot smaller now

I am unsure if it's appropriate to mention why

so I won't

[lyric ravine]

That moment when all ur f2p saved gems are gone cause u had to pity marine and hop

I don’t have anymore for beds

Is he worth it?

[vestal leaf]

I can relate but I had a big stash saved

Bede is incredible but no reason to scout just for meta

[lyric ravine]

I see

Is he replaceable with another poke within the same type?

[vestal leaf]

I mean he's a support

[lyric ravine]

Ah

[vestal leaf]

Not many supports can do the things he does

[lyric ravine]

I guess I’ll stick to my hoopa for now

[vestal leaf]

But you can definitely find substitutes up to a certain degree

He can DPS but like

[lyric ravine]

What’s with this game overloading psychic

[vestal leaf]

It's not his prime utility

Psychic, grass, water, fire are insanely loaded yes

[lyric ravine]

My sibling told me “just get deoxys 4head”

2.4k gems

Bede ur coming with me

[deft glen]

|| why? Got Colress? ||

[feral vale]

PSA, this is not the best place to ask things like that as we plain encourage saving in here more than anything. Ask in #poma-questions next time you have a question like that.

This is meant to be a safe space to help others away from temptation of the meta fad.

[lunar topaz]

I am having one of those monthly dilemmas when I see a fav is running/rerunning with|| Latias rerunning this month I am afraid I wont be able to contain myself from ||spending/going after her|| if I just see the banner image I feel like I will get tempted, I have a pity and a little more but if I do end up pitying her I could possibly miss a new fav and my current goal is 72.2K which I have not had the best opportunity to do in recent cause I have had a new fav release for 6 months in a row, the banner share is not perfect as I already have Latios albeit I would not mind gettinh him to 5/5 as I plan on 5/5'ing all my favs|| but I much rather would have had a rerun with her + aniskyla 2 favs on a bannner so I dont know what I am going to do and how to avoid feeling tempted going after her when I am trying so hard to reach my goal this time

[hasty umbra]

well, datamine will likely be up either the same day that banner goes up, or the next day at the latest

you surely can wait an extra day before doing anything

[lunar topaz]

oh that I can do!!

[hasty umbra]

I hate the banner is up that late, but it has that good side effect for anyone having a hard time resisting lol

[sturdy flower]

might as well not ||spoiler|| anything if you can guess from context

[feral vale]

I do like to say if a banner starts near the end of the month, wait until datamine.

[sturdy flower]

yep, just consider it if it's a skip month

to have 2 pities ready at all times

[lunar topaz]

this was my first skip month since sc banner rerun

[sturdy flower]

if you are going for pokefairs and not master fairs you should be able to get one fave per month

as long as they are on 2% banners

[tough oriole]

||Latias would be on 1.5||

[lunar topaz]

I’ve pitied pretty much every pokefair fair I’ve went for in that 6 month period

And o had to pity 3 units in one month during December lel

[feral vale]

Ouch…

[sturdy flower]

well yeah, but I also remember how you ||got 5/5 Zerena in a pity||

[feral vale]

W H A T

[lunar topaz]

2 of those were candies but fair!

atoning for thay it seems lel

[sturdy flower]

if you keep going 1 pokefair per month because of favs you only need the luck to flip twice

and your savings will more or less say the same

[feral vale]

||I’m hoping for a rerun of her to make up for my bad decisions in the past||

[sturdy flower]

for me gem zen is the act of not throwing everything till 0, but managing a safety buffer

for some other it's straight up not rolling and saving 400k+ gems

[vestal leaf]

^

[lunar topaz]

I tried doing this until they released 2-3 favs a month for a 6 month period

[tough oriole]

||The chance of getting 3 zerenas in a pity is only 10% (if the pity itself gave the 3rd one, its 20%). That’s higher than the chance of having to pity a 2% unit||

[lunar topaz]

My luck is very hit or miss

[sturdy flower]

Most awkward is to keep getting 2% units at around the half mark

[feral vale]

||Someone in #poma-questions got 5/5 Leon in a pity. Holy hell||

[sturdy flower]

It's a decent luck, but just doesn't feel that lucky

A lot of it has to do with our perception

[vestal leaf]

For me saving is skipping everything that's too cluttered (2 seasonals I both want? Gonna wait a year and go for a pity on dual if needed instead) and always having more than 100k, but past that everything is fair game

[feral vale]

I feel we all have our own goals and ideals when it comes to saving, I’m happy with just one pity, let alone two, which I just hit.

[vestal leaf]

Yea

[lunar topaz]

||i got 6/5 SSLeon in a pity but we’re getting off topic lel||

[hard wave]

Id like to be able to keep a pity but its hard when I have so many reruns I want and thats not including anything new that releases

[vestal leaf]

As long as it focuses on non pulling what you might regret and pulling what you really want

That's saving

[hard wave]

I can skip a month if I dont like anything but that usually never happens

[vestal leaf]

I feel like if you're a newer player you have to kinda hard focus fairs and forsake seasonals unless they're top tier faves

[sly breach]

Same

[hard wave]

Ive played for about a year now, and im not going for any seasonals

Just pokefairs and 4 masterfairs ( ||excluding hop who im currently pulling for || )

[feral vale]

This is my first time I’ve skipped an entire month.

[vestal leaf]

Yeah that's optimal

Sad tho

[hard wave]

Last month was my first time

[feral vale]

Not a Kalos fan?

[hard wave]

This is my list, unfortunately marnie and hop were not nice || havent even gotten hop yet ||

[tough oriole]

We’ve been getting a ton of gems lately thankfully

[vestal leaf]

Kinda crazy that you guys could afford pulling every month

This game is so generous

[hard wave]

I am, XY were my first games

I got || ss diantha and the frogs ||

[lunar topaz]

Don’t spread gem usage especially if you’re new

[feral vale]

I had bad pulling habits for a long time.

[lunar topaz]

I’m surprised myself I don’t know how I was able to maintain it

[hard wave]

|| I got marnie (pity), bede (first multi), now going for hop ||

[lunar topaz]

Oh

[hard wave]

I dont split my gems, I focus on one at a time

[hard wave]

|| im not good at saving ||

[sly breach]

||Saving is just too difficult||

||today that i got to spend my gems i used 50k of it||

[ripe sierra]

Gotta laser focus on your faves!!

[feral vale]

Really? I think it’s easy.

You just don’t fixate on the game all the time.

[hard wave]

Ig it would depend on how many pairs u want to go for

Maybe it’ll be easier once I dont have any/many reruns to go for so im hoping they decide to rerun a lot of pairs I want this year in triple banners

Hoping not many new pairs I like come this year as well

[feral vale]

That could be a factor, yes.

But I feel like its good to have a solid plan to stick to and do other things to pass the time until then.

[deft glen]

my last full saving months were NY's and Hoenn VA

[hard wave]

I have to see the unit and whether I like the alt or not personally, so I cant say ill pull for X character or X pokemon

[vestal leaf]

Mine were January, November and before that July

[hard wave]

O also my rerun list includes anyone in lodge (so gloria and N atm) hoping we get more free selects

[deft glen]

I wasn't used to saving till Johtrio wrecked my gem count

[hard wave]

Tho these r not priority unless they r already units I want to go for

[ripe sierra]

Oop

[tardy fiber]

Probably use #bot-zone next time

[ripe sierra]

Haha yeah, that was an accident! (If someone can delete that, thank you 😭)

[chrome nest]

I haven’t been playing poma for the past few days because on how boring it feels

I feel like i want for retire from it

[reef river]

Its always boring between big events

They definitely need to make some new gameplay stuff or spice up the existing events

[tardy fiber]

I treat poma as a side game, so I don't mind much if there's no content...i just do dailies and bail

[ripe sierra]

I take plenty of breaks from the game too!

[hasty umbra]

this is a mobile game after all, it's not intended to keep anyone entertained for hours every day

[tardy fiber]

Im taking a break on genshin right now due to slow network+lag , if a game starts to become not fun, i just leave it for a while

[ripe sierra]

Yep

[tardy fiber]

Luckily poma is just a few minutes game, the longest I spend on it is for day 1 Gauntlet

[tough oriole]

Even then, if you spread out LG streaks, it won’t even be a problem

[tardy fiber]

Yep, i am just a person that likes to clear everything day 1 and chilling for every day after

No need to worry about missing something and all of the tasks are done

[summer goblet]

Pokemon Masters is honestly not that taxing when it comes playing every day and the lack of ads def helps a lot

though I'm about to go for an intense 18 win streak a day Gauntlet to farm deluxe cookies

[tough oriole]

18? Is that what people mathed to be optimal

[ashen thunder]

If gauntlet is 7 days then 126 streak

idk how long gauntlet stays

[summer goblet]

it lasts till April 6th

so 21 days of guantlet farming

[tough oriole]

378 streak
But i think necronadal meant 18 streak, then reset, then 18 streak

[summer goblet]

yep, that is my plan

18 win streak then reset back and start over

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna do 12 streaks...not sure if i should repeat streaks as I don't need to farm deluxe cookies for now...well unless i want to finish putting sp3 on all of my shiny striker eggmons

[hard wave]

Ye same as well as events villa CS etc.

[tardy fiber]

Some events cannot clear day 1 though like those missions that need 50 runs need to stack stamina and spam low stamina stage to clear all of the missions day 1

Also blissful bonanza

[hard wave]

I dont worry too much about those, I have a list of things I go for and I usually finish the 50 stages before I get everything anyway

I stamina stack the reset before as much as I can

[tardy fiber]

Yep just not all events can clear day 1

Some are timegated

Csmm, villa, gauntlet can clear day 1

Oh wait gauntlet never ends

[ashen thunder]

I have to farm deluxe cookies till I get headstart on red

After that I'll slack

Only gonna do 10 streak

[hard wave]

Im going to do 10 streak and try to get a LS on everyone I have unlocked and maybe try to have 50 pink/blue saved up for the future but I may get too bored to do that, may just do like 5 clears a day for them

[tardy fiber]

Oh right i still haven't get wise entry 2 on dawn, but silver deluxe cookie have pretty low rate to get the one i wanted

[sonic cobalt]

Time to go to full saving mode. I've nearly exhausted all the non-event methods of gems, save for gradual missions. This game is hella generous but yeah. Going in to saving stasis at 6.1k gems now.

[flat schooner]

From today until <t:1680156001:d> you can get up to 12020 .
For more information check /events and /banners!

[feral vale]

That’s how much you’ll get when saving for the rest of the month, so good luck!

[lunar topaz]

There’s a command for everything

[cunning swan]

trinnia my good friend

[sonic cobalt]

I'm pondering if that number's including paid log-in bonus.

[cunning swan]

nah

the number is taken from the monthly gem count and it only always counts free gems

[lunar topaz]

Tricia was robbed

[sonic cobalt]

Oh, huh, that's actually kinda neat.

[cunning swan]

team tricia lost the server event and this is the price we have to pay

[lunar topaz]

[tough oriole]

||Time to sulk in #tricia’s-scouts ||

I only chose tricia cause she’s blue

[tardy fiber]

Im a trista supporter

[lunar topaz]

Same@lel tho I tried very hard during the event lel

[tough oriole]

I didnt do anything

[tardy fiber]

I remembered that there's wulfric top damage contest but i aint gonna 5* 20/20 wulfric so i sit that one out

[cunning swan]

I participated in the meme contest for tricia and that's it

[lunar topaz]

I liked the event a lot

[sonic cobalt]

so that "up to" number on the gems thing is assuming you haven't cleared any event missions or the like, yeah?

[cunning swan]

up to means the most gems you can get

[ashen thunder]

Is there any way to exchange the 3* PUs for 4* other than monthly?

Coz only 20 per month seems low

[cunning swan]

if you don't clear some events then you'll get fewer

[sonic cobalt]

well I more so meant that I've cleared some parts of events now.

[cunning swan]

it counts gem income daily. so for example we got the white day event on the 14th and they give gems. those gems will be counted on the 14th only even though you may not have completely claimed all the gems from that event

basically it counts how many gems are given out each day until the set date. whether you get more or less depends on whether you complete all the events

[sonic cobalt]

ahhh I see. Very interesting. Thanks for the knowledge!

[signal halo]

Not just him

I'll give full context, but I'll warn beforehand

Since it's pull results after all

||went for the triple banner and walked out with red, Lucas, colress and hugh||

[lean mango]

I feel like it's obvious as soon as you say pull results

[signal halo]

I mean

But yes

He arrived

And due to previous endeavors

I don't see the extent of Brendan's value to decide on pulling on skipping

I could say it at least got into the back burner until the datamine

[patent haven]

is the triple charming banner worth pulling for

[topaz compass]

@patent haven In gem zen the answer is always don't pull unless fave, but you wouldn't be asking for a fave

[upbeat lotus]

And no pity = dont pull

[tardy fiber]

I did ||pull faves without pity if the remaining gems in the month will still allow me to get pity within the banner duration ||

Well if i got early its luck, if not, still have enough to pity later

[lean mango]

I do wanna wait out a fave banner like Ball Guy, it's nice to have that resilience

[tardy fiber]

Now that I'm nearing my next rainbow tix, i wonder if i should also wait before candying Mesprit although its still quite long before anniv, but im scared if they wont give us a free rainbow tix like last year also 2/5 Mesprit barely get anything, the 3/5 is where the good grids lies

[lean mango]

Waiting will get you the clearer choice on what to do so I'd recommend wait :GlaciaPatientlyWaiting:

[tardy fiber]

Right, maybe i should wait till anniv...perhaps maybe i can dupe the new Chatelaine first instead

[violet nebula]

Exactly

By ani you will have a considerable stash of gems

At least 5 pulls

[tardy fiber]

but bp master unit doesnt cost gems

[violet nebula]

And they might release other BP units

We never know

[tardy fiber]

Yeap i guess i will save this rainbow ticket, scared if there's no more free rainbow ticket on anniv but got 2 new bp pairs

[opaque cargo]

Rainbow ticket?

[violet nebula]

For getting 10k BP points

You get to pick a 5* pair with it

[winged fossil]

I really need to find a way to stop myself from just pulling multis when I get back into a game after a break for example lol. The amount of times I look at stuff once I’m back into the swing of things on this and see stuff like 33/400 and 66/400 is too much…

Tend to find myself taking breaks and revisiting around anni timeframes and next thing I know I see something like that due to me not really paying as much attention to my gem count or whatever is leading me to this problematic habit. Anyone got any tips that might help stop it?

[violet nebula]

Don't hang out in the pull section, just swipe left to get the daily scout

Complete all tasks in game for dailies in as little time as possible (max 10 minutes)

[sly breach]

Doesn't help as much even to the extent that i started considering uninstall so i dont spend the gems i got

[violet nebula]

That can work to

Mildly extreme though, focus on things outside the damn game

Given it is so forgiving compared to literally most GATCHA's

[tardy fiber]

Need strong willpower like sometimes im demotivated to play poma in a skip month where there's no fave but i realised that i need gems to pull my faves later so i strengthen my resolve to get through that skip month and get every gems possible for future preparations

[violet nebula]

And these last couple months have smiled upon us

Praise Arceus

[tardy fiber]

Yep like we kinda get a pity worth each month recently

Other gacha i played sometimes need to save around 4 months to ensure a guarantee

Poma only need 1 and a half month on average

But of course it won't be enough if people keep pulling every units that are released

So be selective, this game ain't even that hard

[violet nebula]

Amen

[tardy fiber]

Another thing i like about poma is the supposed end game contents are as hard as how you want it to be.

Like if people feels cs is hard, can just do hard mode instead of master mode, if 10k is hard, can just do 4k params or etc

If feel bvilla is taxing, can just do a couple of floors each day, there are 2 weeks duration given to clear it

For gauntlet, the only good stuffs are for 10 streaks, but if its too hard can just do less than 10 streaks.

Also for EBE, if its hard can just do the first difficulty so you only lose 300 gems, or if its still too hard, can just ignore it completely, lose 600 gems are better than losing 36.6k gems

Also event missions, you can clear all gems on missions just by clearing the easy difficulty and the stuffs like clear 50 event stages just by doing those you already clear all missions, doesnt even need to clear the stage with specific theme tags, those are just for coins or extra 100 gems if its too much hassle or hard for you

[opaque cargo]

The game too easy. Everything is dead with mewtwo.

The endgame of this game is to save gem. The higher the amount of gem u have the more powerful u be.

[vestal leaf]

The endgame of the game is scouting your faves

Getting to EoS with 1million or 50k gems won't make a difference

[rare swan]

Not much point having a big gem balance if you don't have your faves

[reef river]

Perhaps a large number of gems is your favorite pokemon

[rare swan]

Your fave pair could be you + your gem balance?

[opaque cargo]

The endgame is to put your fav pair on cs podium every week

[topaz compass]

This fave talk has me regret not getting NY Lisia lol

I wanted diabetes from cuteness overload

[tardy fiber]

Idea for gimmighoul and gholdengo came from this

[feral vale]

That should’ve been pinned, who posted that?

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, but i remember saw someone edit gimmighoul chest with gems

[feral vale]

Welp lol

[hard wave]

I think chest had it as their PFP

[reef river]

When they add gholdengo its someone you have to spark for. 0% pull rate, they just flat out cost 400 scout points

||so a normal master fair||

[sly breach]

||i pitied bede, i have never been this mad over a game||

Also that damn fire chicken is going to be annoying tomorrow

[opaque cargo]

What fire chicken?

[rustic heron]

moltres

[topaz compass]

Having to pity a MF made you mad? Sounds like gacha isnt for you if 23% or whatever odds isn't allowed to happen

[feral vale]

That’s what saving said pity amount is for.

Don’t expect pity won’t happen…

||Calem is basically one of my biggest favs, and I had to pity his alt.|| It’s a good learning experience tbh.

[cunning swan]

Just expect every unit to cost 36.6k and if you get below that, you're pleasantly surprised

[vestal leaf]

^

My reasoning is

• hope for a 2% copy before 200/400, if it happens celebrate
• expect a single copy prepity for 2%, but don't count on it happening every time
• pray for a 1/5 1% copy before 200/400 and pop off if it happens, but realize it's extremely unlikely to happen
• hope for a copy before pity on 1%, but don't count on it happening MOST times

In general expect to always pity because luck do be like that

[reef river]

Surpressing the urge to yolo on the boys banner, simply because its "high value" for new units/move levels

Which has got me thinking, this banner is a 3-way 1.5%

Is may/brendan gonna be 1%/1%?

Have we had a 2 focus pokefair banner before?

[tough oriole]

It’s always been 1.5% for both double and triple featured

[reef river]

Ok. I just couldnt remember the last time we had a double

[tough oriole]

It shouldn’t change between poke fair, spotlight, or seasonal, those rates have always been consistent

Or perhaps I’m a liar who has no clue what he’s talking about

I could have sworn May and Burgh’s double featured was 1.5% though, but serebii says it was 1%

[reef river]

Yeah... if they keep that up thats awful

Why would i ever pull 1/1% when i can do 1.5/1.5/1.5%

[sand crown]

I would consider if it I had at least two of the units at 0 or 1 and they were faves but that has not occurred yet

[tough oriole]

I’m just going to believe quietly that serebii was wrong for some reason
I really thought that burgh and may’s spring scout was 1.5%

[reef river]

I think i remember the 1/1% specifically turning me off from trying for may that year

[tough oriole]

Wait, lemme find something real quick

[hasty umbra]

Serebii gets things wrong sometimes, but you can just wait until banners are actually up to plan what to do

[reef river]

I currently dont think i want to pull for anni may, it would be dependant on aprils datamine regardless. Just in general i think its a bad rate

Compared to if i wanted to go for raihan

[tough oriole]

Serebii was wrong at least once, i just checked

[vestal leaf]

Seasonal and spotlight don't get the "over 2%" focus perk on multi focus banners

Aside I think first ever seasonal rerun

[tough oriole]

Why would they decrease rates between first rerun and 2nd rerun

[vestal leaf]

Idk

I just remember that skylanta and erikomfee were 1+1%

And I'm pretty sure about it

Not 100%

But almost

Quads have always been 0.5x4

For seasonals

[hasty umbra]

Seasonals are not the best example to go by now, considering almost all seasonal events have more than 3 units to rerun

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I'm trying to remember the last time I checked a duo rate

It's been ages

[hard wave]

Idk about dual rates but they seem to have 2% total now, guess we’ll see when maypunny and burghepi rerun

[timber wren]

pal 22 rerun was 1.5% each

[vestal leaf]

Really? Uh

[timber wren]

that was the last duo seasonal rerun iirc

other than may and burgh

[vestal leaf]

So you mean palerena and paldawn?

[timber wren]

yeah

these have been incorrect on serebii before

[sly breach]

Redlax has gotten rerun so much i think he might get gen pool in next anni

[sand crown]

DeNa really should start moving the earlier pokefairs into general but I would be surprised if it actually happened

[hasty umbra]

the lodge banner exists, so no, that's not gonna happen

[timber wren]

agree i think they just get shoved into the lodge banner eventually, which continues to increase in value as time goes on

it's already at 2.5% featured total

[sand crown]

Forgot about the lodge banner yeah

[feral vale]

Speaking of Lodge

Y’all got hopes on who will be there next month?

[sturdy flower]

Steven

||Seagull||

[tawny dagger]

I personally want shiny beldum

With Steven

Shiny metang also works

[reef river]

Deciding how to use my move candies is stressful

Especially trying to account for future grid expansions

[feral vale]

I want Calem in Lodge tbh

Lodge Calem and Chespin

[timber wren]

steven and cradily would be very nice for me personally

[crimson nebula]

shit sorry i thought i was in bot zone

[sly breach]

Gladion, support zorua

[feral vale]

@timber wren Mind deleting this?

[tough oriole]

What if that wasn’t actually cami

[sand crown]

Lance or Steven

[tough oriole]

Predictions: Skyla or Sonia
Hopes: Hau or Gladion

[vestal leaf]

Selene or Elio imo

[reef river]

We definitely need a dude

Kukui i hope

[timber wren]

gen 3 and 7 are the only ones with only one lodge character

[reef river]

So we should have alola's champion

[lean mango]

Steven plsssssss

[reef river]

Kukui is cooler

[lean mango]

I have been saying, Steven every month

[timber wren]

have they done two limited lodge units in a row before?

i dont remember the order

[lean mango]

I can't wait to go broke out of fiery crystals because every fave unit that have in lodge are strikers

[hasty umbra]

you forgot Kanto

[timber wren]

i did

thanks

[hasty umbra]

in classic DeNA fashion there are 3 Galar and 3 Unova, the pandering is real, smh

[timber wren]

leaf sabrina and erika are waiting

[hasty umbra]

worst of all is the Galar ones being all limited

[lean mango]

So Lodge so far has been if it's correct, Raihan, Elesa, Serena, Dawn, Morty, Gloria.
No order of course but it seems to be more accessible units at least than limiteds

[feral vale]

Yeah two in that list are limiteds. Maybe they’ll do a gen pool/free one this time.

[feral vale]

Hope they fix that issue with the Paldean characters

[lean mango]

I hope that we get more 3* 4* gen pool from Paldea and Galar so I don't have to wait for a 5*

[reef river]

They will soon run out of non-alt limiteds

[winged fossil]

Lodge… Banner?

[reef river]

Theres steven, train bros, alder, red

[lean mango]

?

[reef river]

Bede and victor

[feral vale]

You know, the Monthly Poké Fair Scout.

They’re characters you can invite to Lodge.

[winged fossil]

Oh. I’ll be honest never noticed that

[turbid sapphire]

doubt that's gonna happen

[lean mango]

Still hoping

[feral vale]

….I just realized

The only Galar unit we have that’s less than 5 stars is Lodge Gloria.

And Raihan

[hasty umbra]

you forgot the other 2

[feral vale]

I forgot him and Marnie, cries

Still, they’re all limited

[lean mango]

Free select with Marnie when

[feral vale]

No free ones, not even from event

[hasty umbra]

yeah, they had a chance with the joke that is Ball Guy to give another free Galar pair, but here we are

[lean mango]

Pls I just want Marnie but I don't wanna spend

[feral vale]

I would love to get Marnie for free

[sonic cobalt]

Marnie added to general pools in 2030. Look forward to it.

[hard wave]

Yet I still havent gotten a chance to get him

Tbh I wouldnt mind him being moved to lodge banner

[deft glen]

That'd be nice

[hard wave]

Im also hoping they make him free for the select we get in a few months near 4th anni

Unless we get ingo too, id choose ingo over red

[tough oriole]

Nearly forgot to do lodge today and claim my daily missions

[feral vale]

OOF

[tough oriole]

Thankfully i noticed after my egg hatching notification appeared

[upbeat lotus]

You have egg hatching notification?

[fallen path]

i think it's just the general notification for your phone

[tough oriole]

Yeah if you set up notifs for poma, an egg hatching notif shows up

It also says “the 25th of each month is poma day; log in for some nice stuff”, and “this banner that you had no intention of pulling exists” occasionally

[lunar topaz]

Me everyday

Ever since 2 AM reset lodge is typically the last part of my daily schedule

[turbid sapphire]

i do it first so i don't have to do it in public

[fallen path]

Funnily enough lodge is always the first thing I do when I wake up so I can forget it the rest of the day

[lunar topaz]

Fair

[feral vale]

I only turned it on cause

[tardy fiber]

I have poma notifications on but it only tell me about new events...no egg notification

[broken mulch]

Aww yiss hit 60k again

[violet nebula]

Noice

[tardy fiber]

Done with gauntlet, gems back to 60680, hope this month still have 2 strike coins left...hope i can make strike candy this month

[ashen thunder]

I got all the desired lucky skills with just 10 streak, I can slack gauntlet

[tardy fiber]

Gonna wait for the next datamine before i spend my golden deluxe cookies

If nothing needs it, i gonna try to get SP3 on my shiny striker eggmons

[warm flint]

haven’t had this many gems in a hot minute 😳😳

[lean mango]

[violet nebula]

Keep it up

[timber wren]

two pities is a great spot, nice work!

[violet nebula]

It is the sweet spot

[signal halo]

ever since I started saving, 2 pities feels like too little

I think there are 2 or 3 pairs I'm eagerly considering to pull, right now

right now not as

currently featured

but "those pairs exist and if they came back, I'd want them"

classic elesa and ss morty

classic elesa because she seems to have one of my favourite gameplay strings as a mass debuffer, as well as being the last piece of the canon unova exodia

ss morty because I'm hellbent on making every type I have individually cracked

that said, I just have 63k gems left

[sand crown]

2 pities has been my traditional safe spot but the possibility of a MF trio shaft has me looking at 3 as a baseline

[sturdy flower]

remember you can also save during the MF banner usually to almost or guarantee one of them

but that will leave you really drained for the next 2-3 months if things go badly (my Johtrio experience)

[cunning swan]

relatable

[signal halo]

so far, my experience with mf trios has been consistent

I always skip one of them

except during the anni mf rerun, that had me skipping all of them

[sturdy flower]

DeNa loves not sticking to patterns

[topaz compass]

Me having every MF was supposed to protect me during reruns to save gems. Instead they have reruns at same time as new ones lmao

[feral vale]

Pulling a fast one there

[violet nebula]

DeNa gonna DeNa

Alola VA will be hell

[feral vale]

As long as they do a Gladion instead of Lillie alt, I’ll be happy

[violet nebula]

We know that is not happening

[feral vale]

[violet nebula]

Another Lusamine to and Lillie at least

[feral vale]

[violet nebula]

Be a good chance to bring Samson Oak

But hey Kalos VA they ignore AZ

[feral vale]

The boys always get shafted…

[violet nebula]

AZ would of made a good villain with some clever writing

[vestal leaf]

my theory is

MF selene and elio (neo champs)
VA Fairs lusamine, gladion and lillie, maybe with even guzma too

[violet nebula]

But DeNa got no writers

[cunning swan]

in an ideal timeline they'd do both

[feral vale]

Brother and sister duo

[violet nebula]

Probably the most likely

Don't like this neo champ thing

[cunning swan]

what if they're neo champs instead of elio and selene?

I'd go crazy

[feral vale]

Right??

[upbeat lotus]

[feral vale]

My boi Calem got the best outfit

[upbeat lotus]

He got drip

[feral vale]

I keep the EX style

Which is blue •w•

[sturdy flower]

Selene and Lillie

i won't object to Lana and Mallow alts that work together too

[sand crown]

I might legit go bankrupt here

[violet nebula]

😬

[summer goblet]

Another personnel Gem Record

[sly breach]

10 pity, to use when?

[vernal glade]

That’s 10 pities? Then what’s 500k?

[sly breach]

Should be around 17

Wait wtf

Its around 13

[sly breach]

Oh my math was right as 500k gave me 13 i was wondering if i just fucked up multiplying by 10

[hard wave]

In between 13 and 14

[vestal leaf]

36*10 does indeed not do 50

[hasty umbra]

apparently math is hard

[topaz compass]

And here I am stoked to be closing in on 3 pities

[sturdy flower]

passed 3 recently

[feral vale]

I’m a little over 2 pities

[turbid sapphire]

a little over 3, hoping to stay around there for a while

[lean mango]

In-between 2 and 3 pity amounts

[sly breach]

Well my name speaks for it self

[tardy fiber]

Hope next month is a skip, can only form close to 2 pities with remaining gems

[hard wave]

Same wouldnt mind may june july being skips as well, and if they arent hopefully its just reruns I can get early

Tho april im hoping is a complete skip

[summer goblet]

I'm skipping April

whether my fav comes or not

March will take an heavy toll on my gems

[hard wave]

It already has for me and still is

[rancid vale]

SAME

[summer goblet]

but first, see if i can hit my first 400k gem milestone before risking my gems for the Galar trio

[broken mulch]

I’ll be ready for two favorites early April, but I hope it doesn’t come to that lol

[tardy fiber]

Same, i have enough to pity 2 but hopefully it wont be as alola VA is near

[deft glen]

I'm almost at two pities, for me two seems like a good spot

[topaz compass]

Almost 400k, I wouldn't call that "risking" gems for them lol

Unless you mean lifetime savings and not current balance

[lean mango]

losing gems in any way is a number down

[daring citrus]

[sullen hedge]

Should I full paid gems ball guy if I get him early, that way I got an ex since I'm low on power ups and save candies

The only pair I'm waiting on

[reef river]

Depends on your paid gem budget/philosophy

Like do u buy the 3k bundle every 3 weeks

[sullen hedge]

Yea I do,

I have almost 30k paid now and no select pokefairs in sight

[reef river]

||i say yes, im going the same route||

[sullen hedge]

Ok Ty glad I'm not the only one

[reef river]

The paid selects have been few and far between recently and unless you are thinking you are going for one of the seasonal 10k selects or new seasonal 20ks

[sullen hedge]

the what

oh you mean paid tiers

[reef river]

Yeah

[sullen hedge]

after SC lillie im never doing that again

[reef river]

Yeah even with saving paid gems from the bundles it feels like too much for too little

Easier to just save 36k free gems for them

[sullen hedge]

||i used all my story bundle gems for her to get 1/5||

[surreal prism]

Is it worth spending 3k gems to get a select scout from the base banner? Kiawe has eluded me for so long but I dunno if it's worth it or not

[lean mango]

I'd say no

I never really recommend going for the gen pool select scouts

[surreal prism]

Yeah, that's fair. Just waiting for him to show up

[lean mango]

Same

[cunning swan]

save those paid gems for a seasonal/pokefair select imo

[lean mango]

He's one of the oldest gen pool units that have avoided me now that I finally got Burgh

[sullen hedge]

You'll get him when you pull for a fave

[violet nebula]

He will come, don't use paid gems for anything that can appear in any banner

[topaz compass]

Especially a support without anything unique

I did it for 1st Sonia and 1st Courtney. Recently got my 4th Sonia so it is a waste but took a year for that to happen

[reef river]

At least wait for one of those regional 1.5k ones or type based 2k ones

[topaz compass]

Yeah I can't remember if we still get 1.5k ones but 2k still pop up

[timber wren]

we get regional selects with VA

[reef river]

Alola va should be next

[timber wren]

so an alola one should be coming up soon, but also we’ll get a lot of alola tickets during VA too

[reef river]

Tho tbh once that happens we will get a ton of alolan ticketd

[timber wren]

same braincell

[cunning swan]

I'm 300 gems away from reaching 4 pities

[vernal glade]

Ya I need Alola tickets, bad

And I mean very bad

[violet nebula]

But you will need the neo master fairs even more badly

[feral vale]

Man, testing free 3/4 stars have been fun af

[vernal glade]

Not happening…

[sly breach]

They are quite good with grids

Only a problem when you aint got orbs for them

[feral vale]

Yeah I noticed that’s one hell of a limitation.

[ashen thunder]

Me happy with 10 streak

[signal halo]

I need to check if I can do a comfortable 10 streak this time

Last time it was hell

[crisp oracle]

RAHHHHHH PITY

[lean mango]

YOOO NICE

[lunar topaz]

Gaming

[summer goblet]

my first major goal is to reach 500k gems so I can post my achievement on Reddit as the 3rd known player to reach that milestone

there maybe more but unknown to us

[tough oriole]

Has aqua hit that milestone?

[tardy fiber]

So its 18th reset today, we almost pass the drought content period of gems...so there's no hidden datamine stuff that some people said at all i guess

[upbeat lotus]

If there was a mid month update, it should have happened a few days ago

[tribal thistle]

Is there like a gem guide as to where I can get gems from around the game?

[upbeat lotus]

Do every content

[tardy fiber]

Not sure because there's a lot of sources, but yeap do every content...the ones at training area as well...iirc i did that before to remove all ❗

[upbeat lotus]

Story coop and hard mode give a lot of gems

[tardy fiber]

Sync pair story as well, especially those with evolutions

30 gems for each evolution stage

[hasty umbra]

pocket change tho, but every bit helps

and there is the first time rewards for LA battles too

[tardy fiber]

Iirc trainer lodge gave a bunch of gems at the start

It becomes slow only when you need hundreds of interactions to clear next goal

[clever oyster]

55k gems...

[vernal glade]

Halfway to 2nd pity, you got this.

[winged fossil]

alright saving mode time starting with 40 gems after that shaft

can someone make me feel better about ending up with Hugh of all things btw, or is he unsalvageable for a gen pool unit

like is he the new glacia

[lunar topaz]

Hugh is the furthest thing from pre Pb glacia he’s pretty great

Flinch Utility good damage good sync Ez setup

Can revive himself

[winged fossil]

is he worth giving a lucky skill or probs not

cause normal type striker makes me hesitant

[summer goblet]

yes, he has reach 500k milestone

[lunar topaz]

Definitely he’s a really good one

Sages has quite a few clears of him in his stages clears post from when he released

[winged fossil]

i assume cs2 like most dps?

[lunar topaz]

Ye

Albeit this isn’t the place for that

But Hugh is really solid

Get him theme skills from like hilbert and a leer normal egg mon and he’s set

[winged fossil]

ok thx

[slim fable]

I really, really, really need help changing how i think

Cause the second i get 3k gems i sped them immediately

Even though i might need to save for someone I want

[cunning swan]

do you have a fave list? make a list and always remind yourself "if I spend a stray 3k here and there, what if next month gives me a fave"

don't linger too much on the scout screen. do your daily battles and dip. do the daily pull by swiping left on the small thumbnail in the pokemon center

[vernal glade]

The more you save, the more chances of getting a fave you want.

[dapper kelp]

finally got 5 digit gem count again, i know its not much but im still proud of myself for saving this much :)

[lean mango]

Nice!

[rare swan]

!!

[orchid field]

Hey, can anyone please confirm what the bp count today should be if one hasnt skipped a day?

[exotic sparrow]

60 BP on round 7

[winged fossil]

So I learned we got hairstyles today.
I also finished my pity today so I’m finally allowed to save again… not sure yet what exactly I’d be saving for but…
Hm… What timeframe is Zoroark N associated with if any?

That’s the main rerun pair I can think of atm

Glad we have more customization than we used to bc part of why I didn’t like using mc pairs was the cap and hairstyle tbh.

[vestal leaf]

zoroark is a summer unit

so it should rerun around july

[winged fossil]

Ok so I’ve got a few months until then that’s good

Gameplay wise I’ll prob be satisfied with the amount of aoe dps I have now, at most one more would make a full cs out of them. I should prob figure out sometime if there’s any other characters I care a lot about other than Serena, Lillie, and N

Either way ima sleep now gn chat

[topaz compass]

9.7k gems left to earn

[nova lynx]

Heck yeah

Might actually be able to get to 50k at the end of this month for the first time ever

||At first I wanted to go for SS Brendan at the end of the month since I don't have a reliable sp def debuffer (plus he's a good support), but I think I'll just hold onto my gems until Alola VA instead||

[rare swan]

do you have Lucian, out of curiosity? he's a great spdef debuffer!

[sly breach]

Datamine when?

[reef river]

My guess is either thursday or friday, or next monday

[sly breach]

I really need a skip month

[sturdy flower]

we have new content on 29th so...

well, "new", rerun

[tardy fiber]

Both Mega Evolution VA reruns this month

[sturdy flower]

big hint at no new va at the start of next month

shame we can't buy the boost for 5* Power Up

[hard wave]

Good, we dont need aloVA right after anni

Glad I could finally EX giovanni tho, he was the last legendary unit that I needed a rerun for (besides solgaleo and zamazenta ofc)

[vernal glade]

Best time for Alola is May

[hard wave]

Sinnoh VA came in january right? It seems like that’ll be the case if they follow last yrs format

Galar should be right before anni then

[vernal glade]

And I really need 5* power ups

[sand crown]

Probably some SC type of thing in April

The dev letter mentioned something like a special CS or whatnot

[hard wave]

Ye thats what I was thinking, the CS thing is related to an SC event

Hoping its only one pair who’s skippable

[sand crown]

While I have traditionally been lucky with SC I am going to have to pass for AloVA

[vernal glade]

We can’t predict what characters it is next month.

If it is another SC then its possible spring is never getting new units.

[hard wave]

If thats tru ig we’ll get a rerun of the 2021 event every april until eos

[vernal glade]

Ya, I wonder if Spring became a failure.

[hard wave]

Atleast I can get the spring medals last yr since I didnt do the event for some reason

[tardy fiber]

Spring looks like a good platform to release goofy pokemons like blacephalon

Cmon DeNa

Although i will cry as that made April not a skip month for me

[hard wave]

Blacephelon and elio (april fools)

[sturdy flower]

at least VA is predictable, you more or less know how many units you might want

random events can be anything

at least one unit should be one of these types

[hard wave]

How would u know?

And tru, but VAs and annis r big so its hard to save w both back to back

[sturdy flower]

it will be hard to persuade me to roll much on Galar VA for example

i'm happy with EX for Hop

[hard wave]

Ye im fine w galar, alola maybe just lussa and ill see the VA pairs

[broken mulch]

Hmm now that I about it

Even if MF Gladion comes out I don’t think I want him that much haha

Nor another Lillie

Unless either are fairy

[sturdy flower]

but random events can go like "here's your obscure gym leader alt no one could have predicted"

[broken mulch]

Another Lusamine alt is all I want

Sounds like April lol

Spring Burgh

What the heck

Only question is is spring returning or it’s another SC on April

[sturdy flower]

they already teased Champion Stadium themed event

[broken mulch]

They did?

Oh right the CS with specific type weakness thing

Plz not fairy weak

[sturdy flower]

it will be easy dw

[broken mulch]

… unless they’re gonna release an OP fairy banner with a unit I love haha

[sturdy flower]

doesnt matter because it will be easy

like non master mode cs

[hard wave]

Hopefully its not a disappointment like NCS

Not that the alts were bad I just expected it to be a new mode not a new event they’ll be doing from time to time

[broken mulch]

NCS provides banger tracks so keep bringing them on I say

[sturdy flower]

add more battle challenges to future NCS

[compact pasture]

500 more gems!

[hard wave]

It wasnt included in datamine right?

[sturdy flower]

what wasn't?

[hasty umbra]

no, because this is basically a mini rally

external to the game

[hard wave]

Ah ok

[hard wave]

500 gems from ball guy

[sturdy flower]

huh

oh, probably a trailer or something i didnt see

[hard wave]

#game-announcements message

[sturdy flower]

not sure how I feel about getting gems from a terrorist though

[hard wave]

Gems r gems

[chrome nest]

https://twitter.com/pokemonmasters/status/1637287785592651777?s=46&t=NZLWigbKATZwxtv-aBToFA hey y’all there’s like 120 retweets on this tweet so does is it like 500 x 120 = a huge amount of gems?

Pokémon Masters EX (@PokemonMasters)

📣 #WelcomeBallGuy

Everyone will get rewards, such as 5★ Galar Scout Tickets and 500 gems, based on the number of tweets responding to Ball Guy’s challenges!

Starting March 20, you’ll also have a chance to win a Poké Ball replica. Stay tuned!

Details:
https://t.co/ZIJFWuEBJ2

Twitter · Mar 19, 2023, 3:00 AM

[hard wave]

500 gems per img shared?

[hasty umbra]

of course not...

[hard wave]

Ye ik

[compact pasture]

85/100K saved!

[chrome nest]

Well that’s demoralizing

[hasty umbra]

it's called being realistic

I get more free gems is nice and all, but let's not go crazy lol

[tardy fiber]

Found him, i already help to tweet

[hard wave]

Hmm ig there’s multiple locations

[tardy fiber]

I guess i can reach 2 pities with this twitter rally

2 pities before next month

[terse quiver]

What a disappointment… ill take though

[tough oriole]

I can’t believe they’re giving 60 galar tickets and 30 , that’s kinda insane

Who cares if its only 500 gems, that’s small potatoes compared to the , and still more than we’d have otherwise

[sturdy flower]

I haven't used any tickets for a long time now

[broken mulch]

Wait I’m dumb, what do we have to do the tweets?

[fallen path]

We already got 3000 gems earlier, so 500 is a nice unexpected extra bonus

[broken mulch]

Aye it’s pretty sweet

Sadly won’t push me to 2 pity still but it helps

[vernal glade]

So what would the total be this month now. 40010?

Because we gotten 3000 and 500?

[upbeat lotus]

37780

The 3000 has already been counted

[winged fossil]

are there any 4 ⭐ left in the month?

[tough oriole]

Ill check in bot zone

[winged fossil]

cause for 4star supports im missing 1 level for clemont and 2 for dawn to have all those 3/5

[tough oriole]

Might be reading it wrong, but seems like there’s one from poma day

[winged fossil]

alright

[tough oriole]

Also one from hoenn va part 1

And another from hoenn va part 2

[winged fossil]

i guess ill use my current stones on certificates for a 2nd lv150 then,

[upbeat lotus]

wait, does PMD shop always have 3 and 4* candies?

[winged fossil]

question, is it generally better to spam dailies with initial amount of stamina per day, for the extra X event currencies that are up, or just full spend on something like kanto VA pt2

also im having trouble picking between C!Marnie and Zerena for my next lv150... i really like using both of them and im going dps before utility/nuke roles for this process
edit: picked marnie this time, zerenas next on the leveling block

[summer goblet]

personally, I spam dally stamina everyday to farm resources (mostly 3 star power ups) mainly cause you get more energy in general when its charging up instead of a full tank and also be used to level up more efficiently

for the dallies, its optional though the one with VA events gives out regional tickets and power-ups so you want to grab them

[broken mulch]

I use up all my stamina on strictly events nowadays

Once I finish all current events, I use the rest on VA part 2 because they give the most bronze power ups and I can use any pairs so free Exp haha

[tardy fiber]

I spam on kanto VA part 2 for now for more well thats because i already claimed all of the good stuffs in other event shops

[broken mulch]

Yeah if I do need extra level materials, I do the training areas instead

Those days are long gone now though

[tardy fiber]

I did farm theme orbs sometimes, but i will wait for training area boost rally to farm it

Still plenty of non eggmon pairs yet to max theme skills

[cunning swan]

Same

[winged fossil]

any other N/Lillie/Serena pairs that are good? i think those 3 trainers ill prob want to collect at least all the good pairs of over time

trying to make saving targets so im less likely to fall into gacha traps compared to before

[cunning swan]

you can probably check the tierlist if you're basing off of meta

[winged fossil]

alright

[vestal leaf]

there's no bad serena pair tbfh

lillie too, maybe new year one is just a bit mediocre

[winged fossil]

thats good to hear. so far my lillie collection is the closest to completion. limited wise for her, i have sc and anni. n i only have anni

only limited serena ive got is zygarde, have to check if theres other ones

[round mason]

recovering

[vestal leaf]

champion and palentine

[winged fossil]

oh right, forgot i had pal

so i just need champion to rerun for her

cool

think this is about right for my prioties rn, since apparently the lillie im missing is niche i just put her below the pokemon-related favs. used the random things as separators.
ima head to bed now. 560 gems. biggest hurdle will prob be the 3k gem mark knowing myself...

[tardy fiber]

Lucas and ssbrendan will be available this month, so it will be tight

[winged fossil]

I’m broke so have to skip them this time around. Spent on cmarnie.

She took pity for one copy

[hard wave]

Same

[tardy fiber]

Better save for summer N, you probably have a pity if you skip everything till his rerun

Well ||i spent 2 and a half pities for all 3 birbs ||

||91.2k gems gone||

[winged fossil]

I’m expecting to be able to pity once or twice before him, so if alola va does happen… I’ll hopefully be able to exit with enough for n still, based on gem counts this year

But I’ll prob only bother with it if it’s like Lillie or lussa rerun

[tardy fiber]

Oh right also ripe time for lussa as alola VA is approaching

[upbeat lotus]

remember that Zerena didnt comeback for Kalos VA

[tardy fiber]

We are still missing alola pride so might have another MF on the horizon, although DeNa leaning towards pokefairs now

[winged fossil]

Mhm. The fact alola va stands between me and zoroark scares me because of how many alolan favs I have

[tardy fiber]

Well they just run NCCalem and NCSerena right before kalos VA

2 master fairs

[hard wave]

Too early

[winged fossil]

Think alola prob has to be my fav region

so hopefully it won’t put me off my course for zoroark too bad

[tardy fiber]

I hope there's a support alola fave... right now my alola faves are all techs and strikers

Easier to do alola specific content

As support tanker is the one that take all of the hits

[winged fossil]

Speaking of. What the absolute fuck are they gonna do to our solgaleo for it. First MC ex…?

Cause they always come with la ex and powerup from what we’ve seen right

[tardy fiber]

Hope so, i wrote feedback on MC EX months back, just do white cap and white outfit for solgaleo EX, yellow for pikachu, blue for cobalion, pink for mesprit, brown for regirock

EZ

[winged fossil]

They might rugpull and give us a free lunala or necrozma instead, or like a second solga pair… but I’m expecting more likely something done with current solgaleo

Imagine instead of the trainer becoming shiny our solgaleo suddenly ends up shiny lmfao

Like low key with the fact mc has had no exs I wouldn’t be surprised if they just make the Pokémon turn shiny on ex

[tardy fiber]

If they add another Free legendary adventures unit for alola, we need to see if there's another unreleased alola character...well there's ryuki/ilima/dexio/sina i guess...because all legendary adventures pairs are all base character and not sygna suit or others

Oh Faba and Wicke

If they want to avoid giving MC solgaleo the alola power boost

[cunning swan]

well legendary adventures units are all major box legendaries (sans mewtwo, who's a major legendary but not on the box cover) so I don't see why they'd add another free legendary adventures pair for alola

[tardy fiber]

Because mc solgaleo doesn't have alola tag

[cunning swan]

if anything I wonder if they'd continue giving us a free box legendary for SV or they'd give in to capitalism and make both of them limited

[tardy fiber]

Hope they still continue the tradition

Each free legendary is 36.6k gems less to complete my fave list

Spotlight faves as well...i wonder why they only release pheromosa and silvally in it

[cunning swan]

4 pities secured!

[sturdy flower]

not this month for me

[mild spindle]

Any gem savers know about how Streak Bundles interact with paid gem cap? Like if after you've accepted the initial 3k from the $3 bundle, and you're at or close to 80k, do you have an issue getting the daily logins? Or does it just outright tell you, you cannot purchase the streak bundle because you'd go over cap with the daily logins?

[gloomy holly]

[rotund sleet]

80k paid

[sonic cobalt]

Wait there’s a cap on paid gems? Lmao

[feral vale]

Its per month

Like how many you can buy in a month.

[drowsy saddle]

There's a cap of how many you can hold at once too, 80k paid.

[sullen hedge]

Wait you can only hoard 80k paid at once? That's insane

[vestal leaf]

"only"

Why would you need more

[drowsy saddle]

only

[vestal leaf]

Paid gems are something you get to scout

[drowsy saddle]

What if you wanted to pull on 20 5k selects at once

[vestal leaf]

Oh no

You'd have to buy gems one time more

Oh the tragedy

[sullen hedge]

I mean I'm already almost halfway there because I don't really use my paid gems

So the fact that I'll be forced to use my paid gems

[feral vale]

I’d literally stop at 20-25k

[sullen hedge]

Instead of just hoarding it

[hasty umbra]

Shocking idea, stop buying them

[vestal leaf]

Why would you be forced

^

[lunar topaz]

I don’t intend on sounding rude or wise but then why do you buy them?

[sullen hedge]

I mean it's still semi worth it in general, this is comparing to other gachaa

Also it's buying for the move candy

[vestal leaf]

It's worth to have multiple selects

[lunar topaz]

You can buy move candies??

[vestal leaf]

Yeah

[lunar topaz]

Dying

[vestal leaf]

The 23 bucks bundle

[sullen hedge]

I just don't get why putting a cap on it makes any sense like company wise

[lunar topaz]

It’s cheaper than heros so I can’t complain 50$ for a free 5* hype

[sullen hedge]

Because like you said, once you cap just stop buying?

[vestal leaf]

Why would you need more

[sullen hedge]

Means less earning from them?

[vestal leaf]

For what kind of gacha you'd need 90k paids

[sullen hedge]

No I'm not speaking from our pov, I'm talking about why would they need to cap it in the first place

[drowsy saddle]

Perhaps it's a failsafe for, uh, people spending too much money and wanting it back? Or some system error? I.e. "People won't buy 80k anyway, so let's take some steps to make sure it doesn't go the wrong way"?

[sullen hedge]

I don't get it but alright

But better learn it now than if I actually hit cap

[feral vale]

My only answer I can think of is to experiment? Based on what Sages asked?

[sullen hedge]

And if you get the candy bundle and the sync orb bundle that's 10k gems every 20 days

So in less than half a year? You'll hit cap

[lunar topaz]

Idt I’ve heard of someone ever reaching or nearing the cap lel

[sullen hedge]

I mean these daily gems only recently happened right, and we've had good paid selects

[lunar topaz]

They began during anni

[sullen hedge]

So maybe march to septemberwill be the lull

[vestal leaf]

Whales are weird

[feral vale]

[lunar topaz]

Wth lol

[fallen path]

That’s a first world pomas problem..

[sand crown]

lol smh

[sly breach]

Lol

Doing my last LG tomorrow so am back to talk about how broke and bored i am

[tough oriole]

So that you can’t just buy all the deals at anni when they’re cheap and save them eternally

[feral vale]

If you’re bored, find something else to do. It’s not all about this game.

Like, do you have hobbies or other interests?

[smoky stratus]

how much money is that?

[topaz compass]

If galar VA gives 4+ new units it will be the most stacked region

[sturdy flower]

new Red on Galar

and Giovanni

[placid token]

imagine saying get a life

[cunning swan]

that's exactly the point. bored and have the itch to pull? touch some grass

[tough oriole]

||All the grass is buried in snow tho||

[feral vale]

||Melted here.||

[tough oriole]

||Wet grass is awful to touch too||

[chrome nest]

||Isnt it considered wet dirt so it’s ground and water type||

[tardy fiber]

Other than poma day multis, i only have datamine to look up to now so hibernating mode

Oh right iirc ball guy have an event that give all move coins except yellow

So that will be nice as well

[sturdy flower]

it's not long till datamine

[tardy fiber]

This event, this with poma day free coins...thats 2 move coins for each role except yellow

As ball guy actual event only give 1 strike 1 support...i guess the pic in above post is different

[upbeat lotus]

Wait i can get my Anni May to 3/5 way sooner

[tardy fiber]

Yeap had to mention this as i dont see bot zone included it

Might help for those that almost form candies

I still need april i think to form my yellow candy...unless my lodge guest give 1 more coin

I guess can only 2/5 my cmarnie this month

[sturdy flower]

I'm sitting on 7 tech candies

[warm flint]

me with 6 😭

[sturdy flower]

i have became very protective of them

[warm flint]

oh shoot i thought you meant coins 💀

[sturdy flower]

no, that's 140 coins

😅

[fallen path]

I had 4, now at 2

17/20 away from 3rd one again

[sturdy flower]

but there's plenty of techs that sit on 1/5 for me just because there's no challenge and I'm bored of LG

[warm flint]

i only got 2 rn i’m waiting for dm to ||see if i pull on galar trio||

[sturdy flower]

this kinda became my chill casual game and it's not bad

[warm flint]

forgot this was resource save sorry 😭

[sturdy flower]

makes saving gems a breeze too

[tardy fiber]

Talking about tech candy, i still left 1 tech fave that i haven't 3/5...only 1/5, but fall iris is a seasonal...i wonder if i should wait for seasonal select first, i have paid gems and tech candies is important so i always jump on getting dupes via selects if i can

[warm flint]

yeah i’m not super fixated on this game anymore unlike last year

[sturdy flower]

if it demanded toms of grind I'd probably drop it

only thing i wish we had is pc and switch client

I'd do lg streaks if on pc

[tough oriole]

Now i’m super fixated on another game
||It’s a gatcha game too ||

[sturdy flower]

I'm playing another one too, but for like 7 years now

[tough oriole]

7 years ago is 2016
I was about to say i forgot what happened in 2016 but that’s when the first pokemon game i played came out

[fallen path]

The great summer of Pokémon Go lol

[sturdy flower]

i didn't have a smartphone back then so i didn't play Go

also perhaps SM released?

[tough oriole]

I was referring to moon being my first main line game

[sturdy flower]

i have moon steelbook

it's pretty

[tough oriole]

Why not sunsteel strike book?

[sturdy flower]

Lana is one of my faves because i have always liked water Pokemon and she made the Kyogre joke + had a funny fish in her backyard

shame on 0 alts

[tough oriole]

If mallow got an alt, i think lana has a good chance too

[sturdy flower]

then there's Kahlil who got more content in masters than mainstream but sadly no alts either

she's playing golf which is considered a leisure activity, is on a tropical island but instead of relaxing keeps focusing on self improvement

there's something cool in that

[upbeat lotus]

At least she got a banger theme

[tough oriole]

In masters she was literally asked “do you want to be alola’s champion” and she said no

[upbeat lotus]

based

[tardy fiber]

I like Masters as i treated it like a continuation for characters after the mainline games

[sturdy flower]

i treat it as alt multiverse canon

[sturdy hatch]

Just like all Pokemon canon then

[sturdy flower]

starting from gen8 they cut the other gen cameos...

like how gen 4 had Jasmine

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, SV doesn't have any cameos?

Swsh also?

[winged fossil]

managed to make an answer to the ebe i hadnt finished. man piers was stressful for my roster.

convinced that mightve been a rare case where i woulda lost by a hair of damage without lv150 on my dps...

[tough oriole]

I think you may have wanted to post that in #1009557516369281075

[tardy fiber]

Oh right no EBE for ball guy so its smooth sailing till datamine