Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[tardy fiber]

Gonna be strong and not get tempted by non faves, i keep reminding myself on "will i make this unit 3/5 and if i got it?" if the answer is no... that's a skip

[fallen path]

as usual, it depends on the money made for these variety scouts

it'll prob continue tbh

[cunning swan]

[timber wren]

they probably have variety scouts planned out for the next several months so if things do well/poorly it’ll still take time before we see any change

[tardy fiber]

Seeing this is for kanto e4 file part 1, we might get varagatha and varlance later

[reef river]

With this month being so skippable for me, its time i finally decide how to use my 4 tech candies

[fallen path]

oh yeah, a part 1 implies a part 2 and so on

[tardy fiber]

I already put my tech candy on fall iris, kinda sad that there's no seasonal select on half anniv

[fallen path]

think of it this way tho, we get 24k to bank + maybe more if we have another rally

[reef river]

Wow i cant wait for agatha with her 2nd gengar and lance with his 2nd dragonite

Iconic. Very worth pulling on a v banner

[tardy fiber]

Lance aerodactyl probably

[crude coral]

I seek asylum in this zen sanctuary till mommy LuSSamine comes

[fallen path]

i genuinely don't mind a mid month every now and then

[reef river]

What are you hiding from the utter mediocrity of the upcoming banners

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's rally later, didn't tea party sc also have rally? Pokewar sc also got rally

Im happy that they add EX to 4* bp and lodge units...now getting a unit for lodge guests feel good when it also can

[crude coral]

Kekw good point

[reef river]

The more I roast the upcoming units the easier it is to justify skipping them

[cunning swan]

I'm gonna be so salty if Lance gets variety. He deserves something better

[hasty umbra]

tbf NY Lance is a thing

even tho his grid is useless...

[cunning swan]

Still more effort than variety scouts

[reef river]

I do feel salty as a lorelei fan

Id love a legitimate seasonal or sygna suit outfit

But no shot am i gonna pull for the same model with a usable kit

[sly breach]

Lorelei kit aint too bad

Bruno is shite

[reef river]

I mean their kits are pretty similar as far as the basic buffs. It doesnt really matter either way

The kit is fine but thats not important here

[hard wave]

But thats only 60, where r the other 15 from? Also the unova alola and kanto

[topaz compass]

Good system to go by. If you know it will not be good enough at 1/5 and you won't ever 3/5, then skip

[robust plaza]

I got ss brendan in a paid select and used 2 support candies for 3/5

Triple charming it is

[winged fossil]

Well. This is fun. A bit dry but it’s enough to ||pity lussa|| when drops

There’s nothing they could do I feel for next mine to make me not grab her cause I’ve waited almost 1.5 years for her as a fav

[robust plaza]

Gem count. ||I got 3 lucas dupes, 1 anni raihan, and 1 redlax from triple charming in 264 scout points. Time to go for anni may or chop.||

[winged fossil]

I might as well be in debt with what was revealed but, I’ll be out of it by 26th it appears.

Especially since I still have a few hundred gems in missions of the hoenn rerun

[tough oriole]

I’m so glad i saved a bunch of , they’re updating the pool!

[hasty umbra]

in 6 months probably, not right now afaik

[tough oriole]

2 days from now actually

https://pastebin.com/PNRnzaWY

[vernal glade]

People saying 24k. So I calculated and it seems like I’ll be at 180k ||unless I pull|| I think that’s another pity I’m guessing.

[hard wave]

I did not know this

Cant wait to use my kalos tickets for shauna, tho ill still have the ❗️ bcz I have kanto tickets

[hasty umbra]

I'm failing to see how that means updating the pool tho, it's just date changes

[hard wave]

https://pastebin.com/7RncJj3b

Its not in last month’s

[hasty umbra]

the problem here is, there is not a single updated banner image

unless they intend to keep the same ones, which would be weird, guess we'll have to wait

[hard wave]

Which banner images?

Nvm

[tough oriole]

[lean mango]

Readjusted the tier list

[hasty umbra]

Glacia fan, interesting, we don't see those often

[topaz compass]

@robust plaza || that's pretty amazing, unless you mean that the Lucas is above 5/5 now (which at least you are protected against any grid expansion) ||

[lean mango]

, have you not seen my tangents for a Glacia alt

[robust plaza]

4/5

[topaz compass]

Yeah I'd be real happy with those results in your situation. || I am going to pull until I get raihan tomorrow but sadly already have 3/5 of the other 2 to start) ||

[tawny dagger]

||They'll get their grid expansion eventually||

[sonic cobalt]

Yeah this is for sure a save month, but that gem count for rewards is a bit lackluster. Ah well. Guess I get to just casually enjoy the game for the moment since I won’t feel urges

[summer goblet]

in the next couple of days, i will have 400k f2p gems soon

[rotund sleet]

missed last couple dailies

premed is no joke i haven’t done that in a year

it is what it is

[vernal glade]

May should have their gem count buffed because most likely Alola VA

[winged fossil]

yeah, i hope may and june are decently stacked so ill have VA funds ontop of zoroark

cause ||LuSSa|| decided she'd come right before and steal any VA funds i have.

the 1.5 year wait room is finally coming to an end

[tardy fiber]

At least the amount of move coins is kinda nice, i can complete a support move candy on april, and the two others probably on may ...also 2 yellow coins on a no gauntlet month

[winged fossil]

10 strike coins im happy about

[hard wave]

Where’s the 2nd one coming from

[winged fossil]

halfway to 2nd strike candy after this months coins

[hard wave]

Besides the pasio stadium

[winged fossil]

which im prob saving two for zoroark's grid

[winged fossil]

i assume BP?

[vestal leaf]

May should be around 30k

June might be lower again

[hard wave]

I dont think coins from the BP r included

[winged fossil]

i mean as long as i exit june with pity im fine, but thatll mean im prob hoping for beating pity on someone during the next couple months.

[hard wave]

I just hope lussa doesnt shaft me hop and marnie already did that

[tardy fiber]

I think Tlim only doesnt include trainer lodge guest milestones and random drop because tlim knows the amount of bp total if people never missed any bp

[hard wave]

Ive done 10 multis on hop and still dont have him so im pitying unless I get him next multi

[hard wave]

Ah alr prob just one for me then

Im at 1040 r4

[tardy fiber]

Im at 9260 r6

[winged fossil]

im 6860 r2 cause i dont really bother keeping up with bp, tbh

[tardy fiber]

I had to keep up because bp master units are faves... although they didn't get EX

[winged fossil]

yeah i kinda wish they did get their exs cause i wanted to ex evelyn

cause shes so good in gauntlet

[hard wave]

Im just trying for 1 copy of each rn, only missing regirock

[winged fossil]

as well as in ebe/challenge battles if i need an offregion unit

cause shes one i dont rly have to worry about dying

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for anniversary later, i probably get 2 more new bp master faves

I will be done with 3/5 everyone this April

[hard wave]

I kinda hope its just dana and morgan so we can get both of them and not another MC

[hard wave]

U only have mesprit left right?

[vernal glade]

I hope I can save during the VA in May, ||I got a Summer Hilda to get to compete my favorite summer event collection||

[tardy fiber]

Yep but i can form rainbow ticket and a support candy on april...so i will complete it too next month.

[hard wave]

I hope VA is a skip, masterfairs ruined my gem count and now lussa rerun

I have like 10 pokefairs I want on rerun and have to skip 4 of them (lucas red and eon duo) bcz I got unlucky w hop and marnie

Should hopefully be able to get lussa tho

[hard wave]

Oh nice

[vernal glade]

||If there’s no Zeraora, then I’m completely safe for May.||

[tardy fiber]

Other support legendaries/mythicals/UBs are already 3/5...if they are no new support faves till anniv, other support candies i formed will go to anniv bp master units

[winged fossil]

my problem with VA is they usually drop a new master fair during part 2 of a VA, so i might have to do back to back master fairs.

really hope that trend doesnt advance into alola

since we're getting a rerun right before it

[hard wave]

I still want ss ethan zerena and aura cynthia

[tardy fiber]

At least you guys don't want Ash, not sure if he will have rerun...well due to anime licensing and stuffs...

[winged fossil]

i want james

[tardy fiber]

I want jessie and james as well

[winged fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/wobbuffet-meowth-james-miaouss-pokemon-gif-25098044

[tardy fiber]

Jessie got kinda nice base passive... toxic power 5 iirc

[winged fossil]

imagine if they gave him this for summer as a last hoorah for him in masters

[tardy fiber]

Hope so

James have poison gas that can do aoe poison

Could be good especially if my fave nihilego later is poison typing

[vernal glade]

Ok James walking is funny in that gif. But ya, hopefully they’ll get a rerun, equals gems also.

[winged fossil]

im a bit surprised they didnt rerun when ash came, tbh

but i feel like this years their last chance to rerun since apparently they retired

[vernal glade]

Who knows, maybe he’ll come back, unless he meets the same fate as the rocket duos

[sturdy flower]

they already retired, it's over

[winged fossil]

the dub hasnt put out their retirement yet so, theres still a slim chance, but its unlikely.

[sturdy flower]

(they don't care about the dub)

2 weeks to meet the new MC... i hope she makes an appearance in this game too

preferably after she gets some character development

[winged fossil]

paldeas likely to appear later this year, since thatll be around a year after S&V in winter

if not early next year

its the general timeframe delay there was for SW&SH apparently so

going off that, we can roughly expect that the earliest

[vernal glade]

Well, hisui has yet to come.

[broken mulch]

Only temptation from Paldea for me is Geeta and Sada

[tardy fiber]

Well if they want to make Terapagos plot stuffs on pasio, they might hold it till we get the second dlc before porting to poma...well we can have hisui characters in the meantime

Because Nintendo said part 2 dlc is on winter

Oh i need to refresh myself of paulo interlude story before the new one appears

[tough oriole]

Oh yeah i forgor

[vernal glade]

Oh right the interlude this reset right?

But ya, paldea could come

[tough oriole]

It starts on the 11th

[tardy fiber]

DeNa get my hopes up of new champion unit but it turns out that it is ncserena and we get 2 variety e4 units instead of a new champion theme tag unit

[upbeat lotus]

The first Galar characters took around 1 year to show up so im expecting the same to Paldean as well

Its strange that no Hisui characters have shown up for now

[tardy fiber]

So 5 nc champs now, and the first, nc serena is for grass weak...we might get 17 nc champs if its one nc champ for each typing

[vernal glade]

It is strange, people were expect it to happen in January or February

[tardy fiber]

They are saving hisui for after VA ends, they need something spicy to replace VAs

Probably hoopa unbound mess with portals and stuffs...could be a reason to port hisui and paradoxes

[upbeat lotus]

That makes sense

[vernal glade]

You’re right.

[tardy fiber]

I just hope that they wont stop with only galar for legendary adventures

A free hisui and paldean legendary would be nice, thats 2 pities saved

[upbeat lotus]

PLA doesnt have a box art legendary tho, so who will be Hisui Legendary Adventures pair?

[vernal glade]

They probably saving a hisui pokemon for October

[tardy fiber]

Origin palkia/origin dialga

Well mewtwo also isnt a box legendary

[upbeat lotus]

i forgor 💀

[tardy fiber]

Still plenty legendaries/mythicals that can be hisui...we are missing thundurus/uxie/azelf/heatran/regigigas/arceus/manaphy/phione

This not yet include alternate forms or shiny version

They can also import the pokemon nobles...well kleavor that can have that yellow aura thingy

[tough oriole]

I kinda doubt that we’ll ever get hisui characters… even if they can explain how they got here, it’d still be weird having them interact, and I’m not sure if TPC wants that

[tardy fiber]

Warden Ingo is the problem, others being ancestors are not so much...well not like they know that its their descendants that they are talking to

[upbeat lotus]

Hisui characters will make a lot of money for dena, and masters canon already have had some weird plot holes/fcked timeline

[tardy fiber]

The easiest easy to spot weird one is that we have tall cheren/bianca but short unaged hilbert/hilda

[upbeat lotus]

No way dena will skip Hisui

[upbeat lotus]

Red and Alola MCs too

[tough oriole]

Maybe hilda/hilbert just didn’t change their fashion and didn’t grow that much

[tardy fiber]

Grimsley and kimono grimsley being old and young between alts

You guys want me to use Bisharp, let me dye bit of my hair white first before battle

Safer way to port warden ingo here, is just treat warden ingo as separate individual than normal ingo...just like anabel that we got, anabel that's a faller that lost her memories

Just like villain leaders under rainbow gio leadership, they come from universe in which they won against protags

[tough oriole]

But we don’t have Emerald Anabel

[tardy fiber]

Yep but we got faller anabel, just treat it as different person like we have rainbow giovanni that came here via hoopa and silver in poma is not even his version's son. because our silver originates from this Pasio's universe. Same like ghetsis and cyrus as well, they are versions that already have kyurem and palkia from their universe.

Probably out there have another version of Giovanni that are currently hiding like his HGSS version, and team rocket admins came to Pasio because they thought their boss want to take action but instead its Rainbow rocket Gio

Multiverses

This also explains why there's 2 kyurems in Pasio...the one that Ghetsis has is from its universe. Because he, cyrus, gio are ported here

Maxie, Archie not ported by hoopa so they are from this universe but instead if we see from their event cutscenes...groudon and kyogre instead was ported here from somewhere...also answers why they are not asian archie and cool maxie from rainbow rocket

[tough oriole]

But they don’t even treat the rr gio as not being silver’s father
Silver acts as if Gio is his father, but i don’t recall if gio says anything

[sonic cobalt]

Mewtwo is Gio's son.

[tough oriole]

I see no problem with the timeline being weird, its just that Hisuians interacting with modern tech people would be weird for both sides

[sonic cobalt]

Imagine Hisui people reacting to the Poryphone lmao

[tough oriole]

I mean, they didn’t really mind about the arc phone

[sonic cobalt]

that's true.

[uneven pewter]

Ah my home

Ty for the ping @lunar topaz

[lunar topaz]

Yw lel

[lapis pine]

Omg Doc is back

[tough oriole]

How has your saving gone

[lean mango]

Doc

[uneven pewter]

Terribly

[lean mango]

[lapis pine]

Now that Doc is back in gem zen he can start saving again

[uneven pewter]

Hah exactly

Yea it was rough for me

Kalos villain arc followed up by galar masters fairs

https://tenor.com/view/chuckles-im-in-danger-ralph-wiggum-the-simpsons-gif-14149962

[crisp oracle]

What’s worse is that we had two big Galar events on top of each other

[lean mango]

the 24k for April

[crisp oracle]

I think we are all sick of Galar at this point

[uneven pewter]

That gem drought’s rough

[lean mango]

I guess we got a bit spoiled with the previous ones

[uneven pewter]

Especially coming off two back to back fat months

Technically three

Jan was pretty fat too

[lean mango]

secret rally pls

[grim plover]

Thats a normal gem count imo

There's nothing special in April

[uneven pewter]

Eh…

April is more of a “normal” gem count historically

It’s really unusual to have multiple months to have a pity worth of gems or a pity and change

[azure oracle]

yeah its fine

[lean mango]

We've had an average of 32k since the start of the year, April is a low

[azure oracle]

its an sc month

[uneven pewter]

Yep

[lean mango]

But also yea SC month

[uneven pewter]

Insert the token doc doomsaying

Scs and Seasonals

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-admiral-ackbar-its-a-trap-meme-gif-8125029

[mild spindle]

I can't wait to spend stamina to farm 4 Different Vouchers

[uneven pewter]

It’s so painful because it’s true

[lean mango]

Is there a way I can find perv event timelines

I wanna compare this to the prev SC months

[hard wave]

Shiro has the event schedule for it I think

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/tqv95x/events_banners_schedule_from_2190_datamine_more/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_content=3&utm_term=15

[lean mango]

as that's what I was looking for, they didn't drag out the banners that much

[mild spindle]

it used be 1 each week over 4 weeks, now it's 2x in 2 weeks

[lean mango]

Feels better

[tough oriole]

I mean, there’s also the variety scouts coming too

[lean mango]

This Variety scouts (derogatory)

[winged fossil]

one thing im a bit happy about even if its upsetting at same time is CSerena in the event but no rerun. but, its really a blessing in disguise for me cause i dont think i have to worry about her interrupting my plans for the next few months

[sullen hedge]

I still don't know what to run for my CS maybe holiday Whitney for the last round

Or I'll just offtype it but that's no fun

[uneven pewter]

Variety scouts are legit big time baits

[lean mango]

They were going great with Ball Guy

wtf DeNa ruined my joy so fast

[tardy fiber]

He is his father but just rr gio is another universe's gio as he got ported here by hoopa...and our silver is this pasio universe's silver...so probably got another gio somewhere in Pasio's universe, also how to differentiate he is a different guy if his body, face all the same

[mild spindle]

Bruno is baiting me.

[tardy fiber]

Oh right Doc, whats your opinion on most bp and lodge pairs getting ? I think its a great move by DeNa although no alternate color outfit

[lean mango]

Officially declaring Best update ever since BP Janine EX

[tardy fiber]

Also new players getting free bluegeot so this also mean they will get free lodge blue...now that blue also capable to have EX support

[mild spindle]

rosa erasure

[tardy fiber]

Rosa only buff spatk...but lodgeblue buffs atk, def, crit, speed

[uneven pewter]

I think it’s a great move to actually make me care about them

Especially since that means support ex buffs

I just hope torchic gets one

[crisp oracle]

oh hey we have a new helper

congrats doctor

[tardy fiber]

Yep, but variety brock and lorelei are kinda sad ...i wonder if we will get variety scout each month now that its being 2 month consecutively

[tough oriole]

Don’t you mean old helper

[lean mango]

nah new helper

[tough oriole]

Isnt doc old tho

[upbeat lotus]

Welcome back Doc long time no see

[dire meteor]

[dire meteor]

I'm honestly more worried about Variety Scouts replacing Spotlights entirely. DeNA knows about Gem Zen and is actively working to dismantle it.

[tough oriole]

Why does it feel like its been ages since i’ve seen zeen

[hard wave]

It sucks how bad variety is but atleast its one less temptation

[dire meteor]

haven't been on here since... I think 2022 lmfao

[lean mango]

hmmmm

[tough oriole]

I suppose its also cause i don’t frequent #poma-lounge as much as i used to

[lean mango]

good, save your sanity

[tough oriole]

But stay here. It is zen and peaceful and calm. Everything is fine as long as you save gems

||Besides, you can’t spell zeen without zen||

[tardy fiber]

True, right i better recheck if there's still lots of disparity between regions for spotlight units.

[dire meteor]

Don't worry, I plan to visit here more often.
I wish to regain my 100k gems I lost back in July 2022.

[tardy fiber]

I might can collect 100k gems well thats if golden week unit isn't a fave

[dire meteor]

It was pure hell for me though, skipping Johto VA entirely most of all.
Honestly I respect all of you who managed to remove yourselves from temptation.

Most of all the people who have over 150k+ gems

[lean mango]

I'll be able to be over 100k for a month

[dire meteor]

[lean mango]

Finally

[tough oriole]

||I’m gonna drop soon, but it’s all for faves ||

This is why we save gems

[lean mango]

||I hope Steven treats me nice so I continue to be over 100k||

[dire meteor]

Good. The reason to save is finally validated.

||Just don't be like me when Palentine Elesa dropped and I got caught with 24k gems in my pockets. ||

[lean mango]

Having something to save for is best since we're actively working for something that'll make us feel accomplished in the end

[tough oriole]

It also helps us keep sight of what’s really important in this game: using the characters you love together

[tardy fiber]

Fave list keeps me strong, like currently not all of my faves are released and i already reached 57...so i dont have much leisure to be tempted by other pairs

[crisp oracle]

||I've been dying to run Anni Lillie and SS Lusamine together. Despite having SS Steven the prospect of using LuSSa is one ive been waiting for a long time.||

oh and Lusamine's hot

[lean mango]

[dire meteor]

I should put together a list myself.

[tardy fiber]

We got cockroach lusamine

[oak crest]

Cockroach

[tardy fiber]

Still waiting for that bug gear for more def stats

[lean mango]

Oh yeah I accidentally forgot Miriam in the fave list so added her

[vernal glade]

Im waiting for Ice gear

[tough oriole]

Right, miriam uses toxapex

[lean mango]

mhm

[dire meteor]

Wait do we have gear this month

[lean mango]

Can't leave her out with the Toxapex

[crisp oracle]

||are you going on anyone||

[lean mango]

Toxapex my beloved ❤️

[dire meteor]

||No. Save time.||

[dire meteor]

We do not.

[crisp oracle]

||It would be nice to have two datamines to wait on LuSSa but I only have one||

[tardy fiber]

Yep poison gear

From ball guy

[dire meteor]

...

[lean mango]

I think he meant April

[dire meteor]

I forgot we're still in March

[tardy fiber]

I see...no

[dire meteor]

😭

[crisp oracle]

||if only cockroach suit LuSSa lasted until june datamine||

[dire meteor]

||Alas only Groudon and Kyogre has that honor||

[tardy fiber]

How many types remaining, one of the units on may might be same type with unreleased 3* gear

[mild spindle]

3 Gear Event Timeline:
Gear <t:1625724000:D>
Gear <t:1632376800:D>
Gear <t:1636261200:D>
Gear <t:1641448800:D>
Gear <t:1648274400:D>
Gear <t:1652680800:D>
Gear <t:1657000800:D>
Gear <t:1662357600:D>
Gear <t:1667541600:D>
Gear <t:1674021600:D>
Gear <t:1679378400:D>
Gear <t:1685167200:D>
Still Missing:

[lean mango]

tbh I was expecting Poison to be one of the last

But the Poison love had peaked rn

[mild spindle]

⬆️

[dire meteor]

So gear events are every 2 months.

[oak crest]

im surprised we still dh water gear since we have so many water pairs ingame

[tardy fiber]

Thanks

Flying gear will be fabulous for my annisteven

[fallen path]

I’ll be curious when we get normal gear

There would be a certain fav for Vantner I feel

[tardy fiber]

DeNa already took my written Regigigas kit on their past survey and put it to ScSteven

So not sure what it will have later...well normal zone probably

Water gear will be good for archie, not sure why but he has low stats

[tough oriole]

It’s cause they were worried about that many multipliers + rain being too much (maxie has good attack since ground zone didn’t exist at the time)

[cunning swan]

oh yeah, vantner, looks like no faves for you this month?

gives you time to save for alola VA at least

[weary spire]

The 1 time I kinda just didn’t care to look into optimising events and bruh, all of those ball guy stickers just turn into pearls?

So the play is to not exchange like I did

I did 8 times unfortunately, then just spammed them all and now realised (I imagine) that it caps out with proper gifts

[vernal glade]

Unless you want coins of course, other than that, ya.

[weary spire]

Big pearls for coins, sure, but I feel like your stamina is best used elsewhere

That’s so expensive for barely anything

[dire meteor]

||All the coins for Elesa tickets ||

[weary spire]

And at 100m+ coins that certainly means nothing

[weary spire]

I remember there being an unironically good event to grind coins

Was it that event?

For the few people who needed to, anyway

[dire meteor]

Isn't it that pearl event?

[weary spire]

Ye

[vernal glade]

Nugget event?

[weary spire]

There’s prob a few

[dire meteor]

Oh yeah the nugget event

I recall that to be one of em

[weary spire]

Nugget event, pearl/fan ticket event, whatever it may be, I hardly remember whatever there is and the details

[vernal glade]

Golden Week had the nugget event

[weary spire]

But there are better events for grinding money, surely

Ye

[vernal glade]

Fan event is the Classic Elesa with Lisia. Pearl however, lost in my mind.

[cunning swan]

I wish coins were slightly more valuable

[vernal glade]

I highly agree

Like let us use them on decorations shop or something.

[weary spire]

I thought you were still able to grind pearls with that, too?

Since you needed to buy the tickets and they’d basically give your money back or something along those lines
But could still grind further for money
It’s how I remember it, at least

[dire meteor]

1 gem for every 1 million coins, take it or leave it.

[sullen hedge]

I'll take it

If it can offset my 9 paid gems

[hard wave]

Tbh I only exchanged them cuz I havent finished the big pearl mission yet

[maiden kayak]

so 24k gems april right

[signal halo]

Around that, yes

Also it seems those 24k will be banked for me

Nothing remotely interesting

[iron robin]

(current gem count is 62,895) im ready for sc steven and then save more after 🙏🙏
saving up gems is really satisfying

[lean mango]

Gem count, awaiting the 100k

[winged fossil]

so i just realized we're getting ticket pools fully updated tomorrow according to absolutely earlier tonight...

[lean mango]

We arw?

[winged fossil]

https://twitter.com/absolutelypm/status/1641257816080957440

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New reset
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[lean mango]

Guess I'm going on a ticket spending spree

Been saving to get Looker and Colress to 5/5

[tardy fiber]

Yep only need to spend 125 gems on April

[maiden kayak]

does this ticket expire tho

[winged fossil]

its not a special ticket, its our general ticket pools

our region tickets and 5star tickets are being updated with everyone

[maiden kayak]

oh

[compact pasture]

Could it be April Fools, though?

[dire meteor]

31st on PDT or GMT?

[odd umbra]

How many gems until bede leave?

[winged fossil]

i think its gmt

not 100% sure

whatever timezone reset is at 06:00

[winged fossil]

these resets remain

should be 6400 if i did my math on those numbers correctly

wait no

7800

calc didnt auto do the enter when i pasted math

[sturdy flower]

4/8 isn't after?

[winged fossil]

4/9 he leaves

i checked banner date

[sturdy flower]

i see, someone mentioned under 7k so i was wondering

[tardy fiber]

Fat gems next reset and the next

[winged fossil]

im 3 crystals from mega ray

yeah, happy we're getting a lot of frontloaded gems for people who still havent gotten the current banners they want

in the morning ill be getting rayquazas mega evolution

[tardy fiber]

73,765 ...i reached 2 pities

[winged fossil]

im at 10,055 so far havent finished my dailies yet

also had 100 gems in missions unclaimed, got another 400 in the va missions i can grab in the morning

waiting for mega ray to do the challenge battle

cause i wanna test it there

[tardy fiber]

Only 24480 gems left, i guess i cannot form 3 pities...urgh i need to collect as much gems as possible for May's stuffs...not just Alola VA but golden week also might have my faves and some of my faves have yellow/gold color shiny

[winged fossil]

im going to be honest, unless i get lucky my gems are basically going back to 0 the second ||lussa rerun drops|| bc fav

its a fav ive had to wait 1.5 years for

[tardy fiber]

At least lussa banner released late, we might even have datamine that time...25th april so on poma day

[winged fossil]

yeah, thatll give me a heads up on if i can expect to afford anything else after or not

[tardy fiber]

But hurm, she reruns without her event

That event could give us few more gems

[winged fossil]

do they usually bring back such an event?

[tardy fiber]

Hoping that next datamine will have her event

Well leon rerun have its event

[winged fossil]

ooh, hope thatll give a small bonus in gem count next month then

[tardy fiber]

None for maxie archie but they did bring back the EBE

So that can get magma, aqua pins

[winged fossil]

were there ebe(s) for lussa event? i forget

[tardy fiber]

There is, but not sure if event rerun will bring the ebe as well

Only leon was special

[sly breach]

Would be around 50k when i have to pull for ss lusamine

[tardy fiber]

Because his event at first doesn't have any EBE

[winged fossil]

i see.

im barely going to have pity when she comes, thats why im expecting to exit the banner with nothing but +1 fav

better to expect a shaft than anything else

[sly breach]

My new dilemma is that i started this saving stuff only for her

So i wonder if my ability to save will hold up after i pull her

[winged fossil]

if you saved for her you might be interested by alola VA stuff too

since same region

[sly breach]

Ah shit she is gone on 25th of may probably right before part 2 datamine

[winged fossil]

if shes bait im falling for it head first

cause i cant stand waiting another 1.5 years

[sly breach]

True

Just the low gem month ain't helping much

[winged fossil]

its a bit higher than i was expecting

so im happy either way

i was expecting like 20k, we got ~24k

[dreamy onyx]

24k is low, I expected something like 28k when they release so many banners (most are skippable tho)

[maiden kayak]

hesitant to use kalos tix since theres high potential of malva being added in anni

even tho i want og shuna

[dreamy onyx]

I thought they gonna add malva and drasna this month

[tardy fiber]

They will be here in Kalos Elite four trainer files variety scout

[vestal leaf]

24 is not low at all for a SC month iirc

[vale ivy]

Didn't last SC have near 35k

[oak crest]

Seems like the case most likely

[vestal leaf]

You mean tea-party? Because if you mean Rosa she was during Anni month lol

SCs are usually filler content and the gem count of filler months is always lower then VA or anni months

[vale ivy]

Both had near 35k, no?

[vestal leaf]

I should check

Mhhhh

[tardy fiber]

First sc pokewar is dry

[vestal leaf]

Weird because I remember tea-party being pretty bad month for gems like pokewars, did the datamine happen especially early? Could be that we had an event starting before the month change

[tardy fiber]

First pokewar sc only have 22k+ gems... November 2021

[odd umbra]

Yey!!!! Thank you so much. I'll be able to pity bede. I'm so happy. I really apreaciate ur help, sir. Thanks!!!

[tardy fiber]

April 2022 the tea party sc has 34,360

[hard wave]

If only we had new kanto pairs im only hoarding hoenn kalos and kanto rn (tho I have like 10 hoenn)

[robust plaza]

How much gems can I get until 4/15?

[upbeat lotus]

Around 15k7 gems

Not counting gems fron Hoenn VE

[robust plaza]

If i have 56.9k gems rn can I pity both chop and anni may?

By 4/15

[upbeat lotus]

If you have to pity CHop as the worst case, you need some more gems to pity Anni May

Around 600 gems

[tawny dagger]

CHop goes away on 9th

[robust plaza]

Yes ik

[hard wave]

Id say go for hop first, he’s prob more likely to make u reach pity and will probably take longer to rerun than anni may

[robust plaza]

Hey i can burn 600 paid gems. I have 70k

[tawny dagger]

If you do 6 dailies you should be able to pity both

[robust plaza]

It pays to save

I skipped kalos va

[azure oracle]

im going to skip alola va probably

hope it works

[broken mulch]

Hmm from Alola…

I think my only temptation is another Lusamine. Maybe an MF Gladion

[tardy fiber]

VA units are a problem as well, its uncertain that they will rerun if their VA reruns...like current hoenn VA rerun but only ssbrendan reruns...no sssteven and ssmay

[robust plaza]

I have 57510 gems. I might not need to do paid dailies on anni may

[hard wave]

I rlly hope its a skip like kalos || I only pulled for diantha cuz I kind of like shiny diancie and its always nice to have zone setters ||

[robust plaza]

||Got chop in 297 scout points||

[robust plaza]

I pulled without pity and didn’t get my target but i can pity her by 4/15

[broken mulch]

You can pull her right now can’t you?

[vestal leaf]

Did you ||pull hop too||?

Ah wait I saw

Above

[vestal leaf]

They were at 28k circa

[robust plaza]

I need 6k for pity

[uneven pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/i-never-left-bucky-bright-30rock-ive-been-here-i-was-here-the-entire-time-gif-20346712

[robust plaza]

Imagine pitying a 1.5% unit

[broken mulch]

Oh you want to use free gems?

[robust plaza]

Yeah

[vestal leaf]

Not that unlikely

[robust plaza]

I got the other feature

[uneven pewter]

Sadly I agree with this assessment

[vestal leaf]

Going for a 1.5% is barely different than going for a MF

[uneven pewter]

They realize the fair model is not profitable

[vestal leaf]

More than fairs

They seem to be nuking gen pools

Or f2p/event units

And turning them into variety

[tawny dagger]

Variety scouts seem to be much more elusive too atm

No rerun of eevees so far

They seemingly have abandoned the 3k-5k select scouts too

[vestal leaf]

They seem to have started making fairs the new VA focus because they can just put 2-3 MFs every couple months with neo champions or random MF drop

[broken mulch]

All the Neo champions so far have been Master right?

[tardy fiber]

Well for spotlights, if you are willing to wait can just wait for it to be added to the general pool select scout or gauntlet weakness select scout for 2k paid if still didn't get the unit while doing pulls for few months...variety banner is more FOMO, and DeNa probably took advantage of it and maybe its profitable...but another variety right after ball guy and they state that it's a part 1 is a scary thought...we might get variety scouts every month

[vestal leaf]

Yep

Yeah that's my worry

Variety every month is lame

[sturdy flower]

they are so underwhelming i will never go for their current state

[vestal leaf]

Once every 2-3 is still acceptable

[tawny dagger]

Atleast variety scouts have a cheaper tiered scout mechanism

[vestal leaf]

But 1-2 bps dropping as gacha? Bruh

[tawny dagger]

7.5k for guarantee

[vestal leaf]

Every month

Yeah but that's just the way to get whales to pull for them

Even when they're literally fancier bps

[fallen path]

Whales even get the spotlights tho lol

[vestal leaf]

Sure, but some whales don't

[tardy fiber]

But dena miscalculated, if i want to sell variety scout more...the EX update recently, i only give it to variety scout units and not also include lodge and bp units

[vestal leaf]

This variety method "forces" whales who only go for limiteds to add a 7.5-15k extra fund

The ex update is just a way to admit they don't see themselves doing Poma days until everyone gets ex imho

[tawny dagger]

The worst part is 6 limited in a month with 24k gems

[vestal leaf]

There's too many units

[tardy fiber]

But luckily i still haven't feel the need to amass more units...even the new 12.5k csmm rewards are meh, unless they increase gauntlet streaks rewards, I don't think that i will be tempted to pull non faves just for streaks

[lapis pine]

Lol 2 of them don’t count

[tawny dagger]

?

[vestal leaf]

So they'll just drop ex on BP (not the 5* ones tho) because it's just easier

[sturdy flower]

what are the new csmm rewards?

[tawny dagger]

Are they not limited

[lapis pine]

You can’t tell me that real people are pulling on lorelei and Bruno

[tawny dagger]

I want to pull on Lorelei

[vestal leaf]

5* Powerup tickets and spirits

[tawny dagger]

And she's limited

So yes

[vestal leaf]

Their kit look fun tbh

[lapis pine]

Peculiar

[vestal leaf]

It's not like people didn't pull for the first variety either

[lapis pine]

Also spoiler pulling talk

[vestal leaf]

And the eevos were way worse

[lapis pine]

Idk I feel like that is the biggest bait banner ever

[vestal leaf]

You should also avoid using the expression "no real people pull for X"

Because chances are, someone here will

[lapis pine]

Spend your gems on a better banner with actual outfits

[tawny dagger]

pull for favs
Bait smh

[vestal leaf]

People can and will spend however they want

[tardy fiber]

I can see ppl getting eeveelutions because some of them like jolteon and flareon aint playable before and people have nostalgia feeling...but duplicate onix is too much, and the brock onix is free...i will be more inclined if bruno gets hitmonchan or something

[vestal leaf]

Yeah the onix dupe was pretty lame

But Lorelei is legit

[tardy fiber]

Playable cloyster is an eggmon so she's fine

[tawny dagger]

I mean we got 2 dupe Pikachu as masterfairs lol

[vestal leaf]

I feel like the onix pick was literally because ahah ohoh funny™

The johto couple reference

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[tawny dagger]

I was hoping they'd give us crystal onix instead

[fallen path]

People do whatever they want, I just hate these type of banners out of principle

[hard wave]

Pikachu is like the mascot of the franchise

[tardy fiber]

DeNa going into meme mode after they fill ball guy events with bunch of puns

[sturdy flower]

at least they come with new anything

[hard wave]

And why would ash not have it

[sturdy flower]

variety units take DeNa one lunch break to make

[vestal leaf]

Ball guy was great tbh

I was really hoping they'd keep it up

[sturdy flower]

he should have been a spotlight lol

[vestal leaf]

And used variety to put niche characters

That don't fit in gen pool

But Welp, that lasted one month

[hard wave]

I dont get why they would make a base unit variety tho

[vestal leaf]

Rip

[tardy fiber]

Yep like villain admins...like proton or petrel

[vale ivy]

Is there any reason ball guy doesn't fit gen pool tbh

[fallen path]

Ball guy being spotlight or pokefair would have been easier to get in the future than variety lol

[vestal leaf]

Yea

[tawny dagger]

Because gen pool aren't bringing in revenue probably

[vestal leaf]

Exactly

[grim plover]

i just hope they do a "gen pool" but with variety pairs

[vale ivy]

Wish he was simply standard banner

[hard wave]

Unless they r very similar to pokefairs, like who knows if they’ll rerun and if they do will they come with other variety pairs they didnt debut with etc.

[grim plover]

like the monthly pokefair scout

[lapis pine]

I’m kinda getting sick of them making so many limited units that should be spotlights. It’s really frustrating that characters like ball guy and Emma were limited. Not to mention these lame no costume variety scouts that could easily be a BP shop upgrade

[vestal leaf]

Gen pools are "standard" trainers you meet and fight

[tardy fiber]

I thought they are going that route after seeing ball guy...but i was mistaken

[lapis pine]

This would be better

[hard wave]

Pokefair?

[vestal leaf]

Variety being niche options

[vale ivy]

Yeah, ball guy is perfect for spotlight

[vestal leaf]

Without them being fair tier

Would've been ok

[tawny dagger]

Ye but they probably won't be able to sell ball guy as "pokefair"

[vestal leaf]

Like Yancy, Curtis, aarune etc

[tawny dagger]

Or alts without new outfits

[hard wave]

Tbh tho it would be weird for lyra or kris to be spotlight since meganium and feraligatr r gen pool too

[vestal leaf]

They'd fit in variety well

Imho

[tardy fiber]

Eusine variety scout

[vestal leaf]

Eusine yes

[vale ivy]

Rmb people already malded when Marnie was pokefair

[hard wave]

Why not? They have the same rates for featured anyway

[tawny dagger]

Eusine without Suicuine probably

[lapis pine]

Remember gang, DeNa is a corporation trying to take your money and you don’t have to fall victim to their swindling. Defeat the corporate tactics though saving your gems

[vestal leaf]

Fairs have been having less and less reruns and they're now the VA thing basically

[grim plover]

eevee banner with no 6ex
glorified bp kanto variety
meta kit, 6ex with texture change and a full fun event with good rewards

[vestal leaf]

The real strat for doing that is not playing the game

[hard wave]

Why does VAs = less reruns?

[tardy fiber]

I will bit ||if legendaries/mythicals/UBs/paradoxes in variety scout, although it probably won't happen... there's still a small chance that it might happen||

[hard wave]

But hopefully we get more reruns, I have like 10 I want

[vestal leaf]

I mean the fair reruns rate dropped in last 6-8 months iirc

[lapis pine]

I do be having fun with this game tho

[vestal leaf]

We keep getting the same 8-10 units

[vestal leaf]

And what if people have fun by scouting variety?

[hard wave]

Maybe after they r done with galar VA but I feel like maybe they’ll give us smth new to stop fair reruns for 4th anni

[lapis pine]

That’s fine?

[tardy fiber]

Also Elite four being variety scout, some guy in DeNa have the idea after seeing E4 use 5/6 pokemons but why they only have 1 pokemon in poma

[hard wave]

Assuming red is one of them idm him rerunning alot I still havent gotten him

[vestal leaf]

I remember when we thought they'd get bps every 3-4 months after Karen BP....

[hard wave]

Also they have to rerun like every fair to add 5/5

[tardy fiber]

Yep, but im grateful that they didn't forgot about bp when they added a bunch on anniversary

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but the monthly rerun is a half scam atm

[hard wave]

So hopefully the rerun rate increases and new poke/master fairs decreases

[sturdy flower]

no select scouts AT ALL for half anni was a low blow

[hard wave]

The lodge banner?

[vestal leaf]

Yea

[hard wave]

Im just talking about in general

Like raihan and may

[vestal leaf]

Oh yeah sure, even tho it meant that...

[topaz compass]

Oh no

[tardy fiber]

True, i thought of getting dupe for ssleon/fall iris/ss hilda but alas it doesn't happen

[vestal leaf]

🙏

[cunning swan]

yknow what they could've done? give us two free playable NPCs

[hard wave]

Im glad, this month has been harsh on my gems

[cunning swan]

give them cloyster and onix

ohoho funny

[vestal leaf]

Yeah

I completely concur don't get me wrong

[tardy fiber]

They are kinda late for free npc pair...been a while since kali ⏰

[vestal leaf]

But at least these two are better then Eevees imo

Because their kit aren't copypasted BP tier gried

[hard wave]

I had to pity marnie and im getting close to hop pity…. Only bede was nice to me || first multi ||

[cunning swan]

she will make a glorious comeback, cope

[vestal leaf]

5/5 rerun next year

[hard wave]

They usually come w seasonal events ig but we didnt get a new one

[vestal leaf]

||100k for all three :)||

[cunning swan]

the eeveelutions have great kits. yes they're copypasted, but their utility and damage are great enough and I think that's how they entice meta players to pull. I feel like lorelei and bruno's kits are veeeery similar too

[hard wave]

Oh and I had to miss red and lucas and eon duo

[cunning swan]

I wish one of them was a special oriented support and the other one was physical

[tardy fiber]

Naomi comes in scrosa event so i thought 1 will arrive in this sc but dena said no

[hard wave]

Lussa is rerunning as well and I have 3 other masterfairs I want

[hard wave]

Ye tru, but she was the first and only one

[vestal leaf]

Eh, they do the sameish stuff but at different rates, and their grids aren't 1:1

[hard wave]

rip, unfortunately I only had one pity but glad im only at 69.6k so far

[cunning swan]

fair, but I think they're not different enough to justify pulling both. with the eevees, their base kits have the same principle but they can be put to support completely different teams

[hard wave]

I would not be able to get them all if I needed 100k

[cunning swan]

if anything I don't think they're good enough to justify being limited

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I get that

[rare swan]

[vestal leaf]

Personally ball guy is the only variety I endorse

[cunning swan]

all of this just makes me fear agatha and lance will get variety alts too. lance deserves something better smh

[tardy fiber]

He will get a dupe aerodactyl

[topaz compass]

Well maybe it was good anniSkyla didn't return.

|| I went for the 2022 anni unit I didn't already have instead, got Flygon in 18k and 2 copies of snorlax and dialga as well to make them both 5/5. Bring on the expanded grids for those 2! ||

[vestal leaf]

Currently at 138k... The pain

At least I should be able to skip til July

[vale ivy]

Really doubt Agatha gets any alt tbh

[cunning swan]

dena sure hates old people

[tardy fiber]

Arbok variety agatha with poison rebuff

[topaz compass]

Agatha and Oak could get an event together maybe. I ship them!

[sturdy flower]

does it really cost them that much to have a new unique model

[cunning swan]

at least she gets a good grid

[hard wave]

I hope red and lucas get another rerun when I have the gems

[sturdy flower]

that doesnt warrant the milions they make on sales per banner to gives us bland poop like most variety banners to date

[cunning swan]

probably just didn't want to put in the effort making a new model for less popular pairs when they can milk steven instead

[sturdy flower]

yes but this would be a matter of hiring more people for more revenue

so... standard stuff?

[cunning swan]

they rerun more often than other villain arc pokefairs so

[tardy fiber]

At least they finally rerun a VA unit on VA rerun

Ssbrendan on hoenn VA rerun

[cunning swan]

no ss gio on johto VA rerun

[tardy fiber]

Sad, i hope they improve it later

Probably on third VA rerun

Or once Paulo stuff already concluded

[hard wave]

The only one im kind of worried about missing is anni may

[tardy fiber]

VA units doesn't rerun on a VA rerun feels bad

[hard wave]

We dont know how often she’ll rerun as an anni unit and out of the 4 she’s the only one w an expansion

The others have to eventually for it

[tardy fiber]

Anniraihan also gets expansion

[hard wave]

Besides her my only fav w an expansion is gilbert iirc

[hard wave]

Ye but I got him last year

I was only going to go for lucas and red and maybe his dupes but I cant

[tardy fiber]

But i not gonna get tempted by 5/5 grid expansion, i gonna control myself...as getting 5/5 for every limited pokefair faves i have will be a nightmare so i just gonna be satisfied with 3/5

[cunning swan]

maybe she'll rerun in a gauntlet banner when there's Terrakion in LG

[tardy fiber]

Right

Sskorrina should rerun as well...is she still is the only ghost pokefair unit?

[cunning swan]

I think so

[tardy fiber]

There's a gauntlet boss thats weak to ghost

[hard wave]

Idrc for them but them getting it kind of forces dena to rerun them

[cunning swan]

last time we had Uxie in LG I don't think she reran

probably because it was still too early

[hard wave]

And my raihan is 2/5 so 3/5 wouldve been nice

[tardy fiber]

Dena just be like, we dont want to rerun sskorrina...so lets rerun redlax, he can give SE buff so he will work

[hard wave]

Uxie came in LG the month korrina released

[cunning swan]

Uxie came back last season too and they didn't rerun SS Korrina

instead I forgot who they reran

...it was diantha, gloria, and alt iris

they didn't rerun any unit to counter uxie lmao

[hard wave]

Oh right lmao

They also keep rerunning lysandre instead of skyla, tho unless someone on my list is with him I dont think ill go for him

I could use a better flying type, and I do have lysandre but he needs dupes I think

[tardy fiber]

Ss Cynthia instead of Ss Leon

[vale ivy]

That's true, he's literally 1.5+ years old and they still gatekeep

[uneven pewter]

I am holding out on varieties to see if they give selectors for them

right now they are worse value than SCs and seasonals

Which i dunno about you guys

but I hope that they have been starved on these premium banners

particularly the step ups

They are significantly worse value compared to the selectors at the anniversaries

[feral vale]

Agreed, I’ve wanted them to stop since the Eevee banner.

[upbeat lotus]

Looking at positive side, variety banners are the perfect chance to give less popular characters alts, like Lorelei and Bruno

But these alts are lazy and clearly money grabbing

[tardy fiber]

Would be more valuable before because we cannot use the same character in one team. But for now, they are only gauntlet streak fodders

[cunning swan]

it... feels very half assed for me. no new outfits, no sync pair stories, no new voice lines...

well at least I assume lorelei and bruno won't have sync pair stories, like the eevees

[upbeat lotus]

Its the only positive thought of mine on variety lol

[tardy fiber]

They got trainer files

[cunning swan]

oh yeah, this

I hope it's decent

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah, all variety banners so far get events attached to them

Eevee Day and well-done Ball Guy event

[grand bramble]

I'm back guyz....

Just finished my mid test

It's hard... But regardless... I should be proud

[upbeat lotus]

Most of them are made for LG Ball Guy soloing 11 LAs

[grand bramble]

Lemme see here.... 24k....yep...this is what I expect from this update

[tardy fiber]

There's another thing i hate with this kanto e4 variety scout, they didn't put both of them in same banner and instead separate...in my opinion, the half assed alts like this should follow eeveelutions and should be in one banner

[grand bramble]

The good thing guyz.... This new units are alllllllll... mid

I don't see anyone had thier favourite this month... unless Steven fan lol

[upbeat lotus]

Tbh duo/triple banners are worse than single banners. I saw someone pitying the Eevee banner twice to get both Jolteon and Flareon

[tardy fiber]

The only good units are ||sczinnia and scsteven, other fours are all mid|| well i gonna skip all 6 units anyway

[lean mango]

Cmon the Zinnia stans finally got their alt

[grand bramble]

Truly unexpected for zinnia.... but yeah.... It is still an easy skip

[fallen path]

feels weird to hope for variety scout downfall, but we know the lorelei and bruno fans will summon. and we don't know how many variety scouts are planned

[upbeat lotus]

Shauna fans happily seeing her again just after 3 months

[fallen path]

hopefully there are spotlights in the future

[lean mango]

I'm drowning with the Steven Alts

[grand bramble]

And..... Wow..... This is the worst variety scout we had.... What in the world... Who would pull that

[tardy fiber]

Seeing its kanto e4 part 1, well at least part 2 is in the works

[lean mango]

At least I got

[fallen path]

[lean mango]

So I'm happy with the Steven arrangement

[upbeat lotus]

Variety Agatha and Variety Lance soon

[grand bramble]

Based on thier kit... they should be atleast 4* even with 1 click TM

[upbeat lotus]

[feral vale]

Zinnia is cool af, not feeling her Pokémon as much tho. But it’s Dark so I cannot argue with it

[lean mango]

They do dubious

[upbeat lotus]

Hey Zinnia finally has drip

[tardy fiber]

I can see more people pull this than eeveelutions, well because its hard for bruno and lorelei to get alt compared to lyra/kris/lucas as they are protags

[fallen path]

i mean, the other two members of the elite 4 will be in part 2 lol.

[feral vale]

[fallen path]

no lance

[lean mango]

drip

[grand bramble]

I seen alot of ace attorney reference when I came back... But unfortunately... I dont have time for that now

[tardy fiber]

Next reset right? Steven in lodge

[feral vale]

Yep

[lean mango]

MHM i am ready

Got Morty to 300 right before

[feral vale]

I have Steven so I’ll have to befriend him now

[grand bramble]

Yep... Bruno and Lorerei... The underrated ones

[lean mango]

This guy makes my brain go yretjbeybubyybk

yknow?

[feral vale]

I got Steven for free anyway so I’m fine getting the Lodge rewards

[grand bramble]

From that free ticket scout right?

[tardy fiber]

I chosen Cynthia so it will be a while before i unlock him as a guest

[lean mango]

I got Steven in the first free select

[tardy fiber]

Well more fossil pokemon for fossil collector out there

[lean mango]

Worth it despite never using him

I predicted Steven Lodge with Cradily ever since Lodge came out funnily enough

[tardy fiber]

So we have carracosta,amaurus, rampardos, aerodactyl, archeops, cradily

[feral vale]

Not the Champion one, the anime collab one.

[grand bramble]

Funny thing here... Lyra cosplay the bad guyz in thier world

[tardy fiber]

I hope they do more of that outfit...team magma Brendan

[lean mango]

The johto protags were the only one to cosplay as the teams tho?

[grand bramble]

Yep

And zinnia wears like a phantom thief

[tardy fiber]

Well they can always add more in poma

Better than giving them santa suit alts

I will take villain costume any day

[lean mango]

At least they didn't do it last Holiday

They come up with something more than Santa suit

[tardy fiber]

My cool Calyrex is stuck with lame suit Leon

[grand bramble]

Who's getting rerun btw

[tardy fiber]

Victor and lussamine

[grand bramble]

Oh yeah... Ss lusamine

[lean mango]

LuSS

[cunning swan]

at least shauna fans are eating good. good for them, good for them

[grand bramble]

Victor?..... Hmm that's quite early

[tardy fiber]

Is it faster than Sonia with scsonia?

[grand bramble]

I think so

[sturdy flower]

i dig the costume but not the kit

[upbeat lotus]

May still holds the record

[upbeat lotus]

Her kit isnt appealing tbh

[lean mango]

What is her kit

[tardy fiber]

Oh right , kalos VA on January so shauna on January...while sonia on xmas so December...so shauna is faster

[lean mango]

All I've been told is debuff

[compact pasture]

How quickly did she get an alt?

[upbeat lotus]

You can go to pomatools or type /pair in #bot-zone

[upbeat lotus]

She got her first alt on April 1st, approximately 2 and half months after her debut

[tardy fiber]

If fast between new alts, it might be mistyduck and ssmisty... mistyduck on 28/8/2021 and ssmisty on 30/9/2021

[cunning swan]

May won by a few days, I think?

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah

[tardy fiber]

Mistyduck and ssmisty only 1 month 2 days gap

[grand bramble]

I better go rest now... Im very busy I'm telling you....

[feral vale]

So I’m assuming we have mixed feelings for this month?

[tardy fiber]

Its a skip month for me, but yea im mostly has mixed feelings on consecutive monthly variety scout...but bp and lodge pairs getting is a chad move by DeNa

[feral vale]

That is honestly my fav part tbh

Tis my birthday month :0

[cunning swan]

my favorite part is 12.5k CS

[tardy fiber]

Happy birthday 🎉🎂🥳

[feral vale]

[feral vale]

That’s gonna be fun af to mess around with

[topaz compass]

I'm scared eevolution rerun will break them into separate banners now that they have EX. Real trashy of them to give it retroactively without a rerun

[fallen path]

we got a bugsy and scyther ex before a bugsy scyther rerun

imagine how annoyed i am

[tardy fiber]

I can see that happening to Jessie and James

[fallen path]

i've given up on jessie and james already

[hasty umbra]

it's been more than 2 years, so yeah, that boat has sailed

[topaz compass]

Can't believe this month wasn't grids for TR duo.....

I'd rather they delete their existence so my sync pairs have consistency

[weary spire]

Legit? That's awesome

Been saving mine since late last year after we started getting a fair bit at once, but thought I'd have to wait until 4th anni

[vernal glade]

I thought the pool was gonna get updated in 4.0, but in two days, absolutely yes.

[mild spindle]

Submit feedback every day to bring them back.

[hard wave]

This reset actually iirc

[vernal glade]

Ya I accidentally said 2. My bad.

[chrome nest]

I got 3k (recovering)

[winged fossil]

Sinnoh, Galar, Unova, Kalos
did i get the regions correct for the ones im missing from gen pool?

trying to check which tickets ill need to use if i have them on this reset to try to get atleast 1 copy of these for the gauntlet

[tardy fiber]

Im missing colress and melony ...||got shauna from previous poma day multi||

[chrome nest]

I feel like it’s gonna be impossible to get all the general scout units f2p because they keep adding new ones and I won’t be pulling as much now

[winged fossil]

yeah same, this gen pool update is one of my last chances to round out my collection until i have another shaft

[chrome nest]

||I’m not gonna complain how I got multiple copies of colress cause he’s very sciency like me||

[tardy fiber]

Its been quite a while since they added...its all variety scouts now

[winged fossil]

id love courtney dupes and/or gordie dupes too, or my 3rd sonia, but i doubt thats going to happen. id even take 3rd bea.

got mixed up on galar unit names, some of the names sound so similar

[chrome nest]

Expect all gym leaders to be general scout

Even raihan is technically “general” scout

[winged fossil]

hows raihan "general"?

the lodge banner?

[chrome nest]

Yeah

It’s permanent

[winged fossil]

barely anyones going to pull that unless theyre missing the featured unit is the problem with it

and temporary banners take priority over it

[chrome nest]

||I pulled the lodge banner once to attempt to get raihan, I succeeded||

[winged fossil]

so it has to be a high gem month without any units i want for me to even consider it... ||and for N to be featured||

[tardy fiber]

Lodge banner has more value now i guess, now that lodge guest has but the risk of it might costs me a pity stops me from pulling on it

Like i got my raihan for lodge is ||via previous fair select||

[tough oriole]

That’s a weird definition of general

General means available in every pool
If you want to argue that he’s not non limited i guess you can (still weird to say)

[chrome nest]

I know that I’m gonna skip out on the new banners

Ss lusamine used to tempt me but I already have one leagues better

[vestal leaf]

I might just keep holding aside Unova since hugh is my only missing gen pool...

[tough oriole]

I’ll probably hold on using kalos tickets, seeing as I don’t think i need shauna rn

[winged fossil]

i wish Rosa had more base spatk to make serperior into a support dps

[lean mango]

I don't know if I should hold my Johto tickets I really want Morty dupes but I wanna save for anything new later

[winged fossil]

whats the top left ticket?

the one left of your skips

havent seen it before idt

[lean mango]

It's an old item

[chrome nest]

Whenever there’s a new villain arc I always horde tickets

[tough oriole]

Reward boost ticket?

[lean mango]

I wouldn't really know any of the old stuff since I started playing after 2nd Anni lul

[vestal leaf]

Yeah it's a reward boost ticket

Coop era shit

[winged fossil]

ahhh

[opaque cargo]

So many psychic unit that i want. Too redundant

Deoxys, necrozma, latias. No pity atm. The best choice is go for deoxys?

Deoxys is mf?

Wait wrong channel

[hard wave]

Im still missing colress melony looker courtney shauna and lana

I have like 7-8 pulls ready for kalos tho so ill be trying for 3/5 shauna and maybe 5/5 serena (3/5 atm) for the delphox frame

I think besides that I only have enough for kanto and galar 20 so I should have 3 pulls ready since we get 75, tho kanto I wont pull cuz I have everyone 3/5+

[reef river]

Is the ticket pool updated tomorrow or the 1st

[upbeat lotus]

Next reset

[reef river]

Oh sweet

[broken mulch]

I’m missing… Looker, Colress, Melony, and Shauna as far as general pool goes

I know I’m missing 3/5 for a few good units but not sure which ones haha

[tough oriole]

I’m probably just gonna keep saving kalos scout tickets for later… Shauna is cool but I can wait

Same with unova and hugh

[lapis pine]

Wait ticket pool update?

I must have missed that in the datamine that’s exciting

[hard wave]

Ye I think absol announced it later

Its this reset and we get 60 galar tickets so gl getting melony and gordie if u havent, 30 general ones too

[lapis pine]

That is very cool

I have 5 units that I need to 3/5 iirc so I hope I get some good luck

[hard wave]

I have 9 at 1/5 and 2/5 and still missing 6, but I mostly just care about courtney and bea (at 2/5)

Shauna tho im still going to try for bcz I have alot of kalos tickets so why not

I think I just have 30+ kanto and kalos tickets tho

[winged fossil]

im hoping for first copies for gauntlet needs. im pretty sure shauna would give me an extra bulu clear for example.

dupes of stuff not 3/5 would be nice too, but ill be happy as long as i get something new. shaunas pretty good odds to grab since ive got a bunch of kalos tickets

[nova lynx]

Hopefully I can get Shauna to 3/5 today

Already have her at 1/5 so I just need 2 more copies

[hard wave]

Im hoping to 3/5 her and maybe 5/5 serena (3/5 atm)

Will stop at 3/5 shauna tho

[nova lynx]

Oooh gl with ur ticket pulls then!

How many Kalos tickets do u have rn?

[sand crown]

I’m hoping to 0-3 Shauna today

[reef river]

I think id spend the general pool ones before the regional ones

The more value i get from general pool tickets, the more i can save regional ones for later when i need them to get a new pair from that region

[winged fossil]

3/5 would be the dream but its wishful thinking when ive only got 4 pulls for that

1/3 chance, im just going to be happy with one copy

almost forgot to do my bp daily today

[deft glen]

I forgot to do lodge interactions yesterday lol

[deft glen]

I'm hoping for at least one Shauna
inb4 29/5 Clemont

[vernal glade]

||Hopefully I can get the added units in the pool this reset. Melony mostly and Cortney.||

[hard wave]

236, so I should get 8 pulls once we get kalos region rotation

I only did one pull during the VA and got 3/5 serena, clemont was my first 5/5 spotlight

[nova lynx]

Ah nice

I’ve got 222 tickets so it’s enough for 7 pulls

[sonic cobalt]

how the hell do some of you have that many tickets saved up? Or rather why do you have that many tickets saved up? Then again, I'm only two months in to the game so maybe I'm just underestimating how often we get tickets or something.

[hasty umbra]

Time and hoarding mentality

[cunning swan]

when you start having the units in that pool to 3/5, you just keep saving until they update the pool with units you don't have

[sonic cobalt]

ahhh, true.

[cunning swan]

like, it should be easy to start hoarding kalos tickets

especially if you were around for Kalos VA

[sonic cobalt]

I'm just seeing nearly 2k general tickets and I'm like "hoooow?"
Also, Kalos VA was recent, like Feb recent, yeah? If so, I was here for that but Clement was haunting my pull attempts.

[vernal glade]

Ya, due to Kalos ticket pull only having two units, people are definitely saving it for a pool update.

Like I did myself

[sonic cobalt]

I'll admit I used my Kalos tickets because I was trying for 3/5 Serena. NOPE, LOSE THE COINFLIP TO GADGET LAD 4 TIMES IN A ROW

[hard wave]

Bcz of the kalos VA and I have 3/5 serena and 5/5 clemont

Besides that I only have 87 tickets for kanto and below 30 for every other ticket

[cunning swan]

ahaha, that's so much like me

[sonic cobalt]

27 general, 10 kanto, 5 johto, 18 Hoenn, 4 Sinnoh, 7 Kalos, 5 Alola, 13 Galar atm

[hard wave]

My closest from what I remember r 20 galar 28 general

[hard wave]

Luckily I got 3/5 serena my first pull during the VA

[sonic cobalt]

gawd looking at the "Banner ends" dates effs with me hard since it says "Ends 3/31/2023 at 12:59 AM" and I keep thinking it means it ends just as the date rolls around to april 1st but it actually changes tomorrow. Doesn't feel right.

[hard wave]

Same I got used to the “Ends 3/30/2023 at 11:59 PM”

[vernal glade]

Ya. That confuses me also. The end date.

[sonic cobalt]

Like, just say it ends at a date change. Not two hours in to the next day. aaa.

[sullen hedge]

I must stay strong and not pull Steven

[cunning swan]

I believe in you

[hard wave]

Does anyone know where the 75 galar tickets r from?

60 from the rally and 15 from?

[exotic sparrow]

10 from Tea Party rerun and 5 from daily region BP battle

[hard wave]

Ah nice

So I can do a 3rd pull later this month when sc reruns then

Wait r the 10 from the tea party in the exchange or smth?

[hasty umbra]

yes

10 Alola, 10 Galar, and 20 Unova

[hard wave]

Ah ok

https://pastebin.com/X4rtLfPK

I dont see it here tho? Or is the exchange not included

[hasty umbra]

oh wait, iirc it's from missions

at least that's how it was last year

[hard wave]

Oh ok

[hasty umbra]

ok, yeah, it's after completing one story scene for each

[winged fossil]

did absol prank us

[lapis pine]

Yes

[winged fossil]

people are really taking that now in the replies to the latest tweet. sounds like absol was actually expecting it.

[upbeat lotus]

copium lol

[sullen hedge]

I was weak

||all the Steven alts have been pitied Steven hates me||

[broken mulch]

Alright close to pity question

||if you’re at 363 points and you finally got the pair, would you spend 3600 more gems to get another copy?||

[sturdy flower]

||yes||

[hard wave]

Depends if u have nothing else to go for

[sturdy flower]

and on your gem count

[winged fossil]

||if it doesn’t stop you from pity on something else there’s little reason to not do it, 3.6k for at minimal equivalent of one candy is a good deal usually.||

[sullen hedge]

Ok time to stop yolo pulls and hoard all the gems

[cunning swan]

when are they updating the ticket pool again? this reset or the next one

I can't understand timezones for the life of me

[vernal glade]

A lot are saying it’s on the 1st. What’s on first, April Fools Day. So we shall see if it’ll happen next reset.

[winged fossil]

Absol was saying this one but it didn’t happen, apparently he might’ve misunderstood whatever it was being redone for

[vernal glade]

Guess you’re right. Will probably have to wait at 4.0 most likely.

[vestal leaf]

Yea, because ||3k won't likely change your immediate economy, I usually go for pity the moment I go past 300/400 except rare cases||

[winged fossil]

||ended up just using my galar ones, got 3/5 bea||

melony doesnt sound interesting so no big deal for me

just wish i coulda gotten shauna

[tardy fiber]

75,065 gems with 500 gems stuck in the missions...its growing splendidly, well April is a skip month for me anyway

Gonna form my rainbow ticket in 3 resets...i think there's enough time to form another one on anniv

[broken mulch]

Alright back to saving mode

Thankfully April brings me back to pity

[vernal glade]

Back to saving mode for me also.

[broken mulch]

… unless last SC banner has RoSCa, THEN I’m in trouble lol

What kind of events are usually up in May btw? I’m guessing Golden Week and another VA, Alola?

[cunning swan]

last May we did have Johto VA part 1. it could be like that too

[tardy fiber]

Well as paulo interlude is this month, so high chance that alola VA will be in may

[cunning swan]

not to mention there's ss lusamine rerun. most likely for alola VA too

[compact pasture]

Wait, the tickets were updated?

[vernal glade]

Ya because so far Paulo Interludes starting to guarantee a VA a month after Paulo Interlude chapter is added.

[tardy fiber]

Yep sslusamine rerun beginning on 25th and not early april is pretty sus

[broken mulch]

No

To the outrage of many LMAO

I can never remember which month golden week is on btw

[vernal glade]

May

Because I remember in May we had magikarps and nuggets.

[tardy fiber]

I tried to save the tix from rally but i can only tolerate the ❗only for 5 minutes