Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[broken mulch]

I forgot when the Kalos one happened

[lean mango]

December

Galar was March

[broken mulch]

So possibly June… Summer is July right?

[lean mango]

So seems 2 months?

Maybe June

[vestal leaf]

i think alola VA might likely get neo champs

unless they make elio selene fairs for it

they really need an alt

and this is the perfect occasion

[lean mango]

Unless they decide to pull a VA and make a Neo Champion event next month instead

[vestal leaf]

yeah that's what i'm implying

alola VA most likely is next month after all

[gray sail]

10k gems down, another 10k to go for this month. :3

[lean mango]

We've already been through 2 months so Alola VA is scheduled for next month

Would be weird if they pull a 3 month wait

[tardy fiber]

One of the signs is paulo interlude, we got it this month so VA will probably be next month.

Need to save a pity for Paulo Hoopa Unbound pair

[lean mango]

Have fun with Paulo

[crisp oracle]

First time over 60k

[willow pollen]

[topaz compass]

@crisp oracle nice!

It gets easier once you start hitting x pities

[grim plover]

Yeah alola VA should be next moth. At the same month last year we got the johto VA

[feral vale]

There is tapping Daily Scout then swiping right, as I said. But there’s also this: You know that event banner looking thing on the top of the screen at the PokéCenter?

[tardy fiber]

They don't release VA month during anniv right? I wonder when they will release galar VA

[feral vale]

Nah, have not seen that

[vernal glade]

I believe we gotten hoenn VA BEFORE 3.0 anniversary.

[feral vale]

It was right before, yes.

[hasty umbra]

Kanto happened during, or more like, second half of September, but it was the first after all

[vernal glade]

But will have to wait and see which month the last VA be at.

[feral vale]

~~Paldea ~~

[tardy fiber]

Hisui

Let paldea get their dlc stuffs first before arriving in poma

[vernal glade]

Ah hisui. ||So I can pull for hisui Zoroark||

[crisp oracle]

You are right

[tardy fiber]

Give me enamorus DeNa

[crisp oracle]

||LuSSa and some of the other master fairs are coming at me thought ||

[topaz compass]

I think everyone should assume next month is Alola VA

Why would they do Lusamine rerun and Paulo interlude if it wasn'tM

[crisp oracle]

||Personally since im going for SS Lusa im hoping there is a unit that can reliably debuff accuracy for her||

[vernal glade]

Because I knew it was already time for another VA.

If I remember correctly, last year we had a Paulo interlude and SS Morty at the same month, then it became Johto VA, so, I think I can see the same thing happening also next month.

[tardy fiber]

I hope they extend the VA to be 2 months so May+June like Johto VA...ssgio in first month (also ssmorty eventhough he doesn't relate much but he did appeared in the VA) and Johtrio MF on month after ...well more faves but also more time to save gems as there's 2 months

[sand crown]

I hope so too. Johto got a much needed jolt from the extension, and Alola kinda needs one too

[tardy fiber]

Wew luckily i checked my game, i almost forgot to do daily pasio eggsplorers egg event...almost missed 30 gems

[robust shore]

2 month Alola VA to make saving gems easier 👀

[dire meteor]

Sometimes I forget how fast and many gems we're getting.
I was basically at nil ||(sarcastic thank you galar champions taking me to pity)|| at the start of the month and now almost 2 weeks later I almost have 10k already.

[hard wave]

|| if we get zeraora maybe ill pull, if not idk if ill pull for any of the missing legendaries/mythicals from alola, still have to go for lussa anyway ||

[tough oriole]

DeNA is too generous
||They should be more like Niantic for PoGo]||

[dire meteor]

Don't let DeNA see this hissss

[vernal glade]

I agree, let’s not.

[feral vale]

[crisp oracle]

I feel that we have a kinda low gem count this month ngl

[untold tide]

As a player who have only returned for 4 days those words make me sad

[crisp oracle]

Next month we are playing with an assumption we have Alola VA, take it or leave it.
These months usually have high gem counts and great units

[vernal glade]

Ya Alola VA gonna help May gem count due to rallies.

[broken mulch]

I doubt it’ll be enough to push me to two pities haha

I think I need 25k

[tardy fiber]

Might take me to 3 pities, that if the 28th april Golden week unit aint a fave

[tough oriole]

It’s just that we got high gem months for several months in a row

This is fairly normal

[earnest kiln]

How many Gems til Detective Steven's banner ends?

[rustic heron]

10k

[upbeat lotus]

You can use /gems command in #bot-zone

[tough oriole]

Or /banners command

[summer goblet]

whenever i feel depressed and pathetic, I always look forward to save gems and other resources to find any sort of self-worth

an to grab whoever i like or skip who ever i like as well

[mental skiff]

oh i see thanks

[summer goblet]

I wish i could only care about favs, but all i can see is numbers and the hopium of dmg calcs

and the absolute desired to be the absolute best gem saver in the community

[maiden kayak]

dang

im this close to ||pull cos of stress||

[untold tide]

does pokemas gamepress

not have pull simulators

surprising

usually bad luck on simulators snap me out of the desire

[tardy fiber]

91k gems today still many more unclaimed gems from missions

Also im happy that i have 16 4 * strike, 2 4 * tech and 2 4 * support candies...so I'm set for next month's lodge guest...hope its a spotlight guest

[untold tide]

also I've come to realize

I actually like this zinnia

just this zinnia

I still somewhat dislike her ORAS incarnation (great potential, what on earth is that execution)

but this one? she has a fun pizzazz

[cunning swan]

There is a pull simulator. I forgot the link but it exists on gamepress

[maiden kayak]

||oh fck i pulled||

||15k gems rip ~~at least got shuna and zinnia tho||

[broken mulch]

Dammit Phantom Thief Zinnia has more drip than I thought

Still gonna wait until datamine

[untold tide]

||took me 18k gems, but I'm happy with this incarnation of zinnia||

I hope alola VA gives a lot of gems

I still have 95% of one pity anyways

so if alola VA releases 4 favs I can get at least two before Alola VA ends

[vestal leaf]

||that's not bad cmon, could've been way worse||

[opaque cargo]

||pulled sc zinnia with only 300 paid gem, the tiered pull||

[violet nebula]

And you still got a massive gem pool of over 500k😆

[violet nebula]

Real issue is no tech coins🙄

[sly breach]

||i would have been real salty if i had to pity marnie and then this zinnia came||

[violet nebula]

Why do we even talk about pulls here

Feels like it needs to go to general

[dire meteor]

Finally I broke 10k gems again

How I missed the five digits

[violet nebula]

Redacted or not

[dire meteor]

[violet nebula]

Welcome back to the zen

Arceus shall reward thee😄

[dire meteor]

I've been away from it for more than a month

[tardy fiber]

I need 9k gems to get 6 digits

[vestal leaf]

Y'all need gem jesus

[tardy fiber]

Yep 91,025 are not enough

[sly breach]

6 digits

Not 5

[tardy fiber]

Oh right

[cunning swan]

Gem check: 168k. Next milestone, five pities for that sweet sweet screenshot

[violet nebula]

Noice

Just 4 left to 5*... come on!!!

[oak crest]

man when they gonna rerun the TR duo....

[violet nebula]

Never

[oak crest]

☠️

[cunning swan]

Every time I see jessie and james I get reminded I don't have them and cry inside

[oak crest]

same

[tardy fiber]

I need them too

[violet nebula]

Yall not missing much

This is why I'm hoping for an alola va MF

That would give enough silver power ups

[tardy fiber]

I still need to 5 * 33 units, well 36 if i got jessie, james, lsteven

[violet nebula]

[topaz compass]

Another day another k

[oak crest]

looks like most of the gems this month are out... we are left with <10k gems for the 2nd half of the month

gonna be a rather dry period until next mine

[tame moon]

i heard there was going to be a lusamine MF rerun, but also, i found that ss brendan and may are good. so which one should i pursue?

and ofc im going to skip zinnia

[oak crest]

#poma-lounge will be a better place to ask for such stuffs

[cunning swan]

#poma-questions is a better place to ask

[tame moon]

my bad

[oak crest]

here is more of a place to seek advice on why should u skip xxx banner and save for favs

[untold tide]

If they release colress alt for alola VA I'll save for alola VA

[violet nebula]

Only 2 weeks away until datamine

Easy wait

[lament arch]

I'm skipping every april banner, saving Xmas Whitney

or for awesome banners

At least manage to 32600 k gmes

[topaz compass]

You mean 36,600? Sorry pity is higher haha

[broken mulch]

I think they’re just saying their current total

[violet nebula]

Hmm

4th year ani is in 3 months and bit😮

[compact pasture]

Will the upcoming SC banner have all units in one banner?

[vestal leaf]

More like 5 months and a half

No nvm

4 and 1/2

[upbeat lotus]

only the Tea Party set is in

[compact pasture]

All tea party units in a single banner?

[vestal leaf]

Yep

Seems like it

[lament arch]

from the Zinnia pull moment on, I'll skip every April Banner.

[compact pasture]

Saving for next year's Case SC rerun

[topaz compass]

Yeah me too haha. All 4 are at least decent but I can survive without any right now. Nest for rerun combo

[sly breach]

Wonder if my saving habit will go bad after ss lusamine

[timber wren]

she comes so late i wont recommend anyone to pull her before the next update

[topaz compass]

Spending on anything besides MF if you are under 100k could be called "going bad"

Just don't spend EVER. Ask Jass

[vestal leaf]

Spend on faves

[drowsy saddle]

MFs aren't all there is in the game

[timber wren]

we get new MFs every couple months i tire of the "pull MFs and only MFs" mentality

[topaz compass]

Sure but in terms of rerun efficiency it is better than rest

Every other type can be had in split banners on rerun eventually

[sly breach]

What is the possibility of a new unit with lower pull rates than MF

[timber wren]

MFs rerun now too, and there are PFs that have gone longer without a free rerun than ss lusamine

[vestal leaf]

Close to none

[drowsy saddle]

Eh? "Better pull this rare unit you don't care about than pull a more common unit you want"?

[sly breach]

Since we get a MF once a month

[timber wren]

ss leon and celesa still havent had a free rerun

[vestal leaf]

Which is messed up

[timber wren]

so save for the characters/pokemon you like and dont miss out on faves if you have the resources for them

instead of trying to be "efficient" and get them cheaper on rerun

[topaz compass]

I work under the assumption people pull their favorites regardless of advice. We can't guess each person's favorite

[timber wren]

sure

[vestal leaf]

Banners are worth only if you like the featured in most cases

Why skip something you like unless you're expecting it to be in a better banner (which MFs never get anyway)

Mfs are easy skip if you're mid/low on gem count if you fear more important faves coming

[topaz compass]

I hesitate bringing up faves in here because alot of gacha addicts seem to call 25% of the roster "faves"

[vestal leaf]

Because they're easily pity worth

Because of 1%

[drowsy saddle]

There's a tradition of making short fave lists in here - or at least ranking your faves if the list is too long

[topaz compass]

I pulled 3 of 4 units in the Wonderland SC last year, so dupes only isn't really worth to me for quad banner. So I am learning my lesson and skipping entire Solve the Case and hopefully have a pity to dedicate next time it comes as a quad

I like the events better when there is 1 must pull and the rest are mediocre so I don't have to wait haha

[vestal leaf]

Hope it doesn't go to 1/5 0/5 0/5 0/5 pity like someone I know

That's the risk of quad

[topaz compass]

The odds of that are like 7% if you treat it like a single 2% unit? Obviously 4 separate 0.5% I'd probably a bit less odds

[vestal leaf]

The issue if getting only one unit multiple times too

[topaz compass]

Are the quad seasonal paid tiered 10k or 20k?

[timber wren]

10k

[drowsy saddle]

What are you saving for, by the way? Some specific units or just "meta"?

[topaz compass]

@drowsy saddle I collect all MF as first priority. And yeah usually meta mechanics like zone, etc are a priority too. But at this point I only need stuff like ice that is hurting for everybody, trying to just skip everything else until triple banners start giving me better bang for my buck

[untold tide]

it's the equivalent of shiny tatsugiri hunting on casserolag lake but with gems you saved for months

[lean mango]

Gem count, quickly back from the dead BUT I HAVE REACHED 3 PITIES

[vestal leaf]

It do be like that

Pokewars rerun for me was 4/5 and 5/5 jasmine and a single diantha

In a pity

||galar birds took me to pity 2 times too, with Bede coming at 300/400||

Saving is exactly for this

[lean mango]

As much as I want UBs next month, I really wanna keep my gems

[vestal leaf]

Always need to be ready at worst case scenario

[topaz compass]

I try not to give candies to 3/5 something that might end up in split banners later, though it can be unavoidable for PF when you can't plan how they mix them

[untold tide]

I guess that's true

most of my "I want to candy units" will probably run in solo banners though

[drowsy saddle]

Wait, but aren't your odds of getting multiple different featured units lower in 4x banners? Since if you get one, the rate of getting new featured drops to 1.5%, then 1%, as opposed to steady 2% of solo banners.

[topaz compass]

True I guess but dupes of other seasonals below 3/5 aren't useless. And you are also presumably committing to a pity in a quad banner

[drowsy saddle]

Dupes can be gained on solo banners as well.

And how bad should your luck be for pity - one unit - to make a big difference? If you're counting on that, you might not want to scout in the first place.

[topaz compass]

Again it only makes sense if you value all of them relatively equally

Equally and moderately

[ashen thunder]

Rolling dupes

They rarely release units that are mediocre at 1/5

[topaz compass]

Yeah for solo banners I don't go for dupes past 1/5 unless I'm close to pity, which sadly never happens

[drowsy saddle]

Do you value a new unit and a dupe equally too? 'Cause that's what you're getting

Getting a new unit in such a banner swaps "new" and "dupe". So you go further with lower odds, lower standards

[topaz compass]

You talk as if bad luck doesn't exist if you are trying to argue solo zeasonal banners over combined ones lol. Obviously if you only like 1 or 2 of the 4 you should not go for combined

[drowsy saddle]

Bad luck exists, sure, but if you go in relying on bad luck for it to seem worth, should you go in at all?

[topaz compass]

That's like saying you shouldn't bother waiting to have a pity for any banner

If you think you shouldn't plan for bad luck

[drowsy saddle]

Mm, no, not exactly what I'm referring to

[topaz compass]

If you somehow valued 4 seasonals equally and wanted them all, on average you would spend less gems with a quad banner than doing solo banners 1 at a time, mostly thanks to the pity letting you pick whatever you don't have yet

[drowsy saddle]

Have you done the calcs?

[ashen thunder]

Isn't the quad banner seasonal rate just 0.5x4.....how is that any different from solo 2% rate?

[drowsy saddle]

It's not as easy as getting pity - simply because you lower odds by getting a new unit

[ashen thunder]

I've only seen good rates for multiple PFs in same banner
Seasonals always looked like baits

[drowsy saddle]

Your 2% goes to 1.5% if you want to get new units after getting one already

[topaz compass]

Considering you need on average 15k for a 2% unit, that is like saying you need 60k of gems to get all 4. With solo banners you wouldn't be getting a pity to help. So question is would you get 3 of the 4 by the time 60k comes? Having 2nd pity as fallback for bad luck seems safer to me

[drowsy saddle]

That's double and triple banners. 4x pokefairs also get 0.5% rates

[ashen thunder]

Oh
I've never seen 4x PF banners

Did we have any recently?

All I remember are triple and duo banners

[drowsy saddle]

Not recently, no

[topaz compass]

Actually I'd take back that 15k average for a new unit. 15k is only 67% chance to get a unit. So stringing 4 together only would get you 3 units for 60k. At that point better to have quad banner pity helping you

[ashen thunder]

I wish I could get the rate up at 15k gems itself

[drowsy saddle]

You do have the numbers for solo banners, but not for 4x banner. Seems a bit complex with variable odds - the more you get early on, the lower the chance.

[vestal leaf]

Imagine going for this case sc rerun next year for Steven, Shauna and zinnia and getting 2-3 lyras and having to pity one of 3

[topaz compass]

Yeah I mean it is possible

And exactly why I say it isn't a great option if you don't see all 4 having value

All I'm saying is 73.2k gems is highly ljkely to get you all 4 unique units thanks to 2 pities, while stringing solo banners hoping not to need a pity is unlikely to beat that number

Not to mention you are probably getting limited dupes along the way that you wouldn't with string of solo banners

[drowsy saddle]

Odds of getting dupes are the same as getting new units in solo banners, so that's not a factor.

As for the main case, it does seem like 4x banners may be better for going for four units at a time, unless the changing odds go low enough to lose to solo banners. Too bad it's not as easy to calc to make sure.

[topaz compass]

I wish they would stop being cheap and make quad reruns 0.75% or 1% x4.

If they can do triples at 1.5% x3 they have no excuse for seasonals

[summer goblet]

i'm currently right now in a vulnerable state right to pull for my fav right now

but i'm doing my absolute best to curb that temptation by playing it quickly for dallies and throwing my phone away for the day and do other hobbies

[fallen path]

depending on the hemisphere you're in, it's a good time to touch grass enjoy the great outdoors and what not. so don't have to think about the game as much and get tempted

[summer goblet]

in my area, its summer today for the weather

so yeah, I'm going to go out a bit to take a fresh air

and not look at toxic social media for a while

[feral vale]

You got as far as you did once, you can do it again!

[hard wave]

R u saving up to a certain amount of gems rn or?

[topaz compass]

I got details and if his story of having 369k gems and Steven being a top 3 favorite trainer are legit, I think there is 1 clear choice

[summer goblet]

i'm more or less hoping for another daily pull luck for SC Steven first

[summer goblet]

500k gems is my ultimate goal right now, but its going to be on my secondary objective for a while

not until September

[rustic heron]

did a ranking of which units i'd like to have if they ever rerun

[tough oriole]

Wait can i have a link to that tiermaker?

[crisp oracle]

Why Ball Guy so deep down?

What did he do to you

[dire meteor]

People were not having a ball with variety scouts.

🏃

[rustic heron]

https://tiermaker.com/create/pokmon-masters-ex-151706

[rustic heron]

just do not care in the slightest for him

his joke died the second sword and shield hit shelves

and he's honestly kinda creepy

[crisp oracle]

Where is a potential Raihan alt

[rustic heron]

instant pull

but i already got flyhan last month

i just put every unit i didn't already have on the list

[tardy fiber]

No big gems till 20th reset

[upbeat lotus]

[hard wave]

Going to start saving for lussa now (even tho there’s 3 multis left this month) || had to skip lucas red and brendos in these past 2 months but its ok ig ive heard MCs rerun often or smth? ||

[wispy cedar]

Saving gems until I hit pity for SS Lusamine wish me luck gamers

The impulse to not pull on SC Lyra will be tough when I have the 3 other ones and the temptation to complete the set is… well tempting.

But I don’t care for her kit at all so I should be aight

[hard wave]

No reason to complete it since poma is just team of 3 and if u dont like her anyway

[wispy cedar]

Yeah true

[tardy fiber]

We used to have reason to pull many variations of characters before this as the same trainer cannot be in the same team...but now that DeNa removes it, it becomes even easier to skip

[rare swan]

Great point - you can't use them all together

This is what stopped my desire to pull on Zinnia and Lyra ||as I have Steven and Shauna||

I loved the event a LOT, but that's not a reason to pull

[tardy fiber]

Yep i like the event and outfits but i dislike normal pokemons so i skipped it, pretty sure i need gems as there's a bunch of unreleased legendaries/mythicals/UBs/paradoxes sc event having no hard challenge like extreme battles does help to skip them even more if you don't need them

[compact pasture]

100K gems!

[dire meteor]

nice!

[tardy fiber]

Nice, i still 92k gems

[violet nebula]

You'll have 100k by end of the month or just under, no sweat

[violet nebula]

Whereas 99% of us still reaching for 1 pity😅

[untold tide]

Having 1 pity and no fave character in sight is slightly torturing me

Logically I know my faves will come on Alola VA one way or another

[sturdy hatch]

If you like Alola you better save

There'll be so many

[cunning swan]

you'll get used to it

I always keep at least a pity in the case of a potential fave drop

and before I know it, I've built the self restraint to not pull

[violet nebula]

Yus

[dire meteor]

Sometimes you can give up and DeNA somehow drops a fave literally next month after you give up
DeNA was playing a game with me I swear

[sturdy hatch]

Getting 3 Johto Master fairs in one datamine

[oak crest]

I'm neutral to all regions but a sucker to those with kits that interest me or fit my gameplay style

[rare swan]

Me whining about no Kalos and then getting hit with three straight months of it

You never know when the faves will come....

[dire meteor]

Desire sensor is a fickle one.

[tardy fiber]

Although it feels dry when its no faves month for me but i kinda grateful, its rare for me to get a break... usually they will throw at least 1 legendary/mythical/UB per month.

[mental skiff]

Your gems will reach 0 next month introduce a squad of UB

Definitely electric cat and robot rabit will come

(I forgot the name )

[violet nebula]

Electric kitty is awesome

Probably go to Lillie though😆

[mental skiff]

same

My gems is building up

You gonna be mine lilie

although she will have robot rabit tho... Steel type... Too much already

[violet nebula]

No more Lillie please

But she likely get a neo champ to

[mental skiff]

I dunno who she will pair with... She has like 3 pokemon in main game only

[tardy fiber]

I hope the bundle of wires or electric chicken that comes instead...electric cat looks like a physical electric damage and similar like N zekrom

Special electric would be nice against sentryx2 aaron

[oak crest]

Elec type,steel type and fairy type greatly welcome as long as they have kits I like and are not paulo

[tardy fiber]

I will grab paulo if he is with hoopa unbound, hope his sync pair also retains the dark shadowy aura

[vestal leaf]

Plasma fist definitely 4 gauge move

[mental skiff]

Electric zone maybe

[vestal leaf]

They made blaze kick a 4 gauge

Plasma fist will definitely also be one

[tardy fiber]

Electric wish that cast electric terrain, just like annimay

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Waiting for water wish that casts rain

[oak crest]

Electric chicken prob will have a passive that grants elec terrain at beginning

[mental skiff]

good luck selling that

[tardy fiber]

I hope that chicken and the gang have terrain shenanigans

[mental skiff]

I wonder kukui or masked royal will have electric chicken

[vestal leaf]

So like ny volkner?

[tardy fiber]

Masked royal alt, that wears tapu koko's alike mask

[mental skiff]

[oak crest]

If they decide to follow tapu bulu in la

[mental skiff]

Masked royal new outfit is new boxer?

[oak crest]

Altho that 1 seems pretty broken, terrain with entry and terrain with sync

[tardy fiber]

Seeing tapu bulu in LA gave me premonition that 1 of the tapus will go to MC

[mental skiff]

Hope so

[tardy fiber]

If they still follow 1 MC, 1 Chatelaine for this anniv

[mental skiff]

I still wait to complete 4 sister of battle frontier

[tardy fiber]

I almost complete Mesprit...will be a while before i have enough support candies for next batch of bp master units

[mental skiff]

Nice

Still in candy crisis

Next anni i will have 1 spare ticket to move up a bp master unit

[tardy fiber]

Haha dont follow my example, i candy them because they are faves and not many legendaries, mythicals, UBs that are supports...so prioritise other faves first for you all

[mental skiff]

understand fav > logic

Hope they have EX

[oak crest]

Odd how the 4* variants alrd got ex

But the 5* dont

☠️

[mental skiff]

Still cant ex my evelyn and hex maniac

[oak crest]

Even lodge chars that are way newer got ex as well

[mental skiff]

Bugsy randomly has ex tho

[tardy fiber]

Although it might not change much for most, as i fixed their lack of support by pairing them with same type faves that benefit from first sync like mega evolution units or those that changes form...well it will help my Mesprit though because it has synchro healing in base passive. For others, i need to dump other good grids if i want to put synchro healing

[mental skiff]

expect a rerun

[oak crest]

Where bugsy rerun

[mental skiff]

Same tho i mostly use evelyn for shady giovani

[topaz compass]

Another day another k

[silk mirage]

60k gems for my first time

[topaz compass]

You can make it to 100k!

That is best feeling imo

[rustic heron]

made it to 100k combined gems!

[wind nymph]

Does any of y'all have a 2nd account here ?

[topaz compass]

Boo 2nd accounts!

[vestal leaf]

I used to have it

For a couple months

When I had severe pull urges I'd take them out on that account

But after couple months the time requested to keep up the gem grind became too annoying so I deleted it

[mental skiff]

Have 2 account is pretty weird... If you get a unit in alt account it feel like watching pm-gatcha

[sly breach]

The amount of pull luck shenanigans i get on my alt is crazy

[untold tide]

Can't spell salt without alt

[topaz compass]

Yeah pulling it on a 2nd isn't going to feel as good so why bother

[vestal leaf]

it was mostly to pull on stuff i didn't care about in dead months

it's wasted gems but on an account that will die anyway

[lean mango]

Not really for long, only time I make one is to test a certain unit I won't get to see how they worked, though I do it less nowadays because they removed the tutorial skip

[sly breach]

Damn i thought i was crazy when i remembered that when i started my main account that i skipped tutorial

So when i did my an account for someone that i had to play the tutorial

[lean mango]

Yea, it's pretty lengthy if people want to reroll

[tough oriole]

Apparently they’re hiding gems from you in the eggsplorers event (a stage is at the bottom), so make sure to do it

[vernal glade]

Ya, I believe the daily shows a red exclamation mark.

[untold tide]

Don't see it

[vernal glade]

Oh wait I didn’t read that message correctly

But ya, what hidden gems? The only gems I know about the event is the daily egg hunt ones

[sturdy hatch]

No hidden gems in my game

Speaking of eggs that I might miss though…

[hasty umbra]

why the heck do you still have those in your box?

[sturdy hatch]

Because the new egg event happened right after the last one!

[hasty umbra]

well, then claim them already, if you care enough that is...

[vernal glade]

But ya I also checked the 1st stage at the very bottom.

[hasty umbra]

there aren't any hidden gems, it's just likely some stage/story bit they forgot to do...

[vernal glade]

Oh.

[hasty umbra]

that one scene that plays to introduce the event is my guess, because it's not tied to the others

so it gets pushed to the bottom if you don't do it right away

[vernal glade]

Ohhh.

[tough oriole]

This is what i meant

[vernal glade]

Ya I understand now.

I was reading the message like I thought there was extra gems in the 1st event and not only the completion gems. Whoops.

[weary spire]

Delaying the claim means you can get more eggs out of each egg event

[hasty umbra]

I mean, sure, but that doesn't accomplish anything if you let them expire...

[broken mulch]

Aye

Do the eggs just turn into bad eggs? Haha

[weary spire]

Of course, but another egg event followed immediately, so that’s prob why it got pushed forward so much

🥚

[sturdy hatch]

gain from Zinnia events: 40

[weary spire]

Probably my final gem update. ||10 pities,|| which is more than I need to guarantee my favs and has been for a lil while now.
Haven’t been absolutely perfect with maximising gems in my time playing, but damn near. I haven’t played even 2 years, I didn’t dodge every banner, and hardly dipped into paid gems for anything. Point is: this game is insanely kind on anyone who puts in some of the effort to save gems.
This wasn’t a goal, but guess I got here anyway I definitely won’t have any other gem goals from here on, though

[weary spire]

Huge, the boost to vouchers with these reruns make it so easy to farm

I feel like I only noticed the increase this time around lol, idk if they’ve been giving out that many for a while now

[rare swan]

THIS IS AMAZING RON

[dire meteor]

Woah that's a ton
Congrats!!

[cunning swan]

congrats!!

I'm almost halfway. 10k before my 5th pity

[lean mango]

Yoooooo

[dark cliff]

Sooo tempted to pull on Zinia but I feel like the master fairs are on the horizon

I have enough for 1 pity

[violet nebula]

They are

Alola will have least 2x

[dark cliff]

I’ll have to wait for data mine; moriarty Zinnia is cool but

If the master fairs are better I’d be kicking myself

[summer goblet]

congratz, you are officially a true gem saving master

[summer goblet]

also, damn, that Paid gems is alot to select scout a lot of limited units that you can dream off

[topaz compass]

I really need to stop doing dailies because even the 3% and 4.5% banners I have terrible luck on featured units

Eventually good variety scouts will come and I should be ready for those

(And 5k selects hopefully still exist 2x per year)

[slow hare]

Congrats Ron 🎉

Ur right, the game is pretty good at rewarding the frugal player

[slow hare]

this is a good thought, I'm glad (and fortunate, income wise) that I personally had the paid gems to guaruntee Ball Guy

[topaz compass]

Oh I could have got him too. But I'd rather save for eevolution rerun, selects, or better TBD

[slow hare]

your preferences are up to you

[lean mango]

Gem Count, very nice to see the number go higher

[topaz compass]

Oh man we like twins

[lean mango]

yea

[cunning swan]

I'm coping for the day older variety pairs will be in the variety banner pool

like the monthly pokefair banner we have now

[winged fossil]

Getting closer…

||to going broke.||

[sturdy flower]

8k till 150k

should be around the next datamine

[violet nebula]

Neat

[mental skiff]

Wow i hate egg hunt challenge :v

Miss 1 time yesterday or sth what egg did they give yesterday?

Missed 2... That is 60 gems

[oak crest]

problem is those cost stamina to do too... so if you are those that quickly went to skip stages without ensuring all the daily quests that require stamina are done...

☠️

[mental skiff]

it doesnt cost stamina i guess

[vestal leaf]

It costs 10

[mental skiff]

Just happen everyday... Annoying.

[drowsy saddle]

10 stamina is less than an hour of waiting though

[mental skiff]

Hopefully i wont miss any egg hunt and helping out on pasio since now on

almost forgot those 2 event couple of day lately

[oak crest]

can happen to forget if you are busy tho... there are times that I forget to spam off all my stamina before going to sleep

happened quite afew times for me

[drowsy saddle]

Making a mistake twice is less likely

[mental skiff]

👀i see it can happen in time zone where update around 1 am tho

just ask but anni happens in 24th August so it is technically September datamine?

[grim plover]

i missed like two days because of that

[cunning swan]

pffft, I've forgotten to do the daily egg hunt battle for a few days now

rip those gems

[mental skiff]

30 per day

[fallen path]

don't forget the riddles

50 gems

[cunning swan]

yeah, I somehow remember the riddles

[fallen path]

i forget the riddles because of the checkmark

[mental skiff]

have to remember doing the riddle till 21st

[vernal glade]

I nearly missed the daily riddle gem’s yesterday

[fallen path]

there's time after the last riddle to finish the rest right

[cunning swan]

since I've stopped grinding the pasio eggsplorers event's shops, I just got used to the exclamation mark

so I forgot there's an extra daily battle that does give gems that I should have been doing every day

[mental skiff]

Same

[vernal glade]

Ya I done it before on day 2 of the event to make sure it gives gems.

[cunning swan]

oh, I think I missed two days worth. I remember getting the vulpix egg

ok not as bad as I thought

[mental skiff]

i already finished all event today so i have 5 day grinding codex (without rally)

[fallen path]

tbh i'm basically out of water codex so that's not bad

but i still have to get everything from latest event

[mental skiff]

But no rally

take 200 stamina for 40 codex or sth

[vernal glade]

Rally most likely happening next month

Oh wait

[mental skiff]

It is always overlap with some VA or heavy stamina event like seasonal

[vernal glade]

I keep getting mixed up on in-game and twitter rally…

[cunning swan]

anyway, a reminder to exchange your blissful bonanza tickets

[vernal glade]

Oh right it ended today. Thanks.

[drowsy saddle]

It's red, not orange. New stages are red.

[vernal glade]

Ya, if I see red, that means there’s gems

[cunning swan]

....huh

I never paid close attention to that tbh

will keep that in mind

[vernal glade]

Just don’t pay attention to the regional ones tho. The lower level ones.

[hard wave]

Not sure, but its in the news section

[mental skiff]

Yeah saw that

[weary spire]

I've only ever done 1 select so far, since I'm not interested in most. I believe I bought the story/champ bundles (this was before the daily gem bundle was a thing) and p much figured they'd last me a long time

That said, I didn't expect them to make 3k selects so rare nowadays, it feels like they're all 5k. The odds of a 3k select having a unit I want just feels low now

[weary spire]

Agreed I think I see that reinforced now by so many others here who do an amazing job saving, and have been especially in the past year

[grim plover]

praying for an early datamine so i can know if i can roll for victor

but i must resist until pomas day

[violet nebula]

Easy

10 days, 10 mins in pomas

[winged fossil]

coin wise im at 19 yellow, 8 strike(+1 candy), 17 tech+support atm,

[vernal glade]

So far coins I’m at 3 red 1 yellow and 40 blue. ||Saving the blue ones for Summer Hilda or Pal Bea depending how much support candy we get before the Galar VA||

So I have a long way to get more candies.

[dire meteor]

You have 40 support candies?

[vernal glade]

No coins I meant

Sorry about that

[mental skiff]

Pal Bea gonna eat that up tho

In need of 3/5

Next rerun is selected scout in anni

[upbeat lotus]

there is no confirmation on that

3.5 anni didnt have any limited selects

[mental skiff]

👀i thought it it is more of a thing on anni... Dena have to make a way to get past seasonal somehow tho

hopefully if not i dunno how to get summer unit

[lapis pine]

I feel like from now on we might get one seasonal select on anni as a consistent thing

[mental skiff]

it is a must dont think i gonna spent on rerun ever again with that rate

Dunno if they will try to raise to ||3% like this spring|| but even if they do, 0,5% still a pity per unit... We have enough MF flying around

[vernal glade]

I could’ve sworn anniversaries had a select with seasonals. Maybe I’m wrong.

[mental skiff]

The 3.5 threw it off a bit

No triple seasonal select half anni tho

[vernal glade]

Oh

[tardy fiber]

Man, 3.5 anni...we upgraded from 3 pokefairs to 3 master fairs

[hard wave]

No more triple+ masterfairs…. Please

But we could have 4th anni MFs and johtrio

[tardy fiber]

Now neo champ give DeNa a reason to release duplicate MF passive pairs

Well kinda good as well like leonzard isnt a fave but cbede is

[hard wave]

Or just make them pokefair just finish the sinnoh unova kanto and alola spots and no more

[tardy fiber]

Oh right we probably get real anniversary pairs on anniv as galar birbs trio aint anniversary pairs

2021-annisteven, annilillie, anniN
2022-anniskyla, annimay, anniraihan
2023-

[hasty umbra]

I mean, they are anniversary pairs, not having the actual word in their name is a different thing

but yeah, 4th anniversary will likely make use of it

[tardy fiber]

Well as we have those with words anniversary on their name for 2 consecutive years so we are still due for one this year

[hard wave]

2020 was just ss kantrio right? So no anniversary alts

[signal halo]

I've been very tempted to become a lodge completionist

Having everyone but Steven has been bothering me greatly

Specially since I like the pair

[untold tide]

nooo

this is how they get to your gem stash

[signal halo]

Yeah, but at the same time

Their venues for doing so have shrunk massively

Given the only pair I want, for collection purposes

Is classic elesa

[untold tide]

I mean, it is your gems

but you're asking here

a place for people to encourage each other to save gems

[signal halo]

Yeah, I have 65k

And only elesa ahead of me

[untold tide]

||honestly if you really think it's worth then go ahead||

||plus you have pity anyways||

||just, er, don't regret it when aloVA comes||

[iron robin]

60k f2p gems

[opaque cargo]

Johtrio is who? Suicuine lugia celebi?

Demn all are nostalgic legendary

[tardy fiber]

||im in the same boat as i only miss Steven, but i will wait for a select scout or something...3k paid for me is cheaper than potentially pitying with 36.6k||

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

Also I agree on missing 1 lodge pair stinks. I only lack Raihan. But stay strong until they have special free selects or cheap paid select

[hard wave]

Im missing 3 need more of those free selects

[deft glen]

I hope we get a spotlight lodge next month

[broken mulch]

Missing Marnie and Raihan. Not really interested in pulling for either of them

[hard wave]

The ones im missing r N Marnie and Gloria, prob only pulling if they come in a banner with someone I do want

[rare swan]

I'm missing N and Raihan - ||got Marnie and Gloria off very lucky dailies|| - but I won't be pulling solely for Lodge, no

[vestal leaf]

I'm only missing Marnie but I've been waiting for her to be on a triple rerun in a month without faves for 2+ years

So waiting more doesn't sound like an issue

[deft glen]

I'm missing Raihan and Steven but I'm not really interested in them

[sonic cobalt]

Something I noticed and thought was weird: We don’t have a Scorbunny line Sync Pair

[broken mulch]

Yep

[sonic cobalt]

And yet we have two Rillaboom-line reps. Straaaaange

[untold tide]

inb4 dena decides: leon scorbunny moment

[sonic cobalt]

No. Leon doesn’t deserve another pair

[sturdy hatch]

Gen pool Leon when

[untold tide]

exactly

that's why it's scary

[grim plover]

as long it's not gloria it's ok

i hope they give the bunny to hop

[lament arch]

Leon's gotta persistantly stalk you- wait, he pants at directions

[bleak falcon]

Inb4 Professor Magnolia + Scorbunny

[sonic cobalt]

It’ll probably be SS Victor + Cinderace if we’re all being honest

Also I just realized I am in the wrong chat.

[violet nebula]

Yus

But please no more galar content🤣

[signal halo]

Yeah, that's never an option for me

That said

My gem count is finally allowed to grow

Should have two pities or close by the end of the month, which should keep me safe

[rustic heron]

||i usually don’t pull for meta, but steven is really tempting me because he makes every physical attacker Really Good and i’ve needed a good physical booster for a long time||

[lament arch]

nearly same, but for every unit

and I already have Steven since Ash's debut

[rustic heron]

oh i meant SC steven

prolly should’ve specified

[lament arch]

Well, I also have SC Steven

[rustic heron]

wish i did too

but i’m waiting til datamine

cuz i like a lot of alolan legendaries

and alola VA is probably next month

[lament arch]

It's like 50%

[rustic heron]

i don’t know if i want it to be next month or not

tbh

one on hand, next month could be a skip month ||and i could grab sc steve man||

[bleak falcon]

While it’s not guaranteed, given how long it’s been since Kalos VA + the fact that they’re rerunning SS Lusamine this month does seem to point towards an Alola VA next month

[rustic heron]

on the other hand, i wanna see more alolan pairs

especially something like ss gladion

or the ultra recon squad (PLEASE PUT THE ULTRA RECON SQUAD IN THE GAME)

i’d love them as spotlights

[tardy fiber]

I would grab Ultra Recon Squads if they have UBs...even if DeNa made them as variety scouts, as now even variety units have EX

[hard wave]

If they are variety they’ll probably have actual colors too, like ball guy

[tardy fiber]

Oh right ball guy has a different colour

But i wonder if we will get Rocket Admins with UBs instead as they are the one that opened the Ultra Wormhole

Archer Kartana

[sly breach]

Need petrel with koffing that knows explosion with a passive that gives explosion a chance to do no damage

[lament arch]

you need revival blessing mon

unless self-faint prevention passive

[tardy fiber]

Shadow Triad sync pair when DeNa? They have three lives because there's three people

Give em baton pass

So the final life Shadow Triad will be buffed

[cunning swan]

170k must stay strong for datamine

[lunar topaz]

5 resets until I am 3 favs down until@ I have them all

[hard wave]

Who r u going for?

[lunar topaz]

I’m only missing Dialga AniSkyla and CElesa

[lunar topaz]

Sonia is a fav of mine lel

[hard wave]

Ah

[silk mirage]

Is worth to pull phanpy & Lyra ? My friend told me Is good

But idk i have 60k gems

Soon datamine too soo

Idk

[upbeat lotus]

is she a fav of yours? if not, dont pull

[silk mirage]

Not fave but cute outfit

[upbeat lotus]

So dont pull

[cunning swan]

Wait for datamine

[upbeat lotus]

No need to chase meta

[violet nebula]

Datamine literally about a week away give or take a day or two

[cobalt frost]

i need a general idea on how screwed i am
is alola villain arc gonna end on May 25.

as thats when ss lusamine ends

i really really REALLY REALLY want it to be a 2 month event like most villain arcs

wait

it MIGHT not even be alola villain arc in may

as 25 is just way too soon for it to end right

[cunning swan]

well Johto VA happened around the same time last year

and Kalos and Sinnoh's VAs overlapped in schedule

[cobalt frost]

it could be a champion calem serena situation?

[cunning swan]

it's preeetty safe to assume Alola VA next month

[cunning swan]

maybe that's just the case for SS Lusamine but other Alola VA units will go over to June? who knows

[cobalt frost]

if thats the case great as i already have ss lusamine but im dreading it especially now that more than 3 master fairs are possible

[cunning swan]

Hoenn and Unova VA were a 1-month event iirc so if Alola decides to last for only 1 month too, what can we do

[cobalt frost]

ive been getting shafted horribly on detective steven and got shafted on anni bede aswell so im really worried
PLEASE STOP GIVING ME 10 FAVORITES IN A ROW

alola is also my favorite reigon and i know for a fact we are probably getting a magearna master fair and its just HFUFMVFIVJ

Why cant i dislike things

Im usually decent at skipping but ever since about february theyve been throwing favorite after favorite with little room to breath in between

i think my current biggest regret was ||going for palentines marnie rerun, i got it in 21k gems, but i only went for it due to steel zone||

[violet nebula]

That was not a good idea

Marnie is great but steel stages doable without her

[tardy fiber]

Currently have 93k gems, im ready for alola VA's legendaries/mythicals/UBs...ive been skipping temptations left and right

[cobalt frost]

back in january i had over 60k gems and now i have literally 85

[tardy fiber]

Well i skipped this month because Paulo interlude existence means high chance that the month after have VA

[cobalt frost]

||anabel, all 3 main anni units and detective steven are genuine favorites, i skipped everything else but i mean||

i do not care at all for the other detective units or any reruns this month and they were super easy skips

so thats a good thing atleast?

i should wait for datamine probably before spending any more on steven

literally 5 out of 6 scouts were dead multis

and the one multi i did get a single 5 star in, it was one i already had at 5/5

but i have NEVER been able to wait for a datamine well before

am i just meant to just give up

you cant say "wait until a rerun" because its gonna be all 4 rerun together

so 0.5% for each which means i wont get it period.

unless i somehow get enough lying around to pity it

im just in a horrible position due to something i did 3 nonths ago because i genuinely couldnt beat steel stages, on top of genuinely miserable luck and now i have to skip favorites

if anyone can give me any sort of advice thatd be great

[violet nebula]

You will have to make sacrafices

As we all must

That is part of zenning

[cobalt frost]

i guess but ive never skipped a favorite before

so it feels horrible

[violet nebula]

That is the dopamine in your head, you'll feel better when it passes

And there is always the re run option, pity if necessary when they come back

It's up to you who and want you want

[cobalt frost]

alright
ill definitely ATLEAST wait for datamine

[rare swan]

Definitely hold off until datamine

I know it sucks but future you will thank you

[violet nebula]

Yes do that, its always the best option to assist with planning ahead

Makes zenning alot easier

[cobalt frost]

see i always say ill wait until datamine but i just end up being impatient

but ill try for real this time

[rare swan]

You need to stick with it, yeah

Datamine isn't too far away!

[cobalt frost]

yeah

[violet nebula]

Only a week and couple of days maybe at best

Easy wait

Stay strong 🔥

[cobalt frost]

the fact i am hoping for units I DONT want more than anything is quite telling about how bad of a situation im in with this game

[violet nebula]

But Dena seems to love alola and Lillie

So this will be a big one

[cobalt frost]

im unsure what a lillie alt would do for me unless its alola ninetales

itd be a easy skip unless its that exact pairing

[violet nebula]

The other characters maybe treated with some semblance of dignity

And good alts

Gladion and guzzlord

Or katarna

There a few things Dena can do

[cobalt frost]

magearna is probably gonna be the one that gets me

zeraora also but to a slightly lesser extent

dont care too much for the tapus and ultra beasts are great but not FAVORITE level

[drowsy saddle]

Have you written down a fave list yet?

[cobalt frost]

no

[drowsy saddle]

It helps.

[cunning swan]

make a tier list of faves

you have 10 faves? list them from most fave to least fave

stick to it

[cobalt frost]

Hisui Growlithe/Arcanine
Johto Slowking
Ledian
Heracross
Breloom
Gliscor
Oshawott Line
Maractus
Lurantis
Magearna
Zeraora
Falinks

Bellibolt
Annihilape
Farigiraf
Gholdengo
Iron Valiant

not in that order

[cunning swan]

try making an order so you can be sure of your priorities. at this point, you're just going to pull at every fave you see, without thinking there might be a bigger fave dropping

[cobalt frost]

1. Falinks
2. Oshawott Line
3. Heracross
4. Breloom
5. Annihilape
6. Magearna
7. Gliscor
8. Iron Valiant
9. Johto Slowking
10. Lurantis
11. Hisuian Growlithe Lime
12. Gholdengo
13. Zeraora
    14.Farigiraf
14. Ledian
15. Bellibolt
16. Maractus

[cunning swan]

and characters-wise?

[cobalt frost]

Arven
Gladion
Lusamine
Guzma
Hop
Bede
Raihan
Mustard
Iono
Giacomo

as for order?

[upbeat lotus]

thats a long list, lower to 10 characters

and yeah order them as well

[cobalt frost]

ok uhhh

no alder, no wally, no kukui, no hop, no jacq, no hau

[upbeat lotus]

you can edit the list

[cobalt frost]

okay

now for order

1. Gladion
2. Arven
3. Guzma
4. Mustard
5. Bede
6. Iono
7. Lusamine
8. Raihan
9. Hop
10. Giacomo

[upbeat lotus]

okay so save both lists somewhere and only pull characters in these lists

[cobalt frost]

okay no thats way too little i feel

[upbeat lotus]

more characters = more gems to save

and more stress

20 potential units are already too many

[cobalt frost]

i mean yeah but thats WAY too strict i feel
am i just NEVER allowed to pull for the ones i removed

[hard wave]

U may be fine if most of them never get alts, but some of them have one alt or are likely to atleast get one

Like hau has potential for aloVA if it is next month

[cobalt frost]

even if i like really want it and didnt think to put it in my list

i have like 20 characters max that i can limit myself to without it feeling forced

i always just go for a unit by unit basis i dont say "im not scouting you because you arent one of these 5 specific things"

do i need to channel my inner hater and start hating more

also would the outfit just not matter

like even tho steven doesnt make the list
i want detective steven but i dont want anni steven
both of these are based off the outfit

also i just cant limit myself to 17 pokemon theres now over 1000 of them and lots of them are great

im just not that strict

[timber wren]

it’s hard but fear of missing out is what the gacha game is built around

with guzma gladion and lusamine making your top cut characters i can’t recommend anything but saving given what’s coming the next 1-2 months

[cobalt frost]

i know that

im talking in general

[timber wren]

sure, ive definitely gone for stuff outside of my trimmed down fave list before but you have to be selective and willing to miss out on stuff that you like to save for stuff you love

[cobalt frost]

i try to be selective already

Detective Steven is literally the only thing this month i am even remotely interested in

[maiden kayak]

“this month”

means u are not selective enough

[oak crest]

I chase metas(due to no favs) but im extremely fussy tho

if i dont like the kit, i skip, if i dont like the mon, skip, if i dont like the trainer(only Paulo falls under this), skip

most of the units I pulled with non paid gems are units I want right from when I saw their kit on datamine

for units that somewhat interest me but not enough to warrant an immediate want I will wait for their rerun or select banners

if that helps

[untold tide]

ngl ss morty...

I don't really love him, even though he's meta

sigh, if only they'll release a meta lillie for aloVA

or a new, shinier N

[tardy fiber]

Meta lillie? Her sc and anni alt are already kinda meta...she will get another one?

[upbeat lotus]

anything new will be meta

[tardy fiber]

Sclyra and scshauna kit looks kinda normal...but they are new

[bleak falcon]

“Meta” is a semi-unreliable qualifier too, I’ve been 2king Psychic weak stages with Caitlin (who’s only getting her Power Boost in ~a week) for ages now (only reason no 2.5k yet is because no Psychic weak stage in this CS run yet)

[tardy fiber]

And vbruno also looks mid

[untold tide]

True

I just like it when my favorites are meta

[lament arch]

vibruno

[untold tide]

Vroom vroom no

Vruno

[tardy fiber]

Is that the term for variety pairs? I not sure if i should say vbruno or varbruno

Or bruniety

Brunix sounds nice but how to say variety lorelei ...loreyster

[lament arch]

Presening! Dj Brunix ft. Cloyierei

[tardy fiber]

Also kriseon, lyreon and lucaseon

[lament arch]

Joltis, Vapora and Flarecas

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if we will get another variety banner next month...we get them for 2 months consecutively.

Ball guy and now kanto e4

[oak crest]

pretty much most units with very few exceptions

[vestal leaf]

SC Lyra is actually very good because free one AoE rebuff

But she's not

INSANE SUPPORT 420

But tbh support can't really suck since forever

There's extremely few mediocre supports

[tardy fiber]

Marlon is mid

The turtle guy

[vestal leaf]

He's free and does ok after grid

He's better than many other tech/striker 3-4*

I was mostly talking about latest trends in supports (so last year or so)

[oak crest]

ngl, the "fake" unit looks decent too... too bad its fake

[vestal leaf]

What fake

[tardy fiber]

ScLyra is just like Fallister...only good point is rebuff but iirc fallister can put 2 stack ghost rebuff...sclyra can only put 1

[broken mulch]

The 3.5 fakes?

[tardy fiber]

We got fake units? the one like gladion guzzlord pic?

[vestal leaf]

Fallister gives thick regen stacks too iirc

[oak crest]

i cant rmb that unit's name lol

the post is gone from datamine too lol

some april fool joke iirc

[vestal leaf]

Anyway, pulling a new unit is almost always an improvement in the role the unit covers compared to older units bar rare cases (imo)

[broken mulch]

Oh you mean the cottonee

[vestal leaf]

Oh the unit we used for that one single stage

[tardy fiber]

Yep thats why its important to not get swayed by non faves and meta...because sooner or later your faves will arrive with good kits...and you got no gems to spare because your reckless spending before

[vestal leaf]

Ages ago

[lament arch]

I don't care about meta

I'm not meta chaser

[broken mulch]

I would totally use victory road Tyranitar MC btw

[oak crest]

yup that unit

[tardy fiber]

I only chase legendaries, mythicals, UBs and later paradoxes my collection is complete currently got all the playable ones

[oak crest]

I only have "ban/do not pull list"

[vernal glade]

||As for me,I only go after N’s, Hilda, and Hilbert, the trios I like||

[cunning swan]

I have a list of:

• Must pull no matter what (6 characters)
• Must have to complete my collection (male protags)
• I love you but I don't mind skipping (a lot of other characters I like)

[cunning swan]

@cobalt frost maybe this will help you

[gray sail]

Surely I will achieve 100k in no time if I limit my want list to two character alts that might never see the light of day.
The discipline has been difficult though.. as I want (tall) male alts as well.

[untold tide]

for me, I limit myself to two of my favs alts

if I have two already I'll move on

[cunning swan]

me waiting for Silver alt

[untold tide]

unless I really, really like it

...unless the next steven alt is meta

in which case, welp, three stevens it is!

[gray sail]

Actually I want a third one as well.. Winona alt when?

[cunning swan]

it's funny how the stevens I own are the ones that aren't considered meta

[lament arch]

welcome to Gem support centre, what do you need to share?

[deft glen]

I have a similar list to that. I once thought of trying a female protag collection but that seems impossible, there are just too many

[untold tide]

the fact that the jingly key stealing keychain is so cute

and I must resist

[cunning swan]

I need to share that ||I want to pull SC Lyra for nostalgia reasons and I love Lyra|| but I need to stay strong for datamine first

[cunning swan]

yup, I love protags, but collecting all protags is unrealistic for a f2p like me, so male protags it is

[vernal glade]

As for me, my original goal was to collect all Unova units including Unova pokemons, however that would be extremely difficult for a f2p player like me, which was why I made a fave list.

[dark cliff]

Yeah I want to pull for Zinnia

But I have to stay strong for

Datamine

[violet nebula]

Easy 1 week and a bit

[mental skiff]

only thing keep me sane is new lilie alt

[grim plover]

dev letter next monday

[dark cliff]

I feel like the rest of this fan base would lose their marbles if she got another alt lol

[untold tide]

lillie alt! lillie alt! gimme my fave dena

[grim plover]

idk, it's expected for her to get an al for alola VA. It's the most logical thing to do

[untold tide]

[grim plover]

people get mad because she got random alts very soon

[mental skiff]

people with her alt already wont understand.. Im currently have no lilie alt as well as any limited pair for alola

[untold tide]

one day, we will have 6 alts of nemona

and people will lose their minds

[untold tide]

exactly

[cunning swan]

At the same time, Lillie alt makes so much sense, lore-wise and profit-wise

The fandom can scream and cry but I can't deny she will sell

[grim plover]

now if they dont give gladion an alt i will riot

[cunning swan]

Well good thing her SC alt is rerunning soon eh?

[cunning swan]

I'll join you

[topaz compass]

Lillie has 1 less than Steven right? She is obviously getting alolan vulpix to even that out

[untold tide]

lillie magearna, calling it

[mental skiff]

nope.... No gems + 0.5% we can know the result

[hard wave]

I only have anni lillie for alola limiteds

[mental skiff]

Atleast you have an alola special atk striker

I will lose 300 gems if sentry entry or tough skin in effect

[hard wave]

Hoping its sentry entry not wise entry for EBEs

[mental skiff]

no gems is left behind

[hard wave]

|| also going for lussamine so ||

[mental skiff]

oka

[vestal leaf]

Hau carry ez

[cunning swan]

Lmao anni lillie EBE flashback

[mental skiff]

Hau carry.... nice joke

[cunning swan]

Hau was, in fact, used in some f2p-friendly options for the Lear EBE (the one made for anni lillie)

[grim plover]

hey hau saved me in the Lusamine EB

it was painful bc i didnt have kiawer

[violet nebula]

Hau is no joke, still a solid pair

[hasty umbra]

Hau saves people's butts on electric weak Aaron, assuming you don't have a strong option for off type that is

granted on type physical electric pairs would be the same as off typing

[grim plover]

and with 6ex he's so much better

[mental skiff]

havent used Hau for a while now. Beside Lear EB is old and not limited only to alola so he never crossed my mind

Could be nice if he can dps tho :v

[cunning swan]

...i thought it was limited to alola?

I don't remember it buffing any other theme skills

Which is why people struggled in the first place

[mental skiff]

i remember it come with one other theme tho because if it is only alola then i had a struggle

dunno

[cunning swan]

Yup, region only

[mental skiff]

Probably i used spotlight Lussamine or sth literally no memory of this... I think it only hard when first come. I only took part in rerun in last year Dec.

[cunning swan]

Eh it was pretty rough when it reran too

[vernal glade]

Well since I have more Alola units, safe to say that I shouldn’t run into issues on that EBE again. Meaning I can get the gems if it reruns.

[cunning swan]

Of course if you have a lot of alola limiteds, you're fine

[mental skiff]

my best alola pair is godcerola... Next month EB gonna be brutal.

[vernal glade]

Oh wait nvm im also gonna have a brutal time

[signal halo]

I'm a bit screwed, since I have no alola limiteds, iirc

it might be time to EX masked royal

[mental skiff]

he is physical tho

Gladion is physical tho so they may use sentry entry card and slap EB some tough skin

[hard wave]

Besides lusamine (base and ss), a!lillie, naomi, hau, and plumeria all alola pairs are either physical or a support

[mental skiff]

naomi is the most promising sadly you cant ex her

[hard wave]

More promising than lussa?

[mental skiff]

i mean if she can survive somehow

Hau, Lussa, Plumeria just too snowflake

[hard wave]

Hm, anyone who can raise defense from alola?

[vernal glade]

Lana

[mental skiff]

imagine having lana... Not me but she probably only def buff in alola

[hard wave]

Great

The one alola spotlight I do not have

[mental skiff]

same.... 1 year already

last alola spotlight

[hard wave]

Im only missing melony and shauna besides her but atleast they arent in ticket scout yet

[vernal glade]

I’ll probably have to stick with gladion for next month.

[junior trout]

guzma can buff his own defense, elio has sentry entry 1…

but yeah lana is the only aoe defense buff

[hard wave]

MR can also lower attack, unless EBE uses special moves

[mental skiff]

Sentry entry x2

[hard wave]

Ye I started in february 2022

[sly breach]

Dont please dont

[mental skiff]

Sentry entry x2 + tough skin 8

You have to whale dena said

[hard wave]

Maybe it wont even boost alola and boost some other theme skill and a type that is much more limited

Like the grown woman EBE in the grown woman VA

[junior trout]

ah yes, fairy

[vernal glade]

Or worse, the one where if stats are raised, damage decreases.

[junior trout]

latias moment!!!

[hard wave]

Luckily had cserena idk how those who didnt pull her dealt with it

[mental skiff]

same

I just use free pass lately

[vernal glade]

Diantha?

Oh

[sly breach]

Frog superior

[hard wave]

SC Diantha or Glojo r like the other 2 options

Nobody else debuffs stats from water or kalos, maybe clemont?

[mental skiff]

next month hold many possibility.... I even fear for my coin plan

Hopefully no more tech fav

[sly breach]

Gotta hope no support units

[hard wave]

I want next month to be a skip || want to go for lussa, if I can get her then idm if there’s one banner which preferably will be another rerun ||

[violet nebula]

Unlikely, probably see 2 to 3 MF pairs

Alongside the pokefair SS etc

[sturdy flower]

Did 12.5k on the Special CSMM with only grass units, only 2.5 units were limited. Truly a nice game to go for favs.

Hope water or fire are next

[mental skiff]

fairy next month

Prepare lilie and Mina

[vestal leaf]

Still better than poison

[mental skiff]

poison not that bad tho

[sonic cobalt]

Poison's got some decent units. Granted not as strong in gen pool characters as some others.

[vestal leaf]

I feel like it's easier to stall than do f2p friendly poison dps clears

[sonic cobalt]

Yeah, no, it's much easier to just stall 'em out. I think the most friendly F2P poison clear would be Koga, BP Janine, and a tank. Koga sync hits pretty dang hard.

God help poison-weak stages if he ever gets EX.

[crisp wraith]

I forget if I asked this question or forgot to but how many gems are available until March 1

[sonic cobalt]

You mean may?

[crisp wraith]

Lmao yeah my b

[sonic cobalt]

7205 based on the bot. But then again it’s probably not counting future event gems since it doesn’t have datamine info

[violet nebula]

Less than 10k

[hard wave]

I dont get the bot, it usually shows more than the remaining gems in the gem count

[topaz compass]

Not sure why people expect MF next month. Not many MF VA units lately, I expect that in June for another NC event

[sonic cobalt]

isn't SSLusamine a MF?

[hasty umbra]

yes but she isn't a new unit

[grim plover]

next month shouldn't have MFs

unless dena goes insane

but 99% we're getting MF in june

like the johto VA

[crisp wraith]

High chance of getting 36k gems by end of June right?

Ik the info prob isn’t out yet

But maybe around 36k from now till end of June?

[bleak falcon]

The odds of not being able to get enough for a guarantee by the end of June are astronomically low since it would pretty much require 2 record-low months back to back

[violet nebula]

Either way, a MF is coming and soon

And it will accompany a 2 month alola VA

Maybe another Gio... gio and guzzlord🤔

[broken mulch]

Two months of less than 18k? Perish the thought

[violet nebula]

Dena is capable of this evil

[hard wave]

Just a reminder that if johtrio reruns for anni we may have 6 MFs at one time

[grim plover]

well last time we got 5

with the number of MF increasing soon we will have at least one per moth

[hard wave]

[winged fossil]

Personally, im hoping alova is next month cause any later and it’d still be going on when summer n drops…which I feel is more dangerous for me than just calling it done before then

I’ll be a bit worried if it isn’t next month. Cause that’ll also lower my summer n budget I think

Doubting the summer reruns would last to the end of july datamine

[vernal glade]

Ya, he won’t be making it for a full month

Same as Hilda for me.

[tardy fiber]

Excited for alola VA, want to see if DeNa will give Solgaleo EX and power boost or instead do a new legendary adventures unit that has alola tag

[fallen path]

I’m still thinking maybe they will open EX to all MC units (hopefully)

[upbeat lotus]

Torchic

[tardy fiber]

hopefully i will be able to add 4 asap... solgaleo/regirock/cobalion/mesprit

[fallen path]

Eggmon EX

[tardy fiber]

If Eggmon got EX, it will give me extra reason to 5* 20/20 shiny eggmons in the future

But darn still no shiny nidoking in sight

[hasty umbra]

eggmon ex is the ultimate copium, they don't even have a grid

[vernal glade]

Imagine they have grid

[hasty umbra]

they need much more than that to be actually worth such hefty resource investment

[cunning swan]

Eggmon grid pls

Where am I gonna throw these 99k orbs

[fallen path]

MC pikachu exchange obviously

[cunning swan]

[hard wave]

I have quite a large EX list not including future pairs, not getting eggmons past 3* tbh