Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[topaz compass]

As you can see I'm making excuses to justify skip

[tardy fiber]

Should skip if not fave

Or if you don't have pity

[oak crest]

this is exactly why i skipped him

if he had that mpr it might had been the other way for me

so too bad

[violet nebula]

No mpr no pull

[oak crest]

yup

i only accept no mprs for free units

or gen pool

[tough oriole]

My bad, i shouldn’t have said those things
I could defend him but everyone should skip him if he isn’t a fave

[sand crown]

The tapus are all faves of mine but the potential price tag is just too steep. And as a collector I’d rather have none than partial…so skip. It’s rather convoluted

[tough oriole]

I collect Haus, not Tapus

[upbeat lotus]

||have you got sc sHAUna?||

[topaz compass]

🎶 oooooh, Shauna.... 🎶

[tough oriole]

||I’ve got Shauntal

I will ex her when she gets it||

[hard wave]

I kind of like hau and mina but im unsure so I think I just wont go for them, esp with next month possibly having zerena and another MF trio

[winged fossil]

The possibility of a trio next month scares me so much.

What if they’re all favs

Or even two of them

I need max one fav next month

That leave before zoroark

Just dropping by with my gems since I’m fully in saving mode for the month. Still missing a handful of gems from a couple sources but not much.

[hard wave]

Ikr I need a masterfair trio I dont like

I have 11/20 masterfairs + 3 others I like (zerena ss ethan and aura cynthia) so waiting for reruns

Plus what if a pokefair I like comes back and the masterfairs shaft me thats what happened in march || had to pity marnie and miss out on the charming banner and brendos, but atleast I got anni may ||

[winged fossil]

If it is a trio they better either come in 1-2 multis or stay until after zoroarks rerun has arrived

Else max I’m pulling of them is one. Take it or leave it dena

The main fear I have is like nc alola with Zeraora + a aether family alt coming in a diff pair

I can’t think of much else that might sway me

[hard wave]

I think they may be sinnoh MFs

If not then alola

[winged fossil]

If it’s sinnoh I’m safe. Most of my sinnoh interests already exist

[hard wave]

But im also worried about zerena’s potential rerun as well as some pokefairs rerunning

[winged fossil]

I think my reruns are out of season right now.

Sc Serena was too recent

And we just had a handful of my pokefair hunts

At bad times as usual

[hard wave]

All of mine are unexpanded pokefairs or 2022 masterfairs

Except gilbert

[winged fossil]

Once I’m on my pc I’m going to pull out the limited tracker and see who I got left

…does someone have its link on hand actually, ima look while I eat

[hard wave]

https://pomasters.github.io/LimitedSyncPairs/

This one?

[winged fossil]

Ye Ty

[tough oriole]

+tracker has it too

[jade lava]

https://pomasters.github.io/SyncPairsTracker/

For newcomers/beginners, check the video below on how to properly showcase your pairs : https://i.imgur.com/A0XcAgZ.mp4

[winged fossil]

Might’ve missed a couple since on mobile out of stuff I might want

|| || rerun marked the end of my strike wishlist. The supports are lesser favs mf wise

Serena is the main mf rerun I need. Frog.

Ssn and nc Serena are the remaining greater favs I’m looking for other than zoroark

I’m more scared of new favs than reruns as a result

The two summers and nc Serena and ss n would prob close out my greater fav collection. Hoping I luck on one or the other

Or both. Would love to leave summer early

[vernal glade]

||if they push Unova VA pairs in July while my goal in July is getting Summer Hilda. That’s my only fear of happening that means, I’ll have to go after 3 faves in the same month 2 Hilda’s, and 1 Hilbert.||

[winged fossil]

Summer is a dangerous timeframe because not long after is anni

Glad though there’s only one month left between me and my goal

[hard wave]

and I thought mine was long

Steven Gloria and N are for lodge

[topaz compass]

Feels like every month is dangerous because we basically get 3 new MF every 3 months so you always saving towards that while also wanting a couple in between

Which makes it basically impossible to get all you want if you have bad luck on the MFs

[sly breach]

Anii month would have 4 mfs

[fallen path]

i can manage to save 3 master fairs for a month, not 4 lol

[hard wave]

I dont think we’ll have more than 3 bcz it seems like they want to have a tech strike and support but u never know

Tho there’s also masterfair reruns

[lunar topaz]

Pitying is neat

[timber wren]

this is the first month with four new PFs

i think we’re still a ways off from 4 new MFs in one month

[topaz compass]

We are at 18.1k + 10k US for twitter rally. I thought we would finish by now with how quick we hit 25k

[crisp oracle]

DeNa aren’t listening I hope

[tardy fiber]

Well 3 new MF and 1 MF rerun already happens right? Galar Birbs + Leon, kinda like 4 new for new players that try to get them all

[timber wren]

definitely, and we’re in for having one mf banner up in perpetuity now it seems like

[tough oriole]

I can’t decide if i like this or not… on one hand, you can be sure that they’ll rerun (unlike me with anni 2.0), but on the other hand it barrages you with constant mfs

[fallen path]

Not the greatest if you’re new I suppose

[tough oriole]

If you’re new and you have mf faves

Cuz tbh the ones that reran have aged kinda poorly for meta, which is why meta sucks

Oops i meant to send that in unite lounge

[maiden kayak]

ngl tho

poma should really follow ni no kuni outfits

they are so much better poma typical skirts and dresses

maybe i should really feedback to dena about this

[tough oriole]

Can you give some examples

[maiden kayak]

https://exputer.com/guides/ni-no-kuni-cross-worlds-costumes/

[robust shore]

making me realize how neat a pirate-related event would be

[tough oriole]

Eeek, i ran out of tech tonics

[cunning swan]

I somehow ran out of aid ades recently

[tough oriole]

Buff Blends are too useless

I’ve been uncapping and getting new techs a lot lately

[upbeat lotus]

I have been running out of the mats uncapping to lvl 140

[cunning swan]

all my units are uncapped to 140

but I did stumble upon a shortage of aid ade last month

[hard wave]

I still have to uncap ramos sophocles and mchu to 140, but I have like 100 buff blends and 600 tech tonics

Also I usually lack grass fire water electric and psychic codexes

Oh and if I get lana and shauna ill need more water and grass codexes

[rustic heron]

i am so glad that i know the relative value of different currencies in this game

||otherwise i would've already snapped from this extreme battle and pulled hau||

[hard wave]

|| I was considering it bcz I kind of like hau and mina but with zerena next in line for MF reruns and prob triple MFs next month and I have 5k gems I dont think ill go for them since they arent must haves ||

|| luckily I finished it even if it took like 300 attempts ||

[rustic heron]

nvm i forgot ss morty was our lord and savior

WE GOOD

TECH CANDY COIN OBTAINED

[hard wave]

No SS Morty but SS Kris worked too with bp soph and lillie

[cunning swan]

still waiting for his rerun because I like the pokemon and the character

meanwhile, no matter how cracked Tapu Bulu is, I'm indifferent to the pokemon or character

[tough oriole]

I like the story around acerola and bulu, it makes the least sense but it’s hilarious

[cobalt frost]

i like tapu bulu and acerola a bit as characters but they are nowhere near fav level

and i do already have Christmas Whitney for grass terrain?

sure its not great but like, just do Christmas Whitney/SS Erika/SS Morty and you basically demolish any grass weak stage

[tough oriole]

Heck, even just Brendan/Skyla/Blaine demolishes any grass weak stage

[cobalt frost]

all the units this month suffer from "ALOLA I LOVE ALOLA SO MUCH" but their function is like, not that useful to me?

and im in a tough spot with gems only being able to afford 1 pity by the time they go away?

[maiden kayak]

then dont pull

[tough oriole]

I mean functionally all of these units are very top tier but none of that matters if you don’t like the characters

It was Alola’s time for the spotlight (and no, I’m not talking about Lillie)

[cobalt frost]

i already decided

im not pulling

[maiden kayak]

any hestiation= dont pull

[cobalt frost]

like i decided on datamine day

im gonna be saving for the eventual alola neo champions i feel

as ik for a fact its gonna be Zeraora and Magearna

[tough oriole]

I guess that makes sense but i’m still holding out for ss lillie and magearna as a poke fair, given her fairy specialty

[cobalt frost]

yeah maybe, but i believe this is it for alola va

there probably isnt a part 3 or something so idk when they'd add that

[tough oriole]

There could always be another poke fair when they want

[cobalt frost]

anni maybe?

[tough oriole]

Ofc june is also MF month, but that’ll probably be neo champs

[versed adder]

do the tapu fairs end late enough that we'd probably be able to see datamine before they all end?

[cobalt frost]

whens the next mf month after june btw

[cobalt frost]

yes

[tough oriole]

Anni (Sept)

[cobalt frost]

im pretty sure if you started saving right as the datamine you could reasonably get 1 full pity

before they ended

as its 33k in this datamine

[versed adder]

ok purr guess im saving and waiting then 😹 lele was always my fav in competitive but i alr have 3000 psychic attackers so ill hold off for a bit

[tough oriole]

It’s basically:
Winter Holidays (Jan/Dec), Half Anni (March), June, Anni (Sept), repeat for new MFs

[cobalt frost]

• whatevers in late may (early next update)

[tough oriole]

Late May is pretty much for june

So that’ll likely be a MF like Ethan or Maxie

[cobalt frost]

so yeah we could get neo champion next month i feel, but alongside that, it feels about time for more spotlights

which is good (instant skip)

[versed adder]

ilima 🙏

[cobalt frost]

nah itd probably be someone already in the game like Malva and Drasna

(ryuki is not getting added next month btw)

(can confirm i talked with john dena himself)

i really want them to get to more isle of armor/crown tundra content sometime soon but i assume they are holding off until galar villain arc

[tough oriole]

Peony

[cobalt frost]

like all we ever got was Dojo Gloria and by technicality Holiday Leon

[tough oriole]

Sorta Victor too since you need max soup for gmax rilla

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

[topaz compass]

Weird way to spell Alolan Vulpix and Nihilego

[cobalt frost]

i managed to literally have barely enough stamina to get Solgaleo EX first thing

yesterday

like nearly perfectly 50 legendary spirit

[compact pasture]

What happened?

[upbeat lotus]

||they get angry||

[silk mirage]

Hi

Guys what are the reason to decide if pull or not?

Like,i would like to pull Acerola and i like the pair but not fave

[upbeat lotus]

not fave = dont pull

[silk mirage]

With tapu dinj

Tapu Koko and hau not fav unit but i pulled just cause i liked the pair both together,he isnt a character that i hate

[upbeat lotus]

please spoiler pulling talk

[drowsy saddle]

Do you have any favourites in general?

[oak crest]

generally we only recommend to pull if fav units here, altho for me I pull for meta whose kits appeal to me since I have little to no faves. Altho I chase metas, I still skip many units as I either do not like their kit, or their play style does not appeal to me(I'm not changing my preferred play style just for 1 new unit b/c its 'meta') or I just disliked the mon or trainer.(i.e. chars/mons that are in my 'ban list' for pulling)

There are also cases where an unit seems interesting to me, but not enough to go for it right away.(Normally this case are for Pokefair units, and I will prefer to wait for their rerun/select banner)

if you want more reasons on why to skip we prob can provide u(besides not being a fave)
If you want to know the strength of a certain new unit prob better to ask in poma-questions or poma-lounge

[deft glen]

I'm always low on the ++ of strike and tech. I'm close to getting all units to 140 (17 left), but they are all water, grass and electric, so I don't have the codexes for them

[tough oriole]

Yeah it was the ++ tech tonics

[glass abyss]

I am almost at 36.6k

Gems

[deft glen]

Saving progress

Might reach 3 pities at the end of the month idk

|| I'm 100% going for GiraCynthia, I'll decide on Lana after next datamine ||

[hard wave]

Same fire and psychic sometimes too

2 electric and 1 grass atm + missing shauna and lana for spotlights

[cunning swan]

Gem update: 177k

Cool, I can reach about 200k by the end of May

[hard wave]

Oh and there’s future pairs too like lodge gloria, base n, lodge n if I ever get them and some reruns or new units that may release

[feral vale]

||SSRC gang! I’m also gonna be near three pities too at the end of the month Hopefully she comes quick!||

[hard wave]

|| im worried about the next few months, luckily I have ssrc and got lussa very early but zerena ss ethan and aura cynthia are the last masterfairs on my list ||

[wind jay]

||huh wait, is it speculated that those masterfairs will rerun anytime soon?||

[hasty umbra]

dev letter hinted at them being back sooner and more often, whether that actually means one every month that's to be confirmed

[wind jay]

oh no

[tardy fiber]

Oh right if MF reruns more often, probably MF lodge guest wont be so farfetched anymore

[sly breach]

Only mf rerun i want is ssa Cynthia

[tardy fiber]

Im lucky that i already completed my rerun list, but yeap its always good to save if its ||4 faves in a month like this may ||

[hard wave]

Seems like we’ll have monthly reruns

Zerena ethan lyra kris ash and then cynthia maybe ash wont rerun

[sonic cobalt]

Ash is gone like his pops

[hard wave]

Luckily I have him already

Either way the next 5-6 months will have masterfairs I want + new ones next month and anni

[opaque cargo]

Saw a banner with triple select in datamaine. Darkrai mayken and hoopa. Maykennnn!!!!

[sonic cobalt]

Not a select

[mighty scroll]

how much is the paid gems if it's not a select

[tawny dagger]

3k

[deft glen]

Not a select

[deft glen]

Other than ||SSRC|| the only other MF I want the rerun is SS Kris. Anni N I'd be on the fence again cuz I love Reshiram but I don't care about N

[mighty scroll]

N wont be the one who battles on the field anyway. So grab your fav Reshiram and burn the field.

[remote night]

||Hello there people, I'm saving gems for SS Lusamine. I'm at 18k right now. There is a possibility that I get to 36k before the banner ends?||

[sonic cobalt]

I think it should be possible to do it before next PoMa day when she goes away.

[upbeat lotus]

Yes you can

[sonic cobalt]

Oddly enough the bot’s tellin me that we’ll only earn 4750 gems between today and the 24th but I know that ain’t right

[remote night]

||Also I have some legendary arena battles that I haven't completed yet so hopefully I'll be able to pull for her, or pity||

[upbeat lotus]

Remember to spoiler pulling talk here next time

[upbeat lotus]

The bot hasnt been updated yet

[remote night]

How can I do that?

[upbeat lotus]

Also turn off ping next time please

Put your message between 2 ||

[remote night]

How can I turn off ping?

[upbeat lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-reply-discord-reply-off-discord-reply-gif-22150762

[remote night]

Thanks! I don't use discord often, so there are things that I don't know yet. 👀

[ancient kelp]

||i got hau from my first multi, should i keep pulling for more copies or just candy him||

[hard wave]

|| candy ||

[sturdy plank]

||i'll pull for ss acerola and maybe ssr cynthia hoping it's not gonna be zerena for june 25th||

[upbeat lotus]

Should wait for datamine first, both stay for a long time after datamine

[hard wave]

|| it prob will be, she’s next in line ||

[cobalt frost]

id say wait

oh you were referring to someone else

[upbeat lotus]

Ofc i didnt talk to you

[wind jay]

||im scared for the first time in terms of gems, i feel that all my faves will be in a single month and ill implode||

[wind jay]

may i ask how do you all speculate that? like, many people told me ||ethan and zerena|| are going to rerun

either way

[tough oriole]

They said that they want a different Mf to rerun each PoMa day from now on

[hard wave]

So in the dev letter they said they will be rerunning on poma day and special occasions

[tough oriole]

Zerena was the MF released after RCynthia

[rare swan]

We do have a bit of hopium around MF reruns now, yes

so if you have a big MF fave, try to have a pity set aside for them

[hard wave]

Maybe it wont be every month but if it is zerena and ethan r next in terms of release order

[tough oriole]

They said it’d also happen for “special opportunities” or smth, so I think ss johtrio, who are very linked will rerun together

[hard wave]

They could do both

[tough oriole]

Idk if ash can rerun though, he wasn’t even in the ACyn and TRed event

[hard wave]

Like they’ll rerun on poma day individually but maybe rerun later on tg?

[hard wave]

Didnt he have a separate event?

But ig we’ll see in october

[tough oriole]

Yup

[oak crest]

maybe they might do a big bait prior to anni like maxie/archie's rerun

what better time to bankrupt player's gems by re-running Johtrio right before anni like Maxie/Archie last year

[summer goblet]

aight, i lost the bet and i will honour it by

||skipping SC Steven my fav and throw 36.6k gems down the drain for train bros||

rip my 385k gem saving lol

[rare swan]

why not just ||pull for the character you actually want?||

[summer goblet]

cause i lost the bet and i will honour it

[rare swan]

if that's what you want to do just doesn't sound fun at all to me

[summer goblet]

it's worth it if means my favourite hockey team gets over the freaking hump for over 20 years, then its worth it

plus, i've been insanely discipline for so long and not been making any mistakes that i can afford it for the month

||also, i do want train bros, just willing to settle for 1 initially with 10k paid gems||

[feral vale]

It is not. Check disclaimer in #1012256199128915968

[fallen path]

You sound like an elated leafs fan

[tough oriole]

2 of my teachers at one point have the opposite opinions on the leafs (since they’re my home team)

[summer goblet]

guilty as charge

[broken mulch]

Phew still have 45k gems. Will still hit double pity by early June

[tardy fiber]

27850 gems left this month, i guess i just gonna keep that amount... doesn't seem like we complete retweet event yet so the 3k is uncertain

29.3k retweets currently...missing 700

[broken mulch]

When’s the deadline?

… oh dang if we include the retweet that means I’ll definitely hit double pity at end of May lol

[tardy fiber]

2nd May

[tough oriole]

18.6k + 10.7k

[broken mulch]

Oh that’s easy

[tough oriole]

So we only need 700 more

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[vernal glade]

Think we can make it? Looks pretty close so I think it’s possible

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, i only have 1 twitter account so i can only give 2 retweets

[winged fossil]

are we going to possibly fail a rally for once

[dreamy onyx]

we won't, it's embarrassing for dena so they'll use bots to finish the rally if needed

[vernal glade]

It’s looking very slow so I think so unless the Japanese players can somehow help us.

Hope so. I never seen us fail a rally before.

[rare swan]

We're super close, I'm sure it'll be fine

[untold tide]

When will bulurola drop

Why is it so long

Persuade me away from pulling mina

[rare swan]

why do you want her?

[tardy fiber]

You already have Mina Granbull

No need another one

[cobalt frost]

from what ive heard base mina actually decent?

never used her too much but her kit seems quite useful in certain situations

[rare swan]

she's a good unit, like all new units are

but by no means a must-pull

i'm personally skipping her

[cobalt frost]

same, i like mina and tapu fini but its not fave level so pretty easy skip

plus shes somewhat lacking in the drip department

[rare swan]

yeah, it's a nice outfit but not really my thing

[untold tide]

I like her design and like her support

[cobalt frost]

okay, got 5/5 ss erika from tickets and ive fully completed the kanto ticket scout, should i spend future tickets anyways for a 5 star power up or wait for a new kanto spotlight

[rare swan]

really up to you, at this point - if you're in desperate need of you can

it's been a long while since we had a Kanto spotlight added, so

I'm personally saving mine

[rare swan]

is she a favourite character? there will be a better support in the next few months, i'm sure

if you do pull on her, think of the other units you will be unable to pull on because of the gems you're spending on her

[cobalt frost]

ik to obviously save when it comes to Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Galar due to new spotlights

but for Kanto Johto and Alola theres not really any new spotlights in sight yet

so theres less of a reason to save

[untold tide]

Noted

[rare swan]

[rare swan]

yeah, it's very much up to you

[cobalt frost]

i think ill just spend the tickets until a new spotlight is added for that reigon

then start saving for the next refresh

[tardy fiber]

They gonna refresh this anniv i think

[cobalt frost]

yeah, if there were to be spotlights in june or july do you believe it will be added to the refresh
as courtney and looker werent

[rare swan]

hard to tell at this point

hopefully yes

[tardy fiber]

But you guys does have strong willpower, i cannot stand ❗on ticket section

I can save gems but not that

[broken mulch]

What?

Oh right

Doesn’t that disappear afteryou do the daily pull?

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, i feel like it just stays

But more aint bad, especially my only 2 spotlight faves are already 5/5

Pheromosa and Silvally my beloved

[rare swan]

No, it remains as long as you have enough tickets to do one of the scouts

[tardy fiber]

I probably less concerned about the tickets as there's no need for more faves dupes and it is kinda free. but if my fave appears as spotlight later ||i will spend paid gems doing tiers ||

[broken mulch]

Oh right the ticket one yeah that stays

[oak crest]

got used to seeing it

[cunning swan]

Just get used to it

[rare swan]

i am numb to it now

[tardy fiber]

But hard like there's no spotlight faves that i need to chase, even if there's one later, it will probably added next year...so there's no motivation for me to save tickets and getting seems like a better option as it can help me to when bunch of them appeared simultaneously well ||like this month ||

[topaz compass]

I will hoard my tickets until 4th anni and then maybe spend them all. Because apparently we are going to get very few spotlights going forward

Hopefully they throw us a curveball and put crappy varieties like e4 in ticket pool eventually

[hard wave]

Ill be using my alola ones for lana, once I have her ill prob save

[wind jay]

ohh alright thx

[untold tide]

Got screwed by ticket pool

Another grimsley!

[deft glen]

It used to bother me a lot. Now I just don't care about it anymore

[signal halo]

I was trained and forged by genshin impact on the notif situation

There was the final constellation of a character that was really bad to activate, so I kept it there

And it leaves a notification until it's activated

[robust shore]

Should hit pity in the next few days

[crisp wraith]

This might be the first time I ever try for a pity

Got 12k gems, || but I don’t want any of the Pokémon coming out cuz I have terrains set || so I should have enough by late May right

[topaz compass]

Try to reach that 1st pity. Once you get to that I think it gets way easier to keep a good balance

[cunning swan]

I agree, I think reaching 1st pity is the biggest hurdle

[hard wave]

Not when the first pair u pull on after acquiring ur first pity makes u go to pity for 1/5 but its fine, im back to saving (6k atm)

[crisp wraith]

Yeah it’s for that reason alone “making it easier to save” that I might try to do a pity. ||This is just prob the first time there was someone I wasn’t crazy about for like 2 months straight.||

[vestal leaf]

Personally think the second is the hardest

Because the temptation to pull when you know you have a pity is strong

[sonic cobalt]

And then God help you when you’re trying to climb to third pity

[feral vale]

[tough oriole]

Ik that emote is its a me but all i see is its ame

[feral vale]

[sonic cobalt]

[crisp wraith]

|Second pity god damn lmao. I’ve never tried for 1 idk if I could ever do 2 |

Damn forgot the second ||’s

[tardy fiber]

The highest ive gotten is third pity, well its not like i was aiming for it...it just comes naturally when i stick to my faves list...if there's a month or a 2 with 0 faves or only 1 fave, i usually can reach it

[hard wave]

Im hoping to complete my rerun list this year but id need them to rerun and newer pairs to not be that interesting to me 12 atm (9 PFs and 3 MFs)

[tardy fiber]

Wow thats a big list...good luck

[hard wave]

Hoping for triple banners with 2 or 3 of fairs in them the 3 masterfairs should come this year

Zerena maybe june, ss ethan maybe july, and ssac october or november depending on if ash reruns or not

Luckily all the pokefairs havent been expanded yet excluding ss hilbert so they have to rerun eventually…. Right?

[opaque cargo]

As much as i want the tapus. Since i dun have enough gem. I need to skip em. And their kit seems repetitive. While i dun have fairy zoner, i dun have good fairy dps either. And hereby i declare skipping all the tapus. I want the electric legendaries. But i prefer N zekrom for that or maybe zeraora

[tardy fiber]

Thats a good decision, should never try to pull a banner without having enough gems

[hard wave]

Same, ill only have 1 pity by the end of the month and im not sure if we’ll have more reruns of pokefairs I want or new masterfairs or a zerena rerun

Tapus do seem cool but with ss kris/ccalem, volkner with ash, ss wally, anni may I dont lack their terrains

And I dont rlly need grassy terrain either even if I dont have lyra and im planning to go for ss morty so ill have sun covered hopefully

[vernal glade]

Im glad next months a skip month. Perhaps maybe June is when I reach my next milestone.

[cunning swan]

That's true

[tardy fiber]

For me, i dont have the temptation to pull when having pity if there's no faves unit but i does get tempted to pull for dupes

But i learnt my lesson before this, when the dupe costs me pity when i already got the unit first multi

33k gems for 1 move level, kinda feels bad

[hard wave]

If I dont care for anything im able to resist pulling

Even if I kind of want the pair, like ik I can pity a tapu and I kind of want them but im still able to resist pulling

I have a few other reruns I kind of want as well but id only go for them if they are with someone that I definitely want

[sturdy hatch]

My bar for pulling for dupes keeps getting higher, now I hesitate at 333

[opaque cargo]

My tendency to pull is if the units have nice outfit. I need to resist those

Heck i dun need to pull anymore unit to be honest. With my roster now i can beat all content including pasio cs.

[broken mulch]

SS Acerola dripping the most out of the 4

But I’m skipping

[opaque cargo]

Luckily i dont fanship accerola. Tapu bulu grass zone is tempting. Nah my goal is celebi

[tardy fiber]

333 pity points? If its already that deep should just get ...6k of free gems kinda way cheaper than 3k or 5k paid gems which is the normal price for fair select that i commonly use to get dupes...but so sad that fair select is not common anymore with none of them released for half anniv, i might change my statement if it becomes more common but for now those selects becoming more rare this year

[cunning swan]

Same, and the abundance of fan arts fuel that impulse. That's what made me want to pull SC Steven. But I just let the urge sit for a few weeks and after a while, I'm not as hyped anymore

[tardy fiber]

I do like lots of outfits in PoMa but thanks to the nature of this game where they don't show lots of screen time on which i can only see the outfit during battle at the start of battle and at the victory screen, it does help me to skip non faves but have cool outfits. Pokemon is another case as we keep seeing it during battles, they even attack and do stuffs so thats why my faves list is based of fave pokemons and not on trainers/outfits

[cunning swan]

That's a good point

If you favorite a character, they'll appear in the pokecenter more often and you get to see their outfits, but I guess that's about it

You can't even use alt outfits for interacting with characters in lodge

[vernal glade]

Unfortunately

[opaque cargo]

If dena do this. Its gonna be harder to resist pulling, especially the sc unit

I guess its a good feature or moves by dena for us

Opps its the new reset

[winged fossil]

Ngl this makes it even easier for me to skip ny Lillie permanently over it being a bee. basically have a bug-phobia to some degree and bees are one of the worst for me so I’m prob never going out of my way for that alt even if it’s Lillie of all people.

I’m already hesitant enough to use Aaron where I need him over similar reasons.

Don’t need yet another one in my roster causing such conflict

[untold tide]

Jp pulled through

For the rally

[broken mulch]

Oh we didn’t finish yet?

[vernal glade]

Jp should count for us.

[tardy fiber]

I kinda wonder though, like we are fine on retweeting JP post but not much jp people want to retweet ENG post, if most of them retweet ENG post, we already finished it earlier well as long that we cleared it

[rare swan]

you make a good point, actually

most western players will retweet both but the numbers on the JP tweet are always much higher why don't the JP players retweet the EN account?

[tawny dagger]

They can't read English

[rare swan]

i'd say most of us can't read Japanese

[dreamy onyx]

it's more like they don't care, or don't follow any english official websites or account. in most game not just this one

[violet nebula]

I mean why would you when you got the news etc all in your mother tounge🤷

[rare swan]

oh i'm well aware

i just find it interesting, that's all

[tardy fiber]

But at least we did help to retweet although we don't understand what the JP post wrote because all players will get the 3k gems not just JP players

[violet nebula]

Exactly otherwise I'd doubt we'd bother

[slow hare]

I don't remember if i did CS
Oh well lol

[grim plover]

this just happened to me 😭

most of my favs end up being techs and i always run out of tech candies

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

[tardy fiber]

Same, i thought of getting dupe to save candy...ended up getting the dupe via pity

[cunning swan]

178k

5000 more gems to five pities lfg

[timber wren]

monthly gem count has been updated for april in #1010223517565976737

lowest month in half a year

[cunning swan]

lowest? yet 29k feels higher than what I'm used to, wow

[fallen path]

i genuinely don't remember how we got 45k last august. hopefully the summer months aren't that dry because i see 25k each last june + july

[hard wave]

We only got 25k last june, in a triple MF month?

[cunning swan]

how did we get 45k last august???

wasn't it just Hoenn VA galore

[cunning swan]

yes, yes we did

[hard wave]

glad this is a save month for me

[cunning swan]

when the johtrio was datamined, I nearly cried.
when I discovered they were master pairs, I nearly cried for a different reason
when I learned about the 25k gem count, I nearly cried again even more

[hard wave]

I was so bad at gem saving that time I was doing singles bcz I couldnt save a multi most of the time I got to maybe 200 smth with ss ethan and obviously didnt get him || luckily I got kriss first multi and dont care for lyra ||

[vernal glade]

Isn’t 45k the highest gem count still?

[topaz compass]

Yes

[timber wren]

this was for the calendar month of april, we got less than 25k

hasn’t been that low since october

the counts in #1010223517565976737 are always different than what is posted for the datamines since those follow the updates, not the calendar month

[gray dock]

im now a member of gem saving

cool i got all the gems for today

can probably still get some extras from last month stuff

ik i have 300 left from Solving Wonderful Mysteries

[gray sail]

Gunna start saving again in about a week. Thankfully there is nothing of interest.

[feral vale]

Welcome to skip month!

[violet nebula]

Quite skippable

MF's may come next month

Stay strong

[robust shore]

||was very close to going for Mina about a few hours ago but then i remembered she doesn't leave until June and got enough sense into me to close the app and go on a walk lol||
crisis averted 😎

[untold tide]

I'm coping for MF in June

[robust shore]

good chance there will be
just a matter of seeing what it is

[topaz compass]

I basically hope for next MF batch every datamine

I'm wanting ice zone attacker and special poison striker more than I care if it is MF

[hard wave]

Im just hoping they are nice to me unlike marnie and hop

[violet nebula]

It is done, no more 4 stars left

Now to 5* all eggmon😬

[ancient kelp]

Thats a big task

[topaz compass]

I am definitely not sending eggmons to 5* other than weathers

[fallen path]

I sent striker Perrserker to 5*

[tardy fiber]

I will make shiny eggmons to 5* after im done like Luckay, but still far... there's 30 pairs left, and 33 if ||there's jessie, james rerun + i get lodge steven||

[hard wave]

I still need jessie, james, bugscy, lodge steven, lodge n, lodge gloria

[vernal glade]

||Me who doesn’t have lodge Raihan ||

[grim plover]

where can i see what each cs stage does?

[timber wren]

#1009554906568462476 pins

oh you mean passives

poma tools

[grim plover]

ups i clicked the wrong channel haha

okok

[timber wren]

https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/701/78700

[topaz compass]

That Lodge Raihan banner is tempting since he is only one I'm missing, but surely he will appear in a split banner or free select or something in the next anni or 2. Just feels like a waste because the 1/5 unit is awful imo

[vernal glade]

Same here but I don’t mind skipping. Maybe when he becomes free select then sure.

[hard wave]

Thats what I plan to do with steven, gloria, and N

But would be nice if they were with someone I do want on a rerun so I can try and get both

[untold tide]

Yall saw the fashion week tweet?

Does that mean they're rerunning nyisia etc?

[vernal glade]

Absolutely not, they’re not in the datamine.

And besides, I rather save.

||Because no wonder when a fave gonna pop up for me||

[hard wave]

I would rlly like the next few months to have no new pairs I like but reruns that I want to go for

[cunning swan]

no, I think it's just to promote what kind of outfits PMEX has

"this is the kind of outfits you can expect"

[untold tide]

I see

[tardy fiber]

I thought its a dead 100 gems reset, glad i was wrong

[cunning swan]

the events tab is suddenly very vacant, what a jumpscare

[tardy fiber]

Big gems next reset

[sly breach]

Looks like i need 2 pity worth of gems how do i get them?

[broken mulch]

Use real Money

To buy paid gems

[timber wren]

usually takes 8-10 weeks to accrue enough free gems from events and logins to hit 2 pity

[topaz compass]

The next milestone is 1k gems, just 500 more interactions. Ingot it today too

[hard wave]

I get mine next reset so I should be at 12k ish tmrw

[vernal glade]

Appears I’ll make it to 160k during the middle of this week. Perhaps June will get me to 200k.

[violet nebula]

This is the way

[rustic heron]

||its hard to not bite the bullet and pull for any of the tapus, especially since i just deleted reddit and am looking for something to do as a substitute to doomscrolling||

[topaz compass]

I wouldn't quit reddit unless you are replacing it with a healthy IRL activity. Trading it for other phone games or browsing isn't an improvement imo

[tawny dagger]

Read books

Literally any genre is fine

[tardy fiber]

Yep i can clear it in 83 days. A nice surprise of gems . I still cannot clear the max guest though as I'm missing lodge steven. So i will only max 16 guests after I'm done with acerola

[topaz compass]

Yeah same for me but Raihan

And I'm not doing lodge banner just for him and a 2.6% total limited chance

Surely he will be in a triple, select, etc, at some point

[hard wave]

Im hoping red joins lodge so I can go for his banner and hopefully get steven/gloria/n as well but there’s a low chance unfortunately

Not sure if any of these would be in a triple banner with them tho

[topaz compass]

Charizard or snorlax?

[hard wave]

Snorlax

[topaz compass]

Amazing you avoided the 4 different banners he was in

[hard wave]

I started in february 2022 and I dont remember if he was in any banner at that time, the gauntlet banner he was in I only got diantha from it, didnt get anything from the MC banner (maybe wouldve pulled more but I only made this list in like january), and I had to skip him recently bcz masterfairs

Since he reran alot im hoping he’s given out for free, tho I kind of hope I have him by then so I can choose n/gloria/steven on the next free select if they are there

[tardy fiber]

Oh i got Raihan from a select before this, i probably will do the same with Steven if there's no other faves in that select that still need to be 3/5

[lean mango]

Gem count, aiming for the 120k!

[broken mulch]

Pairs I’m missing for lodge are Marnie and Raihan

Not particularly interested in pulling for them tho

[vernal glade]

||Same here since I rather wait for a free raihan||

[broken mulch]

Come on another free Pokefair ticket

[tardy fiber]

Yep please want to get Steven, or Lance/Diantha if steven is not in the pool as they have a chance to be lodge guests in the future

[broken mulch]

I’m not sure who I’d pick honestly

Maybe SS Leon? Or Lear

[hard wave]

Not happening but I hope we get more with the older fairs outside of just being an anni run up

Would be nice for lodge pairs im missing and red/ingo since they are the only ones on my list that are 2021

[topaz compass]

Raihan was in a select? Must have been a good banner with other better options or before he was in TL

[hard wave]

NY 2023

[vernal glade]

Im waiting for him to appear in a free select ticket. Doubt it’ll happen

[tardy fiber]

Yep, at first i thought i want to skip that select because all the faves in it were already 3/5 but better that i spend 3k/5k paid for another lodge guest than potentially spending a pity on the lodge banner. Well 2 pairs (duraludon/gigalith), 20 , 10 certs and 1 of every move coin already good return my 3k paid i guess. Even more that now lodge pairs can be EX

[naive imp]

Hello so ss cynthia is coming in a month i have 12 thousand gems atm, until her arrival will i have enough for a pity?

[shut horizon]

Sadly no. It's like 36k for pity I believe

[tardy fiber]

I think you will have enough

Because ssrcynthia banner starts on 25th

So you have this month gems plus next month

[shut horizon]

Ohhh nvm. I read that wrong. z

[tardy fiber]

Well until 24th june

[naive imp]

I also have my eyes on SS lana

So idk which of them i should prioritize

[shut horizon]

In my opinion, Cynthia is pretty bad ass

I'd go for her😅

[tardy fiber]

SsLana will be gone earlier than ssrcynthia..iirc she is till june 2nd

[shut horizon]

Also True

[naive imp]

I see still with 12 gems saved i should be able to gain enough gems to guarantee a pity for her no?

[tardy fiber]

SsLana?

[naive imp]

I do think she is the better choice since i lack good fairy units

[sinful pelican]

You have 12 gems rn? Thats not a pity

[tardy fiber]

She's psychic

SsMina is fairy

[sinful pelican]

And shes support which doesnt necessarily give you a good "fairy" unit if you know what i mean

[naive imp]

12.000

[sinful pelican]

You can pity then

[tardy fiber]

But he wants ssrcynthia as well

[sinful pelican]

As long as one has at least 5k gems today, they can pity one

[sinful pelican]

Oh

[dusk zealot]

Not pulling for Lusamine takes so much willpower

[naive imp]

I though lana was the fairy one

[sinful pelican]

Well they can pity lana and save next month gems for ssrc

[dusk zealot]

But I really want Acerola

[naive imp]

Honestly i'm not very interested in mina

[tardy fiber]

Also Coconut, you want SsLana or SsMina? Because before this you said Lana, but she's psychic unit and not fairy

[sinful pelican]

Lele isnt needed if you want a fairy

She is purely psychic

[naive imp]

Only ones that i actually was ibterested in the villain arc were lana and hau and i both got good electric types and water types

[tardy fiber]

There's no water unit this month

[naive imp]

I see then i'm not pulling for lana what a pity i like her

Since i got SS lusamine

[tardy fiber]

SsMina - Fairy, SsHau - Electric, SsAcerola - Grass, SsLana - Psychic

VAgatha - Poison, VLance - Dragon

[naive imp]

This month theré really isn't anything worth for me it seens

Guess only one that sparks my interest and can be useful is SS acerola

Since i lack some good grass strikers

Pasio champion stadium gave me some ptsd

[tardy fiber]

The special cs?

I only do 1 grass team and offtype others

[winged fossil]

...so uh... ||that half off multi? is that worth doing the half off 1-time?||

||didnt expect there to be a half off||

esp not with 4 and some gen pools im missing

[lean mango]

I'd still say it avoid it personally

I always go with the notion that I'll get those missing units later

[winged fossil]

its a shame they had to put the candy coins 5 multis deep, if it was 1st tier for colored and 2nd tier for yellow i prob wouldnt hesitate

[lean mango]

Still not worth the gems personally

[winged fossil]

fair. i wouldnt be considering more than the 4+ powerups outside of the half off. the fact that it was half is what got my eye but, god. the fact the guarantee banner is paid is still dirty. i dont think we've had a select in a while and they give us a guarantee paid of all things.

that must feel like a slap in the face for some paid gem owners, to have a good pool be ruined by it being non-select and with 2 people we just had in a free select

[cunning swan]

this is massive bait

[upbeat lotus]

even with better rewards the banner is still not worth it

[lean mango]

I'd say never to scout for the bonus presents

[hasty umbra]

yeah, that's not a good use of gems

it wasn't for MF banners rewards, it's not for this either

[winged fossil]

The main thing that’d even tempt me unit wise would be chance for colress and Shauna, since I think they’re both there. But the rates are too low still. Maybe if the first also had a 5* guarantee I’d throw away 1500 but…meh.

It’d feel terrible to use gems and be shafted out of it I’d imagine so I’ll just use it not being guarantee as my excuse to get me out of temptation

[sturdy plank]

going good

[lean mango]

[rare swan]

Good plan

[upbeat lotus]

got 8430 gems on my way to form a pity

[cunning swan]

182,800 gems! Just 200 more for 5 pities

[vernal glade]

40k to go. ||Soon Summer Hilda Vilda and Gilbert will be mine in my fave collection||

[untold tide]

they

are having

a new rally/retweet event

for the 50 mil DL

in the jp acc

[rare swan]

[upbeat lotus]

look like it's a point scoring rally?

[tardy fiber]

Big gems today, back to 92.95k gems but ||i still have not yet started saving mode for this month ||

[grand bramble]

So guyz... Is it not a select scout right?

[tardy fiber]

Yep its just a guaranteed 1/6 fair units

[grim plover]

that's so bad

[grand bramble]

Good....for us here lol

[grim plover]

yeah haha

i was thinking in buying the 3$ bundle for that but not anymore

[tardy fiber]

I just keep buying the cheapest 20 day bundle, wont know when i need to use a bunch of paid gems at once

Especially if my fave appears as spotlight or variety

Can just use my 7.5k paid for guaranteed

[topaz compass]

Yeah o got cheated on the paid, worst possible outcome

Save your gems all!

[tardy fiber]

DeNa kinda already warned us about it, if people actually did read the mail

They even put Note:

[topaz compass]

I know they warned. I'm just tired of always having the worst possible luck

[tough oriole]

Statistically it was a lot more likely that you’d get the worse options

[vestal leaf]

Paid gems issue

[grim plover]

well, back to saving

hopefully next month will have a gladion alt and no more favs

[hard wave]

Im hoping for sinnoh VA triple banner and zerena nothing else

[grim plover]

there's people theorizing that it could be sinnoh NCs

[topaz compass]

I had 0/5 of 2 units and 1/5 of the rest. But Alder is statistically just the worst one. I wouldn't have been upset with anybody but him or Morpeko

Plus there was a chance of getting a 2nd unit

So I lost the favorable 2 to 1 odds of a unit I was happy with on top of losing the 20%+ chance of a 2nd unit

I'm just saying, it is like the squidward meme in SpongeBob

[untold tide]

I mean, it happens sometimes

it's like rolling a dice

sometimes you just roll a 1

[topaz compass]

Yeah I roll a 1 on all paid banners

[untold tide]

I lost a 75/25 once in another gacha game

literally a 25% to lose

[topaz compass]

Dude don't patronize me.

[untold tide]

and I took the L

so

[topaz compass]

I'm talking about the longterm odds

[untold tide]

no I was just saying I can relate

sorry for trying to relate to you

[topaz compass]

Sorry I just get frustrated when people act like bad luck is okay, when it isn't a 1 time thing like fools in the salt channel sad about a pity on MF even though it rarely happens to them

[tardy fiber]

Sinnoh? I wonder if we will get Palmer Master Fair finally

Either heatran or regigigas is fine...but if rhyperior or others, i will skip

[hard wave]

they could do 2 sinnoh MFs, 2 unova 1 alola/kanto for anni, and 1 kanto/alola to finish off the missing passives

Prob not happening but

[untold tide]

I understand, although ngl it hurt to be called an idiot for expressing sympathy
hope your string of bad luck ends one day

[tardy fiber]

They probably won't stop after releasing all missing MF passives now that duplicate MF passive is now a thing, i expect another pair will get Kanto Spirit if Ash won't ever have a rerun

[hard wave]

[untold tide]

if it's another red...

[tardy fiber]

It can happen, we have 2 MF serena with 2 different MF passives

[untold tide]

ugghh

[hard wave]

But we also have 2 cynthia with same passive

[untold tide]

I just dislike the yellow rats

[tardy fiber]

Also leon and ncbede have the same galar flag bearer

[tardy fiber]

Same 🤝

[hard wave]

Well they couldnt do a trio if they didnt repeat a passive

[untold tide]

wait chop and carnie flag bearer passive is different from cede?

[hard wave]

But I dont get why they made ssac a FB when both pride and spirit havent been filled

[tardy fiber]

Cmarnie is galar spirit, chop is galar pride

[hard wave]

Chop is pride, cmarnie is spirit, cbede is fb

[topaz compass]

I wish they would try to finish missing MF passives furst

[untold tide]

ah

that's news to me

[hard wave]

Pride boosts ur phys dmg + lowers phys dmg taken, spirit is the same but special, fb is both I think

[topaz compass]

They ssem to always make support MF a flag bearer right?

[hard wave]

CCalem

He’s pride, other 3 are FB tho

[topaz compass]

Is suicune flag bearer or no

[tardy fiber]

I kinda like duplicate master passives, like charizard aint my fave so i skipped leon but then DeNa give galar articuno with same passive for me

[hard wave]

Yeah

[hard wave]

Yeah but masterfairs

[tardy fiber]

Ssrcynthia, Annisteven, AnniN, Zerena, Annilillie, Leon are flag bearers that are not supports

Oh sstred

[tardy fiber]

Well they are some free master units

[tough oriole]

3/5ed all of them?

[hard wave]

Scoutable masterfairs*

[tardy fiber]

[tough oriole]

Someday I’ll get Regirock

[tardy fiber]

But i kinda regret 3/5 mesprit, i dont know ||there's 2 support faves this month ||

[tough oriole]

Tbh i feel like i don’t need to save my BP 🌈 ticket (i have no clue how many i have, but I’m probably fine for the next one)

I love using Cheryl and Regirock is basically Cheryl

[tardy fiber]

Well but not much loss because i calculated the duration between my last rainbow ticket to anniv is enough to form another ticket...just i will be pissed if DeNa didn't give another free ticket this anniv while releasing 2 new bp master units

I hope they give rainbow ticket again like last year's

So that i can claim the 2 new bp master units day 1

[topaz compass]

@tardy fiber if they don't release any new 5star BP soon you will have wasted your candies though...

[hard wave]

This isnt updated for galar NCs but has everyone else

[tardy fiber]

Well not really they still need to release remaining 2 chatelaines even if they stopped with MC bp master

So i can just make her 2/5 move level

[hard wave]

I should get one ticket in june so ill get regirock and then maybe be halfway towards another ticket in august?

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if Kanto Pride will be Mega Mewtwo X or Melmetal

[hard wave]

Prob MMX, besides charizard all pokemon are from their respective region

[tough oriole]

Maybe pogo collab for melmetal

[vestal leaf]

Isn't that chance just 2% over 10 units?

[tardy fiber]

Melmetal did appeared in LGPE though

[hard wave]

True

[tough oriole]

Melmetal is from the go world lol

[vestal leaf]

16~% + 66% of getting anyone but alder and Marnie then?

[topaz compass]

My point is I get so screwed on dailies that they aren't worth, and Dena isn't giving us limited selects, so I felt forced to do this one and I lost the 70% chance or so of getting a good outcome like I usually do

Like I will have to pivot to stupid 10k tiered reruns

[vestal leaf]

Doing dailies is your "fault" tbh, especially if you know they're not a good way to spend resources

[topaz compass]

I don't even do them unless 3% or higher limited

[vestal leaf]

Saying "I felt forced to do this one" is something I'd reflect on tbh

[tardy fiber]

DeNa never forced anyone to pull anything in PoMa see Chest, Chest can survive without pulling non faves and reached 1 mil gems

[vestal leaf]

^

Especially for paids

[topaz compass]

The paid aren't costing me money directly but my time for GPS to get Google play surveys. All I'm asking is for 25th percentile luck instead of the bottom 10th percentile I actually have

[tardy fiber]

Even dailies are not forced to do, well if you're fine with losing 80 gems.

Luckily i hunt for certs so i never missed dailies

Because need to do lodge to get certs lol

[vestal leaf]

Yea same

[cunning swan]

you get enough google play credits from surveys to buy paid gems?

[vestal leaf]

That said, paying or not for gems makes no difference imo

[tardy fiber]

I only get some discount like it cuts 10% of the 20 days bundle cost

Well at least i got it cheaper lol

[vestal leaf]

Paid or non paid gems difference in value

Is the same both if you pay firsthand for them

Or not

[tardy fiber]

Im saving my paid gems for anniv

I got quite a bunch of fair faves and 1 seasonal fave to get dupes

I hold out candying Fall Iris to 3/5 due to seasonal select hopium

[topaz compass]

I have averaged almost $6 per month from surveys since I started Jan 2022

Mostly due to using Google maps GPS everywhere

[fallen path]

You’re an android user?

[topaz compass]

So not really worth the time lol

Yeah. So I can't cash it out

If I could cash it out ironically I wouldn't bother. But being forced to use on Google play is an incentive to earn knowing I will use on this game

[fallen path]

Yeah it seems like iPhone users don’t get much from the surveys

Mind I’m not F2P

[cunning swan]

I get pocket change from google surveys and I don't even get surveys every day

[fallen path]

10 cents per survey and it cashed out at $2. Not the most reliable lol

[feral vale]

I haven’t got a survey in a while… .-.

[sand crown]

Nope. Apple user. I rarely, if ever get surveys of any kind. I have permissions, location services and a flashing sign for Google “hey exploit my info for .50!” and still nothing

[reef river]

This paid pull is kinda bad. Only like 3 decent units and you dont even get to choose

||and i have all 6 of them anyway||

[cunning swan]

easy skip then

[rare swan]

yeah both these new banners are very scammy tbh

disappointing conduct from DeNA

[vestal leaf]

I had no expectations so it's all benefit from logins and bingo

[cunning swan]

5! Full! Pities!

[fallen path]

i suppose we shouldn't expect any select banners for the 100 million downloads milestone either..

[topaz compass]

Im just going to rage spend at 4th anni with the assumption EOS is near after that. Since they reduced gem prices a bunch just to make the ways to spend them so much worse, reeks of cash grab because they aren't doing well

[upbeat lotus]

Poma revenue has been really good lately no way it reaches eos at 4th anni unless dena make a controversial accident

[chrome nest]

They think it’s eos because of the rally expiration for oak and Rosa

[topaz compass]

No I'm just in a bad mood so sky is falling mentality

Normally I say that we should be safe until after 5th anni

[chrome nest]

We don’t even know what’s gonna happen in the 4th anni and beyond

Heck for all we know next month there’s gonna be an Sc event probably

[violet nebula]

MF more likely

But this game will go on

Other gachas do when they should be dead

[reef river]

When does that expire anyway

[opaque cargo]

Waaht cant choose mayken. Geh what a sucky paid banner

[feral vale]

This year’s Anni

[feral vale]

We already knew you couldn’t choose
But yes, that idea certainly is dumb

[reef river]

Maybe theyll give us Oak EX finally

[violet nebula]

Oak needs an alt

[light oyster]

Im going to scream

[feral vale]

Considering you’re in this thread, my advice is not pulling without a pity

[oak crest]

he has just enough for pity

[feral vale]

The rates on that banner are not that good anyway?

[lunar topaz]

They had enough for pity

They’re at 301

[oak crest]

yeah, 0.5%

half the rates of MF

[light oyster]

Yeah I was saving for a pity for weeks but I got excited and did it at 36.2k

[feral vale]

I did my math wrong wtf

[light oyster]

It's okay it happens haha

I was hoping to not waste all my gems

[feral vale]

Well, prepare for the worst, as they say

[lunar topaz]

True

I don’t personally mind pities

Still profiting of the Pu’s

[feral vale]

Stonks

[vestal leaf]

0.5% x4 feels almost as bad as MF 1% for featureds in my experience

[feral vale]

I need a stonks emote, why haven’t I tried getting one yet? .-.

Answer: lazy

[fallen path]

think that would be better for #gacha-and-flex tbh

since i don't think a screenshot is a good idea for this thread...but you saved to pity to get the units you want, so good job there

[violet nebula]

Happy for you but pities aren't really a flex IMO

Means you need to return here for zen, and pray hard nothing you want comes next

Pity means a shafting😅

Given as well Dena are generous with Gems, diminishes the effort of getting to pity

[feral vale]

Pity is being shafted, but getting the limited unit is honestly a flex to everyone else

[reef river]

Sounds like a #salt-channel thing

[timber wren]

congrats but please dont post pull screenshots in here

[topaz compass]

@light oyster I'm confused what your goal is when pulling this banner. A quad 0.5% should only be attempted with assumption you go to pity for a unit you don't pull before then

[buoyant elk]

Pity is definitely salt

Pity = Failure

Failing to get the unit = bad gamble

[violet nebula]

Yus

[lunar topaz]

I like pitying so I don’t have to gamble but I guess it’s a different perspective

Anything along the way is welcomed but I don’t mind

[light oyster]

Well yeah that's why I saved up

I'm just salty

...and i forgot the salt channel existed.

[light oyster]

oh my bad

[light oyster]

I'm aware 😭

[half coral]

How many gems we r getting this till 25th may?

[violet nebula]

Like 25k now

[half coral]

This till 25th may , right?

[drowsy saddle]

You can check the pins for the exact amount

[topaz compass]

22140 plus the missions not yet earned. Plus 3k for rally reward on 28th

[feral vale]

We also have a /gems command for use in #bot-zone

[half coral]

Oh is it

Thanx bro

I dont k. Anything abt this group

[sly breach]

||Anyone do the half price fashion banner||?

[topaz compass]

LOL

[sly breach]

||My alt account has a luck problem got shauna off the pull then i checked the rates and i knew that yeh i ain't even testing 1.5k on my main||

[topaz compass]

Alt account is probably the last thing I'd suggest to someone to help save on their main

[feral vale]

Pfft nope

[viscid flare]

Hey dudes

Im back

[static thistle]

Can I get some reccomendations on what to pity for if I post my 5* pairs here? I'm going back and forth on whether I want to pull for one of the tapus or not - I want SSR Cynthia but more for the character and outfit than her actual kit so I'm unsure if some insight on what I'm lacking could help me make up my mind

[vestal leaf]

If you really like Cynthia a ton she's a better investment than any of the 4 tapus imo

In general tho, I'd ask how many gems are you at rn

[static thistle]

I mean ghost is a pretty big hole in my damage dealers atm

[vestal leaf]

Oof, going with half half is pain

If I were you I'd wait til she's about to leave or for at least 1 week before she's leaving to decide

By then we should have next fatamine

Datamine*

And with that another month of gems

So you'd be more laid back in case she'd take you to pity

[static thistle]

Tapus dont sit right in my brain because if I pull for one i hate the idea of not having all four, I dont like incomplete sets like that

[vestal leaf]

Tapus are far from insane units imo, so if you don't like very much any of the trainers you should hard skip

[static thistle]

so i should probably avoid them as much as mina and acerola are adorable

[vestal leaf]

I get you, I really like Mina and acerola too

[static thistle]

if it was a fairy striker and not a support i'd be all over it

[vestal leaf]

But I'm holding out because while Mina's outfit is good, her kit ain't really my jam, and acorolas dress isn't my jam tho her kit looks fun

Still skipping because if I'm questioning myself it most likely means I'm not that sold on them anyway

[static thistle]

gonna fill out my poma pair tracker now for more context but i think you've given me some pretty sound advice, i didnt think about the fact i can wait until the datamine to run my pulls for cynthia

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, there's no reason to go all in right away

Or to start at all

Waiting also makes you more lucid

So if there's any fomo

After a bit it should go away

[static thistle]

it took a lot for me to realise lusamine was a bad idea (especially since I just pulled Lear from the scout today)

but I got there in the end

[vestal leaf]

Nice job

[static thistle]

So this is my tracker so far - from what I can see I think SSR Cynthia would fill a big hole with ghost stages

[tough oriole]

This is the gem zen channel btw, which is supposed to help people save gems rather than inform people how to spend them. The Gem Zen philosophy is that unless someone’s a fave, you should skip them. You have Giovanni, Shauntal, and Fantina for ghost options if you really need it

If you want to ask about generalized pulling advice, you should go to #poma-questions
||(The “meta” pick would probably be Tapu Bulu; they’re a top 3 support. All 4 Tapu are top tier or close to it. Nearly every pair being meta nowadays is part of why pulling is not needed)||

[reef river]

If anything its a bigger flex pulling a non-meta unit because its ur favorite

Yeah i grabbed summer hilda and she kinda doesnt do anything! Dont regret it either

[grim plover]

me using sc guzma for fighting cs

[vernal glade]

||The BW1 protags are a fave of mine so I’ll definitely be saving for their alts||

[rustic heron]

mimirola and fallister for me

[drifting oriole]

this is why i pulled 3/5
Saving time now... trying to beat my old record, hopefully.

[tardy fiber]

Yep i did this for N, Gloria, Lysandre as when I started join poma, those units already been released for quite a while and there's better units out there that can do better stuff than them but i still get them because Zekrom, Zacian and Yveltal are faves

[naive imp]

Would be cool to see barry with an alt and Lucas getting something too

[tardy fiber]

Shiny karp event this reset

[oak crest]

I did that for OG Marnie when they released her for lodge cos I liked Morpeko

Yeah I'm weird, I liked Morpeko but I disliked the yellow rat

lmao

[torn oxide]

If I wanted to get the current celebration banner, what would be the cheapest/most efficient way to get it?

Because if I got the daily bundle now, I'd have ~2000 gems I think?

so plus the $6 one time gem special

eh i wont bother

[rare swan]

+50m

[jade lava]

https://tinyurl.com/50MScout
Banner Ends : <t:1684303199:F>
You cannot accumulate 3k paid gems with the "EX Bundle" in that time frame.

[rare swan]

This may help

[opaque cargo]

Yeah dont need em. Move along. If cynthia is fav, no need to ask. Just pull

[gloomy holly]

Welp, what did I miss y'all?

[broken mulch]

What do you mean

[tardy fiber]

Darn i forgot gold karp event has splash missions, i already evolved my other shiny karp to gyarados

[vernal glade]

Oh wait splash missions? Well thanks for notifying me that. Need to do those now.

[hasty umbra]

not that swapping to another Magikarp is hard, you are not gonna lose anything

[sturdy hatch]

Hope I remember to splash tomorrow

[hasty umbra]

the mission is not restricted to the event stages

[sturdy hatch]

Possibly, but also... where else would I use it

[hasty umbra]

any lvl 10 stage

the event has 2, the repeatable one works fine

[sturdy hatch]

Yeah but I already cleared it today

I don't need another egg for many hours

Somewhat salty the golden magikarp tickets don't get you a golden magikarp.

[untold tide]

they do?

whoops

[upbeat lotus]

i got 9610 gems making progress

next goal is 12k

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

[violet nebula]

Praise Arceus

[deft glen]

I'm hoping to get the shiny Magikarps this time around, please DeNa

[broken mulch]

I need shiny striker and shiny tech

[tawny cedar]

Hello gem zen it has been a while since i played

I've saved up 30k gems and so close to being ready for slyra

[untold tide]

is the jp rally

a individual account thing?

can't read jp

[upbeat lotus]

Japanese only

[vernal glade]

Unfortunate

[topaz compass]

Twins, me too

[vernal glade]

I need the opposite.

[tawny dagger]

Did the gem count not include the magikarp mission?

[topaz compass]

Why wouldn't it? Only twitter rallies aren't included I thought

[tawny dagger]

I don't see it in the gem count breakdown

Only 70 gems

[hard wave]

Huh, guess so

[topaz compass]

Boom baby

[hard wave]

So is the gem count 30040?

[onyx hornet]

datamine summary says 30140, the image with the count says 29840 and the magikarp missions give 300 so I assume its that

[hard wave]

I think it gives 200 not 300

[onyx hornet]

its 4 missions of 50 and one of 100

[hard wave]

Oh mb

[robust shore]

72k next 👀

[signal halo]

My gem balance has been wacky in the last few weeks

Too many wanted things at once

[opaque cargo]

Wait why do i want to save again? Oh for ssr cynthia

12k now

Still long way to go

[flat schooner]

From today until <t:1684994401:d> you can get up to 18790 .
For more information check /events and /banners!

[opaque cargo]

Oh i can have 30k by the time ssr cynthia came?

[topaz compass]

Between SSR and likely more MF next month, you should be saving no matter what just to see what options are

[sly breach]

Too broke for ssr Cynthia

[versed adder]

would getting ssr cynthia be worth it purely for ghost zone

i love shauntal/chandelure so im tryna give them the most support possible but idk if the MF is worth it considering more units might come out in the future that also have ghost zone

[violet nebula]

No it won't be

Just for that

[lean mango]

Pretty based on the thought, but I don't think it's worth it especially for a MF

[tardy fiber]

Yep its only worth if its a fave, like i skipped scingo eventhough i think my lusamine and sshilbert can benefit from him...not fave = skip

You can also factor that your future fave might have ghost rebuff

Thanks DeNa for introducing rebuff, so i dont mind if i skipped non fave zone units

[weary spire]

Zones, Rebuff, SMUN, SpDef droppers, etc… there’ll always be something else that you’ll appreciate & maybe even find more accessible, or appealing as a pair entirely, down the line

Not worth it imo

[violet nebula]

Just save, we will get a ghost zone setter and rebuffer down the line

Good thing about 2000 (shinies included) monsters to use and Dena aren't shy about multiple alts for 1 character

[versed adder]

is rebuff the same effect as zone in terms of damage boost (50%?)

[upbeat lotus]

#poma-questions for gameplay questions

[versed adder]

hmm ok after checking online so 1 rebuff is only 1.3x and 2 rebuff is 1.5x so it would take a unit that can rebuff twice to match zone buff

pretty clear zone better then but 💀 yeah i’ll probably save

ty all

[lapis pine]

Well rebuff also has other benefits like being permanent (unless LG). It’s easy to fall into the trap of “oh well this option is a bit better than what I currently have” and get tempted to pull

There will be favs down the track with better options

[sonic cobalt]

Unless your fave is Nate. Then RIP but yeah, if it’s not a fave then don’t feel forced to pull

[meager crane]

How many gems could I farm rn in regards to uncleared story chapters? I didn't do PML Arc past Interlude 4 on normal difficulty and still have all of Hard difficulty left. Also have all of Villain Arc except Kanto left to farm. (Did all this to prevent any impulse spending)

[glass abyss]

I have over 36.6k Gems now, should be fine for this month

[topaz compass]

Incoming 3 MF needing pities to spite you

@meager crane why not just play the game to unlock as many gems as you can? It is weird people have to be convinced to play the content to get every bit available

If you only enjoy the gambling aspect of pulling, just use the simulator

[meager crane]

I just wanted to know how much I have as a reserve there in case a mf or fav drops next month. I don't gamble on every banner, just fav characters or mons. Last month for instance was a skip for me. I appreciate the advice but I don't need someone to judge how I play the game

[tough oriole]

Idt anyone has a resource, and i’m not sure if you can check the first time rewards if you’ve already beaten them

[meager crane]

yeah, feared as much. Thanks for the reply though

[static thistle]

Is there a checklist of some kind for all sources of gems per day?

[summer goblet]

I've been slacking off my gem savings recently and going through some slump/plateau

So I'm thinking about doing a full on skip between July and Aug but pull for Sept, and skip the rest of the banner till Paleda banners arrives

[feral vale]

Paldea…

[deft glen]

Irida

[tardy fiber]

Hisui when?

[feral vale]

Irida and Volo are my top two Hisui wants

Protags would be cool too

[upbeat lotus]

Irida, Adaman and Palina for me

||i only pull Volo if he is paired with Origin Giratina||

[deft glen]

I'd like Arezu to be released as well

I love Giratina Origin || I really dislike Volo though ||

[vernal glade]

||I’ll only pull if my boy Hisui Zoroark makes it in the game.||

[sturdy plank]

||same||

[lapis pine]

||I won’t pull||

[topaz compass]

I don't pull out of (gem spending) commitments. In other news expecting to be a dad in a month

[lapis pine]

Realising other discord users are actual people and not disembodied entities is always a shock

[lean mango]

Gem could, nice

[violet nebula]

Gem is nice

[opaque cargo]

Can i ermmm…see ur limited unit?

[lean mango]

wdym?

[opaque cargo]

Its ok nvn

Nvm

[lean mango]

[opaque cargo]

How do u guys refrain from pulling

Guh

Now i have 12k

[lean mango]

The anxiety that I won't be able to pity my next fav

[opaque cargo]

The impulse to pull koko n bulu

My fav stuck behind paid

[drowsy saddle]

Find a hobby, another game, something.

[lean mango]

Yea F2Ps kinda have the short end of the stick sometimes

[opaque cargo]

Altho im dolphin. But still i need to save.

Why mayken stuck behind this ridiculous paid banner

[lean mango]

🤷‍♂️

[opaque cargo]

Not even guaranteed. Its random

Only once

Stupid

[upbeat lotus]

Thats why we save

[opaque cargo]

Being meaning to ask the sonia simper. Do u have sc sonia?

[cunning swan]

make a fave list and stick to it. be strict

and I don't mean 10-15 faves

[upbeat lotus]

No need to ping

Yes i have her, thanks to saving

[opaque cargo]

My fav left mayken

[cunning swan]

make a tier list of your faves. which ones you want to have no matter what (be very selective with the characters/pokemon in this list), which ones you want to have but only if the outfit/pokemon/kit is good, which ones you like but you don't mind skipping

For example, here's my tierlist:
Tierlist of characters I want to pull in pokemas
||1. Must-have, absolute faves, my babies: Kanto trio, Silver, Arven, Sada, Turo
2. Must-have to complete my collection: All game male protags
3. I love you but I don't mind skipping: Steven, Cynthia, N, Kris, Lyra, Gladion, Morty, Wallace, Rika , Bede, Lance, Hau||

[upbeat lotus]

You can use this site to make a fav list/saving plan:

+tiermaker

[jade lava]

https://tiermaker.com/create/pokmon-masters-ex-sages-type-colored-1132341

[cunning swan]

oh yeah, I use tiermaker to make a tierlist of units I want to pull on their reruns

[upbeat lotus]

The icons are really nice

[lean mango]

Then I'd be prepared to have a pity when she comes in a non paid banner

I've soley started using the other tier list for characters rather than units lately largely because no Eusine woop

Only update I have to do for my list is rid of Mina

[upbeat lotus]

this emote suits him since he gets shafted in every pokemon media

[rare swan]

so true

[lean mango]

Not if I'm here

If I had nitro

[tough oriole]

||Wait a sec; did you get Arbok?||

[violet nebula]

When is justice for ryuki?

[rustic heron]

2032

[violet nebula]

😆

[vernal glade]

I can’t believe he’s bout to be in NPC hell in two months marking 3 years

[lean mango]

|| Not yet, I'm waiting her out till her end date especially since SSMina took 30k||

[near wadi]

@lunar topaz How do you buy gems and save money at the same time?🤔

[lunar topaz]

I save money by not spending on Poma, I save gems by only pulling for my favs and not caring about the meta so I dont feel the need to pull for the next flavor of the month it is also rare for a non fav to have a kit that interests me lel

[near wadi]

And how do you progress fast by leveling up all sync pairs

[upbeat lotus]

Just do content and training area, you will soon swim in level up materials

[sturdy plank]

last gemcount before i go on a trip

[near wadi]

You don't need to buy gems to progress faster?

[upbeat lotus]

No

Also please turn off ping next time