Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[tardy fiber]

Talking about Galar, i hope DeNa release more easy access, f2p friendly Galar pairs... currently there's only Hop, well i will cut them some slack when Galar VA becomes permanent as new players can get 1 5* galar ticket pair that will be helpful alongside Hop for daily galar region battle

[weary spire]

Wait too long to add gen pool units, wait too long to update pool

[maiden kayak]

shelly?

[weary spire]

I'm still waiting for Shelly

My hope is in the next time they go through regions again for VAs lmao, and get back to Hoenn. Or something like that

It might just be Matt over Shelly, in all fairness

[rare swan]

She still won't be added to the pool for another year

And I'll believe it when I see her added

[tardy fiber]

Hope DeNa release an Aqua admin that can help boost Archie's just like Courtney with Maxie...Water rebuff might be nice, as water zone probably wont exist as rain already exist

[weary spire]

I do wonder what they'd possibly do for this outside of tickets, though

I feel like they'll just rely on Galar VA tickets in due time

Honestly even new 4* pairs would be a cool thing to drop all at once
I say that, realising every major Galar VA chara is a 5* at this point anyway, so nvm

4*s are a thing of the past outside of NPCs / Lodge

[grim plover]

dena give matt pls

hopefully next datamine.

[tardy fiber]

I hope for Galar 4* bp pairs

Its not that long to get first ticket

New players can opt to get Galar bp pair first so that they can do 3 galar pair team

Hop + 1 5* from galar VA + that bp pair

[dire meteor]

I once did that for reasons, but then later dropped it because it was getting too much.

I enjoyed poma more nowadays.

[weary spire]

Good to hear

Props for managing 2 accs for as long as you did, though

[weary spire]

True, true... I kinda just miss the gen pool 4*s, though. But BPs would be more than than welcome

I almost forgot about them, lol

[grim plover]

||the voices in my head are still telling me to pull for adaman, even tho i already got silver. Datamine hurry up pls||

[compact pasture]

Datamine next week?

[cunning swan]

Likely

[topaz compass]

Yes between 27th and 29th

[sturdy flower]

datamine 100% next week

as in, cannot be later

they need to add Irida to lodge for 1st

[timber wren]

i still do the va daily battles even tho i have very little reason to accumulate the tickets

they just sit in my inventory

especially now that they just dont put out new spotlights

[hard wave]

Same, but might as well since only around half of my spotlights are 5/5 and I still have 9 below 3/5 + missing 2 going to use them all on anni

[sturdy flower]

similar worth to 4* PU

[deft glen]

not even a decent event to spend stamina rn smh

[sturdy flower]

tomorrow

...day after tomorrow

[deft glen]

yeah, too much time with nothing

[grim plover]

im about to overflow the stamina lol

[hard wave]

Its been like 4-5 days without content, last one was eusine/ss silver event and now ice gear

Ive just been using mine to get theme skill orbs so I can max those faster

[sand crown]

I do it in the hopes that something about them changes someday…highly unlikely but weirder things have happened

Also an emergency supply of 5* PUs I guess…though I’ve come to a point where even that isn’t an issue

[tough oriole]

The VA daily battles still do have some of the best ratios for

[topaz compass]

1/30 of a 5star ticket is still something lol.

[timber wren]

it isnt when youre a day one player and never dip below 300 of them

theyre still very high value for newer players but for very old players they dont add much of anything unless youre very unlucky in the gen pool

or you try to EX every unit i suppose

[tough oriole]

Imo the question isn’t “is this worth it”, it’s “is it more worth than everything else”

[sand crown]

Which I have a hard time doing because of our saving nature…

[topaz compass]

I'm a day 1 but still always need more 5* tickets. You either are dolphin or above to not need any, or you just don't care to EX as many as possible

I want to EX as many as possible

[vestal leaf]

I wanna ex only units I like so I have trouble ending under 250 and 300-350

I'm kinda low on tho because I'm constantly trying to raise the 4* to 5*

[hard wave]

Im trying to EX anyone that I have in lodge to unlock their holo foil + any limiteds I get that I plan to use

Still 6 lodge units to max + ss morty atm but I have no PUs

[uneven pewter]

I mean unless you’re going for heavy count gauntlet runs

Which let me tell you, the people that do those gauntlets are extremely dedicated to their craft

There’s little to nothing content wise that requires you to excessively expand your roster outside of having some physical and special attack alternative

Which really i feel only the sinnoh elite 4 really overpushed that aspect in terms of recent content

Outside of the outliers, i am still sitting on thousands of tickets for different types with nothing to chase in the tables

Masters really hurt the general pool with this variety fair crap

Which i hope this is a failed experiment that they just put these vanity mons into the general pool eventually

[hard wave]

Ppl have already pulled for them spent candies paid gems etc. so prob not

Same reason we’ll prob never get dupes for 5* story pairs; they’d have to compensate ppl who already invested in them

Unless they r able to track how many candies u spent on them so they can refund them

[tough oriole]

They did that for silver and cyrus

[hard wave]

Guess it is possible then

[tardy fiber]

I can see them being available on lodge banner, especially if lucas/kris/lyra/lance/agatha/lorelei/bruno/ball guy becomes lodge guests

[hard wave]

Ball guy? Maybe

The rest prob their base pairs

[tardy fiber]

Ball Guy electrode lodge

[hard wave]

I would love to get dupes for rosa and acerola for the pallosand and serperior frames in lodge

[tardy fiber]

Because old outdated pokefairs like Gloria, N, Lance all are in lodge banner...DeNa doesn't throw them in spotlight pool due to their limited status so probably variety will be like that as they are limited units

So lodge banner is a good platform, its available every day...and allows people to get the limited pair, especially choose 1 if you want to pity it

[hard wave]

But lodge has the pokefairs that are in lodge, so maybe a separate banner

Since variety pairs are “alts” outside of ball guy they prob wont join lodge

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, a variety banner that is available anytime just like lodge banner

With rotation of featured variety pair just like lodge every month

[hard wave]

I wish they’d let the SP carry over since its a permanent banner

[tardy fiber]

That will make it less FoMo for people that want to collect those units as its available anytime

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, talking about this...i wonder if lodge banner carries, i remembered doing 2 multis for cynthia before, let me check if the SP still 66/400

Sad it doesn't carry

[hard wave]

It doesnt unfortunately atleast bw the same character (like raihan to raihan cynthia to cynthia etc.) same with solo rerun banners

[tardy fiber]

Well at least we can save a pity, but it really needs a few dry months of contents to tempt you to save a pity for a lodge banner

[hard wave]

Yeah only pairs id pull on the lodge banner for are lucas, red, ingo, and maybe victor

|| I did 3 multis in the past on it but didnt get N or cynthia I got a raihan dupe from one of the pulls on N tho ||

[tardy fiber]

Well at least i will be more tempted to get a new lodge guest unit than making a unit 5/5

[hard wave]

Same

[tardy fiber]

I think 3/5 is already just nice

[hard wave]

|| oh I did 4 multis on raihan and got him and 2 on marnie, which gave me 2 of her which was nice ||

[hard wave]

Half of my limiteds r still 1/5 all my candies r being saved for reruns

Or new pairs that I may candy

[tardy fiber]

I spend a select scout for raihan, marnie ||i got her from a cheeky single long time ago on her banner||

Need to see datamine...hope it comes soon

[hard wave]

I plan to get all the pokefairs that are in lodge eventually, not going to go for adaman maxie or leon

|| I have ash irida and archie tho ||

[tardy fiber]

Now that adaman and irida in it, i do hope for lodge maxie and archie, well just because i already have them so lodge pair and friend lvl milestone freebies just gonna add to their value

But the only villain in it is N

[hard wave]

I can see leon and ash if he ever reruns added and N is a rival as well and also rlly popular

[tardy fiber]

Yep so lodge gladion might also happen as he is a rival and villain too...but doubt it for maxie and archie

[hard wave]

Id like some pairs that I already have EXd and maybe even 5/5 to be added to lodge that way I dont need to EX another pair for the holo foil and I have the pokemon frame

[grim plover]

ash rerun never ever

but leon 99% in the lodge for the galar VA

[tardy fiber]

Oh nice so you are collecting holo foil? I just left it like that...not gonna EX my dawn just for a frame also she's not a fave

[hard wave]

Yeah I EXd everyone I wanted so I was going to try and EX for the holo foils

Ill be prioritizing any limiteds I want tho, but focusing on that as well

I still have may, cynthia, elesa, serena, lillie, marnie, and acerola once she gets her EX

And im missing steven, gloria, n, and adaman (who I wont get) but I plan to EX them if/when I get them

I dont collect the pairs who have a special frame tho, I only have cserena and cmarnie from those bcz I wanted them

[sturdy flower]

there is a disclaimed that the units might appear somewhere else

give us a ticket for them that you can roll like twice a year

i just hope no real character becomes variety exclusive

and that we get a free character in summer event

[rare swan]

I just want one more spotlight

Just so we get confirmation DeNA remembers the gen pool exists

The last one was in January....

[vernal glade]

Time flies

[junior fiber]

You know, I just realized why they haven't been adding pairs to the gen pool. It would actually make it easier to get featured pairs, as their odds are static while the gen pool pairs % would go down the more pairs there are in the pool.

Or something.

Probably makes sense.

[vernal glade]

They probably busy doing models for unreleased characters like Palmer and etc.

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's a wave of spotlights from 1 event to add a bunch of them at once, like sinnoh e4 event that straight up added 3 spotlights

Rocket admins seems fitting

[upbeat lotus]

Dena: seems they are worthy enough to be Variety!

[hard wave]

it wouldnt

Like u said they r static so gen pool wouldnt effect featured

[junior fiber]

Do tell why it wouldn't.

[tough oriole]

Because featured rates don’t change…?

Adding new spotlights would make the featured rates the same but general pool units individually harder

[junior fiber]

Hmm, I see.

Was just wondering if that was the case if they have been REALLY REALLY REALLY FREAKING anemic with adding more gen pairs that's all.

Rather, adding pairs to the gen pool I meant.

[tough oriole]

I guess one reason to be… less sad about them not adding a gen pool unit in a while is that adding new gen pool units makes it harder to get existing ones

A player who starts today has a much lower chance of scouting Bianca than someone who started a year ago

[tardy fiber]

They are probably torn because not many characters are worthy of spotlight and they might need to drag this game even longer after we get Paldea 's stuff before the next generation. But Shauna's is last January, thats too much gap DeNa for spacing out reasons

Well at least there's a good numbers of new characters at least. Shauna, Adaman, Irida, Eusine, Emma, Anabel, Ball Guy.

Prof Elm and Shiny Celebi when? oh if he getting raikou also fine

[tough oriole]

Besides, this is hardly the first drought we’ve had of general pool units

[hard wave]

We still have quite a few characters not in the game maybe they’ll be pokefairs or variety

Oh well, atleast once I 5/5 them all I dont have to worry abt more being added that I need to max ig

[junior fiber]

Wattson, Chuck, Bryon, Drasna, Olympia, so on... they have a lot of pairs they could have easily put into the gen pool. Yet they haven't done so.

[tardy fiber]

I lost hope of variety, i thought they gonna make Variety a platform to release random/weird characters since the second batch is Ball Guy but seeing Kanto E4, i changed my opinion, DeNa is just lazy

Eeveelutions are forgiven as its their first try

[hard wave]

I dont get what the point of them is

[tardy fiber]

More pairs for gauntlet grinders

[hard wave]

Like new characters r cool but why not pokefair or gen pool?

[tardy fiber]

But the reward aint worth it to do more than 10

[hard wave]

And why do the ones without new outfits exist

[hard wave]

Yeah

10 is alr easy and the more pairs I get in the future the easier it’ll be

Ig I can go a little higher if I need a few extra tickets

[tardy fiber]

I dont mind no new outfits if they at least put effort for different colour EX like classic Giovanni...but they dont even do that, how hard it is to change Lorelei outfit to cloyster's colour?

Like CGio and Gio have same outfit just different color EX

They could just do that

[junior fiber]

Apparently tooooooooooo hard for DeNa. For some reason.

[hard wave]

Tbf the “R” is different

But blue is exactly the same

[junior fiber]

"It's just too hard to change the color sliders."
"Then let's just finish up and release them as is."

[tardy fiber]

Also they can do it for Ball Guy, he even got different Ball Mask and he is a variety too

[hard wave]

Sometimes I wonder how some EXs would work…. Like vlorelei alr has cloyster colors

[junior fiber]

Could be shiny colors or something.

[hard wave]

True

[junior fiber]

And, yes, I realize there are pairs with shiny pokemon, but still.

[deft glen]

But he was a new character, the purpose of the others is to dump sync pairs with little to no effort

[tardy fiber]

Can just do like ScHilda and SsDiantha, ScHilda got diancie colour base but Shiny pink colour for EX while diantha got shiny black color base and normal diancie pink for EX

[deft glen]

Just reusing assets

[junior fiber]

Are we ever going to get a natural shiny Cloyster?

[tardy fiber]

Yep this is the one that disappointed me
First, Eeveelutions no EX, forgiven as its their first try
Second, Ball Guy...its perfect, i thought they learn from mistakes and try to improve
Third, kanto E4 back to be like first batch...i was like what? Why?

Why revert

[junior fiber]

At least it gives me hope that Ball Guy will get alts in the future.

[hard wave]

Couldve done lgpe outfits atleast

[tardy fiber]

If they cannot do new outfit could just change EX color to non shiny or shiny color if it almost similar

Bruno, just change his pants to onix rock color

He doesn't even have a shirt

Even less effort

[hard wave]

Yellow agatha

[deft glen]

Too much effort, just duplicate the original asset

[tardy fiber]

Fantina EX color

[hard wave]

There was a concept for dragonair EX which looked pretty nice

Lorelei would be wtvr color shiny cloyster is

[hard wave]

Give them the same EX colors as their base

Oh wait

[tardy fiber]

Its a cool color

[hard wave]

Not bad

[deft glen]

No EX color? Are we going to create one? Nah, just keep it as is

[tardy fiber]

I don't mind if they are spotlights, but they are limiteds so at least give more effort for people that spend gems getting them...they are even base 5* pairs, so they use the same candies like master fairs

[junior fiber]

I'm sure DeNa has their logic and system on how the pairs should be "sold" as (at least I hope they do) so all we have is speculation.

[tardy fiber]

I hope as there's no variety this month signifies that DeNa knew that its a problem therefore they halt the variety pairs stuffs

[junior fiber]

Hm, how often do they release variety pairs?

[tardy fiber]

Every month before this

Well there's a gap after eeveelutions

But ball guy, kanto e4 part 1 and part 2 for three consecutive months

[junior fiber]

Oh, right, I forgot all about the Kanto thing.

Probably for the best

[tardy fiber]

So they supposed to release another this month but there's none, i hope thats because they realised that the player base hate the low effort alts.

[junior fiber]

So instead of improving them so they're worth it, they decided to just scrap it. Yeah, good idea.

[hasty umbra]

I mean, the first variety pairs showed up quite a while before Ball Guy, 3 months in a row doesn't actually translate to saying they are supposed to release every month, and just because there isn't any in June doesn't mean they are scrapping them

[violet nebula]

True, but we all rather see them scrapped😄

[vestal leaf]

I just want more variety unique characters

Like ball guy

[violet nebula]

That would be nice too

[tardy fiber]

I wont mind if they use Variety as platform to release unique characters well like Cara Liss for example, the fossil girl that made the mixed fossil pokemons

Arctozolt and the like

[cunning swan]

if it's a very obscure character that barely anyone knows about, I don't see any reason to lock them behind variety scouts

[vestal leaf]

Well it's not like ball guy was popular

Variety is better than nothing

[violet nebula]

Ball guy was op

Man said he battles for fun but can go toe to toe with the best

[tough oriole]

Cara Liss doesn’t have a unique model though; she uses the doctor model, just with different coloured shoes

[topaz compass]

Variety scouts would actually be super popular if they started as 4* (with higher stats to balance) since theu wouldn't cost people any 5* candies

But then Dena would lose money since people would only pull 1 copy

[upbeat lotus]

If they were 4* noone would pull for them

[tardy fiber]

I will pulll if its Legendaries, Mythicals, UBs, paradoxes

[topaz compass]

Again if they had high base stats to compensate the 5stars only giving half increase compared to a native 5star, starting as 4star is a positive if dupes don't need 5* candies

[upbeat lotus]

being 4* means they can use 4* candies to get dupes = non profit

the answer is pretty obvious

[vestal leaf]

Plus idk, I feel like asking for more investment mats kills the average player's will to invest too

Most 5* don't actually need 3/5 to be functional anyway

[lapis pine]

DeNa: creates the most hideously lazy 1 star sync pair, default polygon model with no animations, a moveset consisting only of splash, breaks your game if you pull them but they have ho-oh
Vanter:

[vestal leaf]

Meanwhile asking for extra 20 is kinda...

Eh

[topaz compass]

Every single tech nuke except deoxys wants 3/5 haha

[vestal leaf]

Does it really

[upbeat lotus]

Pal Serena, Fall Acerola:

[vestal leaf]

I made do with a ton of 1/5s for 6+ months before bringing to 2-3/5

[tardy fiber]

True i will grab that

[upbeat lotus]

not to mention the recent SS Silver

[vestal leaf]

SS silver has a mediocre AF base kit yes

Fall acerola isn't even saved at 3/5

[upbeat lotus]

having 2 sync multipliers at base is goat

[vestal leaf]

Yes

[topaz compass]

Getting by with 1/5 sneasel nuke is much different than 3/5 being more than double the damage

[vestal leaf]

But what about everything else

[upbeat lotus]

but its not mediocre

[vestal leaf]

For DPS and consistency, SS silver is horrible imho

Love missing axel

Unless I allot an acc buffer

Esp the buddy

Very smart

[tardy fiber]

Need to keep an eye on these guys, I don't include Paldea because there's still no paldea pairs in poma

Kanto-Articuno, Moltres, Zapdos
Johto-Raikou
Hoenn-Regice, Registeel, Jirachi
Sinnoh-Azelf, Uxie, Manaphy, Phione, Heatran, Regigigas, Arceus
Unova-Terrakion, Virizion, Thundurus, Meloetta
Kalos-
Alola-Nihilego, Xurkitree, Kartana, Guzzlord, Magearna, Stakataka, Blacephalon, Melmetal
Galar-Regieleki, Regidrago, Spectrier, Zarude
Hisui-Enamorus

[vestal leaf]

That said, a ton of techs can easily make do 1/5

[upbeat lotus]

the main attraction of his base kit isnt the dps tho

[vestal leaf]

It's strikers who IMO struggle more at 1/5

But still can easily make do with decent supports

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, I get it

But his 1/5 nuke doesn't justify imho how everything else is really lackluster

[grim plover]

acc buffs are really common. even bp clemont has it.

[vestal leaf]

That said, he's an outlier imho

Very few techs have this issue

[grim plover]

and you have -3 sync cd in one move. the other unit that has it is sst red

[upbeat lotus]

SS Cynthia:

unless you are counting tech only

[grim plover]

kinda yeah? idk ssc needs to be at low health

[ashen thunder]

Old strikers tend to be complete at 1/5

[topaz compass]

I strongly disagree. EX 1/5 strikers usually outputting more dps including syncs than 1/5 techs

[upbeat lotus]

that depends on each unit

[vestal leaf]

Yeah it really depends

[grim plover]

lucas says hi

[upbeat lotus]

its like saying 1/5 Barry is better than 1/5 CSerena

lol

[topaz compass]

We get by with 1/5 Techs because you usually have them boosting a 3/5 striker for aoe sync

[vestal leaf]

But I feel like techs have usually better bulk and sufficiency so you can run more offensive oriented supports

[ashen thunder]

Main reason to cope with 1/5 techs is lack of candies tbf

[topaz compass]

True

[upbeat lotus]

my valid excuse is unlocking for their music

[ashen thunder]

Last striker that they dropped which actually liked 3/5 is zygarde
Everything after that has solid 1/5 performace

[topaz compass]

I usually would prefer AOE strikers for dps and then tech nuke if we had unlimited candies to 3/5 everything. But Dena doesn't let us do that

[tardy fiber]

True for me

[ashen thunder]

Meanwhile techs having less than half their dps and nuke at 1/5

Like you'd never leave sczinnia at 1/5 compared to leaving cmarnie at 1/5

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but techs self enable much better while strikers just max their offences and add multipliers they can't really setup themselves without killing their rotation

[vestal leaf]

That's not a fair comparison tho

[ashen thunder]

How's that not fair

Both are as recent as they get

I can even say that for 1/5 victor

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but they do and require extremely different stuff to work

[ashen thunder]

You'd never really 3/5 him even if you have candies

[vestal leaf]

Cmarnie is one of the dumbest base kits of the last year

She's like Deoxys

[ashen thunder]

OK fine
Adaman at 1/5

[vestal leaf]

Except Deoxys gets utility for side forms

At 3/5

[ashen thunder]

You'd still 3/5 eventually for the multipliers

Even when he's busted

[vestal leaf]

I would never 3/5 adamant for example

I kept my Maxie 1/5 for 2+ years after all even tho he had some insane tiles

Because he doesn't need them

[tardy fiber]

But im thankful that lately new techs has assist like role so for these pairs, even 1/5 also already got good value....like sshilbert with rebuff and metal sound, sshau with aoe speed down using buddy move + terrain/zone, and nchop with def debuffs, zone+dire hit all, scrosa that can debuff spatk, spdef and evasion

[ashen thunder]

That just sounds like a you issue
Maxie gains more from 3/5

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but he never needs it

[ashen thunder]

I can see you are saving candies

Yea but so does every unit

Nobody needs candies by that logic

[vestal leaf]

Eh, not really

[ashen thunder]

If Maxie doesn't need candies
None of the strikers do

[tardy fiber]

I like to 3/5 pairs just im still not tempted to 5/5 pairs for grids

[vestal leaf]

SC Sonia:

[ashen thunder]

She doesn't?

If you can ignore solar beam mg9

And CS5

[vestal leaf]

Solar beam?

Ah you mean for Maxie

I mean I never even considered solar beam because Brendan/SS Erika were more accessible during launch/rerun of Maxie

SC Hilda is another striker that I had to candy or her output would've been absolutely horrendous

Same for hleon

[ashen thunder]

Well schilda case Id just use Olivia unless she's a fav

[vestal leaf]

Well why even scout her if it ain't fav

Duh

[ashen thunder]

If it's fav
Then why make arguments for 3/5
Just 3/5 that Maxie

[vestal leaf]

Nah what if next month has a fave that needs them

Or a striker Clair that I'd 5/5

Not like I'd run out

[rancid vale]

he has -3 countdown which is something extremely rare in this game. his base kit also has a strong nuke which is rare from a tech

[vestal leaf]

Yeah the cd i always forget

I still hate the idea of running acc or just rolling for RNG

It's the reason I hate hydro palkia

Back when it released

Missing 3 95% hydros in a row

Broke me

[rancid vale]

personally i dont find accuracy to be a huge problem but it is strange how it isnt a part of his base kit and locked behind 3/5 unlike basically everyone else who isnt 100% acc at base

[tardy fiber]

SsN have 90% acc Freeze Shock at 1/5

Really stings when it misses

But at least his pinpoint entry at 2/5

[ashen thunder]

Can just give pe2 and solve all problems

[topaz compass]

Anyway if you had to choose 1/5 striker and 3/5 tech or the opposite, I think 3/5 tech is better especially when you average LG and CS

[rancid vale]

yeah but thats locked behind deluxe cookies and imo adrenaline is better

cuz he got adrenaline 2 as a a passive

[ashen thunder]

Well that works but syncing with him isn't the only option

[rancid vale]

i mean id like immediately cutting a turn after i sync but its personal preference true

[ashen thunder]

I've seen enuff from 95 accuracy moves

[grim plover]

again depends on the pair

[rancid vale]

haaaa… of course its brendan

[grim plover]

i dont think ill ever candy SSR

[rancid vale]

btw dude really needs sunny disposition

[ashen thunder]

Or just dauntless

[rancid vale]

sunny disposition is better cuz you’re always using him under sun if possible

counters other gimmicks like siebold with his dumbass acc drops

[grim plover]

dauntless is better. with SD you lose sun and he dies

[rancid vale]

you’re always using him under sun if possible

[ashen thunder]

Just don't lose sun

[rancid vale]

🗿

[ashen thunder]

He has charging sun 5

[rancid vale]

like please actually try reading what i said

[ashen thunder]

You lose sun, you lose reason to use him over mallow

[grim plover]

i read that lol

[topaz compass]

We talking about redzard?

[rancid vale]

isnt mallow’s stuff also like 90% sun related

[grim plover]

but still you can run out of sun

[ashen thunder]

Yea but atleast she's physical

[grim plover]

why would you need sunny disposition if the combat will be short

[rancid vale]

we should probably go somewhere else besides here lol

[ashen thunder]

High end grass supports are all physical focus

[rancid vale]

so you can run something that isnt dauntless 🧍‍♂️

[grim plover]

yeah this should be in #916852389347196958

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for Mega Sceptile next reset

[topaz compass]

Totally forgot about that

So he gets more stats and thst is it right?

[vestal leaf]

Yes

[ashen thunder]

Wait that's next reset?

[broken mulch]

83k, Irida actually rides in my like factor after the story and seeing her in combat. Still don’t like her enough to pull though

[rancid vale]

yes tomorrow is the 22nd

lol

[tardy fiber]

Yep same day with hoenn VA rerun iirc

[ashen thunder]

I thought that was masters day buff

[broken mulch]

Naw

[rancid vale]

nope master’s day is grimsley expansion and roxie ex

[tardy fiber]

Still sad about Grimsley expansion

[rancid vale]

grimsley’s expansion is awful btw

blind spot is the only good thing he got

[topaz compass]

Them only giving us 1 EX and 1 expansion per month for unlimited units is bullcrap

They have no idea what they will do in future so have to trickle those out

[ashen thunder]

Seems like no more Kris treatment for gen pool units

[rancid vale]

tbh they were all good until they completely hit the fan with grimsley

[tardy fiber]

I dont think that it will break the meta if he gets 100% chance to up atk spatk

[ashen thunder]

Well out of day 1 stuff only Olivia, blue and Phoebe left

[tardy fiber]

Like why 30% only

[rancid vale]

i feel like that was a coding error

or intern kun thought it would be +2 and not 30%

still really bizarre

[topaz compass]

If sceptile got nothing but mega, lycanroc won't get anything

[ashen thunder]

Mega is considered powerboost tho

Like zinnia

[rancid vale]

thats the weirdest way to spell lycanroc

[ashen thunder]

She didn't get grid expansion

[tardy fiber]

Well Brendan still got that 30% offensive stats increase

[rancid vale]

also lycanroc can probably get stuff

[topaz compass]

My autocorrect is actually autouncorrect

[ashen thunder]

30% atk stat

[rancid vale]

probably like berserk 1

on x atk

[ashen thunder]

Special is only 10%

[tardy fiber]

And his sync damage didn't get nerfed just like Gio and Zinnia

[rancid vale]

maybe surging sand 5

[topaz compass]

Brendan's boost makes him best as a physical nuker, his dps with Leaf Storm is outdated

[ashen thunder]

I think sceptile has best grass aoe nuke damage

Due to the mega

[topaz compass]

What is his competition

Most grass are tech nuke

[ashen thunder]

Sonia and victor

[rancid vale]

sc sonia

[topaz compass]

Shiny tsareena surely has way better

[ashen thunder]

Well victor's nuke is as mediocre as it gets

[tardy fiber]

Luckily i already do bullet seed build Brendan way before his Mega. I didn't do leaf storm as i like to do build based on their sync damage type.

[rancid vale]

her nuke is slightly better but brendan having double the attack makes it close

[ashen thunder]

Brendan has higher damage

Harder to set up

Sonia is slightly weaker

But easier setup

[rancid vale]

you wouldnt go full nuke build with sonia anyway

insult to injury is pretty free to set up with adaman existing

and she has dc9

[tardy fiber]

Now i want to cope for Candice Mega Abomasnow and Drake Mega Salamence next

[ashen thunder]

Flying type salamence

[tardy fiber]

Oh Mega Medicham Maylene too

[rancid vale]

then they’ll make her spec into all defenses

[grim plover]

will there be an event for brendan? or it's just an anoucement

[topaz compass]

Glad to hear he is comparable nuke since I won't ever pull SC Sonia

[rancid vale]

the event is hoenn va

which reran checks notes 3 months ago

[junior trout]

i think its a leon situation where he'll just get it at reset

[rancid vale]

it is

[grim plover]

well

[cunning swan]

Can we finally get a mega salamence in this game

[lament arch]

nah, roaring moon

[gloomy holly]

And no Mega Tyranitar, only Iron Thorns

[summer goblet]

At least you learn a lesson, always do it early and never procrastinate if you have the passion to collect gems

[summer goblet]

yay, even if its just a small powerboost

wish it had leaf blade and haymaker to part with it

or kinda wish bullet seed has no quarter for conistant dps

[tardy fiber]

Well maybe he will get grid expansion in the future, but if he got it, i also wish that Giovanni and Zinnia can get it as well...well especially Zinnia, she could use more help to make her more viable

Oh Giovanni could also use trainer move : ramp up

Or psychic/psystrike mind games 9

[summer goblet]

yeah

should haven Brendan the LeafBlade

not replacing bullet seed but replacing dire hit+

[sturdy flower]

would be cool but instead he only gets a stat boost i think?

at least doesn't pay for it with sync damage

and it's not exactly a power boost since not on 25th, so there's a chance they will make him stronger somehow still

[junior trout]

cant wait for bullet seed tripping strike 1

[sonic cobalt]

I mean we already have Defense Crush/No Quarter Bullet Seed lmao

[deft glen]

they can just give him a pb in a few months - or years

but there are many spotlight that still need it more than him

[hard wave]

He is an older spotlight so maybe he’ll eventually get one

[tardy fiber]

Oh right @lean mango ||it seems like the three pokemons in SV teal Mask DLC are part poison so more gems for you to save||

[tough oriole]

Fave list! This took way too long to make lmao

[rare swan]

We love a Trevor Enjoyer!

[tough oriole]

Thankfully he’s never getting an alt so my gems are safe from him

[lean mango]

|| I mean Poison legendaries yippee, though I'm not all rave over them except the bird looks kinda cool so a bit concerned ||

[tardy fiber]

||all 3 of them can cause badly poisoned even while using non poison type move||

Fall Iris will appreciate that if it happens in poma

[summer goblet]

Sceptile, my first 5 star sync pair drafted and fav will finally get this mega evolution in an hour

was thinking about switching leaf storm to bullet seed but gonna keep dauntless for a while

would be nice to get No Quatre bullet seed for Sceptile to do even more dmg and prepare an aoe sync nuke

all well, gonna wait for special grass support

[hard wave]

So venomous 9

[feral vale]

Lyra kinda fits that bill tho?

[summer goblet]

yeah i guess so

though she is kinda outdated though

[feral vale]

Outdated how? She still has her uses

[summer goblet]

got powercrept by many top grass support and no longer a great tank in general

need some kind of sync grid update at the side to be more useful

[feral vale]

Her tankiness is questionable for sure, but her buffs and Solarize work out for her sun teams

[summer goblet]

that is true

i just think Acerola does a tad bit better overall and for Sceptile as well

also, gotta set sun early to get those attacks early

[feral vale]

SS Acerola? Yes she does. Lyra’s just an option for the cheap users

[summer goblet]

yeah that is true

[violet nebula]

Yea a side update for Lyra would be nice, but she is still useful

[summer goblet]

yeah, def useful

need to buff that physical def though

[violet nebula]

Every pair is, particularly since they been giving older pairs grids which is nice

Most gachas would leave older ones in the abyss

[dire meteor]

omg caitlin enjoyer

[summer goblet]

tips for savers on gem managment

whenever you're over budget for that particular month, have a skip month on deck within a month or 2 to help rebuild your gem count

that way, you won't feel too stressful when if your gem count is somehow dwilinding

also, always pull this month banner towards next month datamine to make a decisive decsion

you don't need 1 million gems to feel resourceful

just smart and decisive management

[tardy fiber]

Im approaching 3 pities now but im keeping myself strong to not get tempted on getting dupes or non faves as i know that Galar VA is coming, also Anni is coming

[summer goblet]

yeah getting dupes is not nessary

candy all the way

[violet nebula]

We all need candies

[tardy fiber]

Gonna hopium that there's free 1 of each move candy event on anniversary

[violet nebula]

That would be awesome... maybe 2

[topaz compass]

At the very least wait for split banners if you want dupes

[tardy fiber]

Will be hard to find a split banner where all the featured fave pairs in it are the one i wanted dupe

I want sshilda, sslana, eusine, falliris

[upbeat lotus]

Pulling for dupes in split banner is only worth it if you want dupes of multiple pairs in that banner

If you only want dupes of a certain pair just skip

[tardy fiber]

As i dont chase 5/5 grids, i will straight up ignore multi featured banner that i already have 3/5 pair in it

[tardy fiber]

Okie

[broken mulch]

Summer would actually feature 2 units I want, SN and SGloria

Not that much though

[topaz compass]

The summer quad or x6 banner, whatever we are at now, isn't going to have any high value units I completely lack so easy skip

[vernal glade]

||Well next month will be a pull month anyway, a 100% chance of SHilda appearing. Unless they decide to bring over SS Hilda and SS Hilbert next month which is fine as well since I’m basically prepared getting 1 copy for those as well.||

[winged fossil]

I’ve found myself skipping a few days this past week haha. Been having too much fun just toying with chatbot ais I’ve found

The site I found is like one that you can customize and make them yourself just by giving them prompts and stuff to start with.

[lapis pine]

Plato would be so upset

[tardy fiber]

Woohoo done will all hoenn VA rerun missions, just in time for part 2 next reset...103,605

[lean mango]

Gem count, recovery arc going well

[tardy fiber]

Ripe for summer lusamine poison nihilego next month

[lean mango]

shut

[tardy fiber]

[lean mango]

I need a recovery month

[tardy fiber]

DeNa: How about a recovery week

[lean mango]

As much as I want Hoenn Month, I need gems

Only reason I'm skipping SSSilver is so I can save which

Maybe for that future alt he'll get

[tardy fiber]

Dont worry, you're a poison max and not johto max

Well lodge Marnie

[lean mango]

But Silver fav

Marnie will come soon

[tardy fiber]

Wait for datamine

[lean mango]

I might wait for a rerun of SSSilver

It'll take that long that I'll have enough gems to get him

better save than sorry

Need to get Silver off this list

[tardy fiber]

Plenty hoenn pairs in the list as well, might be dangerous if its really hoenn focus next month

[lean mango]

I know

[tardy fiber]

Well steven might be too soon, but nothing gonna stop glacia and lisia

Oh wallace

[lean mango]

Imagine Glacia alt

[tardy fiber]

Well we also cannot imagine holiday Whitney happening before this

And nylisia

[lean mango]

What's with em and dropping top faves on me

[lean mango]

Lisia was more believable

[tardy fiber]

Might happen more often if they realised that Varieties are a bad move

[lean mango]

[tardy fiber]

Well i still not in the clear, might have to grab Irida if her lodge pair is from legendary, mythical, UB, paradox although i doubt that it will happen...but i am always ready

[lean mango]

I'm kinda in this middle situation

It feels so weird to be at this amount

[tardy fiber]

Well i once heard this quote here..." When you're in doubt with a pair, that means skip"

If its true fave, you just get the unit without doubts

[lean mango]

Top faves , but there is the feeling where you're feeling vulnerable in your gem situation

[tardy fiber]

Yep thats why wait for datamine

[lean mango]

True though I get the feeling I have to skip SSSilver regardless of Datamine being interesting

[tardy fiber]

Well i probably need to even be more aware, like 2021 run up to anniv have hoopa and eternatus, i forgot whats for 2022...well 2023 might follow that as well, so might be more than 3 faves in coming months

So 2021 in a sense has 5 faves

[lean mango]

[tardy fiber]

Lear, ssleon, anniN, anniLillie, anniSteven

Luckily 2022 only have scrosa

Oh right why i got no memory of 2022 run up

Is it a VA?

[lean mango]

We got 5k left for this month

Last year we got Hoenn VA for Anni run up ye

[tardy fiber]

Well twitter gems the next day after this month's gems are done so 8k

[lean mango]

Better, though I need that 2 pities to feel safe for a bit

[tardy fiber]

Oh they drag it over 2 months iirc, so only SsSteven i guess for run up

[lean mango]

Hoenn VA was 1 month wasn't it?

[tardy fiber]

Really?

Lemme check

[lean mango]

1 month

I think the VA unit release dates would last into the next month but they all released in August

[tardy fiber]

Oh so only sinnoh VA are 2 months?

I remembered ssrcynthia and lucas for a month, and then sscyrus and ssdawn on the next month

[lean mango]

Kalos, Sinnoh, Johto and Kanto were 2 months

Hoenn, Unova and Alola were 1 month

[tardy fiber]

So galar might be a month

Man a month is scarier for VA

4 pairs to get in a month

[lean mango]

Might be since it might go along with how Hoenn VA went

Since it was a run up for anni, Galar might go the same route

[tardy fiber]

Well at least, i might can take a breather after Galar VA ends

Well not sure how Paulo stuff will end up into

[lean mango]

Seasonals

[tardy fiber]

If his will be full fledged VA or just interlude

For other random stuffs they cook up

[lean mango]

They'll probably release a Paulo or Tina unit, tho I wonder if they'll give him Hoopa unbound

[tardy fiber]

Only 2 seasonal faves currently, a good record for now

[tardy fiber]

I hope it will be sygna suit Lear's

[sturdy plank]

good luck for next month

[tardy fiber]

Because till currently there's no pokemon thats being shared by 2 trainers...even ssN was given by hilbert

The kyurem i mean

Paulo hoopa Unbound and lear hoopa will be the same hoopa

[tardy fiber]

Well not sure what will come out yet

[lean mango]

good luck for everybody next month

[tardy fiber]

Good luck for those aiming for summerN and summerHilda as they confirmed to rerun on next month

[sturdy plank]

i'm ||aiming for summer n, i guess it would be nice to get marnie & gloria on the way||

[lean mango]

I'd love to get Summer Steven cause Steven, but I'll probably save that still I finally spend money on this game

[gloomy holly]

Will the datamine be a skip month for me? Hopefully so

[violet nebula]

Who needs N when there is NC Marnie😅

[sturdy plank]

i like zoroark

[tardy fiber]

True, faves be like that...i still ||pull eusine eventhough i have archie and sslysandre||

[lean mango]

Me when I don't like Marnie

[grim plover]

me clearing all dark weak stages with sydney

he can even solo them

[violet nebula]

Yus

But N is still nice

[topaz compass]

I pulled Zoroark at release as a fave but regretted because I think the very next datamine revealed Houndoom expansion

(Houndoom is bigger fave, 1 of my top 2 favorite pokemon)

[violet nebula]

Houndoom is a solid unit now, good times

[grim plover]

but you can use both (?)

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for Grimsley boost in 2 resets

[upbeat lotus]

They work well together yes

[upbeat lotus]

wait you use him?

[deft glen]

can't wait to get a 30% chance to raise his atk and sp.atk on his tm

[tardy fiber]

I did use him for Cresselia in the past, well i think i have enough to clear 10 streaks gauntlet without him now...as ncmarnie, sskorrina and lear can beat it

[topaz compass]

The only insult imo is Aggravation 1 instead of 2

Did it always have 2x Snatch Catalytic Cure 50% tiles

[tardy fiber]

So this is not an insult?

[topaz compass]

I just skip because damage build is a complete waste anyway

[oak crest]

1 stat rank

and not 100% chance

[upbeat lotus]

Cmon, Wally even has 100% chance to raise both

[oak crest]

might as well give him a grid tile that ignores passives that prevent stat reduction for that TM

[upbeat lotus]

They want him to be a meme unit lol

[oak crest]

yeah

[tardy fiber]

Gamble all the way

[oak crest]

gamble for no reward is uhh.... idk man

[tardy fiber]

But feels safer gambling with him than hugh

[oak crest]

[deft glen]

but with him you get basically nothing in return

[oak crest]

Hugh should have a passive that doubles the damage on the enemy if the recoil takes him out

suicide striker

[deft glen]

this is the proof they REALLY don't want it to be useful

the dude can't even become a decent flinchbot

[oak crest]

SS Brock is way more reliable as a flinchbot and hits all too

[tardy fiber]

[violet nebula]

I ex'd Grimsley

[deft glen]

back to 45k today

Datamine needs to come soon

|| still need to see if I'll skip SS May again ||

[vestal leaf]

Yeah especially since n doesn't need sync

[vestal leaf]

For the damage he does dpulse is trash anyway for flinchbotting, because 3 gauge use eats your gauge off in most scenarios and you don't get much in return

[topaz compass]

His damage is a joke no matter what, for LG you have to build for Snatch cures and flinch

[deft glen]

yeah

he's really fast, he'd at least be a better flinchbot than the super slow SS Brock

like, I legit would like if they gave him Aggravation 2, MGR9 on Dark Pulse

cuz I only use him in LG

[topaz compass]

They also should have given him no Defense drop so he could tank with Vigilance

[deft glen]

Unbending

the LS I run on him

[topaz compass]

Yeah exactly

Less than a week to datamine weeee

[deft glen]

less than a week for Summer Korrina and Hawlucha

I wish

[tardy fiber]

If no faves next month, i will be able to level my sskorrina to 150

[violet nebula]

Need hawlucha

[sturdy plank]

[violet nebula]

And ss Korrina

[sturdy plank]

ss korrina is my favorite

[tardy fiber]

Her atk will increase from 488 to 512

Man, if they implement level 200...so sskorrina atk from 512 will be 632 on level 200

[sturdy flower]

I'm expecting summer + hisui

that's why Irida got into lodge

my headcanon

[tardy fiber]

I will grab if there's Volo origin giratina and cogita enamorus

[raw harness]

How do i actually save to pity it takes so long

[tardy fiber]

Not really, like this month has 27k gems and pity is 36k...if you are being selective in pulling, you will reach it in no time

Then you pull and then if you got the unit before pity, you carry it over for next banner, collect gems of the month and form a pity again then pull

Just repeat

The game already gives 8 strong Legendary adventures pairs, free region 5* tickets enough to pull from every permanent VAs

[topaz compass]

Is it a certain formula no matter the level?

[tardy fiber]

I think so, if you use poma tools and see level 130 to 140 and level 140 to 150 up the same amount

So i guess we can infer that 150-160, to 190-200 will up the same

Level 200 Gladion only have 336 atk

[deft glen]

|| I hope Lodge Irida is a good lodge unit ||

[deft glen]

SS Korrina my beloved

[deft glen]

Arezu would be the end of me

[topaz compass]

I would appreciate Irida getting a Flareon that is budget version of Blaziken getting defense drops and something else decent

Just really good synergy with Silver Ho-Oh

[grim plover]

||i just hope she doesnt get espeon. That would make me consider to pull for her||

[topaz compass]

Hopefully they save Espeon as it's own thing to be better kit

[cunning swan]

Adaman getting vaporeon just screams Flareon for Irida

[upbeat lotus]

its funny that despite hating heat, Irida owns a Flareon

[violet nebula]

Sometimes you need something firey

[sturdy flower]

finally, first flareon in the game

just dont make it as bad as the vaporeon

[torpid prawn]

Lucas & Flareon

Acquisition:

Variety

Alternates:

Lucas & Dialga

[sturdy flower]

Variety
opinion discarded

[upbeat lotus]

its variety so i let you pass

true

[vestal leaf]

Poor Tina

[grim plover]

one good umbreon would be good too

[sturdy flower]

i want Red & Espeon but they are sure to butcher the costume

[violet nebula]

Yea like SS Red... Great unit

But that outfit.... damn

[sturdy flower]

and we don't talk about the EX colors

[violet nebula]

[topaz compass]

We will get (good) umbreon, espeon, (good) sylveon in the next Eevee Day triple variety. And hopefully rerun of EX kantrio eevolutions

[hard wave]

Variety….

[topaz compass]

I'd rather throw a pity at 3x eevolutions for 4.5% than most solo PF reruns at 2%

[hard wave]

If they are variety I just hope its actual alts

[deft glen]

I'd pull on variety Serena and Sylveon

But they wouldn't waste this pair on variety, would they

[tough oriole]

Save for Penny and Sylveon

[hard wave]

Sounds like a break glass in case of emergency sync pair

[deft glen]

I can't not have a Serena alt

[hard wave]

Speaking of serena alt, zerena rerun for july?

[vernal glade]

Maybe

[feral vale]

Oh please no, I need a skip month

[gloomy holly]

Well, DeNA said MFs will rerun more frequently now

[hard wave]

Same but atleast I should be able to pity her since she’d be here for august

But if not its fine, im rlly low on gems

[gloomy holly]

I got her when I first played this game

[hard wave]

We have 20+ rn so if they arent rerunning them outside of masters day

[sly breach]

Oops wrong channel

[topaz compass]

Oops

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, starting this month they are also gonna rerun 1 pokefair on masters day too right? The ssN banner

So 1 pokefair, 1 masterfair

[sturdy plank]

ss n reruns on 27th

[tardy fiber]

Oh so its for Ice weak special CS?

[sturdy plank]

yep

just like how victor reruns for the grass special cs

[hard wave]

Its not for masters day its just for the CS

Would be nice if we could get some pf reruns for masters day tho

[tardy fiber]

Sad, if they rerun every master day it will help if i need to skip some due to lack of gems

Special cs only once in 2 months

And pretty sure they wont revisit weakness that they already done anytime soon

[hard wave]

Yeah I have about 8 PFs I want so I would appreciate it just hope the 3 MF reruns I want and new pairs dont stop me

[tough oriole]

You know, there are 17 types for weaknesses, so will there only be 17 Neo Champs?

[tardy fiber]

They will rerun sskorrina on ghost weak special cs, iirc she's the only ghost pokefair

[tough oriole]

(Probably not but something to note)

[hard wave]

They could just do wtvr weaknesses the NCs they do happen to be

[tardy fiber]

Oh right especially because last grass weak, ncserena also use her greninja

[hard wave]

Like both greninjas could have the same weaknesses, cmarnie shares some w them, all 3 birds r flying so they share some as well etc.

[tardy fiber]

So all 17 NC will have different weaknesses right that comprises of 17 types

We already have 5

[tough oriole]

Yeah but that would mean multiple NC Stadiums with the same type or the same champion

[hard wave]

I mean they have the potential to repeat weaknesses

Not that they will, but we prob need quite a few more NCs to fill in the remaining weaknesses

[tardy fiber]

Oh nc serena weakness is electric but it become grass on her special cs

[hard wave]

They could also just give each NC multiple weaknesses

[hard wave]

Yeah and marnie is weak to fairy

[hard wave]

Every e4 & champ has multiple weaknesses so why not

[tardy fiber]

So they just gonna change weaknesses

[hard wave]

I mean not all types can be covered currently

But eventually if they release more they can give some multiple weaknesses

[tardy fiber]

Well if each region will have at least 2 NC in the future, because NcSerena and NcCalem are two, there will still be a lot of NC as we have 8 regions

16+

But galar already 3

So 17+

If add paldea maybe 19+

Still many materials to make this game go on for a long time

[hard wave]

Greninja; electric, grass, fighting, bug, fairy
Articuno; electric, ice, rock, ghost, dark
Zapdos; electric, ice, flying, psychic, fairy
Moltres; electric, ice, rock, fairy

So 11 types covered

Still need steel, fire, water, ground, poison, and dragon

[tardy fiber]

Well the current 5 NC is enough for 5 special CS so its in the span of 10 months as it only happens once in 2 months. Pretty sure we will get new ones in the duration

[hard wave]

More if they give each multiple types

[tardy fiber]

Yep but no instance of they repeating cs boss yet...first is ncserena, second is ncmarnie

[hard wave]

Serena: electric, grass
Calem: fighting, bug
Bede: ghost, dark
Hop: flying, psychic, fairy
Marnie: ice, rock

[tardy fiber]

We might get new nc in span of 6 months

[hard wave]

Yeah ofc, too early to repeat anyway

[hard wave]

We prob will get some in december

I hope they decide to make pokefair NC and isnt just a MF thing

[tardy fiber]

Yeap so its probably 1 NC pair per weakness.

I kinda like NC being a MF

So i can skip non fave MF

And hope that NC have same passive with a fave

Like i skipped adaman and irida

Gonna hope sinnoh NC have faves and sinnoh spirit and pride

[hard wave]

Well we’d have to wait a year to see if they have 1 weakness per NC

If they do then we’ll prob get alot more, if not then they could just add a few more NCs to fill in the remaining weaknesses

Maybe it’ll end up being the next arc and we’ll get alot more

[tardy fiber]

So special cs appears on a month without gauntlet, thanks DeNa for giving more stuff to do in PoMa

Gauntlet give more move coins but this special cs give gems

Gauntlet is an upgraded legendary arena, special cs is an upgraded cs...cannot wait to see how they will upgrade battle villa

[hard wave]

Speaking of gauntlet I wonder if this upcoming one will be the same as the 2nd one and rerun ingo/red/diantha banner

Since LG 9 was the same as LG 1

[deft glen]

maybe
maybe not

[tardy fiber]

Not sure because not many examples yet

I still scared if they will add Cresselia in it

I will only do 11 streaks if that happens

[deft glen]

if they add Cresselia I'll legit give up on doing higher streaks

I already raged with Moltres

[tardy fiber]

Im fine with Terrakion though kinda easy as its any field effects, not just weathers like moltres

[hard wave]

Cresselia bar 2 and 3 didnt seem too hard, but bar 1 was very hard with frogs and cmarnie

But they destroyed bar 2 and 3 easily

[topaz compass]

I'd prefer they keep mix and matching differently

The triple banner I mean

[tardy fiber]

Still waiting for them to add sskorrina on ghost weak gauntlet boss uxie, they keep on adding redlax when uxie appears

[topaz compass]

We have so many dark units now I want Cressalia opponent

I got ss Korina in a select I think but would be happy to see in a triple banner

[hard wave]

I wouldnt mind either way

Well for this banner atleast, id love to get diantha copies as well as red and ingo

But if not ill just get red and ingo somewhere else

[hard wave]

I think red only appeared once on a gauntlet banner

Iirc the 2 times uxie showed up were LG 2 and 4, but 4 didnt include red only 2 did

Maybe it appeared more but they filled it in with someone else for another legendary

[topaz compass]

Redzard was just here with ssb and alder so I'd prefer something else

[hard wave]

I mean redlax, not redzard

[topaz compass]

Ah gotcha

Redlax is the most common PF rerun in game's history I'd say, at least since he came out

They should be required to cycle through them evenly

[hard wave]

Still havent gotten him somehow tho I think some have reran more than him but they are also older than him

Like cynthia gloria etc. are at 6 and he’s had 4

[topaz compass]

Yeah he is at 4 in half the time

[hard wave]

I wonder if they’ll include him in the upcoming free select if they are going to keep doing those, ill probably go for him if he is

[topaz compass]

Anything that never rerun over 6 months old they should be required to put at top lol

[hard wave]

Yeah, luckily 5/5 grids will allow PFs that we havent seen in a while to rerun

[topaz compass]

I don't even care about the 5/5 expansion per se because that guarantees a solo rerun the first time it has expansion

[deft glen]

still no Glojo rerun though

[sturdy plank]

maybe there's a chance for her rerun for next month? because of water thing

[hard wave]

Yeah a split banner would be ideal but u never know when that’ll be unfortunately

Plus not everyone who got an expansion had a solo rerun, like diantha got hers when she was in the triple banner w gloria and iris

[tardy fiber]

Thing like this that made me FoMo when it concerns my fave...no glojo, no anniskyla, no ssleon, no sskorrina reruns

Luckily for now, i got em all

[hard wave]

Hopefully they rerun eventually and im actually able to get them unlike brendos red and lucas during half anni

[topaz compass]

Good to know it can happen that way. I hope we see more grid expansions while in a triple banner

[hard wave]

[broken mulch]

Has SS Korrina ever reran?

[rare swan]

Not unpaid

She was available in one of the 5000 paid gem new year selects

[sturdy plank]

it was the new years select

we didn't get any limited selects for 3.5 anni

[rare swan]

Corrected

[broken mulch]

Aww sucks

[rare swan]

Remains to be seen if her and DGloria rerun next month

DG has never even had a paid rerun

Although the free SS May rerun is a good sign

[tough oriole]

I think Brendan would have reran too if not for him getting one earlier this year

[tardy fiber]

Big gems reset

[hard wave]

I hope he gets another this year as well as red and lucas

[dire meteor]

I finally got back on track to saving to 100k once again, even reaching over halfway milestone already.

Haven't saved this much since 3rd Anni, admittedly.

[tardy fiber]

Enough for Summer Elesa

[dire meteor]

any elesa6 is good enough reason to save

[warm scarab]

are there any gems that is outside of game that you can get?

ie tweet or share or something

[dire meteor]

There is a 600 gem achievement for linking your Nintendo account.

[upbeat lotus]

June 30th also gives 3000 gems from Hisui twitter rally

[tardy fiber]

Copium that theres dev letter tease next reset

[violet nebula]

We won't see datamine until Wednesday latest probably

[upbeat lotus]

im expecting Tuesday

[tardy fiber]

Yep i dont mind datamine, but an early dev letter would be nice

Just tease me 2 units are enough

[upbeat lotus]

we havent had dev letter teasing new units for a while

[violet nebula]

Yea, that is way too much hopium

[tardy fiber]

Didn't they tease scshauna and scsteven early through dev letter before datamine

Thats fairly recent

[upbeat lotus]

its been 2 months, that means a while for me

[tardy fiber]

Also April dev letter on poma day

Well may stuff

[hard wave]

But we got datamine on the reset w poma day iirc

They’ve been revealing the lodge unit on the same day as datamine for a few months now

[tardy fiber]

Well scsteven and scshauna gets revealed before datamine through dev letter

[upbeat lotus]

Not this month tho, 25th is on Sunday

[tardy fiber]

Yep but can hopium for dev letter, as dev letter did pop out in weekend before this

[hard wave]

Has it happened before?

I only remember early dev letter in march for april

[tardy fiber]

It happened a couple of time, palbea and palmarnie also teased through dev letter before datamine

[upbeat lotus]

Yes they did tease Steven and Shauna before datamine

[tardy fiber]

I forgot if its the same for summerN and summerHilda but the game icon got leaked

[hard wave]

That was just an accident I think, same w ss may icon

Apple updated it too early or smth

[tardy fiber]

Yep but dev letter revealed before datamine already happened more than once

Although only 2 pairs revealed

[hard wave]

I wouldnt count on it tbh

Prob by wednesday datamine atleast, maybe tuesday

[tardy fiber]

Yep datamine wont be next reset, its weekend

But dev letter can be on weekends

[violet nebula]

So full of hope

Don't build us up like this sir 🤣

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

Don't expect dev letter before Monday and even that is unlikely

[cunning swan]

Monday is copium. It would be lovely, but copium

[tardy fiber]

Man if next month is a skip month, i might caught up with 150 all faves

I forgot that ice cs will give 5 certs

[sturdy flower]

i expect tuesday

[topaz compass]

Only 5? They can't even afford a full 10 for a unit?

[tardy fiber]

Well at least each fight gives gems

Normal cs doesn't give gems

[candid burrow]

200k tomorrow

I've been hovering around 4th and 5th pity for months

[dense pike]

Wtf

How long have you been saving?

I want to be like you

[topaz compass]

Apparently you have to goob yourself

[hardy creek]

goob?

[rare swan]

200k is a very comfy balance

i'm about 10k away from returning there myself

[hardy creek]

happy for y'all hitting such nice milestones

[topaz compass]

The person's name is "self goobed"

So apparently the key to having 200k like them is to goob yourself

I don't know what that means, but it sounds provocative. Gets the people goin

[tardy fiber]

I only have 105k

[topaz compass]

I want to have amazing banners the next 3 months to get down to 0 gems. I'll feel dirty but excited at the same time for that feeling I'm not safe

[maiden kayak]

damn this is so me

[rare swan]

I'd love a fave next month I'm ngl

(Even though I want to get back to 200k )

[tardy fiber]

Your fave will come soon Tai

New chatelaine

[hard wave]

|| Im kind of hoping for smth to pull next month, even tho I def need to save maybe zerena will rerun since I should have enough if I save gems in july and august, but hoping there’s nothing else ||

[tardy fiber]

||i thought you were even missing Eusine, not sure about ssmorty. And you want another fave month?||

[hard wave]

|| I dont have eusine but I got ss morty, and yeah I just find save months kind of boring, but if it is a save month I wouldnt mind bcz I definitely need to save ||

[vernal glade]

||I have a guaranteed pull next month which is Summer Hilda. Least I finally have someone to pull on, last unit I pulled for 1 copy was SC Steven which was back in April.||

[upbeat lotus]

||i must stay strong to skip the entire July in case Galar VA surprised me with a Sonia alt||

[hard wave]

|| I have quite a few pokemon I want from galar, dragapult calyrex (ghost rider) cinderace toxtricity and corviknight so hoping to skip july ||

[upbeat lotus]

||if Leon came with Dragapult and Sonia alt in the VA i would be doomed||

||the only Leon alt i want to pull||

[hard wave]

|| I rlly hope not all of them release for the VA tho ||

[upbeat lotus]

[rare swan]

Guys you don't need to spoiler hypothetical pulls 😭

[gloomy holly]

||I need a fairy mega support that gives fairy zone because I want to see funny numbers with SS Wally||

[upbeat lotus]

||spoilering everything is fun ||

[gloomy holly]

||Imagine using spoilers||

[rare swan]

[gloomy holly]

Ok, someone give me a reason why I shouldn't pull on Adaman ||besides the fact I have SC Zinnia and Irida waiting to be candied||

[rare swan]

We have plenty of grass types

Brendan literally just got a mega

He does Beeg Damage but it's uninteresting

If he's not a Big Fave, skip him

[tardy fiber]

We already have another leafeon that is tech that also sets sun

Also general pool

[vernal glade]

||If July brings over Hilbert and Hilda SS then I’m ready to see my gems go down because they’re faves. ||

[gloomy holly]

||Also, I want Adaman because I love big numbers||

[hard wave]

Use others for big numbers

[tardy fiber]

Yep like gem savings

[vale ivy]

Big gem number >>>>>

[topaz compass]

Why didn't you want the Tapu for fairy zone support?

[gloomy holly]

Keyword: Mega

[tardy fiber]

So shiny fairy mega mawile?

Well only mawile, diancie, gardevoir are mega able fairy

And shiny diancie and gardevoir already available

[gloomy holly]

Yeah, that's my only hope

[tardy fiber]

There's also Mega Audino, maybe it can have a fairy zone too

Although audino is normal

But we already saw holiwhitney

A normal having 3 terrains

[upbeat lotus]

Valerie & Fairy type Mega Mawile

[topaz compass]

Why does it have to be mega? Multiple mega in a team is a negative since they compete

[gloomy holly]

Because I need it for SS Wally's B Move

[tardy fiber]

I do put multiple mega in the team sometimes, well if i want to clear first, i will mega with one unit, if i want support sync, i mega with support instead

[gloomy holly]

Actually, I just need a fairy mega support that debuffs Sp. Def.

[tough oriole]

Why does it need to be a fairy

[topaz compass]

If you don't want SS Wally to mega himself then that means you aren't using him as main attacker. But he still provides zone so why does support need zone

[gloomy holly]

Because if I get the chance, I want to use him with SC Steven

-2 fairy rebuff and SEUN

[topaz compass]

But then who is the one providing the damage if you have a mega support, SC Steven, and SS Wally you don't want to sync with?

[tardy fiber]

This is a good question

[gloomy holly]

I mean, SS Wally can deal damage

[tough oriole]

I feel like at that point it’s better to use Mina than bring SC Steven

[gloomy holly]

I mean, I want to maximize SS Wally's nuke

[topaz compass]

I thought the first thing you said was you didn't want to mega with SS Wally

Or you just really want to mega support sync first so that ss Wally 2nd sync is after b move?

[lean mango]

Gem count, slowly building up

[vernal glade]

Seems I might end the month around 210k or 211k

[topaz compass]

Another day, another k

[tardy fiber]

106,430 gems

Probably cannot reach 3rd pity

[violet nebula]

You will get to 4th/5th by the anni easily

No

[tardy fiber]

Probably not

Galar VA might be before anniv

And pretty sure there's some legendary in it

And seeing SsLeon doesnt even have f2p rerun since 2021 run up to anniv, better i pull em than skip

Hurm seeing my coin stash, i might can make 1 strike and 1 tech candy next month...but i think i want to hold on the strike candy till anniv, i want to see which of my 1/5 strike pair in fair select then dupe it to 2/5 and use candy to become 3/5

No problem for tech, as all tech faves other than fall iris already 3/5...and my 2/5 fall iris will wait for seasonal select to 3/5

[violet nebula]

I need fall Iris😬

[deft glen]

In this case SS Brendan already does the job lol

[sturdy flower]

i will take a hypothetical stronger hoenn unit than ss steven just to auto hoenn dailies faster

because May refuses to use rain and Steven never goes into atk form

[tardy fiber]

I just press, many pairs becomes stupid when auto like SsBrendan spamming dragonbreath

I need more grass faves, optimize for bvilla daily co-op keep choosing sycamore

And he doesn't even spam horn leech, keep dazzling gleam

[topaz compass]

If you are at 62/62 why do you need eternatus rerun

[hard wave]

Dupes

[upbeat lotus]

They want dupes and they have gems anyway

[tardy fiber]

Nah, i already have eternatus dupe, i want to give examples that eternatus/djgloria/sskorrina are some of the units that doesnt even rerun...so skipping units in hope that they will appear again in single featured or multiple featured banners sometimes are pure copium

Cannot pull on rerun if DeNa doesn't even want to rerun them

So i cannot skip Galar VA faves

Maybe they will be like sssteven that doesn't rerun

I think sshilda and sshilbert also doesn't have rerun

[hard wave]

Anni skyla, ss dawn, ss cyrus havent even had a free rerun yet

[upbeat lotus]

C

[tardy fiber]

Yep, kinda why i wont skip galar VA units for anniv Units...hope to get all of them faves though, i will be happy if they release normal pokemons anni MF

I can skip those

I also hope that Galar VA doesn't have many faves, as Rose probably will have copperajah so it gonna be a skip

Just need to be wary of SsVictor and SsGloria

[violet nebula]

Need ss korrina and dojo gloria rerun... but that mean more tech coins🤣

[tardy fiber]

Too many pairs available that DeNa doesn't even rerun some of them...even MF might take 2 years if they rerun 1 monthly as there's 22 of em currently

[robust shore]

I sure do hope Classic Elesa and SSLeon rerun one day (they wont)

[sonic cobalt]

The amount of tech candies I need is too damn high.

[hard wave]

Im stuck on who to candy tbh my current candy plan is all for pairs I want to get when they rerun

2 strike, 2 tech, 6 support; currently have about 2.5 strike, 1.5 tech, 1.25 support, 1.1 general

I do have some options im considering but not sure yet

[topaz compass]

Kind of hoping a better bug zone comes out so I'm never tempted to get Accelgor dupes

Special zone support would be the dream

And a MF special striker to upgrade from Alder