Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[maiden kayak]

but im suspecting sonia having an alt instead

[vestal leaf]

We'll see about the regidlc

[tardy fiber]

Have 92k gems currently

[oak crest]

yea i kinda think Leon is a pretty high chance since his last alt was quite some time ago

[vestal leaf]

Sonia might be the only way aside dragapult Leon to have me get tempted

[ashen thunder]

Regileki and regidrago coz CS is electric and dragon weak

[maiden kayak]

leon most likely anni

if anything

[vestal leaf]

I don't feel a galar unit in Anni tbh

[sturdy plank]

fire weak is either kabu or cinderace

[vestal leaf]

We had 3.5 and now VA

[sturdy plank]

or kabu gets cinderace

[ashen thunder]

If galar is anni, that's like the easiest skip out there

[maiden kayak]

but next month might have general pool

[ashen thunder]

I skipped half anni coz galar

[vestal leaf]

I really hope they don't do galar Anni

Aside maybe gen pools

Or bps

[sturdy plank]

i don't think they will do galar anni

[vestal leaf]

Or whatever

[ashen thunder]

And went for eon duo banner instead

[sturdy plank]

we already had it for 3.5

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I think so too

[tardy fiber]

Hope anni have alola pride, kanto pride, unova pride/spirit

[maiden kayak]

wait

[ashen thunder]

Well they did SSred for half anni

[maiden kayak]

kalos has no anni units yet right?

[vestal leaf]

Unova mf for Anni is very due

[ashen thunder]

And kantrio for 1st anni

[vestal leaf]

Mf Shauna 💀

[sturdy plank]

don't think so, or you count zerena

[tardy fiber]

Like anniN?

[ashen thunder]

Eh I doubt it's gonna be kalos
Expecting hisui

[vestal leaf]

No no, spirit this time

[ashen thunder]

Showing adaman and irida 2 months early and anni not being hisui would be weird for me

[tardy fiber]

So sinnoh will have multiple hisui MF?

[vestal leaf]

Yeah me too

[tardy fiber]

As hisui=sinnoh here

[ashen thunder]

They can also be not MF

Like tapus

[sturdy plank]

normal volo as pokefair

[ashen thunder]

Tapu passives are MF level

[tardy fiber]

Sc probably...we got scrosa on anniv last year

[ashen thunder]

It can be anni 2023 pair

[vestal leaf]

MF are easy money tho

[ashen thunder]

They can do 4 PFs instead

Drain the wallet

[vestal leaf]

Anni 100% will have at least a MF or two

[tardy fiber]

Sc Lucas wearing Rei hisui outfit

[ashen thunder]

Like 2.5 had 3 PFs and then dropped zygarde in same month

[vestal leaf]

4 fairs are still technically on average less likely to get as much income as 3 MFs

[ashen thunder]

I am expecting similar situation

Like 3 PFs as main anni units

And end the month with 2 new MFs

Also throw in zygarde rerun in the mix for more chaos

There
More money than just 3 MF units

Make those PF passives so absurd that tapu passives look like a joke

[maiden kayak]

i have a very strong feeling nemona might be MF

and come out on dec

[wind coyote]

ok so ive decided to remove ss brendan and ss hilda from my rerun list

[maiden kayak]

just remove 2 rows from the bottom

[oak crest]

this week's 1st parameter helped me to ignore sentry duty for Steel weak Glacia

[maiden kayak]

laser focused on serenas

[oak crest]

wrecked her with KimonoGrimsley

[tardy fiber]

I like tapus, thanks to them...i got a couple of types coverage covered...im so glad that I skipped sswally for fairy zone also non fave elec terrain pairs

[wind coyote]

...
nice one?

[maiden kayak]

no

im being serious

[wind coyote]

aw man

[maiden kayak]

its still too much

u should adding potential units rather than rerun on the list

too many rerun units

unless u can afford to whale

if u dont, dont be arrogant

save for just ultimate favs

your list tells me that u still want to depend on luck to get rerun units

[ashen thunder]

Serena is also a big Dena fav
So she'll get more alts down the line

So top of your list would just expand

[wind coyote]

ok so is this ok?

[maiden kayak]

its a curse for lillie serena and cynthia fans

[ashen thunder]

That looks more manageable
As long as you don't fall into temptations

[wind coyote]

great

time to train the mind now

[maiden kayak]

7 is too much

cut more

[ashen thunder]

Eh 7 is fine

Just gotta have more stricter priorities

[maiden kayak]

7 is fine if u include new units

[oak crest]

ouch, 6 of them are MFs....

[maiden kayak]

if not no

[wind coyote]

i dont want any new unit rn

[maiden kayak]

that makes it even worse

[ashen thunder]

Oh yea
6 MFs

[maiden kayak]

u say that, and then next month its goibg to come again

[wind coyote]

tbh there's only 1 new unit in my list

and thats oleana

i havent added any new unit for 4 months

[ashen thunder]

Why would you add oleana again?

[wind coyote]

no i meant in the old list

now my list has no new unit

[maiden kayak]

exactly lmao

[ashen thunder]

Tbh I'd cut down ccalem or Kris

[maiden kayak]

u dunno what future holds

yall should think of the future

dont just keep getting stuck on current units

[ashen thunder]

Both are so overlapping on their roles

[maiden kayak]

u wont go anyway sticking to old units

[ashen thunder]

I can give a ez trick to make your lists smaller

Make a candy priority list as well and assume 2 candy = 3 months for each role

Now those candy hungry units won't tempt you into rolling

[maiden kayak]

2 months for each role is generally fine

usually they give at least 10+ type coins a month

sometimes more sometimes less

but net usually is 2 months

[ashen thunder]

Well I am averaging 2 candies/3 month so far
Support even less

[oak crest]

we dont really get alot of supports unless you are always wanting the support whenever they drop 1

i ended up being able to candy my existing limited supports cos I have been skipping units here n there

[ashen thunder]

They are averaging 1 new support a month this year tho

It's just half of em are underwhelming/forgettable

[tardy fiber]

Im happy that i kinda have a lot of support faves, well thanks to DeNa for making all bp master pairs are legendaries and supports

[maiden kayak]

which is why yellow candies should be reserved for support

[ashen thunder]

I use yellow candy on both tech and support depending on which gets to 3/5 first

[oak crest]

i am thankful for that

cos even the non-underwhelming 1s I still might skip if i dont like their kit

even if ppl say how broken they are

[deft glen]

That's what I do. I feel a big difference in playstyle with candied supports

[deft glen]

So you're on the Serena train too

[wind coyote]

ig u r too?

[wind coyote]

Poce with the temptation

But i wont be tempted

[rare swan]

You probably shouldn't post that video here

[wind coyote]

Oh yea true lmao

[rare swan]

😌 thank you

[vestal leaf]

When Poma YouTubers hype up upcoming units:

https://tenor.com/view/chess-chesscom-chess-gif-reaction-react-gif-25967421

[oak crest]

who knows, some of them might even be paid to hype up the units

[hard wave]

Half of my rerun list is supports so im saving for those personally

I have ~1.5 rn and need 6, planning to use my gen candy for supports as well since I dont think ill need it for tech

[ashen thunder]

I have only 1 support in my rerun priority but I already need 5 support candies so

[hard wave]

I have 5 and plan to 3/5 3 of them so ig just save candies for now? and the only tech and strike I want to candy r also reruns but I think I have 2 candies for both roles or can reach it this month

[ashen thunder]

I am honestly waiting for a good rerun banner for a lot of my techs and strikers

Since the completionist in me wants 5/5

[tardy fiber]

I need 3 support candies for now, might need another 2 if the anniversary has 2 new bp master pairs...the other pair will be 3/5 via rainbow tickets

[ashen thunder]

I am holding on to my rainbow tickets, if they don't add new stuff I am 3/5ing landorus
Already got 3/5 entei through candying
Free master fairs so good

[feral vale]

So 19k and I’m hoping Anni doesn’t nuke me

Zerena rerun, Ash alt (not possible, but lemme cope), Leaf alt and Calem alt are the top wants

[hard wave]

Im expecting a zerena rerun next month and these past 2, but we got weather duo ig so hopefully I can get her early

[feral vale]

Oh and Volo if they decide to do Hisui stuff

[hard wave]

That’s assuming there’s nothing else I want, or if there is I will still have enough

[feral vale]

Mood, bro

[vernal glade]

Im just waiting for my last two faves.

[feral vale]

Idk why I feel like waiting for reruns are better than waiting for new characters or alts

Actually, I’m sure there’s some good reasons.

[hard wave]

I have quite a few reruns I want rn so id like it if there isnt no new units I want until it goes down a little

[grim plover]

this month is so slow 💀

my gems are increasing slowly and i get bored

[deft glen]

I thought that last month

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for this reset, a boost for my archie and eusine through gears plus i will do a couple of runs of water game mode...well with 15 water pairs and with 10 water pairs, to gauge how many points i could get with less water pairs for future reference in case poison or ground or dragon high score challenge appears

[wet egret]

Hoping i could save atleast for pity for anni! (no spending for impulse pull i promise)

[tardy fiber]

Good luck, i never promise to save as DeNa could just add new fave for me in a snap 🫰. Although i gonna try to skip non faves, like i skipped the recent adaman and irida

[dense estuary]

A little over an hour until SS N’s banner goes away…i should probably save for Anni but I’m tempted to pull :/

[upbeat lotus]

Just close the game and don't think about him

[tardy fiber]

Just use snow crab hala for physical ice damage

[ashen thunder]

Or just offtype with rain Kris since it's better anyways

[summer goblet]

still on my saving zen right now

despite some temptation of ||Dojo Gloria as she is my 4th desired pokefair unit||

[chrome nest]

All right looks like a new event has come out now time to do it

[summer goblet]

good luck

[chrome nest]

Ok never mind I’m not doing the water event

[versed flame]

how feasible is this list? (for context i can skip the bottom row, already skipped lucas and diantha reruns this year)

[upbeat lotus]

thats a good list

[versed flame]

i think i heard someone else say that if you want ash to stay above a pity at all times and that sounds like good advice to me

my only weakness would probably be the release of unova NCs or certain hisui pairs

(made this to convince myself not to pull for jirachi. keep the priorities straight)

[upbeat lotus]

you should prepare a pity for every pair you want

always prepare for the worst scenario

[cunning swan]

yup, I just expect ever pair to cost me 36.6k and if I get them before pity, I'm pleasantly surprised

[versed flame]

yup that makes sense, ||SC ingo/emmet and irida (faves) both drove me to pity. i was darn prepared to drop two pities on the subway twins (thankfully only one)||

[sly breach]

Well another banner another pity, literally down to 0 gems

This is frustrating

[sturdy hatch]

Ideally it shouldn't be frustrating, that's why we suggest here only pulling units you'd want to spend 36.6k on.

[vernal glade]

Same here. This is why I’m saving.

[mental skiff]

New mode is surely meta bait

Someone might want to clear 30000 pt

[sturdy hatch]

Happily you only need to clear 180,000

[mental skiff]

is it easy ?

I do "master" 18k point it is EB on crack tho

[oak crest]

i never went past 9k for str params... even on 9k my SSLysandre is somewhat struggling to win before the enemy can wipe the team

havent done all 5 tho

misty is annoying as heck

if u ignore hail the blizzards all gonna wreck your striker/tech

either need Archie or SSKris for her

[tardy fiber]

Done with the new game mode

Rank master 293 for now

[tough oriole]

I do just 210 strength and i’ve gotten ~40k pts for each clear

[tardy fiber]

Probably not gonna touch the mode again today

Its kinda stressful

[gray sail]

Slowly working things out as usual. At least the pile of gems is growing. :3

[rare swan]

Remember we have a dedicated thread for the High Score event!

#1128052735967764621

If you need help

[gray sail]

Much appreciated, I'll go check it out~

[simple slate]

Resisting the urge for the water banner, still not half way to pity…must save for anni

[broken mulch]

Is it just DGloria and LySSandre in there?

[upbeat lotus]

they are the only limiteds there

[mental skiff]

it help

Just another LG thread

[tardy fiber]

92380 gems, going strong

Galar VA in 3 resets, gonna try to get Hop day 1

[chrome nest]

This new event is so scummy in my opinion

[tardy fiber]

Well better than the old prestige

As there's no good reward locked behind rankings

[hard wave]

Yeah, sucks that the medal will be difficult to get but atleast its just a medal

[chrome nest]

Not worth the effort for me

[oak crest]

luckily the 180k reward isnt too hard to get

got it on first attempt and done

[hard wave]

Took me a bit to get but atleast I finished it

mostly bcz I didnt lower the points

[oak crest]

i had to lower quite a bit for lana

no healing is nonsense

even graudal healing helps the tank survive longer but the stage just outright say no u getting 0s

[hard wave]

For some reason I tried to do every stage at 11,970 when I couldve lowered it enough to hit 180k

[oak crest]

lol i didnt went too insane

[hard wave]

I got 55k on misty and then just lowered it for the other stages (e.g next stage I tried for 31,250 then the next one I did the remaining score /3 etc.)

[oak crest]

when i realize that the time(3k) is impossible to get the max pts i pretty much just try to get as much as pts as i can on my strongest

altho after im done with it

i realize i prob can score better

but prob too lazy to bother

[hard wave]

My is at 18 but I dont feel like fixing it

[oak crest]

some stages my DPS failed to crit and i still can clear(which means i prob can aim for more pts on STR)

[hard wave]

Since I started CS (last week of kanto before sinnoh debut) ive had it at 1/6 so

[oak crest]

oh

kinda wish next month isnt Galar CS but the chances are rather high

[hard wave]

I wonder if galar will be unique, since its league system is also different in msg

Tho its not hard to make a CS for galar

[tardy fiber]

We got some CS that have 2 champion that rotate, i hope Galar CS has elite four that are kinda randomised between all of the gym leaders

[oak crest]

as long as they are not super annoying like some of the Sinnoh e4...

[tardy fiber]

They might be more annoying as some of them will have max move

Thats a sync move damage like 1 button that can happen anytime they want

[ashen thunder]

They'll likely lock dmax as a move before sync

Like their TMs

[bleak falcon]

I personally hope for a new mode with Galar League, as unlikely as that would be now that we’ve just gotten new content

[tardy fiber]

Still hopium for battle tower or other battle facility mode

Oh wait, thats battle villa

[lost bobcat]

There's literally no point in this

Why would you skip rewards

[upbeat lotus]

At least you can do Strength less run and get 500 gems

The rewards are good as well

So you shouldn't skip the event

[wind coyote]

GAAAH

can someone say some bad things abt glojo and lyssandre

[compact pasture]

They're unnecessary

[wind coyote]

but my only water team is archie may ss blueeee

[compact pasture]

How?

[wind coyote]

lemme rephrase that

my only strong water team is archie may ss blue

i dont have any limited water units beside archie and ss blue

[rare swan]

you don't need any others if you have that team

[rustic heron]

archie is already OP

lmao

neither of them would help you out much

[grim plover]

ups wrong channel

[ashen thunder]

You can't replace may anyways coz she's the one refreshing rain in that team
And Archie is well, he's the star of the team

Why replace smth that's already perfect

[feral vale]

But consider

Cyrus Hydro Pump

[upbeat lotus]

Consider
and nuke

[feral vale]

Barry nuke

[ashen thunder]

I mean just sde5 dps

Speaking of which

Support ex where

[bleak falcon]

Hilbert + 3/5 Kris + Winona obliterates Water weak stages

[maiden kayak]

tbf tho

theres non limited unit run in youtube already

so no excuse to pull

[timber wren]

there’s not even any gems in it besides first time stage clears

so at most youre missing out on a couple candy coins even if you can’t get 180k points

[sand crown]

||This banner was a rare exception for me - two 0/5 faves. Got both, have no regrets. But I would like to thank everyone in here for helping encourage saving or else I wouldn't have had nearly enough. I should be in good shape for anni - I plan on skipping everything until then no worries. Faves only.||

[drowsy dagger]

So far, I saved about 3600 gems. I keep being tempted on pulling Archie and Kyogre for the high score event. But I keep telling myself I don't need him

[mental skiff]

pulling for high score event is dumb because archie alone wont solve your problem in slighest

[violet nebula]

Water is stacked.. archie not required

[drowsy dagger]

I know, right? With the anniversary month coming, I can't afford wasting my F2P gems

Besides, I already have my ace Water pairs ready with Lysandre, May, Kris, and more

[summer goblet]

man, why do i get the feeling that this event may never rerun again for those who want a medal and miss it

and may be worse than prestige when you need alot of water types to get the highest

[mental skiff]

It will rerun again for sure

[hard wave]

The medal says “any high score event”

So it’ll probably rerun, just not water

[summer goblet]

oh ok,

in that case, i'm waiting for grass

cause, i stacked these up like crazy

[mental skiff]

not gonna happen

[summer goblet]

most of them are in my fav catagogry

[mental skiff]

It already took place in special CS

[summer goblet]

we shall see

[mental skiff]

[summer goblet]

i want that medal

[mental skiff]

High score event have medal?

[hard wave]

Yeah but only top 10k

[summer goblet]

yep

so more than 180k

[mental skiff]

Bruh i will take that water medal

[summer goblet]

ok time, to get cooking

[crisp oracle]

slightly redid my favorites list (I will be getting rid of the lodge tier soon)

[deft glen]

Aren't you a Diantha stan? Why is she so low

[tardy fiber]

ScDiantha stan only probably

[crisp oracle]

The problem is that base Diantha's kit isn't worth pulling for alone

and also I like SC Diantha's design a lot better

maybe if the base form comes in a free ticket i'll get her

||I have NYLisia and Diantha's grid expansion isn't inspiring but I will get my hands on Diantha eventually||

[upbeat lotus]

Base Diantha was in free select in the 3.5 anni so she would come back in other free selects

[hard wave]

Hopefully there’s a free select next month

My priority is red > ingo > n > gloria > steven

[tardy fiber]

My select priorities for now are:
Fall Iris, SsMina, SsAcerola, Eusine, SsHilda.
Lodge guests will be considered if there's none of the pairs mentioned are available in the select.

[fallen path]

Just going to prioritize whatever I don’t have if there’s a free select

[sand crown]

I just hope the free select gives us some new pairs to pick from

[broken mulch]

Man

Still more than 1,5 months away and I already got the anniversary jitters

[tardy fiber]

But if Master Fair select happens in the future, i will be in a pickle i might get leon/adaman/irida if its cheap enough

[sand crown]

Those are not going to be cheap

[fallen path]

Good news is that master fair select won’t happen in a while since the 25th we get a master fair scout lol

[tardy fiber]

I expect 10k

As sc select...well the final tier that allow us to select all cost 10k paid in total for the tiers

[sand crown]

Select priorities...well, let's see if we even get one

[upbeat lotus]

Im going to pick N from free select if its the same as the last free select

[tardy fiber]

Gonna pick steven, unless lance or diantha got a fave lodge alt

[oak crest]

N/Steven/Raihan, if either of these 3 are in the banner they will be picked for lodge

[broken mulch]

Hmm assuming the same free select… Gloria and Lance got the most power boost right?

[oak crest]

Gloria too

lol

[tardy fiber]

I like lance more because gloria is 5/5 grid and not yet power boost

[oak crest]

idh these 4+ Irida lmao

[broken mulch]

You know what screw it I’m just gonna 5/5 Cynthia lol

[tardy fiber]

Get gloria for free grass monke 🐒bonk

Im happy that my 3/5 gloria team will be boosted in 3 resets, as she doesn't have haymaker...hop support EX will help a lot

[sand crown]

If we get the same set I will probably pick Gloria too

[wind nymph]

What was in the last select? I was on a break from the game when it happened

[upbeat lotus]

iirc N, Steven, Cynthia, Lance, Alder, Diantha

[sturdy plank]

these pairs

[wind nymph]

Ty! I’d probably pick Diantha if it’s the same

[upbeat lotus]

I was wrong

[tough oriole]

Wasn’t there a more recent one?

[sturdy plank]

yes

[tardy fiber]

I wont get iris, even if there's lodge iris, they will use iris Haxorus instead

[sturdy plank]

lodge iris & axew?!

[tardy fiber]

No, the requirements to unlock lodge iris will be iris haxorus

And not hydreigon iris

As that one is Iris (Alt)

[sturdy plank]

so lodge red will be the one with snorlax

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[wind nymph]

Redlax in lodge banner would actually get me to pull on it

[sturdy plank]

same, or lucas

[wind nymph]

Yeah, Lucas would be nice too

[tardy fiber]

I hope they revamp super seasonal scout rerun to actually boosted last year's pair rates...do it like lodge, it have multiple featured units yet one of them will get boosted in rotation

Current rerun feels stupid especially holiday xmas pairs later

0.33% or something

[sturdy plank]

i'm hoping they rerun them in 2 banner each with 4 featured unit which is still bad

[fallen path]

It will also be interesting how much the select scouts will cost at anni

If we do get select scouts..

[tardy fiber]

I hope its only 3k

The 5k selects are only at NY iirc

[fallen path]

That was before the 20 day gem bundle

[sturdy plank]

the 3k gems are only for 11x or 15x

and 5k gems for 25x

[wind nymph]

I have 10k paid saved just in case they cost 5k

[tardy fiber]

Thanks to gem bundle, i might consider getting Leon if he is in MF select and even if it cost 10k paid

Only 60 days to get back 9k paid

[sturdy plank]

imagine seasonal selects with a guaranteed seasonal unit (high copium)

[wind nymph]

I’ll probably select Holiday Jasmine if we get a seasonal select and pray that Redlax or CElesa is in the PF select

[tardy fiber]

They did it last year, 3/5 my hleon from it

[fallen path]

I remember there were seasonal select a couple years ago? Or at least I spent in that one for fall Caitlin

[tardy fiber]

Gonna continue the tradition and 3/5 fall iris if it appears this year

[sturdy plank]

wait, they did a guaranteed seasonal?

[mental skiff]

I wish it comeback

[tardy fiber]

Yep you can select any seasonal well not from latest 2 or 3 seasons iirc

And only cost 3k paid

Not 5k

[oak crest]

that was how i got SBurgh

[sturdy plank]

holiday 2019 to palentines 2023

[deft glen]

it was up to Palentine 2022

[tardy fiber]

I 3/5 hleon from it

[tardy fiber]

I see so only missing summer

[deft glen]

got my first marnie from it

[mental skiff]

No select in half anni so i have a bleak vision about future

[tardy fiber]

There is...the champion select

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

This one

[mental skiff]

Bruh i need my last marnie

[tardy fiber]

Base Marnie? Go select in lodge banner

[mental skiff]

summer marnie 0.33%

[tardy fiber]

Time to spend that pity, the banner is almost over

[mental skiff]

I do consider yolo in summer banner for real

[mental skiff]

i have no pity since i bet on anni select seasonal

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's select for both of us

I want to 3/5 fall iris via select

Because tech candy is too precious

[oak crest]

it is...

[mental skiff]

hopefully

[oak crest]

dena keeps pushing techs and more techs

[tardy fiber]

I will use my almost formed new tech candy to smTate

[mental skiff]

I have tech problem too

Need like 7-9 more tech candy while only need 1-2 support and striker candy

[tardy fiber]

I need 7 strike, 2 tech, 3 support

1 strike, 1 tech will be formed this month

[oak crest]

sitting on 5 striker candies now and 4 supports

tech... 2(just enough for 1 anni tech pair)

[sturdy plank]

||i want to select fall acerola||

[deft glen]

|| I want to select either SHilda or SGloria ||

[broken mulch]

Can I select them all

[fallen path]

maybe part 2 of the social rally will have gems

[crisp oracle]

no gems this time around from the rally

so... ||is anyone planning to pull for Rose/Oleana||

[deft glen]

hopefully, they aren't gonna be that stingy.... are they?

[crisp oracle]

Well Twitter has kinda fallen over lately

[vernal glade]

||Not me, no fave to pull? Skip.||

[deft glen]

No

I really hope next month is a full skip || Gloria completely shafted me ||

[crisp oracle]

||Same, but I will have the double water banner tempting me all this month||

But now that I have a favorites list saving is easier

and I moved every diantha to the top tier

there we go

[hard wave]

|| im hoping next month has zerena and maybe a PF banner with 1-3 reruns I want tho I need a little luck, atleast want zerena ||

[deft glen]

there we go, top fave at the top

[hard wave]

|| all I want rn is just to complete my rerun list so im hoping not many new pairs release the rest of the year that I like ||

[hard wave]

I assume u have SS?

[crisp oracle]

yup

[deft glen]

though 16 units is a lot

[crisp oracle]

I don't pull on any other units really

and since I saved for like five straight months a while ago I had a stockpile to go after Irida

[tardy fiber]

If galar regis happening next month, i will be both happy and sad ...happy because more fave, sad to see my gems gone right before anniv

[deft glen]

there'll be a part 2 rally

hopefully with gems

[crisp oracle]

||I could honestly do without the units in my last two tiers tbh||

||I just want all of the top tier of my fav list and a majority of tier two||

[deft glen]

|| Another Gloria? ||

[crisp oracle]

||Last week of Hoenn CS this month has Dragon and Electric, really ripe for galar regis||

[hard wave]

Gloria is yet to have a lodge photo

[tardy fiber]

Palerena is kinda outdated, so she really needs to be a fave to warrant a pull

[deft glen]

like for me

[crisp oracle]

She's in the last tier only for completionist purposes, I have every Serena unit but her

[deft glen]

I use Palerena all the time, even for offtype

[deft glen]

|| ||

[tardy fiber]

Also there's still no 5/5 and power boost grid for seasonals so kinda hard for old seasonals to catch up

[hard wave]

Spoilers for story || eleki is said to be able to provide alot of power, and drago’s sig move is called dragon ENERGY, if they want to prevent rose this time it makes sense story wise, also all VAs without spotlights have been 4 pairs total ||

[tardy fiber]

||Leon even willing to help in part 1 scenes, rose can use his Eternatus energy if he just ask for it nicely||

[crisp oracle]

I like Palerna's kit but Serena completionism is on the backburner...||only pull if the end of the year isn't hell||

[oak crest]

no rally for gems? darn

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if there might be NY and Palentine faves for me in the future, im closer to having a boost for every season:
New Year -
Palentine -
Summer - Jirachi, Celesteela
Fall - Naganadel
Christmas - Calyrex

Spring kinda becomes sc now so it's not included

[oak crest]

wow the rally reward seems pretty underwhelming

they even removed gen pool ticket from the rally

[tardy fiber]

Because it is only part 1

[oak crest]

hopefully there is gems there

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully

[oak crest]

i probably will just hold all my galar tickets until anni when they update the ticket pools

[tardy fiber]

My hand is too itchy for general pool tickets so im not saving

[oak crest]

so far i havent been saving on the general 1, only region ones if all the units are 3/5 at least

[tardy fiber]

Im still looking for Lucian, iirc he's already in the pool

[sturdy plank]

6k gems please

[oak crest]

yeah he is

[hard wave]

|| so ss leon rerun, nice for ppl who want him ||

[tardy fiber]

Man, had to do bunch of lvl 141 faves because i level 140 all pairs after i did water pairs for highscore

[coarse lynx]

I failed

[chrome nest]

Impossible, no gems this rally!

[upbeat lotus]

there will be part 2, so probably it has gems

[coarse lynx]

I spent all my gems

And got nothing

[summer goblet]

some may say daily pulls is the most controversial move when it comes to saving gems

all i can say is, if it works to help save f2p gems while pulling a unit you want

then it works

[cunning swan]

This is not really the place to say this

[sly breach]

Where is link to tier maker?

[sturdy plank]

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

the command is +tiermaker

[sly breach]

Thanks

Wanted to make a rerun tier list but jeez thats a lot of pities

[tardy fiber]

Wow maybunny, iris alt and annisteven

Well nothing that might come soon, only SsGiovanni i guess as its been a while since Johto VA

Oh i missed oleana

[sturdy plank]

if you have paid gems you could probably save it for a potential seasonal selects

[mental skiff]

seasonal probably has higher value than MF for now

[timber wren]

pick yourself back up, nowhere to go but up now

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for Galar VA, i can form both Strike and Tech candies and will get Hop

[rare swan]

We love more gems

1350 iirc

[tardy fiber]

But isn't it the 14th reset?

2890 gems

[robust shore]

Hop EX is so hype
also big gems 👀

[hard wave]

I dont rlly use him much now but his EX looks rlly nice, cant wait

The 2 things I wanted most this month were water gear and hop EX

[tardy fiber]

Im happy with hop EX, he is inseparable with my gloria...well before this i sometimes use solgaleo instead of gloria due to MC power boost and my gloria is only 3/5 but with Hop EX, i can kick Solgaleo back

As its better for Hop sync for support EX

And gloria BBlade goes boom

[sand crown]

I wonder what they have in mind for Hop's expansion as well

I don't think he'll get much because he's already so good

[junior trout]

i can see him getting maybe speed buffs

pep rally 1 on tm perhap

because that's probably his biggest issue, cant really help w gauge outside of freevenge

[sand crown]

good point and I'd love to see that

[tough oriole]

I want haymaker

[hard wave]

Brainpower

[deft glen]

MGA is a dream I know is possible

[upbeat lotus]

Make him be able to buff spdef

[tardy fiber]

First aid 4

[crisp oracle]

I've always wondered

why does SS Red have haymaker at 2/5 when no one recommends him to use Flare Blitz lol

[broken mulch]

Haymaker boosts the sync doesn’t it?

[tough oriole]

He’s a 1st year unit

[crisp oracle]

Yes, it does.

But what are you going to do with the attack buffs after that?

[broken mulch]

Sync again

[sturdy plank]

the stamina rally gems are included in this count

[hard wave]

Yeah he shouldve just gotten brainpower

[compact pasture]

It didn't exist back then

[summer goblet]

you know what's funny

we all encourage to save as much gems for your favs as much as possible

but whenever I do save mine, I always get criticise by other savers for skipping favs

well low tier favs of course

[tardy fiber]

Well skipping faves can happen for me, well if i got not enough gems and i could just skip my faves and get them later...no matter how outdated they will be, faves > meta

Thats why i dont tell people to skip some outdated pairs if they truly faves, just if they put the pairs in much lower tier and have duplicate typings, maybe can skip that pair as you got other pairs that give the same type coverage

[rare swan]

Well that's probably because you're going against what the channel is for when you skip faves

It clashes a bit

I can understand why people might be a bit confused!

[tardy fiber]

Well probably for you ... highest gem amount in server is more important than faves, kinda different than most people in here

Which we save gems to use it for getting faves

[rare swan]

[summer goblet]

no one questions Chest at all though to be fair, he has only 2 favs and only one of them never shows up

[compact pasture]

Who's the other?

[summer goblet]

everyone do have different priorities

[summer goblet]

Lopunny

[rare swan]

You've answered your own question

[summer goblet]

yeah

he is lucky

well i can claim i have 3 favs and call it day

so i can avoid criticism

anyway, I am planning to go the Chest route eventually to reduce a lot of stress for the game

[rare swan]

Whatever works best for you 😌

[lean mango]

Gem count, need more gems pls

[summer goblet]

not bad

[crisp wraith]

Will I prob have 2 pities if I start saving now?

By end of anni month

[upbeat lotus]

Anni month usually gives a whole pity

So yes

Worst case scenario you will have 2.5 pity at the end of anni

[crisp wraith]

Alright cool, I was dumb and just spent all gems lmao

[upbeat lotus]

Spoiler pulling talk please

Or someone will go mad

[tardy fiber]

93,130 gems...its growing

[grim plover]

im at 28k

i need datamine

[oak crest]

gonna be 2 weeks before it drops

[tardy fiber]

Also the only one that i want from galar VA part 1 is Hop EX so its a smooth sailing to datamine

[tardy jolt]

Idk what they can even give us, the two Regis for the protags?
Sonia alt would be the only thing I could be interested in, but I guess it’s not that likely just in terms of characters that they’d pair her with

[upbeat lotus]

I got to 21k gems today, im sure i can keep this number high until anni or ||likely possible Sonia alt next month||

[tardy jolt]

Tbh I want to save, I will have roughly 130k plus my stash of 25k paid for the selects coming and I’d like to save to 160k free gems before the Anni banners drop

My only pet peeve is that SS Wally will not be in a select this time around, so I guess that means I’ll have to wait until NY to pick him up, the slowing down of select banners is really annoying

[feral vale]

Another thing to add to the list of ways to divert your attention from pull tempts: Watch Sonic Prime :)

[tardy fiber]

I got 3 games other than PoMa so i got plenty of things to distract myself

[grim plover]

same

i really like hop

pls dena give him a good expansion

[broken mulch]

I like way, WAY too many people so skipping favs will inevitably happen

And it has

Like me skipping Archie twice because someone I love more is available and out of gems

[deft glen]

26k

Please let next month be a skip

Victor, Leon and Sonia alt, so I'm fine and everyone's happy

[wind coyote]

someone say something shit abt oleana

cause im having serious symptoms by having the decision to not summon her

[compact pasture]

Not a support?

[timber wren]

at least wait until the next update since she’ll still be around then

and by that point the hype over her will have died down so you can evaluate her more fairly

[sturdy plank]

you have allister

[native pelican]

Her Pokémon is garbage

[rare swan]

[compact pasture]

Literally

[bleak falcon]

Roxie + Lucy is plenty for offense-oriented Poison clears

Those 2 are my Poison MVPs

[tough oriole]

Or Koga + Janine + Janine

[grim plover]

im gonna die if there's a fav next month. Cuz even if i have the gems i will have to wait another month for the anniversary's datamine

[vale ivy]

Yeah

Probably galar stuffs tho

And we get new red every anni so far, so you really do need to save

[vernal glade]

I’m hoping this anniversary a skip. I’m waiting for October.

[feral vale]

Not true, the 2nd Anni was Lillie, N and Steven

[vale ivy]

I meant the month

[grim plover]

yeah the yearly red alt

and a lot of time since the last blue alt so he could be an anni pair

[hard wave]

Redlax, but he wasnt for anni

[bleak falcon]

Is Raihan instead of Steven intentionally done as a joke, or…?

[median ledge]

Save save save

[tardy jolt]

There could be an alt for both of them as the featured units of a possible epilogue of the VA tbh, Anni is always tempting and budgeting for the other units coming out around it is quite crucial

[feral vale]

…….I mixed it up

[bleak falcon]

It happens

[feral vale]

Tbf, I don’t care for Raihan or Steven

[tardy fiber]

I skipped anniRaihan, and grab anniMay and anniSkyla instead... didn't know that anniskyla would be so rare

[crisp oracle]

||Anni Skyla was the unit I pulled on when I started the game and I kind of pulled on everything back then||

[deft glen]

I skipped her cuz I had just started playing going for Zerena and didn't know I could reroll

[fallen path]

I usually skipped the half anni units but I’ll be saving for one of their reruns whenever it comes back

[deft glen]

|| me too, I did at least one yolo on everything from the tea party to ss gio but then I got the power of saving ||

[tardy fiber]

I found my saving way around that time as well, my last non faves pulls are palmarnie and palbea...i changed since then

I changed after i realised that they are going to be 1/5 and non EX anyway, so why i waste gems on them just because they boost solgaleo/hop/gloria and hleon a bit

[deft glen]

I got to know the real value of having a pity after Johtrio

and I think that happened to a lot of people

[bleak falcon]

SS Lusamine and C. Elesa’s debuts taught me to be prepared to walk away empty-handed if you don’t have enough for guarantee

[tough oriole]

||Mine was probably burgh ||

[tardy fiber]

Im glad many things work out later...like skipping sswally and then ssmina appears with same fairy zone gimmick. Skipping the rats and sshau appear and now next month maybe regieleki appear ...over time, my roster with my faves are strengthening themselves

[bleak falcon]

I think my worst ||scouting decision from a “this is not wise to do” perspective was way back at Cynthia’s debut, where I went all the way to 400 scout points just to get Elesa. RNG must’ve admired my dedication, because that’s how I got 5/5 Cynthia.|| Do not do what I did back then, things are vastly different than they were back then and it is no longer majority spotlight scouts for new debuts.

[tardy fiber]

Im glad that we admit mistakes and learnt from it, makes us stronger in saving .I might can approach third pity at the end of this month

Hoping that gems on run up and anniv are big to give 2 pities

Hurm RT events are still 17.6k, and 5 more days to go

[wind coyote]

Tbh I used to yolo a lot

I tried to yolo through ss hilda and ss hilbert

Didnt get them

also tried to yolo fall iris

Didnt get her

I thought my luck would be better after i had to pity BOTH ash and sst red

[tardy fiber]

A good experience, a prime example on why we need to save a pity...being need to pity consecutively before doesn't mean your luck will bounce on the next one

[oak crest]

tbh dont overestimate the rates even if its 2% rate for featured... I recently burnt my paid gems as a result of that (My paid gems are currently on recovery mode due to that)

[tardy fiber]

True, 2% featured rate means 98% to fail

[hard wave]

|| I was pulling on everything and didnt get her I got raihan on debut, may on rerun, and also waiting for her and zerena rerun ||

[cunning swan]

i hit a satisfying number of 140,000

[vale ivy]

i will hit 100k soon

[dark cliff]

Still have 72kish gems after rose at 331

Needed a steel type badly 😂

[cunning swan]

you don't like using solgaleo?

[chrome nest]

That extreme battle was rough

[dark cliff]

Not particularly

But also Elephant is a fav

So is trash goblin who I hope I have beyyer luck for

But I have anniversary pity still saved so

[chrome nest]

I was barely able to do this eb

Im scared for the poison one

[mental skiff]

the eb too easy for me tho

[tardy fiber]

95.5k gems currently and there's 1.1k gems still stuck in mission board

[chrome nest]

Hop clutched it

[rare swan]

Y'all please remember to spoiler if you're talking about new/active banners

[chrome nest]

Anyways I got 9K gems today

[tardy fiber]

Managed to clear this EBE with Hop, ssmorty and Gloria...just 1 more EBE then its smooth sailing

[violet nebula]

You got the galar birds? They work

[tardy fiber]

Yep but it will be too easy with them

So i try another team

[oak crest]

Chop easily kills with decent support buffing his def and spdef

If you got melony an even bigger plus since her gmax resonance eff

[warm scarab]

I did 2 pity this month for rose and ss lysandre, no more pulls this month...

where are those lucky pulls with 2 copies first try lol

[oak crest]

nth is too easy if its using your faves

[tardy fiber]

Well hop, gloria and ssmorty are faves too

[oak crest]

the poison 1 might be tricky to pull off

[tardy fiber]

Right, will have to use my alister

[oak crest]

this 1, bede even managed to freeze my Chop but he still get destroyed in the end

[winged fossil]

I’m back over 10k so far. and got a bunch of gems earnable rn when I have the mood to play

[broken mulch]

I just use BP Janine for the poison requirement

[rare swan]

Please spoiler this in the future

Let's keep this thread focused to saving and resource management y'all, the EB has its own thread

[lofty relic]

the high score event has been quite a trial for resource management

but i haven't given in to the water banners thankfully
once you realize that you only need the rewards and the rest is just competitive bias the perspective is better
and even if you can't get most rewards, they're so dissapointing anyway.

anni is real close, that selene alt is right around the corner

[vale ivy]

yeah, im glad im done with that event

i wasted 15 gold tix for it

[oak crest]

that event just made me train up some chars that i normally wont even touch at all, that's about it

like Adaman's lodge unit

it was level 1 prior to this event altho I candied it to move lv 3 the moment i got it

[vale ivy]

oh yeah, i used 2 4* tech candies as well

[rare swan]

the water event has made me very glad i hoarded my resources lmfao

managed to EX two units and grid whoever i needed to!

[oak crest]

Idt grid should be an issue to those who have been playing for some time

I was wasting orbs on random chars before cap is raised

[tardy fiber]

I started with 5 water EX before water highscore and ended up with still 5 water EX ... Although i did 140 most of my non faves pairs just for future highscore preparation well most because there's 5 pairs not yet 140 due to lack codexes

[vale ivy]

yeah, i rmb trying to avoid 99k cap

[upbeat lotus]

Its 999k now

[oak crest]

I didn't ex any extra units too

Altho I did have quite a number of water supports alrd Ex'd prior

[upbeat lotus]

I did EX SwMisty but she is good for LG so i dont regret it

[oak crest]

My swmisty was alrd Ex'd

Potion users get a special spot

My only potion units that ain't Ex'd are those that are strikers or techs

[bronze topaz]

Wait what command do i type so i can see how many gems left

[upbeat lotus]

Use /gems in #bot-zone

[gray sail]

Back to 10k, yay~

[dire meteor]

Nice!

[crisp oracle]

68,480 Gems, 190K Sync Orbs

our savings are doing well

[silver jackal]

Hi

25k gems, so tempted to pull on Rose

Someone stop me from it

[oak crest]

don't, you don't have a pity in case u get shafted, and anni is 1.5mths away

[silver jackal]

Ok I’ll save for Anni then

Thanks

[tardy fiber]

Well there's no rush for him, his banner still last till after datamine

[upbeat lotus]

Sadly he doesnt stay until anni datamine

[rancid vale]

do you think next month will let me pity oleana before she leaves

[upbeat lotus]

Should be

[tardy fiber]

Depends on how much you have currently

As her banner only last till 19th

Run up to anniv might be back loaded with gems

Instead of every gems in early month

[upbeat lotus]

Her banner should still be available for a few days after run up to anni happens

[limber stream]

Should I pull for another physical ice pair if I have Hala?

[upbeat lotus]

The answer is always no here

Hala handles ontype very good

[limber stream]

Ok

[upbeat lotus]

So no need to pull others unless fave

[limber stream]

Guess I’ll wait for another Torterra pair then

[sage wren]

So this double water banner is very tempting but I don't have a pity rn. It doesn't last til datamine which suuuuucks bc if anni doesn't interest me I'll regret this one hard. I'm lacking water strikers so it's lowkey worth the pull but if I'm broke on anni and it's good.......

[cunning swan]

Why is the water banner tempting you? Meta? Fave reasons?

Dojo gloria and ss lysandre are very strong pairs for sure but you don't need them to get all the rewards from the High Score event

[mental skiff]

i dont have them

[sage wren]

||I guess current meta/events

I don't have Archie, and those two are good water units I'm also lacking...

Doesn't help that my friend did two multis and got both of them and 2x Lysandre 😭😭😭😭||

[mental skiff]

You can f2p 180k tho

after 1 year

[sage wren]

Yeah I'm close already, I was moreso aiming for Master rank

Which seems.... Time consuming

[mental skiff]

Im also chasing master rank too but need to wait till last day

The rank is unstable

[sage wren]

I have Google survey rewards on Android so I get free Google Play money to spend on occasion which helps me not spend on this game too lol

[upbeat lotus]

Spoiler pulling talk please

[mental skiff]

You have 3000 gems per 6 month

i know because i just exchange it

Unless you live in big city

Good for seasonal select tho

[cunning swan]

At the end of the day it's just a medal

Distance yourself from the event and the big banner altogether if the temptation gets stronger

I avoid those big shiny banners like the plague and just swipe from the small thumbnail in the pokemon center to reach the daily scout

[sturdy plank]

i think that medal may rerun in the future again for another type highscore event

[fallen path]

If you just want the master tank badge you don’t need the featured pairs in the scout

[mental skiff]

I dont have those 2 and im still fine

[candid burrow]

Yeah it doesn't seem to be tied with this event. Even if i dont get it this time I'll try to get it during the dark or grass one.

[mental skiff]

It will be a lot more easier next time even when water is the most abundance.

Because people who has medal will stay at 180k-200k point. And more tutorial video

[ashen thunder]

They'll likely release next event during the time lot of same type units have rate up at once like rn

Just hope your favs get a banner that time and then go ham

Till then save for like 4-5 pities

[mental skiff]

go for meta

[sand crown]

Yup I am not putting this effort in again. It’s a one and done for me

[mental skiff]

same

i 100% got medal so it become LG leader board now ( useless )

[sand crown]

Bragging rights I guess

[ashen thunder]

No bragging unless you are rank 1

[sand crown]

But yeah I’m going for the rewards minimum. If anything someone else might need my spot for the medal

[mental skiff]

flexing always the core game of poma

[deft glen]

I didn't really like this event

I'll just try again if I feel my medal is in danger

[rustic heron]

i’m still at rank 2k ish

so i think i should be fine

[candid burrow]

Not really a fan of being forced to offtype

[tardy jolt]

I found the event interesting as a premise, I definitely played more than usual and it didn’t feel tedious, like LG, despite having to reset a bunch of times (I always try to go in blind for new events), plus if they use this to promote more reruns of recent units, I’ll be happy about it, they could really use updated double/triple banners

[rancid vale]

im basically starting from scratch lol

[winged fossil]

just a few more hours until i can hop

at 47/50 spirits

been waiting patiently for his ex for a long time and im happy that we're finally getting access to it.

[vernal glade]

||After pulling for Summer Hilda, I’m 10k away to getting back to 200k. Next month I’ll get back to my 6/7th pity.||

[warm scarab]

So this is for gem saving support. Where do you go for spending problem. Like a gemspendholic anonymous

[timber wren]

you’re already here

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if this will be the first time we failed a twitter rally, saw the twitter comment and many not retweeting due to no gems

[rare swan]

I don't know why they didn't include gems

Who tf reweeting for 3 coins like come on

[tough oriole]

We’ve already got 18-19k rts, we don’t need much more

[tough oriole]

This is just part 1 of 2

[rare swan]

I know it's just part 1

But it's still weird

[dire meteor]

I remember when we used to get candy and not just coins.

🧓

[rare swan]

Mood

[latent salmon]

3 coins is 3 coins

[lost bobcat]

I just remember one full candy

And the general one locked behind prestige, oof

[vale ivy]

Dena getting stingy

[oak crest]

yeah, ngl it feels so insincere on the rewards

altho there is a p2

[tardy fiber]

They could get it faster if they show the two parts rewards in one pic with date for part 1 retweets and part 2 retweets, not like it will leak galar VA part 2 plot with it

That way people will have some ease of mind

[vale ivy]

My concern is part 1 missing gems tbh, not that part 2 has it or not

[tardy fiber]

Well not like past VA rally give 6k free gems

Its always 3k

[lost bobcat]

A rally it's usually 3k right?

[tardy fiber]

People doesn't notice it because both part in same month

[lost bobcat]

You yeah you wrote it right now

[tardy fiber]

Yep 30 tickets and 3k gems

We might get more this time if its 30 tickets 3 coins and 3k gems ...but i hope there's more than that if they even split it into 2

[oak crest]

they should... cos even if we assume 20k RTs for next 1, its 40k RTs in total

[sturdy plank]

hoenn va gave 6k gems for rally

[lost bobcat]

I would like the 3coins
I mean i'm claiming the daily 20 gems from the shop

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's 6k gems too next month because it coincides with run up to anniv just like hoenn VA

[lost bobcat]

But I do agree that having a full rally with step-rewards was better
Put the 3k gems in the end and we reach that in no time

[tardy fiber]

Yep just put the second part reward in the same pic

Just retweets count for different dates

Just for ease of mind

[oak crest]

hopefully they dont "forget" the 30 gen pool tickets as well as the gems for p2

[tardy fiber]

Oh right free 100 pulls next month, its run up to anniv time again

Hoping to get

Or Melony

[oak crest]

Melony was pretty good to have for the current ebe, her buff+ shield with Sonia's reduce Bede's dmg output to a joke

[tardy fiber]

I want her just to test synergy with Mesprit

The shields will be endless

[oak crest]

lol it probably will take a very long battle to run out

esp since ur mesprit is 3/5

[lost bobcat]

With the 100 pulls at anni and half anni, and pomaday pulls we're getting a lot
I'm missing no one.
Only Corless and Hugh at 2/5

[tardy fiber]

Iirc shields also reduce enemy sync damage.. i notice it before while using Mesprit

[oak crest]

plus Melony herself can cast both once with GMAX Resonance

yup

my team took less than 150dmg max on Bede's sync with the shields

[lost bobcat]

You'll have nearly 5 mins of shields lol

Not counting mpr

[timber wren]

3/5 melony is also a big help for the ebe since she boosts accuracy, shame all of the galar pairs are fairly inaccessible for new players

[oak crest]

Yup

[tardy fiber]

Im happy at least for newbie, once galar VA becomes permanent addition...they can start this game with hop + another galar pair that they pull from galar VA ticket rewards

Well i think 2 pairs are enough to do galar daily region battle

[oak crest]

but if it becomes permenant

it will mean no more region tickets

[warm scarab]

What's this talk of melony is she getting expansion or something

[mental skiff]

Unless you get Hugh

[tardy fiber]

How can hugh be in galar region ticket pool ?

[tardy fiber]

Will still get if galar VA reruns

[mental skiff]

Update this anni

[tardy fiber]

Still...he is Unova, how come he is in Galar ticket pool?

[upbeat lotus]

he moved to Galar after getting bullied by Rosa multiple times

[tardy fiber]

But talking about Unova, i just realized that its been a long time since Unova VA or Johto VA ...im not even sure if they even have rerun yet.

Ghetsis EX and power boost are kinda nice

[mental skiff]

oh forgot

[upbeat lotus]

meanwhile Hoenn VA coming back after 3 months from the last rerun

[mental skiff]

They will drop 3 johto MF after anni dont worry

[tardy fiber]

Man, between those 3... Ghetsis/Silver/Zinnia, i think i use Zinnia the fewest

Like if i really need dragon, there's Cyrus

[mental skiff]

She is too fargile

I only play tech zinnia

[timber wren]

no she’s just useful rn for galar ebes

[tardy fiber]

Also talking about how i want to pair her with Mesprit if i get her

As she extends duration of shields

[tardy fiber]

She does have respectable damage if i pair her with Archie but thats the problem...need Archie and good support babysitter

Well at least other legendary adventure units are great...only her and Giovanni need some babysitting

[bleak falcon]

Imagine turning down free resources because they’re not the free resources you wanted

[timber wren]

i do wonder how much longer they’ll use twitter for this kind of thing since it’s hemorrhaging users every day

[bleak falcon]

Hard to say since its competitors generally aren’t taking off just yet

[sturdy plank]

johto va's last rerun was in december, meanwhile unova hasn't rerun once, since november

[tardy fiber]

Man, so even missing VA faves are kinda bad now, not like DeNa even rerun them

[maiden kayak]

tbf tho most jp users use that so

[timber wren]

true i just don’t see the platform still functioning a year from now

[cunning swan]

How would they do community rallies then facebook shares?

[timber wren]

my best guess is moving to threads or blue sky whichever one ends up taking off more

[tardy jolt]

Twitter is so bad, it’s choke-full of bots and spam. Hope we see a viable platform to hold rallies on soon

[sand crown]

None of the three platforms are any good. But that’s going off topic

I’ll have an account wherever for rallies, contests and such but that it is

[sturdy flower]

im never making an instagram account, facebook is way worse than whatever Elon does

i'd rather go to a post office to send a letter to DeNa HQ that im participating in a rally rather than use a platform by Facebook

[bleak falcon]

If Mastodon takes off they could do that

[timber wren]

agreed, we can just look forward to these coins

and hopefully more gems next month

[hard wave]

Wdym? VA stories are already permanent and give 60 tickets iirc

[sturdy plank]

15 for part 1 and 15 for part 2, so 30 tickets and hard mode gives 30 tickets

[hard wave]

Yeah

[tardy fiber]

Well does Galar VA part 2 already permanent?

Not yet right?

Thats what i meant

[hard wave]

Ah u mean once the story is added right?

[crisp oracle]

Past 70K gems again

[summer goblet]

Another 10k gem added to my arsenal

Going for another 10k gems to reach 350k

[warm scarab]

Insane

[tardy fiber]

Yep, when its complete and being permanently available to even day 1 new players, at least they can get another galar pair from ticket than just Hop...kinda sad that there's no easily accessible galar pair other than Hop, there's not even a galar BP pair

[silver jackal]

Wtf you must have no pairs

[summer goblet]

I have plenty of pairs, i choose mine carefully

mostly favs and meta units

[silver jackal]

Insane amount of gems really

[summer goblet]

thanks

[chrome nest]

Give me a reason to not pull rose

[wind coyote]

Ss giovanni exists
If u dont have him, then a lot of great f2p options for steel also exist

Ok scratched off another unit from the list

[tardy fiber]

Its nice when EBE is done without pulling any new units, smooth sailing till datamine

[wind coyote]

Ruined my vibe 💀

[wind coyote]

||got oleana 1st multi||

[tardy fiber]

Well my alister can clear it without any EX

Im happy

[wind coyote]

Oh yea i cleared it with rats lmao

But then retried with oleana

[sturdy plank]

you have boosted solgaleo

[chrome nest]

Let’s just say that I forgot to get the power boost

I was having a break during that time period

[wind coyote]

Fine then… u have a solgaleo

Unboosted but still a great unit

The end

No need to get rose

[oak crest]

we are close to anni... if u want Rose cos he is busted, we might get pairs on Anni that are comparable/better than him

[chrome nest]

Not because he is busted but more so cause I got a stupid desire to at least get one unit from each villain arc

[oak crest]

ah

[mossy hawk]

Did you even have a pity ready

[sturdy plank]

you could get 1 on part 2, maybe

[oak crest]

if that's the case, why not wait for p2?

[sturdy plank]

probably not

[oak crest]

and see which 1 interests u more

[sturdy plank]

unless you want to grab 1 pair for each part

[oak crest]

they aint going away until VA p2 ends

[tardy fiber]

97220 gems

[sturdy plank]

rose & oleana lasts until the 19th

[chrome nest]

I’m expecting some anni news when worlds is happening

[sturdy plank]

oh yeah, didn't we get a trailer during some like pokemon championship stuff?

well i wasn't there

[tardy fiber]

Raikou LA in 2 resets...i might reach 100k gems back

[sturdy plank]

wait is it on 18th? i thought it was on 19th

[maiden kayak]

this month was 27k gems right?

or lesser?

[oak crest]

26

[maiden kayak]

oic

[wind coyote]

next month will be 40k gems ez

causes its run up

[sturdy plank]

i hope 6k gems for part 2 rally

[chrome nest]

Anni news might be on the 11th of august

Because worlds

But maybe only one of them

[sturdy plank]

what's worlds?

[wind coyote]

can someone tell me how many gems left for this month

bot command isnt working

[sturdy plank]

the pokemon championship stuff>

?

[sturdy plank]

10.4k if you claimed all the gems today

[wind coyote]

Ok great so by this month’s end ill have 20k

[mossy hawk]

Best to stop the yolos from this point

[chrome nest]

Yes

[dark cliff]

Alright still have reserves for Anniversary, time to save.

[mental skiff]

I only need seasonal select

[warm scarab]

This Oleana is tempting me

What to do

[upbeat lotus]

if you pull her you have to EX Cheren

[winged fossil]

stays until next month, decide after datamine at the least if on edge
also if its not a fav, just dont bother even reading the kit in the future imo, helps a lot from my experience

cant be tempted by meta if you dont know what anything that isnt a new fav does

[rare swan]

she only just dropped, she's got that Shiny New Pair vibe

at least wait until datamine if she interests you, yes

but remember.....anni is very very close

[winged fossil]

my main wish for anni is hoping we get a multi-fair banner that might interest me if its not a new MF fav dropping. i dont see anni bringing me much tho cause aside from sskris there isnt much that itd be the right time for a rerun for... too soon for cserena, and we literally just got a ssn rerun which i couldnt afford

[chrome nest]

The temptation to get rose is easing up since I basically got one of my favorite gen 8 legends that Is also steel type

[mental skiff]

Remember ||rose|| is villain

[winged fossil]

He’s literally just a greedy corporate guy if I remember the story right lol

[chrome nest]

More like paranoid corporate guy

[warm scarab]

Alright alright. I won’t do it

[winged fossil]

I wouldn’t call a guy obsessing over eternatus paranoid

[warm scarab]

The brotherhood is real in here

[mental skiff]

At least lusamine is crazy. I can like her. Rose just bad in mid way

[lean mango]

My man prevented something that would happen 1000 years in the future

[mental skiff]

I mean doesnt that the motive of most pokemon villain

[winged fossil]

Anyways, I’ve got my bootleg volkner, still can’t believe she’s basically a volkner reskin for fire type. Without the benefit of a field effect

But hey it’s still something I’ll take over Variety scouts

Don’t care what kit it is, I don’t like how lazy variety scouts look. It could be a meta defining kit on N and I’d still hesitate probably

[vestal leaf]

She does big damage

Volkner wish he did

[mental skiff]

i dont mind the kit tho

[vestal leaf]

Yeah she can be an annoyer, a nuker or a niche dps

[mental skiff]

Dunno who in lodge next month if they introduce another limited lodge unit then i will send complain letter to dena

[upbeat lotus]

Lodge Victor but no Victor rerun

[mossy hawk]

Lodge Hop

[mental skiff]

lodge bea

[rare swan]

lodge sonia

[mental skiff]

dont mind that

[cunning swan]

lodge Hop please

it will be our SECOND free Galar unit!

how generous of dena

[tardy fiber]

Lodge hop wooloo support

[lean mango]

Lodge Oleana

Never can have enough of your faves

[mental skiff]

[tardy fiber]

Just like your fave lodge marnie

[lean mango]

[mental skiff]

[lean mango]

free select pls so I can leave this purgatory

[mental skiff]

Everyone deserve a marnie

[lean mango]

Free Marnies for all so I can get her frog

[mental skiff]

respect marnie and her frog will respect back

[lean mango]

Bur, I just want frog

[lean mango]

[pale plaza]

This is going to be the beginning of my gem saving arc. Im not sure what unit to pull on tho

[rancid vale]

also

for anyone who cares ||i got oleana in a multi|| so i can keep saving for part 2/anni

[chrome nest]

||let’s just say my itch to pull rose paid off so I’m gonna be saving for the anni||

[mental skiff]

I dunno but the experience of mine usually: Reach pity -> bad mood -> impulse pull -> got reward -> impulse pull -> fail -> learn the lesson -> saving -> Reach pity and the cycle repeat itself