Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[cunning swan]

He already sweeps with his three dragons

[grim plover]

nate deservers white kyurem

funny cuz its another 2 turns move pokemon

[tardy fiber]

Man, i need to be strong and avoid the temptation of trying to make lysandre/gloria/N 4 or 5/5 move levels. Because i know that its a pandora box, once I start to do 1 pair, i will be tempted to do the same to other faves

Those candies can be used for other faves to be 3/5

[deft glen]

Make him have a passive/b-move that skips a turn

[deft glen]

I can barely get mine to 3/5, let alone 5/5

[tardy fiber]

Inb4 they make Regigigas a 2 turn move pair due to slow start, but that passive increases his move damage by 50-100%

[tardy fiber]

Same 🤝

Still need to complete these:
Striker - sshilda 1/5, sslana 1/5, eusine 1/5
Tech - fall iris 2/5
Support - ssmina 2/5, ssacerola 1/5

Well fall iris will be done this month due to seasonal select this month, and ssmina as well as i can form support candy

[grim plover]

same lol

but with tleon, anni raihan, bede, ss wally, ss silver

and dena could release a tech fav in the anniversary so i have to wait more

[tardy fiber]

We gonna stay hopium, they doesn't get yet power boost grids

Seeing cynthia and lance power boost, they aint bad, well better than their past 3/5 grids

And all power boost grids are fully unlocked when 3/5

[deft glen]

I'll have 60k when Anni begins

I hope it'll be enough

[tardy fiber]

Probably enough

As there's still 20+k gems

And anni banner usually lasts 1 month

It will end first week October usually

[grim plover]

and they always give +36k gems

[tardy fiber]

Im glad this month is a skip month, as sometimes month after anni got some cheeky surprises, like naganadel last year, and pokewar sc on November...

Seeing they throw 2 faves on summer, i wont be surprised that it will be the same on fall

[sturdy flower]

6 days till presents wooo

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's some anniversary tease and not just Nemona and Victor

Iirc before this they teased Victory Road on presents

[unkempt vortex]

Watch them just show Lear doing a snap for the final va

[sturdy flower]

or they show all the villains in order

with game footage

[crisp wraith]

There’s probably atleast a pity to be given from the time anni units are announced until they leave right

[sturdy flower]

then it says va finale

[cunning swan]

Hopefully so

[sturdy flower]

who knows, they might give lots of regional tickets and 30k instead

[upbeat lotus]

They havent announced anything about presents yet c'mon dena

[sturdy flower]

that's not the job of DeNa

[vestal leaf]

They always announce 36-60 hours before

Pokémon directs wise

[unkempt vortex]

Well the game is doing so poorly rn the official Twitter had to retweet for more attention

Surely we get more than just goku trailer

[upbeat lotus]

Oof i forgot, i meant the official TPC

[sturdy flower]

more like some people boycott the stupid rewards

me included

[sand crown]

I saw that. I am not retweeting that nonsense either. That, and some people have left X or whatever it’s called

[grim plover]

same i didnt retweet any of the galar rallies

[broken mulch]

They do that anyway for all rallies don’t they

[cunning swan]

When does the galar va part 2 rally end?

Lowkey wishing we don't hit the goal just to make a statement

[tardy fiber]

I retweeted the first one

Not the second one though

The first one give me move coins at least

[broken mulch]

4August iirc

[unkempt vortex]

We’ll likely hit it by then

[broken mulch]

Really? I doubt it

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for anniv, i need more support faves, only have 15 for now

Hope its good bp master pairs

[unkempt vortex]

It’ll be more tech

[broken mulch]

Tech and sprint and field

[tardy fiber]

Sprint and Field bp master pairs?

[timber wren]

last anni we got lodge that introduced eight new units. with the introduction of field and sprint i won’t be surprised to see another batch of 4* in the new roles

we got the new bp units too iirc

[unkempt vortex]

More useless 4* candy

Really wish we could get rid of extra candy

[cunning swan]

So... 4* sprint and field candies are possible

[tardy fiber]

I don't mind 4* bp pairs being field or sprint as i got 20+ vouchers, but if its the 5* bp pairs

[ashen thunder]

I hope we get 4* candies for new roles

[rare swan]

villainversary

the admins will finally join the BP lineup

[unkempt vortex]

Dena finally listened by giving us admins but not the way we want

[latent salmon]

BP? you mean four star one, right?

RIGHT?

[wind coyote]

yes

[unkempt vortex]

5* bp admins

[latent salmon]

i hate not being able to whale to get my rocket execs immediately!!!!

but at least f2p

F2P = more people get = better if the units are actually good 🔥🔥🔥

[sturdy flower]

a talk here about alt reality characters that took different pathes made me consider how cool evil Silver or N would be

N that decided that Ghetsis methods are the best or Silver who became Rocket leader

[violet nebula]

Hoopa = unlimited pairs as he draws them from other times etc

Dena are sitting on a gold mine, they don't even need to write good stories

Just chuck it in just because 😅

A what if Giovanni wins or Ghetis wins be good

Team Rainbow too

[grim plover]

evil N & bisharp that wants to slave all pokemons

[broken mulch]

You know when they first datamined Renegade Cynthia I thought she was an evil version from another universe lol

[tardy fiber]

I hope it can happen, especially if they embrace those multiverse stuff

[unkempt vortex]

Team rocket red and blue

[latent salmon]

Rocket!Silver SC is so real

[tardy fiber]

I kinda like more of alt like sclyra, magma brendan and aqua may will be nice

Archie will be like, see my new little scamp

[latent salmon]

all you need to do is slap a trenchcoat with a big red or rainbow r on it on silver and call it a day

[broken mulch]

What if Team Galactic Lucas and Dawn

But they’re sporting the haircut

[latent salmon]

allowable

the haircut is... something

[tardy fiber]

Those bowl cut?

[latent salmon]

but if they cover it up somehow make it work

why not

[tardy fiber]

Calem with team flare glasses will be so swag

[latent salmon]

Protags in Evil Team attire is officially the best thing ever

[tardy fiber]

Team skull elio and aether selene

[latent salmon]

Lyra got the rocket swag, now give it to Leaf

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait to see what they cook up for anni

Usually VA has 4 pairs, i guess i need to prepare myself if there's 4 faves

[latent salmon]

hopefully skippable anni...

[broken mulch]

Now I kinda wanna see it lol

[latent salmon]

why does their hair

hair

like that

[unkempt vortex]

Green had rocket swag now give it to leaf

[broken mulch]

Fortunately my gem supply can take 3 favorite MF banners at once come Annie

COME AT ME BRO (but not too hard please)

[oak crest]

[unkempt vortex]

comes at you hard

[broken mulch]

I think I’d cry if I had to triple pity

[vestal leaf]

It's very very unlikely to triple pity

Double tho

Not as rare as you'd think

[unkempt vortex]

Triple pity into next seasonal being one of your favs

[latent salmon]

i would die if i have to triple pity

[broken mulch]

Yeah last year I had to double pity

[latent salmon]

straight up perish from this earth

[broken mulch]

Felt so bad man

[broken mulch]

Funnily enough double pity into special costume happened last year lol

[vestal leaf]

I had to 367/400+400/400+300/400 galar birds

Wasn't fun

[broken mulch]

Ah my dear RoSCa when are you rerunning

[unkempt vortex]

I think I only pitied Cynthia red was either early or in the middle

Pls no favs this anni so I can sim for sc rosa rerun

[vestal leaf]

||Skill issue||

[unkempt vortex]

She’s actually the only rosa missing left for me

Same with sc hilda

[broken mulch]

Same, my only missing Rosa

[silver jackal]

I just noticed the only starters im missing are the 3 Galar ones… so tempted to pull on Cinderace to complete my starters

[broken mulch]

Two weeks and I only had, like, 3k gems LMAO

[unkempt vortex]

If hilbert in seasonal select I can finish him too

[broken mulch]

Oh yeah SS Hilbert also dodged me, but I’ve mellowed out on wanting him

[silver jackal]

Oh and blaziken

[upbeat lotus]

spoiler pulling talk please

[silver jackal]

Spoiler on what? It’s not like the galar starters are hidden… cinderace got released today

[upbeat lotus]

you are talking about pulling

[latent salmon]

||Do you have a pity? Can you make a pity before Glorialt banner ends? If answer to both is no, it's not worth it to risk not getting anything.||

[unkempt vortex]

I swear they better not rerun anni skyla next month

[latent salmon]

they better not.

[upbeat lotus]

she is seasonal so its nearly impossible to get her in select

[vestal leaf]

Overly based scenario

[unkempt vortex]

That’s so weird

[broken mulch]

Reruns happen on the darndest times lol

[unkempt vortex]

Why is she considered seasonal

[broken mulch]

Well except for seasonals based on… seasons

You know when those drops

[latent salmon]

i love having a clear goal this month

survive

[vestal leaf]

She's a half anni unit, those are very random

Zerena and Leon moment

[broken mulch]

What would be the ultimate WHY WOULD YOU RERUN THIS NOW? banners lol

Zerena and Annie Skyla?

On 4th Annie

[oak crest]

um chat here is focused about saving and prevention on getting tempted to yolo... so maybe check on #poma-questions if you want to ask about pulling

[silver jackal]

And whats wrong with that?

[upbeat lotus]

no need to ping me

[vestal leaf]

This channel is to make people not pull

If not on pairs you value a lot

So going here asking for pull recommendation is not really wise as you're gonna get "is she fave? If yes why doubting, if no why considering"

Nothing else matters

[sand crown]

I just double pitied on the hisui duo so I’m preparing for the worst on anni

Always be prepared

[sturdy flower]

SST Red and Zerena

[ebon rose]

Classic elsea and SS leon imo.

[sturdy flower]

Classic Elesa is a likely banner

[sand crown]

This just happened to me with the water dual. But after that? Any of the Tapus on a split

[unkempt vortex]

Pokefair select for anni trust

[tardy fiber]

Sc and variety select

[sand crown]

I don’t even know if I’d go for a variety select

[uneven pewter]

We call those step up banners

[sand crown]

I just don’t acknowledge them

[unkempt vortex]

Variety select

[uneven pewter]

[uneven pewter]

Variety shouldn’t exist

[unkempt vortex]

Exactly it shouldn’t

[tardy fiber]

Can grab ball guy

[uneven pewter]

I am still boycotting them and refuse to give them money

[uneven pewter]

The only variety i daily’d on

[sand crown]

SC select I am all for. Harder to come by than seasonals

[unkempt vortex]

Same

Even if it’s a fav I refuse to pull a variety

[uneven pewter]

But they should all get dumped into the general pool

[sand crown]

Put em in the pool and the ticket scout

[unkempt vortex]

Make them part of bp exchange

[tardy fiber]

I will pull if there's variety fave, but the only thing i can see it happens if its chatelaines or frontier brains variety

[unkempt vortex]

better yet let people use coins to exchange for them

[uneven pewter]

Or villains

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, Variety Lysandre Xerneas

[unkempt vortex]

I just want something to use these coins on

I’ve never played a game where coins are actually useless

[oak crest]

this will be Tai's worst nightmare

☠️

[tardy fiber]

Variety Lusamine Necrozma the non fused form

[unkempt vortex]

You mean his dream

[uneven pewter]

Evil lusamommy with nihilago

Or guzzlord guzma

[unkempt vortex]

Guzma be guzzlin

[latent salmon]

i would accept variety rocket execs

[tardy fiber]

Yep i will pull for those, heck, i will even use paid tiered

[uneven pewter]

Ariana ;-;

[latent salmon]

would i like it? HELL NO THEY DESERVE SPOTLIGHT OR POKEFAIR

would i tolerate it? yeah

[tardy fiber]

I dont mind no EX outfit, its just gonna be like upcoming Victor Spectrier

[uneven pewter]

Dena doesn’t think so 😦

And i hate it

[unkempt vortex]

They’ll do admins in like 5 years from now

[latent salmon]

its okay

i'd still sell my soul for them

[unkempt vortex]

They just added 2 more kalos units

[vestal leaf]

Sounds like a self imposed issue tbfh

[tardy fiber]

After VA finale, time for Admin arc

[latent salmon]

ADMIN ARC

[unkempt vortex]

Admins arise up

[latent salmon]

overthrow both giovanni and lear and establish new much worse better government

[unkempt vortex]

Down with the monarchy

[cunning swan]

Admin Arc lfg

[sturdy flower]

they might give him an outfit later on rerun, like Blue

[cunning swan]

I think they've stopped that arcablue was lucky enough to rerun with a new EX color before they started implementing EXs to alts without the colors

[onyx hearth]

I really need to save for anni

But seeing that i can pull a multi is VERY tempting 😭

How do you guys resist

[rustic heron]

i just think that i don’t need any of the new units

mostly because i don’t care for any of them as characters

[wind coyote]

Im new to this as well just like u (max ive saved till is 20k gems and currently im only on 12k non paid)
What ive learnt is it is best to avoid the scout screen like a plague
Also this game only requires u to play it for like 15 mins a day to get all rewards

Have minimum contact with the scout screen and DONT go there besides daily scout

[vestal leaf]

Do something else

Boot game> do lodge stuff>do sync orb stage>redeem stamina daily mission>use stamina in whatever you fancy>go in scout>swipe left>do daily scout>redeem last daily missions>do cssm,villa or extra stuff in general>close game for 10-12 hours>do stamina again>close for 10 hours>restart

That's how I've kept myself over 100k since Anni 1

Also try avoiding scouting on first couple days of units you're liking or even consider "faves"

Sometimes you realize you were just FOMOing

And overstimated the unit's value to you

[uneven pewter]

Stay out of gacha chat is a big one

[vestal leaf]

Yeah duh

Grey out #gacha-and-flex

Must mute it as soon as you can

[uneven pewter]

Also avoid looking at scoreboards. I know this is relatively new but understand that a lot of the players at the top have been playing since day 1 and likely have huge rosters

[vestal leaf]

^

[uneven pewter]

hell i am a day 1 vet and friends of mine still put it to shame so it’s best to just never compare yourself or it will make your experience miserable

Some personal rules for myself

-strikers will “Always” age quicker than other units. So ideally aim for ones that do more than just brrrrrtt damage aka ss lana or classic blue provide team utility you might lack.

-supports will always be useful. I have never once regretted grabbing a variety of supports. Some age better than others but ultimately you can’t go wrong with a support (unless your name is redlax because that unit is and always has been over rated. Maybe his 5/5 grid will redeem him for me)

-Techs and now the field/accel units will always be loaded kit wise. Ask yourself what that tech does for you before pulling it. Sure it’s a neat kit but unless it is a favorite or adds value to your roster you don’t want to be willy nilly

-stop lying to yourself regarding variety scouts, seasonals, and special costumes. They always age poorly. Their kits get replaced by better ones quickly. Their pull rates are garbage. And unless it’s a favorite always expect to hard pity

-masters fairs if you’re going to fomo over something generally always have good bang for the gem. If you’re going to break the fave rule, break it for these. The only masters fair to date that hasn’t aged well in some use or capacity is anni steven (imo which isn’t much higher than leon)

-masters fairs are pretty easy to expect when they drop. We usually get 3 at anniversary. 1-2 in December/jan 1-3 at .5 anni and another set during the summer

[vestal leaf]

I genuinely don't discourage seasonal pulling because they're like the one type of unit aside Anni alts that have actually unique outfits

But you gotta be wary of what and when to scout them

[ashen thunder]

A lot of MFs didn't keep up with current power level tbh

Only ones that remain are stuff after zerena

Incl zerena

So just roll favs

Even MFs are prone to powercreep

Also we do have strong seasonals looks at diantha and lisia's horse

[fallen path]

i just look at fun kits, take a look at my gem count, try to predict future scouts, and leverage what could potentially be in a select scout to assist with my summoning decisions

[feral vale]

Glad I’m not the only one who grabbed a variety of Supports, cause that was my meta at the time (other than favs ofc)

Holiday Erika I don’t really recommend tho

[tardy fiber]

I skipped non faves MF, well because i know for sure once i got a fave that has similar typing and does the same thing (physical/special damage) as that non fave MF, i will toss away that non fave MF just to collect dust in my roster so better i skipped them even at the start, will save my gems for that eventual faves

Also regarding PF/Seasonal and MF, 3 of my MF already outclassed by my other faves, annisteven with smliza, lusamine with sssteven, archie with sslysandre/eusine.

Well i guess there's gauntlet so that i can still use em

Skipped sstred and then DeNa released ssHau, skipped ncserena as i already have Glojo

Skipped leon as theres sshilda

[oak crest]

Still salty that I cannot form a new pity this month

(I don't count my paid gems to my total btw)

[tardy fiber]

There's still presents gems

Although i hope they give more than just gems for the lackluster part 2 rally

[hard wave]

Although i hope they give more than just gems for the lackluster part 2 rally*

[tardy fiber]

Full sprint and field candy + gems please

Give us some for free trial

Just like magma aqua event giving free full strike, support, tech candy

[oak crest]

Here's hoping but looking at recent rallies...

[tardy fiber]

As there's nothing we can do to change part 2 rewards, i gonna cope for some more gems gift on presents and anniv

[fluid mural]

Hi there I'm a spending addict. I really need to stop.

My gem count isn't updated by I just spent on a banner I told myself I wouldn't

[feral vale]

Here’s some good tips I can give you

Spend as little time as possible in the game. Only do your dailies, and split. You can bypass banners by swiping left on the scout screen to get right to Daily Scout or swipe the billboard on top of the screen and find Daily Scout

Find ways to divert yourself from the thought of this. Do other things irl like hobbies, etc.

If you struggle on a stage, you can ask in the help channels (in the appropriate ones ofc)

Another way to keep yourself from the temptation of pulling is to mute #gacha-and-flex and probably #salt-channel as well

[tardy fiber]

I think the thing that mostly helps me in savings is to have a precise favourite list, if you didn't have that and can get easily swayed, you will be pulling everything thats released

List help to ignore certain pairs and that helps the gems buildup

[feral vale]

Yep. Make a list, and stick to it.

If you have not done the list yet, do it.

[tough oriole]

And always expect to see someone in the list next month

[tardy fiber]

Also have a realistic list, if you are f2p, even impose more criteria, you wont have additional paid resources like other dolphins and whales.

I think f2p landscape is nicer for newbies now that galar VA is completed, people will start with story pairs+Oak, 8 legendary adventures, 8 regional 5* from those tickets from villain arcs, free bluegeot, free certain lodge pairs over time (lodge blue, calem, etc), bp pairs.

Oh and free 1 of the sskantrio

[feral vale]

F2P is 10x better these days

And heck, we got the last Legendary Adventures pair event, so now there’s no doubts

[tardy fiber]

I used to pay for that bluegeot when i started ...newbie 5* select for 3k paid

Or is it 1k paid

I forgot

But my past self should choose olivia

Bluegeot is free now

[unkempt vortex]

I mean with the way things are going dena doing everything they can to make people do things

[hard wave]

Or just not have done it tbh

[unkempt vortex]

Decreasing monthly gem total

[tardy fiber]

Well back then it really troublesome, even story quests uses stamina

[unkempt vortex]

Oh man I did not remember that

[hard wave]

I rlly hope we get alot of gems thru rallies and stuff

[hard wave]

Fair

[tardy fiber]

Imagine doing pml story and finished stamina

Well i had to do it to get gems for maxie and archie

[hard wave]

What about lance? Was he not there at the time?

[unkempt vortex]

Early masters sure was a game

[tardy fiber]

No lance banner

[unkempt vortex]

I still have my passive capsules

[hard wave]

Oh that early

[unkempt vortex]

Yes that early

[hard wave]

I know I played for a bit at the beginning but I forgot

[unkempt vortex]

I played like 2 weeks at launch then stopped because old phone couldn’t run the game

[hard wave]

Ik ive played consistently since feb 2022 tho

[unkempt vortex]

Came back around SS morty and the whole johto va I think

[tardy fiber]

I started when its few days before maxie archie banner expiring but its late that i dont get all the free stuffs that people getting like those free 5* candies

Their banner is still there just the events already ended

Well at least there's solgaleo legendary event that time and i kick my pikachu so fast

To replace with solgaleo

[oak crest]

meanwhile i have no faves list but im too nitpicky to pull stuffs

i only have the list that is opposite of faves

stuffs that i will never pull

☠️

[tardy fiber]

Thats good too, probably can help save even more gems than those with big fave lists

[oak crest]

with pauLo and rats topping the list

[fluid mural]

Thanks for all of the saving tips

[tardy fiber]

Fave lists are kinda useful, like some banners only have 14 days banner duration and pretty sure you wont form pity during those 14 days

[oak crest]

^

yea that

good thing is this game isnt meta heavy, so you can skip most, if not all units and still can clear stuffs

[tardy fiber]

And then we start to blame DeNa for making it too short, but you are the one that pulls on everything, so to the salt chat we go

[oak crest]

(with very few rare occasions that u might need certain units/f2p units EX'd to clear stuffs)

[hard wave]

Longer banner durations would be nice tho

[tough oriole]

Also i made sure to hide # gacha and flex from my channels list, so i don’t get tempted by people getting super lucky

[tardy fiber]

I only visit gacha flex when someone mentioned me, me posting my new lvl 150 faves or i got something flexable to post in it other times it's basically dead to me

[hard wave]

I dont even post anymore, I think I stopped around 3.5 anni

[feral vale]

I’ve played the game every day since launch

[tardy fiber]

I heard Brendan treecko cannot even evolve in the past

[deft glen]

I post on them very rarely

[oak crest]

[deft glen]

but I visit salt channel way more often

[oak crest]

cant evolve

that might explain the treeko CPU pairs in co-op

[tardy fiber]

Theres no evolution stones iirc also no grids

[oak crest]

and also some of the other pairs at their base stage also

[tardy fiber]

No wonder there's a lot of discontent among players, veterans will be very proud today to see PoMa growth

Well i joined during maxie archie banner also proud

[tough oriole]

A lot of pairs couldnt evolve
Meditite and Nosepass for example

[tardy fiber]

You guys probably prouder

[deft glen]

Paulo is also on my "I'll never pull" list

[tardy fiber]

So people pulling banners just due to base kits?

[oak crest]

i joined slightly after 2nd anni

[tardy fiber]

Also is lucy seviper the only banner 4* or there's more?

[tough oriole]

Yeah, she was the only 3/4* general gacha not at launch

[oak crest]

rachel and sawyer if u include those 2

limited too

[tardy fiber]

I might 5* her just due to that unique status

[deft glen]

thinking that in some point in time there were only spotlights is weird

[tardy fiber]

Ok she is my next 5* project

[tough oriole]

Pretty much

[hard wave]

Iirc she was the only one added later on

[tough oriole]

Brendan was like the top 2 striker even with just treeko

[oak crest]

[hard wave]

But from what ive heard she was in a banner with plum

[oak crest]

wonder whats the cap in csmm in the past

or was it default 7.5k max in the past

or 10k

cant rmb

lol

[tardy fiber]

Its kinda tough, especially when i heard that co-op actually need some strategies and teamwork

[oak crest]

oyea

7.5k

i remembered

1.5k max each battle

not sure if there was an even lower cap before i joined

[tough oriole]

7.5k was the first cap when MM was added

Before late dec 2020 there was no MM

[tardy fiber]

Man, i need to farm gauntlet later...i guess i will do full run with my Gauntlet teams every day, im out of pink cookies

[oak crest]

ah

[unkempt vortex]

Farming gauntlet

And it’s all annoying bosses

[oak crest]

u used them on your eggmons?

[unkempt vortex]

I don’t invest in egons

[oak crest]

nah as in vantner's case since he ran out

[unkempt vortex]

The most I care about gauntlet is the rewards or farming cookies

[tardy fiber]

I do roster check yesterday, ive been changing lucky skills from vigilance to cs 2 on tech pairs...well mainly because i think tank tech is in a rough spot, better for me to just tank with a support if needed

[unkempt vortex]

Ah

[oak crest]

i dont really use much eggmons too

i do use afew for gauntlet for speed boost

[tardy fiber]

Before this i put some vigilance on flannery and like thorton, i just changed all of em to cs2 yesterday

[oak crest]

some support eggmons have team speed buff which my dps will appreciate when i start to run outta supports

[unkempt vortex]

I haven’t put an egg in the incubator in like a month

[oak crest]

my last egg

was the previous egg event

i gave up on shiny hunting

only makes me mad

when i get nth

[deft glen]

this gauntlet is

[tardy fiber]

Oh to answer this, yes...some shiny strikers even have super powered 3

[oak crest]

i pretty much only hatch the eggs for missions and that's about it

[latent salmon]

the only eggmon i've 150'd is a shiny tech dragonite

[deft glen]

SP3 Egg Perrserker?

[tardy fiber]

Nah i only invest on shinies

[unkempt vortex]

Eggs only slightly more usable than mchu

[tardy fiber]

Tech perserker is shiny

But i didnt get it

[oak crest]

mchu is nth more than a potion slave

if it didnt have potions i wouldnt even have used it

[unkempt vortex]

When will they let us evolve torchic

[latent salmon]

potionchu... an option for when you're out of options for a potion slave

[unkempt vortex]

Me when they force us to use mc because of story

[latent salmon]

it's an option. not a good one.

[oak crest]

normally i use it first with some broken DPS

[tardy fiber]

Brock and Brawly are also good potion slave

[oak crest]

brock can tank abit

compared to myellowrat

since it can self buff def

so can tank some phy based abuse

[tardy fiber]

Mcchu got Power reserves 14

[latent salmon]

it

what

[oak crest]

14?

[latent salmon]

why

[lean mango]

14?

[latent salmon]

what was dena thinking

[unkempt vortex]

14

[lean mango]

[unkempt vortex]

…what are you even gonna do with that

They still hit like a wet noodle

[tardy fiber]

Just saying that it has pr14

[lean mango]

what does power reserves do again

[latent salmon]

we need that on base lisia now

[tardy fiber]

Boost damage if low hp

[latent salmon]

lisitank is so real

[tardy fiber]

Mcchu got endurance and unyielding

[unkempt vortex]

[oak crest]

wetnoodlechu

[tardy fiber]

Well you guys will still use him for elec highscore if you lack electric pairs like me

[oak crest]

mc should just evolve that thang and get better stats for it

[unkempt vortex]

Mc chu power boost anni

[oak crest]

will have to

[unkempt vortex]

Trust

[oak crest]

i dont even have 15 elec pairs rn

[lean mango]

my Mc chu is still staying at lv 9

[latent salmon]

MCChu pb is so real

imagine it happens since this is the final va

[oak crest]

pb - evolves to raichu

[lean mango]

I'd actually love that

I want Raichu

[oak crest]

i will def apply that

[tardy fiber]

Bp surge

[oak crest]

yellow rat is overrated

[lean mango]

Raichu better

silly guy

[oak crest]

yea

higher base stats too

[latent salmon]

Raichu is orange-r rat

immediately better

[oak crest]

yellow is bad

[latent salmon]

orange good

[unkempt vortex]

How is one rat simultaneously the worst and one of the best things in the game

[latent salmon]

<- not this one though

[oak crest]

gotta ask dena for that

[latent salmon]

Yellow & Dodrio is real in our hearts (i cope for things that'll never happen) (just so i never pull)

[unkempt vortex]

yellow for anni

[latent salmon]

||my poor poor gems otw to die:||

[tough oriole]

All aboard the Yellow train! Chuchu!

[oak crest]

i have alighted

[unkempt vortex]

Oops all rats

[oak crest]

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's some kanto fave on anni, i cannot even make 3 person kanto faves team

[oak crest]

shiny mew when

[tardy fiber]

So far the other faves region team that still has problems is unova, theres no unova support faves

[latent salmon]

SS Oak & Shiny Mew

[oak crest]

i have a feeling that the birds might be kanto NC

[unkempt vortex]

Nah

They love kanto so much they’ll redo the starters

[oak crest]

if not i rly have no idea what mons they will pair with the NCs for kanto

lol

[tardy fiber]

If birbs will go to kanto NC, chatelaine Dana can use regice/registeel

I can see primal kyogre and groudon being field pairs, well they need to give incentive on them for syncing with field EX sync and if they also change form due to that, it will kinda be nice

[unkempt vortex]

Give it to the admins

[tardy fiber]

Nc May and Brendan

[crisp oracle]

||Every time I feel an urge to pull I do a small scroll past #salt-channel to see what could happen: I could be shafted by a PokeFair ||

[unkempt vortex]

That place is also just funny took look through

[tardy fiber]

That place is great, it spark some realisations

[crisp oracle]

Also if I fall for Gloria I EX Cheren

Just a failsafe

I could have EX Cheren and his glorious 2x sync buff… and absolutely nothing else

[tardy fiber]

Innate sync cheren, cheren dps gaming

[unkempt vortex]

Cheren was done so dirty

[deft glen]

Exing Cheren? yeah, I'd rather save my gems

[tardy fiber]

I kinda hope he got something on grid thats like shauntal...like shauntal have lessen burn 9 to take advantage of her tm

We have no reliable way to make cheren get bad status

[crisp oracle]

Imagine Cheren becomes useful on the next Unova VA

[deft glen]

I mean, he needs to do... at least something

he does nothing

[crisp oracle]

What does he honestly do but sitting there and doing diddly/squat

[deft glen]

but he's never gonna be worth a candy unless u love him

[deft glen]

he dies

[tardy fiber]

Talking about Unova VA, iirc its been a long time since it runs...new players cannot get Ghetsis EX and power boost

[deft glen]

Move Gauge Boost and gradual healing, yay

[crisp oracle]

Ghetsis Powerboost ain’t great, but MGR on Glaciate is nice

And his EX should carry most FTP players

[deft glen]

at least it's so much better than Hop's

the dude got nothing

[tardy fiber]

That sync freebie does help abit for even more easier gauge when teaming with ssN

[sturdy hatch]

He sets gradual healing

[deft glen]

FA4 and... yeah

[crisp oracle]

Me confusing Full Heal with Full Restore and trying to heal my Lucario on the Unova main story

[unkempt vortex]

They gave dawn full restore but not cheren

[crisp oracle]

Hop was one of those kits that just didn’t have much room to get better

Same with Sycamore, but he did get some cool stuff when he got hit

[sturdy hatch]

Hop Haymaker when

[deft glen]

He was already good, but I wish he'd at least get new nodes that you'd actually pick up

[crisp oracle]

With the EBE’s I’m sure so many people have tried Behemoth Bash dps grids

[tardy fiber]

The only thing i see cheren is useful is his full heal, his is like almost a better potion...but is it worth 2 candies?

[crisp oracle]

Why use Cheren when you have… (checks notes) everyone else

[deft glen]

why use cheren when u have Holiday Erika

[tardy fiber]

Well if people like Cheren himself

[crisp oracle]

Why use Holiday Erika when you can use Sycamore

Who I argue is the powercrept Holiday Erika

[deft glen]

Sycamore is much better

[crisp oracle]

Why use Sycamore when I can use Valerie for fairy dps

Why use Valerie when I can use Lyrapuff

Why use Lyrapuff when I can use Diantha

Why use Diantha when I can use NYLisia

Why use NYLisia when I can just offtype

[unkempt vortex]

Why use off type when I can just not play

[tardy fiber]

Valerie is a lost cause, i even give her fairy zone yet she never fails to disappoint

[crisp oracle]

Give her a feggin EX and maybe she’ll be like Koga, with crap DPS but a good nuke

[unkempt vortex]

Nothing could ever save Valerie

[tough oriole]

Val’s nuke isn’t even that good tho

[crisp oracle]

Is anything saving her

[deft glen]

CS9 + CMarnie's passive

[tough oriole]

But CMarnie’s passive would conflict with draining kiss

[unkempt vortex]

Here’s the fix

[deft glen]

I didn't word it correctly

[crisp oracle]

Then make her passive like Lance’s TM where she takes 50% damage on entry

[unkempt vortex]

It gives the enemy hp back and steals from your own

[deft glen]

Or something like Emmet's passive but special, there you go

[unkempt vortex]

Healing kiss when

[deft glen]

I never word things correctly, I just forget to type some words

[tardy fiber]

I will be happy with that, no matter how bad the damage will be at least it targets sides too now

Hoping that Agatha, Bugsy, Noland getting EX

Even better as they have megas

[oak crest]

lol no

[crisp oracle]

Noland EX would go well with SC Ingo

[oak crest]

if u candy him might as well EX him

[tardy fiber]

Nah i didn't candy him

Too many supports left to complete

Ssmina 2/5, ssacerola 1/5, and probably 2 new bp master pairs

[deft glen]

I don't see why someone would candy a unit without EXing it

[tardy fiber]

True

5* candies are too precious to spend for experiment or whimsical decision

[uneven pewter]

i am legit surprised about rolabulu

[tardy fiber]

Oh i candy mina first as she looks like she need more help than ssacerola

[uneven pewter]

mina is...

[unkempt vortex]

Mina exists

At 1/5

[uneven pewter]

yea pretty much

i can't even disagree i rushed mina to 3/5

[tardy fiber]

Also i need the infinite fairy zone

[unkempt vortex]

Don’t remember about what acerola gets from grid

[tardy fiber]

Oops fairy

[unkempt vortex]

But probably not as big of a boost as Mina

[crisp oracle]

Isn’t SS Mina the most candy hungry

[tough oriole]

Pretty zone

[wind coyote]

She is

[unkempt vortex]

What is everything locked at 5/5

[wind coyote]

Out of all the Tapus

[tardy fiber]

Its pink so yeah

[uneven pewter]

Gtterain on sync healing to all pairs on grass gauge accel on grass...rally on swords dance +speed first aid...

i mean bulu is already a stacked pair so

[unkempt vortex]

Oh acerola gets vigilance at 5/5

[uneven pewter]

OG Acerola?

wat

oh bulu

[unkempt vortex]

Ye

[uneven pewter]

huh never bothered looking that deep

[deft glen]

I'll spend my candies after Anni datamine

[tardy fiber]

I will 3/5 ssacerola later well thats if there's no support master fair faves coming as i will always abandon my current project if theres support master fave and complete the MF pair first. As i can always get move level of pokefairs via select

[tough oriole]

The best thing imo is Sunny Day Brawn Gain 9

Everytime you use sun, the team gains +2 pmun now

[uneven pewter]

that's true

i dunno i put more value on the pep rally and the zone extension

depends on if i am running with ss lyra

[unkempt vortex]

Mina only getting team smart start and barricade buddies

[tough oriole]

With all of her pmun it’s likely that the stage will be over by second sync anyway

Green Thumb is best used for another PMUN

[unkempt vortex]

What’s the most pmun/smun you could potentially stack

[tough oriole]

The technical max is 10

Acerola gives 9 if she has 1st sync and uses 3 B-SDs and Sunny Day twice

[uneven pewter]

Ss lyra bulurola and irida

The easy clap team

[tough oriole]

Irida

[unkempt vortex]

SS lyra bulu and like anyone else

[latent salmon]

One of these things is not like the other

[unkempt vortex]

Usually SS Erika

Sometimes Selene if I wanna mix it up

[tough oriole]

She’s ir(ida)placeable

[uneven pewter]

Or ss leaf

[tough oriole]

Irida is the ice one

[uneven pewter]

Adaman

Whatever

[unkempt vortex]

Bulu double leafeon

[uneven pewter]

Ayyyye

Now with twice the skadoosh

[tardy fiber]

Im using ssacerola, sslyra and scrosa

Well at least till grass kartana pair or something

[wind coyote]

300 gems woo!

[summer goblet]

If only i have 200k gems more, then it will look alot better with 555,555 gems

[coarse lynx]

[violet nebula]

No amount of pities will ever satisfy him 🤣

[tough oriole]

Wait is that the fine diner medal or just the battle buffet bash?

[rare swan]

it's still looking pretty good

[vestal leaf]

Fine diner

[tough oriole]

Shouldn’t necro have the fine diner role then or did he decline

[tardy fiber]

Any master ball highscore role?

[vestal leaf]

I refused diner, I'll refuse HS too

Purple supremacy

[ashen thunder]

Sshau, ssmina, irida better

Mina doesn't even need more than 1/5 for it

[sand crown]

2/2 prestige-like medals 🤝…not me saying there should be a role for having both

[sturdy flower]

i didnt play yet

otherwise i'd probably have both

i actually wanted to start this game from the very beginning but only got a phone that supported it like 3 years ago

[unkempt vortex]

From what I barely remember early poma sucked

[vestal leaf]

Launch-first Anni was extremely bad

First-second anni was between bad and ok

From second Anni it's overall fine

[sturdy flower]

maybe i dodged a bullet honestly

[unkempt vortex]

You did

[ashen thunder]

Poma before cyrus release is

[sand crown]

The legendary grindfests

[ashen thunder]

Tbf

Back then whenever legendary dropped we got full candy

There's more spotlights

And PF was only once every 3 months

So ig that's the tradeoff

[tardy fiber]

Really? Now its at least 3 PF every month

[sand crown]

For quite some time we didn’t even have PF

[ashen thunder]

Cynthia and lance were first PFs

They dropped on December

So yea

No PF for like 3 months

And Steven was Feb I think

[tardy fiber]

Oh right once Lance released, did he already have grids? Or they sell him with just base kit?

[ashen thunder]

Steven was first grid PF

Lance and cynthia were gridless

Rosanta was gridless as well

[tardy fiber]

So people pulling him eventhough his tm is suicidal?

[ashen thunder]

Well

[tardy fiber]

And give move gauge?

[ashen thunder]

HYPERBEAM

[tardy fiber]

[ashen thunder]

It gave funni numbers

People ran Phoebe+rosa iirc

It was still deemed worse than Olivia anyways

[sand crown]

||Yup. 15k and well worth every gem at the time. I was so glad to see him||

[sand crown]

Even then he was absolutely dependent on supports. Supports we just didn’t have too much of

Took him awhile but I am glad to see where he is now

[tardy fiber]

I kinda hope my old faves gloria/lysandre/N can get lance and Cynthia's power boost treatment...im too stingy to do 5/5 so power boost grid will be great as all of them are unlocked if 3/5

[ashen thunder]

Well even after SsBrendan, sskris lance was kind of deemed as the ugly duckling of dragon types

Cyrus pretty much set standard for self sufficiency the moment he dropped

[oak crest]

well... u got uhmmm... LA Zinnia which debuffs herself

[vestal leaf]

Yeah and 90% of new units were mediocre

And there was nothing to do but grind and hoard 20k gems per month when it was good

Events were cooler in writing and originality but god they were awful to farm

Never forget

Never forgive

[sand crown]

I’ll never understand this. The chances of this appearing would shrink every time you got some orbs

[compact pasture]

Shrink? Why?

[sand crown]

That’s a question for the devs. Probably to discourage farming?

It was reset daily iirc

[vestal leaf]

Most months betting 16k gems and nothing to use them on is worse than 24k on preanni with a ton of banners imho, because what's the point of saving if there's nothing to scout for

[compact pasture]

Isn't that supposed to be good news?

[vestal leaf]

Enjoy playing a gacha for 6months without any form of banner that remotely picks your interest aside Rosanta

It's bad

[tardy fiber]

No wonder Chest can collect a bunch of gems, he can survive that

[vestal leaf]

I mean it's on him to pretend he's playing a game tbfh

There's no reason to play Poma aside event writing and stuff tier to scouting and event writing hasn't been remotely interesting in like 2 years

So skipping for years because you don't want anything but that 2 trainers sounds just like a waste of time imho

But if he finds it fun who am I to question it

I'd rather have a banner I like every month so I have to skip or go in constantly over reliving first year of poma where I scouted 6 units in 12 months

[tardy fiber]

I thought 6 units in 12 months is kinda okay because we need 1 and a half month or more to form a pity

Well unless you are lucky

[mossy hawk]

To be honest, you would have to be really lucky to have 6 pities back to back

[sand crown]

The longer you hang around, more units you accumulate. More of those kits you see repeated or slightly altered/stronger

So I can live with pulling what, 6-10 faves a year

[vestal leaf]

No back then it was 2 full months to pity, sometimes 2 and a half

[tardy fiber]

True, this help me to skip non faves MF, over time, my faves might have the same kit

[vestal leaf]

Early average was 17-18k

Lol

40k for pity

[tardy fiber]

I see, so 6 pairs in 12 months kinda fit the standards back then

Less gems and pity are more expensive

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but in general it was ass

[timber wren]

it was probably to make unlocking sync grids as a gradually doled out thing to make your units stronger the way they dole out candy coins now

[sturdy flower]

talking about expansion for older units, Kantrio might get something for celebration

because VA starts with them too

as in, their region

[latent salmon]

Leaf gets love

[ashen thunder]

Kantrio grid expansions for anni maybe

[uneven pewter]

I remember hoarding those candies for ages

[ashen thunder]

Like both horizontal and vertical ones like lance and cynthia

[ashen thunder]

I just used em all on cynthia

[uneven pewter]

I remember doing the same

My cynthia has been fattened by 4 candies and I remember each one painstakingly well

[timber wren]

everyone forgets leaf already got hers bc it wasn’t great

[uneven pewter]

I am hoping she gets some new nodes 😭

[ashen thunder]

That's why I mentioned both horizontal and vertical

Leaf has no horizontal expand

It'll give her self sufficiency

Trust

[timber wren]

her grid is just far too expensive

[ashen thunder]

My 3/5 ssleaf waiting

[uneven pewter]

Ss blue could use some love, he was a beast for ages but he’s tapered a bit over the years

[ashen thunder]

Can get all pb tiles whenever it drops

[timber wren]

hopefully we get a leaf alt soon tho, or green

[uneven pewter]

Just a free node that makes her trainer move give her crit fixes a LOT of her issues

She just reminds me of lance pre grid update

Takes way too much to work

Steven needs similar love

[sturdy flower]

free guard on entry would be dope

because it reactivates on mega

[uneven pewter]

That is nice

Especially since he needs so much ramp on his defenses compared to more modern support s

[uneven pewter]

Especially after trying to use him for the recent water challenge

[ashen thunder]

TM catalytic cure 9 for ssblue

Make him heal

Or just catalytic cure 2 or 3

But ig that'd just be broken

[simple slate]

Just 2,300 off my first time being able to pity

Well, since I’ve been actively saving after getting 120 pairs

[summer goblet]

There is a role? Cool but i will decline to keep my username purple

[sand crown]

Manifesting

[tough oriole]

Yeah its the light pink fine diner role

[summer goblet]

Wonder if Clair alt will ever come to him

To make things interesting

[summer goblet]

To be fair, there is quite alot of stuff to do in the game aside from pulling

Though i will admit i will feel very bored not having enough units to play around to not feel the burnout

In all likelihood, there is like 0% chance if I will ever surpass Chest’s gem count unless he quits the game

Aqua I have confidence I can surpass him

[lean mango]

well there really ain't any competition here

[summer goblet]

It’s a personal goal

[winged fossil]

What do people mean by fine diner and such? What’s the deal with the role and such here?

[tough oriole]

It was the role for getting top 6k on prestige

Named after the Fine Diner medal in game with the same requirement

[winged fossil]

Ohhh I wasn’t here for prestige

[bleak falcon]

Good, you missed the darkest era in PMEX history

[unkempt vortex]

That seems like the majority of the games lifespan

[bleak falcon]

Nah, just Prestige

[tardy fiber]

Hurm, maybe i should hold off candying ssmina to 3/5, ive checked pomatools and she's released in late april...maybe anniv fair select might have tapus ...if i dupe her via select, i can save that candy to 3/5 ssacerola

[crisp oracle]

SS Mina, objectively, during release, was the worst (based on sheer things the unit could do + stats + gimmicks) of the Tapus, and she is also the most candy hungry

Save the candies for SS Acerola imo

[sturdy flower]

They really couldnt give her 3 team crit

in a type that struggles with buffing their crit fast

[deft glen]

why +3 crit if you can have +1 at 3/5

[tardy fiber]

Thats why i plan to 3/5 her first as she's candy hungry, also im in need of consistent fairy zone more than grass terrain currently as i have sslyra too for grass terrain...well i will still hope to 3/5 all of my faves later just which one will get that priority first

[sturdy flower]

+1 won't save my Lodge Lillie

[tardy fiber]

Also for now, +2 crit from ssmina and +1 from sycamore so it becomes+3

[sturdy flower]

what do you mean +2 from ss mina

[tardy fiber]

Oh she only have +1

Hope i will get fairy damage dealer that can self buff crit

Magearna, scream tail, iron valiant, enamorus please

[unkempt vortex]

Fairy truly has the worst supports

[tardy fiber]

Still waiting for a fairy damage dealer fave for now i just make do with annilillie moonblast gaming

She will get her job cut out for ghost weak when Victor spectrier arrives

[timber wren]

probably better off using koko and lele together for fairy damage than anni lillie

just need a crit support over fini since lele can’t raise their own crit for moonblast

[tough oriole]

With elec terrain or psy terrain?
Electric terrain would help lele more and psychic terrain would help koko more

I’m not joking

[timber wren]

i’d lean towards electric so koko can sync but either should work

[crisp oracle]

90K seems like an eternity away

These gems are coming in slower than the mail

[tough oriole]

Oh fair

[tardy fiber]

Oh i can do this, although i use annilillie before this because she has 50% chance to get SE buff with each attack move. Maybe in the future i will try koko if theres no elec weak...gonna prioritise sshau for elec weak as i only have 2 elec faves for now. While 4 ghost faves including victor so i can steal annilillie if theres clashing weaknesses in csmm

[dire meteor]

It felt that way for me too, though for me that was last year.

You can do it, you can reach 100k

https://tenor.com/view/never-give-up-fist-pump-motivation-motivational-gif-4892451

[crisp oracle]

I'm planning to save the rest of the month, which means I should hit 100K for the first time ever

it just seems like a trickle that magically stacks its way to 90K

[dire meteor]

I'll probably hover around 50-40k for the next few months

[crisp oracle]

I'll probably be at zilch by the time the anni period is over, I might have a lot of targets coming

||SC Diantha might rerun and I am getting SS Kris after datamine based on what I see||

[tardy fiber]

I currently have 78k free gems and 37.3k paid gems, but that paid gems are like backup, well its just my opinion, if its either between spending a bit of paid gems or skipping a fave, i rather spend some of my paid gems to guarantee getting a fave

Hope its enough for anni

[sturdy flower]

one legendary unit for one region we have

VA finale

[tardy fiber]

8 faves

But kalos run out of it

[sturdy flower]

we have 4 Arcanines

shiny Xerneas is pretty

[bleak falcon]

Counting eggmons or no?

[sturdy flower]

yes

[bleak falcon]

Ok, good, I wasn’t forgetting someone

[tardy fiber]

Kanto - articuno, zapdos, moltres
Johto - raikou
Hoenn - regice, registeel
Sinnoh - manaphy, phione, arceus, enamorus, regigigas, heatran
Unova - terrakion, virizion, meloetta
Kalos -
Alola - zeraora, magearna, melmetal, guzzlord, xurkitree, kartana, nihilego, stakataka, blacephalon
Galar - regieleki, regidrago, zarude

Plenty hopium left

[sturdy flower]

Paldea is on the table too but probably after anni

[tardy fiber]

I need to prepare if those koraidon and miraidon are field

[sturdy flower]

they need to introduce some spotlights for Paldea too

[tardy fiber]

So i need to use yellow candy

Hopium for Milo because theres Milo plushie in poma merchandise

Instead we got Olympia and drasna

Hurm 25 unreleased faves, can easily bump up my faves list to 90

So glad that i didn't get tempted by non faves

I dont have much leeway to be tempted

[ashen thunder]

You forgot best unit

https://tenor.com/view/regigigas-gif-27193826

[tardy fiber]

Thanks

[ashen thunder]

Sprint regigigas soon

[tardy fiber]

And heatran

I forgot it too

[bleak falcon]

Support Regigigas that lets Normal types hit super-effective

Make it a destroyer of metas as compensation for Slow Start

[tardy fiber]

Heatran will be nice, maybe a similar gameplay with eusine...well trap related kit

[ashen thunder]

Or give it -5 sync cooldown

When it syncs first time

And make him sprint ex

There regigigas meta

[sturdy flower]

that's cruel

the Regigigas meta is to mess with him in every single game

he's the only pokemon in LA that got his ability in tact

[tardy fiber]

Regigigas tm give -6 speed debuffs but +6 other stats ...but downside up in 5/5 grid

[ashen thunder]

That's so evil

[sturdy flower]

Regigigas -5 sync cd, but after you sync the next one is instant

[bleak falcon]

I don’t want Regigigas to just become meta, I want it to destroy the meta as we know it by opening up Normal types more than anything has ever done

[sturdy flower]

so he can sync twice in a row but takes longer

[ashen thunder]

So he starts with +5 sync CD

But if you sync with him, you get -5 sync accel

But if that's the case, I want him to have supp ex

Not sprint

[sturdy flower]

make it -6 with grid and sprint

so it's -9 with EX

[tardy fiber]

Regigigas and arceus truly need something really really really really good for me to use them and not just other ontype pairs

[sturdy flower]

Arceus might just always be on type

or at least they will give him on type B Move

[ashen thunder]

I don't like stuff like gladion
So Arceus is ez skip unless they bring normal zone as well

[sturdy flower]

experimental units tend to either be super broken or bad tho

[tardy fiber]

Oh i saw ||victor spectrier event cutscenes, pretty nice that they acknowledge leon have calyrex ice rider|| , they usually don't acknowledge seasonal pairs much, the only one i saw before this are lillie lunala, skyla togekiss and steven alola sandslash

[ashen thunder]

Technoblast gimmick for all types sound absurdly broken tbh

It's gonna be more like gladion for Arceus

Except actually workable numbers

[sturdy flower]

unless they want him to be like Ash

Arceus is a big thing

[tardy fiber]

Oh right morty bannet

[ashen thunder]

220 atk and 100 BP gladion

Well

They still "balanced" ash by giving him less than 200 BP regular move

[sturdy flower]

they would balance him if he got weaker sync

[ashen thunder]

And reliance on SSTred/celesa to throw paralysis for nuke

Maybe they give perfect partner for Arceus as well

Like they did with ash

[sturdy flower]

just a shame they removed his music

not my favorite opening but still

[ashen thunder]

Normal types usually have high BP sync iirc

[sturdy flower]

they like to give units that release together some synergy

and with other units the players who pick the character might like

works well for broken units but sometimes gives weaker units weird kits ||im looking at you Will of Wisp Leon||

[ashen thunder]

I personally never liked running ash without SSTred

The damage drops like less than half with volkner

It's painful to watch

[sturdy flower]

i watched Journeys and enjoyed it (minority opinion)

so I like to force Ash into teams sometimes

[ashen thunder]

So they'll likely make Arceus rely on a busted support/tech to be truly broken

[sturdy flower]

unless he releases now and gets degraded with the new type

[ashen thunder]

Assuming Arceus is a dps ofc

[sturdy flower]

which honestly... im not excited about

[ashen thunder]

In main games he basically had every role

[sturdy flower]

Support and strike Syncs are just too good for harder battles

[ashen thunder]

Sprint is fine if they give stupid multipliers

[sturdy flower]

Support Arceus... not happening

notice how legendaries tend to be damage dealers

because that's the crowd that likes legendaries the most, kids who look only at damage (and Vantner)

[ashen thunder]

I mean

They swapped latias and latios roles

[tardy fiber]

Field arceus, changes its type based on middle enemy weakness without pressing tm, also auto summon that type zone/terrain/weather on entry and refreshes it after sync

[ashen thunder]

Latias should have been the tank

And latios as dps

[tough oriole]

I really want arceus to be a support/tech who has a TM that creates the field for the selected ally’s type

[ashen thunder]

Yea
That'd be really good

Compared to 200th dps I'd probably never use over zygarde

[sturdy flower]

i want Arceus to change his type, but sadly wont work for HS events and stuff that requires pre battle change

[tough oriole]

As gladion taught us, it’s hard to balance someone who’s supereffective for every type

[sturdy flower]

why Zygarde as example?

[ashen thunder]

Coz he's busted

And still my 5th worst comp

And I only use 5 teams in CS

[tardy fiber]

Zygarde is this close to perfect, i do hope her tm also buffs crit so that i doesn't need to press dire hit if needed

[ashen thunder]

I have 4 better teams than zygarde and I doubt a zoneless Arceus is beating him as a dps

Zygarde would be perfect if he didn't steal supp ex sync

Oh god
If Arceus is sprint/field, he'll steal supp ex sync

Plz supp ex Arceus

[tardy fiber]

SsBrendan can max crit if he syncs but by syncing with him, i cannot sync with zygarde first

[ashen thunder]

I run HS1 redlax with him

Hoping to roll aura cyn

So redlax gets benched

[tardy fiber]

Currently using ssBrendan, lucas, ssserena for dragon weak

[ashen thunder]

Ontype is too weak in most types for me

Also expensive to chase zygarde+lucas level cores for those

[tardy fiber]

I see, i currently need more help on fairy and poison fave coverage for ontype, others already okay i think

[ashen thunder]

So I stick to offtype unless the ontype team beats out offtype zone zygarde

If I need big help, it's gonna be poison and steel

Flying atleast got fixed with blue buff

[sturdy flower]

i do full ontype teams recently

because otherwise i just use 5 teams like you

[ashen thunder]

Not that it's better than zygarde anyways due to lack of zone

[sturdy flower]

and im too lazy to try anything else

[tardy fiber]

I just need 1 more poison fave...any role can, even field/sprint...just need 2 pairs of same typing with one of it is a damage role so that i can comfortably say that type is covered

Fall iris can be damage if she needs to

[ashen thunder]

If I was rolling for types, it'd just be endless loop

[tardy fiber]

Throw me some nihilego or something DeNa

[ashen thunder]

I'd rather not fall for it

[tardy fiber]

I pull for Legendaries, Mythicals, UBs, paradox so just alright that they covered various types and regions

So i feel comfortable setting it as my goal

Also there's a lot, so i wont be stuck with like 6 pairs or something

[ashen thunder]

Offtype comps are easier to manage in general

[tardy fiber]

Well i got 65 faves currently so i rather ontype

Different case if its like 10

[ashen thunder]

I really only have like 20 or 30 actual favs

And I got pretty much everyone in it
As long as I don't count alts

cries in lack of scrosa, aura cyn etc

[tardy fiber]

As my fave list is based on pokemons instead of trainers so its quite big

Like there's 2 celesteelas from different trainers

[ashen thunder]

I pretty much only rolled ssmay and ssblue for Pokemon

But then I like the trainers as well so

[tardy fiber]

Trainers for me is just bonus, just like fries when ordering a set meal...thats why i dont let hleon ugly outfit to stop me from getting calyrex

Although it kinda stinks, thats why i keep using ssN instead for ice weak

[sturdy flower]

my pulling rules are very complicated but also simple, it works only because i have self discipline

[tardy fiber]

But i do blame my weak self for getting emmet, redlax, palbea, palmarnie in the past...not enough convictions during that time

Well emmet due to first co-op gear event and i thought people will scold me if i bring brocknix or ssbrock

But heck i even saw people bringing weedle eggmon

Redlax due to seeing youtube video about he is the best partner for Gladion

Palbea and palmarnie because tempted by steel zone and better ice support than glacia

[ashen thunder]

Well redlax is pretty good for gladion if you want to make gladion work

Gladion without redlax is pain

[tardy fiber]

He clears my poison weak easily as he also get boosted by zone

Fall iris zone gaming

[ashen thunder]

And gladion only got another universal support after 2 years

And comp still wants to run redlax

[sturdy flower]

i just like Red

yes, even FRLG Red

that was my first pokemon game

[tough oriole]

I like blue, its my favourite colour

[tardy fiber]

But now i can even do villa full run, without using redlax...man

Stick to faves pays off

[sturdy flower]

the game doesn't have the sweaty gamer pvp and all that ugh stuff

thankfully

[tardy fiber]

Yep, my mobile game before this is pvp centric...i got kicked out of the guild because i lack certain units

Thanks god nothing happened like that here

Well seeing our profile got collective strength total, maybe it is also in DeNa mind in the past

But they scrapped it

[tough oriole]

Which game was it

[tardy fiber]

Because my past game guild membership requirements are based on roster strength rating

Funny enough they calculated top 10 champs in the account and it becomes prestige score...prestige again

More prestige, more score in guild war and arena

[oak crest]

sounds like a grindddd

[tardy fiber]

Yeap, i once only sleep for 3 hours every day for 3 days to grind Deadpool arena