Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[sturdy flower]

is there anyone else you really dont want to EX

we can add them to the list

[junior trout]

he can… um… steal stats…

[sturdy flower]

maybe Calem?

Acerola?

[junior trout]

acerola's a good one cuz she doesnt even have one

[unkempt vortex]

Ex surge

[deft glen]

EX Pryce

[coarse lynx]

I couldn't resist

6k spent today

[mint zephyr]

It’s ok man life isn’t permanent and so aren’t gems they’re meant to come and go 😭

[oak crest]

Spend less time on the game maybe. Once u done your daily and stuff just log off to prevent more temptation

Game is pretty low maintenance anw

[sonic cobalt]

28k gems so far. Granted almost 8k of that is paid gems so technically 25k since I know I'm going to hit at least one of the selects

[mint zephyr]

Yeah thank god it is, I was actually looking for a game like this because I used to play Path To Nowhere and that community screwed me over so I was devastated to leave it since I thought there were no other games like it and I’m glad I gave this game another chance

I had this acc since game released but for some reason I never played on it so when I played on it last month it was just a brand new acc😂

[oak crest]

Uhh what did they do there

[mint zephyr]

The game devs took my limited resources

Ik it’s hard to believe but I had proof

[oak crest]

Huh is that even allowed

[mint zephyr]

No but the community was defending the devs

Swtg the game is cultlike

So reluctantly I had to leave

[oak crest]

Tbh most games always have a group who will blindly defend the devs or distributor

[mint zephyr]

Never thought I’d find a low maintenance game like that one till I found poma that had even simpler dailies and way better events

[sonic cobalt]

It is shocking how people will defend certain games despite the fact there's NOTHING to defend.

[oak crest]

Seen it before and yeah they are really a bunch of sad group of ppl

[mint zephyr]

Fr like I get the game was amazing but taking my resources away shouldn’t even be a debate

Like it’s simply wrong

At least give it back

[sonic cobalt]

also, dang. The simulator is not making me hopeful for when JohTrio appears. These gems are burning a hole in my pocket but I shall brace.

[mint zephyr]

Like the resource they took was a super rare one that was used to promote unit skills to max level it only comes like once every 2 months

[mint zephyr]

Man ash and red might not rerun

So it looks like I’m fine with saving

Only unit I super duper want is the rats

Like

I love the rats

[sonic cobalt]

Who's this "Ash" you speak of? It sounds like a myth

[mint zephyr]

All I need to hear

You’ll here from me again in a few years

When I’m known as the man with over 500 k gems

Since I won’t spend till ash comes back

[sonic cobalt]

PoMa Offline arrives. All players can now use coins to purchase all characters.

[mint zephyr]

And then game gets deleted off of the face of the earth 😭

Seen that trend happen so many times 😭

[sonic cobalt]

Nah, that's why "offline" happens. XDive's getting EoS on the asian servers but they're keeping it from becoming lost media with Offline, which lets you buy the gacha stuff with in-game currency. Only downside is that the servers... don't transfer save data lmao

[oak crest]

red will rerun at a certain point

only a matter of when

ask is the 1 that might not rerun

since jessie/james event never reran since 2021

i think

[mint zephyr]

Ooh

Imagine if you’re still not able to buy ash with coins when offline comes

💀

[sonic cobalt]

Jessie and James did not survive their Blast Off from Pasio.

[mint zephyr]

Rip

I always knew that one day they wouldn’t survive and land the wrong way

[mint zephyr]

I know where poma is located

I just want to talk

[sonic cobalt]

...Actually, funny story, XDive Offline won't have the Capcom collab stuff. So no Monster Hunter, Street Fighter or DMC stuff. Which is weird. Since, Capcom not being able to put in collabs with its own franchises is strange. But that's kinda off topic for here and I know staff get testy

[tardy fiber]

As our rally part 2 failed, i guess we don't have many people that blindly defend DeNa

Well less than 20k at least

[sonic cobalt]

the carrot they dangled was tiny and rotten.

[tardy fiber]

Oh right as people can contribute 2 points as there's jp and eng twitter, so it might be in 10k range

[mint zephyr]

Yeah the game I played had a small community so I guess it truly was cultlike 😭

[tardy fiber]

Pokémon is a famous household name, so i doubt that Nintendo wont take any action if DeNa accidentally makes our gems disappear

Kinda why there's a bunch of reminder that gems doesn't carry from apple to android and vice versa

Probably to avoid gems gone issue

[oak crest]

technically they arn't gone, just stuck to android/apple

while there are actual games that if you transfer between those 2

you really lose the premium currency

[tardy fiber]

Finally got 1 of the shiny eggmon

Man it really is x attack instead of x attack all on ponyta

[compact pasture]

Apologems?

[tardy fiber]

I think its like that as my zubat support eggmon also has x speed instead of x speed all

[tough oriole]

It was intentional

A lot of older eggmon supports are like that

[ashen thunder]

X spd all zubat too OP

That's why x spd

[tardy fiber]

Still waiting for shiny zubat

[lean mango]

that emote scares me

TRUE

I need shiny Zubat/Crobat

4 bats and not a single shiny

😔

[tardy fiber]

My shiny eggmon collection is now 35 pairs, still need 30 more to catch up with the number of faves

Still missing 2 pairs thats available this month, squirtle from non event eggs and slowpoke from this event

[lean mango]

My only Poison shiny is Arbok ):

I've been unlucky with my fave eggmons

Still bitter about that oddish

[tardy fiber]

Oh i got 2 poison

Arbok and nidoking

Oddish is grass so no problem

Next event is probably drowzee and rhyhorn

[lean mango]

Still Oddish is my favorite Kanto mon excluding the Crobat line

[tardy fiber]

Its from june or may datamine i forgot

[lean mango]

[tardy fiber]

This month datamine got shiny diglett

So it probably after rhyhorn

Cannot wait for ground eggmons

Well ground roster is kinda lacking, so they might be useful for high score

[lean mango]

Ground Highscore would be worrying

[ashen thunder]

Ground highscore is probs never happening at this pace

Unless they somehow bring so many gen pool and limited ground units by the end of next year

[broken mulch]

I mean it’s gonna be imbalanced as heck but there’s nothing stopping them from doing it anyway

[ashen thunder]

Well they are picking types with variety for now atleast

[tardy fiber]

For now, my most lacking type is fairy

Only have 7 or something

[kind mural]

oh sorry abt that, just thought this was the place since i saw the gem picture

[ashen thunder]

I don't have more than 10 units for like half the typings

While stuff like fire, psychic, dragon etc are bloated as hell

[tardy fiber]

I only have 2 elec EX, well i still gonna do it

[ashen thunder]

Me still madge that I couldn't use palkia for water HS

Atleast electric doesn't have that problem

[gloomy holly]

What a number

[tardy fiber]

Also highscore enemies aren't even weak to the event type probably to cater pairs with multi type attack move , and also terrastalize in the future

[robust plaza]

Hey 27.5k gems is the pity in another gacha i play

You get tomes to pity

I have 80.8k free gems in pmex.

[winged fossil]

26850 rn without catching up on stuff yet

Prob would be above 30k if I wasn’t lazy lol

[rustic heron]

doing pretty decently on my gem count

should have 2 pities before anniversary

very glad i decided to save on nemona, she has been quickly becoming less and less of a favorite lmao

[tardy fiber]

Saving mode, cruising well 3k paid will be gone due to seasonal select later

[vestal leaf]

39k paid, what will you even use them on

[tardy fiber]

Select scouts

Also backup in case needed

It stacks after i didn't skip buying 3k paid gem deals every 20 days

[sturdy flower]

Vantner plays on a paid subscription

4.5$ per month isn't much in many places to begin with so

i can understand

[tardy fiber]

Yes, had to do it because all other offers are bad with my currency and gem rate so i cannot miss buying this deal even in skip month as its timegated

But iirc welcome ash deal last year are good, i grabbed thise

[sturdy flower]

im getting it from time to time, but i failed to do so before anni and now im paying the price of skipping all but probably one selects

[tardy fiber]

Even master fair gem deal have worse rate than 20 day 3k paid gem bundle

[sturdy flower]

by far

it really is akin to a paid sub

get paid sub for monthly gem amount

[tardy fiber]

I guess i treat one of DeNa staff a coffee every 20 days

Not sure if it can help electricity bill as im quite stingy

[rustic heron]

i’m gonna be down at least 3k, probably 6k because of holiday leon

[tardy fiber]

I guess i can save my paid gems for next seasonal select after this as both smliza and smtate already 3/5

This one will help my fall iris to be 3/5

[rustic heron]

i do have the gems to pull on the tech banner but i already have every good seasonal tech tbh

all Two of them

(that will be on the banner)

[tardy fiber]

Nice, i dont mind using my paid gems as backup if i need it well mainly because select scouts are rare and as i only chase fave dupes to 3/5, sometimes there are select scouts that i can just skip...well at least lodge guest already become another criteria for me to pull select scouts.

[rustic heron]

and i don’t think that 2/5 firis is worth 3k paid

[tardy fiber]

Worth it as i can use my tech candy on other faves, also its 3k paid from 20 day gem bundle

[rustic heron]

i’ll just save my paid gems for next month’s select scouts

tbh

[rustic heron]

fair nuff

you’ve got the paid to spend on that, i don’t really lmao

[tardy fiber]

I just do 20 days gem bundle, i can get 9k paid gems every 2 months

[rustic heron]

yea fair

[tardy fiber]

I will grab fair select if it have:
SsHilda, SsMina, SsLana, Eusine, Steven

Other than those are skip for now

[rustic heron]

lemme see what fairs i’d select for

i know ss hilda is one

ss hilda, ss korrina or anni skyla

are the fairs i’d select for

[tardy fiber]

Well if next month doesn't have any limited support fave, i can cross out ssmina as she will be 3/5

[unkempt vortex]

That’s if anni skyla is even in it

As someone who wants to get her off my list

[maiden kayak]

yin and the yang

[wind coyote]

Frick did a yolo on rose in impulse

Went from 21k to 18k non paid

Too scared to yolo again

Didnt get him

💀

Not doing that again

[vestal leaf]

Yoloing is always wrong

[sturdy flower]

do not mention pulling here

[vestal leaf]

Because YOLO implies you don't care about the unit enough to commit

Which means it's not a unit you deem worth spending more than 300/3000 on

= not worth wasting 3k on

[deft glen]

I hope we get one

[deft glen]

I'd pick Anni Skyla

[uncut kayak]

27k gems and counting!!!!

I’m also going completely cold turkey on spending on gatcha games so my gems growth rate has slowed down, but that won’t deter me!

[coarse lynx]

Is there a list that show exactly what missions or challenges give u coins

I feel like I'm missing a lot

[remote acorn]

#1012256199128915968 message

[tough oriole]

The mission based candy coins would be here https://pastebin.com/08bskbV1

Use ctrl f (find in page) to look for “candy coin”

[clever oyster]

Okay, I did all the Nemona Story Event missions, but haven't done the Battle Challenges in the Hop Power Boost Event yet...

If I am at 24.865 gems right now, does that mean I can get to 36.6k gems before the Gloria banner ends?

[flat schooner]

From today until <t:1692338401:d> you can get up to 7680 .
For more information check /events and /banners!

[clever oyster]

...fuck

[uncut kayak]

You would be just shy

[clever oyster]

Just barely

[uncut kayak]

32,545

Sorry mate

[clever oyster]

Why must the game torture me like that? 😦

[uncut kayak]

I would recommend not ||pulling for gloria|| because once you get really close, the common thought is “I’m so close to a pity! That’s so many pulls, she’s got to come home in one of them!” And then get shafted. Trust me, happened to me with hau koko

||I got him, don’t get me wrong, but took a whole pity’s worth. Funnily enough I got one copy of him before pity on a daily single at the 400th pity point||

[vestal leaf]

You should always do math before pulling

[clever oyster]

I mean, unless the Anniversary will have sync pairs I will care about, I was gonna ||yolo ten-fold Gloria's banner at least once regardless of if I can pity or not||

[vestal leaf]

Even going for 300 on the wrong banner can mean missing a pity on another the next month

[clever oyster]

Because I'd rather be angry at bad pull results than be angry that I never even tried

[uncut kayak]

If you want to ||yolo, then go for it. But sometimes missing 3k can be the difference between a pity or not on a future banner||

[clever oyster]

Well, if it helps, I will wait with the ||yolo|| until either the end of the banner or if we finally get info on the anni sync pairs

If it's the latter and there will be a sync pair I actually care about, I wouldn't even need to ||yolo||

[uncut kayak]

Fingers crossed new information gets revealed at the end of the pokemom world tournament instead of at the datamine, ‘cause the former shoiod come before the banner ends whereas the latter would come afterwards

[wet egret]

27k lesgooo

[vestal leaf]

Well that's definitely not gonna become a chain of dead multis wasted on a ton of banner, for sure

[clever oyster]

...one yolo ten-fold means one yolo ten-fold

Even if it will have only 3* sync pairs

[vestal leaf]

Good luck saving, I'd hate to think back of all the dead multis when I'd miss pity because of it months later

[cunning swan]

One yolo multi might mean 1 less multi you could've used on a future banner on which you're very close to pity

[clever oyster]

There's gonna be loads more gems once anni starts

and like I said, I won't tenfold yolo if the anni will have sync pairs I actually care about

[cunning swan]

Sure of course, but there's a chance anni will have multiple units you want, yes?

[tardy fiber]

Kinda why i always calculate before going into a banner never know which time that a pity will trigger

[vestal leaf]

You won't likely know before Gloria leaves

And yeah if September has 3 Anni units + 1/2 new SCs + reruns

[clever oyster]

...well, like I said, I will wait until either the Anni news or the end of the Gloria banner, whatever comes first

[vestal leaf]

Gonna suck

[clever oyster]

And once that time has happened, that's when I would decide

[vestal leaf]

If they drop another SC rosa moment

[clever oyster]

But right now, it's too early to decide

[broken mulch]

Oof RoSCa

I’m still waiting for her rerun

[tardy fiber]

Im glad that i have her, skipped those rats + lucario for her

[vestal leaf]

I got red and her + pokewars rerun

That's why I say to always remember September isn't just Anni units

There's more

[unkempt vortex]

There is no pokewar in Pasio

Only ani

[clever oyster]

I don't have RoSCa

but that's fine

because I have Aura Cynthia and Ash instead

with the latter being truly limited time

[vestal leaf]

I mean what if you get 2 1% again and a fave SC in September tho

Or the two 1% don't come at all till pity

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, i need to recheck pokewar sc date...that period is a nightmare for me, 4 faves in a dry gems month

[cunning swan]

Gloria's banner will most likely end before we get even a whiff of anni news

[violet nebula]

It definitely will

Don't know why people still on copium for that

[rare swan]

Maybe we will get something tomorrow

[mossy hawk]

Good advice would be to make a list of what exactly is your favorite

Because if we had known you like either Cinderace or Gloria, we could have told you well in advance that they were very likely for August

[unkempt vortex]

Expecting anni news this early

[mossy hawk]

Since the July datamine

[cunning swan]

Maybe we will get something during Worlds closing ceremony

(no we probably won't)

[unkempt vortex]

We’re just the silly little mobile game

Worlds too big for us

[tardy fiber]

Im coping for it too...well especially after the hidden Palmer

[rustic heron]

why was lear #56 lmao

such an arbitrary person to hide

we’ve known about this man for FOUR YEARS NOW

[tardy fiber]

Ss Lear for VA finale

[rustic heron]

i’d love that

[cunning swan]

Ss lear and hoopa unbound?

[rustic heron]

especially if we get Decisive Battle! Lear

[unkempt vortex]

Nah they’ll bring someone out of npc jail

[rustic heron]

does palmer count

[cunning swan]

Trailer jail

[rustic heron]

he’s been in Extra Special NPC Jail

[unkempt vortex]

Tina and ryuki anni

[rustic heron]

iirc he’s the last trainer from the animated trailer to be put in the game

cuz we already got rocket execs and striaton bros

[unkempt vortex]

They’ll make him part of the anni event only as an npc tho

He can finally join the others in jail

[rustic heron]

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if he will be bp instead

[crisp oracle]

||Alrighty I hate to ask for it again...Diantha is on the gauntlet banner and temptation is real||

someone please give me a reason why ||I shouldn't go for Diantha and just wait for her to show up on a free ticket||

[cunning swan]

Well exactly that... Wait for her to show up on a free ticket, meaning guaranteed, instead of a 1.5% chance

That banner is even less worth it if you have Ingo and/or Red because, as luck would have it, you might just get copies of them instead of Diantha

[crisp oracle]

looks like we aren't getting a free ticket this anniversary

[cunning swan]

||I speak from experience||

[crisp oracle]

||I've had Red for a while, but I don't have Ingo||

[cunning swan]

That 1.5% Red is gonna screw you over and you might get him again and again and not Diantha

||Just like what happened to me||

[crisp oracle]

Though I don't have Ingo I don't need more copies of Red

I have him 3/5 already

[cunning swan]

Exactly! I don't have Ingo and Diantha either, and while Ingo's been on my rerun tierlist for a while, I've vowed to skip any and all banners that have Red in it

I'd rather wait for a better banner

[crisp oracle]

which makes it more tempting because Ingo is very good and he doesn't really need too many dupes from what i've heard

also am i tripping or did the Gamepress Doc get rid of the 2/5 section for candying

[cunning swan]

Suuurely Fairy HS

[crisp oracle]

there used to be something there I swear

it was like Palerna and SS Morty on the 2/5 section

and it's not like he (or she, for that matter) needed 3/5

oh SS Blue is there now too

[rustic heron]

we don’t know until the datamine comes out

[cunning swan]

We can still hope!

[maiden kayak]

one word dont bother

she cant even solo

[crisp oracle]

I will miss the 2/5 section dearly, especially for the supports

[maiden kayak]

||at least scdiantha can solo latias but 3/5 tho||

[crisp oracle]

||That's who i'm waiting for||

[rustic heron]

do you have any other good fairy dps

like ss wally or summer marnie

[crisp oracle]

not even Latios?

[maiden kayak]

i dont think so

shes gauge heavy

[crisp oracle]

That's not what I'm worried about, if I had a need for fairy DPS I would obviously set aside funds for her.
The problem here is Diantha

top of the favorites list

[rustic heron]

fair enough lol

[crisp oracle]

I was hoping to get Diantha for free someday

[maiden kayak]

i mean not that i dont understand u tho

[rustic heron]

if datamine comes out on the 25th then you can see what’s in anni month

but that’s also wishful thinking

[crisp oracle]

||Please SC Diantha rerun ||

||my entire pulling decisions this year are based off of one prediction, that she would run next month like last year||

[rustic heron]

maybe there’ll be an SC select scout?

crazier things have happened

[crisp oracle]

I don't spend on this game

I still have 0 paid gems

[rustic heron]

honestly very based

good on you for not falling to the gacha curse

[crisp oracle]

I could slowly get google survey rewards to pay for some EX bundles

but is it worth it though

[rustic heron]

how much money do you get from each survey

because 1 EX bundle is enough to do 1 select scout

[crisp oracle]

I don't know, that's the thing

But yeah do I really want to get paid gems

[cunning swan]

it depends on where you are, but I've been taking google survey rewards for a few months and it's a very, very slow grind

[crisp oracle]

and then it's the question of gems for masters or Pokecoins for GO

I play both

[cunning swan]

oh btw here's for your question about 2/5 on candy tierlist

[crisp oracle]

ooh good explaination

you know SS Blue's 3/5 ain't bad

[cunning swan]

you can also accumulate google play points which you can exchange for google credits

[sturdy flower]

the exchange rate seems like a joke

[rustic heron]

niantic sucks infinitely more than DeNA

[sturdy flower]

1500 points for 3k bundle

because Poma doesn't have a dedicated exchange for some reason

so many other games do

even GO

and Unite

[crisp oracle]

you mean a dedicated place to buy in game currency?

||the PoMa "buy gems" area just confuses me||

[sturdy flower]

no, there's a place on google play where you can exchange points to buy stuff for specific games

and it's cheaper than exchanging to google credit, like twice as cheap

[crisp oracle]

PoMa doesn't have it?

I will ask, does Genshin have one? Because if they don't it's probably a gacha thing across the board

[sturdy flower]

I don't think i have seen it, but there was CounterSide and Neural Cloud

and some game with title in japanese

in general i don't get that place, last time i bought the bundle i got 1 euro off the price due to some promotion

but the advertising is so bad i only noticed it during checking out

if i knew I'd schedule buying gems around these promotions because 1 euro off 3 is great

[clever oyster]

I mean...I guess Cinderace is part of my faves in terms of Pokémon? I just don't know which ranking among my fave Pokémon Cinderace takes up...

[sturdy flower]

keywords that are likely for anni (but they might throw a curveball!):
Kanto, Giovanni, Paulo, Hoopa, Lear, Mewtwo, protagonists

[vestal leaf]

This triple fair is unironically great meta wise for newbies but if you've got any of the other 2 I really don't recommend pulling on it right now

Diantha is a DeNa favourite to shove in LG reruns anyway

[crisp oracle]

Agreed. Diantha is Diantha and Ingo and Red are great supports

[vestal leaf]

So you'll get other chances

[crisp oracle]

I hope Ingo reruns on his own someday

[vestal leaf]

I'm pretty sure she can solo Latios at 5/5

Because recharging strike

On gleam

But 5)5 is so not worth

[maiden kayak]

5/5

actually u know zerena

cannot solo any LA

lol

even tho shes one of the strongest

[vestal leaf]

Go prices are actual scams, so I wouldn't take a second to choose

[lean mango]

Gauge heavy unit moment

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I mean she can solo csmm easily and that's enough for me

[crisp oracle]

no way she can't solo Raikou or Latios

[vestal leaf]

She gasps for air in bar 1 already lol

Solos are either

• supports
• gauge light units
• bogo units
• multiple mgrs units
• units with easy sleep/flinch

Zerena eats gauge like no tomorrow

If she had restrained freebie 4-6 maybe

But as she is she can't even get to bar 3 on Latios iirc

[sturdy flower]

she needs to reapply her debuff too

[junior trout]

there isnt a zerena solo on latios?

i thought that was the only one that existed

[sturdy flower]

there is

she can solo Latios

[junior trout]

ah

[sturdy flower]

but it's just... not recommended

you need Speedy Entry 2

and MGR luck

so unless you want to keep swapping cookies

in how the game currently is i'd not recommend

[maiden kayak]

wait fr?

[sturdy flower]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRs1jHKP1j0 <- vid

for more info visit the solo sheet

[vestal leaf]

I guess I didn't consider the speedy entry update

Lol

Makes sense

[cunning swan]

Well soloing shouldn't be a benchmark on how good or strong a unit should be

But i suppose we're straying from resource-saving discussion

Diantha will definitely rerun somewhere else. Who knows maybe she'll be in the lodge banner someday. I can def see that happening. It's just not worth rn, we're so close to anni

[rustic heron]

also yea

red ingo and diantha rerun so often

there’ll defo be another legendary gauntlet banner with her

[feral vale]

Yeah I was gonna add they rerun wayyyyy too often

[rustic heron]

so it shouldn’t be more than like 6 months between the next time that she reruns

||im still mad that i selected her over classic elesa in that anni select scout||

[crisp oracle]

Please Diantha lodge with SC Diantha lodge photo

[feral vale]

Calem doesn’t have his NC Lodge photo

[crisp oracle]

I invested two candies and 36,600 gems into this unit and all I got was a… I didn’t get a t shirt but I did get a really good unit with PMUN, SMUN, Dark Zone, Rain, a TM that finishes buffs, and a really nice tank with team endures

But I still want that lodge photo

[feral vale]

Calem needs to be on a t-shirt, just sayin

[crisp oracle]

I would candy Neo Serena but I’m planning to double candy SC Diantha the moment I get her

[feral vale]

Fair

[crisp oracle]

But I did just get my fourth tech candy

And I’m about to get another yellow candy so

[sturdy flower]

Anni tho

[feral vale]

[sturdy flower]

I'd wait till datamine

[vernal glade]

I’m just saving my support coins for a fav.

[crisp oracle]

If they do give Diantha a Field/Sprint unit my yellow candies will be a gone

[cunning swan]

Oh wait yeah, but cerena has one

Wth!!

[hard wave]

Unfortunately they dont add photos for alts that came before they got added

Plz DeNA add that for anni

[sturdy plank]

ss morty photo?!

[cunning swan]

Pain

[west moat]

Gimme anniversary N picture now

And Steven’s

It’s a crime

[hard wave]

Justice for
SS Blue
C Blue
Fall Morty
SS Morty
Spring May
SS May
Anni May
Summer Steven
SS Steven
SS + SSR Cynthia
Palentines Dawn
SS Dawn
NY Dawn (who shouldve been been added but wasnt for some reason)
Holiday Rosa
Anni N
Summer N
SS Elesa
Classic Elesa
Palentines Serena
SS Serena
NC Calem
NY Lillie
Anni Lillie
SC Lillie
Fall Acerola
Summer Marnie
Palentines Marnie
Anni Raihan
Summer Gloria
Dojo Gloria

Thats alot of pictures

[cunning swan]

Dawn was our january lodge pair right? Wonder why ny dawn photo wasn't added

[hard wave]

Yeah, it was weird

[mossy hawk]

Probably saving it for a different Dawn alt

[vestal leaf]

Yeah especially because some very shit units can solo

[vestal leaf]

Tbh 1/5 cerena performs so well already

SC diantha is kinda iffy at 1/5

[crisp oracle]

SC Diantha needs the candies more I assume

[vestal leaf]

Yeah because her base kit is great to debuff but lacks damage and her nuke is only nice at 1/5, nothing extraordinary

3/5 gets funny staggering, dps and nuke

[sturdy plank]

assuming it was because of artist incident maybe?

[sturdy flower]

but lodge art is basically sync pose with filters

[vestal leaf]

But I can put it in loading screens

[sturdy flower]

i replied to this

[tardy fiber]

Finally cleared everything i wanted from nemona event shop, maybe i would just farm sprint drinks till victrier arrives

Can be helpful if there's sprint among future faves

[sturdy flower]

i just went back to 2nd part of Galar VA

[tardy fiber]

I could do that but after i think back there's 100 free pulls this month anyway so those can cover my income

So might as well farm sprint drinks till wednesday reset

[cunning swan]

Same

Until we get an influx of sprints and fields (BP maybe?) I won't bother grinding the training area

[fair void]

i haven't been playing much for the past 5 and a half months (only logging in once every few days to collect low effort event gems) and i'm glad i'm finally back at 200k

[rare swan]

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my fellow Singapore Suit Lysandre enjoyer 😭

[fair void]

Tai! It's been a while! Glad you are doing well saving gems and all that haha. Prepared for 4th anni?

[rare swan]

I am also rocking the 200k+, very excited to see what we're getting!

rumours of a Villainversary abound.....

[sturdy flower]

wonder if we get any trailer today

quite likely we get some VA trailer or summary video

[upbeat lotus]

today is the final PWC day right?

[sturdy flower]

yep

final day of the genned pokemon ban wars

[upbeat lotus]

yeah highly possible

yesterday we had UNITE news

[tardy fiber]

6 and a half hours for the news

[upbeat lotus]

(actually the news was intended for today from what i heard)

[sturdy flower]

at the opening the important TPC guy said he will leave news for the end to not distract the players

[tardy fiber]

I think we will get the news, if not they wont hide palmer on the booth

[upbeat lotus]

||the 56th trainer was Lear, what a surprise||

[tardy fiber]

SsLear trust

[upbeat lotus]

[tardy fiber]

PoMa players will worry about their gem savings if they release the news earlier

Those that enter the tournament

[sturdy flower]

no, no

our game's job is to trick people into thinking it's the mainline news

like that Nemona trailer at first

[fallen path]

There’s supposed to be news for us at worlds?

[rare swan]

there might be

[sturdy flower]

we had them last year

[rare swan]

they've confirmed there will be game news in the closing ceremony

but there's no guarantee

[fallen path]

Well as long as it doesn’t require me to “watch” for rewards like Pokémon Go..

[upbeat lotus]

Watch Cafe Remix gets 2/3 of news duration like last year

[rare swan]

do not remind me

[latent salmon]

||man i was betting on the 56th being paulo(ser) ||

[sturdy flower]

getting a photo with Paulo would be like a penalty for most

[unkempt vortex]

The worst outcome

[tardy fiber]

Can i cope for worlds gem presents too?

[hard wave]

hopefully

It would mean the world to me

[tardy fiber]

But probably there's VA news as they accidentally posted this early and remove them quickly

Maybe internkun supposed to post it today

[hard wave]

Yeah they issued an apology for that or smth

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait to see the news to be playable paulo in banner on 28th August

[sturdy plank]

worlds gems ||so we can pull for nemona (lies)||

[weary spire]

Warning before clicking here, avoid for subject of gem spending: ||Mentioned it elsewhere before, but honestly still kinda kicking myself over 30k gems somewhat wasted imo.
Basically, because I had the gems, and Nemona was a fav, I intended to pull for 3/5 and likely hit pity at least. But, I got lucky and got 2 in my first 2 multis. At this point, with how careful I usually am with my gem spending, this would’ve made me simply take the 2/5 & run with it, saving 30k for a 3rd in the process. But maybe because it’d been a while or something, I just spent another 30k on dead pulls up ‘till my 3/5 at pity and kinda regret it. Especially because in hindsight, I had a gold candy. Imo, you’ve gotta take your luck and run while you’re ahead sometimes. Though I broke that rule of thumb, and that bugs me||

Not actually in a bad situation though, so no worries on that front, just about principle.
Save gems

[tardy fiber]

I got hit by the same situation a bunch of times, but my willpower is stronger this month well because next month is anniversary+VA finale...they could just release 3 anni faves and 2 villain faves without batting an eye

Although i hope that they combine it instead so will be cheaper for me, plenty villains here are reformed already so i guess no problem to give them anniversary alts

[weary spire]

||Yeah I get ya, in my case I feel it was less willpower and more lack of thought, prob bc I haven’t been as active in the game and my optimisation just wasn’t instinct. I didn’t feel I was gambling, I was committed and afterwards realised it just didn’t add up||

Especially in hindsight with the gold candy…

[tardy fiber]

Nemona stays till datamine though ||well at least you save your gold candies||

[rare swan]

that's frustrating as hell Ron I know how that feels

[weary spire]

||Not worth 30k, that’s worth more than a candy imo||

[tardy fiber]

Galar VA pairs are the ones that tempting a bunch of people now, although i already expected it as part 2 pairs always follow part 1 duration a couple of times now

[weary spire]

Yeah lol, I know everybody’s in diff situations so I don’t wanna give the impression it’s much more than a matter of principle

When you build good habits/plans for action, feels almost worse you broke the habit/plan than the actual consequence of it

[tardy fiber]

The adrenaline rush gets you, i always fall for that

[weary spire]

Ignoring other pairs by this point is second nature, that I had to remind myself which were Galar VA pairs

[weary spire]

Nahh I wouldn’t say as much for me, but I can understand it

[rare swan]

main thing is you got what you want in the end

[weary spire]

Maybe I didn’t put it as clearly

Lack of forethought, that’s the thing that bugs me most of all. Like when you always plan for something, do the math and then 1 day you don’t

[tardy fiber]

Like sometimes i got a pair on first or second multi and then the adrenaline kicks in like, i can save candies if i just got 2/5 or 3/5...and bam second copy via pity

Happens on sslysandre, annimay, anniskyla for me

[weary spire]

Yeah, it’s irrational to bug me to such a degree, sorta like missing your first daily gems when you never have lol. So it’ll pass

[weary spire]

I can sorta understand, yeah. I dunno if it’s ever driven me to act on going for dupes before though personally, but I’m sure temptation would have been stronger for me early on especially

In my mind, there is no lucky pull until it happens. You will always go to pity, and you will commit to it

If you get them 1st multi, 2nd, 3rd, etc… it’s a matter of how many until pity for a dupe, not “how lucky are you?”

That’s a bit of a text wall, lemme cut it down

[tardy fiber]

Luckily i doesnt chase 5/5 grids, it will be more tempting if i chase it

[weary spire]

Maybe yeah, in my mind I’d just process each dupe as a pity and figure it impossible lmao

Without paid selects or something

[tardy fiber]

Paid selects are one of the reasons i not chase 5/5 like i got my ssdawn and lucas 4/5 when getting them randomly in fair select multi

I was selecting other unit that time, iirc its ssleon

Kinda stings if you get em randomly and it becomes

[weary spire]

||Even when I was “going for 3/5” on Nemona, I thought that & separately, I also thought I was going to pity for 1/5… so that’s a weird way of showing how ingrained it is lol||

Oh wow, neat. And yeah lol, could imagine

[tardy fiber]

Yep just keep a mindset that the pair costs a pity, ||if there's extra move levels while going to pity then thats luck, if not, its ok as well||

I did that for some pairs

[weary spire]

Mhmm

Also gauge the value of candies to gems

I think there was something Aqua said about permitting the extra multi if you had over a rough amount of gems for security, for example starting at being willing to commit 6k to pity a dupe vs 9k to pity a dupe

||This is why I’m kicking myself so bad about that slipping my mind… 30k. I committed 30k to a dupe I wouldn’t even do 12k… Okay, I’m done, I swear||

[tardy fiber]

I see the candy demands discrepancies before attempting to get dupes.
Like currently i need:
Striker-sshilda 1/5, eusine 1/5, sslana 1/5 so 6 candies
Support-ssmina 2/5, ssacerola 1/5 so 3 candies
Tech-fall iris 2/5 so 1 candy

||If there's a fair select that costs 3-5k gems, that have those pairs, i will absolutely get it especially when i always buy the 3k gem bundle every 20 days||

[weary spire]

I need way too many candies I think, or at least I used to, haven’t checked anytime recently

[tardy fiber]

If there's a striker banner thats not MF and i have extra gems, i might consider getting dupe

[weary spire]

Mostly a lot of Tech

In my mind if it’s a MF banner, I might actually be slightly more willing to spend the extra 9k for a dupe

Very slightly

[tardy fiber]

MF banner only give free stuffs on the first 5 multis though

But with that 1% rate

[weary spire]

Oh I don’t care about the free stuff personally, nor the rate, that doesn’t make me pull in the first place

I already commit to pity

The only difference between my spending to pity a PF & spending to pity a MF is that the MF won’t ever be on a select

[tardy fiber]

I always think MF will costs a pity for me, well especially since 1/3 of em costs me pity to get a single copy

Or 1 copy right on the second last multi to pity

[weary spire]

I always think all banners will cost me a pity, maybe that’s the difference

I never go in for the gamble

[tardy fiber]

Yep i got 6 pokefair pities

Sslana is one of em

Lucas, ssmorty

[weary spire]

Not that you do either, but you might be more willing to weigh up how lucky you might be is what I mean, I guess

Which is fair if it works for you, I just go by the rule of committing pity for me

[tardy fiber]

I got 128k gems for anni, not counting remaining gems this month

Hope its enough

For anni faves

[weary spire]

Nice, depends on what you’re going for yeah, but since you go for legendaries, may be expensive

On the bright side, most legendaries are out, I think. They’re doing some more non-legend Anni stuff lately

[tardy fiber]

Yep if i got a copy early, i will just bail especially if its MF

[weary spire]

Or dark side, depends on how you see it lol. But bright side for affordability

Mhm

Always run while your luck is ahead imo… simply math it out, whether the dupe is worth the gems to pity

[tardy fiber]

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

Plenty more

[weary spire]

Yeah, there’s plenty, but also plenty more already released iirc, at least

[tardy fiber]

Not yet adding paldea

[weary spire]

Hmm… for anni… not sure what they’ll do, if they do some of those

[tardy fiber]

Probably hoopa Unbound

[weary spire]

Even Nemona’s addition surprised me though, ngl

[weary spire]

Maybe

They often like to do a trio of pairs

[tardy fiber]

Im skipping her, in case there's miraidon in the horizon

[weary spire]

Not impossible at this point

I didn’t expect Paldea at all until end of the year, or even early next year

[tardy fiber]

Yep probably new year, they usually release big stuff on new year other than anni

[dire meteor]

Yikes. Sorry to hear that. But look at it this way; ||the 30k gems all the way to pity was for a sync pair that you have as a favorite, and there's nothing wrong with splurging for a fave. And also gives DeNA a message that Nemona should have a second unit.||

[tardy fiber]

Not too bad too ||especially currently duping her costs yellow candies||

Unless there's an increase of new coins income next month

Seems good

They need to overhaul a bunch though, bp, event coins, probably master fair free coins multis too

Lodge

Poma day giving 5 coins instead of 3

[dire meteor]

Probably won't be for a while.

Maybe at the start of 2024

if not next month's poma day

[tardy fiber]

Or DeNa should just change all coins to yellow so its up to us to use it in what role

Like this month's 40 move coins in total

All change to 40 yellow coins

[vestal leaf]

I mean there's no doubt nemona would get an alt

Because this nemona is the rival version

We'll get the champion version 100%

[gloomy holly]

3 more days

Or less than 3 more days

[tardy fiber]

Stocking up my sprint drinks while waiting for victrier, not sure if i got time to farm field drinks as Victrier and Johto VA rerun starts on the same day

[rustic heron]

same

very weird how there’s a content drought and then two stamina events on the same day

[clever oyster]

you forgot Palmer

[sturdy flower]

Palmer is after anni or spotlight

they slept on him 4 years

[vestal leaf]

No way he's spotlight lol

He's at worst master bp

[upbeat lotus]

is that better than spotlight?

[mossy hawk]

I'm expecting pokefair

If he has a legendary, which is likely, it's instant pokefair status

[vestal leaf]

For availability yea

I can 3/5 him immediately

Instead of potentially waiting year/s

[rustic heron]

evelyn

nita

cobalion regirock mesprit

[mossy hawk]

Evelyn and Nita are exceptions

[rustic heron]

[mossy hawk]

And the rest are regular MC pairs

[rustic heron]

exceptions to a rule you just made up

[tardy fiber]

Yes because its free

I wont be surprised if he is bp, not many Legendaries can fit normal teamwork

Unless you all want normal teamwork arceus

[vestal leaf]

Master bp with Sinnoh flag bearer maybe

Instead of normal teamwork

[upbeat lotus]

imagine he is the reverse-Sprint role with the first sync increasing the sync countdown instead of reducing

[vestal leaf]

they made defeatist op

slow start be like: starts with +0 speed and atk, gets a buddy unlocked after team uses 5 moves that gives him +6 atk and speed

and a fuckton of passive effects

[oak crest]

[sturdy flower]

but he's forced to use a 4 bar move unbuffed twice

or not act till the moves are used

[vestal leaf]

I mean depends on the kit

But there's ways to make him decent

[tardy fiber]

True just because mainline have slow start, doesnt mean poma also will have it

[oak crest]

even if they do, might not be the same effs too

(esp if its obtainable through pulling only)

[tardy fiber]

Yep

Like how people will tempted to pull it if it have negative kit

[oak crest]

[tardy fiber]

Although i can see they do it like let his tm have 1 use, that +6 atk +3 crit +6 def +6 spdef, pm un 6 stacks but -6 spd

Then put downside up on 5/5 grid

Oh right, slow start passive that makes all of Regigigas attack need to be pressed twice like ssN but increase its move damage by 100% would be neat

[deft glen]

When is/was this supposed to be?

[vestal leaf]

We already got a trailer

Today

[tardy fiber]

No poma news

Only unite, pokemon card, and sv dlc

[upbeat lotus]

I guess poma want to have its own trailer

[tardy fiber]

Hope so, iirc they revealed annimay early on their own trailer video

The video that show free 100 pulls

Oh right, we still missing that

[upbeat lotus]

Very likely yeah

They have to announce run up to anni events

[tardy fiber]

And we gonna get our first 10 tix on Wednesday reset

So probably a video before that

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I'd expect something tomorrow

Because they usually do it 48hrs before

[tardy fiber]

Neat

[upbeat lotus]

Poma trailers are oddly satisfied to watch

[sonic cobalt]

Even better when people assume it’s Main Line stuff.

[tardy fiber]

Did people fell to Nemona trailer?

[upbeat lotus]

Yes

Someone made a complication of reaction in #1077600211108638830

[tardy fiber]

I cannot believe a lot of streamers given up on PoMa although it's a very f2p friendly gacha

I like that poma content is bigger now from the time i started it, mainly due to VA

Now it feels quite big, like a mainline game with some story plots are permanently available and accessible

Cannot wait to see what will appear after VA

[upbeat lotus]

Modern poma feels great. I think these people still have bad feelings about the poma dark ages

And uhhh... its a gacha game

[vestal leaf]

Because it's harder to make belanced Poma content

[tardy fiber]

I guess i kinda feel some of that dark ages, when i joined, PML story quests still uses stamina

[vestal leaf]

You either full focus or don't bother

[tardy fiber]

I remembered clearing bunch of PML stories to scrounge for gems to get Maxie and Archie

[upbeat lotus]

At that time poma was not into dark ages anymore

[vestal leaf]

Dark ages were day 1 to 1.5 tbfh

[tardy fiber]

I guess so, im in much better condition then the bad thing ive experienced are:
-story quests cost stamina
-legendary events monthly and not permanent like now
-oh right painful daily bp rotation battle

[vestal leaf]

EBEs debuting when f2p or gen pool has barely 10 usable units

I'll never forget those tough skin 7 Charizards with evasion

[tardy fiber]

That sounds harsh, i missed maxie archie EBE as after i joined, there's only the banners left but no maxie archie event available

[upbeat lotus]

I remember giving up on Maxie EBE

[tardy fiber]

So i missed the free candies

[vestal leaf]

I had to make do with 1/5 may, which I got when pulling Maxie

But tbh Archie ebe was free without Maxie

Brendan destroyed

No tough skin, no evasion, very weak aoes

[tardy fiber]

The next EBE after that iirc is anni 2021 EBE which i managed to cleared because i pulled for all 3 pairs

[vestal leaf]

lear ebe in that event sucked

because lol alola

[broken mulch]

God

Sync orb grinding was so trash

Pre stamina days were grinding hell honestly

[crisp oracle]

oh screw that battle challenge, that was the extreme battle

[oak crest]

Thank god BP Sophocles carried me on that

[sturdy flower]

he didn't exist the first time around

[tardy fiber]

Iirc f2p run in the first one need kiawe and acerola

Astonish gaming

[sturdy flower]

Paldea missions will be annoying at first

unless we get a free unit before

[tardy fiber]

They need to release some spotlight before the first daily paldea bp i guess

[sturdy flower]

Paldea npc dragon tamer would be nice + freebie character to kickstart

[tardy fiber]

I hope they bring back NPC trainers

[sturdy flower]

the tamers would be cool because i imagine they are big fans of Lance

[tardy fiber]

Its nice to see the NPC have more personalities here

[sturdy flower]

or the fat old man Charles the student

[broken mulch]

… oh man Paldea theme EBs are gonna kick my ass

[oak crest]

Hopefully I have some Paldea units when they finally drop the EBE

[sturdy flower]

hope they are smart and give us 3 free was

first Paldea EBE are likely to be double region or region + something

[broken mulch]

Plz be type

[unique ivy]

Help I only have 1.2k for anni and I want battle tower Leon

I cant get pity on him tho

[tardy fiber]

They doesn't even give us 3 free galar...only hop for a long time and finally time limited victrier soon

Oh tomorrow gems is quite big

930 gems

[sturdy flower]

430 from Nemona

100 login

where is the 400 from

[oak crest]

100 from weekly

[vestal leaf]

wait for a rerun

there's no reason to throw the maximum 2 multis you're gonna get before he leaves

they could mean you'd get a pity next month

[crisp oracle]

||Yeah, you're not going to be able to get him...if you are starting from 1.2K. Best to try to stack a pity for anniversary||

[flat schooner]

From today until <t:1692338401:d> you can get up to 6950 .
For more information check /events and /banners!

[crisp oracle]

||yeah...unless you're really close to pity your not gonna guarenteed getting him||

||so wait for a rerun and keep a pity for him at all times if you want the unit||

[upbeat lotus]

please spoiler pulling talk

[sonic cobalt]

Ugh the low gem days hurt

[crisp oracle]

My bad

[upbeat lotus]

I didnt refer to you, there was someone complaining about ||spending 1.2k and got nothing||. It seems they deleted the comment

[crisp oracle]

oh lol must have been a deleted comment

no harm no foul

[flat schooner]

From today until <t:1692597601:d> you can get up to 8800 .
For more information check /events and /banners!

[sturdy flower]

tragedy

[sonic cobalt]

not enough gems in the world

though, I just realized that Joh Trio stays around at least until Anni Datamine, yeah?

[upbeat lotus]

Ofc

[sonic cobalt]

Good. Good. So I can at least wait and see what might be coming up before I get trigger happy

Kris is a fave, but if I see the option of getting C Elesa during anni...

[vernal glade]

I’m waiting for datamine also.

[unique ivy]

Oop sry didn’t know that was a thing

[upbeat lotus]

Just spoiler pulling talk here

[unique ivy]

Also now I’m having a existential crisis. Do I save for SS Kris (I don’t have her) or still save for anni

[wet egret]

Save for datamine is the best

[unique ivy]

K neat thx

[latent salmon]

man maybe being a little burnt out is good for my gem count, seeing how tempting the bait up rn is...

||of course, bait won't matter when johtrio reruns||

[tardy fiber]

Seeing the new trailer highlights only about the VA, i guess its only will be villainversary then

Not separate between villain finale and anniversary

Well still dangerous for me i guess, more villains uses legendaries, mythicals, UBs than normal people

[cunning swan]

Yay villainversary

But I don't have villain faves...

Anni skip month?

[tardy fiber]

Its already been a skip for me last year

I hope this year got some faves

[clever oyster]

...quick question

Is there still a point in getting SS Kris if I already have Eusine?

I at least know I am in no rush to get SS Lyra since I already have SS Acerola

...even though I kinda like Celebi...

[tough oriole]

Assuming that suicune is a fave?

[clever oyster]

...hard to tell

[tough oriole]

If it’s hard to tell whether it’s a fave or not, then i’d say it’s probably a skip

[clever oyster]

Okay

Sadly, still no info on the anni sync pairs, though

and we only will get the info when Gloria's banner is already gone

[vestal leaf]

Well depends if Kris is fave or not

[clever oyster]

...eh...don't think so...

[vestal leaf]

Then no

[clever oyster]

Okay

Anyway, my hopes for getting Anni sync pair info during the tourney were sasly crushed and destroyed

So...I guess I'll go through with my plan on Gloria's final banner day

[tardy fiber]

They both do different stuffs but yep if you're unsure its better to just skip...dont want to feel regret after spending, it feels bad

[cunning swan]

not to mention they last until september anyway

[tardy fiber]

Well as you have eusine, you might can clear ssethan ebe...iirc it needs trap

[cunning swan]

ss ethan EBE was the easiest out of the three

[tardy fiber]

Oh right blaine can clear it as well if they keep both kanto and johto boost like in the past

Oh bperika too

[mossy hawk]

It doesn't need trap specifically

[tardy fiber]

Oh flinch works too? I forgot which of johto and kanto that can easily flinch

SsBrock gaming

I didn't realise training area got boost drops currently

I thought theres none this month due to no stamina rally

Well it does helps, i got a bunch of sprint drinks now

[broken mulch]

Hmm out of the villains…

I guess Lusamine and N would tempt me the most but N is stretching it haha

Villain wise I mean

Oh maybe the Hoenn comedy duo

[tardy fiber]

Trailer show Gio with wormhole scene from end of kalos VA, Gio Guzzlord cmon

[broken mulch]

Lol

Giozzlord

[tardy fiber]

Giohilego

[clever oyster]

Oh yeah, speaking of banners

You ever had a situation where you had one half of a duo, but were missing the other half of the duo, only for a banner to show up that has the missing half dangling in front of you?

and even though you at first didn't care too much for any of the two characters, having only one half of the duo still felt too incomplete for you?

[mossy hawk]

I do still want Anni May to complete the Eon duo, she reran in a busy month so had to skip

[vestal leaf]

I mean depends on the half

If it's a fair it'll rerun

Unless it's one of the few cursed fairs

MFs rerun seem also more feasible in the future

The only big trouble is missing a seasonal duo or such

Because they rerun with ass rates

Once a year

[tardy fiber]

I got annimay and anniskyla and i skipped anniraihan, i skipped him again when he reruns

If its not a fave, i doesnt mind its trio or quad or duo, i still skip

I only grab fall iris and hleon, i doesn't even mind missing hnessa and fallister

[broken mulch]

I think that happened quit recently

What was it

I think it was SS Brendan?

[clever oyster]

I actually have the Eon duo completed

The duo that I have left incomplete, though, is the Subway Masters

I have Emmet, but not Ingo

...and Ingo is on a banner right now...

the temptation is there

[vestal leaf]

It's a shitty LG banner

They're never worth in busy month

We had this exact discussion about diantha for a diantha fan couple days ago

This trio will rerun soon

6 months probably

[mossy hawk]

If Latias is in a gauntlet, Diantha reruns

Same for Moltres and Ingo

[tardy fiber]

Inb4 they give Ingo in a free select

[ashen thunder]

No select revealed yet

Hopefully has stuff till celesa when they do reveal

[tardy fiber]

I was surprised that they give alder before

[ashen thunder]

Well there weren't much choices to begin with

Now there's so much PFs so they can go for quite a lot of themes

[tardy fiber]

Main character free pokefair select

[ashen thunder]

I am kind of expecting rival theme this time

But I'd take any free select at this point since the run up is pretty disappointing

[clever oyster]

Please

I still need Bede

...well, less Bede and moreso Hatterene

cute lil gremlin piloting a hair mech

[rustic heron]

i wish you luck on getting bede

he’s such a fun unit

[cunning swan]

Moltres has actually rerun with Emmet too

But if you're only gunning for 1 specific character, that triple banner sucks

[cunning swan]

Rivals have been getting a lot of love this year, I have faith

[clever oyster]

...wait, does the banner end before or after the datamine shows up?

[tardy fiber]

Only galar VA pairs end before datamine iirc

[rustic heron]

if datamine comes out on the 25th then it’s available for one more day

[timber wren]

hard to say

odds are good we get the update by the 25th

[tardy fiber]

Ash and Annilillie released on 28th August, so probably datamine will happen before 28

[rare swan]

the past few have been on the 25th

[rustic heron]

it’ll probably be 25th but we dunno

[timber wren]

if it’s not on or before the 25th it has to come an hour before anni on the 28th which is cutting it really close

i think they’ve only released an update like that once or twice

[rustic heron]

why’s that

[timber wren]

weekend

[rustic heron]

oh lol

i hope it’s on the 25th

[tardy fiber]

Oh right this month's 25 is on friday

[rustic heron]

waiting has been hell

[tardy fiber]

28 is on Monday

[timber wren]

not long now

[rustic heron]

only like a week and a half right

[tardy fiber]

For sure they wont do weekend update

[rustic heron]

we have said stuff like that before for fridaytamines but nah

weekend update is very improbable

weekends are when dena staff goes home and go snork mimimimimi

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait to see move coins allocation

DeNa should just change all move coins to yellow...it will be easier

[rustic heron]

true

triple field anniversary with no field move coins

[tardy fiber]

Datamine will be a blast, new bp units

[rustic heron]

wonder who the 4* bp units will be

hopefully a kalosian support

[tardy fiber]

I hope one of it is Galar, it can help newbies

[rustic heron]

cuz we ain’t got many of those

ooh yeah galar would also be good

[tardy fiber]

There's only free hop and time limited victrier

[rustic heron]

since the only 4* galarian units are the lodge pairs

is it too much to ask for a paldean bp unit as well

gimme master fair penny and sylveon

and bp penny and literally any other eon

penny and espeon maybe

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, unless they add a bunch of paldean pairs at once

[rustic heron]

to round out the eight

[tardy fiber]

So we will need spotlight paldea pairs too to start with paldea daily region battle

If not there's no point of paldea region tickets

[rustic heron]

i will gladly take any paldean spotlight pairs

when was galar region rotation added?

looks like july 2021 according to serebii

[unkempt vortex]

Nah they’ll make it paldea pf

Force people to pull to do region battle

[rustic heron]

so we had bea nessa and piers by then

which is. technically a good team

[tardy fiber]

I will pull if faves, if not, i will just use my galar birbs or lati duos+deoxys

Off region gaming

[rustic heron]

yeah off regioning the rotation isn’t hard

[vestal leaf]

i'm kinda scared because between reruns, new bps, anni units, maybe free units and late september units we might get one of the busiest months ever banner wise

[tardy fiber]

Plenty of stuffs is nice, its only once in a year

Well half anni aint that busy

I will be able to level 150 all of my faves this month, so i really hope that my faves will appear next month

[gloomy holly]

Bleh

[unique ivy]

I wonder who the master fairs will be for the anni I’m hoping someone with melloetta

We also haven’t had anybody with manaphy or Keldeo maybe May and Manaphy?

[unique ivy]

I lied Diantha and Keldeo

[ashen thunder]

Diantha already has horse

But shiny horse

Maybe ssnate

[unique ivy]

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking

So my top 3 are Rosa and Melloetta, May and Manaphy, and Nate and Shiny Keldeo

[mossy hawk]

Mythical anni

I like those pokemon

Manaphy the most

[vestal leaf]

I'd like Nate with fight meloetta and Rosa with sing meloetta but I think they'll condensate the two forms into one kit most likely

[sonic cobalt]

We haven’t had a Virizon pair have we?

[feral vale]

Nope

[tough oriole]

||You could cope for BP morgan and verizion in #events-board ||

[unique ivy]

Or terrakion

Also I really feel like I should yolo for SS KRIS

oops caps

[crisp oracle]

Do you like Kris as a character?

||And remember a yolo now is one less multi for a character you really want later, you should really save 36,600 gems first before even considering pulling anything||

Also please censor pulling talk

||I will be pulling on her, but only because I like Kris and I have a barrel of gems, but depends on datamine||

[unique ivy]

||I don’t have her in general and out of the 3 she’s my least fav but I already have Lyra from yolo and tried to yolo Ethan didn’t work but I have SS Liza so she’s really the only one I need||

||I’ve just heard that she’s a top water support and my best water support is SS Blue and Balstoise||

[crisp oracle]

||If you want her, wait for the datamine to see if Anni has something you want||
And then save a pity of gems.

[crisp oracle]

||I did forget to ask… why do you feel like you need her?||

[unique ivy]

||Well I don’t have the best supports my best are. Dawn and Wormadam, SS Morty, Hop and Zamezenta, Sycamore, and Sonia, and Nita||

||Along with Evelyn ||

||I can dm u my best supports.||

[crisp oracle]

And you know what? That’s ok.

This game is easy enough where FTP units + a few limited should clear most content

And besides, SS Morty is a top tier support

[unique ivy]

||Yeah I got really lucky he was one of the stuff I saved and yolod I had ||9k

||Oh I also have SS Acerola who was also spending yolo||

[crisp oracle]

Well…you don’t need every uber-tier support to clear content in game

[unique ivy]

|| I am a yolo master||

[crisp oracle]

||It seems like you like yoloing. Have you considered your favorite characters and saving gems for them?||

My personal favorites are Diantha, and a far second, Gloria. I always make sure I funds for their alts

[unique ivy]

|| Yes I’ve been doing since game came out you see I save them I get impatient then pull for other sync pairs I don’t need I pulled for ss silver when I had Eusine and Irida||

[crisp oracle]

A few characters/Pokémon should work

[unique ivy]

||I wanted to save since Eusine and Oleana||

I really like Wally and really any Hoenn unite

||I yoloed for Nemona after the presents and got her||

||I do wanna save for when Penny and Sylveon come out||

I like a lot of the Paldea Characters it has my favorite line of characters since Hoenn

[crisp oracle]

||Alrighty, now the saver’s mentality involves limiting pulling outside of the favorites list||

[unique ivy]

||That’s true ig||

[crisp oracle]

Now, it’s not impossible, but saving that first pity is always the hardest

That is the time where you refine in exactly what you want

[uneven pewter]

Villainversery?

[crisp oracle]

||And limit going outside of that box||

[uneven pewter]

Honestly i am confused why people are still genning

[hard wave]

Its faster ig

Idk about competitive tho

[sturdy flower]

probably for 0 atk iv

[uneven pewter]

This is why ivs are stupid just saying

PLA got it right

[sturdy flower]

altho they could just gen a mon and then breed it to have legit one

if they really want to cheat

[uneven pewter]

I mean they could also have half a brain and actually check if it passes

There’s a LOT of tools to do that

[sturdy flower]

you can max iv with capsles, but not min them

[uneven pewter]

Then the tpc needs to address it

Tbh I think ivs are a dated mechanic

[sturdy flower]

it really is

individuality should come from pokemon size and other physical features

not stats

[uneven pewter]

Bingo

And items like in PLA does the rest

We’ll see where the next game goes

Meanwhile in pomas land

[sturdy flower]

pomas land is lazy land too

[uneven pewter]

Well

They just need to work smarter and not harder

[sturdy flower]

i wouldn't mind if they worked harder...

[uneven pewter]

Imagine if they made a battle tower where you kept going till you dropped

Max raid weeklies for loot piñatas

[sturdy flower]

pretty sure dev cost of one costume is like 2k usd tops

because for most of them the animations are premade

[uneven pewter]

Guild raid monthlies for max raids and rare events

And then for a pseudo pvp experience

[sturdy flower]

i don't want pvp of any kind

[uneven pewter]

Everyone sets up their own custom full force battles

I said pseudo

Think of it like making a challenge dungeon and players come to beat it up

Granted if they had banned units poor ss lyra and ss cyrus would be perma banned

But that’s the idea i had

Players exchange dungeon tags

Or something like that

Other players try their luck

Aka

Freaking secret bases/gyms

[sturdy flower]

it sounds very time consuming for Dena

because of how our units aren't designed for this

[vestal leaf]

aka mario maker EX

[sturdy flower]

unless it would have generic stats and you just choose move order

[uneven pewter]

They barely have to do anything except make a few guis

[uneven pewter]

The units would be anything on your roster

[uneven pewter]

Point is any game developer that doesn’t exploit their own community for content generation is dumb

Give them mod tools

And watch them build forever

And then profit off the shiny new stuff