Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[weary spire]

But I’m not saying it’ll kill the game or something like that to be clear

I think it may as well join the game as it’s already dying

[tardy fiber]

The game will eos when it is no longer profitable

[weary spire]

Exactly

Arceus is a good way of milking out some extra cash before it goes out ngl

And you don’t really have to think about beyond that

[tardy fiber]

They can just release arceus, and then shiny arceus after 2 years

[weary spire]

Lmao I’d hate that for all the reasons stated

There’s just too many issues with it imo

[ashen thunder]

Just release 17 Arceus for each type normal doesn't exist

[weary spire]

[ashen thunder]

And shiny version once they run out of those

[tardy fiber]

Nah it probably just gonna be special attack silvally with higher stats

[weary spire]

Even worse… have it outclass every type individually as 18 diff units

[ashen thunder]

I mean
Id rather use a chunni frog than god of water

[tardy fiber]

Probably put some sc steven rebuff kit on it

[ashen thunder]

Powercreep is inevitable in any gacha

[weary spire]

Then that runs into one of my issues of releasing the god of Pokemon as an extremely underwhelming, uncreative unit which is just terrible imo

[weary spire]

Agreed

Something like Arceus is a good way to cap it all off

You can easily say fuck it

[tardy fiber]

Well depends if most of the playerbase doesn't have any problems with it and only you have problems, you can skip it

[weary spire]

Especially considering PLA makes it so it can actually change its type on the spot to whatever is best against the opponent

So you can just make it the same

[tardy fiber]

Well does PLA arceus transferrable to SV, including the endgame plate?

[weary spire]

Nah lol, I’m not talking about whether I’d pull it tho

[ashen thunder]

Well they can keep Arceus as meta for a long time
Like they did with SSred

[weary spire]

I’m saying lore-wise, function-wise, everything, I just haven’t seen any good counters for why it could work well yet imho

[tardy fiber]

True

[weary spire]

Maybe someone will change my mind someday

[ashen thunder]

I still don't think I've seen a unit stay meta that long in any gacha

[weary spire]

Bc I think some focus too much on the meta POV

[ashen thunder]

Except maybe castoria in fgo

[weary spire]

The “meta” aspect is like 1 small part of it, I’m not nearly as focused on it

I think the meta aspect is immediately resolved by just releasing it as broken as you want near end of game life, anyway

[tardy fiber]

This game not even that hard, so most old units are still meta...not like we have PVP where the meta constantly shifting with Dev handing out buffs and nerfs

[weary spire]

Ye

[ashen thunder]

Then what's the problem with scoutable Arceus?

[tardy fiber]

Yeap

Thats what im saying

[weary spire]

^

[ashen thunder]

When every other god is summonable it wouldn't matter if he's not there

[tardy fiber]

No problem

[weary spire]

You two seem too focused on meta

[ashen thunder]

No

[tardy fiber]

[weary spire]

Which is fine, I’m js that’s not the same with me here

[ashen thunder]

You are the one talking abt Arceus being outclassed

[weary spire]

Bro

[tardy fiber]

[weary spire]

I don’t know how else to say everything else I have already without repeating

[tardy fiber]

I guess special attack silvally is meta

[weary spire]

I don’t know how else to say that the meta aspect is hardly any of the full reasons I don’t like the idea

[weary spire]

This is at least something separate from the meta thing being discussed

[ashen thunder]

I just want god summonable

[weary spire]

I think that’s fine

[tardy fiber]

You just saying you dont want Arceus to appear because it signifies EoS, and if its too weak you will feel disappointed.

[sturdy hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pokeballs-pokeball-gif-24974158

Me finding the Pokémon god

[weary spire]

But yeah as mentioned, every legend is a “god” of something in the verse, I’m not focused on the word “god” as a big point of something

[ashen thunder]

Real God is shiny bidoof anyways

https://tenor.com/view/bidoof-bidoofbodybuilder-op-gif-25869397

[sturdy hatch]

Speaking of units missing from the game

[weary spire]

“God is on vacation in Paldea and has decided to pair with Lucas or something, I dunno, he likes him”

💯

[sturdy hatch]

Basic PoMa plot

[ashen thunder]

Lucas already had god of time under him

[weary spire]

Lmaooo frfr

V different

[tardy fiber]

Thats why i said, they released the so called god pokemon in gen 4, and we already reached gen 9...the game still go on, Arceus being playable doesnt change a thing, even if its broken or not, not like we have constantly shifting Meta here

[weary spire]

I think the gen aspect is irrelevant though, even the meta aspect is hardly part of it

I can at least say we can agree to disagree on those things

👍

[tardy fiber]

Still i wont be surprised if they released Volo arceus soon and the game still goes on like 2 years more

Many materials that can still make money is still available

[weary spire]

I was just saying I think it’s a smart move to milk it near end of game life

Agreed, I don’t think the game is dying

[tardy fiber]

If anything dying, it probably pokemon sleep and cafe remix first

[weary spire]

That’s why I personally don’t expect it anytime soon, but again, agree to disagree c:

Lol prob

I don’t think the game is at risk of dying in case that was misunderstood again, ftr

[tardy fiber]

And we will get nonsense collaboration like hatsune miku collab, persona collab, none of pokemon related stuffs

[unkempt vortex]

Nah

That’s not this game

[ashen thunder]

Hatsune miku and farfetch'd let's go

[dire meteor]

I don't think they'd even touch that with a ten foot pole.

[unkempt vortex]

That’s more along the lines of PAD

[weary spire]

Nor do I think “meta” is a big aspect of what keeps the game alive, felt that may have been where the misunderstanding came from earlier

[unkempt vortex]

PAD has pretty much taken every collab

[weary spire]

Most units already feel broken for content

[unkempt vortex]

Pokémon will never touch anything outside of it

[weary spire]

Idc about broken as much as like 99% of people

[tardy fiber]

Still i gonna cope for pogo or pokken collab

Or more anime collab

Alain please

[weary spire]

Part of me likes the idea of Arceus being just a special Silvally though, not because that’s what I think actually makes sense for it but

If it’s terrible, that would be pretty funny

[ashen thunder]

Arceus gonna be genesect for all typings

[weary spire]

It would be a lot of lost potential $ cashing in on Arceus

[ashen thunder]

There I fixed it

[unkempt vortex]

Imagine that’s why they haven’t given misty or Brock an alt in years because they’re anime

[tardy fiber]

Special silvally with sc steven rebuff kit easy money

[unkempt vortex]

I know that’s not the real reason it’s just funny

[ashen thunder]

Still no ex misty starmie

[weary spire]

Just make it change type right before it attacks, to be super-effective against everything w/ its Judgment and sync like with its Legend Plate or whatever

[tardy fiber]

They are saving it to release with lodge misty kingler

[weary spire]

Misty & Arceus (we spun a wheel)

[ashen thunder]

Misty & water plate arceus

[tardy fiber]

They already experiment this with Field, the zone refreshes right before sync damage hits after syncing

[weary spire]

🤢 If they do all 18 types… I mean, it’s a good cash-grab but brooo

[tardy fiber]

Well scsteven does the same

17 rebuffs

[weary spire]

I would prob do that in my final year of the game

[ashen thunder]

18 types
Regular and shiny versions for each

[weary spire]

Nah I mean 18 units

[ashen thunder]

So 36 in total

[unkempt vortex]

Then it’s on you if you pull for every type

[weary spire]

[ashen thunder]

Even if they drop 1 Arceus per month, it'll take 3 years to be done with it

[weary spire]

It’d just be funny

[tardy fiber]

I gonna pull fairy type, my fairy is still lacking

[sturdy hatch]

Each one adds an additional multiplier to your High Score

[weary spire]

Even if you were shameless enough to release 18 diff Arceus

I dunno if you’d be as shameless as to release 18 Shinies for every type

The balls to do that

[unkempt vortex]

It cuts your high score in half

[tardy fiber]

Highscore, i only have 5 electric support pairs

[weary spire]

Pokemon Masters would be seen as a mega gacha meme and would be blasted hard on every front

That would end things with a bang tho

[unkempt vortex]

Like it isn’t already

[weary spire]

[ashen thunder]

It's still less annoying than the 20 artoria versions in fgo

[weary spire]

I’ve changed my mind. I do want to see every Arceus-type, and with Shinies for each
… When I stop playing the game, so I can spectate from afar and have a good laugh about it

[tardy fiber]

Wow they keep milking that character? And people still pulling it?

[unkempt vortex]

Well that’s fate

[ashen thunder]

Or I should mention 50 saber faces
Damn you takeuchi

[unkempt vortex]

Which is just arterial the series

[weary spire]

Lol

You better prepare 36 pities Vantner

👀

[ashen thunder]

They always see bump in sales when a new saber face happens

So pomas can do same shit with Arceus

Actually they can already try it with Charizard

Release a flying type charizard

And shiny version

[tardy fiber]

Well at least pokemon they can say like arceus from different universes or something, but 20 or 50 varieties of the same character is madness

[ashen thunder]

People would still pull

[weary spire]

Shinies & mega forms already allow you to do similar anyway

[ashen thunder]

We already have 2 zards and still no shinies or mega Y

[weary spire]

Reg mega Y, Shiny mega Y, reg Mega X, Shiny Mega X, regular

[ashen thunder]

[weary spire]

Regular (again)

[unkempt vortex]

Slap a female with it and it sells

[weary spire]

Regular (once more)

[unkempt vortex]

Like look at all the female protag alts compared to the males

[weary spire]

Just give an Arceus to each popular protag

[tardy fiber]

Cynthia shiny mega garchomp, and the sync pair story will be like she ditches her normal one after getting this...pretty sure it still sells

[ashen thunder]

Wtf
How dare you leave out nate

[weary spire]

I think Arceus as a Pokemon is just an avatar of the deity iirc

So who’s to say that it can’t decide to have a bunch in 1 verse take holiday in Pasio

[unkempt vortex]

Ore no bunshin

[tardy fiber]

Kinda wonder if arceus is so omnipotent, why we can still catch via pokeball, wont it cause consequences to the pokemon universe

[dire meteor]

I do hope next month has better gem amounts

[unkempt vortex]

It won’t

[weary spire]

They explained it through the avatar thing in PLA, surprisingly

[tardy fiber]

at least 30k

[weary spire]

The Arceus we know as a Pokemon is kind of like an avatar of it

[dire meteor]

[unkempt vortex]

20k take it or leave it

[ashen thunder]

40k gems

[unkempt vortex]

And it’s all on poma day

[ashen thunder]

And a free master fair selector

[tardy fiber]

So no problem for it to be playable, DeNa can just cook that its power lessens after arriving at Pasio or something

[weary spire]

So it’s not like you catch god, it’s more like… idk you catch Jesus or something, can I say that?

[ashen thunder]

Lemme get payquaza without gems damn it

[unkempt vortex]

Cope harder

[ashen thunder]

Idk what else to cope for

[unkempt vortex]

You’re not breathing enough cope

[tardy fiber]

Intriguing, i might grab if it has adaman/irida and if its cheap enough

[unkempt vortex]

it costs 10k paid

[tardy fiber]

I kinda try to collect lodge guests if its cheap

[ashen thunder]

Idk what to cope for other than 40k+ gems and free MF selector

[tardy fiber]

But 10k+ is quite a lot

[weary spire]

Everything is theoretically possible, you can have even shittier writing than usual and make anything work, I still might not like it was my point :p

Really, all you have to say is “God wants to take a holiday in Pasio and really liked being around Lillie, so it let itself be caught by her and view the world as her Pokemon” or some shit like that

You can do anything you want, it doesn’t have to be good

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[ashen thunder]

Arceus liked lillie's Arceus cosplay during halloween and joined her for Halloween alt

[tardy fiber]

Although i think probably Cynthia or Volo gets it, although i dont mind Lucas

[unkempt vortex]

Lillie should be jailed

[weary spire]

That’s why I never said it was impossible, just that I wouldn’t like it nor expect it to be likely bc even DeNA would probably have to reach the bottom of the barrel

[tardy fiber]

Alt 4 Cynthia

[unkempt vortex]

Lucas alt version

Sorry alt 2

[weary spire]

We don’t have to lunge towards the bottom and scrape it though, we have a lot of material before then

Many mons

[tardy fiber]

Give me my Wo-Chien first before EoS

[ashen thunder]

Nate and shiny Arceus

Let's go

[weary spire]

[ashen thunder]

A literal god had to help nate get an alt

[weary spire]

Just give it like 1-2 years, we’ll get the treasures of ruin at some point for sure

[ashen thunder]

Sounds about right

[tardy fiber]

Inb4 UnoVa remake or legends UnoVa introduce origin dragon that help make Unova continent

[weary spire]

Nate prayed to some kind of god out there that people would pay attention to him and give him the credit he is due, then Arceus answered his prayer

[tardy fiber]

The god that answered Nate is Bidoof

Nate Bidoof lets go

[ashen thunder]

Omg

Even better

Bidoof > Arceus totally

[weary spire]

The event is Nate taking out his frustrations on Pasio by obliterating everyone, Hilbert especially, and then bringing everyone back to pretend nothing happened

[ashen thunder]

I'd take it

[tardy fiber]

But i kinda hope Nate prayers was answered by the Sacred Earth Deity, Diglett the ruler of caves and land

[weary spire]

Unova remake will prob unfortunately come after this game is dead ngl, unless this game actually goes on for ages

A legends game though, who knows

[ashen thunder]

Well considering JP revenues it can go on for atleast another 3 years

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[weary spire]

Unova remakes are prob due in like 4

Not impossible though

[tardy fiber]

And by the time it is close to 2/3 years time for next gen

[ashen thunder]

They can also pull out stuff like swimsuit cynthia if game is actually dying

That should bring the game back to feet

[tardy fiber]

Gen 10

Kinda interested to see what the title is gonna be

[weary spire]

We’ve gotta wait for gen 10 first, then half or most of its lifetime to go by

They might just surprise people though, but I hope not considering they struggle to manage the games they pump out constantly

[tardy fiber]

Oh right datamine is too far, so better i see SV news on 22nd first

They gave Serebii the tea set with 22nd August date

[weary spire]

I have no idea what to expect of datamine ngl, don’t really have any thoughts

[tardy fiber]

Bp pairs

More free pairs are always nice

[weary spire]

Oh yeah, that

Looking forward to ticket pool update

[tardy fiber]

Also anything Paulo is cooking probably tease next story arc

[weary spire]

Can finally use my tickets

Wait oh yeah, Paulo

I completely forgot they have his whole arc and all, haven’t kept up with VAs for a while

You reckon they’d ever release a banner pair with Paulo?

[tardy fiber]

Although its probably multiverse thingy, that can be a good reason to release Warden Ingo alongside his counterpart, also Galar VA highlights that Rose and Oleana come from different timeline, while that universe's Rose is in a prison serving jail sentence

So on Pasio's universe there's already 2 Rose

[weary spire]

I think the rifts kinda explained Adaman/Irida decently at least

[tardy fiber]

No problem to release these guys too if its multiverse thingy

[weary spire]

Warden Ingo would stand alongside actual Ingo though, fair

At least Adaman & Irida are original charas

At that point you might have Akari & Rei join in

[tardy fiber]

Yep

[weary spire]

I think that might be pushing it ngl 💀

[tardy fiber]

Plenty of stuff for them to do, well at least probably better than PML 2

Lear succession war or something, conflict with other prince and princess

[weary spire]

Who knows, I suppose

[tardy fiber]

Im glad that thing with Paulo will finally end

[weary spire]

All I know is… my gems are safe from all of the above

[tardy fiber]

Waited for years, to know that the interlude event actually happened after all VAs

As Lear still have hoopa in Galar Va

[weary spire]

Prepare for potential Unbound

[tardy fiber]

Yep, hope its dark

Well i wont feel that mad if its psychic, but i already have 10 psychic fave

[broken mulch]

I won’t need either, but thankfully I hate Paulo so skip lol

[junior trout]

pity reached‼️

[cunning swan]

kicks door open

Alola red and blue please

[crisp oracle]

I want to see an Alola Leaf concept at one point

[cunning swan]

< alola Leaf at home

[crisp oracle]

speaking of Naomi, rerun with EX powerups when

[vestal leaf]

Let's gooo easy skip!!!

[grim plover]

[lapis pine]

15k gems

Not a lot but the first time in months I’ve actually been able to save some stuff up

[cunning swan]

[crisp oracle]

||I am proud to say I have survived Gloria temptation; I will get her on the rerun||

||unfortuately we have too many potential faves coming up and I had to skip her this go-around||

slash fail

[sturdy flower]

you did well

[uneven pewter]

[uneven pewter]

She wasn’t ss steven levels of regret

So i can agree on this

Get her on a selector or the next go round

Maybe she’ll show up on the ny selector

[hard wave]

|| I didnt but hopefully can get her on rerun as well ||

[feral vale]

Yeah why tf was she not given her EX when the others got it?

[hard wave]

Wdym?
C.Giovanni, Bluecanine, Misty only got 4* PUs in the shop (I assume bugscy as well)
Victor thru login
Jessie james I assume they didnt get PUs
Naomi helena and kali got both 3 and 4* PUs

Idk if misty EX was free on release tho

[feral vale]

I wasn’t referring to the PU’s, I was referring to the EX in general

Event Bugsy got his EX with no style, which is kinda weird ._.

OH YEAH KALI AND HELENA DON’T HAVE EX’S EITHER TF

IS THEIR LOGIC JUST TO NOT GIVE THE NPC SYNC PAIRS EX’S???

[unkempt vortex]

Yes

[uneven pewter]

They didn’t

Albeit i am still surprised at how many voice lines jessi james and meowth have

Especially if they show up in the lobby

[hard wave]

Ah

[uncut kayak]

Saw that one of the cs stages was flying type and ||I was so tempted to pull for ss ethan but then I remembered, I already caved on 3/5 challenger gloria. Finished the flying stage ez||

[feral vale]

~~Meanwhile, Blue ~~

[uneven pewter]

Who is also free

[pure arrow]

Same with Serena & Fletchling; I used her with Summer Liza the first time I cleared CSMM today

[uncut kayak]

okay but consider the following

bounce

[pure arrow]

NY Lance time 😎 (if I had him)

[hard wave]

(lysandre did nothing tbh)

[pure arrow]

Maybe he gave moral support

[hard wave]

He uh, died to sync

And consumed gauges

[feral vale]

Her nuke is fun

[feral vale]

Dude just sat there and looked pretty

[hard wave]

Ive never used him, I just got him from the gauntlet banner in november and didnt realize he was that bad at 1/5

Actually ive used him for a bulu clear and it took a while

[feral vale]

Yeah uh, as a 1/5 Lysandre haver

Yeah he sucks. Hardly justifies now that Blue got an expansion

[hard wave]

I wonder if blue is better than SS Ethan now, || still plan to get him so hoping next month has enough so I can pity but I may not candy ||

[sturdy flower]

even ||Pal Elesa|| is better than SS Ethan

[deft glen]

SS Ethan is underwhelming, don't go for him

[hard wave]

Favs > meta

[hard wave]

Oh, my only limited flying is lysandre

[naive imp]

I got to 30K gems second time going over 20K.

[sturdy flower]

datamine not tomorrow, but maybe some trails

announce the selects or something

[deft glen]

It will be either Thursday or Friday, they won't be nice by giving us an earlier datamine

[sturdy flower]

not datamine, but we deserve something cmon DeNa

give us a cool pretrailer

https://tenor.com/view/do-something-comeon-stickman-bored-gif-22722853

[tardy fiber]

Well at least today might have SV news cmon PoMa, please give trailer

[deft glen]

Don't worry, we'll get a trailer

For Blue's event

[latent salmon]

trailer

inb4 we don't get anything before anni

[hard wave]

Tmrw-PMD maybe

22: shown with SV news
23: VA artworks r done, alola today galar tmrw, then trailer
25: we dont have content after, and 26/27 are weekends

[feral vale]

So weird we haven’t heard anything about this Anni ngl

[latent salmon]

DeNA being careful after presents

btw did absol get pastebin back or?

[rare swan]

He did yes

[latent salmon]

datamein

[sturdy flower]

well, we heard it's happening at the very least

[feral vale]

I forgot about that, but thank gawd

[sturdy flower]

could be worse!

[fallen path]

sounds like noodles

[sturdy flower]

chowmines

[hard wave]

Datanëin

[upbeat lotus]

Dataour

[tough oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-our-now-gif-21036569

[latent salmon]

dataMINE

[unkempt vortex]

Data OURS

[latent salmon]

fine

DATAOURS

[vernal glade]

However Absol laptop ran into an issue I heard.

So he’s hoping he can get it fixed before the datamine

[fallen path]

It’s gonna happen at the end of the week, right

[vernal glade]

This should be datamine week.

25th on a Friday

And we had a Friday datamine before

But we shall see which day datamine happens

[lapis pine]

Thursday is most likely but Friday is also possible imo

[past imp]

SS Ethan is that bad? ouch. Pal Elesa is really bad

[feral vale]

Pal Elesa is a meme kit tho

SS Ethan does better than that

[past imp]

oh ok so Rybek was kidding

sort of

[feral vale]

I have…no idea

[upbeat lotus]

They were kidding to calm other's temptation

[rare swan]

There is an issue though

His laptop is out for repairs

Hoping for a Friday datamine just to give him time to get it back

[uncut kayak]

but hes not the only dataminer right?

[fallen path]

Well..about that lol

[uncut kayak]

okay nvm then

[rare swan]

He isn't, no - he's just a very good one

[dire meteor]

Meme kit is best kit.

[vernal glade]

Oh? We have another dataminer?

[tardy fiber]

Hurm there's mistyduck this reset, i still need 2 gio copies i guess i gonna do mistyduck first clear rewards and continue farming gio

[upbeat lotus]

This server's dataminer team and absol are the most well-known dataminers here

So idt who are you referring to

[tardy fiber]

330 gems reset

[vernal glade]

Ah.

[tardy fiber]

Reached my goal for 100k free gems before datamine

[vernal glade]

Gotcha

[rare swan]

The datamine will be fine, no stress

[hard wave]

Who’s on the datamine team? Besides voltage

[rare swan]

You can see them, they post in #datamines

[tardy fiber]

Oh right my paid gems will have some dent in 2 resets, but i just gonna go for 1 select so still not much loss

[feral vale]

2 selects for me

[fallen path]

just one select for me

[tardy fiber]

Hope anni have pokefair select , if they have nice choices, it might can help my journey towards all faves 3/5 and unlock more lodge guests

[rustic heron]

i'm gonna do the support select for fallister and then see what next month has in terms of paid gem usage

if nothing seems good for me i might go for holiday leon as well

[upbeat lotus]

Thats my plan too

[hard wave]

I only see voltage and sometimes vmario

[upbeat lotus]

There are Terrence and EternalStay too

(hope i spell their names right)

[hollow swallow]

@lunar topaz I did this for you

[lunar topaz]

omg grays

[hollow swallow]

grays

[lunar topaz]

finally the arzen savers arc

[rare swan]

So many people hitting their first pity right before anni

We love to see it!

[hollow swallow]

Actually this is my second pity ever

jk I worked hard for that

[rare swan]

[slow hare]

Good job!

[winged fossil]

ive had multiple pities, although i dont usually keep the pity for too long. im just hoping its not another multi-fav anni like 2nd anni was

[slow hare]

Congrats on guarunteeing yourself an anni MF

[winged fossil]

dont like having to rely on rng for my favs, but it might come down to it for not missing a MF

my top 3 favs tend to be the milked ones after all (N, Serena, Lillie)

also have to keep an extra pity on hand each month if possible till ncserena rerun but idt thats a concern too big till next year

cause NCSerena is the only one im missing MF-wise

(since she came out during one of my breaks from the game)

[tardy fiber]

Hoping for a pity worth September gems they need to step up from August's average gems amount

[winged fossil]

i find it safe to assume atleast another pity before anni pairs leave, but im going into this expecting 4+ pairs.

dont want to have my hopes too high on collection, so my priority is top 2 favs at best out of whoever gets in

if its miraidon and koraidon, theyre prob gonna be my targets. as thats my prediction for part of anni

[tardy fiber]

I will have enough for 4 if September gives at least a pity of gems

[winged fossil]

expecting florian & julia with miraidon & koraidon, i forget which combos exactly i guessed but, its whatever combo was from the promo art for S&V

in the guess form i decided to mark them as field for my guessed role

[tardy fiber]

I would love if it happens, also i like field more than sprint although i wont mind if some of my faves becomes Sprint, no matter how mid the pair is, if its a fave, i will try to make them work

[winged fossil]

I mainly guessed field because of there not being any gacha fields yet

Makes a gacha field almost inevitable don’t ya think

[tough oriole]

I just guessed dana with zapdos and morgan with virizion as BP supports since i’m lazy

[winged fossil]

I forget who my third guess was already tbh. Doubt my third guess whatever it was is right anyway cause I mainly only had the two in mind

[tough oriole]

My third guess was my eternal of ||Lillie and Magearna ||

[winged fossil]

Funnily enough even tho I didn’t fill the form this past month I almost guessed cinderace exactly. My main slip up was guessing hop instead of Gloria

Didn’t expect Gloria to have two starters

[tough oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/swampert-blaziken-may-pokemon-anime-gif-24224376

[uncut kayak]

Please datamine. It’s so hard to wait once you get a pity 😭

I need motivation asap

[tardy fiber]

For the discord guess? I did palmer regigigas normal support

I hope dana gets zapdos

My electric roster only has 2 faves

[tough oriole]

Normal Field would also be interesting, since there’s no normal zone yet

[winged fossil]

inb4 normal field would be adaptive field where it matches type weakness instead of normal type kekw

[tardy fiber]

Yep, but i just guess Palmer Regigigas for BP pair, they probably move on to Frontier Brains now that Battle Chatelaines almost complete

As the only normal Legendaries are silvally and regigigas

Arceus is a mythical

[tardy fiber]

Nothing this reset, so i can sleep at least next reset has seasonal select

[ashen thunder]

Imma cope for datamine next reset

[compact pasture]

Is anything coming today?

[tardy fiber]

Mistyduck rerun

[tardy fiber]

Same, the earlier the better

Absol's laptop is still on repair

[vestal leaf]

Well ofc, tomorrow we're getting gen 8 art

The day after either datamine, trailer or both

I don't see them dropping datamine on Poma day when Poma day has no MF for it yet, so I'm coping for a 24th option

[mossy hawk]

Except if there really is no Poma day mf for this month, because of Johtrio

[tardy fiber]

Yep

4 MF rerun might be too much, thats why no poma day MF

[vestal leaf]

Well that doesn't mean much depending on Anni units

Because if it's 3 MFs that would still be 6 MFs in a single month

After 5 last year

[tardy fiber]

Also johtrio duration is till sept 15, way deep inside September

[vestal leaf]

Yeah sure, but if Anni units weren't all MFs they could still put a Poma day mf in

[tardy fiber]

Yep PoMa day MF on September not on August

25 sept

If its in August, it probably already been datamined

[ashen thunder]

Anni not being MF is sus

[tardy fiber]

Yep

Excited to see it

Especially because i skipped some kanto, kalos, sinnoh MF so i hope theres some MF faves with duplicate MF passive

Just like ncbede having the same passive with leon

[ashen thunder]

It's likely another set of kanto units

Coz I don't remember us getting a new kanto unit past year

[tardy fiber]

I would love that because i skipped ash and sstred

So duplicate passive of kanto spirit/pride/flag bearer will be nice

[ashen thunder]

We got lot of kalos stuff tho

Like they dedicated 2 months full of kalos stuff

So I doubt anni is anything kalos oriented

[tardy fiber]

Well at least there's chatelaine that's Kalos

[vestal leaf]

Another easy Anni skip pog

[ashen thunder]

We are still missing one for BP

[tardy fiber]

Dana and Morgan

[ashen thunder]

If it's kanto I hope it's mega M2 x

My psychic roster is falling behind

Compared to my other stuff

[mental skiff]

[cobalt frost]

32k rn going into anni

feeling alright tbh

ill get 1 pity guaranteed, potentially 2

[crisp oracle]

Me going on three

[broken mulch]

Not gonna hit double pity before Annie hits sadly

[timber wren]

having minimum one pity going into anni is still a very nice place to be

[rare swan]

@tardy fiber let's keep flexing where it belongs

[tardy fiber]

Okie

Too many psychic faves, i hope mega mewtwo x is fighting

Just be a good maybunny, psychic that change to fighting after sync

[rare swan]

I'm both concerned and not concerned by anni

It would be nice to have a fave to spend on though 😔

[tardy fiber]

Well at least there's Chatelaine

[lofty relic]

i'm actively gonna try to avoid anni spendings personally

if there's not a massive fav (alola and such)

i'm one of those who is prone to pressure due to the hype period and i wanna avoid it this time

[tardy fiber]

I gonna keep myself to get 1 copy of fave and done, i sometimes gets tempted to get more move coins from MF multis even though i already got the pair

[rustic heron]

i’ve been pretty good about avoiding stuff that doesn’t appeal to me personally

[rare swan]

Yeah the hype got me last year and now I have two rats gathering dust

[lofty relic]

same

[rare swan]

😔 🤝

[rustic heron]

i wish ash had his song key…

such a boring unit

[rare swan]

Truly

SSTR isn't much better

[tardy fiber]

Although im interested to see the free move coins from MF multis, i wonder if there's field and sprint coins in it

[rustic heron]

sstr has at least SOME variety

ash is just thunder

[rare swan]

I'm so bored of one-click-boom pairs I want more pairs like Olympia

Or SC Steven and SC Shauna

[hard wave]

Tbh I went for ash bcz I didnt have a good electric damage dealer, but I think im fine on type coverages for now

[tardy fiber]

Most BP pairs are not 1 click boom, we probably will get 6 of em on anniv

[rustic heron]

the only type coverage i really need now is flying

[hard wave]

Rock and poison I wouldnt mind a better damage dealer, bug too but || I want to go for gilbert, physical would be nice tho ||

[rustic heron]

i don’t have any limited flying pairs

but at least blue does his job now

[rare swan]

I just want a real anni fave

[hard wave]

Blue is great tbh || I do want SS Ethan tho, but he’s also a fav ||

[rustic heron]

give me anniversary bianca

[tardy fiber]

Will you pull if there's gio anniversary?

[hard wave]

Gl hopefully its a skip for me

[rustic heron]

manifesting anniversary giovanni so i can have the easiest skip of my LIFE

[rare swan]

Probably, I did for SS Gio

But he's not a big fave

[rustic heron]

only reason i pulled for ss gio was for type coverage

he’s still one of the only limited pairs i don’t have EXed

[rare swan]

That's why we focus on faves here, yeah

[hard wave]

Not sure if ill skip, I went for SS Gio but im pretty sure it was type coverage

[rare swan]

Pulling for coverage can be v disappointing

[hard wave]

I was newer at the time but those types were still rare when he came out

[tardy fiber]

Most of my other non fave limited pairs is like this, like they are not fave and i dont plan to candy and ex em...then the pulling regret kicks in

[rustic heron]

don’t i know it

went for fall iris instead of fallister because “ooh poison zone”

and i’ve regretted it for 10 months now

TOMORROW THO

THE REDEMPTION ARC

[timber wren]

i was nearly baited into pulling rose just for how well he slots in as a general strike unit for multiple teams but ultimately i dont really like him or his pokemon, and his kit is just mindless clicking

[tardy fiber]

I pulled palmarnie for the exact reason, like it will be a boost for my hop, solgaleo, gloria plus she fits nicely being both galar, steel

And then i regret

[rare swan]

Him calling Gio ugly did make me have to stan a bit, but overall yeah ia

[timber wren]

alt universe thats raihan and duraludon and id be head over heels for it

[rare swan]

Not exactly an inspiring kit (plus he hasn't redeemed himself fot me just yet )

[hard wave]

I recently candied raihan to 3/5, have 3/5 ss gio, and would like a dedicated rock striker

Neutral to him and his pokemon, glad I skipped

[ashen thunder]

Only bait for me this patch is potentially ssethan
But blue got buffed so no baits this update

And all my ontype dpses are in a decent point as of now

Only waiting for a adaman/SSTred level fire unit to assist ssmay and a good psychic dps to replace my Lear since my offtype psychic comp is falling behind my other 4 teams I use in CS

Atleast as far as "meta" goes that is

[violet nebula]

Datamine when

[rustic heron]

never

i eated it

[violet nebula]

How did it taste?

[rustic heron]

bad

[tardy fiber]

So i guess its playable paulo then

[vestal leaf]

The only galar va unit i didn't get because fuck that "ssgio at home" kit

[naive imp]

Mom can we get president Rose?

No son we have president Rose at home

President Rose at home:

[ashen thunder]

But I have neither at home

[vestal leaf]

It's actually the opposite imho

[timber wren]

i also have neither of them, you got a boring kit it better be with a character i like!

example:

[sand crown]

I’m a Gio fan so Rose felt like the dollar store imitation and an easy skip

[vestal leaf]

Units like ssgio and rose will be more and more common

I got gio because I love nidoking

And I wanted a ground type

• his outfit is pretty damn great

https://tenor.com/view/giovanni-team-rocket-pokemon-generations-huh-gif-7395451

[hard wave]

Is there any striker that doesnt have a boring kit

[ashen thunder]

Yes

[hard wave]

Like supports usually hv smth interesting, techs can do alot of dmg but have other uses as well, strikers just….. get smth that makes them do more damage

[ashen thunder]

Sslana

[hard wave]

The tech like striker

tho I dont get why having psychic terrain makes her a tech while ppl say lucas should hv been a striker

[timber wren]

this is why they split tech into two more roles

[ashen thunder]

Well tbf I can't think of any bruiser unit other than zygarde with variety of comps around

[hard wave]

Ig her team buffs

[ashen thunder]

Almost every striker is generic damage dealer

[hard wave]

Bruiser?

[ashen thunder]

Ash is pretty unique ig

Pure damage
Nothing else

[hard wave]

Oh

[ashen thunder]

Zygarde, ash and maybe carnie

But I don't have carnie so I can't attest for that

Other strikers are boring

[hard wave]

Yeah she’s just pure damage

She maxes crit on entry, then u TM and spam fiery wrath, ig she gives herself 3 smun after she goes below half health

[timber wren]

ash and carnie’s only twist as pure DDs are their extra sustain that strikes usually don’t carry

[ashen thunder]

Oh yea

5/5 lysandre

He's pretty fun to look at

With funny grid

[hard wave]

Lucian does the same thing at 1/5

[ashen thunder]

But 5/5ing

[hard wave]

Without requiring burn

And aoe

[timber wren]

honestly as far as unique strike kits go the only one that comes to mind recently is palesa

[ashen thunder]

I meant the regular version

[hard wave]

Oh

[ashen thunder]

Pelesa is striker?

I thought she was tech all this time

[vestal leaf]

Ash is the definition of boring imo

[ashen thunder]

Not tank ash

[rustic heron]

ash is soooooo brain dead

[vestal leaf]

Tank ash is just rolling for refreshes

[ashen thunder]

Try him in ebe without SSTred

[vestal leaf]

Which is boring as fuck when you're unlucky

[rustic heron]

use TM, use thunder twice, use bunderbolt

[ashen thunder]

Same can be said for 99% of techs

Tech gameplay is just fishing for rng

[vestal leaf]

Ehhh

[rustic heron]

you are generalizing how techs work heavily

[ashen thunder]

Ash is less boring than SSTred if anything

[vestal leaf]

I never need to roll RNG when using most of my techs

[ashen thunder]

Coz you never attempt to roll rng

[vestal leaf]

And tbolt red can at least work as an enabler

[vestal leaf]

Because most of my techs don't have rolls

[ashen thunder]

Pretty much any flinchbot except sslyra is a gamble

[vestal leaf]

I never use flinchbots

Never

They're 200% unnecessary

Unless you're farming hs or lf

Lg*

Which is the definition of overkill

[timber wren]

i think we’re getting away from the original topic, which was that it’s easier to resist strike units if they’re not a character you like since their kits are almost always straightforward and simple to play

[vestal leaf]

Yeah that's true

In general I miss stuff like Lysandre or og Steven

[timber wren]

unless that’s what you’re looking for out of the game which is fine, but i like the weird kits

[ashen thunder]

Well techs are also boring by that logic
Modern tech is just press TM, then zone button, then the damage move

Which is same gameplay as striker

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, but they work as enablers

[rustic heron]

again

[vestal leaf]

Instead of only as main DPS

[rustic heron]

you are very heavily generalizing tech units

[timber wren]

techs inherently have a lot of play in their team compositions which often switches up their rotations

[unkempt vortex]

Are they?

[rustic heron]

yes

[unkempt vortex]

That’s what techs are now

[vestal leaf]

I use bugbert to enabler alder even tho both are 3/5 because bugbert setup is too slow for 2v3

[rustic heron]

sc steven is a tech

bro is completely different than any other unit

[vestal leaf]

Yeah that kit was great

[ashen thunder]

I can point same case for either of 5/5 lydandres

Or eusine

[vestal leaf]

Wish it wasn't on a Mon and outfit I really hate

[ashen thunder]

Disarm and the varients

[vestal leaf]

5/5 are basically a non factor tbh

Nobody sane rolls for those aside either extremely dedicated fans or whales

[ashen thunder]

Idk how it is
It does change how they enable stuff around them

Strikers with master passive also automatically enable stuff around em just by existing in team

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, bit you need 4 more copies than for tech enabling

[ashen thunder]

Techs also have stuff locked behind grids

Like glojo

[vestal leaf]

1/5 still enables and ramps tho

[ashen thunder]

Well zygarde enables at base itself

Ash has protect and 2 endures at base

Same for carnie

Carnie also has flinch at base kit
Albeit at lower chance

Stuff like lance even has potions

[vestal leaf]

Master passives aren't the same tho

[ashen thunder]

How it isn't?

[vestal leaf]

Self sustain isn't enabling either

[ashen thunder]

You only get 30% boost from max def down due to debuff mitigation these days
Which is same as a master passive from same region

[vestal leaf]

Lance isn't a remotely recent striker either

[ashen thunder]

Recent striker is eusine
Who has trap in base kit

[vestal leaf]

Yeah but what else does he do

[rustic heron]

flinch i guess

[ashen thunder]

Flinch and gauge

[vestal leaf]

By that logic SS Ethan is a fucking insane enabler because spirit + trap lol

[ashen thunder]

If you have him at 3/5, he also gets sync accel

Yes he is

I've seen ssethan used in water teams with Kriss

[vestal leaf]

Guess we see enabling in very different ways then

[ashen thunder]

Just for master passive

That's how strong master passives are

[vestal leaf]

That's because you have another+20% on top + he's made to be ran with her too

[ashen thunder]

Cerena doesn't enable anything by that logic

Her entire gameplay is TM->WS all the way

You just run her with other kalos stuff to enable units like zygarde

[vestal leaf]

Cerena 1/5 gives 5 debuffs per turn, 2 types of rebuff, max team speed and a ton of cd on top of basically costing no gauge because of animation lenght + 2 gauge use

[ashen thunder]

Those 5 debuffs are for self

To nuke shit down

[vestal leaf]

Why

Not mandatory at all

[ashen thunder]

You are still gambling for specific debuffs by that point

[vestal leaf]

Not with power play

[ashen thunder]

A lot of cerena offregion ebe itself is fishing rng atk downs

[vestal leaf]

On other units

[ashen thunder]

[vestal leaf]

And the stat downs are extra on top of everything else

5 stat down per turn is also insane on a 1/5 because sure you might wanna optimize but in a cycle you get 15 stats down which on average is always useful

[ashen thunder]

Yea but you can use ssethan in same verse with special units
He gives master passives and takes no gauge and enables trap as well incase someone else needs em

How is that any different from tech unit

[vestal leaf]

That's a MF+ trap + low gauge cost Vs this

I see a huge difference

But again, we value the term "enabling" differently

So I'm not surprised

No reason to keep going for me

[ashen thunder]

Yea

[rare swan]

probably for the best y'all because i have no idea what this has to do with resource saving

[slate ether]

First pity milestone achieved, now all I gotta do is wait

[cunning swan]

We love to see it!

[fallen path]

Hmm with absol’s laptop prob not ready for Friday we will prob have to rely on #datamines for our info

[sturdy flower]

that's what I always rely on for info

[cunning swan]

So close to datamine... So close...

[ashen thunder]

I mostly wait for stuff to be added into pomatools

Well datamine is probs on Poma day

[hard wave]

I hope the VA arts come to lodge

The ones they’ve been doing daily

[ashen thunder]

I am just hoping they give more lodge characters

All my characters are already level 210+ and I am running out of level cap break crystals faster and faster

[fallen path]

i like the detail from the pastebin which #datamines doesn't always have

[dreamy onyx]

gamepress is pretty fast sometimes, but they're inconsistent

and only has sync pairs info, if you want events and other stuffs most will have to wait for absol

[hard wave]

Ive just been doing 6 interactions at once with no items bcz I cant afford them rn

Why r the bronze mats the hardest to get

Plus I have 40 certs and no one I want to use them on atm

[ashen thunder]

The level cap break keys are biggest problem for me

The past few new additions have also been limited ones

And I actually did have access to them
So I assume people that didn't pull em gonna have to spend more keys just coz of that

[tough oriole]

Getting lodge keys isn’t really difficult tho

[ashen thunder]

Idk but I am still capping it too fast

[fallen path]

i'm just doing the 6 interactions without acceleration the level progress because i'm having trouble getting the stones

or just some days i just do 3 interactions cuz i'm not bothered

[hard wave]

I prob would have alot more trouble if I bought items

[uneven pewter]

They probably got in a lot of trouble tbh

Tpc is absolutely crazy even by nintendo standards

I remember doing some marketing campaigns as a 3rd party contractor for gamestop

The reps are intense if they’re directly from the tpc

“There are no mistakes”

So what if something happens

“Make sure it doesn’t “

[versed relic]

I don't need SSLyra

[crisp oracle]

TBH, with more and more stages having clearheaded and anti-interference passives you really don't

at this point, she's only nice to have if she is a favorite

[winged fossil]

Part of me wants sskris, part of me wants zekrom N, and the rest (like 60%+) of my mind is literally screaming at me to not touch anything.

[vernal glade]

For me it’s just waiting for my next favorite pokemon

[crisp oracle]

For me it's potential SC Diantha rerun

[winged fossil]

I don’t really know any other reruns I’d be waiting for other than nc Serena, and with the estimate of 1.5 year per mf rerun on average I think I’ve got a safe assumption of there being a few more months before that’s even on the table at minimal

The main other pair I know I’m looking for is ssn cause I had to skip the recent rerun of him

I’m mostly just flying on the assumption anni will be new favs and hoping I can hold on for news

[versed relic]

Lyra is so good for gauntlet though... but i never really do more than the minimum in gauntlet ever so hahahaha

[winged fossil]

||I think Ethan being the one appearing in front when I go for my daily freebies is helping me because it’s the one I already have. Just say hi to Lugia and swipe left to the daily free thing.||

[hard wave]

I rlly hope I dont have to miss any future units, alr hv 9 reruns I want || atleast I may be able to go down to 8 if I can get ethan ||

Luckily, only 2 r MFs and the rest r pokefairs so hoping to see some good combined banners in the future

[broken mulch]

True, thanks

[deft glen]

61k

I have to remember to do lodge interactions everyday 😅

[tardy fiber]

It does pays off every 500/1000 interactions

[junior trout]

day 70 billion of waiting for datamine

[tardy fiber]

Seasonal select this reset

[sturdy flower]

my bet is on thursday

[lapis pine]

Same

[winged fossil]

I didn’t bother preparing paid for the selects since I don’t think there’s anyone important to me fav wise to get anymore out of seasonals now that I grabbed zoroark

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna grab fall iris to 3/5 her

[uncut kayak]

pink rapidash 😍

[hard wave]

its yellow

[uncut kayak]

pinksh aesthetic

its iconic

[uneven pewter]

Wait till the datamine

All of the johtrio goes past the datamine date

[uneven pewter]

If there’s no fair select i plan to finally grab palentines marnie

Megamawhile has been tormenting me a while

Though with my luck a better steel zone user will drop

[mental skiff]

Let's gooooo

[sturdy flower]

still comfy to use with how easy on gauge she is in otherwise slow type

[uneven pewter]

That’s honestly my biggest beef with rose dropping speed of all stats

Steel is a notoriously slow unit type

I might just wait for a steel terrain unit

[tardy fiber]

Steel field iron treads

[ashen thunder]

Aoe 2 stage Steel rebuff unit

Also no typing is slow when SSmorty/cbede supports em

[mental skiff]

just raise Gloria 5/5 then you get steelzone

[cunning swan]

akshually she gives steel rebuff

[tough oriole]

akshully she reduces steel rebuff

[mental skiff]

i thought she give 2 rebuff > zone but she only give 1

[ashen thunder]

Just run -1 rebuff and -6 defense
There zone level damage boost

[tardy fiber]

Hope datamine is tomorrow

[sturdy flower]

it is, believe

[upbeat lotus]

i still think 25th is datamine day, since we have Pauloser art left tomorrow

[sturdy flower]

whether they changed encoding after getting scolded by TPC is another matter

[broken mulch]

Yeah guessing 25 too

[vestal leaf]

Tomorrow or 25, barely any difference

[rare swan]

i'm expecting trailer and mine on the 25th, yep

unless they drop both paulo's art and the trailer tomorrow

or paulo's art has him in a sygna suit

[upbeat lotus]

[broken mulch]

I’m hoping Paulo is one of the Annie units so I can skip him lol

[sturdy flower]

remember official reveals and datamine don't have to be together

they don't consider the update revealing content

that's just us being sneaky little hackermans

[broken mulch]

We’re in ur upload data mining. Sneaky sneaky hackermans we are

[sturdy flower]

I'm baffled he didn't even change his outfit when he became the "last evil"

[crisp oracle]

Gotta save it for the anni reveal

[sturdy flower]

if he combed his hair back and wore circular sunglasses it would actually look cool

like a mafia boss

[crisp oracle]

Gotta make look cool to even make people ||consider to pull on him||

[deft glen]

~~ that's impossible ~~

[violet nebula]

Probably still creating the Paulo sync pair even right now as crowds howl no one likes him

[cunning swan]

After hyping him up this much it'd be hilarious to not make him playable

[tardy fiber]

All of this buildup just for ss lear instead

[ashen thunder]

I'd take sslear over pauloser any day

Ill skip pauloser even if he got the most perfect synergy with ssmay

[violet nebula]

He is in effect just an angry kid

Made angrier that the pokemon he called weak still to tried to save his mean ass

Bet rockruff will reappear, no way they kill off something so adorable

[vestal leaf]

It'll evolve in dusk form to redeem him

[sturdy flower]

default look Paulo and uhh... Magikarp

real talk tho, i wish we had a swimmer event where he has a magikarp and decides to not evolve it because it's perfect as it is

and it has a decent normal B Move

[upbeat lotus]

B Splash real

[violet nebula]

Ooof

[latent salmon]

Splash
🅱️ 🅱️plash
Perfect As It Is Splash

[sturdy flower]

The copious amounts of water lower all enemy stats by -6

[latent salmon]

lowers enemy crit to -6 so every crit has reduced damage

[sturdy flower]

umm... crit goes only to -3

[latent salmon]

that's the joke

-6 crit. every hit heals the enemy

[sturdy flower]

it's still baffling that there are "CRIT can't be lowered" passives but nothing lowers it

[upbeat lotus]

Snatch and Haze exist

[sturdy flower]

and they don't take crit do they

[upbeat lotus]

they do

[sturdy flower]

😮

[upbeat lotus]

except Topsy Turvy, which says it cant reserve the crit buffs in its desc

[tardy fiber]

Is there any debuff that lessens enemies crit rate?

[upbeat lotus]

there is none currently

[tardy fiber]

I see, would be nice for downside up pairs if it exists

[sturdy flower]

they really don't want crit to go into negative

[tardy fiber]

Even the 5 stats down params lowered everything except crit iirc

[upbeat lotus]

it doesnt lower accuracy and evasion

[sturdy flower]

Vilda and SS Steven thrive on that param

[crisp oracle]

In approximately two days, I will hit my third pity.

[rustic heron]

hell yeah

[chrome nest]

I hope that todays the datamine

[broken mulch]

Hey the earlier the better lol

If not, a tease would be good too

[tardy fiber]

Early dev letter please

[chrome nest]

I swear if it’s tomorrow

I’m checking at night

[uneven pewter]

While true i am big on theme teams

Call me old school or whatever

[gray sail]

My, oh my, if anni units turn out to be ||Kantrio with birbs||, I'm skipping.

[hard wave]

|| I may consider articuno if its a special ice striker ||

[junior trout]

|| i'm so glad i saved up a pity i love blue he's one of my favorite characters i'm literally giddy and kicking my feet rn ||

[grim plover]

||sameeeee feels good to be prepared to pull for favs||

[crisp oracle]

||I might go for one anni unit this year, I usually like to get at least one of the trio||

||hoping that a potential Leaf alt is really nice, I want to be able to get a copy of her||

[broken mulch]

Why are we discussing this under spoiler bars lol

[crisp oracle]

||has somewhat to do with pulling for anni||

just to be safe

[broken mulch]

Ah true

||Blue is an easy skip LMAO. Red too I suppose. Leaf is the ONLY definite pull for me||

[gray sail]

I don't wanna ruin a surprise.

[pure arrow]

I might be safe if a random Hoenn unit doesn’t ambush me

[sweet tide]

There will not be a gem calc for the datamine today since absol’s laptop is still being fixed!

[crisp oracle]

thank you for the hard work tho Tlim

||also someone ping me if SC Diantha Reruns||

[tardy fiber]

Im glad that i skipped the rats such a welcome surprise

[tardy fiber]

Dana regice

[pure arrow]

BP super pair, doesn’t count towards my worries (except that I have to postpone acquiring Regirock yet again)

[tardy fiber]

Regirock will be disappointed if it heard that

[maiden kayak]

who was the guy who was the bird dude

i forgot his username

[tardy fiber]

Blue

Falkner

Birdkeeper Fletcha

[maiden kayak]

yea him

hes not in server?

[tardy fiber]

I cannot tag him in the past so probably

[maiden kayak]

is he bird keeper bert

[tardy fiber]

Not sure because his name is Fletcha before this

[maiden kayak]

rip hes not in server anymore

[latent salmon]

||grahhh blue outfit so drippy i wanna pull just for that. must hold onto my gems.||

[hard wave]

It depends on who gets the one that I want and if they r a specific role

[sturdy hatch]

Please remember this channel is not for speculating or going over the new units

[lean mango]

Gem count, finally did Villa so 90k lfg

[winged fossil]

Question about anni bc I don’t remember

Do we normally get a free rainbow ticket during anni?

As in the bp ones

[tardy fiber]

They gave us one last year

[winged fossil]

Hmm so chance they might again. Bc I don’t think I have one right now

[tardy fiber]

I kinda hope for that as i only have 1 rainbow ticket in bag

[winged fossil]

Think I’ve just got some gold ones

Meanwhile my game softlocked on my villa clear lol

Got stuck on hall 26 loading

[broken mulch]

What’s a rainbow ticket?

[winged fossil]

The tickets for the master bp pairs

Like entei and such

[broken mulch]

Ohh right

[oak crest]

my reg tickets are ready for the new 4* BP units

[hard wave]

I hv 6 reg 0 mf

Needed to get regirock with my last one

[tardy fiber]

Currently I need 7k bp for my next rainbow ticket, so i really hope there's a free rainbow ticket again

[versed flame]

||blue is a semi-fave so i may pull for him. depending on further anni news i may go for ingo after all||

[winged fossil]

0 rainbow 3 gold is my bp status rn

At 5.3k pts

[hard wave]

Im almost at 5k iirc, maybe 47-4900

[winged fossil]

||anni blue is already sounding like an easy skip btw||

[vernal glade]

||As long as there’s no fox Pokémon, and no SS Hilda and SS Hilbert|| I’m skipping

[latent salmon]

||i just realized anni blue basically stole chalem's drip and changed it just a smidge easier skip now||

[tardy fiber]

I got 24 normal bp tickets, im ready for whatever field or sprint they throw at us

[vernal glade]

Ranbow BP ready.

[tardy fiber]

I only have 1 rainbow bp

[vernal glade]

If BP has a fav then I’m prepared

[tardy fiber]

Hoping for chatelaine+palmer so no MC

Not even datamine yet there's already people ranting in salt chat blaming themselves for spending before this, im glad i saved my gems

[violet nebula]

That is hilarious to be fair

[compact pasture]

Will Vantner gain more faves?

[winged fossil]

I’d be surprised if the anni goes by with zero legendaries but honestly I am not gonna be surprised if zero fav anni for me with who’s on the icon

[violet nebula]

Blue is an icon

Whether you like him or not🤣

[vernal glade]

He’s not a fav.

[tough oriole]

Blue is the icon ||for the game starting in 20 minutes ||

[violet nebula]

Now his a literal icon

That is some meta play there

[vernal glade]

I’ll probably come back later once the hour reaches for datamine since I’ll wait and see what we get.

[violet nebula]

Exactly

[vernal glade]

If this becomes a skip then it’s a big gem save month for me

[rare swan]

this will also be a massive skip month for me if it's another Kanto anni

will keep saving those gems ig

[violet nebula]

I need smooth criminal Gio

[latent salmon]

hopefully big big big skip month.

[winged fossil]

if the predictions are right then this is gonna be an easy skip, after looking further into the icon

although, vanter better be ready if so ||it looks like kanto birbs||

that guess is entirely off the app background

[violet nebula]

Blue is with Jolteon

Or another.... pikachu

[winged fossil]

...oh god if its eeveelutions im going to have trouble holding back

pls not them

[vernal glade]

No favs. Come on.

[sweet tide]

752mb dena...pls be fr

but it also means no half update so bless me 🙏

[tough oriole]

Imagine if it still is

[winged fossil]

ima play a league match, hoping the trainers and mons will be found by time im done

that way i can know if fav or no fav

[sweet tide]

i'll be gagged and pissed cos im lazy to reformat my calcs

[tardy fiber]

Paulo VA twitter rally cmon

Give us the missing gems from galar VA

[sweet tide]

imagine expecting gems from rallies

its a thing of the past

[vernal glade]

Im gonna go look up Zoroark arts, when I come back that’ll decide for me if I want to save. Hopefully.

[tardy fiber]

Fine give me 5 certs, more useful to me than 50 spirits

[sweet tide]

why did they double up on the EX role idgi

[tardy fiber]

From what i read, like we can turn on/off the ex sync bonus? Not sure, i dont even understand what they wrote

[sweet tide]

sounds to me like its an add on from 6*EX

[gray sail]

Whoo hoo, saved gems!!

[tardy fiber]

So more stats?

[vernal glade]

Looking real good for a skip month, yes baby!

[winged fossil]

the ex role thing sounds like basically a 7ex type of thing lol

[vernal glade]

Now all that’s left is to wait for the banner images.

[tardy fiber]

I would love that, more stuff to give to my faves

[vernal glade]

Then I can confirm my skip

[upbeat lotus]

They went to manga role with Kantrio birds lol

Seems like a skip month for me

[ashen thunder]

Thank God it's not mega M2x

[vernal glade]

They really liking Zapdos Moltres and Articuno this year.

[ashen thunder]

Not a big fan of Birbs, I'll only consider based on team synergies

[hard wave]

Skip month for me maybe || unless red is a special striker may pull, since I need a good one and articuno is my fav of the 3 || but they do have some nice outfits

[vernal glade]

2 anniversary skips in a row this year

[grand bramble]

Happy 4th anniversary !!!

[tardy fiber]

Im happy finally a third electric fave, and fourth ice fave

[grand bramble]

Wait... It's not 27 August

Wlep

Too early

[ashen thunder]

Praying for free selector

[hard wave]

Same

[tardy fiber]

Dusk lycanroc

[grand bramble]

I hate to say this but... Im glad I left this game... This is the most unhype anniversary ever

[tardy fiber]

Its hype for me, better than last year's

[vernal glade]

Oh right free selector I forgot

[grand bramble]

Wha....

[tardy fiber]

Rats and lucario

[ashen thunder]

Well considering the typings, I doubt this batch gonna have as cohesive synergy as 3rd anni trio anyways

So don't rly have to go for all if anyone is planning

[grand bramble]

Cmon... Im a biggest fan of ash... Last year was incredible to me

[ashen thunder]

Just like galar trio

[tardy fiber]

Well people have different tastes

I like Legendaries, Mythicals, UBs, Paradoxes so i skipped last year's anni

So i see this anniv as worth my perseverance also i didn't leave this game

[grand bramble]

I might return if they brought in another Ash's alt... Welp