Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[hard wave]

I should be able to 5/5 bp valerie and norman, so ill be done w strike and for tech and support I need to 3/5 lodge N and Gio, I have 1 supp candy rn and N is 2/5

[languid quail]

Just do all the challenging battles in events, the staminaless ones you will eventually forget you have limited 4 and 3 star candies

[stray steeple]

Are variety scouts ever worth pulling?

[vestal leaf]

Nope

They lack unique outfits, unique ex palettes and often have dupe mons

They're glorified and FOMO centric seasonals

Because they don't seem to rerun

[stray steeple]

I was considering Variety Noland cus I like him, but I'll just wait till his Pinsir unit gets EX

[daring citrus]

Yo

[cunning swan]

if you have a fave getting a variety alt, I'm so sorry

<- has fallen victim

[crisp oracle]

If Diantha gets variety I am not pulling

[unkempt vortex]

You will

We all know it

[pure arrow]

I’m not strong enough to resist a ||Variety Zinnia||, but I will skip the Aqua admins and Tabitha if they are variety at least

[lost bobcat]

Her Whishmur

They're not so cruel, lodge zinnia will have it

[pure arrow]

DeNA please make it happen

[fallen path]

oof 2 less yellow candy coin than last month, although idk if 3 yellow candy is a "regular" month

[lost bobcat]

Its a good aberage so far
#1010223517565976737 message

We got the highest amount of omni coins this month (5)
October '22 we had just 1

[earnest kiln]

Are the gift Gems for tomorrow counted in the Gems til... thing?

[crisp oracle]

Yes

It's just an alright month for gems

[earnest kiln]

ah

[arctic nebula]

so, how does one get enough gems for a pity in a month and a half? is 100%ing event missions a large part of it? because I can never do enough damage to win the "Battle Challenge! Round 1" fights

[vestal leaf]

You should manage them with freebie units and few gen pools

[lost bobcat]

Those are quite good but not the biggest chunk
Daily activities, event clears and so on are the main core. Claim your daily reward. Clear events and champion stadium and villa

Tbh all battle challenge R1 should be easy to complete with f2p units
You may need to focus your resources

[arctic nebula]

ive got a good amount of units, I'm just not sure why they seem to hit harder than I do

I'm usually at or above the reccomended level

[lost bobcat]

Are you reading the battle tips?

[arctic nebula]

yeah, it doesn't seem to help much

[lost bobcat]

Regardless if which stage, try asking help #1009557516369281075
Post the screnshot of the match

[lost bobcat]

Some stages have gimmicks, if you don't follow that the enemy will be harder to face

[arctic nebula]

which part of the match?

[lost bobcat]

Before pressing READY (when you can see your 3 units and the enemy)
Just to let them know what are you using and on which stage

[arctic nebula]

okay posted it, I haven't really done much with the villa and champion stadium after unlocking the initial mission, I guess i'll work on that more

[sturdy flower]

the bonuses are unique multipliers, that is, they are additive with each other but multiplicative with anything else

that means if you have 3 suitable pins for your damage dealer you can stack quite a few bonuses

[weary spire]

I hear ya, that wasn't really what I was asking about there, though. Apologies if it was unclear. Already came to a conclusion
Answer is while we don't have much to gauge how plentiful they'll be, they likely cost too many resources to exchange for on a consistent basis. So you're better off ignoring them until we get more info

I already spent 20 on a pin before I reaally thought about it though, so that's unfortunate

[sturdy flower]

I'm expecting them to be given as rewards in content

[weary spire]

Right, but we don't know how plentiful they'll be

[sturdy flower]

i think pins might be worth it in the long run but it's kind of insane how many you need for a truly good gear

[weary spire]

There's a v decent possibility that so long as you're keeping up with content, they largely give you the items you need

[sturdy flower]

since you probably want to lock max possible bonus, best themes, and at the end everything and just reroll base stats

[weary spire]

Probably won't be on the level of exchanging for , but it could be similar, for all we know

It might just be the whale option, who knows? We def don't

[sturdy flower]

but at the same time i can't see them be mandatory anywhere

it's too minmax

[weary spire]

Well, I get that, but yeah, I'm just strictly talking item rarity and resource spending to obtain them

[sturdy flower]

even if they give as much as 1 rebuff

at full potential

[weary spire]

But yeah, that can all play into it as other factors

[sturdy flower]

that's still not meta defining if getting half potential is 10 times easier

[weary spire]

Regardless, don't exchange imho

[crisp grotto]

It'll only matter for like top 50 in HSE lol

[weary spire]

Just not worth it based on the lil info we have of the item rarity & when considering how much they'll cost on a monthly basis

[sturdy flower]

meanwhile as far as clear gear goes

i bet they will give us plenty

[weary spire]

Even if we do find out that they're still rare enough to warrant the exchanges, we're still likely not going to be getting such a high level of that you're maxing it all out every month while maintaining new EXes, etc.

[sturdy flower]

it's more likely very good feathers will be the issue

[weary spire]

Even less reason to exchange, if that's the belief

Lemme check how much all those items we have so far would cost monthly again... I forget

[crisp grotto]

Isn't there a gear event upcoming very soon to get us started with some free copies?

[weary spire]

Believe so, at least I've heard

[crisp grotto]

It's next reset

[weary spire]

65 / month total

[crisp grotto]

Yeah that's pretty hefty unless you're a hyper whale

[weary spire]

Exactly lol

[crisp grotto]

3.25 Units' EX material

[sturdy flower]

bring back bonanza and add gear to the exchange!

[weary spire]

Even if you were gonna do exchanges for some of those occasionally, you're prob going to skip it sometimes anyway

So 0 harm in skipping now

If you're whaling, just go for it as you might occasionally with or something

[fallen path]

The cost for that new gear is too high

Marginal benefit imo

[weary spire]

Pretty much, that & the other things

Even with them increasing income 🛌

[crisp grotto]

Time will tell you much we're given and how beneficial it ends up being I guess

[fallen path]

Like Ron said

It’s not for us

It’s for whales

And whales aren’t in this thread anyways lol

[weary spire]

I mean, I guess for all we know, they'll pump up the income a lot higher than they already have? :p I guess nothing's impossible

[ashen thunder]

They aren't increasing influx
They are increasing

[weary spire]

I kinda doubt it

[ashen thunder]

[weary spire]

Same difference

[ashen thunder]

Not really

[weary spire]

Though it does also feel like has increased

[ashen thunder]

Monthly cap

[weary spire]

There are multiple sources of it

Yeah, monthly cap, that is now even more consistently obtainable across the board

I would call that a income increase generally speaking when that applies to everyone, even if it it applies to some players more than others

[sturdy flower]

i lack

[weary spire]

On top of the fact that there just straight up are more sources of now

[sturdy flower]

my bronze exchange is always capped

lodge is a good source of

[weary spire]

For sure

[sturdy flower]

many spotlight or free base units

[weary spire]

Also considering y'know, resource saving support here, a lot of people who save gems weren't as easily maxing exchanges, was frankly undoable on a lot of months unless you happened to be spending gems, if you were balancing resources across the board

[fallen path]

I farm the from events, even now

Choose whichever gives me the highest bonus

[weary spire]

Yep, business as usual :p

[sturdy flower]

same, they might be useful for eggs or something someday

[fallen path]

And if you’re a spender, the 10 paid gem a day summon for 10 days helped a lot too

Basically 110 sync pairs for 100 paid gems

[weary spire]

It does feel a bit overkill now :p Bc VAs just like... doubling income was pretty wild

True

[fallen path]

And don’t forget the hoarding of the guaranteed tickets lol

I got over 60 from the 5* guaranteed

[sturdy flower]

same

[weary spire]

Yeahh lol, that's another example of increase

[sturdy flower]

i release them once a year

[fallen path]

Probably add another 20-30 from the regional tickets lol

[sturdy flower]

although i saved the regional tickets where i had everything i wanted

[weary spire]

When you really sit down and think about it, a lot of little things are playing a role

Do we get more BP nowadays? I'm asking bc I don't wanna be totally wrong

[fallen path]

70 a day

[weary spire]

But I feel like we do, considering y'know... more sources of it, we get a lil extra from everything

[fallen path]

And idr from CS

[sturdy flower]

I didn't open my BP tab in 3 months

😓

[fallen path]

And events depends

As usual

[weary spire]

Yeah I mean, it seems obvious to say the answer is yes 🤣 But I just wanted to ask in case

[sturdy flower]

i really hope they update BP rewards fast

[fallen path]

I don’t follow everything in the game lol

[sturdy flower]

or i might miss click

[weary spire]

I feel like events w/ BP, stuff like LG, more from CS, the daily, etc.

[fallen path]

I k ow this is resource management thread but I don’t min max everything lol

[weary spire]

It's def all added up

Oh don't worry, I kind of used to, now I don't so much reaally

I do think about stuff generally speaking tho

[sturdy flower]

only minmax what matters to you

[weary spire]

Basically, I'm just trying to say... increased BP = increased , somewhat

(Not by a ton, but it counts)

[fallen path]

I’m pretty reckless with EX units

But I’m at the stage where it doesn’t matter that much

[weary spire]

I really wasn't for a v long time. I had hardly any EXes

Then I just had too many to know what to do with, and not enough I was super super down for

[fallen path]

I’ve been 5 : 15 for a year now

[weary spire]

So now I just kinda EX a bit more flippantly

Yeah, same, been doing 5 : 15 for a while

[fallen path]

I just use them for meme clears

It’s a game, I’m gonna have fun lol

[weary spire]

As ya should, if you've got the resources, go for it :p

[fallen path]

And I don’t mind admitting EXing units for HS events

I’ll just hoard this month

[weary spire]

My friend's started the game a couple months ago, so even though the game has been a lot more generous when it comes to well, a lot of things like even sync orbs, , BP, gems

It does kinda help to see him play and more easily be like "Oh yeah, resources are finite" lol

Anyone remember being careful with their sync orbs?

But yeah I mean, diff players are at diff stages w/ resources still, so there'll always be someone who still needs the help managing the resources that seem far too plentiful for some of us now :p

[crisp grotto]

Yeah lol when you'd run out of orbs and there was a stage you really needed to grid a new unit for 😔

[weary spire]

Lool yep

Partially gridding units to save orbs, seeing who I could get away with going gridless @ CS... good times

[crisp grotto]

At the very start grinding up level items too

[fallen path]

It’s a bit harder for the new player now

The CS stages are harder for one

[crisp grotto]

I remember at launch when the Ultra Hard training area was like really difficult

[weary spire]

He asked me "Who should I grid?" and I had to stop and think about what that question meant for a moment

[fallen path]

So there’s a lot of buildup towards that

[weary spire]

True, for sure

[fallen path]

Because I have a friend who’s also a new player

So I completely get it lol

[weary spire]

I wish I was around for it I'm the veteran to newbies and newbie to the veterans

[crisp grotto]

Twas a vibe

[weary spire]

I started around 2nd Anni

[crisp grotto]

Ahh I see. I played the game the day it launched, me and a whole group of friends were hyped for it

People fell off over time pretti quick tho

[weary spire]

So really not all that long when you think about it... or at least, don't tell me it was long 2 years went by in an instant

[crisp grotto]

Hey 2 years is quite a while

[weary spire]

Fair enough, I do remember the game having a bit of a rougher patch from what I've heard?

Somewhere from when it was beginning to get going & them figuring out what to do with things like stamina and such, probably

[crisp grotto]

There were definitely uh problems at launch. I also took a couple months break

[weary spire]

Or rather, what to do before stamina was probably worse

[crisp grotto]

Yeah 100%. I remember the first mewtwo event was just plain ass LMAO

[weary spire]

Lol... was that the one you had to grind hardcore?

[tardy jolt]

The period up until Mewtwo was so boring and after that it was slowly improving. Tbh, until Christmas and the release of Cynthia in January it was a different game

[weary spire]

Just playing over and over again

[crisp grotto]

Yeah .. it was really, really tedious. And the stage was hard

Sync grids didn't exist, Olivia was the meta unit

[weary spire]

Yeah, I do remember hearing that sentiment

[crisp grotto]

Also on sync Gio would wipe your stat buffs so the +2 crit and +4 attack you got in 4 turns was just gone

[weary spire]

Was Air Slash Will a real thing? Or what was the whole deal with that?

[crisp grotto]

Defs this. It shifted pace quickly after Cynthia I think

[crisp grotto]

Yeah, iirc he had the highest special attack stat at one point too.

[weary spire]

Ohh wait nevermind, it was people saying not to unlock Air Slash on Will

... or something

I dunno 😂 Shit's confusing

[tardy jolt]

Tbh I have started playing this game with strats only after joining this subreddit and then the discord lol
I was not aware of Datamines or anything, just word of mouth with friends. They don’t play anymore though, so I migrated to Reddit and then discord to keep myself up to date and motivated

[weary spire]

That's fair

[crisp grotto]

Pretty much exactly same, none of my friends I started out with play anymore

[weary spire]

I actually think I joined this Discord to ask a question about how move gauge acceleration worked

[tardy jolt]

Lol, for me it’s the same with every Pokémon game, lol
At least my gf plays the Switch games, so there’s that

[crisp grotto]

Niceee, my friends do play mainline, they just quit this one pretty soon into launch. Which, understandable tbh

[weary spire]

Anyway uh, y'know, history of resources. It was a different game, things were a tougher grind, had to be more careful
People still have to be more careful depending on how they play or how new they are especially, which is easy to forget. Save gems (and other stuff)

[crisp grotto]

Yeah, on the flip side I guess new players now do have access to more resources and well in the case of discord/reddit, can get help from people who are experienced with the game

[weary spire]

For sure

Though I have been a bit out of things lately, I will say that I appreciate how the game has been able to add options for harder content without restricting resources, but rather doing the opposite

Makes getting into a lot of these things more accessible for people

[crisp grotto]

Yeah for sure, it's not too hard to get into 'endgame' content like CS/LG relatively early

[tardy jolt]

Tbh I feel like Anni would have been such an hard time to join the game this time around. Which kinda blows. I also feel like that we are reaching a point where new players despite having a good amount of resources will get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff that they have to catch up with

[weary spire]

That's a good point, tbf

I'm kinda biased as someone who was just really thrown off guard by skill gear lmao

[crisp grotto]

I think this is definitely true, because if I'm being honest if it wasn't a Pokemon game I woulda been out the door a while ago lmao.

[weary spire]

But that might be something that comes to mind

Not to say skill gear's bad at all btw, not at all! I'm js it was like damn... we were close to getting all the typed gear, and now there's this special gear with separate skills you roll on it, but also you have to protect some, and so on

[crisp grotto]

Oh yeah definitely a lot of info to take in

[weary spire]

and make sure it works with the right theme skills, build something for a particular team

[crisp grotto]

When I first saw some of the stuff like "DR on Poison Zone 5%" I was just like ??

[weary spire]

Lool

[crisp grotto]

well shit this is a little oddly specific isn't it

[weary spire]

The passive names get pretty funny

[crisp grotto]

Yep

[weary spire]

Sync Buff & Hit: Physical Boost Up 3 9

Now yeah, I get it, sync buff, and then you hit, and then you get 3 stacks of PMUN, and the 9 is 100%.. ... but bro

[crisp grotto]

[winged fossil]

The letters say they’ll be event rewards sometimes so

[tardy jolt]

I just see it as a way of doing super min-maxing. Tbh I have not checked if there’s another way to get them besides 5* PU, but it that’s the case I’m just gonna skip it. It’s really not worth that important of a resources for improving my results in something like HS by mere percentages

[weary spire]

Nah yeah, kinda same, I mean, I think it's actually kinda cool (probably) as an idea

[winged fossil]

It’s already me being like “skip” in response to the monthly shop

[weary spire]

It is just another thing that might be potentially overwhelming to people, tho

[crisp grotto]

I do too, I'm optimistic that over time it'll become more accessible and optimised once people see how it works and stuff

[weary spire]

For sure

And I don't think the game has gone extremo-mode yet. I'm biased as a player ofc, but I think the game largely makes everything come off... decently simple, enough

Compared to other games/gacha I've seen friends play

[crisp grotto]

Oh yeah 100%, it also helps that as a pokemon game, some things are already general knowledge

It's not just starting a new concept from scratch

[weary spire]

I'm like bro there is no way you didn't read up online about this, that, this and that to understand what you're even looking at

I don't think Masters is trying to be overly complex, anyway, but yeah. I doubt it'll get toooo crazy

[weary spire]

And some of it is def fairly intuitive to Pokemon fans, for sure

[tardy jolt]

I think that the core gameplay loop will always be pretty easy, so that’s good for accessibility
Rn I just just wish they’d add the new drinks to the bundles for events lol, that feels like such an easy thing to implement

[weary spire]

True What's up with that?

[tardy jolt]

Like, it really bugs me that I can’t accumulate them in any other way
It’s just so annoying and makes me feel like I’m gonna always be behind lol

[winged fossil]

Because we would have no reason to touch the new training areas if they were in events

Not that I have reason to anyways till a fav drops in the roles

[tardy jolt]

I just want to reach a similar level compared to my other drinks, then I’ll stop. However, I’m only like 1/3 of the way there

[winged fossil]

There’s little reason to, the new roles aren’t that accessible

We have one f2p field. That’s it if you don’t pull them

Especially when they aren’t giving us training rallies anymore

By time much comes for the roles they’ll probably be in events

[tardy jolt]

Well, the alternative for me is grinding 3* PU, of which I have 1000+ rn

But yeah, idk, I assume there were no updates to the shop from the datamine, though, right?

[sturdy flower]

shouldn't they be in tomorrow's event

both units are of the new type

[winged fossil]

anyone have an estimate of how long into the month id be waiting for 2 coins? im at 8100 BP

would be 3, but im likely getting +1 coin from leaf lodge this upcoming reset (LV64 atm on her) so ill only need 2

||kinda wanna candy Proton for tm MPR||

[tough oriole]

Have you checked #1012256199128915968 message

[rare swan]

please do not discuss pulling here

[unique ivy]

Yep thanks for deleting it

[robust plaza]

Gem count. Saving until datamine ||then might pull on unoVA banner||

[vernal glade]

Progress on saving, seems I’ll be heading to 170k since I calculated the gem total.

[spare latch]

damn, how many months of savings is this?

[vernal glade]

I cannot remember actually.

Been a few months I’m guessing?

So maybe around…. May??

But I can confirm I started saving back in November

[spare latch]

wow, one entire year

[rare swan]

very achievable if you're determined (but also a great achievement!)

[tawny cedar]

Holy shit only 24k this month

I'll barely scrape by to pity farty

[maiden kayak]

i realise the gem count actually reduces but no of new units coming is higher now

which became 6 instead of 4

[ashen thunder]

It's still 4 if you ignore variety

[rare swan]

yeah if you ignore the variety pairs everything is normal

[tardy fiber]

True, unless people pulling all 6

[ashen thunder]

Tho at this point variety feels more limited than MFs

[tardy fiber]

But im too stingy

So i gonna have skip month

I gonna have fun with lodge gio for the whole month nidorino gaming

[ashen thunder]

Time to run nidorino and gengar with oak

[tardy fiber]

Plus, ||seeing the new event scenes motivates me to save and prepare gems for the future||

Well i only watch it 30 minutes earlier

[tawny cedar]

Wait why is rally counted in this month's gem count

[rare swan]

they fall in this datamine period

[tawny cedar]

Welp uh

High chance i can't pity farty

Unless he runs into november

Does farty run into november?

If he doesn't I'll be 1.7k gems off

[tardy fiber]

Till 1st November based on #1012256199128915968

[stray steeple]

3k gems!!!

[tawny cedar]

Then unless 30th oct -1st nov has 1.7k gems I have to skip farty,again...

[tardy fiber]

Grab him through seasonal select

Maybe there's one on half anni

[tawny cedar]

I have no more paids

I doubt I'll get more

So it's either hoping there's 1.7k more gems before he leaves,a rally or wait till next year

[tardy fiber]

Goodluck||there's 6 pairs so lower rate than rocket ||

[opaque cargo]

The dark samurott is new right? Why the moves so dang op

[lean mango]

Don't think this is the place to share

Gem count, anyways it's been a while but now at 80k

[stray steeple]

Gem count

[opaque cargo]

3k gem and the kanto bird will be gone in about 1 week. Yeah i dun have the gem huhu

[stray steeple]

Me who's one multi away from NC Red:

[upbeat lotus]

please refrain from talking about current and upcoming banners here

[vestal leaf]

Last year we had 5 limiteds and 2 gen pools, this year 4 limiteds, 2 variety and a gen pool

I think this October is fine

[tardy fiber]

Wow the special feather in rei akari event shop gives guaranteed stats, themes, additional effects that fit for them...well as i skip akari and rei, gonna use that feather to make exclusive sscyrus gear because he is also sinnoh dark

Kinda nice for sscyrus

[broken mulch]

Oh dang that’s nice

[tardy fiber]

Its good for long game too as this feather is only for 1 gear, so if this event reruns, can put it on another gear

So use this one for bandanna/bracelet/pin then if it reruns, use on other part

Rei feather looks nice for fighting damage dealer pair that weak to flying but it's for fighting/sinnoh/main character

[winged fossil]

well. the people who were complaining bout new drinks not being in event shops doesnt have to complain now

theyre finally doing 5-packs.

[broken mulch]

Finally!

[crisp grotto]

Woo that's good

[tardy fiber]

I guess i just gonna name the skill gear - Akari Gear 2 because i put on bracelet and Rei Gear 3 because i put on pin

[vernal glade]

Either way I’m still not using them. Maybe except for the one that has fighting.

[winged fossil]

||so rei's the canon hisui MC according to this event, cool||

[tardy fiber]

Rei gear can boost my scguzma punch

[maiden kayak]

||u can from the sync move name||

[maiden kayak]

critastrophe works only for sync

[tardy fiber]

Yep i sync with scguzma

He got SE after sync as well

[winged fossil]

i dont read kits for pairs that i dont plan to pull the lever on 90% of the time anymore

it helps me with saving if i dont know what they do

[winged fossil]

...why do i have a feeling this events story just teased another future pair that isnt even in the mine.

0 clue what that actually was at the end but, for some reason thats my gut feeling in response to the story.

[drowsy saddle]

actually it teased eos, in this essay...

[tardy fiber]

Hope they give special feather for bunch of event

[oak crest]

They added some in the hisui event shop too

I wonder tho, can the gears receive the same stat boosts as each other, cos if they do, u can potentially have an additional 240 attack or sp attack from 3 gears

Altho rolling for the same theme for the 3 eq is another problem

[tardy fiber]

Probably can stack, thats why i hope that there's another future event that have fighting/dark pair with rainbow feather, then i will give that feather to pin/bracelet

[tardy fiber]

Thanks to rainbow feather existence, i think i will not farm those feathers

I probably buy in event shop, but probably not gonna grind it

[dreamy onyx]

Stats are locked like type gear. Like bracelet boosts atk and def, you can’t get the same stat for all 3

[oak crest]

Ooh ic

Guess they definitely didn't want ppl to end up with that kind of super boost

[tardy fiber]

If rei akari event rerun, i can use rei feather on bracelet/pin next

[oak crest]

240 attk or sp attk is game changing for sure

[tardy fiber]

||at the end, it shows togepi horns moving behind one of the ruin rocks...volo incoming ||

[dreamy onyx]

Depends on feather type too. Like the pin can get every stats but low number

[tardy fiber]

I guess i just gonna rely on rainbow feathers, other feathers have too much rng

[oak crest]

Max is 120 ig

For attk/sp atk

Owait, 100 only apparently

[dreamy onyx]

Until we can farm them like cookies i won’t care too much about this. And the ever pin is expensive

[oak crest]

For some odd reason u can't get attk or sp attk on 1 of the gear typing

[round mason]

feathers giving more rng?

[tardy fiber]

Except rainbow feathers, its like guaranteed deluxe cookie

[lost bobcat]

They're really unit-related, nice feathers to stack up since all this stuff is guaranteed
But those are not the "red" passives we got randomly on others

Are weaker versions but I guess we can start with those as base once we got enough pins

Btw we are getting 12 gears and feathers area for free
All we need are better feathers now and we can ignore the trade area

And pins ofc

[tardy fiber]

Kinda nice though as they kinda synergised well with each other for certain types, hard to get this by using RNG feathers need 6 pins for each gear

120

[maiden kayak]

in the nutshell

its not worth it

its basically another cs2 when maxed (with terms and conditions)

[tardy fiber]

Yep, thats why i gave up my normal gear project after knowing rainbow feathers existence

[dreamy onyx]

Trading using is such a scam

[tardy fiber]

Better to just collect rainbow feathers

Maybe if rei akari event rerun, i can use the same feather on other part next time

[lost bobcat]

Rip for those who sacrificed exing units to get pin and gears🇫

[tardy jolt]

People need to be patient and wait

[hard wave]

Idt I will trade for these bcz I want to EX like 20 units rn and have… 10 powerups 13 w custom

[tardy fiber]

I lost 20 for pin, nvm its for science

[lost bobcat]

Ye exactly what I said few days ago
Just let's see

[tardy fiber]

Well can still use the pin for rainbow feather gear, after 6 pins, can roll for better stats

[lost bobcat]

I think i'll stack for a while
But yeah if they rerun those events will be powerful
Even more when units themes overlaps like ssaCynthia and Rei

[tardy fiber]

Yep, thats why i just gonna focus on rainbow feather

Well not just event rerun, if there's event with featured fighting or dark pair too, can get the feather and use on different part than Rei, akari gear parts

[winged fossil]

According to the research people it’s multiplicative to other stuff but yeah, still not gonna trade pus for the pins. I’ll let them passively stockpile from events and care about making a fav set or two later on.

I’m glad that we get the rainbow feathers as something to make use of while we are scaling up our resource stockpiles

[tardy fiber]

Yep, i kinda like them as they are associated with feature pain in a special event...they feels like magma, aqua pin

Thus i named those gears Rei and Akari

[languid quail]

I still don't understand the whole thing lol

[hard wave]

Same, the gear is still rlly confusing imo

[strange trout]

Alright chat I may need some grief counselling

25, 26, however many dailies it's been since Paulo banner, still no Tina

It's not looking good

Help convince me not to spend more than the last few dailies left on her

[unkempt vortex]

You’ve wasted almost a selects worth of gems for nothing

[vestal leaf]

^

I would've called quits at 5

At this point I'd consider either to fully invest yourself ready to pity or give it up

[hard wave]

A pity for tina?

[tardy fiber]

Cannot even select her on pity iirc, can only select 5* pairs

[vestal leaf]

If she's fave

[vestal leaf]

True

That's why khan went 3 pities for Rachel in 2021

[hard wave]

How unlucky do u have to be to not get the unit w the highest rate in the banner?

Ok well thats the featured but still they r 4 stars who have a 5/10% chance

[vestal leaf]

I mean he's not here anymore for a reason

[hard wave]

Wait did he not get a single copy or was he going for 5/5?

[vestal leaf]

Not a single copy

[sand crown]

How is that possible. RNG I know but that’s incredible

[unkempt vortex]

They’re just insane at the game

[crisp grotto]

It's so insane I'm not sure whether to class it as unlucky or lucky

[lost bobcat]

We got blank gears, with 3 slots for themes, 3 for stats and 3 for additional effects
All those 9 things are given randomly by feathers
But we also have unique event feathers which have a guarantee outcome
Just think like lucky skills, we got cookies and guaranteed cookies (from LG)

Those guaranteed feathers we got from event are meant to work with their featured units

[hard wave]

Im more confused abt the pins tbh

[lost bobcat]

Pins are needed to lock any parameter

[upbeat lotus]

Hiya just remind yall that we have a guide on skill gears now: #1147355613198815352 message

[lost bobcat]

Nice

[hard wave]

Themes stats and effects?

[hard wave]

Oh nice

The pin thing seems horrible, 2 months to be able to lock 1 whole gear

Apparently they dont get recycled as well? If u remove it its gone

[lost bobcat]

Yes, any parameter of the gear need to be locked one by one
If you reroll without locking those you want you're going to lose them

[languid quail]

I still don't understand how it works because I haven't tried to make it work lol.

[lost bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/time-to-learn-finn-jake-gif-5188235

[rigid oar]

i wonder if save for potential OP unit or ||roll for zerena ||

[crisp oracle]

Do you like any characters?

Here in chat, we suggest saving for favourites rather than meta as free units can clear most content

Besides, meta chasing is a great way to dry out gems

[rigid oar]

thats so true

[weary aspen]

what if i have fun having meta units 😢

[strange trout]

Then you will have pain

[vestal leaf]

^

I was about to write

"you're gonna be pulling 20+ units per year"

[strange trout]

Almost every unit released nowadays is meta in some way

[crisp grotto]

And the next one will out-do it lmao

[strange trout]

The good news at least is that if you have a fave trainer, there's a good chance they'll be meta too lmao

[weary aspen]

well not necessarily, as i dont have the means of doing so (f2p) 😂

so at least i have some built in limit

[strange trout]

I hope you like spreadsheets

[weary aspen]

huh?

wdym, sorry 😅

[maiden kayak]

would recommend doing a list

[strange trout]

You're gonna need to be doing budgeting lol

[maiden kayak]

u are not at a level where u can freely choose any unit every month unless u are like 300k+ gems

[weary aspen]

like a list of what units i plan to get, a priority list of sorts?

[strange trout]

Ye

[maiden kayak]

pirority list is bs imo

[weary aspen]

what list do you mean then?

[maiden kayak]

just do a list of units that u really want love

[strange trout]

...which is a priority list

[maiden kayak]

no

theres a difference

pirority list have (low pirority and high pirority what not)

the one i recommend is either straight YES or dont bother putting in

[weary aspen]

i mean, can't I? i can prob go to pity on at least one unit a month, no?

[maiden kayak]

no

[strange trout]

I mean a binary choice of yes/no is still an assessment of your priorities

[maiden kayak]

every month has less than. a pity

[vestal leaf]

Yeah on average you get 8 pities per year

Do your calcs

[maiden kayak]

here we always assume u go to pity for a unit

[strange trout]

Rule 1 of gacha: you will never be lucky

Any evidence that suggests otherwise is fake news

Plan accordingly

[vestal leaf]

Expect pity

Anything less is more wiggling room

For next pity

[weary aspen]

forgive my ignorance, but does the same logic not apply to favs?

[unkempt vortex]

Don’t get mad when you don’t get the unit when you’ve got less than pity

And then blame the game

[weary aspen]

never said i would 😂

my plans to go in expecting pity, but if i get sooner than that i’ll take it happily

[unkempt vortex]

Not you specifically but a lot of people do it

[weary aspen]

ah gotcha 🫡

[maiden kayak]

yea first

just write a list

preferbly trainers that u love

and then we can filter from there

[weary aspen]

hm gotcha

[maiden kayak]

pen and paper

[weary aspen]

i’ll be back 🫡

[maiden kayak]

so u can focus much more

u probably forget if u write on mobile list

[strange trout]

Yes it applies to any banner, but if you can focus on your faves you will have less temptation to do random pulls on other banners

If it so happens that 2 of your faves show up at the same time and you only have gems for 1...then I'm sorry

[weary aspen]

ig this would be a list of mine

[upbeat lotus]

Can you try to reduce the size? Around 10 targets are perfect

[ashen thunder]

The target count depends on how many of those they are missing

Usually < 5 reruns is ideal

[weary aspen]

ig Red, Steven, Blue, N, Cyrus, Cynthia, Calem (forgot to add him), Hau

tried narrowing it down as much as i could

hm

5?

uh

red, blue, steven, cynthia, N

[ashen thunder]

5 reruns means 180k gems

Which is almost 8-9 months of saving worst case scenario

[strange trout]

Tbf some of them are gen pool, so if you don't count their alts you can just aim for base

[weary aspen]

wdym base, sorry

like the gen pool unit?

[crisp oracle]

Solid list of target

I will say that is a very intensive list of targets as they get a lot of alts

[ashen thunder]

They all have atleast 4 alts so

If they don't have any it's like 20+ reruns

[strange trout]

Yeah if you're satisfied with that

[weary aspen]

i mean in terms of blue im satisfied atm, i have 5/5 pidgeot and 1/5 NC blue atm

[vestal leaf]

I did skip minor favs in favour of bigger favs

I'm skipping akari for volo/cogita

Save for those 5-6 faves alts if the alt is cool

[crisp oracle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1010275375730925638/1151704032679821382/image.png?ex=65182eb7&is=6516dd37&hm=3acebfc57291c75c2530783eba4f7dd1e9d7b3694ecd383bfbaaf640eaa9953b&

I’ve been slowly thinning out my favourites list

Diantha, Gloria, Irida, Hilda

[oak crest]

Ash rerunning tho, close to 0 chance

seeing how they never even rerun Jessie/James on Ash's debut

[weary aspen]

could you drop the link for that? might wanna do that, would just be easier

[mossy hawk]

My rerun list will probably include Fall Phoebe now

[rigid oar]

pikachu so low

[crisp oracle]

I don’t want the Pikas really unless I have the gems

I might get rid of them altogether

[rigid oar]

too many pikas

[oak crest]

might see SST red and SSA Cynthia rerunning on dec

[crisp oracle]

||I might go for SSA only depending on my gem situation||

[latent salmon]

i just realized, ||if v!kris reruns, my gems won't have definite 'goal' in terms of reruns ||

[mossy hawk]

I think this month is proving that they are saving SSA and SST reruns for New Years

[oak crest]

speaking of Variety... we dh any reruns yet

[mossy hawk]

Just like 2nd anni trio at the start of this year

[oak crest]

ye

end Dec

[mossy hawk]

Oh yeah it was end Dec

[oak crest]

next region NC should be happening on Nov or Dec

[rigid oar]

I think I will just save for a new meta instead of trying for zerena

[vestal leaf]

Ssleon, 2 years with 2 selects

No rerun

Nothing

[ashen thunder]

It's fine

[oak crest]

[ashen thunder]

Nobody wants him anyways

[latent salmon]

oh dear god, i forgot nc

if nc silver happen... my gems are dead

[oak crest]

Premium Unit Leon

should have called him that

[ashen thunder]

Ill only roll for hoenn NC

All other NCs are skip for me

[unkempt vortex]

Dw nc silver is fake

[oak crest]

i will roll if i like their kit

[unkempt vortex]

It’ll be kris lyra and gio

[ashen thunder]

I already have too many MF reruns as priorities

I want to cut short my rerun list

[latent salmon]

kris is on my fave list...

nc johto very bad for me

[unkempt vortex]

Ethan doesn’t get one cause he’s also fake

[strange trout]

NC Johto should be Gio and 2 of the admins

It'd be funny

[rigid oar]

i dont think nc johto will be so soon

[latent salmon]

NC proton or bust

[oak crest]

i hope NC Alola is good tho, as my Alola units are very weak esp the fact I skipped Alola VA entirely

(I didnt like all 4 kits of the Tapu units then)

[unkempt vortex]

Nc alola will skip selene and elio

[latent salmon]

NC Proton and Kartana because Rocket has access to UB iirc

[ashen thunder]

NC alola will be hau, acerola and lana

[latent salmon]

im coping hard right now

[oak crest]

[vernal glade]

NC unova would give us Nate

[unkempt vortex]

Looks like vantner hacked someone’s account

[oak crest]

i lowkey do not want all the Alola VA chars to be Alola NCs

[pure arrow]

How well did SS Hau sell again? IIRC he didn’t do all that good, so probably unlikely to be a NC

[unkempt vortex]

Doesn’t mean he won’t

[oak crest]

if anything, Gladion needed an alt badly

like the 2 protags

[unkempt vortex]

Gladion def isn’t getting it

[rare swan]

I'm pretty sure anyone who got an alt in Alola VA is out of the running for NC

[vernal glade]

True, only aether family without an alt. Nate also the only Unova protag without an alt.

[ashen thunder]

Mina sold most out of the bunch

[latent salmon]

NC Gladion is big cope consider DeNA forgot he exists

[pure arrow]

Huh, I thought it was Acerola for the longest time

[rare swan]

[crisp oracle]

NC Diantha pls DeNa

[pure arrow]

Still nice that an underdog did well

[rare swan]

Him, Flannery and Sycamore are the last of the Officially Popular™️ characters who do not have alts

[ashen thunder]

Her release day was the biggest spike on sales iirc
But like they all were close on sales

[unkempt vortex]

Cope harder

[crisp oracle]

[oak crest]

not impossible

since they did that shit with Blue

[unkempt vortex]

Diantha is in jail

[oak crest]

[latent salmon]

i keep forgetting rocket execs in fact do not count as popular

[unkempt vortex]

Rocket execs didn’t do well cause variety and stuffing them all in a banner like it’s a seasonal rerun

[oak crest]

0.4% rates will turn away many unless they are a big fan of TR

[latent salmon]

as in the characters themselves aren't really "popular"

[rare swan]

they're popular in our hearts 😔

[latent salmon]

preach tai!!!

[pure arrow]

I feel this lol

[ashen thunder]

They don't have much screentime in their own games so like

[oak crest]

i kinda feel that Variety probably is somewhat successful seeing that they got the balls to pull the stunt on the shitty rate on TR Variety banner

[latent salmon]

man its always a jumpscare when people don't know who the rocket execs are... i should learn to expect that

[pure arrow]

I don’t think we know exactly how much Variety banners make, but yeah

Or at least it’s because of DeNA following precedent for free seasonal rerun banners

[ashen thunder]

Didn't ball guy have pretty good sales

They probs realised they can do whatever they want with variety banners after him

[latent salmon]

or they saw how dedicated rocket exec fans are and decided to make us suffer while making us believe they were doing a great thing

[crisp oracle]

Ball Guy should have been a Pokefair

DeNa got rewarded for variety through him

[oak crest]

sounds more like a punishment ngl

[pure arrow]

Variety was just an excuse to not give him a unique sync I think

[ashen thunder]

I also feel like HS is just a way to make people regret for skipping out on variety units

[latent salmon]

we just wanted our years of exec-less torment to end

[ashen thunder]

Coz so far both eevees were excellent in HS

And they skipped out grass HS to shove fire type just to make people mald even more

[oak crest]

i probably not gonna bother

lol

hit 180k is good enough

i somehow manage to make 10k this time round as well despite not even putting much effort

[rare swan]

ah hell you just reminded me we might get more of those gotdamn eevarities next month

[oak crest]

~~didn't even get any 4* PU tix if any1s wondering ~~

[ashen thunder]

Watch next HS be poison

So that people without ball guy can regret

[vernal glade]

If it’s poison then uh, im not raising my strength.

[oak crest]

they better rerun jessie/james if that's the case

poison units are pretty scarce

[ashen thunder]

Well poison's defensive spread is better than fire

And lot of poison mons recently got ex

Also
We are getting lot of variety units as well

[oak crest]

almost every month

[ashen thunder]

Which is inflating the limited units per patch

Like last month had like 10/11 limited units

This month it's 6

And we are getting less gems

[oak crest]

also MF gifts changed 2x striker, 1x tech coin to 1 sprint coin, 1 field coin and 1 general coin

i wonder if they will start changing candy coin distribution from BP soon

[ashen thunder]

General coin is way better

[oak crest]

yea

[ashen thunder]

BP is probs not changing

Since they didn't change it for anni

[oak crest]

maybe next half anni or next anni

[ashen thunder]

At best next chance is half anni and there's like 6 months so

[oak crest]

[sand crown]

Starting with Calem?

[oak crest]

yea

[rustic heron]

||need dissuading from pulling for akari, she’s really cute and i really like samurott but i need to save for the triple unova banner…||

[lost bobcat]

|| The triple banner is a good deal compared to her
Also it will be near datamine and you can eventually check what's coming
There's always something better that why we do our proprity lists before units rerun or get released ||

[rustic heron]

gotta do double | on both sides

jsyk

[lost bobcat]

Ye forgot the double

[rustic heron]

mmm yeah that’s true

||2.5x the rates for the triple banner, plus i’ve been wanting for MUCH longer than akari||

[lost bobcat]

Also one thing in my mind
|| if you liked PLA having no new gimmick for attack styles is a bit disappointing for the main protags ||

[oak crest]

go for the bigger fave then... also remember we probably won't have enough field coins for a good amount of time...

[rustic heron]

that’s also true

||at least rei doesn’t rely on grid to be good||

[oak crest]

so you will be stuck with a 1/5 lesser fave if u choose to go for the other

[sturdy flower]

Volo lovers save

he might be the next MF

[rustic heron]

also that

volo is so cool

[oak crest]

yea true

[sturdy flower]

i like how DeNa started to tease

[rustic heron]

i gotta get him when he comes next month (maybe)

[sturdy flower]

like we have Silver's egg

we have tease at the end of the current story

[lost bobcat]

Nah next are Alolan NC
Lillie and Mallow

[oak crest]

technically missing 1 MF from hisui to form a MF trio from Hisui(although they have Sinnoh MF theme)

[sturdy flower]

add Lana 👀

[lost bobcat]

For the sake of my gems, hope 2 mf are enough
Hoping they won't reach 3 new mfairs every 3 months

[pure arrow]

||I also need to be dissuaded from pulling for Akari (new Dark Zoner), except my target this month is Fall Roxanne||

[lost bobcat]

|| read above for Akari
For Roxanne seasonal rates are meh and after one year you get everyone stuffed in one banner which is nice if you got almost none
If you are a lightspender (3k daily bundle) you can wait for a select by just avoiding daily pulls ||

[lean mango]

Then i finally do HS for once

Though we barely have 15 Poison pairs, Jessie and James are excluded for obvious reasons. 16 Poison pairs probably won't do for a HS

[ashen thunder]

Electric was in similar state

Before nemona and NCblue

[lean mango]

How many did Electric have?

[ashen thunder]

20 or smth

It's still less than quite some typings

[lean mango]

hm

[ashen thunder]

Even fire isn't rly great tbf

We exactly have 5 units that can tank

And 2 of those are mid at that role

It's clearly them releasing HS rotations based on eeveelutions

[lean mango]

Poison has 4 supports, and 1 of them is not a tank

Poison rn is abundant of techs

[ashen thunder]

Poison has offensive debuffs even on budget units

Kind of not liking their current business model

Too much variety units

[lean mango]

yeeaa

[hard wave]

I hope they combine some of them then

[ashen thunder]

Almost all typings are sitting at comfortable 15+ units iirc
So I doubt it's happening

[hard wave]

Grass maybe, psychic has like 3 non limited supports, dark idk, ice has a few good damage dealers and supports

[ashen thunder]

They don't care abt limited and non limited accessibility

Current HS is fire

[hard wave]

Im prob going to have to off type, but I got the medal now so

[ashen thunder]

Fire supports are garbage defensively

[sleek whale]

Unless your ss morty

[hard wave]

Yeah I mean based on the other eevee types

[ashen thunder]

It's just SSmorty, Tina and evelyn

[lean mango]

the unfortunate thing rn is Poison' lack in strength of strikers

thinking about it

[ashen thunder]

Poison has dpses
It's that they are limited
They'll do plumeria expansion before HS anyways

[hard wave]

For fire limiteds I have ss morty ss hilda and ss red

[ashen thunder]

Like how they buffed Hilda recently

[lean mango]

Emma and ||I have not tried out Petrel yet|| I think Petrel are the best of them

[hard wave]

No tina either, didnt get a chance to pull for her

[ashen thunder]

Petrel sucks

[lean mango]

ah

[hard wave]

I just realized looker will be trash in HS

[lean mango]

So it's just Emma that is the only hard hitter of Strikers

[hard wave]

He’s pretty meh on type imo

And thats what he’s made for

[ashen thunder]

Well koga and Roxie exists

[hard wave]

roxie was even worse in my experience

[ashen thunder]

They both mid

But Roxie doesn't eat candies

[sleek whale]

Looker doesn't either

[lean mango]

I still need to do my Poison CS challenge

[hard wave]

I have both 5/5 so

[ashen thunder]

5/5 petrel?

[sleek whale]

[lean mango]

My dream

[hard wave]

Looker and roxie

[lean mango]

I've only recently tried out LMarnie for the first time, and it's hard to say on how I feel about her

since she certainly is a unit

[ashen thunder]

We stopped getting good free dpses after free legendaries

Almost every free dps post arca blue is a 100 BP mid unit

[lean mango]

oh well, make much of what ya get

[ashen thunder]

Hoping paldea gives free legendary that's not a 100 BP joke unit

If it's dps

Support it's fine, they are always workable

[lean mango]

We get Hop 2.0

[mossy hawk]

Is Ground the only sub 15 type

[ashen thunder]

Ground is 19 no?

Lemme check

Oh
Ground is 14

My goodness

[mossy hawk]

Well this month out put a great addition to it

[ashen thunder]

It's not primal groudon

So still skip

I haven't rolled a new seasonal in like 2 years already

They all have shitty shelf life

[mossy hawk]

Seasonals are my favorite alts in this game

[ashen thunder]

And they aren't favs either

[weary aspen]

😭 i gotta take some of these off

[mossy hawk]

And I love how less popular Hoenn characters got an opportunity to shine with seasonals this year

[lean mango]

ya wanna chase for meta and faves?

[weary aspen]

idkkkkk

[lean mango]

That's an extremely big rerun list

[ashen thunder]

Remove the "meta that you want" and "less favs but still meta"

also saying cblue as less meta

[mossy hawk]

Let's hope for a Brawly seasonal alt sometime in the future

[lean mango]

Having a big rerun list can be a thorn in your foot tbh

[weary aspen]

yeah def

hm

[ashen thunder]

If you have more than 5 rerun list

You are just saving for an entire year

And wouldn't even roll new unit

Also remove ash, that guy isn't rerunning

[crisp grotto]

[lean mango]

[feral vale]

My dreams for an Ash & Greninja pair…shattered

[maiden kayak]

honestly

fire has shit supports

i dunno if this high score is gonna score high due to that

other than ss morty

[lean mango]

best we got is Evelyn, SS Morty and uh

[vestal leaf]

Not like electr had many without NC blue

[ashen thunder]

Whale roster will be fine

Fire has excellent debuffers

[vestal leaf]

Debuffing alone, without supports isn't still good enough for 500+ STR imi

Imo

[ashen thunder]

I did 630 str without aoe def buffs

Thx to debuffers

Also 520 str with only -1 atk from terrify and no def buffs

[vestal leaf]

Ok but what team

Heavy flinchers?

Full endure

[ashen thunder]

SSTred, soph, surge

Just flinch all the way

[vestal leaf]

Yeah ok lol

Tbolt 3/5 + soph

[ashen thunder]

Yea
Just like how fire can blast with NCleaf and lirida

[vestal leaf]

Endure + unyielding + flinches and one of the 3 best hybrids in the game

[ashen thunder]

I didn't even grid U2

Wanted stats to tank sync

[vestal leaf]

Isn't irida just 40% flinch

[ashen thunder]

40% is all I need

That's what I relied on my 520 str run

[vestal leaf]

Use fuecoco too then

Same odds are lodge irida

[ashen thunder]

I am using support one so

[vestal leaf]

Kek

[ashen thunder]

Well it depends on how event goes

If I don't need lot of sun then flinch fuecoco might find usage

[weary aspen]

ok i think i have it figured out

[languid quail]

What's that?

[weary aspen]

my rerun list

[lean mango]

Certainly way more manageable than your previous one, though the 4 MFs is a bit worrying

but it'll probably take some time between each of those reruns

[weary aspen]

yeah that was my logic mostly, more space in between means more gems i can use for new stuff

[lean mango]

Only one I can think of that can be pain in the back would be SSA Cynthia and SST

Since they're both 3rd anni pairs so most likely they'll run together

[weary aspen]

thats def true, another thing being that calem's coming in a month too

so say they come in december

that would be rough

esp if i want the new MFs in december

[hard wave]

I feel like cserena will rerun next month, since archie and maxie were back to back

Be prepared for december tho

[weary aspen]

yeah december might be rough

[lean mango]

how many gems you got rn?

[weary aspen]

hoping i get calem early 🙏

[hard wave]

Also as someone chasing reruns, its hard bcz there will be new pairs I like

[weary aspen]

15k atm

[lean mango]

hm

question, do you have a fave list

not considering the rerun list

[weary aspen]

steven, red, cynthia, blue (satisfied w blue units tho rn w NC blue and gen pool), N (not too interested in current units tho), calem, adaman

[lean mango]

ah neat, with a small fave list like that, really wouldn't be too concerned despite being popular characters

all for that I can say is, get a pity and pick and choose on who'd you want to go for if there's multiple faves in a month

[fallen path]

4 of those are master fairs, so they could appear any month

[weary aspen]

well i mean calem's eliminated from that logic since hes coming next month

so we know he wont be coming for a bit after that

[snow rose]

do you think we'll get cserena next month?

[crisp grotto]

I think it's pretty plausible

[snow rose]

hm okay

[crisp grotto]

It would make the most sense

[snow rose]

||opinons on if i should pull- i like Akari, and I really like HSamurott, but i have ccalem already + i havent saved and have basically been pulling pities for my last 4 pairs. Also given cserna is likely to come next month, i would really like to have a pity's worth by the end of her banner. opinion? also idk if im supposedd to spoiler this lol||

[fallen path]

well i guess you can save for him first

[weary aspen]

yeah i def am, id appreciate having a top tier physical support and calem/greninja are cool

[fallen path]

i tend to ignore stuff i'm not interested (which is everything in october), so i didn't notice hes available next month lol

[cunning swan]

||we always encourage making sure you can pity a banner and pulling for faves is absolutely valid. Can you pity her with the gems we're getting?||

[snow rose]

her meaning Akari? no.

[cunning swan]

Well that makes it tough

And you plan on ||pulling on the potential Cerena rerun too?||

Tbf ||cerena should come on november 25 and lasts until december 25. Assuming you skip other pairs, you will definitely have a pity||

[snow rose]

Yeah
Honestly I ||totally forgot about pity I shall skip Akari||

[cunning swan]

It sucks skipping a fave but sometimes it has to be done

[unkempt vortex]

There’s always the other option

[snow rose]

unfortunately id like to pay rent

[languid quail]

You need 3600

Gems

[unique ivy]

Ye

[unique ivy]

Wait no 3900

[crisp grotto]

3600 is correct

[unique ivy]

N- yep just realized

[dry cargo]

Hello guys, I have 18k paid gems.

NC Red & NC Leaf at 1/5
NC Blue at 2/5 + EX (got him from paid + pity)

I’m planning to get cake roll for NC Red and NC Leaf, and have the three of them to 3/5.

Worth it? Whats your advice guys? I’m a new player here, so have not much fancy roster.

[vestal leaf]

They're perfectly fine without roll cakes

Cakes are the ultimate currency rn together with candies

So I'd be wary of just blasting them

[dry cargo]

I see. Thank you for the info. Is there any MF Johto / Hoenn coming up? If yes, i might save for them

[vestal leaf]

You missed johto trio that was running until less than a month ago

Before them we had an Archie and Maxie rerun too

They'll come back thi

Tho

Eventually

[dry cargo]

Eh nvm. I forgot i got Lugia and Celebi 1/5, missed out on Suicune

[dry cargo]

I see. Hoenn MF is not Brendan/May?

[vestal leaf]

Nope

[sturdy flower]

Next MF will probably be either Sinnoh or Unova

or Alola

but Alola would be out of nowhere (NC?)

Sinnoh because we are likely to have Hisui arcs now

Unova because they like Unova and Dennis still has Reshiram

[sleek whale]

paldea beacuse

[sturdy flower]

Paldea doesn't have enough units for EBE

[sleek whale]

though would be nice for more unova mf

[ashen thunder]

They can do paldea+rando typing

Ez

Like how they used to do old ebes

[sturdy flower]

i feel like mixing Hisui and Paldea story arcs at once would be weird

unless they just straight up connect them

[dry cargo]

I see. I played until ruby/sapphire, so im not rly familiar with Gen IV and beyond 😬

[vestal leaf]

A fifth Sinnoh mf?

I hope not

[sturdy flower]

they didn't split Sinnoh with Hisui precisely because then they dont need to print any non PF or lower units

and can just spam MF and PF

[vestal leaf]

Idk, I'm expecting unova mf for winter and hisui for 4.5

[sturdy flower]

also possible

or we might get Anniversary 2024 early

[hard wave]

I feel like they kept SSAC flag bearer bcz they planned to release adaman and irida who would take up the pride and spirit

[vestal leaf]

Ssac had no reason to be spirit or pride

[hard wave]

And also galar and kanto NCs being a whole trio they repeated flag bearer (and spirit for kanto), they have yet to make a MF for a region while all 3 passives r filled

[vestal leaf]

Like, support MFs are most likely to be bearers

Because it's the most universal buff

Calem got pride just to mirror Serena's spirit

And because zygarde had bearer already

[hard wave]

Yeah

[vestal leaf]

Ssac being spirit or pride would've been extremely awkward

Especially since the other bearer back then was Cynthia again, with a unit that doesn't remotely synergize

[hard wave]

Yeah, 2 opposite zone setters is usually a pretty bad team

The only one that I think could work is ss diantha and ccalem but I still wouldnt

[winged fossil]

Hmmm I might be able to afford to find a fourth trainer to add to my fav list atp since they slowed down new units for my top three

Getting a bit low on missing poke favs so getting close to pure trainer territory

Right now n Serena and Lillie are my fav trainer list. Anyone got recommendations of trainers I maybe should research about to see if I like them sometime?

Cause atp I’m sorta just waiting for inevitable sv box legends and new alts to them once I get these last two n and Serena reruns

[dry cargo]

Thinking that I save for Red & Ash Pikachu, but any guess when is their rerun?

[sturdy flower]

Red - maybe december around New Year

Ash... no idea if ever

they like to rerun most wanted stuff when new MF release to pressure people into buying gems

[crisp oracle]

||someone please dissuade me from going for Akari, the character is so tempting||

[pure arrow]

Well, what ||dark type|| characters do you have?

[crisp oracle]

NC Calem, Champ Serena

[pure arrow]

Because plenty of busted Dark damage dealers/utility already exist, like NCs Marnie and Calem, SS Cyrus, and obligatory SC Zinnia mention

[crisp oracle]

Problem is Akari is a cool character

[pure arrow]

If you really like ||Akari, then why don't you want to pull?||

[crisp oracle]

What’s coming up

Also I have gotten really hesitant no matter if they are a fave

[crisp oracle]

||SS Hilda banner exists||

[broken mulch]

That one is paid only I think

[crisp oracle]

No

It’s a free one

[junior trout]

You already have calem who sets dark zone twice, and also sets rain, akari can only do one of those two things

[crisp oracle]

I’ll probably wait to decide tbh

Thought it’s pain they don’t last till datamine

[deft glen]

|| I understand you, I'll skip her cause I can't form a pity ||

[tardy fiber]

I hope to have a strong willpower and skip everything this month, I kinda need the break after anniversary

Well not everything, still gonna grab lodge gio and poma day multis

[snow rose]

when(if) we get Hisui general tickets she’ll definitely be one of the units

[crisp oracle]

Unfortunately I don’t think PokeFairs are gonna be ever a part of ticket scouts

[snow rose]

Let me hope lmao this is how I cope with not pulling her(but yeah prob)

[tardy fiber]

Also hisui count as sinnoh here, if there's any general pool hisui, it will use sinnoh tickets

[hard wave]

I wonder if ingo will be unova or sinnoh theme skill?

[junior trout]

would make sense if he was sinnoh

kimono grimsley is alola

from unova, residing in alola
ingo's from unova, residing in sinnoh

well hisui but yk sinnoh is hisui

[tardy fiber]

Yep probably sinnoh for warden ingo

Hope the wardens are paired with the nobles and the ride pokemons

[broken mulch]

Oh nice

Now that adds SSHilbert to my list of temptations haha

[feral vale]

Can you delete this image please? The first rule of this channel states that images referencing pulling is not allowed.

[rare swan]

in the future please ask questions like this in #poma-questions

[unique ivy]

Yes I’m so sorry Annie and Tai I didn’t know

[rare swan]

it's okay, now you do

[crisp oracle]

How do y’all cope with desire sensor? This month is a dozy and I need to stay committed to saving until SS Hilda banner comes

[feral vale]

ADHD brain me does other stuff

[crisp oracle]

Normally school distracts me but I have no school this week

So yeah keeping out has been hard

[feral vale]

I’m currently watching anime :)

[rare swan]

in all seriousness, close the game and distract yourself

get lost in another video game or website, etc

to me it's the most foolproof way

[upbeat lotus]

tldr: touch grass

[crisp oracle]

Me spending all week doing just that

I’ve hiked about 40 miles this week

So yeah I prob need to close this game

[rare swan]

damn that's impressive!

[crisp oracle]

I love walking in general

Sports, Camping, Pokémon

Probably my biggest hobbies

[hard wave]

Touch grass not the 3,000 gems button

[fallen path]

Spend time in another gacha is what I did for half of anni

[tardy fiber]

I need strong willpower, its saving month for PoMa and Honkai Star Rail

[crisp oracle]

I only play PoMa

I can't handle GO and PoMa, much less two gachas

[tardy fiber]

Also ||volo tease at the end, helps me to resist, probably need a pity if he comes with origin giratina||

[crisp oracle]

nah it's burghs togepi

[tardy fiber]

Burgh Togepi wont make Cynthia's Giratina restless

Well can if it has 100% fissure rate

[crisp oracle]

Metronome -> Fissure

[tardy fiber]

Well i still have lodge gio to work on and other 9 4* pairs so i think those can make me preoccupied a bit

Level 150 also helps me to resist but i already done 150 all of my faves

[hard wave]

Same, used to play unite and cafe but got bored of those 2

[hard wave]

He’ll be the new SS Leon

[crisp oracle]

I got bored of Unite quickly once the whales learned to play

[hard wave]

I quit like…. Around goodra’s release I think?

I started a year prior, cafe I started in december and quit same time as unite

[tardy fiber]

Unite is bad now, too many mewtwos

[crisp oracle]

Café never appealed to me

[hard wave]

I played before and tried to get back into it but it gets boring fast

Idk why I played for so long

Id just lvl up pkmn to use up stamina faster

[crisp oracle]

I got GO mostly because I go hiking too much

[fallen path]

Go can be really casual. I play FF ever crisis too now so can save gems easily. Even the pity amount is similar

[tardy fiber]

I cannot play FF ever crisis, square enix doesn't allow it to appear on my country's play store

[tardy fiber]

Yep im fully casual for GO now after they locked Keldeo behind special pass that needed real money to get

Also after free remote raid pass weekly is no longer a thing

[lean mango]

planning to get back into GO, since I'm actually focusing on my physical health alot more now and ~~Geeta accessories ~~

[tardy fiber]

Collecting zygarde cells can help make you sweat

[lean mango]

Haven't had time to play Pomas, but I'm slowly getting back into it

|| Because Phoebe||

[tardy fiber]

Not because of lodge gio?

[lean mango]

Well him too

[tardy fiber]

He is poison

[lean mango]

Ye ye, finally redeems the unit that is SS Gio

[tardy fiber]

I like fall seasonal this time, 2 characters that have 0 alt finally gets it...that is a win although i skip

[lean mango]

though I don't really find Gio interesting as a character so I'm rather less enthusiastic for him than the other Poison units we've gotten recently

no where near as ecstatic as I was for Lodge Marnie since I got to finally get her after a year

even if I don't like Marnie

[tardy fiber]

He makes setting up poison multipliers easier, poison tail he 4 and each time he gets hit got chance to poison too