Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[winged fossil]

[tardy fiber]

Skyla is so good, and another good stuff she has is that she also unlock lodge skyla that is also good

[warm scarab]

I’ve been dailying for ||Lussa|| upon release. But I want ||irida||. Would it be stupid to stop and switch to it as irida comes out?

[rare swan]

I personally think you're fine to switch

Ain't no way you'll be ||dailying your way to a pity for Lussa so if you want Irida more, just swap||

Paid dailies are more for the fun chance of maybe striking lucky, not building up to a pity

[tardy fiber]

I only do single daily discount and 1 normal single to reach pity these days...will be back|| to do dailies when new mix pair arrives||

[untold tide]

I'm starting to rethink my plan of pulling ||sc irida||

I like her, but I already have 1/5 SSR Cynthia

And her...drip? bumps her off quite a bit ngl

[untold tide]

Like, I'm okay with spending less than a pity, but I think going to pity will literally make me unhappy

[crisp grotto]

You could always at the very least wait til datamine, see if a better favourite shows up, and re-evaluate then

[untold tide]

Makes sense

[untold tide]

like, it's the ||NC Silver|| problem all over again for me

Also a bit afraid that volo shows up with another giratina and she falls off to the way side

[unkempt vortex]

It’s a gacha game

Most units fall off eventually because powercreep

[untold tide]

I mean powercreep exists ibviously

[unkempt vortex]

That doesn’t auto mean old = bad

[crisp grotto]

Most content doesn't change to demand that powercreep though, old units don't become irrelevant. So that's not really a worry

[untold tide]

But I am reconsidering how much I actually like ||sc irida||

[crisp grotto]

If you have to consider so long, maybe not

[untold tide]

Like, with Akari, I love her and ||SC Zinnia|| enough to not feel sad that I have dark overlap

[untold tide]

Fair enough...but also with SSR Cynthia she does go damage go brrr

guess I'm just too much of a damage lover

[cunning swan]

💯

wait for a few weeks, if you still feel like you're considering and reconsidering, then you probably don't like her enough

[cinder cliff]

oh no. i only have 10k gems, but i kinda want both adaman and irida. assuming irida is ghost. my offensive ghost coverage is quite bad, but my ground coverage in general feels non-existent

[rare swan]

They will both be here post-datamine, don't rush into anything

[cinder cliff]

i guess at this point i will probably skip on both silver and geeta too. haha

[rare swan]

Also both here after datamine

[cinder cliff]

i hope i get lucky for a couple of them at least. between adaman, irida, silver, geeta, and whoever comes after datamine

[cunning swan]

having all new units lasting until after datamine is a blessing

[winged fossil]

||Shouldn't SSRCs name be spoilered prob considering she reruns this month too? ||

[winged fossil]

I was checking my coin stashes and I honestly didn’t realize how likely I’d be safe for when bikes show up eventually. Considering I’m probably exiting the month gem-dry, having a reasonable stock of candy feels nice. Probably will be saving to see what the next sprintfield master fairs are soon.

And being closing in on a fourth generic candy is nice too

[tardy fiber]

I will be able to form a generic candy soon, gonna wait for next datamine before i use it

[dark oar]

Going strong.... I just have to wait 2 more weeks o.o

[broken mulch]

Oh didn’t notice I’m back to pity for awhille now

Neato

Nothing else interesting this month thankfully

[tardy fiber]

No apologems for the event stage problem not even skip tix

[dark oar]

Just wait a while

[tight creek]

they effectively made it so the issue never happened, i wouldnt expect anything for it because of that

[tardy fiber]

At least i can hopium for 1k gems from twitter activities

If my entries are counted i guess

[lost bobcat]

So 40 mb update to fix the mission bug and no apologems?

[tardy fiber]

They counted our bugged runs

[unkempt vortex]

Never expect any compensation

[fallen path]

Skip tickets would be the equivalent of getting nothing lol

[tight creek]

nah i need another 12000 skip tickets from when they tie extra lodge upgrades to investing them, clearly

[grim plover]

just wait until you can skip UBs with 1000000 skip tickets

[dreamy onyx]

just give 100k sync orbs

[tardy fiber]

Urgh, i only reach 50k orbs today

Halfway done, but next month pairs probably will hurt my savings

[dark oar]

i went down to 50k with all these Palmer stuff.

now i'm back to 81k ;-:

[dreamy onyx]

they should give us sync orbs when liking images, like 50 per like, limit to 100/day so 5k orbs/day

at least give us another way to earn sync orbs

[vernal glade]

There’s unit only Example being player pikachu sync orbs i can’t even use anymore.

At least let people that can’t use them anymore turn them to regular sync orbs.

[topaz compass]

You say that until you have only 2 limited to show for 22k paid gemsx

No thanks on 2% solo paid dailies

[hard wave]

Wouldnt that be useless since u need to best it first

[winged fossil]

I assume from the quantity that they mean bypassing the fight entirely with 1m

Rather than say having to beat Palmer for 300 gems they can just throw away 1m skip tickets

[tardy fiber]

I probably wont skip, i need em cake coin vouchers

[rare swan]

Well that doesn't change what I said

You're not going to pity through paid dailies, for most banners it isn't possible anyway

It's really just a chance to strike gold

(A very low one)

[topaz compass]

Yes and the tcg proves people are idiots willing to waste value for the thrill of the hunt

[unkempt vortex]

That’s not even a tcg thing that’s just a gambling thing

[winged fossil]

Kinda off topic to some extent but got myself distracted from the game to some degree for a while again. Gonna be easier to save I imagine when I’m more focused on learning Archipelago multiworld randomizers rather than being idle and possibly thinking of any temptations that might exist.

Just happy to have something to keep my mind busy for a while between that and playing GameCube games occasionally with my friends

[rare swan]

The best saving trick is distracting yourself

[winged fossil]

Indeed. It sure is. Helps with general stress too tbh, from my experience. Although part of it has to do with my autism probably to some degree, so your results may vary regarding stress.

[tardy fiber]

I play 4 other games other than poma to distract me, it also helps each other when 2 other games are in saving mode while the others are in pulling mode...so i am able to keep myself preoccupied

Reading comics also helps

[strange trout]

The best way to not spend money on Pokémon Masters EX™️ is to spend all your money on other games instead

Can't be tempted to spend money when you have no more money

[weary spire]

I’m kinda curious, since I’ll be using my 1st ever Super BP Voucher/whatever it’s called (the one you exchange for the legend pairs), do you guys consider it worth grabbing dupes for some of their 3/5s?

Now, I know that crosses into “meta” to some degree, but I’m asking primarily in regards to the resource side of things

I think we get more a lot more BP than we used to. Consistent playing earns you enough to afford everything + extra, so I’d think so?

[tough oriole]

Ik that Tai used a lot of their Tickets for the Chatelaine dupes ||and is now struggling with HS without Mesprit ||

Ofc that’s for 5/5 iirc

[weary spire]

I can understand that given you grab dupes of multiple and ahh, yeah, especially in that case

[tough oriole]

As long as you have a backlog for emergencies I think it’s fine to pick up a couple dupes

[weary spire]

But we’re def consistently earning enough to afford dupes in general, and should consider that, right?

[tough oriole]

I just personally feel like I’m not in any rush to get the BP Master Pair dupes, but that’s partly because I don’t have any faves in the pool

[weary spire]

I have 10, asking this bc I’ve never done a single exchange before and wanted a general idea of how others felt about BP / voucher income, considering what one could now spend

I’ve never been in a rush to claim any, period, which is why I never have

[tough oriole]

That’s also fair

[weary spire]

But with HS and other events being a thing, it’s probably a waste to sit on the vouchers and not claim something at all.
Which is why I ask about dupes in this sense

After all, I could claim 1 of everything, but I couldn’t (personally) claim dupes of everything

So is it something where you have to consider choosing 1 unit to take dupes for every half year, for example?

[dapper canyon]

Honestly I have no idea what I'm doing with BP stuff so I just kinda sit on everything

[weary spire]

I’ve been less active the past several months

[tough oriole]

I’ve got 1 copy of all the BP Masters and have 4 tickets remaining
My personal reason for saving is partly a lack of drive to do so, but also in case they add a fave to the pool or someone with a really nice 3/5 grid that I’d want to use

[weary spire]

So I’m conscious of changes, but not as aware of how they’ve actually affected us and the community as a whole, at least not entirely

[dapper canyon]

I can't get any of the free 5* rn anyway so I'm just kinda stuck waiting at this point 😔

[tough oriole]

They usually give a free 5* BP ticket at anni to coincide with them releasing a couple of new ones

[weary spire]

I mean yeah same, but I take it then from your answer of current inventory that you cannot afford to grab dupes of pairs unless you choose 1-2 a year, tbh

Is what I’d guess

Since 4 extra tickets means 3/5s on just 2 other units

[tough oriole]

Pretty much

[weary spire]

In that case

I’ll be hesitant to use take dupes

Sorry for the difficult question

[tough oriole]

I’ve considered duping Cobalion and Mesprit before but I don’t really feel like I’d use them an insane amount to warrant the investment

[tough oriole]

No worries, it’s an interesting topic

[weary spire]

It’s a lil vague as well in its own way

[weary spire]

Mhm

It’d be different if we were earning enough to be able to afford dupes more often

[dapper canyon]

Honestly idk which ones are even decent lol

[weary spire]

Then you could prob justify anything that’d be useful to you, for some time

[tough oriole]

#1081146958862897272

[dapper canyon]

O

Ty

[weary spire]

Ty as well for helping me decide to pass on dupes in this instance

[topaz compass]

Imo getting 1 of each before any dupes is optimal

Only the newest 2 regi, especially regice, seem worth 3/5

[tardy fiber]

I use rainbow ticket for dupes, but mainly because we like can get 4 rainbow tickets a year and anni will give us 1 free, as usually need around 3 and a half month or less to clear 10k ....but also because i already got all past BP master unit at 3/5 so i can use for dupes for regice and registeel batch

But its kinda hard for new players, they will join the game and there's 7 choices right off the bat....will be 9 choices on upcoming anni

[vestal leaf]

Making my Dana 3/5 definitely felt worth

All others feel pretty fine 1/5

[weary spire]

Right, but was specifically asking about the case of dupes, considering BP/ticket income

Got my answer already though, so no stress

TL;DR: BP/ticket income still not quite high enough to be as loose about spending

[weary spire]

Mhmm, but more options are always nice, still

New players can still end up with varying rosters

[grim plover]

I'm just saving them for when i need the dupes. So far it hasnt happened, even with gauntlet but who knows when dena adds 3 extra master pairs

[vestal leaf]

I do think you could easily grab at least 1/5 Dana

She's a good all purpose unit

[weary spire]

I’m good, but thanks I’ll take units if I feel I need ‘em, but not stressing about that rn

[weary spire]

Valid, I’m just waiting for new ones that actually appeal to me

[tardy fiber]

Also, probably take consider of chatelaines being kalos pair to favor them more than MC pairs, sometimes that kalos theme tag can help for kalos contents

[lost bobcat]

Expeditions

But yeah overall having them all 1/5 is enough

[sand crown]

I refuse to do it until they get their EX’s

For now, just grabbing 1/5’s of the better ones. I will most likely give Dana her’s when the EX drops

[tardy fiber]

Oh true, all chatelaines have rare chest boost

Hope they move to sinnoh and hoenn frontier brains after chatelaines

I need more fave support for hoenn and sinnoh, only ssbrendan and ssdawn that fits currently

[hard wave]

We already have all the sinnoh brains (unless u count younger caitlin ig), and I assume the hoenn brains are coming as PFs too

[tardy fiber]

They can always just do another copy like lodge, 4* bp or variety. As they uses legendaries so they kinda fit the bill for bp master pairs

Not many trainers that uses legendaries in the mainline canon

Spenser water teamwork suicune

[tough oriole]

Triple Suicune

[dark oar]

😮

a Tech Suicune perhaps?

[tough oriole]

Ooh it’d be nice to see some role diversity too

Field Suicune

[dark oar]

Water Zone ;>

[tough oriole]

Hopefully next year’s BP pairs have some Field and Sprint units, it’d be really nice for rally

(I say that but I’m becoming a hoarder of BR medals, so it makes no difference to me)

[dark oar]

more like this year no? we're like 5 months away from 5th anni ;o

tbh, i'm currently about to get a Super Voucher Ticket soon

so i can 3/5 someone immediately

by 5th anni, i'll have like third super voucher ticket + the usual free super voucher ticket

[tough oriole]

Oh yeah true

[vernal glade]

||After going for hisui Zoroark, it’s back to saving mode for a long time. No goals for me currently so I’m back to Gem Zen mode.||

[grim plover]

What happened to the person that had the gems left in their username?

[rare swan]

I do not think he's doing the count any more

[hard wave]

Jass?

[cinder topaz]

9K gems

[dark oar]

Back to saving o/

[topaz compass]

Why do people ask for water and fire zone? It would make them OP vs other types

[feral vale]

It would literally just be rain and sun tho

[topaz compass]

Yeah because they give auto damage multiplier while other weathers do not

So it doesn't make sense to give a 2nd multiplier with zones

[tough oriole]

NY Wallace having Sun and not Fire Zone pretty much cements that they won’t get Zones

[grim plover]

they added zones to give all types a field effect, adding fire/water zone would nerf the other types again

[hard wave]

The most they’d do would be water and fire wish like anni may and egg leafeon

[tardy fiber]

Just give Matt a hoenn circle/water rebuff to boost Archie on par with Courtney boosting Maxie

[unkempt vortex]

That would imply dena caring about anyone from hoenn aside from the protags and steven

Let alone any of the admins

[pure arrow]

Hey Zinnia has more sync pairs than Lusamine and Sonia I can dream that they do

But yeah, in all seriousness Gordie’s a gen. pool Fire rebuffer already, so having Matt be a Water rebuffer isn’t out of the question. Whether they’ll extend circles to gen. pool by the time Matt gets added is another question (although I do think circles can make it there eventually, like zones and rebuffs did)

[pure arrow]

If you’re talking about me (if you aren’t, then sorry in that case for the ping) I still update it, just not daily. I know I don’t post here much anymore though, #poma-lounge is my main haunt rn.
Multiple people have gem counts in their names, so it would have helped to be more specific about who you were asking.

[rare swan]

I think they mean people who were counting down the gems left, not their personal gem counts

[grim plover]

Yeah

i meant jass

[rare swan]

yeah he's not doing it any more

[dire meteor]

it's been a good service

always referred to his username if im ever curious

[eternal locust]

Now this month is left about 7k gems and I have like 335 gems

[naive imp]

Asking advice from more experinced savers

When a character you like appears but you already have a good roaster for that type is it worth pulling for them? Or maybe just wait for a rerun, when you have more saved gens?

[dapper canyon]

I'm usually an impulse puller even though I shouldn't be but if there's a reliable way to know when a rerun is happening it's more than reasonable to skip and wait

[tight creek]

I would say if you like a character enough you should go for them, especially if they're not a seasonal

Since those dont have predictable reruns

[naive imp]

I see i believe next year irida and zoroark will rerun so i guess i should just wait for next year but it sucks that it may be in the same month as halfanni.

|| i've already spended 6K gems on her bad choice since i didn't get anything good thinking in wsiting to see next month datamine to see if its worth to pull for her or well see if there is any really good units next month||

Got only 10K gems atm.

[dapper canyon]

Definitely worth waiting on it

[tardy fiber]

I will pull if its a fave totally, like currently i already have 11 psychic faves yet i will still grab another psychic if its a fave.

Non fused necrozma cmon DeNa

[rare swan]

If it's a fave of mine my current roster is irrelevant

if your roster is a factor, then they aren't a big fave

that's the way I see it, anyway

[naive imp]

I laso want to sabe for NC Bede and NC Leaf i want to get all NCs those are the only ones missing.

[tardy fiber]

Yep like my poison type coverage is so poor, mainly because i only have 1 poison fave currently

Oops poison

[naive imp]

My poison is good so i'm not that worried over missing geeta

I got SS Roxie, Fall Iris, Emma

[tardy fiber]

I still skip geeta because she aint fave, if needed for poison weak...i just throw fall iris and gladion

Hoping that nihilego, okidogi, munkidori, fezandipity, pecharunt are poison

[naive imp]

When it comes down to it i believe its mostly favs that call your attention aside from masterfairs since you can still clear type weak stages without pokefairs.

Pecharant is definetely poison

The loyal three may have mixed movesets.

[tardy fiber]

Yep thats why i skipped non fave poison pairs

Later i wont have gems for those i mentioned

Wont have any gems if ye keeps pulling

[naive imp]

That's true

This month kind of sucked for me

Too many units i like plus types i need more coversge

[tardy fiber]

I like this month, its a full skip aside from selects

[naive imp]

||I got really lucky thankfully||

||Except for silver||

||Got gladion on 4 dailies||

||Silver i needed 6 multis||

||Amd adaman i needed 2||

[tardy fiber]

Better hid the pulls comment

Its a saving area not bragging area

[naive imp]

Oh yeahcthat's true

[rare swan]

thank you for the spoilers

[naive imp]

No no its my mistake for talking about them, shouldn't have commented about it here.

[tardy fiber]

Well the conclusion is, i will keep pulling a fave eventhough it has the type that i already have good coverage

[dapper canyon]

Beloveds over meta <3

[tardy fiber]

As in my past time, i like to view my faves in my roster one by one while feeling excited on which fave will be added next

[naive imp]

Agreed as long as you're having fun with units you pull despite them not being overpowered you're winning.

[tardy fiber]

Not many temptation for meta, not like this game has pvp

[dapper canyon]

And sometimes your favorites are also broken (or you can force them to be) and that's the best feeling of all time lol

[rare swan]

this is peak

[tardy fiber]

The extreme UB stuff expire in hundred years or something so no rush

[tardy fiber]

Thats why i gladly accept max limit grid energy increase, my faves have better grids now

Like my sync nuke oak now also has first aid

[dapper canyon]

I gave an extra two energy to anniversary Lillie and I regret nothing

[naive imp]

Yeah that's true but the extreme battle are annoying because they give us a good ammount of gens but the stage is mostly focused on the newly released unit which sucks, Hau's extreme battle was just BS

[tardy fiber]

Im not sure if a single pull amount of gems are considered good, well not good enough for me to grab non faves or lose hairs for it i suppose

Get 300/600 but need to spend potentially 36600

[rare swan]

yeah i wouldn't consider the EBEs a good source of gems, if anything they're a bad one

(which is a good thing, considering how hard they can be)

[naive imp]

I 'm still a bit disheartened over the ultimate battles only giving 300 gens

Like i mesn they're supposed to be the uktltinate level of dificulty battle in game they should at least give idk 1000 gems per completion.

[dapper canyon]

They're a flex not an actual resource lol

[rare swan]

the outcry would be insane

imagine if actual high numbers of gems were locked behind battles like Hau's EBE

[dapper canyon]

You're going to be putting more in than you get out with these endgame modes because the real reward is supposed to be the accomplishment

[rare swan]

the low reward keeps the community calm lmfao

[tight creek]

Yeah, increasing the gem count realistically doesn't do that much outside of make the people who can't beat them feel worse

[dapper canyon]

And it's also supposed to occupy players who are willing to put a ton of time in during downtime lol

[naive imp]

I didn't think about it this way

[dapper canyon]

I've dabbled in a ton of different gacha and took a college class over basic marketing and my brain refuses to not use it for some reason

[naive imp]

Sorry to deviate fron the topic a little but next ultimate battle may be lucy i'm scared over her 100% chance to poison

Nit to mention ground being a lacking type.

[rare swan]

it's not really something I want to get into here but there are counters for her

i wouldn't stress too much, though

[tight creek]

Theres always the old Antitoxin Lucky Skill if you need, at least

[naive imp]

Yesh you're right eventualy a unit good against her will show up.

Welp thanks for the help imma wsit for datamine to decide if i'll do any move or not hopefuly not i need to save more.

[strange trout]

It's called SST Red

[rare swan]

a good plan

[naive imp]

Nit me failing to get hin twice

[tight creek]

It really do be like that sometimes

[naive imp]

Yesh it happens eventualy he'll show up again just gotta be prepared.

[dire meteor]

Still can't believe you went to the based side tbh

[rare swan]

I was replying to coconut, i don't know what you mean

[dire meteor]

[tardy fiber]

Too many unreleased electric faves, i cannot give in to the rats

[dark oar]

Regieleki ;o

[tardy fiber]

Raikou, Thundurus, Zeraora, Xurkitree, Regieleki, Miraidon, Sandy Shocks, Raging Bolt

[dark oar]

Raikou with Anabel would be prestine.

[broken mulch]

Aww the gems guy in their nickname isn’t doing it anymore?

[dark oar]

Yummy

[dire meteor]

It's been 84 years since I got a balance of over 60k

84 years as in since... I think before 4th Anni? Which is still neat.

[upbeat lotus]

Grandpa Zeen

[rare swan]

WE LOVE TO SEE IT

[dire meteor]

[cunning swan]

a perfect number!

[tardy fiber]

Waiting patiently for datamine

[rare swan]

love your pic

[tardy fiber]

Worth my 3k paid for variety select

[fallen path]

isn't Scottie a default name, would be hard to find your pic if so lol

[lilac crescent]

I don't know. Wait...

It's coming back to me!

[tardy fiber]

Yep so people can only found me by luck even the fanatic leaf fan found me and like my silver's happy family picture

[fallen path]

We don’t talk about that leaf fan. Or even Leafs fans

If you change your name to Vantner it would be easier for me to randomly find you and leave a like

[tardy fiber]

Oh nevermind, it took a month to change back the name...and i like that when im doing event, the MC actually has MC official name

[lilac crescent]

Same.

[tardy fiber]

Will be different if i dont know their official names plus as i like pokemon lore, so i decide that using official name and the default character appearance is the best, well i do change outfit colours though but the hair and skin, i followed scottie/bettie from the short anime video

[lilac crescent]

I just wish they had their own spin-off series.

[rare swan]

It's been a busy month.

||4faves to pull, but I got pretty lucky overall || Let's see what the next datamine brings

(And yes, I also hate the sight of those 70 paid gems)

[tardy fiber]

Hope for a datamine with fave

[rare swan]

I'd like to see finally dropping bc April's content is a total mystery

[tardy fiber]

Well if none also can, i will focus on my other goal of EXing mega evolution able pairs that i have

I think 5* shiny eggmons goal is too harsh so i probably wont do it

Their lack of region and other theme tags plus mid performance really dampen my resolve to do it

Well i at least make them 4*

[cinder cliff]

man how do i get that much gems lol. do i just skip everything for a couple of years?

[sturdy hatch]

Not everything, but at least eveyr second month

[cinder cliff]

so hard. i am so tempted every time i see something new haha

probably doesn't help that i don't have good cover of my bases (missing some unit types, region units, etc)

[hasty umbra]

well, you don't really have to save to that extreme, just be smart about when and who you are pulling

[cinder cliff]

yeah i have like 6k gems, and i'm eyeing adaman, because i want a usable ground unit lmao

[hasty umbra]

see, that's not a smart way to go about it lol, even if you need a ground type

[dark oar]

you typically can get a pity in 1.25 or 1.50 months. You just have to actually start saving. Almost everyone can rerun, so if you didn't have pity for that sync pair, you can wait for them to come back.

Special Costumes also rerun so, if you wanted Adaman, wait a while for them to come back.

[cinder cliff]

yeah everything is so tempting when newer. lol

[sturdy hatch]

I don't have a single Paldea unit, something you just miss thing

[cinder cliff]

but with SC reruns, they tend to get thrown into a multi-banner right?

[rare swan]

I'll be real, it requires a lot of sacrifice and being very disciplined about the units you want

[cinder cliff]

so like it dilutes the chances of you getting the unit

[dark oar]

Hence why you really gotta save your pity for it. :x

[rare swan]

For example, I skipped every anni unit last year because they did not interest me

[cinder cliff]

damn. i am still so weak

[sturdy hatch]

After they released Redlax they reran him like every second month and I had to skip every time

[rare swan]

You are not, dw

[dark oar]

Like, if you use your current rolls right now, and you get shafted, you will have to build up a pity for the future.

[cinder cliff]

i think my will will buckle when i see stuff like galarian birds, kanto NC as well etc

[rare swan]

I'm just a little unhinged

[strange trout]

A little??

[rare swan]

You also don't need 200k+

One or two pities is fine

[cinder cliff]

yeah 60k is a good goal

[rare swan]

60k is a lovely spot

[dark oar]

1 pity is good goal tbh o.o

[rare swan]

The goal is guaranteeing faves, not who can get the most gems

[cinder cliff]

with 1 pity, i won't even have the willpower to pity immediately before the next datamine is announced

i think i had 1 pity for ss gladion, and i just went for it. didn't care what was coming after, or for datamine to be announced

faves that are meta are the best

[rare swan]

Hell yeah

[tardy fiber]

Same 🤝

We will be so screwed if they start to do paldea daily region battle next month

[sturdy hatch]

I have been concerned about that since Iono

[tardy fiber]

But probably cannot start next month, even if they start to do paldea spotlight next month, they will only be circulated in general pool on the other month

So only then they can do paldea tickets

[sturdy hatch]

My hope is they release a new Legendary Adventures before the daily rotation

[tardy fiber]

Same, each free faves means 36.6k gems saved for me

[hard wave]

Same only one id even consider is penny

[cunning swan]

same

[winged fossil]

i dont think im gonna get many paldean units myself.
gimme meowscarada, dachsbun, the bike duo, cyclizar, okidogi, and walking wake. not really sure right now what else i might have much interest in.

and im honestly guessing at least one of those will end up free in some way, will be surprised if we dont get a Legendary Adventure (or equivalent) for the region someday

[dapper canyon]

Tbh I care more for character than specific pokemon with paldea

[winged fossil]

[dapper canyon]

Aside from ogerpon
When we get ogerpon I'm pulling immediately

[winged fossil]

i think the bikes and meow and wake are the only four-five of them id pull without a character i have some interest in

(depending on if you count cyclizar with the bikes ofc)

if we dont get a free one of the two bike legends btw, i 100% expect cyclizar event pair as substitute

[cinder cliff]

hammer fairy

[tardy fiber]

Hoping for one of the two bike legendaries is free so far the only non box legendary adventures is mewtwo, well because gen 1 cover is just starter final evolution

It will be even better if its a free sprint/field pair

[dark oar]

Almost there

[tardy fiber]

Wait for poma day

[dark oar]

Thankfully no work next week starting Wednesday o/

So ill.be around for when minedata will drop

[vernal glade]

Oh right next week, I forgot

[crisp oracle]

So I got the new poll feature!

[lilac crescent]

Yay!

[tough oriole]

Almost datamine time! Keep strong with saving everyone

[grim plover]

This month looks like a late datamine

[hasty umbra]

why? it's likely by the 26th, that's run of the mill dates

[tight creek]

its presumably between the 26th and 29th

which goes from average to late

[tough oriole]

+datamine

[jade lava]

Datamine usually happens at the end of each month between the 25th and 29th (PDT)
Check #datamines for raw dumps and #1012256199128915968 for recap and schedules.
Here is a history of previous datamine dates : https://tinyurl.com/pmexdataminehistory

[tough oriole]

27 and the surrounding days have been the historic most common

[broken mulch]

Yeah 27 form what I recall has been the most common

[vestal leaf]

March datamine has been on 29/3 3 years, could very well go 4

[tardy fiber]

The earlier the better, cmon DeNa, rewards my skip month efforts

[sturdy hatch]

Lads

[untold tide]

Lmao though

[broken mulch]

Ooh

[untold tide]

The fact that they found out BR passes behaved differently than advertised

And instead of fixing the behaviour to match advertisement

They matched the advertisement to behaviour

[broken mulch]

Wait what BR bug?

[untold tide]

This 300 gem is from a BR pass bug

See news

It's probably the minor text adjustment mentioned some other day

[broken mulch]

Oh lol

[sturdy hatch]

What was the difference?

[crisp grotto]

#game-announcements message it's for the type gear bug

[dark oar]

that took like what, 2-ish months?

[untold tide]

Nope, it's another issue entirely

[untold tide]

Apparently extra BR passes are supposed to go to your inbox

But they found out it just deletes itself

[sturdy hatch]

As in more than 5?

[untold tide]

Yea

And their fix was to change the desc

Not how it works

[sturdy hatch]

Easier to do

[untold tide]

We still haven't gotten compensation for hear the cheers bug

[sturdy hatch]

That's 490 stamina I'll never get back!

[rare swan]

I am just grateful it isn't 300 skip tickets

Feels like a while since we've had apologems

[sturdy hatch]

That's 49 skip tickets I'll never get back!

[upbeat lotus]

"It's not a bug, it's the brand new feature"
-DeNA

[dire meteor]

More gems

[tardy fiber]

Thanks to this apologems, i might reach 3 pities with remaining gems

Hopefully my rally twitter posts are valid, that's another 1k gems

[sturdy hatch]

Have you ever had so many gems?

[tardy fiber]

Yeap my highest like 120k+

[tardy fiber]

It just need a good fave month for all of this to be gone

[midnight thorn]

Handing myself in cause of 5.0

@rare swan i’m gonna hit 6 digits i swear

[rare swan]

Good luck

[timber wren]

you got this

[sand crown]

Just checking in for accountability…leaving an anni month with 56k…I’m grateful

[lilac crescent]

We believe in you!

[cunning swan]

Just pray there's no Sinnoh jumpscare

[topaz compass]

3 pity club after my MFs🤓

Hoping for super valuable split banners in the next couple months

[tardy fiber]

Water Fairy HS next , i love you DeNa...i thought they were gonna mix 2 types that don't have many pairs, but if past HS type plus new lacking type then its good

[crisp grotto]

It expands the roster so we're going to see a lot more diversity & strategy in teams, will be a lot less restrictive on people just going for the rewards too. It's what HSE always should've been like

[tardy fiber]

Yep this is nice, i thought like they gonna do fairy + steel or something

Both limited coverage types combined

[upbeat lotus]

They are still afraid of introducing Bug and Normal HSE

[tardy fiber]

If its electric or fire + normal/bug then its manageable

Worse come to worse can just use past electric hs teams

With 0 normal/bug

[dark oar]

I feel like

we're gonna oh wait we're in Resource Saving

but honestly, they'll employ Fairy trainers for those 5 battles, and they'll have Special Damage -80% or something .-.;

[rare swan]

i feel like

we're gunna save gems for faves

[upbeat lotus]

i feel like
it's the best statement

[dark oar]

I'm just waiting for upgrades for sync pairs we've got already, the water/fairy arrangement.

[compact pasture]

SS Mina go brrr?

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully water fairy hs in may means manaphy and enamorus playable

[dark oar]

I've got this hope that we might get Bede's Master, forgot her name >_>

[tardy fiber]

Opal

[dark oar]

Juan might come too. He's a Water Gym Leader too.

[versed flame]

misty ex finally??

one can only hope

[tardy fiber]

I might EX misty if it happens, as i kinda like starmie design so got sentimental value

Another non faves gen 1 that i have soft spot too are kabutops and tauros but so far there's only eggmons

[violet nebula]

Professor OAk SS with Tauros🤔

Like hurry up Dena

[tardy fiber]

Oh there's 1 more event after poma day

I thought poma day is the last one

[dark oar]

nah. its likely going to be on the 27th onwards. or 28th

[tardy fiber]

Yep not talking about datamine

Talking about event

[dark oar]

oh event is on 26th

more gems o/

[tardy fiber]

There's an event on 26

Yep i wonder why there's still a lot of gems remaining

Turn out there's an event on 26

[dark oar]

Currently in 24k gems

[tardy fiber]

Currently 107080 gems

Hope there's a fave next month

[broken mulch]

Man, not enough stamina

[dark oar]

I'm done with like the villain arcs, so i'm just using the 30stamina daily there.

each day

so i'm focusing my stamina in bugsy's

[tardy fiber]

Not 60 stamina? Because there's hop EX VA and hop PB VA

[dark oar]

both of them o/

i just make sure to login early in the morning to burn some stamina

[topaz compass]

We thinking datamine on 26th into 27th?

New event would be Thursday or Friday id think so Wednesday dataminr

[vestal leaf]

I'm expecting 27 or 29

We had 3 years of 29/3 tho so

[tardy fiber]

There's new event on 26 so probably not that day

[lilac crescent]

Event?

[tardy fiber]

#1012256199128915968

Day after poma day, on 26

[lilac crescent]

Wasn't that datamined days ago?

[hasty umbra]

of course

but events yet to start is not an impediment for datamines to happen

they have released new updates before or the same day the last event of the previous one starts a few times already

[lilac crescent]

I guess.

[wind nymph]

Is Dahlia worth summoning 1/5?

[fallen path]

#poma-questions will answer that, not gem zen

[tardy fiber]

If gem zen question, i will wait to grab her via fair select as i have paid gems plus 3k paid seems cheaper than spending 36.6k free gems. Although I probably won't get her unless she got added into the lodge as a guest

[untold tide]

This is saving support not spending support

[tardy fiber]

I thought she uses lots of pokemon like noland, why she ended up with ludicolo though

[wind nymph]

Because of dancing

[tardy fiber]

Oh argenta is the one that uses a lot

[hard wave]

Seems like only palmer gets a legendary

[tardy fiber]

Maybe they will replace chatelaines for bp master teamwork

Dahlia uses zapdos

Both electric and flying teamwork still available

[lilac crescent]

Also we shouldn't talk about new units here.

So what your saying is there is Dragon Teamwork?

[tardy fiber]

Probably can, well we know Morgan is next..out of Pokémon she uses, virizion and latias might work for grass teamwork or dragon teamwork

MC is a wild card, they will pair anything with MC

Cannot wait for 2 more free faves on anni, thats 72k gems saved

[lilac crescent]

I mean.

Name three of the Scottie/Bettie pairs that canon to the actual story.

[wind nymph]

Pikachu, Torchic, and Steel Lion

[lilac crescent]

Call it by its name.

[wind nymph]

Solgoleo

[lilac crescent]

You are officially a hard-core Solgaleo fan.

[tardy fiber]

I like solgaleo, dena giving a free piercing blow unit is always great

[lilac crescent]

OH! Took me a sec to figure out.

Yea, that is neat of them.

[rare swan]

We love a good free unit

[tardy fiber]

Also alcremie

I forgot its existence, took me 30 minutes

[lilac crescent]

Who doesn't

[winged fossil]

i missed 100 gems of daily missions yesterday cause lost track of time playing kh2 randomizers. logged in in time for the login rewards but that was about it

cause got distracted right after for like 20 mins and then reset happened lol

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for next reset, cheren 3/5, guzma pb and noland EX oh also gems

[winged fossil]

Guzma becoming an actual unit is kinda pog ngl

Kinda had ignored him cause his kit is so lackluster to me even compared to the other f2p bugs

But now he’s actually gonna be able to have value outside of coop from sounds of it

[tardy fiber]

Plumeria and Guzma gotten power boost so Gladion next

[buoyant elk]

Gladion desperately needs a pb

[dark oar]

and EX Role. but he's a general pool unit sigh

[buoyant elk]

Field ex would be interesting

[versed flame]

3/5 cheren lets go!!! he may be a fave but im not dropping 5 star candies on him lol

ft. actual buffing capabilities wow

[lilac crescent]

Yay! I "love Cheren as a support" ||give man EX Role pls||

[feral vale]

||It’s Tech.||

[lilac crescent]

Wait, isn't a Datamine on the 25th or 29th?

[sturdy hatch]

Give Cheren Field EXR

[upbeat lotus]

It should be in next week, we don't know about the exact date, tho

[sturdy hatch]

But Pokemon Masters day is on the 25th!

[lilac crescent]

What new color Scottie/Bettie gettin'?

[sturdy hatch]

Green I think

[lilac crescent]

Wait, since Masters Day is "basically" free? Can we talk about the Happy Scout in here?

It's only 25 gems but it's still gems?

[dark oar]

Wat field?

[lilac crescent]

Naw, give him Strike.

[versed flame]

free normal zone??? is this enough to finally salvage his mid kit?

use him with palmer to avoid damaging the opponent on sync, thereby maximising crush grip

[lilac crescent]

When do you guys think we'll get a scoutable Scottie/Bettie?

[unkempt vortex]

Never

[tight creek]

i doubt we ever will, yeah

[lilac crescent]

But you can only hope!

[unkempt vortex]

They not only have 0 personality but how would you even market someone like that

[lilac crescent]

I mean like I kinda have but I'm not gonna get into that.

You said it yourself. They will literally pair anything with them.

[broken mulch]

Slap them with Arceus lol

[tardy fiber]

I can see them releasing more original design characters like Lear, Paulo etc and scoutable than a scoutable MC happening

[lost bobcat]

In the end it's 300 gems for 132 units /year

I'm missing some genpools, but I would take that anyway

[rare swan]

This one is fine, yeah

You earn those gems back in one round of dailies, so

[tardy fiber]

I will keep on pulling master day happy scout till i got no missing gen pools and they are at least 3/5 move level

[sturdy hatch]

I was reminded during this week's BR that my Colress is 1/5

Colress!

[prime quarry]

[rare swan]

[lilac crescent]

BR? Battle Ralley?

Wait, what?

[dark oar]

it was probably steel weak and he used Colress maybe? D:

[prime quarry]

It was probably for the defense drops or the para

[sturdy hatch]

It was villain buff

I used him because he met the buff and the bonus! Like all BR!

[tardy fiber]

I want melony, ice dont have many good supports...also i want to do mesprit melony wall shenanigans but all of my galar tickets are bea and nessa

[tardy fiber]

I guess i will wait till the weekend before doing rally in case a new fave is released within this week

[winged fossil]

happy pomaday

[sturdy hatch]

Happy to you too

[lilac crescent]

Yay!

[crisp oracle]

Ugg I did rally last night and didn’t get the gems

[uncut kayak]

had i dream that i had 400k gems... if only

[weary spire]

I somehow blanked on doing the Masters Day stage The one that gives candy coins and 500 gems

[vestal leaf]

You missed your 3/5 cheren? Sadge

[tardy fiber]

Probably not, as thats from poma day co-op shop

Ron missed the stage that isnt co-op

[broken mulch]

Oh right I forgot to grid Cheren now that he’s 3/5

[strange trout]

What difference does it make

[vestal leaf]

God why does he have striker tier special bulk...

800/270/200

[compact pasture]

He has brain brawn at 3/5

[tardy fiber]

Tm shielded 2 is kinda nice, well way better than just recovering move gauge by 2 and healthy healing

I kinda like 3/5 cheren

Well more use for me than 3/5 Rosa

[weary spire]

Nope

Co-op doesn’t give the candy coins + 500 gems, the single player stage does

[lilac crescent]

You forgot the

[crisp oracle]

Please, SC Diantha rerun

end my wait

[lilac crescent]

Waiting for Liko to arrive soon.

[broken mulch]

Welp so far my gems are safe with double skip haha

[tardy fiber]

Same skip so far unless ||lodge volo Giratina or something||

[versed flame]

that would be the funniest timeline

[broken mulch]

Amazing timeline lol

[tardy fiber]

Looks like a skip month so far

Hope there's a lot of gems

[vernal glade]

Looking to be a skip also

Yippee.

[unkempt vortex]

||why is this the third rerun for archie ||

[pure arrow]

||Because he’s unsinkable! ||

In all seriousness, I’m probably fine to skip except for ||the fire triple banner having a rerun target||

[tardy fiber]

So archie got EXR?

[violet nebula]

Poor Elio, so unloved that his not even paired as a SS with Selene

[unkempt vortex]

||he’s so irrelevant he got replaced by a rival and not even one from the same region||

[cunning swan]

Gem check in

[broken mulch]

||welp I’m baited guys lol.||

[tardy fiber]

Ok not lodge giratina, im safe

Skip month again

My gems gonna be loaded

[vernal glade]

Mines a skip month…. unless I can claim the gems that is. because app crashes when updating

[tardy fiber]

3 new faves EXR and EX agatha will keep me preoccupied

[winged fossil]

easy skip month for me

just a cake investment (only one tho) since new role combo for my box that i already own unit for

[versed flame]

apologems

[winged fossil]

...huh, new gem deal for 24hr of update install...

wonder what sort of deal itll end up being, if its good or not

unoVA rerun, meaning more unova tickets to stockpile

[versed flame]

essentially 1k paid gems for one usd i think

[vernal glade]

Wait two of them?

What was the 2nd bug?

[unkempt vortex]

[winged fossil]

if its that deal thats pog

[unkempt vortex]

What did they do to the scout screen

[cinder cliff]

woah SS Red EXR

[winged fossil]

read dev letter

[cinder cliff]

SS Selene and SS Barry kinda tempting. my Bug roster is not great, but perhaps I can scrape by stuff using Noland/Bugsy, and I also have Guzma I can EX if he's any good now

[winged fossil]

one of them was the Hop trade thing i ran into, the other im guessing might be the other thing finally being resolved? thats my guess

yep the exploit one finally got proper fixed

fully

so they gave gems for that

[sturdy hatch]

Doublogems?

[vernal glade]

I’ll take the 600 gems. I’m in a gem zen next month.

[winged fossil]

ill take it ||for a current banner|| for sure

[broken mulch]

Make it so much better lol

[grim plover]

Bro wtf is this month im gonna die 💀

[tardy fiber]

Reached 3 pities today, hope there's a lot of gems on april. Everything will go to my savings as its skip month

Although i kinda want ||volo for lodge|| no harm for me to wait for anni for select scout and got em cheaper

[winged fossil]

not fav = not worth a pity is how im trying to look at things lately
...i do hope that theres a decent gemcount for this month despite it being post anni month. events look frontloaded so, thats good for me either way tbh

VA rerun being early in month is nice.

usually seen them later into a month

[versed flame]

glad to have done a lot of skip months because this month has ||two pairs i really want||. gem zenning paying off

[unkempt vortex]

24k watch

[winged fossil]

even 24k ill settle for, tbh. its looking up for what my goal for the month is and thats all that really matters to me

[tardy fiber]

I will have 135k if its 24k

[winged fossil]

trying to keep that rerun list small (||and empty in terms of master fairs as other banner types i can just select if needed||)

[tardy fiber]

Yep i also plan to just select non faves but for lodge purposes

Oh i need to check my cake coins storage

My 2 faves exr are pretty early

Only archie is on poma day

[winged fossil]

im getting ||mayziken|| exr which is a REALLY good one for rally cause i completely lacked that combo

[tardy fiber]

||archie, lysandre, sshilda|| for me

[winged fossil]

||i like vilda,|| but ive got more than enough strike support exrs already, so only will do her when other combos catch up prob

[weary spire]

Did any events end last reset?

[versed flame]

i barely use my ||1/5 lysandre he's been languishing in my box but he can be BR sprint fodder now||

• ||sshilda|| which im happy about

[buoyant elk]

Don't know if I should summon for ||Volo|| or wait for a lodge banner spotlight for a chance at getting random lodge fair dupes

[dark oar]

That was one of my guess, if you dont have enough gems, might as well wait for ||him|| to be in there. It might take months though ;X
Better than not having pity and you rolled and didn't get ||him||

[tardy fiber]

I just gonna grab ||him|| through future select

[oak crest]

or if you have paid gems, there is always the select banners on anni

ever since they upped the price for pfair selects, even recently added pfairs will be included in the selects

[buoyant elk]

I have the gems, is just that lodge pokefair banner is just better than regular pokefair banner because there a chance of getting dupes for other lodge pokefairs, and the rates are the same I guess

Problem is that I will probably have to wait a lot for that

[dark oar]

can ask in #poma-questions

[buoyant elk]

Isn't this channel for gem management?

[dark oar]

rates and whatnot are for #poma-questions tbh.

[buoyant elk]

I always had problems figuring what is this channel for

[violet nebula]

Gem zen, saving

Really should be 0 talks of pulls and pairs in here

[buoyant elk]

Isn't waiting for lodge fair rerun technically saving?

[sturdy hatch]

Probably, although I haven’t checked lodge banner to see

[dark oar]

should be ||Gloria||

[dark oar]

spoiler their names o/

[sly breach]

Gotta hide the 50 banners they put somehow

[maiden kayak]

remove that thanks

[drowsy dagger]

Sorry...

[tawny cedar]

Skip month lfg

Breathing room time

[shell glade]

I think Ill just grab volo when he eventually gets a select scout

i dont particularly care for the units ofher than him

[tardy fiber]

I will do the same

My reason is just for lodge, so no rush

Even if it took 6 months to a year, no problem as long as he's cheap

Not a fave that i willing to dump a pity amount in

[compact pasture]

Does Vantner have favorite characters?

[tardy fiber]

Not really, well because in my playthrough the main character is actually myself right so like i dont feel like it has a personality

Its not like i play as Brendan, but i play as myself and i can even put my name on character that looks like Brendan

So the one that has little bit of impact is Ash, because i actually watch someone else's

But not so much that i should grab a pikachu

So skip

But favourite generation is hoenn and favourite pokemon is groudon

For ones that has sentimental value are scyther, machamp, kabutops, golem

Like i leveled up my scyther to max level in pokemon silver and it still didn't evolve to scizor

Those kind of sentimental things due to guide is not readily available during that time

[compact pasture]

How does Scyther evolve?

[sleek whale]

Trade holding metal coat

[dark oar]

spoiler teh names 😮

[tardy jolt]

Very chill month, I wonder why they are doing two months of SCs, I guess it’s 4 like last year, but spread over time. Still, nothing I’m looking to pull, since Volo got Togepi. Just chilling and stockpiling

[wind nymph]

how much gems for april?

[rare swan]

the count is not completed yet

[mossy hawk]

Don't expect much

There are less events happening

[rare swan]

April always tends to be quiet, yeah

[mossy hawk]

Good thing the new SC banners last through a lot of May

[wind nymph]

I'm guessing atleast 22 k!

[mossy hawk]

Pretty reasonable

[dark oar]

26k currently + 4k paid gems for me

[sturdy plank]

20k gem count real

[vestal leaf]

I'm expecting 24-25k

[sweet tide]

u wish!!

[upbeat lotus]

is the gem count really bad?

[tardy jolt]

Shiro posted their count on Reddit and it’s 19440

[upbeat lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/aaaaaa-gif-14892085788746462862

[mossy hawk]

Oh wow I was being pessimistic and didn't consider that

[hard wave]

What

[sweet tide]

^^

[mossy hawk]

It was predictable based on the lack of events

and the slow removal of passive gems not tied to events

so slower months will just have this fate

[tardy jolt]

Lol, if this is the new normal, I might as well decide to just pull MFs and go for selects 🫠

[unkempt vortex]

20k REAL

[dark oar]

wow that's... really bad.

[sweet tide]

kinda obvious from the get go

there are no events this month lol

2 new + 1 april fools + 4 rerun

no special missions or anything

[wind nymph]

i want to cry

[sweet tide]

no wonder bonanza made a return

otherwise it would be 17.5k

hahahaha

[wind nymph]

yeah

April, October= dead months for gems

[lilac crescent]

We must have too many scouts.

[fallen path]

Wow the gem count lol

Lmao even

[dreamy onyx]

ugh 19k is disgusting move from greedy dena

[lunar thistle]

Wow gems suck

[pure arrow]

Hahaha! More justification to skip ||Volo||!
… DeNA why

[vernal glade]

19k? Ouch.

[sweet tide]

OVERALL TALLY FOR V2.43 (29 March - 28 April)
Gems = 19040
Strike Candy Coin = 10
Tech Candy Coin = 9
Support Candy Coin = 10
Sprint Candy Coin = 4
Field Candy Coin = 6
Move Candy Coin = 5
Strike Roll Cake Coin = 6
Tech Roll Cake Coin = 6
Support Roll Cake Coin = 6
Sprint Roll Cake Coin = 7
Field Roll Cake Coin = 6
5⭐ Power-up = 13
BP = +3020 (tally is at 9850, R10)

General Scout Tickets = 63
Kanto Tickets = 65
Johto Tickets = 5
Hoenn Tickets = 4
Sinnoh Tickets = 0
Unova Tickets = 84
Kalos Tickets = 5
Alola Tickets = 5
Galar Tickets = 5

Gem Count from 29 March 2024 - 28 April 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1222552997868077117/V2430_Apr24_GC.jpeg?ex=6616a234&is=66042d34&hm=983607ffa92bb4dcf6e6bfa59f697b8aa131714c2ec79afb4c6ec6fa25323e83&

Daily Gem Count Breakdown from 29 March 2024 - 28 April 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1222553095364546651/V2430_Apr24_DGCB.jpeg?ex=6616a24b&is=66042d4b&hm=6b39b72a022435576e831de557987fb803b745b78944e66966db1dcad9306c34&

Daily Gem Count & Gems Left Till 29 April 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1222553148007256185/V2430_Apr24_DGC.png?ex=6616a258&is=66042d58&hm=87fd5bbb0707064b030bdb99edf032fad75a433fbe8d339c05211b6e5a40a5ea&

@crisp grotto @timber wren

[upbeat lotus]

thank you for your hard work Tlim

[timber wren]

arch is too damn fast

ty tlim as always!

19k my longest no boi ever

[oak crest]

https://tenor.com/view/dies-cat-dead-died-gif-13827091

[hard wave]

Oh wow, ur gem count is 410 gems less than shiro’s

[oak crest]

we are really going back to year 1 gem counts at this rate ☠️

[crude glacier]

What

19K?

[oak crest]

yep apparently

unless we get a rally

[maiden kayak]

omg lmao 19k thanks for the gem count

[crude glacier]

thanks for the work tlim

[oak crest]

thanks for the full breakdown tlim

[sweet tide]

depends on when shiro cut off his calc

[crude glacier]

I mean I kinda get it but I’m still mad

Their argument is “less units per month” = less gems I think

Since some time ago more units released

but I don’t like it

[sweet tide]

its still 4 limited units they are so whack

[oak crest]

uh... wow, there isnt even a day where we get 2000 gems or more in april

big oof

[maiden kayak]

at this rate

its too late to save lol

[crude glacier]

We need to another story

[hard wave]

28 march - 28 april, which is weird since the 28th is only 200?

[fallen path]

I haven’t haven’t gotten the 2000 gems from final battle villa yet

[hard wave]

Seems like the gem count stayed the same ish with more units but when we go back to the same amount of units the gems go down

[sweet tide]

did he account for the entire bonanza? cos there is 200 gems from bonanza for 29th april
total bonanza is 1600, if he cut off on 28 april, it shld be 1400

[hard wave]

Gemflation

[crude glacier]

Or just normal inflation ig?

[hard wave]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/549386388102184960/1222547704274616391/IMG_8181.png?ex=66169d46&is=66042846&hm=09102216e99eb3f68eb3ec7c347fb73417aa1997330221b9446cc916703bc656&

1600

[crude glacier]

Eh doesn’t matter

[sweet tide]

oh there is main story update? oops

[crude glacier]

It’s a bad month since ||volo|| got togepi of all things…

[sweet tide]

i kinda expected him to get togepi

[hard wave]

So ig the extra 200 gems from BB and 10 from stone chapter make up the missing 210

[crude glacier]

I thought he’d get arcanine

Hisuian

And be another rock zone or something

[oak crest]

no wonder they brought back bonanza for April

would have been even worse without it

[hard wave]

I was thinking togekiss tbh, its his main

Besides that, giratina, who seems to be saved for his other form

[sweet tide]

wouldnt that go to the warden for H-arcanine

forgot whats her name

[mossy hawk]

Palina

[crude glacier]

there’s also spiritomb

[cunning swan]

thanks for the hard work!

19k.... stay strong everyone

[tawny cedar]

Ayo wtf

19k....

[vernal glade]

Alright time for me to calculate my gem count total for next month.

[unkempt vortex]

The sub 20k

And y’all thought we’d never be here

[tawny cedar]

Hmm

Yeah I'm lowering my fave list

I'm offloading more shit to my alt

Do you guys think 7 future Pokemon faves and 4 rerun faves is too much

[lost bobcat]

They better run some rally
4 limited are no excuse for 20k
"Low month" with Volo sound weird

[oak crest]

seems manageable you are only chasing 4 reruns, with the rest being new units with an unknown release date

[tawny cedar]

I'm excepting an anni steven rerun soon

Ariana and lance variety should rerun in like a year

I still don't know about scjasmine

[hard wave]

|| VLance || is rerunning this month tho

[tawny cedar]

What

Free or?

[hard wave]

|| https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/604025184692731904/1222436582829854782/00000000000.ktx.png?ex=661635c9&is=6603c0c9&hm=bc9dcb0d57f01b8940138a12d2b6acee9cc3aebf8fde55f3fe6bdb6527f58fee& ||

[hard wave]

Seems like it

|| https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/604025184692731904/1222436583571984434/00000000000.ktx.png?ex=661635c9&is=6603c0c9&hm=0ea3b88f04c91688e381694a7ab33eb7b4d0384078187ed253dea9a273e6bafb& ||
Tiered as well im guessing

[tawny cedar]

Shit...

[unkempt vortex]

Have fun

[tawny cedar]

Silver took my entire stock.

Hmm

Does he last till datamine

[lunar thistle]

Alright!

So who's quitting the game

[unkempt vortex]

Starts the 18th

[tawny cedar]

Hmm

2 weeks is the minimum run i think

Yeah I'll be fine

[vernal glade]

I’m gonna keeping waiting for favs. April a skip month for me.

[tawny cedar]

Wait.

That's not a solo rerun.

SHIT

[unkempt vortex]

Indeed

[tawny cedar]

LANCE WILL BE LIKE 0.5%

it's so over

Not even yoloing is saving this one

Ok guys only 2 more years than I'll get variety lance fr

[hard wave]

Ur f2p or nah?

[unkempt vortex]

Unless it’s like how they do the triple pf banners where it’s like 1.5 for each

Just split between 4 and not 3

[lunar thistle]

So is there a reason to start freaking out now

[unkempt vortex]

Why

[hard wave]

Nah they do 1.5% each for dual and triple but 2% total for 4+

[tawny cedar]

F2p

[unkempt vortex]

Ah right

[hard wave]

Its why seasonal reruns r sm worse than PF reruns

[hard wave]

Ah

[lunar thistle]

Because of gem count

[tawny cedar]

But maybe in half a year I can scrape up enough Google points for a daily streak bundle

[unkempt vortex]

One bad month ain’t nothing to quit over

Unless you’re just tired of playing the game

Not every game is gonna have a good income month the whole year

[maiden kayak]

u have to be extremely selective

[tawny cedar]

Ik

[maiden kayak]

just write a list

[unkempt vortex]

Or just sack

[maiden kayak]

at most 3-5 favs

[unkempt vortex]

Screw the list

[tawny cedar]

I got a list but uhh

[unkempt vortex]

Just don’t be weak

[maiden kayak]

dont go for SC or SS outfits

[tawny cedar]

I have one sc unit needed

Jasmine

Noone else needed

[maiden kayak]

only her?

[tawny cedar]

The only sc rerun i need

Other reruns are 2 variety and 1 anni mf

[lunar thistle]

The gem count is so devastating though this month

[unkempt vortex]

Just stop being poor

[maiden kayak]

its so devastating that u need at least 6 months to skip and save to get yourself in decent position

[unkempt vortex]

That sounds excessive

[lunar thistle]

I mean it's so far from the norm

[maiden kayak]

wtf

[lunar thistle]

That maybe I can start calling for EoS

[maiden kayak]

VAr lance

are u kidding me

bro

[tawny cedar]

I like lance.

[maiden kayak]

wtf man

Var tho

[unkempt vortex]

Shitting on favs I see

[maiden kayak]

thats so bullshit

[tawny cedar]

Ik variety is painful but I really like dragonite evo line and lance

[lilac crescent]

Maybe I should make a favorite list

[hard wave]

Thats such a difficult list tbh, 3 are in combined banners with trash rates and also a MF

[vestal leaf]

Skipping 6 months nets around... 160-170k

That's more than enough to be able to scout safely for a year

[maiden kayak]

u are wasting gems to get smth thats exact same

[maiden kayak]

no

6x20k

[tranquil elbow]

how many gems are we gonna have until april 7th?

[vestal leaf]

We're not getting 20k every month

[maiden kayak]

and thats not considering anni whack a mole on gems

[vestal leaf]

This isn't 2019-2020

[unkempt vortex]

We get one bad month and you act like that’s the standard

[vestal leaf]

We're getting 25k average at worst

[lunar thistle]

We don't know if it will become the standard

[hard wave]

Like 7k ish

[tranquil elbow]

oh im good then

[hard wave]

6.8k is more like it

[tranquil elbow]

i only need 3k for nc silver

[vestal leaf]

25k X 6 is 150k

[tranquil elbow]

and then i can pity him

[tawny cedar]

I just like lance man

[maiden kayak]

maybe less than that

[dark oar]

guys, spoiler the names of people that'll be coming in this month's banner 😦

[maiden kayak]

140k

[unkempt vortex]

Even just 3 months is 75k

[maiden kayak]

thats to prepare for anni also

[unkempt vortex]

That’s 2 pities

[tawny cedar]

Dragonite line hyperbeamer is always fun for me

[tranquil elbow]

This is already 3k gems

so good for me

[tawny cedar]

Oh yeah that reminds me I need to finish my pity

[maiden kayak]

Ariana just sc select at this point

[lunar thistle]

Mathematically?

[tawny cedar]

3k gems for a dupe is good right,||I got NCSilver 11th multi||

[maiden kayak]

Ariana rates are just bs

[tawny cedar]

Need some time

Halfway there

[unkempt vortex]

What select

[tawny cedar]

Just another 75 Google surveys

[unkempt vortex]

She’s gone

[maiden kayak]

not even worth going for rerun ariana due to trash rates

[vestal leaf]

As of now we have 32k, 28k, 20k
26k average

For 2024

[hard wave]

Future im guessing

[vestal leaf]

Last year we got almost 29k average

And people kept saying 2023 was horrendous and game was dying

[hard wave]

Which months are these? Feb-april?

[lunar thistle]

Well if we don't count the outlier of 32k and 28k, then the average is 20k

[vestal leaf]

It still averaged really well

[tranquil elbow]

APR21: 21,420
APR22: 34,360
APR23: 24,780
APR24: 19040

[maiden kayak]

its more like the no of limited becomes more common

[tranquil elbow]

wow damn, that is a BAD amount of gems

[unkempt vortex]

Is that supposed to be surprising

[fallen path]

going to need some tweet rally hopium or something

[tawny cedar]

I don't even care about rallies anymore

[maiden kayak]

in hindsight

[unkempt vortex]

They’ve moved away from spotlights

[maiden kayak]

skip and save this month

[tranquil elbow]

10k rally

[maiden kayak]

its fairly easy to skip

[vestal leaf]

Save for faves

[maiden kayak]

this month

[unkempt vortex]

Yea and lance is their fav

[vestal leaf]

Pokefairs are easy to skip

[tawny cedar]

For me everyone is mid except ||variety lance||

[vestal leaf]

They rerun often

[maiden kayak]

yea and also the units arent that interesting and appealing

[unkempt vortex]

To you

[vestal leaf]

Ehhh

[fallen path]

they are all very mid from a neutral perspective

[unkempt vortex]

There’s someone out there who’s gonna pull anyway

[violet nebula]

I mean people pulled the variety pairs

[vestal leaf]

If fave, skipping is hard

[violet nebula]

Which encourages Dena bad practices

[maiden kayak]

its a sin

[fallen path]

yeah but Volo is leaving before next datamine

[vestal leaf]

Someone out there is gonna scout specifically for VBruno

[violet nebula]

It is

[tawny cedar]

Is there a really stupid possibility that somehow next month has 16k within like 10 days of May?

[vestal leaf]

Just saying

[lilac crescent]

To you, it is.

[fallen path]

it's risky

[lilac crescent]

I've ||pulled for Variety Elio.||

[violet nebula]

It's pretty henious

[maiden kayak]

anything that involves pulling the exact clone of the trainer sounds really bullshit to me and cashgrab

[vestal leaf]

Scouting variety is objectively questionable

[fallen path]

Aqua is right tho, lazy ass sync move animations, mid kits

[vestal leaf]

For a saver

[fallen path]

but of course

community just keeps enabling this stuff

[unkempt vortex]

You wanna bring up sync moves

[vestal leaf]

But you have the power

It's your choice

[unkempt vortex]

Majority of them are copy paste

[vestal leaf]

I don't care about sync animations much tbh

[maiden kayak]

and also lack of creativity to think of new outfits

[fallen path]

OH YEAH

[vestal leaf]

But the fact they get no oitfit

Is just mo

No

[fallen path]

NO EX OUTFITS