Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[versed flame]

so i restrained myself which was well worth it when emmet reran the next month (?) i believe

which i'm happy about because i don't think i would've used pal!elesa much anyway 😅

[rare swan]

My first Limited (and the reason I started playing this game) was Lysandre

[dark oar]

for me..... Cynthia.

[weary spire]

Didn't have enough stamina to spare for Bugsy's last dupe (and sync orbs ig), but I can always candy that

[tawny cedar]

Where can I find previous gem counts

I need to see if we can get 16k in the first 10 days of may

[upbeat lotus]

#1010223517565976737

[tawny cedar]

Are the breakdown versions available

[upbeat lotus]

you can use the search bar to find tlim's works

[tardy jolt]

16k at the beginning of May is not happening. We are going through a 19k month, if we reach 24k total in May it would be a lot already

[dark oar]

I'll probably be at pity by the start of May :o~

[topaz compass]

If I stay strong through month I will have 131k free gems going into may

[tardy fiber]

15260 gems left this month... currently have 118k

Hope May has some fave

[lilac crescent]

or May

[tardy fiber]

May shiny primal kyogre?

Probably june

[wind nymph]

Gem savings needs sheer will and strong mind

That's what i lack

[tardy fiber]

It needs some shock factor, my shock factor was when i almost missing zerena and only gotten her 2 days before she left via pity

Very close call and give me a lot of anxiety that i didn't want to feel it again

Thus i start saving

Adrenaline when almost missing a fave feels so bad, if i want a healthy adrenaline, better that i just watch action/scary movies than pulling

[strange trout]

Maybe

[lilac crescent]

Understandable.

[shadow garden]

1k gems now

[gloomy holly]

||Finally got Geeta, now it's time to rest||

[tawny cedar]

Hit 4k gems

That's a first 2 weeks

[winged fossil]

not my fault that they had some favs of mine recently

[winged fossil]

Progress™️ — will be back over a multis worth later today!

Doing my rally rn then got something else I can do for more

[tardy fiber]

Oh big gems reset today?

[winged fossil]

I’m getting Palmer done later tonight and today was pt2 va

Tonight’s reset seems to be 700 as well

So that’s nice

[rare swan]

We love seeing progress!

[lilac crescent]

I'm so close to 30K!

[solar wadi]

6.5K gems 🙂

[rare swan]

[winged fossil]

Procrastination on a10 was spooky!

a minute to spare on finishing the run

remember to do them ahead of their due date unlike me! almost missed gems!

[tardy fiber]

I do 2 rally stages a day, so i finished it on Friday

[versed flame]

that's smart :O i have missed the rally gems before by finishing it 1 minute after reset 💀

and then i accidentally finished rally again forgetting that i already "did" it

[tardy fiber]

Well leaving rally in progress also has it perks, there's a text reminder each time we press events

[dark oar]

Got all teh gems for this day kuku

[tardy fiber]

Hope there's a fave in may, consecutive months without fave made me feel dry, i had to quench my thirst by playing other games instead

[topaz compass]

I think part 2 of SC will have some nice bait

[tardy jolt]

All the new content these past two days felt a tad overwhelming tbh, but all the resources have been secured

[hard wave]

Just wait until the 20th

[grim plover]

please 4 lillie alts next month i need to save

[vernal glade]

Same here. I want more skips.

[tardy fiber]

Ss Lillie

[lilac crescent]

No. Give Elio something pls

[pure arrow]

Skip month for May plz; especially if gem counts are staying lower than last year

[tardy fiber]

I hope May isn't a skip, i already skipped March and April

[rare swan]

Think of the gems saved

[lilac crescent]

But ||Selene's finally got a alt...|| and I can't let it slide, but I only got one pity and I wanna keep saving.

So I can get another...

[rare swan]

Is she a really big fave? You can always see how you feel when she drops

[lilac crescent]

Yea, I guess.

[dark oar]

You can definitely see datamine before grabbing ||her|| o.o

[pure arrow]

That ||May 20-something banner end date|| is glorious for waiting-till-datamine enjoyers

[tardy fiber]

What if ||NC Selene|| released on June

[outer mango]

I reach 3000 gems one more Time pls help me to reach one pity pls

[dark oar]

you're gonna have to wait 2 months for a pity 😭

[outer mango]

If I continue to save all m'y gems this month I'll get 12775 and if we Can get 20K gems next month I 'll have 32775 and I Can have 8000 by cash play so I have to wait only 1.5 month 😂

[crisp grotto]

You got this

[outer mango]

I Hope that I won't summon thanks to you

[crisp grotto]

Have a goal in mind, like saving for the June MFs or a super favourite that may come along

That'll help

[dark oar]

I'd probably save for 5th anniversary tbh.

[outer mango]

Yes I began to save for june MF

[broken mulch]

June always had MFs?

[vestal leaf]

Basically yes

[upbeat lotus]

at least since MF introduction

[gloomy holly]

Ok, I got my first multi now

[broken mulch]

Neat

[mild spindle]

I wonder if they’ll continue this spread strategy. Like how Nate and Rosa released.

So we could get one MF on May 28th and the next one on June 25th. They also have to make separate story events where only one of the characters is featured. So I guess that also means more overall gems and candies.

[mossy hawk]

I would appreciate that

It's lighter on gems

If you want to pull both MFs

[crisp oracle]

“I guess” is not strong enough of a reason to pull

[lilac crescent]

She's a favorite. Plus of the Alolan MC alts that isn't a Variety.

[crisp oracle]

Well she does last past datamine TBF

You can, and should wait

[tardy fiber]

I like it this way too, ssgladion is considered the same right? He got released a month earlier than ncsilver and geeta

Also i hope johto nc wont just end with silver

Hope there's one or two more in the future just that they are spreaded

[cyan cypress]

who do you have in mind

[tardy fiber]

Anybody with Raikou

Oh shiny gyarados is kinda iconic too

They can cook it like its being caught at Lake of Rage for more lore flavours

Shiny celebi also possible i guess, didn't they already have its model for Jessie James event

[cunning swan]

The johto NC song key is locked behind EXing silver, so I kinda doubt that

[tardy fiber]

[lilac crescent]

Darn it... I used to have all the NC Song Keys for free

[vernal glade]

By the way don’t forget to get your gems on the special battle against silver, ends this reset.

[tardy fiber]

Big gems this reset

[lilac crescent]

I even forgot about that. I mean, I already cleared it so like...

Yea?

[tardy fiber]

9770 gems left for this month where are the twitter gems

[tight creek]

Soon™️

[lilac crescent]

So I can't use Soon™️ as my own product?

[tight creek]

I'm sorry, but it is trademarked, you may not.

[lilac crescent]

Ah shucks.

[tardy fiber]

Use Eventually instead

[lilac crescent]

[tardy fiber]

I didn't trademark it

[tight creek]

Eventually (patent pending)

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for sc event this reset, then i will only need 1 more strike coin to 3/5 my last remaining non 3/5 fave

[upbeat lotus]

Who are they

[tardy fiber]

SsGladion

[upbeat lotus]

[tardy fiber]

With him done, all 74 faves are at least 3/5

The 2 skip months assisted for completion of this goal

[rare swan]

I'm sure there will be more faves for you soon

[crisp oracle]

Give me my sc dia rerun pls

[dark oar]

She'll likely be in a paid banner come 5th anni

[tardy fiber]

Well if the next month's faves are sprint or tech, i can also 3/5 them from the get go if i got 1 copy of them

[rare swan]

He means a free rerun

[tardy fiber]

Its amazing that there's still no base sprint fave yet for me

[dark oar]

Mebe next year @crisp oracle ;-;

[tight creek]

A new war games free rerun is a fair bit overdue at this point

Same with Tea Party tbh

[tardy fiber]

I dont know what i should choose if there's free old sc select

I could choose my pokewar faves or scrosa but 4/5 or 5/5 doesn't do much

Not like they have extra grids

I treat extra grid energy as extra bonus that comes with me getting 4/5 or 5/5 grids

[tight creek]

Depends how far back they'd go with those but I'd probably use the opportunity to pick up SC Hilda

[lilac crescent]

Pokewars? Is that an event in the core series I'm not aware about?

[tight creek]

Its the original SC event

With Guzma, Jasmine, Hilda and Diantha

[tardy fiber]

So far, I'm probably gonna work my way to 5/5 old pokefair faves, doesn't seem like they gonna continue giving em power boost anytime soon, they are doing general pool power boost nowadays

[dark oar]

I have all 4 now o.o

[lilac crescent]

Wait, wasn't that the one that SC Diatha debuted in?

[tight creek]

Yes.

[dark oar]

Didnt they have a rerun after the 3rd anni?

Free rerun i mean

[tight creek]

Yes, and nothing since

Its been almost a year and a half since the last rerun now

[lilac crescent]

And yet the rates for featured units are still low

[dark oar]

Likely be post 5th anni then ;-;

[tardy fiber]

At least sc event does rerun, i wonder how new players gonna get kali and helena. They will be gone to Jessie James place

[upbeat lotus]

they don't

[tardy fiber]

Off to Ash they go

Channeler npc pair for fall this year, 1 of the npc dialogue for april fool event talked about Channeler

[tight creek]

We see what they do with SC Rosas event during anni, and if the answer is either "rerun it" or "nothing" we see what happens next month

[tardy fiber]

They should just sent non rerunnable 4* event pairs to bp shop

Oh wait 3*

At least we can use normal bp ticket to claim em

[dark oar]

Amen to that o/

[lilac crescent]

And 3☆ event pairs too!

[tardy fiber]

Although new players might rant that it will take a while to get a ticket, probably not many will use their first formed bp ticket on kali/helena. Plenty better bp pairs in it.

And this year's anni, probably will add 4 new bp 4*

[lilac crescent]

Who do you they will be?

[tardy fiber]

Galar pairs probably

[dark oar]

5th anni? Probably a mix of galar, sinnoh and johto

Otherwise Paldea

[tardy fiber]

So far we have 3 kanto, 3 johto, 1 hoenn, 2 sinnoh, 0 unova, 2 kalos, 2 alola, 0 galar

For 4* bp

They can do 1 hoenn, 1 galar, 2 unova if they still want to make galar pairs still not yet freely available other than hop

There's free victrier but he's time limited

[lilac crescent]

The reason we need hum back.

[tardy fiber]

Although solgaleo stole alola LA slot, but DeNa gives bunch of alola for free through story

[lilac crescent]

To be fair... you wouldn't want another Lillie alt, now would you?

[tight creek]

At this point Lillie can get a new one and nobody can be too annoyed realistically

[lilac crescent]

Hey, I kinda would

[rare swan]

She deserves one

It's been over 2 years

[tardy fiber]

I don't mind lillie alt, the only thing i hate about Lillie is due to she take over Leaf role in kanto VA

Like why?

DeNa probably also realised it thus they made the meme title if we use Leaf on kanto VA fight

[lilac crescent]

No, she doesn't! She has over 3!

[tight creek]

She also a popular character whos last alt costume was over two years ago

[lilac crescent]

[tardy fiber]

Gloria and Lillie has same amount of alts but people hate Lillie more

Both still doesn't have sygna suits

[prime quarry]

Reminder that Steven still has the most alts

[lilac crescent]

I've lost this battle...

[dark oar]

Cynthia alt ina year hopefully .-.

[topaz compass]

Did they not give us a distribution date for gems when we signed up?

The twitter gems

[tardy fiber]

Not sure, the contest doesn't even available now to check it

[crisp grotto]

They did not

[hard wave]

They said its coming in april || but not what year ||

[upbeat lotus]

See y'all im 2028

[cunning swan]

The children yearn for the twitter gems dena

[shell glade]

we are def getting a second update

[strange trout]

Inb4 cliffhanger for 3 months

[cunning swan]

"late april" could just mean the last week of april when datamine normally happens

[upbeat lotus]

they didn't say which year

[cunning swan]

See y'all in 2028

[vestal leaf]

Yeah I'm expecting a 23-25th Datamine, earlier than usual

[maiden kayak]

probably 25th

imo

[tardy fiber]

There goes my , i had to EX a pair for easier clear. Well at least that's a cheaper loss than pulling a pair

[compact pasture]

That’s new

[compact pasture]

An easier clear?

[tardy fiber]

Yep at first i use non ex aaron, non ex guzma and molayne, either 1/2 of my teammates dies. But after i EX guzma i got 0 deaths so i can clear the gem mission

Well spending some is better than pulling a non fave unit for clear

[hard wave]

I tried using kimono grimsley, aaron, and hviola and I prob couldve finished faster if I wasnt trying to use grimsley’s gimmick

Luckily only kimono grimsley wasnt EXd and I didnt have to EX him

[tardy fiber]

I havent read guzma stats much, but wow, using him after EXed feels lots better than before EX

Well at least im done with it, iirc there's no problem for me for kanto e4 trainer files so smooth sailing for the remaining events

[hard wave]

Yeah they dont have BCs

Im 9 away from 5*ing norman tho (my last 4 star) so that kind of sucks tho

[tardy fiber]

At least there's lodge pair every month so got new 4*, and 4 bp 4* pairs on anni

Oh i will get another EX left this month, Agatha...i already 5* 20/20 those non EX mega pairs before this so only spending spirits left

After this only bugsy left

[lilac crescent]

Wait, are the Custom ☆ Power-Ups limited?

Because I got them all already.

[hard wave]

U use to get them

But the free ones like rosa riley victrier and LA units are limited, u should be able to spend ur own resources for them tho but

[topaz compass]

We earn way less than 100 4star potential tickets per month right?

I only have a couple sync pairs (besides eggs) left to upgrade with them so I'm hoping that after exchanging 100 per month I don't get stuck with extra

[grim plover]

I fear for my gems

Next datamine has the golden week and that may introduce gholdengo

[lilac crescent]

Not those. 4☆

[tardy fiber]

they might rerun magikarp egg event

[lilac crescent]

[crude glacier]

Let’s hope it’s a decent steel type

Ghost types are already good as is

Maybe a steel zone like vthorton?

(but actually viable)

[tight creek]

Selene is right over there releasing in 2 days

[lilac crescent]

Ayo buddy. This is the saving channel.

[tardy fiber]

I got good amount of steel faves, give me electric/dark/bug/ground/normal/poison faves next month

Oh grass too

[pure arrow]

Steel’s an easy skip for me since I have 3/5 STate

If these low gem counts extend to May (I qualify these as less than 25k) I’m hoping for a skip May and June since otherwise I’m not sure I’d get 2.5 pities by Anni

Actually wait, looking at historical gem counts May was at least around 27k extending to 2021

[tardy fiber]

I can form 4th pity

If its 27k

[grim plover]

Yeah he's prob steel as his signature move is steel type

[tardy fiber]

I hope shiny raikou appears in golden week

123k gems, savings growing steadily

[lost bobcat]

Why we're getting like 10 days for the VA and 35 for the SC

I usually do daily stages to optimize stamina but doing that for one month feels pain

[sturdy plank]

because it's a rerun

[wide yew]

Yes but why is SC 35

[upbeat lotus]

there is part 2 too, so they want to extend the part 1 for people to read the story first

[tardy fiber]

I will take monthly sc anytime over monthly variety

[wide yew]

I want 35 days villain event
The one that has doubled rewards too

[sturdy plank]

because it's new

debut-vas ran for like 40 days

while reruns are like 2 weeks or something

[twin spindle]

So is there a benefit to rolling with 3000?

[upbeat lotus]

Yes, it gives you an extra pull. So using multi is always better than doing singles unless you are a few points away from pity

Also please put current banners in spoiler tags here to avoid temptation

This is a gem saving thread, the pins here have some rules that are only applied here to avoid temptation

[twin spindle]

Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I misunderstood the purpose of this thread.

[upbeat lotus]

No worries, just keep it in mind for next time

[fossil turtle]

Mmm

[twin spindle]

I admittedly still don't fully understand how to use this channel so what I say may not fit.
I'm really wanting to get a specific roll, and it's gotten to the point where I'm somewhat considering buying gems, even though I know it's a bad idea.

[rare swan]

buying gems is a very personal decision, not necessarily good or bad

if you want some info we've summarized the best deals in #1010215980175208468

(we mainly use this channel as a place to discuss the saving of resources, mainly gems - so we don't allow talk of pulling unless it is under spoiler tags to help savers avoid the temptation of YOLO pulls, etc)

[crisp oracle]

If you want to buy gems, hear me out first. Please save a pity of gems (36,600) before you remotely consider reaching for your credit card. That way, you can guarantee the roll you want, even if it takes you all the way to scout points

Also, lower your expectations, gachas can be cruel

[twin spindle]

Thanks

[tardy fiber]

Pity is always great, especially when the featured rate for the pairs are 2% normally and 1% for master fair...so you basically have 98% or 99% of not getting the pair you want

I dont think we even have at least one 4* unit per multi pulls like in genshin or hsr, thats why 11 3* pull exists

[fallen path]

Paid gems is best for select scouts fyi, although nowadays you need a minimum of 5k paid for the pokefair selects

[tardy fiber]

Yep, it seems like pokefairs might be 5k going onwards as they have a big pool now even if they divide by roles or regions

[lilac crescent]

What about types?

[fallen path]

Haven’t seen those kind of selects outside of the gen pool ones (which you shouldn’t spend paid gems on anyways)

[sturdy plank]

18 paid banners..? uhhh please no

[lilac crescent]

I'm sorry. My brain wasn't there when I asked that.

[tardy fiber]

Well at least SC and Seasonal are still 3k, probably because they didn't get 5/5 grids treatment yet

[lilac crescent]

5/5 treatment? Like tiles that need 5/5?

[rare swan]

yup

no seasonal/SC has gotten a 5/5 expansion yet

(despite some of them desperately needing it hello Winter 2019 units)

[tardy fiber]

DeNa did caught me with 5/5 grids, i did fair selects ||to 5/5 the faves that becomes 4/5 from free 100 pulls, also those old pokefair faves like N, Gloria, Lysander||

Hope they do free lodge pokefair again for anni

[lilac crescent]

Who'd even get one?

My first thought was Lance for some reason...

[sand crown]

Might be controversial but from a saving/resource standpoint I think PFs 5/5 are enough for this game

[rare swan]

you mean you don't think seasonals, etc should get expansions?

[sand crown]

I personally don't, but I understand it is likely

[rare swan]

That is fair

[sand crown]

It would not change fave > all mentality anyway, I'm just someone who would rather be able to say I have some kits fully unlocked - much harder to do at 5/5

[rare swan]

ahhhh now I see what you mean

I have 5/5'd all my faves so expansions are lovely for me

[sand crown]

Seasonals/SC I'm not sure, I think for MF it is inevitable

[tardy fiber]

I would love 5/5 faves but for 74 pairs that i currently have, it might take years well i guess i will prioritise those that needed it first like N, Gloria, Lysandre

[sand crown]

though I would love a timeline where Summer Lyra gets a Lance/Dragonite type expansion that brings her back to relevance

just to see the reaction

[sand crown]

At least you have them all (so far)

[tardy fiber]

Yeap, the longest i need is N for my collection like after a year of playing i think for his rerun

[maiden kayak]

do uhave a specific unit u wanna target (better if its a unit that hasnt been debut in poma yet

[sly crane]

Pray next month is a skip month

I’ve been getting very lucky with the first ten pulls with all the characters I rlly want but I’m kinda cooked if Lucas comes next month

[dark cliff]

So… are SC Pairs going to go away before the next datamine or

[tardy fiber]

They still here

They will be gone on 17th May

[gloomy holly]

I need to stay calm for the next 4 months

[tardy fiber]

So probably the SC part 2 pairs duration will be the shorter one, as they might be gone on same day as SC barry and selene

Hope one of em is a fave

During pokewar sc, sc jasmine got the short straw...she is the last pair that got released and also gone the same date as 3 others

Iirc only has a week plus to get her

[sly crane]

If Lucas is the part 2 I’m going to cry

I doubt it

But if he is I’m eating my shoe

[tardy fiber]

He might be the villain for sc barry

Wearing evil kamen rider outfit

[sly crane]

I’ll be so upset

I need to save 😭😭😭😭

[rare swan]

i think Elio or Penny are more likely

[sly crane]

The day Palmer gets an alt and I got caught lacking with my gems no one will ever hear from me again

[tardy fiber]

For other past cases, iirc ssrcynthia debut got an extremely long duration...she waits for sscyrus, ssdawn and lucas to pop up and gone on the same date

Well thats usually how 2 parters event banner works

[rare swan]

either way, no need to panic before any confirmations

[tardy fiber]

Yep it might be different this time

Also grab faves and skip non faves

I probably can form 4th pity if May has around 27k gems

Oh right we usually need how many co-op orbs for full grid? Few months of skipping pairs made me forgot about it

[rare swan]

full grid expansion?

100k

10k per 1 point

[tardy fiber]

No, the normal 3/5 grid

[dark oar]

can max out at 60k yellow sync orbs if you need it

[tardy fiber]

Need 60k yellow orbs to grid?

[dark oar]

only if you want to go over 60 Energy

[tardy fiber]

For 60 energy

No i want 60 energy only

[dark oar]

oh thata's 7500 yellow sync orbs then.

[tardy fiber]

Thanks

So i guess i can max grid 1 more pair today, if any fave pops out i think i can still get 7.5k with remaining days

[dark oar]

tbh, the sync orb "over" requires like 20k per +2 max energy, and you also still have to spend yellow sync orbs if you use them max energy.

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, so i need some extra orbs

[dark oar]

we can buy 100k yellow sync orbs in Battle Rally each month

[tardy fiber]

Yup but i can barely get by for cake coins, so i gonna prioritise that first

[oak crest]

yea definitely cake coins are a priority

[dark oar]

i typically juts buy Cake Coins > Sync Orbs, then if i've got extra, 5pus

[tardy fiber]

I save some medals in case there's a bad run which is full of sprint/field but i did get at least 6.5k medals consistently

Ok done, only 3 more 5/5 faves left to max energy

[broken mulch]

Just 500 more gems and I’m back to pity

[tardy fiber]

Only left Silver, Ghetsis, Zinnia to max energy

[winged fossil]

is it bad that i cant wait for eevee day 2024 (of hopes we get yet another ticket for eeveelutions)?

[dark oar]

I... am actually waiting for that too.

freebies are freebies 😮

[tardy fiber]

Free lodge pokefair again for anni ...||free Volo ||

[winged fossil]

in my case thats a chance of like, up to 9 lesser favs as possible freebies, since i like all the eeveelutions. sure not a fan of the trainers theyve been paired with so far for eevee day that much, but, i wont say no to more eevees. theyre cute.

hell id take a dupe of the Jolteon i got last year without much complaint if fate deems it as what i deserve

still feel REALLY blessed that i got both dialga and riley out of freebies

any free fav is 36.6k gems saved

[tardy fiber]

yep, thats why i love bp master pairs...keep on releasing them DeNa, 72k gems saved every anni

Even extra last year due to victrier

Another free fave

Hoping for paldea legendary adventures to actually happen

[sturdy plank]

||finally, free togepi frame from photo creator||

[tardy fiber]

Although i doubt it will happen, he is kinda new so perhaps next half anni not upcoming anni

Getting him through 5k select still can happen on anni

[upbeat lotus]

Lucas is the newest addition to free select, and he is 2 years old

So Volo would take 2 or 3 years to be included in free selects

[tardy fiber]

So i guess if lodge select happens on this anni, i will 5/5 my gloria or N

They are both at 4/5

[sturdy plank]

i'd ||pick between steven or n||

[tardy fiber]

Maybe i will prioritise Gloria, mainly because N plays around multipliers if enemies are paralyzed and i usually give enemies status immunity for cs params

[broken mulch]

Lodge select huh

Only missing Raihan and Volo out of Fairs

But if master fairs are included there’s Adaman and Irida

[dark oar]

MFs on a select, are we in 7th or 10th anni? D;

[tardy fiber]

Im not sure if i will grab if adaman and irida select costs like 10k paid, maybe if its 5k paid but thats pure hopium

[sturdy plank]

12k paid gems

[tardy fiber]

I wont grab that its more expensive than full tiered cost for sc rerun

I can accept 10k ||because i did full tiered of first pokewar sc rerun as i got 2/5 ssdiantha, scguzma, schilda that time, and luckily i managed to make all 3 of them 3/5 with it ||

It costs 10k

[maiden kayak]

is it me or is it that the story bundles increased the prices

it became less worth than the 20 day bundle

[tardy fiber]

Kinda well it is for me because my country got hit by a couple of apple price hike

So for now only 20 days orb bundle is worth it, well the recent 1k paid offer is also good

[lunar thistle]

I'm trying to gem hang in the presents area

So my apparent gems is lower

[oak crest]

idk if there was a price increase, but uh even back when it was introduced then the 20 days login is more worth it if you do not need the paid gems in a rush

[wide yew]

Par for the course
The subscription-like purchase always gives more

[topaz compass]

As of now jirachi at or near the top of seasonal selects for me

Hopefully if we get a steel MF it happens before a seasonal select comes so I know if the MF makes Jirachi unnecessary

[wind nymph]

|| my lil bro destroyed my savings, after coming back home after university, got to see that since i kept my phone at home and lil bro ruined my 13 k savings on getting victiny,barry and may. rip ⚰️||

[dark oar]

Never. Ever. Leave your phone unattended. 😦

or unlocked

[lilac crescent]

Damn... I feel so bad for you...

Did you at least get the units?

[strange trout]

Hey at least you got some new units

[summer goblet]

April is boring but at least it’s productive

[bleak falcon]

Wow

Das a lot

[vernal glade]

Ya almost to the 500k mark

[summer goblet]

Thanks

[crude glacier]

at least he wasn’t unlucky to not get any

[crude glacier]

6x my gem count but still felt like sharing mine

[summer goblet]

Great saving

[tardy fiber]

Nothing to grab this month except poma day happy scouts

[lilac crescent]

How are y'all this committed to saving?

[lilac crescent]

Oh my god.

[tardy fiber]

Pull when fave appears and skip when non fave appears so i guess the answer is discipline

[dark oar]

We want favourites so we want to ensure that we're getting them, or next time. 😉

[rare swan]

I loathe the thought of missing any units I really want

[tardy fiber]

But if push comes to shove, like if there's a bunch of faves appearing at same time...i will prioritise those that are less likely to rerun, then those that are available through select scouts

[rare swan]

I think of it like delayed gratification tbh

It can suck skipping the units everyone is frothing over but when someone you truly want drops and you know you'll get them no matter what....

[lilac crescent]

True! Wise words from a wise person!

[tardy fiber]

I dont mind get my faves a bit later, like i got my missing N after around a year of playtime, doesn't matter if people say that he is bad now, a fave is a fave

Not being a day 1 player does made me miss some faves that were already released earlier

[lilac crescent]

Don't worry about the past and look up to the future.

[tardy fiber]

Nah i will grab any missing faves if i didn't managed to get em in the past

They are faves for a reason, if i should just look for future better i grab meta pairs

[rare swan]

Who are you missing Vantner? I thought you were all good

[tight creek]

i think they're just talking in general

like if there's a really heavy month for favs for em in the future they can wait to grab one if necessary

[rare swan]

Ahhh I see

[tardy fiber]

Yep i got em all for now

Its just before this we are discussing that can just forget an old fave and instead focuses on future faves, and i said that i will still grab old faves even if they're outdated, they are faves for a reason

[lilac crescent]

Well, I didn't mean it like that

[lunar thistle]

I'm finally at 7k gems

Along with a few hundred hung

[feral vale]

Haven’t posted my count in a while

[lilac crescent]

Lookin' good!

[wind nymph]

cute profile

[feral vale]

Thanks

[winged fossil]

procrastination at its finest

...speaking of gems, did they even give us the sweepstakes gems yet... i dont recall them but ive been focused on randomizer shenanigans so

[dark oar]

we still dont have the twitter gems either

[warm scarab]

😮 I thought I just didn’t qualify. They haven’t give them out yet?

[upbeat lotus]

Not yet

Sweepstakes gems and twitter gems are the same btw

[broken mulch]

Didn’t they already give those?

[crisp grotto]

No

[cunning swan]

In april they said

[dark oar]

i figured they're just gonna drop all of it after the 25th.

[dark oar]

9k left until i hit pity kuku

[sturdy flower]

didn't realize gems are this sad

19k?

[pure arrow]

And still none from the sweepstakes.

[lilac crescent]

I don't think we'll have one this month.

If we were to, then we should have had one days ago.

Maybe it's probably during Datamine week?

[pure arrow]

I meant from the 4.5 anni thing on Twitter. Can't remember whether it was late February or early March.

[lilac crescent]

Oh. Hold on, let me check.

[hard wave]

#game-announcements message early march

[tight creek]

Yeah that hasn't been given yet

Still 10 days to go before they become "late" though, they never specified anything more than "in april" for a distribution date

[lilac crescent]

A mystery to solve...

[hard wave]

Atp they might just be waiting for the next update so 25-28 maybe

Even 29 but we dont content or gem count for it and they said the new event would be late april, so its either the 29th or 30th

[tight creek]

It could be literally any day left this month

We'll see in time

[tardy fiber]

Seeing blissful bonanza is a nice surprise, i forgot about its existence as its not in datamine summary. If next month have at least 17k gems, it will form a total of four pities if added my current gem balance but hopefully there's fave next month

[lilac crescent]

Same.

[gloomy holly]

Almost at 9k gems now if do all the missions on the Kanto variety units event part 2

[lunar thistle]

8k gems

Plus like 1.5k hung in the presents box

[lilac crescent]

That's one strategy I like doing. Pile them up then receiving them all at once.

[static yarrow]

Is heracross good enough to compare itself to other strong dps from other types in csmm like necrozma/deoxys/lele, glimmora/toxtricity, decidueye hisui, volcanion/greninja, etc. and is It fun to play? Rn im saving Up for anniversary as im expecting arceus, dialga and palkia origin to come but im far out of the meta on certain types such as bug, where my best dps are volcarona 1/5 and type:null so if like to know if it is worth pulling taking into account these factors.

[tough oriole]

This is the resource saving channel, not the resource spending channel, the answer you’ll get here is always to skip unless someone is a fave

(We can’t encourage pulling in this channel, pulling questions should go in #poma-questions )

[static yarrow]

Mb, though of asking in this channel because i wanted to check whether It would be worth spending or saving on It, ill try on that channel, ty.

[tardy fiber]

If response from this channel, it will always be skip a unit unless its one of your favourites. Thus your question will not be properly answered as each people here set different values on each pairs you mentioned. Like i always favoured legendary/mythical pokemons that you mentioned than others as they are within my favourite criteria

So potential/kits/futureproof capability/comparison with other released units are all within #poma-questions jurisdiction

[lunar thistle]

Lo gem month is actually a blessing in disguise

[split thicket]

Chest has 1 million gems, right?
Out of curiosity, is there any character they're saving for or are they just hoarding?

[outer mango]

1/4 of pity

[tardy fiber]

Chest saving for claire alts oh also nita alt maybe

[compact pasture]

Didn’t Clair just get an alt?

[dark oar]

she did.

new year's 2024

[compact pasture]

Has Chest fallen below 1 million?

[vestal leaf]

Why would he

1 unit is at most like 150k with the worst luck

1 unit every pity

He's like 1.3mil

[tardy fiber]

Chest can save even more if he didn't pull for dupes, his move candies probably stacked if he only focuses on 1 or 2 faves

Like we can form a candy in 2-3 months, but clair alt only appear once in like 2 years

[rare swan]

there is no need to save quite that much

[lunar thistle]

I think I may be a bit forked if next month doesn't have over 21k gems

I kinda need it to be around 24k

[pure arrow]

As I think I already said on here, the gem count next month shouldn’t go below 27k, what with Golden Week and all.

[lilac crescent]

Golden Week? I know it's like an event, holiday, or something in Japan but I don't clearly know what it has to do with Masters EX.

[tight creek]

it's one of the big holidays that gacha games tend to go "crazy" for

[lilac crescent]

From the name... I imagine it has to do with money...

Oh dear... sales are probably gonna be crazy

[hard wave]

Golden week was a lot better in 2022 I think, eggdos and ss morty

Last year was a paid scout that guaranteed a random PF among 6 (lance, alder, marnie, lear, ss cyrus, and ss may iirc)

[timber wren]

may was the highest gem calendar month last year

[lilac crescent]

Wow!

[hard wave]

Wait I completely forgot about alola VA

Also even higher than anni?

[lilac crescent]

I doubt it.

[hard wave]

Iirc gem counts started dropping in june tho, or august since I think june/july are normally low?

[timber wren]

you can see in #1010223517565976737

which i have admittedly still not updated for march

[hard wave]

Oh yeah

[lilac crescent]

What does Omni mean?
Just a general 5☆ candy?

[hard wave]

Wait is it counted by 1st-30th/31st or by update?

[timber wren]

calendar month

not by update

the june update we had like 7k gems packed into the end of may

so that boosted may up a lot

[hard wave]

Ah

[cunning swan]

oh right, golden week is a thing

[gloomy holly]

I have over 10k gems now at least

[uneven bone]

Oh snap I missed out on special stadium

[gloomy holly]

RIP 900 gems

[outer mango]

I have 9985 gems

[crisp oracle]

I have 180,010 gems

[oak crest]

Oof... Rip gem and gen candy coin

[broken mulch]

Pretty big window to miss

[versed flame]

oh wait i also missed special stadium whoops

I've been quite busy 😅

and i totally forgot about its existence tbh

[lilac crescent]

Crap. Me too. I only got two quarters done.

[upbeat lotus]

While missing out on some content may lead to sizeable gem loss, please don't stress over it y'all. Remember this is just a silly gacha game and you loses nothing irl when you missed out some ingame stuff. Always prioritize doing irl stuff over clearing ingame content

[gloomy holly]

Let's see what May brings us, hopefully it's a skip month ||like how I skip my classes /j||

[lilac crescent]

True.

[versed flame]

yeah for sure, it's natural to forget about that kind of thing

though that being said i need to do my LG ten streak XD so if anyone else is in that same boat it ends this reset

[robust plaza]

I always complete content last day

[versed flame]

I've been running like a four-streak of auto teams

but time to actually play the mode

[lunar thistle]

Well, getting 900 gems is better than getting depression that's for sure

[lilac crescent]

I don't think that's okay to say. (In my opinion.)

[topaz compass]

I read this as $13,000 spent on paid gems lol

I had so many questions

Also why is Dena dead silent on those sweepstakes 500x2 gems? I guess they lazy and giving with the next datamine?

[upbeat lotus]

I don't think that's true

[winged fossil]

I forgot about the pasio cs thinking I could do it on my road trip today but eh whatevs been focused on randomizers rather than silly gacha with silly jpegs

Not gonna complain about missing literally less than a multi on something for what in the end is just pixels that won’t even exist someday

eos is inevitable not anytime soon (hopefully) but someday

[lilac crescent]

The lesson of this text is enjoy while you can... (that hit somehow)
Anyways, about the datamine.

• With the datamine coming in a couple of days, it is recommended to save resources for the upcoming pairs, events, and so on.

[broken mulch]

A skip thankfully lol

[upbeat lotus]

datamine might be today, stay strong y'all

[unkempt vortex]

Easiest skip

[lilac crescent]

Or tomorrow. Point still stands.

[tardy fiber]

So far its a skip from the trailer

[solar wadi]

Yay datamine soon

Poke fair 😦

Yeah I think I will pass

I don’t need them

[maiden kayak]

theres no need to mention the name of the unit

[solar wadi]

Sorry

[maiden kayak]

please freaking read the rules

[lilac crescent]

Censorship buddy.

[upbeat lotus]

please be polite to others

[prime quarry]

Just spoiler upcoming and ongoing pairs just in case people get the itch to pull, it's an easy mistake to make

[upbeat lotus]

they are not active here often so it makes sense if they unintentionally broke the rules

[maiden kayak]

sounds like a harmless mistake but it has big impact

[upbeat lotus]

yes, but please remind them in a polite way

[solar wadi]

I will keep that in mind, I apologize if what I said negatively affected people

[upbeat lotus]

don't worry about that buddy

[solar wadi]

I am curious about the rules for this thread because trying to find it seems hard, I am on mobile if that affects the thread rules visible

[maiden kayak]

its on the pins

[solar wadi]

Oh

[maiden kayak]

but u have to scroll it down

[solar wadi]

Okay, so I didn’t know how to access thread pins (settings tab)

[tardy fiber]

If everything not revealed is like this trailer, im on the right track to 4 pities

[maiden kayak]

yea the new discord setting makes it hard to see pins

but generally refrain from talking about upcoming units or at least spoiler tag the units (altho i dont recommend) per se

[solar wadi]

I understand

I will refrain from mentioning upcoming units

[maiden kayak]

with that said

may is good month to save

july onwards wont be forgiving

[solar wadi]

Yeah with anni in only a few months

I do wanna get pity ready, right now at 15K gems (new personal highest saving)

[gloomy holly]

Looks like I can hold on

[tardy fiber]

Its growing steadily

[solar wadi]

Both of y'all got nice photos

[tardy fiber]

I ||select Ariana|| just to make that photo

[winged fossil]

Huh. An early datamine this month? That’s cool. Gonna enjoy my (forced) skip month.

Fr hoping for a good gemcount from it

[tardy fiber]

Hope its not a skip for me, i already skipped 2 months

I even experiencing lack of for monthly conversion due to lack of ||pulling||

[winged fossil]

…ticket scout revamp… should I be scared? Has my stockpile been for nothing?

That’s literally the only line I’ve read of the update so far lol

Worried if it means our stockpiles are gonna vanish or something next month or whenever it said

…good chance I misread after rereading what the message says

[tawny cedar]

Ok month looks mid but I'm depressed now

||why tf did blue get mix AHHHHHH||

[grim plover]

It's so over for me

[tawny cedar]

Month looks like a skip

[tardy fiber]

Another skip month, its 3 straight months

[tawny cedar]

I need to find a way to get ||mix blue|| for free

[grim plover]

Same

[tardy fiber]

I thought the revamp is only for x5 or x10 pulls, the lineup changes probably still need anniversary

[winged fossil]

I initially misread it as needing five to do a pull but expiring our tickets

[tawny cedar]

Should I consider dropping my Google play points on paid gems for mix over saving em up for a select

Or should I just keep saving up for daily gem bundle and drop that on mix

[lunar thistle]

Very tempting month...

[tardy fiber]

For me, i set 50 pulls limit for mix every month, if worse come to worse, i can pity mix unit right before a new mix pair appear

As 6 months will make it 300/300 to pity

Therefore no excessive spending in case there's selects appearing

[strange trout]

I'm pretty sure they just meant you can now pull in batches instead of just 1 by 1, nothing else changes

As usual they write it in Lawyer Legalese™️

[tardy fiber]

No changes for me i suppose, i keep pulling every time i amassed 30 tickets

[grim plover]

well it's a free gems saving month for me

[tardy fiber]

They are rolling in paldea E4, so we can expect new cs soon

[grim plover]

at least i can be safe for june MFs

[tardy fiber]

I hope June MFs are faves, 3 months without faves makes me feel dry

Well at least they're consistent in giving my faves EXR

[versed flame]

happy to get EXRs for old units i have in this batch

[broken mulch]

I love it when people go nuts during Datamine

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, i haven't clear this week's rally. More medals for my cake vouchers bank

[lunar thistle]

I may be struggling this month

[tardy fiber]

Its already few struggling months, i wonder if there's a month that you're not struggling

[lunar thistle]

Well I don't have enuf self control

[crisp grotto]

There's some tips in the pins - outside of that it'll always be up to you

[lunar thistle]

Well it's getting better over time

I only lost 9k gems this month

Less than that actually

[tardy fiber]

200k points now for all HSE rewards hope they at least add more stuffs

[versed flame]

suppose its to balance out us having more units with dual type

[tawny cedar]

||I'm not using money,I'll be using Google play points I get through surveys||

||So I'll be getting like 30 rolls per year if i get the daily gem bundle for mix or slightly lesser if I go for those 100/300 gem deals||

||I was saving em to buy when a select appears but blue is more important (even if it's not guaranteed i get him)||

[crisp grotto]

At least spoiler that, you're in the saving channel

It shouldn't be here in the first place

[tawny cedar]

I'm just acting stupid under pressure ig

I have no idea how I'm supposed to get ||mix blue||

My options are either giving on owning every ||blue|| or Google reward points

We don't even know if these people rerun or will get select

[tardy fiber]

8 faves getting EXR and there's still 1 on poma day so total 9 ...skip months but faves content is consistent these 3 months

And only 20 cake vouchers from rally

I guess i will have to plan it to cake more efficiently to avoid wrongfully convert

[broken mulch]

As far as cakes go, ||I just want to get Bellelba’s, Annie Skyla’s, and SS Morty’s||

[tardy fiber]

I really need to calculate the amount of cake coins in my bag, current cake vouchers amount, current daily coupons amount as i need to cake 9 pairs....also seems like there's 1 free cake voucher every week by clearing rally so 4 or 5 a month, 30 days of daily missions means 6 cake coins via conversion, 20 from rally shop and 6 of each roles from 30 days of clearing daily region battle

If i plan it smart, i might able to cake 4 or 5 pairs

[tawny cedar]

Is ||mix red|| gonna come out p2w exclusivity now or do we have no knowledge yet?

[tardy fiber]

Not sure yet, any banner changes is server side so that means we cannot check in datamine

Need to wait 1st may and check what changes in mix banner

[tawny cedar]

Hopefully mix gets selects

[crude glacier]

Is it out?

[tardy fiber]

Which stuff you mean that's out? If datamine, yeah. Other stuffs, not yet

[cunning swan]

my best guess is that he'll stay in there with the same rates as any other 5*

[dark oar]

Guess i'm waiting for gem count for this month 😮

[tardy fiber]

Yeap, i dont think he will be available in a select or general pool, he is advertised as paid gems only unit so general pool is really not gonna happen...select hurm, it took 1 year to have 2 units in mix select, so unless its the 3rd or 4th year of mix, it probably difficult to make the select happen

[crude glacier]

Idk about that

He isn’t advertised as paid gems only

He’s advertised as mix exclusive

[tardy fiber]

Well we can only pull mix using paid gems

[crude glacier]

Nothing wrong with a pokefair being part of another type of banner (like we saw last anni with those daily tickets)

[tardy fiber]

So aint that paid gems only

[crude glacier]

So there is still hope that a mix unit can be part of another banner

[tardy fiber]

Yep mix red and mix blue are not pokefair

Nothing wrong with pokefair as pokefair pairs also become lodge guest, no seasonal or special costume or variety able to becomes guest. So its appropriate for pokefair to be added to x100 free pull...plus they already added pokefair long time ago, the first time they do it, they gave us 10 free new year tickets with a chance of getting lance/cynthia/sscynthia

[tawny cedar]

||So if I wanted it get blue without whaling,dumping Google play points into paid gems for mix is my only option?||

[crisp grotto]

As it stands at the moment, yes

[tardy fiber]

Kinda but at least wait till 1st may to see how the banner turns out.

I also use Google opinions rewards to lessen the cost of sync orbs bundle

[sturdy flower]

I hope mix unit will be available because my luck on that banner is lacking

[crisp oracle]

||wait is that a free Dojo Gloria rerun I see||

[versed flame]

||yup it is||

[crude glacier]

6 new banner units + lodge ||rika||

I’m expecting 24K-27K

[sturdy plank]

hoping 27k

[tardy fiber]

Hope for nice amount of gems ||as i will try for mix blue|| others are a skip for me

[topaz compass]

Well the rika event gems should be counted as April so prepare to be disappointed in gem count again

It will be like 23k which is more like 21k for April and may each

[topaz compass]

Just buy the 3k bundle every 20 days, that will be enough in the 4 or 6 months the mix runs

[tardy jolt]

So annoying that the new PFs are all getting lodge units right away, I guess I’ll have to prioritize them for the next selects

[topaz compass]

If you pull because lodge, then you are the reason they doing that lol

That is a feedback loop they can say isn't their fault even though they started it

[tardy jolt]

Selects are months after their release tbh

[tawny cedar]

It's once every 6-12 months

I'm using purely Google surveys points

So I'll have like 30 tries for ||mix blue||

[tardy fiber]

I will just gonna wait to get them via selects, the gap between anniversary - new year - half anni selects aint that long, so i can wait

[lunar thistle]

Wow only 19k gems?

Pitiful

[lament arch]

What's the gem count for this Datamine

[vernal glade]

19k?

[tardy fiber]

We already got gem count?

[vernal glade]

I don’t know. But if it really is 19k then oof.

[lunar thistle]

Oh nvm I was looking at last month's

[tardy fiber]

[vernal glade]

Oh.

[feral vale]

Datamine just came out, give them time

[onyx tinsel]

It's out on reddit, 22k

[sturdy plank]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[onyx tinsel]

I'm just pumped for what excuses people will make for DENA now. And no this game is not near EoS.

[vernal glade]

Total be 23k if we add the twitter gems.

[lunar thistle]

Okay WHICH was the smart guy who said that there's no way it's below 27k

[tardy fiber]

Kinda rough right before June MF, well at least its the third skip month for me

[lunar thistle]

Alright quit w or nah

[tardy fiber]

I aint quitting, as long as i still can pity a pair every 2 months

[mossy hawk]

New gem standard 20k per month

[lunar thistle]

I'm just sad now

[sly breach]

It will get worse

[fallen path]

Tbh, the low gem counts have been very whelming, and while I’m not losing interest, I do feel indifference

[lunar thistle]

I haven't even been doing Gauntlet or CS or Rally

I'm just tired man

[tardy fiber]

I still do those, missing those means losing more gems...we already got less as it is

Except UBs, i kinda dont want to lose my hair doing it if it already cost me a bunch of resets

[lunar thistle]

I feel like lately I haven't been able to bring myself to do anything

[fallen path]

It’s only a game

Enjoy real life

[unkempt vortex]

Touch grass

[lunar thistle]

I mean in general

[tardy fiber]

I can still accept current gems as long as its within a pity every 2 months, like in honkai star rail also i need to spend 180 passes to guarantee if im unlucky, and a update of around 40 days gives like 110 passes so it costs 2 updates as well

There's one game i played that give easier way to guarantee featured pair every month, tower of god new world...but i need 20 dupes to maxed out the character stats and stuffs thus i left the game

[crude glacier]

But there are soft pities there no? Like 1/3 chance of getting a unit at a certain point?

[tardy fiber]

Yup if bad luck need 90 pulls for soft pity which is 50:50 chance thus you need 180 pulls to guarantee

That means spending 90 passes twice

Losing 50:50 the first one and next one is guaranteed but it pops up at the 90th pull

[tranquil elbow]

20 DUPES???????????

[tardy fiber]

Yes to reach rainbow 5 grade, i need 20 dupes

[tranquil elbow]

??????????

oh damn

[tardy fiber]

But the game is pretty generous with the currency like you can get all featured units of the month

Like usually i ended up with 6 dupes to each character at the end of the month, and new month will bring more new characters

So like never ending chase

Thus i left the game

But its a generous game like you can do a multi every 2/3 days and the units will all go to general pool at the end, the only limited ones are the collab units

[earnest kiln]

Another low Gem Count?

Thank Arceus I'm saving, but come on...

[gloomy holly]

https://tenor.com/view/sophist-king-of-skill-party-crashers-gif-9886695353752277364

[tardy fiber]

Yep kinda rough, DeNa keep giving low gem counts during months that i skip.

[earnest kiln]

I knew ||Rika|| would be next and I knew ||Poppy|| would be added before ||Arven||

[tardy fiber]

Seems like they want to release Paldea cs faster

[gloomy holly]

Arven? Who's that?

[earnest kiln]

I have five months to pull on ||Mix Blue||, so while that seems the most interesting Banner, I'll wait

[lunar thistle]

Man what's the point of this game anymore
If this is a gacha game, its core gameplay is pulling
And the declining gem counts allow less and less of that

[earnest kiln]

What's the latest banner for May?

[tardy fiber]

||poppy|| released the last

Not counting maxie

[earnest kiln]

ah

[tardy fiber]

Im thankful that there's no pvp, so I didn't get tempted to pull much

Other pvp gacha games or card game like yugioh master duel, suddenly new meta shifted

[gloomy holly]

You wouldn't imagine playing a game like I'm playing ||FFBE||

[earnest kiln]

Every banner since ||Volo|| has been a sleeper for me and it seems like it's gonna continue until June...

[tardy fiber]

Oh thats the predecessor of FFWOTV, i played this one instead

I lose PVP like 8 times out of 10

[earnest kiln]

I've been playing ||Genshin|| more lately, nothing I really want for this update, but I'm used to saving there, did so for ||Venti|| and that was months...

[gloomy holly]

Imagine a huge shift from NV to NV+ to Overdrive to high LB mods (1100x to be precise)

[earnest kiln]

Surprised ||Nemona|| still hasn't got an EX Role

[gloomy holly]

If Kieran comes, I'm gonna pull for him even without pity

[tardy fiber]

Probably in few month when they do another HSE but mix with electric

I will pull anybody with legendary/mythical/UB/paradox

Seeing lower gem counts, i guess i cannot cheeky pull bloodmoon ursaluna

Time to cross it from my list

[sweet tide]

sorry didnt expect there would be a datamine today. have alot of work to do so calcs will only come tmr!

[tardy fiber]

Thanks Tlim

[tardy jolt]

21k lmao, at least I’m skipping again this month but holy they are going low

[crisp grotto]

That's okay Tlim take your time!

[lilac crescent]

Wow. That is a lot.

[tardy fiber]

Thats better

[fallen path]

bleh lol

thanks tlim tho for the tally

[tardy fiber]

Well better than previous 21k count

And 19k gems from previous datamine

[fallen path]

its the psychology of normalizing these lower gem counts

[crisp grotto]

Mhmm

[tardy jolt]

Lower than even 2021 once again

[fallen path]

that's how they getcha

[lilac crescent]

I wasn't here during 2021. What was the gem count then?

[tardy jolt]

26k

[lilac crescent]

That's very low... wow.

[tardy fiber]

Seeing the fair selects released early, i guessed they are for golden week instead of hse and stuffs

But man...5k paid each at least there's free cake but urgh

[violet nebula]

26k is good, just 10k short of a pity

[fallen path]

usuaully 25k+ is pretty good

but now that it's mostly closer to 20k than 25k, not so good

[violet nebula]

It will probably drop below 20k more frequently here on out

[tardy jolt]

There are selects?

[tardy fiber]

Yep the triple featured banner got free gems and select version

Selects are 5k paid plus free whole cake

So can EXR straight

[tardy jolt]

Oh, I didn’t realize that those were selects

Pretty neat

[tardy fiber]

Well ThunderNick the mod said at poma lounge before this

Probably for golden week

[lilac crescent]

Said what?

[tardy fiber]

There's few selects

That costs 5k paid with free cake

[lilac crescent]

Based on the unit you get or like?

[tardy jolt]

Are there new deals coming as well? I’ve not been really on top of the news today

[tardy fiber]

||Select 1 (emmet, djgloria, ssgio)||

||Select 2 (sshilbert, anniskyla, sshau)||

[vestal leaf]

They're divided by exR

[tardy fiber]

||Select 3 (sslysandre, palmer, cblue)||

[upbeat lotus]

Each banner has a Support, Strike and Tech EXR

I think it's best to put them in spoiler, because they also come with free gems variants

[tardy jolt]

Oh if they are just those units then it’s only one select for me, I guess

Looking for new paid deals, it looks like we are not getting any

[tardy fiber]

After a careful consideration ||i think i will skip mix blue, and focus on grabbing selects instead||

Can we even check paid deals though? I thought its server-side

[tardy jolt]

Much better use of paid gems

[tardy fiber]

Like i saw Absol only posted about banner release date and login bonuses

No paid gem deals

[tardy jolt]

I was just checking absol paste for this

[vestal leaf]

I might select lysandre finally

[tardy jolt]

Trade offer: you get more frequent selects I get to cut down free gems to 2020 levels

[tardy fiber]

There's Rika welcome gem special...that looks new

Might have good value

[lilac crescent]

Golden Magikarp... does that mean we get a Magikarp egg event sometime soon?

[tardy fiber]

Yep due to golden week

[lilac crescent]

Yessir!

[tardy fiber]

Take my shiny magikarp luck

I already cleared it last year

[tardy jolt]

Doubt, if its like the ones they released before like for Volo

[tardy fiber]

But i need shiny caterpie and shiny paras luck

[tardy jolt]

Shiny caterpie is gold, automatically good

[tardy fiber]

I gonna evolve it to butterfree

[lilac crescent]

I just need Caterpie to turn Beedrill & Butterfree into my imagination. my classic custom sync pairs

[tardy fiber]

Shiny caterpie support and shiny paras tech

There's also shiny seel and magnemite but i already got them

[lilac crescent]

I'm guessing shiny Strike Beedrill to complete the bug trio??

[tardy fiber]

No, smoochum instead

[lilac crescent]

Smoochum's a psychic/ice, right? Or is that it's evo?

[tardy fiber]

Yeap but the eggmon is ice

The shiny is tech and has hail

[lilac crescent]

Masters be confusing. First with the Eevees (as far as I can recall)

[tardy fiber]

Glaceon is better as it cast ice zone

Hail kinda niche

[pure arrow]

How on earth is it that there's so much chapter/mission events this datamine and only 22k gems?

[mossy hawk]

No LA missions, bonanza, rallies

[tardy fiber]

Well no legendary missions anymore, bonanza, rally also has less gems than previous villa

Rally is like 300 gems weekly but villa gives 2k monthly

So 800 gems deficit

[tardy jolt]

Between this and the new Pokémon go models, updates have not been good for mobile games. Except for sleep, sleep is pretty good

[tardy fiber]

I opened pokemon go and suddenly my character body looks lanky

[tardy jolt]

SCP foundation level of body horror

[tardy fiber]

Time to wait for another pokemon mobile game later. Pokemon tcg

Next reset is great

Time to have fun with agatha EX, lyra power boost, 3/5 calem

[tardy jolt]

I’ve not been enjoying masters at all the past couple of months, but at least it’s an attitude which is good for saving

[tardy fiber]

I just login and do contents, its already 3 months without faves. Some of my candies already formed to be more than 2 in the bag thus i also start to fiddle with 4/5 and 5/5 grids for faves

To cope with content drought, i play multiple games

[sturdy flower]

disappointing gem counts

[lilac crescent]

Just be happy your atleast getting gems.

[junior trout]

considering how there's 7 new units this month the anger is very justifiable

we're slowly degrading back to year 1 gem counts

[lunar thistle]

Where did the new 2k come from

[crisp grotto]

Most likely just a difference in start/end dates

[vestal leaf]

Varieties are just metropolitan legends anyway

And counting mix

Is inherently wrong

Because it's the one banner that is completely removed from free gem economy

[junior trout]

fair point, but varieties aren’t exempt

[vestal leaf]

Yeah that's just for me

They're just BP

As I said countless times

Id never scout a Variety clair

Because it's just the same Clair I have for free

[cunning swan]

That's what i'm doing

(i hate dena so much)

[fallen path]

Don’t we all

[fallen path]

I dropped some games already, I enjoy the community a lot which is keeping me around

[silver jackal]

what an awesome month to skip

[feral vale]

A month that has pairs you are not interested in.

Having full-on skip months is honestly relieving for me.

[lilac crescent]

Understandable.

[sand crown]

Two months in a row for me, puts me near three pities going into June

Even if gem count is abysmal

[tardy fiber]

Its the third skip month for me ||although im grabbing the selects||

[maiden kayak]

wow ok this is not bad

thanks for countinf

[hard wave]

What selects?

[tardy fiber]

I gonna stop chasing non fave mix pair, quite hard if they keep rolling selects

[tardy fiber]

Golden week triple featured pair selects

[hard wave]

Arent those just paid banners?

Idt they are selects

[tardy fiber]

Thundernick said that it's a select, 5k paid select with free cake

[hard wave]

Maybe they are nvm

[tough oriole]

There’s both a normal banner and a paid one, but the paid one doesn’t look like a select (or even a guarantee for that matter)

[fallen path]

Oof no select would be terrible

[tardy fiber]

If it isnt a select, i will abandon my plan and instead ||back to mix blue ||

[lilac crescent]

Doesn't look like anything I want at the moment. More saving for me, ||spend more for the child ||

[sweet tide]

wdym new 2k?

[sweet tide]

OVERALL TALLY FOR V2.43 (26 April - 29 May)
Gems = 23180

Strike Candy Coin = 12
Tech Candy Coin = 9
Support Candy Coin = 8
Sprint Candy Coin = 6
Field Candy Coin = 7
Move Candy Coin = 5
Strike Roll Cake Coin = 7
Tech Roll Cake Coin = 8
Support Roll Cake Coin = 8
Sprint Roll Cake Coin = 8
Field Roll Cake Coin = 8
5⭐ Power-up = 18
BP = +3130 (tally is at 2770, R11)

General Scout Tickets = 153
Kanto Tickets = 5
Johto Tickets = 0
Hoenn Tickets = 4
Sinnoh Tickets = 5
Unova Tickets = 5
Kalos Tickets = 5
Alola Tickets = 35
Galar Tickets = 5

Gem Count from 26 April 2024 - 29 May 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1232904938363813979/V2440_May24_GC.jpeg?ex=662b27b3&is=6629d633&hm=289c579bbecfdb2395d903ba0a3eda3c309ff73b4dee538b0caac13298acd080&

Daily Gem Count Breakdown from 26 April 2024 - 29 May 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1232905023990796299/V2440_May24_DGCB.jpeg?ex=662b27c7&is=6629d647&hm=74d27d3a38c8c0e3aa0f39b7e81f92444a6219055e0781551baa8e7dcf3660d7&

Daily Gem Count & Gems Left Till 29 May 2024
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893411915638923264/1232905129410170952/V2440_May24_DGC.png?ex=662b27e1&is=6629d661&hm=e4317de855450b06fc02fb280449c58f88cbdf17a060e7b7fb8382ec06061e3f&

@crisp grotto

[tardy fiber]

Thanks Tlim

[rare swan]

Love ya work tlim

[tranquil elbow]

Oh.... 23k

[dark oar]

23k eh. interesting.

[carmine void]

It’s not 21k? Huh

Unless shiro previous gem count accounted for the last one… either way, time to cope for rally

[lilac crescent]

Thank you yet again, Tlim!

[tardy fiber]

There's already rally for Rika, but no gems reward

Got clodsire plushie though

[oak crest]

It's 23k because 26th-28th Apr gem count from the previous tally is added in as well

If you take that away it's 21k++

[maiden kayak]

so the true amount is 21k ig

[wind nymph]

||no mfs=skip month= finally can save moree gems ||

[gloomy holly]

Why'd you spoiler that?

[tardy fiber]

Yep its good stuffs

[onyx tinsel]

Obviously low gems encourages saving, but have you ever seen other games reverse course once they get this "stingy"

[vestal leaf]

I mean PoMa was way stingier than this for 2+ years after launch

It only got extremely rich around early 2022

Iirc

[tardy fiber]

As long as i can form a pity within 2 months or less, poma will still be one of the kindest game i played as that rate is better than most gacha games out there. They also gave free limited pairs through 100 free pulls on run up, which most games out there never do.

Plus i wonder if its DeNa's fault if they release a bunch of pairs and players get swept and tempted with meta much that they keep pulling every month. If we cannot whale, dont follow the whale lifestyle. Focus on your fave list, skip non fave units.

[vestal leaf]

Don't forget the rates and gen pool accessibility

Many gacha have the equivalent of our gen pools at minuscule rates in all banners

Not 8% like on PF or 11% on MF

[tardy fiber]

There's no pvp meta here so no pvp trend powercreep, the strong unit here just means you killing the same pvp content faster and more numbers, although one might say that UBs need premium units, but aint we got like 800 years or something. And its like 300 gems locked behind it. A single pull costs 300 gems.

DeNa also power boost old units or give em 5/5 grid expansion, most other gacha games just release the unit and left em to dust with no kit improvements

[sturdy flower]

there's pvp meta its called highscore event

i have no idea what the strawman most other gacha games are but i generally see old units get upgrades selectively in other games too

like additional uncaps etc

[tardy fiber]

Its not like gloria prestige, well if people want to compete just for titles, they can just fight between themselves...its not like first rank gets 30k gems

So pull new unit every month to get a title, sounds like a plan...hope its worth the gems you spent

[sturdy flower]

anyways, the lowering gem counts is not a good sign

it's been disappointing ever since the last anni

[tardy fiber]

2k higher than last month though

19k to 21k

[sturdy flower]

yeah, we only have 6 new units this month

[tardy fiber]

Maybe they're fixing it

[sturdy flower]

and its golden week celebration

next month will probably have a MF or 3

[tardy fiber]

Well i think past golden week also didn't have huge boost of gems, its not like run up or anni months

[sturdy flower]

anni months also didnt have huge gems

[tardy fiber]

Golden week is just hiker event that give nugget, ssmorty rerun and magikarp egg

Its been like that for few years

[tardy fiber]

Recent half anni gives 30190 gems though...way better than current 21k gems

[sturdy flower]

and the previous one?

[tardy fiber]

Yep the previous was more but you said like anni months didn't have huge gems...its 30.1k, pity costs 36k..thats kinda big

[sturdy flower]

also no pomatools update... sad month

[tardy fiber]

Hope stdk is well, prioritise real life first. I dont mind if its late or he gave up on it

[outer mango]

Bro one of my classmate spent all my gems on Archie and now I have 40 gems

[upbeat lotus]

please put your message in spoiler tag

check the pins out for this channel's rules

[vestal leaf]

Yes, excect those uncaps often require weeks if not months of grinding

And obtaining those units is rarely as easy

[vestal leaf]

High score is nothing

Titles are irrelevant, everyone can get 180-200k if they've been playing for more than 3 months

[onyx hearth]

Hi y'all

Checking here again because i hope that i won't spend a gem this may

[tardy fiber]

Welcome

Fellow May skippers

[sturdy flower]

there are no active May banners to skip though

[onyx hearth]

Gen pool has may... does that count

[tardy fiber]

Got bad news of the 5k paid deal so i guess thats 15k paid gems saved

[sturdy flower]

save for Arceus MF

[tardy fiber]

I also plan to skip collecting mix, so all gems gonna be in stash

[onyx hearth]

I actually want to save for an irida rerun

I think they'll be the next one after maxie

[tardy fiber]

Or galar birbs

They are kinda due

[onyx hearth]

Oh yeah that too

[sturdy flower]

mix is interesting

[onyx hearth]

I don't have marnie but

I don't think i need her, aside from that drip

[sturdy flower]

but you need a STRONG conviction and be good at saving or you will overpay hard

[onyx hearth]

She can wait

[tardy fiber]

Johtrio also havent rerun in a while

[tardy fiber]

I will pull it back once there's mix legendary, mythical, UB, paradox

But kanto starters aint my thing

I grab red for fun because i thought they will do non kanto for second mix unit

Instead another kanto

7th blue

Im devastated

The third probably gonna be leaf blastoise

[upbeat lotus]

*Green & Blastoise because DeNA tend to forget Leaf

[tardy fiber]

Maybe Mix will be manga pairings

Time to check gold silver arc and see ethan/silver pairings

I kinda hope for Green Mega Mewtwo X

Shiny mewtwo is green colored

[maiden kayak]

im expecting maybe field blastoise

[upbeat lotus]

hello expecting maybe field blastoise

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, I've dumped 40/300 into it in 6 months and got decent returns, but only because I've skipped most selects (none was really interesting to me)

It's a pretty decent way to sync few paids every month if it helps me avoid wasting dailies in other banners OR multing on units i dont 200% want

[lilac crescent]

Maybe...

[grim plover]

red + bulbasaur was the first choice until charizard became popular

But that's his starter in lets go so they could go with that

maybe to introduce green

[tardy fiber]

I gonna stop pulling mix, would stings if i had to spend 30k paid for a non fave pair

[grim plover]

It's strange that blue's mix banner last 5 months

[tardy fiber]

They probably want to increase to 3 mix pair a year

[upbeat lotus]

Or they want to introduce a new mix during anni

[grim plover]

i didnt want to keep pulling in the mix banner but they put another T0 fav

[tardy fiber]

Oh right, its on the anni month