nov's not-overkill-at-all 15k CSMM Clears

[plucky depot]

inb4 you just forget

[whole kestrel]

Me during Grass HS:

[brazen sorrel]

[fast knot]

I'm counting on everyone here to yell at me before the CS goes away, hopefully

[rose cypress]

I did my part!

[plucky depot]

idk, I feel like dealing with consequences might be helpful to alleviate the Gauntlet rot

[fast knot]

Dang it, selene is on SUNDAY

I want to test her ASAP

[plucky depot]

yeah, it's tragic, Barry and his clownery took priority

[fast knot]

Hot damn Gladion destroyed HP 11 Drasna before he reached 2nd sync. What did I expect would happen?

Gonna upload the video once I have wifi

Should've tried 3.5k or 4k frfr

[fleet turret]

[plucky depot]

he one shots things off type with that bmove, it's lovely

I threw him at Koga on fire CS because I got tired of crit shield bs

[near falcon]

I kept forgetting Piercing Blows does not pierce through Crit Shield

[fast knot]

What else do you forget

[plucky depot]

many things as we have witnessed multiple times

[near falcon]

Listen I am old and I kept forgetting !!

[fast knot]

I'm pleased to let you know Silver can still OHKO 3k Wikstrom first sync. This boy is a beast. Video uploading when I get wifi

[fast knot]

Not now CS, I'm busy

[fleet turret]

Standard ontyping smh smh

Have you tested that Drasna team in tougher conditions? curious about performance

[fast knot]

Just the standard HP11

I can try going max hp max strength

[rose cypress]

I thought you were gonna Chezei theme it

SMH my head

[fast knot]

It's the fire CS that I might Chezei theme!

Man, I still need to do BR

[rose cypress]

So many Chezei theme opportunities!!

[marsh badger]

[fast knot]

https://youtu.be/qSSQjIpjIAE?si=7DeVWU5LDxsVEFBx Volo and SS Gladion vs HP 11 Drasna @little kestrel if I'm not busy (doubt, haha) I might try stacking max HP max Strength later this week

https://youtu.be/_96s8NxCREs?si=iZfe2xt6VOUtTax_ also no one asked, but I shall deliver. I love Silver so much

[little kestrel]

Well that was over quickly wow. And that PFC was with only +1 SMUN no rebuff.

I guess Volo's fairy zones are more than enough for shorter battles

[fast knot]

For shorter battles ss gladion himself is enough lol

Don't forget the fleur canon was circle-boosted

I feel like my play was very suboptimal. I could've stacked more SMUN

[little kestrel]

Yeah could have used a couple more Fleur Cannons before Piercing FC. Mid only had -3 sp atk. So that could have been A LOT more damage.

[little kestrel]

What I meant is, even with another damage dealer, the duration of Fairy Zone should be enough to cover most fairy weak fights. The one from sync will pretty much cover the duration.

[fast knot]

For presync, yes

[fast knot]

Maybe I can use Lodge Dawn instead, but I picked SS Dawn for her SMUN capabilities

[little kestrel]

Either way, I think you'll have to go max hp max str for mid to even survive the 2 more FCs it would take to max debuff.

SS Dawn is good. Just that they don't have enough health lol for SS Gladion to fully set up PFC. Funny to think this is HP11 and dude still deletes the stage as if it's hard mode.

[fast knot]

I got Selene (2nd multi!) but i've been busy with LG, so ig no testing from me

But may I plug the selene stan who recently made a comeback #1011234431291359302

[fast knot]

new theme idea? but maybe after LG

i can ontype 4 out of 5 stages in the last week of Kalos with this roster let's go

[whole kestrel]

I'm pretty sure most of these pairs can afford to offtype too, so you're basically gucci.

[woven talon]

Is the idea only SS units?

[fast knot]

Only EXR units

[fast knot]

NOT NOW CS, I'M BUSY

I have to remember to do the fire CS AAAAAA

[crisp junco]

ikr

still have 2 fights to do

[rose cypress]

Should have just done it Sunday evening smh my head

[fast knot]

That's the ideal time to rush LG!

Best I can do is Monday night for fire CS

[rose cypress]

[marsh badger]

[fast knot]

Fire CS
I forgot how bad our fire supports roster is. I questioned my decision to monotype this.

R1 vs Grimsley: I tried with Hilda at first but her self setup is slow. So tank Ethan it is babyyy

R2 vs Glacia: This took so many resets to avoid Blizzard and Icy Wind 😭 I just had to survive 3 moves!!! But it was so hard!!

R3 vs Molayne: With the right sleep timing and reducing bulk this was easy

R4 vs Koga: Managed to almost OHKO with Red's first sync despite only at +3 attack. Thank heavens, I was ready to spam Blast Burn before crit shield.

R5 vs Challenge Red: Lol, lmao. What was Blue doing? Nothing, just moral support. He did do a 20k Hyper Beam though!

[fast knot]

This week's theme is pretty simple and fast. I used only units I've caked

[fast knot]

Top 15 favorite pairs in the LG leaderboard or at least the ones I own (the new format is making it harder to do this btw! It freezes so much ugh)

1. Irida
2. Lodge Irida
3. Variety Selene
4. Champion Leaf
5. Lodge Rosa
6. Lyra
7. Volo
8. Classic Elesa
9. Zinnia
10. SS Gladion
11. Steven
12. SS Piers
13. SS Korrina
14. Elio
15. Sawyer

Bottom 15:
15) Irida
14) Variety Selene
13) Selene
12) SC Selene
11) Lillie
10) Champion Leaf
9) Champion Red
8) Champion Blue
7) SST Red
6) Bede
5) Classic Elesa
4) SS Red
3) Variety Elio
2) SS Hilbert

1. SS Ethan

I can ontype 4 out of 5 stages in unova week 3 with the bottom 15 team (severe lack of supports though! wth!)

Anyway, quick monotype

[rose cypress]

Where’s the LG haters favourite pairs clear

[marsh badger]

[balmy abyss]

more time-consuming to get data points for that one

you have to

1. know who the LG haters are
2. ask them about favorite sync pairs individually

[rose cypress]

nov knows

[plucky depot]

[rose cypress]

[fast knot]

Yeah, my sample size of... 10 or so

[fast knot]

Overlaps with HS leaderboard

[brazen sorrel]

Bold of you to assume that any of us will hit the top of the HS leaderboard

[rose cypress]

the same people who hit the top of the LG leaderboard also hit the top of the HS leaderboard

[fast knot]

really? i would say there are a few overlaps but that's all

[rose cypress]

if you whale enough and try hard enough in the game...

[whole kestrel]

I doubt it, especially as they have a varyingly different playstyle/focus.

[fast knot]

Get out of the way CS

[fast knot]

My units who can solo Cresselia. Themed run maybe?

[marsh badger]

That 3/5 Pal Victor....

[fast knot]

3/5 EXR

i can do it next week, i can ontype 4 out of 5 stages

hmmmm this week is also possible

let's give it a shot

[fast knot]

Alright that was easy enough! 15k CSMM using units that can solo Cresselia

R1 vs Grimsley: This team barely had DPS lmao. Selene's bmove did okay damage i guess, but it was mostly a flinch game

R2 vs Shauntal: lol, lmao

R3 vs Marshal: Lyra to flinch cheese, but all the damage came from Sycamore! That Fairy Power 5 go brrrr (also under Kanto Circle so yeah)

R4 vs Caitlin: do i even need to say anything

R5 vs Alder: lol, lmao

[marsh badger]

I will do the summary:

basically the entire run is lol, lmao

[fast knot]

Quick 2v3s, monotype, no supports, the Jo theme if you will

Caitlin team was the hardest, I had to rely on evasion and good defense debuffs

[sage lagoon]

I am yet to run my CS because trying for a final push on HSE

[fast knot]

can't do monofairy, sad!

most of these fairy stages are physical so it's hard to do sycamore solo too

i've never actually done sycamore solo in CS

[whole kestrel]

eggmons:

[plucky depot]

Good, keep it that way

[fast knot]

Oh i genuinely forgot about that

[fast knot]

Oh i can not do monofairy lol

Many of my fairy damage dealers can't self buff crit and none of the supports do it well

I made my teams, will do it some time this week

[sage lagoon]

i see excusesss

If you have more than 14 fairy units, eggmon excluded, you have to do itttt

[plucky depot]

[fast knot]

I do not!

[fast knot]

Here's what I got

[sage lagoon]

you're off the hook for now

[crisp junco]

https://tenor.com/view/off-the-hook-octo-expansion-splatoon-splatoon2-pearl-gif-16846019

[eager delta]

Omg

[whole kestrel]

THE REAL OFF THE HOOK!!!! 😱

[fast knot]

Fairy CS. Couldn't monotype it, pain

Did the regular CS while I was at it

[fast knot]

Top 15 favorite pairs in HS leaderboard (or the ones I own)

1. Mix Red
2. SS Serena
3. NC Serena
4. Sonia
5. SSA Cynthia
6. SS Ethan
7. SS Gladion
8. Lisia
9. Irida
10. Fall Hilbert
11. Anni Steven
12. SSR Cynthia
13. SS Brock
14. NC Silver
15. Steven

interesting options, not a lot of supports again which is worrying

[inland nest]

Who needs supports when you can just nuke a stage

[fast knot]

Yeah at least most of the damage dealers here are self sufficient

But i'll also be busy with LG so idk if i'll actually do it

[sage lagoon]

It's kanto next, you can do it while chilling

[fast knot]

there is no chilling when LG is here

[little kestrel]

Kanto is easy mode again?

[fast knot]

Kanto is a joke

[sage lagoon]

Yes, technically the easiest of the bunch

[fast knot]

yikes

alright i can see this working

[rose cypress]

Two supports

Good luck

The best defense is a better offense

[fast knot]

well irida will handle agatha just fine without supports, same with cerena vs bruno. i can poison stall blue with mix red (or offtype him, we'll see). Sonia's going to carry steven to fight lance because he needs it, and well that leaves ssa cynthia on lorelei

ssa cynthia on lorelei would have been PERFECT but i have no one to abuse fighting zone

[rose cypress]

crit/defense buffer it is

[plucky depot]

waiting for easy regions to do themes is cheating

[fast knot]

it's not really waiting, i forgot the HS leaderboard was still up so i took note of it late and it just so happened to be kanto

[fast knot]

and i did this before taking note of the leaderboard and i was too lazy to do CS twice

[fast knot]

And I'm done! 15k CSMM with the favorite pairs from the HSE leaderboard (or at least, the ones I own). Some of them were a bit scuffed, like tanking with SSR Cynthia, but overall this was pretty easy

[marsh badger]

Sonia

[fast knot]

Electric CS done!
R1 vs Siebold: Lol, lmao

R2 vs Phoebe: Took a bit RNG to avoid strong moves but overall easy

R3 vs Aaron: Heal order? No problem, Clemont has an amazing nuke. What became a problem was the sides after that it was a dodge game

R4 vs Phoebe: Lol, lmao

R5 vs Challenge Cheren: I picked the wrong damage reduction parameter at first and wondered why Cheren was so bulky turned on the right parameters and suddenly it was a breeze

[rose cypress]

good job nov

You would totally get a high score for the electric HS rerun event

[fast knot]

[rose cypress]

[sage lagoon]

[eager delta]

I didn’t know you had SSPiers

[fast knot]

From the free tickets, yeah

[brazen sorrel]

She got quite a bit from those tickets

[eager delta]

I appeared to have missed them I only knew about Winston and myself lel

[near falcon]

yooo full electric clear

so based

[fast knot]

CS BATTLE FACTORY 2024
Guaranteed pick: Melony
Strike/Field: Noland, FREE (Noland), Giovanni (SS), Gardenia, Piers (SS), Ethan, Shauntal, FREE (Shauntal)
Support: Giovanni (Lodge), Shauna, Cynthia (Lodge), FREE (Shauna), Lillie, Rachel, FREE (Cynthia (Lodge)), Professor Sycamore
Tech/Sprint: Acerola, Leaf (SS), Olympia, Petey (Poké Kid), Gladion, Janine, Whitney, Korrina (SS)

[inland nest]

How many points do you think you could do with that

[fast knot]

i get no free techs so sst red and ss lyra are out of the question, heartbroken!

support wise i'll pick... idk, nc bede and nc blue perhaps

wow it's a good thing i just got my ss korrina to 3/5

i'll work out my strike/field freebies later

[fast knot]

over 15k should be doable, i'm not sure yet exactly how much

[fast knot]

wait i didn't have to think too long, nc silver and ss gladion it is

[fast knot]

current plan! nc silver and ss gladion for strike freebies, nc bede and redlax for support freebies

considering changing nc bede to nc blue instead so i can take on lorelei with more points but we'll see

Lorelei: SS Piers, Petey, NC Bede/NC Blue?
Bruno: SS Giovanni, Redlax, ???
Agatha: SS Korrina, ???, ???
Lance: SS Gladion, Lillie, Sycamore cause why the heck not
Blue: NC Silver, idk maybe Shauna, Whitney??? not a single johto support i hate it here maybe i should fix that

if one of these don't work (doubt), i have ss leaf, janine, lodge giovanni for a stall team that can potentially get higher points

[fast knot]

mm, you know what, i'm getting nc blue

[marsh badger]

good plan all around, getting nc blue

[sick agate]

4 free

I want 1 too

[fast knot]

yeah, but i'm not used to high points CSMM. I've never gone past 3k unless it's for battle factory

so i've never really done 3.5k with a well-built team

[marsh badger]

i can see 4k is possible for NC Blue team

[fast knot]

even with 1/5 ss piers?

i find his TM rotation awkward

[marsh badger]

wait for perma field round ig

*pray

[sick agate]

No way we have that

We already had it 2 times before this CS

I had never seen parameter appeared 3 times in a row

[marsh badger]

we had 4 weeks with half sync cd before

[sick agate]

[fast knot]

we all pray for that

[fast knot]

we sure have

[sick agate]

Just hopium we wont have half sync next week

[marsh badger]

[fast knot]

R1 vs Bruno; SS Giovanni, Redlax, Melony
R2 vs Lance: SS Gladion, Lillie, Rachel
R3 vs Lorelei: NC Blue, Petey, SS Piers
R4 vs Agatha: SS Korrina, Lodge Cynthia, Acerola
R5 vs Blue: NC Silver, Shauna, Whitney

current plan

Progress so far

VS Bruno, 4.1k points. Absolutely no gauge whatsoever, so I was too scared to add more points even tho I have Melony as a cheat code aha

VS Lance, 4.1k points. Props to Rachel for proccing Unyielding multiple times! She would have only lived 1 move otherwise, 2 at best

[fast knot]

VS Lorelei, 4.3k points. Petey did around 43k post supp EX under terrain and -2 rebuff and max multipliers. Then again this was max strength max HP

Could only do 4150 on Agatha I tried 4550 pts at first but with Max HP 8, Korrina couldn't kill Agatha before she synced

VS Blue, 4650 points. Look at this loser dying in the most anticlimactic way possible. No wonder he only became champion for 5 minutes

Total: 21.3k

[brazen sorrel]

[fast knot]

looking forward to your progress!

[marsh badger]

i wish i got better roster to join the fun

your clears are insane

[fast knot]

yeah, i'm glad i can ontype all 5 stages

last year i couldn't

[little kestrel]

[fast knot]

Thanks for reminding me, I think I'll just submit now

I'm too burnt out from LG to deal with CS

[sage lagoon]

[fast knot]

Taking a very brief break from LG to do this. The theme is I used all my EXR units

Maybe sometimes I will try to do "same EX role in each team"

[eager delta]

Wow your roster was insane

[eager delta]

What move level is your Korrina?

[fast knot]

3/5

[eager delta]

i see

I did not even know you had her

[fast knot]

I got her from the free tickets earlier this year

Then i pulled on the LG banner, got her to 3/5 in 5 multis

Plus 1 Argenta

[fast knot]

I got 4 freebies lmao

[eager delta]

insane

[eager delta]

oo i see

[marsh badger]

so you were the one taking all of my luck

[fast knot]

[fast knot]

Just tested out some of my recently upgraded units at max HP. Morty is good now so he finally gets his EX, Lucas finally gets candied to 3/5 last LG after I had him 1/5 since debut, EXR SS Ethan is so fun, and uh for electric and bug I don't really have anything new

[limpid berry]

Oh did you get SS Piers from the free anni PF tickets?

He’s single handedly breaking the full EX theme lmao

[brazen sorrel]

Cami theme

[fast knot]

Mhm

Well he does have a jukebox song key...

[frank thorn]

theme do be pretty nice too

[fast knot]

I heard we're doing duos this week!

[sage lagoon]

Jo 🤝 Nov
F2P Kris Duo

[fast knot]

kris is such a damn good unit

her powerboost is one of my faves

[fast knot]

Was using some units I haven't used in a while... Except bug. Idk why i'm too lazy to use Guzma

Ethan could NOT oneshot Molayne half sync btw! So Leaf eventually carried

[plucky depot]

having that much faith in him is the embodiment of copium

[woven talon]

I need to try out Ethan next time.

[fast knot]

He oneshots sides just fine!! Molayne just has high base HP

[woven talon]

He does.

[sage lagoon]

Tbh, I tried my initial f2p duo with Ethan. But he was not doing enough damage at all, and Metagross would nuke the stage making it sandy and everything goes wrong

[fast knot]

I tried nuke Calem for the first time!

Not so bad

[sage lagoon]

Calem Favorism is real

There is an imposter run of Johto trio

[fast knot]

[marsh badger]

Impressive but he can't compete with the top Psychic team ||Ethan Lyra Serena||

[fast knot]

So true

[fast knot]

Quick and easy monotype

I love EXR SSR Cynthia

Finally no more sides bullshit

Also having steel zone is such a privilege after years of being zoneless wipes tear

Now i just need a rock zone setter that I like

[inland nest]

Who’s tanking in the ice one

[brazen sorrel]

Probably Irida by the looks of it

[inland nest]

Oh Nov are you tank in the middle

[brazen sorrel]

She is a firm believer of it despite our best efforts to show her the truth

[frank thorn]

man i need nitro for :worrywhirl:

[brazen sorrel]

[frank thorn]

Thank you chezei

[brazen sorrel]

[fast knot]

[fast knot]

[fast knot]

Haven't tried using f2p and genpools only in a while

[rose cypress]

[little kestrel]

[fast knot]

I tried something slightly different today!

R1 vs Lucian: dodge as much as possible

R2 vs Aaron: Tried Hilbert at first but my man dies in 3 moves at BEST. So I stacked PMUN with CBede and aimed for KO denials

R3 vs Flint: Lol, lmao

R4 vs Bertha: Lol, lmao

R5 vs Cynthia: dodge as much as possible but this time it's worse because Cynthia starts with +2 accuracy whydoyouhateme

[fast knot]

Oop this got archived

[fast knot]

I finally got my lazy ass to do another themed CS clear. it'll be my usual voice actor clear, 2/5 teams done!

[fast knot]

update: round 1 and it's already annoying af

[fast knot]

none of my teams can presync half sync we are so done

[fast knot]

Update: i give up none of these teams can presync half sync (i probably can if I were any good at 3v3 sleep chain but i'm having gauge issues)

I haven't been walled by half sync in so long!

[fast knot]

Nov's 3nd installment of the voice actor clear is... quite a success? Just like before, here are the rules!

• The voice actors of the characters in each team work together in the same anime. I also try to use rather popular titles, so nothing too obscure hopefully
• I only use JP voice actors for this
• The voice actors all voice relatively popular characters in their respective anime per team, indicated by a rather high Favorite count on MyAnimeList

R1 vs Lucian: This was fucking tough. Basically eva hacks because Acerola could take 2 hits at best (picked half HP because ofc I did). Lucian can't use EQ at all because Victor will die. Morty had to do a side denial first sync because natural quadqueue is interrupted. Good thing he's good now!
Hint: ||A very popular shounen series, the anime first aired in 2013 and recently ended, with amazing animation and music from start to finish, even with the studio change. Sadly the main character of this anime is still in NPC jail... This title should be popular enough even to normies||

R2 vs Aaron: it's been so long since I got walled by half sync countdown so this has no theme, just mass destruction because no team of mine could comfortably presync and postsyncing is also tough considering my limitations. The initial plan was to use SS Hilbert, Pal Victor, and Lodge N to sleepchain, but I ran into gauge problems.
Hint if anyone wants to guess the drafted team anyway: ||A shounen fantasy series first aired in 2017. Imma be real I haven't watched it so I don't know much about it other than it has a catchy opening.||

R3 vs Flint: Well not much to comment on this, it's pretty easy once I don't do this half sync
Hint: ||Another fantasy shounen! The anime first aired in 2009 and a new season is coming up. Basically the moral of this anime is the power of friendship prevails. Also, the author of the series is painfully obvious in reusing his character designs for his other series lmao||

R4 vs Bertha: Again, very easy once I don't do this half sync.
Hint: ||You know one of the big 3 shounen anime? Yes that, but not quite, this is still related to that though. the VAs of Brendan and Calem are regularly appearing characters in the anime, but Raihan's VA isn't, so it's slightly cheating ||

R5 vs Cynthia: Lol, lmao
Hint: ||Fantasy anime set in a high school where they basically exorcise demons. First aired in 2011||

[marsh badger]

Anime

I don't think i can get any hint

[past basalt]

ooh this is fun

[rose cypress]

I don’t even know JP VAs

[fast knot]

Ask anything about any round, i'll try to answer with a yes, no, or maybe

Idk i'm bored

[rose cypress]

That’s me with this game these days

[crisp junco]

Datamine tomorrow

We wont be bored

[fast knot]

I'm not too excited after what I've seen today ngl!

[rose cypress]

Yeah I will try not to complain in all your clears threads

lol

[fast knot]

I candied SC Selene to 3/5 recently, great investment

Was kind of worried level <100 Steven couldn't take too many hits from a full offense Bertha (he took maybe 3 hits before endurance broke lmao) but the battle ended so early and Steven also did pretty good damage with bmove

[plucky depot]

those damn ground moves do be hitting harder than they should yeah

if they hit that is

[fast knot]

The arc trio, nothing to see here

[sick agate]

Uhmmmm, i ….. have some questions about their level and maybe that sus Arc Cynthia

[fast knot]

i've just been levelling them up via skip tickets

that cynthia has a garchomp, has a white outfit, can use earthquake, i don't see what's wrong

[plucky depot]

that's a new level of stingy

[glass pivot]

Finally a person of culture

[brazen sorrel]

🤝

[balmy abyss]

I used to do that actually back before I had a good few tens-of-thousands manuals

[fast knot]

tbf it also allows me to work on their Fan titles!

if I don't need to use them for serious content immediately, i let them level up naturally

serious content: LG, HSE, maybe late areas in BR

[rose cypress]

it's called efficiency Odin. I am the same as nov

[plucky depot]

meanwhile you people have thousands of xp books rotting, sure, let's be efficient

[rose cypress]

[frank thorn]

the most efficient i get with levelling up units is limiting myself to one per day for the task

[fast knot]

i don't even do it for the task!

[fast knot]

No support duos are getting easier and easier. Glacia was the hardest because I had to avoid any AOEs. Sidney just needed to reset to avoid Close Combat. The rest were simple stun locks

[little kestrel]

I love how Silver is always part of your duos. Can't wait to get his PB. Awesome clear, Nov!

[fast knot]

he's my favorite character (no matter how much i brand myself as a Kantrio fan) so ofc

i should really try a duo with my 5/5 SS Red but I just enjoy Silver a tad too much

[little kestrel]

I respect that. Favs over all!

[sage lagoon]

Silver ssred duo when

[fast knot]

On... Glacia?

And her stupid +2 accuracy?

[fast knot]

Another no support duos featuring a few more Silvers

R1 vs Glacia: Needed to avoid some hard hitting moves but otherwise easy

R2 vs Drake: Kukui is disappointing. Next!

R3 vs Sidney: This run was SHIT! Silver's TM only gives him +2 eva (shifty striker 4 isn't reliable in fast battles) and Sidney starts with +1 accuracy. I had to get lucky with SS Ethan's sync accel and Silver needed to dodge at least 1 move (he didn't) or the opponents used a few TMs. Do not replicate. But hey at least I put Silver and Ethan together yippee

R4 vs Phoebe: I tried with Lucian instead of Korrina at first, but it was too RNG heavy because Phoebe hit too hard. Switching to Korrina made me win first try. Get +3 stats on entry, steal Phoebe's stats, end up at max defenses, tank all the moves, win

R5 vs Wallace: Sometimes I get bored and tired of LuSSamine but then I remember again why she's the cornerstone in all my psychic-weak battles. If she still works I don't need to get an upgrade

[crisp junco]

where lodge silver

where og silver

smh

[fast knot]

OG Silver was last week!

I should have used SS Silver last week as well

As for Lodge Silver. I might run him as a flinch bot alongside Kris when we get a water weak stage, idk

[crisp junco]

All Silver CS when

[fast knot]

[fast knot]

I'm gonna try monotyping the steel CS

[crisp junco]

Smh no Lear

[fast knot]

i don't like him

[crisp junco]

He's the funniest unit this month

[fast knot]

He's the true anni unit for sure but

[sage lagoon]

What's with the mono steel trend

[crisp junco]

Steel CS in 2 days

[plucky depot]

it's the noob strat instead of just off typing and avoiding the suffering

[crisp junco]

Full on type monotype is actually not that easy on some types

For Ice I had to do a duo or two

[plucky depot]

yeah, sometimes you have nothing but shit so making it work is just...

but I do not care about silly challenges like these so what do I know?

[sage lagoon]

Here is me going for mono steel type 2v3

[fast knot]

agreed, I started full ontype monotype during psychic CS I think

which had me running a team of Tate/Liza/Lodge N and ran N at +2 crit

my ice roster is a lot better now, ice CS please come back so I can ontype monotype you

[fast knot]

Was looking through my ontype monotype CS clears. The hell was I doing vs Grimsley back then?

[frank thorn]

I think I see the vision

Irida has decent flinch, Nineties has Sun, and then Ethan is your dps

[fast knot]

And i tanked with... Ethan?

Past Nov was willing to play dodge games I see

(present Nov still is)

[frank thorn]

I wouldve thought ninetales but idk

[plucky depot]

you are a gauntlet maniac, why are you questioning your own decisions? smh

[fast knot]

Thanks for the affirmation man was I insane!

[plucky depot]

~~that was not a compliment ~~

[fast knot]

Steel CS
There we go, outside of Glacia being an ass to the point that I had to flinch almost everything, this was easy!

[fast knot]

everyone's doing steel-only duos, it's giving me FOMO

[plucky depot]

be original, do solos

[crisp junco]

glacia is free if you use strike perserker

[fast knot]

jeez, i used the wrong perrserker?

[plucky depot]

oof, I did not notice that lol

it was certainly a choice

[fast knot]

tbf BP Rose was just for screech and extra flinches

he has infliction freebie so he was practically gaugeless

lifesaver

[crisp junco]

strike perrserker has steel beam

so really glacia becomes quite free

you kinda need to go for hyper offensive parameters tho, he's still weak (especially since there's basically no one steel type wise to set it up)

[sage lagoon]

Mael is inviting you to make your pokemons kill themselves

[plucky depot]

only if you don't have a 3 passive one

[fast knot]

Too tired to do more duos today, here's overkill

[fast knot]

I haven't done this in a while
Top 15 favorite units in the HSE leaderboard (or the ones I own)

1. NC Serena
2. SS Lyra
3. SS Ethan
4. Rei
5. Lisia
6. Irida
7. Arven
8. Fall Hilbert
9. Hilbert
10. SS Hilbert
11. SS Leaf
12. NC Leaf
13. Leaf
14. Mix Red
15. SS Brendan

Bottom 15
15) Victor
14) Anni N
13) Champion Serena
12) NC Blue
11) Arc Steven
10) SST Red
9) SS Lyra
8) Nate
7) SS Ethan
6) Korrina
5) Rei
4) Hugh
3) Arc Lance
2) SSA Cynthia

1. Mix Red

I miss doing this stupid theme

[fast knot]

So I've been doing the daily pull simulator and decided to tackle CSMM with the first 15 limiteds I pull (and happen to own)

and, 40+ limiteds and 650 years later, I finally have a full roster of 15

1. SS Silver
2. Victor (x2)
3. Red
4. Variety Lyra
5. Irida
6. NC Calem
7. NC Nate (x2)
8. Variety Selene
9. Argenta
10. SST Red
11. Rei
12. Raihan
13. NC Silver
14. Summer N
15. SS Brendan

the x2 just indicates I pulled them twice

[crisp junco]

lol 650 years to pull for dups

[rose cypress]

that's a cool theme ngl

[fast knot]

It's been a while, the leaderboard theme is finally back! Clearing 15k CSMM with the top 15 favorite pairs from the HSE leaderboard (or at least the ones I own!)
R1 vs Drake: Half sync made this pretty tight but it didn't take too long. 3/5 Irida does wonders

R2 vs Glacia: I initially tried doing this R1 at first but it was too annoying. Switching to a non-half sync round fixed the problem

R3 vs Phoebe: I forgot how hard Phoebe hits with her Furious Brain but otherwise this was easy

R4 vs Sidney: Lol lmao

R5 vs Wallace: I haven't stalled in a while, I love seeing Wallace die to 48k bad poison

[fast knot]

I'll do this next week perhaps

[glass pivot]

This is a lot of not dragon not ground

[fast knot]

it's the favorite pairs of the top rankers. you can't actually see the teams used by the people in the leaderboard

[sage lagoon]

[fast knot]

And we're done! 15k CSMM with the limiteds I "pulled" from the daily scout simulator

[past basalt]

[sage lagoon]

Someone's simulator is busted

[glass pivot]

What was this a markov run of 1 million simulations???

i may be undercounting

[fast knot]

just know that it took me 650 years to get 15 limiteds I own

[glass pivot]

How long until you hit 15 limiteds total?

[fast knot]

650 years

I don't know how long it took me to roll though. more than an hour of checking the page on and off while i did other things

[fast knot]

Wdym i haven't posted in this thread in a month

[little kestrel]

[fast knot]

I've been heavily neglecting this thread because I've just been doing CS very casually

Like I want to do themed clears but there are things I want to do much more than play the game

[rose cypress]

Ah you’re into that stage of the game too huh

You don’t even get your LG next month

[sage lagoon]

No LG is crazy I have like 5 deluxe cookies

[eager delta]

Same (not your thread but mine)

[rose cypress]

in b4 i do the same thing with chez as i do with you and nov

[fast knot]

I don't mind that much because I'll be very busy this month

So even if we get LG i wouldn't be able to tryhard it

Anyway to make this thread alive, here's a quick boring monotype

I do my CS every week I promise! I just don't take screenshots because they're uninteresting lol

[fast knot]

After the woke passives I became jaded with this game

[rose cypress]

can't even join chez and i and doing them last min smh

[rose cypress]

i've been jaded for months, the community like y'all keeping me around. but the ingo/emmet ebe stuff were interesting for me ngl

[fast knot]

oh right... the ingo/emmet EBE

i haven't done the last two

[fast knot]

New theme idea

In (dis)honor of the Submas EBE leaving today, I'm gonna build teams that meet the theme skill requirements of the missions (or as many as possible at least)

...now before i make a fool of myself by jotting it down one by one, i'm gonna see if the pastebin has all missions compiled

Part 1 (so I'll do it for this week's CS)
Sinnoh, Unova, Gym Leader, Battle Facility Foe, Sygna Suit, Artistic, Battle Partner

remind me to do this every week instead of overkilling

Part 2
Unova, Galar, Gym Leader, Battle Facility Foe, Sygna Suit, Battle Partner, Grown Woman

Part 3
Johto, Alola, Paldea, Gym Leader, Trial Giver, Body Builder, Passionate Spirit

Part 4
Sinnoh, Gym Leader, Main Character, Scarf, Knowledgeable, Nature Lover, Contest Lover

Part 5
Unova, Kalos, Villain, Battle Facility Foe, Cape, Sygna Suit, Knowledgeable

Part 6
Kanto, Unova, Kalos, Gym Leader, Elite Four, Battle Facility Foe, Knowledgeable

Final Part, Challenge Ingo and Emmet
Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, Champion, Main Character, Villain, Sygna Suit

there, hopefully this keeps me occupied for the next month

[eager delta]

I would sob

[marsh badger]

that's a good way to maintain your CSMM themed streak

[fast knot]

It sure is! Hopefully this piques my interest in this game again

[fast knot]

This is how I learned Courtney was a Battle Partner
<- never played ORAS

[marsh badger]

i played ORAS and i still don't remember when and how she was a battle partner

[frank thorn]

it's probably counting the times she double battles against you

she has one when you get the lati and one in the delta episode iirc

[fast knot]

so never in main story?

[frank thorn]

No, the lati is main story

You go to the island with Steven after beating gym 5, Courtney and a Grunt meet you there, you and Steven beat the two of them, then you get your free lati

[fast knot]

oooh

[fast knot]

I haven't used Bea in a good while

[fast knot]

Oh look a challenge that prevents me from using sst red

[brazen sorrel]

Why is Lillie not EXed smh

[rose cypress]

nov wanted to channel their inner aurochs

[plucky depot]

what's next? pulling a character to beat a battle instead of just investing in an EX?

[rose cypress]

I’m in that sentence and I don’t like it!

[fast knot]

she's disappointing

[fast knot]

Calem nuke no way!

Right on time too, my Calem is finally 5/5

[little kestrel]

How many Dark Zones do you want?

Nov: Yes

[fast knot]

didn't even need it tbh, the first sync oneshots

[fast knot]

Monotyping this was actually pretty hard!
R1 vs Karen: Guess what Kabutops is that. Guess. ||i forgot to switch it to tech Kabutops and was too lazy to change back so I just let Olivia sync without sand ||

R2 vs Kahili: This was rough. Had to deny left with Nemona's sync, kill mid on 2nd sync, then pray your quadqueued stone edge hits and kills right. If not, pray for a flinch. Nemona refused to crit her sync thrice in a row.

R3 vs Drake: This was easy, fortunately

R4 vs Malva: 1 sync and 1 rock slide did the trick! Olivia and Brock didn't have to do anything!

R5 vs Blue: Thank you permanent field effects, otherwise all the circles and zone would start blinking after 10 seconds

[fast knot]

I finally EX'd Kukui. That's how little faith I had in him

[frank thorn]

You get a song key out of it at least

[glass pivot]

I believe in Kukui

[fast knot]

his only saving grace

[sage lagoon]

I still haven't EX'd him and that tells you a lot

[fast knot]

Nov doing CS early in the week tells you she's on a break from uni

Blue missed almost all his Hyper Beams, I'm so proud of him

[fast knot]

And we're done! 7 weeks of using pairs that meet the theme skill requirements of the godforsaken Submas EBEs

[fast knot]

Oops. This was the theme

[glass pivot]

Now do it again!

[fast knot]

i do need a theme to make CS interesting...

[fast knot]

Definitely could've solo'd all of them but I was too lazy to figure out parameters

Though I did have to adjust parameters for Leaf. The things I do for her.

[glass pivot]

Ooh helpful template

[fast knot]

Nothing special aside from how I tried nuke Volo today, now that he's 3/5

His "nuke", if you could call it that, is uh... Unimpressive

I wish fields got an innate multiplier

[fast knot]

Reviving this just to say

NC Brendan is pretty fun

[fast knot]

Max HP this week

I should NOT have underestimated Florian's b move damage

[fast knot]

Have we had an Electric CS yet? I'm sure we have

[frank thorn]

Yeah, we had it the same month Cheren dropped iirc

[fast knot]

After almost 3 months I'm back with something remotely fun, which is: Nov Clicks the Optimize Button for the First Time!

This reminds me SS N is just so annoying to use.

says the 3/5 EXR SS N haver

[plucky depot]

true fans are the biggest haters /hj

[fast knot]

You're RIGHT

[sage lagoon]

Ayo you get it
I have been doing this since February! With an extra twist. I use a universal paraneter, I never change the parameters no matter what the stage is. (I have given up on wtz COMPLETELY since February lol)

Although now with the level 200 cap thing this is kinda controllable, i kinda can just level up the units i wanna see the most? Which means my streak is probably coming to an end soon?
But hey it's a funny challenge tbh

[fast knot]

Ohhh you're right. I haven't leveled up anyone yet

Forgot to send this but I did the Fighting CS This was pretty tricky, I only had 13 non-eggmons. 13! And only 4 supports!
R1 vs Hala: I had to reset for a good move rotation, otherwise Marshal died too early.

R2 vs Wikstrom: Had to reset to avoid Flash Canon, otherwise fine. I did EX both Korrinas for this just in case, because I don't trust OG Korrina's damage

R3 vs Glacia: Maylene went down super easily but Bea cleared the stage first try anyway

R4 vs Lorelei: lol, lmao

R5 vs Challenge Silver: I was expecting more of a... Yknow. Challenge

[fast knot]

I forgot to do special CS

[rose cypress]

same

I completely forgot multiple events in october..

[fast knot]

Went in blind

[rose cypress]

Couldn’t even do a monotype per round clear smh (thanks for reminder I did it 3 times to unlock and play master mode)

[fast knot]

haven't done monotype in a long while ngl

[fast knot]

Fairy CS
I EX'd way too many pairs for this.

R1 vs Sidney: Bro this took so many tries. This sucked so bad. I had to reset to avoid hard-hitting moves, and Volo refused to crit his sync no matter what
R2 vs Hala: I brought a cheat code named "hypnosis"
R3 vs Bruno: This was also hell... I eventually caved and EX'd Burgh for more bulk. Sadly he's 1/5 because I got him from a random happy scout, so he's kinda pathetic. It was a very narrow win.
R4 vs Drasna: In the previous 3 rounds I had to go full offense because I didn't believe in their nuke capabilities, but this time I went full HP. Bede has never let me down.
R5 vs Challenge Nate: By this point I was out of bulky fairy supports lol. Luckily my Academy Kris grid has Sing, otherwise she would've folded to a Scale Shot. And who made Nate have that "no negative status change" damage reduction bruhhh

SS Gladion really carried my fairy roster. What would I do without him