#Trainer Lodge
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ah
someone recommended I go for two lots of full chest and colour of the unit im going for (cynthia)
so im trying that
4*support?
Wailmer yes
There are hardly many 4* support candies so... be aware.
How did you make ss leaf become +3? My SS leaf always 0-1
remove +2 from Team A? Team A is the one w ghetsis currently on
Read Leaf's expedition skill.
Yeah ik
In team B you have 3 +3 chest + the omni boost that gives +1 + the native boost from team B that gives +1, which is +11
So you can replace one +3 chest by a +2 to have +10 (not ghetsis btw, I was wrong, any other will work tho), put that +3 in your team A and remove one of the +2 from team A
Ahhhh I understand now
Well look as of right now with cheer active this is the layout
In team B you'll have a +2 + LuSSamine + Masked Royal which is +8, with omni boost and native bonus you're at +10
In team A you'll have SS Gio which is +3, 3 other +2 which is +9 and with the omni boost you reach +10
yeah like that
so omni boost + cheer for now is working
nah I didnt change w ur recommendation yet
will do after cheer wears off
yeah not going to but when its active I might as well take advantage
free omni boost u can stack on top of
Probably should mention why the villa is good for Silver, just in case someone asks
Otherwise that's good 
Makes sense
Certain locations have unique dialogue
It's literally mentioned in game
is there a best place for cynthia
500 what?
and how does it affect things
ong
500 lodge stones
Silver -> Battle Villa
EVERYONE ELSE -> Stay at the lodge
Candy seems much more worth it
damn so going outside the lodge hurts ur chances???
500 lodge stones is 
I just been clicking random
Locations have some topics exclusive to them. For example, you can only talk about Pasio and the Trainer Lodge at the trainer lodge, you can only talk about ocean at the beach etc etc...
pin this imo because i deadass was just doing random 💀
Same
First, Silver isn't good at the lodge because he's not super interested in pasio and the lodge (only +7 points instead of +10)
OK more interested in the everyone section tbh
Since that is way more common than silver ngl
Then the only 2 locations where Silver gets a +10 are the Battle Villa and the "Festive Town" (idk what it is tho lol), which respectively have Partner Pokemon and Quiet Place which Silver is both interested in. What makes the villa better is that the 2nd exclusive topic they have is the PML in the villa and
in the town, and the PML is +7 points while the grass is only +5
Is everyone else +10 w pasio n lodge
Yes
"it's not just a phase dad"
yes
Rip
Oh its not like that?
not like it matters, except for silver
Ie I unlocked all location for 1 person
Well it matters for ppl wanting to start silver
So silver has to go 2nd
No you have to unlock locations for everyone
If you unlock for one you don't unlock for all
Just unlucky for him ig
OK then is there a 2nd location for him then
But it's doesn't matter a lot tbh, it's just you don't have 1 of the many super exciting topics from silver
Iirc battle villa is quite deep in alr
The 2nd best in the festive town
tho idk which location eevee refers to when saying "festive town"
I mean I made it as far as I did running rando on Silver anyways lol
Just gonna wrap up the last of it with Battle Villa I guess.
Lodge stones should only be used to collect certificates right?
Depends if you want to get dupes for the lodge sync pairs
What do you mean?
upgrading them to 2/5 or 3/5
Oh I see
without candying them
I can’t see how many it takes to unlock one
500 lodge stones
How many do we need also where do we even get these from
Does one unit give us enough to even max them out or are we forced to eventually candy them
Also what star level are they
All 5*?
Without using any stones
I mean I'm willing to spend at least the 1500 for 3/5.
U get 1k lodge stones just by getting the unit in the first place
4*
Oh that’s not bad then. Well too bad at least
It's only 1000 for 3/5
Since you get the 1st one for free
So only if you want to 5/5 them. But then the problem is do we even get enough stones to unlock caps?
But tbh if it's not support
If we use all of our stones for 3/5
U mean the certs?
Yeah
Oh so you get 1k from just 100 and then 150 gives you even more
I think that's the festive town Eevee is talking about, and it's the 2nd location you unlock, so it's not that bad for Silver
Pretty sure as long as u don't use lodge stone for anything
U alr get 1k lodge stones just getting the unit in the 1st place
Wait does location matter?
Apparently?
Scroll uo
Just go to default location for anyone but Silver, Silver go to Battle villa.
Has to do with options presented.
Yeah. So is that just for silver or does that apply to anyone
So it does look like with 10 stones per level you should reach 1000 if you don't spend any, which is 3/5.
Yeah I’ve just been using the last unlocked one
Apparently most units like default location extra options, SIlver just doesn't care.
Can you hit max vibes more than once?
He does like the Battle Villa one tho..
no
Thought so, thanks.
By default location, which one is that? The random button?
Trainer lodge
No, lodge
Ah ok.
U know its correct if you don't go outside
I am allergic to touching grass so that tracks.
Tldr pokemon want us to be shut ins
~_~ my faq that I just updated
guess I'll make it more clear
Bug Types topic appears in Forest
Adventure topic appears in the one with the path thing through a garden
Anyone know the "canon" names of the locations lol, some of them look similar
Best place for cynthia is ruin?
Also, since each places has different areas, not sure if that affects the hot topic
Lodge apparently
I think there are at least 2 different instances for each places except lodge
Not counting the daytime and nighttime difference
Oh I wanted to ask about Interaction scoring.
Are Exiciting/Interesting Hot Topics > Super Exciting non-Hot Topics for the score?
Or are Super Exciting Topics always worth more.
I prefer keep longer conversations
Than higher score topic imo
Was wondering, are you all running 2 cache too?
Nope
It feels like everything but the bottom material is greater value from the caches.
10/10/0/0
should tho
0/0/10/10
I run double 10 Cashe since day one, not a single "oh running out of this" mat yet
Think of the interaction like Jenga. That easier to remove brick might still crumble the stack. By theory, you get to have more odds to continue picking hot topics, but if the rng wants you to get dropped at 95%, you get dropped at 95%
Does selecting less exciting but HOT topics reduce the attention % drop or something compared to just Super Exciting Topics?
i had 0/10/10/0 and 0/0/10/10 and it generated a surplus of blue mats unless I wanted to spam gold gifts
Eversince i swap back to run 1 cache i run into material issue again
Hot topic less attention drop
I think nobody really checked ?
But less score
back then i stock to 18 silver gift now it go down
It's basically risk reward
The drop is by half if you pick hot topics, so yeah, it's somewhat significant
Depending on preference
yes, it's still halved
oh
and it adds permanent +1 to the bonus
but remember, you are still rolling a dice more times
Okay I want to add this to the pinned comment, because I want it to be comprehensive.
half attention drop for the cost of getting less affection
tbh only worth it if the hot topic is a 8 point / 10 pointer
Tldr is player preference imo
taking silver hot topics at the start is good, but rng since you dont want to trigger the vibes too fast
So Super Exciting Topics are worth more points but reduce attention more.
Whereas Hot Topics (but less exciting) are worth less points but halve attention loss.
Great! 
"That's a fun hot topic, but I gotta go (Attention at 95%)"
He's a edgy introvert what did you expect from him
forgot to post 14 levels with silver today ☺️
Someone got quit after maxvibe
You should be happy he even stayed at 100%
isn't that 13?
Possible if you initiate it from 3rd topic onward
yeah the suffering
nice
i might be able to get to 100 by next weekend if i keep getting 7-10 level ups per day
This is the revised FAQ pin:
#1012298913279127582 message
That I’m looking for feedback on.
a question, leveling up characters doesn't get harder&harder per level when leveling up right ?
nope
ye
wait does it? 😳
Another day, another interaction that ends early
ye it's right, no it doesn't
has anyone actually gotten a lodge pair yet?
me 
iirc i saw someone on reddit who got N
Good job
Yoooo based
aight thanks
They pat the N
now who did you choose 🤓
I'll go cynthia next
idk who i’ll do after silver, maybe Sycamore or Blue
I'm at 57 now so it's gonna take me a week to get Cynthia
if you do it for the unit you get at the end don't do sycamore
if you do it for the character then sure
ye
rip
Isn't Marnie the worst?
yes 
lol
marnie really be a goodwill looker
They gave a gacha unit the worst lodge pair
Marketing at its finest
i want gastrodon but no regular cynthia😮💨
F
Cynthia ended our interaction at 5
Couldn't gift or get max vibes wtf
I had no juice either
Gastrodon is arguably the best one (it's not but someone could argue)
Yeah I went for Blue first, cause hearing Billy Kametz daily. 
Next for me will be Cynthia.
Both are the supports.
Billy 
Sages 🤝 Me
Going for Blue then Cynthia
Yeah I wanna see a sleep showcase with Sigilyph.
Don't need to be useful when ur popular
Skimmed through it. Looks good enough for me 
next time restart if you don't get vibe
Sigilyph is a bit better than ramos because of enduring effect
as well as on a roll 4
Frick i forgot the pins

We get 10 restarts
10? I didn’t think it was limited
It's not tho ?
Don't even think it's an intended mechanic, so it would be weird for it to be limited
Where do you post an interaction flex? Here or #gacha-and-flex ?
here
Either
god
Some people did better but still proud of this one
definitely a good run especially 6x
10 max interactions, there's no soft reset limits
There is no limit to resetting
NONE
Wait huh?
You can only store up to 10 Interactions at once
oh
it's not 10 everyday lol
No
You can stack interctions by 3 each day like stamina
Still no sense in doing this
I heard that you cannot gain the daily 3 if your stock is over 3
Keeping >3 means missing out on the daily refresh
So you have to buy the subsequent interactions to get to 10. Sounds dumb
Yeah the daily 3 is just "if < 3 make it 3"
I'd rather just stick with 6
"You want to skip the game for days to stock up? Think again" - DeNA, probably
Exactly like stamina
It won't refill
Maybe the limit is for future purpose
I can see interaction bundle coming 

Buy your friendship bundle "Get 50% more from your interaction"
crazy people will pay to get a character to 999999999 love Friendship level ...
If it's perma I'll get it lol
But if it's temp like the egg pass
Then well, pass
only perma thing was extra egg incubator and space ... then all other things are temp
Me : (Got the deal for karp. 0 shiny)
Also me : (Refused to get the deal for tyrogue. 2 shiny)

Yeah time limited= 💰
I bought the perma incubator and egg space, 0 shinies
Nah, I mean the half period deal

Egg deals are traps. Rng is cruel
Yeah, I got too much shinies from the common pool
Renact : Rng is always cruel. Just look at this channel 
Or LG. Oh boy, I wonder what the first flamethrower does to my tank? Guess what, another burn
The entei pain 
Get your butt ready for Hostile Environment 10 (hidden) Poison Jab
Cobalion eh?
Good thing none of Azelf moves have some sort of RNG 
Azelf burning the tank is common too. And it packs a punch with each move 
What are they feeding these pixies?
Actually, only with two
Also uxie was a pain in the ass with its freeze
In one run my tank got frozen,flinched and paralyzed
Still won but I was... huhhh
So has anyone figured whether each trainer has a preferred place? (I'm interested in May's, if so)
Lodge is a safe bet
Everyone in lodge except silver
Silver "I'm not here to make friends" Giovanni
Wait i thought place did not matter?
The guide in the help channel should be updated
It's not only for the background
True!
Shouldn't location/topic message be pinned as well? I don't see it there
Doesn't really matter to know everything if you know the best
Eh, it's info, may be useful later on.
It's this message
ye
Oh, DeNA!
Lodge is also easier to reset because less loading time
Cynthia got ruins in the ruins. I'm on that
Cynthia only has ruins in the ruins tho
i used ruins today and she left me early so that's probably a skill issue
She doesn't like Rock types though
Full list may be helpful if you're trying to reset for a specific hot topic perhaps
I think the more pressing thing is to figure out what hot topic to reset to, since each pairs has their own of preference. Marnie for example have 5 10-pointers and 2 5-pointers under Fashion
Her Friend topic only have 3 10-pointers 
Lately I go wild, getting bored of resetting to get Places and then Cynthia leave at 91%
Guess she got bored too 
I'm not alone woo
Everyday I'm talking only to her. I even removed everyone else from the lodge lobby 
At least let them hang out
Did u use candy or Lodge stone for your new unit
Ah
and I need to candy the bp ones too
Who did unlock today?
Candy, I've too many 4* candies
blue
Damn, that literally pulled 3 possible topics out of the pool 
The most I had is 2 topics, so that's brutal
How are u building exeggutor? Are u taking pep rally
Reset time
I build something like that
Ooh okay
Or that
Yeah it's useless 
No, it does more damage than stomp
woooooooh damage out of a 137 attack stat woooooooh
And it can hit grass weak pokemon
Some of them have good dps, but not exeggutor
that's about the only reason to click seed bomb with him
I think I found a new tip
If you use boost juice. It is better to not hit your hot topic on the first day. The first day selecting topic you dont lose any attention. You also dont lose any attention when getting max vibes
Yeah that's the meta
me when I don't follow the meta and still get stupidly good scores
Not dumb
You're clearly paying attention to the game
Unlike many other players

But since it is meta, and it took me a week to figure it out
You're alone, we're a hundred or so
A lot of us no-lifed on this channel the past week 
So you must have 3 trainers at 100 by now lol
nah
the most advanced players are getting their first one today
Maybe the most lucky players got their yesterday
Are there prizes after lev 100?
I'll have Rosa to Lv100 tomorrow
only lodge stones
10 stones per level
Lodge stone if you increase the level cap
don't go for after 100 it's not worth
That sucks
Yeah once youve got everyone to 100 it would become a bit dull
Your fave character becomes a real boy/girl
Yaaa
So basically lodge ends after we sync all pairs...so like 3-6 months from now
When you have everyone at 100 you farm marnie
If you don't have marnie you farm may
Closer to like 2 months actually lol
Think it’s easier to farm a red unit at least for now
2 months? I still don't have a 100 on a unit guys halp
Why marnie?
You can do double red double chests but it shouldn’t be possible for the other types
It's not about simping or whatever btw, it's just marnie has the most super exciting topics so it's easier to get better scores, and may is the 2nd one
So May next gotchu
Halp
suuuuuuuure
Halp us alll
Sorry cant halp at all
Neither did I lol
I don't have marnie
how could I simp on her
Slight regret
10 days - 2 weeks to max a lv100 so we'll be done in 3-4 months. they better add more soon
Im going to rotate my next based on their stone color. Since Im only using blue now, next will be one of the other colors. My last one will be the remaining color
Not knowing someone on a close personal level hasn't stopped people from simping for certain individuals 
Many gold gifts
Watch them make it harder to get to level 100 in next update 

I will find you
No, don't find me
And I will have a chat with you
@gloomy bluff
speaking of hundos
And Dena
I got super unlucky and got kicked on the 6th intersction today
will be at 100 tomorrow
To decrease attention loss right ? Right ??
We gonna plow some grounds? 
Someone will be losing attention alright
😂😂😂😂
You wanna see a disappearing trick?
Yes yes!

What time zone?
Shhh that's the good part
Yes 


50 drop in 1 day 
WHAT
I'll believe it when I see it
With my own eyes
In my own account
I won't fall for Caitlin again
always go for chest
*cache
Chest the best
Best chest
cachest
This is why I'm thinking of just forgetting about the Lodge sync pairs and just dedicating my Lodge to farming 5star tickets lmao
I saw an infographic that said with two Level 10 chests you can get basically a five star ticket every 10 days
Or never, rng babyyyyy
On avg 😔
expected avg: 
actual results: 
When Cynthia keeps dropping convo before 70% for days
Ended up with three gold gifts built up and finally managed to hand them off
um with that logic i should be getting a master guranteed in 10 multis but i STILL gotta go to pity for ass ketchup 🤓
My other 3 interacts today were decidedly closer to normal
Feeling good about my method so far
i had both tickets and 5* pu so far, and 4*
i still need some 5* pu luck
teams with 2 chests + 2 omni and occassional cheering will give you pretty much everything you need, unless rng keeps skipping that one material
I went from 78 to 89 today. So I might get it tomorrow
10ish levels per day is very manageable
I can only get 1 or 2 per day
Sounds like you could use some adjustments to your method
Definitely
I just do it
But how is that even possible? Are you not buying the 3 extra interactions?
50-70 can be guaranteed for a bare minimum run, for 3 levels in a day if your luck was abysmal
Nope
And possibly not using items
idk what you're saving stones for
Without items it should still be a lot more than 1 or 2, so it’s definitely the not-buying-extra-interactions
I just do the interactions
Nah, lacking items means lacking Max Vibes and the topics to trigger them with, and not even knowing which topic is Hot
Ok yeah maybe not a lot more but still more I would say
Items are such a huge difference for how cheap they are. It's like trying to win a battle without using buffs
anyone got to level 100 and capped, could confirm if we can get something from still interacting or not?
I just really don't know how to interact properly
I want to be sure Interacting is still even available (for the daily quest) even if it gives nothing at cap
Should I focus on one material for the unit I'm mainly interacting with or should I balance out all the materials?
i focused on the material, but in the end had too much of it
after having a bit of surplus and seeing im going to hit lvl 100 before using it up just swapped to farming mat for the next unit and 2 chests
I really need some help figuring out this content
Also, balancing your expedition levels is a trap
Is that right? Hmmmmm
0/0/0/10 gives more gold crystals of each color than 7/7/7/0 and is way easier to manage, for example
I still only have 4 slots
Each additional level is worth more than the previous even within the same tier
So focus on getting one or two levels to 10 per team, using Extracts if needed
10 constantly vs 10 only with a cheer can be felt too if you redeem the materials only once per day
I have team A with fiery and soothing and team B with wistful and cache chests
Right now, team A is 8/9/1/1 with cheer and +2 to soothing and team B is 2/2/9/7 with cheer and omni
That is a good start
I mean, it doesn't cost anything to do both
With 4 slots?
It means with more slots, you can get them to 10
Later, I'm gonna focus on soothing for May
I don't have Marnie, and she's one of only two guests who uses Yellow crystals
So I just don't even have a yellow(soothing) crystal team
The yellow income will build up from rare cache drops while I'm working on the other seven guests
Or should I still try to balance it to get the 6 slots?
I have 2 red/chest teams and they will stay like that as long as I'm farming red characters
Not balance. Cycle.
Cycle?
One thing you can do is each team doing one color plus Rare Cache each day, and swap colors daily
Until you have all the slots
What's the difference between balancing the materials and cycling it?
When my current extracts expire, I'm thinking I'll adjust my teams to both have 10/0/0/10 for a while, since there are more Fiery users than other kinds
Having Lv10 for half a day is better than having Lv8 all day
That is how important the last few levels are
Second pin has a series of infographs
The first of these infographs gives the avg daily yield of each color at each level
You can see that Lv10 gives more than twice as many golds as Lv8
You reeeaaally want to reach Lv10 on at least one color
So I should get level 10 soothing and level 10 rare caches?
Before you commit to that, we need to find out
- do you have Marnie
- is May and/or Marnie a favorite
I don't have Marnie, Cynthia and N and yeah, May is kinda my favorite
Six guests, one of which is yellow... I'm still a little reluctant to recommend focusing yellow simply because the ratio is so lopsided. But you can do something like
1 yellow/cache team until May is maxed
1 red (or blue)/cache team for your other team, so that you're not all-eggs-in-one-basket
Blue/Cache is possibly more relevant since you have 3 blue guests (Sycamore, Lillie, Rosa) vs 2 red ones (Blue, Silver)
Problem being that Blue/Cache is really hard to build for... The best Cache characters reduce Blue levels
i'm red/cache and blue/cache atm
6 guests is referring to the 6 slots in 1 team?
No. I mean you have six literal characters you can invite to the lodge
requires some hard to get characters tho, SS Kris, SS Gio
Ok then
There are nine total and you're missing three
hope they give us a good amount of lodge characters for real
I think i should have a good start with whoever i do next
Yellow is so easy to build for but when there are only two characters and one is limited, o o f
n is level 86
Buying gifts in advance? Huh.
I'm a little nervous at how many items that could have bought instead, but their level is in the 80s so it's not holding them back too much
Yeah, i have alot of crystals rn
I'd be surprised if i need for Gifts for N
Unless he leaves me at 95%
So what should I do later?
6 interactions per day and this is the tenth day
Subtract six or so interactions from the first two days
54 interactions and only 4 drops at 90% is slightly lucky
Unless they all happened today.
There is no need to buy gifts early. Buy them when you're about to use them.
today

That person clearly spent thousands and thousands of crystals on gifts for guests that they haven't even started speaking to
It be like that sometimes 
Can I get help here with the interactions?
The current meta is buying three of the boost items for every interaction.
The specs, the ring, and the shovel microphone; ignore the juice
(boost items are okay to buy a day in advance since you will use them every day)
Start convo, reset until a Hot Topic spawns on turn 2, reset again until it triggers Max Vibes
This guarantees you at least 5 turns, two of which give double friend EXP
if they only add lodge pairs at half anni or god forbid anni
the meta will shift to farming level cap ups at max rate instead
My experimental method is a bit different, but I will explain it if you want to know
Two cache teams already gets them at a very rapid clip from excess tier4 stones
Eh go ahead, I'll probably just do whatever I want on the Lodge
but slower than you can level up daily
I buy the juice but NOT the ring
The ring causes Hot Topics to spawn more frequently but they can only spawn a limited number of times per convo
Uhhhh guys
#1012298913279127582 message
altho if you roll on the lodge banner 5x once you already can farm 6x interactions all the time
I reset until a hot topic spawns on Turn 3, and then pick it to guarantee Max Vibes via the juice
i might roll on that banner if there's a character I like and I missed in the future
I am literally doing that right now
Should I stop
also saw 2 salty people who wanted Cynthia, instead got Marnie and had to pity her
No, I mean I'll tell what are my statements and ask you guys what are the best
Among the 3
which pair?
PoMaTools is a Pokémon Masters EX tool that helps users to plan their sync grids while simulating the possible damage outputs.
Don't need us for that. The second oin, first link, has a list of score values for all topics for each guest
Who you asking?
you, just click that link and it has all the magic
PoMaTools has it sortable, too
I've also seen some ridiculously pretty topic infographs on twitter but I don't remember who posted them so I can't find them
Someone named Lost
ctrl + F and pomatools is all I need, used an excel sheet made by Eevee previously too
Lost made both the loot and the convo topic infographs?
im having the one with a typo saved https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1013863191454941274/ExpectedDailyCrystalCacheDropRate.PNG
"@plain novaMode" on Twitter gives me an account with no tweets on it...
uhh what why is that a ping
Check under absol
Lost is my friend from long ago 
I found it there first but they have tweeted enough times to scroll it under the login wall
And I refuse to register for Twitter
Is Lost's real name Leon or Dande possibly
What I see on twitter
Those are the sync pair infographs
Those are not the convo topic infographs
Yeah no I can't scroll far enough to see the convo topic infograph again
i scrolled till datamine and didnt see it
Correct, he retweeted it
But I didn't memorize that person's name so I can't re-find it
Seems its not there anymore
maybe it had errors?
U g h.
I have the tab open on my PC browser. Let me just delay my departure for lunch to boot it...
5 slots for both teams can have level 10 for all materials?
One of fhe threaded tweets did but it wasn't the main one IIRC
hmm wish I could remember the name
Seems unlikely. The 1-6 trainers can only reach +5 with 5 slots and you can't manage 4+3+3 on two colors at once with only 5 slots
Ahahahaha they did take them down
To remake them in Dark Mode
Or not? It's replying to the original, which gave me a "this tweet doesn't exist" page when I reopened that tab
You were trying to befriend May? Here's hers
less readable than just excel for me
Super Exciting is 10pts plus turn bonus
Exciting is 7pts plus turn bonus
Interesting is 5pts plus turn bonus
I can't zoom the damn picture on laptop
Hecc
Then maybe just use PoMaTools and/or Serebii's list instead
They can be CTRL+F'd too
Interesting things about May:
Weather and the Ocean are not 10pt topics, possibly because her adventure involved basically fighting them
May has no interested in her father 
Too late
???
Professor Birch is 10pts
What, did you think she was Professor Rowan's daughter? I'm not sure Rowan even has kids
how did you find them so fast?
This is how
so you cheated 
Some convo topics are only available in specific locations (e.g. Ruins will only spawn if you bring the guest to the ruins)
I still only use my excel sheet I don't use it anyway
...But since Pasio and The Trainer Lodge are exclusive to the Trainer Lodge, and everyone but Silver loves those, just staying inside is often a good move
so you saying choosing lodge is best
Forests is exclusive to the forest, The Ocean is exclusive to the beach
I'm surprised Lillie, from Alola, doesn't love the Ocean...
Outdoor locations (which is most of them) have Weather. Lillie does love that one
I wonder if Forest also spawns Bug Types. ...We don't have a guest who loves those though
Wait for Bugsy
Burgh loves bugs
Ahahahahah Silver has Flying and Water Types as 5pts
Despite his two playable mons being one Flying and one Water
Blue plays favorites... 10pts for Flying types (Pidgeot and Aero) but only 7pts for Rock and Water (Aero and Blastoise). 5pts for Grass (Exeggutor)
Ye a bit odd but anyway lol
...Maybe because Leaf's Venusaur has type advantage over his Blastoise
Also Rosa being friends with Skyla but hates flying types
Her Snivy/Serperior's weak against them, isn't it... 
Well, her poor Serperior 
Likes the trainer, fears her mons
So is Hooh against water 
Just something funny to like a person specializing in flying
same with Burgh
Why aren't one of the Ho-Ohs weak to rock?
Rosa+Skyla+(Special Striker) was a common teambuild back in this game's launch, before crits became meta
Weird, innit?
Silver's is weak to water while Morty's is weak to electric
What's Hilda's Diancie weak to?
Steel
Diancie was Fairy/Rock? So Steel makes perfect sense for her at least
Yeah
Zinnia's Rayquaza was weak to rock instead of ice. It wasn't until 1st Anni that Steven showed up with one that is weak to Ice
Or was that second anni?
And Zygarde is weak to ice
Poma usually just picks one weakness
Second anni is Steven
Second, then
It does, but it usually leans towards a 4x weakpoint for it when one exists. We're just expressing surprise at the times it didn't
Like, Blue's Exeggutor is weak to Bug, which makes sense with that
Escavalier is fire weak because it's 4x weak to fire being bug/steel
Right, I was going to lunch. See you folks later.
Dewgong could have been any other weakness than electric
K then
Personally would say fighting or Rock since they chose ice
Do we gotta bring up Barry's mysterious grass-weak Empoleon again
ye fighting, ground or electric it should have been so weird
Electric, since it had to evolve from Piplup and they don't change weakpoints across evo in this game
ye electric makes the most sense
He's grass weak to encourage you to add Rosa to the team after Ch1, but this was a bit of a mistake
oh saw it wrong
Having him be elec weak but have grass weak sidekicks would have worked best, both for the weakpoint thing and for encouraging you to use your one guaranteed Striker (Pikachu) for DPS
Lol yeah it would still make perfect sense for pikachu
probably Dena never played a main game before
so they had no idea about the weaknesses
still don't get why they couldn't just do multiple types
Too complicated
I get the weakness but type should be correct to the main games
not like it breaks anything
Gives too many theme skills
Would make it interesting 😏
Also some like pheromosa has no fighting type move
So kinda awkward if they have that
Doesn't have to anyway
Like you don't need flying moves on Charizard if you dont want to lol
its too late anyway for them to change anything
we had a whole fighting focused event recently with only 1 fighting move (that wasn't even the main focus), and you guys complain
Types don't properly exist in this game at all, remember
Only sync move type
STAB doesn't exist
Ye the game is so dumbed down like they think mobile users are stupid
Sync Moves usually are a STAB type but not always (Pryce's Seel)
It's not about mobile users, it's about kids possibly getting into the series for the first time with this game
And kids are very often stupid. Ash.
more like STAB has no reason to exist without you choosing your moves
This game is already complicated enough pls
it just gimps some units for no reason
Reverse Dunning Kruger moment
I've played a game where you need macros just to tap
And I tap manually while others have it easy
Oh you mean quadqueue
No
You find PoMa complicated? 
Competitive has Zacian in every single game, it's less diverse than even masters
As in you need to use multiple fingers to tap
I personally found Pokemon Shuffle harder than this lol
Spend some time helping people in the advice channel and you will begin to understand how smart the average user is
And time the taps correctly
Complicated game knowledge wise you know
That's why I don't go there...
Anyways, we're kinda getting off-topic here aren't we?
Like they aren’t teachin you quad queue or sleep chaining or nothing
This is so true
nope 
its the new general
mods don't visit this abandoned channel, viva freedom
thats what they get for blocking datamine discussion
we use to have good chats there
it filters people who aren't even interested in the game, unlike general
also, we have Ash's hat in lodge, but there's not much chance of him joining us there
I assume Pokemon Company doesn't allow DeNa to just outright say "Ash is from a different universum" so children who watch anime will still want to buy the games and "see the same world Ash sees"
Tbf it's a door for releasing an alt of him with his multiple Pokémon
What will his SS and SC outfits look like?
If they gave me Ash and Kingler, or Muk, or Shiny Noctowl, even Infernape
And what pokemon will be with those outfits?
but we know they won't, every single of his unit will need Charizard or something like that
Ash and Snorlax
i think he will just get outfits from different seasons if any
but till he can interact with other characters it's boring
I think he'll get the outfits of each season along the ace of the respective season
he can't meet the alternate universe Serena, Clemon tec
and Ash is someone who would accept that easily
great, so many Pikachu
this season the ace is Lucario
||Pikachu already fainted to Cynthia's Destiny Bond||
True but it's also the first Ash
Does anyone have a 1-1-10-10 team for team b? (Using Omni Extract)
1-1-9-10 also works
sadly, only rare extract for that one here
For Expeditions?
Ah, there was a miscommunication back in #poma-questions then
Trainer Lodge is a game mode
Ohhhhh
Because you responded to someone showing Expedition stuff asking who to prioritize, people assumed you meant Trainer Lodge stuff
Ohhhh yea my b
It’s cool, easily resolved
As a heads-up for when you ask about strategy-based content, what teams are the best depend a lot on the stage, so it’ll be better to ask on a stage-by-stage basis in most cases

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hRkqEDxoDPgquGASM0ecoUPY9-HMlhmny_hOGbtPH3M/edit?usp=sharing
This is a link to an expedition planner where you can plan your team beforehand, this of course also include the value you will get with the various bonus from the Extract items, and will also count the innate +1 on Red and Yellow (For Team A), and +1 on Blue and Rare Cache (For Team B).
How to use it:
- Make a copy of the Google Doc or Save it as File, otherwise you won't be able to edit it.
- You will see various dropout menu, select the region of the sync pair you want in the expedition team.
- After selecting the region, you will see another dropout menu near it, there you will be able to select the sync pair (or simply type the name of the trainer or its pokemon instead of going through the whole dropout menu of trainers).
And it's done, below you will see the end result of what your team will look like in the expedition including the +1 bonus given by the Cheer.
If you have any other question on how to use this feel free to ping me.
Expedition Skills
Fiery,Soothing,Wistful,Rare,Alola,Galar,Hoenn
Alola,Selene & Decidueye,6,,,,Acerola & Mimikyu,0,3,-1,0,Allister & Gengar,3,-1,0,0,Archie & Kyogre,0,0,-2
Alola,Acerola & Palossand,-1,3,0,0,Bea & Sirfetch'd,1,1,0,0,Brawly & Hariyama,1,1,0
Alola,Elio & Primarina,0,0,2,0,Bea & Vani...
If a mod could pin this, thanks in advance.
thanks a lot!
I didn't made this, it was one of my friends and I asked permission to share it
I tried it for a while to make sure it gave the correct value, and it works perfectly
Where can I find all the trainer lodge pics in good quality?
#datamines
They don't have the frames attached at all, the frames are separate
Yeah
Though some assembly is required, as the photos are technically composited from four images layered on each other (backdrop, character, frame, holofoil)
Have to superimpose Rosa onto her background, for example
The thumbnails are pre-composited though
The thumbnail versions are the ones that appear on the expedition console
They didn't bother drawing all of N's shadow into his photo because they knew his body would be obscuring most of it
Hm, and then have to either crop it or overlay the bronze frame to cover up the sloppy incomplete stuff along the bottom (same phenomenon as N's shadow)
So it begins
It's close. Here.
So we don't know who's coming next to the lodge correct?
I seriously thought I saw a graphic at some point with some but I'm just insane I suppose.
Some folks mistook the tutorial photo of a sample expedition team as that
mm, might be it
The Cynthia banner ends Oct 1, so if there is new lodge pair coming, I'd expect it to be on Oct 1. So we'd find out on the next datamine
My gut instinct says that it will just be cycling to an N or Marnie banner though, and not a new lodge pair just yet
(Caveat: my instincts are frequently incorrect)
@rain sorrel Sorry for the ping, but could you pin this, let me know If I should add something else to the explanation
I tried to edit N's pic and it's almost impossible to make it accurate if using the same method I did for Cynthia
Because there's a lighting in his hair
I guess you could screencap the photo as it appears in-game and just crop accordingly
But that would require help from someone who has N at Lv40
Oh. Hm...
I just gave you Cynthia's and I can get you Lillie's
Do you only want Lv40 or do you also want Lv20
I’ve got Lv40 N, what’s up?
They're compiling the scrapbook photos and they need help from people who have pairs other than N
Oh
I'll get Lillie 40 while I wait for an answer
Other than N
This bit threw me off
Wait didn't we have something like this before pinned already 
I just walked in tbf
Ye, I didn't expect them to already have N
Here is Lillie Lv40 with basic frame and no holofoil
Ahh that message was posted before you realised
I don't see anything in the pin
Exactly
the link to google docs in the pin are all about reccomended team for expedition and such
I remember there was a little cleanup about the pins in the channels, I will ask the team about the thoughts before I may do something they didn't intend if that's fine for you 
sure
Did you want me to get Cynthia, Aura Cynthia, and Lillie's Lv20 photos for you?
Yeah pls
On it
That's as far as I can help, at the moment. Maybe some other people can contribute the other characfers
Tysm
Alright it looks like it was previously pinned and part of our previous pin purge, since the execution of the resource can be done anytime in the game and theorycrafting with characters you do not have might not be really of interest, so we decided to keep it unpinned for now 
But if the community really wants it to have in the pins to be always accessible then We can find a compromised way to integrate it, but as a separate pin it would definitely take too much space which is why we avoided it for now 
👍
Only 1 per interaction.
I've updated the pinned FAQ with some more information.
it's not just very remedially things, it should be a bit more comprehensive
when you have decent topics but dont want to risk, and present changes them to bad ones 
it's the same run
I feel like the calculation for max interaction is quite different
I just go 11 levels using 3 interaction and hit 220ish something
i average at 140ish
This morning I hit over 200 and gave me 3 levels. Repeating the same thing means I would get 9 levels.
you guys go past 40?
didn't have anything over 200 since I started doing 6x tho
I see people using max interaction and getting high levels
Some are even reaching level 90
because they don't share when it cuts off at 95!
I mean, max interactions is just... multiplying your current convo results by the number of interactions you used
high risk high reward, but you can get min 90ish if you know what you are doing
Yes I know, but the calculations doesn’t make sense
Also yes survivorship bias
Show?
Using 3 interaction I know I can reach 2 level each, so 6 levels by average
Again, show the numbers
I didn’t took screenshots of the last interaction which gave me 11 levels
Was on the phone and got distracted
Because these numbers work out correctly for me
203 x gold present multiplier (1.5) x 3 interactions
You probably had like 95 exp of the original level
So its basically 10 levels you gained
203 x 1.5 = 304.5
304.5 x 3 = 913.5
Score shown: 913
And you can see that 56 --> 65 is 9 levels
Where's the 0.5, huh?
Lost into the ether 
Okay. You gained nearly 300 exp and you gained 3 levels
Sounds correct
Here's another screenshot I found
200 x 1.3 = 260
260 x 5 = 1300
31 --> 44 = 13 levels
I don't see a problem
A really lucky run with a gold present can theoretically get 4+ levels per interact yeah
it was 211 points... attention at 45%
Was it 6x interactions?
Where's the gamble, you promised a gamble
doing max vibes at 6th was it
I hit max vibe on 7 o 8, maybe that’s why I got a good experience
yep
max vibes secure you +2 topics
its better the later you do them, but you risk of "not doing them"
And double the points for those topics are a good rewards for the risk
Going safer and picking them as 2-3 topic is another way
doubles the points
No attention drops, double the points.
Oh okay and the longer the conversations goes, the higher the points isn’t?
yup
Okay now this explains the calculation confusion I had
the points are calculated like this
Hm?
Super Exciting: 10
Exciting: 7
Interesting: 5
YOOOOOO
and the # topic value is -1
so, if you do a Super Exciting at 9th topic
you get 10 + 9 -1 = 18 points
if its in max vibes, it is doubled to 36
Yo, are those Sync Orbs I'm seeing?
Blue does rock, amazing guy
Thanks @viscid meteor
you can access those with /lodge now anywhere porybot is
Lemme try it



could be useful for me if hot topic appear


