Trainer Lodge

[urban zinc]

Cynthia

[wide sorrel]

Got 10 lv today the lowest for a bit

[pastel swallow]

lol just reset

yall damn funny

theres literally a reset guide right there

[orchid glade]

don't do them together

[pastel swallow]

unless u dont want to reset

then each to its own

[orchid glade]

I found resetting has helped a lot since rarely have bad runs

[pastel swallow]

yea

[urban zinc]

Too lazy to reset

[pastel swallow]

like at most u are unlucky at 4 topics max (+ 2 max vibed points)

[urban zinc]

Friend is the 2nd best hot topic on Cynthia so I figured I could go for it

[orchid glade]

yes at worst I hit 80+

[pastel swallow]

yea even still should be able to accumulate near 100 points per interaction

[orchid glade]

otherwise always at least 150 if I get gift off

[glad acorn]

Only places being a good hot topic to go for

[orchid glade]

Blue has been very good to me with points

[glad acorn]

Every other topics only have 2-3 10 pointers

[orchid glade]

not like you need to hit hot topics all the time

[glad acorn]

They have been reliant for me

Of course, personal bias for sure

[orchid glade]

5/14 were hot and got 375 points

[pastel swallow]

1 interaction 375?

[orchid glade]

yes

[pastel swallow]

rip

should have done 3

at one go

[orchid glade]

if I did it would be 80-100

I tried before

[glad acorn]

3x or 6x be like that

[orchid glade]

never again doing multiples

[glad acorn]

The salt can be overbearing

[pastel swallow]

i think yall expectations are too high

just hit near 100

should be ok

somemore wasting time

[orchid glade]

My average is higher than 100 over 6

[pastel swallow]

unless u enjoy

[glad acorn]

At 100, that's like 6 levels per day. I thought the average is 10

[orchid glade]

My average is over 10

[glad acorn]

100 does feel bad since you either fail to gift or they cut you down after gifting

[pastel swallow]

same for me

[orchid glade]

6 days and on level 65 so above average

[pastel swallow]

but still its okay to do pacing

[glad acorn]

Of course, being chill is the best way to approach rng

[pastel swallow]

not like u have to absolutely hit the goal within 10 days kind of thing

[glad acorn]

Getting fumy over it gets us nowhere

[pastel swallow]

yea

u dont rush to achieve something in an actual “hangout”

[glad acorn]

Gonna reset time to get the best reaction IRL

[orchid glade]

Did average of 198 points today over 6

[pastel swallow]

we got time reversal powers

[pastel swallow]

thats actually hella good

[orchid glade]

was almost same yesterday so seems to be consistent enough

I try to make sure I use 1.3x gift every encounter if possible

[pastel swallow]

on first topic?

[orchid glade]

always just below 90%

so after 2 topics after vibe or three if hot

think it ends up usually around 6-7 topic

[chrome inlet]

is there some increased chance for the interaction to end when you do multiple at once

N got to 90% and ended it and this is like the third time ive had an interaction end above 85% 💀

[glad acorn]

No, it's all rng. There is no benefit to do 6x other than being quick

[orchid glade]

Not sure how it works, but I seem to fail less when choosing different topic themes instead of the same one over and over

so not picking lets say friend over and over unless its hot

might be just luck not sure

also picking more bads seem to make them flee more

[glad acorn]

Everything is luck when even 96% can get you dropped

[orchid glade]

I haven't had 96% for a long time luckily

going to keep trying what I've been doing and see if its really rng or depends on what you choose

[glad acorn]

As I said, it's all rng. You can have the optimum set up and they drop you at 90%

[maiden haven]

sure went well today

18 levels

it almost feels like im getting 5 everyday

there aren't enough tickets to balance out all that

[orchid glade]

Sure RNG is there, but could be a hidden mechanic

[maiden haven]

new gamemode with tickets when

[orchid glade]

I like that they made tickets easier to get for new players too

[maiden haven]

They did? Where?

I might finish friendship with Blue the same day Rosa event hits, that's... super fast!

[orchid glade]

you can get a lot from permanent arena if you not done it yet and coupled with lodge friendship

[maiden haven]

ah yeah, right

the sync orbs are much easier to get for new players too

[orchid glade]

but still there is an issue of champion spirits got Swanna waiting for them so I can ex

so maybe next week I can do Master mode

[keen summit]

I should have taken a screenshot. The daily lodge gift today was a strike candy coin

Didn’t know that was a thing

[orchid glade]

Nice you can get any of them

[carmine sedge]

I've not received such a gift yet, y'all are shitters

[orchid glade]

I've had some alright ones but nothing amazing

[carmine sedge]

Latest I got from May is 3 Omni Extracts

[orchid glade]

must be a very low chance none of my accounts have got any

[keen summit]

That’s the only good one I’ve gotten, it’s usually an extract

[orchid glade]

I like the orbs they give

also 5* power up I got once

[keen summit]

I’m literally always at capacity for orbs so I do not like that lol

[orchid glade]

I use to be until the last update

now low again

[keen summit]

I solve that problem by not gridding any of the new units except Janine

(Probably should look into the rest, I know)

[sharp solar]

Not gridding solves the problem of maxed orbs?

[keen summit]

The problem of being low on orbs!

[sharp solar]

Thought you said you didn't like orbs

[keen summit]

I don’t

The conversation is right there though

[orchid glade]

I already got 22k orbs with nothing to use on again until masters day or friendship pair

[keen summit]

How many does a full grid cost again?

[glad acorn]

7500

[keen summit]

That can add up fast, for sure

[glad acorn]

You get 7k per week, so yeag

[nocturne aurora]

Blue has been absolutely gross these last days with the 90% leaving

Lethartist are you using the feel ring recently?

[glad acorn]

Yeah, I'm using all 4

[nocturne aurora]

Alright thanks

[keen summit]

I’ve been specifically avoiding that one. You think it’s worth?

[nocturne aurora]

I've been avoiding it as well, it had great results with Lillie

i guess it depends on the pair really, but it's still heavily rng

[orchid glade]

6300, but close enough with lodge and daily scout giving some

[glad acorn]

It can sometimes flock the first few choices with hot topics, but sometimes they will spread them

I have no issue supplying all items so I'm okay with less resets

[keen summit]

If the ring leads to fewer resets, I may start using it again. Interactions are easily the most frustrating part of the game right now and it’s because I need to reset for 30 minutes to get the right combo

only to have Rosa dip out at 95%

[glad acorn]

You definitely need both to guarantee 2nd topic max vibe

Both as in juice and ring

[keen summit]

I use the other items

I aim for 3rd topic Max vibes though

[glad acorn]

Careful with that. You can get dropped at the end of max vibe

Well, it's either way anyway

[keen summit]

Oh, I’ve noticed

Still not a fan at all of this mode. The rewards are great, but it’s just astoundingly frustrating. Largely because of the randomness in dropping the conversation

[glad acorn]

Of course, now that I think about I, you can get dropped at 5th topic whether you start max vibe on 2nd or 3rd topic

If you max vibe at 2nd topic, you need another hot topic for 5th topic to get attention drop close to those who max vibe at 3rd topic

It does seem worth a try. If they decide to drop you, they drop you

[glad acorn]

To be fair, DeNA probably didn't expect us to speedrun through it

[keen summit]

That’s a them problem hahaha

Just did a second topic Max vibes. Functionally the same, yeah

[maiden haven]

I feel like we are still a minority

people who never check any info are probably on their first pair

[glad acorn]

Gifting around 85% should be the right idea no matter tier 2 or tier 3

Maybe because I hate taking risk

[keen summit]

Same

[orchid glade]

The average player doesn't know what's a good topic and teams so will take a long time

so for them its one pair a month

[keen summit]

I’ve been collecting photos instead of grinding to level 100. Just hit my 3rd level 40

[glad acorn]

Too often I get baited by a hot topic and get dropped before I can gift

A bad habit of mine

[keen summit]

Aren’t hot topics supposed to be a lower attention drop?

[orchid glade]

I ignore any topic and gift

yes by half

but doesn't help if they drop

[glad acorn]

And you still get dropped nevertheless. Rng is never fair

[keen summit]

I hate chance

Hilarious that a play a gacha game when I so dislike gambling, yes I know

[glad acorn]

Any gacha with reasonable pity system is fair game for me

Hell, I haven't pulled for months in genshin and still can do the hardest mode there. Right now I have enough for 5 pities over there

Which means around 200k in poma currency

[keen summit]

Pretty good considering what I’ve heard about Genshin!

[maiden haven]

gachas exploit people with a certain mindset

[glad acorn]

I'm legit wondering what happens to the monthly banner next month since it expires at end of September. Will it feature another batch of pokefair, or either N or Marnie be the 2% while Cynthia becomes the 0.45%?

[nocturne aurora]

i'm thinking it'll just rotate those pairs with 2% featured

[glad acorn]

Yeah, maybe Marnie turn to be 2%. Sad for those who went for her during this month banner then

Yes, some tried their luck. Probably had to pity with that low rate

[still finch]

If only all interactions went this well…

[still finch]

These days I’m doing it at 96% 😂

[glad acorn]

Well true. Less likely to get denied a gift. Gifts are infinite but not the attempts

[paper oasis]

Cynthia fucking bitc-
She stopped me at 100 attention... and i used 6 interectations....

[analog furnace]

Got Nate recently Maybe I can finally make a better 2nd Red/Cache team

[orchid glade]

either you vibes turn one or not using items

[paper oasis]

I was just answering her favorite topics and she stopped at 3rd for no reason

[carmine sedge]

Though I got lucky twice when I triggered max vibes first turn

[orchid glade]

actually looks like you didn't vibe

[pastel swallow]

bruh just reset

[paper oasis]

How?

[carmine sedge]

How what?

[pastel swallow]

pinned

[orchid glade]

close game before it ends conversation

[pastel swallow]

33 points is the lowest points ive ever seen

[paper oasis]

I did not know abou that... now its too late ig

[orchid glade]

use Juices to guarantee vibe and glasses

[pastel swallow]

its either your answers are unlucky or u did not know the best answer or never used any items at all

[orchid glade]

they got one hot so no items I am guessing

[paper oasis]

I used all the besf answers to her, 3 consecutive 3 point answers

But i did not use itens...

[pastel swallow]

[carmine sedge]

33 for 3 topics is definitely super exciting answers

[pastel swallow]

just use glasses items

to save yourself

AT the very least

6 interactions at one go without items is basically too yolo

[orchid glade]

bare minimum one should get is 5 topics with items

[pastel swallow]

6 interactions painfully wasted

[paper oasis]

Im not that excited about this mode im just doing it for the daily missions tbh

Ill search up more about it at some point

[vestal kraken]

Does the trainer change who gives an item every day?

[sharp solar]

No, it's the trainer you last interacted with

[vestal kraken]

Oh.....

So once I max Cynthia and move to unleveled blue I'll get junk for a few days.

[sharp solar]

You can keep only Cynthia in lodge at the end of the day

[nocturne aurora]

yeah just talk to Cynthia before closing the game

[dense sonnet]

when i get expedition?

[brittle narwhal]

so which expedition team from the spreadsheet should i make? (i haven't steven or ss gio for either of the 6 slot+cheer teams)

[analog furnace]

I got so tired of resetting bc of trash RNG that I just went and did topic 3 without hot topic

[nocturne aurora]

this is the ones i'm running https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/857024398287175712/1013784967333023785/Screenshot_20220829-141852.png

[analog furnace]

Punished, punished

[nocturne aurora]

top is team B, bottom is team A (it's reversed)

[brittle narwhal]

there's any diference beetween using team a and b?

[analog furnace]

The last 33 I’ll ever allow myself to get. Mark my words

But also man fuck it… I’m just using the ring. So little difference in my experience for so much pain

[nocturne aurora]

Team A has innate +1 on blue & yellow, Team B +1 on the rest

[brittle narwhal]

ah

can i replace ss lusamine?

[nocturne aurora]

probably, try to filter for Alolan theme skill who can upgrade chests

that's her thing, so just try to find someone from Alola with +2 or +3 chests in your roster

it's important for it to be alola to synergize with Selene's passive, but you can just modify to your liking from that template

[carmine sedge]

Is it possible to build both teams with level 10 rare boost?

Including cheer and omni extract

[nocturne aurora]

you can have 2 teams at level 10 for chests, but you'd lose out on one of the colored resource

which would impact likely your ability to purchase key items for interactions

There are probably ways to optimize it by not having level 10, but i'm not sure about that

[analog furnace]

Very next one help

[maiden haven]

did that once too, never again

[analog furnace]

Yeah like, it’s happened before, but I think I’ve genuinely learned my lesson this time

Resetting a bunch of times due to bad RNG and then messing up that badly the 1 time kinda did it for me

It helps that my next 2 runs were 250pts, ended the day with 12 and a half levels which ain’t bad

[kind sleet]

💀 this is the first time where the interaction got ended right after the max vibes convo. rip x6

[wide tiger]

Ooof

[jolly cove]

Ring is bad if you don't get max vibes in 3-4 rounds

Since the hot topics will never appear again

[orchid kelp]

Every time blue gives me a 10-pointer, without fail there are two 10 point choices. this boy hates everything. May was so much easier.

[analog furnace]

Isn't the ring primarily bad bc it stacks so many hot topics early, so you don't have many afterwards? You should be getting max vibes round 3 anyway

The only annoying thing is that it causes so many resets early when you're not using it. I feel like there is a small gain to going ringless, but it can cost way more time

[orchid glade]

Blue has like 22 10 pointers yet May has 30 quite crazy

[dense saddle]

How do you predict when the conversation will happen though

[orchid glade]

I don't focus on hot topics after vibe anyway

[analog furnace]

Either 10 point answers or 7pt hot topics are good tho

[orchid glade]

you can't, reset before vibe ends if its bad

[analog furnace]

Gets you the 200pt+ runs a lot easier

[orchid glade]

I rarely see 7 point hot mostly get 10 lol

[analog furnace]

I've been taking the 7pt hot topics over 10pt answers recently, think it's working out slightly better. But either way, it's good to have more ideal options per interaction

10pt hot topic is just a win in general

[carmine sedge]

I did that a while ago when I first try max vibes

[orchid glade]

some pairs like Cynthia seems to love places

[analog furnace]

Ye, if you reaally wanted to dedicate the time, you'd reset for places 6 times. Cbf

[orchid glade]

so quite easy with her ye I've been lucky

[analog furnace]

Gonna do Silver next

Will see if I'm done with Cynthia tomorrow, maybe if I get one of my best runs

[orchid glade]

I am not sure, maybe N

[analog furnace]

N's really easy as well from my experience

[orchid glade]

well who uses Yellow will probably be next

alternating between colors

[analog furnace]

My first 2 and next will be Red

But yeah, I'll prob lean towards one of the other colours for next

Can prob get tons of gold presents by now

[wide tiger]

50 on may atm

[orchid glade]

Seems like either May or Marnie next

can do 12 gold yellow when I get there

[analog furnace]

Woah

That’s crazy dude

[orchid glade]

yep going to push me quite far that's why I am alternating so I can stack it

[glad acorn]

Better get one paid to level 30 at the very least. You don't want to miss out on potential free coins

[empty pollen]

Finallyyy

[glad acorn]

By coins, I mean candy coins

[orchid glade]

not like I've seen any yet on all my accounts but hope I do

[pastel swallow]

huh what predict

theres no such thing as prediction here

just follow reset guide and u will realise theres no such shit

u can only increase chance rate to 4 choices (with 2 max vibe answers) , >4 pray rng jesus

that reset guide at least prevents anyone from getting measly 33 points

[glad acorn]

At the very least you manipulate so you have a good start so you can have a minimum gain even if you crash and burn on the next topic

[dense saddle]

Can you tell me where is it

[icy wagon]

[dense sonnet]

what lvl we get expedition?

[sharp solar]

Uhh, it's available from the start

[dense sonnet]

i never did

[dense sonnet]

rare cache teams are better?

trio teams

[urban flicker]

You should focus on unlocking extra expedition slot first

you should ignore rare cache for now

[glad acorn]

Maybe you need to go through the story mode if the lodge is yet to be unlocked

Seems like there is a minimum requirement before you are given access

[urban flicker]

you have to complete chapter 1 first

basically for all Modes right now you need to complete Chapter 1

[dense sonnet]

But chests give more resources for that too?

[dense sonnet]

I have all unlocked just didnt know where

Ty

[sudden forum]

You can't even play the rest of the game until that's done, it might be more than that.

[modest delta]

Only with silver gift 😳

[urban flicker]

it takes nothing to complete story mode

basically just do that first

[modest delta]

Hopefully done Cynthia in 2 days with some luck

But realistically 3

[dense sonnet]

How to do that? Im upgrading 1-2 lvls/day

[modest delta]

use items

and reset

and be lucky

[sudden forum]

Got Cynthia (Trainer #2) to Level 45 today.

[modest delta]

think ill do may third

[sudden forum]

I'm going: Blue/Cynthia > N > ?
Haven't decided the order of May, Rosa, Sycamore, Lillie, Marnie.

[hard badger]

I say strikers last and fairy is more rare than water

[sharp solar]

Flip a dice or roll a coin

[pseudo moth]

How is this for expeditions?

[carmine sedge]

Short and Long Answer: Up to you

[modest delta]

probably want 2 cache teams if you can

[pseudo moth]

I'll try for that then

[sudden forum]

You unlock your all your slots?

[pseudo moth]

Yeah

Going for cache is optimal after?

[modest delta]

pretty much want as close to 10 in your units colour and 10 in cache on both teams

[sudden forum]

You can do 10 of a color + 10 cache in both teams, and just alternate colors every 12~24 hours.

[modest delta]

blue is very hard to do 10 in as well as cache

not many good cache units that dont minus blue

[slate mauve]

I think it’s ridiculous usually they leave at 70 blue just get bored at 90, I don’t even get to use the item for bonus exp

[sudden forum]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1014729679506260008/JohtoB_rare.jpg
Rare Cache this one, Team B.
Two limited units though.

Is anyone doing the 5/5 + 10 route?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/x0cuwu/optimizing_expeditions_the_1055_strat_and_why_it/

[pseudo moth]

Is there one for the yellow crystal + cache?

[sudden forum]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1014730138052743188/SinnohA_Omni.jpg

[pseudo moth]

Ty

[sudden forum]

no replacements for ssr Cynthia or Lucas though.

[pseudo moth]

Got both thankfully

[modest delta]

funnily lucian is the one of those i dont have

havent been lucky with getting lucian or bertha yet

i kind of disagree with the post on 5/5/10 being better

[pseudo moth]

Got one for red crystal as well?

[modest delta]

red is pretty easy

[sudden forum]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1014730313043283998/AlolaB_Rare.jpg

[pseudo moth]

Is there one that would work after a +1 boost?

For all

[sudden forum]

a or b

[modest delta]

I use these two

not 10 10 without cheer though

think its 9 10 on A, 9 9 on B

[pseudo moth]

What is the difference between expedition A & B

[sudden forum]

there are 10red/10cache without cheer, but they're B teams

[modest delta]

a has 1/1/0/0 bonus

and b has 0/0/1/1 bonus

[pseudo moth]

Ty

[dense sonnet]

how do i know the hot topic to select on 2nd topic?

[urban flicker]

Use items

you can buy them in the exchange shop of the trainer lodge to simplify your interaction

[dense sonnet]

i havent the resources to buy yet

[urban flicker]

Then like I said, you have to focus on unlocking 6 expedition slot first

that comes first before anything else you can do in the lodge

[flat prairie]

once you have all the slots it's easy to buy 6 of each items and 6 silver gifts every day

and farming to unlock the slots just takes a few days

[dense sonnet]

got it

[pseudo moth]

What interaction items should i buy and how much of each

[random cloud]

6 of each of the bronze ones each day and depending on your strategy 6 of at least one kind of the silver items

[pseudo moth]

Wdym bronze ones and silver ones

[carmine sedge]

The normal and the good gifts

[random cloud]

The ones that cost bronze and silver tier items respectively

[carmine sedge]

The gold is the awesome gift

[random cloud]

They’re talking about the boost items

Not gifts

[pseudo moth]

Sorry which of these are you referring to?

[carmine sedge]

You mean the materials?

[random cloud]

I’m referring to the bottom image

[pseudo moth]

So 6 of each of those?

Each day?

[random cloud]

That’s personally what I do. Depending on if you need more gifts you may want to skip one or both of the silver tier ones

[pseudo moth]

Also is it worth buying more interactions?

[random cloud]

Absolutely

With properly set up Expedition teams you’ll be swimming in the necessary items, and it essentially doubles your friendship gain

[pseudo moth]

Ty

[river temple]

I need a good blue and cache team

cant seem to get 10 on both

[magic scaffold]

Hope DeNA gives us an option to either receive a notification that the Expedition boost items wore off or an option to auto-refresh the boosts as long as we have the items available.

Keep forgetting to refresh the boosts.

[blazing sapphire]

It’s hard. Can’t find the right photo but you can do it with half Kalos half Johto

[river temple]

Could i get 9-9?

[magic scaffold]

Sadly involves seasonals and PokeFairs.

And this is Team B.

And even then, it's pretty much better to go after lv. 10 rare cache rate.

[severe river]

It’s a 9-10 team with the omni boost

[gleaming ivy]

How do you get the multiple interactions multiplier?

Ive seen heaps of people get it and I never have been able to

[severe river]

Use multiple interactions at once

[gleaming ivy]

Im probably getting goofed on but is that actually something you can do

[rigid pilot]

Yes

Click on the check mark

If you can't buy more interaction

[wary wasp]

Yessir

[river temple]

Thats sick thanks

[timber blaze]

about to gamble a 6x interaction, wish me luck boys

results: 124 session x 1.3 from present x 6 = 967 not bad

[void lintel]

Yeah, that's alright

[jovial moon]

How does that result with a number that ends with 7

But congrats

[timber blaze]

math

[void lintel]

Yeah, our old nemesis "rounding down"

[timber blaze]

i guess dena cheated me out of .2 points.... damn them lol

[void lintel]

Or best friend, sometimes, if you're doing Substitute shenanigans in competitive battling

[timber blaze]

very true hahah

[jovial moon]

[long merlin]

[void lintel]

For what it's worth, getting 94pts for a minimum-turn run is kinda nice

[long merlin]

cynthia is level 51

[halcyon seal]

Character number 3 is Blue and it's off to a fantastic start.

[random cloud]

Nice

[glad acorn]

How the heck are you this fast?

[random cloud]

RNG

[glad acorn]

Did you figure out some cool trick around the rng or something

[random cloud]

In the end, you are at the mercy of RNG

[icy wagon]

The Chosen one

[glad acorn]

You don't just rng into 256 almost every day

[icy wagon]

Rngesus has spoken.

[glad acorn]

He's done with the 2nd pair the day before

[icy wagon]

I am in shock

But i am trying not to believe

So gotta believe RNGesus is just playing a prank on the rest of us

[glad acorn]

Unless he does the forbidden trick of reinstall just for best result

[glad acorn]

I can imagine someone crazy enough to do that just so he can be the first guy to speedrun all 9 pairs

[icy wagon]

I am yoloing mine

6x per day full Yolo

[halcyon seal]

This is actually the second time I've hit 255 I'm actually averaging around 188. My good lodge luck is probably compensation for my horrible pull luck. Had to pity Ash with 11 dead pulls in a row and also had to pity SST Red.

[glad acorn]

Come on mate. Don't talk about pull luck when I am staring at two leaders ||at 391/400||

But still, I am curious on your strat or you just don't get RNG'd like the rest of us

[halcyon seal]

Just save scum for the guaranteed 5 topics and hope for the best. RNG is just being good to me. Early Cynthia was actually not good then it just took off and has stayed decent enough to get a character a week. I'm sure I'll hit a slump sooner or later.

[pseudo moth]

This feels kinda broken

[edgy jetty]

What’s a good team comp for expeditions? idk fully what to use

[pseudo moth]

From what I've heard, you'd want run a decent spread between the 3 materials except cache boxes, until you get all your expedition slots. From then you'd want to focus on getting 1 material and cache box to expedition level 10.

Specific team comps depend on what pairs and how many slots you've unlocked

[edgy jetty]

Uh… You’re speaking another language to me rn I have all 6 slots unlocked and everything

[pseudo moth]

Ok so you'd want to make a team where you get red,blue, or yellow close to expedition level 10 and the purple cache box close to expedition level 10

[edgy jetty]

Ah, alr

[pseudo moth]

Like this for example

And then alternate between the materials every 24 hours

[edgy jetty]

Ahh, oki

[pseudo moth]

I'm using this team currently

And this

[edgy jetty]

I don’t have SS Giovanni or SS Kris

[unreal scroll]

Do you have SSR Cynthia or Masked Royal?

[edgy jetty]

Have both of those, ye

[river temple]

Is the meta lvl 10 cache?

On both!

?

[glad acorn]

This is one expensive lineup

[stone cradle]

Finally a good interaction for once

[carmine sedge]

How much pts. did you get?

[void lintel]

It's really useful, and the only way to double-dip on one color on a single team

More importantly... in the distant future, when all your Lodge Guests are Lv100 Friendship, you'll need Friend Keys to raise their level caps to get more Lodge Stones and buy Certificates with them

Double Lv10 Cache gives so many excess Tier4 stones that you can afford gold keys every two to three days, even on top of buying 3 extra Interacts every day

[stone cradle]

215 total with a gold present

[void lintel]

Also Rare Caches can give keys directly. Or Lodge Stones directly.

[carmine sedge]

I also got the exact same amount with May yesterday

[void lintel]

And they can also give stuff that's useful outside of the Lodge (e.g. Sync Orbs or Powerup Tickets or Scout Tickets)

Unless May and Marnie are both faves, I recommend focusing on Red or Blue with the "other half" of each team

There are currently only two Yellow guests-- those two, as they're the only Techs

The possibility exists that more Yellow guests might be added later, but... we can't really plan for that

Soonest we can reasonably expect one is Oct 1, when the Cynthia banner expires

And we can't be sure there even will be a new Lodge Guest on that day

Let alone a Yellow one

[river temple]

There are colored guests?

Huh

I just finished blue lvl100 im onto silver now

[void lintel]

Look again at the costs for the gifts for Blue and Silver

They are both Strikers, so they both cost red crystals

[river temple]

ohhh thats what u mean

[void lintel]

There are four Striker guests, whose gifts cost red crystals: Blue, Silver, Cynthia, N
There are three Support guests, whose gifts cost blue crystals: Rosa, Sycamore, Lillie
There are only two Tech guests, whose gifts cost yellow crystals: May and Marnie

[river temple]

i see i see

[void lintel]

So unless both of them are favorites, you can probably get enough tier2+3 yellow crystals from just caches alone while you work on the rest

The closest thing to a flaw in this plan is that... if your teams both need Rare Extract, you won't have enough yellow tier1 income from just daily Cheers, to buy 6 shovel microphones and 6 specs every day

[north moat]

Hey weird question

[void lintel]

Omni can make up for it, as can reconfiguring the team while Cheer is up

[north moat]

So I started befriending N last night after I had Silver to Friendship Level 100. Today N gave me the gift instead of Silver. Any idea what decides who gives you the gift?

[void lintel]

Whomever stands next to the central console

Which is generally whomever you spent an Interaction with most recently

[north moat]

Ohhhhhhhh

[void lintel]

You can also just un-invite everyone except the one you want a gift from

Because the gift pool is slightly dependent on the frienship level of the giver

The best gift pool is from Lv30+

[north moat]

Yeah that’s why I asked….N’s level was so low, he gave me the crappy gift.

Silver’s is 100 XP

[void lintel]

[north moat]

Thanks

[void lintel]

Yeah, what I was doing was...
Plan A: when my current guest is close to 100, start doing 5 interactions with my next (lv1) guest followed by 1 with this (lv90+) guest to ensure I get a good gift the next day
Plan B: In case I screw up, I can-- after I finish panicking-- uninvite everyone but the Lv90+ guest

...if I rely solely on Plan B, it's so simple that I'd probably just overlook it.

[north moat]

Ah I see.

[night tide]

People are on their third sync pair while I haven’t even gotten one :/

This mode isn’t for me…

[orchid glade]

third we only on the second that I know of?

[carmine sedge]

I'm just about to finish my first ;-;

[terse raft]

finally got one! 0.4%

[north moat]

I’m on my second ^^;

[wide sorrel]

Still need a reset to finish second. Third is like .01% of people

[modest delta]

With some luck I’m done 2nd in 2 days worth of interactions

at 71 with Cynthia atm

Think I get 6 gold gifts for 2 days time

[glad acorn]

Most are still working on the 2nd one. Third is a rarity

[void lintel]

Lillie Lv43
Cythia Lv100
Blue Lv61
That's over 200 combined levels, so if I hadn't had that false start with Lillie, I would have two guests done by now

Next will be N since we're getting Cobalion in the Gauntlet. Lillie will have to keep waiting...

[dense saddle]

I really can't seem to find it

Oh nvm
Found it!

[glad acorn]

12 level today. Not too shabby

[sharp bramble]

8 levels, 92 Rosa

Hopefully done by tomorrow but honestly I have a bad feeling lol

[carmine sedge]

She didn't feel like talking today tho

But at least I got her

[lean river]

Rosa just hate me

3 interesting topic in 1 round

[glad acorn]

It just happens at times. You got the 10% burn after gift

[lean river]

It's just impossible for me to go below 70 now huh

[sweet crater]

Went from 63 to 78 today on Cynthia

[urban flicker]

Tomorrow

[ashen slate]

208

[alpine tusk]

From 47 to 60 😅

[urban zinc]

YOOOOO

[carmine sedge]

Shitter

[urban flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/panda-office-pissed-tantrum-mad-gif-5146825

[urban zinc]

I'm sorry lol

But it meens tomorrow I get cynthia whatever happens

[urban flicker]

you should probably do interaction one by one

[urban zinc]

yeah

[urban flicker]

and don't use the x6 or x3 multiplier

since you have the sync pair at lv97

[carmine pilot]

Lol after 10 resets where N trolled me having always ITEMS as hot topic
I finally got Places and he just left at 96%

Lodge is pure PAIN

[tepid stone]

ah I see people have noticed that places is the best topic

blue has six 10-point places lol

but I was too greedy today and thus ended several interactions without giving items

[glad acorn]

Blue and Cynthia like Places

[worldly ivy]

I remember with silver I really liked the friends topic a lot. He had 5 different 10-pt friends...... He loves his friends.............. 🥺

[glad acorn]

"I'm not here to make friends"

[visual remnant]

"I already have enough. Seriously, any more and I'll start forgetting names"

[urban flicker]

It's just Blue and Silver being picky

[glad acorn]

Blue makes sure he has better food than Red after all

[urban flicker]

after being done with Blue, I'll do someone that is easy and has lot of 10 pointers

I think I'll do May

[glad acorn]

May or Sycamore looks easy with multiple 10 pointers

[eternal mural]

That's the best luck I've ever hard

Blue is slowly becoming a fave with how cheerful he is : )

[urban flicker]

not dropping the interaction at 95% would be a great gift : )

[random portal]

I had 5 gold gifts for silver and he drops me at 85%. I'm going to scream.

[atomic pelican]

I just started doing Sycamore and wow I think I’m lucky

[mortal shard]

:warning: | Trainer with that name isn't registered.

:warning: | Trainer with that name isn't registered.

[wooden marsh]

It's Sycamore

[icy wagon]

Use Poryphone in #bot-zone anyways.

[keen wolf]

Trainer Lodge is broken #5

Got Dawn pretty nice

[glad acorn]

Nice. I got only stones

[keen wolf]

Double rare cache does wonder

[last trellis]

I'm just realizing that different units take different stones for the interaction items

seems way more efficient to focus your grinding on that

[long nymph]

Striker use red stone, support use blue, tech use yellow

[last trellis]

hmm

[long nymph]

I already done rosa, and now silver, after this maybe i will do may/marnie because they use yellow stones...i gonna rotate my guests

[carmine sedge]

To be more specific:
Striker: Fiery
Support: Wistful
Tech: Soothing

Just saying only

But I guess it's more easier to say the color of the materials rather than naming that specific material?

Right?

[visual remnant]

Yes

[carmine sedge]

Ok then

[long nymph]

If i only know names, i would have thought soothing is blue stone

So i just remember colors

[visual remnant]

Yep, it's much easier to remember the color directly instead of making the mental connection every time

[glad acorn]

It can't be helped that they changed Green to Yellow

[eternal mural]

Trainer lodge has officially made me shed a tear and make blue a fave

[void lintel]

I remember that in HGSS he has the Earth Badge, but I kinda thought he was giving you the one he earned himself, as a way to pass the torch.
But now he's got 10pts for "Gym Leaders" and "Viridian City," and even mentions "my Trainers"
Did he take over the Viridian Gym officially at some point?

[hard badger]

In Jpn it's called the Green badge his Japanese name. He took over the gym

[eternal mural]

I'm appreciating trainer lodge a lot now

No other game has ever made me feel this close to a character and made me shed a tear

[glad acorn]

Earth Badge <-- "We punked Giovanni real good" Is that right?

[frosty juniper]

Yes he did, he's the official gym leader

[keen wolf]

Yep

I did double rare cache team and still have enough resources to buy items daily

[crimson surge]

Sycamore was really nice to me, thank you Sycamore

[long nymph]

For extra daily interactions, the item to claim it dropped from rare cache...also got bonus that you probably can get from it...also some other stuffs like lodge stones

[river temple]

What color should i be skipping then

[random cloud]

Probably an oversight, yeah

[deep tree]

with ~20 new pairs at once ...

[deep tree]

@brave panther for fixing ...

[icy wagon]

It's a huge list this last batch

Not me giving Phoebe Vigilance then finding out Vigilance triggering twice in battle 🤡

[void lintel]

She keeps twice as vigilant by watching with both eyes at onc--

https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/2/27/Spr_6x_477.png

Wait, shit

[dense sonnet]

how many each items we should buy per day?

[void lintel]

Extra Interactions: all three
Specs: six
Shovel microphones: six

Juice or Rings but ideally not both: six

With two Lv10 Cache teams, you also get enough for a gold key every ~2 days or so

(And nothing better to spend the excess tier4s on, since you're limited to only three extra Interactions per day)

Presents: 1-3 Awesome Presents per day, plus fill the rest of your Interactions with Good Presents

[glad acorn]

So I have been reading a portion of the PoMa interview by famitsu, things that are relevant for Lodge

1. They intend to release a pair on monthly basis
2. They also intend to add more features to Lodge
3. Monthly banner is their answer for new players to add to the Lodge roster. However, master fair will not be considered for this reason as they are deemed unfair for those who pulled earlier

[maiden haven]

They should give characters with introductory master fairs another alt for Lodge purposes, it's a bit too cruel for the Leon fans (as much as I don't like him)

That would straight up solve the issue...

[glad acorn]

Battle Tower Leon?

[void lintel]

Noice. Time to speculate on the October lodge guest?

[random cloud]

Elesa pls

[glad acorn]

Interviewer: Gib hint
Interviewee: Haha nope

[void lintel]

On the one hand, Galar could use more Rare Cache
On the other, another Champion Leon means Galar gets another possible +3/-1 unit

[maiden haven]

did that interview perhaps specify any new gameplay plans

[void lintel]

Wait, they actually asked?

Hah.

There were image files found in the datamine regarding furniture

[maiden haven]

by "a pair" you mean a single, uno, 1 pair?

[void lintel]

So maybe we get to decorate our Lodge... somehow. If the feature wasn't discarded

[glad acorn]

Need to spend more time to mull over it. That's 10 pages of texts, mind you

Interviewer: Gib hint on next lodge pair
Interviewee: Send more feedback

This is more proper

Random trivia - The latest pair will apparently do the title call. Does that mean SC Rosa will be doing it next?

[void lintel]

I'm just getting tired of Ash doing it so this will be welcome

[orchid glade]

My one account got to lvl 78 so probably finish in two days minimum my next pair

[glad acorn]

They did hint a pair no one expected (Naomi) and apparently VA at the end of the month

[orchid glade]

Not surprised what does Naomi have

[glad acorn]

No actual hint on which VA

[orchid glade]

never heard of her?

[void lintel]

She's a generic, that's why

Generic Sightseer (Alola NPC trainer)

[glad acorn]

You will be hearing about her in 9 hours from now

[void lintel]

So Youngster Joey and his Ratatta are on the table...

His Ratatta is among the very top percent of Ratatta!

[orchid glade]

Says she has Sandslash so another one?

[late sluice]

another sandslash? this one is kantonian

[void lintel]

Lethartist is saying Naomi/Sandslash is the "pair no one expected" in the interview

Because, well, most people don't know about the datamines

[maiden haven]

VA huh

everyone expects Alola, but Rosa is the SC character

so probably Unova

[orchid glade]

we got Eggmon one

[void lintel]

The reason for Alola is that the datamine shows an all-Alola set of grid expansions for this Masters' Day

And all-same-region expansions only accompany the Villain Event for that region

If there isn't one, the grid expansions are mixed regions

There's also, well, Naomi.

[urban flicker]

do we know the expedition skill of Naomi and Sandslash

[void lintel]

Yes

+2 Fiery

[urban flicker]

what is it?

[void lintel]

She's a typeless Striker

So that's normal

[urban flicker]

rip

[orchid glade]

One before Hoenn Arc didn't have all hoenn

SS Brock

[maiden haven]

But the grid expansions are usually at the 2nd part of the VA

[urban flicker]

I don't know what criteria they apply to give this expedition skill

for example I was expecting for the anni unit to have some good ones

but Ash only has fiery 2 I believe

[orchid glade]

yes one during Hoenn Arc was all hoenn grids

[void lintel]

Because it wasn't before the Hoenn Arc

[glad acorn]

Guess I can just go to sleep, since apparently nothing significant I can find

It does feel odd that they are focusing on Alola pairs this month. At least for grids

[void lintel]

And then it turns out it's just a Johto villain arc rerun, as indicated by Karen's extra grid tiles

[orchid glade]

ye but why do alolan grids now and not during arc

[void lintel]

but tbh I'd be pleased with that anyway since I need Sun Morty and Gioking

[void lintel]

Possibly because the villain arc will land in such a way that next Masters' Day will be less convenient to do it

Like, what if it lands on Sep 26 or something silly like that

[orchid glade]

as long as there aren't more new masterfairs

[maiden haven]

N masterfair and N rerun

watch all the upcoming masterfairs be the same characters

[void lintel]

We just had Archie+Maxie reruns and Ash+Red+ACynthia releases, so that's five consecutive Master Fairs

[glad acorn]

DeNA : We decided not to release more MFs from now on

[maiden haven]

now I know you are lying

[glad acorn]

That's a joke. But them saying not rerunning MFs for lodge is true

Does that mean they can rerun them for other reasons? I don't see why not

[maiden haven]

It doesn't mean not rerunning for lodge, but rather not putting on lodge banner, right?

[glad acorn]

Interviewer : From what I can understand, in order to add a pair to Lodge, you must have that certain pair. So is there any plans for newcomers or those who don't have these pairs?
Interviewee : We will introduce a new banner for that. However, we don't intend to provide easy accessibility for Master Fairs as current players have worked hard to earn them.

=======
Something like that

[random cloud]

So Sync Pairs who debuted as Master Fairs are probably gonna get non-MF alts for Trainer Lodge purposes

[glad acorn]

It's only Leon himself anyway

[random cloud]

As of now that’s Leon, Archie, and Maxie, iirc

[glad acorn]

Ah right, I forgot about the leaders

[void lintel]

Leon+Grookey, then?

[glad acorn]

Not the bomber plane dragon?

[void lintel]

As cool as that thing is, I wonder if the starter is more iconic

[random cloud]

I could easily see Leon + Dragapult for the gacha pair and Leon + a member of the Grookey line for the Lodge pair

[glad acorn]

I guess there is good news and bad news for this 1 pair per month.
Good news, we get 20 power ups and 10 certificates every month.
Bad news, everyone is gonna be in the waiting room

[void lintel]

~10 days to max a pair, 9 pairs +1 every (approx) 30days...

So we'll be fine for two to three months?

[glad acorn]

The reason they go for 1 per month, according to them, is to make sure the interactions are more "unique" since more time will be spent on them

Not sure about the merch. Maybe a new batch when they round up a 5 or 9

[glad acorn]

Guess after you are done with everyone, time to find the pair to go to 99999

[void lintel]

~~You're missing a few 9s there ~~

[glad acorn]

My scouter would break from that

[brave panther]

Oh right thx for the heads up I'll fix that

[pale cedar]

back in my day we accidentally doubled up on vigilance on our dawns and phoebes

[void lintel]

At least Torterra has two eyes

[maiden haven]

"unique" and yet they have like 2 1 minute long day with stories

[maiden haven]

we only get the power ups if we do have the OG pair though, and I can't see myself, as a fairly recent player, go after Steven, N or Lance, there's just not enough gems with how many pairs they are releasing constantly

[glad acorn]

You're not wrong with that, but I think the bad news is still more impactful since there is gonna be more groaning when your pairs are not added

[maiden haven]

My pairs don't even get alts, what would make me so deluded that they get a space in lodge

[glad acorn]

Evelyn tho. Still waiting for her other two sisters too

[maiden haven]

Evelyn and her sisters are BP fodder meanwhile Ingo and Bongo even get to have alts

there are so many popular characters I don't like that I can see myself not getting anything new in my lodge for half a year straight at some point

[void lintel]

If they're all BP, they'll probably all be Supports, which would make for an excellent Kalos expedition team with Sycamore.

Just need a Kalos Elite Four Support

[hard badger]

Does 1 new lodge pair a month mean Karen will be next lodge?

[last trellis]

is it really one a month?

[upper lake]

is there a confirmation about it?

[maiden haven]

11 years of content!

[glad acorn]

They mentioned a pair per month during the interview. Whether if that will change in the near future is up to DeNA

[maiden haven]

pair every other month and taking the place of the EX

[shrewd gorge]

:( I guess we’ll find out when datamine drops lol

[glad acorn]

1 pair per month is unironically proper if they want to keep the value of 5star power ups

Pre-lodge - 100 4star power up per month for 20 5star power up
Post-lodge - Just "farm" for 10 - 12 days

[onyx quarry]

Ive gotten so many from this mode

Even EXing a bunch of stuff this month i currently have 99

[maiden haven]

if they don't keep giving us pokefair pairs for lodge I won't complain

[glad acorn]

Lodge doesn't cost you anything, outside of attention for 2 minutes per day?

[maiden haven]

but they might do stuff like locking Iris behind her Champion outfit

[glad acorn]

Or classic elesa. Or Red

[onyx quarry]

I hope they lean towards adding units already in the game and not just adding whatever new pokefair every month

[maiden haven]

there will probably be alts released conveniently at the same time, as they need to record some additional lines

[random cloud]

I don’t see why they’d do that since it seems like every lodge pair requires their base/debut version

[glad acorn]

Either of the subway masters would get meme'd when one of them got added

Of course, I'm sure DeNA would have to do something drastic at times, since they will really need 11 years to go through the current roster going at 1 pair per month

Maybe they can speed things up once they are done giving all pairs grids

[onyx quarry]

Is that including alts or just base pairs

[glad acorn]

From 2.5 trailer

142 - 9 = 133 pairs to go

Of course, I didn't check if that counts alt or not

Then again, you can check the dex since alts share the same id

She's probably the latest?

[onyx quarry]

Oh dang

[glad acorn]

Naomi should be #154

[wary wasp]

Level 78 w/ Sycamore today 💪

[thick widget]

Actually The Masked Royal and Kukui have different ids...

...cuz they are different characters

[glad acorn]

Smh they still haven't fixed that glitch

[maiden haven]

can you use them together? can't check, don't have Kukui

[kind marlin]

You can’t

I believe DeNa addressed that as a bug? They were like uh I’m sorry we have this weird bug where kukui and MR make the same trainers message appear??

[thick widget]

Very sus

[maiden haven]

but why can you put MR and Leon in the same team...

[thick widget]

[glad acorn]

So I browsed a bit. Nita 153 entry doesn't count unplayable pairs. So if we are to add all those admins, this number can get higher

Last 5 entries : Bede, Looker, Courtney, Ash, Nita

[maiden haven]

Ryuki is not getting into the lodge

[smoky helm]

what’s the point of having a friend ship cap at 100+

[maiden haven]

to limit the number of lodge stones we can get

in their words probably something like "encourage" trying to have more friends

[sharp bramble]

Is there a list of what locations adds what topics yet?

[void lintel]

It says they have the same name
Clearly, it's because... the Masked Royal's first name is Professor! He's Professor The Masked Royal, so he cannot share a team with Professor Kukui.

(Reminder: Oak's first name is Samuel. And Sycamore's first name is Augustine.)

[maiden haven]

(Elm's first name?)

it's Professor

[void lintel]

Good thing he's not here.

[halcyon seal]

@glad acorn you ask yesterday what was my secret and I said some bs to keep the secret. Screw that , you theorized I was redownloading when in fact all you need is a second device. This idea was theorized by @visual remnant and I confirmed it that same day. It's still a drag so I just try to aim for 17X/18X score just enough to get 1 character a week. I've never actually tried for max score yesterday was a fluke.

The pokeballs can also be save scum with the same method but that just seems tedious. Trainer gift can not be scummed sadly since we cant see the item in airplane mode before it asked to connect.

[random cloud]

????????

[glad acorn]

Let me guess. The idea is to attempt with one device, and if you mess up, close and start up with the other device? That's ... brilliant

[void lintel]

Hunh. So the second device can get a different result, causing the clientside save on the first device to be rendered invalid

[halcyon seal]

Airplane mode is key

Search devices go to page 2, scroll down a bit the method is laid out

[glad acorn]

So my suspicion is on point with that damn good rng. Thanks for being honest

[halcyon seal]

@glad acorn yes

[halcyon seal]

Well kinda, I've actually had good rng, I've not scummed it much. Maybe 3 days worth of resets

[visual remnant]

Yooo my crackpot ideas are actually useful

[halcyon seal]

Now if somebody can figure out how the see the trainer item we could guarantee the candy coin.

[glad acorn]

Best to leave it as it is. If too many abused this exploit, DeNA would take action

[halcyon seal]

I actually agree because that would affect their bottom line. It also why I did not want to reveal it but just reading the 1 character a month it's not gonna matter much

[maiden haven]

the pokeball thing is a bigger deal, and i'd probably avoid from abusing it too much

[glad acorn]

Rolling for lodge stone seems hella rough at 1%

[maiden haven]

yeah, but 50 right

that's... free 10 levels a day

[halcyon seal]

@glad acorn yup , tried it a bit and said screw it , dont got time for that

[glad acorn]

So have you ever rng into over 15th topic? That seems to be the highest possible streak

[halcyon seal]

No like I said , I never went for a perfect run, whatever that last pic I posted was my best run.

[glad acorn]

I see. I think I would take anything that is past 200 myself

[halcyon seal]

By the way do we have a +10 yellow + 10 chest team?

[glad acorn]

With SSRC and Lucas, yes

[void lintel]

May
any two +3 yellow
Masked Royal
Wally
Noland

Team B + Rare Extract

[halcyon seal]

Oh I can do that nice. My pulls now take lodge into consideration. The new meta

[void lintel]

Hell, it probably doesn't have to be Archie and Maxie

Could be any +2 Rare that don't bite into yellow

Yellow/Rare is weirdly easy to get.

[glad acorn]

Pre-lodge : This pair is good for its damage dealing and utility...
Post-lodge : This pair has +4 Rare. No but

[random cloud]

Do teams A and B have different starting values?

[void lintel]

Yes

A has +1 red and yellow

B has +1 blue and rare

[glad acorn]

Team A 1/1/0/0
Team B 0/0/1/1

[void lintel]

You can have nobody in the team and still have these values

[random cloud]

Ah, alright. I was wondering why people specified which team slot to use

[void lintel]

(An empty team won't find items tho)

Let's see, you could probably also manage yellow/cache with Alola

Nanu
Acerola
Mina
Masked Royal
Hau
Guzma or Gladion
Team B + Rare Extract

Wait, hm.

I think that's short a yellow point

...I didn't get enough sleep last night, did I

[halcyon seal]

I'm locked into omni extract for 22hours so, I'll look into the best one tomorrow. Maybe still get a bit of red in

Also cheer, not figured out how to force it right?

Just random

[void lintel]

It seems serverside, from what I can tell

And the client might not recheck the Cheer availability until you exit the Expedition screen and re-enter it

James (+2 Rare)
SSMisty (+2 Rare)
SSErika (+2 Rare)
Masked Royal or R.Cynthia (+3 Rare)
Lorelei or Agatha (+3 Yellow)
SSLeaf (+5 Yellow, since MR and R.Cynthia aren't Kanto)

9 Rare and 8 Yellow

Add Team A and Omni to get 10 Rare and 10 Yellow

It could almost work full-Kanto but there aren't any other +Rare trainers that don't bite into Yellow

Only do this if Marnie and/or May are favorites, as yellow-using Lodge Guests are heavily outnumbered

4 red, 3 blue, 2 yellow

[onyx quarry]

Im having trouble making a +10 blue and +10 rare

Ive got 10 blue and 9 rare

[void lintel]

Without Cheer involved, there is only one known possible teamcomp that can do it

And it requires both SSKris and SSGiovanni

[onyx quarry]

👀

I got that...

[void lintel]

Oh. Then let's see

SSKris
SSGio
Silver
Lillie
...Uhh...

[ancient zenith]

lana plumeria

[void lintel]

Thank you

[onyx quarry]

Ahhh its cross regioj

Thats why i never found it

[void lintel]

IIRC Lana and Plum are pretty interchangeable within Alola too

Team B with Rare Extract?

[ancient zenith]

yeah

[void lintel]

I don't have SSGio so I've been reconfiguring my Team B every time Cheer is up

Going for 10red+10rare when Cheer isn't up, and 10blue+10rare when it is

It's kind of a hassle, not gonna lie

[ancient zenith]

i only have ss gio cause of the paid select, i already had cyrus so i thought he was prob next best

[void lintel]

In fact I've been reconfiguring both teams during Cheer to squeeze a few levels into Yellow just for more Tier1 income

Gonna need a few days to see if this is enough to counteract the gradual drain on yellow tier1s I've been having

Seems promising so far, though

[onyx quarry]

Seems i need cheer to reach 10 in rare

[void lintel]

Not cheer

[ancient zenith]

need to switch omni with rare

[void lintel]

Needs Rare Extract instead of Omni

[onyx quarry]

Oh

I see

[void lintel]

10color+10rare tends to require Rare Extract since it's so hard to get 10rare

[onyx quarry]

My item resets in a half hour

[void lintel]

The lack of Omni is exactly why I'm having problems with my yellow tier1 income

[onyx quarry]

This is my other team

Since cynthia and silver both needed fiery crystals

[void lintel]

Those are my teams during Cheer

A at the top and B at the bottom

You can see that they both have a couple extra levels in yellow, as I mentioned

[onyx quarry]

Im only just switching to blue crystals today because after silver im gonna be doing Rosa

[void lintel]

Team B's upper half are all off-region so all those characters are pretty interchangeable

It's always great to have an excuse to use Viola, since she has a rather large rack

[onyx quarry]

Ive been waiting for viola EX please

[void lintel]

(Any Blue/Yellow Gym Leader will work for that slot)

[onyx quarry]

I literally tipped my decision to pull for ss kris based on a potential viola ex nuke needing a rain support

[void lintel]

SSKris is an amazing unit anyway, so she'll be useful regardless

[glad acorn]

Is there any other blue team outside of Alola-Johto blend?

[void lintel]

I just posted one that I can only use during Cheer

Otherwise, no other 10/10 Blue/Rare team exists, to my knowledge

Rather, none that can work without Cheer

[modest delta]

New lodge pairs every month is very nice

I’d like skyla but with 2 unova already I doubt it

Maybe Brendan next

[glad acorn]

That dream team of Sycamore and 4 Chatelaines, after 5th anniversary

[pseudo moth]

Are these worth getting?

[random cloud]

Yeah

They restore some attention and increase the total amount of friendship gained, plus switch up the current topics

[glad acorn]

You need those to multiply your total score for the day for faster levelling

Tier 2 presents should be doable while tier 3 is once in a while

[void lintel]

Plus either Malva or Drasna as a Support. Sycamore's Harem.

[worldly ivy]

wait does someone have a source for this???? I remember them saying a pair per month for the new strength upgrades, but don't remember reading it about lodge

[void lintel]

Famitsu interview

Apparently.

[worldly ivy]

is it online anywhere???? wanna check out the interview myself

[glad acorn]

Can you read jp?

[worldly ivy]

a little

I got the reading skills of a 2 year old, jisho, and a dream

[deep tree]

The regular useless copy paste...

[worldly ivy]

Ah they really flat out say ひとりずつ

[void lintel]

Trainer... 9 people... Balance... Something.

[glad acorn]

Look, I don't like lying

[worldly ivy]

I don't care about the rest of the trainers in lodge plssss add bigger batches

[void lintel]

I could try having Google Lens translate it but I'm worried the weird highlighting might interfere

[void lintel]

1 (something) month... Cost... Quality

[worldly ivy]

But ye thank u lethartist

[glad acorn]

This is for their reply regarding those without the pairs, and how they intend not to include MFs

[void lintel]

I can read almost no Japanese, I'm mainly reading the English loanwords

Trainers... Salon. That must be the feature's JP name...

[glad acorn]

They pretty much mean that focusing on one yields better quality

Yes, the jp name is Trainers Salon

[void lintel]

Bodies...? Oh, Buddies. The JP term for Sync Pair

[glad acorn]

If you can decipher pokemon letters, you can find the name "Trainers Salon" when you get into it

[void lintel]

Master Buddies (Master Pair)
... User... Obtain...

[worldly ivy]

I'm still...... 1 pair a month.......
this mode is gonna die so fast 😌

[void lintel]

I was wondering about that, as I could tell it wasn't Lodge

[glad acorn]

They can still change it if they want to

[worldly ivy]

They better lol

[void lintel]

We'll have enough guests for 2-3 months, and within that time, we can get 30-50 gold keys easily to keep leveling the fave

[worldly ivy]

When I finish all the pairs I have access to and my silver reaches lvl 9999 because I won't be caught dead pulling for marnie >>>>>>>>>>>>

[void lintel]

Bruh wasn't there a whole story chapter about how Pryce wouldn't even let you challenge him until your teammates finally decided they need to work with people they don't like

My problem with Marnie is a different one: DeNA keeps putting people I already have, on the same banners as her...

Gib Marnie+Gloria+Bede Galar banner plx

Ah, good, Google Lens works on this one

[glad acorn]

Last line is wrong

[worldly ivy]

Well pryce can get rekt 😌

[void lintel]

That's the trick. For that to happen, you have to fight him, and you can't

This translation seems shaky too, but intelligible at least

[glad acorn]

The wonder of Google, at least when it works

[void lintel]

Choppy, but it seems to also reference the one-per-month plan

[glad acorn]

Didn't know Stdk is a naomi fan

[sharp bramble]

Hmm

There’s no New lodge pairs this month right?

[void lintel]

Earliest we can reasonably expect one is Oct 1st

So we'd need to wait for the end-of-Sep datamine to find out who, if anyone, it might be...

[sharp bramble]

Think I can finish 3-5 pairs before new ones drop haha

[void lintel]

The plan is a new Lodge guest per month, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will start in October...

[sharp bramble]

Oh neato

[void lintel]

With two teams running Lv10 Cache, you can easily afford to buy a gold friend key every two days or so

By the time you finish Lv100 on every guest, you can pile them all onto your fave and level them up for a good long while afterward for more Lodge Stones

[sharp bramble]

Man I still can’t decide which two cache teams I want

[void lintel]

If you can make the one extant Blue+Cache team, do that and a Red+Cache team
Unless May and/or Marnie is a fave, I guess

[sharp bramble]

Oh only those two use Soothing?

Neato

I don’t have Marnie so once I clear May I’m safe

[carmine sedge]

First time interacting with Lillie

I got this far even if I triggered max vibes first try

[urban flicker]

Blue lv100 obtained

[fallow halo]

Dude keep leaving early 3 days straight now

[urban zinc]

[analog furnace]

She was almost lv96 for me but then decided to drop me right after max vibes

I have 2 gifts to give her too

[urban zinc]

I still have 10

[graceful granite]

Good start

[visual remnant]

First time I got to 0%

I'll get Cynthia tomorrow yey

[dry wolf]

Second pair at level 100 😄 gonna start Blue tomorrow

[lusty hill]

2nd pair? What?😆

[carmine sedge]

Damn, y'all got 2 level 100s now, while I'm only starting on my 2nd

Though I was behind so yeah

[barren egret]

yo cynthia chill bruh

[dense saddle]

BEST DATE EVER

[carmine sedge]

Damn son

[analog furnace]

I didn’t get to use my gift, but luckily:

[urban zinc]

Not too bad for a first

[analog furnace]

Nicee

[carmine sedge]

That's what happened to me with May

[analog furnace]

Just barely then, phew

[urban zinc]

Wow

[analog furnace]

1 exp point over the limit

[carmine sedge]

She was level 96, but she stopped at level 102

[untold coral]

Maxed out may. Who should i max next?? I dont have cynthia, marney, and lillie

[analog furnace]

Oh, that’s not as close

I meant the fact that she hit 1 exp over 100 was super close

[carmine sedge]

Anyone you like

[analog furnace]

I’m gonna do Silver next even tho I’ve done 2 charas that require Red already

[untold coral]

Imma go sycamore

[carmine sedge]

I have so much 4* striker candies

I am out of 4* support candies

So I might get the dupes via Lodge Stones

[abstract marlin]

ended on 38% yay

[narrow crown]

first time i get below 40% and best personal score

[dusky finch]

Another day, another 80%. By now I'm just shrugging and waiting for the next day. Maybe tomorrow it won't end at 4 topics. Unlikely.

[long nymph]

thanks so i doesnt need to pull Ash

also Leon

[modest delta]

cynthia hit 89 today

got 4 gold gifts for tomorrow though

[analog furnace]

I forget, what’s the ideal spot for Silver again? The Battle Villa? Just got started with him

[modest delta]

so should finish my second

[carmine pilot]

The last village, the one resembling traditional japan
It triggers Ninjas

[glad acorn]

I think you might get the wrong idea, but what I'm saying is that they are not gonna add MF into monthly banner. Doesn't mean they can't be added to Lodge

[wooden marsh]

Battle Villa yes, there's Partner Pokemon (10 pt) and PML (7 pt)

[glad acorn]

Just in case someone missed it

[analog furnace]

Seems BV is best, thanks

[glad acorn]

BV, then try to go for Friends as hot topic for Silver

[analog furnace]

Ye but I cbf resetting for ideal hot topics without Feel Ring

Absolute hell

I’m already on my 3rd pair which is decent enough considering they say a pair a month Good enough

[long nymph]

i see, but i guess i gonna still skip it because i not sure if they gonna give Leon and Ash a legendary/mythical pokemon as guest or just normal pokemon as lodge pairs

[carmine pilot]

Idk how you can keep this up, but today my conversations ended at 95 90x2 96 85x2
Much likely yesterday where one x3 ended at 96% literally missing max vibe

[glad acorn]

They will probably release Battle Tower Leon (pokefair) to add him to lodge, probably

[long nymph]

hope they add lodge photos for all previous alts like summer N, anni N, anni Lillie, ssr cynthia, ss cynthia

[carmine pilot]

Keeping track on my average and it's up to 91% with today

[long nymph]

how you guys got good rates? i used one x3 interactions and it ended a topic after i give silver a silver grade present

another single interaction ended before i able to give any present

so my second pair still stuck at 65

[carmine pilot]

Consider you're already lucky you got the chance to give a gift

[long nymph]

i only manage to get 7 levels today

[carmine pilot]

For me it's 7 today
4 yesterday
5 the day before

And i'm splitting interactions, not doing 6x

Always resetting like hell btw

20+ resets at least

[long nymph]

so i already lose hope on lodge, i just gonna treat it like BP as they are players that never missed a point and theres me that are lacking near 2k bp...i already achieved peace and just gonna accept anything that happens in lodge

[carmine pilot]

At least BP is not heavily based on rng

[long nymph]

well i started late so i missing some points than other older players...and those that are newer than me will missing a lot more

[carmine pilot]

Tomorrow i'm going to use gold gifts at 95% at least i'll get some multipliers

[dusky finch]

I'm too lazy to bother with individual interactions, so I just need to be luckier

If I'm not, oh wel

I'd rather get this tedium out of the way quickly

[glad acorn]

No need to rush it. Especially now that we got a hint that it's gonna be a 1 pair per month thing

[long nymph]

wow and i thought i used gold gifts at 80+ already desperate, you gonna use one on 90+

[glad acorn]

Actually I expected an even slower rate. Try 3 pairs every 3 months

[split jolt]

Any recommended pair aside of n, blue and cyn?

[glad acorn]

Oh wait, they are technically the same

Lillie seems good

[split jolt]

Reason?