Trainer Lodge

[hearty slate]

hm i mean i have both teams and one of them is lv9 and one is lv7 w the 3 slots they give

so which one do i drop for red + yellow

[thick widget]

ah, mb

[hearty slate]

yeah

[thick widget]

replace the cache one with red or yellow

[hearty slate]

oki

tenks so much man

then once i get them all ill do cache + colour yeah

[thick widget]

[hearty slate]

omw to be the best poma

[void lintel]

Aaand now I have the cartoon's Season 1 themesong playing in my head

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[raven badger]

friendly reminder you guys can (and prob should) use #bot-zone instead of the thread for personal use of /lodge

[celest sierra]

Reached 100 friendship with Wally
Back to getting N to 1000

[brave gulch]

Out u go

[void lintel]

Neo Blue is so overpowered that he enables a 1/10/2/10 teambuild

[brave gulch]

Woah that's a new one

Wait he replaces the +3 cache

That's pretty big

[quasi sigil]

any possible replacements for James?

[cosmic zenith]

every time i get cocky and try to fit one more topic in there so the gift refresh matters more it blows up in my face and they end the convo… when will i learn

[cosmic zenith]

i’m debating who i’ll work on getting to 100 after n, maybe dawn or acerola? i like acerola and banette but i know dawns a really good support unit… i mean i like her too lol

[sharp bramble]

Depends on your roster and which support you need more really

[void lintel]

I don't think I know of one unless it's okay for it to be 1/10/1/10

[carmine sedge]

Well, there we go

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[runic plaza]

I've been using (minus Lorelei with Variety Lance) for a while

[brave gulch]

There's still no 1/1/10/10 on team A right?

[runic plaza]

Because DeNA refuses to release a Sync Pair that's +3 rare cache -2 firey -2 soothing

[brave gulch]

Waiting patiently

[raven badger]

id 100% fail flannery's gym class if its in a freaking volcano lmao

[void lintel]

Isn't Flannery's gym in a hotspring town? I guess she already lives in a spot with actual volcanic heat

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[naive edge]

hullo!! just wondering, but does anyone have screenshots of the new years theme lodge and the palentines lodge? thank you so much!!

[wide tiger]

New years style

[wide tiger]

Palentines Style

[naive edge]

thank you so so much!!!! these are both so cute 😭😭

[sudden forum]

Dena... it's time to actally do something about this

[wide tiger]

Oh? I dont have the galar pairs o.o

[brave gulch]

Yeah we need this

[sudden forum]

1/1/10/10 without buffs?

[wide tiger]

Im farming Wistful but cant 10/10 ;-;

I have to hunt that field buff every 12hrs

[brave gulch]

Without cheers yes

Just the omniboost

[brave gulch]

We can do this on team B alr which is really good

[sudden forum]

Is that not in the doc?

I haven't updated it in a while actually.

Missing 3 4 datamines of characters.

I honestly need to revamp the teams pages, should consolidate Mael's and mines into one.

Probably make seperate tabs for A & B.

[brave gulch]

Yeah i don't think so

I think the last time the doc is updated was Sept last year

[brave gulch]

Sounds like a good idea but no rush

[void lintel]

Kalos team to slot B
Swap a cache unit for either +2 blue on-region or +3 blue off-region
Add Omni Extract

I think that's 1/1/10/10 without the Cheer boost.

I get that you want both teams producing 10 blue, and I don't think I can help with that. But at least this much is possible

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[celest sierra]

Ran into a Lisia photoshoot

[lucid gulch]

Blue has lots of problems, the 0-6 blue units are from regions that mostly have chest units with -2 blue or very few chest units, then add the fact that there's also no +3 chest unit that doesn't get -2 blue, you can barely get it on team b, however I don't think getting 2 teams with blue is worth

[brave gulch]

When u are going for 1k then yes it's pretty nice to have double same color team imo

[void lintel]

I haven't had problems with that, but... maybe having so many lodge guests to reach 100 first, gave my stone stockpile enough of a head start

[sudden forum]

I've got Blue and N at Lv.1000, Cynthia & Dawn at Lv.200. Steven at Lv. 826.
Never did double color teams. Seem fine on mats.

Missing a lot of artworks though.

[thick widget]

When i buy an artwork i will be poor

Im working on lvl 1000 Jasmine rn and i havent bought Leon's artwork yet cuz of not having enough mats

[lucid gulch]

Yes decorations definitely can destroy your mats

Personally I'm always low on yellow, because the best guests want yellow

Don't use much red cuz the best red quests are still inferior to stuffs like Marnie or Leaf

[brave gulch]

Yeah imo the head start is the saving grace for many of us here but once u start doing someone to 1k and even have a team for that colour u will see the silver of that colour slowly drop

[void lintel]

Ponder, ponder...
If Red makes it into the Lodge, one of two things will happen. Either
A) his Lodge pair will be the first Red that isn't hideously overpowered for the era of its release, or
B) it'll be the first Lodge pair that is

[nimble spade]

idk about calling Mix Red "hideously overpowered" ngl

[brave gulch]

Red will be the hardest to 100 because all his interaction options are "..."

[mortal shard]

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

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[raven badger]

Friendly reminder you can and should use the /lodge command in #bot-zone instead for personal use instead guys!

( Feels like I’m the one to speak up about that a lot of the time in this channel I just feel it’s better than not saying anything when I notice it )

[cedar kestrel]

Completely fine, appreciate you pointing it out

[lucid gulch]

Mix red is a legend, it doesn't exists

However og red was the 1st unit that managed to give seun to teammates, and back then I guess only weather and terrain existed (and grassy terrain wasn't yet a thing) so it was kinda busted for that era (now like SS red isn't anything special)

[void lintel]

Redzard broke the meta on his release
Redlax allowed other people to break the meta on his release
Redchu broke the meta on his release
Redicuno is winning other people's UBs, which may well be close enough
And in an 8-Field Rally I think I'd actually rather use Mix Red than Redchu because the former doesn't need MP

[quasi sigil]

My third 1k guest!

That makes 3 of my babies now

[north moat]

OMG THEEEEEEEEEEEMMMM

[sudden forum]

https://tinyurl.com/PMEXLodgeExpe doc Updated

[brave gulch]

From the last few months oof

[celest sierra]

How fitting I run into this considering that SS Gladion is coming out next reset

[void lintel]

I haven't played S/M. The EN script for Masters makes Gladion sound like he's just kind of a serious guy despite his insistence on poses and (meticulously maintained) torn clothing.

Is he a chuunibyou in JP? Wonder if he manages to still be one while dressed up all dapper in his new fit.

[lucid steppe]

it's just the EN VA missing the mark tbh

even in EN S/M he comes across as a Silver-esque chuunibyou

or, uh, chuunibyou-esque 2010s Silver?

[void lintel]

I'm not sure the VA is the problem, his dialogue in general is just straightforwardly serious

The first several times I saw him, I expected some chuuni nonsense to spill out of his mouth
But... it didn't. Only his clothes, signature pose, and sync animation (gripping his wrist like it's got an evil spirit in it) convey any chuuni tendencies and he's otherwise just the family's straightman

[lucid steppe]

To be fair, with that family, someone's gotta be the straightman or everyone falls apart

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

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

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[cedar kestrel]

@golden skiff In case you weren't aware, we've got #bot-zone for personal commands

[golden skiff]

I know, but I thought most people used this thread to get the charts

[void lintel]

It's okayish since there wasn't any discussion going on, I guess

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Spoopy

... Actually didn't we have an event where that happened once

Viola pointed the camera at just Phoebe but several ghosts were visible around her in the resulting photo

[void lintel]

"You see, dad, his name is Skibidi Toilet and--"

[plain nova]

[sudden forum]

The four six horsemen/women of the expedition-lypse

[crude pasture]

Rare +3 Fiery/Soothing -2 when

[void lintel]

When we get one whose base role is Support

[sharp bramble]

Mean ghost and laid back ghost

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

"Beside you there are two ghosts. One is mean and one is laid back. You are a trainer employed by your regional league challenge."

[nimble spade]

I dont remember the last time I got a 0% interact ngl

[void lintel]

Guess you could say you had his full attention

[waxen bolt]

…

[void lintel]

Gladion said hol up

[sharp bramble]

… dammit woman

[thick widget]

She knows it

[blazing sapphire]

Why doesn’t Dawn like Pokémon friends?

[raven badger]

That smug face man

She’s like “yeah you’re trapped I know it kid”

[sharp bramble]

Yah that was a happy coincidence lol

[void lintel]

I'm not sure she considers her pokémon to be her friends in the way that N and maybe Leaf do

...Hm. Aren't both of those in the Lodge too? I should see if they have that topic and what value it has for them if so

N has it at 10 pts
Leaf does not have it but she has so many 10pt Pokémon topics already that there sort of might not have been room for another

[runic plaza]

AlolaLodgeMax completed

[void lintel]

When you really want to strangle someone but it would cost you your job

[visual remnant]

BITES ZA DUSTO
closes the app

[brave gulch]

Leaf is after all the 2nd best to do interactions with

[blazing sapphire]

Feels slightly against the spirit of Pokémon!

[void lintel]

N treats Pokémon like people. If Leaf started treating people the way she treated her Pokémon, that would be funny

Just rubbing her face on the Kanto gym leaders and speaking in baby babble

Including to Giovanni

[raven badger]

How useful is lodge Cynthia?

Got access to inviting her today

[void lintel]

I've made use of her in Gauntlet. I can also see her being handy in the Rally

Like if you start with Ground Upgrade as your freebie and don't get a better one in the first few rounds

IIRC her buffset is p useful

[raven badger]

https://tenor.com/view/agree-sounds-good-to-me-deal-with-it-gif-7518697

I’ll prob work on her next month then unless the new lodge pair is a fav

Thank you

[void lintel]

Ah, here we are

She has the uncommon combo of team crit and team acc in her buffset

That was why

A little less uncommon these days, with griddable Maylene. But it's still handy to have in case the Rally throws multiple evasion-hax fights at you

[steel crag]

brute forcing evasion hacks through rng:

[lucid steppe]

BRally 6 acc down + 6 eva up

[sharp bramble]

So Hoopa decided there weren’t enough Meowths already

[void lintel]

He's helpiiiiiing

So the next lodge guest will be Skyla, huh. Goes with Elesa!

[pallid ruin]

So guys

Does any of you have a title for 1k

[lucid steppe]

I have a Love to Chat title

with ||May|| on the picture

but the thing is, I don't have 1k with anyone

[sharp bramble]

Huh

[lucid steppe]

huh.

[void lintel]

True Bonder seems kind of popular.
So I decided to set mine to Pokémon Masters Fifth Year instead

I suppose the datamine might reveal what other secret titles exist, though possibly not their criteria

[blazing sapphire]

Do you have True Bonder?

[lucid steppe]

I don't have N

[brave gulch]

Anyone that didn't ex may have the Love to chat?

[blazing sapphire]

I do, nothing to do with EX

[carmine sedge]

So, is anyone using their lodge stones to buy sync orbs to get more grid energy?

[cedar kestrel]

Considering it

Unironically

[sharp bramble]

Same lol

But not doing it yet

I still need to 150 a whole bunch of losers

[thick widget]

i think i have over 50k lodge stones

time to spend all of them

[quasi sigil]

same...

[brave gulch]

Not thinking about it for now, most pairs I have alr are powerful enough the only one I have thrown extra energy for now is roxanne

[void lintel]

Is it N specifically or is he just sort of a mascot for it?

[void lintel]

Whoa.

I had a really good conversation and got the... Good Conversationalist title out of it

[sharp bramble]

Yeah got that one too

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[coral merlin]

Can confirm it isn’t N

Serebii said raise to level 1000

I can see why people think you need N

[formal forge]

What’s the math for saving 10 interaction points when the new lodge pair comes out?

[void lintel]

Depends if you care about the 4 skip tickets from doing at least one interaction daily

Let's see, this is how I did it last time

Skyla arrives at the lodge on the morning of March 1

So this time it would be...

Feb 28: Start with 3. Buy 1, spend 4 at once, buy the last 2, smuggle 2 to the next day
Feb 29: Start with 2+3= 5. Spend 1, buy 3, smuggle 7 to the next day
Mar 1: Start with 7+3=10 (hardcap)

Orrrrrr if you are willing to lose 4 skip tickets to make it easier

Feb 28: Buy two interactions, spend them all. Buy the last one, smuggle it to the next day
Feb 29: buy three interactions, smuggle all 7 of your interactions to the next day without completing a convo
Jan 1: Hardcapped

[solar nimbus]

Any good team suggestions for max red and max treasure for both sides

[random cloud]

Or, as a way to make it even simpler, just treat the 28th and 29th as normal days, except only use 1 interaction each of those days

You’ll be at 5 at the end of the 28th, 7 the 29th, and hit 10 on the 1st

[random cloud]

Iirc there’s expedition team recommendations in the pins

[unique ledge]

Wouldnt u miss the extra 3 on the 29th?

[random cloud]

You’d go from 5 to 8 (then to 7 with 1 use) on the 29th, then 7 to 10 on the 1st

I did that once before to net 10 interactions day 1 of Elesa

[unique ledge]

Yeah but the extra 3 from the shop, or do u do 4 on the 29th

[solar nimbus]

Thank you I found the best teams for me

[random cloud]

The ones from shop are how you get to those numbers

You might technically lose some of the natural regen interactions, but the amount lost is unlikely to matter in the long run

And the method requires like 0 thought

It especially won’t matter in the long run if you’re like me and have already done friendship 100 for all Lodge trainers

OH

Hold on, I mathed wrong, didn’t I

You could go to 13 if you start on the 27th

Er, 12

It’s been a bit since I did this, but the point is no interactions from the shop are lost, the only ones that could be lost are natural regen ones

[unique ledge]

Oh I was assuming it regenned even if u had 3+

So
27th, 6 interactions use 1 u have 5
28th, you get to 8 and use 1 then buy 3 to get to 10 but im assuming u would want to use the 3
29th, you get the other 3 to reach 10 and im guessing you use 6, buy the 3 after and you get to 7
1st, you get the 3 interactions and reach 10 then buy the extra 3 so 13 total interactions on day 1

[random cloud]

The way I'd do it would be 1 interaction used each day for the 28th and 29th (and 27th if 12 is desired) and just otherwise treat it as a normal day

So if starting the 27th it would be 5 interactions at the end of the 27th, 7 interactions at the end of the 28th, 9 interactions at the end of the 29th, for a total of 12 interactions available on the 1st

If you start on the 28th then it's 5 interactions at the end of the 28th and 7 interactions at the end of the 29th, for a total of 10 interactions available on the 1st

Doing it this way, despite the thought needed to explain it, requires little to no thought to actually execute it

It's basically the unga-bunga method for having more than 6 available day 1 of a new trainer

Terrible if you're trying to min-max and squeeze every last drop of friendship out of Lodge, great if you just wanna get more than usual for the new trainer and don't wanna think about it

[unique ledge]

10 before buying the 3 extra daily right? Ig the shop ones dont matter for the 27-29th if you dont want more stones anyway

[unique ledge]

I see ive just been doing it normally this whole time because very few months I actually have a 2nd one to do so I end up just getting someone to 1000 for like the other 3 weeks

Only missing gloria, steven, and adaman rn and ill probably choose redlax from the free select if its just those 3

[void lintel]

This is if you don't mind wasting 3 on the 29th

[void lintel]

Lodge Skyla has Brave Bird and Recoil Removal 9... Finally an alternative to Kahili for accessible phys Flying attacks

Brave Bird's high BP and innate Recoil Removal 9 means she can kinda function without grid investment, too

Innate Haymaker. Wait, does this make her better out of the box than Blue/Pidgeot?

[void lintel]

If nothing else, this is a new useful attacker for the Battle Rally

[sharp bramble]

Bird bomb haha

[brave gulch]

Except that bomb doesn't explode herself

[random cloud]

10 after buying the ones from the shop on the 1st or 29th, depending on what day you start

[random cloud]

Through natural regen, possibly. But none of the ones from shop go to waste

[void lintel]

"Noooo you can't just ignore the recoil from your main attack"
"Ha ha ha Brave Bird go brrrrrd"

[brave gulch]

It's like the good old times of skyla in coop

Brave bird goes brrrrr but from opponent skyla

[void lintel]

How_The_Turn_Tables.gif

[mortal shard]

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

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[shut lagoon]

1000 sync orbs from Marnie (never thought I would be happy with that)

[carmine sedge]

[celest sierra]

Raichu hangout

[void lintel]

Aaaaand turns out I don't need to do this because of the freebie ticket having Gloria on it-- she's the only one of the choices (and coincidentally the only lodge guest) that I didn't already have. Welp

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

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

[void lintel]

It'd seem I'm hardly the only one, hah

[brave gulch]

Best striker to do interactions tied with cynthia

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[coral merlin]

Just a heads up that today’s leap day so tomorrow is Skyla.

[void lintel]

Brave Bird go brrrrrrr(d)
But for me, it'll have to wait until after Gloria

[tepid crater]

skyla will come first for me. she looks like she's going to fix my flying roster!

kahili EX didn't come soon enough

[north moat]

Heads up, looks like Skyla’s infographic got added! Make sure to use #bot-zone to pull it up!

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Technically they're not looking up Skyla

[brave gulch]

Looks like bot is dead

Oh wow skyla is gonna be the hardest support to get to 100

[unique ledge]

Dark mode and the special version

[thick widget]

Why does she not like Burgh that much

[lucid steppe]

Bird eats bug or sth

Or maybe she just hates bugs

[north moat]

Leaf………….omfg Festival of Champions reference

[carmine sedge]

22 levels with Skyla today, the 10 interactions failed because she dropped me at 75%, but the last 3 were good and gave me just as much as a 10 interaction with no item

[wide tiger]

Didnt get her to 200+ ugh

[celest sierra]

Joy!
I have to reset!

You frikin airhead

Well this is cute
I love Irida's expression here

[next stone]

Skyla

bad luck in first convo ugh. level 8 only

[void lintel]

Presumably so that Elesa can score higher than him.
I don't remember Skyla interacting with Professor Juniper...
I only played B/W1, though, and it was years ago. So maybe there was something in B/W2 or I just forgot.

[next stone]

Cynthia liking Sycamore was a curious one for me

[void lintel]

I think I heard somewhere that she actually studied under him... Or maybe that she and Sycamore both studied under someone else? That might be it

[thick widget]

both studied under Professor Rowan

[glad acorn]

[carmine pilot]

Skyla being nice

Also bought this, such good piece https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/604025184692731904/1211567021674729532/i151_0003_0045_00_768.ktx.png?ex=65eeaab7&is=65dc35b7&hm=7f58e5bab3863b405314cd057a4f0bd406229bdab0625aa821b0b36c2b7aae36&

[runic plaza]

12 Gold Items completely wasted

[wide tiger]

Had to actually reset for her topics. :X

[void lintel]

The boys are visibly more excited to be playing with dolls of themselves than the girls are

[plain nova]

Great first day
made up for the horrible pulling

[void lintel]

Looking at this made me realize that of course Adaman and Irida are the only Hisuians getting a modern makeover; if they did it to Rei and Akari, we wouldn't be able to tell them apart from Lucas and Dawn

[random cloud]

Unfortunately Skyla left as soon as Attention dropped below 80%, so I didn’t get to use any gifts. Still a decent showing getting her to Friendship 12 though

[glad acorn]

Irida is worried that it's some sort of voodoo dolls

[carmine pilot]

Irida plushie looks frowned
Maybe she's not ok with that

[raven badger]

“Is that me? wtf?” -irida probably

[void lintel]

I mean that is Irida's resting expression. Maybe she just never realized it

If you Interact with her, she shifts from that exact frown to a happy smile, and then back to that frown every turn. It's almost comical

Silver and Marnie also have resting frowns but they make the transitional smile animations work in ways that Irida kinda doesn't

They really did capture the likeness

[north moat]

That is what the official one looks like btw :0

I have the plush lol

[lucid steppe]

Like, pokemon center plush? The real thingm

Or as in, ingame lodge plush

[north moat]

Used her when I cosplayed as Akari

[lucid steppe]

Oh mannn

I want one

[north moat]

She is adorable

[shut lagoon]

Skyla's so nice

[glad acorn]

Guess I got a good luck this time round

[wide tiger]

gotcha. 3 more days hopefully ;o

[sharp bramble]

I’ve been disturbingly lucky with Skyla

[plain nova]

reach 53 today

[thick widget]

is Skyla the first lodge guest to have Weather as the super exciting topic?

[crude pasture]

Doesn't Raihan love it?

[thick widget]

i always forget that Raihan is a weather specialist

thx for catching that

[crude pasture]

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[carmine sedge]

Bruh, she dropped me at 95% attention WTF

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[celest sierra]

Exactly enough points to reach Friendship Level 30

[carmine sedge]

Literally the 2nd one within the spab of 2 or 3 days

[celest sierra]

||This is a scenario I don't see irl me being in (I'm not good with heights)||
||And THANK ARCEUS that the wind wasn't strong||

[dense saddle]

Wait how didja get that background? I absolutely love it!!

I want it too

[thick widget]

its New Year style, you can purchase it in the shop

[dense saddle]

Thanks

[runic plaza]

This should be a Super Exciting topic

[carmine pilot]

I tought the same literally few min ago
I don't look at charts and Potions caught me off guard

[grim widget]

Skyla is stiffing me

I guess this is the offset of getting very lucky with wally last month

[brave gulch]

Skyla is the same person that likes gyms badges but somehow doesn't like zephyr badge

[celest sierra]

Bc it's not her badge

[visual remnant]

That's like showing a restaurant owner a voucher for a different restaurant and wondering why they threw you out of their shop

[brave gulch]

I mean if your +10 topic is gym badges and zephyr badge is only +5... It makes no sense

[thick widget]

Strangely no one complained about Mineral Badge and Mine Badge during Jasmine interaction yet

[visual remnant]

"That's not Mine Badge"

[shut lagoon]

I mentioned it because I got trolled by Morty once

[thick widget]

I got trolled by Morty once

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

I feel like I remember it being brought up at least once but can't find it when I search for the obvious keywords 🤔

[crude pasture]

That happens with all the gym leaders. They love their badge, they love badges in general, but badges that other leaders give out? They have no special connection, it's more just cool to talk about another badge for the same type

[void lintel]

I wonder if it's because of the implication that you misremembered that this isn't her badge

Wait, which league is the Zephyr badge from

Okay yeah that badge is from PokéJapan whereas Skyla lives in PokéNewJersey

Maybe it's like when a weeb gushes about Japanese culture to a normie

[crude pasture]

Volkner does the same thing with the Rising Badge and Bolt Badge vs the Beacon Badge

[plain nova]

zephyr badge is falkner

anyway just reach 71, in just 3 days, my best so far, thanks Skyla

[void lintel]

Blue also has the Zephyr Badge as a 5pt topic, and they're technically in the same league (Indigo league)

He could just walk over there and greet Falker, and they can bond over Pidgeots.

But maybe once again Blue's slightly bothered by the implication that the player forgot which badge was his to distribute

[amber pendant]

To be fair,I'd be bothered too if People thought I distributed the exact opposite gym badge than the ones I do

[lucid steppe]

Yeah if you go up to a guy and be like "thanks for the Star Wars LEGO you gave me last time" but turns out he gave you Star Trek and it was another guy who gave you Star Wars

The guy would probably be a bit miffed

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Maybe the convo topics are ideas popping into Scottie's/Bettie's head, and since they're not from one of the main series regions, they don't have proper firsthand knowledge of which badges/items are associated with which regions-- they've only heard of them from others talking about them-- and so the "wrong" badge/item keeps popping into their head because they don't have them all memorized

Resulting in the Star Trek/Star Wars style mistake above

[shut lagoon]

Then that means the MC doesn't know where anyone lives

There's always like 3 different regions on Places

[visual remnant]

me_irl

[carmine pilot]

"Places" and you have to select one of three cities

[robust warren]

i saved 13 interactions for her on day 1, got 5 interaction sessions done and she has left on the first attention drop 4 out of those 5 times. she deadass does not like me

worst lodge luck i’ve ever had by FAR

[brave gulch]

Hardest support to get to 100

[plain nova]

I'm at 86 today so hopefully get her next reset
just don't drop me early skyla

[restive scarab]

whats better, bronze hot topic or gold non

or silver hot topic or gold non

[void lintel]

If Max Vibes is already over, I like to spam hot topics even if they're not the highest point value. The halved attention cost increases the odds of the convo lasting for additional turns, which is worth much more than the 5pt difference between worst and best topic

[plain nova]

And done

[mint apex]

This is the absolute best score I've ever gotten

[sharp bramble]

Of course she’s using the much less cooler maskless Unfezant. Oh well, back to maxing out Leaf.

[wide tiger]

2 more days hopefully

[carmine pilot]

Always remember to unlock extra lvls asap
I forgot

[sharp bramble]

Oof

Also 9 interactions at once?

[late sluice]

skyla left me at 96 today it's joever

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[carmine pilot]

Ye, I cycle with max/min sometimes is 10 sometimes is 9

Basically this

[carmine sedge]

Why 12 instead of 13

I see 13, but some are 12

[carmine pilot]

I do 10 max, then stack whatever is left

[carmine sedge]

3 + 3 - 1 = 5
5 + 3 - 1 = 7
7 + 3 = 10

[carmine pilot]

The fifth day is 9, then the cycle repeat

Consider that way I totally skip one day and the "1" day just go random and get whatever result.
Basically focusing 3 days of interactions out of 5 where I can look for a good convo (resetting and so)

[void lintel]

That is for end-of-month maximizing a new guest

TropeCham is just talking about their day-to-day stuff, to play the minigame as few times as possible

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[nimble sinew]

If you have to choose between a topic a lodge trainer is personally interested in and a topic that matches the ‘hot topic’ is it better to choose the latter to keep the conversation going longer?

What’s the best way to get points there

[thick widget]

After activating max vibes, always choose the topics that give the most points

[nimble sinew]

I’ve been doing that, but more often than not they usually end the conversation after 1 or 2 more topics

[void lintel]

I prefer Hot Topics even if they're not worth the most points, as halved Attention costs mean a greater probability of having the convo last for additional turns

Even one extra turn after Max Vibes is likely to be worth more than the 5pt difference between best and worst

[thick widget]

I prefer getting more points by taking more points and praying for luck

So far it has been working for me

[severe river]

I don’t trust them to stay regardless of whether it’s 80% or 50% so I’d rather just take guaranteed extra points compared to 5% less attention

[sharp bramble]

I don’t trust my luck

I’m getting maximum points and to hell with 5 point hot topics

[carmine pilot]

I'm doing both
Above 80% i pick any hot topic, even +5 to keep attention high
Below that it's common to get dropped within one or two interactions so I go for +10

[blazing sapphire]

Someone do the maths because I just take guaranteed points

[lucid gulch]

Can't even use a silver item on Skyla yet

She always leaves before 80% and when she leaves after I've already used a bronze one at third topic to refresh for hot topic

[lucid gulch]

If you pick the 10 regular you are more likely to end the Convo, but you know that you got full points for that interaction, if you go for 5 hot topic, you are less likely to end the Convo, but there's always a chance to end the Convo with less points, getting 7 hot topic vs 10 regular may be a good deal if attention isn't too low, I guess the higer is the attention, the more is worth gambling with lower score hot topics, considering that an extra topic may be worth something like 18 points, plus getting lower attention drop early on compounds to the whole interaction, I mean 95 > 85 > 75 has better odds than 90 > 80 > 75

[glossy cedar]

Been talking to her daily ever since she arrives and not even breaking 50

Is it better to save max vibes for later? Does it earn less points if you use it early?

[void lintel]

Technically yes

But you also risk the convo dropping out before you trigger Max Vibes at all

[void lintel]

Maybe she's weirded out by the wall of plushies of her bestie

[covert halo]

What determines the number of interaction before the convo dropping out?

or rather, is there a guide anywhere for interactions?

[carmine sedge]

Convo dropping is entirely random

It can even happen when your attention reaches 99%

[covert halo]

i see...

[void lintel]

Attention% is "the guest will stay with you for another turn"%

So they grow more and more likely to leave as Attention depletes

It's why it's so rare for a guest to stay all they way until 0%

Had to survive the turns with the dwindling Attention% on the way there, after all

The first two turns have no Attention cost so the convo cannot drop out (because you still have 100% survival rate)
Max Vibes will prevent dropout as you enter it, and once more between the two turns it lasts. The convo is able to drop out again the moment it ends, based on Attention% as usual

[covert halo]

ah ic ic, ty

thats good to know

[sharp bramble]

Gastly infestation

[covert halo]

does bonus events do anything?

[void lintel]

Spawns an item on the ground, of a higher tier than the usual daily floor-loot

E.g. a more advanced item (codex instead of tome) or simply a larger quantity

When you see a bonus event, look around for the item before you leave

[covert halo]

ah ic ic, ty

[wide tiger]

Got her whee

[coral merlin]

20 levels this reset. Getting her tomorrow.

[thick widget]

I guess instant EX on her lodge pair paid off

[formal hornet]

I just had max vibes fail to happen? Never seen that before

Is that a new feature

[thick widget]

unless you use juice item, max vibes has a chance to fail

[formal hornet]

Huh maybe I misclicked

It failed twice now skyla is stuck level 99

Ty

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[celest swallow]

Looks like focusing on chests for both teams came back to bite me.

[unique ledge]

Should get her tmrw, went from 80 > 94.99

[void lintel]

That surprises me unless you didn't manage to get at least one of them to 10 in the color of the guests you were leveling

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[severe river]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/1ba6c8v/short_on_sync_orbs_try_this_one_trick_for/

[carmine pilot]

It's a long grinding time, did that when Lodge was released but ehhh

[celest sierra]

Finally got this pilot's dirty birb

Back to hanging out with N

[robust warren]

dude i swear i have only been able to give gifts twice and she left immediately after anyways

have never had luck this bad before with a lodge unit

this is insanity

[void lintel]

It had to happen eventually, I suppose

[lucid gulch]

Same

[lucid gulch]

She's cursed, I reach 80% and she drops just before I can use my item

Got her at 77 too

[grim widget]

Just in time for tomorrow

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[lucid gulch]

Managed to give skyla silver presents only once so far

She always leaves over 80%

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Yesterday I started thinking a little too hard about what this is supposed to be

I majored in Chemistry and I think there might be an electron orbital shaped like that? But that's probably not it

This morning a much more ridiculous but plausible explanation popped into mind.

Maybe it's a joystick for a fighter jet.

And then I got mental images of the basic Unovan bird mon (Pidove) piloting Skyla's body with it like Ratatouille.

Perhaps even piloting her body to pilot a plane.

[covert halo]

I think it was meant to alude to helicopter blades

[void lintel]

The petals? I can kinda see that being possible, if the hair itself is not the focus.

... The hair kind of is a highly-visible bright red though, and the petals are sky blue like her suit, implying they're the background of the sky

[carmine pilot]

Ye, her design is aviator-inspired
Propeller hair ornament, gloves, and even the haircut resemble a old aviator hat loosey lacets

[void lintel]

Okay but I'm going to keep imagining the Ratatouille thing because it's funny

[severe river]

Glad that’s over

I now dislike Skyla

Time to move on to Gloria

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[analog furnace]

Road to lv1000 ig May as well check

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[brave gulch]

4th one done

[sharp bramble]

… whoops thought I chose a hot topic

[grim widget]

Why is this a pokemon topic?

[blazing sapphire]

It isn't?

[sharp bramble]

It’s an Other isn’t it

[covert halo]

anything at lv 1000 friendship? or is it mostly an honorary achievement?

[sharp bramble]

You get a title and the circle of that character in the invitation screen reaches its final level, rainbow color

[void lintel]

How to get Stronger is indeed a Pokémon topic.

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Been there since at least Silver

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[sudden forum]

@plain nova Do you have a place where I can browse all your infographics? The ones for the TL are broken in the pins. But I'd also just like to look through some of the character ones.

[sudden forum]

found one: https://preview.redd.it/8apqcx5848l91.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=31fd14dd76370cb555a00e67f0992e3abe317bc5

[plain nova]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/s/nRKcmFKPXy

[carmine pilot]

You may want to apply the mysterious stone changes to those drops

#1012298913279127582 message

They cut some % from manuals and sync orbs for mysterious stones

[plain nova]

I also need to add special interactions pokeball drops

[covert halo]

Just had a good run... I was surprised by how much the % tanked after like the 10th convo, was nonhots were dropping it by 20%+ normal?

[blazing sapphire]

Yes, the drops increase each time

[covert halo]

Ah ic ic ty

[void lintel]

Feels like there are some "breakpoints" where the Attention cost rises, though I haven't kept track of where they are

Well, I guess the first one is turn 3, where the cost goes from 0 to ~10

[lucid steppe]

Basically we always hit 0 by 15th convo

[covert halo]

😂

so I needed 1 more convo XD

[flat lantern]

how many days in average does it takes you to take the new lodge character to lvl 100?

[brave gulch]

10

More realistically 8

[carmine pilot]

Usually between 5 days or one week depending if I like that character or its unit

[void lintel]

20 levels per day, every day? That's way above what I'd expect unless you do the multi-device savescum

[brave gulch]

I'm guessing it's because saving interactions for the first interaction of new lodge character

[carmine pilot]

Yup. If you start with 13, dumping always gold gift at 80% to avoid early shafts it's easy to reach 100 within one week

[carmine pilot]

With the two device trick you can just do it in three days easily

[sharp bramble]

That’s a lot of annoying work lol

Too much hassle for me

[ocean cipher]

Hey, so with trainer lodge pairs, it says that
"Sync Pairs join your team the first time you obtain them. From the second time on, their sync moves and move level will level up" in the rewards screen for the lodge pairs

is it possible to get multiple of the same lodge pair?

like, every 100 friendship levels, do you get another so you can increase their skill level, or do you have to use 4-star move candies

[plain nova]

You can use 500 lodge stones to buy extra copies or you can use candies if you want

[ocean cipher]

ah, okay, I didnt know about the 500 lodge stones, ty!

[plain nova]

I personally use both candies and lodge stones, support candies are rarer so you want to use lodge stones, for strike I just use candies

[covert halo]

two device trick?

[sharp bramble]

With two devices you need to go into lodge and start the conversation. With device A you do it normally, but if your not satisfied with your points you can quit from Device B and you can try the conversational over again

Or something to that effect

[covert halo]

oh, thats interesting, nice to know, and no banhammer resulted in that?

[sharp bramble]

You get your lodge unit like 3 days early at max lol

No nobody got banned

[covert halo]

ooo, sweet, will keep that trick in mind, may do that myself

[carmine pilot]

It's basically soft resetting but on two devices, so it's just fine as stacking interactions or rerolling topics

But has little no reasion now
When TL dropped we had 8+ units in one month and Feel Ring was crap (bcs topics were not reappearing)

Now lodge is easier and we got other sources for certificates so there's no hurry

[covert halo]

😂as someone who started 12 days ago, I cannot deny having 8+ units myself

To grind

[carmine pilot]

Fair

[covert halo]

But yea, ty for the info, good to know, may try it out when I can bother to get the 2nd device set up 🤣

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal hornet]

What's the strategy after you have everyone at lvl 100? I couldn't really find an answer in the pins

[void lintel]

Use keys and keep leveling people for more lodge stones

You can trade lodge stones for stuff. Sync orbs and Certificates of Excellence, especially

As a little bonus, the frame around the guest's portrait will change color at certain milestones

While the max level is some comically high number unreachable within a human lifetime, the highest milestone that changes the portrait frame is 1000

If there's one or more characters you'd prefer to befriend over the rest, go for them first (since you're gonna have to look at them every day)
If you absolutely and truly don't care, you could instead focus on ones that have higher average scores (e.g. Marnie has the highest, and is the easiest to befriend)

[amber pendant]

Oh,thats a thing? Where does Skyla rank?

[void lintel]

...Poorly, IIRC

But if she's a favorite, may as well befriend her

She dropped out on me right after Max Vibes for three days in a row but that has nothing to do with average topic score

[covert halo]

bug? apologem time?

[void lintel]

No, just bad luck.

[covert halo]

😢

[void lintel]

Max Vibes protects the convo from ending exactly twice:

1. as you enter it
2. on the transition between the two turns it lasts

As such, you are no longer protected when it ends, so the convo can drop out immediately at that point if the Attention% roll is unfavorable

I just amazingly managed to land on the 4-6% chance to lose the convo at that exact moment, three days in a row

(Because Attention would've been 94-96% at the time)

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[nimble flame]

It was a lie this whole time

[void lintel]

I am amused that it is an option

Her ability to pull extra potions from thin air is just so clutch sometimes, but I guess she might not exactly love doing it

[sharp bramble]

Unlike Leaf

[visual remnant]

The difference is that Leaf loves taking care of Pokemon and wants to make sure they're not hurt

Whereas Skyla keeps truckfuls of Potions because of her Gym layout, and she does not want to be sued again

[void lintel]

Traps in Gyms
Super Exciting!

Makes sense.

[late sluice]

getting closer day by day

[robust warren]

i had a baller interaction (185 x 1.3 x 10) but then i realized i forgot to increase the friendship cap beforehand so i got literally nothing from it🗿

not my proudest moment

[little walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/goldberg-whos-next-wrestler-challenge-point-gif-17374874

[radiant rampart]

coming late, what's the trick anyway?

[brave gulch]

I'm guessing going in and out of expedition teams and hoping for bonus event hoping for sync orbs

[radiant rampart]

so it's 2 two-device trick?

[brave gulch]

No it's just one device

U keep going in and out of expedition and hope u trigger a bonus event which has a PokeBall which might have sync orbs

At least that's my guess

[covert halo]

that works?

and ugh, what are the chances of that?

most of the bonus orbs i got were codices

[radiant rampart]

I think there's more to it than that

[covert halo]

hmm, I hope so, did it for half an hour, got a bunch of codices, and 1 set of 1k orbs

its nice, and ill probly be doing this given how desperate i am for orbs, but... at this rate, im more likely not to ever need codices farming than actual orbs

tho i do wonder if this is considered an exploit and whether its bannable XD

especially with the author deleting the post ;p

[radiant rampart]

The mechanics behind bonus events is that the game will give you 2 pokeballs (each from 2 teams) every day from the bonus event (including regular pokeballs which are 4).

The reason why there are so many pokeballs is because they will stack if you don't collect 4 that day.

I don't know the limit of how much it can stack

However, basically it will still be limited, and when you have received enough, it will run out, so there is no "Infinite" here.

Maybe the other guy had mistaken it for something else or had some other trick. Unfortunately, before I could read it, it was deleted.

[covert halo]

ooo, thats nice to know, ty

so bank up for a few days and do this refresh for bonus?

[brave gulch]

I mean are u that desperate to need those sync orbs

[radiant rampart]

Nah, no point in doing that. You can just collect it anyway unless you are sure what is inside the pokeball is sync obs

[covert halo]

very, I have 2 I definitely need to max out grid by the 24th to not miss out on 1.1k gems, so 15k orbs, and not counting 4 more I would like to have at least half-maxed for some of the challenges to not miss out on 200 gems before the 18th, so another 10k orbs or so, I am sitting on 4k orbs atm (have bought out all the event orbs, all the lodge orbs, all the mystery stone orbs, currently contemplating using battle rally token for those sweet 10k orbs per trade).

literally praying to rare cache to give me more orbs XD

[covert halo]

oh, how do we collect it if the event don't pop up?

[radiant rampart]

go back and forth til u see it

[covert halo]

oh, so do a daily refresh for it instead of bunchin them up?

[radiant rampart]

yes

[brave gulch]

Huh I'm so confused how orbs are related to gems but u do u

[covert halo]

event missions

can't beat them without developing some flinch/nuke on some pairs

[brave gulch]

I mean use alternative teams or wait for other clears from someone?

[covert halo]

no major alternatives XD

14 day old account, roster is very thin

[brave gulch]

Eh that's pushing your limits a lot for a 14 days old account

[covert halo]

its either hapu + nanu with decently developed grid or forgo the 1k gem for all mission and 100 gem for that one mission

[brave gulch]

Idk but good luck

[covert halo]

ty XD

so yea, desperate for orbs ;p

[brave gulch]

I would just forgo the gems not like Dena not throwing enough free gems constantly alr

[covert halo]

XD, also trying to make it to april 1st with 36k gem to pull for ss gladion, and i think i am pretty close to the margin at 27k and around 10k left of the month XD

but yea, forgoing some of the lesser 100 gem if needed, but that 1.1k gem is quite a big chunk not to push the limits XD

quite happy still to even get 1k orbs out of these bonus event XD, thats 1 day less i need to worry about ;p, and ty for all the tips~

[void lintel]

Wonder if there are equivalents for the other three.

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[wide tiger]

Wheee. Finally

[coral merlin]

Holy.

Trying to aim at 10000?

[brave gulch]

Let's see how long it takes marnie to 1000 with only bronze gift since I ran out of pairs I genuinely want 1000

[void lintel]

Bronze currency might actually be harder to keep stocked than silver currency, since it doesn't spawn in rare caches though

[brave gulch]

Yeah normally that's the case but.. years of accumulating truly is something

[shut lagoon]

[sharp bramble]

Oof

[cosmic zenith]

dawn i stg

[void lintel]

Dawn with the Wind

Don't let the door hit your grass on the way out

SinNOh

Pokémon BYEmond and Pearl

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[sharp bramble]

The MC keeps barging in on other people’s dates lol

[void lintel]

More like the recon drone, since the MC can't actually go on the expeditions.

This... doesn't make it better

[blazing sapphire]

Drone does explain why it's always a video

[void lintel]

...Might even be a spare Poryphone, now that we know those can work like drone copters

Courtesy of Hugh crankily coaching Penny on social interactions

Wonder whether those are merely themed after Porygons or if they're inhabited and operated by Porygons like the Rotom Phone is

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[long merlin]

I had the perfect interaction but Steven decided to leave before i could gift again

Also i got steven and raihan from mix and I’m only missing marnie for 27/27 guests

[covert halo]

Usual tactic is gift after 5th, risking the 6th is... less than perfect 😊

But yea, even 95% leaving does happen quite often, so it is something we live with 😂

[lucid steppe]

Happened to me today at 90%

But yeah 96% leaving suckkks

[long merlin]

[junior dragon]

How do you use this bot for interaction chart?

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Is it not self-explanatory? It tells you which subjects count as which topic (for the purpose of knowing whether it's the Hot Topic and can trigger Max Vibes), plus their score values

That Swimsuits 10pt topic. Man, people have been clamoring for a Summer Cynthia since launch

[void lintel]

It also shows which subjects are location-exclusive, and which locations they're tied to

[junior dragon]

I just needed the command and figured it out. Please chill

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[long merlin]

so i gifted at 90% to steven and he left at 81% afterwards. 113x6

[void lintel]

That seems a little low unless you didn't get Max Vibes

[covert halo]

Also, did you pick hot topics over fav topics?

[rancid lance]

0%

[covert halo]

nice!

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[ocean cipher]

she wont stop talking to me 😭

[covert halo]

Reminds me of mom 😂

[inland goblet]

She is yapping

[void lintel]

Someone finally asked her about how much effort it takes to maintain that figure rather than simply saying she's good-looking

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[manic wave]

To you just wanna go for the topics that the hot topic is or just the general best ones

[void lintel]

First two turns: try not to pick a Hot Topic
Turn 3 exactly: This is the ideal time to enter Max Vibes, so try for a Hot Topic now
During Max Vibes: Prefer not Hot Topics, as their Attention-cost-halving effect is wasted (Max Vibes already reduces Attention cost to zero)
After Max Vibes: I like to spam Hot Topics even if they're not the highest score value from here on, as the reduced Attention costs might mean an extra turn or two

Each turn, you get bonus points based on how long the convo has been going on; the value of an extra turn is this plus the 5-10 pts from your choice. A longer convo can make the turn bonus more valuable than the difference between the best and worst possible choices

[manic wave]

Is it random when a convo ends

[void lintel]

Yes. Attention% is the chance for the convo to continue, so the convo will become increasingly more likely to end as Attention% dwindles

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[manic wave]

A my convo usually ends at 80% so not that lucky then so just spam hot topics after max vibes on turn 3

[void lintel]

Well, after max vibes ends, which'd be around turn 5.
The thing is, the convo is more likely to end than you might expect...
As an example, let's say the Attention% went from 100% --> 90% --> 80% --> 70%.
The chance of the conversation surviving that long is 1.0×0.9×0.8×0.7

50.4% survival rate. You have basically coin-flip odds of the convo dropping out at that point or earlier

[manic wave]

That is true

[covert halo]

BTW, does the drop percentage chance base itself on % before or after the choice?

[void lintel]

After choice

Used to be that the attention deduction was displayed after the guest's reaction animation. An update moved that to before the guest reacts, probably to make this clearer.

[nimble spade]

Thats 3, woo.

[void lintel]

Just as it was in the Kanto league challenge... Blue made it to the Lodge before Red did

[covert halo]

Red is going to be a pita for lodge tho, since the only normal red is redlax and red venusaur, neither of which is easy (or f2p friendly) to get XD

After all, no one likes to deal with something like cynthia for lodge XD

[void lintel]

He'll be on the Monthly Fair

And wasn't he one of the freebie ticket scout choices just recently

[carmine pilot]

Yup, we had him for free

But I bet many went for Lucas
But old pf are appearing in half/anni free selects

[covert halo]

oh? lucas and redlax weren't the first free pf selects?

[carmine pilot]

Nop, we got plenty chances to grab free pfs

4 big selects in total
#1142434215208702073 message

Lodge pairs like N Gloria Cynthia Steven happened twice
Marnie n Raihan just once

[celest sierra]

I don't think I'll reach lvl 1000 with this guy before the next Lodge character drops (assuming it's gonna be someone I have)

[sharp bramble]

I’m done with my fourth Lodge rainbow invitation, after Cynthia, Steven, and Rosa, moving on to my fifth, Gloria

[void lintel]

This camera angle makes it look like the Pikachu is perched on his hat

[icy pecan]

is there a tier list for trainer lodge pairs?

[carmine pilot]

You can find them in the general tierlist
But overall we got good supports like Gladion Giovanni Dawn Blue Wally
And nice tech like Serena and N
The strike ones aren't really amazing so you can get them later

Next HSE will be Water/Fairy so i think can be helpful having lodge units like Lillie Leaf and Rosa

[thick widget]

the strike ones have Lodge Skyla who is very good if you lack good Flying dmg dealers or your Blue is only 1/5

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

In the very niche event that you end up getting all your good supports and Skyla, and still are orb-starved to the point where you haven't gridded Silver&Ho-Oh yet, Lodge Calem is very functional as a fire striker gridless.

[junior dragon]

Wait Cynthia and Gastrodon aren't a good support?

[carmine pilot]

Yeah she's quite good

[junior dragon]

Cool! I've been leveling up her now and she is also my favourite

[severe river]

Double 2k

[junior dragon]

I wanted to know what's the benefit of leveling up lodge sync pairs till 1000! Just curious because I see everyone having friendship level 500+ and 1000+

[severe river]

You get 10 lodge stones for every levelup, just like normal, but not any other rewards
It’s not worth doing until you already have all owned Lodge Trainers to level 100

[junior dragon]

Thanks for clearing that. I will first get all the support units at 100 and then increase my friendship level with Cynthia

[void lintel]

We go to 1000 after that because the guests' portrait borders change color at certain milestones, with 1000 being the last one (rainbow)

Best to Lv100 all guests, even ones you don't particularly like, because they could be handy in the Battle Rally

Plus, well, the Lv1-100 rewards

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[formal forge]

Since we have two more resets until Volo gets added to trainer lodge, this should work right?

Day 1: Start with 3. Buy 1, spend 4 at once, buy the last 2, smuggle 2 to the next day
Day 2: Start with 2+3= 5. Spend 1, buy 3, smuggle 7 to the next day
Day 3: Start with 7+3=10 (hardcap)

Also what materials will Volo need, as a field pair?

[junior dragon]

Maybe wait for the interaction chart for Volo and use this strat

[void lintel]

I dunno. I'd plan for it but I'm outta gems so I can't get him

[amber pendant]

Wait hold. It adds 3 each day,not to the cap?

Wait hold. It adds 3 each day,not to the cap?

[formal forge]

You get an additional 3 interactions a day. If you force quit during an interaction (but not in the middle of picking a conversation option), then you get your interaction points back

That lets you carry over interaction points to the next day

[amber pendant]

Damn. If I had know I'd game the interaction count more

[carmine pilot]

Pomatool is already updated if you need to check

[carmine pilot]

Just reach 7 at Day2 as you prefer
I would do a x5 on Day1
Buying the last one from the shop
Then no interactions on Day2
And you got your 7 +3 on Day3

[shut lagoon]

Wait, I just noticed

Volo is Field, which color of stone does he use?

[carmine pilot]

Soothing

(Orange]
Guess make sense since those role are more tech-like

[junior dragon]

Ok sure! Thanks

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[lucid gulch]

I think this month will be a Marnie interaction month

Don't know if I really want to get volo

His kit is quite weird

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[junior dragon]

Very unpredictable

[lucid gulch]

The only good thing is that fairy zone the 1st time you use The buddy move and I think the pmun and smun are guaranteed everytime you use it, I guess the extra damage from the metronome is more of a bonus, and if you are going for off-type I guess the metronome damage will still be decent even if it has only 20% chance of getting boosted by fairy zone

[brave gulch]

He's more of a zone and circle with utility imo, his kit is really loaded even for 1/5 imo

[lucid gulch]

Don't know if it's better to get him in the regular banner and get a role cake coin, or wait for a lodge rerun for a chance at a pokefair dupe in the process

Maybe the guaranteed cake coin is more reliable

[brave gulch]

I wouldn't pull a banner just for the cake coin

[lucid gulch]

Not just for the coin, I meant that I don't know if it's better the regular volo banner or the potential lodge volo banner

Was just wondering if the coin is worth more than the chance at pokefair dupes

I mean getting a pokefair dupe is better, but the coin is guaranteed when you get volo (do you still get the coin if you pity him right?)

[brave gulch]

If u dont see yourself using him in a team right now, its probably better to wait for a pokefair select that has him

[lucid gulch]

Select isn't really an option cuz they cost like 3k paid gems minimum

So the choice is between regular poke fair and lodge fair

Maybe I can hope for a double feature or triple feature, and hope it gets paired with units that I miss

But is quite unlikely

[cedar kestrel]

Y'all maybe don't discuss gacha & kits in the lodge thread

[wide tiger]

He lete go at 50% hum

[mortal shard]

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

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

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[sharp bramble]

Woo Gloria gave me an Omni Candy Coin. Now that’s what I’m talking about

[hot solar]

Hey folks, what materials does Volo need for gifts?

[thick widget]

From what i heard, he uses yellow shards

[hot solar]

just confirmed this with Absol, thanks!

[thick widget]

Np

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[shut lagoon]

Oh god, Twitter is canon...

[void lintel]

Sightseers and Raihan take selfies every fifteen minutes, so... yeah?

[covert halo]

...X

[shut lagoon]

How long till Volo violates ToS?

[covert halo]

With X's mods...? likely never. Since they gutted that dept preeeetty hard

[shut lagoon]

...good point lol

[celest sierra]

Johto E4 meetup

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[glossy cedar]

Finally

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[nova gulch]

How long did this take😭😭

[covert halo]

Depends on luck, but generally around 2mo to 3mo

[pallid ruin]

the mystical admin that isnt in the game

[wide tiger]

Noice 208 points o/

[brave gulch]

Best interaction with volo so far

[junior dragon]

Is there like a best location for a pair?

Or any random location is fine

[thick widget]

Each pair has 1 or 2 best location(s). Take Volo for example, as you can see Trainer Lodge is his best location, followed by Villa (lvl 40)

[junior dragon]

Ok the rank 1 in gold is their best location

[mortal shard]

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

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[runic plaza]

A very good session out of nowhere

[plain nova]

ok Volo is an ahole, dropping at 90% 2 days in a row

[covert halo]

Not best interaction in lodge? Scored even higher than that before?

[brave gulch]

Yeah unfortunately not recorded since it's before the update

Adaman

Way back

[covert halo]

oh, just barely higher at 362

[brave gulch]

It's done with silver gifts not gold

[covert halo]

yup

would be higher with gold

but your volo with gold is a 355, so its very close to 362 XD

and the record in adventure log somehow always record the gift multiplier in the final score XD

[brave gulch]

Best way to get highest record is through gold gift marnie tbh

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[covert halo]

i can see why XD

tho if you can farm location, I'd think blue is probly the best

[brave gulch]

Nobody to this date even comes close to her total interaction points

[covert halo]

its places is a crazy one with lodge as location

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[covert halo]

marnie is easy on the reroll for sure, but~~ blue is probly the best for high score~~

since if you reroll for places, you can get 6 super exciting topics

[brave gulch]

Nah it's not

Cynthia is best in lodge

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[covert halo]

oh yea, it is better XD

nvm then XD

[brave gulch]

Followed up by Rosa

[covert halo]

never gotten cynthia before ;p

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[covert halo]

oh forgot her XD

maybe i should try for a new HS with rosa... XD

[brave gulch]

If we are talking about specific place like lodge

Cynthia > acerola/rosa

The top 3

[covert halo]

oh, anywhere in general, is there a 7 super exciting anywhere that can top that?

[brave gulch]

Nope

Morty is also good in villa

[covert halo]

hmm, yea, probly rosa acerola is the most accessible for me for high score, may need to grab cynthia eventually... hope they give a free select for anni XD

auto correct woes

[brave gulch]

81 in lodge: cynthia
79 in lodge: acerola, rosa
77 in lodge: blue, wally

79 in villa: morty
77 in villa: acerola, volkner

I guess acerola is your best bet

[shut lagoon]

Oh my god

[void lintel]

Barry and his dad finally getting to have interactions

[covert halo]

Depending on how you set up the teams, they can always have an interaction

[sharp bramble]

EGGS

[void lintel]

https://i.imgur.com/yGS0DvD.jpeg

...Oh, huh, is that a new Lodge style?

[celest sierra]

Not bad

[sharp bramble]

Yeah just released

[void lintel]

I ran off to check right away, last night, but got immediately sidetracked by the spooky April Fools' Day stuff. Halloween 2: Electric (Blackout) BOO-galoo

[covert halo]

Same, too busy finding the perfect poster to decorate the two sides of the expedition door

[random portal]

two new special events added
||Penny showing her entire team
Galar Band from Sw/Sh end credits with Hoopa||

[void lintel]

Had to look up what that was.
Fitting, in a way, for the birthplace of heavy metal rock.

[random portal]

currently on funny number with Volo

31 levels left to go

[junior dragon]

Should I just use 1 interaction?

I really want to level up Volo next

[carmine pilot]

Sure, why not

[junior dragon]

Yeah used 1 on Cynthia and 5 on Volo! Volo is such a good listener i love him

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[formal forge]

Are Silver crystals the bottleneck for Redecoration awards? I have so many Bronze crystals, and enough Gold/ ultra crystals to buy out the shop, but I don’t have enough silver / great crystals to buy everything

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[glad acorn]

Don't you just love these 4% chances to drop? Like, what are the odds?

Like, DeNA, convert those RNGs into pulls, will you?

[shut lagoon]

The odds are 4%
Ur welcome

[blazing sapphire]

Two units not in the game

[random portal]

Oh my god.

I'm getting gible tomorrow from that.

[lucid steppe]

drops at 96% on 9x interaction
true story sadge

[sharp bramble]

A regular Romeo and Juliet

[void lintel]

Star-crossed

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[waxen bolt]

and they were roommates

[sudden forum]

Mission: Make good Expedition Theme Skills
Challenge: Impossible

[carmine sedge]

If only that chance was as high as my pulls

[void lintel]

Still annoyed that protagonist Neo Champions have the Main Character stat spread instead of the Champion one

[random portal]

@remote warren use "/lodge (Name of character)"

don't use ""

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[crude pasture]

[waxen bolt]

and they were roommates

[crude pasture]

Oh my god they were roommates

[void lintel]

Does Victor have a counterpart, or is Bede too insufferable to ship with him

[shut lagoon]

They're stargazing, that's so cute

[void lintel]

94 rare caches... Just below the max (100). You checked in on your expedition with good timing.
Especially getting to see this.

[buoyant carbon]

What's a good way to farm wistful stones

[thick widget]

you setup a team with lvl 10 on wistful, then wait

[random portal]

Gottem

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[buoyant carbon]

Yeah I did that but it's not much

Idk ig I gotta not take the extra interactions and horde

Doesn't cache help?

Oh bruh

I guess I do need to do the cache stuff

Alright I need teams then

[thick widget]

the pins have various examples

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[brave gulch]

Out u go

Done with volo

[late sluice]

i think he was upset i forgot to talk to him yesterday

[junior dragon]

How to unlock bonus event?

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[thick widget]

It spawns randomly. You can try forcing ones by opening the expedition teams menu and quitting, then repeat

[carmine pilot]

Finally, got my boi Gible

[long merlin]

I start befriending volo next reset

i logged in 3 minutes before reset yesterday/today and only got to do the regional stage and got my strike candy coin

[celest sierra]

I now have this guy's smol shark

Continuing with N tomorrow

[north moat]

[junior dragon]

Best Volo interaction yet

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[sullen bolt]

Triple Galarian Meowths

[junior dragon]

🧎🧎🧎

[thick widget]

Malva and co. plotting to escape the NPC jail

[wide tiger]

https://vxtwitter.com/ayuma_night/status/1776590328507580430 RUN AWAY D:

[covert halo]

Tomorrow it is...

[unique ledge]

https://fxtwitter.com/zamcio/status/1773653767575015811?s=46&t=ayW9N7tiR_JcUVVxJ7izhw
is zamcio no longer doing those special charts?

[wide tiger]

special chart? ?_?

[void lintel]

What do you mean by special

Is someone missing?

[unique ledge]

No, Zamcio just uploads a special version of their charts along with the light and dark modes since gladion

[void lintel]

Oh, medium-darkened mindscape. Hm

[unique ledge]

Yeah like these ones who have the border from their 5/5 frames

[coral merlin]

Ok I need to find that event. Time for me to start exiting and entering expedition repeatedly.

[late sluice]

i second that claim

[north moat]

VOLO WHAT THE HELL—

[grim widget]

Is it better to give gifts at 80, or 70?

[carmine pilot]

80

Even if you're using gold, gambling on 70 isn't good

80 is an average safe spot for me

[runic plaza]

I get Volo for Lodge and he's already acting like this c'mon man don't you want to talk about those items or something before you get to this

Normalest Volo dialogue?

[late sluice]

1k number 4! morty's been so nice these recent days, my second 0% attention with him within 3 days

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Well, most of the things out of his mouth are plausibly normal, they're just not 100% sincere.

I can easily believe this one is sincere, though. Man is a shady merchant.

So, like, he'd know firsthand.

[velvet dawn]

Hey there

Is there any guide on expedition team composition?

[thick widget]

yes, all in the pins

[carmine pilot]

Oh, never saw this one

[carmine sedge]

Imagine if his mom was there

[carmine pilot]

Didn't check, game crashed after taking the screenshot
Happens too often lately

[ocean cipher]

What lodge pair should I go for? Already have skyla, silver, and lillie

[late sluice]

Blue's a good one

[thick widget]

Dawn and Gladion too

[ocean cipher]

I'll prob go for dawn, I'm lacking special def tanks lol, ty

[thick widget]

Misty in shambles

[lucid gulch]

The hidden price is his gible

Or just some extra lodge stones

[runic plaza]

[void lintel]

Japanese merchants are frequently portrayed literally rubbing their damn hands, which they may not yet have realized is shorthand for "I'm suspicious"

[junior dragon]

What should you choose when there's an interesting topic as hot topic or go with super exciting topic?

[thick widget]

Always try to activate max vibes from the third turn onwards

After that, just go for the highest point topics

[brave gulch]

My strategy
1-2: highest points avoid hot topic
3-4: activate max vibes
4-6: highest points avoid hot topic
Hot topic till 10th if possible and go for highest points after 10th

[junior dragon]

Thanks! I've been activating max vibes at the start only. Explains why I could only get till 7/8th topic

[junior dragon]

So hot topic+highest points > not hot topic+highest points > hot topic+not highest points
Is this correct?

[carmine pilot]

So far for mine is:
1-4: score avoiding HT
Gift Silver/Gold
5HT: and activate hot topic
6-7: with double score
8-10: Hot topics
When around 70% I just start picking the highest score

Not the safest method but lately is paying off a lot
Safest is getting HT at 3

[grim widget]

How many fights would it take to raise a unit to 20/20?

[void lintel]

...What?

[grim widget]

Oh im in the wrong channel!

Sorry meant for #1012311116778586182

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[lucid gulch]

My strategy:
1 - higest points (avoid hot topic at any cost reset if not possible)
2 - highest points (avoid hot topic if tied or not highest points)
3 - (if not max vibe) hot topic at any cost, give bronze/silver gift if no hot topic, reset if still no hot topic
Max vibe (highest points, avoid hot topic if tied or noth highest point)
After max vibe I try to get hot topic, or max points if hot topic is 5 and regular is 10, then i try to reach ~80 attention to drop a silver gift or gold if under 80 (and I didn't dropped it turn 3) then when attention is under 80 I try to go for highest points

[junior dragon]

Guess I need to start using some similar strat because it takes me 8-10 days to get them to lvl100

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[brave gulch]

8 days to 100 is pretty normal tho

[void lintel]

Might even be a bit faster than most

The usual estimate is ten days per 100

[random cloud]

Eh, 7-10 is the general range in my experience

[celest sierra]

Third Friendship Lvl 1000 character for me

Starting tomorrow: Gladion

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[junior dragon]

8 is when I'm lucky enough else it's mostly 10

Also why does every good expedition combo revolves around Alolan pairs? I'm not able to make a blue crystal plus rare cache team without disturbing my red crystal plus rare cache team

[brave gulch]

U can use Kanto for red team for team A if u have Jessie

Oh wait nvm u can't

Kalos and galar can make team B rare cache team

[junior dragon]

How?

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[void lintel]

Alola has two advantages

1. Has more than one +3 rarecache member (LuSSamine, Masked Royal)
2. Has the most +3/-1 stat spreads due to Trial Giver having it (it otherwise tends to appear on Elite Four or Champion members which are considerably less numerous. Alola has no dedicated Champion but does have a fifth Elite Four to compensate for even that)

...Meanwhile Galar has no Elite Four. It's in shambles

[junior dragon]

Yeah galar is shit

[mortal shard]

Credits to Zamcio for the infographs https://twitter.com/zamcio/

[brave gulch]

But galar can blue + rare cache

[thick widget]

2/3 of the team requires limiteds bad team smh

[brave gulch]

Still can't deny it's one of the few team that can omniboost for blue + rare cache

[thick widget]

yeah, luckily i have enough limiteds to form the team

and it does involve Sonia

[brave gulch]

Also it's only 1/3 using limiteds

[thick widget]

NC Bede and Summer Marnie, correct?

and Gloria too