rancer890's riveting CSMM and Legendary Gauntlet Clears!

[spring granite]

No synergy but whatever lol

[timber mango]

Oh

[real spruce]

[timber mango]

Fair enough

[quiet grail]

Synergy with SS Lyra tho

[spring granite]

You really think I would use logic with 1 hour to go for this event???

[timber mango]

I was still editing my teams until right before the end

[spring granite]

the end is in 30 mins

[timber mango]

Victor was the latest addition to my Erika team, which was the last clear I did

The end of my clears I'm stuck at work

[spring granite]

I could tell you're at work

when are you not having the evening shift

I did throw some dailies for Vic, but nah nothing happened

the gardenia comp with -2 gauge, omg that wasn't fun

[timber mango]

At least two of them raise Speed

[spring granite]

i'm somehow still master rank..

in the 5000s

but still master rank

[timber mango]

Not many people tried this one apparently

I'm at like Master 230 somehow

[spring granite]

i was half unconscious for this one, my brain literally on autopilot

[radiant viper]

Legit question tho, how did you survive Erika's grass moves with terrain up most of time

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

sp def lol from barry and uhh red i guess

i didn't even know mix red raised sp def till i tapped on the trainer move

[spring granite]

Erika round was 300 strength as well, idk anymore. i just play till it works lol

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

I Ex'ed selene and shauna for this

[timber mango]

Based EXes

[spring granite]

I won't ever use them in challenging content

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[uncut river]

I EX'd Lyra and Shauna

Lyra is still hella frail

at least her outfit's cute

[spring granite]

sigh, Lyra survived 3 moves

[timber mango]

She does much better as a secondary support than as a tank

Her outfit do be cute tho

[spring granite]

secondary supports aren't very useful in HS

[timber mango]

She was great in mine

[spring granite]

[timber mango]

I used her with Vallow and SC Rosa vs Ramos. Her Light Screen and sun buffing were great

[spring granite]

please save me, Psychic HS event

[timber mango]

Not having NC Bede is though

[spring granite]

won't be a rancer HS event without missing at least one important unit

"ok NC blue, pretend you are a psychic type"

[real spruce]

You have more units than I do

[timber mango]

Unless they reveal a new Psychic pair that I don't pull for, it'll be the first time I've had every unit for a HS

[spring granite]

it's all I got

I can 3/5 one striker unit and one tech unit probably

[real spruce]

Critical Aurochs misses

[timber mango]

[real spruce]

Luckily I pulled NC Rosa

[spring granite]

yeah, I can 3/5 NC Rosa too

[lone wave]

I feel V Elio is going to be pretty critical for Psychic HS too

For the high scorers at least

[spring granite]

I would never pull on variety pairs tho although I really wanted him for free instead of Lucas

[spring granite]

I genuinely did not notice the #game-announcements , but it was pretty obvious that it would be psychic lol

[spring granite]

Not bad for not realizing HS event was going to end 2 hours before reset

[real spruce]

Did anyone do HS before the last day?

[spring granite]

If Chez didn’t do it I would definitely have forgotten

[quiet grail]

I did, but a few days before lmao

[spring granite]

Maybe we will get region instead of type HS events later

[spring granite]

When there’s nothing much to fight for, it’s hard to get motivated for it

But I have hope for psychic. Just need to have NC Blue as the only non psychic unit probably..

[spring granite]

The psychic HS preparations have begun

Round 1 - sending Aaron to the shadow realm

Round 2 - 3/5 SS Lana (two strike candies used)

Round 3 - I like all the N units I have (missing Zoroark). 3/5 and EX one day

Round 4 - good ole MR nuke!

Round 5 - Cynthia ain’t gonna like these bats flying around CS this week..

[spring granite]

Got 5000 points. I’m confused about the timer..I have to get it done in one day?

Last round was funny with Dawn nuking for 200k in the end lol

[timber mango]

[uncut river]

the shop resets monthly it seems, so you have 1 day to speedrun the 20 cake coin vouchers

[spring granite]

[uncut river]

since you get 5 tries today right off the bat

[spring granite]

So I have to do all 5 runs today to not “waste” any vouchers

[ripe oak]

you can manage with 4 if able, but yeah, pretty much

[spring granite]

Idk if I should move down to hard for some of them but I guess I’m pretty open to using those points lol

2nd run

I was using points for MP refresh because I kept getting sprint and field lol

[spring granite]

couldn't get it done before reset, but its my highest so far (wasted 350 points so it should have been 7k+)

[radiant viper]

Thats a lot of treats

[ripe oak]

all overkill smh

[spring granite]

I was trying to beat it without apples lol

And then I looked at the amount of time I wasted (since I couldn’t get the 5th one done before reset)

[spring granite]

Against Lucy. TIL that SSA Cynthia has antitoxin lol

[timber mango]

Damage where tho

Oh wait Apple

[spring granite]

|| and then I put Antitoxin on lodge Cynthia for good measure ||

[radiant viper]

smh should have brought someone has Support EXR here

wait i thought you had Paulo?

[spring granite]

Who would have thought, I would stick random lucky cookies in battle rally but not LG

I never had Paulo lol

[timber mango]

much better

[spring granite]

Tina I have

Battle Rally believer

[timber mango]

Having Tina is good

Paulo is excellent tho, I recommend him on a rerun or select if we ever get Sprint selects

[radiant viper]

i got Tina from mix glad i didnt have to gamble with random Paulo back then

[spring granite]

Champion Rosa and Cynthia. Used them for over half of the 10 battles

MVPs

That was my 5th one so no more rally till next week

Doing CS on Mondays
Doing Battle Rally on Mondays

[radiant viper]

BR is fun indeed i think its my most favorite gamemode rn, followed by LG

[timber mango]

DeNA finally released a fun game mode that everyone loves!

[radiant viper]

i still like LG so no slander here

[spring granite]

NGL, I think I will always use Apple cup. Less points sure, but it’s fun

Where else can you see OG Dawn have a 200k sync nuke

[ripe oak]

nah, there are a few haters here and there, like everything in life

can't make everyone happy apparently

[timber mango]

True, I can't expect perfection, but at least it largely united the content factions within the stage clears

[spring granite]

The only complaint I’ve heard are the sprint and field combo lol

[ripe oak]

I'll only shame people in Rally if they buy the damn cup thinking it's a big brain move

if you do it for fun then fine, otherwise

[spring granite]

Tbh, with support and sprint. You’re better off spending the points

[timber mango]

I did it because I was almost out of time, but it's also just a lot of fun

[spring granite]

Like I did try for 30 mins without Apple Cup lol

My uhh normal option was Annabel extreme battle..so I decided to take the Apple Cup

[ripe oak]

I got Lucy on VH, it was bs, so I just went with Argenta on Hard lol

[radiant viper]

during my runs i only fought Argenta and Anabel havent got a chance to experience Palmer and Lucy UB

[ripe oak]

tbf I had a small brain at the time and did not consider using NC Leaf...

[spring granite]

(Fast forward to 30s because I quit the first attempt early, dark CCalem doesn’t have status immunity but the water one does lol)

Oh wait it’s 700mb ugh

[ripe oak]

in my defense my stat bonus was freaking dragon and roles were sprint and tech

I guess I could have tanked with Leaf but I was not gonna have any other sun source...

[spring granite]

I’ve actually learned to tank with techs and strikers now lol

[timber mango]

I learned how good Carnie is at tanking through this lol

[radiant viper]

the only place to use tankCaitlin outside of LG

[ripe oak]

pls never call her that way again...

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[ripe oak]

I tanked one stage with OG Iris

[spring granite]

OG Hilda is very useful sometimes for when I need a striker and someone to heal the striker I want to keep for the next round

[ripe oak]

right, I also used Potionchu somewhere for that same reason, striker bonus and handy potions

[spring granite]

never used it. its a fun mode. good balance between not taking forever to do like a certain gamemode and a little strategy crafting (unless you have every sync pair). I also like that we have to use 3 sync pairs.

[uncut river]

I'll use it if it's against Palmer or Lucy. Haven't battled Argenta yet. But Anabel, Thorton, or Darach? I'm not apple cupping that

but also I might just consider tryharding this game mode a bit by not buying apple cups at all, since it does incentivize higher points for rewards

and aside from needing quite a bit of fields and sprints, it doesn't require me to have a concentrated roster

[spring granite]

Yeah but funny numbers

If the role isn’t ideal (like support + sprint), just Apple Cup it to save the sanity

[spring granite]

Stop the count!

LG Solos -
Themed LG Run -

[ripe oak]

what's the theme? girl power or is there something else going on?

[spring granite]

Oh just girl power

Let’s not get too crazy with wacky themes. I ain’t mael

[lone wave]

Good thing that's out of the way, I was only just starting to consider how both Marnie & Rachel had access to Endure

[spring granite]

Didn’t look at kits outside of what I need for debuffs. Minimal effort 10 clear

[lone wave]

based

[spring granite]

Your turn, Arch

[lone wave]

I have 0 motivation Tempted to skip it altogether

[spring granite]

I’ve been sick all week, so I just wanted to have a bit of fun (and I really need the cookies..)

[radiant viper]

Time to do more streaks and get well soon

[spring granite]

its just during the week. weekend i'm fine. it's just sleep

and thank you!

[timber mango]

Omg girl power!

And yeah, get well soon Rancer

[uncut river]

Boy power let's go

[uncut river]

Get well soon!

[spring granite]

Thank y’all. Maybe I’ll try boy power next LG. Or maybe we’ll get Regirock, Moltres, and Cress and I’ll skip LG altogether

[ripe oak]

coward

[spring granite]

[cunning skiff]

Odin endorsing playing LG? What the hell happened

[ripe oak]

of course not

Gauntlet sucks but I'm not gonna stop going for 10 clears just because it has 3 annoying bosses, I can use overkill teams for each battle

[spring granite]

I want to see an unofficial LG competition with those 3 bosses to see how high of a win streak someone can actually go. Just wanna see it for the entertainment

[ripe oak]

I wanna see the enthusiasts crying and malding

[lone wave]

Real and true

[uncut river]

Nothing stopping event coords to make this a reality

[spring granite]

Theme: I almost actually forgot despite being able to remind others.

slept for a bit, woke up, remembered CS, and tried my best

[ripe oak]

slacker

[spring granite]

I have out-Chezei'ed Chezei in the Chezei theme in the last couple weeks (say that 5 times fast)

I might have also played some other games this evening but it is neither here or there to talk about

[timber mango]

I was getting worried that you might have gotten distracted. Glad to see you got it done

Also rare Morty appearance

Seeing Courtney and Marnie staring directly at me is not something I'm used to

[lone wave]

[timber mango]

I still want that emote

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

stares at you menacingly

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

i obviously didn't record, but I did enjoy the 85k+ damage that Grimsley did

[spring granite]

I call that trio the Phantom (Force) Menace

[timber mango]

Did they try spinning? I heard it's a good trick

[spring granite]

Thorton battle with sprint/tech combo. I also 3/5 NC Rosa and SS Steven during this Battle Rally since I need them for psychic HS anyways

[timber mango]

[craggy sparrow]

Hello folks, I had an idea for a LG theme run but I think it's gonna take too much time for me to plan/execute/record it in time. If anyone is looking for a theme run idea lmk

[spring granite]

depends how many clears the LG theme is

[craggy sparrow]

12 but you can do less I guess :p

[spring granite]

Couldn’t get the 15k done during CNY but I got it done a bit after midnight

(Sidney is not evil)

[spring granite]

So the choice was either the very hard Anabel battle or the hard Lucy battle..the 2x bonus helped so very hard it is

[radiant viper]

Was apple cup on sale?

[spring granite]

of course not

i could have used some other units for Lucy maybe, but I didn't wanna buy too many items to test

[radiant viper]

You didnt buy more boost nice

[spring granite]

this stupid weather has also caused me to be ill again, so I wanted to get it over with

[spring granite]

the game gave me the striker path so it was pretty straightforward

[spring granite]

Ultimate battle took way too much time, but it’s done

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I tried NC Red but that didn’t work out as well

[spring granite]

Your turn, you have almost every unit anyways

[timber mango]

I have almost a thousand years to wait

[spring granite]

that's like 33% in AZ years

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Anni Steven strikes again!

[timber mango]

the double Steven

Omg Korrina

[spring granite]

Triple Lucario clears!!!

[spring granite]

Steven doesn’t need help from Skyla. He can get it done by himself

[spring granite]

I probably didn’t really need to spend that many points on some crit upgrades but I liked the damage numbers

Had the tech support / tech field start

[spring granite]

Pretty tired from the last couple days so just wanted to get it done before I crashed into bed

[spring granite]

EBE done. Praise Team Rocket!

[spring granite]

Had the field/spring combo in battle 1 so I couldn’t get above 8k

Lucy battle at the end

And because of the additional lucky skills I put anti toxin on all three of them just for the battle

[radiant viper]

profit

150 points spent

[spring granite]

No shame when moving down from very hard to hard to spend less points

[spring granite]

R1 - Gladion yeeted them jeez

R2 - didn’t want to use anni Lillie so went with Gengar (I got a full illustrated holo Gengar card in my TCG pulls this weekend too)

R3 - triple lucario. Finally.

R4 - NC Silver doing work. Love shiny Ttar so easy summon.

R5 - testing psychic HS viability..this trio prob going to struggle but it was still fun to clear at 3k points.

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Summary of the Gladion clear

|| you can add me if you haven’t yet already ||

[real spruce]

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

Yes, I caked NC Silver for the 2x multiplier so I could justify apple cup

I used the MP pizza (on sale) and Apple Cup during the run

The bonus was kalos but it was tough to manage that so just went with what I could especially given the amount of sprint and field units I had to deal with. I went with the hard option twice actually here to avoid items (and they needed field units).

The good news was that I caked both SSA Cynthia and NC Rosa so the sprint units were at least supports. I used NC Blue really early and I really could have used him in round 8 or 10. Also used NC Nate and Mix Red (4/5 ) in the field rounds. I didn’t record my clears like Gakon (I should have) but I’ll try next time

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Your turn chez

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[radiant viper]

Recording clears is fun!!!

[spring granite]

I’m impatient, so I don’t plan as much

[spring granite]

Because I lack Bede, I’ll probably bring in NC Blue for a round

All psychic sync pairs have gotten their respective cake of course

[spring granite]

There was supposed to be a theme (its name related again) but I messed up with Cynthia like an idiot . Can you guess what it is?

[timber mango]

||The first letters are all part of the boss' name?||

[spring granite]

Good job chez

Koga was actually really annoying

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I did not use her for poison weak

Actually didn’t use all of the latest master fairs

[timber mango]

I haven't used any of them yet either I will eventually

[spring granite]

They are all EX at least

[timber mango]

Mine aren't

[spring granite]

I knew it

[timber mango]

They're not faves so they don't get EX yet

[spring granite]

Mine aren’t either but they are EX!

but I have no favs so technically that statement is always true

[timber mango]

Isn't Suicune a fav?

[spring granite]

He is but I EX units when I feel like it

[timber mango]

I usually do too, but my faves get priority the rest will get their time

[spring granite]

Priority are the psychic types

Koga was so annoying, but then I realized I had a rat. I even rearranged grids for this

[spring granite]

“When I messed up another theme”

I actually EX’ed Looker for this theme, he did well.

Originally went with SS Brendan for this one but I realized I needed a defensive tank so SS Blue fits the bill. Red does the rest. Both Reds are very useful in terms of aoe affects with NC Red having that constant special moves up

We don’t talk about the Karen match. Against Lance it was straightforward even after using some water type units beforehand

[cunning skiff]

||Who’s the boss?||

[spring granite]

Hi Mael

Oh wait lemme put the updated score lol

I’m probably going to redo half of these..

[spring granite]

There’s actually a theme to this 15k clear

[real spruce]

So close to monotypes

[spring granite]

wasn't even thinking about monotypes

might be tricky without a hint, but lets see how it goes

[radiant viper]

So this is how you guys feel when guessing my theme?

SS Hilda, SS Ethan, NC Marnie, NC Rosa and NC Blue have some kind of interference on their kit. Is this just a coincidence or something related to the theme?

Or does the theme have something with MC?

[spring granite]

it's not kit related

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

oh how the turntables turn

i did research so it's not like last week's theme

i don't even know how to give a hint, because then you might instantly get it lol

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

nah not that either

i did the clear earlier in the week because i'm considering making a video

[radiant viper]

Gakon on his way to search How to trick rancer into telling hints on Google

[uncut river]

Is it pokemon or character related

[spring granite]

character

[cunning skiff]

MCs and rivals and Lusamine for some reason (Morty is Eusine’s rival, Steven is Wallace’s rival, and Penny is uh probably rivals with someone in a video game she plays)

[timber mango]

Penny qualifies as Juliana/Florian's rival I think

[lone otter]

Penny & Sylveon

1st Hit: Fairy Rebuff ↓:

Lowers the target's Fairy Type Rebuff by 1 rank the first time the user's attack move is successful each battle.

Mind Games 9:

Lowers the target's Sp. Def by one stat rank when the user's attack move against it is successful.

Team Smart Command 9:

Increases the Special Moves ↑ Next effect of all allied sync pairs by one rank when the user's Trainer uses a move.

Themes:

Fairy | Glasses | Gadgeteer

[timber mango]

maybe not

[cunning skiff]

You only battle her once in the entire story anyway

[timber mango]

True

Twice if you count the post game

[cunning skiff]

(Which is 1 less than shauna)

[timber mango]

Maybe Lusamine is Lillie/Gladion's rival

[cunning skiff]

Hmm i remember there was one family event where they were like “we’re each other’s rivals”
Don’t remember if that was family ties tho

[radiant viper]

May is Brendan's rival

[cunning skiff]

And an MC

[spring granite]

maybe i'll give another hint when i wake up again, this might be a bit obscure

[spring granite]

Hint: || it relates to the app ||

[worn jungle]

Teams used by people on the successful clears thing

[kind locust]

Is the theme ||sync pairs that got to be the app icon||?

[spring granite]

[radiant viper]

[kind locust]

ok was Anni Steven ever the app icon or was it Lillie for 2nd anni?

[spring granite]

Lillie

[timber mango]

So that's why you had to do research

[spring granite]

[uncut river]

Oooh interesting theme

[spring granite]

After getting hosed by yet another unfavourable role (sprint), I managed to eek out a 7700 point run, which under the circumstances, was pretty good...

I also got this role thing, I have no idea how but I did face Hop in one of the battles...

I basically used SS Dawn till she fainted in like area 5. I ran 3 techs in area 6.

Area 7 was NC Blue and SS Lusamine (who both had the Strike/Support cake combo) and some other support I can't remember right now.

Area 8 was Geeta/Mix Red with SSA Cynthia.

Area 9 included SSA Cynthia, NC Serena, and another tech I can't remember off the top of my head (it was water weak stage iirc). I did not use Nessa for sure. I remember now - it was Professor Oak who I typically use as a debuffer

[ripe oak]

it's just hitting 1k super effective moves

[spring granite]

Good to know

[craggy sparrow]

I just came here to steal these thank youuu

[spring granite]

You’re welcome

[spring granite]

I did this last minute because I didn’t know the special CS was leaving next reset

I don’t have good grass pairs

[timber mango]

You have five that I can see!

[kind locust]

dang, Mix Red erasure /j

[spring granite]

that's 4/5 Mix Red for you!

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

"oh let's try Lodge Sycamore"

800 damage later

"oh let's not!"

my original plan was to use sync pairs of the same type as my opponent but Bertha put a stop to that idea real quick

[real spruce]

L Sycamore slander?

[uncut river]

deserved

don't let tai see this

[worn jungle]

Sycamore

[spring granite]

Tai ain’t even in this thread to see the slander

[worn jungle]

@/Tai

[pulsar finch]

Maelmc has been banned for Narking

[spring granite]

[worn jungle]

[brittle wing]

Finally

[spring granite]

When I thought I couldn’t do much with the next high score event, they pull me back in

[real spruce]

I think I have…two limited fairies?

[spring granite]

depends which two I guess...if you have a Gardevoir as one of them it won't hurt...

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

No theme because I still have to do Battle Rally

[spring granite]

didn't want to stress over area 10 so went with apple cup

[spring granite]

I am in process of making a BR video, but it'll take some time to edit due to my Easter headache (and trying to get CS done now)

[spring granite]

I originally thought about a Hisui clear in honour of all the new sync pairs from the game but then I looked at the psychic types in the game and the psychic sync pairs I had and went “nah”

I’ll upload the BR by Monday evening (my time, EST)

[spring granite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwoxMJWvLs

[spring granite]

Got it done early this time

Maybe ill try some stuff later (maybe not)

mfw Lodge Skyla did more sync damage than Anni Steven

[uncut river]

to nobody's surprise

[spring granite]

had to give anni steven a try

too bad Rei can't solo

[uncut river]

is your rei EXR?

https://youtu.be/m50oFHUtcYA?si=ByruNpHCtG8TCAg0 maybe you'll have better luck than me lol

i just can't get the solo

[spring granite]

nov I tried once and had no gauge

I didn't look at any guides tbh

I might consider a top 10,000 medal for collection reasons tho, whatever that win streak is

[spring granite]

Yes I gave Rei a cake for the Ult battle lol

[uncut river]

my gauges were mostly fine. my issue with it was the instaqueue to skip hyper beam in half bar

[radiant viper]

just don't get Rei so you don't have to suffer the problem

<- Reiless

[ripe oak]

[spring granite]

Sped run through this because I still have to do BR lol

Clay has returned!

[ripe oak]

[spring granite]

This game mode gave me fucking sprint field again for the second time in three weeks

this is why I leave BR till last minute because I can't get strike or tech roles for all the battles

on the bright side, I can copy the same teams as last week

oh wow it's the other one actually. Let's see how it goes!

[real spruce]

BASED

[spring granite]

New personal best score

It was pretty interesting 10 battles tbh

[radiant viper]

[radiant viper]

time to turn the HP percentage on!

[spring granite]

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

I did turn the HP percentage on

[spring granite]

Weekly CS 15k with Kalos. Nothing too special, need more testing with Volo in the near and far future

This 15k pasio special cs was a lot more interesting, having to go with two off typing teams and with Jacq who I literally got today. I have the video of this so maybe if I have time to edit tonight..

[cunning skiff]

EX your Jacq smh

[ripe oak]

not even Volo is EX'd, smh

imagine, a field pair!

[timber mango]

My Volo isn't EXed either

[ripe oak]

this server is full of heathens istg

[keen osprey]

i have like 300 pu and 1200 tickets if y'all need some

[timber mango]

It's not lack of resources in my case

[spring granite]

I’ll have you know my SS Brendan is EX unlike a certain someone

[timber mango]

Maybe every time someone talks about my lack of EX Brendan I delay it by another week

[spring granite]

I am somewhat low on the pu and the tickets because I EX'ed 7 units for psychic HS and I didn't even get 300k points on it

[timber mango]

I'm also somewhat low, I'm below 300

[spring granite]

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I have between 50 and 60

[spring granite]

all the summonable field sync pairs that I have don't have EX actually

Akari? Kek. Geeta? Nope.

oh wait i lied, Mix Red is EX

never mind

[timber mango]

At least EX Akari!

[spring granite]

Akari: acquired on day 1 of the latest free sync pair scout giveaway: no extra candies and no EX.
Rei: acquired from Mix Scout pity. 2 extra candies within 1 minute of acquiring said unit, EX, and role cake

[timber mango]

She's so good for rally though!

[spring granite]

oh i agree, I use her for area 1 and 2 of BR!

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[uncut river]

I have 69 (haha) please donate some

[uncut river]

based af choice

[spring granite]

Same roles as this round, won't make a video. But we'll see what the final point total is!

[spring granite]

Maybe I should have used the 2x multipliers earlier, but we'll see for next week..

[spring granite]

I would like to announce that I am an EX Akari owner now

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I didn't have enough cakes for the Akari strike role EX

otherwise Akari would have been area 2 as well

[spring granite]

I might be Chezei'ing a bit more intensely than usual on this Sunday night , but I hope I can finish weekly CS and BR before bedtime! Still have a couple more work things to prepare

[timber mango]

[radiant viper]

We have lost him

[spring granite]

[timber mango]

What do you mean? He's embracing the truth

[spring granite]

you have half lost me

I don't think I have the energy to do BR before reset lol

[ripe oak]

and people wonder why procrastination is bad, smh

[spring granite]

hey, I finished all the prep I needed to do this week between now and Wednesday!

NHL playoffs, man

Overkill go brrr

Maybe I should get more move level on Iris to go brr we’ll see

[timber mango]

You definitely should I'm not biased at all

[spring granite]

I won’t make anymore rash decisions on a Sunday evening

[timber mango]

Aww why noooooot

[spring granite]

I’m emulating your CS habits a little too much, don’t need the other habits in this game

[timber mango]

Some of them are good habits!

[spring granite]

I can remind Chezei, but I can also almost forget it myself

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

took a nap, watched some NHL playoff games, and now we're here

[timber mango]

Fair enough

[spring granite]

sorry for your former team

[timber mango]

I don't really follow sports I didn't even know there was a Utah team

[spring granite]

I didn’t realize how much of a menace Rei is in CS. Too bad I forgot to record the Lisia round

[spring granite]

whoops I finished BR right at 2 and didn't get credit for this week's BR nor last week's

[spring granite]

No 300 gems because I didn’t claim it in time but it’s done

Poison upgrade x4 and a main character upgrade x1

one of the poison upgrades was half off, hence the 350pts

15k duos

[spring granite]

Rats do their thing.

[radiant viper]

One of the rats is floating on the air

[spring granite]

flying zapdos pikachu is a thing u know smh

[brittle wing]

Birds are just flying rodents

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

The reminders starting early (I do need to get the weekly stuff done before the weekend)

[spring granite]

Theme: I didn’t forget CS this week because I absolutely have no time this weekend

This also sparks (ha!) the debut of classic Elesa and her Emolga, in honour of the squirrel that caused a power outage in my city this morning

I think Slurpuff also made a debut in CS

[timber mango]

So early!

[spring granite]

mid week surprise

now whether to do HS first or BR

I realize with multi-type I am certainly not for a lack of choice, so it's actually harder to figure out what I want to use

I'll look at the HS doc tomorrow..

[spring granite]

First attempt (ish), I redid one round. All at 400 except Marlon at 500

Also hi cami and Richu!

[spring granite]

oh yeah, since Chez was talking about investment in another stage clears thread ( ), the investment used here include:

- 2 strike candy + EX
Penny - 2 support candy
- 2 field candy + EX + tech EX role candy
& Mawile - EX

- Support EX role previously unlocked

[timber mango]

damn

You already had Wally at 4/5?

[spring granite]

Winston recommended it, I think it's zone extension at 4/5

I had 2 candies of each role before this so I was prepared

that includes the 2 yellow candy

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

once Dragon HS rolls around maybe I'll get SS Serena to 3/5

since we don't need 3/5 units to complete CS anymore

Odin, I mean like there's nothing to chase in CS because I can use whatever to get 3k points a round , at least there's a leaderboard to go for in HS

[ripe oak]

right, but that has been a thing since forever, unless you are using the bottom of the barrel trash pairs

[spring granite]

the 3* and 4* sync pairs theme rolls a little easier at 7.5k points than 15k, mate

[ripe oak]

eww

[spring granite]

[brittle wing]

Omg I didn’t know I was near cami

[spring granite]

well you know now

fun fact all 3 of our scores end in 3

[spring granite]

BR is complete

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

I did not take advantage of that normal upgrade

[radiant viper]

Don't let Mael hear about this

[spring granite]

I'll say it louder if Mael can't hear it

[ripe oak]

eww Normal

I got Galar this week so it was kinda the same level of shit

[spring granite]

I used a whooping 2 Galar units in the one

Since I didn’t do last weeks Br I can technically do another one, but that’s enough pomas for the week

[worn jungle]

tbf normal upgrade is really hard to use

so i'll let it slide, for now

[spring granite]

I also don’t like the Palmer UB

[ripe oak]

skill issue

Palmer is simple, Anabel can die in hell

[spring granite]

When it comes to BR, I try to avoid Palmer tbh

[ripe oak]

gotten him once only so far

Anabel tho... every other week or 3 times in a row sometimes, hate that woman

[spring granite]

Nah, Lucy is worsen I have to use more cookies for antitoxin

[kind locust]

As if you don’t have 400 of them already

[spring granite]

it's more about having to play the roulette again on 3 new sync pairs lol

[craggy sparrow]

Just earmark a list of sync pairs with Antitoxin on grid and forget about it

[spring granite]

only one i know from memory with antitoxin

Fall Caitlin has status immunity cookie, and I think NC Blue too..but that's all i remember

[craggy sparrow]

Lots of in-game steel and poison types have it on their 1/5 grids

Copperajah doesn't tho iirc

[spring granite]

yeah but if its sprintfield it doesn't matter unless it's geeta

[craggy sparrow]

Mix Red

Aura Cynthia

[spring granite]

if i'm lucky

[craggy sparrow]

Sometimes I just let 2/5 have it lol

2/3*

[spring granite]

nah gotta be all 3, giving up CS2 or WW3 for antitoxin sucks but gotta do watcha gotta do

[craggy sparrow]

Wait, you don't even have to give up slots anymore

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

Almost forgot to do this myself after reminding someone else

I’m going to have to start planning the next HS event

[radiant viper]

nicely done, going to have to start planning the next HS event

wait rancer tryhard HS?

[spring granite]

depends on my motivation as usual

i will prob not do BR again before the reset

[radiant viper]

rip 300 gems

[spring granite]

I realize BR is tedious to do every single week

I guess I also have special CS to do...eventually

[spring granite]

doing a last minute battle rally because I want the resources ...I still need 16 more

that also doesn't include the two CS I have to do this weekend

[ripe oak]

eww PUs

tbh I just get the vouchers and and call it quits

even tho 2 months in a row of PF guests for lodge (that I of course did not pull) was rough for PU income

[spring granite]

I rarely get the orbs lol

But I have a headache now so maybe I’ll panic and finish the last part right before reset after a nap

This is probably the most aggressive I’ve been with unit usage. I suppose that was part of the reason why I was losing interest - just wasn’t using units I wanted to

[radiant viper]

rancer... without apple cup???

[ripe oak]

rally enjoyment is better when not being stingy with the pairs you use, can confirm

I was being unnecessarily conservative at the beginning and making everything a lot harder for myself, now I overkill everything whenever I can

[spring granite]

I do agree, I remember giving up some 2x multipliers because maybe I’ll need them for area 8-10. But for this one I did plan for the rats and Blue no matter what

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

In case I get another migraine tomorrow, I finished it today. I also have recordings of all of them. No real theme, unless there is a theme..

If there was a fighting weak stage I would have done it tomorrow, but it wasn’t so there was no point waiting

[worn jungle]

Grant lmao

[spring granite]

Grant did his best

[snow sparrow]

Love how all of them are mono region and then Phoebe's just there to ruin everything

[spring granite]

that was a mistake whoops

[spring granite]

Just wanted to get it done before it was over. Ran out of good fairy units so I off type one of them

[radiant viper]

rancer leaking the Electric and Fairy HSE

[spring granite]

i tried that sidney with uhhh valerie

i pleaded to no avail

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

I haven’t checked the weaknesses yet

[radiant viper]

Ghost Electric Fairy Ground and Rock

Omg that roster

[uncut river]

getting marlon and cheren sucks

oooo lodge N!

[spring granite]

My alder is 1/5, Mix Red is 4/5...Anni Steven off-type..yeah

[spring granite]

looks like i'm not a reroll candidate, but two new things basically popped up literally today that I have to do this upcoming week alongside a 10km run on all of Saturday, so maybe I'll have to do a Sunday evening attempt again

[spring granite]

going to post it here because I know I will forget to set it up before last minute and then fucking panic

[spring granite]

I tested some sync pairs for the upcoming week. Yeah it's gonna fucking suck lol

I finished BR as well, uncovered all rounds due to lack of time

[spring granite]

just bumping this while I try to do CS twice before reset (Factory + normal)

[spring granite]

8900 points but I uh forgot to screenshot the "killing blow" so maybe I wasted an hour of my life

[spring granite]

not gonna finish the last battle, I messed up lol

oh shoot I will finish it, its 300 gems

So uh what basically happened is that I spent 2 hours on siebold, raged and used the round 4 and then realized Cheren was impossible to do at 3k points so I just got 0 points there because I spent way too much time this evening on this game mode . 12k points

I ain’t redoing this

[timber mango]

😭

[spring granite]

NGL battle factory really pissed me off

[timber mango]

Well at least you got it done! Plus 15k isn't that important

[spring granite]

1% Mael for giving me bad rng, 1% Richu for persuading me two weeks ago not to reroll, and the other 98% is everything else lol

[spring granite]

I was literally 3% away from killing the side at the siebold round with lodge Volkner, lodge Elesa, and Emolga. It was so fucking close

And then I spent another hour on siebold

I was gonna skip the final tbh then I saw the 300 gems

in hindsight, Siebold was a terrible idea for round 4

[timber mango]

I did him round 4

[spring granite]

well, you weren't relying on two lodge sync pairs like me

[timber mango]

True! I wasn't about to use Lodge Volkner for much of anything

I also couldn't because of my theme

[spring granite]

I might have EX'ed Lodge Volkner and I couldn't even finish a clear with him

[timber mango]

😭

[spring granite]

this weekly CS, I will go for a speedrun theme. Two CS worth of pent up frustration

[spring granite]

Not a speed run per se, but wanted to try some unique combos as well as common ones I haven’t used in a while. There’s probably a theme in there somewhere

[timber mango]

Mono-region!

[spring granite]

That’s one of ‘em I suppose lol

Maybe a theme within each round too

I'll try to do a BR, I missed too many of them

[spring granite]

Got my 10 clears done

I was annoyed of Regirock after beating that thing twice

[spring granite]

Because we are nearing the end of the month because BR resources reset I’ll be doing some BR to get them..

[spring granite]

PB so far

[ripe oak]

imagine having Lana

[spring granite]

Just gotta fish her out from the mix scout

Although I got her when we had the Tapu banner

[spring granite]

Rushing through BR because it’s the end of the month and I need badly

Trial giver or whatever it was. Very annoying

[craggy sparrow]

That's an accomplishment tho, trial giver is a pretty terrible boost and you made it work!

[spring granite]

Thanks Overgro

[spring granite]

15k, now whether to do one more battle rally to get 3 more

[craggy sparrow]

Wait what is this emoji

Perocchi??

[spring granite]

team rei event against volo scum led by our glorious leader in battle, some art things I didn't participate in, and battleship, @radiant viper

[radiant viper]

that was team effort tho

[spring granite]

but you're our leader

[radiant viper]

SS HILBERT!!!!
and SC Ingo too, cool suppose

[spring granite]

I thought about having a theme, but the damage calcs were uhhh yeah

mfw Palmer was both of the VH and the H option

since I was planning to do two BRs and one CS today, I did not record anything

[spring granite]

Quick CS because the modem is dying and will have to get a new one tomorrow. Prob too tired to do BR but oh well

I like using Jacq

[spring granite]

Had to do this in a rush, almost forgot about it after a couple grueling days of GoFest and watched the euro and copa finals... No time for a theme

There was originally a theme tho but that was abandoned

[spring granite]

Busy weekend, hopefully I remember to get some content done

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

My sync pairs suck for this event. Too bad, the HSE initially had a lot of potential

At least I got 100k gems now

[spring granite]

I’m pretty tanned but I got CS done!

[spring granite]

Not too bothered to go for a higher score. It’s only extra tickets and sync orbs

[spring granite]

Gloria is 3/5 thanks to mix scout now.

Serena is also 3/5 for the upcoming HSE that I don’t even have enough supports for!

[spring granite]

I finished BR before reset yesterday

Now I have 3 days to finish 5 BR before august

[craggy sparrow]

3000 paid gems will get you Clair+Drampa! 💰

[spring granite]

I have 0 paid gems after getting the Anni Raihan today

[craggy sparrow]

It's on August 25... if you stop doing mix scout / dailies you'll have enough by then!

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

First time in 6 weeks I’ve finished both CS and BR. And I was on the road doing this so didn’t have much time.

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I haven't summoned in so long, hopefully there's a shakeup with some of these CS battles

[spring granite]

I feel like I need my own lusamine lurks sometimes to find my thread to post my weekly clear

I had a plan A, but that ended terribly, so this was plan B.

there is a theme, albeit a simple one

[timber mango]

Cami theme

[spring granite]

nope

my OG theme was to try something olympic themed, but that was too hard

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

this theme is much easier than those Chezei themes, y'all

[spring granite]

I played BR

[timber mango]

That bored?

[timber mango]

Also is the theme all champions?

[spring granite]

damn, you got me Chez

[spring granite]

yes

I thought I had to make an even easier theme this upcoming week to counteract the really hard themes I've been seeing

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Someone remind me to play CS in like 8 hours or so because beldum community day

[timber mango]

Oh shoot that's today too

[spring granite]

feels like i need to remind you across multiple mobile Pokemon games these days

Scream Tail also went to pity, so I suppose I can try SS Nemona out

[timber mango]

Hey same

[spring granite]

[uncut river]

go play CS

[timber mango]

Oh yeah

[spring granite]

i was playing Star Wars and I just remembered I might have forgotten CS

I will do it now nov + chez

[spring granite]

No theme, just vibes

I thought about putting Volo against Cynthia tho

[spring granite]

Might do another because I really need the

I faced moltres 3 times and got really annoyed. Idk how y’all face that chicken 20+ times

I’ve only gotten 2 limited in the free summons, but iono was one of them. Really wanted to get her in the initial release

[real spruce]

Face them 4 times are you get a title

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

Jeez I did two battle rallies and LG before even starting CS? Who even am I

[ripe oak]

what a try-hard

funny you got the same score in both

[spring granite]

no its the same BR, one is the area 10 clear screen and the other is the overall clear screen with the rally points used

[timber mango]

Wtf who are you and what did you do with Rancer

[ripe oak]

ohh, nvm then

[spring granite]

we now live in a post arc-pocalyptic world, Chez. Where rancer sometimes does BR to get an extra 1200 gems a month

[timber mango]

[ripe oak]

I haven't done mine, only A1, I'm trying to gather the strength to finish lol

[spring granite]

The theme of the clear is “I just wanted to get it done because I’ve been with relatives all day and I’m tired”

Altho I guess round 4 is a Richu clear with beloved Calem

[real spruce]

Just want to get it done monotype is a growing normal for me too

Although I lack literally all those ghost units

[spring granite]

oh yeah, i got lucky on that paid single for irida..

wish i could do more themes, but hard to do it on the day before cs reset

[spring granite]

I was playing Star Wars outlaws and stopped to get this done in time

[real spruce]

[spring granite]

Chorizo arc I used free gems for the arc pairs

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I did get Mix Leaf in the mix scout tho

[timber mango]

I haven't yet

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-changing-the-clock-changing-the-time-kitty-cat-cute-gif-17202806

I was playing Star Wars Outlaws and completely forgot about this..so uhh I'll do it quick

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[spring granite]

Too tired to do BR, so that’s 300 gems gone

[spring granite]

Too sleepy for BR again

[spring granite]

Got the HSE done. Maybe I’ll push for more but realistically probably not. 300 strength everywhere

[spring granite]

Got it done before reset

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

missing BR seems like a weekly tradition these days

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Was looking at the next HSE, not bad but who knows the motivation level then lol

[spring granite]

Thought about adding a normal type to each battle but I was getting tired so I just wanted to finish the battles

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

i am almost done!!

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

i can't believe you finished CS before i did smh

I did it!!!

Fun fact, I didn’t know I got Holiday Leon till I searched my ice units

[timber mango]

Why is SC Irida not EX smh

[spring granite]

uhhh

one day

she's also ungridded 1/5

[timber mango]

Grief!

[spring granite]

whenever ghost HSE comes around again...

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

SC Irida EX never crossed my mind tbh

but i'll do it...soon

[spring granite]

I think there’s a theme here but I forgot . I planned it mid week then got really busy.

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

There was a theme from round 1 to 4 but got too tired to complete it for the final round

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

can you still guess the round 1 to 4 theme?

[timber mango]

Not while I'm still trying to wake up

[spring granite]

enjoy your canadian thanksgiving this morning, chez

[timber mango]

I'll enjoy it so much

[craggy sparrow]

Lol I just realized they share their in-game dual types! Neat theme

Can u do a VGC/TCG theme

[spring granite]

I could, depends if you enter a regional tournament soon

[spring granite]

#gacha-and-flex message

Gonna try the sync pair out for CS this week

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

fun fact: i have multiple shiny Flutter Mane, had to get it in pomas. Might cook up the theme later, we'll see!

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

I'll do it on Sunday, I have a run tomorrow . And uhh I should do LG on Sunday too

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

I didn’t get any LG done this weekend

[spring granite]

Theme: woke up. Saw a lurk. Did some clears. I somehow am exhausted from this weekend because of lack of sleep

[timber mango]

At least you got it done!

[spring granite]

When you wake up at 6am on the Saturday and then 8am on the Sunday, chez. No energy

[timber mango]

I feel that

[spring granite]

Mustered up the energy to do 10 win streak

I kinda wanted to do a themed win streak but it got too hard

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

i'll get to it now

[spring granite]

Well I’m tired (what else is new ) but it’s done

[timber mango]

Omg EX Janine

[spring granite]

Janine died in one hit

[timber mango]

😭

[spring granite]

even Bugsy took 2 or 3 hits

[timber mango]

My poor girl

How was that Lance team? Did Brendan have to tank any big hits?

[spring granite]

Brendan didn’t need much since my cooler Lance yeeted the not so cool Lance in like 2 shots (with a lil help from Lucas)

[timber mango]

I tried using Brendan in my clear and he died like instantly

Why can Lisia tank the Draco Meteor but he can't 😭

[spring granite]

Tbf, Arc Lance raises rebuff on the team, and lowers it on the opponent

If only you summoned for his arc scout

[timber mango]

Don't like him enough!

[spring granite]

Theme? I don’t think I have one

[timber mango]

They're all trainers

[spring granite]

close enough

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

[timber mango]

You are doing it... right?

[spring granite]

Slowly

I haven’t started

I was uhh dragon my heels with this weeks clears

[spring granite]

Phew got it done before chez

Always like using striker skyla here

[timber mango]

Hey that Drasna team looks familiar

[spring granite]

don't you just love arc suits, Chez???

and we both used Tornadus and a Skyla against Diantha

[timber mango]

[timber mango]

I do not!

[spring granite]

arc suit with your fav soon

[timber mango]

No plz 😭 I don't have the funds

[spring granite]

https://tenor.com/view/ocean-park-roy-rooster-chicken-anime-gif-11707529642898019289

[spring granite]

Ok back to TCG pocket

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

still technically playing dena games

[spring granite]

Hala and Rose are 600 strength, Poppy is 250, and the other two are 300

Once again I feel like I’m “one really good sync pair away” from 300k HSE

[ripe oak]

what a try-hard

[spring granite]

i try hard more in the other dena game

[brittle wing]

Real

[spring granite]

Richu is alive

[brittle wing]

Ye I’ve had time recently

[spring granite]

You play HSE, Richu?

[brittle wing]

Ye

I posted my clears I believe lel

[spring granite]

Wanted to just run Eevee and their evolutions for fun to see what score I can get

I got Calem in the first free ticket. Hopefully Hilbert in the second one for the theme

[spring granite]

#gacha-and-flex message

I still have do the Ingo/Emmet battles lol

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Your turn, chez

(Happy thanksgiving btw )

[timber mango]

[spring granite]

Ingo and Emmet battles done too. Last stage here..

[spring granite]

Are you turkeying around

[timber mango]

Something like that!

[timber mango]

Look at all those MFs

[spring granite]

i got a MFing squad right here, chez

also realized i used all 3 mix scout characters

[timber mango]

Oh yeah huh

I don't remember the last time I used a mix pair

[spring granite]

might as well use the pairs you paid for

[timber mango]

[radiant viper]

[spring granite]

3 months to the day bump

[real spruce]

Sad Brendan noises

[spring granite]

12k from pity

[real spruce]

2 points over pity

[spring granite]

Arc Suit N in shambles

[spring granite]

Wanted a higher score, ran out of time as usual

lacked some supports as usual

[spring granite]

Happy almost 4 month anniversary since I last played any challenging content!

I picked the worst stage (Lucian) to have everyone really slow

[timber mango]

300k is right there!

[spring granite]

I don't have the units that you have, Chez

[timber mango]

You have a lot of them! I used most of the pairs you used

[spring granite]

Maybe I’ll try

Emphasis on maybe

My gym ain’t doing much

[timber mango]

Gotta get them going!

[spring granite]

After months of reminding someone else to do CS, I finally did it myself

[cunning skiff]

Lvl 142 celio is crazy

[spring granite]

I do like some random levels

[cunning skiff]

Giving aurochs

[spring granite]

Well, don’t mind if I do for the gems.

[spring granite]

Got it done before reset. I could get Irida to 3/5 but then I remembered Volo is in a week so nah.

My supports are horrendous and of course I forgot to get Iris in time for the HSE

[spring granite]

Agatha was 1000, the others were 500, Allister was 450. I still play the game (sometimes)

[spring granite]

I still like playing HSE

[real spruce]

expected more from 96R ngl