nov's not-much-but-it's-honest-work Gauntlet clears

[warped kettle]

why did they have to bring it back with the fucking bird that we hate

[opaque plover]

All 3 kinda annoying but screw the bird

[raven timber]

Screw the bird!

[low harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-james-moltres-team-valor-gif-5679769

[raven timber]

I've planned all my possible solos and nothing else

my favorite part in lg planning is finding gems like this

[raven timber]

Moltres #1, Raikou #1, Uxie #1
I downgraded from using SST Red to solo Moltres last time to Uxie. I just... Can't anymore

Moltres #2
That's it, that's all (two) of my Moltres solos

[warped kettle]

2 more than me bestie!

[raven timber]

i wanna tryhard this LG but i don't think i can

[opaque plover]

that's already a spicy start

[shadow burrow]

I just want to farm cookies

[raven timber]

Raikou #2 and Uxie #2
Clemont definitely got way more TM MPRs than I needed

Moltres #3, Raikou #3

[raven timber]

Uxie #3
Potion MPR gallore

Moltres #4, Raikou #4, Uxie #4

[raven timber]

Raikou #5, Uxie #5, Moltres #5 (yes I EX'd Ace for more bulk)

[raven timber]

Raikou #6
A bit too easy, should've used him on Uxie solo like usual, i was just curious

Uxie #6
I keep forgetting the timing for ssr cynthia + para eggmon so i did this. By some miracle i managed to instaqueue a spectral thief before Uxie's thunder on bar 3 (this kind of luck will not happen again)

Moltres #6
My first trio because fuck the bird! I did this as a duo last time, idk how I could be so lucky. The defense debuffs sucked too much

[raven timber]

https://youtu.be/krqJRIWP6IE?list=PLe-F0Tqs73oz_Yru-vhCn86iZ0Nty32pk&t=5720 will try the ssr cynthia duo again today

[raven timber]

Moltres #7
The only clear I could do today. This took me an hour. This had NO right to take me an HOUR

I'm already starting to burn out

[raven timber]

Raikou #7
Very easy, Arven can't die

[raven timber]

Uxie #7
Video for reference. Standard nuke grid on Cynthia used

[raven timber]

Tierno solo is a struggle

[raven timber]

Raikou #8
The more potion MPRs the better. Potion on bar 2, enter bar 3 with enough health

Moltres #8
Flinches are a myth

Uxie #8
This took waaaay too long

Progress has been really slow and I have a flight on Saturday

[raven timber]

Raikou #9

Moltres #9

Uxie #9

Only 27 wins this time, ew

Flopped this time around

[low harbor]

Flopped! And doing them in a strange order!

[raven timber]

It's been 3000 years...

[worn herald]

At long last, it's duck time

Excited?

[raven timber]

I hope I can find time

Idk the duration yet. 2 weeks? 10 days if they're being lazy?

I doubt it can coincide with the Eid holidays I'll be having starting from checks calendar LITERALLY TOMORROW

[worn herald]

😭

[icy saffron]

12 days….

[worn herald]

Are you planning to go hard Pykuo

[icy saffron]

ofc no

[worn herald]

[icy saffron]

See my name ?

[worn herald]

Okay same tho

But I need cookies

[raven timber]

Eugh....

[raven timber]

Do entei on auto

[worn herald]

I might have to

But also I have the opportunity to do something really funny

[raven timber]

[worn herald]

[raven timber]

This should be a fun LG but I don't have time to tryhard as much as I used to

ig i'll try to do as many solos as I can

which is not much thanks to cress

[low harbor]

I want a firm number before you start for Cress solos

[raven timber]

Well I've done 2 cress solos

i've planned 2 more

[raven timber]

Cresselia #1
A very slow but very safe solo

Azelf #1
Get past half bar 1 and you've won

Entei #1
Full health solos are so satisfying

Entei #2
Kris I love you

Cresselia #2
My Cyrus is 3/5. I picked up Umbral Healing, which you don't need if you're good at instaqueueing all your dark voids so that Cresselia never gets to sync. Basically followed the 2/5 solo vid from Citrine

Forgot to take a screenshot but Azelf #2 is SS Silver!

[keen flicker]

oh you did base Kris on Entei, is that more tolerable than 5 unyielding procs leads me to believe?

[raven timber]

well mine lived on 1 HP at the end there, but that was because i had bad luck flinching bar 3

it was very comfortable imo, didn't proc unyielding at all

[raven timber]

i've now planned 4 cress solos!

if things go according to plan I can do 12 more solos total before i start dipping into duos. if i have the time, anyway

[low harbor]

Do you know what the word “plan” means?

[raven timber]

[spark pasture]

You’re like someone I know, keeps planning things but actually doing them in another matter

[raven timber]

Usually when I plan I get it DONE

But i've been overwhelmed with work and school

Can't even use LG as escapism bcs then I'd feel guilty

[raven timber]

wow the cerena solo on cress is kinda shit

just dodge they say

[raven timber]

Cresselia #3
Surprisingly comfortable. Spam Leer bar 1 until you get enough Mighty Affliction procs, wipe bar 1 with a bmove. Instaqueue sync to oneshot bar 2. Oneshot bar 3 with sync, don't miss your crit

Azelf #3
Haha lmao

Entei #3
Haha lmao

Trying the Arven solo on Cress now, got as far as bar 3 but couldn't heal enough

[raven timber]

Cresselia #4
GOD, FINALLYYYYYYYYY

[raven timber]

Deceptively simple. A lot of things had to go right.

• Flinch chain bar 1 so Cresselia doesn't use a second calm mind.
• You're free to spam b move afterwards, but time your sync on half bar 2 so you can heal from Toxic immediately
• Be ready for the onslaught on bar 3, I found that I needed to be over half HP to be comfortable. Hyper beam still hurts a lot. I used my 2nd TM around second half of bar 2 so I can get more healing.
• Do NOT get frozen (harder than you think)

I literally crafted a gear that has a 5% damage reduction on psychic moves and sync moves for this

[raven timber]

Entei #4

Azelf #4

Did these runs yesterday. Been trying the SS Korrina solo on Azelf but no luck yet

[raven timber]

I got an almost perfect run for the SS Korrina solo

there's no way Azelf managed to hit thunder when I'm at +6 evasion, paralyzed me, landed the water pulse, confused me, then landed another thunder

there's no way

[keen flicker]

azelf is piercing gaze bar 3

[raven timber]

.....

that explains everything

Azelf #5
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an LG player in possession of complaints shall receive a good run right after

[raven timber]

Cresselia #5
I didn't plan this solo at first but wow this was easy. I used Protect entering half bar 3 bcs I didn't want to take the Hyper Beam

Entei #5
Reset until you dodge a Fire Spin. The more TM MPRs, the better. Don't panic, don't waste gauge using Hydro Cannon until second half of bar 3. Entei should go down with 2 Hydro Cannons by then, so all you need to do is land those cannons and don't die from burn

[raven timber]

Gah

One day I will return to my peak

[hard grotto]

that's more than me

[fluid wave]

yay I win
20 wins 😎

[raven timber]

[raven timber]

Bit too soon for another Moltres innit

June will probably be my busiest month yet, BUT if I can graduate this semester expect me to go all out in August

[shadow burrow]

Where solo clears

[raven timber]

i'm doing them! but since i'm probably just doing 10 or so, I'll just do a recap at the end

i'm at 7 now

i'd like to do more but moltres is annoying and i don't even know if I want to do the sst red solo again

i tried a few days ago but no luck yet

once i finish this side quest called "university" i'll get back to tryharding gauntlet

[spark pasture]

You’re still on 7..

[raven timber]

i was doing the 8th yesterday but my phone's battery was low

but hey yesterday my undergrad thesis got approved for defense examination, meaning i'm graduating this year and i'll have time to tryhard the next LG!!!

[raven timber]

SST RED ON MOLTRES COMPLETE

God my hand is trembling

misclicked and used the special g-max volt crash instead of the physical one and that was how i only did 30% damage

survived the hurricane at 4% HP and wiped bar 3 with a sync

[raven timber]

Alright here are my solos

One day I'll do a Moltres solo that's NOT these 3

[zealous spire]

Good job 🎉

[raven timber]

thank you, hopefully i can get bac to my peak performance soon

[raven timber]

annoying but sure

[raven timber]

Tornadus #1, Latios #1, Regirock #1
Some easy solos I was doing absentmindedly. Between LG, Academy, BR, and Tower, there's a lot of content I gotta do

Not to mention all those Paldea rerun stories I have to breeze through

[raven timber]

was thinking which solos i should do on regirock and i discovered... i did this?? gonna redo it again and hopefully i don't regret it

[raven timber]

Latios #2, Tornadus #2, Regirock #2

Updated grid for NC Silver vs Regirock. Wait until crit shield is gone before entering bar 2 (1st sync under crit shield). Finish bar 2 with bmove + sync + stone edge before regi heals from sync (i think circle is needed). Flinch a move bar 3, preferably you still have circle to tank the hammer arm. Then it's just a matter of getting as many moves in before regirock kills you with more hammer arms. Sandstorm has run out by this point so your sync won't do shit

Legit in the 2nd half of bar 3 i was at 4% hp when I won. Luckily hammer arm is a 4 gauge move so regi takes a while to queue

[low harbor]

Silver solo, so beautiful

With such an ugly grid expansion

[raven timber]

Regirock #3, Tornadus #3, Latios #3

Latios #4, Regirock #4, Tornadus #4

Just a bunch of easy solos. I thought this LG i would be able to streak but no i gotta move dorms 😭

[raven timber]

I forgot to post my last round of solos oops! Regirock #5, Tornadus #5, Latios #5

This week was my first week of work so I got very very busy...

[raven timber]

am i ready to do this stupid Rei solo again

sigh

i feel like i've aged so much since last year. adulthood is disgusting

[spark pasture]

Do you even have time for LG

[raven timber]

No!

Adulting sucks

Registeel #1
I neglected danger dodge and opted for status immunity node on grid bcs the paralysis is annoying. I still managed to dodge a focus blast though, which I think contributed to my win

Latias #1
It's been so long since I fought this jet that I forgot the proper strategy. Basically nuke bar 2 before you reach second half (and get -6 evasion), then try to dodge stored power on bar 3 bcs that hurts

Cobalion #1
Nothing much to it. Max move bar 3, immediately follow up with a sync to clear

I'm just gonna see how many solos I can manage

For example, where do I put Elaine

[gloomy fern]

i did the rei solo!

(mine is 5/5 so it was probably a lot easier)

[raven timber]

sigh time to do the Rei solo

[shadow burrow]

It's not a nightmare fuel at least

[raven timber]

Registeel #2, Cobalion #2, Latias #2

Registeel #3, Cobalion #3, Latias #3

Registeel #4, Cobalion #4, Latias #4
Arc Silver vs Coba is the only new solo I tried so far. It was fun!

[raven timber]

I somehow missed the fact that there's a Gauntlet this month
Moltres #1, Tapu Bulu #1, Entei #1

That ss blue solo was the smoothest i've ever had! First fire spin missed, i got burned in bar 3 bcs of a random heat wave, but killed bar 3 fast enough before i could get hit by a lot of sacred fires

[raven timber]

Wow this sucks ass

[spark pasture]

But you’re busy right Nov

[raven timber]

i can never go back to the level of free time i had in uni

[spark pasture]

I see 10 and out in the near future for you

[raven timber]

i've been doing that quite often im afraid!

i miss my peak

[opaque plover]

I know the feeling

[raven timber]

what were they thinking wtf

[spark pasture]

10 and out and more time to spend in gym battle

[fluid wave]

No

[gloomy fern]

pretty sure it starts the day gym ends

[fluid wave]

^

[raven timber]

thinking if i want to do the Aaron solo again

"this didn't take too long" really now, 2024 Nov?

update: 2024 Nov wasn't crazy. Aaron solo vs Azelf is indeed easy

apparently i did the SS Cyrus solo on Cresselia but it's harder than i thought

[spark pasture]

What’s in the plans for 2026 Nov with this game mode

[raven timber]

solo as much as i can except i've given up on cresselia

i WISH i could go back to hitting 100 streaks man

if only...

[spark pasture]

Welcome to the working life Nov

[raven timber]

it's so terrible

get me out of here

[devout lichen]

ooh good to know

Question, is 2026 nov crazy?

[hard grotto]

Crazy? I was crazy once

[raven timber]

being a working adult doesn't allow me to be crazy anymore

it takes all my whimsy away

[raven timber]

REAL BRO

[spark pasture]

No updates during the recent LG

[raven timber]

I did 13 streaks! 😭

[devout lichen]

3 more than me

[raven timber]

hmmm not too bad

[opaque plover]

You mean Solo Galoreeeeee