Gnolte's clears

[merry rapids]

i'm trying to do the messiest ones first so hopefully i'll be speeding up

[merry rapids]

Freaking hell

[merry rapids]

top 99

[merry rapids]

top 97

[merry rapids]

top 95

i'm hopefull

top 93

top 91

[merry rapids]

140 wins top 89

top cut is 4 wins behind

i'm fine

maybe i can get to 141 or 142

couldn't catch up to you adept

top 89

5 wins above cut

141 wins

top 90 i think

i'm happy it wasn't on the exact top cut like lg13

i'll actually appear in the leaderboard this time, instead of it only showing till top ~93

and i won't be 3 days wondering if i got in or not and also i get the title

i'm still surprised that i got top 100 in hs and by a wider margin than both lg

final notes

i hate regirock

terrakion is ok

uxie was nice

i probably should get better at teambuilding but ahhh

i tryharded more than i intended and i overkilled more than i thought i'd be possible for top 100

i thought i wouldn't get top 100 even if i played optimal-ish like lg13

like last lg was like ~176 wins and now 137?

[merry rapids]

I got cookies from this last minute overkill but I think it won't count for leaderboard

next month i'll try to upload the non uploaded solos and get ss lyra on cress and organize the thread
and then try to convince myself to play more casually for a while

ik the 136th is messed up, i'll do it again, also include the 141th clear and post them all together when rankings arrive

btw is this format of posting the screenshots good?

i don't bother to do a sheet with grids bc idk if it's worth when i most of the stuff is stolen/stolen+third and the rest that's mine i'm not too confident if it's worth stealing
(What kind of clears are interesting to be recorded?)

so i like this format that doesn't flood the thread

but the quality is shit unless you click to open on browser

Units left + (4 pairs I missed)

Welp

I'M FREEE

...to do the dishes

Gn
But I'd happily ramble some more tomorrow if anyone has any questions/is curious about smth
I'm also open to suggestions like talking less/more about smth here
And ty for everyone, adept, nov, gakon, the streak sheets, the resources and lg chat

[hot latch]

well done!

i will need to note that 1/5 petrel team for future LGs

when piercing blows is your only gimmick.....

[merry rapids]

I think you can go cheaper tbh

Like BP registeel and skyla

And in this team his sp.def debuffs overlap with lenora's

[merry rapids]

I tried a bunch of 2/5 Lele+non ex 1/5 nc Rosa stuff but only ever got to ~600k

So copying the gen pool clear it is

I wonder if we'll get animations frame data with this game mode

I've always wondered in the niche LG cases where the only thing that matters is rushing to sync which attack animation was faster

[merry rapids]

this seed is neat

i got a striker one tho

[merry rapids]

Palmer VH so I did argenta

[merry rapids]

Dejavu

[merry rapids]

First time I gave enemies enough bulk to tank a b-move

I should try doing above 3k cs sometime

[merry rapids]

Back to fun-ish suffering

there's like half a dozen things that can go wrong

this one got low hp and toxic hit

no proc on Grassy Terrain (to chain before cress double teams), less than 3 speed buff after GT ends, not debuffing eva

are pretty fast resets at least

+1 sp.atk/crit shadow ball, not denying sure crit icy wind do like 50% hp

not enough dodges, not debuffing sp.def in bar 2 so it takes too long (sp.def debuffs are pretty import since cress has 0 reduction)

not dodging the 75% acc toxic

then you can kill bar 2 cress too early but it's only happened once

and finally miss bar 3 sync crit/miss the queue but i haven't gotten to this point yet

Insane hp

i like maximazing the flinch stalling tho

and when to use tm

chaining of a dire hit mpr

and watching the debuff gacha

and deciding if i have enough to chain or not

(it's around 4,6 bars on 6+ spe)

the grassy glide chaining timing is also pretty lenient
overall her solos aren't that draining to do

except latias

but that was bc i was dumb to play not play on (a)normal speed

i want to try it again and see if the 4k characters description was deserved

oh yeah i'm not gonna tryhard lg (but for real) next time since i even have the title now

and latias is coming back soon so i can take a few days off lg to do it

[merry rapids]

First rosa and now bianca

I really need to start seeing which solos I can lower so I can invest in them

Much better

[merry rapids]

This one was close

[merry rapids]

Either a ft2/mgr3 proc on GT or a toxic miss and I would've won have a shot a winning

I got the 33% to lose

Icy wind crit does like 60% so if you miss the sync queue you prob die

[merry rapids]

I've gotten a bunch of these overtime

So I think it's technically possible to perma flinch without chaining

But ofc I don't think it's humanly possible to get this consistently

Since the wait for flinch to wear off is too big so people would lose track of the timing

But if this game ever gets an emulator with tas

I'd be funny af

[merry rapids]

now i've gotten to this point

[merry rapids]

so
i dodged the toxic with 80% hp, so i stopped a video i was watching and began focusing in damage controlling, my heart started beating faster, i got the grassy terrain out, so i started reminding myself of the showing specs process, got the sync queue and cress also queued a move, aka the sync didn't get to only bar 2

and then
rafa'ed

[merry rapids]

Another one

[merry rapids]

Pls drop acc

[merry rapids]

damn ss lyra bulu is annoying and it feels weird

even with skill gears

entei was easy

back to cress grinding

[merry rapids]

i got unlucky for like 4 attemps in a row with 0 fast track procs

until i remembered i swapped to cs2 to try the bulu solo

oops

[merry rapids]

i'm going insane

this was supposed to be easy

might have to resort to my +4e

so i can go to sleep

nvm i'll just forget about being first

and just go to sleep and go do another alternate routes video in the morning with a description ready at release

do stoic, stoic +4 e, mgr

[merry rapids]

Couldn't get 1m for the first two dc

Now I get 2m lol

[merry rapids]

Rafa might do it

He's already done 7 SS Cyrus max investiments

[merry rapids]

He did it

[weak ravine]

you may rest

[merry rapids]

ye

i'll still lower it tho

[merry rapids]

Hmm

How tf do I tank

Anyway I just need 200k

no gear rolling

no type guard rolling

no starring at 10 people teams in pins over and over and having to learn the stages gimmicks

[merry rapids]

HS done
300
300
200
100
300

[merry rapids]

Trying to cook a UB clear

Just need to not mess up the order and three? wide guard mpr and a couple quadqueues

[merry rapids]

https://youtu.be/TNqeW1G7U5c

[merry rapids]

This DC is rough

[merry rapids]

unless i'm missing smth

i think klara can do coba

trying 2 ex

[hot latch]

What the hell i should've tried nc blue for this

Could only get around 240k with koga/bp barry/redlax

[merry rapids]

I did that too, but Geeta instead of redlax

But no sp.atk sucks

Dunno if it's possible 2/5 EX

[merry rapids]

Maybe

I'mma grind for coba and then candy to 3/5

[merry rapids]

https://youtu.be/GnJmVhRlEJE

Now back to SS lyra

[merry rapids]

uploaded this too fast and misscropped the video by a whole 39 secs smh
wait i can still crop the vid after uploading? unexpected

[merry rapids]

i guess i'm a lyra fan now

looking at regirock and raikou

raikou hate made me remember attempting with her

[bright frost]

Hi a lyra fan now

How is it going

[merry rapids]

Fine

The UB clear that I didn't want to spend too much effort on (I forgot to turn in-game music and messed the sequence at the end) is now my second most viewed video just 11 days after release

Got 2 klaras with 9 gems

Snow complimented the coba solo
https://twitter.com/MizoreAwayuki/status/1812931371595407466

Ｓｎｏｗ／淡雪 (@MizoreAwayuki) on X

Klara 2/5 EX Soloes Cobalion https://t.co/7TeoXln486 @YouTubeより

オィオィ・・・やっべェぞこいつはよォ・・・！！

Twitter · Jul 15, 2024, 7:24 PM

And I don't think I'll get 1/5 SS lyra cress before someone gets 3/5 exr torn like I had planned

It's winter here and I had forgotten how it is to feel cold bc it's just a few weeks a year

[merry rapids]

How about you?

[bright frost]

Oh i meant how is your Lyra solo progress going

[merry rapids]

Ah

Needs like 3 tm mpr I think

[bright frost]

Oopsie

Good luck

[merry rapids]

Improved Fantina and N to get top 3k title bc why not

300
500
200
100
400

[merry rapids]

I'm satisfied with 2m

Specially since I'm not rolling sp3

And no hop, rei, redlax, sc steven, nc nate, 3/5 Geeta, oleana or ss roxie

Somehow didn't use Barry or colress anywhere

Or rolling for offensive passives on gears

But that means I'll get only top 2k

1.5k rn

[merry rapids]

Eh

Needs -1 atk, -6 spe, +3 crit, +6 atk, +6 spe

Good in LG bc she's can do all that by herself

But bad here bc it takes 11 turns of setup and flame charge is sloow

[merry rapids]

NC Marnie gets sup ex

Not sprint for +40 spe, or field for +40 spe and field, but at least it's not tech

I'll have to revisit torn, terrak, uxie, coba

Latias and Moltres no way (I think)
So many solos to do while my irl get busier

[merry rapids]

Strike sprint fairy weak stage in a fairy seed

[merry rapids]

First LG clear gonna be SS lyra grass and skill gear latias

See if that 4k characters vid description was skill issue or not

[merry rapids]

Manual farming some cookies

[merry rapids]

Yum cookies

[merry rapids]

I love the contrast between 2/5 melony and 5/5 SS hilbert

[merry rapids]

Sunny disposition Gardenia dps

[weak ravine]

wait I forgot she had that

could cook with her on moltres

[merry rapids]

Funny unovan bugs

Hmm I should do a Hilbert UB clear sometime

Lol

He has just 3 thorton clears

And one Leon

Might do a compilation
At least darach and lucy

[merry rapids]

Nvm I'm quitting Lucian latias again

I'll be back when they give him an expansion with soften up and full bracing tm 9

Even with Unflappable and sp.atk ramp up it's too rng

Prob need 5 tm mpr

And 3 sync crits

Less tm mpr with op dr gears but I don't want to roll for that

[bright frost]

What is your strat? Keep spamming Growl ig?

[merry rapids]

Ye

And keep flygon alive

And hit some confusions to get latias to +2 eva

[bright frost]

I see

Good luck

[merry rapids]

nah i'm quitting it

i'll upload a demo tho

[merry rapids]

how's lg going?

[bright frost]

Moltres being the road block

[pseudo coral]

Are you trying a new solo

[merry rapids]

Yes

[merry rapids]

Similar principle to Klara and NC leaf solos on coba

Atk debuffs+defensive debuffs= op

[pseudo coral]

this one relies so much on tm mpr tho

[merry rapids]

Ye

But latias relies on that + triple sync crit

So I dropped it

https://youtu.be/JMQFD7rtHlw

[sand birch]

That was your grid with Unbending ? How did your attempt went ?

[merry rapids]

Actually I forgot dauntless>ramp up

And that was vigi bc I was trying stoic but only being able to take 1 stone edge crit was getting me tilted even tho it's probably better

I only got 2 attempts to bar 2 and died immediately after

I don't know if I should reset for mpr on the first sp.atk and use tm later

To farm one more sync and buff sp.atk before the half bar

Or reset first for one tm mpr

[sand birch]

Farming more sync buffs also means you're likely to tank more damage so you die on Bar 2, unless you dodge most of the Stone Edges

Did you calc how many Sync Buffs do you need to nuke Bar 3 ?

[merry rapids]

No

[merry rapids]

do i divide by 5 at the end for healthy advantage 8?

or is it additive with dominating sync and pecking order? so i'd need to calc in excel?

i'll test

[sand birch]

Use PoMaTools for that, and yeah divide by 5 the results
I'm using a lot those calcs to see if my runs are doable

[merry rapids]

10 sync buffs

trained mind 8, 80 sp.atk from gears, lv 150

technically

if you don't debuff when he gets +3 atk on bar 2.5 and buff him some more with beef up luck/miss a sync crit

you can do less than half

so he doesn't buff crit

or you deal with 2-3 crit coinflips

or you run vigi (which can get debuffed a ton in bar 2)

i'll go back to stoic

[sand birch]

Oof 10 Sync Buffs is a lot, assuming that you survive that long

You kinda need most of the Stone Edges to miss to have a lot of HP remaining I guess

Good Luck

[merry rapids]

Didn't get sandstorm mpr

They have pretty good synergy

Falkner defogs psychic terrain which also fixes stone edge and almost fixes sand tomb acc

He's also johto for silver

Bertha has interference, sand and tanks pretty well

There's no BP Falkner clear and the other Bertha+silver team has 3/5 exr rosa

So it'd be pretty cool if this worked

I still need to get a grasp of argenta sequencing

Setup sides denial and not have to apply trap before syncing

Oh and Falkner has air cutter flabbergast 4

hmm if i ex falkner he outnukes silver outside circle
might need def crush falkner, 50% for second sync to crit and kill him

[merry rapids]

Idk if this will work

But damn is it execution heavy

Oops I forgot to apply trap on starmie

Oops sand tomb missed and flabbergast didn't proc

Oops I missed the quad

Oops I killed side too early

Oops this was the turn to buff/debuff with BP falk

Oops no sandstorm mpr

See when regen runs out

Falkner getting crit

Also Johto circle extension is a lie

Bertha loves to eat wtz duration

Let see if changing grids works

I think I've them hit themselves in confusion like 6 times

Which makes the move be not successful so they don't proc the interference curing passive

Also silver is the secondary dps

The main dps is sand chip

22k on suicune

Oh and waterfall flinches

Or misstime sandstorm

I think that's the furthest this goes

I think I should try doing more feasible things

Also I was trying Lucian raikou (which should've been the one to attemp first)

And got an attempt with a Rafa in bar 2 (which divides the damage by three bc light screen)

Which let's me arrive at bar 3 with almost a sync ready

I just needed to remember to growl before confusion-ing it down

I wonder if others tech nukers can also do this

Bc the worst part of raikou is usually the bar 3

End of rambling

also i should keep track again of stuff i said i was gonna do and still haven't done

bc i'm at like two digits now

oh i still have them listed here
#1022716961462947910 message

so

do: ss lyra cress, ss cyrus coba, lyra regirock, lucian raikou, ss hilbert UBs, nc marnie when ex role drops, more 2/5 ex nc leaf routes, all the limiteds i have at 1/5 waiting for candies, colress
edit ss lyra azelf, ny lillie raikou, non ex leaf registeel, ss wally latios

and organize the thread

also i'm skipping this lg

[merry rapids]

Close

[pseudo coral]

damn

[bright frost]

How are the skill gears?

[merry rapids]

Only passive that matters is the 3% attack dr

[pseudo coral]

Stats are crazy

[bright frost]

reroll for 45% Electric DR then

[merry rapids]

I'm not that insane

yet

[merry rapids]

hmm

i've now realised getting rafa'ed is prob the hardest way of doing it lol

so i either keep the same grid and just

only use the second sp.atk on bar 3

or the funnier alternative

Confusion dps is real and can hurt you

(electrode has measly 5.680 hp)

i save a sync this way

[merry rapids]

the 5% move multiplier on the gears might matter lmao

[merry rapids]

Confusion dps grid

||Messed up, game gave me a second chance and I messed it up too lol||

I forgot I had to lower the sp.def before syncing in bar 3

The game literally gave me the highest roll

So I could still have won if I quad'ed

Anyway

3 mpr, 2 sync crit, 1/2 thunder miss, good skill gears

And bad para and aggravation rng can mess things up

No extra energy

Prob a ⛔, there are harder ⚠️ but I prefer risking people to overestimate the difficulty than to underestimate

Potentially replicable by tryhards with spare time (if the other 2 in the lineup are Moltres/regirock/latios lol)

[pseudo coral]

Aaaah pain

[merry rapids]

.

Top 41 rn

Hmm

I think I'll give him sp3 and go for 4m

I don't roll for offensive gears

But for some reason I conveniently have +9% dmg +100 sp.atk for this

[merry rapids]

Forgor sp3 dilutes in smun so it barely makes a difference

But i think i can improve the sequence

[merry rapids]

https://youtu.be/BlCqtJhy4do

Sequence feels a bit iffy, like the 14 whole seconds left in the end, so it's unlisted for now

[merry rapids]

Was bored so I counted which pairs I have vigi on

191 ls + 9 who have it innate but not ls + 6 who have it on grid but not ls + v.selene=207

So I have 68 pairs without any form vigi

Vigi is 1/8 on the 3* cookie

So I need 544/600 cookies on average to finish putting vigi on everyone

And I have 786 cookies

So I could do it

Need a bit more for the eggs tho

[merry rapids]

I am now satisfied

uploading it

[merry rapids]

https://youtu.be/3PtGXuZVvXE

Will probably be my PB for a good while

both damage and ranking

also
1/5 ss wally supremacy

[merry rapids]

Pretty lucky testing

[merry rapids]

Torn it is

[merry rapids]

Uxie I only got to bar 2

[merry rapids]

Nvm I just got lucky

[merry rapids]

#gacha-and-flex message

When I roll in the triple unovan banner I get 0/5 SS N, 2/5 SS hilda and 6/5 SS hilbert

But now that I roll in the banner that has

checking notes

a 0,025% chance

He decides to come

Fate rng works in mysterious ways

[merry rapids]

Wise entry 2 who?

(arven bc[?])

[merry rapids]

Need to polish it

Archie first target

Bc man won't stop spamming thunder and here's here in the first place bc it was taking too much for mina/kris to summon rain

Also I should freaking focus on just one thing

[merry rapids]

Done

[merry rapids]

Waiting to get SC Steven from selects before improving dragon
#1255888121648644197 message

Prob need to roll for better gears for 10m

Oops forgot to lv150 cynthia

[weak ravine]

Aaron?

[merry rapids]

Lance's immunity to status gives them delay

So the options are lodge n, Aaron and 5/5 oleana

Iirc

[weak ravine]

What does Aaron do tho

Spam defend order?

[merry rapids]

Ye

Buffing/debuffing a single stat gives delay

But two or more doesn't

[hot latch]

Eight... Million....

[merry rapids]

8 times the max rewards, high enough to be in current top 100 yet still 7.195.438 away from adam's 15m

[merry rapids]

similar to lg tbh

just hs is different

[pseudo coral]

Imagine not knowing every last bit of DC engineering smh

[merry rapids]

No redlax rip

Para+mga+attack is nice tho

[bright frost]

Omg Sonia

[merry rapids]

And now I forgot to use sand blaster 4 instead of ww3

Smh

[merry rapids]

3 freaking para procs, no mpr

[merry rapids]

Also I must suck at sing mashing or smth bc I always like need 4 more seconds with single full para/miss

[pseudo coral]

You need more than 1 para I believe

[merry rapids]

litten only got a drill run miss and 1,01 seconds left

adept got drill run and earthquake para and 5,76 left

[merry rapids]

10m is rank 93 tf

I'm gonna have to roll lance and candy Lucas or roll 10% gears if I want top 100

So Idk if I will

[merry rapids]

First 10k

[merry rapids]

Got the 10% gears

Let's see if it's enough

[merry rapids]

Wasn't that bad since a lot of passives work

Opp para, Opp status, physical sync, sand blaster and ground zone

[merry rapids]

Almost 10m

Just need a bit more luck with para procs

[merry rapids]

Finally

I'd like to say I'll never tryhard ranked dc again

But that was the plan if I got top 100

[merry rapids]

Also surprised this didn't work for top 100 dc

When for LG and HS it did
Unless I impulsive candy something in the next 4 hours

[bright frost]

Impressive what's your current rank rn

[merry rapids]

129

[bright frost]

Hopefully you can stay in top 200 till the end

Is there any room for score improvement?

[merry rapids]

a lot

i can candy penny to 5/5 and/or wally to 3/5, 5/5

and i think the optimal 5m-6m clears use a double miss strat

i can pull lance

candy and exr lucas

and do the four syncs cynthia strat, 1 mpr strat

but i there has to be a phone issue or smth bc i'm not even sure if 2 full para is enough

did 3 cynthia sync, 2 mpr instead

and finally ofc

roll gears

gladion has 8%, cynthia 10%

didn't use ever pins

but i don't feel like doing any of that

i already spent too much time, sanity and resources
and it'd need like 400k increase

i guess i'll go test if sand blaster really isn't working

[merry rapids]

Literally my only electric strike ex is nc blue

[merry rapids]

Tf, it can miss

NC marnie can too, it's a bit ironic seeing piercing blows miss

[merry rapids]

No miss fishing today

[merry rapids]

Supreme entry SS glad

#1255888121648644197 message

Didn't even consider

sp3 only makes the first b-move multipliers go from 190% to 220% (smun are additive with multipliers)

And the second one from 430% to 460%

And 0% to 30% to the sync but that doesn't do much dmg

While seun is 50% multiplicative to the first b-move

Should be like 300k more than sp3

[merry rapids]

Trying to do mono ice

Olivia down

[merry rapids]

Nvm I can only do 3 clears

[merry rapids]

Almost forgot to do hs

Speedran it yesterday before reset

[merry rapids]

i think i spent my luck of the next few months

I'll upload in a bit

Guess how many para procs?

[fervent creek]

3

[merry rapids]

https://youtu.be/XI4tzv8Qtjg

[merry rapids]

just realised that's also why the double miss

Some more random DCs I think I didn't post here

i'm trying to focus on irl stuff, till the end of the year probably

so i'm just playing for rewards, not attempting solos, UBs or putting much effort into dc and hs, and probably lg as well

so i've been and prob will continue to be posting less stuff here/youtube since i don't think i'm doing much worth sharing
Edit: why did I send this

[merry rapids]

it was 4

out of 6

[fervent creek]

Damn, nice

[merry rapids]

Pretty funny coincidence

This is the seed

Used gladion and Solgaleo Lillie for area 2

And I needed tank for area 3 so lunala lillie

[merry rapids]

Funni stuff

[pseudo coral]

random janine lmao

[merry rapids]

Still getting away with it

[merry rapids]

Now to rush for top 3k medal

Lol I'm not alone

[merry rapids]

765
500
250
400
200

Left this to the last day, took 2 hours

Normally I get an idea of the meta from the high scorers pin (but for some reason it wasn't there and neither was the infographic) (manually searching the scores suck bc I can't search text on the images and i can't search a thread in specific, so it pulls stuff from DC, UB, EBE, LG, BR and CS)

Bc the high grading doc was kinda whack last time I checked

[merry rapids]

(like lana as C on Marlon in Water/Fairy HS bc she's rock weak [Marlon has rock tomb and left side uses rock slide after mid dies, which she blocks], she can do 1k str and was in a lot of top 100 teams iirc)
(Had to make a pastebin acc to find marlon's moveset)
So these teams kinda suck but they worked

Also

[merry rapids]

Irl stuff is ending, hopefully before lg

So I can prob try to get leaderboard next month

And then post more solos and UB

[merry rapids]

nvm

i'm curious about january

if we're gonna get 0, 2, 3 or 4 weeks of lg

they could make lg once every 3-4 months and extend the duration, this month and last lg could be just an exception and we go back to 3 week every 2 months, who knows

[merry rapids]

ez

[merry rapids]

Got back into attempts

Seems I still have the muscle memory

[merry rapids]

First time getting two in a row

[merry rapids]

Trying to cook smth

Is -6 both offenses, triple vigi, 12.5% healing per turn aoe, pbea has an extra 12.5% and water guard, burn, trap, hail chip enough to compensate for no nuke or dps?

Hopefully the answer is yes with enough potion mprs

[merry rapids]

Missing a quadqueue rip

At least I recorded this one so I can math it a bit

I still have some (hopefully easier) variations

I like the kabu+Lillie offenses debuff+vigi core

Which only requires a 2+ weather uses dps/stall

But nc silver, og lyra, ss mina, ss morty don't offer enough

Arc cynthia and bertha overlap with lillie's trap (but kabu+bertha+Klara looks nice)

Og silver is water weak

i'm not EXing bp lusamine

or candying nc leaf (yet) or maxie

which leaves me with

ss erika
which surprisinly isn't that much used in argenta

[merry rapids]

i think og lyra+3/5 maxie could be funny

bc then lyra gets to solar flare 5 sync

and maxie gets tiles on his grid other than dire hit mpr

then there's also 3/5 f.roxanne+3/5 kabu for non argenta ubs

and i guess there's still this (the idea is that dahlia kills sides, leaf has de/re buffs, rika has water guard and zone, bc for some reason dahlia's innate accepts not just weather and terrain but zone)

and ofc editing the solos i haven't posted #1022716961462947910 message

yay

(buried it)

[merry rapids]

also i remembered why ss erika sucks

her outside sun, specially in a team with burn, trap, b-move and regen

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i think i'll need 5+ sunny days

and 1 kabu mpr

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resetting for a lot of MPR2 sucks a lot

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Nvm

I think I underestimated argenta, forgot how bulky UBs are

719k mid, got tricked by the 92k sides

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Miscalculated the denial, pain

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Getting there

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Yay, really happy to see it really is possible

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Would be very helpful if Bea had Hail Alert

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hail chip is literally most of the team's damage
on top of bea's +30% defenses passive

and hails expires before the opponent's third turn

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Even in Arc Cynthia and Fall Shauntal comps for example, the weather chips still play a significant role

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ye

the 1/32 is huge

ideas for a title?

chipping argenta to death?

too much healing Vs argenta

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Bea and co. delivering (potato) chips to Argenta UB

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added

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https://youtu.be/hfSBieChiG0

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Pretty funny visual bug

It happens before/after the sync animation

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#1012311116778586182 message

they gave mela self defenses debuffing gimmick

and i'm guessing they can do more of them now with the new mechanic

that protects from aoe damage

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Maybe
But I need to plan the sync order and make Entei recover from trap as resilience is running out

Also ss hilbert got shafted

Guy's niche is being on-type

And they make not only the water UB a fire type but electric weak as well

No bug weak stage yet (but he will probably decimate it)
i forgot about thorton

And then Nita is Nita

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Also I wasn't even going for pbea+kabu

Just kabu+roxanne

But pbea ended up being the best (?) alternative lol

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This would've been sick but pbea can't land a flinch to save her life
forget that i'd have a third chance to flinch if I didn't miss the quad

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Yippie

I'm pretty surprised there were no f.roxanne clears

She handled the debuffs by herself

No kabu clears either

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did you record it

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Yup

Just need to finish writing the description

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Just realized I can't invert crit buffs with f.roxanne

but

I can buff block

They normally use 2 dire hits tho so not enough for a slow clear, but noted

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https://youtu.be/hHgNhlR8Bw8

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I'd say this is an UU team

Or maybe ru,nu, idk

Since
0 usage from kabu and Roxanne, 1 from bea

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Maybe

The reaction passive messes the rotations

I often end up wasting 2 turns to reapply trap before syncing

"imagine if could do bianca tanking like in lg to avoid that" (looks at the stat difference) "nvm"

Then I was thinking in doing Bianca tank in Lucy with ss lana

Till I remembered argenta perma psy terrain

So that's also on the to-do list

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Nc rosa would be nice for the unova flag bearer and the rebuffs

But then I think you'd just tank with her, even at 2/5

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Then there's NC Bianca but idk why use her other than double bianca

After that the best synergy she can give is psychic theme skills

So teambuilding is quite open

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Also I hate nemona now

Discharge para into full para on psychic terrain is evil

The terrain mpr rng makes her hard to test

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I'm happy

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But need to finish the rally shop first

Monthly reset

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That was close

How are your skill gears

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Decent

Roxanne doesn't benefit from pin and Lana from the bracelet

I didn't use protect that run, kabu didn't need the health

So just buffing Kabu's crit with early game protect should do the 3% hp that was left this run

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Convenient way to check max hp after grid, theme skills and gears

There's no Noland dahlia clears bc he's immune to confusion

But sync interference 9 also works with trap

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Using the max for trap means I don't get to show triple protect tho

So maybe I can make another clear later

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Let's see what you are cooking

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Bc i needed to tank a crit sync

Aaaand done

Just need to start polishing the sequencing, grids and gears since the run is pretty short and simple as Noland tends to be
Only need to get the quadqueues, the 36% double wide guard mpr and one sync crit

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https://youtu.be/SSxslcU61vE

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sp.def down parameter but still

Lv1 gaming

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Nvm

There's f.roxanne on anabel with nc blue and arc cyn

But for some reason it was in miscellaneous

And also til buff block blocks Nita's stat reset sync passive

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Possible

Also I was convinced Roxanne was ice weak for some reason

"so glad people already did the ice stages" then I actually finally watched it and learned she's ghost weak lmao

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Realised smth (that I prob would've know if I watched more runs [like lear])

"successful"

Soo

So buff block:
is a field on the opponent field (Clear advantage and the UB version)
Can deny friend mend & care
Block buffs (including dire hit and Nita's sync stat reset)

But it's still 10 energy

Which could be used to run vigi on grid instead of ls slot

For something that's much more temporary than cs2

And at least in the comps I'm trying

she's the main dps so I can't delay her sync along with the buff block

But it's cool and I want to use it...

Also idk what to do for Leon and Gio bc kabu devours wtz time

Ny raihan seems good for leon if I had him (Kabu's reactive burn isn't enough status for UBs where that's the gimmick)

There's still the issue of it not being burn so kabu heals less with the b-move

Thankfully for MR I can use nc leaf

Also I do have the arc cynthia emergency button for some of these

But i'm trying to do the more interesting ones first and leave stuff like arc cynthia clears, argenta and Lucy last

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Finally did this

So I can check it mid-run on the computer while I play on the phone

Helps that there's no sequence variation bc there's no flinch
This is for when trap can run out but also especially for this where the tm timing matters a lot and they have a 50% mult when they aren't statused

So I can choose to not try the 50% burn with leaf on a non dangerous move and tank the boosted hit and have kabu burn it passively
The non dangerous moves should be physical bc of leaf's 25% physical dr mf passive

To get a free leaf turn, for leer, maybe a potion or to have more chances to get the 50% burn on a more dangerous move so it won't be boosted

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I forgot about darach lol

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And now i'm finally using buff block so leaf can get them to -3 with leer to start multiplying with b-move and also bc I don't need atk debuff tile

Masked decides to have this instead of Leon's friend mend

So it doesn't need to be successful to work

Which doesn't matter much other than I can't show the tech

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https://youtu.be/rIGuS7b2quw

surprise

resilience can't stop ss lyra 🔥

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Getting there

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https://youtu.be/nqJ_JMMBpRA

i haven't written the description yet so it's unlisted for now

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so these are done:
Anabel
Argenta (just needed blaine for trap+sun)
Evelyn
MR
Nemona

Idk if i can do these
Darach Leon
Giovanni Morgan

darach, gio and leon are bc wtz, probably possible if i wanted to pull ny raihan
morgan no idea

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I'm pretty sure i can do these
Thorton Lucy
Noland Nita

just need to think who i want to showcase as a third

And dana maybe possible with ss mina or arc cynthia
palmer maybe with arc cynthia nope

so 9 kills, maybe 10 but i think i'll do other things now

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I'm happy now

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searching for things to cook

nessa on thorton seems nice

restrain instead of rebuff and st target physical nuke for below 60%

but idk

0 sp.burgh clears

do more ss lyra

ny lillie on lucy for status shield seems funny

and karen on evelyn

-2 aoe sp.atk debuff is pretty rare

was trying that before ss lyra on the roxanne clear but only got to 60%

maybe pal serena on mr?

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Gnolte's clears

Ain't no way this actually works

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I think this might've been sync dmg roll reliant lmao

That was the second highest roll

And there's a 39k dmg difference between the first and the eleventh dmg rolls

I posted this paragraph on the wrong channel (ub one) for 8 hours ahhhhhhh

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https://youtu.be/AVu80faaVzI

Resisted the impulse of using this title ||I don't even know if it's funny||

Tried doing a bit of a fancy/minimalistic/idk video

Short description, not doing a max move quad queue bc it wasn't necessary, not using all 60 grid energy, slowing down to show last sync animation etc..

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#gacha-and-flex message

Was kinda doubting if I should pull her with the bikes and half anni incoming

But now I'm more certain i'll have more fun with her than I would with the bikes

2 copies in the same multi is nice but her 2/5 grid looks like this

So 2/5 stuff will get lowered to 1/5 at some point

But I can do some solos before it does

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https://youtu.be/34j8tHJ-vvY

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Testing UB mitigations

Cycling thru these on teams
They have all 7 stat drops, 5 status and 3 interference

and then some archie+ss mina so i can hit morgan and dana

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burn and trap are most inconsistent

and then basically everything that's in the stage tips has lower reduction than normal

but only half of that is in the sheet

and then there's dana having lessen sleep 9 for some reason

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I think the total is 25

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and done

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Almost

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finally cleared my screenrecording gallery so i can try using my innate phone recorder without it stopping recording out of nowhere even with 3gb left

and holy

there's no lag omg

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The main con is the big red self destruct button

Who let doofenshmirtz design an screen recorder?

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Gallade hurt himself in confusion and that made resilience not run out in time lmao

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i got it

but with 2 unnecessary confusion procs, missed a flinch and took a hit outside zone for no reason
after a few more hours i think at least in this run i need to embrace the misplays, rng and inconsistencies

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2.6 gb for 22:30 mins

but 1080p is pretty
the phone is refusing to cut the video lmao

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https://youtu.be/FZKW08mKe1k

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finally did sync gauge flux damage control (5 bar one, so -16,66% sync mult)

so i think i've shown most things or a least a ton of them

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handling interference on nemona without rebuff/restrain and without sacrificing much (she only loses her meh dps)
no stat up field on mr (nita in the future)
S-Move: Team Stat ↑ Flip+flinch on stages with stat gimmicks and
flinch activating resilience so you can reapply trap faster (anabel, evelyn, wally, and in the future giovanni)
giving more trap to kabu (anabel, mr, nemona) and kabu's b-move loving the extra turns from flinch (anabel, evelyn)
having slow af animations eats wtz but also resilience (dunno how impactful it is tho)
buffing a support with no phys def buffs/saving on grid energy, ss kris on anabel and rika wally (i still wanna do with sycamore tho)
x attack all topping off team offenses (nessa, ss lyra, bea and kabu)
giving steroids striker with strong dps but bad sync (defense debuffs and "Opp Trapped: Team Moves ↑ 2" to 2/5 ss lana on nemona)
clearing sides and setting up cakewalk and relentless for a single target nuker (nessa on anabel)
her solo dps'ing
her with rika
sync gauge flux damage control (wally)

And other people have shown how good she is on giovanni, nita and lucy or how good she is with arc cynthia (i still need to see what people did with these before i do too)
if anyone has more ideas please say so!

phew

almost a day late but i can finally start lg!
looks at clock:
2am

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Ah I guess I haven't buffed ally accuracy

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9/10 solos done

Thinking in putting l.morty on auto while I sweep the house

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Done but needed assistance

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First page done

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Lenora solo was that bad?

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didn't try it

copied the duo from naomi

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Ah

How about Courtney

I somehow missed her

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1 x defense mpr, 2 tm mpr

and not getting full para'ed

followed mud's quaggles sequence on his recent video

[bright frost]

Interesting

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he did ft2, i did mgr2, there's someone on the sheet who did mgr 2 too

and there's 2 electric guard ones

[bright frost]

Could you link me that video pls

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nvm quaggles

for some reason i confuse them with one another

https://youtu.be/NIAie464Pno&t=154

[bright frost]

Much thanks!

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ember burn + leer flabbergast 4

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#gacha-and-flex message

Also threw a multi in LG banner

Didn't have anyone, got one eusine

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found my lg 15 teams https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012311116778586182/1257219569668325438/image-merge-1719727468983.png.jpg?ex=67aaec77&is=67a99af7&hm=de76fd79145d4f0a57f663a39c117df5188ebe0b72117dd4ca915ad36b42f134&

now i can steal from myself

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still need to find who i stole from for the grids and ls

but i think i still have them saved in the grid and ls slots

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(first two pages, if it's low resolution open on browser to see)

dunno my goal

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some of these clears are from old lgs and might not be ideal for this rotation

(i'm already kinda regretting p.serena and l.cynthia)

the plume alongside nc bianca is the only one i have, striker plume...

also the first 4 solos i did off the top of my head, didn't realise ss serena raikou was ⛔ and i think it was fine, did in like 10 minutes

the answer is probably type gears vs skill gears, but i might've just been lucky

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It's kinda funny to value weather eggmons above 1/5 Archie, a masterfair

And it's also funny to bully moltres

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I did 85 clears in 9 days

Assuming 150 for leaderboard

Now I need to do 65 clears in 4 days

16 clears a day

It's possibly possible

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Also I learned to do this

It's really satisfying when it works so I think I've been spending like 5 resets per sleep team resetting for a good one but idt it was worth the resets

and the troublemaker on my ramos even tho his grid solves his acc problems was also so i could have the same timing as the other troublemaker users just to do this

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ran out of stuff to steal

time to plan

(i exported my pairs to a private window and remove the ones i've already used)

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Overkilling is fun

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Almost there

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hit 300 pairs used

80 trainers and 29 eggmons to go

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if i had a coin for every time i tried to pair a electric type non ex budget support that buffs crit (for l.lillie) and also doesn't buff it's defenses

but turns out it's still overkill (sp.atk debuffs+12.5% aoe healing or sp.atk and atk debuffs)

i would have 2 coins

wow they're pretty similar

i think i'll go with raikou anyway

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Finnally

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What the f

I think I'm not making it

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done planning

now i need to do 20 clears in 10 hours

these were left

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Moltres is draining my sanity

hopefully i picked the worst ones first and these will be fine

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Leaderboard moved 9 wins in 5 hours and now 2 wins in 8 hours

will it move 10 wins in 3:38h?

hopefully no

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It's finally over

And like 6 eggmons

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I think these are the more decent-ish things I made

The other 168 are stolen/overkill/trios

I recorded the leaf and lyra ones

And I'm gonna look at the duos with these other pairs to see if my duos are alternatives or just kinda overkill, then recreate and post nvm just gonna post those 2

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and i think i EXed all these people for gauntlet

was sitting at 200+ waiting to ex as needed for gauntlet

ended up being mostly "this clear has it ex, it's a support, might as well"

i'm less confident if dc hop and mallow were worth tho

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Progress
(Also I know p.bea isn't that good here but it's possible so I want to do it)

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#gacha-and-flex message

I have a feeling I'll get top 100 in LG 24 and then get ss acerola from tickets

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Yippie

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Really liked the route on this one nvm had to spend some hours rerouting bc this ended up relying on max trap duration

Also it's rebuff-less thorton

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That's a first

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Oof

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oh boy, but also that’s a very high score for ultra

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(theoretically) Done

But it would need 5/5 cynthia for the third zone

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But at least I should be able to do the arc steven+3/5 cynthia+2024 Lillie clear but with kabu later

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Wasn't recording

Having the min investment team is a responsibility aaaaaaa
And it needs a few potion mprs and skill gears so idt it's very easily recreatable which is kinda the idea of the acessible comps

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Yeah

I usually get top 10k or 5k when I don't try

This was funnier than getting another rank 8567 or smth

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Now recorded

*6 potions needed

And 1 unneeded potion

7 in total

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https://youtu.be/n0rYPJolURc

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Chill top 1k

could've gotten top 500 if I didn't leave it to the last day

and prob could've gotten top 100 if i had sst red/florian

and then candied elesa, hau and brendan

but even then idk if i would want to spend the candies

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Had to candy may twice, chase once, use two pins and pity arc n but it is done

https://tenor.com/view/gravity-falls-grunkle-stan-after-all-these-years-finally-i-have-them-all-disney-gif-2624228875844465926

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double support supremacy

also double mind games supremacy

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kinda hyped for lechonk, he seems to really fit the playstyle

also a few others i want to use like iono, lodge iono, sycamore, alcremie, skyla

Now back to entei bullying with may on the other mode

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https://youtu.be/pjREV7dR5DE

I think I prob should've uploaded the nessa anabel clear first smh, oh well

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More importantly
+623 creamy cookies

Wished I had farmed more but this is fine

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Felt overkill tho

I feel like I want the atk debuffs tho

So atticus/sm.acerola/lechonk
only have lechonk but i still haven't gotten a good grid

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Kinda sad tho

Bertha dies to focus blast

Then Lenora survives giga impact thanks to endure

Cynthia hasn't team sandstorm immunity gridded

And sand goes before regen

which means I can do the kamikaze trick!

But then Cynthia just killed wally lol

Will try to tweak this a bit more tomorrow bc I'm greedy and i want both the lowest investiment and style points

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ok

so

i either get 3 out of 6 mindgames procs and do the kamikzaze or
do 2 out 7 instead by using sandstorm immunity

so i think i'll do both and link the kamikaze in the description

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when you're trying to remember probability to see which has lower odds, removing a chance to proc mg2 or getting nat crit out of 3 attacks

and you start to consider you might be going a bit too far

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crit should be 17,60%
first attack crits+first attack doesn't crit second does+first and second doesn't third does=
6,25%+(93.75%.6,25%)+(93.75%.93.75%.6,25%)=
6,25%+5,859375%+5,4931640625%= 17,6025390625%

(iirc this method sucks but eh)

......crit is 1 in 24 in poma, not 16 isn't it, ahhhh

ok it's 0.11986400462962962...., so 12%

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Double crit is 0,49916666666%

So the odds of getting crit once and surviving minus the odds of getting crit 2+ times so you still die anyway is ~11,48%

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Two mg2 out of seven is ~67.05% 1 - ((1(0.7)^7(0.3)^0) + (7(0.7)^6(0.3)^1))= 0.6705828
Two mg2 out of six is ~57.98% 1 - ((1(0.7)^6(0.3)^0) + (6(0.7)^5(0.3)^1))= 0.579825

so the run gets ~9.07% riskier with one less mg2 roll and ~11,48% riskier by risking to lose due to a crit from not using regen
so clicking tm instead of earthquake is ~2.40% safer

And the total odds should be 51% (1 Bertha MPR) * ~57.98% (two mg2 procs in 6 tries) * ~99,50% (not getting crit more than once in 3 hits) 0.51 x 0.579825 x 0.9950777777778444 = 0.2942551959750197009073

=29.4%

Which is pretty high for my standards

I did this bc this clear is kinda impressive and it looked high since there were only a few sources of rng and they don't affect each other

Unlike things like dodge+flinch or coba's rock smash procs+your stoic procs

Cynthia's sync is sure crit, Bertha is bulky enough to ignore liquidation and psychic drops and I think I don't die to dmg rolls and I hope I'm not relying on them to kill

Been a while since my last rambling

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the person i asked help for this also forgot smth about it

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corrected the math

nvm hyper voice crit one shots bc it's at +5 sp.atk, post sync

surf is at +1 and earthquake is at +0 both pre-sync

(re-correcting the math)

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yeah, rafa just did 1/5 20/20 erika

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til you can also do this with flinches

and not just with arc steven

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I need to stop having ideas and start posting them instead

i think this will be the first time i make use of my 5/5 +10e hilbert

it started with using janine at all bc venom drench is really good. I spend a good thinking in teams with a better poison applier til I gave up and actually looked at her grid and realized she actually has guaranteed poison, just that it isn't worth picking it in lg

i think i've been focusing on ub more than lg lately bc there's so much untapped territory

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https://youtu.be/uApfXVj_YTA

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This is somehow the first 5/5 Hilbert clear on dahlia

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Gave the pin to N but turns out alcremie needs it more

Dahlia is this high hp here bc muddy water dropped acc and alcremie didn't debuff eva so ridicure triggered

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turns out arc N's b-move scales up to *42 (oops) debuffs

dahlia cleanses rebuffs at 60% and i die to the third sync

(i am not resetting for a rain dance confusion proc)

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that sounds terrible

good luck

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ty (if it's possible)

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ok it's possible

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Gets it anyway

after this run i gave quick cure and team sharp entry to sycamore

time to show UBs the true power of sycamore (beyond argenta)

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it would be the funniest thing ever if dahlia had 600 more base hp

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Gobsmack 4 pain

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turns out sycamore in fact can't solo tsareena

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Now just need to not get the teeter dance confusion proc

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https://youtu.be/1YC2wD6U1Bc

yeah i'm not tryharding this lg

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Insane

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The clear or not playing this lg?

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Guess the theme

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first time doing this, should be pretty easy

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wow it's the Moltres trauma bond club

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yup

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I ended up using the NC Marnie duo bc it was before other dark teams in my presets

And then while i was scrolling for my Brendan team for Bruno

"hum, they're both good on Moltres"
and then had this idea

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First and last page

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nc may theme, elite four theme or zinnia theme?

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https://youtu.be/pm41pjBSt4g

Finally got around to finishing the description and even came up with a title

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My baby