Darkshark's Clears

[lethal crane]

I just wanna break my PB (105 lol)

[steep perch]

Gl

[lethal crane]

It's definitely the time crunch if LG lasted longer that would be nice

[pliant pendant]

Omg two months I could slack off that'd probably just stress Nov out even more

[marble lion]

I think the japanese have voiced out similar annoyances

but that if it were longer, despite the good for everyone

much of the challenge is arguably compromised

from what I obsreved over discussion

[steep perch]

Is it really a challenge though?

[marble lion]

longer LG means longer cookie farms too

[steep perch]

Like take a solo for instance

One person got it 1st try cause they got the RNG

[marble lion]

the challenge beyond the patience/tilt is in the management

[steep perch]

The other person took multiple hours

[marble lion]

unit management within confined timing + refinement/experimentation

is what the "challenge" is

[steep perch]

Yeah but extending the event doesn’t change the RNG, it doesn’t become easier

You just have more time to do it

[marble lion]

that's what nutbags like ruri have like 130+ solos frs

becaues continual refinement

and the duos are also progresssively improving

like how cheryl/ghetsis is now outdated

clair/glacia is now outdated, etc

[steep perch]

It’s also wayyyyy more accessible to casuals that way

Because i’d say 95% of players don’t have spreadsheets on who to use where, they make teams as they go

[marble lion]

LG is a hardcore minority mode much like HS is yes

[steep perch]

No HS is larger

[marble lion]

but if they want it to be more accessile they should elongate it

has content ever lasted longer than a month so

[steep perch]

Exactly because it is way more accessible to casuals

[marble lion]

say they elongate it to two months

hmm

[steep perch]

Old BV was 4 weeks

No?

[marble lion]

right

touche

so they could technically

[lethal crane]

If BV can last 4 weeks surely LG can too

[steep perch]

it was 25 hall BV back then too

this was pre hall 30

[lethal crane]

We have much more units to plan and more clears to do, but within the same amount of time as when LG first debuted. Heck, LG now starts in the beginning of the month instead of the end, so we only had a week or so to plan after knowing the lineup

"we" as if I was on the same level as the top 100s

[steep perch]

but yeah the reason this approach works for HS is because it's only 5 stages

and even accounting for optimization you're never doing more than 25 clears

[steep perch]

Rotation 13, god 1/5 N is such a garbage tier unit

[raven grove]

I wish LG was a bit longer but I understand why it is restricted

I'm rushing through my last 40 clears because between ft work and life stuff i'm running out of time to hit my goal I wish I had the time to do better ones

speaking of Dark, you gotta catch up to me

[steep perch]

ok so i can no longer post my clears

the Leaderboard keeps crashing and i already cleared my cache

[pliant pendant]

[lethal crane]

Any suggestions to replace Piers? I've been trying to duo with EX Piers + 1/5 EX N but haven't succeeded and I decided to move Piers to Regi

[lethal crane]

NOOOO how will I steal your stuff!

[steep perch]

not really, i wanted to find a replacement for PIers but everyone i came up with i just found better (rachel, evelyn etc.)

N is just garbo at 1/5 to build around

mine is also not EX so that doesn't help

[lethal crane]

Mmmm

Right now I'm also trying Rachel with 1/5 EX Victor. I'm failing

Ughhh i hate adding a thirddd

[steep perch]

ok yeah it's gone gone I reinstalled and it didn't fix it

[raven grove]

It might just need time, I had the same problem and it fixed itself

[lethal crane]

You never make a spreadsheet for your LG clears?

I always do that so I can copy and improve past homework

[raven grove]

Same I've got everything since LG1 tracked (it's nice to see how I've improved )

[steep perch]

i used to but i cannot be bothered to maintain it so it's fallen way back

[strange sandal]

My only log of clears were bunch of screenshots lost in my gallery till last lg

[steep perch]

now i just freestyle on the day of LG

[lethal crane]

That's incredible willpower

When I go "random bullshit go" I get very expensive

[raven grove]

I need to start ranking the difficulty of my clears because I've looked at some past duos all 'oh this looks fun and easy'

(THEY WERE NOT FUN NOR EASY)

[steep perch]

omg wait it started working

Rotation 14 it’s back

[steep perch]

Rotation 15, duality of electric unova strikers

[lethal crane]

Elesa solo no fucking way

Dark you're crazy

I added an eggmon to the brendan clear and it was still tight

[steep perch]

it honestly wasn't that bad, i got a total of 1 mpr

is my electric skill gear just insanely good or something 😭

cause bp clemont was also a breeze

well not a breeze but it wasn't overly extreme

though at the same time i para'd the heat wave

but again 1 mpr

[lethal crane]

What's your gears?

[steep perch]

Nvm i’m looking at the passives and yeah they are

[marble lion]

Is Elesa doable without ex

I imagine not

[steep perch]

If you high roll MPR maybe

[marble lion]

Hmmmm

How far do you think you'll push

[steep perch]

No clue

I think if i can somehow use all my roster at least 150?

I’m going too slow though

[marble lion]

Minimum cut will be higher this time but good luck

I might miss the cut, all my stuff is almost gone and I'm about to go into trios

Youre doing a lot of solos though, damn

[steep perch]

Sync didn’t crit

It happened again but i got lucky

[steep perch]

Rotation 16, Sinnoh representation

[atomic perch]

Skyla can solo bulu

Goddamn

You're picking up the pace dark
I am still at 38 clears

[lethal crane]

you're a machine dark. the volkner solo looks brutal

[raven grove]

All three of those solos are brutal

Jesus

[lethal crane]

Nah I did the Caitlin one, it was fine

[raven grove]

Hmm, I haven't used her yet...but not EX'd

[lethal crane]

the bulk from EX really helps

[raven grove]

Yeah it looks mandatory

my poor stash

[lethal crane]

how many do you have?

i barely have 70 and only 600ish

[raven grove]

About 350

Haven't been below 400 in a long time, LG is killing my hoard of resources

(If it's any consolation having such a restricted roster is NOT helping me)

[lethal crane]

as it should

[raven grove]

I give everything to the most unforgiving mode this game has. I love it

Can't wait to waste my lunchbreak on trying to clear Regi

[steep perch]

It’s a win more solo, the better the position you can set yourself in the easier it is

But the EX bulk helps a lot

[mossy wigeon]

nah that one took me at least 20 attempts (I gave up without even getting to bar 2)

I even had her EX’ed smh! (although she was level 130)

[lethal crane]

i got very lucky and procced way too many TM MPRs lol. but basically get good healing and you're fine

and her healing is semi reliable at least

[mossy wigeon]

Sure! Sure. Totally. Yep. Didn’t have a lack of procs with the healing in the first place.

[steep perch]

Lucian was the one that shocked me tbh, i had the skill gear and because of vigilance it's shockingly consistent if you get the required MPR

but the biggest barrier is the skill gear

[steep perch]

@marble lion would you do Jasmine Solga or Regi Solga

[marble lion]

Which one

Base jasmine?

[steep perch]

yeah

lodge is pointless there's piercing

[marble lion]

Jasmine will die

To hurricanes

[steep perch]

nah i can make it work

if both were possible would you do jasmine?

[marble lion]

Well it is, just that hassle aside, I had other plans

Lemme just check

yeah, I

used Jasmine against Registeel, actually

I know that Mind Games jasmine with something like egg primape

can duo it

But I would prefer asmine against Registeel because she can be used with cheaper stuff there

while registeel + solgaleo is more standardized

if your registeel were more invested, I would reconsider

@steep perch

[steep perch]

it's not that's why

[marble lion]

yeah then just go for the standard

Very few pros are actually deviating

[steep perch]

though actually i do have an idea for regi

[marble lion]

I felt my need to cook harmed more than helped

[steep perch]

i think i'm going to cook on this one and save regi

i find the double defence more valuable

[marble lion]

but people like ruri and and samui are not really flexing

are you gonna duo it with something

well, the double defense is for himself only, fwiw

not teamwide

[steep perch]

i know but you can bring another selfish def buffer that does damage

also I have a really stupid idea for rachel alola grimsley but that might be overkill

[steep perch]

another thing i'm thinking of is Regi's gauge is way better

[marble lion]

makes sense

alolagrims is being duoed with Looker

of all things

like, the tryhard optimizations are so progressive right now its insane

[steep perch]

yeah i was thinking metal burst mpr

[marble lion]

like, I thought wallace/roxie was good

[steep perch]

it's not practical but it's funny

[marble lion]

then some japanese player does it with tech nidoqueen instead

lmao

[steep perch]

i see

Rotation 17, hit 50

[marble lion]

Oh so you did end up using Jasmine

Were you running WE

[steep perch]

yeah

[marble lion]

or did you just purely rely on dodge

like if you survive the first bar she doesn't care afterwards

[steep perch]

i think the gauge is better with registeel, jasmine is just too slow

[steep perch]

pretty much

[marble lion]

yeah but jasmine can just run recup/lockstep/rejuv

and is much the same except bulkier

I value jasmine more than steel at least

[steep perch]

nah lockstep/rejuv is worse than speed buffs

and it also ties up your sync

[marble lion]

yeah but its not like

solgaleo wants to sync anyway

[steep perch]

but that works for both

but outside solga when you have units that want to sync jasmine is worse

[marble lion]

jasmine has betteer sync value than registeel unless he has refill so

[steep perch]

and again she's slower

[marble lion]

i don't really feel the difference, at least

I do thik jasmine is a better waste but to each their own

[lethal crane]

Gojo moment

[steep perch]

also i think i'm out of registeel solos unless Lodge Dawn rolls mind games

actually no i have sycamore

[marble lion]

wow, I got the horrible field rally

oh well

[steep perch]

Rotation 18

[lethal crane]

2/5 Olympia!!! And non EX! Holy fuck

Also I need to know about that CElesa team. Mine is also 1/5 0/20

Every time Dark uploads his progress I become progressively more and more afraid at his skill and willpower to do some of these clears

[steep perch]

basically you buff elesa and just spam tshock and sync, you need to dodge or para the 1st hurricane and ideally the poison (i didn't but i just sent it anyways). Use your 1st light screen after the 2nd move and save the 2nd one for bar 3 (heat wave). only queue moves with dragonite if he's below 94% HP (because mine was poisoned I just did 1 move at 6% to get the extra queue in, he didn't queue after he buffed). once you get to bar 3 you want to sync into max move, this particular order is very important because the max move doesn't need para if the sync doesn't crit so you still win

both ran vig

also nuzzle when not para

[lethal crane]

Crying how many Vigis have I rolled this LG idek

When does dragonite die?

[marble lion]

any particular reason why you opted for eggnite

any spa buffing eggmon works with 1/5 elesa afaik

at least eggnite could be helpful for alternate fishing

[lethal crane]

Probably crit? I don't think 1/5 celesa buffs crit

[marble lion]

she doesn't need crit to clear it

is the thing

most common core seems to be egg clefable, but I know one guy who used egg charizard

[steep perch]

My elesa isn’t EX it matters

[marble lion]

Fair

[steep perch]

I was actually using egg clefable to start that was my 1st egg but yeah i couldn’t max bar 2 so i had to sync/max all of bar 3 which made bar 2 really long

[lethal crane]

I'm having second thoughts

[steep perch]

Rotation 19, running low on solos

[raven grove]

L Dawn on Regi I was gunna try her on Bulu, damn

You're killing it with these solos Dark!

[steep perch]

The regi solo is actually annoying af

She has natural remedy so i got para’d twice in the space of 3 turns and it’s basically a run ender

Like i would spend 5 minutes getting to 60% HP and then body slam

But yeah getting past the half bar is 50% of the battle, getting past bar 1 is 90%

[lethal crane]

so just defense crush LS on her?

or mind games

[steep perch]

do not use DC

i tried that it is so much worse

it's fine for bar 1 but when it gets to bar 2 your drain does no damage unless you crit

[lethal crane]

damn I see

i did the bulu solo with her, but maybe next time i'll look into regi (i will regret it)

[lethal crane]

Okay my CElesa got bodied by bar 2 lol

[steep perch]

Rotation 20

Sinnoh carries tbh

[lethal crane]

how was that aaron team? i'm too weak to do the solo lol but i might try that

[steep perch]

It’s very nice

You need a couple MPRs for regen but it’s miles miles easier

I didn’t even use heal order

Give you aaron fast track you can spam attack order

He can tank the crits

[lethal crane]

i learned from my aaron solo on entei to reset for TM MPR early and just use the first two TMs in the beginning to at least get +2 crit. should I do that as well?

[steep perch]

Yeah that should work

[marble lion]

I wonder if raticate can replicate that clear

Vigi on both?

[steep perch]

it should

[steep perch]

i did ft aaron

[marble lion]

Oh you need FT?

Hmm

Understandable

[steep perch]

probably not but it makes it easier

because you can just spam attack order

i didn't try the vig route because i already had ft on aaron and felt it was enough

[marble lion]

Grid specs iydm?

[steep perch]

i imagine vig should still work

[steep perch]

It’s just the solo grid

though i think i did a change or 2 to get the sync tile

yeah i got rid of catalyst

[marble lion]

Kkk, thanks

@steep perch how hard is the lodge volkner duo

I can't do it for the life of me

[steep perch]

We talked about this last time, it’s pretty tight I lived in single digit %s

I also had pretty good gear and mine is EXed

I imagine getting accuracy procs and sp atk procs helps, my winning run had -2 spa

[lethal crane]

terrifying screenshot

i see that hurricane in my dreams

[steep perch]

I didn’t screenshot it but my worst moment has been my morty solo attempts

I got to half bar, it used a grass move and healed for 6%, lived off 1% hp after last word

[lethal crane]

okay how the hell did you do CElesa Supp Dragonite

my Elesa dies by bar 2 :/

[steep perch]

who's 1st tank?

[lethal crane]

dragonite

[steep perch]

also is your dragonite 5* full affinity?

[lethal crane]

yyea

[steep perch]

wait is the trick ignoring him then?

try just spamming tshock

[lethal crane]

yeah that's what i'm doing

[steep perch]

hang on then

[lethal crane]

after buffing, dragonite's just sitting duck

my dragonite dies before i can nuke bar 1 to finish it, so elesa had to tank the 2 brutal swings into aerial ace and dies after that

[steep perch]

ok yeah i replicated it

lemme send the recording

@lethal crane

[lethal crane]

[steep perch]

Gear before i forget, nothing overly insane, the 2% sync reduction is all that’s lowering damage

[steep perch]

Rotation 21

[lethal crane]

haha, when I had 1/5 EX Rei I also did that team

[steep perch]

Tried to find my worst eggmon

[steep perch]

Rotation 22

[marble lion]

i'll keep the techtop duo in mind next time, good call

throw egg omastar instead because anni skyla took techtop

[steep perch]

i got it from mud

[marble lion]

how far are you pushing withn a week left

[steep perch]

my exams finished yesterday so i basically have this entire week now

[steep perch]

I edited the grid a bit and imo it's a bit easier

[marble lion]

cool, wishing you best of luck on the grind

[steep perch]

drop unflappable for SDE cause you finish quicker and iron head isn't that frequent

[steep perch]

you too

where are you aiming?

[marble lion]

im at the end game and tilted, I can get a minimum of 190

but possibly higher

181 atm

[steep perch]

nice

[marble lion]

would be nice if I could match/break 194, which was my old streak

[steep perch]

i want to be at least mid 70s by the end of today, maybe higher

[marble lion]

but am doubtful, and thin on resources

and your final streak?

the cut is quite steep this time

afaik it's already 140 rn

[steep perch]

still have no clue, idt i'll make top 100 but if i can get to 150 i'm happy on a personal level

beyond that point i have noone else that paralyzes

[marble lion]

I'm predicting 185 for the minimum cut

People really want the titles

[steep perch]

yeah that is just evident

[marble lion]

Chances are I won't have time to cookie grind but I'll do my best

[steep perch]

even in HS top 100 rose by a lot

[marble lion]

It could be higher

[steep perch]

and this was with HS getting more participation to begin with

[marble lion]

I actually initially thought it was uhh

Gonna be 200 min

But others say it's a stretch with torn

[steep perch]

with torn i would agree

any other and i'd say 200

[marble lion]

Last lg which was arguably easiest capped at 164

But we'll see

[steep perch]

yeah but no titles

[marble lion]

I'm doubting my top cut chances myself

Even though I've done it 3 times by now

(and all at 55 lmao)

[steep perch]

well gl

[marble lion]

Same to you

Will keep an eye in case of coincidental teams I could steal hue

[steep perch]

Rotation 23

[pliant pendant]

No Syca solo?

(I'm kidding please take a break from the absurd solos 😭)

[quasi wyvern]

DUDE

I TRIED 69 FOR SO LONG

ALL I GOT IS THIS

[steep perch]

You live and die by thunder proc i feel you

Also crit seed bomb 😭

[quasi wyvern]

Oop

[lethal crane]

hmmm i've been considering that maylene hitmontop duo myself

[lethal crane]

if last LG had titles the competition would be insane

I did get the celebrating 100 wins title from last LG though, they just didn't implement the rankings one

[steep perch]

Crit wood hammer

Cannot make this up 😭

[lethal crane]

you mean he can tank it if it didn't crit?

[steep perch]

yes

[quasi wyvern]

Yeah I did that

Well with Closyter but it's the same

Though Im surprised Weezing survived that long

[steep perch]

min-maxing regen

[raven grove]

Just 5/5 EXR him? Smh

[steep perch]

@lethal crane

[lethal crane]

amazing

[steep perch]

lowkey forgot he got R

[steep perch]

it wasn't that bad

once you get setup it's hard to die

[lethal crane]

can i see the grid

[steep perch]

I did this, mud dropped SDE for unflappable + MGR

[lethal crane]

what would i do without thievery from y'all

[steep perch]

grid mud used

[steep perch]

Rotation 24

[steep perch]

Rotation 25, 1/8 wood hammers dodged

[steep perch]

Rotation 26

[pliant pendant]

Silver solo is dodging the Wood Hammer the main source of pain for that?

[steep perch]

i had really good gear, depending on how well bar 1 goes you have to dodge crit seed bomb too

my bar 1 went well so i could just tank

[pliant pendant]

[steep perch]

Rotation 27, got the rosa duo i wanted to do

[waxen lodge]

Yooooo 81. I tried that for like good hour and just parked it.

Any key tips

[strange sandal]

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[raven grove]

these clears are so fucking crisp Dark

[steep perch]

you want to set up a combo, do sopho sync into para into wild charge

[raven grove]

by 80 i was doing trios I was DONE

(also how is 3/5 Dahlia I'm excited to get her)

[steep perch]

really fun

cami is my non-bias witness

[raven grove]

excellent

[lethal crane]

mmmm i've been eyeing the acerola naomi duo

can i see the naomi grid?

[steep perch]

I found that if you flinch locked you can still chip down

My winning run ran out of sand by like start of bar 2 😭

[lethal crane]

oh yea, how many sands did you need

since you said you won even with sand running out by start of bar 2, well.... not much?

wow she only has 30% chance to debuff sp def

did you have DC2 or MG2 ls?

[steep perch]

dc

the procs add up dw

[lethal crane]

[steep perch]

Rotation 28

Falkner tilted me out of my mind so i used MFs 😭

@raven grove satisfied snarl usage

[raven grove]

Calem gaming!!

[steep perch]

Rotation 29

[lethal crane]

How did battle 87 go

Aren't both fire weak

[steep perch]

Was pretty nice, stole it

It’s not as potion heavy as it looks

Also @waxen lodge to add for the sopho clear, don’t chain wild charges, you want to do it as a finishing blow and heal up using iron defence

[steep perch]

Rotation 30

[steep perch]

Rotation 31, was playing tetris

[raven grove]

have you done ANY trios yet?

amazing work

[steep perch]

no

[lethal crane]

Insane

[raven grove]

Bruh on bruh

[steep perch]

Rotation 32

[steep perch]

Rotation 33

[empty cargo]

just one more

Lana has Sharp Entry 1, right?

[steep perch]

Yeah

[raven grove]

[lethal crane]

NORMAN NUKE

[steep perch]

Rotation 34 + 100 done

[quasi wyvern]

dafuk

[steep perch]

got it from my buddy @marble lion

[raven grove]

Amazing ratio Dark!

Are you aiming higher?

[steep perch]

If i have the time 150

[raven grove]

[lethal crane]

I will have to try Ghetsis Lorelei next time

Lorelei tanks, right? How well did she tank?

[steep perch]

she got pretty low but once you get to bar 2 it's pretty nice cause of the debuffs and def buffs

it can be tight though i have pretty good ice gear

i imagine EX Lorelei makes it easier (like Rion had)

[lethal crane]

I see

[marble lion]

Saw someone do it in the LG channel

And just figured it out myself

I did it without gear

And with plenty of health to spare

People were using clay mostly, Cheryl is outdated

@steep perch Cheryl SS Elesa is a neat duo fwiw

[steep perch]

i'll keep that in mind for the future

[marble lion]

Nvm you already used her with Lillie

[steep perch]

yeah

[steep perch]

i imagine it was doable with EX yeah

mine is 0/20 so that's why

[marble lion]

Ohh, makes sense why you didn't then

[steep perch]

the lorelei clear?

oh i didn't try without skill gear i just assumed that or EX was needed caused lorelei only had about 15% max by the end

as for grids i just figured it out myself

[marble lion]

The Lorelei clear yeah

I did it without gear

The clear I saw used non EX

But if clay could do it I don't see why Lorelei couldn't

Type skills, endurance and regen

I used clay against Registeel with DC tho

[steep perch]

i see

[steep perch]

Rotation 35, triples coming out now

[lethal crane]

what is that tornadus team. what

recuperation meta

[steep perch]

i was trying to do with tauros but it wasn't enough, then i realized elesa is my only pair with an electric move even left so i just stuck jolteon in there

[steep perch]

Rotation 36, idt i’m getting 150 i relaxed too much last 2 days

Gonna still push for a pb tho

[marble lion]

any reason you deviated from Winona?

[steep perch]

i used her already with dahlia

which in hindsight was probs a waste

[marble lion]

against registeel I assume

[steep perch]

yeah

[marble lion]

idt it was mostly because dahlia's gauge is bad + you need externals

[steep perch]

here

[marble lion]

it was either her or techdos

which is typically thrown with Nessa

So I think it's fine

[steep perch]

yeah i did that

[steep perch]

here

[marble lion]

i do wonder if using eggmons

as in rain eggs with dahlia

would be better

but its fine

[steep perch]

i think on other stages yes, but for regi probably no because of acuity

if it wasn't regi you could highroll acc debuffs

i think for me a realistic goal would be 125, 150 is too far now

and 125 i can get in 2 days

[marble lion]

best of luck

[steep perch]

Rotation 37

Rotation 38

Rotation 39

Rotation 40

Rotation 41

Rotation 42

Kinda gave up after 110 and didn’t hit 150 but still got a PB, gonna set 125 as goal to beat next time

I have so many more units i could use but i cannot be bothered rn tbh

@marble lion idk how you have the time/patience to do 200, grats on that again

[marble lion]

Positive effect of FOMO but

I got very tilted

despite surpassing my PB and >200 also

I was literally throwing teams that were suboptimal near the midway

so I think it's mostly just finding time, I think your solo/duos tended to be harder than mine

near the early points, anyway

[steep perch]

I tend to just spam solos so there’s that

But even if i didn’t my hardcap this lg was 100% around 150-160

By then all my torn clears are para-less

[marble lion]

Samui is

an absolutely horrifying guy, lol

he's at 293 on a torn/regi LG

jesus christ

closest to 300 we have yet

[steep perch]

The total is just going to steadily go up every LG so not surprised

Next one will probs be 1st 300

[marble lion]

yeap

[steep perch]

2 more months of units + more orbs and skill gear rolling

One solo that genuinely tilted me was falkner, i could never time the last fly for wood hammer and non-EX is so much more finnicky

[marble lion]

i didn't get to grind that much cookies though

so I'm quite short

[steep perch]

Well you know my opinion on that

[marble lion]

3 LGs of practicing Falkner and Nate solos

made me very accustomed to the order

so i did both first try lol

but Nate is way easier

due to the damage

[steep perch]

Nate i have managed and remembered

This was the 1st time doing falkner so i had to get the timing down

I could consistently get to bar 2 but that was about it

[marble lion]

this LG I felt really tested my mechanics, so it was a good point of growth

things like chaining flinch in duos against regi

by order swapping

wihch is one of my favorite things to do in general

[steep perch]

Passives help there too

[lethal crane]

someday i will do the nate solo

(hopefully)

(nate disappoints me)

[atomic perch]

Goddamn Dark, some of these clears I can't wrap my head around

[steep perch]

fwiw i saw and stole a good chunk of them

[atomic perch]

Stealing or not
Them being done is still a feat

[lethal crane]

Fr dark you're a machine

[steep perch]

Last minute but Water/Fairy HS

I could improve but like ehh

[pliant pendant]

[soft walrus]

5/5 vlyra continuing to pay dividends

[steep perch]

unironically true

[steep perch]

Rotation 1

[marble lion]

How far do you intend to push

[steep perch]

Same as always, as far as I can allow myself to. i've never grinded Terrakion so this will be fun

how far are you?

[marble lion]

19

I don't expect to cross 150

I think realistically I'll get 120-130 and just stop

And avoid getting too tilted

Guzma solo is hard tho

[steep perch]

[lethal crane]

Guzma solo...

[steep perch]

Rotation 2

[atomic perch]

I am no longer surprised by the solos I see here

[lethal crane]

yeah no the guzma solo looks ass

dodge game is bullshit

[pliant pendant]

dodge game is bullshit

[lethal crane]

[steep perch]

Rotation 3, bit scuffed but it’s cause i tried to do a new rosa solo and ended up clowning myself by clicking back

[lethal crane]

NOOOOO

[atomic perch]

I said I wouldn't be surprised but I am now

[steep perch]

Rotation 4

[steep perch]

Rotation 5

[lethal crane]

would you recommend the jasmine solo?

i assume sharp entry is needed, and extra energy as well?

does the Lana solo require sharp entry too

[steep perch]

Yes

But lana is way more forgiving

[lethal crane]

yeah, i would imagine Lana should be easier

[steep perch]

it’s doable without it but is way harder

[lethal crane]

i mean i don't mind spending extra energy on jasmine

but i don't have her EX, if that makes much of a difference

[steep perch]

Ooh, the EX does mattee

Jasmine’s HP is on the lowend

If you do EX, I stole the grid from @marble lion it needs 4 energy

I start battle with X defence x2 -> Iron tail -> TM
where I then reset with TM MPR

[marble lion]

Still pushing solos I see

[steep perch]

ye

[marble lion]

Gave up on that some time ago

[steep perch]

well you're also further than me

[marble lion]

Management is quite hard lol

Well not that far

39

[steep perch]

not that far like it isn't double mine

[marble lion]

This is one of my slower LGs for sure

How many solos are you pushing

[steep perch]

I think i can do at least 20 for sure cause i still have Red and Blue

the bottleneck is Terrakion

[marble lion]

Ye

I feel over prepared for Terrakion but underprepared for Regirock

[steep perch]

when'd you stop soloing

[marble lion]

I think I juggled between solos and duos, but guzma/Morty I think are the only solos I can do outside of field Anabel on uxie

Which Im waiting to do

[steep perch]

then how many have you done so far?

[steep perch]

back to this, I found the sweet spot is at least 3 TM MPR, if you follow that order the first one will run out right after the sure crit from the first sync, from there you want to use her TM right after stomping tantrum if her stat droop field isn't up cause that's when he uses rock tomb @lethal crane

[lethal crane]

how many TM MPRs do you need?

[steep perch]

2nd message

[lethal crane]

ah

[steep perch]

fwiw i didn't have any for bar 3

to my knowledge i used 3 on bar 1 and 2 on bar 2

[marble lion]

17

[steep perch]

ah then i'm not that far

[marble lion]

39/61 ratio

[steep perch]

i'm at 15/16 cause of my rosa gaffe lol

[lethal crane]

okay how hellish is the jasmine solo actually, outside of timing your TM uses

[marble lion]

Oof

[steep perch]

not that hard

[marble lion]

Not that bad yes

With +4

[steep perch]

yeah you need the +4

[marble lion]

If you don't have it it's hell

[lethal crane]

well at least her TM is already base 2 uses with MPR3

[steep perch]

but if you do go +4 it's not that hard

[marble lion]

Also

I cooked lol

[steep perch]

lol nice

[lethal crane]

how many streaks are you going for dark?

[marble lion]

+10E Phoebe lol

[lethal crane]

i feel like i'll be glad if i could just hit 100 this time

terrakion is killing me

[steep perch]

i never go into LG with a goal in mind i just always try to beat my PB

[lethal crane]

usually i want to beat my PB but

111 is a high number and this time i'm not optimistic haha

[steep perch]

oh same i'm just going as far as I can

my PB is 125 but that was in a Lati LG

[marble lion]

Don't feel discouraged if you feel it's hard to push

[steep perch]

oh i'm not dw

[marble lion]

I don't intend to go beyond 130 ish

Despite only going up before

[lethal crane]

and at some point i need to acknowledge that LG period isn't getting any longer and unless LG happens when I'm a total hermit with no school or work, I can't beat my PB anymore

[strange sandal]

i had to use all my units for my pb and i don't think i'm doing it again so soon

[marble lion]

My PB is 203, first and only 200+ I got kek

But I'm more focused on duo cooking now

Rather than streaking

[steep perch]

i still have so many runs i gotta do outside of LG so i'm debating on just pushing more faster this time

[atomic perch]

One of my auto team revolves around Jasmine, and she really eats well. If I was streaking i'd definitely use her for a solo

[steep perch]

i have a Darach clear, a Lucy clear, a Leon clear and a couple potential LA solos on the list and star rail has not given me the time

or rather it has taken the time away

[marble lion]

You referring to UBs?

[steep perch]

Ye

I’m still trying to f2p darach

[marble lion]

I've been so busy I haven't even reported the Phoebe bug

Lmao

[steep perch]

I get so demotivated cause it’s the worst type of rng, the one that happens minutes into a clear

[marble lion]

I should do that later

[steep perch]

so each reset that goes deep just hurts

[lethal crane]

i want to reach 150 someday but with my current skill level and tenacity it's not happening any time soon lol

[steep perch]

I try to frondload rng in all my clears for that reason

[steep perch]

UB Detour https://youtu.be/m2herudQiEM (I did 0 LG clears)

[quasi wyvern]

GHETSIS

[steep perch]

Rotation 6, back to grinding

[steep perch]

Rotation 7

[lethal crane]

Lodge dawn on uxie you're stronger than me

Do you recommend?

[steep perch]

having done it twice, if you can get past bar 1 it's free

reset for power up punch dodge and 1 TM MPR, but the only time i'm even remotely close to dying is during the iron tail phase

[lethal crane]

[steep perch]

Rotation 8, gave up on the solo

It’s not even a particularly hard solo i was just always 1 potion short 😭

[lethal crane]

You're already a machine for doing all these solos

[steep perch]

Rotation 9

[steep perch]

Rotation 10

[steep perch]

Rotation 11

[lethal crane]

man i've been doing the oak and liza duo on and off

but either i don't get enough dodges

or i don't have enough gauge (fast track takes a long time to ramp up)

or both

[steep perch]

I reset for a defence proc on oak

Also run vig on him if you aren’t

[lethal crane]

i am, yeah

i reset for eva proc, defense is a bonus

though i also grabbed agile entry on grid

[steep perch]

i think that's always the play

I run this

[lethal crane]

ah yeah, agile entry and shifty striker

[steep perch]

Rotation 12

[lethal crane]

Water pulse confusion

[steep perch]

Rotation 13

[steep perch]

Rotation 14

[steep perch]

Gonna just spam teams i think

Want to get powerups

[steep perch]

Overkill 15

[calm bane]

3/5 non ex Steven what’s the story there?

[steep perch]

what do you wanna know?

[calm bane]

hows he 3/5

Was it an unfortunate share or

[steep perch]

it was a double candy back in 2020

[calm bane]

i see and then you never committed to the ex?

Oh wait did ex even exist yet

[steep perch]

it did, i never committed cause i never found a use for it, I got close with Steel Time Trial but I managed the clear without it (imo that's still my hardest run ). Then a year or 2 later we got Solgaleo EX and I never looked back

[calm bane]

I see

[steep perch]

so he just sits there 😭

[steep perch]

Overkill 16

Overkill 17

[steep perch]

Overkill 18

[steep perch]

Overkill 19

Overkill 20

[steep perch]

New mode is fun, i think i can push this a bit higher but then i’m done

[atomic perch]

LuSSamine not SSTeven?

Genuine question

[quasi wyvern]

aoe dps

and huge nuke on type too

and more importantly, sync accel on tm

[steep perch]

I don’t have Steven

Can’t even do that if i wanted

[steep perch]

Idk if i can hit 3 mill but this might be a good stopping point

[quasi wyvern]

bro did more than me and my 2/5 lana

[steep perch]

lana dupes are so big here

if mine was 3/5 i could 100% hit 3 mill, i don't want to push too hard with 1/5

[quasi wyvern]

With 2/5 i'm already sturggling to do 2.7M

[steep perch]

it's pretty tight yeah

what i end up doing is i get a sync last second and then quad queue into a move

that adds on another 150k

[atomic perch]

Do you have a recording of your chivalry

[steep perch]

I do not

[steep perch]

Dark/Ghost HS, kinda phoned it in

There’s score improvements for sure but i can’t be bothered

i didn't realize how garbo my dark/ghost supports were until i had to clear

[steep perch]

Rally PB

[steep perch]

I haven’t posted anything here in months 😭, so new rally PB with 0 luckys

[pliant pendant]

[steep perch]

Feel like i’ve done jack in PoMa so I did this

[pliant pendant]

Is that Lucy?

[steep perch]

Yea

[pliant pendant]

Massive

[quasi wyvern]

Lol that certainly is a team

[steep perch]

It’s not mew oak lol

[steep perch]

Video https://youtu.be/2PLdD1cTqK8

[quasi wyvern]

Yeah I figured lol

[steep perch]

Dragon/Ground HS, did everything last minute not my best effort

[pliant pendant]

[steep perch]

recorded the Cynthia clear cause I thought it was funny 😭

@raven grove told you he carried

[steep perch]

@snow plover here

[raven grove]

LMAO

He did!!

[pliant pendant]

LMAO

😭

[steep perch]

Cynthia is fair and balanced

[snow plover]

Critical sync accel

[steep perch]

it's just to circumvent her being unable to quad

if she could quad it'd arguably be even easier

you get to squeeze an extra EQ in

[steep perch]

@modern wyvern gridless EXR Zerena, she still does fine

[modern wyvern]

naur

what is this, 2023

i just got a huge déjà vu

the zerena clears pings

[steep perch]

I also messed up a queue cause i thought i could get back to 4 bars

So the 2nd dire hit was a waste 😭

[modern wyvern]

is that 3/5

oh gridless i can't read

[steep perch]

Gridless lucian too, the only thing i gridded was the +1 crit on TM for oak but we get his orbs for free

so if you just EXR her and get a lucian you can basically clear any CS Stage

as Hoenn is among the hardest CS sets

oak is also just nuts for a f2p player i need to EXR him asap 😭

he's so so good

[modern wyvern]

i mean tbf there

you also play optimally

including quad queue twice

[steep perch]

i do, that's undeniable

[modern wyvern]

i don't take quad queue for granted for the ppl and it's vital here

[steep perch]

but at the same time even optimally how many strikers can clear gridless

without a proper comp

the only damage amp there is debuffs and Glacia starts at +3

and had i just queued poison sting instead of protect i could've only needed 1 quad

[modern wyvern]

wait is this what you've been brbing for the past hour

[steep perch]

no i had to eat something

i went away from discord in general

then when i came back runner was talking and i was talking with him

[modern wyvern]

oh ok

[modern wyvern]

well from the 2024 ones, who can?

[steep perch]

i got lucky that glacia didn't queue blizzard though

i imagine i'd have to reset if that happened

[steep perch]

well among the ones currently running the only ones i think that can do it in these conditions are clavell, rei and roxie

even roxie is arguable as without a proper comp she is very awkward to play

[modern wyvern]

[steep perch]

cause roxie struggles when she has to deal damage as well as maintain her own WTZ, it was a very relevant topic when we were tiering here, she's very high maintenance

[lethal crane]

the quadqueues are crucial but this is impressive ngl

[steep perch]

Did it @sly musk @spark ice @rich oak

[sly musk]

[steep perch]

@quasi wyvern you were curious: me and a couple others used the daily sim to get a bunch of limiteds, once we got to 15 we did CS with those units

Missed a screenshot but you get the idea

[spark ice]

Holy shit you did it

[quasi wyvern]

2582 lmao

[rich oak]

Support picks carrying fr

[steep perch]

lowkey might try to roll for a worse roster cause it was kinda fun

[steep perch]

Rotation 1

[pine gulch]

Oh neat didn't thought using BP Barry there, I'm stealing this XD

What's the lucky skill btw?

[steep perch]

vigilance

[pine gulch]

Ahhh thank you!
That's a very good clear XD

[steep perch]

i mean i didn't make it 😭

i'm just doing some solos in the sheet

[steep perch]

Rotation 2

[lethal crane]

do you have certain skill gears for bp barry solo? how tight was it

[steep perch]

I have really good sinnoh gears (naturally ). It was pretty tight but the big thing was getting enough para luck to avoid using a synthesis early

[lethal crane]

yeah i figured with all your sinnoh solos

in another timeline, LG is 3 weeks and I will attempt the Aaron solo

[steep perch]

Most of my sinnoh clears run something along these lines, i have a lot of dupe pieces i switch around occasionally

[lethal crane]

[steep perch]

Rotation 3

[steep perch]

Rotation 4

[steep perch]

Rotation 5

@raven grove serena appearance

[quasi wyvern]

I wouldnt have the patience to do a serena solo lol

[sly musk]

Serena on Azelf you say...

[steep perch]

Like other sleep solos once you get the rhythm it’s feasible

I like that serena’s nuke actually does damage, the non tech sleepers are so much worse to me

Her having multiple passives also help

[raven grove]

Serena!!

[quasi wyvern]

Hey that's my line

[steep perch]

Rotation 6

[spark ice]

oh lmao does Red lock Azelf out of ever moving because of freeze?

[sly musk]

for the first two bars at least, the third you're out of rebuff to guarantee it

i assume anyway, I don't imagine stalling for sync buffs with NC Red is a thing at least

[spark ice]

Id imagine i can grid HE(?) on Red's Blizzard for better freeze chance because it's not constrained by AoE Penalty.

[sly musk]

thats still only a 30% chance to work but yeah, it could work

[spark ice]

Damn

That's one solo I could get down, hmm.

[steep perch]

You freeze the 1st bar (don’t sync), for the 2nd bar you queue b ice one last time and then sync to repeat

For third bar there’s multiple approaches, because mine is 3/5 I opted to just nuke so i hit one b ice, then TM into protect into blizzard into sync

I think the nuke approach is better as you don’t rely on having to 1. DPS through the 2nd half and 2, rely on 30% freezes

But it also means you need 3/5

[lethal crane]

Oh, is the solo easy?

I was contemplating the usual egg glaceon + nc red on regi, but i might do this

[steep perch]

it's similar to a sleep solo, you need to be confident in your queuing

if you let azelf pile on the attacks in between ice beams you won't make it

[lethal crane]

Ugh

[steep perch]

Rotation 7

[marble lion]

The amount of tenacity needed for the Lucian solo, damn

[steep perch]

It was one i did before so i was kinda fine with doing it again cause i was used to it

A lot of the RNG is frontloaded

Rotation 8

[lethal crane]

The only sleep solo i'm brave enough to do is the ss cyrus one

[steep perch]

i'm gonna start going into the more dumb solos and just moving onto duos now

taking too long

on the bright side i revamped my lg sheet for once so i can plan out the rest of my clears

[steep perch]

slow for this https://youtu.be/yM-57_lzGEA

[steep perch]

Calling it early, my health has just not let me be able to commit time to solos/duos rn

[pliant pendant]

Take some time for yourself bestie, LG isn't as important as your health!

[sly musk]

For sure

[lethal crane]

get better soon!

[steep perch]

Steel/Fighting HS, did it last minute

Thank you cheaty steven couldn’t have done it without you

[calm bane]

You finally EX’d base!

[steep perch]

i did it yesterday yeah, was running out of ex strikers

[steep perch]

Omg i still post, Rock/Ice HS

I need to not last minute preferably, gotta get motivation back it’s affecting my other PoMa stuff

[marble lion]

Pog

No pressure tho, game is in a stale state that hopefully next two months solve

[steep perch]

fingers crossed

[steep perch]

Bumped Roxanne’s score a bit cause I could

[marble lion]

funnily enough, this also makes the top 500 cut possibly

[steep perch]

it should

i was 400 an hour ago with 362k but i was only 7k from dropping

[marble lion]

yeah, more than enough

[steep perch]

mhm

[marble lion]

i wonder what the next HS types will be

though I can really only excel in Normal/Flying

[steep perch]

my guess is either Bug/Grass or Fire/Flying

[steep perch]

Rotation 1

Rotation 2

Rotation 3

Rotation 4

Rotation 5

I’ve been doing LG (slowly cause busy) just haven’t been updating

[steep perch]

Rotation 6

[pliant pendant]

So how many of these would you recommend to a noob who hates rng

[quasi wyvern]

arc steven and lodge morty can be done on auto
i believe ss lyra is somewhat simple with exr?
the rest

[pliant pendant]

Oh good!

[steep perch]

Assuming same investment:
Lodge Morty
Arc Steven
Arc Cynthia
Sygna Kris
Mix Lucas
Maybe NY Dawn

[pliant pendant]

Is Raikou the easiest this go around?

[steep perch]

Easily

Raikou can be annoying cause he wants to para a million times

Otherwise he’s ok

Just make sure sides are down before bar 2

[pliant pendant]

[marble lion]

Cool beans

How bad is the Melony solo

[steep perch]

Really chill

I had like 0 issues with health

[marble lion]

Hmmm, I might follow suit

Thanks

[steep perch]

Rotation 7

[steep perch]

Rotation 8

[sly musk]

Hmm, how hard is the SC Adaman solo

[steep perch]

At 3/5 it was very easy

[sly musk]

excellent

[steep perch]

I do have a +6E grid though

[sly musk]

i also do

[steep perch]

Oh perfect

[sly musk]

so i should be fine, I imagine the self burn is pretty helpful since it means no Para

[steep perch]

Did it first try with this

[sly musk]

so that makes two raikou solos, one moltres solo, and no idea what i'm doing with Uxie.

[steep perch]

@sly musk you inspired me to do a 4k clear of my own with 2/5 ace, without grassy restore she’s a lot worse yeah

[sly musk]

yeah

main differences are the lack of grassy restore and also i do not have Marley

[steep perch]

Yeah marnie carries

[sly musk]

mix red is not her unfortunately

[steep perch]

Shaymin diff

[sly musk]

im thinking i might need to like

sync twice with Adaman instead of going for the support sync

i get the sprint access immediately, it gives an extra charge of Ulaula ocean breeze

and the sides probably destroy me right after

[steep perch]

Yeah if you don’t have 3/5 ace don’t bother syncing with her

I’d either sync with red for the extra gt or double adaman

[sly musk]

i might exr red and go for a red sync first

[steep perch]

That could work

[sly musk]

get the extra terrain in, get some side chip

ill see how it works

unfortunately it just works out awkwardly because i kinda have to use up the max move with Red at a bad time with this optimisation

either right after his own sync and i waste the second terrain use, or I use its own accel with Adaman's sync and it doesn't really lead to anything

idk

[steep perch]

Fwiw i don’t think you need the 2nd terrain use

This is probably a pre-sync clear

Cause of your lack of options for a third

[sly musk]

i probably don't im just concerned about the sides

[steep perch]

Red should be enough he should be comparable to what marley does for me

Hopefully

[sly musk]

bc i'm taking tech damage x3 so Adaman is not living after mid goes down

[steep perch]

Do you take damage guard so he at least lives 1 hit?

Depending on how close it is that might help

[sly musk]

not enough energy, no

[steep perch]

what does your grid look like?

[sly musk]

i havent tried with the "dont sync with acerola" plan at all yet so for all i know the energy isn't even an issue

[steep perch]

yeah i would 100% abandon the ace sync angle

personally

but marley also has exr support so that was partly why

[steep perch]

even then i think an early adaman sync under terrain would net more

[sly musk]

standard nuke grid

[steep perch]

imo you don't need drought alert

i would take enfeeble instead

just plan to sunny day before syncs to prevent quad loss

[sly musk]

i can also probably abandon buffing Acerola's defenses with Red if i just avoid Shadow Ball / Dark Pulse

[steep perch]

that would work

she can tank the physical hits just fine

[sly musk]

yeah the physical moves are also just weak in this stage

its like, Bite, Feint Attack, Waterfall and Ice Fang

[steep perch]

granted i have the +6 but i did this

[sly musk]

i have the +6 too, ill try with drought alert for a run at least and if that doesn't work ill see how enfeeble does

[steep perch]

i took sync damage cause i was initially going for a post sync angle and he lived just barely with the tech x3 but i shifted a bit and didn't change grid

but i imagine sinnoh circle played a role in him living if he's dying for you

[sly musk]

i havent even bothered with taking a sync yet

[steep perch]

i wouldn't recommend it which is why i shifted personally

i thought she'd tm but she just straight stored powers

[sly musk]

yeah

okay, sides should not be an issue

i just need to get adrenaline on Red now

RIP deluxe cookies

i barely knew ye

omg it only took 3 thank god

why am i getting flinched so often omg

[sly musk]

okay so i got an almost successful run now

sides were left on 1% and 11% hp and i had 1 sync cooldown left when i died, if any of the moves missed i was golden

[steep perch]

Water/psychic HS I might stop here but i’ll see. I just don’t have anything for Nessa

SSteven or May would be so clutch rn 😭

[steep perch]

Pushed a bit further, this is probably it minus a final Nessa push

[steep perch]

Mini update

[snow plover]

Rank?

[steep perch]

Update

[steep perch]

93

[steep perch]

Probably my final score, don’t think i can realistically go further

[steep perch]

I’m just doing tiny improvements now

[pine gulch]

Whoaaa Dark carried the mod gym
Super impressive clear all above 100k and without NC May too

[steep perch]

runner is higher than me, i will take 2nd place though

[pine gulch]

That's still crazy impressive though XD

[steep perch]

I’m done bro

i ain't touching nessa that stage is stupid 😭

[soft walrus]

you did incredible work

and all without NC may

[steep perch]

Pushed will a bit

[steep perch]

This clear has been bugging me forever and it’s finally over 😭

The audio didn’t capture either so i had to redo a 2nd clear and it’s messier, i’m just done with this stage atp i never want to find nemo again

Missed the quad and i barely cleared on the one with audio

[marble lion]

Oh wow, what the heck

180 or

[steep perch]

180

Rosa is 3/5 tho

Despite my 2nd rerecording i might just edit the nemona music over the 1st one

Cause the 1st clear is way cleaner

But that involves editing work, i’ll figure it out somewhere

[marble lion]

Nice

That's 2/3rds f2p

[steep perch]

2/3rds f2p was already done but it involved 5/5 arc steven i think

Yeah

It does do missions when we get there though

I forget who nemona is for but if it’s NC Rosa then it would be Unova Champion which would be all 3 missions

And psychic is already done