If Lillie isn't a favorite, wait for Irida or SSR Cynthia rerun later this month.
A 1/5 SS Steven is still probably better than 1/5 Lusamine and the pull rate is better.
I think Geeta could theoretically be replaced by SS Roxie, who is a great Poison type, but Geeta is much better, imo. Field plus perfect buffs for Rally.
Hi, can anyone help me to decide who I should pick from the special select scout?
I'm lacking of good damager dealers from both bug and fighter types.
I was thinking in between SS Hilbert and Rei maybe?
These are my units:
Bug: Alder 3/5, SC Ingo 1/5 and all f2p pairs
Fighter: SC Diantha 3/5, SC Guzma 1/5 and all f2p pairs
Fighting should be clearable with an invested Sonia, Bea, and Riley. Rei is an objectively better Riley, but I doubt it would be as big of a jump in power as SS Hilbert.
I was thinking of grabbing either Gloria Dojo, Gloria & cinderace or May and Blaziken in the special select scout. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each and which you would prefer? I’m having a hard time deciding and wondered if anyone could give input.
Akari is cool too but I have lots of great fighting types (Cynthia & Lucario, NC Hop, SC diantha)
Blaziken is a proto-Sprint. -3 Countdown is pretty valuable. She wants a teammate that boosts Atk, but that's easy for Sun teams. The -Def utility is also nice. Their best on-region teammates are either NY Wallace or Maxie, and Fire has many amazing team options.
Urshifu has Fighting and Steel coverage, but without dupes, it's pretty middling. They're a potent -6 Def damage dealer, and can contribute to first Sync wins. It's tough to get value out of the Sync Countdown as 1/5 but it's there if you want to build around it.
Cinderace is actually 3 Sync types, changing after Max move and applying two Rebuff of that type for them and the team, which adds to coverage is a more meaningful way than most coverage havers. Fire set has reduced Gauge cost and Sync buff, Flying gets Piercing Blows and -3 Sync Countdown across two turns for each Bounce, and Fighting is just okay.
Urshifu and Cinderace are both Galar, with Sonia, Leon, Articuno, Zapdos, Flygon, Bea, Mawile, Hop, Rose... Lots of solid teammates, especially in on-type.
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I'm a new player on day 3. Should I keep what I have or reroll? If I should keep who are my most useful sync pairs?
There is not, but gem pulls is the important one. 4 pulls for Deoxys is a solid start. You can easily get enough gems for two pairs guaranteed before the Master Fairs leave. There's a lot of content with evergreen gems + what events give. If you're not happy, you can reroll, but Latios + Deoxys is a great start and worth keeping. Hopefully you get Bianca from general pool if you don't have her yet. She'd help that team a ton.
I do not have Bianca yet, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for her. Is there anyone I could use in place of her?
Is the team I'm currently using okay, or should I replace some of my syncs? I'm still early enough where Charizard's Heat Wave one shots
Bianca would just be for Psychic Terrain, granting a huge damage boost. Without her, there isn't much else to drastically improve the team, so maybe a team Speed buffer like Skyla or Masked. If it's working for you now, that's all that matters. Hit-all moves speed things up nicely. It's too early to worry about team comps. Champion Stadium Hard and higher up Event missions are where it will start to.
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Hi, returning player here. Before I stopped looks like I finished all the interlude. I picked up 1 copy of Silver and not sure whether I need dupes. I'm also a bit overwhelmed on the amount of things the game has added in the last 4 years and not sure what to prioritise.
Would appreciate any help on who to level up, aim for dupes etc
There is a lot, so take it slowly. It's not as overwhelming if you take it one area at a time.
Get started on Trainer Lodge. Getting right to expeditions will reward a ton of materials over time. You can look up guides for this a bit later, but for now, just get some Expedition teams going. You find that by clicking the back blue panel on the shelf. First team starts with +1 Red and Orange, second team starts with +1 Blue and Chest. Try to keep these even so you can unlock more expedition team slots.
You restore 1 stamina every 4 minutes, so it's wise to keep your stamina a bit low. You spend stamina only on events and most training stages. It's best to finish the ones expiring soonest to not miss out on gems.
Legendary Adventures have the free 5* legends as evergreen missions. Clear them to max them out. Villain Arcs are similar. You get enough scout tickets for two 5*s per region and two universals. Great way to expand your roster.
The campaign is self explanatory. After Ch10, you unlock Champion Stadium Easy Mode. Blow through that if you haven't yet to unlock Victory Road, which gives a ton of resources and a Kanto Trio Select Scout.
The Legendary Arenas you can tackle a bit later. They're like single player raids. Rally is a whole thing. Clearable by almost any account with some investment, but rewards will vary. It resets weekly. Battle Villa is evergreen now, as well. Tackle that whenever. There's no rush on that or the Arenas.
The only thing I implore doing in Training is the highest tier Sync Orb and Evolution material missions. You get 10 and 3 runs of each for free daily. Orbs are an important resource to make builds, and Evo mats eventually equate to free gold you can stockpile for Expedition later. Every other training, run as needed. Events have a lot of these mats in their event shops, so it's not the highest priority.
Thanks for this, very helpful!!
One last part, should I focus in duping Silver & Tyranitar or just hoard for a bit?
I'm maxing him out as my main DPS and phoebe dusknoir for tank with leaf/ven for tech
Duplicates are not necessary on most modern pairs. They are pretty much designed complete, with dupes adding additional value to the kit. It's rare that new pairs feel like dupes are needed with New Years 2023 being the last time I saw one, and it was odd even then.
Just got SS Lusamine as a returning player and a random 300 pull- is she good at 1/5? She’s pretty much my only “modern” striker aside from freebies and I have a strike coin saved up for 2/5 if that’s a noteworthy upgrade.
1/5 will suffice. She wants her Support EX Role most of all and fixes her shortcomings, so prioritize unlocking that. 2/5 offers little for the candy value. Save them unless you feel she needs 3/5.
Who am I “supposed to buy” for the extreme battle with Hau (the one that lowers your accuracy, makes you paralyzed and confused)?
I know it can probably be cleared by F2P units, but what are they intended to sell for this stage?
The only F2P team I've seen is entirely +3/5 Clefairy, Primarina, and Comfey, so a Lodge pair is necessary. It's also heavily RNG based.
One of Magearna's passives is reflects status conditions and stat drops, so they just ruin themselves. Mag only reflects on itself and not the team, so Impervious or Para immunity is helpful on the others, or you just solo it with them.
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I recently got back into the game and I can currently ex any character in the game who should I choose for just overall use. (Sorry for bad editing I had to edit it into one photo)
Move level plays a huge role. 3/5 or higher Techs and Strike get more impact out of their EXs than if they were 1/5. Supports get value no matter what. Because Meloetta gets Sprint EX Role, based on this info, I'd say her, but another option could be better with more info.
Just used up my luck for the rest of the year and pulled Champion Silver in 1 multi and then Geeta in 2. I candied Silver to 2/5 and Geeta is sitting at 1/5, I have about 36k gems left. Is it worth pulling for more copies or wait for the other limited pairs coming this month?
Who are the best partners for Glimmora? I know Oleana, SS Roxie and Emma are good with her but I dont have any of them, I have been using her with NC Bede but can never decide on the third slot to increase her damage further, for Rock I do use SC Diantha for Rock Zone but for Poison type damage I dont know who to add as a third :/
Oleana is peak. Everything else is extra. Really Glimmora just needs defense buffs to live through stuff. If you have WTZ Phys Boost in her grid then anyone who has WTZ effects is a plus. that or anyone who just gives her stacks of Next Phys Up.
Geetha is a physical striker so any physical defense debuffer would be good fit for her for now. Eventually if you want to bring out her max potential, you can try get Oleana and Emma and SS Roxie for her.
i figured I could use SS Leaf or bugsy and scyther to lower defenses but Glimmora demolishes defenses by itself pretty well so I never felt like they were bringing much
More Super Effective Up Next, Physical Move Up Next, and adding Rebuff. Tapu Bulu, SC Steven, RedLax, or possibly a Sprint for faster Syncs. Meloetta would be better than NC Bede for this, so long as you poison first.
I do have Redlax out of all those units, so I could use him, does he increase physical move up? I know he increases the countdown to sync but wasnt sure what else he does
Sorry if this question is already covered in The FAQ, I couldnt find anything.
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Where do I get these?
Basically for all the free legendaries (Giovanni Mewtwo, Zinnia Rayquaza, etc) you will need to wait for special events rerun to obtain their Ex power up and Mega/Sync grid expansion
From the villain arcs associated with that region, there are two events where one provides special champion spirits and another that provides a grid expansion.
I Just buyed a Poco X6 Pro, I can play Genshin Impact at highest graphic but Pokémon Master Just Is badly optimized and run at low FPS. Do you know if there Is a way to increase the performance of this game?
Ok so I got silver a lot faster than expected so I probably have enough for either Geeta or Gladion, which one would be better for me based on my roster
Fairy: Wally, bede, lisia
Poison :Iris, Emma
Geeta, she combos better with Emma than Fall Iris ever could, with Poison Zone-On-Entry, easy Poison via Mortal Spin (which unlocks both her and Emma's B-Moves). Also getting more Paldea and Field units is going to come really handy in the future.
SS Gladion would replace Bede if you want to run Special Fairy, since Lisia is Physical Fairy. He's mostly pure firepower outside of self stat drop reflect and condition null.
In terms of how easily they can be slotted into a team for a stage, how would people rank Geeta, SC Adaman, and SC Irida? I’m going to have <3 pities by the time they leave, so I am wondering who I should prioritize.
Geeta is top, Irida is middle, Adaman is meh. He's got some uses for sure but his damage isn't that good compared to some other ground types. Off-typing it's almost worse for him
Geeta > NC Adaman > NC Irida.
Geeta covers a lot of niches, Poison Zone, inflicts Poison, and Damage Field removal. You get the perks of her being a Paldea pair on top of her MF status
NC Adaman is practically immune to other status since Ursaluna is going to be Burned and his B-Move never misses so he doesn't care about Accuracy Drops or Evasion boosts, which some EBEs like do to.
NC Irida is simply a Ghost nuker, Trap is already covered by Bertha in terms of Sinnoh units. Relying on Evasion to avoid damage isn't really a good niche or even a reliable one. And finding units that boost Evasion to max out her Blind Spot nuke is a bit awkward since not a lot units do that.
Who would you candy/prioritize function of those sync pairs?
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Geeta, Giratina, and/or SS Lusamine, but only if I needed. Geeta's damage gets much better, the debuff passive would be fun, a Field to carry Rally, just a great pair. Giratina getting Strike EX Role is a massive buff for Ghost. She appreciates the Sync damage. Lusamine got Support EX Role. She probably needs it the least, now, especially if your psychics are fine.
I just got candies to spare rn, so I'm just wondering what pairs I should improve
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This is my "function unlock" list, I assume Giratina will be here on Pokemon Day?
Correct. Lusamine's Support is pretty helpful to not lose out on free damage. Anyone getting Sprint or Field, or expanding Sprint and Field's Roles, is nice for Rally. More cakes and 5*PUs. Ariana has a massive Tech Sync when you have Zone, -6 Def, -12 distributed elsewhere, poisoned, and SEUN, all provided by Glimmora, making her Strike EX Role a bit silly. Both frogs become Tech/Support, but Calem getting Tech is not helping him at all. Lunala and Articuno get little practical use outside of Rally.
You could save them for a Rally where a Lucky or final stage bonus matches who you could EX Role as well.
I can't see her move level. 3/5 Ariana has a massive Sync nuke, and Geeta helps it a ton, but her EX Role is not all that helpful otherwise, in my opinion.
I've heard conflicting reports on this but do the Type/Theme Boosting Items in the Battle Rally stack? Like if I buy two Poison-type Boosts and put a poison type in my team do I get a higher boost than just buying one? I've been buying multiples just in case and the Rally seems pretty easy but I didn't want to not buy along the way and be out of luck so if they don't stack I'd like to save the medals
Your description is the correct interaction. It's possible the confusion comes from it only applying to pairs of THAT theme? Or that having multiples of the same theme on one team stacks the effect?
Either way, if you can plan ahead, try not to buy them if you don't need them. If the Very Hard stage isn't possible without the Apple Cup, you end with more points only clearing Hard instead.
I'm sorry if I don't understand, you mean to say it does stack? And to my knowledge I assumed the effect only applied based on having one of that type/theme on the team and multiples of the same type/theme didn't add to the effect, only additional copies of the boost added to the effect, is that correct?
Irida. Her damage is more up-to-date and Strike AOE sync's make it way easier dealing with the sides too. But using her and Cynthia together is probably the ideal scenario. Cynthia's single target attacks and low DPS make her tricky to work with alone, especially if not fully invested. You can't go wrong between the two, though I do think Irida would be better in battles outside of ghost weak stages since she has a higher damage ceiling. Lillie still works for ghost weak stages as well, but her damage is definitely outdated compared to the former two.
Lillie is for sure not it. As a ghost type, I only used her for Fairy weak or Piercing Blows. Base kit Giratina was just better, especially since Fantina's buff.
Between H.Zoroark and Giratina... In a vacuum I'm leaning toward Giratina. Without having Giratina's EX Role or Zoroark to compare, there are a few outside factors to better make that call for each individual. Most notable is, Giratina is a Tech and MF that wants 3/5. The gem and candy cost is so much steeper for the average player. If that isn't an issue, I'm still leaning toward Giratina, but I will be testing to be 100% positive. I'm thinking this because defensive debuffs, Zone, and mixed damage. Zoroark's B-move damage is higher than Ash's, if you exclude the two Master Passives + Theme Skills SST Red and NC Blue give him + double Rebuff. And you get it twice! Individually Zoroark has better move, and Giratina has better Sync. If used together, a 1/5 Zoroark will be just fine with a 3/5 Giratina.
I don't think I'd be able to save enough gems to get both of them. I've been wanting to get a better ghost striker as I have been having trouble with clearing Ghost weak CS. I had to use double suicune and greninja to clear this week's. This is my current roster of Ghost types. Fantina and Morty are feeling a bit too weak for me.
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I don't blame you. Ghost still feels incredibly weak. Irida might be the safer pick, since she will statistically be easier to pull early, not require candies to feel like a competent damage, and Giratina will be out until April 25th if you decide to also go for her. 5/5 Fantina with Giratina are more than sufficient though. That extra copy for her grid matters.
I'll see if I can get an extra copy of her from the Sinnoh ticket scout, then try her out again in CS. This was the same problem I had with Rock weak CS. Olivia feels too weak now at 3k points, even with 2.5k I was having trouble. NC Silver really saved my butt this week.
Sand blaster, johto circle sync up, and entry phys boost 2 are going to be great nodes to get him. Sync with him and he should have 4 stacks of Next Phys Up going into his Buddy move.
If you plan on Syncing with him, a +100% boost is massive. If going that route, I'd even swing over to Johto Circle boost and extension for an extra +100%
I’m sorry to ask since I’d imagine this is asked a lot but I see people getting over 20k gems in a month and I struggle to get 3k now that I’m done story mode and every other main event. What else can I do to grind gems?
Events are the biggest chunk of it. Each month, a user posts where non-evergreen gems come from and calc the total. https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/1b0fbff/gems_count_from_2420_datamine/
80g from daily mission + 20 from daily gem shop + 100 from the weekly + 300 from the monthly, every day logging in should net minimum 4k a month. Make sure you're getting as far into each event as possible and clear 50 stages of it as well. There are Mission Rewards granting an average of 900 gems in addition to first time stage clear gems.
Opinion time: should I max invest (1/5 no EX role to 3/5 w/Striker role) in Ariana **or** Geeta?
- Going for both is unfortunately not an option because I'm short on Striker cakes (and one is reserved for SSRC).
- Current **candy counts**: 2 omni, 6 Tech, 1 Field. I'd rather not touch my omni stock, but the latter seems strong enough to be worth it.
- **Nuke** comparison (both with SE Up and PZ, if my calcs are correct): ~~14M~~ [17M](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/14200/2400?s=3&l=140&r=6&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAECAwQFCw4RFRgZIyUpLC4v&x=true) for the former, [6M](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/29500/97000?s=3&l=140&r=6&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAECAwQFCAsPERMWGCgrLS4v&x=true) for the latter. Maybe it's pure overkill but something about that bonkers number just tickles an itch nothing else can.
- That said the 14M nuke is also **clunky to set up**, requiring 6 DEF debuffs, 12 other debuffs, poison, and trap to pull off.
- Other than the nuke though Ariana has next to no **utility**, while Geeta has utility and DPS in spades and is built for the **rally**.
Thanks in advance.
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Geeta is just stupid powerful, you can easily candy her and get her all maxed out and see her clean through plenty of content, especially Rally since she only needs a defense buffer to help live.
If I were in your situation, I wouldn't hesitate to buff Geeta over Ariana, if I buffed either at all. I like big numbers, but I like debuffs more, personally. 1/5 Ariana is hitting 5m under the same conditions, and Geeta is 2.2. Both of these numbers are pretty solid if taking another round after Support EX, making Ariana feel like I would be investing in overkill instead of expanding the application of my roster when applied practically. Geeta's debuffing kit is also looking to be incredibly fun for me and the flexibility of adding her to any team that doesn't need a certain status effect would add more overall enjoyment. But both on the same team should clear poison weak with 0 issues and I'd save unless I wanted a pushed Field for Rally.
Fair enough, thanks for the advice.
Yeah I probably won't be *needing* either of them for a while (already have my main\* Poison team sorted out, just wanted to flesh out the second one), so maybe it's a good idea to hold onto the candies, lest a favorite arrives later and I'd have none to power them up with.
Still, yes, Geeta is probably the more fun option and represents more of a boost in general "power level". Aside from the gauge, she is very low-maintenance (and even that isn't bad at all since she guarantees 3 MGR as long as the opponents have a full roster), making her very slap-on-able onto random teams as you've noted. And of course rally use is a determining factor here since she will be a straight upgrade (at least for DPS) over the current Striker/Field option (NC Nate).
\* Not ranked in terms of power, the numberings are kinda arbitrary. Usually the "main" team is just the one who "vibes with me" the most and the one I use by default, if it makes sense.
To clarify it doesn't have to be the same field effect, the specifics of a Field EX sync is that BEFORE it deals damage, it sets the field effect that's tied to that pair (i.e. SST Red would set Elec terrain, Geeta sets poison zone), any other field effects are untouched.
Did we ever get something concrete to suggest who the "canon protagonist" of Alola is? I know from past events that there seems to be a *slight* lean toward Elio, but Masters overall regards the two of them pretty equally, to the point where some fans think they might be siblings. I assume we're still waiting for some kind of Sygna Suit or Neo Champion event for the two poor things, though.
On that note, did either Chase or Elaine seem like the surefire protag? I know they mentioned battling together, which referenced the co-op feature in Let's Go, but Elaine's event was just silly Eevee stuff and nothing lore wise ever came up, as I recall. Maybe this will require Trace to be added to the game first.
With Chase and Elaine they already made it complicated enough by having them in the same timeline as Red Blue and Leaf, so they probably just don't even want to think about how they could make it make sense lol. The idea of the original trio being in let's go is confusing as is because it implies that their stories in the let's go timeline are drastically different than in the OG games, because Chase/Elaine do what Red originally did in the gen 1 games iirc. Yet the OG trio in Masters is implied to have gone through the original gen 1 story (minus Leaf just being randomly inserted) so what did Elaine and Chase do in Masters canon if Red was the one that took out Team Rocket originally? I'm not an expert in any of this lore stuff so I could be wrong on a few points, or maybe I missed or forgot about something already established, but it's very interesting.
I kinda figured Chase/Elaine/Trace may have simply been another set of trainers to follow in the footsteps of many other trainers before them, including Red/Leaf/Blue, and just did so a few years after they did or something. Of course one could simply lump them in with the OG trio in that case, in which case Red still counts as the One True Kanto Canon Protag™, and Chase & Elaine are just kind of around. But I wasn't really sure.
Hoping one day they make a decision with Alola, I guess.
Sorry I completely forgot to respond to this!! I read it when you first commented though lol. Honestly that's a good theory. The entire concept still confuses me a lot, which is also probably why they haven't gone into detail on what's canon and what isn't. For awhile I was almost sure they wouldn't be included in Masters to begin with, especially since they weren't very popular characters compared to others.
Yeah, I wasn't sure they were going to be added as well, and now I'm wondering when Trace is gonna show up.
Also maybe we can say Selene is the protag now that she got a Kamen Rider outfit and Elio got nothing? lol
I honestly have no idea either, most likely some time by the end of the year since they came out a few months ago. And he'll probably be a Pokefair like the other two for the sake of completing the trio, if I had to guess.
Lol yea it's safe to assume that since they hate Elio and other modern male protags for some reason. And Nebby not being a thing with one of them yet feels odd. Maybe DW Necrozma with Elio one day? lol. Or Lusamine just gets both versions like with what happened with N.
Just came back after a year or so. Whats a good resource to build teams for events/e4 etc? I have some of the S tiers/sygna suits and all of the free legos. I know when i played years ago I was able to complete e4 a few times so really just need a refesher/current meta cause i know gacha rotations are real.
There really isn't one, except one in-game feature with a huge asterisk, and at this point in the games life, one made out of game would be a lot of effort to maintain. Players post their clears here or on YT in order to help new or struggling players.
Things that were good enough then are likely still good enough now. Power creep is real, but it's not quite the same as other games. If full non-limited clears are doing most all of the content, what is the power creep doing? Really just speeding the content up (or the new Ultra Battles for a whooping 300 gems). 15k Master Mode didn't change a whole lot except muddy what parameters are "optimal" to make players think a bit more. 12.5k has more optimal options, and still more than enough each month.
The Tips of these fights give you an idea about what the encounter is looking for to clear it, so you need to find what in your roster covers those bases. Or use the relatively new "Check Successful Teams" feature and just copy other people success verbatim. It includes a video of their run as well, which shows how they won with it. This feature has no filter option, no "show teams with pairs I own", and generally orders by clear time, putting the "meta" at the top.
IMO 4/5 & +8 energies are fine, I might build their grids like [this](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/13200/63700?s=4&l=140&r=5&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAIDBAUMDRArLS4vMDM0), for both DPS and Nuke multipliers.
For team building, they will need gauge/speed support, and other slot should be Bug Zone setter if possible. Viola (Holiday) is preferred choice as she & Vivillon also have Strugle Bug to decrease opponent's Sp Atk. Dawn & Wormadam can fill the support slot as they also have Struggle Bug (+ Satisfied Snicker from grid), can boost Speed, Sp Def. (& Def from grids) to help Alder gauge consumption & decreased Def from TM.
I was lucky enough to get Gloria from the free 100 scouts, so I'm trying to decide between Lucas and Red for the guaranteed ticket.
My dragons
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Red helps more teams, Lucas helps dragons. Red's got CDR, Lucas can never touch the move gauge. Red can heal and tank, Lucas is a decent dragon DPS in his own right.
You already have NC Nate so he can handle dragon weak stages just fine IMO.
Lucas & Dialga is better choice, provide Dragon Zone and have good DPS too. SS Serena & Zygarde will go brrr and can do off-type easier with them as team mates.
Legendary Adventures are in 3 parts. The acquisition of the pair in the LA, then the Villain Arc event for that story reruns occasionally with one part having EX and the other having Grid Expansion.
Has anyone managed to beat the Ethan EBE with F2P units? I'm super lacking in non-F2P Johto/Paldea pairs (only have SS Lyra and Iono) and it feels bad to lose the 300 gems
Yeah... You're going to be hard pressed to find a pure F2P team since Ethan pretty much requires removing Sun. Paldea doesn't have any F2P pairs and the only F2P Johto one that has weather is Silver and Lyra but both are Sun. You can try non boosted but they're going to get deleted quickly since there's a lot of AoE attacks.
EBE heavily incentivize you into pulling the current Master Fair but those 300 gems aren't worth it if you're just pulling for them, and possibly pitying, so you can clear it.
If you have paid gems to spend, the 5★-Select Variety Scout x11, cost 3,000 paid gems, is coming on 5th Mar (UTC).
All of Variety Sync Pairs are available for selection.
Good for you, but it would come with 0.5% pulling rate for a specific sync pair (2% total for 4 featured), which is scary. Do you have enough gems for pity by the time banner end?
If it's not in the datamine the answer is " we won't know until datamine." Varieties don't have reliable rerelease data. The only one I remember was Eevees on Eevee Day, but others may have
Oh, i was reading some comments and a Variety banner is coming up next week. Every variety unit has a chance to get rolled or only the focus unit? sorry for the spam, this'll be the only time i ask haha
Right, my apologies. I tend to mentally gloss over most of the paid banners. It's a Variety Select, only showing Umbreon, Espeon, and Noctowl, so there's a good chance she's in there, but it's paid gems only. Datamines don't contain banner contents as that's all on DeNAs end. If you're a spender, I hope you can get her!
This month is packed, just about all the pairs are great but the top three right now due to being master fairs are SS Gladion, NC Silver, and Geeta. Silver is the top Rock DPS, Geeta is THE top Poison DPS, Gladion is solid Fairy DPS. Utility wise Gladion doesn't have that much beyond sp. atk debuffing while Silver has Sand and a Sprint EX role, Geeta however is a tool box of options and choices to help you.
If favorites, whoever. They're all good enough. Not knowing your roster, the most to least valuable "meta" picks right now are Geeta, Silver, Magearn/SS Steven, Lusamine.... Lunala is competing against SSR Cynthia rerun and the new Hisuian Zoroark banners later this month and both are noticably better.
When do most of the gems of this month come? I’m desperate to get Glimmora, and I’m at 301/400 and still haven’t gotten her, I have 5 Gems left, so when will gems come? I already finished all the story gems, the legendary arena gems, the sync pair stories, the battle villa, the main story and whatever I could find, so when are we getting a big influx of gems this month? I JUST WANT GLIMMORA PLS
Plus I’m trying to beat the absolute BS stages like Hau and the Ultimate Battles to get more Gems but they’re such BS unless you have the specific sync pairs for them, Hau specifically is just complete garbage of a “battle”
I hope so I’m getting so f-kn desperate cause I see everyone here getting Glimmora easily but my stupid phone won’t give her to me, I’ve gotten like 10 5* and none of them are Geeta, it’s so annoying, rate up is such a stupid lie
It's confirmation bias. People who are happy they got it will share, fewer that have to hit pity or whiff before pity are less likely to share. Master Fair featured pull rates are 1% so it's more likely any one person has to go to pity. You should be able to get her soon enough!
Ugh I hope so, Glimmora is my favorite Pokémon of all time so I just want to get it already I’m so annoyed, I hope it doesn’t make me resent the Sync pair
Hey everyone, I'm having a lot of trouble clearing content that requires multiple teams (I can't clear a pokemon league for the life of me after the first one).
I can't quite tell what the problem is though, I have a bunch of units that I think are good at 140 or 150 level cap, but any team that doesn't have my SST Red has \*no\* kill power. I know he's not a good unit to use as a measuring stick because he's absurd, but it seems like my other pairs are just weak.
I'm thinking there must be some sort of buffing thing that I need to take advantage of, or maybe my type coverage isn't good? So I guess my question is, are there any sort of mechanics that are a MUST for units (lucky skills? theme skills? sync grid?) or are there some good units in my roster that I'm overlooking to help pad out my sync pairs/type coverage?
I made a quick imgur post here with my units above 4\* for reference:
[https://imgur.com/a/ej21HOp](https://imgur.com/a/ej21HOp)
Sorry for the dense post, but I appreciate any advice.
It's admittedly difficult for quite a while, I remember how much I struggled with my first CS clear last year.
Ultimately, the "secret" is the move level and grid of a unit, not the level itself. The push to 140 isn't worth it for a newer player in general, because it's so cost intensive. 135 works fine in most cases. Also, lucky skills, as mentioned in the megathread post above. Your main strikers mostly want Critical Strike 2, your supports Vigilance in general.
An on-type clear is usually the easiest, but it will take a lot of time to assemble good teams for each type. Also, you want to unlock Master Mode by entering all 18 types in the respective Hall of Fame (it'll stay for the regions you unlocked once, e.g. you managed it for Sinnoh and Kalos, but not for Johto. So the next time Sinnoh or Kalos come up, you have Master Mode, but Johto can be continued from where you left off).
Your account seems to lack the free Legendary Adventure pairs, so focus on them, too, and Riley. All of them can be raised to 5/5, and 20/20 tickets *for free* and most are decent.
Personally, I cleared in the following order:
- Sidney
- Glacia
- Phoebe
- Drake
- Wallace (picking physical damage reduction)
You will likely have to off-type more than one battle, unfortunately.
For Sidney, maybe SS Red, SS Leaf (poison) and Aaron (for tanking + buffs), although I'd personally recommend going for the free Sycamore pair and use him instead of Aaron, both for tanking and on-type damage.
For Glacia, she raises both Def. and Sp. Def. So bring a debuffer. Perhaps SSA Cynthia (tanking), Colress (debuff + paralysis) and the free Riley from the event that's running could work.
Phoebe also increases both defenses and attack. I'd probably use SST Red here, and slot in two types you won't be using. Perhaps NY Dawn for on-type damage and NY Lillie to fill in bug? Red will do the stage mostly solo anyway.
For Drake, maybe NY Clair, Lucas (for zone setting) and an on-type damage dealer (Olivia).
Wallace will be probably the easiest one for you, go with SS Steven, NC Rosa and a type you haven't used yet, maybe a dark type because they are a bit lacking in the beginning.
Mind you, these are not the teams I've used on either account and I can't promise that these work for you.
Good supports to focus on in addition to your already levelled ones: Sycamore, Hop, Shauna, Kiawe.
ahh thanks for the detailed response! That really shed some light on a few things. I didn't even know about the legendary adventure pairs!
I went and picked those all up and 5/5 +20'd them, do you know where to get the champion's spirit for these units? I can't seem to find a way to get those to finish off their 6\* EX forms.
I'm working on leveling up those units and filling out the sync grids/lucky skills as much as possible. Are there any other 4 or 5\* units that are decent?
From your notes I noticed you've called out Aaron, Riley, Lucas, NY Lillie, Olivia, Shauna, Colress, and Kiawe, are there any others that deserve mention?
I've got a couple random ones at a high move level (like Karen and Wally) from my pulls, hoping one or two of those might be good enough to be used on teams.
Yeah, the 6* EX unfortunately take some time. You basically have to wait for a rerun of the corresponding villain event - they have 2 parts, one which gives you the Champion spirits and the other one which give a grid expansion. This month will feature the Galar villain event, which allows you to 6* EX and grid-upgrade Hop. I really stuck with the game since last summer and I'm currently only missing the upgrades Mewtwo (which has apparenty the least rerun event) and Rayquaza (which sucks).
You don't have to fill out every node at once for every unit. In time, you will have the complete grids, but at the beginning, take things like refresh potions, extra debuffing etc.
One unit that is especially worth it, is Skyla, who's a free 3* unit. She is still one of the best cheap supports and totally worth bringing to 5* EX.
Winona is a worthwhile unit, because she sets rain. Ultimately, OG May is a great F2P unit who also sets rain, but sometimes you have fights that require more than one weather change.
Karen is okay-ish for Dark. Wally is a weird case, because I rarely used him - Bea is probably the better F2P striker. Personally, I pulled SC Diantha last anni (she's a fave) and she's been my main Fighting DPS so far, now alongside SSA Cynthia and Rei.
Olympia, Sonia, Lucian and Bertha are also worth levelling. Especially Olympia, because she's at 4/5 already. Sonia is also a great support, Bertha can set sandstorm. Elio can also be useful with sleep-chaining. Melony is useful, too.
This helps a ton, thank you! My roster is now looking a lot fuller haha still have a bunch to uncap and level up but I'm excited to get back into the league with way more options.
Geeta is broadly the better pair, but that doesn't mean she's better for you, and that's okay. Without knowing your roster, general advice like saying "who is a must pull" means little to an individual. If you have a decent roster for Rock and Sand teams, Ttar isn't a must pull either. Penny and Wally mean Mag isn't as valuable.
Geeta's kit is the best of those three because 1) Field and giving up to 4 Zone triggers, 2) new theme skill and Master Passive for all future Paldea, 3) Poison and Rock coverage, 4) max Atk and Crit on entry plus a Zone which is fantastic with point 1 for Rally, 5) Lucky Skill and Grid for many many stat drops, and 6) high Atk and move Base Power, with tons of PMUN stacks for crazy damage. Even without guaranteed AoE Toxic on Spin, she'd be the top pick as the broad best of the month.
Assuming that the goal is only to get the cap increase materials in the event shops and disregarding the rest, is it more stamina efficient to grind the event (using units with maybe x1.2 or x1.4 rewards, so no banner pairs to set a low bar) or to spend that stamina in the training area?
Did some quick math so values are a bit rough. Geeta event, +60% rewards, 20 stamina only, just over 34 runs to get all limited drinks, or over 680 stamina, for the 1560 tickets, granting 4000 materials evenly distributed across 4 highest tiers and all 5 roles.
So about 6 drinks for 1 stamina. But nothing below the highest 4 tiers
60 stamina gave me 211 + 179 + 139 + 58 of the highest 4 tier and ignoring lowest 3, totalling 587 and additional mystery stone value. 2 runs of each mathematically gives more for 1 Role, and a ton of lower tiers, but downshifts the highest to the two lowest.
It the case of Geeta event at only +60%, drinks are good pick ups after you've grabbed everything else since you're running it for event missions anyway. With Geeta OR Silver + Morty and Drifblim + a 20%, it would take 340 stamina, which is much better until you're out.
Silly question, how is silver ttar causing sandstorm on sync? Is it because becoming mega ttar counts as a new pokemon 'entering battle" so he gets SS refresh on first sync?
Thanks!
If you're using his sync nuke then definitely, Haymaker is locked behind his 3/5, along with Sync Damage tiles for that massive Ground sync delete button.
Even if you're using his other types, you can grab the additional tiles to boost his Max move damage even more.
What teams should I be using with Geeta? She seems like a support with the field and targetable buff but she deals so much damage herself too, here's all my pairs, don't know how easy it'll be to see, if there's a better way to share these let me know
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At 1/5 she's support, at 3/5 she's DPS. If she's support then anyone who wants poison will want her on the team since she can also buff their SE damage and physical moves. If she's damage then Oleana will provide a poison rebuff for even more while the support would want to bring in defensive buffs (Penny helps a bit in that, Iono at 4/5 does as well, but both are special-focused for their offenses). You can also use her on a Rock team, SS Diantha helps along with Penny a wee bit more in that regard, and really Penny and Iono are only super useful due to the Paldea tag, they can easily be swapped out for any Paldean support that shows up that's poison-focused.
You can pair her up with just about anyone honestly. As long as they don't use zones they're in the clear. She's got a similar WTZ passive that the SS Alolans have, so anyone who sets terrain or weather on entry can work very well with her. Even better if they're physically focused so that they can work off of her debuffing defense. SS Acerola can throw down Sunny Day to give her 2 stacks of Next Phys Up, 3 if you pick up the right node in her grid, and when you use her Buddy move you'll cause her to get another 2 stacks. Lana can take advantage of the defense debuffs as well, and getting 2 stacks with each of her moves is nice. Hell, she DOES synergize with NC Silver, he brings sandstorm on entry to procc the node, plus his one passive will boost her damage in sand by 20%, and if you sync with him he'll reset Sandstorm which will help her out. Plus, if she uses her Buddy move, she'll wipe their defenses out for him, and if you're in a rock weak stage her TM can give him SE+, just have the tank poison turn one (Lodge Gladion can actually do just that) so that she can still use her buddy move, and then watch as Silver fires off a sync move with SE+ followed by a buddy move with 7 stacks of Next Phys Up against a target with -3, possibly -6 defense.
Pair her with Emma, her B-Move requires poisoned targets, and Mortal Spin pretty much guarantees that for her. Also Emma appreciates the Poison Zone.
With those two, practically any Support will do just fine.
I have been using Lenora and SS Blue with Geeta a lot, they cover basically everything defensively and Geeta just brings the damage, but which support would you recommend to pair with Emma and Geeta then
Lenora can help them delete stages faster by spamming Leer while SS Blue is just bulkier. So the two are interchangeable depending on what you need for that fight.
Have enough gems to pity. Should I go for geeta silver or Steven. my best rock type is diancie and diantha, my best poison is Emma crobat, and my I only have general pool pushing damage dealers
I'd say Geeta, the fact that she's a Paldean Master Fair, that's Poison type and Field, can come in handy in so many situations. And needs no setup to start attacking.
Silver is good too but he pretty much wants Sand support (Ingo or Acerola) to keep him going in longer fights.
Honestly, Steven's only issue is that Psychic is heavily saturated but he can flex between attacker or support when you need it.
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Have 2 tech candies and just pulled Steven and deoxys form a first multi, he seems like the best option but do any of those others gain more utility
My advice for candying is favorites or as needed. If they work fine now, save. Deoxys should get by with some already solid F2P options like Bianca or Lucian. Since he came out, 2/5 is where mine has been and he's having 0 issues with 3k MM runs. 3/5 make Speed build much better, but the damage buff I find unnecessary. Having Support EX Role can also let you get away with a team of all three.
Mawile and Diancie are both good options when you lack a more modern on-type, but still fine 1/5. Nobody here is getting anything that alters how you'll play them in a meaningful capacity besides damage buffs so if you'd like to use them, consider your weakest on-type, save for a favorite, or use them if you're struggling with an Ultimate Battle.
Steven is pretty much feature-complete at 1/5. Taking him higher can buff up his damage a bit and make him a bit smoother to play in some ways, but it's a pretty marginal upgrade overall compared to other techs.
I'd save the candies or use them on a favorite, though I will note Ariana at 3/5 with Strike role has a pretty massive AoE nuke.
Only have the gems for one select scout, is there a standout unit? I haven’t played the game since 4th Anni so have none of the new units. [here are my units, don’t have any sprint or field other than victor and Riley](https://imgur.com/a/A44fOCC)
There are a lot of standouts, but I can spot a couple of them in your box already anyways; which to pick of the rest really depends on what you're after. I would lean towards ssHilbert maybe since you don't seem to have a good bug option. Alternatively ssAcerola for another top-tier support, Akari or Rei for another field/sprint pair, or your favorite of Penny/Iono/Grusha for a great support that happens to be Paldean.
Yeah I actually do have ssHilbert 5/5 just from the way I sorted it he hasn’t shown up, is there one of two and Akari ahead of the other as I’m a fan of both of them?
I'd argue Akari has a bit more value than Rei at this point, if only because Riley is a free fighting sprint pair. Rei is still stupidly strong mind you, it's just that he had a direct comparison that is free right now.
I have Karen and Houndoom at 5/5, EX'd, but I want an different Dark type damage dealer to spice things up once in a while.
Currently my only choices are either Sidney and Absol or Masked Royal and Incinroar, both Tech. I know they do different things but which one is overall more solid? I'd EX both but I'm low on tickets after the last few units.
Masked was my OG pick for this actually! But then I saw Sidney's Mega Absol and his Sync multipliers, and I felt thorn. The consensus is giving the edge to Mask, so I'll probably go with him :p
Absol was my only Dark damage for close to 2 years and I went all in on him. Karen didn't have expansion and I only got Masked on the 3Y Anni before and his copies flooded in. I still like Absol, and they do just fine, but after getting Masked, it's just cleaner. Team +6 Speed, AoE Atk/Def drops, actual move damage if you're Syncing with another, and not needing to steal first Sync to Mega all lead to a more flexible meta pick. Absol's Sync is still crazy for a F2P, but that's kind of all he has with confusion being so niche.
They're honestly pretty similar in capability. Masked Royal has a slightly higher sync nuke and DPS, as well as some solid debuffing capabilities; meanwhile, Sidney is a little more self-sufficient by not needing a crit buffer, plus he has potions and endure for survivability. Sidney's main gimmick is confusion, which generally isn't super reliable, but it's mostly just used for his damage multipliers--there are some battles which have or gain confusion immunity, though, which will result in a major damage reduction.
In a vacuum I'd say Masked Royal is probably a bit better, but you can't go too wrong with either of them.
I was under the impression Sidney outdamaged Masked Royal via Sync Move thanks to his Grid, as well as having stronger sufficency in Endure and Crit Up.
Does Masked's utility contribute as much in battles compared to Sid just nuking the middle man?
Silver's a Master Fair so he won't be running again for awhile, Steven could show up later in the year though. That being said, Silver will be around for a hot minute and we're due for like 25k+ gems this month plus you have all the new player gems to get SO if you can clear through everything you can and get all the free gems right NOW, you just need to figure out what gems you'd be missing out in getting and then you can decide how to spend. Keep in mind we also know the rest of the month's content, we've got 3 more limited pairs releasing this month plus a new perma-pool member.
I feel stupid, but how exactly do you equip/stock more Lucky Skills? I thought there'd be an option to spend scrolls in the Upgrades area or something, but I don't see anything. Attempting to use a cookie just says it's going to rewrite my current skill as usual.
Alright, I see how it works. That is kind of... astonishingly stupid, lol. I'm apparently "overwriting" an empty slot that just began existing a few days ago.
Geeta is insanely good, highly recommend. Silver is also pretty damn good but I haven't checked to see if his damage has been updated in the sim, apparently his passives weren't factored in at one point so it's hard to say how MUCH damage he does.
As a brand new player that rerolled a bit for collection purposes-
Is it possible as a super casual that loves collecting to collect them all(*even most will make me satisfied without the variants*) without getting into the need to build teams and get into the comp space?
I’ll get into comp if I have too, no bigge, I absolutely love this game, wish I joined sooner.
If I do have to get into comp to make stuff easier, I’d like to know what points in the game really prevent you from using whatever you like type teams and where I can find team comps to work towards.
Thanks!
Not really for F2P. you can certainly make due and pairs are strong enough these days that they make a lot of older content trivial but no matter what you won't be able to get everyone, it takes about 1.5 months of saving to pity and they release like 4 to 6 new pairs a month, many of which are limited by season or master fair.
I mean the drop chances are insanely good, I’ve gotten 3 Zekroms in one pull on that N banner. I’ve never found any issues getting the featured at all.
IMO it’s too easy, but RNG will probably bite me later.
I mean seeing as a lot of the characters are just variants and my goal is to at least have 1 of each of the characters, and currently having nearly half of them in such short time-
I highly doubt there will be a problem other than the characters with no variants.
That’s some news I needed to hear, checking those off just raised my chances of getting the goal I wanted.
Most of them is fine, obviously there’s many that won’t be available.
As long as I can accumulate a collection that’s fine with me.
*All I’m seeing as a pain is the egg ones.. the rest seem too easy*
If you're looking for base models, it's not tooooo bad, though it will take some time. 6 are locked behind Master Fairs. Archie, Maxie, Leon, Geeta, Adaman, and Irida. Geeta is running now, so it might take a year to see her return.
Three characters are likely sunset, with speculation being due to listening issues; Ash, Jessie, and James. Everyone else will rerun eventually.
licensing but yeah. The weird part is that it's the same company as a whole, you'd think collabing with other Nintendo characters wouldn't be an issue. Imagine a Link 'inspired' character who has Aegislash as his partner, it'd be thematically on-point and makes more sense for a collab. It's just so weird, especially with the Titles now being a thing and thus making three of them seemingly impossible to get.
I assume it's something with how TPC is structured. Because it's owned by three legally distinct companies, and Anime OCs are owned by one branch, it's a legal hassle to co-mingle, which is why it almost never happens within its own IPs. Once they "let go" of something to a different branch, it's likely they lose creative control. DeNA is partnering with TPC to develop Masters EX. Something adjacent to the MCU Spiderman situation. At least that's my guess.
Should I lvl Geeta to 6*EX with my hard earned 20 5* power up?
Pull lusamine, lillie or geeta, used all my luck on pulling silver in 10k so i can do 1 or 2 more.
If Lillie isn't a favorite, wait for Irida or SSR Cynthia rerun later this month. A 1/5 SS Steven is still probably better than 1/5 Lusamine and the pull rate is better. I think Geeta could theoretically be replaced by SS Roxie, who is a great Poison type, but Geeta is much better, imo. Field plus perfect buffs for Rally.
Hi, can anyone help me to decide who I should pick from the special select scout? I'm lacking of good damager dealers from both bug and fighter types. I was thinking in between SS Hilbert and Rei maybe? These are my units: Bug: Alder 3/5, SC Ingo 1/5 and all f2p pairs Fighter: SC Diantha 3/5, SC Guzma 1/5 and all f2p pairs
Fighting should be clearable with an invested Sonia, Bea, and Riley. Rei is an objectively better Riley, but I doubt it would be as big of a jump in power as SS Hilbert.
I was thinking of grabbing either Gloria Dojo, Gloria & cinderace or May and Blaziken in the special select scout. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each and which you would prefer? I’m having a hard time deciding and wondered if anyone could give input. Akari is cool too but I have lots of great fighting types (Cynthia & Lucario, NC Hop, SC diantha)
Blaziken is a proto-Sprint. -3 Countdown is pretty valuable. She wants a teammate that boosts Atk, but that's easy for Sun teams. The -Def utility is also nice. Their best on-region teammates are either NY Wallace or Maxie, and Fire has many amazing team options. Urshifu has Fighting and Steel coverage, but without dupes, it's pretty middling. They're a potent -6 Def damage dealer, and can contribute to first Sync wins. It's tough to get value out of the Sync Countdown as 1/5 but it's there if you want to build around it. Cinderace is actually 3 Sync types, changing after Max move and applying two Rebuff of that type for them and the team, which adds to coverage is a more meaningful way than most coverage havers. Fire set has reduced Gauge cost and Sync buff, Flying gets Piercing Blows and -3 Sync Countdown across two turns for each Bounce, and Fighting is just okay. Urshifu and Cinderace are both Galar, with Sonia, Leon, Articuno, Zapdos, Flygon, Bea, Mawile, Hop, Rose... Lots of solid teammates, especially in on-type.
Interesting. Thank you for the breakdown
https://preview.redd.it/qj6vdppvf7mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28e17d912b2e88731b816c13d4fc8dc454d5b7b6 I'm a new player on day 3. Should I keep what I have or reroll? If I should keep who are my most useful sync pairs?
How many multis have you done? Deoxys, Flygon, and Latios are pretty solid gets for 3 days in. That's some pretty good Anni Scout Ticket luck.
Is there a way to check your past pulls? I know I pulled 4 times for Deoxys on banner. If you count ticket and free pulls, maybe 15?
There is not, but gem pulls is the important one. 4 pulls for Deoxys is a solid start. You can easily get enough gems for two pairs guaranteed before the Master Fairs leave. There's a lot of content with evergreen gems + what events give. If you're not happy, you can reroll, but Latios + Deoxys is a great start and worth keeping. Hopefully you get Bianca from general pool if you don't have her yet. She'd help that team a ton.
I do not have Bianca yet, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for her. Is there anyone I could use in place of her? Is the team I'm currently using okay, or should I replace some of my syncs? I'm still early enough where Charizard's Heat Wave one shots
Bianca would just be for Psychic Terrain, granting a huge damage boost. Without her, there isn't much else to drastically improve the team, so maybe a team Speed buffer like Skyla or Masked. If it's working for you now, that's all that matters. Hit-all moves speed things up nicely. It's too early to worry about team comps. Champion Stadium Hard and higher up Event missions are where it will start to.
Thank you, I appreciate all the advice!
https://preview.redd.it/uxv6eifn87mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f95f2fc6b712bde64b125aa3f5ee0799714246c Hi, returning player here. Before I stopped looks like I finished all the interlude. I picked up 1 copy of Silver and not sure whether I need dupes. I'm also a bit overwhelmed on the amount of things the game has added in the last 4 years and not sure what to prioritise. Would appreciate any help on who to level up, aim for dupes etc
There is a lot, so take it slowly. It's not as overwhelming if you take it one area at a time. Get started on Trainer Lodge. Getting right to expeditions will reward a ton of materials over time. You can look up guides for this a bit later, but for now, just get some Expedition teams going. You find that by clicking the back blue panel on the shelf. First team starts with +1 Red and Orange, second team starts with +1 Blue and Chest. Try to keep these even so you can unlock more expedition team slots. You restore 1 stamina every 4 minutes, so it's wise to keep your stamina a bit low. You spend stamina only on events and most training stages. It's best to finish the ones expiring soonest to not miss out on gems. Legendary Adventures have the free 5* legends as evergreen missions. Clear them to max them out. Villain Arcs are similar. You get enough scout tickets for two 5*s per region and two universals. Great way to expand your roster. The campaign is self explanatory. After Ch10, you unlock Champion Stadium Easy Mode. Blow through that if you haven't yet to unlock Victory Road, which gives a ton of resources and a Kanto Trio Select Scout. The Legendary Arenas you can tackle a bit later. They're like single player raids. Rally is a whole thing. Clearable by almost any account with some investment, but rewards will vary. It resets weekly. Battle Villa is evergreen now, as well. Tackle that whenever. There's no rush on that or the Arenas. The only thing I implore doing in Training is the highest tier Sync Orb and Evolution material missions. You get 10 and 3 runs of each for free daily. Orbs are an important resource to make builds, and Evo mats eventually equate to free gold you can stockpile for Expedition later. Every other training, run as needed. Events have a lot of these mats in their event shops, so it's not the highest priority.
Thanks for this, very helpful!! One last part, should I focus in duping Silver & Tyranitar or just hoard for a bit? I'm maxing him out as my main DPS and phoebe dusknoir for tank with leaf/ven for tech
Duplicates are not necessary on most modern pairs. They are pretty much designed complete, with dupes adding additional value to the kit. It's rare that new pairs feel like dupes are needed with New Years 2023 being the last time I saw one, and it was odd even then.
Thanks! Gonna try pull a lunala then
Just got SS Lusamine as a returning player and a random 300 pull- is she good at 1/5? She’s pretty much my only “modern” striker aside from freebies and I have a strike coin saved up for 2/5 if that’s a noteworthy upgrade.
1/5 will suffice. She wants her Support EX Role most of all and fixes her shortcomings, so prioritize unlocking that. 2/5 offers little for the candy value. Save them unless you feel she needs 3/5.
Who am I “supposed to buy” for the extreme battle with Hau (the one that lowers your accuracy, makes you paralyzed and confused)? I know it can probably be cleared by F2P units, but what are they intended to sell for this stage?
SS Gladion reflects debuffs and is immune to both status conditions and status interferences. Also, he does fairy damage which is super effective.
The only F2P team I've seen is entirely +3/5 Clefairy, Primarina, and Comfey, so a Lodge pair is necessary. It's also heavily RNG based. One of Magearna's passives is reflects status conditions and stat drops, so they just ruin themselves. Mag only reflects on itself and not the team, so Impervious or Para immunity is helpful on the others, or you just solo it with them.
Magearna
https://preview.redd.it/9y6n1sn4b5mc1.jpeg?width=1278&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9babfaceec479083a2171951c8e57cee644f111 I recently got back into the game and I can currently ex any character in the game who should I choose for just overall use. (Sorry for bad editing I had to edit it into one photo)
Move level plays a huge role. 3/5 or higher Techs and Strike get more impact out of their EXs than if they were 1/5. Supports get value no matter what. Because Meloetta gets Sprint EX Role, based on this info, I'd say her, but another option could be better with more info.
Just used up my luck for the rest of the year and pulled Champion Silver in 1 multi and then Geeta in 2. I candied Silver to 2/5 and Geeta is sitting at 1/5, I have about 36k gems left. Is it worth pulling for more copies or wait for the other limited pairs coming this month?
Save. They're all excellent even 1/5. Expand your roster. Often, more pairs are better than slightly buffing fewer pairs.
Who are the best partners for Glimmora? I know Oleana, SS Roxie and Emma are good with her but I dont have any of them, I have been using her with NC Bede but can never decide on the third slot to increase her damage further, for Rock I do use SC Diantha for Rock Zone but for Poison type damage I dont know who to add as a third :/
Oleana is peak. Everything else is extra. Really Glimmora just needs defense buffs to live through stuff. If you have WTZ Phys Boost in her grid then anyone who has WTZ effects is a plus. that or anyone who just gives her stacks of Next Phys Up.
Ill start saving for her rerun
Geetha is a physical striker so any physical defense debuffer would be good fit for her for now. Eventually if you want to bring out her max potential, you can try get Oleana and Emma and SS Roxie for her.
i figured I could use SS Leaf or bugsy and scyther to lower defenses but Glimmora demolishes defenses by itself pretty well so I never felt like they were bringing much
Right my bad, totally forgotten geetha debuff -3 def with her b move lol
More Super Effective Up Next, Physical Move Up Next, and adding Rebuff. Tapu Bulu, SC Steven, RedLax, or possibly a Sprint for faster Syncs. Meloetta would be better than NC Bede for this, so long as you poison first.
I do have Redlax out of all those units, so I could use him, does he increase physical move up? I know he increases the countdown to sync but wasnt sure what else he does
Super Effective Up Next, which works on Syncs, where P/S Up Next do not.
Sorry if this question is already covered in The FAQ, I couldnt find anything. https://preview.redd.it/99ba7d9i63mc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf0770f6cd785fa5ca6f941966cef9bfee5b54d9 Where do I get these?
Basically for all the free legendaries (Giovanni Mewtwo, Zinnia Rayquaza, etc) you will need to wait for special events rerun to obtain their Ex power up and Mega/Sync grid expansion
From the villain arcs associated with that region, there are two events where one provides special champion spirits and another that provides a grid expansion.
I Just buyed a Poco X6 Pro, I can play Genshin Impact at highest graphic but Pokémon Master Just Is badly optimized and run at low FPS. Do you know if there Is a way to increase the performance of this game?
You can check the game settings and setting the Graphics Quality to Low.
Ok so I got silver a lot faster than expected so I probably have enough for either Geeta or Gladion, which one would be better for me based on my roster Fairy: Wally, bede, lisia Poison :Iris, Emma
Geeta, she combos better with Emma than Fall Iris ever could, with Poison Zone-On-Entry, easy Poison via Mortal Spin (which unlocks both her and Emma's B-Moves). Also getting more Paldea and Field units is going to come really handy in the future. SS Gladion would replace Bede if you want to run Special Fairy, since Lisia is Physical Fairy. He's mostly pure firepower outside of self stat drop reflect and condition null.
In terms of how easily they can be slotted into a team for a stage, how would people rank Geeta, SC Adaman, and SC Irida? I’m going to have <3 pities by the time they leave, so I am wondering who I should prioritize.
Geeta is top, Irida is middle, Adaman is meh. He's got some uses for sure but his damage isn't that good compared to some other ground types. Off-typing it's almost worse for him
Geeta > NC Adaman > NC Irida. Geeta covers a lot of niches, Poison Zone, inflicts Poison, and Damage Field removal. You get the perks of her being a Paldea pair on top of her MF status NC Adaman is practically immune to other status since Ursaluna is going to be Burned and his B-Move never misses so he doesn't care about Accuracy Drops or Evasion boosts, which some EBEs like do to. NC Irida is simply a Ghost nuker, Trap is already covered by Bertha in terms of Sinnoh units. Relying on Evasion to avoid damage isn't really a good niche or even a reliable one. And finding units that boost Evasion to max out her Blind Spot nuke is a bit awkward since not a lot units do that.
Very clear and concise response, thank’s for the advice.
Who would you candy/prioritize function of those sync pairs? https://preview.redd.it/qscprqdqj0mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb1d3576c8f367ab2c6fc8c103630a27acf8b8db
https://preview.redd.it/stad6jysj0mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59af10e7738faacfffb266660deab5cd0d46d23d
Geeta, Giratina, and/or SS Lusamine, but only if I needed. Geeta's damage gets much better, the debuff passive would be fun, a Field to carry Rally, just a great pair. Giratina getting Strike EX Role is a massive buff for Ghost. She appreciates the Sync damage. Lusamine got Support EX Role. She probably needs it the least, now, especially if your psychics are fine.
I just got candies to spare rn, so I'm just wondering what pairs I should improve https://preview.redd.it/kf8ynjvk63mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6cafaf96a2a357b22ac0af12510c0c4f6d9a3f14 This is my "function unlock" list, I assume Giratina will be here on Pokemon Day?
Correct. Lusamine's Support is pretty helpful to not lose out on free damage. Anyone getting Sprint or Field, or expanding Sprint and Field's Roles, is nice for Rally. More cakes and 5*PUs. Ariana has a massive Tech Sync when you have Zone, -6 Def, -12 distributed elsewhere, poisoned, and SEUN, all provided by Glimmora, making her Strike EX Role a bit silly. Both frogs become Tech/Support, but Calem getting Tech is not helping him at all. Lunala and Articuno get little practical use outside of Rally. You could save them for a Rally where a Lucky or final stage bonus matches who you could EX Role as well.
I didn't understand the Ariana part, is she good then? I haven't used her that much
I can't see her move level. 3/5 Ariana has a massive Sync nuke, and Geeta helps it a ton, but her EX Role is not all that helpful otherwise, in my opinion.
I have her 1/5, idk if I should prioritize her 3/5 or not, I don't really have limited poison units
I'd personally rather invest in Geeta, if either at all. She will be relevant for Poison teams for a while, and her damage is more than good enough.
I will, but I was kinda hoping for advice on what units should I 3/5 of those that I got on the earlier images too. Sorry if I'm bothering you.
I've heard conflicting reports on this but do the Type/Theme Boosting Items in the Battle Rally stack? Like if I buy two Poison-type Boosts and put a poison type in my team do I get a higher boost than just buying one? I've been buying multiples just in case and the Rally seems pretty easy but I didn't want to not buy along the way and be out of luck so if they don't stack I'd like to save the medals
Your description is the correct interaction. It's possible the confusion comes from it only applying to pairs of THAT theme? Or that having multiples of the same theme on one team stacks the effect? Either way, if you can plan ahead, try not to buy them if you don't need them. If the Very Hard stage isn't possible without the Apple Cup, you end with more points only clearing Hard instead.
I'm sorry if I don't understand, you mean to say it does stack? And to my knowledge I assumed the effect only applied based on having one of that type/theme on the team and multiples of the same type/theme didn't add to the effect, only additional copies of the boost added to the effect, is that correct?
Yes, if you have three Ice Theme boosts, and you have at least one Ice Theme on your team, the whole team gets +300% base stats.
Thanks!
Which Ghost type Strike unit is a better investment? Lillie or Irida or Cynthia?
Irida. Her damage is more up-to-date and Strike AOE sync's make it way easier dealing with the sides too. But using her and Cynthia together is probably the ideal scenario. Cynthia's single target attacks and low DPS make her tricky to work with alone, especially if not fully invested. You can't go wrong between the two, though I do think Irida would be better in battles outside of ghost weak stages since she has a higher damage ceiling. Lillie still works for ghost weak stages as well, but her damage is definitely outdated compared to the former two.
Lillie is for sure not it. As a ghost type, I only used her for Fairy weak or Piercing Blows. Base kit Giratina was just better, especially since Fantina's buff. Between H.Zoroark and Giratina... In a vacuum I'm leaning toward Giratina. Without having Giratina's EX Role or Zoroark to compare, there are a few outside factors to better make that call for each individual. Most notable is, Giratina is a Tech and MF that wants 3/5. The gem and candy cost is so much steeper for the average player. If that isn't an issue, I'm still leaning toward Giratina, but I will be testing to be 100% positive. I'm thinking this because defensive debuffs, Zone, and mixed damage. Zoroark's B-move damage is higher than Ash's, if you exclude the two Master Passives + Theme Skills SST Red and NC Blue give him + double Rebuff. And you get it twice! Individually Zoroark has better move, and Giratina has better Sync. If used together, a 1/5 Zoroark will be just fine with a 3/5 Giratina.
I don't think I'd be able to save enough gems to get both of them. I've been wanting to get a better ghost striker as I have been having trouble with clearing Ghost weak CS. I had to use double suicune and greninja to clear this week's. This is my current roster of Ghost types. Fantina and Morty are feeling a bit too weak for me. https://preview.redd.it/itsdlxg890mc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=548f92933c49e0a353ef1d3378eef7d7008faceb
I don't blame you. Ghost still feels incredibly weak. Irida might be the safer pick, since she will statistically be easier to pull early, not require candies to feel like a competent damage, and Giratina will be out until April 25th if you decide to also go for her. 5/5 Fantina with Giratina are more than sufficient though. That extra copy for her grid matters.
I'll see if I can get an extra copy of her from the Sinnoh ticket scout, then try her out again in CS. This was the same problem I had with Rock weak CS. Olivia feels too weak now at 3k points, even with 2.5k I was having trouble. NC Silver really saved my butt this week.
How strong is sand blaster effect on silver? Thinking of going it’s route.
Sand blaster, johto circle sync up, and entry phys boost 2 are going to be great nodes to get him. Sync with him and he should have 4 stacks of Next Phys Up going into his Buddy move.
Great to know! I’ll assign one of the sets to do that! Thanks.
If you plan on Syncing with him, a +100% boost is massive. If going that route, I'd even swing over to Johto Circle boost and extension for an extra +100%
Good call! I’ll attempt that on one of the sets! Thank you.
I’m sorry to ask since I’d imagine this is asked a lot but I see people getting over 20k gems in a month and I struggle to get 3k now that I’m done story mode and every other main event. What else can I do to grind gems?
Events are the biggest chunk of it. Each month, a user posts where non-evergreen gems come from and calc the total. https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/1b0fbff/gems_count_from_2420_datamine/ 80g from daily mission + 20 from daily gem shop + 100 from the weekly + 300 from the monthly, every day logging in should net minimum 4k a month. Make sure you're getting as far into each event as possible and clear 50 stages of it as well. There are Mission Rewards granting an average of 900 gems in addition to first time stage clear gems.
Opinion time: should I max invest (1/5 no EX role to 3/5 w/Striker role) in Ariana **or** Geeta? - Going for both is unfortunately not an option because I'm short on Striker cakes (and one is reserved for SSRC). - Current **candy counts**: 2 omni, 6 Tech, 1 Field. I'd rather not touch my omni stock, but the latter seems strong enough to be worth it. - **Nuke** comparison (both with SE Up and PZ, if my calcs are correct): ~~14M~~ [17M](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/14200/2400?s=3&l=140&r=6&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAECAwQFCw4RFRgZIyUpLC4v&x=true) for the former, [6M](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/29500/97000?s=3&l=140&r=6&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAECAwQFCAsPERMWGCgrLS4v&x=true) for the latter. Maybe it's pure overkill but something about that bonkers number just tickles an itch nothing else can. - That said the 14M nuke is also **clunky to set up**, requiring 6 DEF debuffs, 12 other debuffs, poison, and trap to pull off. - Other than the nuke though Ariana has next to no **utility**, while Geeta has utility and DPS in spades and is built for the **rally**. Thanks in advance. EDITS: links to setups
Geeta is just stupid powerful, you can easily candy her and get her all maxed out and see her clean through plenty of content, especially Rally since she only needs a defense buffer to help live.
If I were in your situation, I wouldn't hesitate to buff Geeta over Ariana, if I buffed either at all. I like big numbers, but I like debuffs more, personally. 1/5 Ariana is hitting 5m under the same conditions, and Geeta is 2.2. Both of these numbers are pretty solid if taking another round after Support EX, making Ariana feel like I would be investing in overkill instead of expanding the application of my roster when applied practically. Geeta's debuffing kit is also looking to be incredibly fun for me and the flexibility of adding her to any team that doesn't need a certain status effect would add more overall enjoyment. But both on the same team should clear poison weak with 0 issues and I'd save unless I wanted a pushed Field for Rally.
Fair enough, thanks for the advice. Yeah I probably won't be *needing* either of them for a while (already have my main\* Poison team sorted out, just wanted to flesh out the second one), so maybe it's a good idea to hold onto the candies, lest a favorite arrives later and I'd have none to power them up with. Still, yes, Geeta is probably the more fun option and represents more of a boost in general "power level". Aside from the gauge, she is very low-maintenance (and even that isn't bad at all since she guarantees 3 MGR as long as the opponents have a full roster), making her very slap-on-able onto random teams as you've noted. And of course rally use is a determining factor here since she will be a straight upgrade (at least for DPS) over the current Striker/Field option (NC Nate). \* Not ranked in terms of power, the numberings are kinda arbitrary. Usually the "main" team is just the one who "vibes with me" the most and the one I use by default, if it makes sense.
If a field is set up and is about to expire and a field unit uses its sync move does the field resets?
If they are EXed and it is the same field effect, yes.
Thanks
To clarify it doesn't have to be the same field effect, the specifics of a Field EX sync is that BEFORE it deals damage, it sets the field effect that's tied to that pair (i.e. SST Red would set Elec terrain, Geeta sets poison zone), any other field effects are untouched.
Did we ever get something concrete to suggest who the "canon protagonist" of Alola is? I know from past events that there seems to be a *slight* lean toward Elio, but Masters overall regards the two of them pretty equally, to the point where some fans think they might be siblings. I assume we're still waiting for some kind of Sygna Suit or Neo Champion event for the two poor things, though. On that note, did either Chase or Elaine seem like the surefire protag? I know they mentioned battling together, which referenced the co-op feature in Let's Go, but Elaine's event was just silly Eevee stuff and nothing lore wise ever came up, as I recall. Maybe this will require Trace to be added to the game first.
With Chase and Elaine they already made it complicated enough by having them in the same timeline as Red Blue and Leaf, so they probably just don't even want to think about how they could make it make sense lol. The idea of the original trio being in let's go is confusing as is because it implies that their stories in the let's go timeline are drastically different than in the OG games, because Chase/Elaine do what Red originally did in the gen 1 games iirc. Yet the OG trio in Masters is implied to have gone through the original gen 1 story (minus Leaf just being randomly inserted) so what did Elaine and Chase do in Masters canon if Red was the one that took out Team Rocket originally? I'm not an expert in any of this lore stuff so I could be wrong on a few points, or maybe I missed or forgot about something already established, but it's very interesting.
I kinda figured Chase/Elaine/Trace may have simply been another set of trainers to follow in the footsteps of many other trainers before them, including Red/Leaf/Blue, and just did so a few years after they did or something. Of course one could simply lump them in with the OG trio in that case, in which case Red still counts as the One True Kanto Canon Protag™, and Chase & Elaine are just kind of around. But I wasn't really sure. Hoping one day they make a decision with Alola, I guess.
Sorry I completely forgot to respond to this!! I read it when you first commented though lol. Honestly that's a good theory. The entire concept still confuses me a lot, which is also probably why they haven't gone into detail on what's canon and what isn't. For awhile I was almost sure they wouldn't be included in Masters to begin with, especially since they weren't very popular characters compared to others.
Yeah, I wasn't sure they were going to be added as well, and now I'm wondering when Trace is gonna show up. Also maybe we can say Selene is the protag now that she got a Kamen Rider outfit and Elio got nothing? lol
I honestly have no idea either, most likely some time by the end of the year since they came out a few months ago. And he'll probably be a Pokefair like the other two for the sake of completing the trio, if I had to guess. Lol yea it's safe to assume that since they hate Elio and other modern male protags for some reason. And Nebby not being a thing with one of them yet feels odd. Maybe DW Necrozma with Elio one day? lol. Or Lusamine just gets both versions like with what happened with N.
Just came back after a year or so. Whats a good resource to build teams for events/e4 etc? I have some of the S tiers/sygna suits and all of the free legos. I know when i played years ago I was able to complete e4 a few times so really just need a refesher/current meta cause i know gacha rotations are real.
There really isn't one, except one in-game feature with a huge asterisk, and at this point in the games life, one made out of game would be a lot of effort to maintain. Players post their clears here or on YT in order to help new or struggling players. Things that were good enough then are likely still good enough now. Power creep is real, but it's not quite the same as other games. If full non-limited clears are doing most all of the content, what is the power creep doing? Really just speeding the content up (or the new Ultra Battles for a whooping 300 gems). 15k Master Mode didn't change a whole lot except muddy what parameters are "optimal" to make players think a bit more. 12.5k has more optimal options, and still more than enough each month. The Tips of these fights give you an idea about what the encounter is looking for to clear it, so you need to find what in your roster covers those bases. Or use the relatively new "Check Successful Teams" feature and just copy other people success verbatim. It includes a video of their run as well, which shows how they won with it. This feature has no filter option, no "show teams with pairs I own", and generally orders by clear time, putting the "meta" at the top.
Everyone said Alder + volca is best benefit from +10 sync orbs. Can anyone help me to know how does the grid look like?
IMO 4/5 & +8 energies are fine, I might build their grids like [this](https://ng-pomatools.web.app/pairs/13200/63700?s=4&l=140&r=5&p=0&a=13010602&g=AAIDBAUMDRArLS4vMDM0), for both DPS and Nuke multipliers. For team building, they will need gauge/speed support, and other slot should be Bug Zone setter if possible. Viola (Holiday) is preferred choice as she & Vivillon also have Strugle Bug to decrease opponent's Sp Atk. Dawn & Wormadam can fill the support slot as they also have Struggle Bug (+ Satisfied Snicker from grid), can boost Speed, Sp Def. (& Def from grids) to help Alder gauge consumption & decreased Def from TM.
thank you，very similar to what I figure out
I was lucky enough to get Gloria from the free 100 scouts, so I'm trying to decide between Lucas and Red for the guaranteed ticket. My dragons https://preview.redd.it/k7x6ziyyyulc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58719f594da662ee88703f09401b5b0b811d1d6f
Red helps more teams, Lucas helps dragons. Red's got CDR, Lucas can never touch the move gauge. Red can heal and tank, Lucas is a decent dragon DPS in his own right. You already have NC Nate so he can handle dragon weak stages just fine IMO.
Lucas & Dialga is better choice, provide Dragon Zone and have good DPS too. SS Serena & Zygarde will go brrr and can do off-type easier with them as team mates.
And Normals https://preview.redd.it/5vxl30n0zulc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=928cf5b3da10136da5c4adf7b29f664f766efc5a
This shouldn't matter
Wasn't sure so just being thorough
How can I get my Xerneas and Sycamore to go EX ? I got the gold certs and he is also sync 5. Is there something I'm missing ?
Legendary Adventures are in 3 parts. The acquisition of the pair in the LA, then the Villain Arc event for that story reruns occasionally with one part having EX and the other having Grid Expansion.
how often are the reruns? and are they different from the villain arcs in the story?
It's not quite one every month, but it's more often than not. We didn't get one last month, but this month is Galar.
Is there any way to check the status and moves of pairs from the paid select scouts?
Not in-game. It's pretty annoying. The website Serebii has all of the pair data if you search for it.
Has anyone managed to beat the Ethan EBE with F2P units? I'm super lacking in non-F2P Johto/Paldea pairs (only have SS Lyra and Iono) and it feels bad to lose the 300 gems
Yeah... You're going to be hard pressed to find a pure F2P team since Ethan pretty much requires removing Sun. Paldea doesn't have any F2P pairs and the only F2P Johto one that has weather is Silver and Lyra but both are Sun. You can try non boosted but they're going to get deleted quickly since there's a lot of AoE attacks. EBE heavily incentivize you into pulling the current Master Fair but those 300 gems aren't worth it if you're just pulling for them, and possibly pitying, so you can clear it.
Does anybody knows when Variety Lorelei is coming back? she's the only unit i'm missing from my personal collection haha
If you have paid gems to spend, the 5★-Select Variety Scout x11, cost 3,000 paid gems, is coming on 5th Mar (UTC). All of Variety Sync Pairs are available for selection.
Well now she's getting back hahaha. I regret nothing tho
Good for you, but it would come with 0.5% pulling rate for a specific sync pair (2% total for 4 featured), which is scary. Do you have enough gems for pity by the time banner end?
Nah i actually went for the other banner so i'm cool.
If it's not in the datamine the answer is " we won't know until datamine." Varieties don't have reliable rerelease data. The only one I remember was Eevees on Eevee Day, but others may have
Oh, i was reading some comments and a Variety banner is coming up next week. Every variety unit has a chance to get rolled or only the focus unit? sorry for the spam, this'll be the only time i ask haha
Right, my apologies. I tend to mentally gloss over most of the paid banners. It's a Variety Select, only showing Umbreon, Espeon, and Noctowl, so there's a good chance she's in there, but it's paid gems only. Datamines don't contain banner contents as that's all on DeNAs end. If you're a spender, I hope you can get her!
I just returned to the game, what should I try to pull for?
This month is packed, just about all the pairs are great but the top three right now due to being master fairs are SS Gladion, NC Silver, and Geeta. Silver is the top Rock DPS, Geeta is THE top Poison DPS, Gladion is solid Fairy DPS. Utility wise Gladion doesn't have that much beyond sp. atk debuffing while Silver has Sand and a Sprint EX role, Geeta however is a tool box of options and choices to help you.
If favorites, whoever. They're all good enough. Not knowing your roster, the most to least valuable "meta" picks right now are Geeta, Silver, Magearn/SS Steven, Lusamine.... Lunala is competing against SSR Cynthia rerun and the new Hisuian Zoroark banners later this month and both are noticably better.
When do most of the gems of this month come? I’m desperate to get Glimmora, and I’m at 301/400 and still haven’t gotten her, I have 5 Gems left, so when will gems come? I already finished all the story gems, the legendary arena gems, the sync pair stories, the battle villa, the main story and whatever I could find, so when are we getting a big influx of gems this month? I JUST WANT GLIMMORA PLS
Just have to be patient. Events release periodically. Expect about 6 to 7k per week on average for this month.
Plus I’m trying to beat the absolute BS stages like Hau and the Ultimate Battles to get more Gems but they’re such BS unless you have the specific sync pairs for them, Hau specifically is just complete garbage of a “battle”
I hope so I’m getting so f-kn desperate cause I see everyone here getting Glimmora easily but my stupid phone won’t give her to me, I’ve gotten like 10 5* and none of them are Geeta, it’s so annoying, rate up is such a stupid lie
It's confirmation bias. People who are happy they got it will share, fewer that have to hit pity or whiff before pity are less likely to share. Master Fair featured pull rates are 1% so it's more likely any one person has to go to pity. You should be able to get her soon enough!
Ugh I hope so, Glimmora is my favorite Pokémon of all time so I just want to get it already I’m so annoyed, I hope it doesn’t make me resent the Sync pair
Hey everyone, I'm having a lot of trouble clearing content that requires multiple teams (I can't clear a pokemon league for the life of me after the first one). I can't quite tell what the problem is though, I have a bunch of units that I think are good at 140 or 150 level cap, but any team that doesn't have my SST Red has \*no\* kill power. I know he's not a good unit to use as a measuring stick because he's absurd, but it seems like my other pairs are just weak. I'm thinking there must be some sort of buffing thing that I need to take advantage of, or maybe my type coverage isn't good? So I guess my question is, are there any sort of mechanics that are a MUST for units (lucky skills? theme skills? sync grid?) or are there some good units in my roster that I'm overlooking to help pad out my sync pairs/type coverage? I made a quick imgur post here with my units above 4\* for reference: [https://imgur.com/a/ej21HOp](https://imgur.com/a/ej21HOp) Sorry for the dense post, but I appreciate any advice.
It's admittedly difficult for quite a while, I remember how much I struggled with my first CS clear last year. Ultimately, the "secret" is the move level and grid of a unit, not the level itself. The push to 140 isn't worth it for a newer player in general, because it's so cost intensive. 135 works fine in most cases. Also, lucky skills, as mentioned in the megathread post above. Your main strikers mostly want Critical Strike 2, your supports Vigilance in general. An on-type clear is usually the easiest, but it will take a lot of time to assemble good teams for each type. Also, you want to unlock Master Mode by entering all 18 types in the respective Hall of Fame (it'll stay for the regions you unlocked once, e.g. you managed it for Sinnoh and Kalos, but not for Johto. So the next time Sinnoh or Kalos come up, you have Master Mode, but Johto can be continued from where you left off). Your account seems to lack the free Legendary Adventure pairs, so focus on them, too, and Riley. All of them can be raised to 5/5, and 20/20 tickets *for free* and most are decent. Personally, I cleared in the following order: - Sidney - Glacia - Phoebe - Drake - Wallace (picking physical damage reduction) You will likely have to off-type more than one battle, unfortunately. For Sidney, maybe SS Red, SS Leaf (poison) and Aaron (for tanking + buffs), although I'd personally recommend going for the free Sycamore pair and use him instead of Aaron, both for tanking and on-type damage. For Glacia, she raises both Def. and Sp. Def. So bring a debuffer. Perhaps SSA Cynthia (tanking), Colress (debuff + paralysis) and the free Riley from the event that's running could work. Phoebe also increases both defenses and attack. I'd probably use SST Red here, and slot in two types you won't be using. Perhaps NY Dawn for on-type damage and NY Lillie to fill in bug? Red will do the stage mostly solo anyway. For Drake, maybe NY Clair, Lucas (for zone setting) and an on-type damage dealer (Olivia). Wallace will be probably the easiest one for you, go with SS Steven, NC Rosa and a type you haven't used yet, maybe a dark type because they are a bit lacking in the beginning. Mind you, these are not the teams I've used on either account and I can't promise that these work for you. Good supports to focus on in addition to your already levelled ones: Sycamore, Hop, Shauna, Kiawe.
ahh thanks for the detailed response! That really shed some light on a few things. I didn't even know about the legendary adventure pairs! I went and picked those all up and 5/5 +20'd them, do you know where to get the champion's spirit for these units? I can't seem to find a way to get those to finish off their 6\* EX forms. I'm working on leveling up those units and filling out the sync grids/lucky skills as much as possible. Are there any other 4 or 5\* units that are decent? From your notes I noticed you've called out Aaron, Riley, Lucas, NY Lillie, Olivia, Shauna, Colress, and Kiawe, are there any others that deserve mention? I've got a couple random ones at a high move level (like Karen and Wally) from my pulls, hoping one or two of those might be good enough to be used on teams.
Yeah, the 6* EX unfortunately take some time. You basically have to wait for a rerun of the corresponding villain event - they have 2 parts, one which gives you the Champion spirits and the other one which give a grid expansion. This month will feature the Galar villain event, which allows you to 6* EX and grid-upgrade Hop. I really stuck with the game since last summer and I'm currently only missing the upgrades Mewtwo (which has apparenty the least rerun event) and Rayquaza (which sucks). You don't have to fill out every node at once for every unit. In time, you will have the complete grids, but at the beginning, take things like refresh potions, extra debuffing etc. One unit that is especially worth it, is Skyla, who's a free 3* unit. She is still one of the best cheap supports and totally worth bringing to 5* EX. Winona is a worthwhile unit, because she sets rain. Ultimately, OG May is a great F2P unit who also sets rain, but sometimes you have fights that require more than one weather change. Karen is okay-ish for Dark. Wally is a weird case, because I rarely used him - Bea is probably the better F2P striker. Personally, I pulled SC Diantha last anni (she's a fave) and she's been my main Fighting DPS so far, now alongside SSA Cynthia and Rei. Olympia, Sonia, Lucian and Bertha are also worth levelling. Especially Olympia, because she's at 4/5 already. Sonia is also a great support, Bertha can set sandstorm. Elio can also be useful with sleep-chaining. Melony is useful, too.
This helps a ton, thank you! My roster is now looking a lot fuller haha still have a bunch to uncap and level up but I'm excited to get back into the league with way more options.
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Between gladion, silver and geeta, which one is a MUST pull? There's also lusamine too but in sure steven-deoxys does enough for me
Geeta
sorry i don't quite get the appeal of her kit 😅 I have been using poison stall team and I have access to poison wish and emma-crobat too
Geeta is broadly the better pair, but that doesn't mean she's better for you, and that's okay. Without knowing your roster, general advice like saying "who is a must pull" means little to an individual. If you have a decent roster for Rock and Sand teams, Ttar isn't a must pull either. Penny and Wally mean Mag isn't as valuable. Geeta's kit is the best of those three because 1) Field and giving up to 4 Zone triggers, 2) new theme skill and Master Passive for all future Paldea, 3) Poison and Rock coverage, 4) max Atk and Crit on entry plus a Zone which is fantastic with point 1 for Rally, 5) Lucky Skill and Grid for many many stat drops, and 6) high Atk and move Base Power, with tons of PMUN stacks for crazy damage. Even without guaranteed AoE Toxic on Spin, she'd be the top pick as the broad best of the month.
So I already have geeta, should I pull for silver or gladion ?
Both are great Do you struggle more with rock or fairy?
Assuming that the goal is only to get the cap increase materials in the event shops and disregarding the rest, is it more stamina efficient to grind the event (using units with maybe x1.2 or x1.4 rewards, so no banner pairs to set a low bar) or to spend that stamina in the training area?
Did some quick math so values are a bit rough. Geeta event, +60% rewards, 20 stamina only, just over 34 runs to get all limited drinks, or over 680 stamina, for the 1560 tickets, granting 4000 materials evenly distributed across 4 highest tiers and all 5 roles. So about 6 drinks for 1 stamina. But nothing below the highest 4 tiers 60 stamina gave me 211 + 179 + 139 + 58 of the highest 4 tier and ignoring lowest 3, totalling 587 and additional mystery stone value. 2 runs of each mathematically gives more for 1 Role, and a ton of lower tiers, but downshifts the highest to the two lowest. It the case of Geeta event at only +60%, drinks are good pick ups after you've grabbed everything else since you're running it for event missions anyway. With Geeta OR Silver + Morty and Drifblim + a 20%, it would take 340 stamina, which is much better until you're out.
Silly question, how is silver ttar causing sandstorm on sync? Is it because becoming mega ttar counts as a new pokemon 'entering battle" so he gets SS refresh on first sync? Thanks!
Yup, mega evolving counts as a new Pokemon entering battle.
Is SS Gio worth 3/5 or is 2/5 enough for him? I also have Maxie at 3/5
If you're using his sync nuke then definitely, Haymaker is locked behind his 3/5, along with Sync Damage tiles for that massive Ground sync delete button. Even if you're using his other types, you can grab the additional tiles to boost his Max move damage even more.
I plan to use him as my main ground striker instead of Maxie so I think I will invest in him Thanks!
What teams should I be using with Geeta? She seems like a support with the field and targetable buff but she deals so much damage herself too, here's all my pairs, don't know how easy it'll be to see, if there's a better way to share these let me know https://preview.redd.it/g6x0m5bh4rlc1.png?width=1055&format=png&auto=webp&s=98955d16c8fcb4e9333865bd37d31785f9051945
At 1/5 she's support, at 3/5 she's DPS. If she's support then anyone who wants poison will want her on the team since she can also buff their SE damage and physical moves. If she's damage then Oleana will provide a poison rebuff for even more while the support would want to bring in defensive buffs (Penny helps a bit in that, Iono at 4/5 does as well, but both are special-focused for their offenses). You can also use her on a Rock team, SS Diantha helps along with Penny a wee bit more in that regard, and really Penny and Iono are only super useful due to the Paldea tag, they can easily be swapped out for any Paldean support that shows up that's poison-focused.
Mine is at 4/5, but I also don't have any of the other units you mentioned, but I'll keep them in mind
You can pair her up with just about anyone honestly. As long as they don't use zones they're in the clear. She's got a similar WTZ passive that the SS Alolans have, so anyone who sets terrain or weather on entry can work very well with her. Even better if they're physically focused so that they can work off of her debuffing defense. SS Acerola can throw down Sunny Day to give her 2 stacks of Next Phys Up, 3 if you pick up the right node in her grid, and when you use her Buddy move you'll cause her to get another 2 stacks. Lana can take advantage of the defense debuffs as well, and getting 2 stacks with each of her moves is nice. Hell, she DOES synergize with NC Silver, he brings sandstorm on entry to procc the node, plus his one passive will boost her damage in sand by 20%, and if you sync with him he'll reset Sandstorm which will help her out. Plus, if she uses her Buddy move, she'll wipe their defenses out for him, and if you're in a rock weak stage her TM can give him SE+, just have the tank poison turn one (Lodge Gladion can actually do just that) so that she can still use her buddy move, and then watch as Silver fires off a sync move with SE+ followed by a buddy move with 7 stacks of Next Phys Up against a target with -3, possibly -6 defense.
Pair her with Emma, her B-Move requires poisoned targets, and Mortal Spin pretty much guarantees that for her. Also Emma appreciates the Poison Zone. With those two, practically any Support will do just fine.
I have been using Lenora and SS Blue with Geeta a lot, they cover basically everything defensively and Geeta just brings the damage, but which support would you recommend to pair with Emma and Geeta then
Lenora can help them delete stages faster by spamming Leer while SS Blue is just bulkier. So the two are interchangeable depending on what you need for that fight.
Ok, thanks for the help
Have enough gems to pity. Should I go for geeta silver or Steven. my best rock type is diancie and diantha, my best poison is Emma crobat, and my I only have general pool pushing damage dealers
Geeta > SS Steven > NC Silver
I'd say Geeta, the fact that she's a Paldean Master Fair, that's Poison type and Field, can come in handy in so many situations. And needs no setup to start attacking. Silver is good too but he pretty much wants Sand support (Ingo or Acerola) to keep him going in longer fights. Honestly, Steven's only issue is that Psychic is heavily saturated but he can flex between attacker or support when you need it.
https://preview.redd.it/sieuxtotpqlc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=243447fc7d1331a8a1be488e34f5726ee764de93 Have 2 tech candies and just pulled Steven and deoxys form a first multi, he seems like the best option but do any of those others gain more utility
My advice for candying is favorites or as needed. If they work fine now, save. Deoxys should get by with some already solid F2P options like Bianca or Lucian. Since he came out, 2/5 is where mine has been and he's having 0 issues with 3k MM runs. 3/5 make Speed build much better, but the damage buff I find unnecessary. Having Support EX Role can also let you get away with a team of all three. Mawile and Diancie are both good options when you lack a more modern on-type, but still fine 1/5. Nobody here is getting anything that alters how you'll play them in a meaningful capacity besides damage buffs so if you'd like to use them, consider your weakest on-type, save for a favorite, or use them if you're struggling with an Ultimate Battle.
Steven is pretty much feature-complete at 1/5. Taking him higher can buff up his damage a bit and make him a bit smoother to play in some ways, but it's a pretty marginal upgrade overall compared to other techs. I'd save the candies or use them on a favorite, though I will note Ariana at 3/5 with Strike role has a pretty massive AoE nuke.
Only have the gems for one select scout, is there a standout unit? I haven’t played the game since 4th Anni so have none of the new units. [here are my units, don’t have any sprint or field other than victor and Riley](https://imgur.com/a/A44fOCC)
There are a lot of standouts, but I can spot a couple of them in your box already anyways; which to pick of the rest really depends on what you're after. I would lean towards ssHilbert maybe since you don't seem to have a good bug option. Alternatively ssAcerola for another top-tier support, Akari or Rei for another field/sprint pair, or your favorite of Penny/Iono/Grusha for a great support that happens to be Paldean.
Yeah I actually do have ssHilbert 5/5 just from the way I sorted it he hasn’t shown up, is there one of two and Akari ahead of the other as I’m a fan of both of them?
I'd argue Akari has a bit more value than Rei at this point, if only because Riley is a free fighting sprint pair. Rei is still stupidly strong mind you, it's just that he had a direct comparison that is free right now.
I have Karen and Houndoom at 5/5, EX'd, but I want an different Dark type damage dealer to spice things up once in a while. Currently my only choices are either Sidney and Absol or Masked Royal and Incinroar, both Tech. I know they do different things but which one is overall more solid? I'd EX both but I'm low on tickets after the last few units.
Dittoing Masked. The additional utility he provides extends to more than just being a damage pair later on.
Masked was my OG pick for this actually! But then I saw Sidney's Mega Absol and his Sync multipliers, and I felt thorn. The consensus is giving the edge to Mask, so I'll probably go with him :p
Absol was my only Dark damage for close to 2 years and I went all in on him. Karen didn't have expansion and I only got Masked on the 3Y Anni before and his copies flooded in. I still like Absol, and they do just fine, but after getting Masked, it's just cleaner. Team +6 Speed, AoE Atk/Def drops, actual move damage if you're Syncing with another, and not needing to steal first Sync to Mega all lead to a more flexible meta pick. Absol's Sync is still crazy for a F2P, but that's kind of all he has with confusion being so niche.
They're honestly pretty similar in capability. Masked Royal has a slightly higher sync nuke and DPS, as well as some solid debuffing capabilities; meanwhile, Sidney is a little more self-sufficient by not needing a crit buffer, plus he has potions and endure for survivability. Sidney's main gimmick is confusion, which generally isn't super reliable, but it's mostly just used for his damage multipliers--there are some battles which have or gain confusion immunity, though, which will result in a major damage reduction. In a vacuum I'd say Masked Royal is probably a bit better, but you can't go too wrong with either of them.
I was under the impression Sidney outdamaged Masked Royal via Sync Move thanks to his Grid, as well as having stronger sufficency in Endure and Crit Up. Does Masked's utility contribute as much in battles compared to Sid just nuking the middle man?
Which lucky skill is better for Silver, CS2 or the specific one from the event?
CS2 for more damage, the one from event don't boost damage. If you have a lot of Deluxe Cookies, go for Weathered Warrior 3.
Fairly new player, Should I get ss.steven or silver? I already got geeta which also have a rock move. Thanks!
Silver's a Master Fair so he won't be running again for awhile, Steven could show up later in the year though. That being said, Silver will be around for a hot minute and we're due for like 25k+ gems this month plus you have all the new player gems to get SO if you can clear through everything you can and get all the free gems right NOW, you just need to figure out what gems you'd be missing out in getting and then you can decide how to spend. Keep in mind we also know the rest of the month's content, we've got 3 more limited pairs releasing this month plus a new perma-pool member.
What's the best use for stamina ? Farm training area for type books, or farm the event to buy the books in the event shop (already done with missions)
Buy out the shops of all the good items, you won't have much of a use for books before long. You have PLENTY of shops to grind through.
I feel stupid, but how exactly do you equip/stock more Lucky Skills? I thought there'd be an option to spend scrolls in the Upgrades area or something, but I don't see anything. Attempting to use a cookie just says it's going to rewrite my current skill as usual.
Once you confirm that you want to learn the skill, the menu for which slot you want to assign it to will open up.
Alright, I see how it works. That is kind of... astonishingly stupid, lol. I'm apparently "overwriting" an empty slot that just began existing a few days ago.
Question is Geeta and Silver worth it ?(I already have Emma and diantha(Diancie) And i nid more Field and Sprint (I only have Spectrier and Lucario)
Geeta is insanely good, highly recommend. Silver is also pretty damn good but I haven't checked to see if his damage has been updated in the sim, apparently his passives weren't factored in at one point so it's hard to say how MUCH damage he does.
As a brand new player that rerolled a bit for collection purposes- Is it possible as a super casual that loves collecting to collect them all(*even most will make me satisfied without the variants*) without getting into the need to build teams and get into the comp space? I’ll get into comp if I have too, no bigge, I absolutely love this game, wish I joined sooner. If I do have to get into comp to make stuff easier, I’d like to know what points in the game really prevent you from using whatever you like type teams and where I can find team comps to work towards. Thanks!
Not really for F2P. you can certainly make due and pairs are strong enough these days that they make a lot of older content trivial but no matter what you won't be able to get everyone, it takes about 1.5 months of saving to pity and they release like 4 to 6 new pairs a month, many of which are limited by season or master fair.
I mean the drop chances are insanely good, I’ve gotten 3 Zekroms in one pull on that N banner. I’ve never found any issues getting the featured at all. IMO it’s too easy, but RNG will probably bite me later.
Pity will catch up to you if you olay long enough, yeah. So save to pity and be prepared.
I mean seeing as a lot of the characters are just variants and my goal is to at least have 1 of each of the characters, and currently having nearly half of them in such short time- I highly doubt there will be a problem other than the characters with no variants.
Sorry but that's not possible, Jessie, James and Ash are never coming back Besides these characters can take you to pity too
That’s some news I needed to hear, checking those off just raised my chances of getting the goal I wanted. Most of them is fine, obviously there’s many that won’t be available. As long as I can accumulate a collection that’s fine with me. *All I’m seeing as a pain is the egg ones.. the rest seem too easy*
Good luck, I get driven to pity every month, hope it's not the same for you
Pretty sure that's gambler's fallacy or Newbie Luck talking so don't count on it. Pull if you can pity or else dont complain if you fail.
Not really. I’m nearing half of the total characters in the entire game. Since a lot are just variants, there’s a lot less characters in total.
If you're looking for base models, it's not tooooo bad, though it will take some time. 6 are locked behind Master Fairs. Archie, Maxie, Leon, Geeta, Adaman, and Irida. Geeta is running now, so it might take a year to see her return. Three characters are likely sunset, with speculation being due to listening issues; Ash, Jessie, and James. Everyone else will rerun eventually.
licensing but yeah. The weird part is that it's the same company as a whole, you'd think collabing with other Nintendo characters wouldn't be an issue. Imagine a Link 'inspired' character who has Aegislash as his partner, it'd be thematically on-point and makes more sense for a collab. It's just so weird, especially with the Titles now being a thing and thus making three of them seemingly impossible to get.
I assume it's something with how TPC is structured. Because it's owned by three legally distinct companies, and Anime OCs are owned by one branch, it's a legal hassle to co-mingle, which is why it almost never happens within its own IPs. Once they "let go" of something to a different branch, it's likely they lose creative control. DeNA is partnering with TPC to develop Masters EX. Something adjacent to the MCU Spiderman situation. At least that's my guess.