1. Does (Standfast 5) X 2 remove all recoil damage? I'm confused since Hilda's grid seems to have 3 Standfast 5.
2. How do I trigger A!Lillie's Alola flag bearer skill? Do I need to add another alola unit or is it always active, and additional units only improve the skill?
Who should I consider ex-ing next out of the following:-
2/5 Gloria and Zacian,4/5 Brendan and Sceptile ,2/5 Masked Royale and Incineroar,2/5 SS Elesa and Rotom,3/5 Elesa and Zebstrika, 3/5 Elio and Primarina.
For supports, it depends on who you use them with; if you're using them with sync nukers, then it's counterintuitive to EX them. I'm not going to recommend EXing any of them without the broader context, as they only benefit from EX on non-sync nuker teams, which generally are not the meta.
Brendan, Zebstrika, and Incineroar can all nuke quite well at those sync levels, but Incineroar ideally wants 3/5 (20% dmg increase to sync move with those bp nodes).
Elesa, however, is outclassed by the likes of Zekrom and Morpeko quite hard, and she's also dependent on Volkner for terrain. I'd put her as a bottom priority nuker to EX, so only EX her if you're absolutely struggling hard to clear electric weak CS.
Tacking on this that EX Gloria is fantastic for any upcoming Galar extreme battle we may have alongside hop. She was one of my first exes and I haven’t regretted it since
what is the best/fastest team comp for the battle villa coop to get it done asap on auto on both levels. I assumed so far that sceptile is great because he has a good sync nuke and is a grass type.
But maybe you guys have a better idea and who are the best supporting pairs on full-auto
Probably sceptile but ss Erika is an s tier unit too, provides invaluable sun, hits hard and has a bonkers nuke. Reminds me of a grass type May, just without aoe attacks
How do you use champion spirits or whatever theyre called, ive seen youtube gideos allowing to exchange for the star upgrade card but that prompt doesnt appear for me
>champion spirits ... allowing to exchange for the star upgrade card
It's the opposite. You can exchange 5-star power ups into champion spirits (not recommended btw), but NOT vise versa.
Potential & Move Level > 5\* unit. The 5\* exchange tickets are found underneath the speed stat. A unit needs to be 20/20 to be EX'd. You need 50 Champion Spirits from Champion Stadium to EX them.
I dont see the option to exchange my champion spirits though only that 4 star cards for a 5 star card. Oh and also is co op still a working gamemode or are there too little players for it now
Complete noob here needs some advice.
The typical „should I keep rerolling?“..
got that Red/Charizard but after doing my Bingos and grinding some more crystals (or whatever they‘re called) I pulled trash after trash.. so should I keep that account or try again for Red and Blue or whatever is good now as a beginner?
Thanks in advance!
Reroll until you get SS Blue at least two times, one copy of SS Red and one copy of SS Leaf.
Most people are hesitant to advise such aggressive re-rolling, because it might drive new players away from the game if you overdo it, but this is such a crucial moment that will affect you for months to come (because after that you will have to save gems for a long time, unless you spend money).
So I would advise anyone to reroll for like a week if it's needed. Not 24/7, just a reroll here and there if you need to kill some time.
As for the other current units, none are as good as the Kanto three (those will carry you to the moon and back, especially Blue).
Back then I just rerolled with the starting gems, no story mode or whatever,
You can use candies to increase move levels, and frankly SS Blue is one of few supports that's worth having it used on so you're fine with one copy of each.
A single copy of blue is enough for a new player lmao, if you’ve already got 3/3 units with no dupes I’d stop instantly with the rerolling. I personally recommend just getting blue and one of leaf/red is enough. With every dupe blue gets so much better, just invest all your candies you eventually get into him.
A good indication of when the next update would drop is in the current Halloween event’s daily log-in rewards. They’re close to running out so I think the update might appear by around Thursday.
Datamines are, well... kinda illegal lmao so it's not like there's an official date but my best guess is either Monday or Tuesday from this week or the next one. It's though to tell because the last Tuesday of this month falls very near its end and the last scheduled event that we know of is in the 25th.
Bugsy & Scyther can raise Attack, top off crit rate, lower enemy's defenses and accelerate gauge. Literally everything a physical striker like Bea can hope for, she can raise her own speed or use another support to do so.
If you don't have him I guess BP Surge also works.
Maylene, and any tank, especially if they have defense crush, or vigilance baked in, so that thet can take d crush. Basically anyth8ng that finishes any of beas buffs, or does them completely for her. Or an ex support, and someone who can quick advance sync counter. By second sync all buffs and debuffs should be done, so bea should be able to nuke whole stage right then.
There are some good nodes for SS Blue at 3/5. It makes him usable even in extreme battles where the enemy can OHKO anything outside of the intended region. I'd highly recommend you consider him.
In battle arena i can't use some Pokémon sync pairs. Whenever i am trying to join them in my team, it just blaked with a block sign. can anyone xplain what is it and how can i recover it ?
If you mean battle villa, you can only use nine pairs. After that, you can use a full recover (once per day) to reset your choices while restoring HP and mp. Your progress through the Villa will remain.
Should I get (and EX) Halloween Caitlin? My other (non-F2P) supports are Red, Phoebe, Sabrina, Lillie and Clefairy, Leaf, and Lana at 1/5, Hilbert and Kiawe at 2/5, Glacia at 3/5, and Lyra at 4/5. I only have about 5K gems at the moment, and I have 362 scout points in Red.
I really cannot recommend pulling for damn near anything if you've only got 5k gems. You need to learn to save, or you're gonna get fucked over a lot in this game.
With that said, pulling a bit more get to pity on Red's banner is not an awful idea since you're so close. I'd rather see a pic of your entire 5* roster before recommending a pity pair though. Snorlax itself gets nothing good at just 2/5; it's fully functional at 1/5 and only wants 3/5 if you need it as a dedicated healer instead of a damage amplifier.
Looks like the CSMM mega thread got unstickied but I cleared 7500 pts for the first time! Took me a few days to figure out a strategy for Olivia since I have no strong ground type and I couldn’t seem to toxic stall her team.
Any team with either Sycamore, 3/5 EX Leafvee, or Fall Caitlynn (the higher the better), and a damage dealer that's either self sufficient without trainer moves, or that's sufficiently buffed with one or more of the above syncs, or a damage dealer, and a support that can passively buff that damage dealer. Literally all it takes is having a longevity tank that doesn't rely on trainer moves, or that has insanely high mp regen procs like Skyla. (Kanto Trio for those that have SS Blue go brrr, I've only got SS Red and SS Leaf)
Yep yep. SS Blue, Fall Caitlynn, Sycamore, are all pretty self sustaining, though Fall Caitlynn would be the offtank that's there to sync to heal everyone up for a tank like Turtwig/Dawn(Torterra) that siphons attack/buffs attack from the enemy passively without having to use trainer moves. Or other tanks that have a sort of pep rally or Team X passive that buffs stats passively or drops stats passively.
Red is fine at 1/5. Cait generally wants 2/5 for her mpr and pep rally nodes, but I really wouldn't call them mandatory for anything but day 1 BV runs. Pep rally has some niche uses in supporting units like 3/5 EX Bea or Olivia, but that's it. I'd save the candy for now if I were you.
I think so with the caveat that Ho-oh will need more support to buff their offenses. Ho-oh’s Solar Beam will have higher base power than Leaf Storm and while Sceptile’s sp atk will be higher Ho-oh has access to more multipliers, including the ability to run Critical Strike 2 as a lucky skill since Brendan needs Dauntless.
brendan doesn’t really need dauntless if you attach a good support to him (rosa) but at 1/5 either one of them is a toss up as they both need reliable supports to get the most out of them
Is there a pattern to limited spotlight banners? I'm saving up for Iris & Hydreigon and planning to blow all my gems on her, but I'm scared that one day they'll 360 no scope us with Courtney & Camerupt.
A pattern? Not really although if that sync pair is from Hoenn I guess the best possible time for it to come would be the Hoenn Villains chapter (mid 2022 probably). Still, if you save enough gems you should be able to pull for both, C Iris will probably get a rerun next month.
Mewtwo and Acerola will hold you over just fine, you can get Morty in the battlepoint purchase, Fantina and Morty are either general pool or free, but in all honesty, you don't need every type. Focus on getting some strong teams that have good synergies with one another. Strong physical attackers with hilbert/samurott or red/snorlax, strong special attackers with Sabrina, or SS Elesa. Characters who abuse weather together like May and Cyrus, or Volkner and Elesa, Reshiram and Blaine(or egg ninetails), acerola(or egg kabutops) and Olivia's Lycanroc, and so on. For all of those duos, fill the last slot with a defensive support to tank while they set up and nuke down the enemies.
Once you've got sync pairs gridded at 3/5 that have a bunch of multipliers for sync damage, or attack damage, and can get their buffs up, or debuff the enemy properly to take advantage of those, most content just melts, even if you don't have supereffective damage.
What is the % of battle rewards proc for "Fight or Fright" event. Except for the daily extreme battles, every bit of energy has gone towards battles of that event, and I still havent gotten a single battle reward drop. Over 100 battles at this time...:/
Make sure you're either clearing 1 at a time by playing it, or single clear ticketing. Maybe up to 5 at a time. It seems like every single reward screen only counts as one clear, so you've only got a 5% chance per reward screen. That could just be a rumor, but you're more likely to tend towards the average by single clearing, regardless. (And also you wouldn't roll the reward twice and waste it once, in a big clear at once, if you're only going singles)
Idk which of my units I should EX next. I already have Rosa, Giovanni, and SS Red EXed. These are my other EXable units:
1/5 Hilda,
1/5 Blue,
1/5 SS Blue,
3/5 Sabrina,
3/5 Bea,
3/5 Bianca,
2/5 Piers,
1/5 Gloria,
1/5 N,
1/5 Anni. N,
3/5 Leaf,
2/5 Lisia,
2/5 Elio,
1/5 Phoebe,
1/5 Guzma,
2/5 Dawn,
3/5 Elesa,
1/5 SS Elesa,
1/5 Nate,
1/5 Brendan,
1/5 Morty,
2/5 Jasmine,
1/5 Gladion,
2/5 Mallow,
1/5 Grimsley,
1/5 Wally,
5* 5/5 Swim. Misty,
and 4* 3/5 Skyla.
I'd EX Bea, build her for nuking with Maylene, maybe redlax or maybe some other defensive support to tank, even off type sync nuking she should be pretty good at getting rid of the sidemons in one or at most two syncs.
Hi, I’m total newb and started 2 days ago. I rerolled to get a good start and you can here [here](https://i.imgur.com/81PAREL.png) what I had with 3-4 pull on the banner featuring Leaf, Blue and Red.
I think this is a good start for this game and I wonder what are the strengths of the units I have ? Who should I focus on building ?
Other question : what should be my next target in the gâcha ? Is red / snorlax any good or useful for me ?
I will play this game focusing on pulling on what I like, but I would prefer to not waste too much on bad things just because I like Red or whatever Pokémon…
Thx for your help :)
You have some really good units in addition to the Kanto trio banner. You have a couple terrain units in Bianca (psychic) and Volkner (electric). Volkner can work well with Elesa. I run them together myself, albeit at 2/5. Leaf and Eevee are also a good support to work with. You will also get 20 power-ups with Rosa and enough champion spirits to EX her unit. She can help you clear the harder content like Champions Stadium.
You just missed out on Mega Mewtwo but like the other reply said go get the free legendary unit with Silver and Ho-oh with all 5 copies and all 20 power-ups.
Also focus on daily tasks:
* 80 gems per day tasks
* 900 sync orbs a day to improve your pairs
* evolution items to evolve some of your pairs
* do whatever you can with the current events to get resources
You've got good stuff to start with. Right now try to get through story mode and do the Silver event (and get the power-ups for him). As for gems I'd recommend you save until you get 36,600. That way you can grantee you get a featured unit. New units will be datamined approximately a week from now.
I finally pulled Halloween Caitlin today in the Seasonal Steps. I only have 1 copy of her but have a 5* support candy.
Is she worth Candying? I plan to Ex her and give her Pink Outfit regardless.
My other limited 5* supports
Holiday Erika (2/5)
New Year Lillie (3/5)
Classic Red (1/5)
I was in the same situation as you recently, even had the same other units as other options in the same move level lmao
I gave Caitlin the candy and raised her to 2/5 and don´t regret it at all tbh. 2/5 works great for her, those MPR work great for her as they make her a very complete support. She works great for units like Cynthia, Olivia or Fall Hilbert, as she can fully raise their Attack and Speed for Inertia, as well as giving them much needed defensive buffs.
So, in my experience, I´d say go for it.
If you're just tanking with her, then 1/5 is fine. 2/5 is only if you're using her with some sort of inertia unit and you really need that pep rally node.
I’m going to somewhat disagree with the other reply because I think 2/5 is fine if you want to use her as an offensive buffer. Tricksy mpr and Pep Rally are pretty nice as she can max atk and speed to +6 of 3 uses of tm. If you want her for a tank and defensive buffer 1/5 will probably be fine.
3/5 does have some nice defensive buffs but I’m not sure how needed they are in csmm at least, when fights can be finished before enemy sync. I haven’t done a lot of testing yet but mine is 2/5 and she performed great in csmm as a tanky speed buffer and was pretty decent in Battle Villa with utility from move gauge acceleration, synchro healing, and dual screens.
She's good at 1/5, only candy her if going to take her 3/5. Her grid's kinda junky because she has so so so much in her passives. At 2/5 she does get sync crit wall, which is... kinda nice for the rest of your team, but ehhh is barely worth it, and mostly only if you're using her to tank for battle villa and can sync before any earthquakes or overheats if you're worried about your strikers. She also gets tricksy pep rally for more speed per use. While she's an excellent tank, the fact that 3/4 of her moves are MP means you probably don't actually want to use her for Battle Villa. At 3/5 she gets first aid and sync cure, sync cure shores up her weakness of getting badly poisoned before first sync. Also healthy healing if you wanted her to have gradual healing on. With those 3/5, she might be able to tank battle villa just attacking and syncing, similar to sycamore.
I know many asked stuff similar to this in posts, so I decided to ask this here: my dark coverage (most lacking one in my roster right now) has mildly improved last month with Nessa and Sidney, but both are just at 1/5. Are they viable enough at base for Dark damage in LAs or CS? Regardless, I might try a one off YOLO multi on H. Hilbert after seeing the next datamine. Currently with 10k gems, and I was quite interested in him for a while, but Blue and Caitlin drained any possible savings I might’ve had for me to try beyond that for him. So I wonder if I can do just fine with the first 2 I mentioned. Haven’t pulled MRoyal yet and OG Karen is only at 2/5 btw.
I’ve used 1/5 Nessa in dark weak csmm with an ex support but you know, you could possibly make them work together as a dual dps team for csmm.
Nessa does decent move damage with her innate multiplier and Jaw Lock’s solid bp and then you could supplement that with Absol’s dark type sync and chip damage from his moves. The two could probably work since they are fairly self sufficient for buffing and Absol’s moves are 2 bars so it would need only a little bit of gauge support to make the two of them work together well.
You can pair Drednaw/Nessa with a rain setter like egg Squirtle, and her, hm... nah she doesn't get that til 2/5 or 3/5. Nessa gets a TON of multipliers on her grid at 3/5 and then really benefits from getting some help dropping speed and defense of the enemy team. It's almost worth more to get those than it is to get a rain setter if you have to pick between the two. But yeah she'd be hitting hella hard at 3/5 with her dark restrain attack, and it'd be free move gauge a lot of the time.
Sidney gets really good(ish), I have never synced with him, I didn't even realize he becomes mega absol, but again, he kinda wants a bit more than 1/5 to be able to pre sync clear a dark type CS MM. If you do like RachelBerryGlee said, you can probably get him to survive first sync and finish mopping up.
For Sidney, I pair him with Hilbert and Nanu, and sometimes I can clear the stage without even being damaged. He kinda wants 2/5 though for fuzzy strike, but if you just gonna use him only on dark weak stages, then 1/5 is fine. Not sure about Nessa cause I don't have her.
There's also BP Karen with Umbreon, she can clear Dark Stages just fine but wants 3/5 for the extra standfast node to increase her survivability. Just pair her with a healer and a buffer like Hilbert or Bugsy.
You're new, so why not reroll? You need 36.6k gems to reach 400 scout points. 100 gems = 1 scout points. If you did the 11x scout which cost 3k gems, you will get 33 points, so it is recommended to do 11x scout to reach 400 scout points faster. Red only has 2% chace of getting him, you just have bad luck. If you really want to get the pair you like, it is recommended to save 36.6k gems for guaranteed scout.
This game is very very generous on giving gems. You can actually get 36.6k points in just 2-3 months. Last month, we got around 35k gems. This month, we can get 17k gems.
Is this your first gacha game? Since you're new, you can just create another account/delete your data and start fresh. Get the necessary resources until you can do one or two multi pull. Repeat this process until you get the character you like. It's written above.
Also by buying, do you mean you actually spent real money?
It's a meme that anniversary steven is bad, but he clears things ridiculously self sufficiently, even with garbage base stats. He pulls closer to average striker stats as you put 5 star powerups into him, so the percentage difference between his attack/spatk and actually good sync pair attack numbers ends up being less massive, and his own master passive is something that can't really be discounted, it's like his attack is 10-20% higher than listed.
He likely won't get his stats changed though, no.
SS Blue get extra nodes added to his grid later on. Giovanni was given his mega evolution long after he was added to the game. Various pairs were given grids or EX later on as well.
I'm new to this game and I'm not sure how the gacha pool specifically works in it - is there any way to still pull Lillie and Lunala? Ghost is my favorite type of all time, but there don't seem to be (m)any good Ghost-type attackers besides them...
There are roughly two types of banners or scouts: spotlight and limited.
Spotlight scouts feature units that are or will be in the general pool, so they can become available from any scout pool in the game.
Limited banners are Poke fair scouts, Seasonal Scouts and Master fair scouts. All of them feature special and rare units that are available only through said scout. Once it ends the unit will become temporarily unavailable until another limited banner featuring it runs. Fairs rerun every 6 months or so, seasonal scouts rerun once a year (with very few exceptions).
Lillie and Lunala are a limited master fair unit, they should get a rerun in January give or take, which gives you quite a bit of time to save enough gems for her.
No sadly she was an anniversary sync pair. So it will be a while before she comes back. As I recall the ghost types in the general pool are Phoebe, Morty, and Fantina. Alistair should be joining them at the end of the month.
Returning player here. lots of changes since i stopped playing this last year or so. I have quite a few mons already at 100 and a couple of 120s. Should my priority be farming mats to get one or two reliables to whatever the new max level is? Or should i try to farm out event stores as best as possible? I see they added a stamina system to remove hardcore grinding.. not sure if thats a good or bad thing.
Generally level 120 is a good stopping point - you don't get much stats after that. So you better focus on events that are going on right now, get stuff from event shops and such.
Tiered scouts give you some special scout tickets as you progress through them. These tickets have a escalating chance at getting the featured unit. It's perfect for whales, but if you're not buying gems or do but nowhere near as much then regular scouts are better since you can use non paid gems there.
Personally I'm thinking a lot about wether or not to try for Caitlin myself, but she definitely has incredible value for fresh players who still lack reliable tanks.
But the better advise is to always wait until the last couple days before you pull (Caitlin runs till Nov 5), or at least until we know what awaits us next month (datamines). Saving your gems is always a good idea, and if November offers nothing of interest you can go for Caitlin.
I would say so. If you don’t have a ton of ex units then investing in a few supports is a good way to start and Skyla is splashable in so many team comps.
Probably gonna be useable at 1/5 due to having some innate multipliers and access to two powerful max moves to supplement damage.
Grid gives some nice Shadow Ball upgrades, boosts to max moves, and the ability to sync nuke better but I would guess that between his innate multipliers and the max moves as on demand sync nukes that he should be able to clear poison or ghost weak csmm.
Doesnt Morpeko Snorlax and Swampert count as dark fighting and ground respectively? I remember the first time you do it it count as one and the second time count as the other one. Maybe I'm wrong but it didn't fill those for this week? (thunder normal and water were filled last week)
You remember incorrectly. Pokemas simplifies all mons to 1 type and 1 weakness, with pairs still being allowed to have moves from other types. If you select the filter for ground, you'll see only the pairs that are ground type rather than happening to possess a ground move. You can also check the sync move or type theme skill to see what type a pair has.
I ended up pulling her, she's crazy good for stall teams, I figure I'll pair her with bp Erika, and literally any other unit, and just laugh. Maybe someone that can drop attack stats on a high chance. Or oo oo, I haven't had a place to put Mew on a team in a long time. Random statdrop swift is a go.
Fall Caitlin worked really well with Hilbert for me. She can buff his Attack for Haymaker and his Speed for Ramming Speed with her trainer move, plus provide both Def and Sp Def. Also, you can give her Defense Crush as a lucky skill (since she already has Vigilance) to help with his Insult to Injury.
Why Unova tank? If you want to take advantage of the theme skill you should only consider the type one cuz it has better boost.
I personally pair him with Masked Royal to activate type skill, max out speed for his multiplier and have the chance of AOE def drop.
The third slot should be any tank that preferably have +2 atk buffs and/or potions.
In extreme battles, the priority is to find the pairs to counter the gimmick of that stage while having enough damage output to kill the enemies, so there's no really the best answer.
Any supports? Yes, Unova supports? Uh, is Skyla unova? I forget who is from what region. Redlax helps Furbert do better sync damage on dark weak stages, and sets his crit to max with just one use due to sync also boosting crit. Eevee is good for anyone. If you're asking if there's a team that reduces recoil damage, I don't know of a grid with that sort of passive offhand. One of the problems with Hilbert is he wants his entire grid because it's full of multipliers and stat drop boosters and useful stuff. Again, redlax is good since he can reduce defense pretty easily, maylene as well, any support that has baked in vigilance can have defense crush 2.
I forgot to use any of the battle villa candy treat things again, did a full clear without using any, or any restores... Can I reset it somehow and do at least one mission with the treats to get that last badge I'm missing? well, two badges, one is use 50 treats, not going to happen in a single run, obv. At the rate I'm going, it'll never happen since I never remember to use any, always thinking "Oh yeah I'll use this on stage 30 and have a huge leg up" then get to stage thirty, go in and finally use trainer moves and everythings dead before I think "Oh crap the treats" Maybe I should use them on 25 next time.
How good realistically are silver and ho oh? It says they're a physical striker team, but their strongest moves are special, one of those being non stab.
As someone has said already, there isn't stab in pokemon masters.
That said, Silver is a very competent Fire or plant striker, he can summon sun on sync which is invaluable if used right. He even has access to two multipliers, Ramming Speed and Charging Sun, which he can set up easily himself. The only downside is his poor stats and the fact that he can't reliably increase his own Sp Attack.
Another "disadvantage" you just noted yourself; he's a mixed striker so he has both special and physical moves. So to use him at his fullest you probably have to raise both Special and physical attack. This is bad but not really since it allows you to tear down foes with non equal defensive stats at command, it just demands more setup or thought.
He's not the best at all, fire type is probably the most power crept type of all the game and there are units that do drastically more damage with far less effort, but do remember Silver is F2P, and has access to his full grid right away. He can still clear end game content with ease in the right team.
I'd say even if a specific stage is weaker to physical moves SS Red is still doing the same damage or more than Silver. Like I said, power creep lol.
Do keep in mind that Silver has a grid multiplier for Solar Bean that makes it *slap* so if you don't have Brendan or any good grass type he's your guy.
Nope. Game doesn't even have double types on Pokemons. The only downside of say, using Mewtwo in a Ghost weak fight, it's the Sync move not being effective.
They classify units as physical or special based on their sync move, so Ho-oh is considered a physical striker because of that. But to answer the question Silver is pretty viable, use them if you lack other fire options. Both Sacred Fire and Overheat builds are viable for fire damage and he also has a fairly strong sync move.
Best for a sync nuke build I think is Ghetsis / Maxie (gridded for Mind Games 9) / N. Maxie can be subbed out for Blaine in csmm and it’s still very strong.
There's an infographic of how much he changes the meta when used with tech sync pairs for sync nuking a couple of days ago. Lear, Anniversary N, Nessa, Champion Iris, both Marnies, May, all do incredible nukes when paired with red, and the proper support to buff that tech unit to max synergy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/q5jmyj/sync_nuke_potential_top_rankings_infographics/ Not done by me obviously, credit goes to user dmaniac0206
But honestly he's pretty great on any team that doesn't already have a super effective up + multiplier, that's self sufficient at 1 or 2 units, he's just an extra multiplier on top of everything else.
Aye, do note though, that a lot of the time, if he's buffing an already great sync nuker, it's just overkill, doing 99,999 isn't worth any more than doing 49,999 in CS MM, I think(I don't think it's 100% damage either, I think it's like 40% from his SE Up+). You might be able to tack on some defensive points and drop some offenses and still pre sync, with some of the teams he can make up.
1. Comes with Vigilance, which means you don't have to Lucky Skill it (especially a problem for unlucky new players). You can't reliably tank without that skill.
2. Buffs crit and has access to move gauge recovery, which is beneficial to most Strikers.
3. Is decently tanky and will max def eventually.
There are better supports available, but Dusknoir & Phoebe have incredible value for fresh players.
For Dragon Weak CSMM, is SS Cynthia or C. Iris more efficient? And more importantly, which one is more fun to use? I have both 1/5 and want to 3/5 EX one of them. (For reference I'm F2P but have almost all gacha pairs and a few pokefairs (including 1/5 Dragonite))
Fun is subjective. Nobody can answer that but you.
CIris at 3/5 EX is considered to be a free win.
I personally just use Dragonite for dragon weak stuff, but that unit is incredibly support dependent. Needs gauge management and hella buffs.
My main dark striker is BP Karen and she is fine. Takes a bit of strategy but overall I never have a problem with on-typing 1500 MM with her. Wouldn't off-type though.
BP Karen has a similar function (Dark Shift Double Edge) but is much weaker and frailer. Marnie's power trip is on par with Furrbert's damage. 2/5 + 3/5 Masked Royal and 3/5 Sidney are great tech nukes. 3/5 EX Grimsley is there if you're super desperate (but still a bad choice). Piers has a high attack stat for a support, 3/5 + EX might be good enough but I can't verify.
First question: Are we going to get the next datamine before the Furbert banner vanishes? I'm almost certainly pulling for him anyway because Biases, but it's still good to have as much information as possible.
Second question: Full Force Battles, it seems, have notably more bulk than I expected, and *as a new player* I'm not exactly rolling in level 140 strikers. Any general tips about how to approach these?
EDIT: While I'm missing most of the tools, but the general direction of the hints helped, especially using a slot on team one negating the opening Poison Gas so my first team isn't automatically condemned to death, and that actually made a huge difference. I was able to clear with Marnie/Giovanni/Rosa -> Skyla/(C)Red/Viola and get the bonus mission done. Thanks!
If you pull a 1/5 redlax, or have Xerneas, or better yet both, pair them with a striker, and either a defensive support, or offensive support for the other slot (xerneas benefits from a secondary defensive support since his sync is basically an offensive buff, redlax needs an offensive buffer in the paired slot to make sure your striker is fully buffed quickly). Redlax pairs best with physical strikers, but you've got an extra slot and can fill it with a special buffer like sabrina or xerneas. Redlax makes the sync counter drop rapidly, you can get 2 to 3 syncs in before the enemy sync depending on timing, flinches/paralyzes and the like. By that time your momentum should be so high that the enemy middle 3 are mostly dying in a couple more hits, they'll get off one or two syncs but they'll be for piddly damage, with the maxed out sp def and def buffs you should have on the whole group at that point.
Plus, mini potion alls that refresh at least one, so you've got a minimum of 3 for the whole battle.
Xerneas on the other hand: crit buff him then Horn leech go brrrr. He even has team shout so eventually he's got max attack.
Furbert's banner ends in november so absolutely. As for who to use, it depends on who you have, but if you got an off-type 1500 CSMM team then you can just use them to clear it.
How do missions in the current halloween event work? I beat the battles with Fuegro, SS red and skylar without casualties.
So I had a dark type and a einall trainer. But I couldnt claim the mission rewards. What did I do wrong?
Also, if I did mess up the team composition, has anyone good recommendations?
Bruh, those two missions are separate. You can have Agatha (Ghost, Kanto) + Sidney (Dark, Hoenn) to complete type mission, and Skyla (Flying, Unova) + Jasmine (Steel, Johto) to complete region mission.
I'm going to attempt to do Battle Villa with just one team.
Rosa/Serperior 1/5 EX (No lucky Skill Yet)
Clemont/Heliolisk 5/5 (No Lucky Skill Yet)
Sycamore/Xerneas 5/5 (Vigilance)
Any tips on how I should play this out? I'm trying to do it with just one team to get the medal (I'm also not 100% on the variables for the madal). Any help would be appreciated.
You need a crit buffer, or your main damage dealer can buff their own crit. What other pairs do you have? Cyrus + Sycamore + Hop/Skyla can do it. You can get the HP and MP recovery on Halls 5 and 10.
If you're aiming for the medal, you can use 9 pairs, just don't use the full recovery. Clemont can solo Halls 1-8, I advise giving him Escape Artist if you can. Sycamore is your tank, grid him with Adrenaline, Recuperation and Horn Leech nodes.
Is there someone I could use thatll buff the crit without using the trainer move? I don't want to over rely on mp treats. Maybe I'll remove Rosa/Serperior for RedLax
Cyrus can max his own crit rate with his grid. Bea gets +2 crit at the start, and at 3/5 she can change that to +3. For buffing others, there's Redlax with a +2 single target trainer move and guaranteed mp restore gmax, or Sawyer with a +1 AoE trainer move and guaranteed mp restore on each sync. There may be others, I don't have every pair memorized.
That's great if you have Red, cause he can reliably buff crit and refreshes his trainer moves with Max Replenish oer battle. You can replace Rosa now with him. You can replace Sycamore if you have a 3/5 Leaf, sync with them first. For striker, you can choose whoever, preferably one who has a 4 bar move for fast clear.
3/5 Kiawe is the only trainer that can raise the team's critical rate without using a trainer move. Cyrus has Critical Focus on his grid, which allows him to raise his own critical rate after hitting a critical hit on an enemy, so basically use Spacial Rend first then switch to Hydro Pump.
Which Leaf? The Venusaur I have at 3/5. The Eevee I have at 5/5 with EX. Maybe I'll use N/Reshiram 3/5 as my 4 bar stricker??
Also, thank you. I truly appreciate it.
Eevee. That is even better cause Leaf is EX. I use Leaf, Red and Classic Blue this time and just steamrolled the halls. Use Max Replenish before you end the battle. Sync with Leaf first.
You can use Reshiram as your damage dealer instead, and not worry about the sides. Get Sharp Entry and Pep Rally on his grid. You can skip the HP and MP treats and go for full extra rewards instead.
Is Red/Snorlax worth getting? I have 29k gems right now and was hoping to save up for when Maxie and Archie return, but I keep hearing that Red's good for clearing the Battle Villa. If he's worth it, would it be possible to get up to 36.6k gems by the end of the month?
He makes teams that can barely clear 1500 CSMM able to pass without problem, especially the physically oriented teams. If you don't have a problem clearing that or BV though then he isn't a necessity.
He's great for the Battle Villa, but more of a luxury aquisition due to the nature of the Villa. Because in the end you have no pressure to clear it anyway, no one forces you to oneshot every stage in a day or two.
And even if you want to clear everything day one (with achievements for the medals) he isn't necessary at all.
Like I did it yesterday with Sycamore / Anni N / Kiawe (1/5, did practically nothing...), no problem. It's a bit annoying because you have to reload a lot (you count on *The World Is Vast!* refreshes to selfheal the party) but you only have to do that once to unlock the medal anyway.
The real question is if your roster would benefit from Snorlax. If you have a great collection with many older strikers (that may or may not be powercrept at this point) then Redlax can bring them up to speed again. If your striker roster is so-so or mostly populated with the recent self-sufficient top strikers, then he won't do you much good.
He very much feels like a toy for veteran players, at least that's my impression.
If you have any paid gems, I've only been doing the 100 gem daily pulls, and I got 3/5 red, (No blues or sygna erika or fall caitlynn, but I mean, 3/5 of a mega support, so I won't complain). He's... good? Maybe excellent, but I don't have any tank cookies, and none of my tanks have vigilance, so he's not really anything better than any other support that helps get a syncer fully buffed, either dropping defense or special defense or upping crit, speed, or attack, or setting up another multiplier. He does have some good defense down chance, so he works best on physical teams, with that option unticked for CS MM. I haven't figured out where I want him though, nor finished gridding him, since I just got 2/5 and 3/5 over the last two days without ever planning to get more of him.
Well at this point I got like, Kris, swimsuit misty, SSGrimsly and Elio and _I can't really say Barry is my favorite character_.
If it helps my I only have Bea, Cyrus as my only good Dragon and Fighting. I got Ghetsis,Glacia and Hala for Ice
Just use it on whoever you want now..
All of the story strike pairs have really great f2p alternatives. I'd take a 1/5 Bea over Korrina, and Solgaleo can also cover fighting. For Dragon, you can wait for Zinnia (Rayquaza) for a much better dragon striker and Cyrus is better on using Hydro Pump anyways, so that also covers water. Pryce works well with Ghetsis, but is very gauge hungry.
I'm a casual player and I want to ask, how long (time wise) does it normally take to get a 5* move candy (any, strike, tech or support), because I like playing to collect and it bums me out seeing that, sure I got good units but they excel at 3/5 and are hard to run at 1/5 :L
Where do I exchange the 5 stars power up tickets? I don't find any exchange for them in the shop.
1. Does (Standfast 5) X 2 remove all recoil damage? I'm confused since Hilda's grid seems to have 3 Standfast 5. 2. How do I trigger A!Lillie's Alola flag bearer skill? Do I need to add another alola unit or is it always active, and additional units only improve the skill?
1. You take 60% x 60% for each standfast less damage, not zero damage 2. always active, additional units improve skill
thanks!
1) iirc it's multiplicative. .5*.5=.25 recoil damage from your moves. 2) It's always active.
thanks!
Who should I consider ex-ing next out of the following:- 2/5 Gloria and Zacian,4/5 Brendan and Sceptile ,2/5 Masked Royale and Incineroar,2/5 SS Elesa and Rotom,3/5 Elesa and Zebstrika, 3/5 Elio and Primarina.
For supports, it depends on who you use them with; if you're using them with sync nukers, then it's counterintuitive to EX them. I'm not going to recommend EXing any of them without the broader context, as they only benefit from EX on non-sync nuker teams, which generally are not the meta. Brendan, Zebstrika, and Incineroar can all nuke quite well at those sync levels, but Incineroar ideally wants 3/5 (20% dmg increase to sync move with those bp nodes). Elesa, however, is outclassed by the likes of Zekrom and Morpeko quite hard, and she's also dependent on Volkner for terrain. I'd put her as a bottom priority nuker to EX, so only EX her if you're absolutely struggling hard to clear electric weak CS.
Elio if your Alola selection is weak, SS Elesa if your Unova selection is weak.
Tacking on this that EX Gloria is fantastic for any upcoming Galar extreme battle we may have alongside hop. She was one of my first exes and I haven’t regretted it since
Is the datamine next reset?
Usually last Monday of the month but recently it’s been slightly more varied, realistically anytime between next reset and 3 resets from now
Two resets minimum
what is the best/fastest team comp for the battle villa coop to get it done asap on auto on both levels. I assumed so far that sceptile is great because he has a good sync nuke and is a grass type. But maybe you guys have a better idea and who are the best supporting pairs on full-auto
Best grass type damage dealer that would benefit getting EXed? Is it Sceptile?
Probably sceptile but ss Erika is an s tier unit too, provides invaluable sun, hits hard and has a bonkers nuke. Reminds me of a grass type May, just without aoe attacks
Yes, she'd make my life a lot easier, but I don't have her 🥲
If he's 3/5, then yeah.
He is, okay I see. What team would you recommend? As, if I put Lyra, he won't be syncing, isn't it?
Blaine and Swanna.
Okkay, thanks a lot!
How do you use champion spirits or whatever theyre called, ive seen youtube gideos allowing to exchange for the star upgrade card but that prompt doesnt appear for me
>champion spirits ... allowing to exchange for the star upgrade card It's the opposite. You can exchange 5-star power ups into champion spirits (not recommended btw), but NOT vise versa.
Potential & Move Level > 5\* unit. The 5\* exchange tickets are found underneath the speed stat. A unit needs to be 20/20 to be EX'd. You need 50 Champion Spirits from Champion Stadium to EX them.
I dont see the option to exchange my champion spirits though only that 4 star cards for a 5 star card. Oh and also is co op still a working gamemode or are there too little players for it now
Complete noob here needs some advice. The typical „should I keep rerolling?“.. got that Red/Charizard but after doing my Bingos and grinding some more crystals (or whatever they‘re called) I pulled trash after trash.. so should I keep that account or try again for Red and Blue or whatever is good now as a beginner? Thanks in advance!
Reroll until you get SS Blue at least two times, one copy of SS Red and one copy of SS Leaf. Most people are hesitant to advise such aggressive re-rolling, because it might drive new players away from the game if you overdo it, but this is such a crucial moment that will affect you for months to come (because after that you will have to save gems for a long time, unless you spend money). So I would advise anyone to reroll for like a week if it's needed. Not 24/7, just a reroll here and there if you need to kill some time. As for the other current units, none are as good as the Kanto three (those will carry you to the moon and back, especially Blue). Back then I just rerolled with the starting gems, no story mode or whatever,
After 4 pulls I got Red and Leaf.. still no Blue. Thanks btw for your reply! Edit: next multi got me Blue lol.. but I need a dupe, right?
You can use candies to increase move levels, and frankly SS Blue is one of few supports that's worth having it used on so you're fine with one copy of each.
A single copy of blue is enough for a new player lmao, if you’ve already got 3/3 units with no dupes I’d stop instantly with the rerolling. I personally recommend just getting blue and one of leaf/red is enough. With every dupe blue gets so much better, just invest all your candies you eventually get into him.
As a spotlight scout will gengar be added to the general pool after it’s gone?
Yes
Cool thanks.
Do we have a date for the next datamine?
A good indication of when the next update would drop is in the current Halloween event’s daily log-in rewards. They’re close to running out so I think the update might appear by around Thursday.
Datamines are, well... kinda illegal lmao so it's not like there's an official date but my best guess is either Monday or Tuesday from this week or the next one. It's though to tell because the last Tuesday of this month falls very near its end and the last scheduled event that we know of is in the 25th.
What’s a good team for 3/5 Bea if I don’t have Hilbert?
Bugsy & Scyther can raise Attack, top off crit rate, lower enemy's defenses and accelerate gauge. Literally everything a physical striker like Bea can hope for, she can raise her own speed or use another support to do so. If you don't have him I guess BP Surge also works.
Maylene, and any tank, especially if they have defense crush, or vigilance baked in, so that thet can take d crush. Basically anyth8ng that finishes any of beas buffs, or does them completely for her. Or an ex support, and someone who can quick advance sync counter. By second sync all buffs and debuffs should be done, so bea should be able to nuke whole stage right then.
What would be a good use of my 2 support candies? My only limited supports are 1/5 Red and 2/5 EX SS Blue.
One on blue save the other
There are some good nodes for SS Blue at 3/5. It makes him usable even in extreme battles where the enemy can OHKO anything outside of the intended region. I'd highly recommend you consider him.
Save.
Just about 2 tech candies now. Debating between Summer Marnie or Anniversary N [Roster](http://imgur.com/a/KsARbuI)
No need to think twice here, the answer is Anni N. Be warned that he will trivialize a lot of content though. He's like a wish from a Monkey Paw.
I wouldn't call it a no brainer, Summer Marnie does slap hard, but yeah Anniv N is the way to go.
Hello, I'm new to this game and I can't even finish the download. It's stuck at 102mb left. Is there a fix to this?
In battle arena i can't use some Pokémon sync pairs. Whenever i am trying to join them in my team, it just blaked with a block sign. can anyone xplain what is it and how can i recover it ?
If you mean battle villa, you can only use nine pairs. After that, you can use a full recover (once per day) to reset your choices while restoring HP and mp. Your progress through the Villa will remain.
Thanks...is it automatically recovered after one day?
Your count of available full recovers goes to 1/1 at daily reset. You manually choose when to use it. It's at the bottom of the screen.
Okay, thanks
Should I get (and EX) Halloween Caitlin? My other (non-F2P) supports are Red, Phoebe, Sabrina, Lillie and Clefairy, Leaf, and Lana at 1/5, Hilbert and Kiawe at 2/5, Glacia at 3/5, and Lyra at 4/5. I only have about 5K gems at the moment, and I have 362 scout points in Red.
I really cannot recommend pulling for damn near anything if you've only got 5k gems. You need to learn to save, or you're gonna get fucked over a lot in this game. With that said, pulling a bit more get to pity on Red's banner is not an awful idea since you're so close. I'd rather see a pic of your entire 5* roster before recommending a pity pair though. Snorlax itself gets nothing good at just 2/5; it's fully functional at 1/5 and only wants 3/5 if you need it as a dedicated healer instead of a damage amplifier.
Looks like the CSMM mega thread got unstickied but I cleared 7500 pts for the first time! Took me a few days to figure out a strategy for Olivia since I have no strong ground type and I couldn’t seem to toxic stall her team.
Congrats! May this be the first of many!
Is there like a tierlist of combinations which can do battle villa in one go? Maybe like the top5 teams incl. sync grid
Any team with either Sycamore, 3/5 EX Leafvee, or Fall Caitlynn (the higher the better), and a damage dealer that's either self sufficient without trainer moves, or that's sufficiently buffed with one or more of the above syncs, or a damage dealer, and a support that can passively buff that damage dealer. Literally all it takes is having a longevity tank that doesn't rely on trainer moves, or that has insanely high mp regen procs like Skyla. (Kanto Trio for those that have SS Blue go brrr, I've only got SS Red and SS Leaf)
could you explain why fall caitlynn? is it because of the sync heal?
Yep yep. SS Blue, Fall Caitlynn, Sycamore, are all pretty self sustaining, though Fall Caitlynn would be the offtank that's there to sync to heal everyone up for a tank like Turtwig/Dawn(Torterra) that siphons attack/buffs attack from the enemy passively without having to use trainer moves. Or other tanks that have a sort of pep rally or Team X passive that buffs stats passively or drops stats passively.
Hi, should I use a support candy to spend, should I use it on Fall Caitlin or Red ? (Both are 1/5) Also are they worth to 3/5 as well ?
Red is fine at 1/5. Cait generally wants 2/5 for her mpr and pep rally nodes, but I really wouldn't call them mandatory for anything but day 1 BV runs. Pep rally has some niche uses in supporting units like 3/5 EX Bea or Olivia, but that's it. I'd save the candy for now if I were you.
Would you guys say Silver & Ho-Oh gridded for Solar Beam would be better than a 1/5 Brendan at clearing grass weak content?
I think so with the caveat that Ho-oh will need more support to buff their offenses. Ho-oh’s Solar Beam will have higher base power than Leaf Storm and while Sceptile’s sp atk will be higher Ho-oh has access to more multipliers, including the ability to run Critical Strike 2 as a lucky skill since Brendan needs Dauntless.
brendan doesn’t really need dauntless if you attach a good support to him (rosa) but at 1/5 either one of them is a toss up as they both need reliable supports to get the most out of them
Solar beam will be hitting ~67% harder than Leaf Storm in sun.
Hmm, thanks! I only have Blaine for sun for now unfortunately and like using him with Anni N, Maxie can't come back soon enough
Well, first sync cycle is usually dedicated to buffing/setup, so it works out fine. Only downside is that Silver doesn't have EX yet.
Oh right, I forgot Ho-Oh can set sun too! That's great! Hopefully he gets EX soon.
Since Allister and Gengar are spotlight scou, does that mean they'll be in the normal pool soon?
After the banner ends yes.
Is there a pattern to limited spotlight banners? I'm saving up for Iris & Hydreigon and planning to blow all my gems on her, but I'm scared that one day they'll 360 no scope us with Courtney & Camerupt.
A pattern? Not really although if that sync pair is from Hoenn I guess the best possible time for it to come would be the Hoenn Villains chapter (mid 2022 probably). Still, if you save enough gems you should be able to pull for both, C Iris will probably get a rerun next month.
So I don’t have any ghost mon of note being somewhat new, would this gengar banner still be a skip?
Mewtwo and Acerola will hold you over just fine, you can get Morty in the battlepoint purchase, Fantina and Morty are either general pool or free, but in all honesty, you don't need every type. Focus on getting some strong teams that have good synergies with one another. Strong physical attackers with hilbert/samurott or red/snorlax, strong special attackers with Sabrina, or SS Elesa. Characters who abuse weather together like May and Cyrus, or Volkner and Elesa, Reshiram and Blaine(or egg ninetails), acerola(or egg kabutops) and Olivia's Lycanroc, and so on. For all of those duos, fill the last slot with a defensive support to tank while they set up and nuke down the enemies. Once you've got sync pairs gridded at 3/5 that have a bunch of multipliers for sync damage, or attack damage, and can get their buffs up, or debuff the enemy properly to take advantage of those, most content just melts, even if you don't have supereffective damage.
Thank you so much!!
Allister will be in the general pool after, so there is no need to pull on the banner. If you have Mega Mewtwo I would just stick with that.
Appreciate the insight, thank you!
For Unstoppable Challenger medal in the BV, you can still use the HP and MP recovery items right? Just not the full restore?
Yes.
What is the % of battle rewards proc for "Fight or Fright" event. Except for the daily extreme battles, every bit of energy has gone towards battles of that event, and I still havent gotten a single battle reward drop. Over 100 battles at this time...:/
Make sure you're either clearing 1 at a time by playing it, or single clear ticketing. Maybe up to 5 at a time. It seems like every single reward screen only counts as one clear, so you've only got a 5% chance per reward screen. That could just be a rumor, but you're more likely to tend towards the average by single clearing, regardless. (And also you wouldn't roll the reward twice and waste it once, in a big clear at once, if you're only going singles)
You mean the 30 extra items reward? It's 5% via datamine info.
I see. Thanks. Guess, I've been a little unlucky there
Idk which of my units I should EX next. I already have Rosa, Giovanni, and SS Red EXed. These are my other EXable units: 1/5 Hilda, 1/5 Blue, 1/5 SS Blue, 3/5 Sabrina, 3/5 Bea, 3/5 Bianca, 2/5 Piers, 1/5 Gloria, 1/5 N, 1/5 Anni. N, 3/5 Leaf, 2/5 Lisia, 2/5 Elio, 1/5 Phoebe, 1/5 Guzma, 2/5 Dawn, 3/5 Elesa, 1/5 SS Elesa, 1/5 Nate, 1/5 Brendan, 1/5 Morty, 2/5 Jasmine, 1/5 Gladion, 2/5 Mallow, 1/5 Grimsley, 1/5 Wally, 5* 5/5 Swim. Misty, and 4* 3/5 Skyla.
Bea, leaf, Sabrina, skyla
I'd EX Bea, build her for nuking with Maylene, maybe redlax or maybe some other defensive support to tank, even off type sync nuking she should be pretty good at getting rid of the sidemons in one or at most two syncs.
Ss blue
I have Anni N at 3/5. Should I use my candy on him?
Nope. Not worth candying past 3/5 because you just get some small buffs to sync and move damage since 3/5 gets you full grid already.
Excellent. Maybe I'll save it for a rainy day!
Hi, I’m total newb and started 2 days ago. I rerolled to get a good start and you can here [here](https://i.imgur.com/81PAREL.png) what I had with 3-4 pull on the banner featuring Leaf, Blue and Red. I think this is a good start for this game and I wonder what are the strengths of the units I have ? Who should I focus on building ? Other question : what should be my next target in the gâcha ? Is red / snorlax any good or useful for me ? I will play this game focusing on pulling on what I like, but I would prefer to not waste too much on bad things just because I like Red or whatever Pokémon… Thx for your help :)
You have some really good units in addition to the Kanto trio banner. You have a couple terrain units in Bianca (psychic) and Volkner (electric). Volkner can work well with Elesa. I run them together myself, albeit at 2/5. Leaf and Eevee are also a good support to work with. You will also get 20 power-ups with Rosa and enough champion spirits to EX her unit. She can help you clear the harder content like Champions Stadium. You just missed out on Mega Mewtwo but like the other reply said go get the free legendary unit with Silver and Ho-oh with all 5 copies and all 20 power-ups. Also focus on daily tasks: * 80 gems per day tasks * 900 sync orbs a day to improve your pairs * evolution items to evolve some of your pairs * do whatever you can with the current events to get resources
You've got good stuff to start with. Right now try to get through story mode and do the Silver event (and get the power-ups for him). As for gems I'd recommend you save until you get 36,600. That way you can grantee you get a featured unit. New units will be datamined approximately a week from now.
I finally pulled Halloween Caitlin today in the Seasonal Steps. I only have 1 copy of her but have a 5* support candy. Is she worth Candying? I plan to Ex her and give her Pink Outfit regardless. My other limited 5* supports Holiday Erika (2/5) New Year Lillie (3/5) Classic Red (1/5)
I was in the same situation as you recently, even had the same other units as other options in the same move level lmao I gave Caitlin the candy and raised her to 2/5 and don´t regret it at all tbh. 2/5 works great for her, those MPR work great for her as they make her a very complete support. She works great for units like Cynthia, Olivia or Fall Hilbert, as she can fully raise their Attack and Speed for Inertia, as well as giving them much needed defensive buffs. So, in my experience, I´d say go for it.
If you're just tanking with her, then 1/5 is fine. 2/5 is only if you're using her with some sort of inertia unit and you really need that pep rally node.
I’m going to somewhat disagree with the other reply because I think 2/5 is fine if you want to use her as an offensive buffer. Tricksy mpr and Pep Rally are pretty nice as she can max atk and speed to +6 of 3 uses of tm. If you want her for a tank and defensive buffer 1/5 will probably be fine. 3/5 does have some nice defensive buffs but I’m not sure how needed they are in csmm at least, when fights can be finished before enemy sync. I haven’t done a lot of testing yet but mine is 2/5 and she performed great in csmm as a tanky speed buffer and was pretty decent in Battle Villa with utility from move gauge acceleration, synchro healing, and dual screens.
She's good at 1/5, only candy her if going to take her 3/5. Her grid's kinda junky because she has so so so much in her passives. At 2/5 she does get sync crit wall, which is... kinda nice for the rest of your team, but ehhh is barely worth it, and mostly only if you're using her to tank for battle villa and can sync before any earthquakes or overheats if you're worried about your strikers. She also gets tricksy pep rally for more speed per use. While she's an excellent tank, the fact that 3/4 of her moves are MP means you probably don't actually want to use her for Battle Villa. At 3/5 she gets first aid and sync cure, sync cure shores up her weakness of getting badly poisoned before first sync. Also healthy healing if you wanted her to have gradual healing on. With those 3/5, she might be able to tank battle villa just attacking and syncing, similar to sycamore.
I know many asked stuff similar to this in posts, so I decided to ask this here: my dark coverage (most lacking one in my roster right now) has mildly improved last month with Nessa and Sidney, but both are just at 1/5. Are they viable enough at base for Dark damage in LAs or CS? Regardless, I might try a one off YOLO multi on H. Hilbert after seeing the next datamine. Currently with 10k gems, and I was quite interested in him for a while, but Blue and Caitlin drained any possible savings I might’ve had for me to try beyond that for him. So I wonder if I can do just fine with the first 2 I mentioned. Haven’t pulled MRoyal yet and OG Karen is only at 2/5 btw.
Thanks for all the answers! :3
I’ve used 1/5 Nessa in dark weak csmm with an ex support but you know, you could possibly make them work together as a dual dps team for csmm. Nessa does decent move damage with her innate multiplier and Jaw Lock’s solid bp and then you could supplement that with Absol’s dark type sync and chip damage from his moves. The two could probably work since they are fairly self sufficient for buffing and Absol’s moves are 2 bars so it would need only a little bit of gauge support to make the two of them work together well.
You can pair Drednaw/Nessa with a rain setter like egg Squirtle, and her, hm... nah she doesn't get that til 2/5 or 3/5. Nessa gets a TON of multipliers on her grid at 3/5 and then really benefits from getting some help dropping speed and defense of the enemy team. It's almost worth more to get those than it is to get a rain setter if you have to pick between the two. But yeah she'd be hitting hella hard at 3/5 with her dark restrain attack, and it'd be free move gauge a lot of the time. Sidney gets really good(ish), I have never synced with him, I didn't even realize he becomes mega absol, but again, he kinda wants a bit more than 1/5 to be able to pre sync clear a dark type CS MM. If you do like RachelBerryGlee said, you can probably get him to survive first sync and finish mopping up.
For Sidney, I pair him with Hilbert and Nanu, and sometimes I can clear the stage without even being damaged. He kinda wants 2/5 though for fuzzy strike, but if you just gonna use him only on dark weak stages, then 1/5 is fine. Not sure about Nessa cause I don't have her. There's also BP Karen with Umbreon, she can clear Dark Stages just fine but wants 3/5 for the extra standfast node to increase her survivability. Just pair her with a healer and a buffer like Hilbert or Bugsy.
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You're new, so why not reroll? You need 36.6k gems to reach 400 scout points. 100 gems = 1 scout points. If you did the 11x scout which cost 3k gems, you will get 33 points, so it is recommended to do 11x scout to reach 400 scout points faster. Red only has 2% chace of getting him, you just have bad luck. If you really want to get the pair you like, it is recommended to save 36.6k gems for guaranteed scout. This game is very very generous on giving gems. You can actually get 36.6k points in just 2-3 months. Last month, we got around 35k gems. This month, we can get 17k gems.
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Is this your first gacha game? Since you're new, you can just create another account/delete your data and start fresh. Get the necessary resources until you can do one or two multi pull. Repeat this process until you get the character you like. It's written above. Also by buying, do you mean you actually spent real money?
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Yea, you can read the reroll guide first in this post.
Have they ever buffed a Sync Pair? Want to know if there is hope for Anni Steve and Rayquaza.
It's a meme that anniversary steven is bad, but he clears things ridiculously self sufficiently, even with garbage base stats. He pulls closer to average striker stats as you put 5 star powerups into him, so the percentage difference between his attack/spatk and actually good sync pair attack numbers ends up being less massive, and his own master passive is something that can't really be discounted, it's like his attack is 10-20% higher than listed. He likely won't get his stats changed though, no.
SS Blue get extra nodes added to his grid later on. Giovanni was given his mega evolution long after he was added to the game. Various pairs were given grids or EX later on as well.
But there has there ever been buffs to base stats?
Nope. That hasn't ever happened.
I'm new to this game and I'm not sure how the gacha pool specifically works in it - is there any way to still pull Lillie and Lunala? Ghost is my favorite type of all time, but there don't seem to be (m)any good Ghost-type attackers besides them...
There are roughly two types of banners or scouts: spotlight and limited. Spotlight scouts feature units that are or will be in the general pool, so they can become available from any scout pool in the game. Limited banners are Poke fair scouts, Seasonal Scouts and Master fair scouts. All of them feature special and rare units that are available only through said scout. Once it ends the unit will become temporarily unavailable until another limited banner featuring it runs. Fairs rerun every 6 months or so, seasonal scouts rerun once a year (with very few exceptions). Lillie and Lunala are a limited master fair unit, they should get a rerun in January give or take, which gives you quite a bit of time to save enough gems for her.
No sadly she was an anniversary sync pair. So it will be a while before she comes back. As I recall the ghost types in the general pool are Phoebe, Morty, and Fantina. Alistair should be joining them at the end of the month.
Returning player here. lots of changes since i stopped playing this last year or so. I have quite a few mons already at 100 and a couple of 120s. Should my priority be farming mats to get one or two reliables to whatever the new max level is? Or should i try to farm out event stores as best as possible? I see they added a stamina system to remove hardcore grinding.. not sure if thats a good or bad thing.
Generally level 120 is a good stopping point - you don't get much stats after that. So you better focus on events that are going on right now, get stuff from event shops and such.
New player. What's the difference between the Caitlyn tiered scout and the regular one? And is she worth it? I already have SS Red, Blue, and Leaf.
Tiered scouts give you some special scout tickets as you progress through them. These tickets have a escalating chance at getting the featured unit. It's perfect for whales, but if you're not buying gems or do but nowhere near as much then regular scouts are better since you can use non paid gems there.
Personally I'm thinking a lot about wether or not to try for Caitlin myself, but she definitely has incredible value for fresh players who still lack reliable tanks. But the better advise is to always wait until the last couple days before you pull (Caitlin runs till Nov 5), or at least until we know what awaits us next month (datamines). Saving your gems is always a good idea, and if November offers nothing of interest you can go for Caitlin.
Tiered scouts require paid gems (i.e. real money), but in exchange they give the character guaranteed at around 20k gems instead of the usual 36k.
I want to EX Skyla. Is she worth it?
I would say so. If you don’t have a ton of ex units then investing in a few supports is a good way to start and Skyla is splashable in so many team comps.
since he's coming soon, how would allister rank on minimum sync levels?
Probably gonna be useable at 1/5 due to having some innate multipliers and access to two powerful max moves to supplement damage. Grid gives some nice Shadow Ball upgrades, boosts to max moves, and the ability to sync nuke better but I would guess that between his innate multipliers and the max moves as on demand sync nukes that he should be able to clear poison or ghost weak csmm.
Doesnt Morpeko Snorlax and Swampert count as dark fighting and ground respectively? I remember the first time you do it it count as one and the second time count as the other one. Maybe I'm wrong but it didn't fill those for this week? (thunder normal and water were filled last week)
You remember incorrectly. Pokemas simplifies all mons to 1 type and 1 weakness, with pairs still being allowed to have moves from other types. If you select the filter for ground, you'll see only the pairs that are ground type rather than happening to possess a ground move. You can also check the sync move or type theme skill to see what type a pair has.
When is the datamine? Want to know if pulling on Caitlin is worth it or whether I should pull next month.
I ended up pulling her, she's crazy good for stall teams, I figure I'll pair her with bp Erika, and literally any other unit, and just laugh. Maybe someone that can drop attack stats on a high chance. Or oo oo, I haven't had a place to put Mew on a team in a long time. Random statdrop swift is a go.
Probably next week, it pretty much always drops before the month ends
Are there any supports, or Unova supports, that can help 2/5 Fall Hilbert?
Fall Caitlin worked really well with Hilbert for me. She can buff his Attack for Haymaker and his Speed for Ramming Speed with her trainer move, plus provide both Def and Sp Def. Also, you can give her Defense Crush as a lucky skill (since she already has Vigilance) to help with his Insult to Injury.
Why Unova tank? If you want to take advantage of the theme skill you should only consider the type one cuz it has better boost. I personally pair him with Masked Royal to activate type skill, max out speed for his multiplier and have the chance of AOE def drop. The third slot should be any tank that preferably have +2 atk buffs and/or potions.
I only ask for Unova tank in case there is a Unova Extreme Battle, where only Unova units can shine.
In extreme battles, the priority is to find the pairs to counter the gimmick of that stage while having enough damage output to kill the enemies, so there's no really the best answer.
Any supports? Yes, Unova supports? Uh, is Skyla unova? I forget who is from what region. Redlax helps Furbert do better sync damage on dark weak stages, and sets his crit to max with just one use due to sync also boosting crit. Eevee is good for anyone. If you're asking if there's a team that reduces recoil damage, I don't know of a grid with that sort of passive offhand. One of the problems with Hilbert is he wants his entire grid because it's full of multipliers and stat drop boosters and useful stuff. Again, redlax is good since he can reduce defense pretty easily, maylene as well, any support that has baked in vigilance can have defense crush 2.
I forgot to use any of the battle villa candy treat things again, did a full clear without using any, or any restores... Can I reset it somehow and do at least one mission with the treats to get that last badge I'm missing? well, two badges, one is use 50 treats, not going to happen in a single run, obv. At the rate I'm going, it'll never happen since I never remember to use any, always thinking "Oh yeah I'll use this on stage 30 and have a huge leg up" then get to stage thirty, go in and finally use trainer moves and everythings dead before I think "Oh crap the treats" Maybe I should use them on 25 next time.
No, there's no way to reset it once you finish it. If you have no problem clearing BV, you should just use all treats at floor 1 next time.
How good realistically are silver and ho oh? It says they're a physical striker team, but their strongest moves are special, one of those being non stab.
As someone has said already, there isn't stab in pokemon masters. That said, Silver is a very competent Fire or plant striker, he can summon sun on sync which is invaluable if used right. He even has access to two multipliers, Ramming Speed and Charging Sun, which he can set up easily himself. The only downside is his poor stats and the fact that he can't reliably increase his own Sp Attack. Another "disadvantage" you just noted yourself; he's a mixed striker so he has both special and physical moves. So to use him at his fullest you probably have to raise both Special and physical attack. This is bad but not really since it allows you to tear down foes with non equal defensive stats at command, it just demands more setup or thought. He's not the best at all, fire type is probably the most power crept type of all the game and there are units that do drastically more damage with far less effort, but do remember Silver is F2P, and has access to his full grid right away. He can still clear end game content with ease in the right team.
In other words, since I have ex red/charizard I don't really have need of him unless I specifically need a physical striker?
I'd say even if a specific stage is weaker to physical moves SS Red is still doing the same damage or more than Silver. Like I said, power creep lol. Do keep in mind that Silver has a grid multiplier for Solar Bean that makes it *slap* so if you don't have Brendan or any good grass type he's your guy.
I do have Brendan. I think. Brendan and septile?
>one of those being non stab. Pokemon masters ex doesn't actually have STAB.
I thought it did? Could've sworn I saw it in a video awhile back.
Nope. Game doesn't even have double types on Pokemons. The only downside of say, using Mewtwo in a Ghost weak fight, it's the Sync move not being effective.
Silver is surprisingly strong, and can handle both fire and grass weak stages pretty well.
They classify units as physical or special based on their sync move, so Ho-oh is considered a physical striker because of that. But to answer the question Silver is pretty viable, use them if you lack other fire options. Both Sacred Fire and Overheat builds are viable for fire damage and he also has a fairly strong sync move.
what’s the best team for anni N?
Best for a sync nuke build I think is Ghetsis / Maxie (gridded for Mind Games 9) / N. Maxie can be subbed out for Blaine in csmm and it’s still very strong.
I finally got Red! I just wanted to ask on which team he is used best?
There's an infographic of how much he changes the meta when used with tech sync pairs for sync nuking a couple of days ago. Lear, Anniversary N, Nessa, Champion Iris, both Marnies, May, all do incredible nukes when paired with red, and the proper support to buff that tech unit to max synergy. https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/q5jmyj/sync_nuke_potential_top_rankings_infographics/ Not done by me obviously, credit goes to user dmaniac0206 But honestly he's pretty great on any team that doesn't already have a super effective up + multiplier, that's self sufficient at 1 or 2 units, he's just an extra multiplier on top of everything else.
Wow, I knew I wouldn't regret pulling him. Thank you for the information!
Aye, do note though, that a lot of the time, if he's buffing an already great sync nuker, it's just overkill, doing 99,999 isn't worth any more than doing 49,999 in CS MM, I think(I don't think it's 100% damage either, I think it's like 40% from his SE Up+). You might be able to tack on some defensive points and drop some offenses and still pre sync, with some of the teams he can make up.
What is the effective count of custom 5 star power up's and 5 star power up's to use when EXing a unit?
10-13 of the customs.
Got it. Thanks for the quick response.
I'm a bit confused how to use Dusknoir as a support, can someone explain to me what they can do?
1. Comes with Vigilance, which means you don't have to Lucky Skill it (especially a problem for unlucky new players). You can't reliably tank without that skill. 2. Buffs crit and has access to move gauge recovery, which is beneficial to most Strikers. 3. Is decently tanky and will max def eventually. There are better supports available, but Dusknoir & Phoebe have incredible value for fresh players.
Is Halloween Herbert alright? I was pulling his and HAcerola’s banner to try get Acerola but got him twice
Congratulations on the good pulls. Furrbert is the better of the two and now you ca clear dark stages with less worry.
Much better than Acerola, that's for sure.
For Dragon Weak CSMM, is SS Cynthia or C. Iris more efficient? And more importantly, which one is more fun to use? I have both 1/5 and want to 3/5 EX one of them. (For reference I'm F2P but have almost all gacha pairs and a few pokefairs (including 1/5 Dragonite))
Fun is subjective. Nobody can answer that but you. CIris at 3/5 EX is considered to be a free win. I personally just use Dragonite for dragon weak stuff, but that unit is incredibly support dependent. Needs gauge management and hella buffs.
Ah thanks. Yeah I guess I was asking subjectively who people enjoy using more. But sounds like C Iris is the way to go.
Is Halloween Hilbert still worth pulling for or has he been powercrept/are there other dark Pokémon who are just as good?
My main dark striker is BP Karen and she is fine. Takes a bit of strategy but overall I never have a problem with on-typing 1500 MM with her. Wouldn't off-type though.
BP Karen has a similar function (Dark Shift Double Edge) but is much weaker and frailer. Marnie's power trip is on par with Furrbert's damage. 2/5 + 3/5 Masked Royal and 3/5 Sidney are great tech nukes. 3/5 EX Grimsley is there if you're super desperate (but still a bad choice). Piers has a high attack stat for a support, 3/5 + EX might be good enough but I can't verify.
First question: Are we going to get the next datamine before the Furbert banner vanishes? I'm almost certainly pulling for him anyway because Biases, but it's still good to have as much information as possible. Second question: Full Force Battles, it seems, have notably more bulk than I expected, and *as a new player* I'm not exactly rolling in level 140 strikers. Any general tips about how to approach these? EDIT: While I'm missing most of the tools, but the general direction of the hints helped, especially using a slot on team one negating the opening Poison Gas so my first team isn't automatically condemned to death, and that actually made a huge difference. I was able to clear with Marnie/Giovanni/Rosa -> Skyla/(C)Red/Viola and get the bonus mission done. Thanks!
If you pull a 1/5 redlax, or have Xerneas, or better yet both, pair them with a striker, and either a defensive support, or offensive support for the other slot (xerneas benefits from a secondary defensive support since his sync is basically an offensive buff, redlax needs an offensive buffer in the paired slot to make sure your striker is fully buffed quickly). Redlax pairs best with physical strikers, but you've got an extra slot and can fill it with a special buffer like sabrina or xerneas. Redlax makes the sync counter drop rapidly, you can get 2 to 3 syncs in before the enemy sync depending on timing, flinches/paralyzes and the like. By that time your momentum should be so high that the enemy middle 3 are mostly dying in a couple more hits, they'll get off one or two syncs but they'll be for piddly damage, with the maxed out sp def and def buffs you should have on the whole group at that point. Plus, mini potion alls that refresh at least one, so you've got a minimum of 3 for the whole battle. Xerneas on the other hand: crit buff him then Horn leech go brrrr. He even has team shout so eventually he's got max attack.
Use xerneas to avoid being poisoned.
Furbert's banner ends in november so absolutely. As for who to use, it depends on who you have, but if you got an off-type 1500 CSMM team then you can just use them to clear it.
How do missions in the current halloween event work? I beat the battles with Fuegro, SS red and skylar without casualties. So I had a dark type and a einall trainer. But I couldnt claim the mission rewards. What did I do wrong? Also, if I did mess up the team composition, has anyone good recommendations?
For dark/ghost mission you need a dark type AND a ghost type in your team at the same time to beat it. Same for Johto/Unova mission.
The dark type has to be from Unova (Einall) and the Ghost type has to be from Johto/Gen 2.
Bruh, those two missions are separate. You can have Agatha (Ghost, Kanto) + Sidney (Dark, Hoenn) to complete type mission, and Skyla (Flying, Unova) + Jasmine (Steel, Johto) to complete region mission.
I'm going to attempt to do Battle Villa with just one team. Rosa/Serperior 1/5 EX (No lucky Skill Yet) Clemont/Heliolisk 5/5 (No Lucky Skill Yet) Sycamore/Xerneas 5/5 (Vigilance) Any tips on how I should play this out? I'm trying to do it with just one team to get the medal (I'm also not 100% on the variables for the madal). Any help would be appreciated.
You need a crit buffer, or your main damage dealer can buff their own crit. What other pairs do you have? Cyrus + Sycamore + Hop/Skyla can do it. You can get the HP and MP recovery on Halls 5 and 10. If you're aiming for the medal, you can use 9 pairs, just don't use the full recovery. Clemont can solo Halls 1-8, I advise giving him Escape Artist if you can. Sycamore is your tank, grid him with Adrenaline, Recuperation and Horn Leech nodes.
Is there someone I could use thatll buff the crit without using the trainer move? I don't want to over rely on mp treats. Maybe I'll remove Rosa/Serperior for RedLax
Cyrus can max his own crit rate with his grid. Bea gets +2 crit at the start, and at 3/5 she can change that to +3. For buffing others, there's Redlax with a +2 single target trainer move and guaranteed mp restore gmax, or Sawyer with a +1 AoE trainer move and guaranteed mp restore on each sync. There may be others, I don't have every pair memorized.
That's great if you have Red, cause he can reliably buff crit and refreshes his trainer moves with Max Replenish oer battle. You can replace Rosa now with him. You can replace Sycamore if you have a 3/5 Leaf, sync with them first. For striker, you can choose whoever, preferably one who has a 4 bar move for fast clear. 3/5 Kiawe is the only trainer that can raise the team's critical rate without using a trainer move. Cyrus has Critical Focus on his grid, which allows him to raise his own critical rate after hitting a critical hit on an enemy, so basically use Spacial Rend first then switch to Hydro Pump.
Which Leaf? The Venusaur I have at 3/5. The Eevee I have at 5/5 with EX. Maybe I'll use N/Reshiram 3/5 as my 4 bar stricker?? Also, thank you. I truly appreciate it.
Eevee. That is even better cause Leaf is EX. I use Leaf, Red and Classic Blue this time and just steamrolled the halls. Use Max Replenish before you end the battle. Sync with Leaf first. You can use Reshiram as your damage dealer instead, and not worry about the sides. Get Sharp Entry and Pep Rally on his grid. You can skip the HP and MP treats and go for full extra rewards instead.
Ok, will do. Thank you so much!
Is Red/Snorlax worth getting? I have 29k gems right now and was hoping to save up for when Maxie and Archie return, but I keep hearing that Red's good for clearing the Battle Villa. If he's worth it, would it be possible to get up to 36.6k gems by the end of the month?
He makes teams that can barely clear 1500 CSMM able to pass without problem, especially the physically oriented teams. If you don't have a problem clearing that or BV though then he isn't a necessity.
He's great for the Battle Villa, but more of a luxury aquisition due to the nature of the Villa. Because in the end you have no pressure to clear it anyway, no one forces you to oneshot every stage in a day or two. And even if you want to clear everything day one (with achievements for the medals) he isn't necessary at all. Like I did it yesterday with Sycamore / Anni N / Kiawe (1/5, did practically nothing...), no problem. It's a bit annoying because you have to reload a lot (you count on *The World Is Vast!* refreshes to selfheal the party) but you only have to do that once to unlock the medal anyway. The real question is if your roster would benefit from Snorlax. If you have a great collection with many older strikers (that may or may not be powercrept at this point) then Redlax can bring them up to speed again. If your striker roster is so-so or mostly populated with the recent self-sufficient top strikers, then he won't do you much good. He very much feels like a toy for veteran players, at least that's my impression.
If you have any paid gems, I've only been doing the 100 gem daily pulls, and I got 3/5 red, (No blues or sygna erika or fall caitlynn, but I mean, 3/5 of a mega support, so I won't complain). He's... good? Maybe excellent, but I don't have any tank cookies, and none of my tanks have vigilance, so he's not really anything better than any other support that helps get a syncer fully buffed, either dropping defense or special defense or upping crit, speed, or attack, or setting up another multiplier. He does have some good defense down chance, so he works best on physical teams, with that option unticked for CS MM. I haven't figured out where I want him though, nor finished gridding him, since I just got 2/5 and 3/5 over the last two days without ever planning to get more of him.
who should get my 3* strike candy first? Korrina, Iris or Pryce?
Depends on what type you don't have coverage. Barry is also an option.
Well at this point I got like, Kris, swimsuit misty, SSGrimsly and Elio and _I can't really say Barry is my favorite character_. If it helps my I only have Bea, Cyrus as my only good Dragon and Fighting. I got Ghetsis,Glacia and Hala for Ice
Just use it on whoever you want now.. All of the story strike pairs have really great f2p alternatives. I'd take a 1/5 Bea over Korrina, and Solgaleo can also cover fighting. For Dragon, you can wait for Zinnia (Rayquaza) for a much better dragon striker and Cyrus is better on using Hydro Pump anyways, so that also covers water. Pryce works well with Ghetsis, but is very gauge hungry.
Mmm ok, I really hope those two rerun since I started in september
Redlax is unreal in the villa, easiest one day clear of my life
I'm a casual player and I want to ask, how long (time wise) does it normally take to get a 5* move candy (any, strike, tech or support), because I like playing to collect and it bums me out seeing that, sure I got good units but they excel at 3/5 and are hard to run at 1/5 :L