DaRotomMachine
I COULD BE BANNED!
I think Gloria and Zacian was more worth it
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It depends, Gloria&Zacian is way older than Snorlax & Dialga so it doesn't have many advantages in itself compared to the others.
You can fit Snorlax in almost any team and abuse the sync move accel & Potion and get one more charge of trainer moves while using G-Max Replenish.
If you have none of these 3 I think Snorlax is the priority to pick while Dialga is just a huge pick in Dragon spam teams. (that's a good thing for the Champion Stadium)
The reason why I don't use Zacian is that it needs too much support to work well if you don't have it at least 3/5 because it is very old, but if in the future we have a rework of it's sync grid it could be broken yes, so there's no really wrong pick between these 3, just pick the one you want.
(It's a flex to say you have zacian too haha)
DaRotomMachine
I COULD BE BANNED!
I think that's why I chose it lmao
Gloria gets you access to Lodge Gloria (once you slog through the veiled dating simulator bs raising the friendship to 100), netting you two units instead of one.
However, I had read that Gloria is really only useful at 5/5, so I picked Lucas and Dialga to get a unit with dragon zone, since I skipped Nate and Haxorus (who I think can set it up, but maybe I'm misremembering).
However, I had read that Gloria is really only useful at 5/5, so I picked Lucas and Dialga to get a unit with dragon zone, since I skipped Nate and Haxorus (who I think can set it up, but maybe I'm misremembering).
DaRotomMachine
I COULD BE BANNED!
Oof, that's rough. Hope you got a bunch of other limited pairs.
I used Google credit from google surveys to buy some gems to pull on the mix scout, but quickly decided it wasn't worth it, especially after they rolled out some select scouts for only 5000 paid gems. I figured I might as well hoard paid gems until one of those comes around again.
I got a few, but not a ton, and very little i'm actually making use of
SS Hau was a nice pickup, I've been using Special Costume Lyra a surprising amount, and I picked up Paulo from pity who I absolutely love the kit of, but everything else is kinda just sitting, collecting dust
I also haven't gotten a 5* in the last 11k gems I've used on the banner, excluding the pity pull. That's fun.
Thinking of getting back into the game if I have enough time once college ends, if only to save gems once Kieran releases. Stopped playing around the time the two Greninja champions were released, did they make any significant changes?
Also did the story advance in any way? The Nemona event seemed to be building up a champion tournament iirc
Also did the story advance in any way? The Nemona event seemed to be building up a champion tournament iirc
There's a new chapter of the story, focusing on mysterious stone items that started showing up from the trainer lodge around when Nemona released and Hisuian Trainers, for the most part
In terms of gameplay, not a ton has changed. They've released new, harder fights that are permanently available, reward 300 gems per fight, and are entirely optional in their base state. There is a function to give characters a second effect to their sync move now, and two new roles for extra effects for those.
There's a new mode called the Battle Rally, which functions kinda like a Rogue-Lite. You go through 10 fights, can choose a difficulty for each of them (normal. hard or very hard), each getting progressively higher stat multipliers and ending off with one of the hard fights i just mentioned, with reduced stats if you go for the easier options. You get tickets to buy items that can boost your team's stats, activate field effects or give your team some quality that they wouldn't normally have like permanently reduced damage taken, massively accelerated sync cooldown, or even just a massive stat boost. Once done, you get any tickets you didn't use to buy items with
June datamine hit and it's another skip month for me -- not interested in Tornadus or Virizion, and while I like Centiskorch and Larry it's not enough for me to pull them. (I am lacking a good flying type pair but I'd rather hold out for corviknight).
However, I am stoked that Marshadow and Korrina are getting a rerun that comes with a 5/5 grid expansion and support EX role. I would have expected sprint, but I guess support is fine, since I usually like to sync with Marshadow and this way I'll get support buffs.
People were speculating that Marshadow 5/5 expansion would come out in July ahead of the ghost/dark high score event, possibly in a double banner with Cyrus and Darkrai. Hopefully Darkrai still comes next month along with another ghost or dark unit I don't already have a 5/5.
However, I am stoked that Marshadow and Korrina are getting a rerun that comes with a 5/5 grid expansion and support EX role. I would have expected sprint, but I guess support is fine, since I usually like to sync with Marshadow and this way I'll get support buffs.
People were speculating that Marshadow 5/5 expansion would come out in July ahead of the ghost/dark high score event, possibly in a double banner with Cyrus and Darkrai. Hopefully Darkrai still comes next month along with another ghost or dark unit I don't already have a 5/5.
with SS Korrina rerunning this month and assuming they aren't going to rerun her again for the HSE banner, our options for a dark/ghost HSE banner are uh
SS Cyrus and Akari.
at a massive stretch you could maybe say they rerun Lear so the banner has access to his 4*s that are also considered Pokefairs, but at this point, either they do what they did for the Electric HSE and it's solo Cyrus, or it's Cyrus and Akari
Anyway, on a different tangent, we're finally almost done with 5/5 Grid Expansions for pokefairs, the last two left without one are SS Cyrus, and Lear. I'm still not particularly fond of their addition, but I'm glad that we're almost back on a level playing field in that regard. EX Role distribution has already seemed to have taken over the role they were playing in terms of character reruns, so that shouldn't have too much of an impact, but I wonder if we might see the 5/5 grid expansions going to other rarity characters. God knows some old seasonals could use a boost like that
SS Cyrus and Akari.
at a massive stretch you could maybe say they rerun Lear so the banner has access to his 4*s that are also considered Pokefairs, but at this point, either they do what they did for the Electric HSE and it's solo Cyrus, or it's Cyrus and Akari
Anyway, on a different tangent, we're finally almost done with 5/5 Grid Expansions for pokefairs, the last two left without one are SS Cyrus, and Lear. I'm still not particularly fond of their addition, but I'm glad that we're almost back on a level playing field in that regard. EX Role distribution has already seemed to have taken over the role they were playing in terms of character reruns, so that shouldn't have too much of an impact, but I wonder if we might see the 5/5 grid expansions going to other rarity characters. God knows some old seasonals could use a boost like that
I would be happy with a double Cyrus/Akari banner as I have neither and my dark roster is not great.
I wouldn't mind an out-of-season Halloween banner either, since I am missing the pre-2023 units, as long as the rates were better than the standard seasonal rerun rates. Of course I don't expect that to actually happen. The only time I pulled on a high score event banner I got a lot of 3* power ups and nearly went to pity to get the featured units.
I wouldn't mind an out-of-season Halloween banner either, since I am missing the pre-2023 units, as long as the rates were better than the standard seasonal rerun rates. Of course I don't expect that to actually happen. The only time I pulled on a high score event banner I got a lot of 3* power ups and nearly went to pity to get the featured units.
I was planning to wait until I was done with college before going back to the game and save gems for Kieran...but these Cheren and Bianca make me want to play right now. I don't even like Tornadus or Virizion and the Unovan fanboy in me didn't care for the previous Neo Champion from the region or my dear N's alts...but for some reason I need them. They look so good, I wish I could show them to my teen self and try to pretend it's from a new Unova game.
Anyways, what is the most effective way I could farm gema? I already used most of the story ones back when Penny and Nemona released (wanted the whole Área Zero group, mostly because having all Paldeans is a bit too much). And Larry is also there!!! With DUDUNSPARCE? Give me a break. I haven't played in so long.
Anyways, what is the most effective way I could farm gema? I already used most of the story ones back when Penny and Nemona released (wanted the whole Área Zero group, mostly because having all Paldeans is a bit too much). And Larry is also there!!! With DUDUNSPARCE? Give me a break. I haven't played in so long.