Topic: Pokemon Shuffle

Forgot to post yesterday about stage 150 of the EB. It is hard.

SPOILERS!!

Well, Zygard 50% form starts with a 4x4 square of metal blocks in the middle of the play field. The first moves it just spawns Goomy and the Zygard forms. After scoring 25k or so, it spawns again the 4x4 square, every single move. I did a trial run and failed to get to the 25k range, so I went with Attack up, Mega Start and +5 Moves (thanks God). I finished with just no moves left. My team was M-Latios, Dragonite (both maxed), Zygard +50% (7) and Zygard 10% (5). I think that bringing M-Steelix could spare you the +5 Moves, along with Dragonite and both Zygard. Maybe.

I like how often the angry thing triggers in Escalation Battles. So far it seems like I can get it once or twice every 5 hearts. I was lucky enough to get it in level 46 so I could skip level 50 entirely. Unfortunately it didn't happen with level 100 and now I have to use items if I want to continue. I've usually stopped at 50 since that's when you usually get Mega Stones but I thought I'd get some of these new items and try them out.

I've almost caught up with the main stages again. Two more levels to go. I'm expecting new main stages next week (it's been quite a while now) so I figured this was the time to catch up. I should start S ranking and catching some Pokémon I'm missing too. I remember when I had under 10 levels that I hadn't S ranked, now it's at least 100 stages...

I went to level 50 with about 23 lives thanks to the anger thing.

I may even try to go beyond that and get some of the other rewards, too.

@maceng: It took me all other items than M+5 and Exp 1.5% to clear 150. Thankfully the game let me skip 160.

I just had to do 180, and I've done most of the other boss battles legitly as well. They've cost me a lot of coins so far since I still have Z10 on level 4-5 and Z50 on level 6. It's fine at the moment though. The rewards are worth it.

I managed to skip both levels 180 and 200!!

Now leveling up both Zygard forms as levels 191-195 were a bit too hard.

Well, the boss level at 250 can not be defeated. Anyone who says otherwise is misguided or outright lying. Zygarde 50% form has around 200,000HP. I manage to skip level 243, so, in practice, I could get lucky and also skip level 250, so I continue playing using some stock hearts; levels 243-248 went by with no angry Pokemon in sight. So, I decided to take the plunge and do a trial run using no items. I manage to shave off like 6,000HP, but it didn't make a dent in his HP: so I went with DD and +5Moves just to see how far could I go. I didn't get far: just about 40k.

Have some few hearts (like 20) and even less coins (maybe 2k), but, thankfully, lots of jewels (12). Gonna browse the web to see if there is any indication on how to beat this guy.

Well, have to eat crow.

It is barely doable using all items plus using either a full candied M-Rayquazza or M-Gengar and lots, and lots of luck. In fact, I haven't seen it done, just level 200. It seems that you have to do your best in order to get 50+ combos on every single move while it is disrupted.

Well. beat level 250 using every single item. Used M-Gengar, Dragonite and Latios. Made 100+ combos but had terrible luck in 3-4 moves (like 6 combos or something). Won with no moves left.

Now, grinding Meowth to tackle the next levels as many are saying that level 290 onwards require +5Moves and/or DD.

@Rikaria: How about if you stop at level 290, close your 3DS, wait up like 10mins or so, and do another level and repeat, until level 296 or so? I think that the anger is triggered after defeating him 3-4 times on a row. Think about it: is not like you just turn your 3DS, go to the stage and find Zygarde angry, or play a stage and suddenly it gets angry.

This is what am going to do for the last 10 levels as soon as I gather enough coins (really broke at the moment...).

I think I'll stop at level 150.

It's already three times the usual amount of levels I do in these.

I want to get all the 5 lollipops and feed them to either Blastoise or to Kyogre, to get either of them to level 100.

The weekend Meowth stage allows me to use any items, including Complexity -1. Has anybody tried this? I'm so tempted to go all in and make a ton of coins.

20k sounds really low (only 8500 or so profit) considering the crazy combo potential of a Complexity team with only coins, M-Rayquaza and two quirky+ users in play.

I gave it a go... it wasn't worth it. In the end, the complexity negated any profits that I would have made otherwise. =

@Rikaria: You had to do it twice??!!

I imagine that you didn't want to spend any jewels or that you had a very bad first run!!

I'm sitting at level 286, thinking about a plausible strategy to bypass level 300, while leveling up Goomy (8), Goodra (8) and Zygarde 10% (9).

I haven't been able to get to level 200 on Zygarde yet thanks to my trip out of country. I'm close to, but I still need to level up Z50 and maybe Z10 before I will. I doubt I'll go past 200 since I'm short of coins.

Ash-Greninja wasn't too bad (what's the story behind it though?) and when I played the M-Blaziken comp earlier today I got to the best ranking group. I'm still going to check it again on Monday but I don't know how I'm going to do any differently in it.

But FINALLY they are rerunning M-Blaziken! I've been waiting for so long after missing it out last Summer. Now if only they rerun the daily pokemon from that time as well as some other pokemon I missed out...

How do you even get to scores like that?

I'm currently on place 896/17221 in the EUR leaderboards with 45364 points using the maxed team of M-Garchomp, Landorus, Tyranitar and Palkia. Used all items too.

Currently the EUR leader has 81172 score.

Finally defeated Zygarde 300. Took three tries and like 50k coins. Beat it with M-Ray, Xerneas and Togekiss (level 7).

Furiously milking Meowth (that came out wrong, didn't it?) to prep for a full item run on M-Blaziken (I don't have it), plus whatever the update bring us on Tuesday.

My M-Blaziken team is Ash-Greninja (7), Landorus (the last one, level 7), Terrakion (max) and either M-Ray or M-Garchomp (max).

Already fully lolli-popped Groudon and Charizard. Sitting on 3 lollipops for either Blastoise or Venusaur.