Topic: Pokemon Shuffle

And I just am uh... I suck at the game. Looking at you pros make me sad inside :c

I accidentally missed Mega Sceptile last time, I barely remembered the deadline in time and my score went down before I could change it.

Hoping that won't happen again. So far my score is still good enough to get the Blazikenite. My team was M-Swamp, Suicune, Milotic, and Starmie itemless. But just in case I'm gonna train up Ash Greninja and replace Suicune with him.

Some of the top people in the EUR board are using Groudon. I assume it's been fully lolli-popped. I've been meaning to do the same but I've been waiting until I have enough lollies to start leveling up Groudon again.

Since it's monday I went ahead and gave the M-Blaziken comp another go (I still miss the mega stone). I looked at the leaderboards and decided to go with M-Ray, Tyranitar, Palkia, and Garchomp, all maxed, and used all items. I ended up with a score of 63420 which placed me at 476/32088 on the EUR leaderboard. Hopefully it'll be enough to get both the Blazikenite and the Raise Max Level lollipop.

The top scorer has a score of 92863 with a team of M-Ray, Groudon (I suspect with full lollipops), Palkia, and Landorus. I don't get why they chose Landorus over Garchomp or Tyranitar and how they got to a score like that.

I've given up on 300ing Zygarde. I was stuck on stage 250 and I did an all item run on it. Once the disruption delay weared out (and I was ssssoo close), I couldn't touch it anymore. Cost me close to 20000 coins and it will easily cost me at least 50000k if I were to go for level 300. It's obscenely overpowered...
All of my Pokémon were max leveled as well which makes it all the more frustrating.

Is 300 as ridiculously difficult as 250?

@sillygostly: yes 300 is much worse than 250. i wasted over 60 k on level 300 and have not beat it, i beat 250 w 8 moves left or something, you are correct that it is ridiculously overpowered

I realise that, but even so, the chances are stupidly slim and it's not worth trying again when each attempt will cost around 18000 coins. Even if I was inclined to spend money on the game, the poor odds would put me off doing so. What were Genius Sorority thinking?

Absolutely ridiculous. I'm glad I didn't further pursue Zygarde then. Stupid me for not pacing myself so that I would have skipped those boss battles.

I dropped at level 200 myself since I don't have Goodra and I wasn't feeling like maxing out Z10. Beating bosses became annoying since I had to spend a lot of coins on them. I don't really care to go until the end anyway.

I stopped at 180. That one had me using all my coins and three diamonds... So yeah, that was enough.

@sillygostly: Well, is very hard. Level 250 did required a full item run with M-Gengar, Latios and Dragonite, and I finished well after the DD wore off.

300 took me three tries, and 50k coins, and a jewel. Is the same HP, but at the beginning you can do squat because the screen is filled with lots (like 67%) of steel blocks. So you have to wait for them to disappear cutting your effective moves by one third. The first time, I had a 120+ combo and finished with 180kHP shaved off; on the second run, managed to get several 50+ combos but also 2-3 really bad combos -Dragonite's Dancing Dragon didn't activate, Gengar didn't combo-, so finished with 60kHP still to go. Last, tried M-Ray, Xerneas and Togekiss, used a jewel and finished with cero moves left (I think or one move left).

Oh right, after I wasted the few jewels I was saving, NOW is time to add the special shop.

°^°

I died a little when I saw this week's update. So many new stages. ;_;

Any idea how many new main stages there are? My usual sources Reddit and Serebii don't tell me yet.

I was also hoping for a Daily Pokémon repeat for Luvdisc/Torkoal/Zangoose/Seviper/Phione, whichever of those were in a Daily Pokémon in the first place. I missed them as well as Jirachi last Summer.

I also just used all five free hearts on Tyrogue and ended up having to buy the great ball when I got the super catch power and it went to max. :/

EDIT: Reddit lists ten new main stages. The list is incomplete though.

EDIT2: Pastebin has listed data for up stage 400 which means this is one of those mega updates with 50 new main stages... Sigh. Level 400 is Mega Scizor btw.

Special shop, here I come!!
No, not really. Using 2 jewels for unlimited hearts, for just an hour, could be a waste, IMHO. Stages usually take a minute or more (even Meowth), so you get like 60 plays in which you could do, maybe, 15k. I can do that on a day, leisurely.

The other special item regenerate hearts every 15min, with a cap limit of 10 plus 6 hearts. It is not that bad, specially for my Sundays, when I spend most of the day playing, but you get like 72 hearts (playing 18 hours), plus 6 hearts = 78 hearts, which is not a lot, since you usually get like 36 hearts, anyway.

Had it have been special items for just a jewel, then I might have reconsider. Now, I'm on the fence, well behind it.

Just downloaded today's extra data and I checked if there were new mission cards, touched the arrow a couple times to the right and the game crashed. It seems there's some kind of bug. I tried again and the same thing happened.

@maceng: 1.5k in one hour of nonstop meowth?

Thats what you get if you go for the easy 300 coins in each play with the normal 5 lives.

Let's assume each play takes you exactly 1 minute and you get to play them all without distraction... That'd be 300*60=18000.

Edit: derp, you sad 15k, not 1.5k
Ignore plz.

Anyway, I'd assume this would be useful for people who want to play escalation battles extensively.

Aaaand I'm broke. I used all my coins on Azelf, Zygarde, and Tyrogue because I wanted to get rid of those as fast as possible. Oh well.

I'll be spending the next few days grinding Meowth. Something tells me I'll end up using more coins on the other Daily Pokémon after all. I'll probably put off the Latias EB until a later date.

I got super lucky with Zygarde and Tyrouge (caught them on my terrible first try without great balls)... But azelf. Darn I can't even beat it.

I'll have to grind for coins.

Well, Zygarde was very hard. Used DD and Mega Attack and a great ball. Not so great ability but lots of LP (90).

Tyrogue was just too hard for a measly fighter with 30LP. Still, it has a golden badge...

Azeld caught it with a C-rank and no great balls. Now, I'm broke (4k) so after trying to get to Latios' 50 stage, time to grind Meowth.

Castform's the Pokémon of the day and it's pretty easy to beat. Base catching % is around 15 % so it's not impossible to catch. It did take me three tries but at least I didn't have to spend a single coin for it.

@maceng: I had to use more items on Zygarde which is also why I'm broke. That was just too annoying to keep playing more. I've been leveling Zygarde Complete Forme up now since it's the third Poké that can go up to 110. While it's ability is not going to be all that helpful, at least the AP will be pretty high.

I also used five Raise Max Levels on Groudon. Leveling it up now is taking a really long time. Do you guys recommend using the rest of the lollipops I have (3) on Kyogre or some other Poké? Or wait for something better to come up?

About Kyogre, I think we should wait up. Its ability is not that great. I'll prefer to even upgrade Lapras (Power of 4, goes to 100AP, I think).

Blastoise and Venusaur are solid choices, specially as both mega evolve, but I'm waiting since Sorority is churning out Raise Max Levels lollipops too often and more upgreadable Pokemons are a great possibility, IMHO. In the mean time, have fun upgrading Groudon (it took me about 10 days to fully upgrade Charizard, which is the first logical choice).