Topic: Pokemon Shuffle

Spoilers ahead...

Mission card 9

• Cleared the Deoxys challenge (no items) with a ghost team: M-Banette, Jellicent (8), Gengar and Giratina. 3 Moves left.
• Galvantula: trigger Mega effect 7 times with M-Aero. used a MS on Aero just in case. Finished with like 10 moves left.
• Gothorita: finish with 10 moves left. Use MS, +5 Moves and DD. Don't remember the exact team but all were maxed.
• Conkeldurr: all support Pokemon with PO5 (not PO5+). Used M-Gengar as well as 3 super effective Pokes. Did it once with just +5Moves, MS and finished with 10% of its health still. Did some leveling up (to level 7 of Mew, Slowking and Noctowl) and finished the stage with just +5 Moves.

No luck with the Snorlax challenge: used Medichamp with a Mega Boost fighter and failed, used M-Ampharos with Dedenne and failed, used M-Latias with Goomy and failed, and finally M-Banette with Chandelure and failed also. The same with Yvetal challenge: not enough clouds and triggering more than a solo 3-combo doesn't spawn the additional clouds to clear.

@maceng thanks for the info. for snorlax try an uncandied m aero if u have it, w i think pupitar as the rock mega boost,there is another rock mega boost also but i didnt use him, w lucario and gallade as your fighters, had plenty of moves to spare so if your having trouble use booth mega boosters and lucario maybe

some of these challenges are ridiculous, especially the yvetal challenge... u need a minimum of 2 jewels just to spawn enough clouds, maybe 4 or 5 >-<

I've finally S-ranked all of the main stages and caught all of the Expert stage Pokémon (Mega Scizor took me THREE all-item attempts to S-rank X.X). I just need to grind some more to have plenty of coins to take on Mega Gyarados (the non-Mega Start competitions are the worst).

@8Darky: Thanks for the tip. I tried with M-Aero using both Pupitar and Relicanth with Lucario. Used +5 Moves and finished with 2 moves left and beat the mission card.

For Yvetal I started recording my runs: with no items managed 32 clouds and beat it with M-Lucario (with a fighter team including Gurdurr, -it gets rids off a cloud). Then, with Time +10 sec, managed 37 clouds cleared, but beat Yvetal with 5 seconds left.

I think that it can be done with just one jewel and maybe with a MS. Maybe bring not-so-powerful Pokes.

@sillygostly: Congrats!! I stopped at 4 S-ranks to finish them all, but all require a full item run: M-Rayquazza, Exploud (maybe not), Steelix and M-Heracross. I'm also missing Luxray, porygon-Z and Hydrageon (of course). Not doing it for the short term as a new EB is coming our way (see Rikaria's post for a heads-up).

In the other hand, I just got Raikou to skill level 3 (no RML dropps :-<) and Landorus-T to skill level 4 (using a couple of cookies received from the mission cards). Not so many coins, 30k, but enough for the mean time.

somehow managed to get #1824 in the gyrados competition, might have got the speedup+ max level if I bothered to level up Raikou

I forgot to play gyarados again after collecting coins. Oops.

Well, thankfully my "preview" score was enough to get the stone.

I was close to being within the top 1000 in the Gyarados comp but that's alright, I got the stone and something else which is all I wanted. I did end up leveling Raikou to level 12 and swapping its skill. Raikou should now be a beast if leveled up to lvl 15.

Mega Shiny Gyarados seems really good though. Only problem is it needs ten candies to get it to a point where you only need one or two matches to go mega. I'm still giving the candies to Rayquaza, and have only five to go before I have it full candied.

I also finally caught Jirachi! Yay! I'm not really sure how useful it is though considering its skill needs you to have a steel mega in your party (basically Steelix) but I guess an AP 90 steel Pokémon is a good one to have in general.

@Rikaria Thanks. Already at level 70 (had to do it twice, even with a +10 sec).

I was lucky enough to finish it with only one +10 sec. I'm on level 79 right now.

My team is M-Gengar, Darkrai, Giratina, Yveltal, all maxed out.

The only one I've had time to max out so far. A.k.a. the Altered Forme.

I'm not crazy enough to max out a pokemon in less than two days.

!!!

Well I usually only play with the renegerating hearts and only use the extra ones if the Escalation Battle pokemon gets angry when I have no regenerating hearts anymore.

Don't worry about it!

@Nego For M-Gengar you need to match 10 icons (3-4 matches); for M-Gyarados I think is the same or one icon less (3 matches, at least, unless you manage 2 5-combos).

Jirachi is very useful with its Mega Boost+ ability when you don't want to spend a MS on either Mawile or Steelix (both take a lot of matching to mega evolve). Also, as you pointed out, a 90HP Poke is nothing to sneeze at.

Yeah, that's the thing: I've been only playing the EB apart from using one heart on Jirachi yesterday since I missed it last Summer. Had I not been playing the EB I most likely would have been able to max out Giratina Origin Forme already.

But then again I still need to max out a lot of pokes like Magmortar, Electivire, Bellossom, Shiny Gyarados (all lvl 9), Alakazam, Gyarados, Milotic (all lvl 8), plus a lot of other pokemon that start with 70 AP. Shiny Gyarados, Giratina Origin Forme and Jirachi are the first on my list though.

I believe I read on Reddit that M-Gyarados needs 9 icons matched in order to go mega which makes the shiny one a bit better than M-Gengar if full candied.

I also totally forgot all about Mawile since it's not really a mega I use often (even though I have it at max lvl).

Mmm... I'm not sold on the need to level up Giratina O Forme. It's the same HP as the normal Giratina and have the same color scheme, so no need for it in timed stages, and its abbility is overshadowed by other Pokes. That is, unless you go at the EB with Giratina-O, Zoroark, Darkrai and M-Absol, just to have double the chances of stopping and making a combo that triggers the Sinister Power.

I decided to give the 3 RMLs to Zoroark (now level 12) as well as bumping its skill level to 2. I'm really low on coins after defeating stage 130 (only 300 coins left!!) on the EB, so I'm gonna spend the rest of the day and tomorrow grinding coins, on Saturday getting Zoroark to level 13 (99HP).

By the way, I beat level 130 with just the Attack Plus and finish with 9 sec left. I managed to activate Sinister Power on my first combo and dropped it just once, towards the end (like a 65 combo or something).

I'm still playing the EB with the same team (M-Gengar, Darkrai, Giratina AF, Yveltal (all MAX)) and I'm currently on level 171 with 18329 coins remaining. I most likely will not be going to play until level 300 but reaching level 200 would be nice.

The only levels I've had trouble with so far are the boss levels and I've had to use items on those. Otherwise this has been a pretty enjoyable EB, even though it's timed.

@Nego Do you think you gonna need coins for the last stretch, from 191-199? If not, I'm really thinking about ending the EB in 200 by tomorrow morning (sitting at 158 while grinding Meowth a bit).

By the way, it seems that if you maintain the combo for the full length of the stage 200, one just might accomplish the 120 combo requirement for mission card 6.

No items are needed for 191-199 like Rikaria said.

Level 200 is really annoying though. I used all items but C-1 (and obviously the ones that have no impact on performance) and had a third of the health bar left in the end. >_> Now I'm back to Meowth grinding just so that I have enough coins for all items including C-1.

@Rikaria Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it.

Do you remember how many seconds you had left? I think that I can do it with your items plus a MS, just in case, since I managed to get 30% off it health off on a trial run (using just a MS).

So, it is a full item run for me!! (minus the +10 sec, maybe).

I beat level 200 today with all items except for Exp x1.5. =.= I did get a 208 combo but sadly I didn't have the last mission card selected.

Right now I'm just seeing how far I can go without using items. So far it hasn't been bad at all (although I'm still on level 208) so I guess I can go until at least 229 but we'll see about that. I would very much like to get at least the exp. boosters from level 230.

Should I pause the EB for a second and give Zoroark a couple of Raise MAX Levels and go grind exp for it though?