Topic: Pokemon Shuffle

It seems Mewtwo is the special stage #20.

I know! Those glaceons and snorunts are really bothersome, they make my combos go no longer than 2 or 3. I think I'll go to some expert stages to level up my pokémon and get some coins. Hope it works

Wow, I have less than 2500

I have 210, if only because I keep thinking someday those items will actually help. They never do. I once had 3000 coins, then I spent it on a Great ball that got me up to 70% catch rate...and it didn't work. Did I mention how much I hate the RNG in this game? Because the feeling is clearly mutual...

If it makes you feel better, you actually toss four "coins" to catch the pokemon, one for each movement and another for the catch, so the effective catchability is actually lower than what the number tells you.

I personally consider buying a great ball when you're not given a 100% from it a waste of money.

It's not like they tell you a percentage before you buy it...

They actually do that's their hook to make you buy it.

It's always double.

I mean, you see how the pokeball rocks three times and then the pokemon is caught?

It could fail in any of those four stages, so you actually have to get lucky four times to catch the 'mon.

I also usually just take the EXP and try again. Unless I'm really tired of playing the same stage. Or getting over 50% is really hard.

I must've been very lucky because today I tried to catch a Pokémon and it had like 1% catchanility. The ball shaked 3 times!

Beat Mega Glalie today. Lost 10 times before finally beating it. Haven't used items yet (apart from the ones I got for free and one Great Ball). I wanna see how far I can get before finally using them. I have 12 gems now too but haven't decided how to use them yet. I also have 35000 coins ready to be spent when it gets too difficult to play without using items.

I really don't think this is true. That would make the catchability rates extremely low. I think the ball shaking is just for dramatic effect, and it's a one-shot deal.

Because even at 50%, getting the positive outcome of a 50% catch under the conditions you're talking about would only net a capture 1 in 16 times.

Hmmm I figured they'd do that to make catching the pokemon even harder.

But yeah, I guess you're right, it would be too low.

I can't beat 149. I've tried 5 times. I know it's a puzzle, but I guess it's just trial and error before I figure out the best combo?

You just need to try and make enough matches to destroy the barriers, combo the falling pieces and hope you still have enough turns afterwards to finish it.

I just spent 800 coins for +5 moves and beat it easily.

I now have all of the main campaign Pokemon except MewTwo Y (only tried him once), and I have 10 Expert 'mons. So I guess I have about 11 more to go for now, until they add more.

I was lucky with Dratini, it killed itself before even got to start to shuffle the pokemons

It seems it's impossible to get Zoroark over 50%.

I used an embarrassingly large amount of coins on upgrades and was able to defeat it in two turns, but it's catchability was only 40~%

Thankfully it didn't escape the great ball I had to use because I could only buy one

Got all the Pokemon up to #41 plus Absol.

This still applies, at least for me...seriously, I think I've only caught 4 Pokemon the first try so far. At least 10 have required at least 5 tries, if not several days worth of attempts (looking at you, Treecko). It's really frustrating. Once I get to 50 I'm done...

Seems like I hit my wall to unlock expert stage 20. I only have 6 more stages to S rank and I been stuck for two day trying to do it. I know Togekiss must be some kind of puzzle since most (have to double check) of the pokemon start in pre-set spots but mega Glalie, mega Gengar, and mega Mewtwo Y are the hardest to even A rank.

I can grind Ampharos for exp but it does take long to level up once you reach lvl 6.

Edit: Strike that Togekiss part. played 3 times and only its evolution stages and itself is pre-set, the others are somewhat random.

@CanisWolfred Don't take this as snide, but I'm surprised to hear how low your capture success rate is. Are you making two matches per move? The vast majority of moves should create a match with both 'mon moved. Your progress sounds remarkably slow unless the moves you're making are just really inefficient.

Anyway, I used that -1 Type gift and disruption on MewTwo Y and
got him on my third attempt with an S rank. Managed to make some stellar combos. Love Mega Gengar. Just waited until there were a lot on the screen and then made a match. Led to crazy damage.

I've captured 160. I still need to get 20-25 that I've already captured into S range.