I fully maxed my Angry Pikachu for the last competition (non-RMLed). Have exactly 20 Pokes with 5 or more RMLs and 35 with 2 RMLs or more (my stash is very low at the moment). People are rushing to have a killing (chilling?) ice team, but besides Glalie and Articuno, most ice Pokes are underwhelming, IMHO.
I haven't used a jewel on Victini nor play the Ampharos level like in 4-5 months: since I managed to beat Survival Mode consistently. If I have 3 or more hearts around before going to bed, I start-up SM, play 8-10 stages and go to sleep. Continue next morning.Everytime I beat it means 1,000 coins plus 2.5k in exp boosters.
From Rikaria line-up of fully candied megas I'm missing Winking Audino (!!), Salamence and Sharpedo, but have Alakazam, Blaziken, Glalie, Sceptile and Charizard fully candied and have 25 MSUs wasted on several (including Ampharos 6/9 and Banette 6/12). Still have 34 MSUs waiting for Shiny Mega Ray (any day now...).
Speaking of Angry Pikachu, I actually got mine to Level 20 (yes, lots of Jewels on Victini were used) and Skill Level 4 (3 Skill Booster M's used), and I got Tier 1 in the Mega Gyarados repeat competition with it.
Garrgh… I'm such a dummy for not doing that.
The thought of Meowth grinding didn't occur to me until the end of 2015, so I've squandered a LOT of coins early on, and missed out on potentially being one of the top Shuffle players.
I intend to fully RML Angry Pikachu, however, I would like to hang onto my RMLs until I have more to spare (I only have 11 RML and 35 MSU at the moment).
I might candy Heracross at some point as I've already fully RMLed him. I'd love to candy Banette, but I can't see myself using him often enough to justify the high cost of investment (12 candies), but a RML boost might tip me over the edge with him. I'm currently saving my candies for Salamence (I'm currently at around stage 514), and the upcoming shiny Legendary (assuming that it's Shiny Rayquaza). I'll also consider maxing out Tyranitar, Beedrill and Camerupt (in that order). And I'll also RML Beedrill as well if I end up candying him.
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The thought of Meowth grinding didn't occur to me until the end of 2015, so I've squandered a LOT of coins early on, and missed out on potentially being one of the top Shuffle players..
I remember you posting that question. I think it was Klimbatiza (now lost) who answered that.
Very disappointed with Shiny Mega Rayquaza. I'm yet to encounter it, but its ability is so underwhelming.
Since I last posted, I've maxed out Angry Pikachu and levelled it up with some Exp Boosters and a few Level Ups (too lazy to wait week after week ploughing through Victini stages). I'm currently able to destroy Volcanion with just one move. Of course, it's still very early, but I hope Angry Pikachu proves to be as useful during the later stages of the escalation battle.
I've also max candied Salamence and surprisingly, Abomasnow (as it only needed 3 and I figured that it would be useful for the Safari). I've also given Abomasnow a RML, and I'll consider giving it another two as I press on with the escalation battle and Enamoured Pikachu.
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So, I can't even beat level 15 of the escalation battle itemless. I haven't been going past level 50 or 100 lately anyway, and fortunately I caught him at level 6 so I don't have to go any further, but man this one is pretty ridiculous.
Yeah, but usually I can beat the first boss battle itemless, even when it's level 50. If I am having to start using items at level 15, I'm not even going to bother with this one. I almost never use the things I win anyways, so there's no real point in it for me.
@sillygostly I think that Glalie would have been a more solid choice to candied. (yes it needs 7 instead of 3), but one of the disruptions can be almost fully cleared by it. You could take smiling Snovern (Mega Boost +) with you for an even quicker evolving. My team is M-Glalie (fully candied), smiling Snovern and Mamoswine and I'm usually taking 3 moves on each stage of the Safari.
For the EB, fully RMLed and SL5 Virizion and Bellossom are paying up, as well as Shaymin-L (SL5).
The Volcanion escalation battle is proving itself to be a real female Rockruff. I'm either getting lucky at the last moment with Mega Rayquaza or Super Bolting it with Lv. 20 SL5 Angry Pikachu (which does enough damage to kill it with one move in the non-boss stages).
I hope Alolan Meowth will serve as an alternative to regular Meowth (i.e. a regular stage that offers coins). Ideally, I hope Alolan Meowth offers some more coin over the standard form, even if it's just another 100-200 coins. It's more likely that Gen VII Pokémon will be "special stages" though, at least for the time being.
At least the prizes are much better. But the amount of content in one week is too much. Supposedly you need both Armaldo and Cradily, both week's Great Challenges, for the competition, and both can take 5 RMLs, plus, Terrakion has a RML dropping stage. I'm a bit behind in the EB and I'm feeling that it is either finishing the EB and grabbing 3rd or even 4th tier or stopping the EB (already at 399) and focusing on catching the Great Challenges, doing SM over and over again, spending jewels on Victini and grinding Meowth, or biting the bullet and exchange jewels for coins.
It's not pay to win. It's pay to get to the top of everything, which is fine if that's your thing. I have caught every Pokemon and S-ranked all but 1 except for about half of the new ones that just came out, and I never finish above the 4th or 5th tier in competitions and usually stop around level 50 on Escalation battles (stopped at 15 this time). You don't need all these Mega Speedups and RMLs and everything. I never use them, and still do everything in the game. Again, if you actually enjoy doing all that, go for it. But I love reading this forum because it sounds like this game has become more of a job than a game for a lot of you.
The prizes are great, but all they do is make the rich richer while the poor get poorer. I'll do an all item run a few hours before the competition finishes (as per usual), but I'll leave it at that. I've just caught Armaldo after 14 or so hearts (not wasting Great Balls on such a low catch rate considering that I'll need to grind Meowth for a day just to make up the lost coins), and I'm currently trying to catch Cradily.
I think releasing new RML capable Pokémon right off the bat is a Cradily move though. I wish we could exchange coins/jewels for RMLs/MSUs rather than having to rely on luck-based giveaways.
@Xyphon22 I think is a matter of saving coins/jewels/ For example, S-ranking (which, by the way, I'm way behind you) requires either a lot of coins or RMLed Pokemons/candied Pokes. I could S-rank a given Pokemons using all items or everything minus the C-1 with a really strong-, fully RMLed team. Also, the Survival Mode really requires fully RMLed, skill leveled Pokes or..., a mountain of coins. The first time I beat (besides using a glitch), I used like 20k coins; nowadays just a really skilled-up team.
Still, I get what you said, but the moment this becomes a chore I'll leave it.
Finally finished the EB! Besides the MSUs, it was awash. I mean, received 10RMLs, but used 2 on Bellossom, 3 on Emolga and 4 on Raikou; received 3SBM and a SBL, but used 2 SBM on Emolga and 2 on Raikou, plus 2 jewels, one on 400 (went without a C-1) and one at 500, and 51.1k coins. Thankfully I can focus on getting Armaldo to lvl15 (now at lvl12) for the comp. Planning on just two full items runs.
This is so relaxing...After catching W-Manaphy (on my first 10 hearts or so) and Amoonguss (?) I have very little to do but S-rank some stages (12 away from Samurott) and grind some coins.
Some of the Pokémon look different than before. I'm not sure what they did. Is it the coloring? The lighting? The outlines? Anyways, it takes some time to get used to.
Check out my Gaming Nonograms thread here on Nintendo Life if you are into Picross or other similar games.
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