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Pokemon Masters
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Totodile is extremely powerful once you unlock the full kit. I think shes the hardest hitting physical water in the game.
As for me I found my first true roadblockin in Viola/Bugsy. Put a hard stop on my usual steamrolling combo, so im training up new unitsnto combat them
As for me I found my first true roadblockin in Viola/Bugsy. Put a hard stop on my usual steamrolling combo, so im training up new unitsnto combat them
Once you get a strong enough team you can just walk over to the training center and bully Brendan for gold manuals. Havent tried out Empoleon, never got to find another evo crystal...
Also GEEZ the difficulty really ramps up once you hit the pml. Word for the wise, PAY ATTENTION TO THE AREA DETAILS. They will save you a world of hurt.
Also now that ive beaten thr main story (thus far) I find it interesting that the solo meta and co op meta are worlds apart. Might be worth looking into a tier list for both
Also GEEZ the difficulty really ramps up once you hit the pml. Word for the wise, PAY ATTENTION TO THE AREA DETAILS. They will save you a world of hurt.
Also now that ive beaten thr main story (thus far) I find it interesting that the solo meta and co op meta are worlds apart. Might be worth looking into a tier list for both
Breezed through the main story until the last PML chapter against the Unovans. Idk how to get past them. I have Lv. 75 Lucario, Lv. 65 Raichu and Lv. 60 Prinplup. Lucario always dies first no matter what because of Emboar's Fire Blast. And my Prinplup isn't strong enough yet to 1hit KO that ugly boar. Anyone knows a good place to farm buff blends? Strike courses aren't exactly that rewarding esp when the game demands you gather like a 100 of buff blends.
Also cmiiw but in coop are we playing alongside bots? Most of the time the players I meet are too dumb to recognize type matchups and die prematurely as a result so I have to carry them. Like, who the f brings Lucario against Infernape?
Also cmiiw but in coop are we playing alongside bots? Most of the time the players I meet are too dumb to recognize type matchups and die prematurely as a result so I have to carry them. Like, who the f brings Lucario against Infernape?
Try to nuke out Emboar before you start hitting to the main Pokemon. Once Lucario Mega evolves and you use one Pupunch, Close Combat can win the battle for you quite easily.
Yeah the area details hint that Emboar is the squishiest of the bunch, should go down in 1 or two hits. Then you want to chunk down Samurott before Cheren activate Apply Yourself, because once he does Samurott will start spitting out blizzards like no tomorrow. Then you can focus on stoutland till hes gone
Currently using Treeko / Serp / Swanna, and have at least beast the story.
At first I was excited about how (relatively) fair it was, no energy and the 10x with a 5 star guarantee seemed easy to get, But no energy is just mindless grinding at the end and “paid” gems is so bs
Anyways, i got semi lucky with a normal 10 roll after realizing the paid gems thing and got Treeko. Getting +6 offenses in turn 1 is so good, but other paid units are prob better.
Idk if i should use my gems rn or wait for new trainers as the team is pretty set atm
At first I was excited about how (relatively) fair it was, no energy and the 10x with a 5 star guarantee seemed easy to get, But no energy is just mindless grinding at the end and “paid” gems is so bs
Anyways, i got semi lucky with a normal 10 roll after realizing the paid gems thing and got Treeko. Getting +6 offenses in turn 1 is so good, but other paid units are prob better.
Idk if i should use my gems rn or wait for new trainers as the team is pretty set atm
There is a skip button. Its on the bottom right corner.
Also there should be some new peeps coming in along with the blue event so stay tuned tor that. Also yeah its grindy but Pokemon has always been about the grind across all media, from mystery dungeon to shuffle
Also there should be some new peeps coming in along with the blue event so stay tuned tor that. Also yeah its grindy but Pokemon has always been about the grind across all media, from mystery dungeon to shuffle
I’m not seeing it.
What I mean is that rather than auto, you should be able to skip the battle scenes and just collect rewards.
Oh.
In that case absolutely not hahaha. You want to literally just have a mode where you recycle rewards for no effort. Thats not how this grind works.
In that case absolutely not hahaha. You want to literally just have a mode where you recycle rewards for no effort. Thats not how this grind works.
Getting destroyed by Unovans. Croconaw can beat Emboar pretty quickly before Fire Blast, but I can't beat Samurott before it uses Blizzard and OHKOs my Lucario. Running with 65 Alolan Raichu/Serperior, 73 Lucario, 70 Croconaw.
Any ideas?
EDIT: Maxed out Lucario and Serperior and finally beat them by a sliver.
Any ideas?
EDIT: Maxed out Lucario and Serperior and finally beat them by a sliver.
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Against Unovans, since you will face them again in co-op :
I personally use an auto-clicking app, I pick a level and loop through it at work. Currently on very hard co-op Viola to max the 1 star rock gear, still to be as ready as possible to face Blue. I don't have access to 2 stars rock gear yet, you need a team power of 25000 to play the level.
Why not for limited battles like the one that rotates every 16 hours, but they can't implement it on other battles. It would mean that you have unlimited amount of any ressource with no effort.
I personally use an auto-clicking app, I pick a level and loop through it at work. Currently on very hard co-op Viola to max the 1 star rock gear, still to be as ready as possible to face Blue. I don't have access to 2 stars rock gear yet, you need a team power of 25000 to play the level.
For those wondering:
Current list of Recruitable 5 Star trainers:
Acerola, Blue, Brendan, Cheren, Karen
Kris, Olivia, Phoebe, Rosa
2 of the current 9 are boys, and it includes Karen and Olivia. Lol!
Though to be fair there's plenty of 3 star (Bugsy, Candice, Cheryl, Erika, Flannery, Hapu, Iris, Janine, Korrina, Liza, Marley, Maylene, Mina, Misty, Roxanne, Skyla, Winona) and 4 star (Agatha, Clair, Gardenia, Kahili, Lorelei, Roxie, Shauntal, Viola, Whitney) girls.
Yeah, Blue and Brendan.
"What about Cheren?"
Cheren's a boy?
"Yes, and so is Bugsy"
WHA-!
"What about Cheren?"
Cheren's a boy?
"Yes, and so is Bugsy"
WHA-!
In case you didn't know about the datamine, there's two more characters within the code who are likely the next releases after Blue - Lyra paired with Chikorita (capable of evolution all the way to Meganium) and Hilbert paired with Oshawott (like Brendan, cannot evolve yet).
They're both 5* characters of course.
e: apparently hilbert might be a 4*?
They're both 5* characters of course.
e: apparently hilbert might be a 4*?
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not too interested as there is no wifi battling
Might as well, I used my once-only evo jewels on Serperior and don't have 900k to dump on another set for Meganium/Samurott yet anyway.
Just recently found out about using Serperior and Alolan Raichu to buff Raichu up to +6 for Discharge for farming. Makes it a lot easier, but coop play still takes far too long IMO.
Just recently found out about using Serperior and Alolan Raichu to buff Raichu up to +6 for Discharge for farming. Makes it a lot easier, but coop play still takes far too long IMO.
Blue event is disappointing so far. All missions took about 15 minutes to complete, and now I just have to grind 20 times each co-op battle.
Blue is added to the batch of available trainers with a 2 % rate of dropping.
I've heard on Reddit that they might add another sync pair (Lyra and/or Hilbert) during this event so I'm keeping my diamonds yet, hoping to raise the odds to drop something interesting.
Blue is added to the batch of available trainers with a 2 % rate of dropping.
I've heard on Reddit that they might add another sync pair (Lyra and/or Hilbert) during this event so I'm keeping my diamonds yet, hoping to raise the odds to drop something interesting.
I’ve been struggling to beat the Cheren Co-Op on hard, do I need to max out Lucario? I’m using Dusclops(Lv.70), Croconaw(Lv.70), and Lucario(Lv. 75). I try to target down emboar like before but take way too much damage to be able to kill sammorott. Also here is my friend code:8985612767960589
Seems unlikely to me personally, the datamine showed 4 banners total, the Blue one, an Olivia one, a Hilbert one, and a Lyra one. I wouldn't expect any real changes to the Blue banner pool (though I'd be happy to be surprised).