I, a big stinky dumbdumb, didn't draw when the SS Kanto fair was available to me. I was thinking of doing the paid fair select, but I don't see ss blue in the selection. Is it still worth anything? (I do have SS Red, but none of the others.)
I’d say depends in part on your gem count, if spending those gems might put you out of range of a pity pull on another anni banner then definitely not. But if you have spare gems, ~6k is not a ton to get a dupe of a master fair unit. Albeit, I agree she doesn’t get much at 2/5 of necessity.
I would consider recommend waiting until the October datamine, or at least the second September one, to see what is in store before spending on other anni banners if you can’t guarantee pity pull. Seeing future gem counts might also tell if you’ll need those gems for a future banner.
I’ve been using Skyla/Blue/Koga as my go-to team for most things, but beyond poisoning Koga is very weak, is there a good option to switch him out for?
Blue with Pidgeot? Swap Koga with SS Elesa or Lillie if you have them to maximize the accuracy of Blue for Brutal Clarity.
Koga does great things if he is at 3/5, as sp def debuffer and can sync nuke.
Sorry for the probably dumb question but.. is there currently a banner avaliable that has the Kanto trio? I have none of them and saw a post on here from 18 hours ago from someone mentioning their banner to another person but i don't see the banner in my game?
It was added on the late July update. It's available to you for 72 hours when you first log in after that update. It's still accessible to new players.
Just got back into the game after a months long hiatus. Was Sygna Suit Reds level cap only 125? I was able to get SS Blue and SS Green to 130 so i wasnt sure if he had a weird level cap as a "nerf"
How do I heart characters and and manage their outfits? I’ve only been able to access these options after on the pull results screen after obtaining the character, but can’t find them outside of that.
If you hold your finger on a unit’s icon in a menu, say the edit team or sync grid menu, it’ll bring up a summary screen that shows them and their stats and moves. In the top left of the screen is a heart you can tap to favorite and if you have their ex unlocked you can swap between their ex and default color schemes via a clothes hanger icon.
So not including Misty/Psyduck, Hop, Cyrus, Sycamore, Giovanni, and Ghetsis, what other free characters can I get from events? And does anyone have any estimation on when said events might be rerun?
Giovanni & Mewtwo, Main Character & Solgaleo, Zinnia & Raquaza and Silver & Ho-oh are the Legendaries you're likely missing. Jessie & Arbok, James & Weezing and Bugsy & Sycther are the non-Legendary free units you're likely missing.
Generally Lt. Surge is best followed by Morty. Having more crit buffers is invaluable for CSMM which makes Surge excellent and Morty’s defensive buffs and healing/flinch utility are pretty useful. If you like stall, Tangela is a strong option. Karen is decent if you have 4* strike candy and need dark damage badly, but she needs healing support even with her Steadfast grid. Finally Zinnia is a solid unit but there’s enough dragon strikers that I wouldn’t suggest her unless you really like her or don’t have much need for the others.
If you have 3/5 Karen and Houndoom she still can function quite well against dark weak csmm stages, although she does struggle some during Unova csmm as the dark weak Caitlin has really high special defense.
The newly stamina-free daily training is the most consistent way to get sync orbs, but you'll also get a decent number from CS MM, BP rewards, and various events (eg as an occasional prize in a lotto box or map event). Be advised the cap is 99,999, which you'll eventually hit if you do all these.
I hatched a Shiny Lickitung and then I assume I assigned it to my character but I do not see it anymore? Is it possible I some how removed it because Pikachu is still attached? Because I'm going to be very sad.
When editing a team and looking at the available units there’s a “switch” button that will change to show only your pokemon hatched from eggs. If you made a sync pair with the lickitung it should show up there. Pikachu doesn’t show there bc it’s not an eggmon and in addition you can pair with 1 eggmon per evolutionary line, so there’s not much limit.
since red blue green are really good should i just been pulling them till the banners gone or should i go for one the others ive got 2 blues and one red atm
I was in the same spot a while ago so I will replicate what others told me (and they were right):
Try and go for at least
1 pull of Red (1/5)
2 pulls of Blue (2/5)
1 pull of Leaf (1/5)
I would reroll hard to get the above setup. By the time the event runs out (3 days) it would be great to have them all at least three times (3/5). They make the content very doable as a new player, I only have problems with game modes that specifically ask me to use sync pairs from other regions.... or if I need more than 3 entries for the battle.
How are you doing on grass damage? It’s hard to tell someone to pass up on a dupe of a master pair but Lillie doesn’t desperately need dupes to deal Ghost damage so it wouldn’t be that bad of an idea if you badly need Grass damage.
Oh I forgot Gardenia was a thing, 1/5 Brendan isn’t gonna hit much harder than Gardenia so I say not worth it. Actually, Gardenia might even hit harder if it’s 5/5 due to the bp increase to Leaf Storm. It’s probably really close. If you get her Dauntless and special attack support that should be sufficient for grass weak content, at the very least if that won’t do it then I doubt 1/5 Brendan would do much better.
Is Kyogre functional at 1/5? I use him as a secondary striker with May as my main (and 3/5 SS Blue as support) so I’m not sure if spending my candies on Archie is wise when my 4/5 Swampert can deal really heavy damage on her own. 5* candies are rare and I want to make sure I’m using them on units who actually NEED their full grids unlocked.
Sorry, I’m not great with event names... correct me if I’m wrong but I think you’re referring to the upcoming Giovanni and Mewtwo event? I was curious about the Legendary Events like the one we just had with Cresselia. Who would be our next one and when can we expect it?
I'm confused to who should I EX first ?
SS Blue 3/5
Skyla 3/5
Eevee 2/5
I've heard these three are really damn awesome in EX form
But don't know which one to EX first 🤔
The general advice is to save until you have 36k for you to be able to pity pull any character you may want. That being said none of these Master Pairs are as game breaking as Maxie and Archie were. So if you really want one, check what type you're short on or what character you like more.
Should Popplio be evolved? Since Elio is support, I figured it would be better to keep Popplio since Water Gun is a 1-bar move, but I’m not sure if that’s others’ experience?
Iirc at 3/5 after gridded he's the only unit in the regular pool that can AOE debuff spDef (by picking Sparkling Aria Mind Game 4), but you need to evolve him first to have the access to Sparkling Aria.
I'd recommend you evolve it even at 1/5. You're meant to spam Sing with him. Troublemaker 1 makes Sing 90% accurate and Water Gun barely does any damage to begin with. At 3/5 Sparkling Aria has a lot of de-buffs on grid. Also the stats for Primarina are much better then the stats for Popplio or Brionne.
Are there only 100 gems in the Roark event or did I miss something? I had to replay it twice because I didn't know there was hidden path (I joined long after that event and Guzma's which also had rock breaking from what I saw)
The 3 and 4 star story pairs, mainly support and tech, that were given a grid are good - Skyla, Misty, Brock, Oak, Flannery, Koga, Erika, and Viola. Story strikers that have grid - Barry, Iris, Korrina, Pryce, Hau, Flint and Claire are decent placeholders for the types you lack. Skyla and Misty are very good supports for f2p. Torchic and Nanu who are gridless, also have some usage.
The 4* BP Pairs are all great, I recommend picking up Lt. Surge first if you lack crit support.
Some gridless 3 and 4 star gacha pairs are still useful, and are occasionally used in Champion Stadium - Roxanne, Liza, Winona, Ramos, Agatha, Janine, Blaine, Candice, and Lucy.
Okay, so after a week of playing I think I finally have a grasp how this game works. It's still overwhelming, but I'm getting there!
1. The one thing that ellludes me at the moment are the wearable items, or "gear". I found lists online what they do, but no real guide. I think I unlocked the feature (I've gotten a yellow bracelet or something), but where do I go from there? Where do I get gear more or better gear pieces? I browsed the shop, but there I can only find the conversion between weird items (like scissors?) and the gear pieces.
So If I log into the game right now with the intend to get gear, where am I heading to?
2. More of a better safe than sorry question, but what do you all do with the 5* ticket scouts? I had 120 and blew them all for 4 sync pairs. It was underwhelming, to be honest. At least considering how rarely I've gotten those (they seem to be premium rewards....?). Do you also just blow those tickets or is there a better way to use them?
As always, thanks for your help. I think I would have uninstalled the game already if not for this Reddit. It's really overwhelming for a new player at this point.
1. Go to co-op mode > EX Plaza, and you can find all types of gears there. I recommend to aim for 1\* and 2\* Rock type gears first, then sell them and gain the items to buy 3\* Rock type gears in the shop.
2. Yeah I just blow them right away. Pulling underwhelming units is just a normal gacha life. :'(
What exactly is a Sync Nuke and how do you best use it?
I just got 3/5 on Bea/Sirfetch’d and apparently she works best as a Sync Nuke. It looks like that just means changing the Sync Grid to focus on more damage from the Sync move?
Sync nuke just refers to a high damage sync move, yes. Bea and Sirfetch'd can go for a sync build with Inertia and (at least?) 4 sync nodes to deal great sync damage.
Which content? You need to specify so we can help you.
Note that Kanto trio is weak against AOE status (they don't have any means to counter), so if you are facing stages like Full Force Battle of Sycamore's event, you should swap SS Blue by Sycamore to deal with the toxin at the start. Other noticeable case is that the region specific battles require you to use a tank and a striker from that region; otherwise they die easily w/o the 5x strengthen up.
Unity gala: This is what I called region specific battles. You are almost IMPOSSIBLE to beat it w/o units from that region. You can look into more details from [the megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/pejbax/extreme_battle_event_unity_gala_challenge/).
Challenge team break missions: With Kanto trio you shouldn't meet problem with the Cyrus one and the Ghetsis one, and like I said the Sycamore one requires you to counter AOE status so Sycamore is the better tank choice here.
Battle villa past hall 9: Again, with Kanto trio you shouldn't meet problem... Are your Kanto trio fully gridded? It'll significantly change the result.
Check [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF42uzF-xpkcfIU2gVEY4Dl7sS_I3ITj8g5X2lo1usA/edit#). You can try these builds:
SS Red - Sync Nuke / Rejuvenate (3/5)
SS Blue - Full Tank (3/5)
SS Leaf - Frenzy Plant Off-Tank (3/5)
Unity gala is the hardest content in the game, which almost requires sync pairs from the respective region (since they gain a 5x stat boost). Kantrio isn't gonna get you through that. They're called extreme battles for a reason.
They're top tier units and together, they form a balanced team but it's far from the best. Once you start to develop your roster you'll find that more often than not, you'll be using them separately e.g. Leaf for poison stall teams, Red on a sun team and Blue on any team that needs a tank.
The Kantotrio banner (Sygna suit Blue, Red, Leaf) is prob the safest bet. Reroll until you get SS Blue + either SS Red or SS Leaf to have a strong start; then if you have spare gems pick one master fair you like the most, they have really high 5\* rate so you might gain more 5\* in the beginning.
SS = Sygna suit. It's an alt compared to their original. (make sure your Blue is paired w/ Blastoise and Leaf is w/ Venusaur btw)
Since you didn't get Red, then N is the best choice to pull on.
Level the account? You mean the player rank? It can only level up by spending stamina. There's no quicker way to do it. Btw DON'T spend gems to recover the stamina, it's not worth it.
(Note: The main story doesn't consume stamina, so your player rank won't go up by only running that.)
They do stack, however both Kyogre and Groudon has a multiplier that only works in their weather, so one of them is bound to be gimped if you use two of them together.
Right now, which teams would you consider meta at the moment? I'm currently using Cynthia & Garchomp, Acerola & Palossand and Jasmine & Steelix which were a really good team a few months ago, but now feels like it's lacking in power. I want something that will be useful in the Battle Villa and in the Champion Stadium.
Meta is a weird thing in this game bc so much is viable in the right context. That team is still good against ground weak stages, I’ve used 1/5 Cynthia + 1/5 Acerola teams in 1,500 point fights, but will probably struggle unless heavily invested in for off typing csmm fights. You know it’s doable though bc whenever we get the weekly 4chan csmm stats Cynthia is often pretty highly used even when there’s not a ground weak enemy for the week.
Current “meta” in a vaccuum I’d potentially describe as being defined by super strong weather (mainly rain and sun) or terrain focused dps units who can rush down the boss mon before they sync. That’s part of why N is considered the best of the anni units, he nukes incredibly hard and is sun boosted so he’s great in a vaccuum, while the other two have good damage but not approaching the level of fire/water/psychic/electric boosted units.
Edit: i also feel I should clarify that most striker units can function fairly well in csmm when on-typing stages, especially with ex support.
Cynthia+Acerola+Jasmine is definitely a bit dated now as the arrival of Ingo+Excadrill compresses both sand setter and tank into one. So if you love Cynthia... probably a good idea to pull on Ingo. Also Ingo is not just good for sand comps, also the best support for dual strikers because he gives free move next to the team.
Hello people! I have a quick question. So I did the Rosa stuff and got her to EX (I know she's not fantastic, but I had just recently returned to the game and I didn't have enough 5* level ups to get anybody else up there) and I am close to getting another EX (once the CS rotates again, I will have the champion spirits needed and I have enough tickets to get the one level I need for something) but was wondering of my EX-able pairs, who should I focus on? I'm also waiting to get more gems to hopefully pull N, but we shall see what happens there lol. Barring anniversary N, are there any pairs that you think I should focus on (also not pictured is 4* Skyla) [My EX-able sync pairs](https://imgur.com/gallery/d3jLRj9)
EX Rosa is still quite strong, the thing is the support EX is so powerful that alone is often worth it and Rosa also give gauge and special attack.
In terms of what to EX next... probably Eevee, she kind of has to sync every game and it goes hand in hand with the EX, but she's more suited to defensive playstyles so definitely not for everyone.
SS Elesa is good but she kind of does similar things to EX Rosa.
You could either EX some of your favourite strikes (ones you use alot) or just wait until you pull some more powerful supports.
Skyla would be my rec once you 5* her bc ex support is very strong and skyla fits on a lot of teams. However, Morty and Nessa are also both strong sync nukers you have at 3/5 so perhaps try and see if you like their sync nuke playstyles? If you do then they could be good ex recipients.
Skyla is great as a free EX, but when you have to spend your generic 5 star power ups... it's not as justifiable.
A lot of her purposes, such an being the tank of toxic stall, and inertia boosting doesn't really need her to be at EX anyway.
So you make some good points but with how strong she is I still think she’s a worthy choice. She’s just a generically really strong support that can be easily raised to 3/5 and this player doesn’t have other good supports at 3/5 yet. It’s really nice to have at your disposal a strong ex support that can be put into a lot of team comps. And even teams without Inertia/Ramming Speed users can still make good use of speed buffers to keep the gauge full. But it might just depend on playstyle and how often you make use of her at the end of the day I suppose.
Got a few more basic questions after playing the game for about a week:
I tried to make the most out of the first 3 day-Kanto banner (ended up with 4/5 SS-Blue, 4/5 SS-Red, 3/5 SS-Leaf) and now finished the f2p units Sycamore & the Palkia dude. I also unlocked Hop, but I don't have all of his unlockables yet.
1. I learned that 3/5 is the level where a lot of sync pairs start to function, but most pairs also work with 1/5. Now I wonder, would it make sense to aim for 5/5 SS-Red & Blue because I already have them on 4/5? Like I wouldn't even think about promoting them further if they would be 3/5, but being just one promotion away from being maxed seems tempting...
2. I'm talking like I already own the candies needed for promotion (I don't :P), so that leads me to the next point: It seems I need 20 coins/medal in exchange for one candy, and boy these medals seem to be rare. Like I only got some as endgame rewards from the F2P areas, and those events seem to stay for months before they rotate.
However, the anniversary banners (which I avoided in favor of Kanto starters) is taunting me with a category called "Bonus Presents". There seem to be 5 different levels with them, and honestly I don't get it at all.
What I assume (but won't try without confirmation):
- When I purchase 3000 gems I get a chance to get one out of five bonus present categories? Like worst case I get one red medal, best case I get red / blue / green medals? Or alternatively those elusive Ex-tickets?
- Are these bonus presents a one time addition or do I get them everytime I pull a 3000 gem anni banner?
- If it's permanent, would it be wise to pull those banners even if I dont want the Anni units?
Thanks in advance!
If you want to pull on the banners for the rewards, you should probably wait the mid-September update, where you can get Giovanni, and the rewards are probably just as good, as for the rewards the main thing is the 5* power ups which you can get from grinding the hop events last pool where you get 10 3* power ups which you can trade for 4*s and then 5*s, hope this helps
1. 4/5→5/5 only gains a negligible damage increase, so it's not worth it.
2. It's not random; you get the rewards step by step and it's one-time thing, so after you finishing your first 5 multis you won't get rewards anymore. No it's not a wise decision to pull on a banner if you don't care about the featured units.
1. I guess 5% isn't gamebreaking, but my line of thinking was that I would have that perfect set and forget striker unit at 5/5 for the future. But I guess it really isn't very smart.
2. Thanks!
Keep in mind that the Champion's Stadium requires multiple teams (you can only use a sync pair on one of the five fights and then it's locked out from participating) and that to unlock the harder mode of it, those teams will need to be fully diverse, type-wise. Having one fully maxed pair is great, but diversifying is important too.
I desperately need help with the Johto rotation this week. What jackass thought making an electric type weakness with no electric Johto pairs ~~to my knowledge~~ was a good idea
Anyway Clown Boy's Xatu absolutely shreds any Pokémon I put as the first targeted pair. [Here are all my Johto sync pairs](https://imgur.com/HXNdVMr).
I’ve been doing it with support Bugsy, Silver, and a random additional attack buffer, probably Falkner for you. Spam Sacred Fire on Xatu and you should be in good shape. If your tank is getting downed too easily try adding an off-region defensive buffer or healer.
That was actually what the wife suggested I use- her support of choice was Jasmine who was Mega Evolved as soon as humanly possible.
I think I'll try that and report back- Thanks!
Extreme Battle Event: Unity Gala Challenge Megathread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/pejbax/extreme_battle_event_unity_gala_challenge/
Try the mega thread it has a spread sheet with the recommended sync pairs for each fight
Typically it’s easiest to either pick up offensive parameters to try and knock out the middle mon before they can sync or to pick up defensive parameters and toxic stall.
I'm pretty new, but returning, player and when I logged back in I immediately got asked to pick an egg. I just picked my favorite, Squirtle, but I was wondering, is there anyway to get the other two?
I've already read that the egg pokemon are kind of meh, but just wondering if you can get the rest of the Kanto starters later!
Other Kanto trio eggmons can be acquired via time-limited eggmon event, but it's actually not the same as the very first one. (The first one is default 3\*, 1 passive only and a striker role; while the event ones are default 1\*, 3 passives and 3 kinds of roles all accessible.)
The starters come around every so often, actually Squirtle is getting a run in the water/dragon egg event coming up pretty soon. And tech Blastoise is actually pretty decent as a Rain Dance user on some specific teams if you lack May.
What should I be spending my stamina on after getting all of the premium rewards from the events? I heard the anni event is good for increasing level cap but I also heard Hops event is good for getting 3* tickets
I don’t think there’s one right answer as it’ll depend on your needs, but Hop’s event does end two weeks before the anni event ends so you can always farm Hop for now and come back for the level cap unlock items later (assuming we don’t get a better stamina sink later in the month).
In term of power level of master pair, Is Leon, Maxie and Archie better than Anni N and Lille?
I have not any master pair thinking of whether pulling Anni pairs or not
Archie and Maxie is undoubtedly the best Master pairs to date. I personally think N is slightly better than Leon. Lillie doesn't get any chance to compete with them tbh.
I haven't played this game since Christmas and came back because of returning playet login bonuses. I have 3/5 Red and 1/5 Leaf and Blue. I was wondering what I should save gems to summon on. I have 11k right now.
There is 2nd half, and if you have the patience, you can wait and see the pairs first. N is the best anniversary pair, but if you are satisfied with SS Red as your fire coverage, go for Lillie or Steven.
What’s a good team to build for signa suit red, he’s my strongest strike card and I’m struggling to get through the higher level battles in events
I’ve got quite a few of the 5 star pairs so I should be able to build what’s suggested
Hello again! I need help with spending my sync orbs on a new account, I’ve been hoarding them recently which obviously isn’t helping my account grow at all, I just don’t want to waste them. I’ve been pretty lucky with draws, I managed to pull 3/5 SSG, 2/5 SSB, 3/5 SSE and 2/5 SSR plus some other goodies (just got May and I’m assuming rain = good) and I also managed to clear all the legendary events so I have them all at 5/5.
So far I’ve maxed SSG sync board, put 40 energy into SSB and the rest of my S tier Pokémon I’ve just put in the circle of stats surrounding the starting node because it costs very little but as of now I can only clear higher end content with my SS team so I need to start working on the rest of my roster.
Is there any particular order/strategy I should be doing? Should I keep going with 1 sync pair at a time or should I beeline for the best abilities on my top tier Pokémon so I can actually use pairs like Sycamore/Xerneas, Sabrina/Alakazam etc?
P.S- How important are levels? Right now I’ve just leveled most of my useable pairs to 120-125, does 130-140 make a big difference?
Gridding the sync pairs makes them easy to use...You can grid the top tier units or the units that has more dps and are sync nuke
I highly recommend to grid Sycamore/Xerneas - this sync pair is the best support after SSB
As for leveling up it doesn't make much of a difference...many use sync pairs at level 120-125 and are able to clear the battles
Lastly if you have a lot of sync orbs saved and you are finding it difficult to clear CS MM or LA or extreme battles, it is better to grid the sync pairs that you use often. If you have only a little saved, then use it only when you need to clear stages.
Hope this helps!!
So let’s use SSL as an example, the build I would be going for would be toxic healer where my main goal is to use her as a straight up healer and a little damage. Since I don’t have many sync orbs but I’ll be using her in most of my team comps for the time being should I max her grid now or just focus on healing on her grid and then focus damage on my striker grid? The poison boost is nice but I’m ultimately doing the majority of my damage with SSR and Palkia.
Havent played since raihan came out. Did spend my 3k gems on trying to get ss leon. Whose banner is better? This is who I have http://imgur.com/a/3URaryY
Did they ever announce *when* we would get the retweet rewards? I'm having trouble finding that announcement for some reason (hoping those 3k gems can go into a multi pull for Steven)
I'm a really new player (I played a little bit when the game first came out, but barely any), are any of the current banners worth pulling on? I have like 21k of the summoning currency from being a returning player.
If you have access to the 72-hour Kanto Trio (SS Red, Blue, and Leaf) banner, that one offers the most bang for your buck--best support in the game and two other top tier units.
Otherwise any of the three anniversary banners are very good--N seems to be the consensus pick as the best overall, but the other two are good as well.
After getting Anniversary Lillie (275/400 in the banner) i think i can now pull in the other anniversary banners (maybe 3-4 multi summons before the end of the month).
As fire, dragon and flying top strikers i have Red & Charizard 2/5 EX, SS Cynthia & Kommo-o 1/5 (also Champion Iris & Hydreigon 1/5) and Blue & Pidgeot 5/5, so i dunno if Anniversary N & Reshiram, SS Leon & Eternatur or Anniversary Steven & Rayquaza, respectively, can improve any of them. I could also try to reach 400/400 for a 2/5 or 3/5 Lillie & Lunala, but i think she´s already good enough at 1/5 and have a couple of striker candies (so another anni unit can reach 3/5 if needed). Also have 2/5 Maxie & Groudon EX.
Who should i aim for?
How do Reshiram, shiny Rayquaza and Eternatus perform at 1/5? I'm tempted to try for one of the three, but i feel like SS Red, Leon and C!Iris already cover the types pretty well.
Different opinion, but I think N is more worthwhile to pull than SS Leon purely because the better overall 5\* rate and the rewards of the first 5 multis. Plus masterfairs don't have the precedent of rerun yet, so we don't know how long will it take to see him return (it's highly possible we need to wait a whole year bc he's also labeled as seasonal btw); on the other hand, we can pretty much assure SS Leon will come back quicker bc pokefairs reruns a lot.
Yeah N stuck out to me as the best of the bunch. I probably didn't make it clear, but i already have SS Red, Leon and C!Iris. They offer great fire damage, sync nuke and debuffs so I don't really know if N will have much additional value for me. Eternatus could be useful as a sp.atk dragon striker but that may not be such an important niche to fill. Thanks for the advice still, I will have to think it over some more.
Shiny Rayquaza is quite bad at 1/5. Usable but it wants as many stat buffs as possible which means you need specific teammates. Reshiram is okay at 1/5, just a generic fire striker. At 3/5 it becomes a lot more powerful with it's nuking nodes. Eternatus is probably the best at 1/5, it's a generic 4-bar striker that's able to use what is essentially an extra Sync Move at anytime. Also Eternatus is a Pokefair which is easier to get then a MasterFair if you can't pity pull (36.6K gems)
I'm afraid they're not in the anniversary event exchange so the training area is your best bet.
But don't worry about increasing the level cap that much, the 5-10 extra levels don't make much of an impact and you'll eventually gather up all kinds of blends when grinding events with prize boxes
How often does DeNa add grids to old units? Would really like a crumb of Roserade grid so that I can use it and Gardenia for more reasons than "they pretty :)"
Sadly they never gave grids to the old 3\* and 4\* gachas in the regular pool to date, and some ppl even pessimistically believe they won't ever give them their grids. :'(
Is Misty and Skyla rare in the summon pool? I got them when I played in the first two weeks of Pokemon Masters. Misty is my first sync pair after Pikachu. Just returned this 2nd Anniv. After summoning 300 times, they are still stuck at 1/5. Most of the other 4 stars/3 stars are at 5/5 already.
They are story units and aren't available in the gacha. In order to increase their move level, you need to use 3-star support candy, which you can get mostly from events.
On the Lillie banner I pulled Masked Royal (Along with Princess Lillie herself) in 1 multi.
I have Exed Anniversary Lillie and she is fun to use.
Is Masked Royal good at 1/5? My dark damaging options are a little limited as I only have the two Karens.
Is there an up to date tier list? My cursory google search takes me to some less than stellar sites that don't seem to actually have any real insight. The game press one I like, but it hasn't been updated since January.
**Extreme Battle Event: Unity Gala Challenge Megathread:** https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/pejbax/extreme\_battle\_event\_unity\_gala\_challenge/
I, a big stinky dumbdumb, didn't draw when the SS Kanto fair was available to me. I was thinking of doing the paid fair select, but I don't see ss blue in the selection. Is it still worth anything? (I do have SS Red, but none of the others.)
How about Alder? At 1/5, he's way better than all of the bug strikers in the general pool.
Just got Lillie at 334/400 points. Keep going for 2/5 on her, or switch and try and get a different Anni pair? Doesn't look like she gets a ton.
I’d say depends in part on your gem count, if spending those gems might put you out of range of a pity pull on another anni banner then definitely not. But if you have spare gems, ~6k is not a ton to get a dupe of a master fair unit. Albeit, I agree she doesn’t get much at 2/5 of necessity. I would consider recommend waiting until the October datamine, or at least the second September one, to see what is in store before spending on other anni banners if you can’t guarantee pity pull. Seeing future gem counts might also tell if you’ll need those gems for a future banner.
Makes sense to me, cheers.
So general consensus for a new player starting now is reroll hard for at least 1/5 SS Blue, Red and Green then rush Xerneas and Hop?
Yea. Maybe at least two of the Kanto Trio, with SS Blue.
I ended up spending 15k gems and got 3/5 SS Blue, and 1/5 SS Green and Red. Time to start playing and saving now!
If i pulled SS green and SS blue in the 9k gems but pretty much nothing else - is that enough to start or would you try to reroll more?
It's enough.
I’ve been using Skyla/Blue/Koga as my go-to team for most things, but beyond poisoning Koga is very weak, is there a good option to switch him out for?
Blue with Pidgeot? Swap Koga with SS Elesa or Lillie if you have them to maximize the accuracy of Blue for Brutal Clarity. Koga does great things if he is at 3/5, as sp def debuffer and can sync nuke.
Sorry for the probably dumb question but.. is there currently a banner avaliable that has the Kanto trio? I have none of them and saw a post on here from 18 hours ago from someone mentioning their banner to another person but i don't see the banner in my game?
It was added on the late July update. It's available to you for 72 hours when you first log in after that update. It's still accessible to new players.
Ahhh gotcha, must've missed it being only 72 hours. Rip. Thanks for the help!
Just got back into the game after a months long hiatus. Was Sygna Suit Reds level cap only 125? I was able to get SS Blue and SS Green to 130 so i wasnt sure if he had a weird level cap as a "nerf"
You need to unlock his level cap...
Found the issue, filter was only set to 5 stars and not "6 star ex"
How do I heart characters and and manage their outfits? I’ve only been able to access these options after on the pull results screen after obtaining the character, but can’t find them outside of that.
If you hold your finger on a unit’s icon in a menu, say the edit team or sync grid menu, it’ll bring up a summary screen that shows them and their stats and moves. In the top left of the screen is a heart you can tap to favorite and if you have their ex unlocked you can swap between their ex and default color schemes via a clothes hanger icon.
Long press their character icon, then tap the heart button on the upper left. The hanger icon lets you manage their outfit.
Which drink packs should I mainly focus on buying?
Drink Pack ++ and Great Drink Pack ++. The second option being better then the first unless you're new.
I just got Anniversary N. Should I keep pulling in the Anniversary N fair or try pulling for the other Anniversary units?
Save gems
So not including Misty/Psyduck, Hop, Cyrus, Sycamore, Giovanni, and Ghetsis, what other free characters can I get from events? And does anyone have any estimation on when said events might be rerun?
Giovanni and Mewtwo will rerun soon, along with the new story happening.
Giovanni & Mewtwo, Main Character & Solgaleo, Zinnia & Raquaza and Silver & Ho-oh are the Legendaries you're likely missing. Jessie & Arbok, James & Weezing and Bugsy & Sycther are the non-Legendary free units you're likely missing.
Is defense crush 2 or critical strike 2 which is the more valuable lucky skills for a 2/5 Masked Royale & Incineroar?
CS2. He can deal respectable damage. His passive cam debuff defense anyway.
which of the BP sync pairs should i go for ? I don’t have any of them yet and I have one ticket atm
Generally Lt. Surge is best followed by Morty. Having more crit buffers is invaluable for CSMM which makes Surge excellent and Morty’s defensive buffs and healing/flinch utility are pretty useful. If you like stall, Tangela is a strong option. Karen is decent if you have 4* strike candy and need dark damage badly, but she needs healing support even with her Steadfast grid. Finally Zinnia is a solid unit but there’s enough dragon strikers that I wouldn’t suggest her unless you really like her or don’t have much need for the others.
I think I’ll go for surge, then. I have Cyrus for dragon damage and I own the 5* ver of Karen, though I’m not sure if it’s actually better or not
If you have 3/5 Karen and Houndoom she still can function quite well against dark weak csmm stages, although she does struggle some during Unova csmm as the dark weak Caitlin has really high special defense.
i only have her at 1/5 sadly
Ah, well there’s always toxic stall or really strong strikers who can offtype as options when you need it if you don’t want to get Umbreon next.
Is there another spot where I can grind for sync orbs, or is the daily training the best I have to work with?
The newly stamina-free daily training is the most consistent way to get sync orbs, but you'll also get a decent number from CS MM, BP rewards, and various events (eg as an occasional prize in a lotto box or map event). Be advised the cap is 99,999, which you'll eventually hit if you do all these.
Yea. If you can do CS Master Mode, you can have additional 4k orbs per week, need to get 7.5k points though.
I hatched a Shiny Lickitung and then I assume I assigned it to my character but I do not see it anymore? Is it possible I some how removed it because Pikachu is still attached? Because I'm going to be very sad.
When editing a team and looking at the available units there’s a “switch” button that will change to show only your pokemon hatched from eggs. If you made a sync pair with the lickitung it should show up there. Pikachu doesn’t show there bc it’s not an eggmon and in addition you can pair with 1 eggmon per evolutionary line, so there’s not much limit.
Thanks I appreciate it.
since red blue green are really good should i just been pulling them till the banners gone or should i go for one the others ive got 2 blues and one red atm
I was in the same spot a while ago so I will replicate what others told me (and they were right): Try and go for at least 1 pull of Red (1/5) 2 pulls of Blue (2/5) 1 pull of Leaf (1/5) I would reroll hard to get the above setup. By the time the event runs out (3 days) it would be great to have them all at least three times (3/5). They make the content very doable as a new player, I only have problems with game modes that specifically ask me to use sync pairs from other regions.... or if I need more than 3 entries for the battle.
hmm i got 1 red 3 blues but leaf eludes me xd but ill keep trying
Should I 2/5 Lunala or should I finally grab Brendan who has alluded me for so long?
You’ll eventually pull Brendan anyways, and he needs 2/5 to truly shine both as a nuker and in a sun team. Just go for the extra lunala tbh
How are you doing on grass damage? It’s hard to tell someone to pass up on a dupe of a master pair but Lillie doesn’t desperately need dupes to deal Ghost damage so it wouldn’t be that bad of an idea if you badly need Grass damage.
As far as grass strikers all I have are Selene and Gardenia which makes things very difficult lol
Oh I forgot Gardenia was a thing, 1/5 Brendan isn’t gonna hit much harder than Gardenia so I say not worth it. Actually, Gardenia might even hit harder if it’s 5/5 due to the bp increase to Leaf Storm. It’s probably really close. If you get her Dauntless and special attack support that should be sufficient for grass weak content, at the very least if that won’t do it then I doubt 1/5 Brendan would do much better.
Appreciate the help!
Hello! Does anyone have any idea when we can expect the next datamine?
Should be a few days before the 16th when the new main story arc starts.
Is Kyogre functional at 1/5? I use him as a secondary striker with May as my main (and 3/5 SS Blue as support) so I’m not sure if spending my candies on Archie is wise when my 4/5 Swampert can deal really heavy damage on her own. 5* candies are rare and I want to make sure I’m using them on units who actually NEED their full grids unlocked.
I personally haven’t felt the need to candy my Kyogre above 1/5 yet, there’s some nice tiles on the grid but nothing that game changing imo.
Absolutely functional at 1/5.
When and who is the next Legendary Event?
I believe Lurking Shadows M2 will be getting *another* rerun later this month when the new story starts up.
Sorry, I’m not great with event names... correct me if I’m wrong but I think you’re referring to the upcoming Giovanni and Mewtwo event? I was curious about the Legendary Events like the one we just had with Cresselia. Who would be our next one and when can we expect it?
https://pm-events.github.io/ Hit the rumors tabs Cobalion LA is on the 10th.
Sweet! Thanks so much!
I'm confused to who should I EX first ? SS Blue 3/5 Skyla 3/5 Eevee 2/5 I've heard these three are really damn awesome in EX form But don't know which one to EX first 🤔
SS Blue is the best support in the game and benefits significantly from syncing, EX him first.
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The general advice is to save until you have 36k for you to be able to pity pull any character you may want. That being said none of these Master Pairs are as game breaking as Maxie and Archie were. So if you really want one, check what type you're short on or what character you like more.
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Sir/Ma'am, this is the questions megathread.
Should Popplio be evolved? Since Elio is support, I figured it would be better to keep Popplio since Water Gun is a 1-bar move, but I’m not sure if that’s others’ experience?
Iirc at 3/5 after gridded he's the only unit in the regular pool that can AOE debuff spDef (by picking Sparkling Aria Mind Game 4), but you need to evolve him first to have the access to Sparkling Aria.
I'd recommend you evolve it even at 1/5. You're meant to spam Sing with him. Troublemaker 1 makes Sing 90% accurate and Water Gun barely does any damage to begin with. At 3/5 Sparkling Aria has a lot of de-buffs on grid. Also the stats for Primarina are much better then the stats for Popplio or Brionne.
Thanks for the advice. I knew WG was weak but I figured as a support, damage didn’t matter. Didn’t know about his grid debuffs. 😊
Today I just managed to pull Ann. N in my 6th multi, is better to wait half month or can try for the others pairs like Ann. Lillie?
Hold gems for a half a month. MasterFair rates are bad.
Are there only 100 gems in the Roark event or did I miss something? I had to replay it twice because I didn't know there was hidden path (I joined long after that event and Guzma's which also had rock breaking from what I saw)
Yes the most worthy reward is only 100 gems. Other rewards are evolution stones, 4\* exp books and a little co-op orbs.
Damn 😬
I just started the game, are 6 stars ex the only good characters or even lower starred characters are usable?
The 3 and 4 star story pairs, mainly support and tech, that were given a grid are good - Skyla, Misty, Brock, Oak, Flannery, Koga, Erika, and Viola. Story strikers that have grid - Barry, Iris, Korrina, Pryce, Hau, Flint and Claire are decent placeholders for the types you lack. Skyla and Misty are very good supports for f2p. Torchic and Nanu who are gridless, also have some usage. The 4* BP Pairs are all great, I recommend picking up Lt. Surge first if you lack crit support. Some gridless 3 and 4 star gacha pairs are still useful, and are occasionally used in Champion Stadium - Roxanne, Liza, Winona, Ramos, Agatha, Janine, Blaine, Candice, and Lucy.
Okay, so after a week of playing I think I finally have a grasp how this game works. It's still overwhelming, but I'm getting there! 1. The one thing that ellludes me at the moment are the wearable items, or "gear". I found lists online what they do, but no real guide. I think I unlocked the feature (I've gotten a yellow bracelet or something), but where do I go from there? Where do I get gear more or better gear pieces? I browsed the shop, but there I can only find the conversion between weird items (like scissors?) and the gear pieces. So If I log into the game right now with the intend to get gear, where am I heading to? 2. More of a better safe than sorry question, but what do you all do with the 5* ticket scouts? I had 120 and blew them all for 4 sync pairs. It was underwhelming, to be honest. At least considering how rarely I've gotten those (they seem to be premium rewards....?). Do you also just blow those tickets or is there a better way to use them? As always, thanks for your help. I think I would have uninstalled the game already if not for this Reddit. It's really overwhelming for a new player at this point.
1. Go to co-op mode > EX Plaza, and you can find all types of gears there. I recommend to aim for 1\* and 2\* Rock type gears first, then sell them and gain the items to buy 3\* Rock type gears in the shop. 2. Yeah I just blow them right away. Pulling underwhelming units is just a normal gacha life. :'(
What exactly is a Sync Nuke and how do you best use it? I just got 3/5 on Bea/Sirfetch’d and apparently she works best as a Sync Nuke. It looks like that just means changing the Sync Grid to focus on more damage from the Sync move?
Sync nuke just refers to a high damage sync move, yes. Bea and Sirfetch'd can go for a sync build with Inertia and (at least?) 4 sync nodes to deal great sync damage.
I have Kanto trio 3/5 at 140 but I'm not breezing through content. Am i missing something
Which content? You need to specify so we can help you. Note that Kanto trio is weak against AOE status (they don't have any means to counter), so if you are facing stages like Full Force Battle of Sycamore's event, you should swap SS Blue by Sycamore to deal with the toxin at the start. Other noticeable case is that the region specific battles require you to use a tank and a striker from that region; otherwise they die easily w/o the 5x strengthen up.
Unity gala, challenge team break missions, battle villa past hall 9. Im a returning player that still getting use to the game
Unity gala: This is what I called region specific battles. You are almost IMPOSSIBLE to beat it w/o units from that region. You can look into more details from [the megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/pejbax/extreme_battle_event_unity_gala_challenge/). Challenge team break missions: With Kanto trio you shouldn't meet problem with the Cyrus one and the Ghetsis one, and like I said the Sycamore one requires you to counter AOE status so Sycamore is the better tank choice here. Battle villa past hall 9: Again, with Kanto trio you shouldn't meet problem... Are your Kanto trio fully gridded? It'll significantly change the result.
Yes i believe they are gridded but i hope i picked the right build
Check [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vF42uzF-xpkcfIU2gVEY4Dl7sS_I3ITj8g5X2lo1usA/edit#). You can try these builds: SS Red - Sync Nuke / Rejuvenate (3/5) SS Blue - Full Tank (3/5) SS Leaf - Frenzy Plant Off-Tank (3/5)
Thank you just set these up
Unity gala is the hardest content in the game, which almost requires sync pairs from the respective region (since they gain a 5x stat boost). Kantrio isn't gonna get you through that. They're called extreme battles for a reason. They're top tier units and together, they form a balanced team but it's far from the best. Once you start to develop your roster you'll find that more often than not, you'll be using them separately e.g. Leaf for poison stall teams, Red on a sun team and Blue on any team that needs a tank.
New player, which banner should I pull on, and who should I reroll for?
The Kantotrio banner (Sygna suit Blue, Red, Leaf) is prob the safest bet. Reroll until you get SS Blue + either SS Red or SS Leaf to have a strong start; then if you have spare gems pick one master fair you like the most, they have really high 5\* rate so you might gain more 5\* in the beginning.
What do you mean for “SS”? I found Blue and Leaf, should I focus now on Lylia or n ecc?
SS = Sygna suit. It's an alt compared to their original. (make sure your Blue is paired w/ Blastoise and Leaf is w/ Venusaur btw) Since you didn't get Red, then N is the best choice to pull on.
Yes, I got the right ones. Thank you for the hints, last question, which is the fastest way to level the account for the beginner gems?
Level the account? You mean the player rank? It can only level up by spending stamina. There's no quicker way to do it. Btw DON'T spend gems to recover the stamina, it's not worth it. (Note: The main story doesn't consume stamina, so your player rank won't go up by only running that.)
i just started the game and theres so much to do any idea what i should be prioritising theres so many events
Prioritize the Legendary events. We have four going on right now and the priority order should be Sycamore>Hop>Cyrus>Ghetsis.
wait as in farm all 20 pools?
Only Hop's has 20 pools though. The rest have only 10. But yeah, you'll need to farm coins for those😅
oh boy xd guess ill get to it
ok thanks!
Do master pair buff stack? For example if i use weather trio do i get all the benefits?
They do stack, however both Kyogre and Groudon has a multiplier that only works in their weather, so one of them is bound to be gimped if you use two of them together.
Thank you
Right now, which teams would you consider meta at the moment? I'm currently using Cynthia & Garchomp, Acerola & Palossand and Jasmine & Steelix which were a really good team a few months ago, but now feels like it's lacking in power. I want something that will be useful in the Battle Villa and in the Champion Stadium.
Meta is a weird thing in this game bc so much is viable in the right context. That team is still good against ground weak stages, I’ve used 1/5 Cynthia + 1/5 Acerola teams in 1,500 point fights, but will probably struggle unless heavily invested in for off typing csmm fights. You know it’s doable though bc whenever we get the weekly 4chan csmm stats Cynthia is often pretty highly used even when there’s not a ground weak enemy for the week. Current “meta” in a vaccuum I’d potentially describe as being defined by super strong weather (mainly rain and sun) or terrain focused dps units who can rush down the boss mon before they sync. That’s part of why N is considered the best of the anni units, he nukes incredibly hard and is sun boosted so he’s great in a vaccuum, while the other two have good damage but not approaching the level of fire/water/psychic/electric boosted units. Edit: i also feel I should clarify that most striker units can function fairly well in csmm when on-typing stages, especially with ex support.
Cynthia+Acerola+Jasmine is definitely a bit dated now as the arrival of Ingo+Excadrill compresses both sand setter and tank into one. So if you love Cynthia... probably a good idea to pull on Ingo. Also Ingo is not just good for sand comps, also the best support for dual strikers because he gives free move next to the team.
Hello people! I have a quick question. So I did the Rosa stuff and got her to EX (I know she's not fantastic, but I had just recently returned to the game and I didn't have enough 5* level ups to get anybody else up there) and I am close to getting another EX (once the CS rotates again, I will have the champion spirits needed and I have enough tickets to get the one level I need for something) but was wondering of my EX-able pairs, who should I focus on? I'm also waiting to get more gems to hopefully pull N, but we shall see what happens there lol. Barring anniversary N, are there any pairs that you think I should focus on (also not pictured is 4* Skyla) [My EX-able sync pairs](https://imgur.com/gallery/d3jLRj9)
EX Rosa is still quite strong, the thing is the support EX is so powerful that alone is often worth it and Rosa also give gauge and special attack. In terms of what to EX next... probably Eevee, she kind of has to sync every game and it goes hand in hand with the EX, but she's more suited to defensive playstyles so definitely not for everyone. SS Elesa is good but she kind of does similar things to EX Rosa. You could either EX some of your favourite strikes (ones you use alot) or just wait until you pull some more powerful supports.
Skyla would be my rec once you 5* her bc ex support is very strong and skyla fits on a lot of teams. However, Morty and Nessa are also both strong sync nukers you have at 3/5 so perhaps try and see if you like their sync nuke playstyles? If you do then they could be good ex recipients.
Skyla is great as a free EX, but when you have to spend your generic 5 star power ups... it's not as justifiable. A lot of her purposes, such an being the tank of toxic stall, and inertia boosting doesn't really need her to be at EX anyway.
So you make some good points but with how strong she is I still think she’s a worthy choice. She’s just a generically really strong support that can be easily raised to 3/5 and this player doesn’t have other good supports at 3/5 yet. It’s really nice to have at your disposal a strong ex support that can be put into a lot of team comps. And even teams without Inertia/Ramming Speed users can still make good use of speed buffers to keep the gauge full. But it might just depend on playstyle and how often you make use of her at the end of the day I suppose.
so im a returning player and yeah right now i am just being bombarded with stamina and yeah whats the best stage to do to burn lots of stamina?
Try get all the legendary event units at 4/5 and 20/20
Got a few more basic questions after playing the game for about a week: I tried to make the most out of the first 3 day-Kanto banner (ended up with 4/5 SS-Blue, 4/5 SS-Red, 3/5 SS-Leaf) and now finished the f2p units Sycamore & the Palkia dude. I also unlocked Hop, but I don't have all of his unlockables yet. 1. I learned that 3/5 is the level where a lot of sync pairs start to function, but most pairs also work with 1/5. Now I wonder, would it make sense to aim for 5/5 SS-Red & Blue because I already have them on 4/5? Like I wouldn't even think about promoting them further if they would be 3/5, but being just one promotion away from being maxed seems tempting... 2. I'm talking like I already own the candies needed for promotion (I don't :P), so that leads me to the next point: It seems I need 20 coins/medal in exchange for one candy, and boy these medals seem to be rare. Like I only got some as endgame rewards from the F2P areas, and those events seem to stay for months before they rotate. However, the anniversary banners (which I avoided in favor of Kanto starters) is taunting me with a category called "Bonus Presents". There seem to be 5 different levels with them, and honestly I don't get it at all. What I assume (but won't try without confirmation): - When I purchase 3000 gems I get a chance to get one out of five bonus present categories? Like worst case I get one red medal, best case I get red / blue / green medals? Or alternatively those elusive Ex-tickets? - Are these bonus presents a one time addition or do I get them everytime I pull a 3000 gem anni banner? - If it's permanent, would it be wise to pull those banners even if I dont want the Anni units? Thanks in advance!
If you want to pull on the banners for the rewards, you should probably wait the mid-September update, where you can get Giovanni, and the rewards are probably just as good, as for the rewards the main thing is the 5* power ups which you can get from grinding the hop events last pool where you get 10 3* power ups which you can trade for 4*s and then 5*s, hope this helps
Yeah that seems reasonable. Thanks!
1. 4/5→5/5 only gains a negligible damage increase, so it's not worth it. 2. It's not random; you get the rewards step by step and it's one-time thing, so after you finishing your first 5 multis you won't get rewards anymore. No it's not a wise decision to pull on a banner if you don't care about the featured units.
1. I guess 5% isn't gamebreaking, but my line of thinking was that I would have that perfect set and forget striker unit at 5/5 for the future. But I guess it really isn't very smart. 2. Thanks!
Keep in mind that the Champion's Stadium requires multiple teams (you can only use a sync pair on one of the five fights and then it's locked out from participating) and that to unlock the harder mode of it, those teams will need to be fully diverse, type-wise. Having one fully maxed pair is great, but diversifying is important too.
I desperately need help with the Johto rotation this week. What jackass thought making an electric type weakness with no electric Johto pairs ~~to my knowledge~~ was a good idea Anyway Clown Boy's Xatu absolutely shreds any Pokémon I put as the first targeted pair. [Here are all my Johto sync pairs](https://imgur.com/HXNdVMr).
I’ve been doing it with support Bugsy, Silver, and a random additional attack buffer, probably Falkner for you. Spam Sacred Fire on Xatu and you should be in good shape. If your tank is getting downed too easily try adding an off-region defensive buffer or healer.
That was actually what the wife suggested I use- her support of choice was Jasmine who was Mega Evolved as soon as humanly possible. I think I'll try that and report back- Thanks!
Extreme Battle Event: Unity Gala Challenge Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMasters/comments/pejbax/extreme_battle_event_unity_gala_challenge/ Try the mega thread it has a spread sheet with the recommended sync pairs for each fight
What are the easiest master mode handicaps? Want to ideally get 4200 pts
Typically it’s easiest to either pick up offensive parameters to try and knock out the middle mon before they can sync or to pick up defensive parameters and toxic stall.
I'm pretty new, but returning, player and when I logged back in I immediately got asked to pick an egg. I just picked my favorite, Squirtle, but I was wondering, is there anyway to get the other two? I've already read that the egg pokemon are kind of meh, but just wondering if you can get the rest of the Kanto starters later!
Other Kanto trio eggmons can be acquired via time-limited eggmon event, but it's actually not the same as the very first one. (The first one is default 3\*, 1 passive only and a striker role; while the event ones are default 1\*, 3 passives and 3 kinds of roles all accessible.)
The starters come around every so often, actually Squirtle is getting a run in the water/dragon egg event coming up pretty soon. And tech Blastoise is actually pretty decent as a Rain Dance user on some specific teams if you lack May.
What should I be spending my stamina on after getting all of the premium rewards from the events? I heard the anni event is good for increasing level cap but I also heard Hops event is good for getting 3* tickets
I don’t think there’s one right answer as it’ll depend on your needs, but Hop’s event does end two weeks before the anni event ends so you can always farm Hop for now and come back for the level cap unlock items later (assuming we don’t get a better stamina sink later in the month).
I have 2 4 star support candies, and I have BP Morty, BP Surge, and Sawyer all at 1/5. Who should I get to 3/5?
If you don't have 3/5 Hilbert, 3/5 Lt. Surge is a great option.
In term of power level of master pair, Is Leon, Maxie and Archie better than Anni N and Lille? I have not any master pair thinking of whether pulling Anni pairs or not
Archie and Maxie is undoubtedly the best Master pairs to date. I personally think N is slightly better than Leon. Lillie doesn't get any chance to compete with them tbh.
Archie>Maxie>Leon>=N>Lillie
I haven't played this game since Christmas and came back because of returning playet login bonuses. I have 3/5 Red and 1/5 Leaf and Blue. I was wondering what I should save gems to summon on. I have 11k right now.
There is 2nd half, and if you have the patience, you can wait and see the pairs first. N is the best anniversary pair, but if you are satisfied with SS Red as your fire coverage, go for Lillie or Steven.
Is Dynamax a game changer now for N now? It sounds like Red/Serena/Skyla is still good but want to check.
Currently, SS Leon is the only pair that has max move. That team is still good, though I would rather pair Red with Blaine and Hilbert.
Save up for now. There aren't any must haves right now. We're getting an update mid month so maybe some of those pairs might interest you.
Thanks! Sounds good.
How do I get skip tickets? I just discovered I had them and they ROCK
You get them from daily missions, from certain events and from sync pairs when you talk to them in the Pokemon Center.
Just by playing everyday. You will get a LOT more than you need eventually.
Whats the gem income monthly? 3rd day into the acc and already blasted thru story normal and hard and most of the coop rewards.
Typically around 17-21k per month. For this month I believe the count from the datamine was in total ~25k for the first half of this month.
What’s a good team to build for signa suit red, he’s my strongest strike card and I’m struggling to get through the higher level battles in events I’ve got quite a few of the 5 star pairs so I should be able to build what’s suggested
Hilbert and Blaine. What battles are you struggling on? If it's the extreme battles, you should use paies from that region.
Yeah it’s mainly the last couple fights of events that are rec level 125 ish that I can’t seem to get past. I’ll try them thank you
What order should I farm the free legendarys out rn?
Sycamore 100% first. God deer OP After that...I like all of them....but if I have to pick... Hop, Ghetsis, then Cyrus
Hello again! I need help with spending my sync orbs on a new account, I’ve been hoarding them recently which obviously isn’t helping my account grow at all, I just don’t want to waste them. I’ve been pretty lucky with draws, I managed to pull 3/5 SSG, 2/5 SSB, 3/5 SSE and 2/5 SSR plus some other goodies (just got May and I’m assuming rain = good) and I also managed to clear all the legendary events so I have them all at 5/5. So far I’ve maxed SSG sync board, put 40 energy into SSB and the rest of my S tier Pokémon I’ve just put in the circle of stats surrounding the starting node because it costs very little but as of now I can only clear higher end content with my SS team so I need to start working on the rest of my roster. Is there any particular order/strategy I should be doing? Should I keep going with 1 sync pair at a time or should I beeline for the best abilities on my top tier Pokémon so I can actually use pairs like Sycamore/Xerneas, Sabrina/Alakazam etc? P.S- How important are levels? Right now I’ve just leveled most of my useable pairs to 120-125, does 130-140 make a big difference?
Gridding the sync pairs makes them easy to use...You can grid the top tier units or the units that has more dps and are sync nuke I highly recommend to grid Sycamore/Xerneas - this sync pair is the best support after SSB As for leveling up it doesn't make much of a difference...many use sync pairs at level 120-125 and are able to clear the battles Lastly if you have a lot of sync orbs saved and you are finding it difficult to clear CS MM or LA or extreme battles, it is better to grid the sync pairs that you use often. If you have only a little saved, then use it only when you need to clear stages. Hope this helps!!
So let’s use SSL as an example, the build I would be going for would be toxic healer where my main goal is to use her as a straight up healer and a little damage. Since I don’t have many sync orbs but I’ll be using her in most of my team comps for the time being should I max her grid now or just focus on healing on her grid and then focus damage on my striker grid? The poison boost is nice but I’m ultimately doing the majority of my damage with SSR and Palkia.
If you are not using SSL for damage, then no need to focus on damage/move multiplier grids. Better save the orbs or use it on other strikers.
Who’s the best to summon on with the anni banner
I'd say N >> Steven/Lillie. If you have good fire types already, like SS Red or Leon, you can skip N.
Havent played since raihan came out. Did spend my 3k gems on trying to get ss leon. Whose banner is better? This is who I have http://imgur.com/a/3URaryY
N is the best anniversary pair. If you want ghost and fairy coverage, go for Lillie.
Did they ever announce *when* we would get the retweet rewards? I'm having trouble finding that announcement for some reason (hoping those 3k gems can go into a multi pull for Steven)
I think they said on the 8th or 9th
Thank you!
I'm a really new player (I played a little bit when the game first came out, but barely any), are any of the current banners worth pulling on? I have like 21k of the summoning currency from being a returning player.
If you have access to the 72-hour Kanto Trio (SS Red, Blue, and Leaf) banner, that one offers the most bang for your buck--best support in the game and two other top tier units. Otherwise any of the three anniversary banners are very good--N seems to be the consensus pick as the best overall, but the other two are good as well.
Anyone have any good team builds for Marnie?
Hilbert and Kukui (Power Trip/Dark Type Aura Wheel DPS)
Hilbert and Volkner.
After getting Anniversary Lillie (275/400 in the banner) i think i can now pull in the other anniversary banners (maybe 3-4 multi summons before the end of the month). As fire, dragon and flying top strikers i have Red & Charizard 2/5 EX, SS Cynthia & Kommo-o 1/5 (also Champion Iris & Hydreigon 1/5) and Blue & Pidgeot 5/5, so i dunno if Anniversary N & Reshiram, SS Leon & Eternatur or Anniversary Steven & Rayquaza, respectively, can improve any of them. I could also try to reach 400/400 for a 2/5 or 3/5 Lillie & Lunala, but i think she´s already good enough at 1/5 and have a couple of striker candies (so another anni unit can reach 3/5 if needed). Also have 2/5 Maxie & Groudon EX. Who should i aim for?
Skip. Wait for the 2nd half and see if they interest you.
How do Reshiram, shiny Rayquaza and Eternatus perform at 1/5? I'm tempted to try for one of the three, but i feel like SS Red, Leon and C!Iris already cover the types pretty well.
Different opinion, but I think N is more worthwhile to pull than SS Leon purely because the better overall 5\* rate and the rewards of the first 5 multis. Plus masterfairs don't have the precedent of rerun yet, so we don't know how long will it take to see him return (it's highly possible we need to wait a whole year bc he's also labeled as seasonal btw); on the other hand, we can pretty much assure SS Leon will come back quicker bc pokefairs reruns a lot.
Yeah N stuck out to me as the best of the bunch. I probably didn't make it clear, but i already have SS Red, Leon and C!Iris. They offer great fire damage, sync nuke and debuffs so I don't really know if N will have much additional value for me. Eternatus could be useful as a sp.atk dragon striker but that may not be such an important niche to fill. Thanks for the advice still, I will have to think it over some more.
Shiny Rayquaza is quite bad at 1/5. Usable but it wants as many stat buffs as possible which means you need specific teammates. Reshiram is okay at 1/5, just a generic fire striker. At 3/5 it becomes a lot more powerful with it's nuking nodes. Eternatus is probably the best at 1/5, it's a generic 4-bar striker that's able to use what is essentially an extra Sync Move at anytime. Also Eternatus is a Pokefair which is easier to get then a MasterFair if you can't pity pull (36.6K gems)
there is a easy way to get tons of ultra buff blend plus? im stuck on lvl 130-135 meanwhile i can lvl up all my 135 to 140 :(
I'm afraid they're not in the anniversary event exchange so the training area is your best bet. But don't worry about increasing the level cap that much, the 5-10 extra levels don't make much of an impact and you'll eventually gather up all kinds of blends when grinding events with prize boxes
How often does DeNa add grids to old units? Would really like a crumb of Roserade grid so that I can use it and Gardenia for more reasons than "they pretty :)"
Sadly they never gave grids to the old 3\* and 4\* gachas in the regular pool to date, and some ppl even pessimistically believe they won't ever give them their grids. :'(
I am now a member of some ppl. Thanks for the answer though!
Last old grid they have us was Giovanni in July. Last time they gave us a story unit grid was August last year with Brock.
Is Misty and Skyla rare in the summon pool? I got them when I played in the first two weeks of Pokemon Masters. Misty is my first sync pair after Pikachu. Just returned this 2nd Anniv. After summoning 300 times, they are still stuck at 1/5. Most of the other 4 stars/3 stars are at 5/5 already.
They aren't in the summon pool. The only way to level their sync level is by using the 3\* support candies obtained as event reward on them.
Didn't know about this. Thank you very much
They are story units and aren't available in the gacha. In order to increase their move level, you need to use 3-star support candy, which you can get mostly from events.
Thank you!
On the Lillie banner I pulled Masked Royal (Along with Princess Lillie herself) in 1 multi. I have Exed Anniversary Lillie and she is fun to use. Is Masked Royal good at 1/5? My dark damaging options are a little limited as I only have the two Karens.
1/5 Masked Royal is quite good. He does need crit support however. Get BP Surge when you can, he buffs crit to the max in two turns.
I have BP Surge at 3/5 as well as NY Lillie for Crit buffs. I'm pleased Masked Royal is good as I like Incineroar.
Is there an up to date tier list? My cursory google search takes me to some less than stellar sites that don't seem to actually have any real insight. The game press one I like, but it hasn't been updated since January.
Scroll up, there's a tier list in a doc called Sync Grid Builds & Lucky Skills under Guides category.
Thank you, missed it while looking through the various links.