Cute Dragon Here
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On the other hand, first 40,000 is a bit generous for just the stone, no?
Unless the stage ends up having too many people playing, that is.
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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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On the other hand, first 40,000 is a bit generous for just the stone, no?
Unless the stage ends up having too many people playing, that is.
toythatkills
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I don't really care about the Speed-ups that much. You're going to need quite a lot of them to make a noticeable difference to the speed at which Pokémon evolve, and there seems to be way too few of them going around.
Well if you got to stage 100 on Giratina you could have 4 with this. If only stage 50 then you could have 3, which lowers the amount of matches to evolve by 1. Not too bad, but yeah if this is how they are going to be given out mostly, then I'm not sure I'll keep trying to get them every time. It's hard enough trying to get the mega stone at times nevermind finish in the top 3k.
Isn't that exactly why you should care about them? Getting most of them as possible to make them useful?
Joeshabadoo
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best stage for level grinding a good anti-electric team?
Joeshabadoo
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Ampharos. Especially since his type is Electric.
toythatkills
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Shuffle is coming to mobile, obviously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK3DWwQmUxQ
I hope I can't transfer my 3DS save over somehow.
I suppose, but I don't think you'll ever get enough the way they're releasing them at present. They need to sell them, it's crazy that they aren't. Money on the table.
I hope I can't transfer my 3DS save over somehow.
I suppose, but I don't think you'll ever get enough the way they're releasing them at present. They need to sell them, it's crazy that they aren't. Money on the table.
toythatkills
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I'm mainly worried that if I can transfer my save I'd be playing this for the rest of my life. At least on 3DS I can pretend it's not there.
On my phone it'd be looking at me ALL THE TIME.
On my phone it'd be looking at me ALL THE TIME.
I'm glad they aren't selling it, it would break the event challenges and make the pay-to-win the mega stone.
I hope mobile+3ds versions are separate games, Nintendo could probably get away with a lot of severe pay to win shit on mobile that I don't want to see make it to 3ds. I mean, they have tested out the waters with some near pay to win stuff (pinsir, the first safari, massive difficulty jump on the first set of stages added) but they always seem to correct it by the next time they do a similar event and tone it down a bit. On mobile they might just keep doing it because mobile gamers are used to that so there won't be as much of a backlash.
I'm surprised they haven't started selling them either, they'd probably cost at least 20-30k coins but it'd be worth it especially for those at the end of the game. Syntsui raises a good point though, competitions would be dominated by people with lots of speedups or their difficulty level would be set to assume you had speedups putting those who don't completely out of the picture.
toythatkills
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Competitions could equally be dominated by people buying Mega Start, so I don't see how the Speedups would make a difference in that regard.
The problem is if this is the distribution method, then the people who already have the most Mega Speedups will have the best chance at getting another one (except in cases where Mega Gengar is best.)
The "entry fee" for actually placing in the competition has also gone up from 10500 coins to 13500 because they added Attack Power Up.
I've always placed in the bottom 50% of winners in these things so I'm not even going to pretend I have a chance at the top 6k.
Not all competitions have Mega Start though, the Manectric one right now doesn't. For competitions that you can buy Mega Start for then yeah, it wouldn't matter. Mega Start and all items actually are relatively cheap and easy to obtain at any time, Speedups would be limited still if you don't want to spend $ on the game unless they make it cheap which I doubt they will if they are this rare to get currently and are permanent so I don't think they are comparable.
Lone_Prodigy
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I have a cheap terrible screen protector on my n3DS XL. If you look at the screen when it's off you can see the marks on it, forming a 6x6 grid.
I'd argue tha stylus is also helpful because it doesn't cover up as much of the screen compared to your finger or thumb, which can be a pain when you're trying to find matches to make in a timed stage.
Also yeah, finger/thumb might accidentally grab the wrong Pokemon.
Also yeah, finger/thumb might accidentally grab the wrong Pokemon.
toythatkills
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Conversely though, on an iPhone you could play with two thumbs at the same time...
Joeshabadoo
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This isn't that first mobile game coming from Nintendo before year's end, right? This is all handled by the pokemon company?
Robin64
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Right.
ladyluthien
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Just tried the competition and got 27,506. Placed 1,068th. I will check on it throughout the week but I don't think I'll try for it again. In the U.S.
Joeshabadoo
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I feel like a huuuuuge % of the hardcore pokeheads (a group i dont really fall under) have a 3ds, but sure this release makes sense
Pokemaniac
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I can't really say I'm surprised. I'm not going to bother with this unless it can share a save file with the 3DS version, though.
Actually, thinking about it, the 3DS version of this game has you log in with your NNID. I wonder if this could be one of the first games to take advantage of Nintendo's new online services.
Thanks for posting this. I have no desire to play this on a mobile given how many hours I've put into my 3DS save (50+, which I know isn't even close to some people on here!), so I wouldn't want to start again. But I'm sure this will make a lot of money on mobile.
Makes sense, that's what I was assuming but wanted to see if I was missing something. Also, I have 2 mega speedups. Has it been determined what the best Pokemon to use them on is yet?
toythatkills
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To me, the move from 11>10 for Gengar is actually pretty good. When you make a match in an L or a cross shape, the token which is part of both matches counts twice. So two matches of three uses five tokens and counts for six. One match of four after that means that on a lot of grids you can evolve Gengar in two turns. Occassionally even one turn with a combo or a lucky drop.
Lone_Prodigy
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Guess I'm grinding coins this week for one full item Manectric run. Also going to level up Stunfisk to replace Donphan.
Can't crack 10k without items.
Can't crack 10k without items.
Caddywompus
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I don't think Banette is a good choice because even if you have all 4 MSU it will only make him as fast as Mewtwo Y. If you prefer that ability for Weekend Meowth it's better to speed up Mewtwo Y who has three mega boosters as support.
Mewtwo Y is the most power Mega and isn't likely to be replaced by another Psychic. I think he's the safest bet to max out without fearing regret.
toythatkills
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Mewtwo removes disruptions, doesn't it? That makes it a poor choice for Meowth
It's fine as long as you don't move it physically, which should not happen often if you're aiming to make chains.
SenorArdilla
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Still holding steady above 500th place for now.
EDIT:
Dropped below rank 500.
EDIT:
Dropped below rank 500.
ratcliffja
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I'm a little over 7K in rank without items. I'm wondering if it's worth using all items available or if I should just go with the bonus damage. I might do all 3 just to be safe, I suppose.
I'd just get a complexity -1 aswell, only 9k coins and you'll make it back in no time from Meowth. Assuming you want the mega speedup that is.
Are you in EU? If it helps any, my old score was 32,790 at rank 1,389 and now I'm 43,498 at rank 202 (as of ~4 hours ago)
Is that with or without items? I could only get around 10k without items but buying all items gave me a score of 43.5k so they definitely help a ton.