I did that before lol. Kept it on for like 15 seconds just so I could sync.
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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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toythatkills
Member
All Pokémon caught and all stages S-ranked!
Back up to date at last, at least for a few more hours.
Back up to date at last, at least for a few more hours.
Thank you.
ladyluthien
Member
I'm currently ranked 3,058th with a score of 44,194.
I won't be trying again, don't feel like it this time around.
I won't be trying again, don't feel like it this time around.
I'm almost there. Just have 2 stages left to s-rank and for them to rerun the Banette megastone event and I'll be caught up
SenorArdilla
Member
Use Ditto. Seriously though, how are those scores still up?
Hmmm, after all the hackers being removed, just near the 2900 range. I guess I should be safe & stay above 3800, but maybe I'll try one more time closer to the end of the deadline if I'm getting a bit too close to that cutoff rank.
Edit: 30 minutes let & I'm ranked 3283. Uuuggghhhhh, getting closer to that cutoff rank. Better keep an eye on it, though I see 3 more hackers at the top.
Edit 2: Update:
- Mega Absol's ability erases Pokemon with three lines from upper right to lower left, takes 3 Mega Speedups
- Dusknoir is available until the 26th, base attack
& ability
- OH GOD A NEW POKEMON SAFARI UUUGGGHHHH
Edit: 30 minutes let & I'm ranked 3283. Uuuggghhhhh, getting closer to that cutoff rank. Better keep an eye on it, though I see 3 more hackers at the top.
Edit 2: Update:
- Mega Absol's ability erases Pokemon with three lines from upper right to lower left, takes 3 Mega Speedups
- Dusknoir is available until the 26th, base attack
70
last ditch effort
SaintRidley
Neo Member
Dusknoir standalone stage, safari with zubat, golbat, crobat, duskull, dusclops, pumpkaboo, and gourgeist.
Hopefully nothing else is hidden in there.
Hopefully nothing else is hidden in there.
So Flying & Ghost type Pokemon are in the Safari, correct? Electric, Rock, & Ice seem to be good against Flying. Ghost is weak against Dark & Ghost, so....not sure what would be a good team, but it does seem to only be 3 Pokemon stages.
Oh, game actually will tell you all the characters & suggests Ground, Dark, & Ghost.
............huh, think this is meant to be a Halloween themed updated?
Oh, game actually will tell you all the characters & suggests Ground, Dark, & Ghost.
............huh, think this is meant to be a Halloween themed updated?
Pastebin says there isn't.
Crobat and Dusclops have a 3.3% chance to appear with a high catch rate. Its a fair safari
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Hard for me to hate on a Safari themed around ghost Pokemon.
SaintRidley
Neo Member
All but Crobat and Gourgeist caught from the safari.
Pumpkaboo is a coin stage and spawns more coins.
Pumpkaboo is a coin stage and spawns more coins.
Pokemaniac
Member
So Absol is the first Mega Stone I've missed. This seems to confirm my suspicion that getting the Mega Stones is basically impossible unless you use all items. This isn't quite enough to convince me to quit the game, but it certainly has me considering it.
Aveyn Knight
Member
I got a good score with Mega Lucario without items but I dunno what the cut off is.
Unless you want the mega speed up, I don't think complexity -1 is needed. But items are definitely helpful.
Joeshabadoo
Member
farming coins on meowth combined with check-in coins its easy to get enough for two-three all items mega absol attempts after 2 days, also an all MAX level lucario team with the right support super effectives can easily make the mega stone cut off w/o items. you wont get the speedup, but whatever
Pokemaniac
Member
I could have gotten all items through Meowth farming, but I don't particularly consider that fun. I figured that just two items should be more than enough to just get the stone, but I was mistaken.
It's become increasingly clear to me that compulsion to complete the Pokedex is the only reason I still play this game, and even that is beginning to wear thin.
toythatkills
Member
You definitely have to use items, but certainly not all items. I came 15,000th in the US and got the stone pretty comfortably with only Disruption Delay and ATK+. I can't see you getting the stone without ATK+ at the very least, but that's not too expensive.
Safari info (3DS) from Reddit:
Pumpkaboo 50 BP Risktaker - contains coins - 10% base catch, 2% per move - Encounter rate: 26.7%
Gourgeist 60 BP Eject - 12 moves - 8% base catch, 2% per move - Encounter rate: 13.3%
Duskull 40 BP Block Smash - 8 moves - 15% base catch , 2% per move - Encounter rate: 20%
Dusclops 60 BP Sleep Charm - 8 moves - 15% base catch, 3% per move - Encounter rate: 3.3%
Zubat 30 BP Paralyse - 8 moves - 15% base catch, 2% per move - Encounter rate: 20%
Golbat 60 BP Power of 4 - 10 moves - 8% base catch, 3% per move - Encounter rate: 13.3%
Crobat 70 BP, Poisonous mist -20% base catch, 5 per move - Encounter rate: 3.3%
This is fine if you're using all your hearts every single day and getting 530 coins each time, but many people with jobs/studies/lives can't dedicate that kind of time to it. I can play five hearts in the morning and five at night, sometimes not even that. Grinding isn't always an option. Same with levelling your team to MAX. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to have that kind of free time.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Ranked top 2000 for Absol. My highest yet.
Beat Dusknoir with 0 moves left.
0 coins for subsequent Safari wins. Low catch rate too on the common ones.
I agree partly that the power creep is not making the game much fun nowadays. When normal non Mega stages require coins to just beat, it signifies a balance problem.
Beat Dusknoir with 0 moves left.
0 coins for subsequent Safari wins. Low catch rate too on the common ones.
I agree partly that the power creep is not making the game much fun nowadays. When normal non Mega stages require coins to just beat, it signifies a balance problem.
toythatkills
Member
Are you on mobile? On 3DS I got 200 the first time I beat Zubat, and 30 the second.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The Safari Zone seems to cost coins in mobile without warning. Cheeky sods. I believe it was 190 coins so not the biggest problem.
The numbers are slightly different for mobile. Well Gourgeist really with a base of 1%+3% per move. I don't see how you can consistently do Gourgeist with more than 7 moves left (the iron blocks really make combos tough to pull off) meaning 22% is the max base rate there. Good thing great ball and super catch boosts exist I said to myself upon facing Gourgeist for the second time in a row. I then fought it for a third time in a row.
toythatkills
Member
Hah, yeah, I'd edited my post just before. I get a little confused by people not stating whether they're referring to mobile or 3DS and then I was one of those people!
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Ya, I got like 10 coins from safari or something.
Starwolf_UK
Member
On closer inspection it seems the bug is actually the other way round. It is giving me those coins.
toythatkills
Member
Just Duskull (20%) and Pumpkaboo (26.7%) to get now. Used Great Balls on Crobat and Dusclops rather than hoping they turn up again.
Statistically, the 30 battles it takes for one of them to come round again would be worth 10,000 coins or more in Meowth, so 2,500 is better off spent. Obviously RNG makes that comparison a bit useless but still, in effect.
Statistically, the 30 battles it takes for one of them to come round again would be worth 10,000 coins or more in Meowth, so 2,500 is better off spent. Obviously RNG makes that comparison a bit useless but still, in effect.
The safari zone is freaking me out. All the fights are insanely easy which after the past few weeks of alternating between nothing but crushingly difficult fights and coin farming I feel like I am playing some other game. Catch rates aren't great but it seems to be impossible to lose any of these fights. You get such ridiculous combos on them.
That's my biggest problem with the game. Using items for S ranks, ok fair enough they unlock stronger expert stages. Using items for competitions, ok fair enough. But having to use items just to beat a stage which rewards you with a 40 AP pokemon? that's just bullshit.
Caught Crobat already, 6 moves I think left gave me 50% chance. Used a great ball since his appearance rate is fairly low.
Edit: What do you know, ran into Crobat again not even 5 hearts later.
Joeshabadoo
Member
eh, i can farm meowth five times in 5 min. dont see it as much of a hurdle. and in my scenario they really only need to farm 'all' hearts for a few days
that said, it just seems like he/she and I fundamentally disagree on the fun factor of meowth coin farming
tfw dusclops breaks out of 4 great balls at 80% lol -_-
Welp, went in to see how hard Dusknoir would be and despite the match being absolutely downright awful my final move was a 25 combo that killed him and I caught him at his base catch rate (mobile if it is different there) - all on my first attempt.
Probably used up my entire life worth of luck right there.
Or maybe not, because I already have half the guys from the safari including Crobat and Duskclops. It's actually the base forms that are refusing to be captured.
Probably used up my entire life worth of luck right there.
Or maybe not, because I already have half the guys from the safari including Crobat and Duskclops. It's actually the base forms that are refusing to be captured.
Glass Rebel
Member
fuck, I hate safari zones.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Maybe it's just Pumpkaboo that gives 0 coins on 3DS.
Absol worked a lot better for Dusknoir. 7 moves left, still needed one Great Ball though.
This, the mega stone rewards glitch, and the FB heart trick are actually all the work of a kind soul employed at Genius Sonority that hates how strongly the mobile version of Shuffle pushes you spend money, so they work behind the scenes to make sure the greedy suits see as little profit as possible.
On mobile, some people were not getting the correct rewards after beating the main stages; some didn't receive the Mega Stones, hearts, Mega Start or jewel they should have while others received them even when they shouldn't have. This was fixed and everyone was given all the rewards they missed while also being allowed to keep any extra reward they got due to this glitch.
Again on mobile, if you play the safari there's a high chance that the game will just give you ~200 extra coins if you complete the stage. Works like ~85% of the time.