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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
- Thread starter BooJoh
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Oh wtf I wouldn't mind that, hope the 3ds gets them eventually.
Well, it's been a few months since the first mobile update... No word yet on any future updates either.
Yea it looks like their focus is on mobile now and they don't care about the 3ds version.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Yeah Keldeo starts getting annoying at level 30 with the disruptions. I wonder if Gengar would work better than Mewtwo.
Same for me. Can't even imagine how hard 250 to 300 are. Will stop at 100, do the new levels and prepare for the safari.
toythatkills
Member
How does one "prepare for the safari"
Max coins, not use anymore hearts from the bank.
Cleared Lv. 100 of the Keldeo escalation battle.
Saving up jewels on mobile finally paid off; bought the ''unlimited hearts for 1 hour'' item in the special jewel shop to clear the 1st 50 levels. Also thinking of buying the item that recharges your hearts twice as fast for a day to farm coins. The jewels are really scarce on mobile (only have 3 left after I used up 2 on the special shop) so hopefully I won't need it.
I'm using a fully leveled team of M-Mewtwo Y, Victini, Crescelia and Xerneas. I'm glad I spent all those Mega Speedups on Mewtwo as so far I've only used items on Lv. 50 (moves+5) and Lv. 100 (Att+, DD, moves +5, MS). I finished lv. 100 with 13 moves left but I always like to buy moves +5 as a bit of an extra insurance when I use the more expensive items.
Saving up jewels on mobile finally paid off; bought the ''unlimited hearts for 1 hour'' item in the special jewel shop to clear the 1st 50 levels. Also thinking of buying the item that recharges your hearts twice as fast for a day to farm coins. The jewels are really scarce on mobile (only have 3 left after I used up 2 on the special shop) so hopefully I won't need it.
I'm using a fully leveled team of M-Mewtwo Y, Victini, Crescelia and Xerneas. I'm glad I spent all those Mega Speedups on Mewtwo as so far I've only used items on Lv. 50 (moves+5) and Lv. 100 (Att+, DD, moves +5, MS). I finished lv. 100 with 13 moves left but I always like to buy moves +5 as a bit of an extra insurance when I use the more expensive items.
Not sure if that's really worth it, that'd only be an 48 additional hearts per day and you're bound to miss some with sleeping etc. I think just buying unlimited hearts for an hour and power meowth'ing would be a better decision, at 1 minute 30 per game you're getting 40 "free hearts" in the hour.
Of course I haven't done any testing at all, but to on paper to me it looks like twice as fast hearts recharge is worse off here unless you absolutely can't get an hour to do nothing but shuffle.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Level 50 is doable with moves plus 5 and disruption delay. The countdown is 5 so you get 15-16 moves to win with no blocks.
I will have to time how long the Meowth stage usually takes me but one benefit of the 2x recharge rate is that you wouldn't be under pressure to play as fast as possible and would therefore be less error prone.
The 2x recharge rate also gives you 6 hearts right out of the bat and you will have 5 more hearts in the morning as the heart meter is temporarily increased to 10. That's 11 free heart already so in the end both powerups probably net you roughly the same amount of hearts and it's just a question of whether you prefer to spend them all at once or throughout the day.
Joeshabadoo
Member
If beating lvl 300 keldeo escalation means using a jewel for 5 more moves I think I will. An all-in coin investment is 16600. Don't want to have to do more than one of those and jewels aren't that sacred to me having 14 at this point (3DS). worth it for two candies and to have climbed that first 300 mountain
Lv 150 cleared. Only had to use att+, DD, MS and moves +5. I didn't want to buy C-1 and thankfully I cleared it, even had 4 moves left.
Remember that if you mega evolve on the very first match of a turn, the disruption counter will stay the same.I don't think the game ever tells you this but it can be a life saver.
I use M-Mewtwo with max speed ups and didn't have to use items. Try to make matches that clear as much wood blocks as possible and try to evolve Mewtwo asap. Once you use Mewtwo's power a couple of times on a semi-cleared board you have pretty much won.
Remember that if you mega evolve on the very first match of a turn, the disruption counter will stay the same.I don't think the game ever tells you this but it can be a life saver.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Thinking about using speedups on Mewtwo. In the 80s now and the blocks are annoying though still beatable if you get lucky. Will likely stop at 100.
MegaBlaziken, Delphox/Combusken, Heatran, Charizard (prefered)/Moltres/Ninetails
For S-rank you may need Moves +5, DD, MegaStart
Source: reddit
I did it with MegaBlaziken, Combusken, Heatran, and Charizard. I got A rank with no items.
Thank you! Will try this combo.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I found for the upper 80s it was better to not make matches and reset the board. Pulled off quite a few last turn clears that way.
I used M-Mewtwo, Victini, Crescelia and Xerneas (all maxed), and Att+, DD, MS and moves +5. Finished with 13 moves left.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
S rank is gained when you have half or more of the stage's turns remaining when you beat it. Moves +5 makes that easier because the amount you need is the same and you just get a 5-turn boost towards it at the end if you haven't spent them.
Oh shit. So, that's how that works. That makes it so much easier now. I always thought you had to beat the stage in under a set number of moves (like 5 moves for a particular stage, etc.). Not just beat the stage in less than half the moves... So, much easier to cheat with coins now. Now I see how everyone is beating them all.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Moves+5 doesn't contribute to catch rate, only S-Rank.
Seems like whenever I spend the coins for Moves+5 on Keldeo 91+ I beat it with plenty of moves left. Heh.
When you trigger Barrier Bash with Cresselia, the break and icon fall have priority over a match you make before the break.
Seems like whenever I spend the coins for Moves+5 on Keldeo 91+ I beat it with plenty of moves left. Heh.
When you trigger Barrier Bash with Cresselia, the break and icon fall have priority over a match you make before the break.
I don't know man. Even with a full max team of super effective Pokemon I can't beat some of them without spending coins. Shit is whack.
toythatkills
Member
Safari stages are 4-Pokemon.
For fuck's sake.
For fuck's sake.
toythatkills
Member
None of the escalation Pokémon are "difficult" really because you would have to be exceptionally unlucky not to catch them before the stages get hard to beat. I would be amazed if a lot of people were reaching level 30 on Keldeo and still trying to catch it.
They only get tough when they become meaningless for Pokédex purposes.
They only get tough when they become meaningless for Pokédex purposes.
Don't join to the dark side!
Didn't know they brought it back though, don't see any point in buying them at non sale times if it's going to be this frequent. I don't see how anyone would need them though unless they don't farm coins at all.. I'm sitting at like 17 jewels just from playing the game and I messed up a few times spending it on an extra 10 seconds or whatever by accident.
Glass Rebel
Member
another fucking safari
toythatkills
Member
Gengar and all-water for me, not ideal but about as good as it gets I think.
Loads of easy coins in the Fletchinder stage but it is a really annoying stage to play. Just got the two rare ones to get now.
toythatkills
Member
It's not difficult, there's not much danger of losing, but previous 3-Pokémon safaris had fights that would be over in one or two turns. Here most go towards ten. It's just pointless wasted time.
I know that, but Keldeo just gets way harder way sooner than the previous EBs.
Lv. 250 cleared but now I'm basically broke.
I need to farm 44k in 4 days; stages 296-299 require Att+ (and M+5 to be safe), and the last stage needs all the items... and a bit of luck. I finished stage 250 with 12 moves left (9 moves used) and that was 40k hp. Stage 300 has 63,8k so I should be fine but stage 200 and its 37,4k HP took me 11 moves. Worst case scenario I will have to use a jewel.
If get 10k from weekend Meowth, that leaves 34k, so 8,5k per day... seems doable. But then I will be broke again and will only have 1 week for the Safari, Arceus and Talonflame.
I need to farm 44k in 4 days; stages 296-299 require Att+ (and M+5 to be safe), and the last stage needs all the items... and a bit of luck. I finished stage 250 with 12 moves left (9 moves used) and that was 40k hp. Stage 300 has 63,8k so I should be fine but stage 200 and its 37,4k HP took me 11 moves. Worst case scenario I will have to use a jewel.
If get 10k from weekend Meowth, that leaves 34k, so 8,5k per day... seems doable. But then I will be broke again and will only have 1 week for the Safari, Arceus and Talonflame.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I'm using Gengar and all Water. Agree that the stages aren't hard but they're annoying. So far with bad RNG I've only caught Boldore so far (base power 50, hahaha).
At least I beat Keldeo 100. Used Attack Power, Moves+5, and Disruption Delay.
At least I beat Keldeo 100. Used Attack Power, Moves+5, and Disruption Delay.
SaintRidley
Neo Member
Caught everything in the Safari minus Fletchinder in 30 hearts, so I'll spend the rest of the week on Keldeo before I return for the fire bird.
Despite the annoying layouts, extra forced support, and minimal ability to combo, the safari mons have fairly reasonable catch rates to balance it out. So there is that.
Despite the annoying layouts, extra forced support, and minimal ability to combo, the safari mons have fairly reasonable catch rates to balance it out. So there is that.