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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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Do you still have two Meowths?
toythatkills
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Without knowing what Camerupt's Mega Skill is, that's hard to judge. Finally done with the safari myself now! Saw Gigalith three times in total before Camerupt eventually showed up, and then I nearly lost haha.
We do. Victini is supposed to return next weekend.
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Deleted member 57681
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So my game keeps crashing lately, every tenth, eleventh go or so it craps out, forcing me to hard reset (with a system message). I do nothing in particular, sometimes it doesn't even start a round, sometimes the music during a round stops and it crashes, sometimes it won't load back after a round. I hardly ever quit the game when I have nothing else to play, so it basically just sits there all the time on standby. All other games work fine (at least no other game crashed on me so far) so I guess it's not the 3DS? Can I "reinstall" the game without losing progress?
Why is that? We had only two saturdays of Victini, I think.
Searching reddit I found this this thread.
''The Japanese Mobile official site remarks in the Victini page that this event is planned to be held on an irregular basis.''
I've no idea what's the reasoning behind this decision but it sure is annoying. Grinding Ampharos is just so boring compared to Meowth :/
Joeshabadoo
Member
Keldeo 300 beaten with only an all-in, no jewels (3DS), safari complete only using only one megaball, talonflame capturd itemless, 44K coins in bank, 12 jewels, and sitting on 23 speedups at the moment (Slowbro, Mewtwo, Gengar, Lucario maxed out in terms of candies fed, Banette given 3/8 candies. back to S-ranking main stages after some meowth grinding.
i cant stop lol
i cant stop lol
Aveyn Knight
Member
Phew, snagged Talonflame; that's all the events caught up with so far.
Blasted bird of course broke out at 33%, but thankfully Super Catch Power boosted it to MAX : P
Blasted bird of course broke out at 33%, but thankfully Super Catch Power boosted it to MAX : P
I didn't need to use C-1. I bought everything else and finished with 4 turns left using a fully candied and maxed Mewtwo, Victini, Xerneas and Crescelia. So if you have ~10k and are filling lucky go for it.
Caddywompus
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I gave my initial MSU to Lucario over Gengar. It evolves so quickly already you're not going to notice going from 12 icons matched to 11 or whatever Gengar is listed at on most stages, it still evolves in 3-4 matches. After the MSUs, Lucario is nearly as fast as Gengar, you'll use him a ton and he's unlikely to be usurped by another Mega.
Those are pretty much the two factors how I've been deciding how to divvy up the MSU. Mewtwo was next strongest base power Mega at the time and it's useful during Weekend Mewoth.
After Swampert comes out we need an updated list on number of icons Megas need to evolve.
That's a shame. The RNG gods sometimes giveth sometimes taketh :/
toythatkills
Member
Oh fuck Gogoat. Fuck it in its stupid face. Used 14,000 coins to beat it and did it in like three turns, but it escaped at 46%. Used a great ball and it escaped at 92% and then ran off straight away! That's another 14,000 coins I need to waste to catch the fucking thing now (at least) because I can't get anywhere near killing it without C-1.
Fucking game.
EDIT: Mega Charizard helps. Managed it without C-1 and Moves+5 because I'd at least got the S-rank. Still wasted a fuckton of coins though, haha.
Fucking game.
EDIT: Mega Charizard helps. Managed it without C-1 and Moves+5 because I'd at least got the S-rank. Still wasted a fuckton of coins though, haha.
Pokemon can run after you fail to catch it with a great ball? I've caught Pokemon after using 3 great balls so I thought the game let you keep wasting coins until you were all out or gave up.
They run only if you don't have enough coins for another Great Ball I think.
toythatkills
Member
No, it's random like everything else, but I'd never seen one run after only one shot before.
The fuck is wrong with the guys that made this game? FFS.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Can't level up Gardevoir on Meowth since it has Swap. Of course 3-matches will proc it.
I swear that the Meowth stage boosts the activation rate of any ability whose activation will hinder your ability to get coins. I have never seen so many Swap, Paralyze, Stabilize+, etc. activations from 3-icon matches.
I honestly have never seen this happen. I'd probably quit playing if I wasted thousands of coins and didn't even get to catch a pokemon.
They want money
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Deleted member 57681
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Mega Swampert seems quite easy, wonder if I'll need the C-1 to only get the stone...
neurosisxeno
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What is the ideal lineup/abilities for the Meowth Coin stages anyway?
Honestly, the only real suggestions are to NOT equip stuff like Swap or Stabilize that will remove the coins or cause Meowth to be paralyzed & maybe put a Power of 4 Pokemon if you feel you need the attack boost. Also be a bit careful with a team either being too powerful or too underpowered.
YourMaster
Member
I think the power of 4+ abilities are really useful, they give a big reliable boost and can be triggered/avoided at will. This allows you to focus on getting the line of 5 coins and do the exact amount of damage needed.
neurosisxeno
Member
That's essentially what I was doing. Using easily controllable abilities on pokemon that I wanted to level. I had been using Gengar as well because he's one of the only ones you can easily Mega Evolve in few moves. Playing on Mobile so I don't have the most expansive list of Mega's.
You should not use any Mega or Gengar at all against Meowth, or are you reffering to the weekend event? If so, the optimal team is M-Gengar + 4 Quirky Pokémons or Mega Boost if you don't have any Quirky.
Machine
Member
I find it useful to always have one pokemon with the crowd control ability. It triggers pretty reliably if you match 4. Set it up for your last turn to make sure you get enough points to clear the stage after you've gotten your coins.
YourMaster
Member
4+ is better than crowd control as it gives even more points and it is always exactly the same so you know what to expect.
Machine
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According to Serebii, crowd control has a 100% activation rate when you match 4. Power of 4+ only has an 80% activation rate. However, I think that must be for 3ds only because I've had crowd control fail to activate on mobile when I've matched 4. One more reason to dislike the mobile version.
Yup, I got some fails with crowd control too. They work really hard to make it as bad as possible, fucking scumbags. If anything it turns people away from playing it and not wasting money.
I aways log in and do some events. As much as I get frustrated, I refuse to spend a nickel on it. The game straight up doesn't respect me to do so.
YourMaster
Member
I'm not sure that's true, if Crowd control on 3ds is really 100% with 4, but more problematically, it can also trigger on 3 causing you too 'win' before you match the coins.
But what I meant was, power of 4 is always the same amount of damage, where crowd control is determined by the number of icons on the field.
When going for 500 coins it is down to the wire with just one move after the coin move, so you need precision.
This is what I do. Volbeat + 3 others that I want to level up and won't interfere with coin grinding.
So, I have almost 12 jewels from clearing the regular stages/events
What should I use them? Using for more moves/time when you lose sounds pointless, but the other choices are buying coins/hearts, that also doesn't feel very useful at all
Any suggestions? they were free anyway lol
What should I use them? Using for more moves/time when you lose sounds pointless, but the other choices are buying coins/hearts, that also doesn't feel very useful at all
Any suggestions? they were free anyway lol
Save them for when you need coins (competitions, event Pokemon) but don't have time to grind Meowth.
Right, thanks
toythatkills
Member
I've "lost" a few times when CC activated when I didn't want it to, but I've won far more times when Power of 4+ wouldn't have cut it. Manipulating tokens around means often I can't spend time getting the points I need to actually beat the stage, and having a free 600~ points in the last move has been the difference between success and failure so many times when 300 points would have left me nowhere near clearing the stage.
On balance, I prefer CC, especially with its 100% activation on 4+ tokens.