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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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Lone_Prodigy
Member
I usually bring a Fighting Pokemon on regular Meowth in case I need a last-move spike. Conkledurr works well with Last-Ditch Effort. Right now it's Medicham since I want to level it.
Sometimes if the other 3 are too strong I'll bring a Ghost as well (Banette/Dusknoir).
For Mega Swampert, I got a much better score with Ampharos than Gengar, but that's an itemless run. With C-1 it may be better to use Gengar.
Sometimes if the other 3 are too strong I'll bring a Ghost as well (Banette/Dusknoir).
For Mega Swampert, I got a much better score with Ampharos than Gengar, but that's an itemless run. With C-1 it may be better to use Gengar.
Machine
Member
I've frequently had it fail to trigger on mobile while doing the current safari. Maybe the safari is glitched in some way?
Caddywompus
Member
I think it varies by stage too. The percentage is tweaked were it's convenient for the puzzle. Mega Heracross stands out in recent memory, Hitting Streak was the only ability that consistently triggered for me on that stage.
toythatkills
Member
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Is the mobile version impossible to get into right now? Also, are event prizes event exclusive? I was lucky on 3DS to get a top prize in one or two events, but if I were to miss out on those forever, I'd be crazy bummed.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Can someone tell me how the fuck you beat Mega Gengar? I haven't had much trouble so far in this game but cannot for the life of me get past this asshole.
If you're just starting out, you pretty much have to use a Disruption Delay. The stage is really tough at first when you don't have good and/or high leveled Ghost and Dark types on your team. It's doable without items, but you have to get lucky.
I was stuck on Mega Gengar for a long time, but I think I managed to beat it itemless, or with a Moves+5 and a mega start at most. You'll definitely want to have Haunter on your team. A 'Mon that can delay disruptions, such as Mismagius, is invaluable.
Despite Sableye being the only super-effective mega you probably have, you might want to try going with something else. I remember doing a lot of experimenting to see what could best break the column (though I no longer remember the exact team that gave me my first victory over Mega Gengar). If you decide to use items, try out a few different Pokemon combinations and see how they work before committing to buying the items.
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
Is that how this game ultimately progresses? Requires item like plays which require money? 500 coins a day takes too long to build any reserves. If that's how this goes I should just give up now.
It's not that bad. Once you start getting some good Pokemon, you can pretty much beat any stage in a couple of tries. You can also farm for coins on Meowth as previously mentioned which can net you up to 500 per heart once you get good at it. Saturday Meowth also adds a significant amount to your reserves.
Of course there's going to be bullshit stages every once in a while, but dropping 4000 or so coins for a couple of items doesn't hurt as much when you have over 50k coins in the bank.
Damn it, hackers. I was checking the ranking to get a good idea of who to bring for the Mega competition & I see people using only TWO Pokemon, Ditto (because of course) & Regigigas. It's gonna be a pain when Ditto is finally actually available in the game since that's really the only way to know if someone cheated or not.
I've somehow managed to qualify for a Mega Speed Up (top 700) even with all the cheaters.
Used Mega Ampharos / Raikou / Sceptile / Zapdos.
toythatkills
Member
2,300 coins on Meowth today :lol
A bad Banette run is always so bad. I'm starting to wonder if Gengar might be the better choice after all. It doesn't have the same highs that Banette has, but it doesn't have these staggering lows either. I don't think I ever hit below 4,000 coins with Gengar.
A bad Banette run is always so bad. I'm starting to wonder if Gengar might be the better choice after all. It doesn't have the same highs that Banette has, but it doesn't have these staggering lows either. I don't think I ever hit below 4,000 coins with Gengar.
toythatkills
Member
I pretty consistently hit 5,000-6,000 with Gengar. Evolving it in two turns means almost every turn thereafter is an easy combo.
yeah, but one gengar combo and you're out of gengars. if you're unlucky, you will barely get any in the next turns, let alone next to each other (and even then there won't be enough accumulated to clear enough of the board)
with banette clearing ghost types, one match will result in plenty of combos. so just conceptually i'm convinced banette is superior (in practice, it can, of course, vary from person to person). and i haven't used any mega speedups on banette, yet
toythatkills
Member
My point is that with Gengar gone, it's really easy to get a 3x combo with the tokens that are left, since there's only three Pokémon remaining. You don't need the Gengar tokens to be there for combos.
Banette's combos generally last longer which is why you'll get more coins in a good run, but in a bad run you can easily risk getting barely any combos at all, which is what happened to me today. Like I say, Banette is for sure superior on a good day, but I wonder what the good day:bad day ratio is, because Gengar is pretty consistent.
your second point might well be correct but the first one hasn't shaken out that way for me in practice. with gengar gone you will have three pokemon left but also some scattered coins. those can mess things up easily.
since the 100 coin gain should not be the desired one, you want to accumulate more coins first to get the 300/500 matches. the main perk of banette is not solely the fact that a big combo will lead to coin generation but the fact that the board clears will also lead to more coins dropping into the board, generally an equal amount if not more.
like i said, you're probably right that it's more of a question of risk:reward but i feel like 1) banette with full mega speedups and 2) careful planning with banette can mitigate that risk factor by a significant margin. by 2) i mean (for example) setting up a 500 coin match at the cost of a turn. i've had really good banette runs that way, going for quality over quantity of matches.
that said, rng can obviously make both our stances look foolish in any given case
After 240 tries on the level, I have to say probably not.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Had my first "big" coin run at 5500. Feels good.
I have seriously not met it even once since the safari started. It's the last thing I need since I finally got that numel.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
After getting Banette, I only used it a couple times before switching to Mewtwo. It just evolves too slowly IMO.
A score of about 47000 puts me at 3100 on Mega Swampert. I'll likely need a higher score to stay in the Mega Speedup cutoff.
A score of about 47000 puts me at 3100 on Mega Swampert. I'll likely need a higher score to stay in the Mega Speedup cutoff.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Do they ever intend to bring old event pokemon back? I took a long break and missed Shaymin. 
toythatkills
Member
Do they ever intend to bring old event pokemon back? I took a long break and missed Shaymin.
Loads and loads of stuff has been repeated, so I assume Shaymin will be back eventually.
Joeshabadoo
Member
Your move!
Nice! I've since gotten 3012, but have yet to beat that
It's in the current safari, 0.0000001% appearance rate.
they're hackers, it's not in the game yet
I got the same, but decided to take the day off and not worry about the mega speedup.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Blew all my jewels and couldn't beat my high score. Oh well.
SaintRidley
Neo Member
Placed top 200 for Swampert. Not bad.
Repeats of Arceus and Dusknoir. Infernape is new, and it's a Blaziken clone.
Repeats of Arceus and Dusknoir. Infernape is new, and it's a Blaziken clone.
Robin64
Member
Oh.
You'd think it wouldn't even let people upload a score that has a Pokémon not out yet.