You can send and receive mini Hearts. Bulbapedia says sending fills in 1/4 of the gauge, while receiving fills in 1/8. Thus, if you get the max of 30 friends, you can potentially get 11-12 extra hearts per day. The best part is you can collect those hearts at any point during the day.
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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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You can send and receive mini Hearts. Bulbapedia says sending fills in 1/4 of the gauge, while receiving fills in 1/8. Thus, if you get the max of 30 friends, you can potentially get 11-12 extra hearts per day. The best part is you can collect those hearts at any point during the day.
Don Draper's Hat
Member
Sweet. But looking at it I don't think that's a feature on the 3DS is it?
I just accidentally wasted a jewel after failing to beat Darkrai in one of the escalation battles. FUCK IT!
That's correct, it's mobile only. The 3DS version has a StreetPass feature instead: http://www.serebii.net/shuffle/streetpass.shtml
Glass Rebel
Member
Oh man, RIP 
Caddywompus
Member
Man I saw that late last night, I started to make a post but I thought I better wait in case any of his friends were on here too.
When the last big update happened, it actually crossed my mind that I haven't seen Kaleo on any of the various Shuffle forums in a while. Your mind never gravitates to worse case scenarios like this when someone is absent. Users come and go all the time but you rarely ever think about the person behind the avatar and what's going on in their day to day life. I always figure life gets in the way when someone goes missing.
Kaleo will be missed. He was always more that happy to answer any question big or small and kept this thread updated with all the info he found.
R.I.P. Kaleo
When the last big update happened, it actually crossed my mind that I haven't seen Kaleo on any of the various Shuffle forums in a while. Your mind never gravitates to worse case scenarios like this when someone is absent. Users come and go all the time but you rarely ever think about the person behind the avatar and what's going on in their day to day life. I always figure life gets in the way when someone goes missing.
Kaleo will be missed. He was always more that happy to answer any question big or small and kept this thread updated with all the info he found.
R.I.P. Kaleo
Lone_Prodigy
Member
RIP
SenorArdilla
Member
RIP
Wish his family and friends well.
Wish his family and friends well.
Jesus Christ this escalation battle is hell. I'm at 160 now, it's incredibly dull because there is no variation at all and the disruptions make it a slog and entirely RNG-dependent, where with luck I can clear a stage with few moves left or fail the same stage with M+5. What a joke.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I agree, I was just thinking that this escalation battle was super boring. I'm at around 110 right now and will probably stop at 150.
What was the last escalation? Diancie? I liked that one a lot more.
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Deleted member 57681
Unconfirmed Member
I was actually planning to go up to 200 for once because I think you get 2(?) Speedups there but it's suuuuch a booooring slooog that I think I'll just call it quits at 150.
Caddywompus
Member
See I hated Diancie, the boss stages on the high levels were ridiculously RNG coin flips resulting in massive coin and jewel sinks.
Darkrai however I felt was balanced well on the boss stages. LVL 50 should always be beatable itemsless and then as you progress an extra item is required at each boss level moving forward. Rewards are all worthwhile with coins stages sprinkled throughout.
But it is a tedious slog from 151-199, feels like a PSB grind without the present drops.
Why don't they incorporate PSB drops in Escalation Battles? Is it because the number of opportunities is capped as well as random.
Darkrai however I felt was balanced well on the boss stages. LVL 50 should always be beatable itemsless and then as you progress an extra item is required at each boss level moving forward. Rewards are all worthwhile with coins stages sprinkled throughout.
But it is a tedious slog from 151-199, feels like a PSB grind without the present drops.
Why don't they incorporate PSB drops in Escalation Battles? Is it because the number of opportunities is capped as well as random.
SapphiCine
Member
I'm stuck at Darkrai lvl 75. Don't want to put coins into it.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
An actual new safari to sink all my hearts into.
Good luck. 20+ hearts so far, only seen four of them and caught two. RNG is a fickle one.
toythatkills
Member
I hate safaris when I have other stuff to play. I want to play DQVII but having to stop every few hours to go between it and Shuffle annoys me to the point where I can't really enjoy DQ because I've got Shuffle permanently on my mind.
Hopefully I get through this quickly.
And more main stages. Brilliant! I'm on 380 and now there's, what, 500? They seem to release 50 new ones for every 30 I get through, haha. I dunno if I'll ever catch up in this game again, especially since they're repeating stages so in theory they could just get further and further ahead forever now since there's no real need for the stages to end once you catch them all.
Hopefully I get through this quickly.
And more main stages. Brilliant! I'm on 380 and now there's, what, 500? They seem to release 50 new ones for every 30 I get through, haha. I dunno if I'll ever catch up in this game again, especially since they're repeating stages so in theory they could just get further and further ahead forever now since there's no real need for the stages to end once you catch them all.
I'm in the same boat, I'm only up to the 360s aswell and I can't seem to catch up at all. Every week there's something else to do that's timed so I have no time to go back and catch up the main stages.
I've caught every Pokemon in the safari except for Swaddle, despite being the one I see the most of. Ah well, least I got the two rares rather quickly.
Also glad to finally have Mega Rayquaza maxed out on Mega Speedups.
Edit: Thank goodness, finally got Swaddle, that was a super quick safari.
Also glad to finally have Mega Rayquaza maxed out on Mega Speedups.
Edit: Thank goodness, finally got Swaddle, that was a super quick safari.
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Deleted member 57681
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Safari done in like 20 hearts, that wasn't too bad. And Leavanny actually seems decent.
Caddywompus
Member
I'm probably near 20 hearts and haven't seen Leavanny once. And if Cottonee doesn't stay in a poke ball, it's staying in the Safari. I've soft resetted 4 Great Balls and it keeps running away.
At least I have a chance to roll out my Snorunt for this Safari.
That took only 2 days to reach level 4. 6 matches with no drops, 1 lost present so around 35 presents in 40-50 hearts. Easily the highest drop rate in the game. Wish this was the standard, but after LvL 4 the drop rate falls off a cliff. That's probably around 15 PSB past lvl4 and I lost count at 16 no drops.
For reference: Freeze (5%, 35%, 70%; Increased Activation by +10%, +12%, +15%, +20%) So it has the same match four activation as Sleep Charm at LvL 5 but the other two matches are 5% less.
And I'm glad Ondore confirmed I'm not crazy. When I faced Bidoof for the first time, I couldn't believe I didn't make a dent in it's HP.
At least I have a chance to roll out my Snorunt for this Safari.
That took only 2 days to reach level 4. 6 matches with no drops, 1 lost present so around 35 presents in 40-50 hearts. Easily the highest drop rate in the game. Wish this was the standard, but after LvL 4 the drop rate falls off a cliff. That's probably around 15 PSB past lvl4 and I lost count at 16 no drops.
For reference: Freeze (5%, 35%, 70%; Increased Activation by +10%, +12%, +15%, +20%) So it has the same match four activation as Sleep Charm at LvL 5 but the other two matches are 5% less.
And I'm glad Ondore confirmed I'm not crazy. When I faced Bidoof for the first time, I couldn't believe I didn't make a dent in it's HP.
Finished the stages and Ninjask, and I think the lowest HP of the bunch was Shedinja. Everything beyond that is either close to 20k or over it. And Metagross has 30k, which has me shocked I didn't need to C-1 (M+5, DD, Mega Start Ray with a 9 Delphox, 8 Ho-oh w/Pyre and 8 Reshiram).
50+ hearts later, finally have all safari except Leavanny. I don't want to grind to find it but.... completion.... I haven't even SEEN it let alone wasted coins to try and catch it (as I assume I will).
EDIT: Bitching works! 3 tries later he appeared! Didn't realize it was a coin stage too. Very easy to beat once MGengar mega evolved. Bastard broke out at 44% like I knew he would, but caught him with the great ball.
Done with this, onto main stage shenanigans.
EDIT: Bitching works! 3 tries later he appeared! Didn't realize it was a coin stage too. Very easy to beat once MGengar mega evolved. Bastard broke out at 44% like I knew he would, but caught him with the great ball.
Done with this, onto main stage shenanigans.
toythatkills
Member
I do appreciate that with safaris the rarer Pokémon have quite high catch rates. I hope that continues.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Oh Leavanny is the rare one? I should've ponied up the 2500 for Super Catch at MAX.
Going to finish Darkrai 150 first so I'll start safari whining next week.
Going to finish Darkrai 150 first so I'll start safari whining next week.
SapphiCine
Member
The special shop is back and I have gems.
Mewtwo is going to be a special stage? Thank god.
Mewtwo is going to be a special stage? Thank god.
The tiers for the Mega Alakazam competition (at least in the Americas on 3DS) are out and... well, see for yourself.
26001 and below: Atk Power+
20001-26000: AP+ and Disruption Delay
8001-20000: Beedrillite and DD
1601-8000: Beedrillite, Mega Speedup, Raise Max Level
301-1600: Beedrillite, 2 Mega Speedup, 2 Raise Max Level
1-300: Beedrillite, 3 Mega Speedup, 3 Raise Max Level.
26001 and below: Atk Power+
20001-26000: AP+ and Disruption Delay
8001-20000: Beedrillite and DD
1601-8000: Beedrillite, Mega Speedup, Raise Max Level
301-1600: Beedrillite, 2 Mega Speedup, 2 Raise Max Level
1-300: Beedrillite, 3 Mega Speedup, 3 Raise Max Level.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Did Darkrai 150 with no problem. Caught the last safari Pokémon today. Now to see how far I get on main stages until the new content on Monday.
The tiers for the Mega Alakazam competition (at least in the Americas on 3DS) are out and... well, see for yourself.
26001 and below: Atk Power+
20001-26000: AP+ and Disruption Delay
8001-20000: Beedrillite and DD
1601-8000: Beedrillite, Mega Speedup, Raise Max Level
301-1600: Beedrillite, 2 Mega Speedup, 2 Raise Max Level
1-300: Beedrillite, 3 Mega Speedup, 3 Raise Max Level.
Holy shit nice!
Should be able to get at least 2. 3 might be difficult.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I don't think I've ever scored in the top 300 of any competition.
SapphiCine
Member
Damn.
it's got the same ability as m-tyranitar so
SenorArdilla
Member
Candied M-Beedrill only takes a single 3-match to Mega-Evolve.
So this Tuesday brings...
- Slaking! 80 power Risk Taker Normal, if your Florges mission needs more juice. Has an insane board where half the field is barriered rocks, and a row of pre-evos at the bottom. Cost 300 coins, caught with a GB at 64% with Lucario'Medicham/Machamp/Kyruem White, DD and Attack Power +.
- Mewtwo PSB stage, disrupts blocks and itself, to set up...
- Mega Beedrill competition. 18 moves, first half uses blocks, second sees the disruption with Mewtwo and Slowbro, then the big one is two rows of rocks with the top barriered. Haven't tried yet because I'm trying to max Mewtwo, which means abusing the...
- Keldeo-R repeat. Rewards beyond the notice:
175 Exp Booster M
200 Skill Swapper
225 Skill Booster S
250 2x Raise Max Level
275 2x Skill Booster S
300 2x Mega Speedup
- Slaking! 80 power Risk Taker Normal, if your Florges mission needs more juice. Has an insane board where half the field is barriered rocks, and a row of pre-evos at the bottom. Cost 300 coins, caught with a GB at 64% with Lucario'Medicham/Machamp/Kyruem White, DD and Attack Power +.
- Mewtwo PSB stage, disrupts blocks and itself, to set up...
- Mega Beedrill competition. 18 moves, first half uses blocks, second sees the disruption with Mewtwo and Slowbro, then the big one is two rows of rocks with the top barriered. Haven't tried yet because I'm trying to max Mewtwo, which means abusing the...
- Keldeo-R repeat. Rewards beyond the notice:
175 Exp Booster M
200 Skill Swapper
225 Skill Booster S
250 2x Raise Max Level
275 2x Skill Booster S
300 2x Mega Speedup
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Ugh another escalation battle. At least I can get XP for my Psychics.
I don't think farming Mewtwo is worth it since you want him in Mega form ASAP. The chance of RML's is tempting though.
I don't think farming Mewtwo is worth it since you want him in Mega form ASAP. The chance of RML's is tempting though.
Any S-rank tips for 469? I've tried Mega Rayquaza (20/20) MAX or Mega Ampharos MAX (w/ Mega Start), Lv. 15 Raikou, MAX Zekrom, & MAX Magnezone.
I might finally give Mega Sceptile a try, but looking at my other grass types, they seem like they wouldn't be as good as my Electric team.
I might finally give Mega Sceptile a try, but looking at my other grass types, they seem like they wouldn't be as good as my Electric team.