I can't remember. 15,000? I only tried it once on the first day.
oh great and now Groudon with a Mega Blastoise. Mega Glalie is fucking useless.
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I can't remember. 15,000? I only tried it once on the first day.
oh great and now Groudon with a Mega Blastoise. Mega Glalie is fucking useless.
Not entirely, but the start can be pure luck. For me, I seemed to do best when my first match was on the top row one from the right, like this:
XXOOOX
XXXXXX
which usually results in a chain of 4-5 Groudon matches followed by a block of your Pokemon from the top.
Party Popper
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Placed about 2500 in europe and I've just captured Groudon at 4th try.
Nice way to start the week
Edit: I used BoohJoh technique with groudon btw
Nice way to start the week
Edit: I used BoohJoh technique with groudon btw
toythatkills
Member
Fucking hell I only finished this game yesterday! Is it hard? How long is it?
1 Minute 30 Seconds
toythatkills
Member
Probably a tough one, then? I find the longer stages much harder than the shorter ones. It's hard to keep concentration for so long and I always find myself getting distracted trying to look at the HP bar or the clock or something, and that's enough to lose a combo.
Oh, my! Finally a reason to get all S ranks again.
Barrylocke
Member
Also want to know. I'm curious as to what the bottoms scores were for the three regions this time.
Mega Blastoise is pretty great, it's original ability is useful enough, and it's mega effect is really useful too.
Groudon seems so luck based, even using the strategy of clearing 3 on the right-hand side (which isn't always possible) doesn't work all the time, sometimes you can make a big chain reaction on the first move like I did once (and even then I only got a B for completing the stage) and sometimes nothing can happen for up to 10 moves, already making it really hard to win.
It's not hard to catch by any means, 10% chance to begin with and an extra 4% per move is pretty good for a legendary, it's just gonna take a while due to the sheer luck required.
Groudon seems so luck based, even using the strategy of clearing 3 on the right-hand side (which isn't always possible) doesn't work all the time, sometimes you can make a big chain reaction on the first move like I did once (and even then I only got a B for completing the stage) and sometimes nothing can happen for up to 10 moves, already making it really hard to win.
It's not hard to catch by any means, 10% chance to begin with and an extra 4% per move is pretty good for a legendary, it's just gonna take a while due to the sheer luck required.
Finished in the top 8-hundred-something in EU
I guess the only reason it's great for me is that it's the only water-based mega so far.
I don't really like his Mega ability as it doesn't set up many combos. It's mostly useful to clear disruptions, but it's also very slow to fill the board again in timed stages.
I guess the only reason it's great for me is that it's the only water-based mega so far.
Barrylocke
Member
I've heard that Onix is pretty tough (I'm still on Mega Mewtwo Y). Do you think Mega Blastoise would make for a good tool to use against it? I remember Mega Lucario made a huge difference when going up against Mega Mawile.
Not really. The problem is that Blastoise is kind of weak, at least at this point of the game.
EU here, I just scraped in.
Ranked at 9973 with a score of approximately 15500, I didn't record the exact score.
Robin64
Member
What about all of today's new stuff?
You may have Mewtwo, but there's still Genesect after him.
54 hours and not a single cent spent - feel like I'm pretty much done with the game now ^_^ Will still play it every now and then I guess but it's time to move on now
You're not done until you have Genesect, my friend
Scored ~20k using only the Complexity item. Attempts without items peaked at 14k (rank #8k on the last day) with a Lv6 team. In future competitions I'm using Complexity immediately. I'd advise others that 10 attempts is enough to know your peak, don't delude yourself with other scores and waste a week's worth of hearts on an EXP-less endeavour.
What about all of today's new stuff?
You may have Mewtwo, but there's still Genesect after him.
I had to google who Genesect was, so yeah... more of a fan of the older Pokémon
Robin64
Member
I had to google who Genesect was, so yeah... more of a fan of the older Pokémon
Still haven't seen that movie (or any movie after the first three). Hopefully Mewtwo tears Genesect to bits.
Might have to go back & level some Pokemon up. I'm FINALLY starting to use some that I never used before, but this causes an awkward team of 7s & a 1.
Also TWICE IN A ROW, I got up to about 76% or 78% BUT NOPE AIN'T CAPTURING THEM.
Also TWICE IN A ROW, I got up to about 76% or 78% BUT NOPE AIN'T CAPTURING THEM.
Good, sounds like next week will finally bring us new weekday Pokemon.
I'd be surprised if not
And I'm done with this game. I got my Blastoisinite (#14326, holy cow I dropped like a rock) and caught Groudon, but I refuse to S rank Onix. I only managed to B-rank it with items.
What I find annoying about the extra main stages is that the levels are getting progressively harder, and the pokemon you get from them are getting weaker. It's totally stupid that the new pokemon you get have a power of 40, 50 or 60, rather than increasing along with the difficulty.
TheSlySoul
Member
I like Rumble's Method of a max limit and you get something that gets you twenty gems a day. The Shuffle version may be 20 hearts per day or something.
toythatkills
Member
I'm okay with that. If you kept getting stronger Pokémon you'd constantly have to be levelling them up from scratch, at least this way you can get a team and stick with it for ages
VistraNorrez
Member
Fought Groudon 3 times beat him each time and caught him on the 3rd with 18%. I had mega blastoise.
SenorArdilla
Member
Stages after Milotic seem easier. For now.
Yea haven't had much trouble with the new stages
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Failed to catch Groudon seven times in a row.
Back to Pokemon Rumble I go!
Back to Pokemon Rumble I go!
Aveyn Knight
Member
In the end, I ranked 9600 ish... just barely got my Mega Stone. Phew.
I was weird and suddenly woke up 10 minutes before the deadline to check my score. No alarms or anything. Didn't realise my subconscious was so good at time-keeping o__o
I was weird and suddenly woke up 10 minutes before the deadline to check my score. No alarms or anything. Didn't realise my subconscious was so good at time-keeping o__o
TheSlySoul
Member
Well I thought the new stages were fair for the most part, then I got to Shuppet.
Like seriously...
Like seriously...
SenorArdilla
Member
I didn't really find Shuppet all that bad. The stage doesn't have a timer but it's really annoying having to check each covered tile.