SenorArdilla
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Apparently the next live competition is for Banettite.
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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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Time to start leveling up the Ghost and Dark types then!
Cute Dragon Here
Member
Ah, Celebi, although you might evade me for now, rest assured that I can, and I will catch you using any means necessary. You will never be able to get out of all my Poke Balls.
toythatkills
Member
Bloody hell, I'm so used to the safari that Celebi really threw me when the combo stopped after a couple of matches.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Not sure what to think about stages with set moves. I'm at Haxorus and it seems like it's cheating to look it up on Youtube, but I'd rather not spend the time and hearts to figure it out.
Celebi should've had a temporal disruption like devolving your Mega and a temporal ability. I didn't enjoy breezing past another SP stage and capturing dead weight at all. Especially because I was anticipating a competition and more main stages today. Not to mention we've gone from 5k to 3k to a mere 1k in coin prize. Also, we already have a ghost type Mega so banettite can get bent. Apparently the next code is for useless EXP items. The decay is real wtf happened.
Seems like they're getting stingier with Jewel giveaways too, especially after the Mega Lucarionite event. Kinda hoping they give us a jewel after patching the Mega glitches in the new stages, but that's pretty doubtful at this point. I'm at the end, beat all the main stages (still have about 20 left to S Rank), but I'm losing my motivation to keep playing now too, especially since they're releasing more Pokemon that can potentially mega evolve about twice as fast as they're holding competitions for mega evolution stones.
You know I was just thinking to myself "man they're really dragging this game out for years aren't they?"
There's 718 pokemon and we've probably seen about... 50 new? in over 2 months. They need to start releasing more pokemon at once, these one off things simply aren't cutting it any more when most people are near the end game and are just waiting for new stages.
Mega competition week 1-2
Daily pokemon week 1
Safari week 2
15+ new stages week 3
daily/safari repeat week 4 with a new expert and/or special pokemon.
Something like that would keep me busy, instead it feels like they're dragging it out - I mean this month we've had raquaza, megablastoise, celebi and safari as the only update that week... seems a bit thin when there could have been daily or safari alongside rayquaza/mega blastoise so I gotta agree I'm getting a bit bored of it as there's not much to do at this point but farm coins waiting for the next pokemon, then that's over with within a couple of hearts usually. Toss in a few repeats of older pokemon like the rotoms, kyogre etc throughout the month for newer players and you've still got a good year or so worth of updates.
Yeah, this is a really good point. I don't see why they can't host old events alongside new ones. I missed out on some of the Rotoms and there's no telling when they'll be back (if ever). Chances are they'll return at some point but... there's space for at least five icons on that "Special" screen, haha.
Caddywompus
Member
Both these comments were helpful but I'm still struggling. And I don't feel like I'm anywhere close.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Caught Yveltal at 1% somehow.
Still can't beat Xerneas. Using mega mawile, nidoking, nidoqueen, and that key one lol
Can only get it down to about a quarter left. No items.
Still can't beat Xerneas. Using mega mawile, nidoking, nidoqueen, and that key one lol
Can only get it down to about a quarter left. No items.
Oh lawdy, sorry to hear that. But that combo though is amazing at least.
toythatkills
Member
Umm, isn't that basically what we've had for the last month? Two weeks of dailies, two weeks of safari, a contest, 16 new stages and also Celebi and Groudon or whoever it was before Celebi.
toythatkills
Member
I tried Genesect with all the items and still was 30 seconds away from an S-Rank. Wow
It's not always the best idea in a timed round. Zoroark and Yveltal are REALLY similar so it can slow you down trying to distinguish them
It's not always the best idea in a timed round. Zoroark and Yveltal are REALLY similar so it can slow you down trying to distinguish them
Hmm, guess I better continue leveling up my team, then. Right now, I've got 3 Level 4s (Mega Aerodactyl, Heatran, & Blaziken) & a Lv. 6 Aurorus. Edit: My Ampharos is at Level 7.
Maybe I should start leveling up Moltres &/or Entei as well?
Entryhazard
Banned
What team do you suggest to take on Mewtwo? (not mega)
No, they're similar but still different
30th - Rayquaza
6th - Mega Blastoise
13th - Groudon & 15 new stages (+Genesect?)
20th - Safari
27th - Celebi
With my idea, we'd be looking at a guaranteed minimum of 27-28 new pokemon a month in a 4 week month, this month we have only got 25 in a 5 week month, with my idea, in a 5 week month we'd be looking at 34 new pokemon and at least 5 repeated pokemon.
Like I said, having rayquaza/mega blastoise/celebi as the only update those weeks just feels really thin, a daily pokemon event during one of the rayquaza/mega blastoise events could have helped, instead it just seems like they're dragging it out.
The game will always recommend you to try and catch an effective mon you don't have if you fail a stage.
Without items (and just for catching) :
I remember using Mega Slowbro for Timburr.
Mightyena required a bit of luck with combos.
Ya, Mega Gengar consistently beats this with 12-14 turns left for me.
Sure, but it recommended Slowpoke which I think is not available to catch atm.
Anyway, got impatient (been going at it since the day they rolled out the newest stages) and spent coins to catch it, been having absolutely dreadful luck lately.
Robin64
Member
Sureit is, Slowpoke is Stage 31 and Slowbro is Stage 69, with Mega Slowbro being Stage 45.
Omg, you're right. Somehow I haven't caught him, yet, even though I've got all those stages S-ranked. Did not expect that, hopefully haven't missed any other 'mons.
Entryhazard
Banned
Anyone? I barely inflict more than 50% health by the time's up
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Safari is just... ugh. Stages are easy to S-Rank but with a ~30% catch rate each I should have more than just Cherubi so far.
5301
I've just trialled them now and it's true. Guess I'll need to decide whether 90 attack or Sinister Power is more useful.
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Deleted member 57681
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I did it with Mega Gengar, Yveltal, Scyther and Heracross, all Lv.7 and still had to use Complexity -1 and Disruption Delay. I'd say Mega Gengar and Heracross are a must.
I'd level up and take scizor over scyther, scizor will get a mega stone eventually and they both have the same abilities/attack power.
Will keep that in mind.
HubbaBubba
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Just came here to complain/see if there was a way to get Sharpedo to show up and just my luck I get him as I'm loading the thread. 11 moves left and took 1 great ball but finally have all 5 safari caught.
markofhavoc
Member
Funny, same thing I was doing. What are the chances?
Oh man, I'm so glad I stopped playing this game. I'm clearing my backlog instead. I finally had time to finish Kid Icarus (3D Classics) last week. I don't have to keep track of time for hearts or rage about catch rates anymore. It's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. No more P2P games for me, even if they're branded Pokémon.
I used Mega Gengar, Yveltal, Heracross, and Scizor. All of them are around Level 6-8. Unfortunately, I couldn't finish him off without items, so just used a Disruption Delay and finished him off with 21 seconds to spare
Caddywompus
Member
I know I brought Heracross for his crowd control but the rest of my team was just whoever happened to be the strongest Dark/Ghost/Bug. Absol's Mind Zap ability may have helped, this is why they need to record your High Score team, it's been so long I can't remember. I think I used the Home Button/ Game Notes trick on Mewtwo.
My most successful team with Timburr was Mewtwo Y/Xerneas/Slowbro/Snubbull. It seemed to me if you leveled up after turn 25 the Mega evolution glitch didn't trigger. I'm a fan of Crowd Control only reason Snubble is there and I wanted only one Psychic type to pair with Mewtwo.
Mightyena I took Mega Lucario/Xerneas/Heracross/Snubbull pretty much at that point I had used Crowd Control so much they were the strongest options.
I'm going to laugh if Mega Gengar's ability is completely useless against Mega Banette. With such a big head start I'm giving Sableye a couple more levels since I've pretty much abandoned him. Also catching Sharpedo up because it may not be a coincidence he's released right before a Ghost competition, maybe it's a hint. Or just a waste of experience points.
I'm interested to see how quickly Banette's ability works with his Mega Evolution. He could potentially be the fastest evolution in the game.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
After hearing about all the Sharpedo horror stories, I encountered him today.
http://i.imgur.com/oTg2xyc.png
One move clear, 45%, didn't even need a Great Ball.
Now I just need Carvahna and Spinda.
http://i.imgur.com/oTg2xyc.png
One move clear, 45%, didn't even need a Great Ball.
Now I just need Carvahna and Spinda.
toythatkills
Member
Swap two tokens in the third row down so you make two matches of three, one at the top of the first column and one at the top of the third.
Use Mega Gengar.