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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
- Thread starter BooJoh
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Little disappointed there's no new pokemon too
Was hoping for one of the new stage types with mega boosters. Maybe next week.SenorArdilla
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Goody. Free items for Victini.
toythatkills
Member
Any advice to beat (and catch) Genesect? Is the only pokemon left and I haven't beaten him yet
Seems like I'm free for a bit longer.
Also, it just hit me that they should have used Audino instead of Victini for the exp stage.
It's such a missed opportunity.
The most annoying part is when it starts using a row of barriers at the top + smokescreens.
I personally use Mega Aerodactyl, because it is super effective and can clear the metal blocks easily. I tried Mega Blastoise which is useful to get rid of the disruptions but gave up on it because I wasn't able to do as much damage.
My advice in timed stages is to focus solely on making vertical matches, because the tokens take longer to fall and it gives you a lot more time to chain matches effectively.
Once it starts using barriers, I try to clear the ones at the top, but it doesn't always work well because of the smoke. I also make sure to keep some Aerodactyl tokens on the field in case it summons the metal blocks.
Disruption delay should make it fairly painless if you can spare the coins for it.
Another important advice I'd give for time stages in general is to disable the music. Whenever it's on, I often find myself making matches following the rhythm even though I could go a lot faster.
Also, it just hit me that they should have used Audino instead of Victini for the exp stage.
It's such a missed opportunity.
I first beat it with a level 6 team without items. But to be honest, it's still hard even with a maxed team, mostly because there's no useful Mega against it so far.Any advice to beat (and catch) Genesect? Is the only pokemon left and I haven't beaten him yet
The most annoying part is when it starts using a row of barriers at the top + smokescreens.
I personally use Mega Aerodactyl, because it is super effective and can clear the metal blocks easily. I tried Mega Blastoise which is useful to get rid of the disruptions but gave up on it because I wasn't able to do as much damage.
My advice in timed stages is to focus solely on making vertical matches, because the tokens take longer to fall and it gives you a lot more time to chain matches effectively.
Once it starts using barriers, I try to clear the ones at the top, but it doesn't always work well because of the smoke. I also make sure to keep some Aerodactyl tokens on the field in case it summons the metal blocks.
Disruption delay should make it fairly painless if you can spare the coins for it.
Another important advice I'd give for time stages in general is to disable the music. Whenever it's on, I often find myself making matches following the rhythm even though I could go a lot faster.
Many thanks! My mega Aerodactyl is underleveled, so I'll try to spend some time levelling him (does the Genesect stage gives experience?)
Genesect does give exp but not that much (10 exp if you beat it)
Luckily, Aerodactyl is the best Mega to bring against Snorlax which nets you 55 exp points when you beat it.
The only drawback is that Snorlax's stage takes at lest 10 minutes to beat, but with the free exp x1.5, it shouldn't take too long to raise it to level 5-6.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Going back and trying to catch some earlier Pokemon and I still don't know how I beat Milotic in the first place. Seems like it's all luck to get a good early placement, otherwise you waste 5 moves before the board resets.
Glad it's the Daily Pokemon again. I can burn more hearts trying to catch Shuckle again.
Glad it's the Daily Pokemon again. I can burn more hearts trying to catch Shuckle again.
I can't promise to do that!
I had played for 26 hours without spending a penny, so I was okay with putting a bit of money in.
D
Deleted member 57681
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So I won't have internet until monday. What will I miss? (already took part in the Ivysaur competition, can't remember my score though lol).
Nothing, this week is a repeat of the dailys and the weekend pokemon will probably be the same as last week too. If there is anything new, it should continue on past Monday but I doubt there will be.
D
Deleted member 57681
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Nice.
In other news, I just remembered my phone can act as mobile hotspot >_>
Aveyn Knight
Member
Man, I got so many Shuffle StreetPasses at VGC UK this weekend.
Must have gone from 300ish to 500ish. I now have 26 hearts without paying a dime and 2 jewels for my 400th and 500th StreetPass : D
Scared about my Vensaur rank though... Let's check it.
EDIT:
Meanwhile Rumble World caps your Mii visitor diamonds per day >___<
Must have gone from 300ish to 500ish. I now have 26 hearts without paying a dime and 2 jewels for my 400th and 500th StreetPass : D
Scared about my Vensaur rank though... Let's check it.
EDIT:
Meanwhile Rumble World caps your Mii visitor diamonds per day >___<
Egoz3ntrum
Neo Member
I got a good score!
Robin64
Member
Heh, StreetPass is one of the main reasons I used to go to those. This year's move to Manchester though made it not worth the 5 hour trip each way, though. Blech. Hope it moves back to Birmingham, which is a much more central location.
US is 20k, PAL/Europe is 10k.
Thank god, they MUST fix the text in-game where it says you must be in the 10k. This got me nervous but now I will focus on other things.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Oh look it's Shuckle again.
*burns 5 hearts*
*doesn't catch it*
*burns 5 hearts*
*doesn't catch it*
Shuffle updates coming Monday:
Giratina - Escalation Battle
Details of the next event have been revealed.This event gives you access to the Pokémon Giratina and runs from Monday June 8th to June 22nd. This stage is the first in what is called an Escalation Battle. Each time you complete the stage, it levels up and becomes more complicated with added obstacles such as four columns of frozen blocks at Level 40 or instant disruption at Level 10. When you reach Level 5, you get 1,000 coins and when you get to Level 50, you get a Disruption Delay item. The likelihood for capture also increases as the stage's level gets higher
New Stages - Including Expert Stages
It has also been announced that new stages are to come to Pokémon Shuffle on Monday. These continue the Pedra Valley stages and include Garbodor in 194, Doublade in 195 and Conkeldurr in stage 198. Three new Expert stages are also being added, focusing on the Kalos starter Pokémon, Chesnaught, Delphox and Greninja. We'll bring full details of these stages on Monday
Giratina - Escalation Battle
Details of the next event have been revealed.This event gives you access to the Pokémon Giratina and runs from Monday June 8th to June 22nd. This stage is the first in what is called an Escalation Battle. Each time you complete the stage, it levels up and becomes more complicated with added obstacles such as four columns of frozen blocks at Level 40 or instant disruption at Level 10. When you reach Level 5, you get 1,000 coins and when you get to Level 50, you get a Disruption Delay item. The likelihood for capture also increases as the stage's level gets higher
New Stages - Including Expert Stages
It has also been announced that new stages are to come to Pokémon Shuffle on Monday. These continue the Pedra Valley stages and include Garbodor in 194, Doublade in 195 and Conkeldurr in stage 198. Three new Expert stages are also being added, focusing on the Kalos starter Pokémon, Chesnaught, Delphox and Greninja. We'll bring full details of these stages on Monday
About time!
I wonder if those EX stages will be directly available with the update rather than unlockable considering they'd need a pretty large amount of new normal stages if they wanted to keep going with their current model.
Also, just for info, since the update, Hearts gained through streetpass are added to your second pool rather than the replenishable one. I thought it was pretty nice of them. : )
Cute Dragon Here
Member
I should be pretty safe with a 20K score that gives me a ranking of around 2,500, right?
Teehee.
Either way, I think I'll try capturing Mewtwo tomorrow. Hope I don't end up burning all the coins instead.
Teehee.
Either way, I think I'll try capturing Mewtwo tomorrow. Hope I don't end up burning all the coins instead.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
True, when I started Keldeo was out and there was no way I was catching/beating it in time.
I think they should add Hearts to the Heart Bank as you complete the early levels. 5 hearts for reaching level 10, 20, 30.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
Indeed, I seriously love it. It makes me take my 2ds out to streetpass now, I don't get many and it's usually the same people but a heart or two each time is always nice
We don't know that for sure, for example mew said it was only to celebrate the release of shuffle. Will Mew come back? Who knows. The only thing we are sure is that the daily events tend to repeat themselves.
toythatkills
Member
They give you jewels for that sort of thing which you're more than welcome to exchange for hearts
Imagine a rookie: ''what a bummer, these limited events are impossible without jewels. What a shitty crash grab pay to win this game is. *uninstalls and never plays it again''.
The rookie doesn't know the events might return, thinks the game is unfair and gives up on it. They need to do something to make it more attractive to new players. Victini is a step in the right direction.
toythatkills
Member
They don't need to do anything for new players, because the number of new players is and will forever be vastly lower than the current player-base.
CoolBatteryCharge
Member
I started playing two weeks ago and I'm trying my best to catch up...
the only way to win is not to play
If it's how I think it will turn out, it will only really be one try.
You fight Giratina and the stage starts out at level one, let's say you beat him in one match. He replenishes his health and is now on level 2, and so on, getting difficult each level. It's only one try, but you'll be "beating" him 40 times.
toythatkills
Member
You'll definitely need to use one heart per level.
Yep you're right. "Each time you complete the stage, it levels up "
Didn't read Joe's properly at first just skimmed it. Hopefully the capture rates aren't too bad for the lower/middle tier stages, that actually kind of sucks since it sounds like it'll be a limited time event aswell.
In a way I like the sound of escalation battles, starts out easy and gets harder with a higher capture rate each time you beat it. I really like the idea behind that as it means even new players have a chance at capturing him, I'm just not sure if I like the idea behind locking that to limited time events too. I guess we'll see how it plays out come monday, probably a little bit too early to be looking for possible faults in it.
On the bright side, it seems like people who are at the end game with nothing to do will have a ton of content to go through next week, can't complain about that.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
I finally managed to beat Mewtwo without any items, but didn't catch it.