Took roughly 20 stones and most of my natural stamina for the last week and a half, but finally done with Shinrabansho.
Tally:
Max skill Shiva - finished this first, oddly enough.
Skill 4 second Shiva
2x max skill Lakshmi
2x max skill Arthur
Max skill Masterion
Max skill Apollo
Skill 2 Saiga - had 11 invades, more than enough to max through ultimate skill ups, but haha, no, he's not worth that.
Max skill Astaroth - last to finish.
Kept a Bokkle for low cost team, will use drawn joker drops to skill him later. If I had Baal and finished him through the same method as Astaroth, my stone count would have easily doubled. That fork cat has even worse evo materials besides the already annoying Waferman.
And a whole new set starts with Angry Birds tomorrow. Yay.