Fire Tower Edition

>What is Pokémon Masters EX?
A mobile Pokémon game that's real-time instead of turn-based and focuses on collecting trainers instead of Pokémon.

>Pokemon Masters EX Links and Guides
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18n7Uvdb2_5UgWH-O0DkXHkogNbMkxRiBIaBpCJHIR0A/

>Sync Grid Simulator
https://pomatools.github.io/

>Sync Pair Tracker
https://pomasters.github.io/SyncPairsTracker/
https://pokemon.brybry.ch/masters/programme.html

>Model ripping/datamining project (3vp) FAQ
https://pastebin.com/6GWPiFu1

>Upcoming Events
https://pm-events.github.io
https://pastebin.com/u/Absol-utely

>Pokémon Masters EX soundtrack with the latest tracks
https://mega.nz/folder/bwp3iQrY#IiZ1Uxz0xwutZHENqntDeA

>Trainer Lodge Interaction Charts
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1GET825rR31lZD9RWSKDh7gtrHs5_0giA

Previous Thread: >>58052428

Deport L*on

>>58065172
>t. Tigerfag

>>58065172
holy based

>>58065172
>Leon is brown
>Raihan is brown
>Nessa is brown
>the guy who runs the league is brown
You guys lost Galar years ago, if you actually cared you would have passed on your genetic legacy but instead you were outbred.

>>58065261
I don’t care about any of that, those guys can stay. Hell even Hop can begrudgingly stay, but they should deport L*on.

>>58065270
>We gotta deport him back to his hometown of Postwick!

>>58065140 (OP)
I'm glad I got him and Silver, I heard the later stages are really hard so at least I have one tower handled.

Is this a good deal for a new F2P player?
Last time someone said i should wait for datamine, but idk if anything was mines since

>>58065374
Do you hard simpf or any of these?
If you have to think about it, save for anni

>>58065374
They let you pick one so I'd say it's a good deal compared to the last one I did where my game got bricked by two Leons when I wanted Maxie or Archie

>>58065374
It's extremely unlikely that datamine occurs before this banner ends so with your current gem count I'd say ignore it unless you are fully planning to skip every anni banner for one of these characters.

>>58065374
If you have Neo Champion May, pick Sygna Suit Kris
Even if you don't have her, you may still want to pick Kris
Otherwise, skip

I would say at your gem count that you might be better off skipping, but it IS a guaranteed Master Fair of your choice

>>58065381
>>58065379
>>58065381
>>58065387
>>58065392
I never tried any of these, do they let you pick literally anything or just one of these three?
What id really like to get would be Giovani, May, Steven, Bianca, Cheren, N, Serena, Lillie, Kukui, Guzma
Idk of these are good characters, but i like em, so if I cant pick em here, ill hold.
I just started after the presents so the coolest things i have are Sygna Red, Sygna Elesa and Blue (I like Blue)

>>58065409
Oh also I hatched a shiny. Idk if this is rare

>>58065409
Just 1 of those 3

>>58065409
>so if I cant pick em here, ill hold.
You might be able to pick gen pool characters as well, but THAT would never be a good use of 10K gems, there are tons of other ways to get them

>>58065435
Thx, I figured most of them without edgy costumes would come as commons

Also if you can spoon feed me still, which of these monthy items should I priotirize?
I got the 5* upgrades and considering spending coins on the 1* upgrades for that shiny Charm i hatched

>>58065409
You can get base cheren by going through story mode, base Giovanni in the legendary adventures menu, and May, Bianca, Serena, Lillie, Kukui, and Guzma are available in most regular banners. https://pokemon.brybry.ch/masters/programme.html has everything that's going on this month if you want to get an idea of what's going on in the future. If you haven't gone through every way to get gems yet it might be a good idea to pull on the select banner for a master fair (I think the general consensus is Kris or maybe Lyra is your best bet here) and use the free fair tickets you get from the beginner's guide and the 10 free multis tickets that start on the 18th to try for more limiteds until anni. In general, you should try to not pull unless you have enough gems for a pity and are willing to go all the way to pity for a character.

>>58065445
Forgor pic

>>58065453
So hoard gems until anni each year? Is it that the most efficient method of spending them?

>>58065457
>>58065445
>money is technically a limited resource in the game
I guess just buy everything you can afford, you get more with every single battle you win.
The 1* and 2* are exclusively for egg mons, which sadly fall off very fast, so maybe priorities soem training manuals to power up some characters to stomp more things more easily

>>58065501
Im getting unlimited manuals from training right now, is powering your egg shiny not a cool fun thing to do?

Special chart

>>58065508
>is powering your egg shiny not a cool fun thing to do?
It absolutely is if it's not some ugly green one

>>58065518
The edgy one

>>58065536
>girl
Lucky you

>>58065547
Ikr, decided not to waste coins on 1* power ups since u get those from transfering egg mons
Also u get unlimited coins for the black rocks so its not a limited resource after all
Bought afinity cakes

>>58065374
>Is this a good deal for a new F2P player?
no, all 3 of them are powercrept
yes, including SS kris

I love my cute wife Whitney! The brightest and warmest smile on the prettiest face!

What good physical Ghost options are there? I started doing the Ghost tower before realizing the only physical Ghost striker pair I have is Morty and Drifblim. Korrina's Marshadow and Cynthia's Giratina perform poorly in damage around floor 10 and on, too.

>>58065680
Then why are you missing your gym logins?

>>58065842
Those are the best you can get right now, I'm afraid.
Cynthia can still get buffed with the 5/5 tiles at least.

>>58065967
I suppose we'll have to wait, then. Mandatory two-turn moves are so anathema to the game's design, it's a wonder they haven't added grid tiles for removing their setup or something.

>>58065868
Oops I was sleepy yesterday. Sorry.

>>58066019
Too late, I'm telling Danchou.

Feed your prince!

>>58065984
Skipping turns wouldn't be a problem if the move had the damage to make up for it and Sync CD reduction necessary to not fuck with your cycles.
But Cynthia's SF doesn't and her 5/5 expansion will probably focus on Ghost Wish.
A new physical Ghost DD is probably more likely at this point.

>>58065868
>Yesterday: 19/20
>Today: 18/20
I see a pattern and I don't like it

>>58066060
DD?

>>58066104
Damage Dealer

>>58066062
Wasn't that just the new guy we kicked?

>>58066108
I was wondering whether I forgot about a paradox pokemon, lmao

>>58066110
No, not telling names, but those two from yesterday were old members.

>>58066129
Well I mean one of those was probably me but I do notice we already replaced the new guy

>>58066129
I don't super mind this happening in off-season, but for some people it's getting a regular occurrence...

>>58066149
I believe in Big Mom

>>58066205
Sadly, it's really hard to find proper replacements.

>>58065842
SSR Cynthias sync nuke is completely fine until floors 20+.
As long as its 3/5 and EXR and you have an spdef debuffer.

the lack of a good support/good rebuffer is a bigger issue for Ghost

What's VP's gym policy? I have a 3 day grace period in my gym before kick but we're constantly 16-18 daily logins but we make S easily eacn month.
Should i be more strict cut it to 2 days?

>>58066311
Yeah, if they spend two days off, they're dead to me.

>>58065140 (OP)
He's so cool, will be curious to see what his Lodge scrapbook photo unit is.

>>58064869
I got 5/5 Whitney from sheer luck or bad luck, I was trying to get Kabu and then save.

>>58065392
>>58065374
Lyra is a flinchbot who saved my ass as recently as today.

>>58065496
Anni generally has some of the strongest units, but anni units tend to be the same handful of normiebait characters (Red, Steven, Cynthia, Blue, etc.). It might be a good idea to get an anni unit to carry your roster while you're new, but otherwise if you don't care too much about the meta just save up to pull for your favorites.

>>58066462
I have 5/5 Korrina and 3/5 Kabu, account seeds are real.

>>58066462
Like me, 7/5 Whitney, 5/5 Korrina, only 2/5 Kabu I wanted the most.
Whitney and Winona so far are my second choices, tomorrow Roxie as third place for investing because my Poison units lack every Poison pokefair girl somehow except 1/5 SS Roxie from these fair tickets.

These are all of the pairs I’ve gotten from the pokefair scout:

ss Lysandre 1/5
ss Leon 1/5 and 2/5
Grusha 3/5
ss Bede 3/5

>>58066311
I give them 3, then i post here, and than an extra day before kicking. Im a day 1 player and I get the game gets stale, and we've always hit S rank with over a week to spare every season. And we maxed out every limited time mission. Being strict like that is just dumb and you'll be hounding them every other day.

Here's events

>>58066675
Man I would've appreciated another copy of SS Leon, I'm so close to candying him but am only holding out because of all the Pokefair pulls in August

>>58066781
>rock in the last week
Arc Kukui and Lycanroc woo

>>58066781
>>58066800
That Dragon-weak stage on top of Dragon HSE on top of Kieran getting pawned off to Tera Fighting makes me 90% sure we're getting Arc Serena & Zygarde as a PLZA tribute. Just hard to say about the other units.

special shart

hope I'm not too late

Special Clay Chart

>>58066906
POV: your cow is ready to be milked.

>>58066781
>no Cynthia rerun
I sleep

>Lusamine lodge event is her feeling lonely and needing someone to mommy
Oh my GOD

>Dojo Gloria's EX Role is Support
For what purpose?

>first pull
Oh neat!

>>58065140 (OP)
dude, where do you get the aether employee in the op image?!

>Lusamine responds really well to Collections and poorly to Pokemon Friends

>you'll become be Top Moms daughterfu because her other one keeps causing her grief
I AM OK WITH THIS

They call me 60-0. 60 gym tickets, 0 gym units

>>58068687
grim

>ywn be groomed by Lusamine

>>58065140 (OP)
More like faggot edition

>Only Lodge Lusamine left
Finally. It's over. I no longer have 4 stars units outside useless eggmon

>Expert
Something doesn't seem right here.

To the moon!

>>58068925
Best unit in the game got better

>>58068925
>>58068973

>>58068925
>Preset 1
What a boring faggot

>>58068981
I say this but do NOT look like this thougheverbeit

>>58068985
I don't really feel the need to express myself for a single grid

>>58069048
You can't express yourself. You're a Cynthiatard NPC

>>58068985
I have never named a grid

>imagine getting this triggered by a fictional characters existence

>>58069054
Let's see your funny meme names then fag you won't post shit you coward

>>58068925
>>58068973
based!

guys, i dont have many full 5/5 units that can be superawakened and no matter how much i love this womanlet, but her superthing doesnt sounds cool, seems like a waste. Prolly should wait for arc iono

Post your first Level 200

>>58069063
This but whenever a character with Melanin is posted

>>58069087

>>58069087
That was an awful fight. Good work from Wally though.

>>58069087
I LOVE HER SO MUCH

Chart is here ! Tina and NC Blue are at the top side by side while Sina is at at Iida level for the first time ever.

Side notes :
-NC Silver is the same as usual so nothing to say about his Grid Upgrade. Someone remembered that Blaine exist wich is better than Nate's fate.
- The surprise upgrade of MC chu change nothing in usage but at least it's not a deadweight now.

Next chart first ranking :
Carmine

See you tomorrow for the SCS Chart !

>>58069087
Waiting for academy Iris

>>58069180
Spooky Iris stocks on the rise!

>>58069180
I'm pretty sure I'm now out of completely uncharted egg mons now

>>58069180
Oak and Nido rerun happening soon, for those that didn't get it last time.

This man pairs well with any Cynthia unit because he is thirsty for her. Also when did they add an interaction for the pair on character select?

>>58069087
There are going to be a lot of solo clears on the charts going forward, huh?

>>58069063
>>58068822
Ironic

>>58069087
Fuck yeah!

Did i make a critical error or can Volkner do it?

>>58069472
Maybe try Zebra power?
And if you get walled, you should be able to just go to another tower.

>>58068897
One of them gives you 5x stats, the other doesn't.

>>58069472
Retardbro...

>>58069087
It will probably have to be Arc Ethan, cause he's the only one I got to 181 so far.

>>58069519
>>58069489

Welp, onto the bug tower, at least i can do that.

>>58069533
What's your bug look like, any big physical bois?

>>58069472
I actually failed that stage once and my units are much better than yours. Be careful of getting chain-flinched, since if you're using blue that will mean you end up with less defenses. Don't leave Seismitoad on the field after Elio bites it. For some reason, that Seismitoad can oneshot anything you bring.

>>58069278
Like the feature itself? Sometime after Morty and Caitlin got their Halloween alts as I remember most of the characters who had it initially were those who had got alts recently

Wait how do I even get a 200 at this point, don’t you need to get to floor 20?

>>58069624
You do one unit to 181 which completes a mission that gives you 20 of these things that can take it to 200.

>>58069624
>Floor 16 to get a gold star
>Use to get something to lv181
>get 20 gold stars as reward from the mission that told you to level something to 181

>>58069537
This is my 4 going in, Swap alder for barry when physical damage is required

>>58069548
Sides in the tower have 3x damage when the middle dies.

>>58069624
upgrade 1 pair to 181 after clearing floor 15 and collecting its reward
grab the beginner mission 20 plaques and then unlock 200

>>58069673
What a complete nightmare.

>>58069087

>>58069629
>>58069630
>>58069674
Ahh thanks fellas

>>58069673
God actually mad about this. I guess if I'm going to get passed floor 15 on Poison Tower I'm gonna need to buff Ariana or something. I don't really have much better

I appreciate Jasmine is in pocket now, but a part of me is also worried if it means the Jasmine dev was moved to work on pocket instead of masters. And that would explain why it's been about 2 years since her last unit, and why she hasn't been too prevalent in stories for the past couple of years, and that we might never get a new Jasmine unit aside from an asset reuse steel gym scout

>>58069807
Your post doesn't really make sense. We just got the Silver FA too when Silver was just given a lot more attention in Masters too.

>>58069807
Your Forretress Gym Jasmine, Ferrothorn Fall Jasmine and Melmetal Sygna Jasmine?

>>58069880
Arc Suit Jasmine and Ampharos
School Jasmine and Orthworm
Variety Jasmine and Magneton
(All Support)

>>58069807
After stealing an Ultra Beast from hard working Alolan patriots, she deserves what she got. Send her back to her shit hole in West Kanto I say.

>>58069807
>You took my only alt. Now I'm going to starve.

I think we will never get them at this point

>>58070157
Their robot versions? Probably not.

>>58069923
Same Ultra Beast went to fucking Liza of all characters. UBs aren't that special nor are they even Sygna/NC-bait

>>58069923
>hard working Alolan patriots
The only non-MC alolans who remotely like UBs are the ones who have been actively fucking up their region the hardest.
Celesteelas are dodging Island Kanto for a reason.

>>58070157
They are going to be Pokefairs, eventually. Kieran just took the 5th Master Fair. They haven't gone past 5 MFs so far for any region, so until they do that might as well be the cap until EoS.

>>58070166
>>58070235
I think it's mostly an issue of how they are going to intergrate them with the others

>>58070252
Rose is from an alternate Galar. Florian from another reality. They can really just put them in the game with a "Look it's magic !"

Sex with roxie

>>58070235
I doubt that they're going to keep the "cap" at 5 MFs, really.
Unless Sinnoh's NC is just Dawn and that's it.

>>58070235
People were saying we’d get one of each Master Passive or one of each Arc type. These are just fan rules waiting to be broken

What we can expect more now is that the next few MFs won't be Paldea.
Currently Kalos, Sinnoh and Pasio have the least at 3, 4 and 1 respectively.

>>58070373
NC Barry with the event based on him catching up to his father

>>58070402
I think we could get NC Paulo and/or Tina on any Anni, and Kalos is the big wave coming with PLZA being so close

>>58070402
>Kalos
AZ or a popular Legends Z-A character
>Sinnoh
NC Dawn and Barry
>Pasio
NC Paulo and Tina

>NC Barry
lmao

>>58069673
Even with 3x damage you can survive a few Surfs, but you won't survive even a single Giga Impact.

>>58070418
They made NC Cheren and NC Bianca happen when I would've lmao'd at that even harder so I don't put anything past them

>>58070416
>>58070413
I could see the Z-A MCs being a MF if Mega Zygarde is real.
But that won't release until months after it's release knowing Masters

>>58070422
I think for the time being we're just getting Arc Suit Serena with Zygarde on or around 6th Anni. Gen 6, 6th Anni, PLZA pre-release season, matches SS Ethan getting Arc, matches Dragon-weak CS and Dragon HSE, etc.

>>58070420
Cheren and Bianca are more popular than Barry. If they give someone like Hau one then I’m willing to believe. He’s certainly not being prioritized over Lucas who has the very smallest of protag privilege.

>>58070435
Hau already got Tapu Koko so I don't think there's a way to top that for him. Barry hasn't gotten anything significant from his region. Not that I want Barry to get anything since he's annoying and one of my least favorite rivals, but he still has an unfulfilled character arc and they have a tendency to address those.

Master$EX has an opening. Just check in and use your stamina regularly. First come first serve

8274-5405-9285-3323

>>58070479
I login every other day, why kick me? sure I had a bad streak but thats fucked up were off season right now and we have real jobs so we cant login everyday....

>>58070479

>>58070450
Hau would be a much more fitting character to get a NC so if he’s not getting it, Barry definitely isn’t. Barry can get a SS PF to continue his ‘arc’ like Morty, Eisune, Bede, and more. At best he’ll get the SS Hau/Gladion treatment and be Cynthia’s partner in a double battle with the protags.

>>58070482
You didnt heart my post, so fuck you.

>>58070479
dont you guys constantly have drama with some hazard guy or something?

>>58070492
Aside from sharing why I felt Hau wouldn't get one, it's a non-starter to believe he would in the conversation context of 5 MFs per region since Alola is at 5 already and Sinnoh isn't. Pokefair is definitely an option, but among the ones you listed Bede is a rival that has NC on top of that meanwhile Eusine and Morty aren't rivals. NC is for MCs and rivals.

>>58070505
Hazard Bruno, we don't talk about him in here.

>>58070479
Spot taken.
>>58070505
In a game with no chat? This ain't Dragalia Lost

>>58070520
I miss Dragalia Lost.

>>58070505
The only drama is people going “don’t you have drama?” whenever a gym is mentioned.

I'm a catty betch and I just can't get enough of the drama, I need ALL the tea

>>58070531
Me too, anon. Me too... I was looking at this game called Stella Sora, looks near identical to me and has roguelike features

Hazard Hell rules!

I enjoy the drama because I'm not in the gym to feel any repercussions

>>58070479
>The Japanese Brock guy is finally gone
Thanks god

>30 tickets on Gym C scout
>literally just a Bertha dupe and nothing else
I despise this.

>>58070512
That fanmade rule means absolutely nothing and the point was that he didn’t get one over his SS with Tapu Koko. Bede (and Silver) are actually popular characters so it makes senses for them to get both. Barry is not that. Them not being rivals is irrelevant as the point is that it’s more common to finish ‘arcs’ with these. Silver & Bede’s primary character flaws are mainly addressed here. Their rivalries are second to that. If this arbitrary fan rule must be applied, it’s going to be an actually popular character in Dawn who has clear set up in the Summer 2025 event. Barry has more mentions of his one sided mentorship with Wake than his relationship with Palmer. Blue, Silver, Cheren, Bianca, & the Galar trio all had other NCs or actual Champions as their inspiration. Barry doesn’t fit that. We’ll see in a few months when it’s Dawn or her and Lucas.

>>58070558

>>58070558
lol the owner of that gym is a clown

>>58070365
That sounds unsanitary withGarbo there

>>58070624
I'm not wasting resources on Gym Scout C. I'm going to work on superawakening the one 5/5 gym unit I have instead. I'll let the forced custom C tickets afford me any of the new units.

>>58070558
Dare I say, based?

>>58070677
Did he kick you out?

Fine, bitch, be that way.

>>58070922
Everybody back up, we have a smooth operator in the house

>>58070922
>two-pump chump
Pathetic.

>>58070922
Mommy says she doesn’t play favorites but her actions prove otherwise

>starting to run out of lucky cookies for CS2
Can they just give us a motherfucking stamina stage to get them in? Like holy shit

>>58071204
You didn't spam lucky skills training when they had that stamina event some time ago?
I have over a thousand crunchy-3 cookies stocked up for CS2, and even more creamy-3s.
Try to do it next time they do a stamina event.
Aside from that, I usually default to lucky skill training when I've completed any running events. It's good stamina use for super fan titles.

>>58069180
>SCS Chart
Hope I'm not too late!

>>58071259
Pffft

>>58071204
>>58071223
They clearly did not want the permanent stamina cookie dispenser to actually be viable, and I suppose when Gauntlet actually IS a free limitless dispenser of stand 3* cookies that actually makes sense.

>>58071273
I like when you guys make photos just for CS. Need to start doing that

>>58071273
Really? Perhaps I've played for so long that I don't have to burn through cookies, but the daily yield isn't terrible. It's a few cookies of (usually) each kind a day, but it adds up.
Just do it when your event missions/points are done, and it's ez diabetes.

>19 logins
>15 daily rotation battles
you hate role cakes or something?

Suddenly remembered to use my tickets. Not a bad haul!
I was expecting this banner to be more of a scam, to only get dupes or only characters who fell off the meta train. I'm pleasantly surprised.

>>58071305
You are right, the daily version usually gets you a 3 cookie every other roll and that helps if you've already skilled everyone. I think our other friend was asking for something much faster than that.

>>58071357
Yeah, its great that it is a permanent new account feature too, for however long there is to enjoy it.

>>58071357
You fuckers will call anything a scam lol

>>58071387
Unfortunately this is a live service gacha game with daily play. Chipping away at upgrades is part of the deal.
That being said, doing lucky skill training on your off days is much faster and easier than Battle Villa ever was.

>>58071342
It's even alola time you can just go smash it in one NC Selene beam

Speaking of cookies. Are any of the new tower lucky skills worth replacing over CS2 on a DPS unit? I mean, obviously not talking about the new CS3, but the character specific ones.
Honestly, the characters that arent DPS who got one are the bigger winners and the most essential to get. Aura Cynthia, Sherlock Steven, Leaf, their new exclusive cookie skill are just major improvements. But you have SS Red or Leon, and their skill just leaves them with nothing after the first round of moves.

>>58071476
Red's cookie is literally "We have super awakening at home"

>>58071476
SS Red's Sun on entry may not feel as big but his Extension 5 is a big help to EX Sun. Leon is obviously not the one you go to now that Arc Leon exists, but getting a Max passive that almost exactly matches what the Arc one got gives him a new lease on life as a fast ramp unit since he can burn minimum guaranteed 4 counts on his own. A big one you missed was Arven, who got Dark Zone on entry with Extension 5. That was something he really missed as a unit since it lets him feel way more like a Dark Support than just a generic one.

>>58069472
Oh good I'm not the only one jobbing at floor 15 lol
I'm on water, can't put a dent on Acerola

>Finally passed 2M with this DC rotation
Feels good

>>58071518
I used NC May, SS Kris and Grimsley Sharpedo. Sync with may first to keep the rain going, sync with kris second then use May's tm on sharpedo and sync while the ex rain is still up. Then you basically just clean them up

>accidentally used 1 plaque of perfection on SS Lysandre
FFS

BWEEEEH THE SIDE OPPONENTS ARE TOO HARD

>>58071491
When coupled with his SA he almost feels like a Field EXR

>>58071476
You're never going to use Summer N, realistically.
But in case you do, it will be on-type and his Cookie is HS1+Super Powered 5. So it's a straight upgrade.

>>58071172
She obviously likes me, but I still don't like her. She needs more facial expressions than just "bored" and "fake laugh".

>>58071524
I got my first 2M score the last time we had ghost DC. This time I got 2,3M. I still don't get how some people get 3-4M.

>>58072160
Why is mommy so cold towards me?

>>58072160
For me, it's her psycho smile

>>58072162
I’m not doing the usual cheese like sleep and paralysis so I definitely could get higher but I’m content for where I’m at.

>>58072162
>I still don't get how some people get 3-4M
It's usually spamming status into a status'd mon to skip animations and spam sync nukes faster

>>58072501
Best mom. When will the game introduce Lana's mom?

>>58071404
Yeah, why would anyone expect something in a gacha to be a scam.

>>58072845
What are you being scammed out of with these tickets?

Lizaanon is back after a ban! Time to rant without ranting about encountering Center Faints skill in the Tower and just fuuuuuuuuuuu-

>>58071987
You have to time them so that they can go down quickly after or together with the center, or just neutralize their ability to damage you via flinch or damage guard. When the center goes down, it triggers a passive that gives the sides 3x the damage they'd normally deal.

>>58073134
NTA, but that stacked with '2 syncs then damage skyrockets' is rough with now bulky these guys are later on. Its a slog to try and see whether or not you are able to cross the finish line or not.

>Lizaanon is back after a ban!

Chart is here ! Julianna take the top spot and Koraidon prove that it's the apex predator of both the past and present !

Side note :
-Outside eggmon all fighting pairs got ranked !
-Carmine debut at 6 wich is kinda good.Let's see if she can perform well next week !
-Julianna equal Arc Steven first CS from last year.

Next week first rank :
Roxie and Garbodor
Fantina and Dusknoir
Lana and Cloyster


And that's all ! July chart later this week !
As always you can still post your clears ! See you next week !

>>58073367
Honestly it was more to make sure I was counted for special chart (that got me banned), but looks like all good in >>58073603

Surprised to see so many Juliana. She's such a meh design that she doesn't even really appeal to lolibros outside of a bit of artistic leeway. I guess I don't know how good her kit is, though. And that is a sadly low Tina count...

>>58073616
I like Juliana despite not being much of a lolicon. I think her design is pretty underrated. She also has a fun personality in Masters.
Also, Koraidon is very strong.

>>58073603
>Swapped the Meloetta form for this chart
Based

>>58073603
Chuck > Tina
What a time to be alive

>>58073616
I didn't like Juliana on 1st reveal but seeing her in other outfits like with the DLC sold me on her. I also like Koraidon so her getting it was an ideal pairing for me.

>>58073603
>Bea highest gen pool unit
That’s my girl

>>58073643
TM Juliana is really much better than normal Juliana, the changed hairstyle does a lot of work. Hoping for an alt with it one day.

good fun feel for the heart

>>58074279
Unc still got it

>>58074279
Good work, Normanon. Are you pulling for Academy Gladion? I think Stage 30 may still be hard with him but he should ensure you get through past 29.

>>58074613
I will try but I am always on the brink of gems bankruptcy, many fav trainer banners in a row in the last updates and I have some infamous luck always going for pities. Want Gladion because of Porygon line, usefulness and points for Brendan sync grid build.
AS Ethan is 6K gems away so I'll get him later before he's gone if I will be lucky with Gladion. Not sure what to expect from anni pairs, hopefully only 1 trainer I really like and no fairs or masterfairs I like on same month either.
I don't think Floor 30 in general is possible without super awakening and all, maybe 2 or 3 types can pull a Floor 30 right now, monotype clause does impact many of the current braindead powerhouse units because you need a good support for each type, with heals and debuffs if possible, even better if it comes with team endurance and EX WTZ.

>>58072746
I already do that, though.

>>58069087
My shining star

>>58074637
Also AC Gladion's ideal sync build for this harder content requires 70 energy which is locked behind a 5/5 investment and of course this requires the role candy I always end missing because most of my favs are released as Strike units, truly a unlucky fate.

>>58074637
Yeah I know that feeling, in 2022 I was barely getting by leading up to Anni since I had to spark in June, August, and then on Anni itself. I hope he comes easy for you. I plan on dailying him since I get the feeling they're going to lean on him as the only good special Normal unit for a long time. I think for Stage 30 we're probably going to be getting a Mega Kangaskhan to spearhead taking on that. I wouldn't count on (Normal) Arceus showing up, since if it even does I think it'd be too late.

>>58074660
Yeah his grid felt very expensive, I have it open in another tab myself. I'm hoping the combination of 3/5 Larry and 1/5 Academy Gladion can get me through 29 but it's not a tower I plan on taking on anytime soon anyway to see what happens.

>>58074682
I hope I am not getting a banner Contest Brendan with Boomburst Exploud or unlikely a dream pair Norman with Mega Kangaskhan, Zangoose or Exploud before new year. A freebie shop with Linoone or Zangoose, even 4* is welcome of course.

>>58074704
The wild card consideration is they can, whenever they want, drop a Tera Normal unit now that that's a thing. So the predictions can get a lot harder if they decide to pull a Kieran and make a Normal-type 1% unit out of nowhere tricked out with a strong made-up Normal attack. So that's something else to keep in mind.

>>58074660
>>58074660
>C Gladion's ideal sync build for this harder content requires 70 energy
you're supposed to need more than that?

>>58074729
I think he's talking about taking the SMUN 2 tile since that's a consistent and major contribution to his looped B Move damage. You get to -9 trading the Sync 25 tile for it.

>>58074729
This is legit for the extra +50 HB power but I was thinking of this one, but playing with Palmer, Larry (MGR9) and Victor the team gauge was pretty fast at charging between speed buffs and base speed stats, just worried for the spammable Hyper Beam issues.

>>58073806
It's become so easy for me to forget she's in the game. Are there no more food-based events to put her in? Lodge maybe?

>>58074863
>Lodge when the only girls in there are Gloria and Marnie

Galar was never a waifu region. Hope you're excited for Bede next month

>>58074874
They'd put Sonia first just to act as Leon's side story.

>>58074874
>Galar was never a waifu region.
Sonia
Nessa
Bea
Oleana
That's already plenty

>>58074892
I wish

>>58074951
And yet Kabu and a Master Fair got in the Lodge before all of them

>>58074951
>Oleana

>>58074951
What does the word 'waifu' mean to you?

>>58074874
>Oleana

>>58074958
Marnie got in 1st. They can only do Galar so many times and they like to have both males and females.

>>58074973
To me it means the one anime girl you like the most from a series/collection. But I know to others it means any girl attractive to them. For me it's Sonia but I know someone for each of the other girls where each person has them as their #1.

>>58074976
Yep even Oleana. And he whales pretty hard on her too.

>enter Electric Tower
>“ooh physical attacks do 0 damage, guess you’ll have to run a special attacker buddy”
>go in with SSTRed
>still win
It’s as shrimple as that

Burnet when?

Mallow is my waifu. I don’t have her Variety alt at max level yet.

>>58075295
Kukui says she's around at some point but I think DeNA just forgot

so, what do you think about the Tower?

>>58075502
Fun if I win; garbage if I lose.

>>58075502
It won't make me pull for characters I don't like.

>pika + blue super tard team can only barely clear 20+ floors
>only made it past floor 21 by skin of teeth
It's over

what fucking code they ask

>>58075502
not abyssmal dogshit like rally, tho replays are huge downfall

>>58075546
I didn't even get a promotional email. I'm not sure if I wrote the wrong email or they just hate me specifically.

>>58075536
Which Pikachu?

>>58075546
>>58075553
Check their FAQs, you'll have to create a Support Ticket.

Once you've done the support ticket, they'll email you; and you might have to provide details. Screenshot of the newsletter email. And maybe ask if you are US based.

>>58075622
>floor 21
>physical only
Well one of them is equine

>>58075661
Nah my case is different I never got any email at all from anything Pokémon after scanning the QR code and registering. I just get emails from Nintendo which I don't remember registering for.

>Offer only valid for new subscribers signing up with US addresses.
>new
Ah I think I see the problem. I checked and apparently I registered for something Pokémon over a decade ago and got promotional emails until 2020 something. I got emails in there for a Pokémon Omega Ruby demo code.

>>58075667
Perhaps you signed up AFTER July 27th.

Then the Newsletter's is done.
The support ticket can extend up to before October 31st.

>third dead multi on new gym banner
worst luck for the worst set of gym units

>>58075708
Good, you deserve nothing for being a cunt.

>>58075663
Don't be a smartass and answer the question normally next time, faggot

>new mode created to power up your favorite characters
>need the sloppiest of slop meta shit to compete
>need to use the items you're trying to obtain for your favorites on the meta units defeating the purpose
Another dog shit mode by Dena. Amazing.

>>58075824
Yeah in hindsight it's stupid, it's really just a move for people to roll units they didn't need before.
It became hard to play with just your favorites in this game, they always push for meta and specific comps to make you pay up...I don't think it will end well for them

>>58075824
I'm running the electric tower and can't even imagine getting above maybe floor ten with most of my other types.

>tower battles become as long as UBs---only long because because of how bulky everything is
>lose interest just like UBs

>>58075873
I haven't done a single UB. I could probably clear some of the early ones now but I can't be bothered to.

>>58075824
I'm convinced no one over at Dena play tests any of this shit. Or maybe you're supposed to actually roll for the garbage they try to peddle to you.

Is that true that your game haven't had an S tier unit go to a high A tier in a year? And a lot of the older units are also not miserable to play in general?

>>58075893
> Is that true that your game haven't had an S tier unit go to a high A tier in a year?
What?
>And a lot of the older units are also not miserable to play in general?
Most content isn’t that hard and they’re constantly giving buffs to at least old limited characters. General pool characters get grid expansions every month. There’s only one mode that necessitates muh meta but they’ve stopped adding new stages to it somewhat recently and it’s permanent so no rush.

>>58075893
If you're asking if power creep is bad then no not necessarily. As for the latter a lot of early sync pairs have weird gimmicks and kits that don't work today. This is somewhat circumvented by them getting a better version of themselves to use. Although not every character is fortunate enough for this treatment

>>58075893
>Is that true that your game haven't had an S tier unit go to a high A tier in a year?
Not really. It's hard to rate these things properly anyway cause there's so many different roles.
>And a lot of the older units are also not miserable to play in general?
Depends what you mean by "older". If it's older than like, 4 years, they usually can't compete with newer units. But there's units that are over 2 years old that are still top tier, like NC Marnie.

So...about that flashing ! in the Legendary Arena...

>>58075956
Oh cool I thought I was the only one that was happening too

>>58075905
>What?
Uhh like imagine character was released a year ago, and deemed S tier, meta defining etc. Year passed and now he dropped to lower tier
>>58075910
I see
>>58075911
By older I mean 2 years or more

Thanks for answers, anons!

>>58075979
There are several different tier lists in the community so it’s hard to keep track but generally they don’t fall off too fast/hard. I’m still using a year 2 unit to beat current year (6) content

>>58075979
There's many of the hardest content stages cleared with general pool units or freebies only, or with 1 meta support at most (often shared through most of these), so meta is really irrelevant in this game unless you wanna pull units for 3-36 thousand currency to clear 500 currency stages

>>58075824
>Get to the first floor that I don't have a perfect build for
>Can't even come close
Some types most players just aren't going to get the tools to beat, it's stupid as fuck.

>>58076415
Normal type is the end for me, I can feel it.

>>58075502
Best gameplay in years and actually rewarding. The people mad about it are just egotistical that they want to play a certain way yet can't keep up with others, which they're not entitled to. Even if you don't break into the 20s on each tower the game is still giving you 18K more gems for the first 10 floors at a rate of 300 gems per day, 27K if you can do the 15th floors. Anyone complaining saying this mode is worse than the other modes is outright stupid. UBs for instance sum to around 6K gems for doing them and are way more alienating out the box. Battle Rally gives only 300 gems a week, but at least gives a cake every month which is more exclusive. But even then Towers has its own exclusive elements between the Lv 200 access and the new cookies. I think they knocked it out of the park. I'm not even a giga whale who'd be able to do every floor but I still recognize the generosity and challenging fun it comes with, especially since the difficulty progresses incrementally instead of being unapproachable out the gate.

>>58076802
This is kinda how I'm feeling, thankfully the first 5 floors are free as hell so you can unlock multiple towers to grind earlier floors and worry about upgrading your units to try and handle later floors later which is what I'm doing since I'm f2p and don't have resources to beat "le physical only" floors right now

>>58075979
>imagine character was released a year ago, and deemed S tier, meta defining etc. Year passed and now he dropped to lower tier
Honestly this is really only applicable for units from the first two years like SS Blue or Anniversary N. And as long as they're not a poor seasonal or some other non-fair unit then they're still open for retroactive buffs.
Pokemon Masters can be explained as a fully PvE gacha that's mostly tilted towards featurecreep rather than direct powercreep. Any unit who has a lot of debuffs, field control, and other strong utilities packed in to its kit can have nigh-permanent value, especially if it fills a needed niche for at least one of the 18 types.

>>58075502
It’s fine. Nothing crazy.

Finally got a decent support for my pure ghost team. Based gym tickets

>>58076802
>Best gameplay in years
>Literally can't advance unless you have the latest units for a given type
Man shut the fuck up.

>>58076802
Pokémon fans are so fucking braindead dude no wonder the games are so shit

>>58076819
Was N, any of them, ever meta defining?
I think they were treated a bit too harshly but it's also true that there aren't that many fights where Piercing Blow is useful.

>>58076962
Why should you get to advance with your Flint as far as someone with their SS Hilda? I've already addressed your complaint. You get more out of it than other game modes without even being able to advance as others. So yes, it's clearly the best. Every player gets to scale through the tower from easy to hard and stop as far as they can go on an individual basis.

>>58076973
Is that directed at me being braindead? If so, it's ironic because the exact same sentiment word for word can be used to look at the people complaining about the mode. The games wind up lame because people want to be gamers without playing. They just want everything handed to them on a platter so they can have the same achievements as those who are more invested in the games.

>>58077040
>game modes you can't clear are good because... THEY JUST ARE OKAY???
Retard

>>58077040
"more invested" in this case means spending more money (this is bad game design)

>>58077040
>You get more out of it than other game modes
You really, really don't. You're just getting bigger numbers to do higher floors. The challenge dwindles down to either you have the right type of damage to do or you don't. Don't have it? You can't finish the mode.
At least other game modes like legendary gauntlets ask you to be somewhat intelligent with how you build your teams. The answer to any floor in the tower is kill the damage sponges as fast as possible.

I haven't gotten a single lucky cookie so I have no idea why this fag is bringing it up. Are they supposed to be random drops? Seems retarded if so.

>water tower 21
What the fuck am I supposed to do, I thought Dojo Gloria would be enough but I clearly need better physical water units with aoe.

>>58077118
Why should you get to advance with your Gloria? This mode is too good for you to clear.

>>58075502
I think they should nerf the side mons because single target is basically useless at higher levels.

>>58077040
Some types really don't have options catered to them, like Special Rock and Normal. For me my only Special Steel is Raihon and even at EX level 180 he can't do jack shit. My teammates are Costume Jasmine and Arc Steven who are also EX 180s so it's not like I'm relying on Genpool to progress.

I'm just fucked because I don't have SS Lear or whatever.

>>58077120
kek

>>58077118
>bro just super awaken her!
Its fucking over, I'm going to another tower.

>>58077074
See, that's your problem. You feel you're entitled to clear them instead of looking at them as the alternative being DeNA never added the mode and you got nothing instead. You don't look at it as an extra gem income, you look at it as being deprived from gems. If they drop the gem count to like 15K a month to penalize players that can't top each tower then yeah of course that'd be something to complain about. But you're not owed anything. You get what you can get, but the fact is YOU'RE GETTING SOMETHING. CS, DC, LG, HSE, etc give you next to nothing in comparison to what you can strive for with a weak account doing Towers. So yeah, being mad they added PERMANENT content you can't 100% asap is stupid and egotistical. Nobody is forcing you to roll or spend, because again, the alternative being it didn't exist, you are free to ignore the tower levels beyond what you can reach and enjoy what you did reach.

>>58077078
Not necessarily since refraining from pulling on banners or dropping candies is also refraining from investing, but it is a gacha game so "bad game design" doesn't apply in the same way it does to a mainline where you pay ahead of time for a fully defined product. You can do everything for free in a gacha with enough playtime, but money is supposed to substitute for that playtime, which is how it can be free to begin with. Either way, as I said to the other person, the new mode is an unequivocal act of generosity unless they punish players by saying the monthly gem count is docked because of its existence.

>>58077096
You demonstrably do because the sum of the rewards you get from the height you can reach on an account is greater than what you can get from your example of LG. You get more gems and more exclusive rewards. Again, framing it as not finishing the mode is the wrong way to look at it. Frame it as 'what if it didn't exist', since those rewards wouldn't have just been given to you for nothing.

>>58077135
You don't GET IT man you're supposed to dump a ridiculous amount of resources on one sync pair to MAYBE see a measly return of being able to increase your level by one point! This mode was MADE for people that want a CHALLENGE

>>58077144
Not reading all of that. The mode is shit. Simple as.

>>58077040
> Guys not being remotely able to beat bug floors past 20 because the physical bug types are
-2 super old special costumes
- a latex suit Barry
And guzma is SO KOOL GUISE, JUST WAIT FOR THE NEW BUG SHIFT GIGA IMPACT UNIT IN 2026 DUH

>>58077144
But enough about Ultimate Battles,

>>58077151
See this is your problem. You think you're just allowed to play the new modes? Very selfish of you to think so. Have you ever thought of just waiting until a good sync pair you need gets released? That's where you should be investing your gems into! Dena worked very hard on these battle restrictions. So much so that they repeat over and over. The least you could do is buy a couple of $80 gem packs.

>>58077130
I absolutely recognize that. They didn't even add a good special Normal attacker until this month who wouldn't be able to take on Stage 30 anyway. You just do what you can do on each tower. I don't have any illusions of 100%ing every tower or even making 20s, but I'm just picking up as many rewards as I can.

>>58077151
Well yeah I have Guzma too as my physical Bug go-to. I'm not going to push it past how far he can go, there are other towers. I don't see what the hang-up is about needing to 100% it, the tower isn't even disappearing like an event would.

>>58077162
So true bestie! Oomfie! Kind stranger! Follow redditor! Dear oinker

If I can't clear content with my squad of freshly hatched, unupgraded egg mons it's shit and DeNA should pay me real money as compensation.

>you can only stockpile 20 attempts
>eventually you're going to run out floors you can clear unless you're an omega giga whale
>unless you roll for the new meta slop character that you probably won't like these attempts are essentially wasting away
Such a good mode!

>>58077162
Your post doesn't even make sense because you're acting like you should be depleting your gems in an act to get fewer gems than you put in. Just play as far as you can, if that concept upsets you then that's your unnecessary entitlement thinking you're owed more. I don't think I'm owed a win on every stage but I'm glad I'm getting all of these new gems and items. The parroting isn't a good look either.

>>58077178
This but unironically. What was the point of adding eggmons just to make them useless? This is also bad game design.

>>58077184
Yeah I think I can reasonably get every type to 20 or so but beyond that I'm going to run out. Makes me wonder what their plan is longterm.

>>58077185
>I don't think
I could tell. You didn't need to announce that.

>>58077040
Wow now leave Flint out of this he already has to cope with having one of the earliest grids

>>58077194
I'm glad you dedicated a post to a petty insult, helps fill in the blank on the kind of person I'm talking to that has such a stance.

>>58077185
>add a new game mode to earn mats to strengthen your favorite sync pairs
>new game mode is poorly optimized and caters only to whales
>need to use these new mats on meta characters to stand a chance on higher floors
>criticizing this lazy and greedy tactic is "entitlement"
You're a cuckold.

>>58077207
I could already tell the kind of person you are and frankly you're so beneath me that even insults are too good to waste on you.

I think it would be best if this game EOS'd

Is this our once per month meltdown?

shitters mad

>>58077236
>>58077236
>>58077236

>>58077212
>>add a new game mode to earn mats to strengthen your favorite sync pairs
Yep
>>new game mode is poorly optimized and caters only to whales
Wrong, starts from easy unlike say UBs which don't even give you said materials
>>need to use these new mats on meta characters to stand a chance on higher floors
Again wrong, you don't need to attempt the higher floors if you're going negative on your resources beyond your contentment, that's an artificial need
>>criticizing this lazy and greedy tactic is "entitlement"
Yes, because the fact of the matter is these materials didn't even exist before and you were content leaving all your units at 150 which was the maximum. If this game mode didn't exist they'd still be at just 150 and you'd be happy, so it's undeniably entitlement to want the new maximum instead of just remaining at 150 as if nothing happened at all. Hell, they even gave you 180 to put all your new units to without strings attached. I haven't even promoted any of my units to 200 because it's unnecessary, and only 1 who's my favorite is at 180 when I can promote a ton. So yeah I recognize it as entitlement and a lack of self control.

>>58077218
Cool contradictory post.

>>58077191
Their longterm plan is that players will either get FOMO and roll for gameplay, get bored enough to roll for non favorites or that they'll release someone that hits a certain player's niche.

>>58077162
>You think you're just allowed to play the new modes?
There's nothing stopping you from playing them, though.