Pokemon Shuffle

[Flame Dragon]

I've had to use two of my extra hearts so far. Luckily 60 and 80 give you 5 so you'll still have some even if you need to keep on doing it. Currently I'm at 48 after using about 30 hearts so yea, moving SUPER fast.

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[evilfusion]

Ooh. I might try to go up to 200 in that case, to grab the M-Speedups. I've been giving them to Rayquaza lately, since he's just SO good, and most of the other Megas simply don't need Speedups, either because they evolve quickly or they're outclassed anyway.

[Flame Dragon]

Yea, I really want speedups for Ray. I'm going to use one more on Mewtwo Y just to max him out, but after that Ray will be getting them all. 

[Pchi]

I've got a trick to avoid the problem mentioned by Evilfusion without spending money on extra hearts: if I'm down to my last heart, and Z didn't get angry yet, I wait the game replenish one, then play the stage again, until it becomes enraged; if I consume my last remaining heart defeating an angry Zygarde, then I wait until I'm back to 2, then repeat the process.

Also, when you play against an enraged Zygarde, while you do skip a few levels, the difficult remains the same of the level you were originally supposed to beat next.

[Flame Dragon]

I've got a trick to avoid the problem mentioned by Evilfusion without spending money on extra hearts: if I'm down to my last heart, and Z didn't get angry yet, I wait the game replenish one, then play the stage again, until it becomes enraged; if I consume my last remaining heart defeating an angry Zygarde, then I wait until I'm back to 2, then repeat the process.

Also, when you play against an enraged Zygarde, while you do skip a few levels, the difficult remains the same of the level you were originally supposed to beat next.

 

 

That last part is SUPER important since it means you can skip the more difficult stages like 50, 100, etc. 

 

Speaking of, just cleared 50 and thanks to angry mode am about to do 60. I love this level skipping.

[The Warden]

I'm rather perplexed by the Exp Boosters. Small gives 100 exp, Medium gives 200, Large gives... 1000. Kinda uh, kinda a big leap there.

[Flame Dragon]

I'm pretty sure it 50, 100, 500. You still have the giant jump, but the numbers aren't NEARLY that big.

 

 

Anyway, really enjoying the Zygarde escalation. I've gone from using 50%, to 10%, and now I'm back to 50% to deal with the stage as it changes. At level 138 which feels insane since the event started only 2 days ago.

[The Warden]

Exp Gain L is 1000. I watched. My Rayquaza went from 1235 needed to 235.

[evilfusion]

I just got to Stage like...132 or something like that. It does feel insane with the event starting so recently. However, 100 was mean and made me lose twice, one time even WITH a few items (I got really unlucky), so now I've only got about 22k gold, but that's a non-issue at the moment.

[Flame Dragon]

Exp Gain L is 1000. I watched. My Rayquaza went from 1235 needed to 235.

Looks like its 1000, 200, 50. The difference is kind of insane really.

 

I just got to Stage like...132 or something like that. It does feel insane with the event starting so recently. However, 100 was mean and made me lose twice, one time even WITH a few items (I got really unlucky), so now I've only got about 22k gold, but that's a non-issue at the moment.

Yea, 150 took me two tries.

 

Honestly, once your in the 170s the stages start to get brutal. I've failed a few times doing them. At 180 now so I'm almost there at least. Going to grind a little with Meowth after since my money reserves have taken a slight hit and I like feeling rich.

[evilfusion]

Yeah, I cleared 150. It was HARD. And expensive, since I failed twice. I have to grind more coins now because I only had about 7k left, and I don't want to be caught too low on money, especially for Sunday when I'll need a bit of change to get more gold from Sunday Meowth.

[The Warden]

I got screwed by the level jumps and had to do BOTH stages 50 and 100.

[evilfusion]

I got screwed by the level jumps and had to do BOTH stages 50 and 100.

 

So did I. I never actually got a level jump that didn't seem to be geared towards NOT skipping the major milestones. Like when I was 5 away, I got a +3.

[Flame Dragon]

I feel like the game is set up such that you can't skip the major boss battle stages. I've missed on 50, 100, 150, and 180 so I feel that is the case. Not to mention it does make total sense. We'll see with 200 since I'm at 197 right now.

 

Speaking of, the 190s are pretty hard. The disruption isn't as bad as 170s, but you need to deal a fair bit more damage.

[Pchi]

I managed to skip a few of them, but not all of them. You can try to manipulate the tantrums' timing in your favor by letting Zygarde's rage subside until you get an opportunity to skip them, but that method is not guaranteed to work.

[evilfusion]

Mildly off-topic, but I for some reason really like your use of the word "tantrum". I envision Zygarde throwing a fit like a child.

[Flame Dragon]

He kind of looked like he'd do that whenever he gets defeated. It is a pretty good word.

 

Anyway, cleared 200. Use everything. I just cleared it and that was with every power up.

[The Warden]

I finally got a lucky br8k and got a tantrum on 147, so I managed to bypass stage 150.

[The Warden]

I really hate these post-150 levels, as there is really no rhyme or reason to Zygarde's disruptions at that point, and he's shitting them out every turn.

[Flame Dragon]

The post 150 level is where the difficulty actually starts up for the normal stages. I was able to clear all of them without items, but it gets really close when you get into the 170s and 190s. I used Gardevoir, Latios, Goodra, and Zygarde for all of them if that helps you out any. Though at this point a LOT of the good Pokemon I use are either level 9 or 10 and being lower level might cause some problems.

[The Warden]

*Eye twitches*

 

ARE YOU funking KIDDING ME?!

 

I had Ash-Greninja on a 81% catch chance...

 

AND THE funker ESCAPES WHILE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR GREAT BALLS BECAUSE THAT jabroni ZYGARDE ATE UP MY MONEY! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

 

*Collapses from sheer rage*

[Pchi]

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*Eye twitches*

 

ARE YOU f***ing KIDDING ME?!

 

I had Ash-Greninja on a 81% catch chance...

 

AND THE f***er ESCAPES WHILE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR GREAT BALLS BECAUSE THAT c*** ZYGARDE ATE UP MY MONEY! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

 

*Collapses from sheer rage*

 

 

 

F*ck that Greninja, man :/ I'm worried about it now; I probably don't have enough time to grind money for Zygarde Level 300, Landorus-T, Ash-Greninja AND M-Blaziken's re-run. I'll probably have to pass on the first two.

[Flame Dragon]

F*ck that Greninja, man :/ I'm worried about it now; I probably don't have enough time to grind money for Zygarde Level 300, Landorus-T, Ash-Greninja AND M-Blaziken's re-run. I'll probably have to pass on the first two.

The only note worthy stuff past 200 are Level Increases (3 of them). They are nice, but I've heard the stages past 200 can start it get VERY hard, even the normal ones. To the point that your likely to need items. So unless your willing to sink all that money in I think your time will be better spent doing the other stuff.

 

Landorus-T is totally beatable without items. Don't worry about it that much.

 

If you use a +Attack you should be fine with Ash-Gren. You get like 8% per 3 seconds so its not that hard to get a high catch rate.

 

Re-Run is pretty cheap since you only need to spend 4500 for the items you can bring in.

[Pchi]

The only note worthy stuff past 200 are Level Increases (3 of them). They are nice, but I've heard the stages past 200 can start it get VERY hard, even the normal ones. To the point that your likely to need items. So unless your willing to sink all that money in I think your time will be better spent doing the other stuff.

 

Landorus-T is totally beatable without items. Don't worry about it that much.

 

If you use a +Attack you should be fine with Ash-Gren. You get like 8% per 3 seconds so its not that hard to get a high catch rate.

 

Re-Run is pretty cheap since you only need to spend 4500 for the items you can bring in.

 

Actually, I only needed items for the the boss stages (Level 200 and 250). But I don't think I'll have enough time to grind enough money for all these stuffs AND reach Level 300.

I actually beat Landorus-T without items once, but not enough moves left to allow me to catch him.

I'm actually a bit worried about the Fast Match system, since I did pretty bad on the M-Sceptile event :/

[Pchi]

Good news: I managed to catch both Ash-Greninja and Landorus-T, so I decided to try winning those 2 remaining Raise Max Levels from Zygarde. The bad news is: I've been having a hard time making through the stages after Level 275. I'm trying not to spend any coins on the stage, but I'm afraid I might be forced to resort to that if I take too long. I'm planning on skipping tantrums until I'm able to skip Stage 300; because I sure as hell ain't facing that sh*t the good ol' way.