u/Due-Smile9814

Image 1 — finally done with my first tower!
Image 2 — finally done with my first tower!
Image 3 — finally done with my first tower!
Image 4 — finally done with my first tower!

finally done with my first tower!

huge thanks to SceptileFan, because of their F39 video i was inspired to change my strategy into not attacking with nc lucas until the very end of the battle (why does his b dragon breath animation take so longgg), because apparently losing a sync cycle or two is still better for ex dragon zone duration than attacking with nc lucas.

the run itself doesn't require that much rng, you just need to hit your queues and get good rolls on b outrage and spacial rend. i did get to flinch articuno when i finally used b dragon breath, which meant the physical break didn't wear off for one more turn, but might not be necessary.

physical floors team: the one in the first image.

special floors team: 1/5 EXR nc lucas, 3/5 EXR drayton, 1/5 EXR nc dawn.

u/Due-Smile9814 — 9 days ago

finally done with my 5th tower! cleared with 2/5 no EXR anni serena and no EX dark zone (feat. 1/5 0/20 ss cyrus)

only needed anni serena at 2/5 for 1 TM mpr, can probably be done at 1/5 with better gears/ EXR

run is pretty easy, you just need to queue your moves and hope for good sleep recovery rng

anyone who says anni serena is terrible at 1/5 or without EX dark zone don't know what they are talking about

u/Due-Smile9814 — 2 months ago

you can use the mega evolution pokefair candies for super awakening

same as with the ss kantrio candies, you might want to wait until you have all these pokefairs maxed out from tickets/ EXMF banners before you give them these candies so that you can use them for super awakening

u/Due-Smile9814 — 2 months ago

stupid questions about passive skills

do all the "the more [...], the more [...]" passives (like haymaker for example) enhance the effect by the same percentage? if so, what is it? is it multiplicative or additive? is there a list or a site that helps explain these better (kind of like brybry)? thanks🙏

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u/Due-Smile9814 — 2 months ago

can these be used for super awakening?

also it doesn't seem like there is going to be an option to exchange the rewards from this event which is odd considering there are exchange options for the 30 year celebration free pairs

u/Due-Smile9814 — 3 months ago

fighting tower floor 29 without any fighting zone

this run requires a ton of RNG for nc biancas' flinches, lodge emmets' stat drops and opponents not recovering from confusion but i finally made it! it was the first time i had to use ever pins to get better gears, it might not be needed if you have higher move levels though.

i really don't recommend trying to replicate this run (it took me like 3 days, optimized gears and a LOT of resets), so if you have ssa cynthia/ kieran/ arc korinna they should make this much easier, i just wanted to show that you can get to floor 30 of fighting tower even if you don't have any of them.

i don't think i'm able to defeat floor 30 without them though, so i will probably move on to a different tower for now, but i would love to hear your suggestions if you think i can do it with my current roster (pretty much just the sync pairs in the images, 3/5 ss bede, 1/5 eri and 1/5 juliana)

u/Due-Smile9814 — 3 months ago

help with dragon floor 30

is it possible for me with what i have? i'm pretty much only seeing clears with ny lana/ arc lance/ hassel/ nc nate, is it possible without them?

u/Due-Smile9814 — 3 months ago

400/540 floors as an F2P player with my 4th tower down!

fire tower was also the first tower i started so it was a nice moment of closure:)

really glad i didn't need to have nc lyra at 3/5, although it does make me sad that ss hilda is pretty much irrelevant now... really wanted to finish this tower with her but i don't think it will be possible without ex sun. maybe i'll try if i ever get arc silver, but i have no idea when that will happen. on the other hand, it's really nice that i didn't need to have nc leaf at 5/5 because i have no tech candies and i need like 12 of these lol

u/Due-Smile9814 — 4 months ago

i have a theory that we are getting a new water support next month

i have a few reasons for that:

  1. we just had a rerun of SS kris, and with a special type of banner that allowed for a guaranteed copy in exchange for 10000 gems. as far as i know, this stuff is pretty rare for pokemon masters ex. i think DeNA did it because they want to make a new water support, and they know once they make a new one nobody would spend any money ever again scouting for SS kris because she isn't that good, and so they made that banner in an attempt to make as much money off of her as possible before she gets powercrept.

  2. we are getting a free copy of summer cynthia in september, which i think will end up being a similar case to the rerun of anni lillie, which only happened after the introduction of ex steel zone to make sure as many players as possible try to scout for variety poppy. i think it's odd that they are giving such a good unit for free (especially when a lot of the other units that we are getting aren't really anything great - maybe except for some of the fairy units which might actually be an argument for arc diantha soon??) so i think somewhen in the next two months we will be getting a new water support that will be better than the two that we have currently, because otherwise i think it will be pretty unusual for DeNA to give us a way to get the two top supports for that type that easily.

  3. the reason i think it will be next month is obviously because of the high score event which will focus around water and grass units. this means that we will probably get a new water type sync pair, and i think there is a pretty good reason to think that this new sync pair will also be a support.

what are your opinions? personally i'm happy with any new water type sync pair that isn't a special attacker. if they make it a physical- oriented support like NC ethan it might actually be pretty nice imo.

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u/Due-Smile9814 — 4 months ago

without considering the increased chances to flinch the opponent (RNG is annoying but i can just restart the battle), should i try scouting for SS lyra if i have a good grid for academy rosa already? like what does she even do that academy rosa can't

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u/Due-Smile9814 — 6 months ago

and if you do, which opponents would you like to face? i personally always thought that with this games' love for kanto it's weird they made the SS kantrio be the f20 opponents and not f30, so i think it will either be a kantrio or a paldea trio (i would love for it to be a kalos trio but i don't think it will unfortunately)

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u/Due-Smile9814 — 6 months ago