u/LittleMissMuppet102

This is my team from Pokemon Legends Z-A. How do you rate it based on power, viability, synergy, and general opinions/vibes?

(P.S. Even if this team is bad or mid, I'm still very proud of it and I'm not changing it.)

Fun Facts:

4/6 of the Pokemon share the same names as Gooseworx characters!

Toby is named after Toby Fox.

The Espurr I caught was female and I knew what her evolution was going to look like. Hence, I gave her a very fancy name with the female Meowstic in mind.

When I joined Prodigy for nostalgia's sake in around September of 2025, I was unknowingly joining at a very dark age. F2Ps were given zero Magicoin, so we weren't able to evolve pets. At the time, my most powerful pets were at level 40. Those being the free Shardic in Firefly Forest and a Scarrow that I managed to get from spinning the limited time Halloween wheel.

To put it simply, the gameplay was very frustrating. Enemies kept knocking out my pets and I had to use my All Out Attack in almost every single battle. Personally, my most frustrating moment was when I got stuck on the Skywatch Pippet battle. The only way to win involved me landing a crit, and praying on RNG is never fun.

When it was finally time to battle the Puppet Master, I couldn't even battle him because of the pet-capturing requirement (which we can all agree is very stupid). I thought I would be stuck at this part of the story forever, but somehow, the game randomly glitched and I was able to battle him now. Idk how that happened, but after all the pain I went through, I'll take it! (Btw, if you're wondering how the battle went, it wasn't really that hard. I've heard other people say it was insanely difficult, but I think it was easier for because my pets were underleveled. Normally, that's a bad thing, but when my pets were brought to the Puppet Master's side, they couldn't do any damage to me.) After beating the Puppet Master, I proudly wear his outfit to show that I have completed one of the biggest feats that you could ever achieve as a Prodigy F2P.

Skipping forward to the daily Magicoin update, this update was HUGE for me! Yes, saving up Magicoin is tedious, but I'm just glad that I can get ANY Magicoin to begin with. After saving up 95 Magicoin, I managed to earn my beloved Tyscout! And after another long saving period, my Scarrow got her much needed evolution, and now she hits harder than ever before! I have used Tyscout and Scarrow a lot and I have been very proud of my hard-earned team.

Time-skipping again to the Daily Magicoin Buff and cheaper pet prices, being a F2P has never been easier! My roster has grown significantly and for once, I was actually having fun! I think many of us F2Ps were having a field day at that time!

But then we get to today. Prodigy mostly removed the F2P barrier only to put it back. Now we have to merge pets in order to level up further. Like, seriously. Does Prodigy want us to have fun or not? (Tbh, I feel like they don't.) After seeing this update yesterday, I have had enough of Prodigy's cooperate greed. Until something is done about this, I am never playing this game again. I will still log in to claim my Magicoin, but congradulations, Prodigy. You have completely lost the respect of one of your grittiest players.

It's truly a shame that this merge update has popped up, but I'm still very proud of my F2P journey. I've never really gotten to share this story with anyone before, but I hope it reasonates with all you Prodigy F2Ps out there!