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>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 (includes Reroll guide):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18n7Uvdb2_5UgWH-O0DkXHkogNbMkxRiBIaBpCJHIR0A/

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

>Sync Pair Tracker:
https://pomasters.github.io/SyncPairsTracker/

>Schedule
https://pokemon.brybry.ch/masters/programme.html

>Model ripping/datamining project (3vp) FAQ (Mostly dead?)
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 (Needs updating)
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1GET825rR31lZD9RWSKDh7gtrHs5_0giA

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ded game
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>>59362761
Events
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I have a Gengar,Crobat and Sylveon fatigue
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I love my cute wife Whitney!
She's so pretty, perfect and precious! The bestest and cutest girl!
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>>59362761
When will it be Maylene's turn?
there are so many good ideas, why havent they done anything?
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>>59362761
Who here is doing "the Trick" for Sabi?
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>>59362836
>Crobat
?
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>>59362933
what trick?...
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>>59362905
the virizion one is the most plausible
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>>59362905
She feel like a Mienshao trainer but I don't know why
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>>59362905
Bewear is for Lusamine.
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>>59362905
>she does'nt even got an ancestor in PLA
it's dead Jim
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I don't care for Paldea.
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I have every paldean except for Larry and Clive. The shit skippable like bread dog and balding dj showed up through free pulls
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>>59363058
>she does'nt even got
nice spelling
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>>59362905
feet!
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>>59360793
Is she that short in SV too or is it just a Masters thing? Some characters in Masters are weirdly short, I've noticed
>>59360987
Yeah, she's pretty cool. That's natural for a female character that wasn't made to be coombait.
>>59360925
She's based
>>59361105
Where's the artist name
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>>59363011
Because of the stance and pink color?
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>>59363241 (me)
I was thinking of Mienfoo, oops
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>>59362905
At minimum she'd be an easy pick for a Pokeathlon SC event
The other problem is actually getting a Pokeathlon SC event instead of just theme skills and sparse text references flirting with the idea
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>>59362905
When they realize she's a loli.
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>>59363058
Isnt her ancestor the nurse in Jubilife Village?
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>>59363275
That's Mirai's ancestor.
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Weird how they quickly abandoned Legends Arceus...
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>>59363237
>female character that wasn't made to be coombait.
And her visible navel?
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>>59363280
They have to focus on propping up Ohmori's characters. Please understand.
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>>59363253
>Pokeathlon SC event
whats that?
>>59363011
Mienshao would be a good fit too. or at the very least start with a Mienfoo, then evolve it. her alt color could even be the colors of Mienshao

>>59363275
>>59363277
Some characters share ancestors.
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Clavell is so small...
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>>59363282
We can only see a bit of tummy but no navel. It was a completely unnecessary design element either way, especially compared to other character designs that are more blatant waifubait. But idk. If that was meant to be coomer, at least they kept it really subtle.
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>summer Skyla from mix scout

Is she good?
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>>59363305
>>Pokeathlon SC event
>whats that?
A side game in HGSS that's basically Pokemon Olympics
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So who're going to get summer alts this year?
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>>59362905
her toes are actually separated wtf
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Chartmine
Faggot nigger game hitting pity on every single fucking banner Edition
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Irida chart
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Dynamic Chart
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>>59363348
lol
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Chart
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You now remember /vg/'s general.
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brandon stand-in chart
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Charting.

>>59363237
Artist is heytherenrds
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>>59363305
>>Pokeathlon SC event
>whats that?
Anon meant a Special Costume event themed around Pokéathlon.

>>59363351
C'mon anon. There's no way someone on this board wouldn't know what Pokéathlon is.
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howdy! ready to take all your requests for this week's Johto CSMM!
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>>59363807
Either version of Fantina & Gardenia
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>>59363807
Zinnia
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chort
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>>59363807
as always
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It's almost the 7th ANNIVERSARY, DeNA better RELEASE the EX ROLES for ALL the units that don't have them already or EOS DAY might happen, it would be an AMAZING opportunity and BEAUTIFUL celebration with LOT of CAKES, do it in batches or for the anni month at once, I don't even care how they would do it, RELEASE THE FUCKING EX ROLES AND UNLOCK THE EX FOR THE MC BP SYNC PAIRS YOU CRAZY BASTARDS! Thank you for your attention on this matter.
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Chart My-Lego-Minifig-Sucks-But-At-Least-Im-Still-Sexy Edition

Unrelated, I tried the 100 Legendary Arena. Its just too much time sink. I got to 24 with almost all solos and it would be hours and hours to keep going and make it within 7 days... But Aromatisse soloing Latios was funny.
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>>59362905
>>59363305
All of these are really good
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>>59363336
He's the only one to scale with the rest of the game. Look at how big Raifort's head is compared to his. She should be scaled down 10%.
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total v*kworks ugly outfits death
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>>59363937
QoL/f2p friendly changes DeNA will do this anni? Zero.
1% Banners released across 30 days? Seven: 2 before, 3 on the anniversary, 2 in the afterparty.
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>>59363807
As always !
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>>59364130
Even if they did give everyone EX roles they'd probably go full monkey's paw like giving May and Courtney sprint instead of strike. Imagine all the support tech units.
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CharTina !
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>>59363807
How about some Alolan cuties, pls?
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EoS
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>>59363336
She’s a big girl
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>>59364260
For you
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>>59364420
I wish ;_;
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charting
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>we got a new johto banner
>it killed the general
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>>59364170
Sprint may still be useful as it has extra attack stats and Courtney has a "1st Sync: Ground Zone" skill in her grid.
It's Support for both.
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>>59364472
They introduce two new events every month, but there's no story to follow because you can clear them in 10 minutes. Whoever designs the content for this game should be fired.
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>>59364130
Give year one units more than one or two skills or at least let you use one/two cookies on them.
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>>59364094
Was he that short in SV?
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>>59364472
Wait until they focus on Hoenn. That might actually kill the game
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Anime collab could've saved us
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>>59364668
Pocket as always demanding Hoenn, no matter how much Hoenn they get. They're suicidal

>>59364675
Other than Lear cameo or 3v3, not sure how that would work. Zero chance of Pasio visit
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>>59364702
3 seconds screentime background poryphone
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>>59362905
who?
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>>59364788
Nta, but some 3 star dud that's been collecting dust in my roster for ages.
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Do you like Raifort more now after her event?
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>>59364868
I hate her now she made me go to pity
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>>59364472
I love johto but there's nothing to talk about regarding this game. We'd just slide off the board by 100 posts again with nothing interesting going on.
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>>59364702
>not sure how that would work. Zero chance of Pasio visit
Easy, just like they did with Ash.
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>>59364868
i want to get her pregnant
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>>59364868
The event just has her come across as female Larry
Which is apparently high art for modern pokemon fans, granted
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>>59364907
More like "female Larry if he was an asshole".
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>>59364817
>3 star dud
Not to me
>>59362905
>>59363305
i wish these were real
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>>59364986
Larry got lucky and only got paired with normal people
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>>59364907
She was always bitchy me n the games, Miriam too
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>>59365055
mega and sprint exr when
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>>59365055
based
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>>59365055
>Lv.180
LMAO
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We need to keep Raifort away from Chicken and Barry. She would destroy their dreams.
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>>59364472
>>59364542
>>59364885
The story is abysmal. I remember getting into an argument about how discussion was significantly more alive during the villain arc and how the full year of single chapter stones shit and eventually arc suits killed all momentum of the game. And then that faggot was saying actually the villain arc was always bad. Even if half the stories were garbage, the villain arc was the last time the writing took itself remotely seriously. It was structured and possible to predict that it was fun to speculate what Pokémon the villains, champions or protagonists would use or which new characters would appear. Guessing a future arc suit isn't possible since literally anyone could get one and it's like guessing next month's holiday unit. You can't do it and you can't even guess if it's one or two. It's not fun to do it either because no one likes having to roll for arc suits and the writing for all of them is trash. Same thing applies to academy units and their obligatory accompanying Paldea teacher no one fucking cares about these. The only thing left in the game that's possible to speculate on is neo champions but no one does it because no one fucking likes nepo champions. There is just nothing to look forward to but whale content.
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>>59364620
I think he was at least student height.
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>>59364868
She was my third favorite character from SV and she’s even more appealing after this event. I like how her bluntness and excessive intrigue in history clash when she speaks. Would love to see her interact with Volo & Zinnia.
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>>59365485
>Neo Champions
It always was bound to be protag and rivals only sadly.
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>>59365510
Only until Neo Champion Elesa and Skyla drop!
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>>59364219
>crazy how long that thread stayed up

>>59364868
She was a bit interesting in SV, but didn't get much time. Here I hate her. Annoyed, bitchy, and she's right in the first place that an artificial island has nothing to offer her. Hard pass.
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>>59362905
there are better fighting units
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>>59365510
Neo Champions would be more fun to speculate if the stories weren't so fucking bad and all the same. The only recent good one was Alola because that one doesn't follow the template and it skips all the tiresome nepotism and gay posturing pretending that it's remotely impartial. The Silver one back then was too because the judge was from a different region but then he got an arc suit and they keep fucking rerunning the story that I have severe Silver fatigue. You look at the remaining characters and Pokémon to get neo champions left and it's just not fun.
>Chase, Elaine and >>>Trace with shiny Mewtwo, shiny Mew and hard maybe Melmetal
>Kris and I don't know shiny Lugia or Celebi or Gouging Fire all three redundant
>Wally and uh shiny Salamence or shiny Metagross or shiny Deoxys/Jirachi
>Sinnoh/Hisui and virtually every possible combination of legendary except Giratina, Darkrai/Cresselia and Shaymin unless shiny
>Hugh and Therian Landorus or shiny virtually anything
>Hau and Zeraora
>Victor/Gloria with Regieleki and Regidrago
>Florian/Juliana with Meowscarada tera and Skeledirge tera
>Nemona, Arven, Penny with loyal three
All of these are so lame: the Pokémon choices and the characters. And such obvious padding with the shiny spam. No one fucking wants to roll for any of this shit or see the story for these. I don't want this to be what happens which is why I try not to think about it.
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>>59365602
I wish these retards didn't give away legendaries/mythicals and shinies like candy to non-Master Fairs
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>>59365630
It's Gloria and Lucas fault
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Chart
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I have Paldea and schoolfag fatigue.
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I have alt outfit Jasmine fatigue
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>>59365695
She need more support alt
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>>59365695
Jothonians shouldn't get alts imo
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>>59365641
I think it's fair to lump N in that boat too. Back before the limited spam cancer I remember that one being extremely questionable too. Why he didn't use something else like his Zoroark and why he's limited when he's not a holiday or champion. Marnie of course was the first one to throw all pretense of Pokefair having any prestige or standards to it down the garbage.
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>>59364472
The story has been so dogshit I've skipped the last 3 events/dialogue
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>>59365719
>why he's limited when he's not a champion
Except he is.
He's a canon league victor much like Red, who predates him as a unit.
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>>59365695
No one says this
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>>59365695
She's so cute in everything
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For the chartanon
-10
Perrin and the wrong beasts Edition
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I have Lillie fatigue. Holy shit I'm tired of that bitch
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Which is worth pulling more right now, any of the Neo Champions, Raifort or Sabi?
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Forever grinding for tickets an' shit
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>>59365973
Lyra if you need a Physical Fire
Raifort if you really need a damage sponge despite Ghost being one of the most cracked offensive types that it doesn't need one
Sabi if you're a pedophile

This is a skip month
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>>59365973
NCs obviously. The powercreep master passives alone compensate for their oversaturated types.
Gengar is a Volo battery that assumes Volo isn't already coasting off his free ESL frogwife and Sabi was tragically scammed with standard EQ despite bringing a pokemon with a signature move.
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>got Raifort in a single multi
Comfy
>absolutely nothing to use her on since I already beat the ghost tower
Uncomfy
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>>59365780
The story hasnt been remotely good since year one when it was focused on Lear (fun Volo autism aside)
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How did our rolls go, cunnybros?
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>>59366079
Got her in 2 10 rolls, and will now proceed to masturbate to her.
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We're all fapping to Sabi tonight?
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Her face look so off. Maybe it's the red cheeks but she don't look like a Masters character
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>>59366121
The new Diamond Clan models all look a little off. I noticed it with Arezu, but it's VERY noticeable with Sabi where she has oddly defined eyes and lips
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>>59366121
All the Legends Arceus characters look different outside of their home game's lighting and lack of cel shading
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Still can't believe I pulled both NC Selene and Giratina Volo in their first run because my Ghost roster was pathetically weak, and accidentally ended up with two of the most broken units in the game (at the time, probably the most broken team), to the point that I won't even need any new Ghost units for a while.

And now, I also have Renegade Cynthia and Gym Fantina, but I've been too lazy to clear the last remaining Ghost tower floors.
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Words cannot describe how much of a shit Maylene is a support, the BP Karen of supports even with crit buffs, fucking trash, ugly as fuck shitnoh design with ugly mon, slow, zero damage, no reliable recovery, hours of set up, dies in two hits, absolute trash, she reminds me why she should be retconned from pokemon every time gauntlet pops up. No wonder even gamefreak hates her and made tons of superior fighting girl just to compense Maylene mistake.
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>>59366072
I think the story shit itself once they stopped with the Villain Arc. It was fun, but it isn't anymore. Arc suits are just shoehorned in way to sell the same units but now with even higher hard pity
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>>59366284
The day 1 gen pool character has a bad kit???? Say it ain’t so…
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>>59366333
She is beyond that, she is day of beta test even. Hideous goblina with no personality other than muh hungry, the ugly girl other girls carry around to appear more beautiful, absolute garbage in battle, only support that requires any other of the 4 roles to carry her instead, slow and gauge eater, a Torchic without EX mogs her, the Alcremie do. Even Drake brings in more utility without buffing offense or speed.
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>>59366312
The problem with arc suit stories is they're all the exact same template while you deal with the bitter taste of having to roll a scam banner or two.
>character has rival
>rival talks shit
>settle in tournament
>character gets suit mid tournament
>character wins if solo or ties/cop out fade to white if group
It's worse when the characters are extremely shallow like most gym leaders tend to be that the writing is way more strained and forced. Nepo Champions have the same writing problems but at least they use different Pokémon and the scam banners aren't as bad.

Villain arc was the last time it was focused and every event wasn't just ho hum character gets new clothes or joins a fucking tournament.
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>>59366351
I'm curious as to what will happen after the NC Champs, there's only so many (rivals and protags) they can do. They can do an Arc suit for anyone, but I think the game is heading to EoS soonish (next 1-2 years).

I feel like it's run it's course, even though DeNa treats it very low effort vs say pocket tcg

>>59366284
I want a mega medicham to use but my fighting team is already pretty complete unless they make it a support
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>>59366363
For all intents and purposes NC Champs are just Sygna Suits with a different theme skills, so even if the game runs out of realistic options for the NC Champs, they can just fall back on SSs or invent a 5th special costume for main characters and shit after SSs, Anniversary versions, NCs and ASs
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>>59366351
>The problem with arc suit stories is they're all the exact same
aside from the main one - Cynthia v Volo
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>>59366396
It's kind of incredible how they fucking knew this shit was mediocre that they decided to pop Schizoid Volo early to try and dissuade people from thinking "every story will be the same dogshit" only to end up doing the same dogshit every time afterwards, and even worse than the first set of Nepo Champion reskins. I would have thought Blue was going to be them gearing up for like 3 or so more units and finishing the story but then we got 4 filler Gym Leader units that were some of the absolute worst fucking stories in the entirety of PoMas
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>>59366396
No it's still the exact same rival to tournament set up. The only difference is Arceus hates Volo so he gets cucked out of one.
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>>59366333
Liza is great how dare you
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>>59366419
To be fair the Sabrina Korrina one wasn't as bad as the Brock Misty one. At least that one had definitive winners and losers though technically a tie since they each got a win on each other. The Brock Misty one was easily the worst story in the entire game. The universe bent around for KANTOOOOO. Blue from KANTO opened up a tournament just for them. Lear "randomly" selected the 2 units from KANTO. Red from KANTO said they would win. The two gym leaders from KANTO happened to reach the end despite severe type disadvantages. And Arceus decided to bless both from KANTO.

Honestly that whole month probably had the worst writing in the entire game. Valentine's Rika and Adaman event was abysmal and easily the worst holiday story ever. The premise doesn't even make any sense. No one wears new clothes to show appreciation. The entire story could be summed up as "they got new clothes".
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>>59366442
But they go on a date with (You)...
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>>59366431
Shes cute, but her summer alt is better
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>>59366363
You can say that about the entire game. There's only so many times you can do anything with the limitations of the game. Like have people roll another fucking Pikachu, Ho-oh, Charizard, Gengar, etc. Or have the trillionth Cynthia, Marnie, N and Silver alts. Or force people to roll these bloated Yu Gi Oh kits that are basically just stronger unga [physical or special] [type] and supports that do more of everything. Every character before buddy moves was a few turns self buff then unga spam strong 3 or 4 bar move and since then it's unga auto max buff then spam strong move then use one time sometimes rechargeable nuke.

There's only so many times you'll roll for a meta unit. Just like how fields used to be rare until they widely distributed it everywhere now every type has EX field. Just look at the reaction to neo champion Ethan. No thanks I already have electric supports. Or Arc Blue when that released. No thanks I have Arc Ethan. Or the people that skipped Arc Misty because they already have Neo Champion May for special water. Or Kieran because they are happy with Red or Neo Champion Hilbert. Carmine and Irida. The most they can do is add bloated content like tower and gym to force people to roll for more meta shit.
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>>59366461
Sparkle princess
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>>59366429
Yeah but then he came back for a rematch and stole a legendary and revealed himself as the big bad
and now Arceus should be coming to Pasio too (any day now)
thats something
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>>59366471
That whole thing was pretty impotent honestly. He kept skulking around goading people into getting arc suits like it was some big keikaku but then he got BTFO by Arceus, sperged out in front of the entire island becoming a wanted terrorist in the process, then ran away into hiding. Giovanni is better at the whole keikaku doori thing.
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>>59366464
>More meta shit
What else is there to do in the game? I like Tower as least it's SOMETHING other than event reruns where you just dump stamina mindlessly or brainlet CS.

I feel like there's less to do this in this gacha then others.
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>>59366479
>I feel like there's less to do this in this gacha then others.
They can't add more content.
Either it's too hard and a scam to make you pull for new units or or is a mindless timesink with no difficulty
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>>59366503
Reasonably, they can do another CS like event but with restrictions (types,region,etc). They at least tried with the tower, HSE, gym battles (somewhat) but you're right it all falls to just meta (tower) or repetition (gauntlet)
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>>59366479
I was saying this since the beginning. The only thing that actually matters in this game is the official fanfiction aspect of it. And seeing the state of the writing, the game never delivered on that front. I could forgive everything else about the game if the writing was actually any good but it just isn't. Which baffles me because that should be the easiest part. The cutscenes are just cheap looking recycled asset puppet shows and they can barely make 2 a month and they're not even any good.

The game keeps focusing on fucking endgame content but it's just fucking shit and unfun. They're basically just money gates, repetitive grinds, new unit checks, or some combination of them. The problem is they make way too much of the content in advance before seeing if there's anything wrong with it or before they could ever get negative feedback on it. It's not endgame but it took a full fucking year before they adjusted academy events even once. If not for the gym even being outright broken they would have shit out 6 of them completely unchanged and factoring in zero feedback from the first one.

Before you say anything about seeing these characters in official alt costumes, most of the time these are super Puritan and samey looking outfits. And the story usually does a terrible job at justifying them and selling you on them.

That's why I this game is such a hard sell even for Pokémon fans or general gacha players that aren't Pokémon fans.
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I just beat normal tower
yay
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>>59366551
The actual games are suffering by focusing on stats and online MP. Nowadays most mons have min maxed stats and the games are not so fun anymore. Masters seems to keep rolling out these OP units, but without them the game is nigh unplayable (if you want actual battles).

>Hard sell
Agreed. I have sunk cost on this game which is why I'm still playing.
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>>59366569
I don't know why they to this day are so intent on adding PvP when the first attempt went catastrophically bad. I wish they didn't give up on co-op content being end game so early. It's impossible to design the game around that now because of how bloated the game is and wildly different the strength of each player is. Having PvP decided purely by who spent more money is never a good idea which is why most games with sense avoid it or don't put anything significant to earn from it.

I don't actually have any good ideas for how to design end game content for this game. The game just fundamentally does not allow it. It's impossible to make something that a new player can participate in and enjoy and the game needs more players more than anything. I don't understand how new players get any enjoyment out of this game if they do decide to stick with it. You start off way behind with no way to catch up. You are never going to get the million old limited units you would need to participate. You don't have enough units for gauntlet which locks you out of repeats and most new players probably can't complete all boss phases in one try. You don't have enough of each type for high score. You don't have strong units of each type for tower and damage challenge and gym. You get worst case scenario 1 new unit every 2 months.

This game has zero appeal to most Pokémon fans because it only means anything to anyone autistic enough to have played every generation main line title which most players and fans of the franchise don't. If you only play the TCG which mainly focuses on the monsters it means nothing. If you never played a Galar or Paldea or Hisui game all the back to back to back events mean nothing. If you're a Go normalfag it doesn't mean anything. If you only know the monsters from merch you buy or from watching the anime it doesn't mean anything.

Genuinely if I never started at launch I would never have tried this game and I don't think I would have lost much.
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>>59366343
>[insane schizobabble]
Thanks for sharing from your asylum.
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>>59366319
SAME HERE AND NO ONE CAN STOP
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Can anyone lend me some gems for sabi
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>>59366351
Like we needed more proof that Arceus as a concept was awful for the series.
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>>59366742
Arceus good
Gacha bad
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>>59366702
Seconding this
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>>59366682
>that Volo pic
Giga based
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>>59366312
can we please get villain arc 2?
that was legitimately the last time the story was remotely interesting
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the main Volo chapters of the arc story are easily the best this game ever had
he is better than any villain in the "villain arc"

but only them. The other filler arc chapters suck
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>>59366651
They need to brainstorm something Contest-esque. Call it a talent show or some shit. It'll take the spotlight off grindfest battles and back on the trainers and their characterizations like Masters intended.
Utilize trainers based on the vibes they already started doling out in lodge (eg fiery/wistful/soothing.)
Tap into the pokemon card game roots, make it about creating synergized teams of people. It can piggyback off the regular battle events. Equalize trainers by removing power levels- their features are entirely based on their role, maybe part of their movesets if they want it involved, so even your favorite 3 star shitter can be used without necessarily being to your detriment. Featured pairs get a bonus, but then you're left to make the best hand you can play from whatever sync pairs you want.
Not sure what kind of minigame mode it could be, but I always liked how you had to play around the crowd and disrupt competition in contests. Make it a rock-paper-scissors with extra steps, for all it matters. Koi koi with a pokemon battle twist. Or even just a basic bitch puzzle of some sort where you need to find a team that clears all requirements while finishing gamr objective. Encourages you to collect without forcing you to pull for meta (even though that goes against their goals) and rewards you based on how well you can utilize your existing collection without the sweatiness of extreme battles.

>but why would I play some casual mode that I can't just Auto battle?
You don't have to, just like everything else in the game is optional. I guess it would just net you shitty rewards and BP. It's for people who want to find something to do with their glup shitto waifus, and if they can come up with a decent puzzle mechanic, give them something more involved than mindlessly slapping the auto-team -> auto-fight option even if it remains pve.
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>>59366913
I havent even done any of the arceus story missions. I don't care for it at all
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I am having Lillie withdrawal. I need more Lillie alts and Lillie events.
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>>59367005
it's okay, i just mashed through them for the gems. Even if you experience them, they are so plain water flavored you wont even remember what happened

>>59366960
The game just needs a reboot at this point. Like scrap the whole system and make something interesting for events. Let us actually explore with our player during events, I want to actually see Pasio at my leisure
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>>59362905
>>59363305
>>59365055
>>59366664
Based Maylene enjoyer
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>>59367022
What's the best one of the bunch? I legitimately have not touched any of them, maybe might do a volo one (if there is one)
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>>59367022
I'd be cool with a reboot. They already did it once. Would be funny if they just revamped the game every handful of years to keep it fresh.
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>>59367196
>What's the best one of the bunch?
N.
All of the Arc chapters are straightforward excuses for an eventual exhibition match where the spotlight character starts radioactively glowing, but his is one of the few with a solid premise and has the most effort put into it overall.
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>>59366312
>I think the story shit itself once they stopped with the Villain Arc. It was fun, but it isn't anymore
Agreed. Villain Arc was fun. I've never been more excited about this game than when I read the last chapter.
I'd hoped that Giovanni & Guzzlord event would lead to another big villain crossover, but alas.

>>59366351
>Villain arc was the last time it was focused and every event wasn't just ho hum character gets new clothes or joins a fucking tournament.
To be fair they did start releasing bullshit Sygna Suits like the 4 Tapus. And Steven shouldn't have stolen the spotlight in the Hoenn chapter. Otherwise, I liked it more the Arceus Arc.

>>59366551
>Before you say anything about seeing these characters in official alt costumes, most of the time these are super Puritan
Shouldn't matter if you're not a coomoid. But I agree they can be pretty samey, especially NCs and Arc Shits.

Everything you said about the writing and cutscenes is true. I thought I'd get used to it, but I still get second-hand embarrassment when I read some of the stories.
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>>59366442
>No one wears new clothes to show appreciation.
Aside from this bullshit, it was a nice event. They compete for your love and attention, which is pretty moe.
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>>59367065
Samefag lmfao
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>>59367305
>I'd hoped that Giovanni & Guzzlord event would lead to another big villain crossover, but alas.
Giovanni/RR sucks ass just like all Kanto shilling
the only good Giovanni was back in gen 1
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>>59367388
I'm not talking about RR, retard
There's too much focus on Giovanni and too little on the other villains. I want the other villainous orgs to have more screentime.
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>I'm not talking about RR
Masters Giovanni is the RR Giovanni
and he sucks
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>>59367413
>missing the point this badly
Not falling for that bait
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>>59365973
Lyra if you're tired of using SS Hilda or dont have her maxed out.
Raifort since ghost has bare minimal support units.
Everyone else is pointless for their type unless you just started a week ago.
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>got sabi
>can't use her in any actual content because the tower is locked behind special dps
very cool dena, maybe one day they'll finally remove this retarded restriction so i can play the game



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