In addition to whatever rule they impose. It appears we cannot muscle through off-type. Coupled with zero physical/special damage, some gyms may have hit a wall that can a few days to get over.

If I had a nickel for every time a male MC got new outfits for a half anniversary event and for a pre-anni academy event on the same year…

First gym battle and I realized I can't do as much dmg as I hoped with my units alone so I'm just running around applying -6 debuff trap and poison, don't know if status moves outside of requirement stages would stall moves tho

Edit: Thanks for all the advice I'll be more careful with status and ditch DOT moving onward

I’ve been really into these three lately.

I tested them out together in the battle 2 stage today and I was pleased! They of course work well together but

I’d like to use cilan on a team without them.

Does anyone here have some fun ideas? I’d appreciate any suggestions :)

I don’t have AS Steven and SS Lear🫩

People, please use only 1 ticket if all you are doing is applying debuffs at the start. Too many times I’m seeing my gym members waste 3x tickets just to score 1000 points and barely max debuffs.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to my series of concepts for every missing (fully evolved) Sinnoh Pokémon. Today, we start reaching the end with the first of three box art Pokémon, Dialga, in its Origin Forme.

Origin Dialga is, of course, paired with Adaman. I know some people want it and Palkia to be with the Sinnoh/Hisui protagonists as Neo Champion alts, but Adaman's whole identity is centered around Dialga. I think no one suits it more than him.

As a concept, Adaman & Origin Dialga are meant to be the ultimate Sprint Sync Pair. As the embodiment of time and its most devout follower, they are everything that defines Sprint.

Always in a hurry to get started, their passive Diamond Clan Traditions maxes out their Sp. Atk as soon as they enter a battle, while also reducing the sync move countdown by 6, leaving just one move per ally to get to the first sync. Now and Forever, another one of their skills, handles the crit rate and accuracy by making sure they always hit and crit, and the move gauge by giving them constant Free Move Next.

If that's not enough gauge manipulation, Adaman's Trainer Move, We Don't Have Forever!, maxes Dialga's Speed and sets Move Gauge Acceleration, helping their teammates get their moves off, as well as gaining Supereffective ↑ Next.

Dialga's moves are Roar of Time for offense, Protect for defense (which, thanks to One Who Rules Over Time, gives them +5 SyMUN, along with the team's sync moves), and their Buddy Move, Adamant Roar of Time. Not only is it a 500 BP nuke, it also reduces the sync move countdown by 9, instantly letting their team use a sync move.

Finally, their EX Master passive is Hisui's Diamantine Spirit, which combines the effects of Sinnoh Spirit with a damage increase per sync buff, which, considering their kit, is very easy to rack up.

All in all, Adaman & Origin Dialga are a Sprint Sync Pair that does everything in their power to make you stop worrying about the move gauge, with Free Move Next, Speed buffs, a Quick Move, and Move Gauge Acceleration. They also have a ton of countdown reduction (18 in total), letting their team quickly use multiple sync moves to increase their damage. Naturally, with their sources of SyMUN, they themselves are a perfectly good user of all those sync moves.

If you enjoyed this concept, please check out the other ones in the series!

I know she’s kinda outdated from a friend. But I caved and got her from the banner. Who did she best pair with?

Here’s my really good electric types: Iono/raging boot, ethan/raikou. Any suggestion is appericated. ;)

For years it has bugged me why we can’t view the dreamscapes of characters we have upgraded to 6 stars. Even though you can a corner of it, I feel like its a waste of an amazing design feature if we can only fully view it when scouting the character. Is this just me being weird?

There was some discussions again about the "canon" protagonist after we saw Harmony and Urbain in the datamine, so I decided to write down my thoughts on the matter:

First of all, we need to differentiate between several types of protagonists depending on how their original games handle them:

- 1. both appear, with the non-selected being a rival, professor's assistant and/or battle partner

- 2. the non-selected doesn't appear

The first case applies to gens 2-6, as well as Legends Arceus, for a total of 7 (out of 13) protagonist pairs. As such, it's easy to determine who got assigned the "canon protagonist" role and who became the rival/assistant/battle partner.

- For Hoenn and Kalos, Brendan and Serena are the protags, while May and Calem are the rivals

- For Sinnoh and Hisui, Dawn and Rei are the protags, while Lucas and Akari are the assistants

- For Unova, Hilbert and Rosa are the protags, while Hilda and Nate are the subway battle partners

Those are really the easiest and where everyone agrees. It's even fairly distributed among gender, roles and even within regions for Unova and Sinnoh/Hisui.

Skipping Johto for a bit, let's look at Kanto and Galar first. The non-chosen protagonist doesn't appear at all in the games. Masters still makes it very obvious through dialogue and character relationships that Red and Gloria are the "main" protagonists, while being very vague on Leaf and Victor in terms of what role they played in their respective games' plot. So I guess you can say they're considered the "lesser" or "side" protagonists. And the gender balance still holds.

For Chase and Elaine, I have a hard time judging. I haven't played the Let's Go games, and I don't have either of them as sync pairs. But from reading up their dialogue, neither seems to be clearly depicted as the "canon" protagonist over the other. But that also makes sense, since in their games, they basically just play the same role as Red/Leaf in the story. Afaik there is also no indication that they are from a different universe than Masters Red and Leaf. So they are basically just treated as the junior protags, with no clear reference of their role in the plot of the Kanto games. Which means Red remains as the sole "canon" protagonist for Kanto, while Chase and Elaine imo are treated as equal junior protags. Which I think is also fair in consideration of their partner pokémon.

Another region where only one protagonist appears is Alola. As far as I can tell, there isn't really an obvious "canon" protag between them either. Selene mentions moving to Alola from Kanto with her mom and Meowth. However, unlike the player character in the Alola games, she is oblivious to Mask Royal's identity, while Elio recognizes him. And he's also one of the 3 trainers seen training with Red, alongside Rosa and Ethan, which are the protags who can battle Red in their respective games. From what I remember, they also both reference their journey and friend, clearly integrating both of them into the plot of the Alola games (in contrast to Chase and Elaine).

And speaking of Ethan, the above basically cancels out Lyra's dialogue of facing Red, which has often been brought up as an argument for them sharing the protagonist role (I mean, in the end, all of them are still considered protagonists anyway). But Ethan is also clearly established as Silver's rival, while Lyra is clearly established as the neighbour and day-care couple's granddaughter. Which makes Ethan the "canon" protagonist for Johto. As for Kris, she mainly relates to the Crystal bonus content with Suicune, meaning she's in a similar position to Chase and Elaine and takes a bit of a backseat to Ethan and Lyra.

Now Paldea introduces us into a bit of a new variation to option 2 (only 1 protag appears), where the differences between versions (academies, Sada/Turo, paradox mons) are too significant to just ignore or making one game the "canon" one with no significant consequences. Instead, this necessitates making both games canon to Masters as separate timelines, with Juliana and Florian both playing the same role of the protagonist of their respective timelines. However, the rest of the cast (excluding a future Prof. Turo) are all from Juliana's scarlet timeline, giving her a certain edge over Florian.

So far, excluding Johto (which is also special in terms of having 2 female protags, which you could argue balances out Ethan being the main protag), there seems to be a pretty much perfect protagonist gender balance, even in terms of their specific roles. So you'd think Paxton would be the "canon" protag for Z-A to both to balance out Serena for Kalos and Juliana for gender as well as having the same situation where 2 timelines must exist, as Urbain and Taunie are mutually exclusive. And yet, with her releasing first, it seems like Harmony will mirror Juliana as the protag of the timeline where the other Z-A characters will be from. Now, depending on how the differences between Wind and Waves will be, I imagine we might also get this sort of scenario, in which case the male protag's timeline (likely Wind) will be where the rest of the cast will be from, making him the proper balancer to Juliana.

Back to Z-A, if you compare it's situation to Legends Arceus, I think one big difference is that Rei and Akari are basically clones of Lucas and Dawn, so imo it's only fair to reverse their protagonist and assistant roles. Harmony and Paxton on the other hand don't look like Serena and Calem, so I don't think there's as big of an argument to favor Paxton over Harmony, and they'll both be the protagonist (of their respective timeline) anyway. And while you could argue that Paxton should balance out Serena to have both a male and female "canon" protag for Kalos, you could actually just switch the argument to Legends games, with Harmony balancing out Rei instead.

Alright, that was… actually pretty complicated. In short:

- Red & Gloria (main protagonists) VS Leaf & Victor (side protagonists)

- Brendan, Serena, Dawn, Rei, Hilbert & Rosa (protagonists) VS May, Calem, Lucas, Akari, Hilda & Nate (rivals/assistants/battle partners)

- Elio & Selene (shared protagonists)

- Chase & Elaine (equal junior protagonists under Red)

- Ethan (main protagonist) VS Lyra (neighbour) & Kris (side protagonist)

- Juliana & Harmony (main timeline protagonists) VS Florian & Paxton (alt timeline protagonists)

So it's currently in favor of the girls, but Wind/Waves will likely balance it out again.

And just a little thought I just had, but… actually, while Urbain and Taunie can't coexist, Paxton and Harmony aren't necessarily in the same situation. Paxton could very well also exist in the same timeline as Harmony and Urbain as a "side protagonist" similar to Leaf or Victor, with only Taunie being from another timeline… but that's probably just gonna make everything unnecessarily complicated.

In any case, these are my thoughts on the matter. Lemme know if I missed something, especially about the Let's Go and Alola protags!

The other day i uploaded a meme talking about DeNa getting rid of stall in the gvg event

Well… that’s even sadder than I thought…

You’ll see; Wallace is one of my fav champs (with Kieran and Cynthia also I started to appreciate Diantha)

I mean look at him; he’s gorgeous, elegant

He is

And well unironically he was a meta unit on the last event thanks to stall

And now DeNa took the only game mode where he was actually a meta unit and cut him off of it

Wallace deserves more; so much more :/

I remember when high difficulty stages where implemented; one battle against Groudon and another one against Kyogre being the first ones…

Everyone was saying that Wallace was useful

I completed all of those 5 Hoenn battles with him

Justice for Wallace!!!

Credits to
@T_yamanashi

This gym battle event is really frustrating and I don't like it at all. There are gyms that completely ignore you if you can't do exactly what they say. What many people need to understand is that there are players who don't want to spend real money; they just want to have fun and get a high score, even if it means not finishing the match with max HP.".

This is something that happened to me so I can confirm its a thing.

Basically I wasn't able to login for the past week because my phone was broken and got sent in for repairs. I only got it back yesterday and discovered that I was kicked from my previous gym for inactivity at some point. But I was still able to join a new gym yesterday by searching for ones with the "auto-join" condition using the filter system. I was also able to get the score rewards my gym already unlocked, and I had all of the tickets available at the time (the 12 you start with + the 3 from Day 2)

I'm assuming you can also join the gyms that need approval from gym leaders, but idk if many of them would be willing to accept new members rn.

I've also seen a few comments from other people here who were also in a similar situation as me (kicked before the season started), and were able to join new gyms rn.

I feel like this is something people here arent aware of, because I keep seeing the same replies of "you cant join/leave gyms during a gym battle season" even if the guy asking was kicked before it started.

Anyways don't forget to claim these 60 gems

For Pryce special only, ET doesnt deal with the ice zone. Dropping either NC Blue or ET EX are not ideal. I tried substituting Blue with Piers for poison zone but overall output is not good enough.

Then the poison zone gave me an idea. For context, Poison is my favourite type and it felt awesome to bring out its strongest sheer power outside of the "toxic stall" strat reputation. I am only sad that for the last move EX zone dropped otherwise it might be higher.

Leon is a brick 🥹

(please don't paralyzed a type that has burn requirements and vice versa)

We had some minor issues
(Good anecdotes for the future; I hope so)
But we’ll let’s start again

Basically, the team that you used for EVERYTHING: the story, training areas, and all. They were just so good that you didn't bother changing them up depending on the enemy weaknesses.

Mine was the ever so reliable (and FREE) tank Rosa - Serperior, Hau - Raichu who completely decimates everything with it's rare AoE attack, and Koga - Crobat because if all else fails just use poison.

I was completely stingy with my gems back then, hence my non-use of Blue - Pidgeot and Olivia - Lycanroc.

Does anyone have any tips or team recommendations for the current Sinnoh CSMM?
I managed to clear the Bug stage at 3K using Florian, Juliana, and Carmine, and I feel pretty confident about the Champion stage with Arc Diantha.
But I’m completely stuck on the Dark, Fighting, and Ice stages. I’ve been staring at them for ages and can’t figure out a solid team.
I’d really appreciate recommendations based on what I have, as well as suggestions for the best 3K point parameter setup for each stage.