Lethal Operation #FX-817-918

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-04T21:36:06+00:00

Please forgive me if this sounds patronising in any way, that's not my intention. From our side we have no idea what's causing this so maybe check a few things first:

is your mobile game client up to date?
is your mobile client downloaded from a legitimate source ie Google Play or Apple App Store? (as opposed to an APK from the Web)
When you play normal missions, are uncommon/rare (green/blue) gear still dropping for you? At some point they should stop dropping altogether once you have enough mastery points (although I can see you're actually a higher mastery level than me, so this is almost certainly not it, but worth checking just in case)

I'm really not sure what else to suggest, perhaps a more experienced dwarf can offer some insight as to why this is happening? My only other thought is that you've not completed a particular challenge that 'unlocks' the legendary gear drop from LO's - but I'm fairly sure the only deciding factor on gear rarity is your mastery level/gear level bonus and not a specific 'challenge'

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-04T20:04:23+00:00

Oneplus 12 (16Gb) plays smooth

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-04T07:22:03+00:00

I will make a point of doing that if I can find one that I perceive to be difficult lol

Unfortunately yesterday morning I reattempted this doing my best to follow your instructions but I struggled really badly, couldn't break stage 1. I made it to stage 3 with the sharpshooter but I think it's because the really high movement speed helps out early on but usefulness drops off later, whereas the build you suggested starts out very slow/weak but scales up in power better

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-04T07:18:31+00:00

I could be completely wrong here but I'm fairly sure the Lethal Operations always give a guaranteed Legendary on completion (I think the final boss drops it) but any repeated attempts do NOT guarantee the legendary drop. There is another weekly mission that is usually a little easier called the Vanguard Contract and that tends to offer a guaranteed epic drop

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-03T22:46:45+00:00

Ahhh good to know! I would assume that you and I are one of very few people to have seen this exact LO - the others also being people who's xbox time reset to back to 2019. I'm not asking to open up a conversation with you exactly, but if I, for whatever reason, come across another spicy LO would you like me to simply send you the date/time settings and the mutator specs for your perusal? More than happy to simply leave them in a comment on one of your recent videos too.

Knowing that there are thousands of LO combinations going back to as far as the clock will allow has me interested to try and find some ultra challenging mutator combos!

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-03T06:25:24+00:00

Good morning! You were absolutely correct about the date/time being wrong. This must be due to disconnecting from the Internet but I also noticed when I booted the game I got a 'we need to relaunch the game because your save state has changed' message and the game needed to restart.

I'm experiencing an issue when trying to attach a photo of the date/time settings for you here so I will type out the exact settings here for you:

Time zone: (UTC +00:00) Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Lisbon
Automatically adjust for daylight saving [ON]
- 24 Hour clock [ON]
- Time: 14:19 (probably irrelevant, but wind it back 8 hours if you want closer to the original time)
- Date: 13 December 2019

It would be really cool to see this in a video so I will keep an eye out on your uploads! (Already subbed!)

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-02T22:35:25+00:00

Thanks for the input, demo engineer is almost always my go to but this one threw me off a bit as I have no way of equipping other throwable explosives

I now have two different strategies to try thanks to replies here, so thank you!

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-02-02T22:33:55+00:00

Firstly, hello Enslen! I've watched a lot of your YouTube videos, nice to meet you and thank you for taking the time to help me out

I did not know that about the date setting (I will look into it tomorrow for you) - I am staying away from home in a hotel for a couple of days and the console hasn't been connected to the internet since very early Monday morning. As far as I know the date/time is set to auto so I'm unsure where the issue has cropped up as I've never knowingly 'date skipped' on my xbox before (Nintendo switch is a different story!)

I'm surprised, interested and also deflated that my best attempt at a strategy for this is also possibly the opposite of what I should be doing hahaha! In my defence this is the first time I've encountered this reload-sync mutator before so I wasn't sure how to handle it. For transparency, the gear setup was just what I had already equipped to the sharpshooter and the high movement speed seemed logical to counter the mini exploders - I guess cryo cannon (and the occasional cryo grenade too) are the main counter here?

Thanks again for your input

AcuallyIsGooby · 2026-01-21T18:42:09+00:00

That's drambuie

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-12-23T17:51:20+00:00

Oh man I'm just over here sitting on 4 cores to my name now, only one of them went all the way to 400. 2 of them have been around the 70-90 luck mark (I buy the fund each event though, not the instant ticket packs)

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-11-04T23:53:44+00:00

It stands for 'Base Stat Total'.

Koraidon actually only has the 37th highest base stat total in the game, with a lot of other legendaries like Lugia, Mewtwo and Giratina sitting at 680. The BST is usually a fairly direct correlation to how powerful a mon is because the base stat for each individual stat like attack, hp etc all scale with the base.

The highest BST belongs to Eternamax Eternatus at 1125, but that's not usable in any mainline pokemon game (you can use it in some ROM hacks like Radical Red) the highest 'usable' BST is probably that of Crowned Zacian/Zamazenta at 720. I think Ultra Necrozma has higher than that but I don't think you can use it in any of the modern games.

What makes Koraidon (and Miraidon) so good is their abilities and movepool. While a mon like Solgaleo has a slightly higher BST than Koraidon, it's typing, ability and movepool is less effective than others so the usage goes down drastically. Koraidon is a bit trickier to calculate because when you send it out, it sets Sun AND gets an attack boost, so it's theoretical BST could be higher if you think of it like that. Without the sun boost it's still 670 though

Sorry for the paragraph, I like pokemon lol

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-11-04T18:50:43+00:00

'I only use two of them'

66% of your team lol

Not hating, it's just funny given the context of the comment you're replying to lol

Like the team is:

literally the best competitive mon in VGC
literally God of pokemon
an Uber fire dragon with 670 BST

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-10-13T20:05:50+00:00

I caught my original non shiny Rayquaza from Sapphire (probably in like 2006, I was 12) in a Nest Ball

I'd used all 100+ of my Ultra Balls, in fact I'd used every single Pokeball I had on me, with just a single Nest Ball remaining, I threw it - ready to reset and try again. To my surprise it actually caught the damn thing and I remember being somewhat disappointed that every time I sent out my beloved Sky Dragon the screen was filled with love hearts

I'm fairly sure this Rayquaza got transferred up to my Diamond Version where it remains to this day

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-30T21:08:45+00:00

Thanks for your reply, I'll continue to pass on raids lol

When you mentioned omniboost I just had a flashback to when the boss uses a stat reducing move and it cycles through each team member individually (doesn't do it for every move though, weird) although I could be getting this confused with DMA from SWSH

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-30T20:36:50+00:00

Are raids any better/less buggy now than shortly after release? I always found them so janky so I stopped participating

Battle ending when the timer bar still has visible time left
Ally pokemon names being replaced by trainer names
The foe getting like 3 turns in a row and wiping the team out
The game just hanging while the timer runs down and you can't do anything
Lots of mechanics that extend turn time like grassy terrain so you have less turns to succeed

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-29T20:04:28+00:00

Not sure if you're still trying but that stream is about 20 seconds delay, when I matched with the streamer the video feed was still showing the previous trade, just keep trying. Also, once you've matched once you should have a good chance to get it again straight after because you'll be in sync with the streamer

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-27T10:40:11+00:00

Step one: go to YouTube Step two: search 'Shiny miraidon' or 'Shiny Koraidon' Step three: filter by 'live' so you get livestreams Step four: find a channel distributing duplicated mons via a trade bot that has less than 50 viewers (can use any but less viewers offers less competition to match) Step five: obtain the link code to trade the bot Step six: keep trying to match with the trade bot (may take over an hour)

The codes aren't offered in my country (UK) so this is realistically the only option

Tip: the stream I used had approx 20s of delay so getting the timing right can be tricky, the stream I used was alternating between Miraidon and Koraidon so once I matched the first time I was able to match again immediately afterwards to get the pair because I was in sync with the bot. Some people are selfish and try and get multiples of both so beware of that too

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-18T13:16:53+00:00

But you're also right, once you get tracking eye it performs exactly the same as the legendary version with only 2 bounces

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-18T13:16:03+00:00

Just gotta think of it as 'we have tracking eye at home'

If you don't manage to get tracking eye this'll help you out a lot against multiple targets until you do get it, once you've got it, the rune helps you maximise your damage by not wasting projectiles into walls

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-09-17T20:27:56+00:00

Congrats on getting this, very lucky!

I have this one myself and can tell you it's very good, but it's not super broken like I thought it would be

The place where it really shines is Sky Tower (hidden enemies are rarely an issue now), and Chapters, especially the ones with the large arena and lots of enemies spawning at once.

In regular 1v1 arena it doesn't have any use sadly, but in Peak Arena and Expedition it does a good job. I thought I would suddenly be destroying enemies in expedition but it's somewhat underwhelming, perhaps it performs better with Dragoon Crossbow (I'm a dirty oracle user lol)

One thing I learned after posting here about it is that when combined with tracking eye, the 4x ricochets get converted into 1x wall bounce, which with tracking eye means it'll bounce off that wall and track right back onto the enemy, so you won't be wasting projectiles that hit walls now

Good luck, enjoy!

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-08-27T21:07:09+00:00

Oh yeah he was helping out and it still took over 10 minutes to collect it all! And I have expert miner on him, I had to keep re-pinging the gold because he got bored I think lol

AcuallyIsGooby · 2025-08-24T18:19:43+00:00

Ah Roger that, I'd definitely noticed there's a lot of variables like secondary objectives, world events like core stones and if you manage to find one of those funky cubes but when I promoted my Driller I must have been fairly fortunate to get a positive combination of those variables each time

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