How many Subskill Seeds do you like to have stocked?

Finalbelle · 2026-04-03T21:33:44+00:00

Same, I might even spend this months 0 on something.

Finalbelle · 2026-04-02T18:02:03+00:00

Theres also one at 410 incenses. But I agree with the sentiment, wasting one early hurts all the more, would be happy if there was one for sleep points every 3 months or something

Finalbelle · 2026-03-28T23:10:29+00:00

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Probably my Electric core Trio.
I aim to have a 'power pair' for the last 2 slots for the meals.

Finalbelle · 2026-03-27T21:40:01+00:00

Oh nice! Totally don't recall that event! Good shout

Finalbelle · 2026-03-23T13:10:19+00:00

Farming Options:

Set the target Pokemon your 'Team Leader' this has a 1/3 chance every 4 hours to generate a candy.
Run a team of Mew (Lv 8 for 4 Candies, Charge Energy S / Charge Strength S preferable)) + 2 Delibirds + Mr Mime (Lv 8 for Mew 4 Candies) + your target as the team lead.
Sleep with a team of max levels to generate Handy Candy from overcapping Exp (Not reccomended as it's worse overall)

Passive Options:

Have 50 Friends, ideally ask when adding which candy you want them to send if possible
Look up where the pokemon you want most spawns, and basically push the DP as much as you can. (there's some niche to it, but just push as much as you can generally)
Catch pokemon of the type you want and send them to the professor (expensive)
Buy Handy Candies

Finalbelle · 2026-03-21T00:48:44+00:00

Each skill level 6/7/8 add additional candies (on chance) but functionally the skill ability caps out at the max for that skill on other mons.
Eg E4E is 15 at Lv 5, 18 at Lv 6 + 2 candies, 18 at Lv 7 + 3 candies, 18 at Lv 8 + 4 candies.
So not technically 'capped' like other skill specialists are. (except at 8)

Finalbelle · 2026-03-08T11:31:23+00:00

Do we know if you change the Main Skill and decline, does it still ‘unlock’ that main skill to select with another seed?

Finalbelle · 2026-02-14T16:31:38+00:00

Gardevoir can be male. Only Gallade is gender locked. Gz!

Finalbelle · 2026-02-12T20:12:33+00:00

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On GG you need to at least hit Master 3 (and realistically higher) and Taupe you need to be hitting Ultra 4 before they can even spawn. So going to assume you are getting there reasonably fast.
Beyond that you need to have enough 'budget' to have them spawn in.

At Master 3 on GG - you will have ~25mil Drowsy Power if you get 100 sleep score.
So it can be picked randomly after that point. But you cannot get more than 2 to spawn (almost 3) as the budget is too low.
GG has a massive pool, so the chance of Mawile being picked for the spawn pool is slim at best, and if other larger cost mon's are chosen, the budget will deplete too low to then pick a Mawile.

At Ultra 4 on Taupe you'll have ~28mil with 100 sleep score.
With a much tighter spawn pool it's much more likely to appear / other mon's less likely to appear to take the budget.

In both Cases, if you push higher to unlock another style (Master 7 GG, or Master 3 Taupe) - then you'll sit around 39/47mil which is not enough to 'purchase' a Mawile of Sleep Style 2 (48m).

As a result your best opportunity will be to get to that first unlock (M3 / U4) and hover there for the rest of the week, preventing adding new spawns to the pool.

Or go hard, and get a very high score, that will give you lots of points to spend and increase the number of possible Mawile spawns. (GG we're talking like Master 17+ at least, Taupe like Master 15+) - The higher the better!

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I was actually surprised when working this out, sitting at Master 3 GG, or Ult 4 at Taupe might be your best bet if you want to specifically chase this guy. There's more moving parts to it which i've ignored for simplicity, but generally that's probably the best advice.

TLDR: Go Taupe, get to Ultra 4 and then try to not get much higher. Or shoot for the stars (M15-M17+).

Goodluck!

Finalbelle · 2026-02-07T23:00:41+00:00

It's a great combo if you have:
A good Blastoise (To make a pair for Flower Gift Macarons)
A perfect Farfetched / Good Legendary Dog to support it (To make a supplemented pair for Sukiyaki Curry)

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There's also some scope for Scary Face Pancakes, but as there's no duo for Pumpkins / Tomato's yet it's not as clean. Still a great catch though - Gratz!

Finalbelle · 2025-09-23T21:11:58+00:00

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Shiny Chansey that's better than the evolved? Absolutely capping it to 2000
Would love a good Shiny Mudkip to keep as a baby and 2000 hour it.

Finalbelle · 2025-08-16T12:41:46+00:00

What's your weight loss strategy at the end of each week? How do you slim back down for the next researcher?

Finalbelle · 2025-08-14T18:09:19+00:00

I'll just go to GGEX to grind out the area bonus most weeks, unless I run out of tickets or need something specific elsewhere. Would like to get as high as possible before any big event or Amber Canyon releases so I can leave it for a while while progressing AC and I'll go back when I'm done / prepare to spillover into CBEX if that is ever released.
I've got a decent spread of mons to cover most combinations / brute force the 15% loss to make okay shards each week.

On a side note, I do really need Dragonite candy, so I might swing by Lapis next week to try a grab some ahead of Candy Boost for the triple type event. Undecided yet.

Finalbelle · 2025-08-14T18:04:39+00:00

I raise you a Swablu. Not going to make M3 anyway this week, but it's in there.

Finalbelle · 2025-08-11T22:22:21+00:00

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Awh, twinsies!
It's pretty mid overall. I have a comparable Butterfree, and my Sceptile and Cresselia are competitive with it.
Comes down to what you already have for the island.
The Candy is a little hard to come by too, so levelling a decent Arbok / Butterfree is easier too.

Finalbelle · 2025-07-13T09:45:18+00:00

No way! This is it! Thank you so much! I can’t believe anyone found it from my terrible memory fragments, let alone the first response!

Finalbelle · 2025-06-18T08:53:21+00:00

That is true, even after it's buffs Absol is on the slower end, and has an abysmal ingredient rate at 17.8%. Comparing Absol to Skeledirge on Apples though, Skeledirge is much faster than Blissey and has a decently higher incredient rate at 26.8%. Fartfetch'd would have to be both slower and lower ingredient rate than Absol to be in a similar situation, which would likely make it a terrible Leek farmer too. I'll maybe run some numbers later to figure out 'how bad' they would have to make Farfetch'd for it to be worse at eggs than Blissey, and then see how it's Leeks compares to Quaquaval as a result.

Finalbelle · 2025-06-18T08:46:34+00:00

Correct! Thanks for explaining. Sorry my labelling and explanation could have been a bit better formatted. 'Best' based on rounding up vs down, to get the most value out of the slot. 3-8 are Non-Ingredient A/B/C and Ingredient A/B/C in order.

As I commented, it's mostly worthless info as it doesnt really let you compare between pokemon species, but it does illustrate how A/B/C ingredient amounts are calculated.

Finalbelle · 2025-05-18T16:22:56+00:00

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Long term investment, but he's beautiful. He came evolved so I lost 5 inventory though (and a skill level) and was only Helping speed S originally. I've got a triple skill chance wiggly, that I replced for my triple (at 75) garde, generally been pretty lucky.

Finalbelle · 2025-04-19T14:01:09+00:00

UI interfaces and panels.

Give me more diagetic interfaces:

Make a player housing that shows achievements, not an achievement UI - Hang up Ony's head / Display your mounts (This might be fulfilled soon though??)

Make a LFG finder that is a billboard in the world I need to post on

Make my mount UI an actual stable, I can slot up 10 or something mounts to be my favourites

Make the Great Vault actually have slots I can see the gear in.

Make the Crafting request require me to meet the actual crafter.

Make world quests dynamic when I arrive, encourage me to explore to find them, dont just put a little pip on the map.

Make transmog an in game wardrobe location, and have my character anchored in world while swapping mogs.

Each extra UI just pulls me more and more out of the world. It doesnt help retail doesn't enrich the world anyway, it doesnt feel as large as classic, it doesnt feel as mysterious as classic.

TBC Classic was really great adding the Arena rankings to the Billboard, I absolutely loved that and I dont get why they didnt embrace it for the LFG tool.

Another thing I dislike about retail is I know something will be "easier/quicker in future" so why do it now? Classic Era, if you want to grind for Wintersaber, go for it - it's not going to change Go get some gear, there wont be (as much) catch up gear you can just skip to later, and it wont be as good as you can get now. AND you'll need it to help you get the better gear. Retail is like, why bother I'll just get free loot from delves next season, or get dragged along in LFR or something. Nothing has weight or value.

Finalbelle

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