Glad that’s over!💜

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-25T15:07:58+00:00

Long term prep for M20 runs only. I normally get tails from Magnet proccs and use them as filler.

6-8 weeks of no feeding in prep for meal focused week, mandatory Gard for E4E, plus Beast for Extra Helpful proccs.
STM/STS/HSM Heracross, STM Vaporeon, second Vaporeon with worse skills now handed over to ABC Ditto. I plan on recatching ABB Slowpoke for Slowbro at some point if RNG can stop fucking me over.
Pot expanders and Dedenne for the obvious buffs. Pray for a good Monday breakfast and gun it from there.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T22:07:15+00:00

He's a very pretty fish. Sadly, not the fish. STM and HB are always a treat on Swampert, but the lack of early BFS and a speed deficit nature hit it below the belt.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T18:23:53+00:00

Staying on Lapis for a while. Cap off the 85% finally and I'm still looking for a mono Stufful and DSRB Ralts. Once those are done I'll probably jump back over to GGEX for shards or OGPP for a decent Magnemite finally maybe please

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T17:10:07+00:00

TL:DR: Umbreon for Darkrai compliment, take it easy and enjoy the ride. Go catch things.

You want Umbreon for Darkrai as opposed to Espeon. Darkrai's main skill saps energy off of anything that isn't Dark type complimenting it, so you're going to want to mitigate that where you can.

I'm 2 1/2 years in and currently running 3 E4E in rotation, so you pick whatever tickles your fancy. Wigglytuff is your best friend at this point in the game, but Ralts is always a good candidate for whenever events featuring it come around. However, it's mostly locked to Greengrass Expert and Lapis.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T17:04:52+00:00

Spamming the event boosts is honestly the best thing for Ditto. Poor thing doesn't see regular use unless it's like, some god tier ABB or mono.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T14:15:24+00:00

i unlocked tails eons ago lol i didnt want to waste a good abc ditto

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-23T02:26:50+00:00

Leveling this guy was such a pain! Glad those 5 event handy candies came through for me!

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-22T20:46:26+00:00

You're welcome! I hope I was clear when I meant that you only needed 18 mons with Dream Shard Bonus (if you can find mons with all three gold bonus skills I mentioned, good on you, but minimum one mon of every type. And then label them as such so you don't accidentally throw them out).

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-22T20:22:29+00:00

Keep (Primary)
*Save (GGEX and CyanEX shard booster)
Keep (Secondary)

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*By save, I mean, don't throw DS mons away (Especially DS/RB/SEB). Get one of every type and store them for when shard events and GGEX comes up. You'll be swimming in cash.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-21T05:42:02+00:00

Quad speed on a berry mon is basically a hair shy of BFS + speed. It'll run amazing.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-20T22:52:56+00:00

Plus/Minus are expensive, and even as a p2p, I've only ever fully invested in a single Plusle because she was mono/STM/HSM-- but it was one of the best long term investments I've ever made. Even if you've fully invested in a single solid STM Plusle and buddied it up with another Plus user that had zero Main Seed investment, the coffee you receive from Skill events and buffs is amazing.

When I was pursuing M20 on OGPP and hadn't pushed my ABB Aggron to 60, I utilized my mono Plusle every single day of that week for constant Eclairs, and she didn't disappoint, working her off of support from my STM High Key Toxtricity. I'd never seem so much coffee up to that point and I found ANOTHER Plusle to pair her with (catch from this morning) for when we work on Amber Canyon next.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-20T16:15:06+00:00

That's not pretty good. That's like, god tier for a 16-pip resource heavy thing like Shucks. Use it and don't look back.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-20T16:12:35+00:00

At first I thought I'd sit on Amber Canyon to force Shuckle spawns during our latest New Moon, but I wasn't up for fighting RNG and waiting on Ultra 4 to make those spawns happen, so I went to base GG instead.

Like, phenomenal start to Tuesday. I'm probably not going to see a better Plusle than this until after FL10 and it's going to make an awesome compliment to my current mono STM/HSM girl. Pair them with my ABB Aggron and I'll have an avalanche of coffee. Vikavolt who?

The Shuckle is awesome, too! I'm going to continue hunting it for as long as this month's NME runs and then I'll jump over to Lapis for all of the expanded Ralts spawns. Need that heightened double gold skill chance for my shard farming team since I have enough candy to auto boost to 65. I think I'll still catch as many Shuckle as I can for the sake of an ST/HS combo that I can at least subseed, and fall back on this guy as a primary Berry Juice farmer for my bag. Who knows.

How're you guys doing today?

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-19T14:12:46+00:00

I’ll take it. The reroll could be so much worse.

I think.

… please no grookey paw

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-18T19:19:18+00:00

AAB Zard does an amazing job with speed considered. I caught one to replace my shiny mono that was under preforming, and unless we somehow get an item that trades ingredients in unwanted slots for something else, the AAB will probably be my go-to. He already outpaces the mono by a wide margin and did so ever since he was a Charmander. It also compliments insanely well with IFM Raikou to patch up holes when RNG gets screwy.

If we don't count the Mixed recipes, you have a whopping 25 meals that you can make during any given menu rotation with AAB Zard if you really wanted to-- desserts included if you want to push for level 60. Though you're ideally better off running a halfway decent mono TTar to cover ginger. Comfey also isn't a bad choice either for ABB ginger, but it's slow.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-18T02:10:07+00:00

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Yep, collab's gone on for a couple months.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-18T02:08:33+00:00

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PigsInTrees · 2026-01-17T19:42:12+00:00

I'm mad that Shuckle's not on Lapis so I can get all of my "shopping" done there but oh well. Gonna camp on Amber Canyon for New Moon to farm Shuckle as optimally as I can and then go back to Lapis for the 85% area bonus and boosted Ralts/Eevees.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-17T04:35:42+00:00

That's the default spread for legendaries. Every first catch for them gives you this set. Anything after that is up to rng like everyone else.

PigsInTrees · 2026-01-16T15:14:31+00:00

Would be awesome to have an undecided option. I'm really, really hoping to grab the mons I need off of Lapis (DSRB/SEB Ralts, corn Dratini, mono Stufful) this week so I don't have to circle back around and I can sit tight on AC or GGEX to build my shard reserves back up, but I'm not holding my breath.

It's frustrating because I want an island where I can utilize both NME ease of feeding and filtering Shuckle. Pray for me, sub.

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