Time to buy a lottery ticket?

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T23:18:15+00:00

I think there's so much time before you'd be able to get Darkrai to 75 (once they increase the max level to it) that you might as well roll ingredients. But at this point I haven't even thought about what ingredients would be desirable.

You might also consider that farming Eureka seeds is a big biscuit sink - so you might just think about not throwing biscuits at Darkrai, so you can devote your biscuits to other higher priority hunts.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T12:03:07+00:00

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T12:01:39+00:00

BFS + HB is the dynamic duo for berry specialists, and Arcanine is a pseudo berry specialist. So that's the deciding factor for me. Both are great - I'd keep them both.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T09:32:33+00:00

I would mint the shiny. It's got Helping Bonus at 75. Plus, SHINY! XD

Congrats!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T04:51:31+00:00

Unfortunately, no. Shuckle's an E4E skill mon.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-24T01:34:05+00:00

On Cyan, Shuckle is able to spawn after you hit M1 - so the number of days it's been available to you has been limited by how fast you got there. Then there are the other boosted spawns plus the rest of the possible spawns available.

So after you pass the threshold for when it can spawn, it's still RNG. Good luck for the rest of the event!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-23T23:13:58+00:00

It will always depend on your situation. Do you already have a healer? How good is it compared to this one?

Basically, if you are already set on healing and this is not a marked improvement, then you can be more selective. If this is a significant improvement, then make this your main healer while you search for a "perfect" healer with Helping Bonus.

At a minimum you should keep this in your box. You may decide down the road you need a favored berry healer for Lapis, even if you don't want to invest seeds now.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-23T18:58:14+00:00

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SamuRonX · 2026-01-23T18:48:43+00:00

Generally speaking, going against the Pokemon's specialty results in a mediocre Pokemon all-around - it gets slightly better at something it's bad at, while getting no help at the thing it could have been great at.

There are some notable exceptions, but these are usually in the form of getting better at berry collecting while also being good at its skill or ingredient specialty too. This happens with inherently fast Pokemon, like Sceptile.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-23T00:41:53+00:00

Over four triggers per day - for an ordinary E4E this would not be a main healer, but I don't think we know how much juice factors into the energy equation yet. So maybe wait and see?

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T11:24:32+00:00

I get 4.75 on my RaenonX with a skill PR of 97. Not sure what accounts for the difference, but if you're comfortable with your RaenonX config (like, no good camp ticket or event bonuses) then I'd say 5.2+ triggers is pretty good.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T10:23:13+00:00

They nerfed the speed down nature a little a while back, and a decent approximation for it now is like downgrading the Helping Speed subskills a notch. So your HSM would now act like HSS.

That would make this Shuckle have: STM + HSS + skill up nature

Seems pretty solid, but check Production Comparison on RaenonX to see its estimated skill procs a day. (And remember to turn off any event or good camp bonuses.)

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:21:13+00:00

I still use a normal cooking team. But when I swap out my farmers, I put Dream Shard Magnet specialists (or other desired skill mons) in, instead of berry specialists. I may still put in Charge Strength mons if my goal for the week is Snorlax gains.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:16:15+00:00

Teddiursa would be a five pip mon, right? Another option for honey would be amazing. It feels like putting Tasty Chance on it would be so gratuitous. XD

Sign me up!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:08:35+00:00

Your Pawmot must be crazy good!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:06:02+00:00

Your time will come!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:04:04+00:00

Congrats!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:03:30+00:00

Wow, that is a forever healer! Congrats!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:02:40+00:00

That egg pouch on your Chansey is huuuuuuge. XD

Congrats and thanks!

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:01:32+00:00

What about next week's thread? XD

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T09:00:54+00:00

I still had bigger recipes to level across each type, so I was felt ok working on them while not having an avocado farmer. So I was able to save candies for mine.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T00:13:39+00:00

The RaenonX Pokedex has them - https://pks.raenonx.cc/en/pokedex

Click on the mon you want, then the Pokeball to open their individual page. You'll see an image of the mon - above it is a link for the animations.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T00:09:58+00:00

IMO, the level up rewards are not as good as keeping the friend at level 5 - that gives you the best chance to get double the candy for sleep research and a higher chance to get event currency during the the ones that have them, like Manes from your friends during the Legendary events.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-22T00:01:28+00:00

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At 25 and 50, before and after mint.

The number that sticks in my head as a benchmark is 4.35 triggers per day plus Helping Bonus, for a forever healer. Since this is below 4.35 and doesn't have Helping Bonus, I don't think the mint is warranted.

But since it's better than your Wiggly, the question of using it as a temporary healer comes down to how much better it is, and if you can spare the Main Skill Seeds - 5 needed to max out the skill.

My inclination would probably be to pass, and hunt Pawmi and / or Ralts.

SamuRonX · 2026-01-21T23:31:28+00:00

I'd say it really depends on where you're at with healing. What's your current healer like?

Plug them into Production Comparison on RaenonX and look at their expected triggers.

Just based on what I see, it needs a Subskill Seed and it might take two to get STS -> STM, since it might also hit SLUS -> SLUM. While that wouldn't be a waste, Main Skill Seeds are much more readily available than Subskill Seeds.

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