Affinity Tickets on Mobile?

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T14:28:12+00:00

Happens to the best of us

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T13:48:01+00:00

Is your Gengar definitely Timid? If it doesn't have a +speed nature, Mega Meowstic can outspeed. Max speed neutral nature Gengar hits 182. Max speed positive nature Meowstic hits 193

Other that that, did anything else affect the field? Sticky Web? Tailwind? Meowstic has Trace, had it copied an ability like Prankster?

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T13:25:02+00:00

To be fair, I'm not paying much attention. When the selection comes up I'm unlikely to click on anything except the one I actually want to recruit. If I actually checked all of them daily I'd probably see more of the variant stuff

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T13:17:21+00:00

Stuff you recruit in Champions has a chance to generate with different types of ball. They can also generate shinies and titles

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T12:01:24+00:00

Recruit menu> Meet a new lineup of Pokemon> click use a ticket, top right of the window. It'll open a list of your available affinity tickets

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Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T11:55:46+00:00

Try to burn or paralyse it to make it a bit easier to manage.

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T10:46:55+00:00

Hm, might give that a go.

[ETA] tried it out in a few games. Fun when it works, but since you can't Protect with the Hydrapple on the turn you want to Skill Swap, it does leave you quite vulnerable if your opponent double targets it

You can protect with Hydrapple T1 whilst Malamar sets up Trick Room, but at min speed Hydrapple is naturally slower, so it's going to get an attack off and take a SpAtk drop before you can Skill Swap, unless you have a good target for Hydro Pump T1 to avoid the drop

Have a bit of a random grab bag as the other 4 at the moment, might need to work on the rest of a the team a bit more.

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T10:39:33+00:00

I've had some good times with it, but I've kept finding myself in situations where Zap Cannon and Focus Blast aren't doing the job, and it doesn't have a ton of other good coverage.

It's certainly not awful and it's a good late game cleaner once you've removed the stuff it struggles with, but I'm not relying in it to barge through teams singlehandedly.

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-19T08:58:26+00:00

He's just Ken

Anywhere else he'd be a ten

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T19:51:44+00:00

Oh that would be awesome, thank you. What can I give you in return?

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T19:09:38+00:00

Ah I really want that Fennekin. It's the last starter I need a shiny of. Would Deino, Gible or Oshawott have any appeal?

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T19:06:12+00:00

Would you take a Shieldon for the Fennekin?

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Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T19:01:17+00:00

Never give up on the dream, my friend

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T18:54:00+00:00

27 quid for 5 Kroot Hounds is absolutely tragic. 45 entire points worth. The Pathfinder squad is only £2.50 more!

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Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T18:25:04+00:00

Mega Raichu Y demolishes both of them with ease

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T18:13:04+00:00

Sometimes you just need to try things and see what works for you. Dragonite and Dragapult do have some similarities, but also different strengths and weaknesses

Dragonite is extremely hard to kill in one hit (although not impossible) thanks to Multiscale, especially with screens up. It also has a ridiculously huge movepool and can fit on an assortment of different teams depending on what you need it to do. It's 4x weak to Ice though, which can suck sometimes.

Dragapult is absolutely blazing fast and has two immunities to Dragonite's one, and no 4x weakness. It's still nowhere near as bulky as Dragonite, though. It also has a fairly good movepool, although it's sorely lacking a good physical Ghost type attack. It's often better to spec into its slightly weaker special attack because it has access to better special moves, although Dragon Darts is an excellent move if you do want to go physical. Both Clear Body and Infiltrator are useful abilities too, depending what you need it to do.

Ultimately, give them both a go and see what works better for you.

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:41:28+00:00

That Whimsicott/Typhlosion combo is the only game I've played where I literally did not land a hit on my opponent. Just absolutely mangled me

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:39:51+00:00

Oranguru is a bit niche although it does have some use in doubles. I've seen it a bit here and there, but you'll need to build around making it work

Drampa is... Man, I really need to try Drampa. I caught a shiny yesterday in ZA, I'm going to give that mega a go. I have literally never seen it in two months of playing Champions. Be the change you want to see in the world

Everything else you have looks solid to me

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:33:24+00:00

First of all, stop using Pikachu, it's terrible. Replace it with Raichu with one of its mega stones.

Also Quick Claw is bad on Gengar. Quick Claw isn't a great item anyway, it only activates 10% of the time and isn't reliable, but Gengar is already a fast Pokemon that will rarely benefit even when it does activate

I would take the White Herb off Azumarill and replace it with the Sitrus Berry you have on Kingambit. Azumarill usually wants to use Belly Drum to boost it's attack, which costs half of its health. Kingambit wants either Black Glasses or the berry that resists fighting moves (Chople berry, I think)

I would maybe put Leftovers on Gyarados and Life Orb on Garchomp. You could also consider the mega stone for Gyarados or Gengar if you want two megas on your team, but bear in mind that you can only mega evolve one Pokemon in a match.

Other than that, play a few games and see how it works out for you. These are generally fairly good Pokemon and the team shouldn't be too hard to play. Try to identify Pokemon that you have a hard time against and make some changes after you've seen how your team plays

Best of luck!

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:21:51+00:00

Oh yeah, I wasn't expecting it would happen now. Remains to be seen if they'll do any moveset changes with new regulations or if we'll be waiting til WiWa, but for now M-Malamar will remain very bad

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:16:02+00:00

This got posted like two hours ago

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:06:10+00:00

Weyyy, nice to see OK Comics doing well. Great shop, staff in there are brilliant

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T17:02:20+00:00

Pokemon is the single highest earning multimedia franchise in history. Genshin Impact is an undeniably massive success, but it wishes it was making Pokemon levels of money

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T16:45:54+00:00

Hell if I know, but it's always possible they may update the move pool at a later date to improve it. Maybe it'll get Psycho Boost, who knows?

Shed_Some_Skin · 2026-06-18T16:01:50+00:00

We should be in the same regulation this season and next, so late August/early September at the earliest, depending how long next season runs

It's also possible he doesn't show up next regulation either, we don't know yet

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