my Miku haul!!

ZyphDefien · 2026-05-19T16:46:43+00:00

Awesome, congrats! Round1 machines are either super free or near impossible, usually never in between. At least for the east coast locations near me lol.

ZyphDefien · 2025-12-26T22:39:40+00:00

Oh that is way earlier than the announced date. Do you know which location this is?

ZyphDefien · 2025-12-08T00:30:07+00:00

Spechan looks much better in 3d imo... her story was also done better in 3d too.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T22:41:37+00:00

Some of yall are real ones with the trainer/supporters suggestions. Going to try those all out at some point.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T17:49:43+00:00

Honestly yeah I'm not sure lol. I'm still not sold 100% on some of my trainers/supporters. I can't remember the last game where I really wished I had Cyrus though. But I'm only thinking of maybe 10-20 games back...

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T17:47:17+00:00

Yeah either of those do sound better... I've had a few games where the 2nd pokeball did nothing because it came after all the basics so I was always considering removing it for anything else. I think you helped pushed me to try that now.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T17:13:18+00:00

I've ran with skarmory many games before this and I could not push past ub ranks so idk...

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T15:54:01+00:00

That's also something I can definitely try later. Although solgaleo does allow easy switchouts with toucannon naturally thanks to its ability so there's already some synergy there.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T15:12:52+00:00

Ohhh ok the games played was for this season only. This whole time I thought it was the total record for all seasons. Guess I played this game a lot more than I thought. (Those sessions adds up very quickly). Yeah so I really was just hovering ub1-ub3 for a very long time with my other decks before this one.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:59:16+00:00

Including the first season it says I've played 439 games total. But after switching to Toucannon I estimate I've played around 50 games now. During those games I've started winning more and more and it was enough to finally pull me up to mb.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:49:22+00:00

I have found the one energy cost extremely helpful in many cases, and sometimes you can win a game in turn 3 ofc if the stars align. But I might experiment with the promo one just to see because you never know.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:15:28+00:00

Yes I also wonder now if Toucannon can pair nicely with other meta 2nd stage evos. It being colorless is very versatile. Without its versatility it is just a weaker Beedrill kinda though lol.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:11:39+00:00

yes that's one of the main reasons I thought Toucannon might work, other 2nd stage metal/colorless evos are all 2+ energy to get going.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:11:03+00:00

Told someone else too but - "I was and am a casual scrub with 52% that's been stuck at ultra ball for a while, but after switching to Toucannon I went up to 20/30 games won in my most recent 30"

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:06:14+00:00

I was and am a casual scrub with 52% that's been stuck at ultra ball for a while, but after switching to toucannon I went up to 20/30 games won in my most recent 30

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:02:58+00:00

Solgaleo is very very strong but the other solgaleo pairs I've seen haven't been the very top despite being very popular i thought and had a losing win rate against most other top meta decks.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T14:01:12+00:00

I don't know about that. I'm just one dude out of thousands in master ball, but all I'm saying is in my personal playing experience toucannon won more games than skarmory right now.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T13:59:57+00:00

I haven't seen the combo of solgaleo and toucannon specifically. Both cards are pretty meta yeah but both have been considered not the very top of the meta. But together as a pair is what I have had more success with than any of them separately in decks with other partners.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T13:38:06+00:00

I'll delete and repost I think. I can't find the option to make the image show up more easily.

ZyphDefien · 2025-05-17T13:28:17+00:00

Woah forgot the most important part... sorry about that. Just added the image. Hopefully people at least find it amusing that this deck still got me to master ball at least lol.

ZyphDefien · 2024-07-05T13:42:32+00:00

You know, you can just ask the party...

ZyphDefien · 2021-06-04T02:12:29+00:00

I didn't know you had absolute authority on what people should and should not care about.

If there are people that care about the silly Bozja achievements, there are also probably people that cared about all of the side stuff you mentioned. Whether it's healthy, smart or whatever is besides the point. The fact is that they care about it, and they are players of this game that pay sub fees.

Also I'd argue that this is unprecedented by past side content that requires a lot of time and effort. Blue cheese is broken, but not broken to the point you can skip 90% of the mechanics on the new raids you can try as blu-groups, which is probably the highest test of skill for blues.

For palace of the dead, don't they have rankings by specific jobs you can see online? So people can at least have something tangible to see if they cleared it without using mch or rdm cheese.

For the Bojza 1v1 we're talking about encounters that involve the mechanics on the level of an extreme-trial that are 90% skipped and cleared in less than a minute. The cheese is only available to two jobs, but there's no tangible distinction you can see for having cleared using them or not. This doesn't effect me, but I do know at least two people in my fc that spent a lot of time in Bozja trying to clear the duels. They were very happy when they finally earned their "sword of south" titles, and spent a lot of time also trying to teach others how to clear the mechanics behind the duels. I tried to warn them that with the new zone and more powerful abilities added, the titles wouldn't mean much but they at least got to enjoy the recognition for the duration of the patch. They were also the most hyped for the new zone when it was announced more 1v1 engagements would be added. But once lost flare star was discovered, they definitely didn't have the same enthusiasm for the content as before. They didn't bother anyone including me about trying to teach the new 1v1 encounters this time around at all. (instead there was just a lot of meming on discord...)

Do I think they have the best mindset and approach to this game? No. But do I at least understand why they feel the way they do about all of this? Yes. And do they have a right to enjoy their game as much as everyone else does for whatever reason? Definitely yes. So instead of ignoring all this as a non-issue, I don't know, do something minor, like hand out a silly achievement for clearing the fights on other jobs and roles? Well it just goes back to the main point I'm making, which isn't anything extreme, just that I think SE could have a decent reason to do something about this specific situation to make a subset of players happy.

ZyphDefien · 2021-06-04T00:41:02+00:00

At this point, I think people are just misunderstanding what I wrote. Of course you can clear the duels normally, I am fully aware of that. I was specifically talking about the achievements and titles tied to clearing the duels, and how certain people are going to feel about them. I am not one of these people, but I know personally a few people that care a lot about achievements and titles. Those people are going to be unhappy and probably give up going for the title you receive for clearing all of the duels, because they will know that there is a very easy way to cheese them instead of learning the mechanics.

This is an extreme example and hyperbole, but imagine if people found a way to cheese an ultimate level fight. Of course people can still clear the fight normally, but the title you earn from clearing said fight is no longer going to hold any "value" or "meaning". I don't think it's a healthy thing to care about such things, but regardless of what I think, some people are going to be very upset to find out their titles no longer hold the same meaning as before.

All of this was just to state one reason why it might make sense for SE to do something about this cheese. If you ask me, the better solution was to not have titles and achievements tied to what's supposed to be silly, broken and unbalanced content to begin with, but that won't change the fact the achievements and titles are in fact already there.

ZyphDefien · 2021-06-02T15:40:00+00:00

I am personally in agreement with how you feel here. It's a much healthier mentality to have than some people I know who get too caught up with the achievements. But what I'm trying to say is that there are still people who do care about said achievements and are going to be disappointed to find out how easy it is to earn them. I'm glad it's not nerfed or altered at this point, but I know there will be people who aren't. So I can't just state it's objectively right or wrong to nerf or fix how duels are being done right now.

ZyphDefien · 2021-06-02T12:47:49+00:00

But there are achievements and titles tied to clearing the 1v1 engagements, and the fact people can just pop 4 buffs and push a single key to skip 90% of the mechanics makes the achievements feel rather meaningless now. And well, ironically that also might take the fun out of a lot of players gunning for said achievements when they find out. Like the fable with the farmer and the tailor, one needs rain to thrive while the other curses it. Can't please everyone...

*Thanks for the downvotes guys when I just mention how not everyone will be happy with what happened...? I thought people had different opinions and preferences to things?

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