/pdg/ - Pokémon Duel General

First for Vibrava is a good boy

Gym in 2 days, lads. What are you bringing?

>tfw almost every relevant water figure but no Manaphy

Feels bad man. I'll probably just use a goodstuff deck with Mew, Vibrava, Gyarados, etc

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Has anyone had success using Palpitoad as a defender? It's ability looks pretty good.
I really want seismitoad and palpitoad and I haven't gotten either but at least I have three fucking tympoles and spent all my gems on a shitty quad

alive thread for alive game

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>>32752785
What happened anyway? Just a month ago these threads used to be moderately popular and now there's fucking nobody

>>32752194
Haven't gotten to play with it personally but it seems most effective when backed with a max revive from what I've seen in featured. He seems pretty cool. I like that Crobat gives no fucks to his EQ. Still not sure how useful the vibration is. Seems cute but not really good.

>>32752937
I think people got tired of shit posting deo. New figs are nice but pretty straight forward strat wise. Not a ton to discuss there.

Does anyone have any idea if the steel energy effect will stack if I use it multiple times?

>>32753031
Hopefully activity will pick up when the Gym starts.

Maybe we could hold a mini-tournament here if anyone's interested. There was talk about having one on the discord but I don't think anything ever came of it

Good choices for C and UC cubes?

>>32754886
I'm still a Shuppet pleb, so all of my UC cubes go to it. Some other guys a while ago said they had been feeding their C cubes to Magikarp, so I figured why not, since I didn't really care about giving them to anyone else

>>32754886
Other than potential evo stuff for your Ex's. I'd say Trapinch and Vibrava are good choices. 71 will stick a surprising amount of things. If you have a Manaphy deck Kabuto and Poliwhirl are potential anti-meta choices. Corphish and Crawdaunt may be worth exploring too. For Tropical Decks Petitlil will curb stomp Deo-A and make Terrakion think twice. Phantump blanks Cosmo Energy so there is that. I invested a lot of my commons into 2 Emolga because double Volt Switch is kinda cool when it works and 2 Beedrill because they are hilarious with some X-Accuracy and I expect the devs to do some form of Mega Evolution thing eventually.

>>32753472
After much experimentaion I have concluded they in fact do not stack but my dreams of a three Genesect Steel Energy triple Drive Recycle deck still live. One day I'll get to shift into maximum overtroll.

>>32755922
D-did you actually buy multiple steel energy plates?

>>32756106
No I have a Recycle plate fortunately.

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>tfw about to run LMAO 2Vibrava in the gym with special guest 43 power Water Shuriken Greninja

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>>32757495
>only 2
>[Vibrates on 7 levels of deep dark FUCK YOU]

How long do we have sex packs for?

Also, should I buy a sex or a Quad?
Im hoping for a deoxys A or mew, but either one I buy will give me enough mats for one

I lack the means to test. Can anyone tell me if a Curse Marker will trigger Prey Scent/ Skull Bash? I presume not based on the wording of Purification but if someone could verify that, that would be helpful.

when is the next banner event

I'm back from hiatus

>>32759370
NOW

Water/Ground types are hot now

>>32759454
Thanks. How long are sextuplets in the store?

>>32759740
I dunno

It should say in the the notifications menu

>>32758558
It's not like the game itself is dead, it's just that there's literally nothing to talk about even when Gyms are going on. There's really not a lot of diversity in the gameplay to keep a general alive

Two quads or one sex? I've got most decent EXes, lacking are Greninja, Virizion, Cobalion and the Deoxys forms between maybe other things.

>>32761373
Whats your current team?
The other Deoxys formes are trash without Deoxys-A and Cosmo Energy, Cobalion is meh unless you have a really purple heavy team, and Greninja is a jobber. As long as you have Mew and/or Zapdos, everything else in the sexpacks is non-essential

Okay so we all know /pdg/ is dying so I kind of have a solution. How about we only make new threads whenever the banner updates and whenever gyms/events start?

>>32763613
The point of a general is to always be around if a new player needs advice or questions answered. And to circlejerk of course.

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>People who try to run down the timer when their loss is guaranteed
>In a fucking Room match

>>32763613
/vp/ isnt that active outside of leak season so even if /pdg/ is inactive, it's not like it'll get pushed down

anyways in the mean time, i suggest that anyone who hasn't join the discord https://discord.gg/VYtmAcs

it's somewhat more active than this thread is, although it could use some more users.

I realize that an active discord could be counter-intuitive to keeping the thread itself from dying but at least we'd have a better place to chat about duel that is a bit more lively than this general

>>32761656
I've got mew and 2x Zapdos
Guess I'm going for two Quads

>>32766648
Show us the disappointment anon.

>>32766137
I could see this going either way honestly. Every general is slow enough that we could all congregate into one general but it might become a bit chaotic if updates roll around the same time for each game.

>>32766540
WIth USM on the way, it's only gonna get worse for /pdg/. I'm surprised this thread even survived today's Switch announcement, but the thread did hit page 10 twice as far as I saw. Also
>discord

>>32766424

> waiting

> in a room match

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The Ground Gym has started.
>opponent has three vibravas in my first match

>>32767797
My first match was against a Deoxys cunt
Retarded fucking devs can't do anything right

man I don't even want Feraligatr

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>mfw the opponent decides to ignore my Manaphy as it moves up the board towards the Swampert at their goal
>mfw they didn't even try and set up a surround since I was coming from the right side of the board
>mfw Manaphy's Song starts playing and moves Swampert away
>mfw no face

>>32766137
NO shuffle is much better than your shitty game

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>>32766786
tfw no swampert

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>>32766786
part 2

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Welcome to the Ground gym....kid....

>>32768885
They wont give it away for a long time after this and your autism will be bothered by having an incomplete collection

Haven't kept up with the game since shortly after launch, I'm completely out of the loop when it comes to the current meta. Is the current sextuple any good? Is it easy to get that Feraligatr? I want one.

>>32769629
For the most part its good if you're missing a lot of the figures listed. Basically everything besides Charizard, Torterra, Mewtwo, Blastoise and Infernape is usable in the meta (Metagross only if you don't have a better answer to Cosmo decks and Venusaur if you're using a Poison deck alongside Crobat and Seismitoad).
Right now the top two decks in the meta are Cosmo decks, which consist of a whole team of the three Deoxys formes plus the Cosmo Energy plate (Deoxys-N is also good to have on this deck to check Mew but its a Gym reward only figure) and Tropical decks which consist of Grass and Flying types, usually including Sceptile, Zapdos, Mew, Virizion, and whatever wild cards you want like Leafeon, Gyarados, Articuno, and Moltres to name a few examples.

>>32768877
>2 Concentrated Fertilizers.
Literal shit, but seriously that one wasn't too bad. I exist in the place of Marshtomp with no Swampert as well and it feels bad man.

Has anyone tried using the new Lugia? What water match ups does it beat?

>>32771356
If Marine Rage were 20 per K.O'd water type then I'd like it. As is I see little reason to not run Karp>Gary or Empoleon or a Kabuto if you really hate Cosmofags. This is assuming Manaphy support of course.

Is it worth it to use 2 manaphys in this gym? I have been trying a bunch of different teams and am just getting my ass kicked all over the place. I haven't tried manaphy yet I don't have empoleon though

>>32771737
I personally really dislike the idea of double Manaphy. I find having one is generally enough of an obvious weakpoint of the deck and without an Empolean to help play around Manaphy's 1mp I definetly would not.

So I just downloaded this game and was wondering where should I start at should I level up first or try to get mons that can help take me further

>>32772601
You won't be facing real players in League duels until you hit 1500 so definitely be hitting that up for easy not wins.
Try to keep a Time Booster unlocking at all times.
Make sure you do your Daily Missions for resources.
Work through the Quest mode for Gems
Only focus on buying sextuple packs
Most of the Pokémon you'll be getting early on aren't really worth leveling up so focus on leveling up any Rare and EX figures you get

>>32771737
Definitely not. Greninja, Vibrava, Gabite rushers love how long it takes to get both those Manaphy out.

>>32772792
Could I get far if I just used my favorite Pokemon or is there a set deck that's required

>enemy about to surround you
>get lucky and kill everything they sent to stop your Mew
JUST

>>32772792
>only focus on buying sextuple packs
Some of the cooler figures aren't in sexpacks, since they're usually quite limited pool unlike other three options

>>32773031
Depends on your favorite. There are a few good decks and some EXs and rares that may not be played in those decks are at least useable.

>>32773031
Depends, though the power ranking is different than in main series.

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>>32772810
I went with 1 manaphy, palkia, greninja, Karp/Dos, 2 Poliwhirl and it's working out great. One poor sap didn't know you couldn't surround with an asleep figure

>>32773044
If you have no EXs or no good EXs I'd very much advise buying quads (maybe one or two on a banner you really like but not regularly); it's the Duel equivalent of being poor and spending your money for groceries on a PS4.

Duel has somewhat of a barrier of entry and you'll need a few decent EXs to really compete (especially if you're new and still learning the game). It's very easy to buy a quad thinking you'll get Suicune, and then you end up with 3 goldeen and a Vaporeon, now 200 gems in the hole.

On top of this, sexpacks have a 10% EX pull rate for each slot (other than the guaranteed), so you can easily get multiple EXs for your gems, many of which are decent figures. The devs have gotten notoriously jewish since the May 24th banner update so gems are a precious commodity.

I don't mean to tell people how to play the game but if a new player wants to be resourceful, they should generally spend gems on sexpacks, and just save their materials for a fancy new banner EX figure instead of playing the lottery

>>32773044
I would not recommend the current Quad pack.

Even if you do pull an EX, Swampert needs other (preferably good) water figs to get 2MP, Palpitoad needs the poison deck, Suicune needs freezers. Your other pulls could include Lugia, Keldeo, and Zygarde which are just plain mediocre.

Alright lads, I installed this game to pass time while my hearts in shuffle restore.
I haven't touched this game at all, installed it and all that. What kind of ride am I in for? Did i come in at a bad time?

>>32773973
At least you missed Reuni cancer. Game is fine, we're just super dead here in the general because there's not really anything to talk about

>>32773973
You actually came in at a pretty good time. Sexpacks are currently available so you can build up a a few EX figures. Theres also a decent sale for close to 900 gems (3 sexpacks) for $8. Decent only because the regular prices are absolute horseshit
Also take a look at this>>32772792

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>tfw have runn into two double Manaphy teams in gym now

This shit is insane

This gym is fucking trash

>>32774829
woah, haven't heard that one before

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>>32774319
Gym meta is fucking retarded.
>>32774829
Giving water the attack bonus was fucking retarded. Golly I hope Greninja doesn't get shuriken more than twice and basically destroy everything in the game that isn't one of the water types with an already strong white.

this gym is fucking fun

-greninja user

Nerf blues

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>>32775746
Say no more.

>>32775764
Thank you, now to get that ability on all other figurines

Why must luck beat strategy?
Why must offense be so crippled compared to defense?

>>32775788
>not playing 2 double chance plates

>>32775788
Because this game would be an even bigger piece of shit if each figure just had a set amount damage. The top decks would literally just be 130 damage attackers that just stall each other out because they can't beat each other

>>32775784
The proper balance is to remove all offensive effects of blues. Stealth hit and bulldoze should not exist. Free movement on a previously 100% safe slice is as shitty game design as having an insanely strong figure with an ability to turn safe slices into miss.

SINCE FUCKING WHEN DID SANDSHREW HAVE SAND VEIL

How do I keep playing against bugbot at this gym ? Water attacking is fuckin retarded. My only water figures are 2 manaphy and empoleon. (fuck sexpacks).

Currently running 2 vibarava shuppet empoleon e manaphy, and got raped everygame.

>>32776452
You'll get to 30 wins easy

>>32776630
I've played 10 matches, lost 7, won 1 against bugbot. Time and pulls are not on my side.

>>32775815
On the other hand, it would actually be based around strategy instead of luck.
And that would be good.

I am running 3x Tentacool, Sandshrew, Squirtle with evolutions and Shuppet for the gym.

Any recommendations? Is this good?

>>32776828
>take any variety
>strategy

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Wahaha!

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Don't think I'll be able to get 5 sex packs like I did last time. With how good my first pack was I can't complain though.

What one of Speed Deoxy's stats would I want to bump? The big white 40, or the smaller gold 20?

While I'm asking stuff I'm using Kyorge in the gym. When I level it up should I increase the purple that knocks back or the 130 damage?

>>32777480
I recommend you pull more vibravas from moss boosters

>>32780408
The 40 to occasionally X attack runners blocking the goal and the 130 b/c that is a very high damage number

>>32777480
>3x Tentacool
It never works as well as you want it to. When I did it I had 5 and a Manphany. But still with that team, using Tentacool as your heavy hitters won't work.

>>32780408
I would level the dodge. You can get early pressure by just sending it down on turn 2/3 even if cosmo energy isnt active. Safe players guard their goal while others attack it, if you level dodge you instapunish the people who attack and just win the game

>>32780750
>>32780453
Thanks guys.

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Here is an idea for Xurkitree, i thought of it as a counter for Zapdos and Mew, what do you guys think ? What would you change ?

>>32782041
Giant purple+gold immunity isn't really good design. Not sure if it'd be broken per se, but no Pokemon should be that difficult to KO on its own. The fact that it has a potential instant KO on top of that is pretty bad too.

>>32783804
Well, that's why its regular attacks are so weak, but you are right, would decreasing its purple down to 22 and making the gold 24 and dodge up to 12 make it a bit more balanced ? Or should it get another miss section ?

>>32782041
>giant purple
>small miss
>immune to gold
>also has a gold
You're as terrible at figure making as the actual devs of this game.

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Thank you blessed Kabuto of the healthy anti metagame.

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>>32785724
>STILL no kabutops

What's the best eeveelution?

>>32785808
Probably leaf. 3 mp, risky to attack, and the ability to run through Sceptile and Virizion are pretty great.

So I just started and I wanted to know is it better to use pre evolutions to evolve up or should I go with evolved forms first

>>32785845
Evolved forms, with some exceptions that get mp boosts or the 10 atk is important to counter other meta figures.
Some examples are Vibraba (loses his niche ability when evolving), grovyle (sceptile is a monster on its own), magikarp (unobtainable for now), phantump, charmeleon, dragonair, etc.

>>32785845
Any evo with the ability "Speed Booster" should definitely be evolved

>>32785910
Alright so if I do use a Pokemon that can evolve should I work on leveling up its evolved form as well

I use got 300 gems, which sextuple pack do I buy? The green tab of the blue tab?

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>>32786732
I got impatient and pulled the green one. Is this any good?

>>32776828
>variety
>everybody just runs deoxys teams, everything else is shit

>>32786732
All I is the one in the green tab.

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Opened a quad pack after finally collecting 300 gems. Kind of underwhelmed with all the eevee shits

>>32787939
Dude you got 2 ex and 4 rares

>>32787985
So?
This game owes me 4 EX and 2 rares with how I've been shit on

>Go to figure library to set fusion locks on my figures
>Game loads after each setting instead of doing it all at once when I leave the Figure Library screen
Just throwing out an idea.

>>32787998
>Owes me

The game doesn't owe you shit, you've been unlucky. You aren't entitled to anything

>>32788185
I'm entitled to your mum's pussy mate

>>32788404
good one

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>When you get matched against a much lower rated player in gym because they're on a streak

Why do the devs hate going on the offensive

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>I need Attack Deoxy to hit once to win
>Double chance, purple, purple, get them to roll blue
>Miss, they roll purple that does nothing
>Blue
>Purple again
>Lose

>>32790227
Luck was a mistake

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>>32790227
>Manage to evolve Vibrava into Flygon
>Alright let's push some shit in
>Immediately lands on Dragon claw

>Need to knock out a Gyarados to free up an entry point
>Get Draco meteor
>Gyarados lands on Storm to avoid the knockout

>>32789846
The irony is that there are no good defensive figures (Deo-D only with Cosmo Energy, maybe Trevanent or Whimsicott with grass support), people just play defensive/reactive with their attackers.

Just got to 4000 mats. What should I buy? Considering Greninja, Zapdos, Terrakion or Sceptile but idk

>>32787028
the only thing good in there is zekrom

>>32790227
stupid deoxcuck

So when using a Pokemon that can evolve should I also lvl up its evolved form too

>>32791199
Yes, it's treated as a separate figure, so the levels and chain levels of the base figure dont carry over

Post gym progress so far

>Number of wins
>Best pull(s)

>>32791348
>15
>nothing of value

>>32791348
>22
>Rare Ex Cube

>>32791633
*exp

>>32791348
20
Marshtomp

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>try to prove a point
>get a half decent quad instead
Metagross sucks but at least I can finally be part of the Deoxys club. Heatran is very nice.

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>>32791348
>26 wins
>Galvantula

>Lose my 8 win League streak to a Deo-A fag

Nerf that shit. 130 attack plus a re-roll is outrageous. I poisoned it and it still had 110 Attack. What the fuck.

>>32791825
Yeah they really do need to get rid of the respin.
>you're safe from that monster 130
>jklol forces you to lose instead
>fair and balanced
All of the Deoxys figures were designed poorly.

>>32791883
I wouldn't mind if it forced me to respin if it didn't have 130 attack. 1 3 0.
Is this highest attack in the game?

>>32791894
Metagross hyper beam is 150

>>32791883
Deo-D Psycho Barrier really needs to get moved down to one star

Same for Manaphy's Song

>>32791894
Metagross hyper beam beats it and triple jelly brain link but neither of those are as massive as psycho boost so they're likely to be lost in a respin. Which I guess doesn't matter for Metagross becaue of its ability but still. It doesn't need to have the ability to nuke everything and a build in double chance.
>>32791908
You right. Its counter should also have a higher damage threshold so some things can actually fucking kill it.

>>32791908
Manaphy isn't used at all except for in water gyms

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>Consider replacing Metagross with Virizion
>Deo-A PTSD kicks in

I've got a perfectly good Clevel'd one that hasn't seen use outside of gyms and I want it to see use

>>32791981
Water teams are consistently in featured duels and a fair amount of them are 3k+. It's not in the same tier as tropical energy or deo decks but it's not far off, and definitely viable.

That's not really relevant though. I just think Manaphy's wheel is absolutely terrible figure design. The idea of decks based around Manaphy is that you should be able to get to the weaker "Brain" of the deck (Manaphy) to kill it and throw the balance of the battle back in your favor. The problem with this is that almost 50% of Manaphy's wheel is an attack that lets Manaphy not only survive against any white attack, but get a huge positioning advantage depending on how the board is set up. They can possibly get a surround on your attacking figure, or move their figure into a threatening position.

Yes, you can obviously try to be smart with your positioning to prevent this, but finding breathing room is difficult against these decks, and you're essentially obligated to try and kill Manaphy whenever you have an opening unless you want to fight 130+ damage Gyarados for the entire match.

A one star nerf wouldnt really make that much of a difference anyways. I just don't get why a figure that's supposed to be a weak supporter has such an amazing punishing attack

>>32792058
if you think manaphy always lands on his purple, why not throw in a gold attacker or two? There are tons of good ones

>>32792102
I don't think it always lands on its Purple, just that you shouldn't get completely fucked when it does

I did run Zapdos the last few gyms where Water got the buff but I can't justify it as much here since this is a faster gym with more 3mps. Maybe I'll try it over my Vibrava although I'm doing alright this gym.

I'll admit that was a pretty autistic rant desu, probably just pent up salt. I just think Manaphy's Song is slightly too strong u feel me blood

>>32792134
I ran manaphy and it didn't help me much. I don't have many figures to use a long with it.

>>32792149
Well that's the catch obviously. It needs an army of Gyarados, Greninja, Empoleon, etc to get going

>>32791997
Use the tropical plate.

>>32791997
>Verizion always wins on offence with an x attack vs deo A
>only has sword of justice to lose on defence

>>32791925
>triple jelly brain link
i thought it's only 2x, not 3x

Dead

Do you guys ever host tournaments or anything where you go up against each other

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Today is a good day.

>>32795701
Hosting one got brought up on the general's discord (it was going to be a tourney with no EX and no Gyara)

Would anyone be interested in having a tournament after this gym ends, perhaps? Could be a good way to get activity in the thread going.

Hurdle Jump nerf when?

>>32797390
Why does it need to be nerfed? Pay attention to your opponents plates before the match starts.

>Play league match
>Send in Leafeon
>opponent send in Terrakion and attacks
>Roll Grass Whistle
>Falls asleep
>Pass him and sit on the entry point
>He uses Awakening
>Attacks again
>I roll Grass Whistle again
>[Player is connecting...]

Anyways, I got a Stunfisk from my locked booster. How viable is it?

>>32796006
Thanks for the luck bru, froggies for everyone

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>>32798381
shit

>>32798352
I don't have one but I had it used against me and it sucked. He put it on my entry point and I got surrounds all day long. Granted we both didn't figure out I could still move figs off of my bench until halfway through the match

>>32798411
> He put it on my entry point

That's a good strategy but he's 1 mp. So I'd have to use Pokemon Switch after using a 3 mp 'mon to the entry point.
Blocking entry points is already a strategy I use so I'd rather have a mon sitting on it and blocking it entirely than have stunfisk on it and still allow other figures to pass through.

>>32798470
I dunno, he was using swampert or some shit. I think it was in the gym. It's alright but I don't know how you would capitalize off of its ability even if it gets more mp

>>32798555
paralyze everything and run two jolteons + galvantula

>>32798700
Do they get a buff off of Pokémon being paralyzed or something

>>32798839
Galvantula's white is doubled in power, and Jolteon can move through paralyzed enemies. So basically yes.

Seismitoad vs. Vibrava is the absolute dumbest shit I've seen in a while.
>blue
>purple
>blue
>purple
>toad gets confused
>Vibrava still spinning purple into miss
>white on purple everywhere
>more blue
>Meanwhile Poliwhirl loses every spin against Swampert and Manaphy on his goal, the Gyara threatening mine, and the Gatr on his entry
This is the longest stalemate ever. Thankfully Bronzor confused Gyarados and then Empoleon killed Swampert and Manaphy with aqua jets back to back and Gatr was too slow to make it to the goal.

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>still no revamped electivire for a paralysis deck
>still no buffs to magmar and electabuzz so they don't job constantly
When I used to make custom figures I thought a size 12 miss segment was alright but in action my Magmar with double chance keeps getting confuse ray into miss. Had to bench the fella because I used to use it as a mew killer but now its too risky

>hurdle vibrava over lugia
>opponent attacks
>supersonic/aeroblast
>i can walk to the goal
>instead surround lugia like a retard
>opponent blocks with shuppet
i just closed the fucking app

>>32800698
Everyone is predicting an Electric/Ground gym next (hopefully Raikou gets buffed) so the final unreleased jap figure will no doubt be the prize

https://www.serebii.net/duel/figures/171-electivire.shtml

How would they buff it though? Magmortar can get away with that wheel but Electivire gets a bigger purple + an ability to compensate for that shit paralysis. It probably gets left as it is but base 70 attack would be nice.

>>32801965
Probably something like

>Get rid of one of the misses
>Buff Thunder Punch to 70
>Ability also adds 'when this Pokemon would be paralyzed by the effect of an attack or an ability, it gains +10 damage to its attacks until it leaves the field'

It wouldn't be amazing but to be fair most gym figures aren't

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Does anybody use a poison deck? I have a tropical energy as my main but I really enjoyed playing poison when venusaur first got buffed. I was fortunate enough to pull Seismitoad and in my excitement I put this together. How does it look? Is there anything I should change?

Does anyone know how to report a player for hacking?
Just played this guy and it was complete bullshit, somehow my stable connection that's never DCed before gives me "Returning to title screen" twice in a row and I end up taking a loss since I can't reconnect a third time

>>32804387
Looks good. Honestly I don't think Venusaur is necessary. Dropping everyone else's MP is great and all but at 1MP itself I think it's hard to justify.

>>32798352
>Send Murkrow/Any other 3MP with a low * purple
>Opponent sends Deoxys-A
>Deoxys rolls Dimensional Shift
>Player is connecting...

>>32804387
Looks really good anon. I've seen some players running similar or the same lineup at around 3200+ rating. It seems like a really effective deck. I don't think Hurdle is really worth having though. I would swap it out for Goal Block, which is especially good with Venu. Long Throw is another option as it allows you for entry protection against faster decks and again, is good with Venu
>>32805017
Venusaur is the centerpiece of poison decks. The idea is that you cripple what's on the field for easy movement and get in position for a goal surround or entry cap. Without the 1MP they'll just cycle figures and you'll have to repoison everything.

>>32805459
Thanks anon I'll definitely try that out. I don't have long throw should I use gems to get one?

>>32804621
The game is server-side.

>>32806077
It's a good plate but given how stingy the devs are I'd wait on it. I'd just play some matches with Goal Block>hurdle jump in your plate set.

If you have trouble dealing with rush teams or deo-speed rush on cosmo (I know there are some deo players that still rush the entries) then maybe it's worth copping

>>32806783
I don't really see plate prices coming down anytime soon

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>in a position to win
>opponent gets a lucky spin
>they don't stop getting lucky spins
>in a position to lose
>lose
Every damn game.

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I am so glad that is over holy shit

>Open moss booster
>Get Lapras
>Open blue booster
>get Ylvetal
My luck has peaked

>accidentally select jap because the text was just fucking boxes instead of characters
>spam tap through the tutorial
>get a shitty pokemon i don't even know from my free figure
>switch it back to english
>t has to download 5000 somethings again, error at the end every time
Being me is suffering

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>been ignoring the Gym for like 4 days
>only at 8 wins
Is there still time to make it, lads?

>>32809093
>tfw only at 13 wins

Fuck those tanking faggots

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hey is this a good team? I pulled all of these from the boosters

>>32809899
>>32810427
You poor dudes are boned unless you gem energy hard. Try to get to at least 15 or whatever it is for the gems and tickets though.
>>32810752
Latios, Mewtwo, and Delphox are shit. You should also finish your training missions and get the hurdle jump plate if you haven't done that already.

>>32810752
It could be worse, but you'll probably do fine until you hit Ultra League. Whenever you do get better figures, replace Braixen first then either Deoxys or Mewtwo depending on whether you get a better defender than Deo or not. You'll be okay with Latios, Infernape, and Zekrom for a while but the former two will become dead weight eventually and so will Zekrom if you don't pull Reshiram.

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>tfw confusing your opponent's Gyarados

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>>32810996
>yfw it lands on Miss then rerolls into Storm the next turn

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>>32810996
>have bad luck
>opponent's x spins confuse, Gyarados missed
>miss again next turn
>send their Karp and Vibrava back to the bench and take goal

>>32810752
How much material do you have? If you have 3000 you could mat Reshiram and use your gems on overdrive plates and have a pretty decent team.

sometimes i want to forget this game exists

>>32811405
1450, I only bought the special 20m downloads pack

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>only at 34 wins
>higher than any of my other gym rankings with more or the same number of wins
>using a bad team
I know it doesn't mean anything and I'll be suffering another massive bad luck streak after this but it's cool to show some signs of improvement. One day I'll be good at this game.

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>tfw unleashing full deo in my last few games as divine retribution for all the manaphy and rhyperior fags

the devs shouldnt have put this cancer in sexpacks for everyone to have but i might as well have my fun. shit is as easy to play as you would expect it to be, too

Can they just fucking implement a penalty for all non-gym type figures already? It's fucking ridiculous how many teams I've faced in the last two gyms where the teams literally had nothing that received gym buffs

>>32812704
What kind of penalty could there even be that doesn't completely ruin the usability of any non-gym type figure?

>>32813787
-20 damage seems fair in my opinion. It'll also deincentivize deofags from running their faggotry. Or they could put in a check where your team must be comprised of X gym typed figures out of 6 before participating in gyms. Frankly, if you can't gather 3 or 4 figures between two different types, you have bigger priorities than gyms.

>>32813992
20 damage will ruin some figures though. Poliwag, Shuppet, and Magikarp would never be able to kill anything even though they mostly don't need to be concerned about that too much. It also ruins multi spins, so Greninja becomes useless as well. It puts you at a 40 damage deficit against any figure of the boosted type too, so even if it's something you should be able to beat or run even with, you're boned. It's steep enough to keep people from using a lot of figures that don't belong to either type but it doesn't necessarily stop the most common non gym type threats. Zapdos, Sceptile, Virizion, Terrakion, Mew, and Gyarados would all still be fucking great and smaller things people run to try and get around those threats become even more gimped.

I'm now very pleased with the two random Raikou I recently obtained. Electric Gym, here I come!

BUFFS SOON FELLOW DUELISTS

Raikou
>Can now move through paralyzed mons or mons that have wait
>Thunderous Blow now paralyzes multiple mons in front of it
>One Bite piece got changed to 110 Thunder
>Smaller miss

Garchomp
>Double Flight can now knock out status'ed mons
>Dragon Rush is now 100 and has a bigger piece of the wheel
>Dragon Claw is now Fire Fang, which burns and gives the opponent wait
>Smaller Miss

Zygarde
>New Ability: Land's call, which gives ground figs +10 damage if Zygarde is fielded and doesn't have a status
>Dragon Breath is now 110

Steelix
>Crunch is now Gyro Ball 100, which gets +30 power if the opposing mon has more MP
>Explosion is now Pull in, which Sends a mon to the PC while benching Steelix
>Screech is now Dig
>Iron Tail got bumped down to 70

Voltorb
>Spark is now Shock Blast 30, which knocks out the opponent if they spin a move with 101+ power
>Explosion piece is larger
>Tackle piece is smaller

Plusle/Minum
>Ability now paralyzes Battle opponent if the two are adjacent
>Plusle now has Nuzzle 30 and and a smaller miss
>Minum now has Nuzzle as well

>>32815616
>Don't have Raikou, Garchomp, Zekrom
>or Zapdos
>will get 0 wins in the gym
Excited.

>>32815616
Wish I could use the new Garchomp, Zygarde and Steelix with extra MP in the gym right now desu

And how does Double Flight knockout a max of two pokemon?
Can you pick a second fight now after Double Flight knocks out a status'd pokemon, then jumps to KO a second status'd figure in your path?

>>32815819
Wait, I guess you could kill the second fig with a normal respin and the first with Double Flight

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>>32815616
I'M READY
Rhyperior pls come to me.

>>32816074
That Stunfisk looks horrible

On new Raikou, which wheel piece is better to increase?

>Ground for the 3rd gym in a row

>>32816116
He is going to get both gyms bonuses so is going to be dope.

>>32816186
But the model is horrible

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>>32816204

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I feel like I'm living on borrowed time lads

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Now I can stop playing for a couple weeks

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>Seismitoad from today's Booster Ticket

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10 minutes left on a rainbow

send your prayers

>>32817675
It was a tyranitar. More ex xp

>>32815616
>Luxray and Electivire remain untouched

>>32815616
>>One Bite piece got changed to 110 Thunder

The power creep in this game is retarded

>>32819293
how is that power creep

just got 3 booster tickets from the gym (lol)
Do I save them or use them now

>>32819791
tomorrows banner will have some buffed figs in addition to suicune seismitoad and pert

so just save them til then

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>mfw when people use hurdle jump to get over my Trapinch or x-attacks and move to attack my Vibrava in the gym

Nerf Rhyperior

Why does this game hate aggresiveness

>>32821798
How so? You can throw up to 2 of your opponent's figures in the trash if you just attack twice and win. You just have to time it properly and watch out what you're up against. I just now won a match by attacking the opponent's Pokemon sitting on the goal, he couldn't reach me so I won.
The problem are people with gimmick decks who do not attack at all.

>>32821900
I hate these decks, they should be discouraged.

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>>32821900

Care to elaborate?~ :3

I only use this team during Room Matches for dailies...and maybe a few gym matches for a chuckle or two~ ;p

>>32822010
I opened enough quads and sexts for 8k material and I still don't have a second hurdle jump

>>32822010
>:3
>;p

>>32822041
You can get two in training mode.

>Electro Energy
This is great if you have multiple 3MP Zapdos soaring around so you can land in front or adjacent of your other figs before you attack

And if this applies to enemy electric types adjacent to you (including the one you're fighting), oh baby

But for non-gym electric decks, this is just terrible. It would be a good energy if it gave +1 MP provided one of your electrics is adjacent, para decks are too fragile to make use of +10.

First quad pulled a Suicune, so better luck than the entire gym

I've used to play Tao Twins, and you MUST play aggressively with em. The thing is, I always lost on rolls , and their damage is low now with the power creep going on.

Changed to a cookie cutter "best ex" deck and is way more consistent.

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>just pulled a Garchomp
Haha time for Seismi-fisk shenanigans

>gym ends
>thread immediately hits page 10
Hmm...

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r8 my gym team, /vp/. I recently started over recently because I got a new phone with no way to transfer my old file, so my options are kinda shitty atm.

>>32826809
I mean, there's nothing too interesting to talk about now besides the dread of 3 mp Zapdos in the next gym.

whoa shit this thread is old

>didn't come here during the gym at all

>got only 20 wins cause i got a job and was busy (even skipped logins)

it was fun gym with those super strong ninja froggos

>never managed to use tractor like i wanted since Rhyperior did a better job at getting on goal

>now they buffed the first EX I got and never used, for electric gym

cool

>>32821798

goal block

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>>32827955
>the dread of 3 mp Zapdos in the next gym.

Time for bad flying gym Flashbacks

>>32829203
At least it's only one of them and not all three and one of them doesn't get both bonuses.

>>32828518
how do you skip logins, that's free shit for opening the app

Dead

£20 says we won't be on a new thread before the next gym

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I really liked this last gym. Felt like I finally had a good team. Most had I had in any of the gyms yet. Not looking forward to the next one however, I've been trying for a Zapodos since the game started and have only gotten the two other birds.

>>32832738
Funny, I had two zapdos by the Fire gym but still no Moltres

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Alright I need help teambuilding. I used to use Reshi/Zek meme team but I never get the removal from duel, and I have many other good figures so help me out. Figures are pic related and two replies, this is part 1/3

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>>32833819
Part 2/3

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>>32833819
Part 3/3

>>32833819
Zapdos, Heatran/Moltres, Mew, Virizion, karp->Gyarados, Leafeon and Tropical plate.

>>32829744
not him, but I finished my a-levels today and I didn't want to open the app and then end up wasting time playing another game to get another booster. Sometimes I lose the drive to play, stop getting dailies and then regret it when I inevitably start playing again

>league match pairs me with some faggot in the Master rank
Worse tier to play against because most of them use the same figures

Champion - Ultra has most variation

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>>32835478
>he isn't in Masters yet

>>32838357

>Worst tier to play against because most of them use the same figures

Note to self: Do not play while drunk, you will lose 200+ in rank.

duel more like rip

>>32841498
Duel will die any time

New content when? Even fucking Go gets shit more than Duel.

>>32842797
It's kind of difficult to implement meaningful changes to Duel aside from what we've already seen. There's not enough gameplay variation to introduce new modes that don't just boil down to literally the exact same thing it is now.
I think the best way to remedy dead weeks is to bring Carnivals back between Gyms. Carnivals would be a good way of building resources up between Gyms too and figure prizes in Carnivals don't necessarily have to be EX figures if that's something the devs are worried about. It could be an R figure that would actually be good and can be viable competitively like Gyarados

Week 1: New banner and new R figure Carnival
Week 2: Gym with new welfare EX figure
Week 3: Figure changes and a buffed R figure Carnival
Week 4: Gym with new/buffed wellfare EX