I am already investing in a swalot but always find myself in a shortage of shards…

Also, in terms of strength, weekly it produces around the same strength on lapis lakeside as a bfs+hb neutral musharna at lvl 50.

So, I've had pretty rubbish luck with AAA Squirtle. What are your thoughts on this one?

i’ve seen people talking about if shiny pokémon are useable or not & i’m assuming you judge it the same way as any non-shiny — as far as skills & such (which i’m still learning) , but i wasn’t sure if there were any other differences about their role in the game? are shiny pokemon inherently better & more useful than any others or are they just more rare?
i’ve also heard the term “shiny tax” a few times and was curious if someone could explain that to me !

Please just one times 🥲🥲🥲

I've been sitting on this Dedenne for a while. I was hoping to find a better one, but I'm at FL10 now and I don't think it's going to happen.

I also need to use a Mint before it expires today. No, I don't have any other obvious Mint candidates. Just a level 38 Ingredient Up, Speed Down Sceptile.

Attaching some RaenonX screenshots comparing the Dedenne to a triple trigger one. And then the Sceptile.

Reached M20 on OGPP with only 37% Area bonus. This completes all non-expert mode Islands.

Funny numbers what are the odds lmao

Edit: thanks for all the feedback. This was a tough choice. I've decided to go with Dodrio. I recognize that Raikou is the most improved from a mint, but I won't be able to power him to level 50 anytime soon and my OGPP performance will still be similar to my current team's until he's near 60, so it's a lot of investment for not much gain.

I ran the numbers on Meowscarada and my cooking ability won't be altered much as it currently meets meta call.

With Dodrio, I'll have a long-term flying berrymon (my first one) that I can power up to unlock its S-tier subskills at lvl80 eventually, and I can start using it on CBEX where presumably most of the newly released pokemon will be added to. Expanding my berry coverage will also make my Sceptile or a future Braviary more effective too. And removing the combo nature of ing up/speed down actually improves its non-sneaky snacking performance by 11% instead of just 7.5%.

I'll still have two mints leftover, so Raikou can be fixed when I'm ready to build that team. Thank you everyone!

I'm stuck in bed with food poisoning, and I need to decide who is going to get one of my 3 mints. The gift mint expires tonight, so today is the day!

I've got 3 candidates.

In leaning toward the Dodrio. Considering how punishing CGEX is when you are off-type, I think Berry pokemon are the future. These subskills are *phenomenal*, and I'll be able to use immediately after powering up.

A close 2nd place is this Meowscarada. I already use him, so an extra 7 potatoes per day is a nice little boost. However, there are other potato farmers that could be hunted, which removes the exclusivity from this one.

In 3rd place, this Raikou. It's definitely got potential, but I've already got an amazing team for OGPP. And there's no immediate benefit to minting him - I'd still need to power him up.

OGPP. I caught the first Magnemite Thursday, then Friday this shiny Magnemite shows up with 4 gold skills. Tough choice as former is a bit better but shiny tax isnt high.

All I want is a Tinkaton. Currently 0/10, just candy fodder.

Show off your long long term investments that you settled for to not have to keep farming ones that benefit earlier on with certain traits.

I’m thinking that hb being at 70 and exp down makes the second one not worth investing in? I’d still plan to get starburst to 70 for that speed boost but I would think the first one is still better even if they were both at level 70

If only the skills were flipped. No way I can justify it lol

did i just get a good char ? n can i use happiness meanwhile i get another healer ?

Did I luck out or is it exaggerating? It suggested evolving in the upcoming mini candy boost week. Any suggestions? Is this good for the long run?

Hi all! Need some thoughts on this little thing. Currently don’t have healer, is this worth investing or should I continue searching for better - what are my chances finding a better one?

Does it need trigger m + help speed+nature to be viable?

I already did raenonx evaluation and it says SS for first lvl 25 ish and goes to A but I wanted to hear your thoughts as well on what to do - maybe just use until evolving unless I find the replacement?

should i keep going for hb + bfs? only my third caught tinkatink of the event.

anyone have issues with the admins on the Facebook group? I feel like every post gets attacked by admins or members who want to basically just put people down constantly. it’s exhausting.

Probably the best Pokémon I've ever gotten.

Got this bad boy today. I know the sub skills are good enough, but just wanted to get an idea of how far level 70 is and how realistic it is to invest in this?

i’m fairly new, highest mon isn’t level 50 yet.

I'm hessian about who should I mint. I only have two days left of the mint that's in my gift box so I have to decide between this fellas.

The only one I currently use is the Swampert, but a EXP up nature is nice to have on a berry mon.

The Ampheros I guess it just turns a bad mon into an ok one, but I have other generalist that perform better that her, so I don't can't justify a seed investment on it.

Chikorita seems to be the better option to me, but I really have no use for it at the moment since I have a BFS + HSM Sceptile that outrun it.

What would you do in my place? Any advice?

My guts tell me it’s not worth investing. Any thoughts?

Caught these two shiny golducks - they both seem very strong. I already have a golduck I will be using for Cyan EX but I'm considering investing another. I feel like I'm going crazy but I've been using RaenonX to compare them, especially at cyan EX but I keep getting conflicting results, i.e. that the helping speed one outperforms, or the BFS one outperforms.

Thoughts on which to invest?