Intended Pairs + Possible F2P options for the “Take On Team Rocket!” Event that starts in less than 48 hours
This event is similar to the Pasio Subway event from November, as it’s several extremely difficult battles that only give 100 gems and a title.
HOWEVER, I wanted to try and figure out the intended pairs for each stage and try to help find some F2P options for those that might need them.
Proton: Elesa (Classic). You need Electric Terrain to provide Team-Wide Sleep protection + She lowers all stats with every attack when the enemy is paralyzed.
Petrel: Variety Elio. Only Special Psychic pair that has team-wide Status Prevention, allowing him to protect the entire team from constant aoe poison effects.
Ariana: Arc Cynthia. Ground Zone and buffs her own attack pretty easily.
Archer: NC Hop. Physical fighting pair that can lower speed. If Archer didn’t have Wise Entry, the intended pair would’ve been more obviously SC Diantha.
Giovanni 1: SS N. Ice type that lowers Attack and Sp.Atk in one move, getting rid of his multiplier passives and fluid fortification in one go.
Giovanni 2: SS Wally. Fairy Rebuff + Fairy Zone on demand. Gets rid of Giovanni’s Debut Dark Zone and applies rebuff to cut down his defenses.
F2P Options:
Proton: Volkner + Any pair that can lower Sp.Atk. Volkner deals with constant E.Terrain and any Sp.Atk debuffing pair deals with the other gimmick.
Petrel: DC Blue. Blue has Antitoxin and Unflappable, stopping both of the stage’s gimmicks.
Ariana: Courtney. She has a similar gimmick to Cynthia, but she may need more help buffing her Attack stat back up when it gets too low because of Ariana’s debuffs.
Archer: Wally. Deals with Physical Fighting moves and Speed debuffs, so he handles both gimmicks too. However, he’s frail so you’ll need a decent tank to help him out.
Giovanni 1: Ghetsis. Has the same gimmick as SS N, but does it much, much slower.
Giovanni 2: Lodge Lillie for interference + any Zone-based pair. Get rid of Giovanni’s Zone or his Giga Impacts are going to suck. Lillie’s Trap may not be the fairy rebuff that helps the most, but it IS still a Status Change effect and gets rid of the passives that the Interference is needed for.
Another note: Unless the datamine team missed anything, there aren’t any missions for this event. Just stage clears. So there’s no need to worry about having to use random theme skill pairs like we had to with the Pasio Subway two months ago.
Finally: A link to the pastebin (made by Absolutelypm on twitter) that has the stage info for all of these battles: https://pastebin.com/mg8aTexr
This event is similar to the Pasio Subway event from November, as it’s several extremely difficult battles that only give 100 gems and a title.
HOWEVER, I wanted to try and figure out the intended pairs for each stage and try to help find some F2P options for those that might need them.
Proton: Elesa (Classic). You need Electric Terrain to provide Team-Wide Sleep protection + She lowers all stats with every attack when the enemy is paralyzed.
Petrel: Variety Elio. Only Special Psychic pair that has team-wide Status Prevention, allowing him to protect the entire team from constant aoe poison effects.
Ariana: Arc Cynthia. Ground Zone and buffs her own attack pretty easily.
Archer: NC Hop. Physical fighting pair that can lower speed. If Archer didn’t have Wise Entry, the intended pair would’ve been more obviously SC Diantha.
Giovanni 1: SS N. Ice type that lowers Attack and Sp.Atk in one move, getting rid of his multiplier passives and fluid fortification in one go.
Giovanni 2: SS Wally. Fairy Rebuff + Fairy Zone on demand. Gets rid of Giovanni’s Debut Dark Zone and applies rebuff to cut down his defenses.
F2P Options:
Proton: Volkner + Any pair that can lower Sp.Atk. Volkner deals with constant E.Terrain and any Sp.Atk debuffing pair deals with the other gimmick.
Petrel: DC Blue. Blue has Antitoxin and Unflappable, stopping both of the stage’s gimmicks.
Ariana: Courtney. She has a similar gimmick to Cynthia, but she may need more help buffing her Attack stat back up when it gets too low because of Ariana’s debuffs.
Archer: Wally. Deals with Physical Fighting moves and Speed debuffs, so he handles both gimmicks too. However, he’s frail so you’ll need a decent tank to help him out.
Giovanni 1: Ghetsis. Has the same gimmick as SS N, but does it much, much slower.
Giovanni 2: Lodge Lillie for interference + any Zone-based pair. Get rid of Giovanni’s Zone or his Giga Impacts are going to suck. Lillie’s Trap may not be the fairy rebuff that helps the most, but it IS still a Status Change effect and gets rid of the passives that the Interference is needed for.
Another note: Unless the datamine team missed anything, there aren’t any missions for this event. Just stage clears. So there’s no need to worry about having to use random theme skill pairs like we had to with the Pasio Subway two months ago.
Finally: A link to the pastebin (made by Absolutelypm on twitter) that has the stage info for all of these battles: https://pastebin.com/mg8aTexr