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So, how are you liking this game? I think it's fun. I'm playing it in small doses. I'm on battle 42 of about 159 (for now). I already got the Mew from a special event, too. I haven't captured all the pokemon I have battled. I'm focusing on moving forward and then coming back to catch them all. I AM making exceptions for those pokemon I can actually Mega Evolve.
By the way, how does this game compare to Pokemon Trozei? I haven't played that one.
I'm beginning to wonder if I should continue bothering with this game or at least to the extent that I have. I've maxed out enough guys to the point where every team I use is totally max level and I still rarely S-rank new stages without items. Maybe I need to start strategizing more with the powers and stuff, but with just the optimize teams the game is no longer really interesting me much.
Pretty dickish of them to have Scatterbug practically mandatory to beating Spewpa and having Scatterbug's catch rate so low. I got lucky with a Super Catch Power myself.
Nope, I'm at level 25 or so. I caught him with 6% (more escalation good luck).
I beat all the main stages and S-ranked one of them with no items. Then I S-ranked the one with 3 moves since it's so easy with a +5 moves. For now I'll turn my attention back to Darkrai.
I've played up to 214 (haven't caught or S-ranked any of the new ones yet), and I've played Darkrai up through Level 30, I think. Caught him a few levels back, which surprised me a little because I got him to three shakes all the way back at 1%, so I figured I would catch him really early on or much closer to Level 50 rather than somewhere right in the middle.
There's a couple more of those at lv 100 etc. Depending on the difficulty, it could be worthwhile for you to go further. I went to 100 on Cresselia, but not Giratina.
Done with Darkrai and I'm stuck on 216 now. Even with a completely super effective/MAX level team, I still can't beat it. Guess I'll pull out some items on my next go around since I'll have to do that to S rank it anyway.
I've dropped 3 so far: Gengar (to pump him to maximum awesome), Glaile (for Garchomp comp) and Lucario (for Darkrai). Still have 5 in the bank.
As tempting as it is to power up something like Ampharos to ridiculous levels, I'm eschewing the eggs in one basket approach in favour of doling them out evenly among my most used megas. That way no matter what type is being faced I'm likely to have at least a small benefit.
I've got one more stage to S rank (Gothorita), but I've caught all the available Pokemon (unless there's more Expert stages to unlock once I get my last S rank).
Edit: Used some items to get the last S Rank, which unlocks Cobalion in Expert.
Got up to Level 100. Foolishly went in guns blazing with just an Attack Up and Disruption Delay. If I'd gotten a +5 moves I might have pulled it off, but it would have been close. What team did you use, SL?