QOTD: I'm not completely f2p, but I've pretty much stopped spending money to get remote passes. I've done SO many legendary raids, and I still don't have a single hundo legendary, while I have a friend who gets hundos and shinies like nothing. I realized I was literally just spending money for disappointment. And speaking of XLs, I wish Niantic would lower the amount of XLs needed to max out a pokemon since they're so uncommon to get. Especially the candy > XL candy conversion. 100 candy for 1 XL? Really Niantic?
I can confirm, it has taken me upwards of 6 or 7 rotations to hit 296 XL for some legendaries, and I still don't have either maxed origin forms and need to work on my Ho-Oh, Yveltal and others. I also do my daily raid every single day and have been playing for years, so yeah it's a massive grind.
QOTD: we used to pay some to play, but switched to ftp because I learned Niantic was an A/R company and they don't seem to care enough about the gameplay!
Really awesome triple shundo team! I’m really glad you understand the problems faced by Free to play players because every other Pokémon go content creator do not care about F2P players as such and only appeal to players who pay huge amounts of money to get ahead in the game. I’m really grateful that us F2P players have someone to look up to like you. Every time you upload a video I am happy I bought your membership. GG
Same! After they implemented XL candies and made Remote Raid Passes less accessible and more expensive, I completely stopped raiding. Them introducing Shadow Legendary Pokemon raids was the last straw for me. The gap between F2P and P2W players has never been bigger.
I’m glad that you acknowledged that it’s possible to get Lvl 50 legendaries on a free account if that’s what you optimize for. It’s honestly annoying seeing everyone just pretend like you need to spend hundreds of dollars just to get one team in the ML. It takes a few months to build one, one at a time. But it’s possible.
I'm mostly F2P. I've spent less than $100 since I started playing in 2018. And I have probably 3 solid teams to use in ML. Very close to having a few more solid teams/mons to utilize as well. I prefer GL/UL but too many people try to say if you don't spend money, you can't compete and it simply isn't true. Taking advantage of the 50 free coins per day does help greatly but depending on what your goals are for GBL, you can strategize and help to achieve those goals while spending little to no money at all. I also don't understand the problem people have with spending a couple bucks on the game from time to time. Sure, maybe you hate Niantic, but if you're really spending so much time playing the game, you obviously enjoy playing so it shouldn't really bother someone to spend maybe $5/$10 every month or couple of months. It can go a long way and it's not really hurting the pockets. I really think people enjoy complaining because they think unless they spend thousands, they can't reach the potential others can,but that really has nothing to do with it. Strategy and time management go such a long way with PoGO.
@@rr-sp5ii No, he said you could do it, if that’s what you grind for. I have a one year account with a maxed out Mewtwo and a Lvl 48 Xerneas. It does not take years to max out a legendary if you play optimally.
@mbvglider I heard what he said. He said it would take years because it would be multiple rotations. And he is correct. If you only use your free raid pass and 50 free daily coins it's impossible to get the 298 xls needed to max out a legendary in one year. It takes from 70 to 90 raids to the candy to max out a legendary. Even if you got free coins all day for one year you would just have enough candies for enough raid passes for exactly one max legendary. Tell me how did you max out a mewtwo with a one year free account? And still have the candies for a LV 48?
@@rr-sp5ii He said it would probably take years, but it does not take 70-90 raids at all. You get 3 XLs every time you win an in-person raid, whether you catch the thing or not. If you have an Mega Lvl 3 going, it's not uncommon to get like 5-6 XLs every time you catch a raid boss. With all that, 35-40 raids are what I should target. Psychic megas are insanely common. At the time I started the account last year, there was a Psychic event, I pretty much got free energy for Mega Medicham, Mega Slowbro, and there was also a Mega Gardevoir going on if I remember correctly. I started leveling those mega levels up every few days. I hoarded coins and only bought raid pass bundles when they were very cheap. The hundo Purified Mewtwo was mostly built during the Shadow Mewtwo weekend, when people were super excited to raid Mewtwo. Yes, I purified a Mewtwo, it's fine to do so for PVP. As for Xerneas, it was in raids for two weeks straight. Very doable to find many raids over two weeks. Also, I used my free pass almost every single day. There was a whole season where there were two free raids per day. That means I got a bunch of Rare XLs from raids, too. Also, I walk 10k steps per day and try to get the buddy excited when above 10 km, to get candies twice as often. The math checks out. It doesn't take years.
Also, in ML, double fairies are pretty meta. The thing is both Zacian and Xerneas don’t really fear steel, as they do neutral or super effective damage. And then the Tapu Bulu is more the specialist, there to beat Zygarde and Palkia. Primarina has now entered that discussion, since it’s neutral against steel and walls Palkia and really hurts Landorus. Togekiss and Florges are OK, but lacks versatility, IMO. Poisons don’t really exist there in ML. You can easily run triple, with Xerneas and Zacian and some random fairy (Primarina) as your third, and you have a perfectly usable team.
Previously the OML meta was full of Necrozma with the global release which created a Yveltal meta so now all the fairies are coming out to play. Meta is currently all over the place because rhyperior is also now pretty solid to use, and Prima community day bumped it up too.
Yup, right now fliers and fairies are everywhere. I think it is a combination of less steel due to Rhyperior, a lot of dragons, accessibility (ho-oh, xerneas, and yveltal were recently in raids, primarina and Florges are very easy to grind) and mud slap itself. A ML version of skarmory would wreak havoc.
I don’t spend much, if there is an event ticket for a few bucks here or there I’ll do it but I don’t often do remotes. I did go to go fest twice which was awesome so I’m running shadow dragonite, shadow rhyperior, and a dawn wings. Pushing 2300s rn
QOTD: when I first started playing I bought tons of remote raid passes since I didn't mind spending the money but when I saw I started spending around $150 a month I decided I was going way over board. Now I limit myself to $5 a month, if at all, usually for coins or for some kind of pass (although it's been so long since I bought one since they all suck so hard now, I think the last time may have been for the shiny mew) Also, really cool shundo Machamp!
I used to pay around €20 per month to do some raids and increase storage space etc. Then they increased the remote raid passes and I haven't invested a single dime up until this week as I had no choice because I needed some storage space. But I'm not planning on investing any money in it anymore unless it's absolutely necessary. I also used to play master league non XL, but then they removed those leagues so that combined with the increased raid costs I have no reason or incentive to spend any money on raids. I didn't mind spending some money to get some cool legendaries to lv 40, but having to do like 100 raids to get enough XL for only one single legendary (which they can nerf at anytime) is ludicrous
QOTD: I’m a pay to play player I was f2p for the first 3 years 2016-2019 and then realized I wasn’t going to get anywhere anytime soon so decided to break down and start investing
Strange.. I don't have to spend a penny to get to legend and leaderboards every season lol. Sure I do miss out on master league and just don't play it, but it doesn't prevent my progress.
Not to hate or anything since I see you do make content but just try to start small and only start spending more when and if your channel and revenue from it starts growing. Otherwise it’s not really investing/bad investment I don’t make any money from the game and since 2016 I’ve probably spent around $200-300 on it. So I understand how easy they make it to give in.
Qotd: I am not but I am very frugal with how much I spend and I only grind what is desirable to me. And that catch on the yveltal with your mamo was insane
QOTD: I used to pay to play. Back when there was limitless remote passes. I'd spend 200-400$ usd a month. I barely buy coins these say. I spent 20 this weekend but before that it was months since I spent anything on it.
Awesome! Love seeing you run ML spice, nicely done. So many fairies, need a cheap but spicy poison type. QOTD: f2p since July 2016. Reason why when I started is because I just didn't want to on principle of not paying for a mobile game. Nowadays I just don't place the monetary value on having a maxed legendary which could get arbitrarily nerfed by Niantic at any time.
QOTD: FTP here. Currently at level 42 and I feel like the QOL I get isn't much different from a paid player's. I live in a big city so between that and being frugal with my coins I'm able to do plenty of raids. Only real downside is not being able to build lv41+ legendaries but in raids that's not as big a deal and I don't play much open master league.
QOTD, I used to swear I would stay F2P, bought coins once and got hooked. I buy coins whilst also maximizing my daily coins, using my free pass, etc. the combination has worked extremely well
My master league problem stems from nit having other trainers around to do raids with they r only out during events and even then it's pretty sparingly
Qotd: i was free to play for about 3-4 years. But yeah, i did spend money eventually just for legendaries. But i pretty much slowed down recently, and almost spent nothing this past year. I still have no level 50 legendaries. Not even close
QOTD: Any money ive spent on pogo is from google survey rewards. Been doin em for years and every $10 or so, ill buy some coins. But i dont spend money on the game for pvp sake.. since i know it would take too much in the first place. Just no ML or XLs for me for the most part. Doesn't prevent me from hitting legend or leaderboards. I will say this season keeps me limited more to GL than anything, UL is slowly becoming paywalled too except for glass cannons. Still hit veteran already though but its a shame i cant enjoy ML as it actually seems like a great meta.
I did the Google survey rewards for a while but I just found they'd hardly ever ask me anything. Sent my phone to be repaired a while ago & haven't downloaded it again since because I forgot about it tbh but I'll give it another try.
I am generally a f2p player, I only bought some coins for the past 2 festivals. I got a hundo dialga origin doing only few raids and a decent 15/15/12 palkia with few more raids. I thought I could be luckier with necrozma but i did like 20 raids with no skiny or hundo and multiple 10/10/11, 11/10/10, 10/11/10 (what are the odds?). I am close to have the right amount of XL candies for few not legendary pokemon but I dont have the stardust yet. I don't care about Master league that much but i would like to have the chance to play the premier cup one day.
Finally you started investing xl candies into real pokemon, it costs the same to train magnemite to level 50 for great league or have magnezone for master league ..I hope that you would finally take focus on UL or ML..it would be totally new content and very original..please go for it..I'll be cheering every new meta or league..apparently you have enough candies and different pokemon that you can really expand out of gl 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Qotd:I aren't ftp,On average spending about 2-5 pounds per month on Pokémon go.This month I will say I spent a solid Ten pounds just because groudon is my favourite legendary Pokémon.Will probably end up spending a lot more depending on my luck with shinies.
QOTD: i'd be f2p, but theres still a way to buy indian pokecoins and pay literally 25% of the regular prices we'd have to pay here in europe. im not paying 120€ on 14,5k coins lol
I mentioned in the video that I ran out of TMs & ended with trailblaze on Ursaluna, but also Machamp really doesn't hit hard in the master league so close combat is kinda needed for decent neutral damage.
I generally skip 1500 metas for the most part. I usually only play ul and ML. Masters is my favorite meta of all. I started 2018 and stopped f2p 2019. I do live in NYC, so raids and spawns are everywhere. I have every meta mon built for masters. Well not including zygarde to lazy or forget to do routes. Only mythical I have at l50 is marshadow
Qotd: I haven't played in probably 7-8 months. I do spend a little when I'm playing, I like having a couple of incubators and remote passes. And wanted event perks. Maybe $10-$20 a month. I tried free 2 play a few times and just ended up quitting for a while. Why I'm not playing now lol. Niantic has just made so many bad decisions, and I don't want to be tempted to even spend money on the game. I'll relunctly be back...I always do. But w gbl running so bad and the state of the game. It won't be anytime soon
not exactly free to play but i spend very little in the game, and i would say catching pokemon with good ivs and shinys are more of a priority for me than getting everyone to level 50 so i dont really feel the need to spend. also i find remote passes a ripoff, and i come across regular passes often so im okay. downside is i probably am able to do much less raids than most people
I'm mostly free to play ive put maybe $40 in the game playing since day one (stopped for a while). Just don't have money to put into it and not enough people in my area usually for in person raids/trades. I have 23 premium passes cuz I just never use them
Qotd; I used to plow money into the game, both accs. Now i cannot afford it, since they raised the prices. Im lucky I built most my ML roster for cheap... BUT ir hurts if a new Meta Mon is released now. 😢
QOTD: im free to play because Niantic is just like every other videogame company nowadays. The game is extremely grindy and pay to win and their tactics are clearly predatory many of the times
Im stuck at my current level cause i need to win Master League battles, but i really just dont have the XL's for anything. I have a few non legendaries i could bring up, but then i lose so much stardust for league i barely plan to play
I don't mind there being a p2p aspect to games, though I choose not to spend money on games in general. I do wish they'd bring back master classic that capped at lvl 40 every other season or so to give the general user base a way to be competitive and have a wider variety. Even if you were trying to max out some mons, youd be able to hold them at 40 until you had all the resources and use them in that cup until then.
QOTD: F2P player here, been playing since 8/2016. Reason to why I'm a F2P player.....I'm just poor lol, well not homeless poor but I got kids, house, adult bills and just not interested in raid passes or buying boxes with Elite TM's. I have zero lvl 50 Legendary. I do have many many level 50 Pokemon because I have just played for so long. When master league is around I run Dragonite/Ursaluna core and mix up the third depend on my mood and rank. Chandelier is the most fun Pokemon in the master league to use but it's very hard to use these day but if you can save shields for it and get it boosted O BOY!
qotd:i am ftp coz i don't think this game developer deserves even a single penny with how they absolutely neglect everything and how they ignore players. also i built a rank 11 shiinotic from level 5 lmao.
im 90% f2p i have only spent money on lucario and that was 10 bucks. im free to play because when you a pokemon to high cp it feels rewarding that you earned that not that i bought it
QOTD: I am a f2p player in every single mobile app and videogame because I simply do not believe that micro transactions are an ethical business model, its predatory and its ruining modern gaming. Also niantic is absolutely horrible at their job. I will never give them a penny of my money ever.
You dont have to pay to play. You can play for fun and just takes longer to get candy and gems. I personally dont do any Master League because I dont see the point when the master and great league are so much more fun with less effort. I do sometimes pay for community dyas when I have time but i think you loose the fun element if you try to skip the climb
I'm not F2P, but I do spend less than many others I see around. for the most part that's because Niantics events are, more often than not, just not worth it. oh boy, only 5 bucks and I can do 10 additional researches, and get 10k dust and XP for it? yippie *heavy sarcasm*
I spend far less money than I used to. I'll only drop money on a raid boss if it's one I really want/need. I don't want to give Niantic money because it's clear they don't use their profits to better the game experience. When they start fixing the visual bugs, stutter lag, outright freezes that affect everything from PvP to actual core game play such as simply catching I may start spending money again. Tbh, complaining to support every time there's frame drops/freezes/stutter lag supports my raiding habit b/c they always answer with the same garbage canned response and give me a green pass. 😂
I consider my self f2p the most money I spend is the occasional $1 community day ticket. I never like spending money on mobile games so usually only go for the cheapest deals possible.
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QOTD: I'm not completely f2p, but I've pretty much stopped spending money to get remote passes. I've done SO many legendary raids, and I still don't have a single hundo legendary, while I have a friend who gets hundos and shinies like nothing. I realized I was literally just spending money for disappointment. And speaking of XLs, I wish Niantic would lower the amount of XLs needed to max out a pokemon since they're so uncommon to get. Especially the candy > XL candy conversion. 100 candy for 1 XL? Really Niantic?
100% agree, should be 10 candy per XL.
It took me 600 raids to get my first legendary hundo. I know the feeling.
@oliverlangrall2014 Maybe like 25
@@Vik8152bro how i got a hundo kyogre first raid
@@Vik8152it took me 1,017 legendary raids to finally get my first hundo. It was a reshiram and thus took 3 years of raiding.
I can confirm, it has taken me upwards of 6 or 7 rotations to hit 296 XL for some legendaries, and I still don't have either maxed origin forms and need to work on my Ho-Oh, Yveltal and others. I also do my daily raid every single day and have been playing for years, so yeah it's a massive grind.
Where are these triple fairy teams when I run ML clodsire?
QOTD: Very little
Bro when I try to get my win with a GL Clodsire in ML I can guarantee I won't be seeing fairies as frequently as this lol
QOTD: we used to pay some to play, but switched to ftp because I learned Niantic was an A/R company and they don't seem to care enough about the gameplay!
Really awesome triple shundo team! I’m really glad you understand the problems faced by Free to play players because every other Pokémon go content creator do not care about F2P players as such and only appeal to players who pay huge amounts of money to get ahead in the game. I’m really grateful that us F2P players have someone to look up to like you. Every time you upload a video I am happy I bought your membership. GG
Ursaluna is not shiny
QOTD: XLs changed everything for me. I stopped spending money at that point. GL is the only time I play GBL.
XLs as a whole aren’t a bad concept, but removing master classic was a mistake
Same! After they implemented XL candies and made Remote Raid Passes less accessible and more expensive, I completely stopped raiding. Them introducing Shadow Legendary Pokemon raids was the last straw for me. The gap between F2P and P2W players has never been bigger.
@@KarloBlaze Elite raids and Dynamax. A lot of pve content wasn't handled properly.
I’m glad that you acknowledged that it’s possible to get Lvl 50 legendaries on a free account if that’s what you optimize for. It’s honestly annoying seeing everyone just pretend like you need to spend hundreds of dollars just to get one team in the ML. It takes a few months to build one, one at a time. But it’s possible.
I'm mostly F2P. I've spent less than $100 since I started playing in 2018. And I have probably 3 solid teams to use in ML. Very close to having a few more solid teams/mons to utilize as well. I prefer GL/UL but too many people try to say if you don't spend money, you can't compete and it simply isn't true. Taking advantage of the 50 free coins per day does help greatly but depending on what your goals are for GBL, you can strategize and help to achieve those goals while spending little to no money at all.
I also don't understand the problem people have with spending a couple bucks on the game from time to time. Sure, maybe you hate Niantic, but if you're really spending so much time playing the game, you obviously enjoy playing so it shouldn't really bother someone to spend maybe $5/$10 every month or couple of months. It can go a long way and it's not really hurting the pockets. I really think people enjoy complaining because they think unless they spend thousands, they can't reach the potential others can,but that really has nothing to do with it. Strategy and time management go such a long way with PoGO.
You didn't listen to what he said? He specifically said it would take years to get a lv 50
@@rr-sp5ii No, he said you could do it, if that’s what you grind for. I have a one year account with a maxed out Mewtwo and a Lvl 48 Xerneas. It does not take years to max out a legendary if you play optimally.
@mbvglider I heard what he said. He said it would take years because it would be multiple rotations. And he is correct. If you only use your free raid pass and 50 free daily coins it's impossible to get the 298 xls needed to max out a legendary in one year. It takes from 70 to 90 raids to the candy to max out a legendary. Even if you got free coins all day for one year you would just have enough candies for enough raid passes for exactly one max legendary. Tell me how did you max out a mewtwo with a one year free account? And still have the candies for a LV 48?
@@rr-sp5ii He said it would probably take years, but it does not take 70-90 raids at all. You get 3 XLs every time you win an in-person raid, whether you catch the thing or not. If you have an Mega Lvl 3 going, it's not uncommon to get like 5-6 XLs every time you catch a raid boss. With all that, 35-40 raids are what I should target. Psychic megas are insanely common. At the time I started the account last year, there was a Psychic event, I pretty much got free energy for Mega Medicham, Mega Slowbro, and there was also a Mega Gardevoir going on if I remember correctly. I started leveling those mega levels up every few days. I hoarded coins and only bought raid pass bundles when they were very cheap. The hundo Purified Mewtwo was mostly built during the Shadow Mewtwo weekend, when people were super excited to raid Mewtwo. Yes, I purified a Mewtwo, it's fine to do so for PVP. As for Xerneas, it was in raids for two weeks straight. Very doable to find many raids over two weeks. Also, I used my free pass almost every single day. There was a whole season where there were two free raids per day. That means I got a bunch of Rare XLs from raids, too. Also, I walk 10k steps per day and try to get the buddy excited when above 10 km, to get candies twice as often. The math checks out. It doesn't take years.
Also, in ML, double fairies are pretty meta. The thing is both Zacian and Xerneas don’t really fear steel, as they do neutral or super effective damage. And then the Tapu Bulu is more the specialist, there to beat Zygarde and Palkia. Primarina has now entered that discussion, since it’s neutral against steel and walls Palkia and really hurts Landorus. Togekiss and Florges are OK, but lacks versatility, IMO. Poisons don’t really exist there in ML. You can easily run triple, with Xerneas and Zacian and some random fairy (Primarina) as your third, and you have a perfectly usable team.
Green shundo Machamp and Mamoswine looks awesome together
Previously the OML meta was full of Necrozma with the global release which created a Yveltal meta so now all the fairies are coming out to play. Meta is currently all over the place because rhyperior is also now pretty solid to use, and Prima community day bumped it up too.
Free to play, but was also a hardcore gym grinder back in the day. 20 gyms every single night (350+ gold gym badges)
I also have a Shundo Machamp (mine was purified with 13 attack so i just did it) and a hundo Ursaluna, might play with them a little
Awesome to see you play ML! I feel like because it's so rare, Master League spice just hits different 🌶️
Ggs callum, I played you at 6:50. The reason you didn't catch my play rough is cause I was running close combat and iron head
GGs! Genuinely didn't even know it had iron head lol.
Yup, right now fliers and fairies are everywhere. I think it is a combination of less steel due to Rhyperior, a lot of dragons, accessibility (ho-oh, xerneas, and yveltal were recently in raids, primarina and Florges are very easy to grind) and mud slap itself.
A ML version of skarmory would wreak havoc.
What Cp would Corviknight get to? Could it be that ML Skarmory?
@@valor9x7 2800s, so no unfortunately :(
I don’t spend much, if there is an event ticket for a few bucks here or there I’ll do it but I don’t often do remotes. I did go to go fest twice which was awesome so I’m running shadow dragonite, shadow rhyperior, and a dawn wings. Pushing 2300s rn
QOTD: when I first started playing I bought tons of remote raid passes since I didn't mind spending the money but when I saw I started spending around $150 a month I decided I was going way over board. Now I limit myself to $5 a month, if at all, usually for coins or for some kind of pass (although it's been so long since I bought one since they all suck so hard now, I think the last time may have been for the shiny mew)
Also, really cool shundo Machamp!
I used to pay around €20 per month to do some raids and increase storage space etc. Then they increased the remote raid passes and I haven't invested a single dime up until this week as I had no choice because I needed some storage space. But I'm not planning on investing any money in it anymore unless it's absolutely necessary.
I also used to play master league non XL, but then they removed those leagues so that combined with the increased raid costs I have no reason or incentive to spend any money on raids.
I didn't mind spending some money to get some cool legendaries to lv 40, but having to do like 100 raids to get enough XL for only one single legendary (which they can nerf at anytime) is ludicrous
I used to love non XL ML. I had one of every legendary powered up to 40 because it was just fun to run lots of variety.
My maxed Nihiligo is looking spicy in this elo range XD
QOTD: I’m a pay to play player I was f2p for the first 3 years 2016-2019 and then realized I wasn’t going to get anywhere anytime soon so decided to break down and start investing
Strange.. I don't have to spend a penny to get to legend and leaderboards every season lol. Sure I do miss out on master league and just don't play it, but it doesn't prevent my progress.
Exactly the same for me. It’s sad we both ended up feeling like that. Played right into Niantic’s hands 😔
@@keirdogstank4792 exactly😭…now excuse me as I continue to hand them more money🤣🫠
Are you a content creator? Investing
Not to hate or anything since I see you do make content but just try to start small and only start spending more when and if your channel and revenue from it starts growing. Otherwise it’s not really investing/bad investment
I don’t make any money from the game and since 2016 I’ve probably spent around $200-300 on it. So I understand how easy they make it to give in.
Thanks for this team 👑
Qotd: I am not but I am very frugal with how much I spend and I only grind what is desirable to me. And that catch on the yveltal with your mamo was insane
you never dissapoint us!
Perhaps, one day, we can see a Hatterene in the Master League once someone can max out one
My Ursaluna is running the same moveset it's very good when I used it in Ultra League, too bad I don't have too much stardust for Master League
I have a Shundo Mammoswine too! Got it from com day. It's not built yet though.
We’ve seen the mamoswine, lucario, walrein, and now machamp. How many more are there!?😂
Lol I completely forgot about my Lucario
How did you manage not to run into lots of Melmetal? They’re everywhere when I play ML and Mud Slap would be very useful in that matchup
QOTD: I used to pay to play. Back when there was limitless remote passes. I'd spend 200-400$ usd a month. I barely buy coins these say. I spent 20 this weekend but before that it was months since I spent anything on it.
Qotd: im mostly free to play. I spend occasionally for raid boxes when good mons are in raids and im working to much to raid. Or for regional pokemon
Awesome! Love seeing you run ML spice, nicely done. So many fairies, need a cheap but spicy poison type.
QOTD: f2p since July 2016. Reason why when I started is because I just didn't want to on principle of not paying for a mobile game. Nowadays I just don't place the monetary value on having a maxed legendary which could get arbitrarily nerfed by Niantic at any time.
KingPerior sent in some Venusaur gameplay in the ML. Might be a decent corebreaker right now with all the fairies + Rhyperior
@@CallumOnToast that's a great shout. I'd watch those battles for sure
Yeah they need to put premier as an norm alongside with masters
QOTD: FTP here. Currently at level 42 and I feel like the QOL I get isn't much different from a paid player's. I live in a big city so between that and being frugal with my coins I'm able to do plenty of raids. Only real downside is not being able to build lv41+ legendaries but in raids that's not as big a deal and I don't play much open master league.
bro has a shundo machamp and mamoswine wow
watching the mud slap was painful
QOTD: i spent some money on the game. Especially for tickets (go fest, go tour) or coins for pokemon/bag storage.
QOTD, I used to swear I would stay F2P, bought coins once and got hooked. I buy coins whilst also maximizing my daily coins, using my free pass, etc. the combination has worked extremely well
My master league problem stems from nit having other trainers around to do raids with they r only out during events and even then it's pretty sparingly
Is primarina better with waterfall or charm. I guess it depends right?
Overall, Waterfall is better, in my opinion. However, if you’re below 1800, Charm isn’t horrible.
@@mbvglider thanks
They should change the XL system to cost 10 normal candies per XL instead of 100
Hey! Someone else is also doing an all-fairy team climb
As far as the battles massive respect 🫡 for that bm to the togekiss 😂🙌🏻
I have a 98% shiny shadow machamp, and till this day i cant make my mind up if i should purify it for the shundo or leave it as a shadow :(
I love how your whole team can hit steel types but you didn't really run into any of them hmm
Only steel in the meta is Necrozma and that doesn't take SE from fighting. Maybe Dialga, but it's kinda gone from the meta.
Yeah tbh this is my first time playing ML so I didn't have a clue what the meta was gonna look like really
Qotd: i was free to play for about 3-4 years. But yeah, i did spend money eventually just for legendaries. But i pretty much slowed down recently, and almost spent nothing this past year. I still have no level 50 legendaries. Not even close
I buy ticketed research and spend coins on avatar stuff. Raid passes are a scam and raiding is deeply unfun.
QOTD: Any money ive spent on pogo is from google survey rewards. Been doin em for years and every $10 or so, ill buy some coins. But i dont spend money on the game for pvp sake.. since i know it would take too much in the first place. Just no ML or XLs for me for the most part. Doesn't prevent me from hitting legend or leaderboards. I will say this season keeps me limited more to GL than anything, UL is slowly becoming paywalled too except for glass cannons. Still hit veteran already though but its a shame i cant enjoy ML as it actually seems like a great meta.
I did the Google survey rewards for a while but I just found they'd hardly ever ask me anything. Sent my phone to be repaired a while ago & haven't downloaded it again since because I forgot about it tbh but I'll give it another try.
It would’ve been a green team if you ran a shundo Groudon instead of Ursaluna.
I am generally a f2p player, I only bought some coins for the past 2 festivals. I got a hundo dialga origin doing only few raids and a decent 15/15/12 palkia with few more raids. I thought I could be luckier with necrozma but i did like 20 raids with no skiny or hundo and multiple 10/10/11, 11/10/10, 10/11/10 (what are the odds?). I am close to have the right amount of XL candies for few not legendary pokemon but I dont have the stardust yet. I don't care about Master league that much but i would like to have the chance to play the premier cup one day.
Finally you started investing xl candies into real pokemon, it costs the same to train magnemite to level 50 for great league or have magnezone for master league ..I hope that you would finally take focus on UL or ML..it would be totally new content and very original..please go for it..I'll be cheering every new meta or league..apparently you have enough candies and different pokemon that you can really expand out of gl 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Qotd:I aren't ftp,On average spending about 2-5 pounds per month on Pokémon go.This month I will say I spent a solid Ten pounds just because groudon is my favourite legendary Pokémon.Will probably end up spending a lot more depending on my luck with shinies.
QOTD: i'd be f2p, but theres still a way to buy indian pokecoins and pay literally 25% of the regular prices we'd have to pay here in europe. im not paying 120€ on 14,5k coins lol
Most my legendaries are free but it is hard and time consuming doing free raid every day
Why aren't you running the optimal move set? Like I know you're a spice lord, but trailblaze on Ursa is dumb 😭 CC on Machamp too
I mentioned in the video that I ran out of TMs & ended with trailblaze on Ursaluna, but also Machamp really doesn't hit hard in the master league so close combat is kinda needed for decent neutral damage.
Machamp is one of my favourite pokemon lol,Hoping I get a hundo soon
Although I cant be disappointed with 3 shundos myself
Spending 5$ per month on the game, it's the leftover money of loading up my phone
How many shundos do you have?
QOTD: I simply don’t spend money on games i view to be pay to win, it may sound wierd but i only buy DLCs and Cosmetics and such.
What jersey are you rocking? 👀
Just a random orange sports top, I was heading to the gym just after I recorded this.
QOTD: I spend money very sparingly in this game. Its too expensive for what you get out of it
I generally skip 1500 metas for the most part. I usually only play ul and ML. Masters is my favorite meta of all. I started 2018 and stopped f2p 2019. I do live in NYC, so raids and spawns are everywhere. I have every meta mon built for masters. Well not including zygarde to lazy or forget to do routes. Only mythical I have at l50 is marshadow
Qotd: I haven't played in probably 7-8 months. I do spend a little when I'm playing, I like having a couple of incubators and remote passes. And wanted event perks. Maybe $10-$20 a month. I tried free 2 play a few times and just ended up quitting for a while. Why I'm not playing now lol. Niantic has just made so many bad decisions, and I don't want to be tempted to even spend money on the game. I'll relunctly be back...I always do. But w gbl running so bad and the state of the game. It won't be anytime soon
not exactly free to play but i spend very little in the game, and i would say catching pokemon with good ivs and shinys are more of a priority for me than getting everyone to level 50 so i dont really feel the need to spend. also i find remote passes a ripoff, and i come across regular passes often so im okay. downside is i probably am able to do much less raids than most people
Agree i don't play máster league cause i don't spent on doing raids so i don't have legendaries XLs sadly...
I'm mostly free to play ive put maybe $40 in the game playing since day one (stopped for a while). Just don't have money to put into it and not enough people in my area usually for in person raids/trades. I have 23 premium passes cuz I just never use them
Qotd; I used to plow money into the game, both accs.
Now i cannot afford it, since they raised the prices.
Im lucky I built most my ML roster for cheap... BUT ir hurts if a new Meta Mon is released now. 😢
Finally ML
free to play all the way mate….😁😁😁
QOTD: im free to play because Niantic is just like every other videogame company nowadays. The game is extremely grindy and pay to win and their tactics are clearly predatory many of the times
Qotd: I’m broke. Gas is the most I invest in the game to drive and grind.
Im stuck at my current level cause i need to win Master League battles, but i really just dont have the XL's for anything. I have a few non legendaries i could bring up, but then i lose so much stardust for league i barely plan to play
I believe you can complete that task with friendly battles. Ask someone to run 10cp Pokemon & you can get it done really quickly!
QOTD: Yes, I'm f2p. It makes the game more difficult in a way I like it
Mostly ftp. I do buy the occasional storage and raid passes but I never spend a whole lot..
I don't mind there being a p2p aspect to games, though I choose not to spend money on games in general. I do wish they'd bring back master classic that capped at lvl 40 every other season or so to give the general user base a way to be competitive and have a wider variety. Even if you were trying to max out some mons, youd be able to hold them at 40 until you had all the resources and use them in that cup until then.
QOTD: F2P player here, been playing since 8/2016. Reason to why I'm a F2P player.....I'm just poor lol, well not homeless poor but I got kids, house, adult bills and just not interested in raid passes or buying boxes with Elite TM's. I have zero lvl 50 Legendary. I do have many many level 50 Pokemon because I have just played for so long. When master league is around I run Dragonite/Ursaluna core and mix up the third depend on my mood and rank.
Chandelier is the most fun Pokemon in the master league to use but it's very hard to use these day but if you can save shields for it and get it boosted O BOY!
qotd:i am ftp coz i don't think this game developer deserves even a single penny with how they absolutely neglect everything and how they ignore players.
also i built a rank 11 shiinotic from level 5 lmao.
Thank you for not rewarding Niantic for their incompetence and malice
I tried mud slap mammo this season... underwhelming.
Double fairy has akways been common in ML id say. Especially since Xerenas & Zacian.
even ABA style? A lot of these were fairy lead & then fairy in the back
@@CallumOnToast yea nah you are right. Usually in an ABB.
im 90% f2p i have only spent money on lucario and that was 10 bucks. im free to play because when you a pokemon to high cp it feels rewarding that you earned that not that i bought it
I use shadow shiny machamp in master league but only using cross chop
And karate chop
QOTD: I am a f2p player in every single mobile app and videogame because I simply do not believe that micro transactions are an ethical business model, its predatory and its ruining modern gaming. Also niantic is absolutely horrible at their job. I will never give them a penny of my money ever.
Clarification: I will buy a game and perhaps a dlc, a micro transaction is a sin in my eyes.
You dont have to pay to play. You can play for fun and just takes longer to get candy and gems. I personally dont do any Master League because I dont see the point when the master and great league are so much more fun with less effort.
I do sometimes pay for community dyas when I have time but i think you loose the fun element if you try to skip the climb
That was fun
The only time I spent money was to get a costume lol. Just one dollar though
QOTD: yes I am a free-to-play player. That's because I'm 15 years old and I don't have my own money yet😂
Trust me bud, you're doing ok like this
I'm not F2P, but I do spend less than many others I see around. for the most part that's because Niantics events are, more often than not, just not worth it. oh boy, only 5 bucks and I can do 10 additional researches, and get 10k dust and XP for it? yippie *heavy sarcasm*
How about metagross?
I play my shanelure, dragonite, gyarados team, and It's have some play.
QoTD: I f2p coz I have family to care of, 😅
I spend far less money than I used to. I'll only drop money on a raid boss if it's one I really want/need. I don't want to give Niantic money because it's clear they don't use their profits to better the game experience. When they start fixing the visual bugs, stutter lag, outright freezes that affect everything from PvP to actual core game play such as simply catching I may start spending money again. Tbh, complaining to support every time there's frame drops/freezes/stutter lag supports my raiding habit b/c they always answer with the same garbage canned response and give me a green pass. 😂
There isn’t any good steel or poisonous type in the master league so triple fairy probably has the best odds
necrozma? metagross?
Qotd because the UK is the most expensive rip of country to live in 😅
I consider my self f2p the most money I spend is the occasional $1 community day ticket.
I never like spending money on mobile games so usually only go for the cheapest deals possible.
QOTD: I don’t spend money on shit products.
QOTD: I DONT THINK YOU NEED TO SPEND MONEY TO ENJOY THE GAME AND I AM YOUNG SO ITS MY PARENTS MONEY NOT MINE AND I DONT WANT TO WASTE MY PARENTS MONEY
QOTD: Why should I spend money if it is free? It is a scam, I'll just play and have fun.
QotD: I was a payer, but I stopped a few years ago when I felt the content wasn't worth it anymore.
Same. Not giving them any money when they won't even fix the frame skip lag
Mostly FTP because I’d rather spend on cards
And yea mostly a free to play player rarely buy the boxes I don't get 50 coins a day
Shundos 💀
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I am ashamed to say how much I've spent on this game.
Honestly half and half, I only pay for like global go fest and what not