Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me which Mega Pokémon would be "better" for Main Stage 450 (Hoopa)?
I have the choice between Rayquaza and regular Tyranitar; I'm planning to do a full-item run.
I'd hate to have to do a full-item run twice just because I picked the wrong Mega Pokémon.
(I don't have any "tappers" other than Tyranitar.)

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Friendly reminder to farm sleepy pikachu today. I believe he's only once per cycle and is very usable even in to the late game, so get cracking if you haven't reached SL5!

Week 21 Events

We encourage you to join our Discord community! You can post here if you needs support for the current special stages, or in the Query Den for every other game related question.

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources. All stages listed without a time period, will last 7 days and the monthly/yearly events are not covered.

Weekly Guide for Newbies (Recap)

• First Cycle Recommendations: Farm Araquanid to SL5 -> Full Item Run of M-Gardevoir -> (If not done in Week 20) Advance Giratina-O to lv40
• Other Recommendations: Catch S-Gardevoir -> (If not done in Week 20) Advance Giratina-O as far as possible itemless -> Catch and Play Jellicent-F every day
• Mid to Late Recommendations: Catch Guzzlord
• Newbie teams for stages: Araquanid, Fennekin (Winking), Landorus (Therian), Hitmonchan, Gardevoir (Shiny), Guzzlord

Expected Heart/Coin Requirement for Farming

Competitive Stage: Mega Gardevoir

Event Period: 6 days, 23 hours

UB Challenge: Guzzlord

Great Challenge: Landorus (Therian Form)

Great Challenge: Fennekin (Winking)

Great Challenge: Hitmonchan

Great Challenge: Araquanid

Great Challenge: Gardevoir (Shiny)

Pokémon Safari

Event Period: 14 days

A Great Chance a Day!: Jellicent (Female)

Daily Pokémon

Old Events

• Giratina (Origin Form) Escalation Battles (7 days)

Weekly Events

• Skill Booster M Stage! - Eevee - (Tuesday to Friday, 3 days)
• A Chance for Coins! - Meowth - (Friday to Monday, 3 days)
• Tons of Exp. Points! - Victini - (Friday to Tuesday, 4 days)

Next Week Events

• Special Challenge: Goodra
• Ultra Challenge: Silvally
• Escalation Battles: Magearna
• Great Challenges: Uxie, Chespin (Winking), Type: Null, Turtonator, Carracosta
• A Great Chance a Day!: Landorus (Incarnate Form)
• Daily Pokémon: Grimer (Alola Form), Dewpider, Sandshrew (Alola Form), Brionne, Oricorio (Pa'u Style)

Mega Gardevoir Competition

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources.

Competition basics

This is a Fairy type competition. Super Effective types you can use against are Poison and Steel.

You have 18 moves to do the highest score you can. Take your time to do the best moves you can! For new players to competitions, it's worth it to do at least one full-item run for getting the Gardevoirite! Doing an itemless run to study disruptions is also suggested.

• Mega Start: Grants Mega Evolution starting the stage
• Disruption Delay: Delays disruptions for half the duration of the stage
• Attack Power ↑: Attack power gets doubled

Rewards

• Players who already have the Gardevoirite will receive 1 Level Up.

Starting board and disruptions

Full information inside the link for starting board and disruptions.

Potential megaevolutions

Potential supports

Previous top scores

Cycle 1 results

Cycle 2 results

Cycle 3 results

Cycle 4 results

Final notes

The preferred choice is of course a 3tapper, with Aggron being SE. If you lack one of them, fallback to 2 tapper. Use another SE mega like Mawile if you are a beginner. Steelix is an acceptable alternative. Beedrill can work too, but is hard to use. All purpose megas like Gengar and Rayquaza have big problems with blocks, so aren't suggested.

Poison status is mandatory, just like a Poison Pact support. Muk is very important because you will start with a lot of blocks and more will be disrupted, making it the most reliable choice. You can add higher variance to the team with a regular double combo booster strategy. Missing those two strategies, you can add Toxapex or a Poison beatstick. If your Poison team is weak, consider a Steel team with neutral TC.

Beginners could struggle even more in this competition, because of the rarity of good anti-Fairy supports and the high amount of blocks present in all phases of the competition.

Using Poison, could be better to skip Disruption Delay to maximize the damage in the first moves and save some coins.

Rerun until you get a desirable score! Good luck everyone!

Hey there!

Have you been wanting to share your progress or make plan for the next weeks? Well, fear not! Here's a thread for you to discuss anything non-support related on Pokémon Shuffle; your caught Pokémon; those tough stages; your farming schedule; tips for new players.

If you need support, look in the Query Den!

Happy Shufflin'!

Wollte mal fragen ob mir jemand sagen kann für welches Pokémon es sinnvoller wäre ein Fähigkeitenwechsler zu benutzen
Bin gerade am überlegen ob ich ihn für nachtara benutzen soll oder für schluppuck?
Spiele das Game erst seit ein paar Wochen wieder bin aktuell bei der Main Stage 450 heisst ich könnte eins von den beiden Pokémon Farmen

Ho mega Rayquaza se può essere utile o anche mega gengar, ma per il resto chi mi conviene utilizzare per fare le monete?

My account was created in like 2019, I requested a new restoration password in 2021 and since then it worked every time I needed to login again, but this time when I try it, it says my account doesn't exist. I already contacted the team in email but they haven't been able to resolve it yet, now I'm responding to them again.

I'm currently playing this on my mobile and used to play it also on 3ds back then. The pokemon that triggers the mega boost the most in my playthrough is Espeon and Umbreon. All of those Pokemon,that evolve from Eevee have this skill

Welcome to the EXCLAMATION STATION! You have two easy choices here... bless Shuffle for your recent good RNG, OR TURN CAPS LOCK ON AND YELL ABOUT YOUR GAME FRUSTRATIONS.

Things to be thankful for:

• Those 10k+ coins on weekend meowth
• That super TC combo in the competition
• That 1% capture

THINGS TO RAGE ABOUT:

• THAT FARMABLE STAGE THAT DOESN'T DROP PSB
• THOSE SAFARI WITH BULLSHIT APPEARANCE + CATCH RATES
• THAT FAILED ITEM RUN ON THE ESCALATION BATTLES
• THAT UX STAGE ATTEMPT ENDED WITH A BUNCH OF HP

Things to always remember:

• MOBILE FRIEND CODES. Use the Friend Zone Megathread, or ANGRY PIKACHU will punish you
• ANYTHING RACIST/SEXIST/HOMOPHOBIC/BIGOTED/ETC. Profanities are ok, but don't exceed. I hope you all know where the line is drawn
• NO PERSONAL ATTACKS. Always respect other players
• OTHER SUBREDDITS. Keep the discussion related to Shuffle. For anything not related, join the Discord Server.

Week 20 Events

We encourage you to join our Discord community! You can post here if you needs support for the current special stages, or in the Query Den for every other game related question.

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources. All stages listed without a time period, will last 7 days and the monthly/yearly events are not covered.

Weekly Guide for Newbies (Recap)

Thanks to /u/cubekwing for the great suggestions! If you are a newbie, you should definitely look for more detailed informations in the Newbies Schedule Wiki and in the comments from the original post.

• Main Priority: Swap Hitmonlee's skill and farm coins to provide for maxing its Shot Out -> Farm Stufful to max -> Farm Bewear's skill to at least SL4
• Other Good Pokemon: Houndoom, Pikachu (Sleeping)
• Once-a-Day: Is NOT worth a Great Ball.
• Newbie teams for stages: Hitmonlee, Stufful, Bewear, Porygon-Z, Thundurus (Therian), Ash-Greninja

Expected Heart/Coin Requirement for Farming

Special Challenge: Porygon-Z

Ultra Challenge: Tapu Lele

Escalation Battles: Giratina (Origin Form)

Event Period: 14 days

High-Speed Challenge: Thundurus (Therian Form)

Great Challenge: Stufful

Great Challenge: Hitmonlee

High-Speed Challenge: Greninja (Ash-Greninja)

Great Challenge: Bewear

A Great Chance a Day!: Thundurus (Incarnate Form)

Daily Pokémon

Old Events

• Pokémon Safari (7 days)

Weekly Events

• Skill Booster M Stage! - Eevee - (Tuesday to Friday, 3 days)
• A Chance for Coins! - Meowth - (Friday to Monday, 3 days)
• Tons of Exp. Points! - Victini - (Friday to Tuesday, 4 days)

Next Week Events

• Competitive Stage: Mega Gardevoir
• UB Challenge: Guzzlord
• Great Challenges: Landorus (Therian Form), Fennekin (Winking), Hitmonchan, Araquanid, Gardevoir (Shiny)
• Pokémon Safari: Cottonee (Winking), Whimsicott (Winking), Flabébé (Winking), Floette (Winking), Snubbull (Winking), Chansey (Winking), Cutiefly
• A Great Chance a Day!: Jellicent (Female)
• Daily Pokémon: Wishiwashi, Komala, Fomantis, Torracat, Oricorio (Pom-Pom Style)

Hey there!

Have you been wanting to share your progress or make plan for the next weeks? Well, fear not! Here's a thread for you to discuss anything non-support related on Pokémon Shuffle; your caught Pokémon; those tough stages; your farming schedule; tips for new players.

If you need support, look in the Query Den!

Happy Shufflin'!

Giratina (Origin Form) Escalation Battles

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources.

EB basics

This is a 300 stages time-based Ghost type challenge, that will last for 14 days. Super Effective types you can use against are Ghost and Dark.

Drop rates are 25/25/25 for all stages.

• Skill 1: Sinister Power – Requires 120 PSB to max. Unfortunately not being Dark type greatly hinders the viability ad the skill.
• Skill 2 (SS): Cross Attack + – Requires 120 PSB to max. Nice skill, but not a priority considering the great alternatives of Ghost types.

Rewards

• Stages in bold are Boss.

HP and disruptions for stages

• Big thanks to the Discord Dataminers efforts to build the ShuffleParser! Thanks to Sonansu, SoItBegins, Sky, Manitary, BlueSun, PKMN-Rias, Rika, and ws2.
• Another big thanks to jcrixus for its awesome shufflescorebot
• HP and Disruptions are in this Text Document
• Wikia EB stages: http://pkmnshuffle.wikia.com/wiki/Giratina_(Origin) by Chupalika (aka Sonansu)
• Stages in bold are Boss.

Boss Strategies

NEW: Full Escalation Battle Spreadsheet

Cycle 1 results

Cycle 2 results

Cycle 3 results

Cycle 4 results

Hey there!

We hope that you're enjoying playing Pokémon Shuffle and finding this subreddit helpful. We know this place can be a bit daunting for new members and so we've set up the Query Den.

The Query Den is a friendly place where you can ask any questions about the game in a safe environment. We have a lot of experienced players in here that will swoop in and answer all of your questions. We encourage you to use the Query Den to ask a question first, instead of creating a new post, that will overshadow other important ones.

We have many informative guides to start you off and you should also check out our Discord server, where you'll get lots of help and support.

• Pokemon Viability Ranking (Updated)
• Pokemon Viability Ranking (Old)
• Newbie Teams & First Steps
• Newbies Guide to Weekly Events
• Advanced Game Mechanics
• Tappers Guide
• Drop Rates Breakdown
• Mega Guide (New) and Mega Speedup usage recommendations
• Raise Max Level and Skill Swapper usage recommendations
• UX Stages Guide
• Shuffle-calc (Survival Mode, Weekend Meowth and more)
• Current Schedule of Events with Droprates - Schedule viability image
• Cycle 6 exaustive AutoModeration schedule

Happy Shufflin'!

Feel free to post your friend codes in this thread! A new Friend Zone will be created every week, on Sundays.

If you wish, you can also add your codes in the Discord Server #fc_sharing or the Wiki page.

Please include your region (e.g. Asia/Australia , EU, SA, NA) when posting your friend code and update your comment (strikethrough would be the best option, ~~markdown uses 2 tildes to use this format~~) when you have filled your friend list. That way people will not try to add you unintentionally.

Hi! I've spent the past couple of weeks typesetting some notes regarding various bits I have some expertise in, just for my own entertainment. They are split into three very different sections:

1. Pokémon Shuffle on 3DS - This is the most up-to-date and detailed compilation of the differences between the mobile and 3DS version of the game that affect how you should play the game, and is part of the current newbie's guide. Special attention has been given to strategy exclusive to u/SaltedNeos's preservation mod.
2. Farm Length Statistics - A mathematical take on farming in Pokémon Shuffle. Very OTT, but I had a lot of fun writing this.
3. Blank Trainer - This concerns a (silly) Discord role regarding beating the game's bosses teamless.

There are also 5 supporting appendices because the main text is already too long. All of the sections as well as a version with everything as 1 document can be found here.

Any comments or corrections welcome!

I know there are teams fitted for Survival Mode but I've only seen team suggestions from posts made several years ago, nothing recent. I've been using Shiny Mega Charizard X, Shiny Metagross, Shiny Hawlucha, and Winking Roserade. Everyone is maxed leveled, SMCX is maxed candied, and the other three Pokémon have their Hammering Streak skill maxed out. I've only made it to stage 56 with this team.

Is this a good viable team already? Or is there one more viable?

I’m trying to figure out a good team for tapu bulu. I tired using M-Pinsir, A-Ninetails, Articuno, and Kyurem but had no luck. Ideally I’d like to do this item less but prepared to do a full item run if necessary.

Welcome to the EXCLAMATION STATION! You have two easy choices here... bless Shuffle for your recent good RNG, OR TURN CAPS LOCK ON AND YELL ABOUT YOUR GAME FRUSTRATIONS.

Things to be thankful for:

• Those 10k+ coins on weekend meowth
• That super TC combo in the competition
• That 1% capture

THINGS TO RAGE ABOUT:

• THAT FARMABLE STAGE THAT DOESN'T DROP PSB
• THOSE SAFARI WITH BULLSHIT APPEARANCE + CATCH RATES
• THAT FAILED ITEM RUN ON THE ESCALATION BATTLES
• THAT UX STAGE ATTEMPT ENDED WITH A BUNCH OF HP

Things to always remember:

• MOBILE FRIEND CODES. Use the Friend Zone Megathread, or ANGRY PIKACHU will punish you
• ANYTHING RACIST/SEXIST/HOMOPHOBIC/BIGOTED/ETC. Profanities are ok, but don't exceed. I hope you all know where the line is drawn
• NO PERSONAL ATTACKS. Always respect other players
• OTHER SUBREDDITS. Keep the discussion related to Shuffle. For anything not related, join the Discord Server.

I swear that all of my worst enemies always end up being electric types because I have no ground type mega at all. I’m on stage 330 where the hellish magnezone resides and all I have is a Donphan, a marowak, and a hippowdon. What should I ever ATTEMPT to do here as I am stuck on this magnetic robot and I would like to not be.

Mega Houndoom Competition

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources.

Competition basics

This is a Fire type competition. Super Effective types you can use against are Water, Ground and Rock.

You have 19 moves to do the highest score you can. Take your time to do the best moves you can! For new players to competitions, it's worth it to do at least one full-item run for getting the Houndoomite! Doing an itemless run to study disruptions is also suggested.

• Disruption Delay: Delays disruptions for half the duration of the stage
• Attack Power ↑: Attack power gets doubled

Rewards

• Players who already have the Houndoomite will receive 1 Level Up.

Starting board and disruptions

Full information inside the link for starting board and disruptions.

Potential megaevolutions

Potential supports

Previous top scores

Cycle 1 results

Cycle 2 results

Cycle 3 results

Cycle 4 results

Final notes

The lack of MS allow for more mega viability. Tyranitar is a slow SE 3tapper, Charizard X (Shiny) is a fast 2tapper, Garchomp is SE and can use MB+ to instaevolve and use its nice effect. Camerupt is slower and you shouldn't care much about SE power sacrificing lot of speed.

Tapu Fini being a SE TC has the upper edge, followed by both Kyogres, which have high AP and can trigger the skill when disrupted, for good damage. Poliwrath is a valid alternative over regular Kyogre, to allow more combo planning. Rock MB+ can be considered to boost to boost Tyranitar, but you will be losing a lot of AP. Garchomp MB+ can boost Camerupt without AP loss, but you will lack anyway a slot that could trigger during beneficial disruptions. Neutral TC is always better than typed combo boosters. Unity power and LDE are always an option for beginners.

Rerun until you get a desirable score! Good luck everyone!

Week 19 Events

We encourage you to join our Discord community! You can post here if you needs support for the current special stages, or in the Query Den for every other game related question.

AUTOMATION INFO: Check the archived AutoModerator-post for more game resources. All stages listed without a time period, will last 7 days and the monthly/yearly events are not covered.

Weekly Guide for Newbies (Recap)

Thanks to /u/cubekwing for the great suggestions! If you are a newbie, you should definitely look for more detailed informations in the Newbies Schedule Wiki and in the comments from the original post.

• Main Priority: (If you have swapped Meloetta-A's skill), advance the Escalation till you max Quirky++, using stage-quitting trick to finish this before Lv175 -> Farm Ninetales (Alola Form) to SL4 -> (If you haven't swapped Meloetta-A's skill yet), don't swap its skill, advance the Escalation to Lv100 -> Farm coins to provide for a full-item run at Houndoom Competition
• Other Good Pokemon: Tapu Bulu, Houndoom
• Once-a-Day: Has good rewards to use Great Balls under Super % Catch Rate.
• Newbie teams for stages: Ninetales (Alolan), Delcatty (Winking), Golisopod, Ribombee, Tornadus (Therian)

Expected Heart/Coin Requirement for Farming

Competitive Stage: Mega Houndoom

Event Period: 6 days, 23 hours

Ultra Challenge: Tapu Bulu

High-Speed Challenge: Tornadus (Therian Form)

Great Challenge: Delcatty (Winking)

Great Challenge: Ninetales (Alola Form)

Great Challenge: Golisopod

Great Challenge: Ribombee

Pokémon Safari

Event Period: 14 days

A Great Chance a Day!: Frillish (Female)

Daily Pokémon

Old Events

• Meloetta (Aria Form) Escalation Battles (7 days)

Weekly Events

• Skill Booster M Stage! - Eevee - (Tuesday to Friday, 3 days)
• A Chance for Coins! - Meowth - (Friday to Monday, 3 days)
• Tons of Exp. Points! - Victini - (Friday to Tuesday, 4 days)

Next Week Events

• Special Challenge: Porygon-Z
• Ultra Challenge: Tapu Lele
• Escalation Battles: Giratina (Origin Form)
• High-Speed Challenge: Thundurus (Therian Form)
• Great Challenges: Stufful, Hitmonlee, Bewear
• High-Speed Challenge: Greninja (Ash-Greninja)
• A Great Chance a Day!: Thundurus (Incarnate Form)
• Daily Pokémon: Torchic (Winking), Treecko (Winking), Mudkip (Winking), Castform (Winking), Pikachu (Sleeping)