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New Content
New Main Stages (30 Total, Shiny Xerneas, Shiny Yveltal)
New Expert Stage (Deoxys-S)
New RML/SS buffs

Returning Content
Middle of Month Challenge
Shiny Diancie EB (Drops PSB's)
Deoxys-Attack Ultra Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Tornadus-Therian Great Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Nihilego UB Challenge (Skill Swapper for winning first time)
Holiday Daily Pokémon [Holiday Pikachu, Delibird, Snover, Vanillite, Cubchoo] (Drops Coins)
Eevee is on Today for three days.

Future Content
Free Shiny Charizard?
Mega Beedrill Competition (Bring Groudon?)
Bewear Great Challenge
Groudon Great Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Beedrill Great Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Ash-Greninja Great Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Landorus-Therian Great Challenge (Drops PSB's)
Another Middle of Month Challenge?

Main/Expert Stages
Wooper: Base 30 Ground-type w/ Quirky+.
Chansey: PSB Farmable (25/3.125/1.5625)
Frillish-M: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Quagsire: Base 60 Ground-type w/ Ground Forces.
Blissey: PSB Farmable (25/3.125/1.5625)
Tympole: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Jellicent-M: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Sun Castform: Base 60 Fire-type w/ Burn+.
Tyrunt: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Shiny Yveltal: Base 80 Dark-type w/ Hyper Drain (More DMG the more HP the target has)
Zubat: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Palpitoad: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Tyrantrum: PSB Farmable (50/25/1.5625)
Treecko: PSB Farmable (25/3.125/1.5625)
Onix: PSB Famable (25/12.5/6.25)
Grovyle: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Seismitoad: PSB Famable (25/3.125/1.5625)
Hail Castform: Base 60 Ice-type w/ Chill.
Golbat: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Empoleon: Base 70 Water-type w/ Up, Up, Up (More Damage for more consecutive triggers)
Sandshrew: PSB Famable (25/12.5/6.25)
Tepig: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Steelix: PSB Farmable (25/1.5625/0.78125)
Rain Castform: Base 60 Water-type w/ Downpour
Pignite: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Drowzee: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Crobat: PSB Farmable (50/1.5625/0.78125)
Sandslash: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Hypno: PSB Farmable (25/12.5/6.25)
Shiny Xerneas: Base 80 Fairy-type w/ Hyper Drain (More DMG the more HP the target has)
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Deoxys-S: Base 80 Psychic-type w/ Three Force.

Event Pokémon
Winking Chespin: Base 50 Grass-type w/ Leaf Combo.
Bewear: Base 70 Fighting-type w/ Power Hug (Delays Disruptions and deals DMG), Can take up to 3 RML's.
Shiny Charizard: Base 60 Flying-type w/ Nosedive.
Mega Shiny Charizard X: Dragon-type, 20 icons, 15 speedups, Erases icons around two tapped spots.
Mega Shiny Charizard Y: Flying-type, 11 icons, 5 speedups, two vertical Jagged lines erase things.

EB Prizes
I'll add this later. It's in the in-game notes anyway.

New RML Options
Deoxys: 5
Deoxys-A: 5
Deoxys-D: 5
Deoxys-S: 5
Mew: 5 → 20
Thundurus-I: 10 → 15
Tornadus-I: 10 → 15
Landorus-I: 10 → 15
Thundurus-T: 3 → 10
Tornadus-T: 3 → 10
Landorus-T: 3 → 10
Flygon: 7
Hippowdon-F: 5
Diglett: 20
Cubone: 3 → 10
Donphan: 10 → 15
Sandshrew: 5
Sandslash: 7
Genesect: 5 → 20
Shiny Genesect: 5
Scyther: 10 → 20
Yanmega: 10
Volcarona: 5
Paras: 15
Parasect: 15
Venomoth: 15
Ninjask: 10
Charjabug: 10
Ariados: 10
Spewpa: 15
Karrablast: 5
Yveltal: 5 → 20
Sableye: 5 → 20
Absol: 5 → 20
Zorua: 10
Zoroark: 3 → 20
Bisharp: 15
Mandibuzz: 5
Malamar: 5
Purrloin: 15
A-Meowth: 10
Aggron: 10
Metagross: 10
Cobalion: 5 → 20
Virizion: 5 → 20
Terrakion: 5 → 20
Rockruff: 10
Lycanroc: 20
Tyranitar: 5
Lunatone: 7
Solrock: 7
Golem: 10
Tyrunt: 5
Crustle: 8
Rapidash: 5
Arcanine: 10
Delphox: 15
Turtonator: 7
Vulpix: 15
Diancie: 5 → 15
Shiny Diancie: 15
Kirlia: 10
Florges: 10
Black Kyurem: 20
White Kyurem: 20
Nihilego: 7
Buzzwole: 7
Xurkitree: 7
Celesteela: 7
Dialga: 10 → 20
Palkia: 10 → 20
Reshiram: 5 → 20
Zekrom: 5 → 20
Electrode: 10
Keldeo-R: 20
Meloetta-P: 5 → 10

New SS Options
Deoxys: Shot Out
Deoxys-A: Typeless Combo
Deoxys-D: Barrier Shot
Deoxys-S: Lightning
Thundurus-I: Relentless
Tornadus-I: Paralysis Combo
Landorus-I: Ground Forces
Flygon: Shot Out
Diglett: Super Cheer
Sandshrew: Three Force
Sandslash: Sand Sport (Delay Disruptions for a while)
Genesect: Vitality Drain
Yanmega: Mega Boost+
Volcarona: Barrier Shot
Paras: Paralyse+
Ariados: Block Shot
Spewpa: Shot Out
Zorua: Super Cheer
Bisharp: Cross Attack+
Malamar: Block Shot
Purrloin: Flash Mob
Mandibuzz: Rock Shot
Rockruff: Unity Power
Tyranitar: Crushing Step (Delays Disruptions for a turn, increased DMG)
Lunatone: Barrier Shot
Solrock: Barrier Shot
Golem: Non Stop+
Tyrunt: Super Cheer
Tyrantrum: Block Shot
Onix: Rockify+ (Turn up to 10 non-supports into Rocks)
Rapidash: Shot Out
Vulpix: Super Cheer
Kirlia: Shot Out
Florges: Rock Shot
Black Kyurem: Block Shot
White Kyurem: Barrier Shot
Nihilego: Beast Power (Sometimes deals a lot of DMG)
Buzzwole: Beast Power
Xurkitree: Beast Power
Celesteela: Beast Power
Dialga: Crushing Step
Palkia: Whirlpool
Reshiram: Barrier Bash++
Zekrom: Block Smash++
Electrode: Quirky++
Aggron: Crushing Step
Metagross: Cross Attack+
Keldeo-R: Cross Attack+


All done.
 
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Shiny Diancie can drop skill boosters as you run it! That's incentive enough for me to run this EB to completion or until Block Shot is maxed, whichever comes first.

Deoxys-A I'm debating on grinding, as Silvally still exists and there's not "status" to pair with combos like Burn and Pyre.
 
Do we know Deoxys-A's drop rate? My Silvally is still uninvested, so I may consider skill swapping Deoxys.
Deoxys is a 100%/12.5%/6.25% drop rate. Issue more is that I can't find a consistent clear team without maxed SO Trevenant, which I don't have. Ideally I'd say Sleep it or Freeze it, Shot Out spam and then LDE at the end, Beedrill to try and clean the board.

Very nice on Diancie......they said sometimes but I've had a drop every battle so far.
Diancie is a 25%/25%/25% drop rate, which is a decent rate. Someone calced it would take 160 stages played on average to max out Block Shot, so it might be beneficial to ignore low level angry skips if aiming for the Block Shot max.

I will say, for my money, major updates in this batch
- Zoroark: More RML's for Sinister Power
- Ttar and Aggron: RML's and maybe the skill swap ability
- Shiny Zard X: That's Beedrill level speed for 2 taps
- Flygon and Rapidash: Good typings for Shot Out. Flygon particularly pairs well with Noivern for SM
- Ultra Beasts: RML's were the main thing Buzzwole lacked for Burst damage potential (I like Demolish over Beast Power), and Nihilego with BP offers a Poison Burster for Fairies worth consideration (and cheap SL costs if they ever get stages).
- Seismitoad and Steelix: Grindable "last second burst" abilities for types that definitely appreciate them, though probably want RML's before they become priorities.

Others are interesting but ultimately nothing to make of them until future content comes along (Ground Forces Lando-I is on the radar for example). Decent update overall I say.
 

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If you folks are having some coin issues and have not used your free 15 minutes NHN yet, consider using it today on today's Daily Pokémon: Holiday Snover. The stage is 1000 HP in four turns (three mon stage) and disrupts one coin at the start and at one turn to go. You can use the coin disrupted to match one of the two cross barriers of coins and guarantee yourself 600 coins per play before beating the stage (or risk it going for 1200, though with Trial NHN it's better to take the 600 for more plays and more gift drops). Holiday Snover can also drop gifts, with a 50% chance of dropping 100 coins, 12.5% chance of dropping 300 coins, and a 3.125% chance of dropping 2,000 coins.

I managed to get 26 plays in my 15 minutes, getting 600 coins each time and getting 3,200 coins from gifts (11 lots of 100, 7 lots of 300, no 2,000 drops), for a total profit of 18,800 coins. Not too bad, especially considering how 3DS is slower than Mobile between plays, but the gift RNG and post win combo RNG could have been better. Used three bursts and no mega evolution (mega evolutions cost time and can cause more combos).

Even after Trial NHN if you need to grind some coins, Holiday Snover is better than Meowth by far because of the guaranteed 600 and possible 1,200 if you take risks plus gift drops. Though I have an EB to go through (which drops PSB's at 25/25/25 rates by the way).

Also Holiday Snover will be back next Thursday as well so you get another opportunity to get lots of coins from it.
 
Thanks for the tip Random! Deoxys-A's farming is quickly depleting my coin stash, so I definitely needed a fast way to get some money back. Luckily, I haven't uesd my free NHN yet :D
 
I used mine up, but my wallet is nearly maxed. At the very least, means I can be liberal with coins for Diancie Bosses, which is nice to avoid stalling on itemless attempts while passing Angry Skips (more PSB grinding). It'll be a bigger deal next week when Dugtrio grinding is providing a consistent drain on my coins.
 

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Sigh... I'm on mobile and I had gotten to just past Stage 530 and my phone got a cracked screen in it rendering it useless. Got a new phone and had to start all over again from the beginning. Up to Stage 308 now but doing some of the special stages makes it so difficult when you have lost all your strong pokemon and mega stones.

Did see that tip on Holiday Snover and picked up roughly 17,500 coins using the NHN so that was pretty cool.
 
On my mobile file, I went into Thursday with about 5000 coins. I had a long commute so I burned the NHN trial and the 2 jewel 45 minute NHN + drop rate after a few rounds of hearts.

I ended up with 93k and the UB stage unlocked.
 
At long last, the torture has come to an end: Deoxys-A's Typeless Combo reached Skill Level 5!!! Boy, it's been a veeeery long journey, 150 Skill Points, PSB after PSB... I can't believe I did it. It's been by far the most expensive and exhausting grinding session I've ever experienced in Pokemon Shuffle, but now at least I have a perfect TC user ready to wreak havoc XD
 
December 19th New Content
Bewear Ultra Challenge
Shiny Charizard Distribution
Mega Beedrill Competition

Returning Content
Dugtrio Special Challenge; costs 300 coins, drops PSBs at 25% and 25%, RML at 1.56%
Groudon Great Challenge; costs 2 hearts, drops PSBs at 50%, 25%, 25%
Landorus-Therian Great Challenge; drops PSBs at 25%, 25%, 12.5%
Ash-Greninja High-Speed Challenge; costs 2 hearts, drops PSBs at 50%, 25%, 25%

Future Content
TBD

Charizard (Shiny): Flying-type, 60 BP, Nosedive
Bewear: Fighting-type, 70 BP, Power Hug
 
Shiny Zard-X is gonna be interesting once I get it Sped Up. 5 Icons for two taps is amazing for Disruption control and comboing. Nosedive would also be a decent offensive skill if he ever got a stage or RML's to invested as a Flying Type.

Bewear takes 50 SB's to max, with a multiplier of 10 and 30/50/70 proc rates on its skill. That said, the stage looks obnoxious (67k HP and disruptions), I just went full items and left it be.

I'll be using hearts to farm Groudon and coins for Dugtrio, with the exception of farming coins on Snover's day to keep the cost covered on Duggy.
 
I'm almost at SL5 for Shiny Diancie (stage 191), though idk if I want to chase the rewards after that.

Is Dugtrio that worth it? 10 RMLs seems steep but the stage is relatively easy. Definitely going for Groudon, though is that worth NHN?
 
I would reserve the NHN for Snover on Thursday, it's a phenomenal coin grinding option with that using quick burst after the 600 match.

Dugtrio's big because it's not only coin grindable shot, but Ground has very good coverage as has been seen. RML's will happen over time, but it's worth it.
 
I guess I'll have to use some coins on Shiny Diancie so I don't go over the limit when Thursday rolls around. I still have about 35 RMLs left, and close to 99 MSUs again. RMLs don't worry me as much as actually grinding them, though.
 
Dugtrio will be my priority for this week, that's for sure. Great skill+high AP+amazing coverage is too good to pass up. Groudon is on the same boat, but I can't afford to grind both, since I need hearts to get money back (thanks Deoxys), and in my book Block Shot>Barrier Shot.
 
I'll basically be farming up Dugtrio to max, dedicating all of Thursday to coing grinding Snover, and then will drop the remaining hearts on Groudon without coin expidenture to see if I can make SL4 before he leaves.
 
I used up some coins to get down to 50k, I very much doubt Snover will pay out 50k in 15 minutes so I should be safe, right?
 
I used up some coins to get down to 50k, I very much doubt Snover will pay out 50k in 15 minutes so I should be safe, right?
I'd say that could depend on your luck with box drops given how fast Snover goes. I zero'ed out my coins on Dugtrio because I'd rather grind out from zero and finish with 40k than have 70k and end up capped too soon.

Thanks to the NHN and a Jewel purchased 30 minutes, Snover has let me cap out Dugtrio and left me at 50k coins from being zeroed out at 10/50 for SL5. Gonna use the rest of my natural hearts on Snover for today, and then resume Groudon farming until next week. Fairly relaxed with Dugtrio done, just need to level him for Block Shotting.
 
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