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[ExVicis]

I think...I think I'm not going to pull this time guys. I'm just not feeling it.

Yeah Akainu is a great unit and arguably the best but...I don't really want him that much. I was never a fan of him even if I don't include (One Piece spoilers)

Spoiler

the fact that he killed Ace.

and I'm not the biggest fan of his design. So I think I'm just going to dedicate all my gems to Kuma and Doffy and just am going to leave this Sugo alone.

Edit: Oh damn Top of the page, now everyone's gonna know I don't like Akainu.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I pulled out Shiryu from the bench and just used Shiryu for the first time to clear Kuma and YWB (on the first kuma run).
... that was stupid
this unit is stupid
What the hell were they thinking?

 

[mileS]

Vivi
Oars Jr
God coby (seeing as how I've got 3 legends in the past directly after him I had to keep going)
Vivi

Shouldn't have caved man. Happens every time.

 

[commish]

Got the WB item to drop ... got too nervous and missed and died.

$3@382&:!;@3@:&;

 

[EMT0]

Got the WB item to drop ... got too nervous and missed and died.

$3@382&:!;@3@:&;

Oooooof, that's rough. Not something you could gem for? Cuz I'd have totally gemmed for it.

 

[ExVicis]

I wonder what the percentage is to have the Invasion appear/ I've run Kuma's clash a few times and nothing's appeared.

Not an option. Ugh. I have my strat down pretty well for YWB. Just blew it. Oh well.

Well fuck I didn't know that, so it's basically like the forests? Well shit I hope the next run you're able to get it.

 

[commish]

Oooooof, that's rough. Not something you could gem for? Cuz I'd have totally gemmed for it.

Not an option. Ugh. I have my strat down pretty well for YWB. Just blew it. Oh well.

Assume this is it:

http://imgur.com/EDbqGen

 

[HabeeNo]

What sockets do you guys recommend for Raid Kuma?

Bind/Despair/CD?

 

[cw_sasuke]

3 pulls

Zoro v1
Usopp v1
New Coby


Well....at least one new unit lol.

 

[ZekeThePlumber]

What sockets do you guys recommend for Raid Kuma?

Bind/Despair/CD?

Depends on how you'll be using him:

For general and rainbow teams: AH/Bind/Despair
For cerebral aka Croc teams: CD/Bind/Despair
For powerhouse teams: AH/CD/Bind

 

[HabeeNo]

Depends on how you'll be using him:

For general and rainbow teams: AH/Bind/Despair
For cerebral aka Croc teams: CD/Bind/Despair
For powerhouse teams: AH/CD/Bind

Def rainbow team

Thanks for the advice

 

[mileS]

2 chances to get GPU books coming up. Going to go overboard to make sure the job is done. He's at 13 turns right now. I will probably farm at least 20-25 books and any extra I will feed outside of a skill up event to see if I get lucky. Also with Usopp'n Raid coming up I can fix my GPU sockets. Having 5/5 bind on him would be fantastic.

 

[Kyou]

Snails are back!

Wait till after 1am Pacific if you can though for meat snails

 

[ExVicis]

Snails are back!

Wait till after 1am Pacific if you can though for meat snails

Finally! Guess I'm staying up until I can get some snails

 

[GuardianE]

Good job!

So I looked real close at the YWB Invasion and the teams that can go and there's no way I can have a chance of doing him unless it's with Shiryu scumming. So I'll just be doing that it seems. It's not ideal but it's all I got.

Also congrats GuardianE! That kinda stuff really makes me just hope someday I'll be lucky enough to pull Croc or Kalifa.

Thanks! It feels risky, but this team is actually really consistent at the raid and ambush. Maxing Doffy was almost essential because there's not a ton of wiggle room in the Young Whitebeard stages. I don't know if I'd be able to clear it without them.

And a couple runs in...

Which makes perfect sense since I don't have Whitebeard.

 

[ZekeThePlumber]

In a moment of weakness, I decided to do 5 pulls. I was rewarded by my poor decision making and got the new Momonga on my last pull. Now I'm just a TS Brook short of having a slasher team with the power to blot out the sun.

The good news is that I can socket him with the upcoming Buster Call raid with a YWB-able IntHawk slasher team. The bad news is that I don't have the evo material or booster units to evolve YWB. As a general rule, always evolve before you feed copies for the additional socket slot but with the skill up event being active might as well just say screw it and feed anyway.

 

[Hana-Bi]

Lol, what a sugo for me. Wanted either Coby or Momonga and had a budget of three multis for that.

First multi two reds, thought that I'll be getting another Shanks or Boa dupe but no! Got Ace (maxed his special right away with the saved skill books) and Corazon! Both really great! As for new units from the batch nothing. Exccept for Coby on the +1. So also great.

Did another multi. Only new unit was Momonga, so hey. Got everything I wanted and so much more this time.

 

[Kyou]

I moved some characters around to give myself a shot at beating Whitebeard which include Shiryu being in the team

I am 3 for 3 on killing Kuma when Shiryu isn't the one sent away and it feels so wasted because I can easily kill him

 

[Hana-Bi]

Thanks! It feels risky, but this team is actually really consistent at the raid and ambush. Maxing Doffy was almost essential because there's not a ton of wiggle room in the Young Whitebeard stages. I don't know if I'd be able to clear it without them.

And a couple runs in...


Which makes perfect sense since I don't have Whitebeard.

Wow! Congrats. I could also run this team but I don't think I can clear the raid and ambush constantly without fails.

 

[GuardianE]

Wow! Congrats. I could also run this team but I don't think I can clear the raid and ambush constantly without fails.

Besides resetting to make sure that Kuma blows away Kalifa, the rest of the runs are pretty straightforward and error-proof, surprisingly enough. You do enough damage with the team that you can get some GOODs in your burst and still be okay. I found that out the hard way when my game stuttered and froze mid-combo.

It's also pretty quick. Very little stalling overall.

 

[Kyou]

I can successfully make it to whitebeard with my stupid ass team, so it's only a matter of time now...

Enel/Enel/Legend Doffy/Zoan Lucci/Colo Alvida/Shiryu

I only get two shots at Shiryu but it'll happen eventually

 

[Hana-Bi]

Lol, messed my first Ambush run up because I forgot to reset my specials after the second time....

 

[Rixa]

3 pulls

Zoro v1
Usopp v1
New Coby


Well....at least one new unit lol.

Hey I played it smart too

Had 21 gems. Used 3 gems to inventory space so that I won't blew all to pulls . Made 3 pulls, all new units. I think I did good, not sure cause new units for me, happy to see 2x 5*.

 

[Tidd]

YES! First try and I got Y. WB to appear.

TIME TO DO IT!

Edit:
I CAN DO IT!!! YES!

Team:

Fuji/Fuji
Caesar/Coby
SW Usopp (for stage 4)/ raid Doffy

Had enough HP at the end to tank a hit thanks to Coby. Which means I could get off 3x 20% HP health cuts. But it should be possible with only two. Better save than sorry. Unfortunately I didn't get the skull.

 

[MKAllDay]

Not an option. Ugh. I have my strat down pretty well for YWB. Just blew it. Oh well.

Assume this is it:

http://imgur.com/EDbqGen

How do you approach stage 4 with that team? I would like to be able to avoid using GPU but the delay seems essential for that stage.

 

[Rixa]

How different unit Raid WB is vs Legend WB?

 

[Kyou]

How different unit Raid WB is vs Legend WB?

Worse captain ability but better(?) special, which is to say it's just a bigger health cut. It's not going to be a replacement for legend WB and honestly it doesnt seem like that great of a unit overall but he seems like he'd be good as a big psy beatstick

 

[Kumo]

Six Whitebeard encounters so far and no skull. Don't know if I can get many more Kuma runs in tomorrow. :/ oh well

Just need 1 more skill up for Kuma. Starting a second Kuma with AH would be ideal but don't think I have the time for that.

 

[Tidd]

Six Whitebeard encounters so far and no skull. Don't know if I can get many more Kuma runs in tomorrow. :/ oh well

Just need 1 more skill up for Kuma. Starting a second Kuma with AH would be ideal but don't think I have the time for that.

How many Kuma runs did you do so far to get these six encounters?

 

[Rixa]

Worse captain ability but better(?) special, which is to say it's just a bigger health cut. It's not going to be a replacement for legend WB and honestly it doesnt seem like that great of a unit overall but he seems like he'd be good as a big psy beatstick

Thanks. Then I continue to do Smoker FN for rank exp instead trying some Shiryu tactics and dying before boss. (I haven't tried that clash).

Someday I really need to level my WB, but getting unit exp isn't easy. Glad that I noticed FN's giving pigs & yturtles & penguins so they really help a lot. Ofc Iam using on colour exp fodders so I get lil more xp from these fodders.

 

[Kumo]

How many Kuma runs did you do so far to get these six encounters?

I don't know if I was getting lucky or not but I did 20 runs so roughly a third of my runs had WB. I just remembered I failed my first run because of a mistake so I encountered him 7 times actually.

 

[AdawgDaFAB]

I decided to do 3 pulls:
Silver... Mr. 2. Dupe :/
Gold... Whitey Bay. Dupe.
Gold... 3D2Y Sanji! NEW

I used 25 books and maxed out his special. Now I can finally run some Powerhouse teams! \o/

Should I give him 100 RCV CC? I have two penguins with 100, waiting for someone to use them on.



I also farmed my first story Moria yesterday from MF1 and got him down to 17 CD. Brick Bat seems like it could be situationally useful. Is he worth farming again for Shadow's Asgard?

 

[bobohoro]

Vivi
Oars Jr
God coby (seeing as how I've got 3 legends in the past directly after him I had to keep going)
Vivi

Shouldn't have caved man. Happens every time.

I'm right there with you. Did 5 single pulls, since the rate-up units were quite decent and I needed almost all of them and got:

V1 Luffy
Mr. 2
Maynard (dupe)
V1 Sanji
Bellmere

LOOK AT THAT!
Both sockets were shit, at least I got another 400 Ray points.

Was so salty I proceeded to lose the Kuma raid on the first wave.

 

[Hana-Bi]

Got the WB skull on my third ambush run. Shiryu is really great against Kuma. Especially if the special works on the first attempt. "Hey Kuma, I can do your shit too. Just look!" And he's flying away. Lol.

I decided to do 3 pulls:
Silver... Mr. 2. Dupe :/
Gold... Whitey Bay. Dupe.
Gold... 3D2Y Sanji! NEW

I used 25 books and maxed out his special. Now I can finally run some Powerhouse teams! o/

Should I give him 100 RCV CC? I have two penguins with 100, waiting for someone to use them on.

Yeah, he's a great captain and with the Rocketman ship you really are a beast with maxed rcv candy on him.

 

[Tidd]

Got 3 Y. WB encounters in 6 Kuma tries. Cleared them all with no problems. Still no skull. Y. WB is really easy. NO BS STAGE 1.

Did 3 pulls to celebrate my victory:

Story Usopp
Impact Usopp
Log Us... Onigumo! Looks like a great special for a class that lacks orb manipulation! WOW HE'S DRIVEN! Only non-matching orb would be PSY or INT on my Fuji team depending on the character.

 

[RalchAC]

I can reliably defeat Kuma with the following team:

TS Luffy / Sabo
Col. Apoo / Leo
Señor Pink / Kaku

It's quite fast too. I got a lot of 1 turn CDs in one run and could clear it regardless.

Can Cavendish clear Kuma by himself using a Cavendish/Enel or Cavendish/2.5x captain?

 

[MiTYH]

Bellmere and Regular Shanks.

Should have stopped at 1. That's 5 refills for Kuma I just wasted!

But snails are back, so... yay? Time to get farming Kuma

EDIT: Damn forgot Kuma was 60 stamina, really thought he was 40...

 

[bjork]

Been using a Shiryu team for Kuma, since my levels aren't there to do it with a proper team. Only ran 2 so far but it's worked both times. I feel kind of dirty closing/reopening the app, but if it works, it works. No YWB yet, though.

Shiryu/Shiryu
3D2Y Zoro/Legend Mihawk
GPU/Marco

As far as the sugo, I said I'd throw money in one last time when Akainu showed up, so I did two multis. No Akainu, but:
Dupe Sengoku
Dupe Corazon
New Tsuru (seems kinda bad?)
New Onigumo (seems good)
New Garp (also seems good)
Mansherry
Doc Q

Not too shabby. I think I'm going to get back to focusing on story mode for awhile farming those drops, since I'm missing so many. I don't know how much I'll be around, so if you guys come to an agreement to stuff for the OP, shoot it to my PMs so I'll get an email letting me know. I'll update it as soon as I see it. Good luck with YWB and if any of you got Akainu, I'm jealous!

 

[Neoriceisgood]

In the past I've struggled with Kuma, only clearing 60 sta with double enel through a lot of orb luck & kuma vacation-ing the right unit.

Spoiler

I know you can "reset" it, but my timing for that always seems off.

Now that I've got ts Luffy, my Kuma woes are no more;

ts luffy/ts luffy
jabra/senor pink
legend hancock/penguin

with only a handful of matching orbs this team can easily destroy kuma within 2 turns, it's barely even optimized and it still wrecks him. Kuma may now officially be one of the easier raids for me to handle.

New Tsuru (seems kinda bad?)

Tsuru's so-so, her special is basically Sengoku's; it does some damage and boosts everyone regardless of class and type.

As a sengoku owner I kinda felt that sengoku made her irrelevant but ...eh, different typing may give her some niche use on a colosseum team or something; those often require color and special shenanigans.

 

[Hana-Bi]

Got 4 WB ambush runs out of 9 Kuma runs. Sadly messed two WB runs up and since I max skilled my Kuma I won't run it today anymore. And YWB cd is way too high for me. Even in zombie teams you still could use legend WB and have to stall 10 more rounds for 2 30% specials.

 

[MiTYH]

Running double Enel for Kuma farming, been ambushed 2/6 times so far. Tried it once but can't get past that stage 4 (didn't try with specials, but still). Not for me, apparently. Gotten two snails already, one was meat, so it's nice to have these back! And of those 6 Kumas, 5 were skillups! Brings him to 20 turns now. If I can keep this up I won't have to gem for him!

What's the best socketing for Raid Kuma, btw? Mine's got 4 Despair, 3 Heal, and 2 Cooldown. Not sure if that's the best, but I do have a lack of Despair socketed STR Powerhouse units

 

[RalchAC]

Running double Enel for Kuma farming, been ambushed 2/6 times so far. Tried it once but can't get past that stage 4 (didn't try with specials, but still). Not for me, apparently. Gotten two snails already, one was meat, so it's nice to have these back! And of those 6 Kumas, 5 were skillups! Brings him to 20 turns now. If I can keep this up I won't have to gem for him!

What's the best socketing for Raid Kuma, btw? Mine's got 4 Despair, 3 Heal, and 2 Cooldown. Not sure if that's the best, but I do have a lack of Despair socketed STR Powerhouse units

You need a good delayer for stage 4.

I'm giving Kuma Autoheal / Orb / Cooldown.

Powerhouse teams rely a lot in Rare Recruits, which have 4 sockets, so you are easily covering 20 points in Bind and Despair anyway.

I'd say it depends on your setup.

 

[Majukun]

the rate for young whitebeard seems way higher than the japanese one...at least for this event...maybe out event has a tim limit,and that's why the rate iss higher,while in japan the incasion is always active but at a much lower rate

 

[Hana-Bi]

the rate for young whitebeard seems way higher than the japanese one...at least for this event...maybe out event has a tim limit,and that's why the rate iss higher,while in japan the incasion is always active but at a much lower rate

Some people on reddit are having really bad luck with the ambish over 10-20 runs and no YWB so far.

I really don't know if I should go for a maxed YWB. Since he'll be only available for a limited time (he was replaced in the japanese version) I should go for it, but he's not that great if you look at invasion Shanks.

 

[commish]

Some people on reddit are having really bad luck with the ambish over 10-20 runs and no YWB so far.

I really don't know if I should go for a maxed YWB. Since he'll be only available for a limited time (he was replaced in the japanese version) I should go for it, but he's not that great if you look at invasion Shanks.

I have a hard time believing someone could run it that many times and not fight him. I know all I can go by is anecdotal evidence, and we've all had bad RNG runs before, but it's honestly happening at least 2 out of 5.

Still no WB drop though

 

[bobohoro]

No skill-up luck, no sugo luck, no meat luck, no socket luck.
Fuck this.
I will max Kuma even if you don't want me to, game.

 

[Tidd]

5 Whitebeards in 16Kuma runs so far and still no skull.

Can't believe that my team really works for this. I guess it helps a lot that I have 2 skill ups on my Fuji. With cool down reduction sockets he's at 20.
A maxed skilled Fuji will be such a beast. 15 turns with sockets...and we are still missing the driven ship.

 

[Hana-Bi]

Just used the damage calculator for my Croc team with Momonga. Damn, 9.2 million damage against qck enemies and 5.2 million against dex enemies. Against int, str and psy enemies you'll deal around 6 million damage in just one turn (if you can delay your enemy).

Since I probably socket my Momonga with bind/despair/cd/heal I'll be at auto heal level 2 which should still be fine.

I have a hard time believing someone could run it that many times and not fight him. I know all I can go by is anecdotal evidence, and we've all had bad RNG runs before, but it's honestly happening at least 2 out of 5.

Still no WB drop though

Yeah, 2 out of 5 should be the normal rate for WB which is great. Don't know if it's worse in japan but 60 stamina has an increased for WB.

 

[MiTYH]

So.. did snails change? I've gotten 6 so far, and two on the same place

 

[EMT0]

Got 3 skillups on Kuma off of 2 stamina refills plus one gem, only need 2 more. My socket luck with Kuma continues to be awful though, only 1 CD socket of the 2 Despair/2 CD that I need. I'll have a level up in about 3 hours or so, then I'll see if I can get the last 2 skillups/more sockets on Kuma.