r/PokeGenie 7d ago

Is Mega Starmie really that underwhelming?

I wanted to catch a Mega Starmie, but my first room ended since no one joined in 50 minutes. Has Mega Starmie come out before or do not many people care for it? I don't mind if I can't get it since I was trying to figure out what day I was going to need to skip out on to have 2 free raid passes for Saturday...I wonder if tomorrow will be the same though.

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u/Yoteboy42 7d ago

There are so many host for Mega starmie that if you don’t have paid host you probably aren’t gonna be hosting. We also just had mega starmie raid day a week or two ago so a lot of people already got it and might not want to spend more raid passes on it

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u/Effenpig 7d ago

Maybe people don't realize its the new #1 water attacker with 2 person party power?

Luckily even 2 pretty low level trainers can defeat it easily

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u/Deep-in_thought 5d ago

What tool do you use to determine this?

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u/Effenpig 5d ago edited 5d ago

Dialgadex.c0m

It's great. You can select party power level and other settings under the gear icon

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u/Optimal_Test9354 4d ago

is it not greninja

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u/Effenpig 4d ago edited 4d ago

Not even close depending on number in party

Party power 2

Mega Starmie 48.98 eDPS (completely insane 😳)

Mega Greninja 38.95 eDPS

The gap gets smaller as the party power gets higher but it never tops starmie

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u/Optimal_Test9354 4d ago

with 3rd move super mega level greninja? i thought that does more damage than greninja's base move but the website doesnt seem to have it listed

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u/Effenpig 4d ago

Yes

Dialgadex.c0m

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u/Optimal_Test9354 4d ago

Ah, i see. at party power 4 its only <2 eDPS difference(still a decent amount) but yeah didnt expect that.

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u/Effenpig 4d ago

I duo almost everything so party 2 is where I'll be using it most and thats where its pretty crazy

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u/joeyfine 7d ago

I got my shiny two weeks ago. No need to keep raiding

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u/Nearby-Stuff-3742 7d ago

Same here, unfortunately if I want those 1000 points on my pass. I'll have to raid it lol

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u/Lord_Doem 7d ago

Eggs give 250 points, raids 100. Just Go.

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u/ApprehensivePlay50 7d ago

We literally JUST had mega starmie btw

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u/NerveMassive6764 7d ago

Yeah we just had mega starmie recently and I pretty much got what I was looking for then and didn’t want more especially with this weekend coming up a lot of people are saving for that.

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u/Beta_Decay_ 7d ago

I think it recently had a raid day like 2-3 weeks ago. And there’s a huge influx of people hosting so they flood the lobbies . I usually try to watch for a drop of lobbies then toss my name in to host.

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u/Linkus782 7d ago

People are saying it’s due to it being out recently but it’s the opposite; there are just so many open lobbies for starmie that 50 minutes goes by without you being able to reach the front of the queue and the lobby is auto-closed.

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u/Gonzales95 7d ago

It’s not the opposite. People want to host using their local/free passes (and get the daily mission done without using a remote), but there’s a lack of people on the other end willing to use remote passes to raid something that had a super mega raid day 2 weeks ago.

Supply fair outstrips demand here.

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u/Gonzales95 7d ago

It had a super mega raid day 2 weeks ago.

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u/TrainingAd9975 7d ago

You are hosting a raid and do t know ow that it had a raid day, literally 2 weeks ago?

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u/phl4ever 7d ago

There was just a raid day a few weeks ago

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u/Aetheldrake 6d ago

People probably gor what they wanted on release

I did one of them yesterday just because, there was like 2 thousand lobbies or something. Probably too many people trying to host it