#palentines mallow

[crystalelemental]

This bitch was the worst decision of the month. I got greedy and fucked my entire run up. “Oh but it’s an extra gauntlet win, and up through track 5 is exactly enough in paid gems to get the bundle.” She fucking ate 20k for two 5*s. Two! In 20k! What the fuck is that supposed to be? At least this should count toward the great luck equalizing that was destined to happen after how well the Kalos alts went, but fuck I need to learn to quit while I’m ahead.

[nonovyabuisness]

[russianbluewitch]

Happy Palentine’s day from Pokémon Masters!

[firecodex]

Images from Chef's Heartful Delivery

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[ribbonbonny]

by god they werent lying when they said that fantina grid expansion made her powerful homegirl legit melted through uxie. and that was with only sycamore and fucking blaine as party members

[pokemaster91]

I want to bake everybody the biggest, sweetest pie I can on Palentine’s! Mallow & Appletun and making some sweet treats for everyone on Pasio!

[cynthiaandsamus]

(Pulled Palentine’s Mallow on the second step of the step-ups! Was not expecting to get her that early but damn. Now I’m tempted to pull on Palentine’s Elesa when she comes out despite the fact I’ll probably never use her she’s just really pretty)

[claitea]

pokemon masters datamine spoilers

ANABEL AND EMMA ARE BOTH GONNA BE A PLAYABLE

SURELY THIS MEANS A LOOKER EVENT WHERE THEY MEET RIGHT. PLEASE???? PLEASE

[mimirouru-chan]

Mallow (Palentine 2023)

Watercolor A4

[jadeazora]

Malva's still an NPC, boo...

But I love Lysandre's outfit. (Imo, funny hair aside, he's got my favorite outfit of the villains normally, the steampunk style--so, ya know, Volcanion--he's rocking here looks even better! 🤩)

His theme is perfect too:

Elesa is partnered with Togetic while Mallow gets Appletun. I may go after one of them if they're good, but I was thinking about going for Palentine's Marnie.

Anabel uses Snorlax, and Emma has Crobat. (Tho she already said as much.)

Leon is also rerunning after almost two whole years, but can FINALLY Gigantamax:

[outfitpolls]

BONUS POLL: Mallow Palentine's

[crystalelemental]

Unit Teambuilding - Palentine’s Mallow

I'm gonna keep it real with you guys.  I don't really care for Mallow.   Or any of the Gen 7 cast that isn't Aether Fam.  They just didn't really stand out.  I had always chalked Mallow's particular level of disinterest up to just not loving the design overall, but now they gave her a cute outfit and I'm still not invested.  And I'd kinda hoped, though never really expected, to see Cheryl with Appletun with this event.  So it feels very, very much like when Marnie got Mawile and Bea got Vanilluxe, shattering two hopes at once.  It's just...sad, I guess. For me.  This is a season of heartbreak, apparently.  It's like I never left high school...

General Overview Dragon Support.  Man, I don't know either.  Dragon Pulse is not a good defensive tool.  They gave it Staggering 4 on grid, but...Twister Aggravation 2? Better flinch rate single target for less gauge, and potential AoE flinch, while still being dragon?  This seems obvious to me.  Anyway.  Its Apple Acid drops special defense, but only by 1 stage, with no potential to double up like SS Brendan, so she's operating at a deficit there.  Dire Hit All+ is nice, but her trainer move is...well, it's atrocious.  +3 defense for the team, but everything else involved is gauge control, specifying +2 gauge to allies in co-op.  Unless they're developing a new mode where this suddenly matters again, this is wildly useless.  It's the same kind of effect that Rosa got.

What Mallow does have is some pretty fantastic healing potential on passives, and Vigilance on grid.  This makes her a pretty sturdy wall that can stack a ton of benefit into one package.  You know.  So long as you don't look at the lack of special defense boosts, or the fact that other tools on grid are hard to access because Vigilance is such a high-priority target.  Mallow feels solidly okay, but little else.  I may be a little unfair toward her because I don't care for the character, but...yeah, this doesn't impress me much.

The main issue she contends with is SS Brendan being as good as he is.   Special Defense drops are significant, but why use Mallow over him?  And mostly, it's because Mallow doesn't need to take first sync.  She can cap crit on her own merits, whereas with Brendan, it's required to take sync.  While you often want to sync with support first for the damage, this does allow her allies to take first sync to blast CS for denials, and to work really well with mega evolutions that want to get that bonus quickly.  But it comes at the cost of how strongly she improves team damage, so be ready for the tradeoffs. EX and Move Level?

As a tank support, EX is generally recommended for the combination of stat bonuses and double damage effect supplied on sync, as is 3/5 because like usual, all the good tools are 3/5.  That said, if you just need her for buffing/debuffing purposes, you can likely get away with 1/5, but EX is still a generally good investment.

Team 1: P!Mallow, Zinniquaza, Winona/Anni Raihan/Maxie/Archie A pretty straight-forward application is Zinniquaza support, supplying the needed crit rate and special defense drops to make her Draco Meteor and sync hit harder, just add weather support.  Winona will do just fine in CS, though something with extended weather is nice for Gauntlet.   Special mention of Maxie and Archie, whose theme skills pair well with Zinnia.

Team 2: P!Mallow, Masked Royal, Nanu Another thing Mallow has over SS Brendan is when you need sync to perform a denial in CS.  Masked Royal has a great sync nuke, but only okay DPS, and thus relies on the sync to stay ahead.  Mallow provides much needed crit rate, and some physical defense to complement the attack drops, while Nanu debuffs defense for the nuke, and potentially flinch.

Team 3: P!Mallow, Burgh, Agatha/Lodge N Anti-Azelf. Mallow has both Stalwart and Unbending, making her a solid choice against this fight.  With crit rate and special defense drops, and potentially special attack buffs depending on grid, Burgh makes the best choice of partner. But since this is Azelf, no sense messing around, throw the sleep chain at it. Mallow may survive, but Burgh isn't guaranteed to.

Team 4: P!Mallow, Steven, Emma Anti-Regirock. As the current public enemy #1, I'm all about beating Regirock's ass.   Steven benefits from Mallow's crit rate, and has access to his sync instantly for better damage. The only issue is gauge control, which is why Emma's here, she grants +4 speed to the team.  I'm sure there are others, but you know.

Team 5: P!Mallow, Winona, Plumeria Anti-Tapu Bulu.  Winona and Plumeria are fast enough to handle gauges, and cover both of its weaknesses.  Both require crit rate, and enjoy her potential Ramp Up grid and special defense debuffs.  I don't know if I'd use them in the same team necessarily, but Winona was a flinch bot so I figured hey, that's really the tech you're looking for.  Flinch or sleep.   Either or.  Also Blue's fine on his own crit rate, he just needs special attack, so he felt like a worse options for Mallow.

Final Thoughts There are other team compositions that can work with her.  I think Mallow is good, but in stiff competition with SS Brendan overall.  I also think that her grid makes her seem worse than she is, compared to Brendan's grid which is basically perfect.  But she's not too bad.  I just...don't love Mallow.

[hapuriainen]

Mallow Palentines outfit.

[sapherin]

Happy Palentine’s Day! 💕🍎 🍓

On the menu today are sweets prepared by Chef Mallow and her Appleton and the “Sweets Nurse” Azura and her Audino 💕.

Absolutely had to pull for Palentine’s Mallow and her tool kit is SO fun to mess around with. I also wanted to make a Palentine’s outfit for my trainer OC ❤️.

[firecodex]

Screenshot of an image of Mallow (Palentine's 2023) shown in the Chef's Heartful Delivery event

[ribbonbonny]

look at all my units boy