u/Beautifuls_Creations

I give my thanks to Arc Suit Sabrina, (1996) Red, and Champion Gary for helping me achieve this!

In all seriousness, I started playing this game around late November just for Lysandre, and so I grinded a lot of gems to hopefully pull for him during the Neo Champion Hilbert banner. This is where I realized that 0.010% is actually really rare to pull from. I did not even pull him there, I pulled him from the ticket the game gives every 10th of the month. I instead just used the pity to pull for his Sygna Suit, even though I already got NC Hilbert by then.

Do not get me wrong, the game is fun, albeit frustrating. However, I might just drop it if I managed to squeeze every Lysandre-related content the game has to offer. I have done his storylines where he is involved and only now have to finish a couple chapters in the Villain Arc where he has a cameo speaking role, and then he is no longer relevant in any storyline. Unless they rerun the “Find the Ditto impostors!” April Fools’ event.

I do believe he is going to be important again when the Legends ZA update drops, but I am going to keep my expectations low. I am not even sure if they are going to add L, but it can not hurt to dream.

I know the game is going to give away a free Lysandre unit in July, but as I have learnt from receiving the free Arven and Marnie units, it does not show their pull mindscape animations. I wanted to see his mindscape animation again and so I used my pity from another banner—I think (1996) Red—to pull for him. I am just going to hoard his custom upgrades when I receive it.

Honestly, since achieving this I no longer have the drive to play as much as I did. The main reason why I even did the Pasio Towers is to get the Plaque of Perfection for my Lysandre units. I am still going to try to SuperAwaken them, but I only have 3 yellow candy coins left as someone who is F2P, for now at least.

I am now planning to try to beat the towers with my Lysandre units, because favs over metas is my gaming strategy.

I am just praying to GOD that I don’t want any of the units in June because I had to pity Arc Sabrina and had to save up again. I did NOT know that June was an important month for Pokémon Masters EX. Imagine if it was a new alt for Lysandre…

This is my portable ita bag shrine for my F/O: Lysandre/L!

I wrote down the breakdown of my total costs on the post where I also specified the prices and names of my current merchandise. I do not know if $28+ is a lot to people, but ₱1,733+ was certainly a lot to me. I wished I could have got an accurate price for the Litleo (Paldea Evolved 31) card, but I forgot about how much it exactly was.

I mostly bought these from an online shopping app, specifically through Shopee. The Pikachu figure was bought from a mall, the Litleo was bought from an art stall from my university, and the Slyveon-colored hoodie was bought from a flea market.

Side tangent, I bought the hoodie because of the fact it reminded me of my S/I’s design which was based on a Shiny Slyveon, and so I wanted to have it. The Pikachu Villain Costume was also a big surprise for me when I stumbled upon it in the mall since I thought it was a far-off dream to even be so accessible to me.

I do not know if the cards are actually legit but I will feign ignorance for now. All I know is that I am happy to even have a collection such as this.

I actually had finished my ita bag but I am not going to post it because as unlikely as it is, I do not want an identifying trait of me to be publicly shown online since I am planning to use this bag for outings. I might change my mind, but I will refrain from it for now.

If there are any tips and design ideas for my ita bag, please let me know! This bag has so many features I have little to no idea what to add. I am also planning to use this same ita bag for other characters in the future where I can rotate between them.

Lastly, its important for me to note that I did not buy everything here using my money. Some of them were paid by someone else and so it is unfair for me to say that I paid for all of them. Nonetheless, I am grateful that I am now able to have my very own Pokémon merchandise!

Thank you for reading!