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WhiteLens posted...

You can still play Pokemon Shuffle but can't buy anything in it.

I'm surprised this game is still running!

From what I understand, as long as you check in once before the servers go down (which is in a few days, I think) and then don't change the system clock the game will continue to cycle through the special events offline without having to check in again since it already downloaded the event schedule.

It's too late to get the bonus Pikachus for checking in at this point, and you also can't get all the mega evolution stones including some useful ones because they were a bonus prize in the online competition stages. But you can still do pretty much everything else and still get a lot of resources without having to pay, you just have to go at a bit slower pace or grind stage 37 (or UX 37) a ridiculous number of times each week and be a bit more careful about what you upgrade.

The only really efficient use of crystals is to unlock more tries at the weekend meowth stage (since on average you can get about 4000-5000 coins per attempt once you get shiny Mewtwo X and 3 Quirky ++ pokemon, instead of spending all week grinding stage 37 for 300 coins per heart), or using one at the start of a tough stage to buy all 6 booster items (since the combined price would be about the same number of coins that you would get using a crystal to play the weekend Meowth four times) So you can save the crystals that you get during regular game play for extreme emergencies, and just get by on the coins you get each week in the one free weekend Meowth attempt or by grinding stage 37 for 300 coins per heart.

(I could probably post more advice if someone wants it, but in the past I remember seeing a few b8 users who maxed out the system's play time counter playing Pokemon Shuffle lol)