Advice on getting "good" Temtem?

[MidnightMist]

I feel like all mine are awful, on the second island and I basically need to heal after every fight. My team feels useless and ineffective, other than Pigepic who is goated. What are some "must have" Temtem? What are some to avoid?

[Talon]

Are you using type advantages? Platypet from island 1 is good for island 2 with its toxic moves for most temtem and water for the others while Ganki is good for backup from the flying temtem

[MidnightMist]

I actually have Platypet! He dies to one hit by any source of damage by anything at all times :(

[Talon]

What level is he, you may wanna go back to island 1 for ganki so they can hopefully out speed the wind temtem that can take down platypet (also exp share if you not got it already)

[MidnightMist]

I don't think I can get back to the first island...but I do have Scaravolt who seems to be a bit awful given his ability has him always in need of heals. But I do have the exp share.

[Talon]

you should be able to just travel back to first island whenever if not off 2nd island but you should be alright with your scaravolt for now

[ulzgoroth]

In addition to Platypet you can raise a Kalazu to Kalabyss for another water/poison type. Note they're both vulnerable to wind moves from some of the nature tems, and don't resist nature or poison thanks to water giving vulnerability. (EDIT: Evolving to Kalabyss takes 18 levels, so it might not be accessible at that point unless you go out of your way by breeding a Kalazu egg to raise. Which isn't necessarily a bad idea.)

Using poison moves on non-poison tems can also be useful, you should have access to a training course that can give a bunch of different tems a poison attack.

Scaravolt I pretty much gave up on - while the fire type is useful against nature, anything with a rock move wrecks it and it doesn't actually get fire moves at the levels you're at. You could try to get one with the other trait, though, rather than the one that burns itself down.

Most of second island is nature-centric, and nature is only weak to fire and poison. You can't get fire until you're a ways into the second island, so poison is the go-to option. Wind, mental, normal and melee are also available to some extent and not weak against nature, so you could lean on those.

I made a lot of use of Platypet and Loali there, and my starter. I also used Nessla with Electric Synthesize just because that's a very very good Tem, but it is a bad type match against the nature tems.

[Shaesy]

In case you didn't know, each island features two main types of temtem, so which tems are good depend a lot on the island. I'd recommend changing at least half of your squad for each island when possible and try to use tems that have type advantages. This means you'll probably have to breed tems so that they can evolve faster (at a lower level) and have better stats.

Some good temtem for the second island are Kalabyss (Kalazu's evolution) and Skunch (Skail's evolution). These two can actually help you in most islands, so you can keep them in your squad if you like them.

When catching a temtem be sure to check the temtem stats. If your platypet dies after one hit, it might have low hp, def or sp def. Make sure to use temtem that have as many green stats as possible, the higher the number the better, and avoid red stats. Breeding does help with this (the offspring will have more chance to inherit the highest or average stat between the parents).

Also, when picking the four main techniques for each temtem, make sure to pick physical or special attacks based on the base stats of the temtem to maximize damage. For example, Skunch have a lot more atk than sp atk, so pick physical attacks for him. You should also check the traits. Skunch with Bully trait is very strong for PvE.

If you are on the second island you can take the airship and go back to the first island to catch any temtem you missed.

[Rumors]

When looking for a species of Tem to actually use, try to catch a number of them and use the one with that has the trait you want with the best stats (mind, traits change when evolving, so you might want to look those up). If you don't mind level grinding, you have access to the breeding center now so you can throw your tems in there to get level 1s that'll evolve sooner and potentially have better stats (I don't recommend splurging on the DNA items at this juncture unless you stumble upon a tem with multiple 50s in TVs, in which case you're probably better waiting until further into the game to breed it anyway). You don't need perfects in all stats, just getting as many stats "green" should be more than sufficient.

Also, you can absolutely clear the second, or any, island with your favorites instead of changing your team to counter it. It'll be harder, but it's certainly doable.

If all else fails, you can also try buying or asking for breeject eggs of Tems, including those you can't access to yet. Just keep in mind a lot of Tems that first show up in the wild late game tend to have really crummy low level movepools. For example, Aohi, a Fire/Mental Tem, doesn't learn a Fire attack via leveling until level 45.

And finally, without spoiling anything, don't go to the third island until you are ready. Trust me.

[ulzgoroth]

Rumors lähetti viestin:

If all else fails, you can also try buying or asking for breeject eggs of Tems, including those you can't access to yet.

Can you? You don't get access to the trade house until you mostly finish the third island.

I guess there's a direct proximity-based trade system? IDK how easy it would be to get somebody to use that unless they're already cooperating with you.

[Talon]

ulzgoroth lähetti viestin:

Rumors lähetti viestin:

If all else fails, you can also try buying or asking for breeject eggs of Tems, including those you can't access to yet.

Can you? You don't get access to the trade house until you mostly finish the third island.

I guess there's a direct proximity-based trade system? IDK how easy it would be to get somebody to use that unless they're already cooperating with you.

often in global someone will give away their used up breed tems to those who may be able to use em through story so least they can come to you