hello friends! i usually do not post in here because i usually have friends to hype up the updates and datamines with me, but i have to actually share this here for everyone to see.
These are the new sync pairs datamined. They're your standard attempts to get you to pull for them. Serena has Go Viral 9 for Paralysis, which is hilariously like her base form, Dawn has a 50% chance AoE Fake Tears, which makes her a really good support. 50% AoE Charm is really good as well. Lysandre looks really good on the surface, but I think it's not really worth it to pull for him, personally. He can max out his crit rate, and strongly boost his special attack, which is good, but he has way too much healing for his own good. Healthy Healing is unnecessary, not when you have Oblivion Wing for it.
Now, I would like to redirect your attention to Xerneas. It is the free sync pair we're getting, as mentioned in the dev letter recently. And hoo boy, it is quite the doozy. Already out the gate, Xerneas has Team Shout 4, and a move gauge acceleration, which basically makes him lite Sygna Suit Blue, so if you're a F2P player that didn't get lucky on the SS Blue banners, now's your chance to get a slightly worse version of him for free! But that's not why he's really good. The really big thing here is the Sync Move. If you don't want to look at the pictures in the spoilers, I'll summarize it right now. The sync move boosts the team's Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed depending on move level. Now, if it didn't mention a maximum, I would have assumed that at 5/5, it rose all three stats by 5 stages. This is already really good, but the sync move specifically mentions +6 in all stats depending on trainer move level. So at 5/5, this maxes out three stats for free. If you don't see how broken this is already, you need a wake up call. This is a TEAM Geomancy that just so happens to be able to boosts 3 stats to +6 for free. Team Geomancy is already really hilarious to think about, since we have Leaf and Eevee, which does the same thing, but slightly better. At 5/5, though, Scyamore and Xerneas just
BLOWS Leaf and Eevee out of the water. And this isn't getting in the attacks and grid option on top of it. (You read that right. Xerneas is coming with a grid when it comes out. If it wasn't broken enough already, it now has really good grid options on top of it.) Just looking at the grid quickly, he has Moonblast On A Roll 1, which gives Moonblast a 51% chance to drop Sp Atk (How On a Roll works is that it gives extra reroll chances on the move's side effect, and the number of extra rerolls is dependent on the number. It's 1, but it's still an insanely high chance originally, especially since Moonblast has a 30% chance to drop Sp Atk at base.) It also has Recuperation 1, and Healing Hand 2. There's also fun options like Horn Leech Master Healer or Impervious, but I personally will be going for Recuperation 1 + On a Roll 1 + Helping Hand 2.
Xerneas is honestly the dream F2P support at this point. If you missed out on Sygna Suit Blue, don't miss out on Scyamore, especially since he's free!
Oh yeah, Lance, SS Cynthia, and regular Serena is getting EX but WHO FUCKING CARES WHEN YOU HAVE XERNEAS ESTABLISHING DOMINANCE OVER ALMOST EVERY OTHER SUPPORT CHARACTERS
I got carried away with this post, but I really needed people to see that Xerneas is broken as fuck, and it's the ideal F2P Support Pair right now. This isn't even going in the potential for Xerneas to be a striker with the sync move boosting all the right stats for it to do such a thing.