UPDATE - MAY 1: Thank you so much to lalga96 for sharing your beautiful calendar with us!! You can all find it here: MAY 2017
May 3rd to May 8th - 3rd Star Wars Pickup Capsule - I think this pickup capsule will actually start on May 4th aka Star Wars day but everywhere says it will start on the 3rd so we'll see. I have normally only seen up to 5 days given for pickup capsules, but they have surprised us from time and time again, so it may possibly be 6 days this time for the pickup capsule and thus starts on May 3rd. We shall see.
Tidbit: This pickup capsule will include 15 capsules thus you need 450,000 coins ready for this capsule if you wish to pursue it:
Darth Vader x 1
Luke x 1
Princess Leia x 1
Yoda x 1
R2-D2 x 1
C-3PO x 1
BB-8 x 1
Thumper x 2
Marie x 2
Lotso x 2
Stitch x 1
Angel x 1
Skill ticket to be used on any tsum of your choosing!!
May 8th - The Star Wars Event ends at 11:59PM (PDT). Please make sure you finish Card #30 on this day at the very latest!
May 9th to May 12th - LAST Lucky Time for Jedi Luke, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Rey, and Kylo Ren!!
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May 13th to May 30th - The Pirates of the Caribbean event starts!!! Here are the sources again that will give you a better understanding of what challenges and rewards are at each stage of the event: Reddit and Tsum Tsum Wiki. There is also a Challenging Bonus Card that will reward you with a Gold pin once you complete all of its challenges!!
May 13th to May 17th - Lucky Time for Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann!! Please note, that unlike what I thought originally, Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann tsums ARE limited edition tsums well and would only be available in the premium box until May 31st!!
May 18th to May 22nd - Lucky Time for Davy Jones, another new limited tsum available only until May 31st in the premium boxes.
May 23rd to May 27th - 5-day Pickup Capsules!!
Tidbit: There are 20 capsules this time so you need to save up 600,000 coins for this pickup capsule alone. It will include:
Jack Sparrow x 1
Maleficent x 1
Elsa x 3
Clarice x 2
Lotso x 2
Miss Bunny x 2
Woody x 1
Sully x 1
Mike x 1
Princess Aurora x 1
Thumper x 2
Baymax x 2
Tinkerbell x 1
Skill ticket to use on any tsum of your choosing!!
May 28th to May 31st - LAST Lucky Time for time limited Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and Davy Jones tsums.
This is proving to be another expensive and exciting month to say the least. So keep farming those coins and I hope you all will get a chance to max your K-2SO if possible. I know it is super frustrating now especially since there are fewer and fewer star destroyers open to play on. But don't despair.
Tidbit: Keep playing other people's cards to try and max your K-2SO, and if need be, pause the event to farm coins while there is a dry spell and no cards are open. That has been pretty much what I've been doing this past week since a lot of cards have disappeared sadly. Though now those item tickets and coins don't look too bad since in May you can definitely use them during the event and lucky times.
I have been trying to use Jedi Luke to his fullest potential in I guess almost a couple weeks now since he came out. I have previously mentioned that I was a burst tsum player so I wasn't confident I would be able to use his skill well. With the amount of coins saved and the 1 skill ticket I had from the first pickup capsule for Star Wars, I was able to get Jedi Luke up to Skill 5. "At Skill 5, maybe I will be able to get 2000 coins with him at least," I thought.
For the first few games, this was the best that I could do...
At the beginning, I actually only was able to get around 700 to 800 coins per game with Jedi Luke, which is quite dismal compared to the average 8900 coins claimed to be achieved by people on Reddit with their Skill 6 Jedi Luke. You just don't expect such a huge gap between Skill 5 and Skill 6 for coins at least.
After fiddling around, talking with friends who have managed to master Jedi Luke's skill, seeing how they play, and then watching a lot of YouTube videos about how to use Jedi Luke's skill, this was the best that I could do...
So I stopped playing with Jedi Luke and gave myself a break, watched some more videos, and then every now and then, try to practice Jedi Luke's skill.
Then finally, something clicked, and I was able to hit 8.7M with Jedi Luke!! Played some more, and I managed to reach 7.5M within the game, which somehow or another translated to be 9.5M after the score bonus my level 221 gave me (26%)!! (Note: I was able to get 4306 coins in the game. It was the coin bonus that kicked it up to 6459 coins.)
I was on a roll and I can feel it. I was finally having fun playing with Jedi Luke, and I was becoming more encouraged to keep playing with him as I got was able to consistently start getting higher scores and coins with him.
Then I did it. I finally broke 10M with him.
How?? Well here are a few tidbits that worked for me and that may also work for you.
Tidbit #1: Turn on Gyro. It can be found in the settings section of Tsum Tsum.
Tidbit #2: Play the game upright when you start, perpendicular to the floor so that the tsums fall faster now that gyro is turned on. Playing the game upright at the beginning will allow you to clear more Jedi Luke tsums right from the start, thus helping you activate his skill for the first time during the game more quickly. The filling of his skill meter at the very beginning of the game is, in my opinion, the hardest and longest one you will do for the rest of the game, thus we want to get that first activation out of the way so that you can activate his skill in a more rapid succession thereafter.
Tidbit #3: When you activate his skill, turn your phone to the 1 o'clock position. At this time, R2-D2 will show up. Start swiping your first stroke already as R2-D2 throws Luke his lightsaber, hold the stroke until the green circle narrows down to a point, and then let go. I usually start from the middle of bottom of the pile of tsums and swipe up towards the upper right hand corner of the play area, releasing the stroke underneath the pause button. If you do this first stroke properly, and immediately start on the 2nd stroke, you can fit in at least 5 strokes during Jedi Luke's ability.
Tidbit #4: After you let go of the first swipe, immediately get ready to do your second swipe. Turn your phone on a 45 degree angle, which will be around the 2 o'clock position. All the tsums will fall closer to your right side, at which point, you must start your second stroke already. Below will show you the general area that I would swipe up in the game when Jedi Luke's ability is activated.
Tidbit #5: Timing is what differs between getting a low score and coins, to a high score and several thousands of coins during the game. What seems to help me is the following mantra that I recite to myself after I activate Jedi Luke's ability in the game:
Swipe up
1, 2, 3, 4
Explanation/Methodology: (I literally do say all of the italicized bold words below in my head.)
See R2-D2 then Swipe up (hold until green circle becomes a dot) (release)
Immediately go straight down to above the fan, on the left side, and swipe 1, 2, 3, 4 in an evenly spaced rhythm upwards towards just below the pause button, again on the left side (as indicated in the above screenshot).
Note: the rhythmic 1, 2, 3, 4 that I say inside my head as I do the strokes follow a 4 - 4 beat like this video shows:
Notice the beat in the video above is not rushed but is evenly spaced out. This is how calm your swipes should be. More importantly, remember to release your swipe when the green circle decreases to a point AND THEN immediately jump back to the bottom of the screen to begin your next stroke.
Tidbit #6: After you get your first activation of Jedi Luke's skill, you don't need to go back to the upright position as at the beginning. After the first activation, you can keep the phone at the 1 o'clock position, moving to the 2 o'clock position only during Jedi Luke's ability, and then moving the phone back to the 1 o'clock position afterwards until the next time Jedi Luke's ability is activated.
Tidbit #7: Some people have found playing with a stylus helped them see the screens better, especially when playing with Jedi Luke, so test and see if that trick would work for you as well.
Tidbit #8: The swipes do Not have to be from bottom-to-top direction, it can also be from top-to-bottom direction. Some people even go up-down-up-down-up* to fit in their 5 strokes. It is all dependent on which swiping method will give you the easiest way to make at least 5 strokes during Jedi Luke's skill activation.
Here are a few other videos that I've found quite useful in giving me other tidbits of what other strategies there are when playing with Jedi Luke:
And of course, Seiji's own video of how he plays with Jedi Luke:
Notice that I adopted part of Seiji's swiping method by using a slanted first swipe, followed by the four straight swipes in the same area outlined in the above screenshots.
*This is someone who managed to figure a unique method of swiping up-down-up-down-up that worked for getting high scores and coins. He/she managed to perfect their technique to the point where he/she can swipe 13 times during each activation:
Hope this blogpost helped you discover your own unique way to using Jedi Luke's ability to achieve the high scores and vast amount of coins that you desire.
Thank you to everyone for helping each other out!! I'm sorry I wasn't able to reply to everyone's questions this past week but I'm super happy to see that everyone is contributing and trying to help each other out. That's what this is all about in the end for the Star Wars event: to help each other out!
I understand there have been a lot of frustration on the drop rate for the capsules, which has been quite dismal for some players. There were some floating tips during the past week that I tried, and there is one that seemed to have worked very well for me and a number of other players as well: MAJOR TIDBIT
Start a star destroyer battle for your friends.
Use Chewbacca as your MyTsum and 5-to-4 bonus to play other people's games. I've heard that Han Solo and Jedi Luke also brings capsules more than other tsums but Chewbacca was definitely the highly recommended amongst my friends as having the highest number of capsules drop for them when used as their MyTsum.
Choose the player right below your name to play their game, regardless of their health points.
In the first 45 seconds of the game, try to use the MyTsum skill as many times as you can. In the last 15 seconds, when you fully charged the skill meter, stop using the tsum's ability because sometimes the capsule drops in the last 2 seconds (very annoying) at which point you can activate your MyTsum immediately thereafter.
Don't use rubies to try and get the capsule. It's not worth it unfortunately. Each time I've used rubies, the capsule I had attained, contained an item ticket...or coins... =(
After I did first 3 steps above, I immediately saw a change in chances of getting the capsule in the game. Sometimes I get 1, sometimes I get up to 4 if I'm lucky with this method. There are definitely times where I play a few games with no capsules dropping but overall, the capsule has dropped pretty frequently when I'm using Chewbacca. If you don't have Chewbacca, play with Han Solo or Jedi Luke to try and increase your odds. You will start noticing a difference after a few games in.
The Key to getting K-2SO to Skill 6 is really to play more of your friend's games. Keep going at it. Luck does play a part, but if you put in the time that is needed to get the capsules, you'll get him at least 1x per day. I know there are Star Wars groups out there where people who haven't finished their own cards are able to join and play on other people's cards until the last two days to try and get K-2SO to Skill 6 and the skill tickets thereafter.
The great news in all of this is that indeed there are skill tickets after you get K-2SO to Skill 6!!
So keep going!! Don't give up. You still have 2 weeks to go! =) Good luck!!
Also, some updates for May for Star Wars:
May 4th to May 8th - 3rd Pickup Capsule which will include all the previous Star Wars tsums:
Some of you were wondering how to use Jedi Luke. I'm not very good with him but I did learn that it's all about timing and that when his skill is activated, you have to press, hold, swipe and let go once the green circle narrows to a dot. Seiji has made a video to show how he can get 6 swipes when using Jedi Luke's skill. Have a look to see how he does it. =)
Jack Sparrow - clears tsums in a diagonal horizontal line
Elizabeth Swann - turns tsums into Will Turner which can be connected to Elizabeth Swann tsums to clear, like Minnie's ability
Davy Jones - clears the centre with his kraken. So far, from what I can tell from Tsum Tsum Wiki, only Davy Jones is the limited tsum for this next month.
A good overview of the event to come including the missions and awards can be found in these two links: Tsum Tsum Wiki & Reddit . Furthermore, there looks to be a bonus card in this event that will give you the gold pin!!
When there's more details of what the dates are for the lucky times and pickup capsule etc. for the Pirates of the Caribbean tsums, I will update you all in a new post.
I just found out about this awesome legit trick to getting skill tickets from the upcoming Star Wars event, and I just had to share it with you!!
UPDATE - APR 2, 2017 - 11:46PM - I just realized that you need to have a bit more context on what happened in Star Wars Part II event last year to completely understand what this upcoming event is going to be like: Star Wars Part II event . It will explain how you can see and choose which friend to help attack the Star Destroyer they're facing in their current card.
Let timer expire past 60 minutes!! Yes, you fail the mission. Re-ignite the mission thereafter!
Get Gift Capsules for helping friends ==> K-2SO found in Gift Capsules
Get 29 boxes with K-2SO, and you'll get K-2SO to Skill 6!!!
After getting Skill 6 K-2SO, you will get Skill Ticket in future boxes starting with Box 30!!
Note: not every Gift Capsule you get is a box for K-2SO. Some are item tickets and coins, so it will take some time to get all 29 boxes for K-2SO.
Hope this further excites you for the upcoming Star Wars event!! Plan amongst your friends and see how to best help each other get multiple skill tickets during this event!!
Happy Happy Tsuming!! May the force be with you. =)
