Don’t worry I get this question with almost ever EMC and I think it’s probably good that I do! Each EMC is different and its premium is different, so it makes perfect sense to re-evaluate this question every few weeks! ^_^
First and foremost, always always always pull during EMCs, because they have a chance to drop Premiums! (Sometimes other deals drop Premiums like the current HSC Assistance deal that’s up, but you always want Premiums to be an option.) The reason for this is that Premiums are the best medals in the game. Ill. Terra, Sora, and Riku are pretty game breaking. However, with the recent availability of T3 guilted medals (Jack, Halloween Sora, and the Org XIII deal) non-guilted premiums are becoming less and less useful.
If they ever add Mickey & Brooms to the game, though, Premiums will skyrocket in importance.
So Ill. Sephiroth is the best magic reversed medal in the game right now. I believe Ill. Xion will be better than him when she comes out, but that won’t be for a couple months. Unfortunately, Ill. Seph is really only useful in one keyblade spot - the last one on Three Wishes - and a guilted Hades is better than an non-guilted Ill. Seph. Additionally, pulling Ill. Seph over other Premium medals in the HSC is unlikely unless you do the 10-times mercy pull, since so many Premiums are in the game right now.
Additionally! The next scheduled Premium is Ill. Kairi, which I’ve talked up a bit in the past (+3 strength for one turn & curaga for three bars). The great thing about Premium buff medals like Ill. Kairi and Pooh&Piglett is that they don’t need to be guilted to be at their full potential. So as long as the game sticks to it’s JP release schedule we should be seeing her in a couple weeks. If you can stomach not spending jewels until then, you’ll have a better chance at getting a rewarding Premium. (Especially if you’ve managed to save 30k jewels for the mercy pull.)
But if you wanna spend them anyway, the new EMC is actually better than the previous ones! It rewards two guaranteed epics plus one of the new ones. Croc is finally in the game, giving us a Power version of KH2 Kairi and Cogsworth. If you don’t have Ill. Sora, Croc is invaluable. Smee is really useful if you don’t have Owl, and even more useful with the No Cost skill. That’s three guaranteed epics per pull - probably more like five or six! - and a chance at any Premium medal (including Ill. Terra, Sora, and Riku). In theory, this three-epic system will probably be what the game uses going forward.
In short, a pull or two for that Croc can be really helpful! This EMC is very good next to EMCs from the past. But if you can save your jewels for two or three weeks, the next EMC will likely be a game changer.
Thanks for all the kind words and asking questions! I am glad my blog is helping people achieve their Kingdom Hearts goals!!
REMEMBER!! The EMC does not start until FRIDAY (12a Pacific, 3a Eastern) so don’t pull right now!!
<3 KCM
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