Sorry , I thought it was prety obvious . Yes sure you can get 2500 exp on Survival mode , but takes an hour of your time , each run , minimum if you ' re not a pro . Victini gives you 75053750 experience , so with that item you buy an extra 1250 experience . Don ' t you just want to relax and let your Pokemon grow in that one run that takes a minute of your time ? You can do Meowth all day every day , but you get one free Victini per week plus one on competition Tue . Also beating Victini gives you 200 coins . So yeah , if you ' re so in favor of SM then why don ' t you just do both Victini and Survival , you ' ll collect 1000 coins from every SM run anyway . I mean , 600 coins on a really good item to spend per week is a really good deal , don ' t be cheap .