To hoard or not to hoard?

Ok, so just by how my hoard draws have been, I am missing the boat on Kitty. I do want to cover GED though, not because I think he is great (he seems mid-tier) but because I just want to cover that particular character. My question is if there is a difference in odds of collecting a particular 5* by waiting to draw a hoard all at once or simply pulling tokens as soon as they enter LL tokens? I ask because my initial thought is to wait until Cable & KP leave tokens as I don't really want covers for either.
Is it a better strategy to pull tokens throughout a characters full time in LL tokens as opposed to waiting for a large hoard if your goal is to cover one character in particular? My concern is that in my past experience, opening hoards can be really boom or bust if covering one particular 5* is your goal. This assumes that you don't have the 350+ pulls needed to cover all 3 5* etc.
Edited: Since my original post seemed to dwell too far into the mechanics of how pulls work, I have modified my question to a more general one (but still basically the same). I only looking for the forumites best guesses and personal experiences on this question.
Is it a better strategy to pull tokens throughout a characters full time in LL tokens as opposed to waiting for a large hoard if your goal is to cover one character in particular? My concern is that in my past experience, opening hoards can be really boom or bust if covering one particular 5* is your goal. This assumes that you don't have the 350+ pulls needed to cover all 3 5* etc.
Edited: Since my original post seemed to dwell too far into the mechanics of how pulls work, I have modified my question to a more general one (but still basically the same). I only looking for the forumites best guesses and personal experiences on this question.
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The reason why hoarding is effective, and therefore popular, is two fold. First, it allows you to calculate your expected odds based on how many pulls you have. There are other threads out there that have the expected pull odds which much greater degrees of calculation than what I posted above. If your goal is to pull, say 200 LTs, with the goal of getting 13 GED covers, if you pull as you go you may wind up earning less LTs than that before he rotates out and not give yourself enough pulls. If you wait until you know you have your target number of pulls then your odds are better to hit your target covers. If you don't reach your target by the time he's set to rotate out, then you can make an informed decision based on how many pulls you do have, and decide to either take a chance on it or give up and go after other characters in the future with more pulls at your disposal.
The second is exactly for reasons you already mentioned, if you don't want either of the 5* with GED at a particular time, you can simply wait until they rotate out.
I am tempted to hoard if not for the fact that cocering a 5* character sooner means being able to take advantage of their season long (?) boost.
(*There might be a slight difference depending on when you pull. Our pulls are a predetermined random sequence, but I’d imagine that sequence is updated each time the store updates. So pulling now might result in different pulls than waiting until after Kitty leaves to pull.)
The statistics of pulling 5*s show that you’re better off pulling / hoarding for the purpose of covering all three Latest 5*s instead of just one. See Hadronic’s plots: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/73395/new-system-means-new-plots/p1 To cover one 5* (without swaps), you need 307 +/- 95 pulls on average. To cover all three, you need 390 +/- 89 pulls.
Personally, I pull as I go until I finish the Latest 5* who’s about to leave and then hoard until they leave. This method works well for me, but I think it requires that you earn 2+ Latest pulls per day on average.
Nevertheless, I'll answer your question: Latest and Classics have different orders.
(Once, years ago, people had a method to re-roll draws until getting what they wanted. That is no longer possible.)
As people have said repeatedly, pull if the people you want are in the store; if you don't want the people in Latest, wait for them to leave. It won't change your odds.
Also, to be clear, a new character boost is 28 days or 4 weeks from the time the character enters the game. So if you managed to fully cover the next 5 from their release store, you could use a boosted version for about 4 weeks in PVP and PVE.
I have pretty much finished every 5 (some end up with 12 covers) by pulling as I go, since....Spidey. (That was with swaps, back then.) So that method works as long as you can brute-force your pulls past RNG roadblocks (0/22 at the moment).
You also have to have the willpower to only stare at 100+ LTs and 5,000+ CP that slowly grow everyday.