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alolan ninetails feels so weak to me but i think thats because shes possibly the easiest champ to kill as gengar lol.

this is my new tier list

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ok i sent fr

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you wanna duo? whats ur discord

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my first shutout :) we drafted a balanced team and all 5 of us called roles at the start so i knew it was going to be a good one. as the meta starts developing hopefully that happens more often

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i occasionally see other gengar players in Expert but its a bit rare. When I started climbing I would see them running Dream Eater but at the rank I'm at now it's always Hex/Sludge. I don't think that he can avoid nerfs though, theres no way he's not flagging some obscene metric somewhere

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Grimlyn posted...

I wonder when smartphone launches the crossplay will be a toggleable option

I doubt it since it is generally a big selling point of games like that these days, and having a disable tends to not go over as well. also smartphone would probably be the best way to play if you could configure it to play with mouse and keyboard. i dont think thats an option on switch but I haven't looked into it

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Grand Kirby posted...

Every time I hear complaints about teammates I'm reminded we're literally playing with children...

And honestly every time I hear bragging about victories I should reminded of the same thing...

Yeah I mean I feel like as you climb up the ranks that will be less true but yeah lol. I already notice a drastic difference in my teammates capability and understanding of what needs to be done compared to when I started, and I'm only in Gold (sorry, forget what this game calls it lol but the third tier of ranked play). Because at this level I feel like it's going to be people with previous experience, since the newbies and children will be coinflipping every game and probably won't climb this high as quickly. Anyway I do think this game has an exciting spin on a traditional MOBA and I've been enjoying my time with it, not 100% sure if it'll be a long term time sink for me but I'm enjoying it for now which is good enough lol

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Do you have MOBA experience? It's a lot about controlling the flow of gameplay more than focusing on raw statistics. I think Gengar is insanely broken but the same principles can be applied with most characters. Your goal is to always make the enemy team have to react to what you're doing, to be efficient and control the pacing of the game more than just getting a kill or two and praying. Especially in this game because death timers are so low, getting a kill is often not enough to score unless you get a full wipe off who's in the lane. But really your goal is to go where the enemy isn't and make them waste time reacting to you, which takes some foresight and planning on where to go ahead of time. But you can just pick Gengar and kill 3 people on your own and score for free and you'll have a much easier time, just saying.

Anyway though, in general this game is very defense focused which is why Zapdos is so op because it removes the opponents ability to defend, but unless you have a big numbers advantage it's almost impossible to score because defending is so much easier since you only have to hit them once. So your goal is really around map play and trying to go where they aren't to sneak points in, and then defending the rest of the time. It's a balance of tempo that makes this game interesting because they force you to do so much in such a little time span. I like that the camp respawn rate is so high because it feels like you can never really perfect a flow of where to go and what to do, you're always having to react to the enemy which is nice.

Anyway I mean once Gengar gets nerfed then 1v9ing will be tough and it will be really focused on map play and understanding of game tempo and taking advantage of your opponents movements and the game will be very hard to climb solo. But in general with MOBAs (and team games in general) it's always going to be a game of numbers, because you can do everything perfectly and still lose if your teammate RNG is bad. So you have to accept that sometimes you're going to be wasting 10 minutes of your life and that's the nature of the beast. At least this game is capped at 10, playing league so much has me so happy that I'm only wasting 10 minutes every time and not up to 40 or 50


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100% has to be Claire

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I mean that's what I liked about it. It was like a puzzle to figure out and then when you do you should be able to win. There's not a lot of ways to make JRPG fights truly "challenging" since it's all about math and decision making, them adjusting the decisions you have to make in the final fight was a nice final challenge. That's how I see it at least

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I thought it was a good fight. It only took me two tries though I guess if you have to redo it a million times you might end up hating it

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they surrendered with 2 and a half minutes left too!

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check out the results of that game though. i cant believe that was ranked, lmao

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

@_stingers_ I see you're in game, lets duo when that one is done?

unfortunately that was the only one im playing. Im going to get lunch with a friend after this

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The final boss felt like a worthy final boss at least. Too many games phone it in

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yeah thats what ive been saying dude. the easiest elo ive ever gotten

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yes it is indeed the golden snitch

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surrender is +, -, X in that order

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

In Game: TheFD
Switch: SW-4280-4270-9153

added you on switch

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ive been enjoying it a good bit, but I also played a lot of league. if you dont like mobas i dont think this will be the one to change your mind. the barrier to entry is a lot lower if thats your main concern with the genre though

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im wondering how this fair play system will pan out. what if you get griefed by a 4 man and they all report you? could you just get banned for no fault of your own? having no oversight is kind of suspect

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up to expert 2 2/3. gonna take a break for now

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SW-5307-7209-7309

I just had a game where I did 114k on gengar. I think thats a personal record

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whats your name on switch? ill add you

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another game where gengar gets taken from me, another loss :( being a one trick is hard in this game

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i have 24 ranked games so far so 18-6. and 2 of those losses were when a teammate took gengar from me (and fed obviously) so really my gengar is 18-4.

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average score of 175!

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just hit expert 1 with a 75% winrate playing only solo. i wish there was an mvp rate stat because that has to be like 95%

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the fact zapdos hasnt been hotfixed is just sad

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got 13 ssrs in 20 pulls...which feels pretty fair? but some of those were due to the guaranteed ssrs on the step up, so idk

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Where do you go to see the damage you dealt?

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colliding posted...

2 danganronpa waifus as the top 2 leaves a bad taste in my mouth

Same, I quit after 2 because it was pretty mediocre but I do have to admit that Sonia was pretty enchanting. I don't know anything about Kaede but her design does strike all the right notes at least

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Ill probably need to go and.make that change when I get home. Good idea

I also want to turn on the notifier of when your next auto will be empowered, with Gengar his 3rd auto gets a lot of bonus range which can be bad if you're not expecting it

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That would help round my team out a lot. Wind misella / wind Milla / Zelos / velvet will dominate raids. Kohaku and someone else in the back. Kohaku is my only unit I have 100% maxed out but I feel like she still falls behind Zelos in raid damage with all the boosts he gets from transcended panels. Kohaku has some raid boosts too but not as much as he does. Also Zelos has bonus damage to burned units which synergizes with misellas 100% application on her arte

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Can you get wind Milla with the choose a stone? I might need to pick her for the second one. I chose earth Milla for the first one

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Ok, I caved and spent 50k on misella today. So they're going to announce summer tear tomorrow, of course.

3x wind misella (4x with the pity)
Yuna
Rokurou x2 (new)
Eizen (new)
Asbel (already had him maxed so I just got a shard)
Laphicet
Zelos
Maid Kohaku
Vicious (already had him maxed as well)
Colette (new, but am going to try to save them for her stone since she's useless as a unit)

All in all not bad. 13 ssr for 50k, and I get max awakened Misella next month. My wind team is gonna be insane

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Yes I try to force Gengar jungle every game. I'm probably at a 70% winrate so far with it

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Yeah the auto aim sucks, I constantly am trying to clear a camp with Gengar and it teleports me to some random dude 20 feet away instead

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I'm surprised Zelda got such a high rating, but I've never played botw so they must really make her different

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Hopefully I will get back to cold steel this weekend. I've been playing Pokemon unite with all my free time since it launched

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Don't hate the player hate the game

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Cinderace seems very strong to me. I have him in my personal top tier with Gengar and the yellow spiky guy (not pika)

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TreeA

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Yeah I have seen him more than the others for sure.

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Supports tend to be unpopular

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Grand Kirby posted...

It wasn't really made clear that you don't share exp. I guess if I paid attention to the level bar I'd notice it, but I never looked that closely. When I see teammates attacking something I simply joined them to help kill it faster.

Yeah basically. I think it's 95% ignorance and 5% malice with the randoms you're getting that do these things. It's a new genre for a lot of people and none of this is explained directly anywhere

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Just try tier whoring with Gengar for me and you will not be disappointed

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Well I'm sure that'll be a requirement to really climb then

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Can you do ranked with multiple friends or is ranked solo only?

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Oh man I just realized the last character is going to be some bullshit from monster hunter. Man what a shitty way to go

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