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DeathChicken posted...

I hated paydowns so much. For one, they were mandatory since if you didn't bring one of your higher guys down, the other guy was going to and then you lose due to "Voters only look at the shiniest guy on the field" syndrome. For two, they enforced TOLATSGOTF for the same reason and made all low tier fights into none of these guys matter except the higher upkeep guy who shouldn't be here

Yeah. This is why I'm thinking a 'bounty' system might be a good counter. Like say I pay Sora down to Low, right? Normally it just sucks to fight him because he'll rock any three lowbie characters really hard so he ends up being much stronger than any combo of on-tier dudes you can bring in...but what if you say 'bounty on Sora's head!' and come wartime you get to pick up Scorpion and Jigglypuff from the unbought pull to sleep + pull him into your team and get him outta the way? Suddenly you don't need to have a paydown of your own to compete. You can fight with your squad of low upkeep characters without having to compromise. I firmly believe we can make this kind of system work, especially in the context of using Ability Points, and that it's the way forward. Every kind of team should be viable. I don't want to leave any sort of playstyle behind.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.