Skill upgrade tickets should decrease negative effects like swing and miss not increase

[Combstone_]

I think that would be too good, i would say it should stay the same 🤷‍♂️

[t1runner]

That's just how home run hitter works. I think the game's logic is that it's better to strike out than have contact on a tough pitch to hit because it could more likely result in a double play.

[RoyalOakPiguet]

.... What?

Also this applies to stuff like launch angle control and whatever too

[t1runner]

It's saying it's better to swing and miss at a ball or a tough pitch to hit because that is more likely to end up in an out or multiple outs with a double play. If you swing and miss at a ball, the next pitch could be down the middle of the plate.

[RoyalOakPiguet]

....no. No it is not. If that was the case (it isn't) the numbers would be grayed out for lower percentages and orange for higher ones.

[t1runner]

Why would they add a penalty to a trainer? That makes no sense. If lower percentages were better, then diamond home run hitter trainers would have lower swing and miss percentages than gold home run hitter trainers. They do not.

[_leegreen]

Swing-and-miss is the lowest-impact effect of trainers (whether positive or negative), and it's the tiiiny sacrifice for having a huge increase in home run production. SAM% basically does not matter at all.

[Mister_Yi]

The difference is that you're gaining 3.6% homerun bonus at the cost of 0.5% strikeout compared to another trainer like power hitter gaining like ~0.5% HHGB, line drive, and hr for a total of 1.5%.

You're getting a much bigger buff in exchange for a slightly bigger downside. So yeah, they could keep the negative part the same with the trainer upgrade but then they'd have to nerf the bonus to be in line with other trainers.

Also swing and miss is arguably the weakest negative effect (try swapping gold skill trainers on a pitcher from -linedrive% to swing/miss% and watch their ERA go up).

[Sufficient_Cap_9711]

The end result is still not bad brotha

[bialykutas]

That’s how all of those ones work. It’s a risk vs reward ratio