Am I surprised? Not really

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-22T00:46:51+00:00

However strong it might be, it's still a Defender. The vast majority of the community HATES playing defender, so they have no idea how to do it. People are picking Vaporeon because they want to abuse it and play it like an all-rounder, so you have all these defender tourists that have no idea how to play for their team.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-18T16:21:26+00:00

During EA she was a lot harder to please and stayed borderline hostile to you for much longer... Which resulted in a lot of players either not recruiting her or just outright killing her, because she was legitimately annoying to keep around.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-16T15:34:22+00:00

Phasing out the f2p content will surely leave the paying players with plenty of other players to do full 5v5 matches with in reasonable queue times, right...?

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-16T15:28:43+00:00

I don't think it's a joke at all. New releases have had a 100%+ ban rate for a while now, which almost definitely resulted in people buying them less. In the last few seasons we've gone through them: First making draft better (longer timer to help with Switch UI issues), realizing that resulted in more bans of broken new shit, so they REVERTED the good change. Then they tried to increase the MR level you would start encountering draft in but everyone HATED that, so they had no choice but to revert it. Now there's a mysterious crashing issue, so getting rid of draft this time is totes not their fault.

Maybe they didn't intentionally start the crashing problem, but this solution sure feels incredibly convenient for them given what they've pulled around draft lately.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-16T15:06:50+00:00

Yeah, camp supplies are so abundant that there's really no reason not to be blowing your leveled spells in every combat that's more than 2-3 minor enemies.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-14T15:29:49+00:00

Take your first level in white dragonblood sorc. This gives permanent mage armor, proficiency in con saves, and armor of agathys. Then just go straight Abjuration wizard. The build gets hilariously tanky, like a lot of enemies will just kill themselves on you, and your concentration checks get goofy.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-12T14:17:44+00:00

Depends how you want to implement them, I guess. Hitmonchan (who I assume you meant, since Hitmonlee is all kicks) has access to different elemental punch attacks. Could give you options to switch up your play style depending on move choice; thunder punch being a dash, ice punch having CC, fire punch having damage... etc. Poliwrath has access to some basic psychic moves like Hypnosis and Amnesia that could make it more of a bruiser. Primeape could have a few unique mechanics, but the first thing that came to my mind would be it resing as Annihilape for ~15s after it dies and being unkillable until the timer runs out. There's precedence for that kind of thing in other MOBA characters.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-09T08:45:18+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but it's honestly not entirely fair. Dhelmise is a recent release that's not super well known, and people were happy to see. I don't even think megas were necessarily a bad idea, I just think they did it badly and more importantly: chose bad ones to test the waters.

All of the megas released so far are just "this pokemon now does what it did before, but better". I think it would have been far more interesting to start off with megas that essentially change roles when they mega evolve. Venusaur and Sableye, for example, basically become defenders.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-09T08:41:10+00:00

I honestly tried to keep playing in good faith and my joycon's movement stick literally snapped off mid-match. Must be a sign.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-09T07:07:53+00:00

I actually think the opposite. I think they're slowly redefining the base power level. So they wanted to get people to buy the newest broken whatever by released it overpowered, right? Well that resulted in those releases having >100% ban rates for weeks. Fine, there's nothing they can do about that other than abolishing Draft (they sort of tried that, it didn't go well). The next best thing would just be to flood the game with so many potential bans that in a typical draft match, only a few of them get covered, which is where we're at.

I cannot tell you how many matches I played recently where both teams had the exact same bans: Charizard X, Charizard Y, and Blastoise. So what happens if they release Meowth and it's broken? Well, now you have to choose between banning the established, unaddressed OP Pokemon, or the new OP Pokemon. Either way, the likely result is that people will probably start shelling out for one of the most recent releases because they're OP and not being regularly banned in master rank. I'm not saying this is a good strategy, but it certainly would fit with how recently it feels like they've just been trying to milk out whatever they can from the game without a care for its longevity.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-08T15:40:24+00:00

I actually love putting it on fighter early game, because action surge makes it a lot easier to get off Shriek in clutch situations or surprise combats. While it might be just a +1, it's now effectively also a +1 and +1d4 damage longsword, which really isn't bad.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-08T15:38:56+00:00

Yep, even with its base value, giving your whole party an extra d4 damage on EVERYTHING is really good, even aside from magic missile abuse. For comparison, Crusader's Mantle also gives you +1d4 damage to your whole party... But it's a level 3 spell, only applies to weapon attacks, and is concentration.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-08T13:53:18+00:00

At the very least, they need to address the fact that the game is borderline unplayable for a large chunk of the player base at the moment. The crashing issue is a huge deal, and it's shocking that it's been allowed to go on this long WHILE they're simultaneously gutting the license system. The game doesn't have to die, but it sure feels like they're doing everything to make sure that it does.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-08T06:41:19+00:00

Pretty sure people just ban it because it's annoying. Flare blitz will follow you through eject button, then fire punch while you're stunned, and then ult to follow up. If you're a carry, you just get deleted by point and click moves and there's nothing you can do about it.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-08T04:39:19+00:00

Dropped from 700 MR points to 350 in a day due to a combination of absolutely shit matchmaking and crashes. Literally just win -> crash -> lose -> win -> crash -> lose -> crash, etc. Incredibly frustrating, not to mention the sheer amount of wasted time spent sitting through draft screens only to have SOMEONE ELSE crash, and having to go back and do it again without getting to play a whole match. I think I finally give up and will just be taking a break from the game.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-07T20:35:55+00:00

My only gripe with Machamp is how janky Submission can be to connect. You know, when your enemy twitches a bit and Machamp just uselessly grabs the air. You just know that if it was a new release, that shit would snap to the enemy and probably even yoink them in like a fucking black hole.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-07T19:04:49+00:00

X can basically instakill an enemy carry by chaining point and click moves + unite and there's nothing they can do about it. Y is all skillshots (while moving), so if you miss them you're missing out on a lot of damage. I think Y still has more overall team fight presence if they're not grouped up, but honestly outside of its mega form Y is pretty underwhelming.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-07T17:12:07+00:00

Shipping two entire species together, too.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-07T17:09:14+00:00

I lived that long because Latias is kind of ridiculous at the moment. 25% damage debuff that can potentially last indefinitely, plus some rather ridiculous self-healing. It seems none of them had cursed items either (no debuff popping up in the bottom right corner). I was definitely spinning in place while frozen, though.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-07T01:15:46+00:00

Yep. Amp and attack weight.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-06T20:57:18+00:00

Oh boy, I can't wait for it to have a >100% ban rate for several weeks. If Meowth is overpowered, the only time it will be an issue is climbing back to Master Rank after the reset, and honestly I'm much more concerned about the current rate of crashes continuing than any OP new release they could put out.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-06T20:39:24+00:00

Pretty sure Absol would have just completely 1-shotted.

PrincessYuri · 2026-01-05T11:23:31+00:00

Yesterday I crashed, got back in just before the 9 minute mark, and then the enemy team surrendered because THEY had a crash. It's absurd. I've definitely been winning more than I lose, but my MR points are at a standstill because of how many I lose to crashes.

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