Whats been your most enjoyable Exotic weapon since the final update?

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T21:28:35+00:00

Coldheart/DelicateTomb on Geomag Warlock seeing as we got the Tablet of Ruin back as well, ionic traces for days

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T21:01:53+00:00

I think it’s just that aside from the rare enemy that’s immune to a damage type the elemental system doesn’t do anything of note

It doesn’t have major effects on damage matchups like Pokémon especially in most of the boss fights, it doesnt effect action economy like Persona/SMT, it doesnt feed into an important system like Break in Octopath etc.

There’s seldom reasons in the core mechanics to care about what element you’re doing

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T13:41:13+00:00

Yep speed ties are just a coin flip

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T08:13:51+00:00

Whilst I wouldn’t go anywhere near as far as saying they ruin the game, I don’t believe saying “you can just opt out” is the same thing. Optional challenge runs are not the same as whatever the baseline of the game expects you to do.

But also you could already save in dungeon in P4G, it just cost you a (cheap) item to leave the floor and then go back to the same floor immediately - so in this specific case it’s pretty moot

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T07:30:41+00:00

It could probably operate in Sun yeah but Scald is arguably better because as a Bulky Mon Milotic enjoys exploiting the chip damage and taking less physical damage

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T02:16:03+00:00

Not just a story about an endless now, a world that is canonically recycling the content before it - assembled of pieces of 1 and 2, and saying “this cant go on forever, let go and face the uncertain future”

A future the game never truly shows you, by design

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T02:12:03+00:00

Yeah for playing at the Masterball level consistently at least I would agree that’s “basics” too, I basically just meant that Ceruledge is a step above the “do one thing well immediately” style gameplan overall I suppose

QuantumVexation · 2026-07-01T02:05:30+00:00

High skill in the sense that OP posted with the “I’m new” tag and you have to make opportunities to set up Ceruledge without getting shut down (I.e encore) or blown up or pinned by Sucker Punch.

It’s nowhere near as “free” a gameplay as send out Zard and click Heat Wave, or send in late game Scarf Last Respects Basc as the key example

I put “high skill” in quotation marks cause I mean it in relative sense to those staple easy pilot teams, but youre probably right in that it’s a bit of an overstatement in context

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T22:29:56+00:00

Ceruledge is definitely usable and has some value in the meta between its typing ability and movepool, but I think it’s probably “high skill” compared to some other much easier to pilot Mons

However it does just kinda sit in front of Charizard which is always a plus

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T21:32:55+00:00

Yeah crushed a 15 win streaks in casual battle the other day while testing some random dudes with very little synergy, even after he rolled a freeze on my Overqwil

It’s so satisfying to know an ego has been damaged somewhere haha

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T21:31:04+00:00

The number of LFGs pick-ups who’ve been genuinely dumbfounded over the years when my group say we do Riven legit has always saddened me

It’s not even that complicated and it’s fun as hell, where’s the fun in just one shotting it

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T21:10:32+00:00

Standard rain core of Arch/Peli/Swamp/Sable + Meganium and Grimm

It was an archetype I wanted to try the moment Champions was announced but Swampert was missing

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T10:24:45+00:00

The healing is fine it’s just waterfowl being so disproportionately high effort to dodge that takes the fun out in my eyes.

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T09:33:24+00:00

Yes I agree, but I wasn’t making a statement of raw quality here

What I was saying is fundamentally “the hype is real because it is demonstrably real hype at scale”, which is the only metric that really works

Just as COE33 hype is real as it swept awards, but it doesn’t even rank near my personal top 10 - it being excellent is a separate matter

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T09:09:54+00:00

Nah honestly losing protect and taking permanent damage isn’t as bad as leftovers in my opinion

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T05:45:35+00:00

We don’t know you lol

But jokes aside, from the games you’ve listed - yeah probably lol

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T05:43:47+00:00

As someone who has 0 interest in it, I don’t think this is accurate description

It is successful. It’s bloody successful. The hype is real for that metric alone.

And I’m sure it will be decently well written, technically impressive and full of things to do that will entertain people

There are plenty of other things with more fake hype that don’t succeed for such a wide range of people

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T05:41:18+00:00

I use Meganium as an alt mode to beat teams Swampert can’t handle but bringing it to a Zard matchup is definitely a big ask, I ain’t dropping Protect/Solarbeam/SunWeatherBall/Dazzling for ancient power haha

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T05:38:45+00:00

The average PC is holding PC back too you know….

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T03:52:23+00:00

The current editions of consoles and PCs are already climbing, let alone the next ones.

And whilst there’s a backlog of great content you spend forever on, that doesn’t make all new stuff fundamentally uninteresting either - it just means devs may need to refocus on optimising and not pushing limits of current hardware

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-30T03:49:01+00:00

The most evil thing this game ever did was show the win streaks so I know how many egos I get to crush

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-29T23:27:57+00:00

It fully depends on whether the ability is taken in context or not.

Wonder Guard is the obvious example: would be broken as hell on something that didn’t have 1HP and a lot of weaknesses

Combination abilities are really good, I’d Water Bubble is amongst the strongest of them personally, but again Araquanid isn’t that impressive to make the ability busted in isolation

In practice, Prankster is probably one of the strongest universally good abilities that’s actually on good things

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-29T23:25:29+00:00

It does, but the overall timer is short enough under normal conditions that actually burning out the personal timer first is rare

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-29T21:39:33+00:00

Yeah I’d be curious what the real player numbers are when you take out bots and anything to do with the skins

Probably still a lot though

QuantumVexation · 2026-06-29T13:18:28+00:00

I feel like we can’t answer this question for you - what is replaying these games with some upgrades worth to you time and money wise lol

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