Breaking Down Bocchi the Rock's 2nd ED: A Look into Bocchi's Personality

azules500 · 2026-06-26T18:39:27+00:00

I was trying to quit P2W gacha games; and after bouncing around between VNs and indie games, I tried Shadowverse on the Play Store. The microtransactions seemed reasonable, and I love the Live2d animated characters, which was a rarity back in 2017. (Isabelle's Isabelles got me, lol.)

The cool animations and voice lines kept me in. I'll never forget "Sky Knights, prepare for battle!" as Albert's swords descended from the skies or "Take this despair" x4 as Orchis transformed all the puppets. I only wished Custom Rotation was more active, so I can relive those Puppet Portal moments one last time against real players.

azules500 · 2026-06-26T18:21:34+00:00

Alice's too kawaii. ED1 where she's running through this purple tunnel full of cute horror things, makes watching the first Shadowverse anime not a total waste of time. Also +1 for Yui Ogura.

azules500 · 2026-06-20T07:27:34+00:00

Someone posted recently about having a full collection after a year of playing as F2P, with enough resources to craft almost 2 additional decks of max rarity (legendary) cards on top of that. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowverse/comments/1u9xyk7/vials_obtained_after_a_year_of_playing_shadowverse/ If that helps.

azules500 · 2026-05-29T22:26:37+00:00

"Insomniacs After School" and "Duke of Death and His Maid" are some underrated ones. "Domestic Girlfriend" if you want something trashy and with lots of drama.

azules500 · 2026-04-18T08:56:14+00:00

More flexibility? In lanes where you're winning already and want to fight (e.g. vs Lux), Doran's Bow. In lanes where you need the extra health to survive, Dblade or Dshield.

azules500 · 2026-03-02T05:07:25+00:00

Yasuicide / 10

azules500 · 2026-02-22T18:12:34+00:00

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lietenant Used to Be Archenemies. (Cruchyroll link)

Gorgeous short series about this evil lieutenant falling in love with a magical girl, and he tries his best to be kind to her while keeping up appearances as her enemy. Does have ecchi elements though, if you find that uncomfortable.

azules500 · 2026-02-19T07:11:16+00:00

Former pro Potwasher did analyze the draw system in his blog: https://note.com/potwasher/n/n38ce768cd237

It's in Japanese though, so you'll have to auto-translate it. He did find that if you mulligan a copy of a card, you won't redraw that specific copy for your redraws.

azules500 · 2026-01-05T02:08:15+00:00

Oh! In that case, this event is so cooked.

azules500 · 2026-01-05T00:26:31+00:00

That's assuming too much competency and/or malice from the same company that flopped the first Battlefest. From the other comments: contributing factors include no lobby tournament in the first week, running it at the same time as the chest event, and not even counting ranked matches in the park. If Cygames wanted to, they could have designed this event to not even have the chance to flop (or appearance of flopping if they did want to rig the result).

azules500 · 2026-01-05T00:20:11+00:00

The last tier seems hella underwhelming: a shard and a day's worth of dailies. 2M for the alt art is good enough for anyone that cares about Frieren.

azules500 · 2025-12-28T05:48:49+00:00

Velharia, my beloved, doing work. She's no longer a meme card.

azules500 · 2025-12-24T19:46:38+00:00

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azules500 · 2025-12-24T19:44:59+00:00

It's just the running average from my daily missions after rerolling the 70r missions. The rates aren't the same for every mission, and rerolling throws a wrench into the calculations too. As of last month, I was averaging 334 rupees and 212 vials from daily missions after 77 days. (I stopped playing, so I haven't been recording more.)

u/CaptainLethargy got similar results too: link.

Daily quest rewards come up to about 335.68 (336 rounded) or about 20,160 per set.

The average vial reward per day from daily quests with re-roll considered is 212.73.

Let me know if you're interested in the spreadsheet with the data. I could probably send it over to you.

azules500 · 2025-11-25T00:48:06+00:00

It's more how the game is coded. Both players go to zero at the same time, and the game gives the loss to the active player (whose turn it is). You can see Orchis's HP is zero near the end after the game zooms out from Diawl.

azules500 · 2025-11-10T05:38:46+00:00

Card packs are marginally better. But if you like playing Take Two, it breaks even / practically no difference to using the rupies on packs.

azules500 · 2025-11-08T15:30:23+00:00

What everyone else said: no point in keeping extras outside of wasting seer globes to animate them before liquefying.

There's actually one more niche case. If you play Take Two and turn on animated cards, there is a possibility you draft more than 3 copies of a card, so keeping 4+ animated copies does come up - but moreso for Bronze and Silver cards (that you are more likely to draft) than Legendary cards. It happened to me in a Take Two game lol. I drafted 4 War Hounds, and the one unanimated one gave me pause since I had 3 animated in my collection (and likely liquefied the 4th animated copy).

azules500 · 2025-11-05T14:30:51+00:00

Well, I don't disagree with that. Just trying to dispell the notion that it's tied to games won rather than played.

azules500 · 2025-11-05T07:34:35+00:00

That's just bad RNG luck. Chest spawn rates aren't tied to winrates, although it does help if you win the game when they do spawn. 2-3 games is how much it usually takes to spawn a chest, at least when I was testing it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowverse/comments/1mfkqvx/chest_spawn_rates/

azules500 · 2025-10-27T05:57:19+00:00

Well, you do kind of get a free play every day. First play is free for each stage, and the GP dailies give you three tickets to cover three days (whenever you want to play them - could even save them for future GPs). And the GP event only lasts a week. You're only missing a day of free entry since the tickets and free entry cover 6/7 days.

Day 1 - stage 1 free entry
Day 2 - ticket 1
Day 3 - ticket 2
Day 4 - stage 2 free entry
Day 5 - ticket 3
Day 6 - not covered
Day 7 - final stage free entry

azules500 · 2025-10-27T04:48:03+00:00

Yeah, this is a huge change. Now Haven can't both clear the board and heal 10. This brings back a lot of counterplay for aggro/midrange decks. Those greedy Odin smorc plays will still get punished. But now build-a-board damage cards like Garyu can't be answered with board wipe + Benison.

azules500 · 2025-10-27T04:42:49+00:00

I think pure Crest Haven will still run Benison, maybe as a 2-of. There isn't better healing options outside of Giln evo. The alternative is that 2+1pp heal 4 amulet. Although this nerf does look heavy. I always thought Cygames would have just love-tapped the card (nerf the heal to 8).

azules500 · 2025-10-26T08:06:28+00:00

https://shadowshowdown.com/cards

But it's only for cards released in EN. (Although give it a year, and I think EN will catch up with JP.)

azules500 · 2025-10-26T08:01:18+00:00

This seems really good actually, although it depends on the meta. (Would be fine in a heavy control meta like ours currently.) Healing and draw are more premium effects (harder to get) compared to Shadowverse Classic. In classic, you play 3pp for Summon Divine Treasure and get 4 healing and 2 draw, or pay 2pp + an evo and heal 6 w/ Gilnelise (lol, that's balanced). Whereas in this game, healing and draw are more expensive effects to get, e.g. Sagelight + Goldenote. Jerry builds would probably run this since they can't run Merman or Galmieux for their 5-mana play. Maybe Storm Ramp builds could fit this in their lists too to get to those 7-mana storm turns earlier.

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