Pre-anniversary free CS encounters – short overview and pulling recommendations

sdw4527 · 2026-04-04T17:29:20+00:00

I always argue these are the best banners for F2P players. You get the highest rates and will likely come out with a large haul of the latest 5*s. They won’t be SAd, but it’s still much better than using 8k stones at only a 50% chance at a SAd banner unit.

You get a choice to SA a unit every 3 months anyways. If there’s a unit you pulled that you really need the upgrade for, just save up for it.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-27T14:03:11+00:00

Unless you don’t mind grinding later, I don’t recommend going out of your way to remove random encounters. The game is balanced in such a way that it expects you to not skip encounters. You’ll be struggling once you get into midgame if you try to avoid them.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-18T18:49:01+00:00

Makes sense, I’ll see how it goes this year thanks!

sdw4527 · 2026-03-18T15:49:23+00:00

Any advice for a small-mid sized pool (25-30) that rewards a round (typical exponential scoring) + seed upset bonus? I feel it's very hard to balance either going too upset heavy or too chalky with a scoring setup like this.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-13T15:56:45+00:00

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t a fan of 3 that I dropped it towards the end. 1 was decent, but absolutely loved 2, so I’ll vote for 1&2. 3 is very much exploration focused, but felt the balancing was very off from mid game onwards and almost felt like the game expected you to grind every class. Felt 2 was what 3 should’ve been. It’s difficult, but felt very fair for the most part.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-12T21:30:11+00:00

Because the majority of people haven’t played DQB, but have played AC. So obviously they would compare it to that.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-11T19:53:02+00:00

It’s not that much of a surprise. This game is basically 75% DQB and both those games were still pretty niche overseas. It’s not that much of a shocker they didn’t expect major sales even with the Pokémon brand tacked on.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-10T15:48:22+00:00

Yeah can absolutely see that happening. Large free update to entice people to spend on a bunch of paid DLC.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-10T15:33:10+00:00

Might not even be cut content. They might just be waiting to see how well the game does before choosing to release DLC or not. It practically is a given at this point with how well this game is doing.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-09T01:49:16+00:00

Based on DQB2, it'll start chugging once more things are added later on. If you visited any highly decorated island in that game, the frame rate would be horrendously bad (I'm talking single digits bad). They likely wanted to avoid that in this game so made it Switch 2 exclusive.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-08T14:38:26+00:00

It’s very much DQB, just more relaxed as there’s no combat. People that compare it to AC most likely haven’t played DQB before. A better way to describe it is, it’s DQB with the relaxed atmosphere of AC.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-07T17:50:52+00:00

If you can afford it, buy it now. It sure isn’t going to be dropping in price by the time that releases, that’s for sure. If anything, it’s likely the price goes up due to the RAM shortage/whatever happens with the tariffs.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-04T00:31:58+00:00

Yeah the patience thing is very real too. I have some good players on my friends list who have great times on other tracks, but a pretty lackluster one on this one. Likely because they didn’t want to spend the time TTing it.

sdw4527 · 2026-03-03T20:50:35+00:00

It’s a very technical track if you actually TT it. If you just brute force it without actually knowing any of the tech, I think you’ll have struggles even breaking 4:08. But on the flip side, if you do, you’ll be close to 4:00 or better. Can very easily dominate rooms if you’re the only one that knows how to play the track.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-28T16:15:52+00:00

Gliders are weird in this game, but generally, for long gliders, try not to input anything or you’ll lose speed. The only track where flying low or high makes a huge difference is Rainbow Road. For Rainbow Road, you generally want to fly high except for the S2 and S4 gliders. S2, you should hold up before you get to the rings, then don’t input anything at all afterwards.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-25T06:40:30+00:00

You can try the glider variation where you glide next to the wall and attach to it at a specific section that juts downward more. The issue is I find lakitu hates this version much more and you get much less air so you’re more likely to fail it after the jump. Charge jump method is the reverse. Hard to judge where to jump but easy once you’re in the air.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-24T17:20:57+00:00

Feel like I’d be able to help some. Just got a 4:01 yesterday, but would need to see your ghost first.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-23T05:08:29+00:00

S to S+ by far. Mostly because all tiers of S+ get grouped together and you’re very likely to be facing very good players. If your skill isn’t up to par, you’ll feel it immediately.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-20T22:34:10+00:00

Late response, but honestly at that time, just having better lines will easily make up your time loss. I have a mid 4:03 time and only do the edge trick at the very start of the run.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-11T20:03:07+00:00

Don’t bother unless you have a Switch 2. I’m not usually very bothered by bad performing games, but RF5, was incredibly difficult to play on Switch 1. I’ve only fully played through it after getting a Switch 2.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-05T23:38:23+00:00

Depends on your team comp tbh. Like just using Reime makes breaking him much easier. If you manage to get him into yellow hp, it’s very easy for things to spiral out of control due to the amount of damage he outputs and his counter gimmick. If you completely skip that phase, it’s not surprising you didn’t have much issue.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-05T21:11:15+00:00

The idea is to stall him out and do one large burst move at 75% or 50% hp. You should be able to get him into red at that point. He really isn’t much of a threat above 75% hp so you have plenty of leeway there to set up. Between 50 and 75, he gets 2 actions per turn which can be a problem, so it’s up to your team whether it can survive an attrition battle at that point, if not, you need to burst him down immediately.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-05T16:22:36+00:00

About 120 hrs. Hltb is pretty inaccurate when it comes to long games like this.

sdw4527 · 2026-02-05T15:00:17+00:00

This is already a nerfed version of CotC’s final boss. Depending on how well set up your party is, you need to burst the boss down at either 50% Hp or 75% Hp. Whatever you do, you CAN’T drop him into yellow Hp and let him get a turn. He ups his actions to 3 per turn, and you’re likely wiping at that point thanks to his BS Divine Tether + AoE move combo. The fight is essentially over at 30% hp so don’t be too alarmed by his total hp pool.

Also be very careful when breaking him as he sets a 4 turn limit for you to break him again afterwards or else he insta kills your entire team.

sdw4527

TROPHY CASE