Smooge

Enjoyment: i enjoyed the dungeon, it was something new and enjoyable for sure, i hope to see more co-op things like that in the future. I also really enjoyed the dragonspiral tower, it was fun to scale. Quest Difficulty: Difficulty was fine for an "endgame" player imo, but new players might struggle a lot. Dragonspiral was hard but at the same time fun to do (at least for me) Story/Lore perspective: other than "why the hell is an exact copy of dragonspiral tower in this Christmas town", it was fine Effort/Reward Ratio: dungeon should have given better rewards imo, i did it like 9 times and saw no change in my wealth. For future dungeons (if planned), if i was going to do it over and over, it should be something i can grind to actually make some money, otherwise it's kind of just pointless once you've hit a certain point in the game. As for dragonspiral tower, rewards were fine and the reshiram and zekrom sprites look fantastic.

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-5 Rank on ladder: 9

Username: Smooge Server: Silver Country/Timezone: USA GMT-4

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Smooge - Silver

This is something i have been very vocal about for a while, but have never made a thread about it. So here it is I find this "mechanic" to be very unhealthy for the game, not only by how it makes pvp less fun, but it also encourages pvpers to not play multiple games in a row, or change their teams after every match to avoid getting either counter teamed/getting the same (bad) matchup again. The latter is especially annoying, its not a matter of just playing it better, some matchups are just polarizing to the point of *forcing you* to change teams. Changing teams after a match is NOT something thats very plausible in an MMO setting, this is especially true for newer players who have just finished their only team and are trying to get their foot in the door of the pvp scene. In some cases, this could be a "good thing" allowing you to "farm" a new player over and over for free rating and coins, this may be a "good" thing for one person, but the person on the receiving end is almost certainly not having fun. I would suspect some new players have given up on pvp solely because they queue up into the same ladder player over and over For someone like me, this mechanic is just HORRIBLE for content creation. I was trying to record a 45 minute video the other day and got the same person 4 times in a row. Obviously fighting the same person 4x in a row isnt something a lot of people would like to watch, so I always only include 1 battle. This 45 minute recording session turned into a 3 hour session of boring hell, and completely ruined my mood for the rest of the video. Now, since i bring this up a lot i hear these 2 arguments against changing this mechanic. First is usually "this is a thing in many other games too" I dont find this to be a good argument at all, mostly for the reasons i stated above. It encourages you to play a different team every game, which is not a viable way to get around this in an MMO setting like ours, hunting/buying/preparing full teams takes a long time, its not something you can do overnight. And "it would make queue times too long" I do not think this would have an impact on the ladder queue at all, again for the reason i stated above. The current system encourages you to only play few games per day, at peak hours to ensure you get the most diversity possible. And even if this does impact the pvp queue times, theres a very simple solution. Make finding the same person 2x in a row an optional setting. Also something i didnt even think of, this would help stop boosters. Thanks for reading, have a nice day, let me know your thoughts on this.

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-4 Rank on ladder: 24

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT -5 Rank on ladder: 3

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Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-4 Rank on ladder: 21

Player name: smooge Showdown name: smooge Server: silver Timezone: gmt-4 Rank on ladder: 2

As a stall player myself, i rarely have to spend more than 15 seconds to choose my move. As a stall player who has been time stalled (deliberately letting the time go down over and over), i cant think of a worse experience. I think you misunderstand the rule; it doesnt prohibit stall as a playstyle at all, and with the new timer system its pretty hard to run out of time accidently.

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-4 Rank on ladder: 8

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-4 Rank on ladder: 15

Username: Smooge Server: Silver Country/Timezone: USA / GMT-4

Player name: smooge Showdown name: smooge Server: silver Timezone: gmt-4 Rank on ladder: 16

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT -4 Rank on ladder: 4

Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Timezone: GMT-5 Rank on ladder: 13

+1. Everything i wanted to say has already been said

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Player name: Smooge Showdown name: Smooge Server: Silver Rank on ladder: 18th

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