Set pokémon levels to 50 for unranked battle queue (PvP easier for the casual player)

[Olker]

To the date, PvP in PRO has been limited to ranked playing, or guild events/tournaments. This mainly due to the requirements needed to be able to enter the unranked battle queue (6 level 100 pokémon).

 

What I try to suggest, is to add more options to the unranked battle queue, for example:

 

1. Anything goes: Where anyone, even a team of 3 lvl 5s, can be matched with someone with a full lvl 100 team. There wouldn't be any bans other than glitched moves/abilitirs, meaning this that swagger, dugtrio's arena trap, etc, wouldn't be banned.

 

2. Set the pokémon levels to 30/40/50 for the battle:

Like in the main series games. This would be the go to for the casual battler, as it wouldn't require the time to build a team of 100s, it would also be a good way for people to learn about team synergy, as it's very likely that most people who join this queue, will still be using their story pokémon. All rules of the ranked ladder would be applied here. This will make battling in PRO more active in the casual side (I say this because if you join the unranked queue, it usually times out 4-5 times before finding an opponent, and this should change that).

 

I know you can just click on another person, and challenge to battle, but it's way harder to find someone with pokemon your same level AND wants to fight.

 

Ranked ladder would stay the same, as it is supposed to be for hardcore pvpers.

 

However, I also suggest to put one requirement to be able to use any of the unranked queues. Maybe something like getting the 4th badge, so that they have an idea of how to play before being able to join the queues.

[Imtrippin]

No, the reason why unranked queue is dead is because simply nobody cares about it. Dividing the pvp system into even more tiers will have a huge negative impact since even the ranked queue takes a while to match you with other players. By giving people more option they would either start playing different stuff and make every queue take a long time to get matched in or simply just be another dead queue just like unranked already is which would just end up being a waste of time and energy for the devs. The playerbase of this game is just too small to have more tiers.

[Olker]

You can't say people don't care. Only reaseon why unranked is dead, is because of the level 100 requirement, that takes time. I've known of a lot of players along my time in this game, which isn't little, that stopped playing because they didn't have enough time for the grind. Maybe the anything goes queue can be rejected, but at least the lvl 50 thing with 4th badge req could be implemented in unranked queue, which would be fairly easy to implement in the game, therefore not wasting too much of the dev's times.

 

The idea here is to let the casual players enjoy pvp a bit more, therefore creating more hardcore players in the long run.

[Imtrippin]

Having 6 lvl 100 pokemon is just not a reason. People not caring is really the reason even if you don't believe it. I, myself and every single person I socialize with in the game don't care about it and it was sadly just a waste to even implement it to begin with since I've even tested going into unranked queue multiple times just to see if anyone is actually in it. It always times out since there's noone else queueing up and people not being able to get 6 lvl 100s is just not true since there are hundreds, if not thousands of RANKED pvp battles every day with the same requirements to queue up.

[Olker]

As I have stated before, ranked ladder is supposed to be for hardcore players, so those who have the time, will of course be playing in this ladder.

 

The lvl 50s thing I would like devs to implement, is for CASUAL players. And with that I mean players that play 1-2 hours a day, those who didn't complete all regions yet, and have under 100-150 hours gameplay. Of course most of us experienced players won't care about the unranked ladder, since we have the ranked ladder. But at the same time, those who don't have the experience/time, and would like to battle, can't go to unranked due to the requirements.

[Imtrippin]

Good luck with your thread.

[Olker]

Thanks a lot!

[Olker]

Up^

[Mexicannoob]

-1

[Olker]

Someone's salty I didn't like his mega pokémon idea, lol.

 

Plus it's not a feature that would benefit us, experienced players, but as said above, CASUAL players.