Ex-cel Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Mystic pokemon make the experience of playing the season Battle tower miserable. I can usually get past most of the battles using at most 3 pokemon. When mystics show up, this number goes up to 4-5. Which means it doesn't really increase the difficulty, doesn't make it a challenge, it's merely an inconvenience. I don't have to carefully strategize which pokemon should fight each opposing pokemon, I don't have to modify my team to cover for a certain type. I don't even need to use my entire team. The problem is that facing such inconveniences too often is simply frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I abuse the 25% extra damage that Dark pokemon provide to be able to OHKO anything in my way (main reason why the battles are not that difficult), and for that reason I think it's OK that Mystic pokemon are an option out there. But I can't help but feel like having the chance of something happening is kind of a cheap strategy when compared to taking the 25% bonus guaranteed. Games that rely on %s are in a tricky spot. Even if it's a feature of the game itself available to the player to use if he so desires, it can easily make the player feel cheated. Example: The frequency of instances in which my pokemon miss 4 turns in a row is not compatible to what the 25% chance to miss would suggest. I remember Patrick mentioning when the battle tower was introduced that the future plan was for each battle to have a chance of giving certain rewards and that it eventually replace the sidequests. This current event is interesting and I hope is a step in that direction (as it seems) cause I feel like some extra incentives would do wonders to my willingness to keep battling in the tower after a few battles being BS'd by pesky Mystic pokemon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landon132 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Exactly that’s how I feel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billabob Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 skill issue 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kogamaster1234 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 mystics are garbage! except ones that are player hold, npc ones are scraps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
