PvP Discussion and Feedback

[bl0nde]

Post your thoughts if want to give input.

 

I love the new PvP. My only complaint on it (as an OU player) is the ranked is only ran 3 hours of the day. Unranked seems to often be concentrated with casuals (10 or 11 times for me) who for example just completed story. It makes for mismatched duels for me in terms of experience. The ranked duels I get more knowledgeable people and more fair games, but they are only being available to me for those 3 hours. The ranked matches running 24/7 like pokemon showdown are ideal in my opinion for the purpose of being matched with someone more close to you.

 

I realize tournament mode is available, but Vermillion city tournament mode duels are more rare now (likely due to PvP + berries) so I am mostly just counting on PvP to entertain me and most likely will be in the future too.

 

Thank you for reading.

 

 

[KaynineXL]

I love doing normals, just for grinding BP while having fun and practising. On top of that, ranks are very fun because there is more on the line you get a sense of competitiveness which adds the fun, I do agree though, there should be more rank uptime throughout the day.

 

Overall, on the PvP side of the update, a very successful update.

 

 

Edit:

Oh and one more thing I'd like to say. I didn't realize Silph co tournaments were getting replaced entirely by the automated ones. I was told we would still get silph co ones which is a shame because I feel we'll lose that sense of community gathering which was great for heating up the competition and allowing us to interact with fellow players outside of our team.

 

I still feel we should get Silph co tournaments along with automated ones :(

Edited March 29, 2016 by KaynineXL

[gokucopkake]

yeh in i dont like much this option the real pvp is in vermilion city and i wish devs hadn't add this freature

[Gunthug]

I love doing normals, just for grinding BP while having fun and practising. On top of that, ranks are very fun because their is more on the line you get a sense of competitiveness which adds the fun, I do agree though, there should be more rank uptime throughout the day.

 

Overall, on the PvP side of the update, a very successful update.

 

 

Edit:

Oh and one more thing I'd like to say. I didn't realize Silph co tournaments were getting replaced entirely by the automated ones. I was told we would still get silph co ones which is a shame because I feel we'll lose that sense of community gathering which was great for heating up the competition and allowing us to interact with fellow players outside of our team.

 

I still feel we should get Silph co tournaments along with automated ones :(

we can gather wherever we want for automated tournaments, though. How annoying was it constantly having to run from silph to PC and back every round? And if they add some sort of PVP channel (or we hijack channel 7 chat or something) we'll still have plenty of smack talk to keep the community interaction aspect alive and well

 

To address OP, I completely agree with extending ranked battle time. I do think, though, that the unranked people who are currently unskilled will learn fast - theres no better way to learn than to be thrown into the fire

Edited March 28, 2016 by Gunthug

[KaynineXL]

we can gather wherever we want for automated tournaments, though. How annoying was it constantly having to run from silph to PC and back every round? And if they add some sort of PVP channel (or we hijack channel 7 chat or something) we'll still have plenty of smack talk to keep the community interaction aspect alive and well

 

To address OP, I completely agree with extending ranked battle time. I do think, though, that the unranked people who are currently unskilled will learn fast - theres no better way to learn than to be thrown into the fire

But how will people see my cute look?

[Arimanius]

yeh in i dont like much this option the real pvp is in vermilion city and i wish devs hadn't add this freature

I wanna take my eyes out

 

In topic:

 

I understand ur point blonde but think about this, people who's not good enough in pvp yet can learn from there so we can get more competitive players in a period of time, it was expected at least for me that this was going to happen, but I'm really happy about this pvp system

[DrCraig]

I haven't tried to PvP system yet :( but I'm excited that were going to have a possible way of receiving usage constantly and in real time.

I hope automated tournaments are as hype as those in Silph co.
We should establish an informal PC and channel to go to during automated tournaments. Community yo.

Edit: maybe somebody make a quick thread to establish that. That'd be awesome. I'm on my phone so my thread would be shitty ugly.

Edited March 28, 2016 by DrCraig

[KaynineXL]

I vote Verm ch7 PC - The PSL spot.

 

I like that spot :>

[FNTCZ]

I agree with extending the ranked hours, but then it is a must lo lower the BP rewards on it

[SirYurop]

#Viricomesback

[bl0nde]

I keep playing unranked and I think my opponents are getting more close to me. I think it is matched by rating just like the ranked, but no visible ranks are present.

 

edit: imagining big troll face to me from staff and devs at this moment. :P

Edited March 28, 2016 by bl0nde

[Thunderprime]

nah blonde you just getting "lucky" when you fight average players lol

[Bearminator]

I like new PVP addon. It's so nice to farm bp and to test new teams. Fantastic work on this. 

[slidingpanda]

The matchmaking feature is amazing, imo. It motivates me to battle (which I didn't really do much in the past) and it's great that we can practice with many people that we wouldn't challenge otherwise.

I just hope they add other tiers real soon cause OU is giving me major cancer nowadays :P

Edited March 29, 2016 by slidingpanda

[Eggplant]

They could have ranked run 24/7, but I'm pretty sure it runs this way for a reason.

That is, people see it as an opportunity like, "OH SNAP IT'S RANKED QUICK LETS GO PLAY", so queues will be full and efficient and you'll actually find some partners who are actively laddering.

I think it might not hurt to have a fourth time at most, but I wouldn't bump it to 24/7 or we'll lose that 'rush hour' value.

[SirYurop]

Only if server can handle the rush hour

Edited March 29, 2016 by SirYurop

[BlackJovi]

Man, I love this PvP matchmaking update, it's way better than sitting at verm battling a bunch of noobs + the occasional uber party, plus ranked is really fun you get to play a lot of good members who actually care about the points so you get better with time. Ty devs 

[DoubleJ]

Post your thoughts if want to give input.

 

I love the new PvP. My only complaint on it (as an OU player) is the ranked is only ran 3 hours of the day. Unranked seems to often be concentrated with casuals (10 or 11 times for me) who for example just completed story. It makes for mismatched duels for me in terms of experience. The ranked duels I get more knowledgeable people and more fair games, but they are only being available to me for those 3 hours. The ranked matches running 24/7 like pokemon showdown are ideal in my opinion for the purpose of being matched with someone more close to you.

 

I realize tournament mode is available, but Vermillion city tournament mode duels are more rare now (likely due to PvP + berries) so I am mostly just counting on PvP to entertain me and most likely will be in the future too.

 

Thank you for reading.

 

I can agree that this probably hurt the Vermillion community more than anything, but hopefully like with trade chat a bit of time will prove that sometimes you just can't beat the og system. UU and NU players will likely flock back to Vermillion in hopes of finding a duel. As for OU though, I guess I can just say that I've been fortunate to play some quality players thus far, with your occasional random but even then they seemed to know what they were doing. 

 

I do agree though that the ranked system should be online for longer periods of time, or even just be open for the entirety of Saturday and Sunday, with weekdays unranked. 

[NikhilR]

I wish there was some sort of anonymity when doing ranked matches. I don't like the idea of people finding out how bad I actually am.  

[BlackJovi]

I wish there was some sort of anonymity when doing ranked matches. I don't like the idea of people finding out how bad I actually am.  

Please nik don't be so humble 

[LionKIng]

just annoying to face the same person back to back. Hapenned to me twice in 2 days, vs the same guy. And ofc that guy had to be frags lol.

[Desu]

just annoying to face the same person back to back. Hapenned to me twice in 2 days, vs the same guy. And ofc that guy had to be frags lol.

The 2 minute intervals in matchmaking kind of lead to this. There's a direct incentive to immediately reregister for both players, raising the possibility for both to get matched with each other again.

This can't really be fixed without raising the interval, which I'm not sure if the best idea to do at the moment.

[DestructX]

just annoying to face the same person back to back. Hapenned to me twice in 2 days, vs the same guy. And ofc that guy had to be frags lol.

also annoying when a guy has a perfect counter to my team and i have to face him over and over

yeah i could change my team, but why change it for one person when my team is successful vs everyone else

[BlackJovi]

Is it just me or the ranked matchmaking fights are more haxy than ever? It's getting ridiculous tbh, did the devs tweak it or something or is it a coincidence that a lot of players feel this way? 

Edited March 30, 2016 by BlackJovi

[LuisPocho]

I feel like in pvp all the games are super haxy... Almost all my duels were stupid, and definied by rng: Im not lying, in one game I freezed the other guy 5 times; I won against yangsam with 3 or 4 crits; lots of paralysis in a row; so many crits


And Im not the only one, I have been spectating and asking people around and many feel like they win or loose by hax... someone else is feeling the same?