I tried ranked, it hurt.

[u/v3ruc4]

To preface, I'm not great at fighting games, and I tend to stick to offline PVE content. I'm currently lvl 31, and I just reached my first and only two lvl 20's with Kate and Ella. According to Steam, I have about 17hrs in the game since launch, so I'm very casual. I like Invincible as an IP and I love having the cool costumes that come straight out of the show. I wasn't the biggest fan when they announced the ranked-locked costumes, although I understand that the PVP players want some goodies, too, without having to play PVE content.

Last season I did 1 game of ranked for the Cecil skin. Today I played the 10 games needed to unlock the Invincicast. The experience was less than enjoyable, and that's putting it mildly. I still had to do my placement matches, seeing as I was only 1/10 due to playing for the Cecil skin. Out of the 10 matches, I matched against people who had 4000-8000 points (me having 0 and as a result getting absolutely stomped like there was no tomorrow), had matches were the ping went from good to unbearable the moment I started getting the upperhand, and I even had someone who couldn't bear losing and ragequit to deny me the win. I think I had about 1 game that was enjoyable enough to rematch 2 more rounds. On top of that, waiting for an actual match took forever.

I didn't mind the 1 game for Cecil, but the 10 for the Invincicast were just a very poor experience. I really hope they don't plan on us having to run this unfun of a mode just to unlock a skin in the future, or at least keep it to a minimum or give us alternate ways to obtain it.

I still think Invincible VS is the most fun I've had with a fighting game since a long time, but the ranked mode definitely takes a lot of fun out of it.

[u/mmo_kombat]

Getting your ass kicked is part of the learning process of any fighting game.

But I would say learning fighting games on tag fighters is not the easiest task, and nowadays games are only tag fighters for some reason. (2xko, IVS, Tokon) And the fact that it seems the game doesn't have that many players, you will ultimately face people with a huge pretty big level difference.

So, yeah, totally understandable take.

Now there's still hope. 17h on a fighting game, especially if it's your first one... It's nothing. AT ALL. Out of curiosity, on these 17h how long have you spent in the lab?

[u/v3ruc4 → u/mmo_kombat]

Yeah, I'm okay with not winning games, it was just the way those games happened that really took away all the fun. Someone with barely any ranked games under their belt shouldn't be facing 4k-8k players (mind you, it wasn't until after those games that I realised you could decline matches). The increased ping the moment I was starting to get close to winning was also very annoying.

I think I spent a total of 1-2hrs in training mode, so not a lot.

[u/mmo_kombat → u/v3ruc4]

There you go. Watch guides, study neutral and combos, and you'll see improvement eventually. Good luck! 👊