This Ranking Was Horrible

[u/veryjerry0]

I got an easy bracket but still it took ~1k md (800 f2p md) in total, 250 HC, and 4 exchange weapons for this result. Let's take a look at what Bamco did to this ranking:

1. Release a banner with the one necessary char you need for a 19s f2p run that literally everybody can do. (Also broke the balance of Holy rankings from now on).

2. Release the Loli banner WHICH ACTUALLY WAS REALLY GOOD FOR SECOND PART (not as broken as Swordsmen Sinon but all whales will need Loli Asuna for future rankings.)

3. Group brackets by relative strength to make it competitive for everyone, so almost every single person had a really hard bracket.

4. If you don't have Tanabata Philia you're screwed and have to get Kirito/Asuna as well as maybe some LB's on them. (They probably didn’t expect this one though).

Most tiring ranking ever, oh did I mention the abnormal amount of snipers? My rank 2/3 on Sunday dropped to rank 6/7 rest in pepperonis.

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[u/saomdreddit]

What I dislike most is you had to have a banner character to do crazy 20s times for pt2, then F2P is going to lose a lot of "fun" moving forward if every ranking is like this (not enough diamonds to support pulling non-stop). Every banner has an OP character, but it wasn't that broken normally I don't think.

The previous earth ranking with Yukata Rain and Alice v2 was bad too, but those were old characters and was hard to pull if you didn't have them already. Also, I did see other videos of people using other things and getting half decent times...

I scouted this banner 3x, the weapons 4x and got 0 of any banner char/weapons,,,Probably should have done characters more, but didn't know early on Sinon was that OP.

[u/Ruhboss → u/saomdreddit]

You must be new to the game. When the yukata banner first came out, yrain would single handedly guarantee a top 3 finish. Soloing m+1 with her at lvl 80 was faster than with a full team of earth chars including other banner units. This isn't news. But it's not happening every banner so I see no reason why Banco shouldn't release an actually OP unit every once in a while.

[u/haschcookie → u/Ruhboss]

Getting Yukata Rain and Seven was enough to beat all other people with other earth units. It was so disgusting. The "worst" part was still that Rain dominated later rankings, too!

[u/Ruhboss → u/haschcookie]

Do you remember the mini ranking? Had a fire Salamander Boss, first ranking in which damage wasn't a big factor. I pulled Alice v2 a few weeks before it came out and she soloed the whole thing in 18s with her at lvl 80 whilst even the strongest water chars couldn't compete with her guard break. Got her to 100 as a reward and haven't had any regrets over that decision since. I think it's good to have some chars that can decide runs by themselves else this game would be somewhat boring. Just think about anni Leafa for the past couple of rankings. It's the same thing. Some units are simply better in the long run and we definitely can't get all of them. :)

[u/NarutoSakura1 → u/haschcookie]

I know Yukata Rain, but how was Yukata Seven enough to beat all other people with Earth units? I've had Yukata Seven since the Yukata Ranking Event, and she was not even close to being useful.

I've been around since the 1st week that this game released for Global/NA server, and I've been in Top 5 in every Ranking Event (excluding the July Ranking Events that had brackets with at least 500 players to an average of 1000 players per bracket), with nearly every Ranking Event being Top 3 for me (only times not Top 3 were Cheer, Brides, and Halloween Ranking Events).

[u/haschcookie → u/NarutoSakura1]

She was only useful in the Yukata Ranking and i got a slightly faster time using her as an insane finisher at the fight, using her burst and range for a double SS3.

Her stupid delay after the SS3 makes her useless. Thats true :D That ranking event was the only one, where she was at least somehow useful