Random rule is broken, please fix

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Originally Posted by Critical-Limit

Uh didnt I say there was luck involved at the start of my post?

There are people who can't beat her but like 1/20. My 1/4 is a result of skill. Obviously there is STILL luck because I can't choose cards or what cards to use. But you can manage a lot better than "takes no skill"

I was addressing that. 1/4 is consistent. I consistently lose 3 to every win because those 3 losses are usually a result of random/chaos. But I don't lose 15 times to 1 win because I have skill.

It takes skill too.

I bet you don't consider the cards she's already used to predict her future cards either.

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I'm not a lightweight, I'm saying that there are times that ANY of her cards can flip ANY of your cards making it IMPOSSIBLE to win.
I can play as optimally as possible, which I do. I have beaten her many times. That still doesn't make me not want to throw my controller out the window.


I know which cards she has left and figuring out the best place to play cards. But it doesn't matter 3/4 of the time according to your own statistic. THAT is what's wrong.
Even if you get extremely lucky to get to win 1/4 of the time it's still just luck. When you lose the ability to pick your cards, play the order of your cards you want you lose two skill variables.
The only variable left is placement. And you can place perfectly but it can still be impossible to win 90+% of the time.
Your 1/4 win rate vs someone with a 1/20 win rate is RNG. Same as why it takes some people 3 hours to grind all the crystals for Relic and others a week playing 3 hours per day.

Playing Lewena is frustrating and not fun.

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Originally Posted by FunkyBunch

Playing Lewena is frustrating and not fun.

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The matches are fast... there is no penalty for a loss besides like what? a VERY few MGP which is usually cancelled out by Ties.


You get 5 star cards if they drop.

I found Tataru un-fun to play against, but I was a rookie when I was playing her. After I self-analyzed I got it to a reasonable rate. Now that I understand the game alot better I'm content with random, or chaos.

Just be glad you don't have to win a best of 5, to get a shot at the drop.

You're looking at playing it wrong imo. You want WINS so bad, and those negative feelings hit you when you lose. Random/Chaos is more like Poker, than any other mode. you have to sometimes fold/lose rounds. If you can accept losses in Poker as something inevitable, I don't understand how you can't take losses in TT as a minor nuisance.


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People who say they get a full hand of 1-2 star cards 50-60%. Sorry but I straight up don't believe you unless you're trying to fight her when you've only got less than 60 cards. I've already farmed all 3 of the cards from Lewena. Because instead of blaming the game. I looked at myself and what I could improve about myself as a player. If you get One 4 star, One 3 Star, Two 2 Star, and One 1 Star. Thats still a decent enough hand depending on where the strong/weak points are on your weaker cards.

Your weaker cards actually provide great bait, that Lewena will bite like half of the time. Other half she'll ignore it. If she bites, she usually exposes her weak side on the strong card. So if you're filling up the left/upper left side early on. Say you chaos a crap card at the start. Top left slot or mid left slot. If they chaos Cloud/Onion Knight/Ifrit/Garuda/Odin/Terra They have to expose their weak side.

the only time they don't is if they chaos Titan first. which is a low probability. If they bite. Your next turn depending on the card. either take over the exposed spot, or reclaim your card. If she plays it safe, then leave the bait there until she does. don't try to place near your bait cuz the second you cover up one side, she can claim it forever. The point of weak cards is to bait, or cancel out their crap existance by getting them to waste their good card, on a card you can EASILY take back safely.


I can't make a super strategy for her, because EVERYTIME it depends.

But you count cards, look at your own odds. look 4-5 turns ahead if you can going through 2-3 different scenarios, for "what if" you get this card next or "that card"


I like Chaos/Random for what it is. In some aspects it makes me think harder than I normally would, because the rest of the NPC's are a joke.

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Originally Posted by Critical-Limit

The matches are fast... there is no penalty for a loss besides like what? a VERY few MGP which is usually cancelled out by Ties.

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I have 89 cards. It doesn't matter if you don't believe me in respect to my hands.
The part that is the most frustrating is the short period of time you have to play her.
You lose 15 games in a row, you don't get a card, then you have to wait an hour to play her again.


When I first tried beating her with 80 cards, I lost three days in a row, without a single win.
Then when I got up to 85 cards, I beat her nearly 10 times in a row.
Then I got RNG'd to death and I didn't get a single 3*+ card for close to 5 eorzean days.
You know RNG is broken. You can fail a mining attempt at 85% 5 times in a row or more. Which is statistically impossible.

RNG hates me when it's random. What's even more frustrating is when I can win, I have two cards left, and if Chaos will give me the one useful card I win. Then I don't get it.
At some point it demoralizes you, when RNG is literally screwing you over and over and over and over.

It's great that you think playing a game that breaks the rules and makes it impossible for you to win at least 75% of the time is fun. I don't. I want it to be skill based.
Making her AI brutal is better than just giving you garbage cards in a garbage order and saying "woohoo" when you get lucky enough to get good enough cards in a good enough order.

I want to collect the cards. I'm still missing Kal E' Senna too. I must have played the Serpent Commander 400 times with all of them either wins or draws.

I also don't understand how it makes you think harder. It eliminates choices and options for you. Instead of optimal card in optimal place in optimal order, it becomes optimal place.

I would be fine with them lowering the MGP amount of the cards to 50 or 100 if it would make less frustrating to play her.