Pokkén Tournament Pokken Meta

[Baby_Sneak]

discussion of all strats, tactics, and other competitive stuff goes here.

 

[SuperSceptile15]

People on Reddit are saying that the skill points you earn while leveling up actually transfer over to online play. Make of that what you will.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokkenGame/comments/4b8tbi/skill_points_do_affect_online/

 

[WusijiDR]

People on Reddit are saying that the skill points you earn while leveling up actually transfer over to online play. Make of that what you will.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokkenGame/comments/4b8tbi/skill_points_do_affect_online/

I think its very miniscule in terms of difference though.

 

[obscurica]

On one hand, sure, the difference is only a few points' worth of difference. On the other hand, from what we saw at FR19, a few points can and will make or break what seems to be many close sets. It also affects ranked play by giving an edge to players based on externalities instead of innate skill.

It's not necessarily a huge deal -- in LAN play, you can turn skill points off, so tournaments aren't affected -- but huge or not it's still a detriment to ranked play. Hoping future patches take it out.

 

[LancerStaff]

I'd almost rather have a cheat code to unlock everything + max out everybody's levels for local play then cut it altogether. They seem quite intent on making us use the customizations this time around... Wouldn't be that unreasonable to use if they did.

 

[Jexulus]

I'd almost rather have a cheat code to unlock everything + max out everybody's levels for local play then cut it altogether. They seem quite intent on making us use the customizations this time around... Wouldn't be that unreasonable to use if they did.

When you enter LAN mode, all characters, supports, and stages are automatically unlocked. The skill levels are not, but the skill points are leftover from an arcade gimmick anyway. Basically, you had an ID card that used Amiibo technology that stored your character info on there, including skill points. That's also why the Story Mode is structured the way it is, but that isn't here nor there.

 

[LancerStaff]

I knew the skill points were from the arcade version, but didn't know everything got unlocked in LAN mode.

Now I'm kinda baffled as to why they're not unlocked with everything else... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the arcade version has a ranked online mode and they're allowed there too, right? That would mean they're the norm for every style of play besides console offline.

 

[Jexulus]

I knew the skill points were from the arcade version, but didn't know everything got unlocked in LAN mode.

Now I'm kinda baffled as to why they're not unlocked with everything else... Correct me if I'm wrong, but the arcade version has a ranked online mode and they're allowed there too, right? That would mean they're the norm for every style of play besides console offline.

I think it has to do with the fact that once the skill points are earned, they can be freely allocated through a menu for each individual Pokemon. LAN mode is really only going to be used if the players want to play seriously (i.e. tournaments and the such), so the developers likely didn't bother because there wouldn't be a demand for it.

I'm in the camp that thinks that skill points really only serve as an incentive to play as a Pokemon a lot in single-player and nowhere else. If they were meant to be used in competitive, they'd be designed with competitive in mind. But they're pretty clearly designed as a single-player objective, IMO.

 

[IsmaR]

Good stuff going on over at the first weekly for Pokken at Versus Gaming Center.
https://www.twitch.tv/vsgc/v/56047528

Zoners like Chandelure and Suicune seem to be struggling against brute force/rushdown like Garchomp and Charizard.

 

[Plain Yogurt]

From those matches Omagoma at least seemed to be doing alright, but then he'd make a questionable move or two and that was it. I need to do this myself, but I want to see more normals cause Chandelure's low light hits quite a ways and his anti-air is friggen' great, though Flame Burst serves just as well.

 

[IsmaR]

Very impressive showings from Shillo (Braixen, Mewtwo, Blaziken and R. Pikachu Libre) and Bim (Garchomp/Lucario, the latter exclusively for GFs), running the full character/CP gauntlet in GFs no less.

 

[Top Boss]

This is kinda out of the blue, but could someone link me the pokken boards site? I wanna learn about the game before I get it..

 

[IsmaR]

Advertising/asking for links to other competing sites isn't allowed here (on top of being off topic).

Shouldn't be too hard to use a search engine to find "Pokken boards"

Anything you want to know can be asked here, fyi.

 

[Baby_Sneak]

Advertising/asking for links to other competing sites isn't allowed here (on top of being off topic).

Shouldn't be too hard to use a search engine to find "Pokken boards"

Anything you want to know can be asked here, fyi.

Thoughts on the Zard vs braixen/zonerMU. I've have had trouble against this character with my Sceptile and wondered how another character handled it.