Felio: When you have 10 or more cards already, the drop rate for ranked games is 3% and unranked is 1% - so not exactly common. You can still win them from challenges or purchase them too, of course.
jikirga - The Juju mirror is often cited as a reason why people aren't playing Juju a ton even though he's really strong. 60 turns of spamming CoJJ and Heal isn't exactly exciting. |||| xXSkilly1KillyxX - Skill Rank 22 is still considered a "noob", for the record. In general people under SR25 are considered awful. Haven't played you so I can't say on you personally, of course. |||| Trading in general would be too abuseable for it to ever really be introduced, I think. About the only thing I can think of that would work is if you could trade in 2 extra character cards for one other card of your choice; much beyond that is a bad idea.
sylvr1 - JujuFeather specifically is even worse than ValkAnex imo. CC is about his only subpar matchup, or possibly ValkAnex. Everyone else he tends to at least match or beat handily, and in general has tends to have a slight to moderate edge over any given character. |||| Reasoner - False; some characters ARE better than others, though it's often not as drastic as people imply. Likewise, some characters are simply worse and could use some buffs (e.g. Helene). The game is reasonably balanced, but it could certainly go for some changes.
Kenkaku - no characters are "ridiculously overpowered", though some are better than others for sure (ValkAnex, JujuFeather, CC). You get fewer idiotic complains about switching and such nonsense if you get to a decent Skill Rank. |||| wojciech_kski - Your opponent had deadly Poison equipped or had used Herbal Prep; you weren't double-poisoned from lag. Vamps do NOT have the worst items in the game, as both Tomes and Vial are easily 2 of the best out of everything (Only Valk beats out Tomes in terms of overall use).
RTillery - The new card types are Pirates, Robots, Witches, and Knights - so not too far off. |||| As for new cards in general, it's not like adding new cards is a simple feat. A game like this is already very tough to balance with the cards it already has -- every new card added makes it exponentially more complicated to balance properly. Kong is certainly slacking on adding them, which does seem odd since they've already commissioned the card art and such, but at the very least there will need to be a long beta period before new cards will be formally introduced. Also, Kong isn't going around reading comments on every game so it's not like asking for them in comments matters anyway.
ivanaj36: Spectral Choke's proc is supposed to be the chance to hit fleeing, but it's currently bugged and always procs 100% (same with Anex's BC). |||| RTillery: You're probably the first person I've ever seen complain about Higs being too strong. He is basically the definition of an average character; nothing especially strong, nothing especially weak. |||| Quelmotza - The best cards are currently JujuFeather, ValkAnex, CC, and Ubie. From there VV and Yoshi are also very popular. That's not to say other cards aren't plenty good though - nothing wrong with running Oni, Rumi, Taf, etc. Everyone's at least reasonably good (with the possible exception of Helene).
EpicLord: For the record, SR20 is meaingless. To be considered a good player you have to be at least SR28-29 or so. No actual comment on your skill since I've never played you - just saying that any SR under about 25 is considered awful. |||| hatemachine: When I first started I thought it was too luck-based too, but realistically it's only about 25% luck overall. You'll have some good luck games and some bad luck games but it evens out.
jctiru: No "good deck" can really include Quickening Powder, the worst card in the game :P Also, Ancestral Spirit is pretty awful, and shouldn't be used in most cases. |||| apples: A rematch option in ranked would be prone to abusing the system; it's be fine in unranked, but it's not that hard to host another anyway. |||| magus1d14: You can't cancel ranked games without losing rank, no. You can always forfeit in game if you want to. That said, don't be afraid of card counts; the game is well balanced, and while some cards are better than others, you can do fine with Random All or a crappy deck. It's a LOT more about outplaying your opponent than having the best cards.
wringsteak: If VV's DS cost 40, she's be completely awful. While DS IS quite powerful, keep in mine that VV herself is also fragile. She has only 70hp, 1pr, and 0dr making her very susceptible to other attacks. |||| A +2 EB for Helene is actually +12 on FS, which is more than Anex's +8. Keep in mind Anex is using an entire turn to get it enchanted as well. |||| ValkAnex is common, certainly, but not everywhere. She's in about 40% of all decks. She's powerful, but not godly; avoid putting her in the powerzone and she's not as threatening. The main nerf she needs is simply dropping ValkCharm to +1 speed instead of +2; past that very little is needed. |||| Tweed43: You CAN win cards on forfeits.
As for people stalling... eh. I've never had a problem with it. Some people play slowly for legitimate reasons, e.g. planning a few moves ahead or figuring out the odds of certain things happening (these are usually why I have some slow turns occasionally). The timer is a reasonable length, and even if people are waiting it out the whole time it really isn't that long. If you're that impatient you could also do something in another tab until you hear the sound notice that it's the next phase :P
RootRanger: To be fair, a lot of new players don't even know there IS a forfeit button. It's often not done with malice. Occasionally it's also a legitimate disconnect, too (especially if they drop when they're winning). As for CC, RumiScroll is a pretty strong lead against him, and so is Ubie. |||| freddunkin: You really can't have a horrible win/loss ratio and still be SR30, if you're looking at ranked games. Unranked are irrelevant, of course. Realistically it's gong to be nearly impossible to have less than around 1.1:1 win:loss to maintaince SR30 because of how the rank system works. |||| blackhole42: Rare, and it sucks, but that's only 1 in 1600. I've had 1 in 5500 beads, and I've heard of even worse ;O Kongai certainly has luck, but for the most part it averages out. You'll just get a few freak games that swing one way or the other on rare occasion. |||| freddunkin: A lot of people do not look at the move their Amaya is blocking, no. I've even forgotten a few times ;/
theshiznizzle: 5-card constructed is degenerate, and the game isn't balanced properly for 5-card, so ranked 5-card wouldn't work. ||||
Penguin101: [Taf-Yellow Rock] Probably a random deck, and even if not Rock also does damage to the enemy when YOU switch out. (Still far from a good item choice for Taf, bt not entirely worthless.) ||||
MartinJAmaral: [Card drop rate] 3% in ranked, 1% in unranked. (This is higher if you have less than 10 cards.) You can always buy them if you need them badly enough; they're pretty cheap if you enjoy the game.
xxmikkel95xx: Not really. All things considered, the same is actually quite well balanced overall. Some are distinctly worse (e.g. Helene) or better (e.g. ValkAnex), but all characters are viable and none are required. It could be better, but it's not bad right now.
Yaso: Bad luck; basically, you just got owned by Popohax. Popo+Feather is a total of a 50% chance to dodge, because of Popo's innate. This means that if you're using a 90% chance to hit attack, the odds to hit are only 40%, because dodge is an additive effect. If you were using a standard 95% attack, the odds of you missing/dodging 7 times in a row were about 1 in 268 - certainly not likely, but I've also seen far rarer things before.
wring: Basically, what I don't understand is how you can see that Poker is a skillful game but yet think Kongai is 51%+ luck. I already pointed to the top rankings; that's some blatant proof that the game isn't over half luck as you claim. |||| Furthermore, your definition of luck appears to be flawed, and that may be part of what we're missing here. It is NOT more unlucky to get a miss right at the end. It is also not luck that determines that your opponent switched out when you Chi Blasted (that is some combination of skill and chaos).
wring: False. Luck absolutely can be quantified, within certain ranges. I agree that Kongai is similar to Poker in several ways - there's a lot of reading people, a lot of probability, and you can still get screwed by luck despite making the best play. I'd say overall Kongai has less luck than Poker, though I'm not a big Poker player. The fact that you can get screwed by luck doesn't mean you usually will or that it won't tend to average out over time, though - nor does the fact that luck has a hand in almost everything mean that it is the ruling factor over everything; that is a faulty argument. I've had multiple games in a row where I got completely hosed by lucky criticals, 5% misses, etc.; it happens, but it certainly is not a dominating factor. |||| Also, to be perfectly honest, when I first played this game originally way back in August, I thought it had too much luck as well. Turns out I just sucked!
sxv: Chakra Slash is how it is supposed to be, but the text on screen is wrong. |||| t3hplaty: MLM is actually considered one of the worst characters in higher level play. Duplicate characters, while interesting, would hurt the game overall imo. You can still use duplicate items. |||| Zweix: As Shandris said, Cow has been around for a long time. You must be confusing him with someone else, or perhaps an alt account of his.
Comments are as brilliant as usual! Today we address the luck issue. I want the class to go to the achievements page and look at the all time top rank points (ignore the hacked #1 spot). Look at all of the top 25, but especially the top 2. Now consider the fact that almost anyone these top 2 players play against, they stand to lose 150 rank points if they lose and win only 50 points if they win. What does that tell you? The game literally cannot be more than around 25% luck overall, or they wouldn't be where they are, because they literally have to win 3 games for every 1 they lose just to stay even.
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