The great days of Po(op)laris

@hothie said:

Polaris is the bane of 3* players, the crutch of 4* players, and the cakewalk of 5* players.

Akoni said:

entrailbucket said:

Sure, but players wouldn't lose on offense if they brought the "right" team to the fight.  If the enemy is Rock, you don't attack them with Scissors, you attack them with Paper. 

The match would be unwinnable if they didn't have the Paper team rostered at all, of course, but that's what the devs should want. 

Right now, you could have a roster with two slots and win every fight in PvP as long as those two were the right characters at the right levels.  That's very bad, in a game where the business model is selling roster slots, and it's 100% fixable. 

If they don't want to reduce the power of the overpowered guys (And players hate nerfs!  They want counters!) then they need to give us effective defensive counters.

Just as devs don't want players to lose too often, they also don't want players to win all of the time. The same research I mentioned also stated that players who win too often quit soon after those who lose too often. A true rock, paper, scissors approach would create a scenario where the player will always win if they know which rock to choose for the opponent's scissors. I think what you are describing is closer to a tic-tac-toe scenario where one character successfully cancels out the other as long as the player makes no mistakes. I know that tic-tac-toe results in a draw most of the time, whereas MPQ does not, but the goal of the second player is to end the match in a draw and, therefore, counts it as a win, if successful. The essence of tic-tac-toe is that everything is known and you just have to make the right move.

With that said, the essence of rock, paper, scissors is the element of the unknown. If you know your opponent will choose rock, then you will always choose paper. If they are going to choose paper, then you will always choose scissors. This would make for a boring game. Not knowing which your opponent is going to pick makes it exciting. MPQ has a few components of the unknown implemented in terms of tile placement as well as team combinations. The biggest element is how tiles will fall, but occasionally (ok, rarely), we will come across a team that works much better than anticipated. This can only occur if there are no true rock, paper, scissor characters. Characters with weak counters to others require creative thinking and experimentation. 

This minuscule, but important element adds a pinch more excitement to the game. With a game like this where numbers and match-ups can be calculated for maximum win opportunities, I would rather keep as many interesting elements as possible.

Akoni said:

Well, they already have according to many, but that isn't the ideal. It will happen from time to time, but I don't think that should be on purpose. 

BeetleGeorge said:

I don't know why these anti Polaris threads are popping up so often. I like it to win against Polaris teams because most of the time it does not even cost me health packs.
What I think much worse and what I skip regularely are SWitch/Colossus and IHulk/Okoye teams when they are championed because they really eat up my health packs if I fight them.

Timemachinego said:

Mr_F said:

Because, judging from your post, you are not in 4* or transitioning land when she is dominating and literally can take everything on offence while still being flipcoin on defence. If you were in those land you will not that happy to see her. But like many other 4* I had/have problems with all it takes to looking for options we already have in game. Yes, we already have all we need to deal with her.

TLDR: a matter of different POV.

Of course, I know why people are complaing etc. Reasons are two:

1. She is "everywhere".

2. She is annoying.

I'm a 4* player, outside of her boost week polaris teams are all free wins with correct counter-play. Yes, she is definitely everywhere but I'm always happy when I see her.