Anyone else feel hard done by unfair RNG?
I've recently found climbing the ladder to be near-impossible due to insane bouts of terrible luck/RNG. It feels like no matter how well I play my opponent seems to have everything they need, meanwhile I get stuck with a dead hand and am unable to set up no matter how much I try.
I initially chocked it up to poor luck until my 600-point self faced the same person in ultra rank (~1350-ish points) twice in a row, and in both games despite having a bad starter mon, they found everything they needed - multiple supporters, ultra balls, energies. Meanwhile, I found nothing in both games. I'd start with a research in hand and would draw into nothing.
It feels like I keep running into similar issues very frequently, and makes grinding the ladder that much more frustrating, and any points I seem to gain are lost just as quickly due to horrific luck, contrary to the amount of effort it took to win those same points.
I really can't be the only person facing these issues. I had plently bad luck in PTCGO (the game would love to give me a dead hand in the finals of tournaments), but I never felt like I frequently had dud games as I do in Live.
To note, I was trying out a Darkrai V-star deck I had just built, and had some practice with it beforehand via the NPC so knew how it worked.
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Your not the only one. I found the rng hits the hardest when I'm about to reach the next league and get bad luck and rng with completely dead hands and forced to scoop or watch me lose a slow painful defeat 🤣
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Aye it sucks when that happens, not to rag on the ladder itself but 20 win 20 loss hurts (G-ball league) when you get shafted by RNG :(
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Post your decklist. It might just be inconsistent.
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Your opponent having better luck than you could mean:
1) simply a bad day: everyone gets bad luck sometimes.
2) deckbuilding issue: maybe what you need to do is looking at your deck, try to figure out which cards are underperforming and replace them for more of the cards you're consistently not drawing (or ways to search for those cards), if your opponent keeps drawing what they need, it may be because they have a more consistent deck.
3) Gameplay errors: sometimes not finding the correct cards is cause by poor sequencing or planning. Some players don't ultra ball before research and miss the opportunity to discard a pokemon that's not necessary in this matchup, which reduces the number of bad cards in your deck, increasing the chance of drawing what you want. Sometimes they burn their pokegears the moment they draw them (even if they can't use a supporter that turn) and end up losing to not drawing a supporter out of a judge. And again, your opponent always finding everything could just mean they are not making those mistakes.
The easiest way to climb the ladder is mentally reviewing your games after a loss (even if it was due to "poor RNG) and think if there was a way to play that game better, or if you kept missing the same cards in multiple games and try to improve your deck or gameplay.
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You only have one Roxanne, every game in the beginning, you have Roxanne in your hand. You have four arceus, four quick balls, four ultra balls, two capture energy. But every game, you only have one bidoof. That's what often happens to me.
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Yeah i feel that, it really feels like my 1x cards are always in my opening hand, but can struggle to find my 4x copy cards in the same game lol
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I won 9 in a row last night before bed, this morning lost 3 in a row that's why it's called RNG 🤷♂️
