Keripo's Corner Figures, Dollfies, Projects, Gaming, and TYPE-MOON
Originally posted on YouTube
After barely missing it last week, I finally climbed to Master 1 rank this week. Unit stats and gear are all shown at the end of the video. This will probably be my last Grimlight PvP video, however, unless a lot of things change with the game.
The first issue right now all ranks get a hard fixed -400 point decay at the end of each week but at Master 1, you only gain +2 points per win. That means, even if you win 100% of your matches and buy out all the extra arena flags each day, you will only gain +378 points ((12 + 15) x 7 x 2), making it literally impossible to stay at Master 1 each week and forces you to tryhard just to maintain rank (conversely, if I decided to take an entire week off, I will derank from Master 1 to Diamond 1, then need to tryhard for an entire month just to climb back up to Master 2). Such a punishing points decay system just isn't worth my time/effort.
The second issue is the lack of PvP meta changes. The Odile/silence meta has been the mainstay in the game since launch. Caterpillar/resilience counters that, but requires a lot of setup just to negate the impact of a single 3-cost 4-star unit. Kaguya and Cheshire are also meta units (and you see me using both in the video) but they have no counters right now so its literally just have-vs-have-nots. All of these units mentioned have also been in the game since launch and none of the new units have done anything to drastically change the meta. So as a theorycrafter who more or less figured most of this out already during the first week (see the description of my first PvP video), there's really nothing much interesting for me left to do/theorycraft about.
The third and biggest issue right now is lack of end-game content. Right now Rift 10 provides no challenge and is just a chore to do (even with full auto) with no guarantee of even a gold drop. There is hints of an Abyssal Tower mode, but its been a couple weeks already and even then, a single Tower mode isn't really enough end-game content to keep people engaged in the game (lots of top players have already quit by now due to this issue). I know the devs are trying hard right now, but sometimes results are just as important as effort 🙁
I had high hopes for the game (and I still try to maintain an optimistic view) but it is what it is. Lets see what the next patch holds for us but, as mentioned, this might end up being my last Grimlight video (especially with Artery Gear: Fusion GvG coming up soon and Nikke's launch date on the calendar).
As always, if you have questions or want advice on anything, do not ask in the video comments or DM me. Ask in the #pvp-strategy or #game-strategy channels of the official Grimlight Discord instead: https://discord.gg/grimlight
If you are looking for a tier list of what are the best units to use in PvP, see my latest tier list on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimlight/comments/xj1wet/keripos_pvp_tier_list_v30_20220920/
