Before anything else, sorry for the long post and dont see this as a simple complain, but as contructive criticism to help improve a game i came to enjoy as of late in its majority.
The problems with the AI give me nightmares, to be honest this might be the worst AI i have ever seen in a game. I always manual my fights but in ranked battle there is no way to control the ninjas what so ever, so the AI takes control and ruins everything. For something that is run by a computer that can make extremely complicated calculations its amazing how bad it is at simple mechanics when it has only 4 spells to control and not all of them are up at the same time.
Could it get a fix of sorts or at least give us a priority list so we can tell the AI when to do certain actions or what to prioritize?
Here are some exemples of what is wrong with it:
1- Your twelve ninjas fight as 3 individual teams of 4 ninjas that take no consideration for what the other 2 teams are doing each round, exemple:
- I run a passive barrier and have Iruka in one team, Fire main and Ao in another team all with interrupts, today i fought an enemy that had Sasuke and Gaara (manual barriers). First problem, the AI made my opponent cast both barriers at same time, WHY? one would be enough to replace my passive barrier. Second mistake, the AI used my 3 interrupts on round one to stop KABUTO CLONES from going off, WTF, great thinking no doubt it didnt even tried to protect its own barrier by stopping at least one of the others.
- Third problem, i cant even think to use a manual barrier ninja in my linup, no matter how strong, usefull and how well he would combo with the ninjas on the other 2 teams because he will waste round one trying to replace the passive barrier himself. If the passive barrier lasts 3 turns why doesnt the AI wait for 4th turn or untill your barrier is replaced to activate the manual barrier?
2- No matter what, the AI will always target the ninja with the lowest health to cast a mystery, example:
- Your opponent has 1 ninja with 10 hp and another with full life, your mystery does AoE damage, who will the AI target? The one with 10 hp of course, why not target the one with full life so you can actually get the combo off and leave the one with 10hp to die to the AoE or the standard attacks?
- Your opponent has an Earth Main with 2k+ hp with over 20k in shields and cant be comboed and 3 other ninjas that can be comboed and killed, what will the AI do? target the Earth Main and waste the mystery while leaving the other 3 ninjas alone.
3- Some ninjas always get priority over others in your lineup, example:
- You run Lightning Main (move 1), Hinata (move 2) and 3 star Sasuke (move 3). The AI will use turn one to cast barrier when it could use Hinata's mystery but it doesnt. This one I will let pass because the barrier will boost the 3 ninjas. The problem comes on round two where instead of taking advantage of the boost the barrier is giving to cast Main's mystery it will prioritize Sasuke and consume the barrier and waste the innitiative because the move 3 will always go after moves 1 and 2 of each team.
This are just 3 of the biggest concerns about the AI, im not even complaining about the excrutiating threat priority your ninjas have against the opponents ninjas, where they will try to stop a move one prompt mystery with a move 3 prompt interrupt while a move 4 ressurect is left uncheck, but that would be another post entirelly.