I'm baffled they are releasing V2 Kata/Snakeman sugo 1-2 months earlier, it's nuts that they went out of their way to swap around 2 months of content for this. V2 Kata vs Snakeman was perfect as a meta event for French Anni. Means in July/August we'll either get Sanji/Judge and the V2 Germa kids (which launched with their crystal skulls island and ship) OR Carrot and Inu/Neku in a Furries sugofest. They'll have to come up with something new for that.
There was a tiny tiny chance that they would release Carrot next week and Snakeman/V2 Kata end of may but with the lottery event and a bait sugo already datamined, that ship has sailed.
I'm currently sitting on 474 gems so I should be fine but not having a shot at Carrot and her batch in the pool sucks. Also this might just be a 2x legend rate while French Anni could be 2.5x or 3x legend rate. I really don't want to pull now and again 2 months later during French Anni. But regardless I'll go for the guaranteed Snakeman because he's key to complete any content released from now on until Luffy/Law hits at the end of the year.
So, uh...Kaido's next. That means Snakeman vs Katakuri, Colo Smoothie, Invasion Linlin, and Support function, assuming we get it all. That's probably related to the mystery event announced tomorrow night.
That also means a delay on Carrot, for those interested in her. Also means we won't have as much time to save up for guaranteed Snakeman, if it works the same way here. Glad I've been saving a bit.
Invasion Linlin is incredible but I'm not looking forward to farming her again. I'll probably just dump a tons of gold manuals on her. Forgot about the Support system coming with this batch. I hope they implement it better than on JP. I've said it in the past, I'm not a fan of Support on JP, the bonuses are boring and the gains so minimal in most cases. It actually makes crew building slower and clunkier. It's just annoying when you want to switch and add a certain character but you can't until you remove them as a support from another character.
V2 Katakuri is in a weird spot for me. Like he seems cool and all, but ever since his release it feels like nearly all the content was designed specifically to kneecap him. It's V2 Doffy all over again
I pulled V2 Katakuri on his debut sugo and after a few months of using him, I have very mixed thoughts about him. He'll be pretty "broken" for a month, a month and half and he can still destroy some content here and there but he's definitely been getting the hard counter treatment in very creative ways. Aside from that my main grips are :
1) He's
extremely slow. Yes he's very safe and yes his special is very powerful but it's aggravating when you have to stall so many more turns to nuke the final stages. You don't have to max out his special charge of course but you still have to do some quick maths mid run to hit the treshold to get enough damage. Then again if you love beating every content with 6+ Enel, V2 Kata has a similar flow, just faster and much more powerful.
2) He's a colour affinity captain, the first of his kind. It's great but it means some content with multiple colours are pretty rough for him
3) Teambuilding is a pain. A lot of great subs for him like TM Nami (for Kizuna Battle Zoro/Sanji) or 6+ Corazon (for Invasion Linlin) are not boosted at all. He's strong enough to carry one or two deadweights in his crew in easier content. But for very tough content, there are so many units that you can't really use.
That being said he's Katakuri so I'm sure a lot of people will go hard for him.
Skipping TM Nami for Kaido.... Kind of upset, Nami does a lot of useful things, but mostly this means we're skipping Legend Carrot who looked like a lot of fun. It'll be interesting to see how Global handles the blitz battle. If it's random again like in JPN there's going to be a lot of salt going around.
Yeah TM Nami is such a good F2P unit, top 3 TM units in the game imo while Kaido is just garbage let's be honest. Not having Nami for the next TM will be pretty annoying too.
And surely there's no way that the meta event V2 Kata vs Snakeman is random like it was on JP, half the playerbase got shafted for no reason and there was just bitterness all around. I remember people on V2 Katakuri team barely took part to the event, every round they got trashed so it was pretty deflating.
In other news, finally beat Chaos Coliseum Oven with this
Warco team. WC Ace and WC Sabo sure are perfect for him. Forgot so many units have great LBs now, maxed out Raid Rayleigh and Invasion Garp. Might work on the Z Colo units if I have time.