I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown
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It's just like the [censored] SDS pulled with Moments last year(and probably this year who knows yet), the difficulty may say 1 thing but the hidden sliders are heavily adjusted to make it harder.
I wouldn't have a problem if a moment said HOF and it was actually that, but don't tell me it's Rookie and have it be completely different from every other game mode you play on Rookie.
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So hey I want to light myself on fire and run through a gas station. I got to the final showdown against Jansen, got 5 runs in the first 3 outs, then proceeded to never get the go ahead run over the last 12 out. He never threw a bad pitch during that entire time and it blows my mind. It really killed my motivation to beat showdowns. The fact that you can grind your way to the end only to fail and have to pay to start over really kills me. It's a dang shame these basically replaced the old moments
Safety Edit Mainly because people may think I actually want to light myself on fire and run through a gas station. It's Hyperbole people relax. I do not want too light myself on fire and run through a gas station. That would be ridiculous, nobody wants to light themselves on fire and run through a gas station, least of all me. I would never light myself on fire and run through a gas station.
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@Von_Rotten said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I cruise through Conquest on HOF, I get to the world series in MTO on Dynamic (largely HOF and HOF+), but then I do any Showdown and I can't get anything going. I just can't explain how my bat disappears in this mode, despite it being on Veteran
It doesnt take a genious to figure out why. This is why I dont touch DD. Garbage casual mode made for generation OCD or emptying your wallet. It's not baseball, it's a baseball card casino designed to manipulate children and gambling addicts.
Lol whut?
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I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
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This is the best mode. Just finished grinding for Torres and Gallo. Beating verlander down 15-0 is such a [censored]. Game tries to cheat when u get close. Took twice as long as besting Cole. Beat Cole 3 out of 4 times. Verlander was like 3 out of 15
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@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
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@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
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@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
In the AL West I was able to draft Olson, Gallo or Alvarez for the golds. For silvers I got La Stella, Danny Santana and Mark Canha almost every time. Those cards do fine. Later on in the diamond round, if you play all the showdowns (which you should imo unless you're really confident in yourself) I got Trout every time. Throughout the AL West showdown you only face 1 lefty, Manea I think, so just stack up on those big lefty bats and put all righties in for the elimination game against Manea. If you later face Verlander with all those big lefties and Trout, maybe diamond Correa in there as well, it's really easy imo.
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@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
In the AL West I was able to draft Olson, Gallo or Alvarez for the golds. For silvers I got La Stella, Danny Santana and Mark Canha almost every time. Those cards do fine. Later on in the diamond round, if you play all the showdowns (which you should imo unless you're really confident in yourself) I got Trout every time. Throughout the AL West showdown you only face 1 lefty, Manea I think, so just stack up on those big lefty bats and put all righties in for the elimination game against Manea. If you later face Verlander with all those big lefties and Trout, maybe diamond Correa in there as well, it's really easy imo.
I faced LH SP Heaney every time for the 1st? hitting challenge. For some dumb reason, I had trouble elevating his sinker, even with the massive PCI. Second one was against Manaea.
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@LankyRyan said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
In the AL West I was able to draft Olson, Gallo or Alvarez for the golds. For silvers I got La Stella, Danny Santana and Mark Canha almost every time. Those cards do fine. Later on in the diamond round, if you play all the showdowns (which you should imo unless you're really confident in yourself) I got Trout every time. Throughout the AL West showdown you only face 1 lefty, Manea I think, so just stack up on those big lefty bats and put all righties in for the elimination game against Manea. If you later face Verlander with all those big lefties and Trout, maybe diamond Correa in there as well, it's really easy imo.
I faced LH SP Heaney every time for the 1st? hitting challenge. For some dumb reason, I had trouble elevating his sinker, even with the massive PCI. Second one was against Manaea.
You're right, I forgot about Heaney. Either way I don't really have issues batting lefty vs lefty and the cards I just mentioned have good attributes against both sides, especially power which you need most. The games are all on Veteran too, except for the last one before the Verlander showdown, that one is on All-Star but really easy as well since the game starts 0-0. You just need a decent bullpen guy and you're good.
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@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
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@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
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@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
Not in the 1st inning one...
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@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
Not in the 1st inning one...
I don't remember exactly, I completed that a few days ago. I was talking about the AL West since that's the one I've been doing today. But either way what I said still applies, draft offense primarily, make sure you have 1 decent/good SP and 1 or maybe 2 good bullpen arms.
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@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
Not in the 1st inning one...
I don't remember exactly, I completed that a few days ago. I was talking about the AL West since that's the one I've been doing today. But either way what I said still applies, draft offense primarily, make sure you have 1 decent/good SP and 1 or maybe 2 good bullpen arms.
Yes, its quite obvious to focus on offense in a mode where you barely pitch.
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The reality is, regardless of difficulty, all the cpu pitchers are very stingy with good pitches to hit. I lost to Kershaw too, but I was able to beat the AL west one vs Verlander. I definitely took a lot of pitches. At least one with RISP always.
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@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
Not in the 1st inning one...
I don't remember exactly, I completed that a few days ago. I was talking about the AL West since that's the one I've been doing today. But either way what I said still applies, draft offense primarily, make sure you have 1 decent/good SP and 1 or maybe 2 good bullpen arms.
Yes, its quite obvious to focus on offense in a mode where you barely pitch.
And then you get 3 pitcher only rounds
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@NicholasHowardT5 said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
It feels like moments from last year how a lot of them felt kind of harder even though they shouldn’t have been. But I’ve learned the strategy and started winning them now.
Completely agree. I usually play on All-Star and smash teams and am thinking of moving up to HOF. However Showdown seems either rigged or they need to fix something with the mode.
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@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@mike_ph said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@ImDFC said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@raesONE said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
I just lost a showdown vs. Verlander starting at 8-15. 3 perfect/perfect outs, several good squared outs, Verlander painted the entire challenge with 0 mistake pitches in over 100 pitches.... Is this really how showdown is intended to play? That it's harder to complete than the last moments extreme from 19? Meanwhile you have to pay to attempt to complete it? Yeah, no thanks.
I just strolled through 3 AL West showdowns to get Gallo, faced Verlander every time and finished it with over 15 outs left all 3 times. You gotta draft smart and stack the good perks. Also load up your entire lineup with big bats, even at catcher and OOP, it doesn't matter since you don't pitch or play D.
How do you guarantee decent drafts? Half of my drafts have been with really, really bad options. Like the gold rounds having mostly starting pitchers and silver rounds with bat last fielders
Same. Im constantly given 3 pitchers and 1 bat each draft round in a game mode where you pitch maybe two meaningful at bats.
It shows after every showdown what the reward will be, either a batter or a pitcher and their respective tier. For the initial draft just look for offense exclusively and draft maybe 1 silver/bronze starter and 1 silver RP/CP
Not in the 1st inning one...
I don't remember exactly, I completed that a few days ago. I was talking about the AL West since that's the one I've been doing today. But either way what I said still applies, draft offense primarily, make sure you have 1 decent/good SP and 1 or maybe 2 good bullpen arms.
Yes, its quite obvious to focus on offense in a mode where you barely pitch.
Sorry to state the obivious, just trying to help. I'm not the one struggling with these Showdowns.
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Showdown is challenging. The team affinity is especially hard.
