I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown
-
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
-
@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.
-
@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
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
@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
-
@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...
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
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.
-
@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
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
Showdown is challenging. The team affinity is especially hard.
-
If you get a round with three pitchers and one batter who doesn’t fit the profile against the Boss pitcher...take the pitcher, even in the Hitting only mode. The CPU auto drafts the rest of your line up, doing the AL west I quite often get two or three of either Cargo Vogel Reddick or Santanaauto drafted who all hit righties decently well.
I’d also recommend passing on Diamonds that also have golds like Gallo Olsen or Correa, you can quite easily get them in a gold round and take a diamond you cant possibly get lower version of later like Rendon Trout or Bagwell.
-
Yeah, I'm not sure how some of you guys are having such an easy time with it. I mean, I did all the moments extremes of 19 and this feels just about as difficult. You get very very few easy balls to hit and you line-out A LOT in these challenges.
I'm also hitting into a million double plays that simply cannot be avoided. Like, if I'm in a full count and the pitcher dots it at the bottom of the zone I cannot get under the ball. That results almost exclusively into double plays...
-
@SefarR said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:
Yeah, I'm not sure how some of you guys are having such an easy time with it. I mean, I did all the moments extremes of 19 and this feels just about as difficult. You get very very few easy balls to hit and you line-out A LOT in these challenges.
I'm also hitting into a million double plays that simply cannot be avoided. Like, if I'm in a full count and the pitcher dots it at the bottom of the zone I cannot get under the ball. That results almost exclusively into double plays...
Try and lift the ball and swing first pitch if it's there. You don't have to be patient and work counts in my experience. In fact, pitcher confidence applies here too so lead off with your biggest bats and try to hit XBH or homeruns early to get the confidence down, he'll start throwing more and more hittable pitches and you'll get good results with mediocre contact once the confidence is down.
-
Showdown is easy af until the last round. At that point you get screwed on perfect perfect and pitcher confidence totally dicks you or helps you. That’s why I never been a fan of it. The result of a good good or perfect perfect should not be determined by pitcher confidence. That ain’t baseball, you could be prime bob Gibson but if I smack the hell out of a fastball your level of confidence shouldn’t determine my result is fly out or a bomb If my swing is good enough
