'F2P' OK.. My thoughts on all this recent "DRAMA" & NEWS | EP 254 | RAID Shadow Legends

[@SmileyTK3]

What are your thoughts on all the recent changes and news that took place? I have a edit erorr at 6:37 where I forgot to delete a screenshot on screen LOL sorry about that. ✅ Instagram | instagram.com/smileytk3/ ✅ Discord | discord.com/invite/52JcFzmMFs ✅ Twitch | www.twitch.tv/smileytk3 ✅ SmileyTK Merch | www.smileytk.store/

[@kanoooo1111]

Im a year in the game just pulled Trunda recently.just in the last month started to hydra chest in normal. They are to cripple Trunda and make it harder. Finally getting stone skin to make my champions better, now I will not even get a chest at all. It will be a year or two to get back to this point of 10 million in hydra. We as fairly new players don't have a chance now in hydra because of these CC's with score jealousy.

[@nicodemus802]

if you have just found trunda and you do only 10 milions then you don't have a proper "trunda team" with double yumeko or shuzen etc... for you Trunda will be fine in hydra even after the nerfs. Those nerfs affects those teams only. Trunda can do bilion with proper teams and setups, if you are using trunda in a regular team then you will have probably no issues with the nerfs

[@GorchaxGaming]

The cooldown cycle man. This is the real killer for non-yumeko teams that is not talked about enough. Gonna be almost impossible to get debuffs consistent on both decap and regrown.

[@eonBlackfire]

im 100% f2p on 2 accounts, have 2 gnuts with 5 star souls on both and archer ,harima on my main. my f2p that i made when raid came to steam i got a void lego on my 2nd ever void shard and duchess+trunda on the first ever 1+1 ancient event i ever took part in, its just rng and it sucks that people try attack a CC's integrity because they happen to have some good rng and have the game knowledge to be efficient/effective in how they play. but haters gonna hate i guess.

[@jgarrison1309]

I am not hating on him... I am trying to figure out if THIS is the way to play the game. But I don't think you can replicate this without INSANE luck... VERY VERY VERY VERY early on in your raid journey. You would have to start 24 accounts all at once, and drop the "unluckiest" account once a month over the course of two years. Presumably you would have the luckiest account at the very end of those two years... and then MAYBE it would look like this.

[@dprahn02]

Raise your mug for jgigs 😄 And obviously yourself!

[@SmileyTK3]

Cheers!! =D

[@nathantodd8951]

11:46 that sealed it there for me, a true f2p experience there honestly, ive been playing since 2022 and about 2 weeks ago got togron the conjoined as my first void lego. hes not needed at the moment but yeah people gotta stop trying to cause problems if the facts are right in front of them

[@ibnjones6605]

Talk so calm, thumbnail looks like serious boss. Nothing but love. without looking at your background, sounds like you in a radio station.

[@SmileyTK3]

=D

[@zaccochran4025]

As someone who doesn’t do cruises, curious to see your experience

[@SmileyTK3]

I uploaded my first ever vlog video on my other new travel and food channel! Check it out =) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoOsgXaDZbKYedE

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen752]

With all due respect, you haven't addressed if you still receive the CC Program for your free to play account with a simple yes or no. Not sure if you're true F2P or a Semi F2P.

[@SmileyTK3]

Not sure if this message will go through to you or not because unfortunately I was asked to take down this video, but I’ve addressed this several times on my F2P series that I have never received CC perks on my F2P account and never will. My main account has always received the perks. My F2P is a true F2P account =)

[@brianmyers5694]

You wouldn’t believe how confused I was lol I restarted the video and the app so many times lol. Got me!

[@traybow]

Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. Happen in life all the time! This game attracts way too much drama. 🤣🤣🤣

[@SmileyTK3]

Indeed LOL

[@Ante-fg7xx]

For once today since whole hydra news you out of all CC came quite open minded and and objective on whole situation. If at least more people could understand to take a moment and properly analyze situation before instantly raging and criticizing it just because it contains word "nerf" inside it. Good job. Keep it up.

[@brianmyers5694]

Bro your just one cool dude! Love you Bro keep up the great work! I been mad for 2 days about Freya I been saving since the Assguard divide started and only half what I needed to get her. I could get by selling souls but I’m just gonna not participate like you and keep growing my pot for a 2x or maybe a Titan event. I got Tormin last year in December from it.

[@jeffedwards7960]

Given that my years-old f2p account has never been very powerful in the first place, and to my knowledge I don't have any champions Plarium has nerfed, things like the Hydra changes don't affect me much. I suppose next time I might experience something different, but honestly, I didn't care much about Hydra after I got Mithrala. I just do it to get a little extra clan gold.

[@jasong4452]

My account has a confusing player power, too. It's under my clan's requirement for recruits. Lots of champs in the vault with masteries, but no gear or books until i need them. Also, only a handful of 5-6 star souls. Big souls mean big player power.

[@jonathanh4134]

as long as i can still get my 1keys in i might keep doing hydra but i will no longer try hard in it anymore.

[@SmileyTK3]

I definitely feel you on that

[@TreKaufPL]

That sounds so wholesome they came visit from Korea

[@TrickyTroy.]

event dungeon is a complete joke lmao

[@johnwdunawayjr901]

By no means, I am not free to play player.I probably spit over 15k since I've been playing this game when Ninja and sir nick fusion started cause I've fused him and won a champion training. Now trying not to sped because of all the changes i got Lydia and Mythrula before I ever got Arbiter was stuck behind the arena challenges until they fixed it. Stuck behind 3v3 for Ramatu Brakesblood most likely because I really don't take the time. Nor do I have silver even with the free regear that they periodically due for 3 days or that you get from santrenos. If you were to see my account, you would be amaze. I actually have 6 Gnut. Had 5 for months pulled the 6th 5 weeks ago on 1+1 ancient event i just leveled up and ascended the 3rd no masteries after seeing you're video for Odin. Stuck on 20 FYI it's taken the. Time to sit down in front of a computer on off days to try to just and do the speeds for a lot of the contactent again. I've also tried not to put gear on champions. I'm not using. And also try not to take gear from champions that I do use.HH gaming tools, i have. All the champions needed to do a lot of these hydra strategies and stuff just haven't taken the time to fully Level up mastery and gear to the content pacific none of the Mythicals but lady M, so I just need to do an account rehaul. Now there's no point in me investing in building a second Trunda. They Nerf Emic on shield growth 2 days before fusion started HH did A CB video then they cap him at 10k per skill use or growth then however. Long after that, they decide to kill cadaver. Yet allow us to vote and create the skills for Wixwell along with 2 champions, they can take a shield & do damage, one rare heels, then do damage, kill taunt for all champions in the one place they side it was working as intended. Which is one of the skills that is needed to set up the shield grow strategies for a lot of players nuff said. So I only do hydra at the last minute.Just for the clain stuff to get the soul stone's up to brutal top chest. Not anymore. (RNG for many ppl, borh the head of mischief & or wraith both gets KOed comes back. Gets buffs, eat your champion game over ).

[@vohbovohborian28]

I am 160 days into the game. I almost never take 6* champions to 60 on purpose. I put my guys through minotaur, when they come out they tend to be around 51-55. The extra stats gained from those last 10 levels are really almost irrelevant unless you are doing top top top tier content with them. After this I consider them "done". What will then happen is that I sometimes use them to farm something like a potion keep, or some dungeon, where they are much better than taking "food", to fill roles you need (like say, taking a 51 zargala for defense down or whatever). Eventually they'll be 60 too that way. Great. There really is no need to waste valuable xp on things that are irrelevant.

[@robertjacobsen3742]

I am fine with a lot of the changes but after reducing turns significantly and capping damage how can they keep the points for the personal chests the same? Seems like a giant oversight.

[@YuePascal]

Like they said you don't have to do everything just like the last deck of shame😮...

[@adambohlin5112]

I am just a bit sad that TAUNT is now totally worthless "again" in the game, I wonder why we even have it since Emic and a few others are being put in the vault, the rest of the changes I am fine with.

[@furnes23gaming75]

did u get in trouble with the video u deleted ???

[@dijanagrubac461]

O yeah really how the f...I can speed run lvl 30 Odin dungeon without 2-3 Gnuuuuuuut????

[@SmileyTK3]

=O

[@dijanagrubac461]

@@SmileyTK3 exactly 😏

[@johnwdunawayjr901]

You have about the same soul stone's I had I got it it done You have to be willing to sell (6 star Mythical)if you don't have that 75% chance you may get dupes before you ever get the champions 5,6,or lago souls.

[@GorchaxGaming]

I did it with 900ish brews, 30 ancients rest mystery, maybe 1k gems max, and buying/recycling eternals. Sold some leggo souls i dont have yet (6star leorius Hurt, but dont have him). I did not sell mythicals cuz they are not in shop. Was alot cheaper/eazy than i expected. Not bad for a guarantee. Less than a fusion. Just need to be willing to sell souls u cant use. Specially as ftp. Did get a 5star gnut soul upgrade aswell during he event.

[@johnwdunawayjr901]

It was both for Tormen

[@lizzylim9136]

Haha Still fuuuull and missing the beautiful food😋🤪

[@SmileyTK3]

=)

[@NaajiRahmbah]

I don’t even think luck is involved. If you play this game long enough you just understand sometimes it’s just how the ball bounces. You can have two separate accounts with two different experiences. One account could have 3 dupes of a champ but the other never pulled. It’s just the way numbers and percentages work. On the other end, some comments are made out of jealousy. To see you running 3 Gnuts @ they don’t have one might be frustrating to them. Thats a personal problem. Not yours.

[@DarthMalgus666]

Salty will always be salty

[@IPRJungle]

You went through all the trouble of getting a yumeko were so happy and boom trunds nerf. Saph and all the hell hades and other content creators that complained over and over about trunda well look what you did you made plarium literally kill wixwell and also make the hydra incredibly difficult via less turns and devour is harder to release. Us krakens will still kraken aka toshiro, teox, mikage, oyesu void lego. We have or will get all of those champions well done all the bitching just crushed all the f2p people.

[@SmileyTK3]

Uh. I never once complained about any of what you stated. Not sure what you’re barking at me for. It doesn’t seem you watched my video otherwise you wouldn’t be attacking me for no reason 😂

[@IPRJungle]

@@SmileyTK3 I wasn’t talking about you brother I’m talking about saph and everyone else that bitched and bitched. You’re cool as shit you don’t cry about shit like other people you smile and get on to the next video. Btw I appreciate all the pack offer break downs that shits a life saver.

[@IPRJungle]

@@SmileyTK3 mtgjedi released a video where it was saphs suggestion that Hydra take 0 damage for one whole turn to purposely cripple the Trunda mechanic. So annoying that guys too smart for his own good 😂

[@GorchaxGaming]

Trunda still best by alot. Yumeko new mvp for most teams because u dont get decap time to cycle them now. This change made less teams useful, and most ftpish teams are gonna struggle alot with new mechanics. Yumeko teams no real change in effect, cept everyone drop 75% damage or so potentially (across the board, not just trunda)

[@GorchaxGaming]

He also suggestiv they cannot get buffs during that turn to prevent reflect/poison bullshit. If that was the case, it would have been good idea. Just damage immune is fucking horrible. Plarium is the least knowledgwable crew ever existing ehen it comes to game mechanic interactions.

[@odiumhh]

I could care less about the hydra drama. Hydra is the most annoying game mode anyways I just run rsl helper till I get my chests and that's it. I don't bother trying it's annoying af and to time consuming set it let it run while I sleep. All I'll say is rather than capping points in clash, or just fixing trunda they screwed up the whole mess and pissed everyone off typical plarium. As long as they don't fk up wixwell clan boss I don't care. Hydra = dog 💩

[@zerrotiii7135]

Sup my bro first again !!!!

[@SmileyTK3]

Thanks for showing love as always =)

[@Gamer5559]

Second

[@SmileyTK3]

I appreciate you just as much as being first =)

[@Gamer5559]

@@SmileyTK3 thanks dude I went back watch every video you made in this channel.

[@bilindshushe2586]

That is why I hate your channel, and I just saw this video by chance. so the fact that plarium cut the points by 40% is ok with you since it didn't affect you???!!!

[@jgarrison1309]

I am not hating on him... I am trying to figure out if THIS is the best way to play the game. But I don't think you can replicate this account without INSANE luck... VERY VERY VERY VERY early on in your raid journey. You would have to start 24 accounts all at once, and drop the "unluckiest" account to date once a month over the course of two years. Presumably you would be left with just one, the luckiest account, at the very end of those two years... and then MAYBE it would look like this. When someone says they are "Free to Play", what the viewer hears is .... "If I can do it, you can too". From what I have seen, I don't think we can replicate this account without an incredible amount of shard pulls to counter the fact that nearly every shard pull results in food.

[@mncedisi2933]

Please learn from him so you can become almost as good as him. Your level of questioning shows you still have a lot of room to learn so that knowledge gets rid of so much of your skepticism

[@jgarrison1309]

@@mncedisi2933 What I learned is that his focus is on champion collection. He limits his engagement with locations like Doom Tower and the COS. That's OK, and you can afford to do that if you get lucky with your pulls early on, lucky pulls that lead to immediate success in Hydra and Clan Boss. If you get champions with great skills, you don't need the gear that comes from dungeons, or stats that you earn in the great hall by way of arena. But you cannot START playing that way. The luck has to come first.

[@jgarrison1309]

Thanks for the reply. This confirmed my suspicion. You have great champions in the collection, and vault full of terrible captions 11:25 ... JGigs did not show that because he was stunned by your collection. Watch the video. He can't believe it either. A) To have that many great champions, you must have pulled many more shards than you are letting on. Your ratio of great champs to visible garbage champs is MUCH higher than the average player. I am not sure appreciate that. And every time you claim to have your share of bad champions and dupes, that's flexing... and adds fuel to the fire that you opened more shards than the average bear. B) How are you earning resources in Sintranos if a majority of your champions are without gear? You need the resource help to fuel the shard pulls in (A). C) Great Hall development boosts stats and make fusions easier because your champs are better. I don't see how you made enough high level dungeon runs and clan boss and hydra victories early on without great stats on your champions. That was my point about the GH. Almost every other player in Raid finds fusions easy once they have great champs in great gear making high level runs. That stats from the GH facilitate that. Almost everyone struggles until their GH is more than half way complete. Ask around. D) Or maybe it's on gear alone. What do you have? Ten sets of great gear and you just keep swapping it on and off the same twenty champions? That's my guess. Once you have the ten sets, who needs silver anymore for gear improvement, right? IT CAN ALL GO TOWARDS TAKING IT ON AND OFF THE CHAMPIONS WHO NEED IT FOR THAT DAY'S CONTENT. That would work. E) That explains the low player power as you mentioned. It also explains why we don't see a lot of Sintranos videos from you, which is OK. F) Where I think you REALLY got lucky (and you don't talk about it) was in your artifact drops. Running with just ten gear sets requires sixty great pieces. How many dungeon runs does it take to acquire sixty great pieces? With your luck, maybe just seventy, or seventy-five runs. How convenient! G) Lord only knows how much spider you ran to acquire great accessories... maybe not many considering you only needed about 30 excellent pieces for just ten sets, and with your luck you can manage that in 40 to 45 runs. (What does your gear storage look like? I am guessing the cuppord is bare, because you have to sell everything to pay for the gear swapping between events) . . . I think you got really lucky and VERY EARLY ON in your Raid Journey you pulled three great nukers to help you in 3v3 ... and you got very lucky pulling Hydra champions... very early... but you did not get lucky across all factions, which delayed your Faction Wars and Great Hall development. I am guessing that is how it shook out for you. Six or seven very lucky or near perfect Legendary pulls early on will help ANYONE clear all the dungeons without the need for variety. But Faction Wars would have to wait. Did it take you an inordinate amount of time to get Lydia? Were 15 of your first 20 legendary champions S-Tier? The average player will need to pull 200 legendaries to get the perfect spread of 15 champs needed to clear all content (while sharing just 10 sets of excellent gear of course!). . . . I would wish you good luck in your Raid journey, but you have that already. I still think this is the luckiest F2P account in Raid. But I can wish you well in the future. If you have time to reply, and if you remember, post your first twenty Legendary pulls. I am guessing no more than three or four are crappy. And therein lies the luck, along with acquiring Epics that kick ass in Hydra and Arena without being burdened with a lot of useless champions along the way. I suspect that ninety percent of the time, you got the exact champion you needed based on where you were in the game at that time. THAT'S HUGE! (and congratulations). For instance... Can you imagine the poor soul who pulled a Miscreated Monster AFTER they were already conquering hard spider? Can you imagine the poor player forced to compete in Turn Attack Tournaments without a Seer? (my current burden because I don't have your luck LOL) . . . I am not saying we all have to play the same way. We don't. And these accounts don't have to look the same. And they won't because each account is a unique animal we adopt and care for raise. But this account has to be a unicorn... a rare find indeed. And if you stop to think about it, the priorities here are much different than what we have seen elsewhere, and that's OK too.

[@SmileyTK3]

I barely touch Sinatros and I don't really have to swap gear around at all much because I try to make everything work with what I have on certain champs and work around them. You're more than welcome to watch the progress of my entire journey from the start to see how I got where I got. I got nothing to hide.

[@dweb6832]

That is a very long tedious reply to say absolutely nothing. Your comment about the Great Hall making fusions easier is idiotic. Can you do any dungeon level 20? Most CCs say, during fusions, the most efficient level for Dungeon Divers or any of the Dungeons is level 20. It is not Hard 10. So managing resources and being able to do level 20 is the way to make fusions easy. Has absolutely nothing to do with the GH. Artifact Enhancement, need coins, Spider 20 normal. Save ALL shards for Fusions. complaining about CCs having it easy or whatever your point is, is stupid.

[@jgarrison1309]

@@SmileyTK3 I don't think you are hiding anything. I just don't think anyone can set out to have their account look this way if they wanted to. It is 100 percent a function of luck. By the way, where is all the gear you had to roll up for Artifact Enhancement over the years?

[@jgarrison1309]

@@dweb6832 My point is a new player can NEVER plan for their account to look this way. It is a function of luck. And when someone says "I am 100 percent free to play" ... what the players and viewers are hearing is this... "If I can do it, you can too." Not like this they can't. He must have pulled all the right champs and all the right gear so early on that he didn't have to worry about stat bonuses from the great hall by way of Faction Wars. Farming 20 isn't going to yield that many top tier gear pieces. But that's OK... he didn't need a whole lot, the way he manages his artifacts. I am guessing he sells almost every piece, including those he had to roll up for artifact enhancement. This account is unlike any other F2P account I have seen. And I don't think you can treat it like a blueprint because I don't think you can replicate it unless you replicate the luck that came so early on that he could afford to play this way.

[@jgarrison1309]

What I learned is that his focus is on champion collection. He limits his engagement with locations like Doom Tower and the COS. That's OK, and you can afford to do that if you get lucky with your pulls early on, lucky pulls that lead to immediate success in Hydra and Clan Boss. If you get champions with great skills, you don't need the gear that comes from dungeons, or stats that you earn in the great hall by way of arena. But you cannot START playing that way. The luck has to come first.

[@livwilde8267]

It's finally time for a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against plarium. This is theft, people spent hard earned money and time to get these champs and now they're useless. We don't have what we paid for, SCAM.

[@darklurker898]

Good luck with that 😂