Aaa I actually love Panel de Pon! I consider myself okay at it but I don't think I'd have the confidence to enter a tournament, lol. I've never played the Pokemon Puzzle League iteration but I wonder if the timing is any different.
It's a GREAT game to feel yourself getting incrementally better at. The main skill for the game is pattern recognition, so I think despite the randomness any given victory is fairly likely to be due to skill. There's so MUCH randomness in the game that I think it's pretty hard to actually get a string of RNG that genuinely screws you over, and getting better at the game largely involves being able to take advantage of what you're presented with. That also means I'm not sure how useful practice in controlled conditions actually is for this specific game.
Panel de Pon is also on Switch Online so sometimes I play it when I need a break from working l0l.
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Date: 2023-07-07 06:08 am (UTC)It's a GREAT game to feel yourself getting incrementally better at. The main skill for the game is pattern recognition, so I think despite the randomness any given victory is fairly likely to be due to skill. There's so MUCH randomness in the game that I think it's pretty hard to actually get a string of RNG that genuinely screws you over, and getting better at the game largely involves being able to take advantage of what you're presented with. That also means I'm not sure how useful practice in controlled conditions actually is for this specific game.
Panel de Pon is also on Switch Online so sometimes I play it when I need a break from working l0l.