What are your thoughts on the Academy Ace Tournament?

[vondecayle]

Was the difficulty satisfying? How would you improve it? Do you think it was better than the Galarian Star Tournament in Sword/Shield?

 

[Lord Godwin]

Was the difficulty satisfying? How would you improve it? Do you think it was better than the Galarian Star Tournament in Sword/Shield?

Slighty better but BlueBerry rematches are event better with the trades etc involved. My only conplain about those were no Team Star outside Penny taking part and using Terrastalization.
It also updated rostera as Galarian Star didn't add any new Pokemon to trans despite happening after 2 DLC and seeing Galar Gym Leaders and other on the Isle of Armor...

 

[Luthor]

I think it was good that it made sure that you were taking on opponents with full teams which was one of my complaints with the galar tournament. I do think because it's just in the street it looses a sense of scale when compared to the Galar tournament (but that's ok galar's scale is hard to replicate as its not set in stadiums). My bigger issue that it meant that you couldn't just rematch either of the elite 4s and champion in order (which makes sense in the case of the BB academy given Kieran loses the title) but I would have liked to be able to take on Rika, Poppy, Larry & Hassel as an elite 4 then challenge Geeta as another rematch (instead of just the one on one rematches in the league cup room). But admittedly these are more minor nitpicks than outright problems.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Having a story-flavoured postgame instead of a generic Battle Tower clone. It fits SV’s vibe really well and feels more personal than faceless NPCs.

That said, it gets stale fast. The roster is small, there’s no real level scaling, and once your team is optimized it becomes a money/XP grind rather than a challenge. Compared to past battle facilities, it doesn’t have much long-term depth.