How hard is the difficulty of the game?

[Zaebore]

Am I a terrible player or is the difficulty of the game this hard? I play using a Keter Sanctuary deck and I have no problem going through the story but the hardest time I have playing with this deck is against the Lyrical decks and it is by far miles and galaxies away in comparison to the other decks I faced against. I struggle against this deck so much I find myself going in circles figuring out how to beat the deck with it. I just want to know, am I playing the game wrong or is the game actually this difficult.

[mimizukari]

the hard NPCs/npcs later in story line are definitely difficult, especially with their skills which allow them to get triggers more often, That said, if you're having trouble vs one specific deck type, you know which NPCs use that deck so for those instances you could switch to using a different deck.

[Zaebore]

Thank you for the advice. It looks like I have to build different decks against decks that counter my own then.

[dareka2019]

I assume you are running a deck that us built up from the Keter Sanctuary starter deck, Bastion the G3 heavy deck. Yes that deck can be weak against early game aggression because your G3 usually have no shield value and are unplayable until you reach G3.
My advice before completely changing your deck are the following:
1) Look at your D skills. Lightning Spark (always go first) and Draw Trigger are both helpful skills against early game aggression and are unlocked early on.
2) Change your ride chain to Wingal Brave->Marron->Blaster Dark. This helps removing enemy pressure and is my go-to ride chain for many Keter decks.
3) Run a copy of Elementaria Sanctitude if you are not running a G4 deck. This helps your match up against 2 of the 3 Lyrical players in this game.

[Skyterror]

The CPU literally cheats. I had an 8 crit turn and the hit all 4 of their heal triggers in a row on 6 damage. (Certainly this could happen but that's like winning the lottery) Don't sweat the losses against the CPU. They are likely doing something to prolong the games or give the illusion of difficulty.

[dareka2019]

Originally posted by Skyterror:

The CPU literally cheats. I had an 8 crit turn and the hit all 4 of their heal triggers in a row on 6 damage. (Certainly this could happen but that's like winning the lottery) Don't sweat the losses against the CPU. They are likely doing something to prolong the games or give the illusion of difficulty.

If you mean Danji in the last story chapter, yes he has a D skill that stacks heal trigger. Also I believe you get like 1200 VP (multiplied by your VP bonus D skills) if your opponent hits 4 effective heals in a game.
If you can get over the bad taste in your mouth for losing a game because your opponent cheats, you can turn on Don't Hold Back (2x VP gain but enemy hits more triggers) and keep doing that fight and lose intentionally after he hits all of his heals to farm VP. Or, you can turn on My Hope or just do CPU fights instead of story so that you don't run into cheating issues.

[Skyterror]

Originally posted by dareka2019:

Originally posted by Skyterror:

The CPU literally cheats. I had an 8 crit turn and the hit all 4 of their heal triggers in a row on 6 damage. (Certainly this could happen but that's like winning the lottery) Don't sweat the losses against the CPU. They are likely doing something to prolong the games or give the illusion of difficulty.

If you mean Danji in the last story chapter, yes he has a D skill that stacks heal trigger. Also I believe you get like 1200 VP (multiplied by your VP bonus D skills) if your opponent hits 4 effective heals in a game.
If you can get over the bad taste in your mouth for losing a game because your opponent cheats, you can turn on Don't Hold Back (2x VP gain but enemy hits more triggers) and keep doing that fight and lose intentionally after he hits all of his heals to farm VP. Or, you can turn on My Hope or just do CPU fights instead of story so that you don't run into cheating issues.

This actually happened on the 1st battle of the second character's story. I had the D skill disabling one on. No D Skill animation ever played other than my own. So either watched the CPU win the lottery or D skills can activate through the disabling and it can stack all 4 of your triggers