How functional is auto battle?

[Rowby]

For the purpose of grinding, just curious

[Bun]

It's alright but the AI could be smarter. Auto Battle will prio defensive and always heal first, regardless of your health %. So don't have too many defensive cards or it'll drag out the battle.

Normally, if you have no attack card at hand, you'd throw away one card during your turn, but the AI will stay its hand, passing turns until it gets attacked (if I remember correctly).

Everything I said above becomes invalid if you enable "Instant KO" though. :)

[ForestMagi]

In BKO, it will pick the lowest-number card in your hand, including equipment (which is always 0), and play only one card, even if it could play more, and if you have only non-attack, non-equipment cards in your hand, it will discard the maximum amount of cards and end the character's turn (even if it draws a card it would normally use, it discards the drawn card anyway and keeps going); this makes it useless for anything except Instant KO grinding, but if you load your deck with only weak attacks and turn on Instant KO, it works just fine.

I typically turn it on after beating every kind of enemy in the area on my own, to save myself the time, but I do sometimes forget to turn it off for boss battles, which I like to do myself.

[Rowby]

I totally forgot about the instant kill option. I could turn that on once I've got a picture of each enemy in an area. Just need to make sure I anticipate and turn it off before a boss.