Topic: Mario Tennis Aces Online Tournament Points

@MarsManu WOW, I thought I had played a lot with 2000 points (I had one opponent with 5000+. ) How much did you PLAY?!

I didn't get chain chomp until late, but I didn't seem to do particularly better with him. I wish the game told you the differences of the characters. "Power, power, power, speedy, speedy, all-around, technical, tricky"....but...what does that mean? How does each get used differently?

@SwitcherooSwitch YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE!!!! Wow and I thought my 100 games or so was a lot...up to 2000 points. That's scary! Don't the trick shots DRAIN your energy meter? They seemed to for me....

@NEStalgia I'm not sure, maybe like 8 hours ^^
My reach was much better with Chain Chomp and Waluigi than with Mario and Yoshi for example. It's understandable, Waluigi's arms are much larger than those two.

@NEStalgia I couldn't play as much as others because 1) I had other things going on in real life this weekend and 2) I have small hands so trying to use all the buttons and the right stick on the pro controller in a fast action game causes my right hand to hurt after a while. But I think I made a decent showing of myself with 125 total matches and 5 losses. (I think my points got to just over 30k... Can't remember.)

Anyway, you can manipulate your serve based on your position and the type of shot you do. Hold the direction stick while the ball is in the air. And a slice will bank towards your forehand side (I believe, the physics of the swing and my experience as a lefty had slice serves going towards my left) and a topspin would be opposite that, but if you're a powerful server going for that, just flat hit for more power.

The closer you are to the center of the court, the shallower your angle is going to be. The further out you are, the deeper your angle can be.

Wow I played probably 8 hours maybe total....I lost more than I won (won only bracket 1 and occasional bracket 2....once or twice bracket 3.) I thought 2k points was good

@MarsManu I didn't do any better or worse I don't think with specific characters, though I didn't understand their strengths. It needs an MK8 like meter system for the different builds I think! But I know I hated going AGAINST Waluigi. Every match was a never-ending 5 game match. It was so tiring by the end! It was a chain chomp player that just destroyed me in a total shutout though. For me I still can't fathom getting to the finals You guys that did it so many times that seems surreal! I'll say it's kind of frustrating every time you lose going back to the first tier.....I found the first round very easy usually with the other total noobs.....but then bracket 2 would just destroy me.

@DawgP Wow...that's a LOT of information on the gauges....I never even gave them that much thought! How do you not aim the specials/zones...don't they go out more times than not? (heck even the ones I did aim were out more times than not...I'd say 20% in, 80% out, losing the point.)

And how do you actually charge your racket reliably? Most of the time I could only get a very very tiny charge before the ball was hit.

Man, I really hope NL runs a tournament when this releases. There are clearly quite a few serious players out there!

@NEStalgia So fast means they're mobile, tricky means their slice and topspin spin hella curve, defensive means longer reach (and possibly less strict trick shot?), Power means they hit hard, all around means garbage (sorry, but I feel Mario is the worst character in Mario Tennis. Every Mario I faced was basically a free win, even the ones with 20k+ points).

Also, my experience is that special/zone shot default to a legal hit. Did you turn gyro controls off? Those might cause non-aim to be out... thinking

As for charging the racket, hit/mash the button as soon as you feel confident in your placement when returning a volley. If you get a good feel for controlling the court, you'll pretty much be where you need to be most of the time as you've moved before your opponent hits it back, giving you more time to charge. And then there are the "dive" hits if the ball is too far out but you can still reach, they don't give special meter, but keep the ball in play if you charged too far away. And then there are also the trick shots.

@NEStalgia The trick shots give you lots of energy if you time them right but if you're too late the game will enter zone speed and use some of your meter but at least you're nearly guaranteed to hit the ball then. If you use a late trick shot and didn't have enough energy to use the required zone speed you would return the ball weakly and your opponent was guaranteed a star zone on their side of the court.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that if you use a late trick shot, you gain no energy.

@Snaplocket I'm Chain Chomp all the way. Stats and stuff be damned, I love the cosmetics of a racket in his mouth and the whole busting out of the cage at the championship intro.

@Snaplocket Waluigi, of course

Won most games with bowser and Rosalina.

I thought it would have been overall not just points or I would have played non stop restjng rather then spending hours playing that one t match I have 15375 points 100 wins 47 loss 147 matches

I ended with a good 79 tournament wins, 403 regular wins, with a 90% win rate. I got an overall score of about 98k

@Kwild How many hours was that? I understand wanting to play as much of the demo as possible in the short amount of time but not to that extent.

@SwitcherooSwitch my switch says 40 hours or more

I have 10 tournament wins about 120 matches total and won about 93 of them

And above 18000 points

I wonder when the rankings will be announced...

So do i been googling it every day though i dont think i was top 4 i do think i was good enough to be ranked

@DawgP Good point about motion, I left motion on because it felt most natural to aim (Splatoon vet...) but maybe if not trying to aim turning them off helps.

@Snaplocket THAT post should have been in the game! No idea why it wasn't. I read the stats but they all seemed to play the same to me except rosalina's curve. Hitting "harder" didn't mean much to me, and I didn't know they had different reaches. I can't say I did better or worse with any one character, though I gravitated toward Yoshi, Toad, and Spike. I liked Bowser somewhat....and I wasn't sure how to use Waluigi (and he's annoying) or Peach or Rosalina.

@Kwild over 400 games played?! Yikes...how did you even find time for that....and how did you WIN so many! I'd have been thrilled to have a 50/50 rate!

@NEStalgia Hitting harder means the ball goes faster. So your opponent has less time to react (as well as charge their shot) and gets pushed further back by charges shot, I want to say, too.