I’m absolutely loving the new “consolation rewards” from the showdown tower. Up to 26 gems is incredible and makes it more fun facing the challenging trainer battles instead of cursing as soon as you see a familiar face pop up on the screen.
I’ve spent a lot of time re-doing floors 8, 9, 10 and 11 trying to get trainer battles while they’re a bit easier and had some good luck. I kept track of exactly who I fought and on which floor. Everything worked fine except for two things:
“Meet and defeat both Beritus and Black Sun on 12th floor” - this completed when I’d only defeated Black Sun (I hadn’t even met Beritus once on any floor).
“Meet and defeat all the Grand Four at least one time” - I beat all four at least once by floor 10. No completion and I thought maybe it might include Beritus (long shot but not going to start moaning if I’m being stupid). However, I just beat Beritus on floor 12 and still not completed. I then met Lord Tardel again and found out that after defeating him there was no special conversation with him… I went straight back to the door selection screen after the victory screen.
Has anyone else been experiencing this bug with Lord Tardel? If it’s something everyone is experiencing I hope the developers hand us out the 3 gems for free but if it’s just me then I’ll contact support.
All other trainers have a bit of conversation after the match where they hand over their badge but I’m not getting that for Lord Tardel.
Thanks for the post. This morning I logged in and when I entered the showdown tower I got the message from Lily saying "congratulations for beating floor 8… " so I thought that must be part of the fix. I checked consolation rewards and still no completion.
I had previously reset my badges on floor 12 so did 8 battles (or so) beating Black Sun, Beritus and then Lord Tardel. Again no little conversation from Lord Tardel after the fight and my consolation reward is incomplete.
As a side note… I still need to meet Makisa on floor 12. Do I need to keep resetting my badges to 0 then going through fighting trainers in order to try and meet her or can I keep going after the 15th badge? You might be able to help me with that at least.
Below is just a little screenshot to show I can’t claim the reward. I can’t prove I beat Lord Tardel but hopefully you can trust me on that
Unfortunately, I’ve figured that all the trainer encounters in the tower are fixed. As in, you’ll always meet the same trainer on the same part of a floor, meaning if a certain person never showed up, then too bad, you simply can’t get the prize for it. I couldn’t get the grand 4 prize because Maedel never showed up. So that means that it’s pointless to start over on floors by losing to trainers on purpose, you won’t find anyone different. The best thing you can do is just take the trainer every single time the text appears, and don’t skip over it. (If you see text but a trainer doesn’t appear, just leave the battle and try again until you get one. Also try different doors until you get the red one.)
I’ve redone all of the floors loads… floor 8, 9 and 10 at least 3 times. I’ve got myself a little confused about how it works so don’t believe me 100%. But here’s what I’ve found out.
I am quite sure:
Trainers are preset to certain battles on a floor, e.g. 12-3, 12-4 (either same for all of us or randomised and not reset if you lose your badges).
Battles with no message on any of the doors have no trainer at all.
Battles with a trainer almost always have red-white-white, with the red door having the higher chance for the trainer.
Trainers are restricted to certain floors, e.g. Beritus only appears on floors 11 and 12 (as said previously in this thread - thanks for pointing it out).
Things I’m not 100% on:
The trainers you meet on a floor are shuffled around among themselves if you lose your badges, but they are still met in the same battles (i.e. if 10-6 is a trainer battle it may swap the person with another battle but 10-6 is still a trainer battle).
The pool of trainers which you can meet on a floor is a subset of the total pool. E.g. If there are 8 different trainers you could meet on a floor then only a select number is chosen (5, say) and even re-shuffling by losing your badges will not get the ones not selected.
The subset pool of trainers you have can be more than the number of trainer battles you have on that floor. E.g. If there are 8 possible trainers for a floor and, say, 5 are selected for your subset but only 3 trainer battles on the floor. Then losing your badges will shuffle the 5 trainers across those 3 battles.
So basically, when you see neither a red or white message on a door you may as well go beat the battle whether you are hunting for trainers or not. When you see a white message go enter the battle but retreat and try another door if you’re looking for a trainer, they will be behind one of the other two. If you’re unable to meet all the trainers you want then lose your badges and go through again. You’ll probably just keep coming up against the same trainers but some floors there may be an extra one or two trainers you won’t get unless you re-shuffle by losing your badges.
If anyone can prove me wrong about the re-shuffling sometimes getting you an extra trainer or two please do. It definitely seems to be the case that some floors you won’t be able to get a particular trainer, even though you should be able to meet them that floor and are losing your badges to re-shuffle things.
P.S. The one positive thing I’d like to say is I managed to meet Makisa while going through floor 12 for the second time (purposefully lost in battle 15). I’ve gone through and completed the tower so it’s all rewards claimed for me except Beritus twice fought (it seemed impossible for me) and Grand Four defeated. I’m very glad with all the rewards I’ve got from this and it’s been lots of fun. Just a shame I’ve missed out on 3 of the gems I should have got.
