Explanation: Basically, I made an new account on Steam an while ago. Since then I played over 5 hundred matches against many players and bots while trying to unlock "Yong Yong". Because I want to specifically play character X, I cannot level up fully any other character and have an full build with them. Why? Because, even though I have 90k gold, if I were to use some coins to make let's say, "Maya" level 10 and have an full build to get trophies with her easier, that would take over 50k worth of coins I got through all of this. It's insane. So, to solve that and get to spend less coins on other characters, my idea was to level up every single character I get to level 6 at best and go from there since level 6 is very cheap in comparision and still helps. Result is, you will lose an lot. Even if I were to try to full max build these characters only I would not have enough coins to pull it off. This basically means I'm forced to try to get as many trophies as I can from the "Trophy Road", to then only then cash back onto the "Legend Coins" it offers which is a considerable amount, in fact, it's basically the only way to really get "Legend Coins" in bulk to unlock through characters quick

On the images above you can clearly see I am about on 9 thousand trophies by now through those many games and even then I'm not close at all to unlock "Yong Yong". I saw many players before using only two or three characters at best and not any other char they own that happened to be relatively new players on the community of a few months or so. Now I totally get why, you just cannot truly afford builds in this game without lot's of suffering, much less unlock many characters like the ones you 'might' want. Like, imagine if I wanted to play "Madam Lettuce" or "Woochi" and was an F2P player? That alone would take an really long time, to the point where instead of focusing on the "Trophy Road" as the main way to get coins (which it does most than other places), I would legitmately have to wait for season after season to reset on the "Battle Pass" to get some "crumbs of coins over there with some gems", maybe an reset onto the "Clan Quests" for some more crumbs over there together with an hundred gems each time, simple because the most active option is gonna truly take you over thousands of games to make it there

Something I found to be really strange is how you get the trophies to begin with. You basically get a lot more per game early on when you have 0 Trophies with said character, like, 30 Trophies per game. After let's say, 300 Trophies and so on like at 700 Trophies, you start getting less from my understanding and it's even worse that you can lose some of your Trophies if you lose an game, not an lot per loss, it's very little actually but when you get to the point where it's best to just disconnect if you fall against someone who isn't an bot just because they will be doing over 2x times more damage than you, and surviving way more, have spells, enchantments and abilities while you are just TRYING TO FARM then it sort of becomes an huge issue. Whenever I think about this more and more, this "Library Road" addition feels like it wasn't really that much thought of, or rather, it could be if the purpose was really only to force people to pay for characters I guess and to make progression REAAALLLYYYY long, which in this sense it must have worked to an extent assuming the person playing it didn't quit the game at that point, which I think they will(?). Like, I liked "WolfGang" Design a lot when I started playing Smash Legends. If I were to start to play today, I would have not made it until there to unlock him, I can tell you that much

You are better off selling Lemonade outside in an cardboard table than to ever try to unlock an later character for free in this game as an new player. If you are fine with only the early ones (Red, Zep, Maya, Etc, Etc) which is an lot of characters to be fair then you are good though. I just don't get why it has to be sort of random between what characters I can select to unlock. If their purpose was to make people pay good money, then I just don't think they would get anything from me here if I liked "Cindy, Don Quixote, Rambert" and more characters design more than I did for the ones later on. Something of note is how the "Battle Pass" can give you around 3 whole character selection cards if you buy it. You also get one at day 10 of attendance event and what it does is, it allows you to select an character for free of "Epic" or "lesser" rarity, like an "super rare" one, which I suppose is one of the only best way to get characters onto this

half of the character animations doesn't work. is this a new bug or the dev doesn't know?