I was told that someone spread a rumor that I can only PB NG+ because I play 10 hours every day resetting for battle counts. Unfortunately, they misread me saying that I played for a total of 10 hours to PB, and they misunderstood that my battle count does not include the elite "miniboss" that is required halfway through each area. So to give hope to my fellow doomer runners, I thought I would explain that battle count probably matters less than you think. When you can one-round battles, they don't lose too much time. There are many more factors that go into getting fast times such as physical execution, decision-making, deck build, and even knowing when to reset to maximize attempts (like in Minecraft runs). This is good news, since it means that PBing can happen through improved skill rather than rolling for perfect RNG. I'm going to give this example with the utmost respect possible: my NG+ PB has 2 more battles than the 2nd fastest run.

To give another example, here is my attempt session from today. I switched over from only Any% attempts and within 1 hour, I got a 22:44 with 5/4/4 battle count (7/6/6 total). This run was also definitely PBable if I had not gotten bad RNG and pulled the Mikan Badge.

I'm not posting this to attack the person who talked down to me. I just hope that going forward, we can be nice to each other and celebrate each other's personal accomplishments!