Winner of May was: Kingofalldogz with 20 points

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• Yesterday’s game: The Diamondbacks beat the Rockies 6-0 Dinelson Lamet got the win, Tommy Henry got the loss..
• Kingofalldogz the overall lead with 43.
• Kingofalldogz lead the month of May with 20.
• Longest current winning streak: tfP360 10
• Longest current losing streak: PendragonDaGreat, LogicalHarm and thedriedplum with 2.
• The Yankees @ Mariners series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/29.
• The Phillies @ Mets series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/30.
• The Rockies @ Diamondbacks series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/31.
• The Reds @ Red Sox series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 6/1.
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Today's game will be:
Cincinnati Reds (26-29) @ Boston Red Sox (28-27) at 7:10 PM ET.
[MLB.com preview, and analysis](https://www.mlb.com/gameday/reds-vs-red-sox/2023/06/01/717932/preview
The probable starting pitchers are:
Hunter Greene (1-4 4.18 80K)) vs Chris Sale (5-2, 4.72 65K)
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Here is a list the teams selected the least if you are stuck between picking different matchups. I would advise you to only use this list as a tiebreaker between close matches. I do not recommend using this list if you believe the matchup will be a blowout.
Tigers, and Athletics with 1 game each.

Following Varland's dominant showing against a potent Astros offense, arguably even more impressive given the immediate offensive explosion from Houston as soon as he was lifted, everyone is rightly asking "what should I make of Varland?"
I'm not exactly an authority, nor do I get paid to do this, but I have made some pretty strong, at times unpopular, remarks about Varland in the past (like saying two weeks ago that I thought the numbers favored Varland over Bibee). Given the interest in Varland and that the post I did on Liberatore went pretty well, both in terms of the reception here and how my "he's Logan Allen with a worse fastball and no strikeout upside" take aged, I thought I would make another.

Metrics

Given that we are still relatively early in the year, especially when evaluating some of these rookies, we have to be wary of sample size for just about anything we look at. Thankfully, we have already passed the fabled 400 pitch threshold for Pitching+, which is both empirically determined in terms of predictive power but still feels very arbitrary in terms of usefulness of the model, for Varland before this start.
With that in mind, I am going to focus more than some might like on Pitching+ because it has been the crux of my advocacy for Varland so far this year, given its power in small samples. Rather than tweak my argument now in light of his recent success, I'll try to be true what I've said all along and use Pitching+ as a good predictor of rest-of-season ERA.

Class Rank

As anyone still reading this post knows, the rookie pitching class this year has been phenomenal, with the Millers, Bradley, Bibee, and more putting on a show. Eury and the yet-to-be-called-up Gavin Williams are also guys who figure to line up as aces of the future.
Among such a prominent class, it's easy to miss someone who has been as unassumingly good as Louie Varland. By Stuff+, he's phenomenally average: 100. Among rookie starters with at least 10 innings, he ranks 15 out of 37, smack between the likes of Ryne Nelson (101), Brandon Pfaadt (101), Kodai Senga (99), and Hayden Wesneski (98). Try to contain your excitement at such illustrious company.
Similarly, he's 12 of 37 among rookies by ERA at 4.24. His WHIP comes in 9th at 1.24. Again, why do we even care about this "just a guy"-level starter? We start to see why we might on a metric like K-BB%, where he's 4th behind Taj, Bryce Miller, and Brown, which brings us to one of his big strengths.

Location, Location, Location+

Varland makes up for his exactly average Stuff+ with a really impressive Location+ numbers. Among the 26 rookie starters with at least 20 innings, to cut out a few low sample size data points, Varland's 106 Location+ ranks 2nd behind only Dylan Dodd, who barely qualifies at 20.1 IP and pairs his small sample 108 Location+ with an abysmal 79 Stuff+.
Varland's 106 Location+ and 100 Stuff+ are good for a 105 Pitching+, which puts him behind only Taj Bradley (106) and Bryce Miller (110) among that group of rookies. (Note: Bobby Miller has shown early returns on Pitching+ similar to Bryce, so it's not unlikely that he'll wind up ahead of Varland once we have enough sample to trust his numbers.)
Now, for context, other popular rookie pitchers in this group that rank lower than Varland on this list: J.P. France (105 Pitching+, small sample size caveat), Hunter Brown (104 Pitching+), Ryne Nelson (102), Bibee (102), Allen (101), where these all show their Pitching+ numbers. It is worth keeping in mind the standard deviation of the Pitching+ distribution at the player level, which is just shy of 5, when looking at these numbers. I wouldn't argue that a gap of 3 points between Varland and Bibee mean that Varland is an obviously better pitcher, but I think that it's at least fair to put them in the same tier based on their comparable Pitching+, K-BB% (18.9% for Varland, 18.4% for Bibee), and Stuff+ (100 Varland vs. 101 Bibee).

Comparison to Bibee

Diving into their numbers, Varland and Bibee look surprisingly similar, more so than I thought when sitting down to write this.
They:

• are 4 pitch RHP's with a 95 MPH fastballs and 84 MPH changeups (slightly less velo separation for Varland)
• have ~100 Stuff+ overall (101 Bibee, 100 Varland)
• have comparable scouting grades (60/55/50/50 + 55 command for Varland, 55/60/45/45 + 55 command for Bibee)
• have comparable Stuff+ by pitch (105/105 fastball, 111/107 slider favoring Varland, 93/86 changeup favoring Varland, plus a 90 Stuff+ cutter for Varland compared to an 84 Stuff+ curve for Bibee)
• have similar SIERAs (3.80 Varland, 3.99 Bibee) and K-BB% (18.9 Varland, 18.4 Bibee)

The biggest differences that jump out are the cutter for Varland vs. curve for Bibee and then Location+ (106 for Varland, 98 for Bibee), but beyond that, they look pretty damn similar, with the sum total of some of these slight differences adding up to Varland's slightly better Pitching+ at 105 compared to 102.

TL;DR

Varland is a promising rookie who Pitching+ has liked all year and who, despite getting less attention, might even compare out favorably against Tanner Bibee. I am high on Varland and see him as a legitimately promising rookie starter with high upside, and while I've potentially naively favored him over Bibee because of Pitching+ and K-BB/9 alone so far this year, a deeper dive into the numbers seems to suggest that the Bibee comp is reasonable and may even favor Varland.
Look to nab Varland in any redraft league where you like Bibee, which should probably be everywhere.

Hello everyone, my first post ever in this subreddit, even if I owned SMB3, which I enjoyed very much.
I pre-ordered SMB4 and have read many posts here. I just want share my opinion on the customization topic since we see many comments about it. SMB is my favorite sports series by far because we can create our own universe, without needing to wait for yearly releases to have roster updates, as it's timeless and as such, I really like the customization possibilities of this game. Of course, like many of you, I would have like to have more additions but i'm confident we will have items added along the road. Let's remind that in SMB3, they increased the number of layers for logos after launch as an example.
I saw some opinions that the customization wasn't improved or very little but we should not look at it only in terms of 3rd uniforms or logos or stuff like this. First, we didn't lose anything from SMB3 in this department and many novelties in SMB4 seem to be overlooked:

1. We have 9 new stadiums, some of them already in my favorites, to increase the variety. It's a big plus for those who want to run bigger leagues with more teams.
2. We now have the announcers being able to name hundreds and hundreds of players, rather than having only those from the Super Mega League. In previous games, after several seasons, added players we're not announced by their name.
3. We can create our own free agent pool and customize it the way we want. And what about the fact that we can swap players between teams when creating a custom league ? In SMB3, we had to recreate players in order to assign them to another team, a very tedious task. They also removed the limitation on the number of players of the same position in a team, which means if i'm correct that you could have a team with 10 pitchers as an example.
4. And we have many new heads, body types, hair styles and traits, which means means we can have an infinite number of combos, never having two similar players.

It's not an exhaustive list but all of this just to say that in my mind, we now have a lot more options create our own universe with variety.

TL/DR: If you want the TL/DR then this is not worth your effort to read this thing, and that's ok. :)
My old friend & I are bringing over 2 franchises, and 40 teams from SMB3 to SMB4. Each team will pickup one new player, but beyond that we wanted to get more of the new traits into the mix. So... here's my system for us. I tried to format this into tables and make it prettier, but it kept buggering up so here's a simple list. I uploaded a pdf of this and you can get it here: https://maroon-jacklyn-85.tiiny.site (it's like imgur but for .pdf files.)
Note: I might be complicating a straight line, but hey, I tried to make it pretty straight forward and maybe some of you would like to use it (or make suggestions on ways to improve it.)
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Every team will have either 2, 3 or 4 players selected who have no traits, who will get new traits. How many players, and what type of traits will be decided by a die roll. He will pick the 4 players from his team, and the 18 teams in my two franchises. I will pick my two teams and the 18 teams in his franchises.
Step 1: Each team will declare their 4 players in writing, and players will be numbered 1-4. Each team must pick at least 1 pitcher, but more than 2 pitchers.
Step 2: Each of the 4 players will roll a 20-sided die (re-roll in for tying players until a winner is decided) higher number players get "better" results, lowest number player gets the "worst" result.
First die roll, 20-sided die, possible results for each team (worst roll = 01, best is 20)
I Googled and found this site: https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die & https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d10-die

• 01 = 1 will get a positive trait & 3 will get a negative trait
• 02 = 2 will get a positive trait & 3 will get a negative trait
• 03 = 2 will get a positive trait & 2 will get a negative trait
• 04 = 3 will get a positive trait & 1 will get a negative trait
• 05 = 3 will get a positive trait & 0 will get a negative trait
• 06 = 4 will get a positive trait & 1 will get a negative trait
• 07 = 4 will get a positive trait & 2 will get a negative trait
• 08 = 4 will get a positive trait & 3 will get a negative trait
• 09 = 4 will get a positive trait & 4 will get a negative trait
• 10 = 4 will get a positive trait & 0 will get a negative trait
• 11 = 3 will get a positive trait, 1 will get 2 positive traits & 0 will get a negative trait
• 12 = 2 will get a positive trait, 1 will get 2 positive traits & 1 will get a negative trait
• 13 = 3 will get a positive trait, 1 will get 2 positive traits & 2 will get a negative trait
• 14 = 1 will get a positive trait, 2 will get 2 positive traits & 2 will get a negative trait
• 15 = 1 will get a positive trait, 2 will get 2 positive traits & 1 will get a negative trait
• 16 = 2 will get a positive trait, 2 will get 2 positive traits & 2 will get a negative trait
• 17 = 2 will get a positive trait, 2 will get 2 positive traits & 1 will get a negative trait
• 18 = 2 will get a positive trait, 2 will get 2 positive traits & 0 will get a negative trait
• 19 = 1 will get a positive trait, 3 will get 2 positive traits & 1 will get a negative trait
• 20 = 4 will get 2 positive traits & 0 will get a negative trait

To Determine New Traits
There are 23 new positive fielder traits, 20 positive pitcher traits. There are 9 possible negative fielder traits, 10 negative pitcher traits.
For pitchers, 20 positive traits: https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. Workhorse
2. Clutch
3. Rally Stopper
4. Two Way C
5. Two Way IF
6. Two Way OF
7. Metal Head
8. Elite 2F
9. Elite 4F
10. Elite CF
11. Elite SL
12. Elite CH
13. Gets Ahead
14. Pick Officer
15. Reverse Splits
16. Durable
17. Clutch
18. Consistent
19. Volatile
20. Stimulated

For pitchers, 10 negative traits: https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d10-die

1. Injury Prone
2. Choker
3. Butter Fingers
4. Wild Thrower
5. Meltdown
6. Surrounded
7. Wild Thing
8. Crossed Up
9. Falls Behind
10. Easy Jumps

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For fielders, "10" negative traits (one avoid) : https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d10-die

1. Injury Prone
2. Choker
3. Butter Fingers
4. Wild Thrower
5. First Pitch Prayer
6. Noodle Arm
7. Slow Poke
8. Base Jogger
9. Easy Target
10. AVOIDED!

Now, the last and longest part, because there are 23 possible fielder traits, I went with 20 different ones for 5 lists. Actually,19 different ones, and one negative wildcard in each group, because I'm mean. If more than 5 rolls then go back to group 1. If fielder already has a trait, then re-roll.
Fielders Roll 1 https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. Cannon Arm
2. First Pitch Slayer
3. Sprinter
4. Dive Wizard
5. Rally Starter
6. Base Rounder
7. Fastball Hitter
8. Magic Hands
9. Off-Speed Hitter
10. Pinch Perfect
11. Ace Exterminator
12. Bunter
13. Distractor
14. Mind Gamer
15. Sign Stealer
16. Durable
17. Clutch
18. Injury Prone
19. Volatile
20. Stimulated

Fielders Roll 2 https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. Cannon Arm
2. First Pitch Slayer
3. Base Rounder
4. Dive Wizard
5. Rally Starter
6. Fastball Hitter
7. Magic Hands
8. Noodle Arm
9. Pinch Perfect
10. Big Hack
11. Bunter
12. Little Hack
13. Bad Ball Hitter
14. Distractor
15. Mind Gamer
16. Sign Stealer
17. Durable
18. Clutch
19. Consistent
20. Volatile

Fielders Roll 3 https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. First Pitch Slayer
2. Sprinter
3. Base Rounder
4. Butter Fingers
5. Magic Hands
6. Off-Speed Hitter
7. Pinch Perfect
8. Ace Exterminator
9. Big Hack
10. Bunter
11. Little Hack
12. Bad Ball Hitter
13. Distractor
14. Mind Gamer
15. Sign Stealer
16. Durable
17. Clutch
18. Consistent
19. Volatile
20. Stimulated

Fielders Roll 4 https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. Cannon Arm
2. First Pitch Slayer
3. Sprinter
4. Dive Wizard
5. Rally Starter
6. Base Rounder
7. Fastball Hitter
8. Magic Hands
9. Off-Speed Hitter
10. Pinch Perfect
11. Ace Exterminator
12. Big Hack
13. Wild Thrower
14. Little Hack
15. Bad Ball Hitter
16. Distractor
17. Sign Stealer
18. Clutch
19. Consistent
20. Volatile

Fielders Roll 5 https://rolladie.net/roll-a-d20-die

1. Cannon Arm
2. Easy Target
3. Sprinter
4. Dive Wizard
5. Rally Starter
6. Base Rounder
7. Fastball Hitter
8. Off-Speed Hitter
9. Pinch Perfect
10. Ace Exterminator
11. Big Hack
12. Bunter
13. Little Hack
14. Bad Ball Hitter
15. Distractor
16. Mind Gamer
17. Durable
18. Consistent
19. Volatile
20. Stimulated

If you got all the way down here, I hope you felt it was at least interesting and maybe even helpful!
GL & HF and don't swing at the high fastballs!

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Notes/Leaders/Etc:

• Yesterday’s game: The Mets beat the Phillies 2-0 Kodai Senga got the win, Ranger Suarez got the loss, and David Robertson earned the save.
• Kingofalldogz the overall lead with 42.
• Kingofalldogz lead the month of May with 22.
• Longest current winning streak: tfP360 89
• Longest current losing streak: 123dmoney123 with 6.
• The Yankees @ Mariners series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/29.
• The Phillies @ Mets series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/30.
• The Rockies @ Diamondbacks series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was selected on 5/31.
• The Yankees @ Dodgers series is omitted from tomorrow’s vote as it was the ESPN Sunday Night Game.
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Today's game will be:
Colorado Rockies (24-31) @ Arizona Diamondbacks (31-23) at 9:40 PM ET.
MLB.com preview, and analysis
The probable starting pitchers are:
Dinelson Lamet (1-1 12.66 13K)) vs Tommy Henry (2-1, 4.50 18K)
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Here is a list the teams selected the least if you are stuck between picking different matchups. I would advise you to only use this list as a tiebreaker between close matches. I do not recommend using this list if you believe the matchup will be a blowout.
Tigers, and Athletics with 1 game each.

A day one patch has been issued. Here are the patch notes:

New Player Retention Feature in Franchise Mode:

• Players are now explicitly re-signed or released during a new Player Re-signing phase before the start of the offseason.
• Asking salaries for next season are driven by a new Loyalty value per player. Players that are more loyal will ask for lower salary increases and be more willing to re-sign with the team at their current salary.
• New Manager Moments now appear after regular season games. Manager Moments present a choice between two players where the decision affects one or both players' Loyalty.

Improvements:

• Ages of Super Mega League players have been reassigned to ensure that star players like Hammer Longballo do not always retire early in a Standard Franchise playthrough.
• The visual appearance of some Super Mega League players have been updated.
• In Franchise mode. the starting Surplus (salary cap room) values have increased overall. Each team is now guaranteed a minimum of $2.5m in Surplus at the start of a Franchise playthrough.
• When starting a Franchise playthrough with a Shuffle Draft, there is a new visual indicator on the draft screen indicating where your team currently lands between having a high payroll (highly rated players) and having a high Surplus (more development funds).
• In Franchise mode the price, effects, and spawn rate of Player Development Opportunities have been updated. The effects and the cost of purchasing a PDO have been reduced, while the spawn rate has slightly increased.
• More Franchise Player Development Opportunities have been added. Some opportunities now have a chance of a position player changing secondary position or a pitcher acquiring a new pitch type. New description variants have also been added.
• The Franchise Sign and Release screen now shows your Team Chemistry while viewing the Free Agents list.
• Franchise Skill Arc events can now result in a pitcher losing a pitch type.
• On the Franchise Summary screen, you can now view summaries for the last 50 seasons (up from 10).
• The algorithm that produces the selectable players each round in Shuffle Draft has been revised to better suit your team's needs.
• There is a new post draft screen presented upon completing a Shuffle Draft.
• A directional arrow is now displayed for fielders tracking the ball. The arrow will appear gray when no input is given (indicating the direction the fielder is running) and become colored when input is provided (indicating the direction of the input).
• In the Player Editor, a list of first and last names has been added. All listed names support the announcer announcing them by name.
• New body types and character customization options have been added to the Player Editor.
• Four new female heads have been added to the Player Editor.
• Five new dyed hair colors have been added to the Player Editor.
• The in-game trait activation animations have been updated.
• In local head-to-head play, the Wild Thing trait now introduces a chance that power pitches can have increased targeting error.
• On-field CPU behavior has been updated to better respect player traits.
• CPU pitching has been tweaked to be slightly less cautious when pitching to strong hitters, and to be slightly less aggressive when pitching to weak hitters.
• Foul ball and Watch Mode cameras have been refreshed.
• It is now more obvious when a game enters extra innings.
• The in-game substitution overlay now shows batting and throwing handedness as well as pitcher stamina.
• On the Exhibition Team Select screen, a button to change to a random team has been added.
• Additional text to help describe the different game modes has been added.
• You can now export a snapshot of a Franchise playthrough to a new league. The exported league will not change as the Franchise playthrough continues.
• You can now reset the Free Agents pool for a Standard league back to its built-in defaults.
• New Creators Classic League has been added to the set of built-in leagues. The Creators Classic mixes all Super Mega League and Legends League players together with well-known personalities from baseball media.
• Entire Standard and Partner leagues can now be reset to their built-in defaults with a single operation.
• Standard, Partner, and Custom leagues now include a short explanatory description.
• When creating a new Custom league, you are now prompted to provide a name for the league. Default league, conference, and division names for new Custom leagues have also been updated.
• Sorting functionality has been changed to make sorting roster tables more intuitive.
• The default sorting of team rosters now separates position players from pitchers.
• The salary column is now pinned to the left side of the table in the Franchise Sign and Release screen.
• Team Chemistry icons and charts have been updated to help improve clarity of the mechanics.
• Player cards have been improved and are now more readable.
• Trait Overlay behavior has been updated: added shortcut buttons to Trait OVerlay to access various relevant help pages, adjusted associated help pages for certain screens, and enabled navigation for screens while the Trait Overlay is up.
• An MLBPAA logo now appears when a Legends player is seen during the splash cinematic.
• The stadium preview images have been updated.
• UGC-limited players are no longer blocked from certain multiplayer game modes when there is no UGC.
• New help screens and pro tips have been added.
• Automatic help now appears in more places when first encountering new mechanics in the front end.
• Game Mode and Team Chemistry help screens now have a "Related Help" section to help guide you to other relevant information.
• You can now switch between English and Japanese audio, regardless of locale.This can be done via the Options menu.
• The front end now displays what music track is playing when a new track starts.
• New ambient audio during gameplay has been added.
• Camera flash VFX during the season win cinematic has been updated.
• There is a new visual effect for when a Pennant Race or Online League match is found.
• Home team sound effects for home run and dropped third strike scenarios have been improved.
• Team sound effects now have a "Disabled" option.
• New player animations have been added and some existing animations have been updated.
• Various updates to UI navigation and UI animations have been made.
• Miscellaneous HUD and UI improvements have been made.
• Various updates to the audio mix have been made.
• Various updates to stadiums have been made.
• Content on various help pages has been updated.
• [Switch only] The online Invite/Join UI has been improved and is now more intuitive to use.
• [Xbox One, Xbox Series XS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 only] The Privacy and Cookie policy has been updated.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed: Red asterisk incorrectly appears for two-way players in a valid two-way position.
• Fixed: Two-way players do not have a glove icon in the lineup when a valid two-way position is selected.
• Fixed: In Franchise, Season, and Elimination modes, base Mojo and Fitness icons are incorrectly displayed in the Next Game Preview.
• Fixed: In Franchise mode during the offseason, attempting to release a player that is still listed as someone who left your team would fail to release the player and instead fill that vacancy in the roster.
• Fixed: Non-party leader can perform operations in Franchise mode.
• Fixed: In Shuffle Draft, player traits of selectable players do not display in their default state.
• Fixed: Completed Season and Elimination game mode instances are inaccessible.
• Fixed: Gameplay warnings are not staying on the screen long enough.
• Fixed: Co-op play does not allow the player fielding or baserunning to use the Strategize button.
• Fixed: Players in the front end can be holding a bat or ball when not intended.
• Fixed: The ball shadow is not visible in some stadiums when in the shade.
• Fixed: The stadium announcer is cut off unintentionally by cinematics that are shorter than their voice lines.
• Fixed: Player emote sounds happening when the player is not on screen.
• Fixed: Announcer and other voices slow down during on-field slow motion.
• Fixed: Baseball players are clipping in certain animations.
• Fixed: Players are appearing incorrectly in certain cinematics.
• Fixed: The game can crash when navigating between certain menus.
• Fixed: The lower fielding camera is being used when it should not be, making hard-hit balls to the outfield difficult to judge.
• Fixed: Odd bat shifting can sometimes be seen in the batter's hands.
• Fixed: The Wild Thrower trait does not cause disastrous throws as intended.
• Fixed: The Noodle Arm trait can incorrectly trigger on short throws that do not require the throwing minigame.
• Fixed: Player traits are not properly being shown as active or inactive in certain screens.
• Fixed: Balls thrown accurately from the outfield through a cutoff with high velocity can end up off target.
• Fixed: Balls deflected off the catcher's glove do not seem to always match the glove's position.
• Fixed: Default fielder selection incorrectly selects the pitcher instead of the catcher on certain pop-ups behind home plate.
• Fixed: Ball entering the 1B dugout at The Corral fails to register as out of play.
• Fixed: After completing a Shuffle Draft outside of Online Leagues, players can end up with duplicate jersey numbers on the same team.
• Fixed: Substitutions do not process when editing pre-game lineups for two human-controlled teams.
• Fixed: The lineup menu can get into a bad state when a remote party member advances to the next screen.
• Fixed: Lineup changes are not saving in Pennant Race.
• Fixed: An Online League can get into an invalid state for a player if the season is reset while a match is in progress.
• Fixed: The game can crash after disconnecting from the internet in Online Leagues.
• Fixed: Unable to challenge players in Online Leagues after canceling a previous challenge.
• Fixed: The Online League challenge message remains on screen too long.
• Fixed: Online League details do not properly update for all participants.
• Fixed: An improper error can be shown when trying to join an Online League via an invite code.
• Fixed: The game can crash in Online Leagues after selecting My Team when league settings have been changed.
• Fixed: When entering a new Online League, the top button might not be selected by default.
• Fixed: Multiple players that are connected to the same EA ID can result in online standings tables not fetching data properly.
• Fixed: In Online Leagues, the team pop-up shows Custom Leagues even when the Online League is restricted to Standard teams.
• Fixed: Creating new teams can result in a crash.
• Fixed: Randomly generated teams can be assigned a home park that is restricted behind non purchased DLC.
• Fixed: After making customization changes, player cards do not update in certain cases.
• Fixed: Making customizations to a team can cause league edits to be lost.
• Fixed: It is possible to add custom players to a Standard game mode.
• Fixed: Some scroll bars use different buttons for paging than others.
• Fixed: Text and UI highlights appear as the same color and make text illegible.
• Fixed: The game can crash in multiplayer situations when a player disconnects.
• Fixed: The game can crash after selecting disabled buttons in online play.
• Fixed: The game can become unresponsive when accepting a game invitation while in an active multiplayer game mode.
• Fixed: The game can get stuck when transitioning into certain pop-ups.
• Fixed: Various audio issues.
• Fixed: Various minor animation issues.
• Fixed: Various minor UI bugs.
• Fixed: Various places where the UI can become unresponsive.
• Fixed: Spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Fixed: Various stability and rendering issues.
• Fixed: Physics issues exist in certain stadiums.
• Fixed: Minor visual bugs in some stadiums.
• Fixed: Some trophies/achievements do not trigger properly.
• Fixed: Possible crash in certain screens when disconnecting the controller or disengaging from the game.
• [Steam only] Fixed: Gamer tags can overflow in certain dialogs.
• [Steam only] Fixed: Various cases where keyboard and mouse are not behaving properly within the UI.
• [Steam only] Fixed: Using the mouse to press the substitute button in the New Batter overlay does not do anything.
• [Steam only] Fixed: Unable to change which baserunner trait is being viewed with keyboard/mouse in the HUD.
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can get stuck after engaging with a different controller.
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can accept an Online League challenge without a controller connected when a controller is required for the Online League.
• [Steam only] Fixed: In Online Leagues, the Change Admin pop-up does not populate properly.
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can now exit the game from the terms acceptance popup on first startup.
• [Steam, Switch only] Fixed: In some cases, a player would not be properly disengaged from the game when their controller disconnects.
• [Steam, Switch only] Fixed: No error notification is given when failing to join a party session that is full.
• [Switch only] Fixed: Invites do not work properly when more than one invite is sent.
• [Switch only] Fixed: Watch Mode button is not present when in the Exhibition Team Select screen when using a single joycon.
• [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 only] Fixed: Players with UGC restrictions cannot enter Online Leagues.
• [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 only] Fixed: The profanity filter is being applied to online IDs.
• [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 only] Fixed: The game can crash when backing out of an Online League.
• [PlayStation 5 only] Fixed: Activities do not properly launch the player into the proper Activity.
• [PlayStation 5 only] Fixed: Activities do not show up as completed.
• [Xbox One, Xbox Series XS only] Fixed: You can incorrectly create an Online League with cross-platform play enabled when OS settings disallow cross-platform play.
• [Xbox One, Xbox Series XS only] Fixed: Game can crash when a second controller signs out of their Xbox profile while viewing certain screens.
• [Xbox One, Xbox Series XS only] Fixed: Game can become unresponsive when signing into a profile after signing out while viewing certain screens.
• [Xbox One, Xbox Series XS only] Fixed: Signing out while the Player Menu is open closes the game.
• [PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series XS only] Fixed: Controller vibration is not working.
• [PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series XS, Switch only] Fixed: The presence of a UGC-restricted player incorrectly prevented switching between built-in leagues during Exhibition team selection.

Sure, two days left but some notable performances:
Judge was wild but I don't know that they want to burn 99 Judge just yet in the game cycle. He has the highest wRC+ for May at 261, the highest wOBA at .546, the highest ISO at .543, as well as the highest OPS at 1.377. He'd be a great choice for this.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. has the second highest OPS at 1.212 and I could definitely see it being him for the lightning if he's not a high 90s.
Freddie Freeman and Juan Soto were also above 1.1 OPS on the month but they do already have high 90s already in the WBC, and charisma, respectively.
Leody Taveras Led in batting average at .395 followed by Freeman, Gurriel, Riley Greene and Keirmaier.
For pitchers: Wacha and Eovaldi had ERA's under 1. Wacha also had an incredibly low WHIP at .72.
Any guesses on who might win out here? We have two days so still plenty of time for movement on this list.
Personally, I'm hoping Riley Greene gets a solid high 90s this month because go Tigers!

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Just context, you can skip this long ass read. Tl;dr, everything was okay, for several years of varying stress levels, until it VERY suddenly wasn't. If you can, at least just skim the important bits and advise me on how the fuck to cope with this.
Everything was okay around a month ago. Our situation hasn't been good, but we were handling it and excited for a growth opportunity like we've never had.
She has PTSD, but she's always managed herself well, aside from a brief period years back where some impending doom set in while confronting some of her trauma. She sought out therapy, and even just by the end of her first session she was improving a ton. It wasn't long before she was back to her normal self, but even better for it.
Problem is, we've been under tremendous stress for around two years.
Our rescue macaw passed away from a viral wasting disease, and he was the closest thing we'd had to a child. We had him for most of our ten years together.
We had our (rental) home sold out from under us in the middle of a rental crisis. Basically the only option we had left was to move in with her family 2,400 miles away, onto their ranch. She couldn't continue therapy when we moved.
They were contributors to her childhood traumas, but she was so sure they'd changed and were ready to be the people she needed them to be many years ago.
I was extremely skeptical that the people who hadn't extended a finger to us, let alone a hand, through several years of struggling through a lot of hard shit, suddenly wanted to give us a near-free ride. But I think her sheer optimism for it just made me feel like I was being an awful cynic, so I just shoved it down and bought into her fantasy. For her sake, as I thought at the time. Maybe she was right, after all.
She was wrong, and it went about as well as you'd expect. Honestly probably a lot worse. Her grandmother and father are manipulative, narcissistic assholes, whether or not they realize that's what they are. They bait and switched on us hard, whether they meant to or not.
The picture that was painted was that we'd live in the spare trailer on their property and pay our portion of the taxes and the insurance, and obviously just do our share of stuff like yard work. Maybe occasionally helping out with some cows and fences.
We spent most of our savings to get there, and after a four and a half day U-Haul trip, they started moving us in.. to her grandmother's house. In a tiny spare room. For two (at the time) 26 year old adults, a dog, a cat, and a snake. We had to get a storage unit for the vast majority of our stuff, since we'd had nearly ten years of building a life together in the back of that truck.
That spare trailer stayed empty for the whole year and a half of us being there, by the way.
All the responsibilities were then handed off to us. We were expected to cook the meals for everyone, clean the house, do all the ranch work, fix anything that broke, etc.. Her father and grandmother just sat in bed, collected their retirement/inheritance/disability, and popped their pills.
Then on top of it, we were also expected to pay "half" of the bills, so we had to find employment on top of all the other full-time responsibilities.
We weren't allowed to see the bills, they would just tell us what we owed, but I'll tell you right now that I'd never in twelve years of being out on my own now, in comparably sized homes, paid $800 for a month of electricity. But allegedly the "half" we were expected to pay was $400.
My grandfather passed away, and I soft inherited my grandparents' property. My grandfather and I never had a good relationship, so it was a huge surprise. But with what little we'd managed to save up in that time, it got us off her family's ranch, and it also got us out of the vicious poverty inducing rent cycle, so it seemed like we'd finally gotten a massive break.
Then the housing problems set in.
I've replaced about half of the plumbing myself, because new stuff just kept breaking down all the time.
I wasn't confident doing a new gas water heater myself, so we had to get work to save up for a new one. Until that indeterminate future date, we had to boil water on the stove and shower with a pitcher out of a cooler. We took it in humor as best as we could.
Then our vehicles started breaking down, and became unreliable enough we couldn't leave the small town we're living in. Our savings at that point weren't nearly enough to get new vehicles, or even to get the level of work required done in a shop, and I didn't have the means to do that level of work.
She's been in healthcare (a very desperate field) for her whole working life, and is a fantastic worker, so she found work right away, four minutes from our house.
I sat on Google refreshing the job listing probably forty times per day, looking for anything even marginally close enough that the car could make it to, and I could plausibly continue to find a way to work even if it suddenly couldn't. I've done remote work before and would've been happy to go that route again.. except the best we get here is 7mbps internet, and I couldn't find a single fucking place that would accept that.
We're an equal home. Bills, large purchases that benefit both of us, food, housework, everything except stuff like the vehicle/house maintenance which she wasn't comfortable doing (though even that she was interested in learning). This was killing me to feel like I was leaching off of her, and I know it was really stressing her out being the only source of income.
Then set in the job problems. Put simply, she'd wound up in a very toxic work environment. To make matters worse, one of the people there is almost like a 40 year younger version of her grandmother, whom we'd just escaped.
My S.O. started to lose her identity there, just trying to mask and mirror her way through the social dynamics, which were more like a cliquey high school than a workplace. She felt her job depended on it. Gossip, cruelty, passive aggression, all completely out of character for her, but she felt like she didn't have a choice but to participate in it.
The manager also didn't want to do her own job, and given my S.O.'s glowing experience, resume, and letter of recommendation from her previous job, started putting the job of managing people on her..
But without the title, authority, or pay of a manager. So naturally, nobody gave a shit what she had to say. It still all fell down onto her anyway, and she was treated like shit every time her attempts to lead didn't go as they should've.
But she felt she couldn't leave, because the way she (understandably) saw it, our survival depended on it.
I did finally find work as lower management in a small casino in town, but she never lost that survival mode mindset, and had no interest in quitting despite all the stress it was putting on her.
How we landed here, per the title. This is where my heart breaks down completely. Mostly for her, but quite honestly, also for myself
About three weeks ago, she came home from work one day. She started her normal "today's bullshit at work" vent session, like we've always done for each other every day.. but this was different. First she seemed a bit disconnected, but it quickly devolved into extreme emotional reactions.
All of a sudden she starts talking about how everyone's behavior is changing around her. Suddenly the girls at work were chipper and kind. Everyone was doing their job correctly. She became convinced there was some kind of investigation for a hostile work environment or something happening, and that was causing the change.
It didn't seem totally out of the realm of possibility, especially because they'd just finished berating a transgender coworker out of there. And my S.O. has always been pretty sound of mind (albeit occasionally a little prone to unlikely fantasies of optimism, but I personally love that about her despite what it had just resulted in with her family). I agreed that it did sound like a possibility.
Pretty quick, she started getting squinty-eyed, told me my behavior has been changing too, and started asking me what I knew about the investigation. Caught me completely off guard, and I guess she saw that in my body language, but misread it as me trying to hide something.
She asked me what I was hiding, and at this point I was just massively confused how this went from a normal vent session about work, like we've had for ten years, to an interrogation.
Before I could answer, suddenly she jumps to angrily asking if I'm cheating on her, a look of almost intense hatred in her widened eyes.
Every question just confusing me more in terms of where she's getting any of this from. We have great communication, loyalty, honesty, trust, the whole package. I had no idea what was happening.
She ran to the bedroom and started packing to leave, and I was begging her to slow down and stop so I could catch up on what the fuck was happening. She told me I was in on the investigation but wouldn't tell her anything, and I was cheating on her with one of her coworkers (who has a loose link to my boss at the casino.. small town shit), and that's all she needed to know.
It finally clicked for me that this was some kind of stress breakdown, and I suggested as much. She finally slowed down and thought about it. Suddenly she's calling her sister, who lives in a completely different state a thousand plus miles away, surrounded by ocean. "Do you know anything about an investigation? Have any of the girls from my work contacted you?"
Her sister was also caught off guard, but honestly responded much better than I did, and I'll always feel like my uncoordinated response did damage here. Maybe because they share a lot of the same traumatic experiences, and the diagnosis, so she understood what was happening much more quickly? I'm not sure.
My S.O. backed down, had a good long cry while we cuddled, and it seemed like that was it. She understood that it was some kind of mental snap, and her grip on reality had basically fully returned. She said she didn't think she could go back to work there, and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agreed after what I'd just witnessed. WHOLE. FUCKING. HEARTEDLY. Scared the shit out of me, but after hours of it, I was just glad it was over.
The next day, "I just wish someone would be honest with me. There is FACTUALLY an investigation happening, you all know something about it, and I know you're cheating on me. I need to just get away from everyone." Cue an hours long conversation trying to talk her down again, but this time on my own, because she'd decided her sister "wasn't in the loop enough to see what was going on anyway."
It went on like this for about three weeks. Off and on. All day. All night. Moment of clarity, back down the rabbit hole 30 minutes later. Moment of clarity, back down the rabbit hole.
She started making all these "seeing god in the stars" types of connections. Suddenly everyone on Facebook knew something she didn't now too, evidenced by how these posts they're sharing relate back to it. My family was also allegedly talking about her mental breakdown on Facebook, which meant that I'd told them everything about it and taken away her choice to control that information.
Neither of us were sleeping, eating, drinking, basically neglecting all forms of self care to sit there and hash, rehash, and rehash this out again. I'd guess I was averaging 5 hours of sleep per week, right alongside her, while still having to go to work and pretend everything was fine.
I tried to suggest returning to therapy god knows how many times, or even something in-patient since this was SO much worse than her last episode years back, but initially she was convinced this was me trying to manipulate her. Gaslight her. Convince her she's crazy.
I tried to get her to just think it through, like what evidence does she actually have for any of it beyond her gut feeling? The evidence doesn't exist because we're all smart enough to get rid of it and keep it from her. She just kept repeating that she trusts her body, and that's all she needed.
During one of her moments of clarity, she finally booked a therapy appointment.. but unfortunately not through her old therapist, who had been fantastic with her. She no longer lives here. Instead, she went through that BetterHelp app.
Her first appointment, she starts going into the stuff she needs to get working through, and in response she gets, "Holy smokes!" Yeah. That's it. Holy smokes. To be clear here, this is evidently not a platform for people in crisis, this is a platform for people whose dad yelled at them that one time and it makes them sad to think about, because these people are clearly not equipped for anything more serious than that. What kind of fucking psychology professional responds like that?
Anyway, the therapist also went on to say about the job situation, "I would've quit too." Now, this seems innocent enough when you're dealing with someone who's with it, but my S.O.'s currently fractured mind took that as validation for everything, not just the general toxicity of the work environment like the therapist was speaking to. Again, a psychology professional should've known better. And it was back on full force for a while.
A massive divergence happened a few days after this. I'm not even sure how or why. We had our usual rehashing session, and suddenly.. she just accepted it. She accepted that she's in perpetual fight or flight mode right now, and her mind is looking for any explanation to grasp at, any possible danger imaginable. She just had to trust us, the people who've loved and supported her all along and have no reason to betray her, and keep with the therapy.
For three or four days, she was totally with it. I mean, almost fully back to normal. All apologies for what she put us through, all forgiveness and "just happy to have you back" from us. Then on the final night, she sees that my step mother is Facebook friends with one of her coworkers. And we're back on.
Fast forward to the past few days, and she's become very despondent about the way she's feeling. She's fairly consistently aware that something is happening to her internally, rather than externally with everyone else, basically just seeking regular reassurances that we're being as honest as possible about everything. But her fight or flight just.. Will. Not. Disengage.
We had a conversation about trying another therapist, and she agreed, but she still didn't feel she needed in-patient care. She booked an in person session with one who specializes in behavioral health and trauma.
Then she starts experiencing distortions in her perception. Shadows when she closes her eyes. Rooms appearing smaller than they should. The voice track on TV shows not appearing to line up with actors' lip movements. Just little distortions, but they scared the absolute living shit out of her.
That fear led to some horrific dissociation, where it's like she's losing context on everything. She doesn't know what's happening and feels like nothing is real anymore. Nothing makes sense.
She was still stuck on there being an investigation, but it was evolving. It wasn't her old job being investigated anymore, it was her father for child abuse from when she was young. Then it was us for neglecting our pets (because we don't take our snake out very often and occasionally forget a regular nail trimming for the dog, but they're otherwise very well cared for). Then it was her father again, but for elder abuse, because her grandmother (who insists on managing her own medications) accidentally overdosed one day.
She became even more despondent, frequently breaking out into panic attacks and crying fits, which I just continued to try and help her through. Ice packs, reassurances that she was safe, there was no threat, etc. Truth be told, I was terrified too.
Finally, two days before her appointment, she had a massive panic attack about it being Memorial Day weekend. She couldn't explain why, just that it didn't make sense. She finally says she thinks she needs a hospital, which she's been completely opposed to until this point.
I rushed her to the emergency room, and that was a mess because it was the middle of the night so they couldn't find a bed anywhere in a more appropriate facility that late. They didn't really have any mental health resources themselves, so all they could do was give her some medications to calm her nerves and help her sleep through the night until they could find a bed.
The hospital.. was not good for her either. After a while, she just kept begging me to take her home. She just wanted to sleep together in our own bed, but they'd decided that between the bouts of confusion, paranoia, and admitting that she has had thoughts of suicide in the past, she was a danger to herself and couldn't leave.
They took her phone, leaving her in a blank room, and thanks to her work and the fact the most recent retraumatizing came from a healthcare environment, constantly triggered by the sounds of call lights and such in the emergency room outside.
All I could do was hold her, and keep reminding her that she's safe, and that everyone there just wants to help, but they're just limited in the ways they can until they find a bed somewhere. She just kept repeating that she wasn't actually getting any treatment, and to be fair she basically wasn't, but I just had to keep asking her to hold out a little longer, because they were trying to find her a facility that had the ability to.
They did finally, this morning, but it was about 130 miles away. They let me take her there myself though, which was a huge plus to know we'd get that last bit of time together.
On the way, however, she starts telling me how horrible of a person she is. At one point, she asks if I'm taking her to prison. I asked her what she could possibly go to prison for, and she just says incredibly minor things from the past like downloading a movie, (very rarely) doing this or that drug, etc.
I just kept reassuring her that I'm taking her to a crisis center where they'll be able to help her figure out where this is coming from, and that in no way is she in trouble legally. Everyone involved in this just wants to help her.
It's at this point I realize.. they took her phone. All these little connections she was making via Facebook and such, suddenly unavailable. She'd also decided once and for all that I wasn't the problem. So now all she had left was herself. She was being held at the hospital against her will. The "investigation" was no longer into her work, it was into her, because that's all that was left.
She tells me she's going to go away (to prison) for a long time, but to just know how much she loves me. She wishes we could've just had a simple life together, but she ruined that for us. She was just so sorry. I just kept reassuring her that nothing was ruined, and we can and will still work towards that life together, she just needs help that's beyond what I can provide so we can get back to that.
Then finally, after a long goodbye.. I dropped her off.
The facility is very small (literally a regular house in a regular neighborhood, so only a few patients getting a lot of 1x1 care), and very soft spoken and compassionate staff. Practically everything is optional right down to the daily therapy, which made me really happy to hear given it seems like that should ease her mind on the prison train of thought. She's even allowed to leave for good whenever she wants, with the one caveat being that I or a family member would need to pick her up.
It doesn't have visiting hours though, and I couldn't even go in with her.. that kills me. They don't have HIPAA forms, so just walking through the door is a violation. But she gets to keep her phone at all times with the exception of bedtime, just to make sure she gets some sleep. She told me a bit ago that she's nervous coming into this new environment, but everyone there has been nothing but incredibly welcoming and empathetic towards her.
Not to make this situation about me, because it's so far from it, but my heart is just so broken.
I've never felt anything so horrible. Not even remotely close. I feel like I, myself, need therapy after this.
I'm still so confused. Did I just miss the cracks of this coming on? Or was it really that sudden? I swear I would've noticed her behavior change.
I'm so angry with her toxic fucking coworkers, who it seems like ultimately sent her into this downward spiral. I'm so angry with her family for being.. well, who they are.
I'm so angry with myself for not trying harder to get her to leave that job sooner, just because I didn't want to press the issue since she's her own person and capable of making her own decisions. But I saw the stress it was putting on her. I should've done more.
I'm so scared of what comes next. Will she ever normalize out and heal? If so, when? Days? Weeks? Months? How is this experience going to change her? Admittedly, given we live in the US, how in the fuck are we going to afford this (though as long as she's getting the help she needs, that's far from my primary concern, but still something I have to figure out)?
It feels like my whole world came crashing down around me. She is my person. She's one of the biggest reasons I get out of bed in the morning. My favorite parts of the day are crawling into bed together and waking up to each other, like we've been doing for ten fucking years.
Her absence in our home is utterly suffocating, knowing the hell she's going through while there's practically nothing I can do for her except be there for her when she wants to text or talk on the phone.
I doubt anyone is going to read this whole book I've written here, but just being able to type it all out sequentially like this has been a bit cathartic. But I still just have no idea how to feel. What to do. I'm so lost.

I think we’re playing well enough this year to avoid the “Well SOMEBODY has to represent the team” situation we had last year with Joe Mantiply. Just off the top of my head, there are three guys I feel should get an all-star nod, at least in the early goings, and I'd like to see who other fans think is deserving or not deserving:

1. Zac Gallen- I think this is the most obvious. A true ace and arguably the best pitcher in the NL. If we only have one representative again this year, it’s going to be him.
   
2. Lordes Gurriel Jr- One of the hottest hitters in the NL, and our best hitter right now. I don’t think he’ll get a starting nod, but he should be a reserve.
   
3. Merrill Kelly- Poor Merrill might be destined for a “Greatest pitchers to never be an all-star” list sometime in 20 years. He’s so good, but so underappreciated with all the megastar pitchers in the National League. The way he’s pitching this year though, he absolutely deserves an all star nod. He’s one of the most valuable guys on our team, and if there was any year from him to be at the All-Star game, it’s this one.
   

Am I missing anyone? Or am I being too optimistic?

Does anyone have a list of a completed Bestiary? I’ve completed the game, beaten all bosses (I’ve checked against YouTube videos) and have every trophy except completing the Bestiary. I’ve even got every item from every creature in my Bestiary in case that made a difference.
I’m hoping it’s not a bug but I can’t find a list to compare where I can check what’s missing. I’ve looked at https://www.demajen.co.uk/?p=4234#A but there doesn’t seem to be a monster list.
Any help would be appreciated, that 98% trophy score is taunting me...
EDIT: My Bestiary list is below so if anyone can see what is missing please let me know. I also figure someone else can use this as a reference if they have similar troubles. The list is ordered as it was in my game, but I’ve added the locations I found the enemies (bosses and sub-bosses have their own section):
EDIT: The list is now complete. I was missing Lanternling from Holy Grounds, thought it was just an environmental hazard. Hope this list helps someone else check off their trophy list now.
Multiple Locations
-Mimic
Rubiwood Desert
-Bubblefrog -Sandcrab -Bubbleing -Spikefly -Cuckooling
Rainbow Plains
-Batling -Hollow Archer -Hollow Mage -Hollow Warrior -Grapeling -Stoneling -Maizling
Resting Town
-Scratcher -Stone Slug -Dribbling -Wanderling -Mourner -Prismbone Guard -Prismbone Punisher -Prismbone Archer
Field of Geo
-Mimic Fungus -Sporeling Nest -Bouncing Fungus -Aggressive Meowling -Outcast -Roco Roco -Golden Sporeling -Explosive Meowling -Raider -Roc Roc -Sporeling -Oreep -Funguling -Angry Warrior Fungus
Emerald Falls
-Floating Lizard -Spidermonkey Pitcher -Spidermonkey Chief -Spidermonkey Warrior -Gliding Lizard -Spidermonkey Brawler -Charging Lizard -Chained Harpy
The Columns
-Flying Squid -Geaslime -Sharkling -Tidal Wyrm -Gear Shark -Ballooning Lantern -Tidal Colossus
Town of Exile
-Remains -Vagrant -Twisted Priest -Twisted Heretic -Twisted Gravestone -Twisted Canine -Dancer -Twisted Wings -Twisted Martyr -Sentinel of Jade
Whispering Forest
-Hideous Blossom -Hideous Walker -Hideous Creeper -Hideous Sufferer -Hideous Guard -Hideous Pimpleling -Sparking Nest -Sparkling -Hideous Researcher
Forest Foregone
-Gianthorn -Desert Batling -Xenal Sentinel -Xenal Fly -Xenal Crawler -Dualhorn -Withered Vulture -Sandworm
Silent Coast
-Shelmet -Blade Vespas -Winged Longear -Aquatic Longear -Coralcrab -Spikeball -Shielld
Holy Grounds
-Hair of Gongor (pretty sure I encountered this in Whispering Forest but it’s here in my game) -Chomper -Lanternling -Templar Knight -Pyro Grimoire -Hydromaster -Pyromaster -Hydro Grimoire -Vanguard Knight -Judicator Knight -Living Vines -Leafling
Albedo Tower
-Frozenfeather -Blowingfeather -Flamingfeather -Pale Colosus -Pale Shooter -Pale Fighter -Pale Buster
Ashen Canyon
-Lava Scorchling -Lava Salamander -Lava Shell -Lava Sting -Flaming Wurm -Lavaling -Lava Smoker -Lava Dangleling
Goliathfall
-Cavalry Hollow -Shieldless Hollow -Geo Grimoire -Unsheathed Hollow -Forest Tuskbeast -Anemomaster -Anemo Grimoire -Spear Hollow -Sheathless Hollow -Forest Blowpiper -Forest Toxicfrog -Geomaster
Sky Palace
-Anemoling -Inked -Scrolled Cradleling -Shattered Knelling -Anemo Rider -Anemo Scout -Knelling -Runepaper
Scorchwhere
-Pyro Slenderer -Fire Tuskbeast -Fire Blowpiper -Fire Toxicfrog -Pyro Predator -Pyro Assaulter -Pyro Devourer -Pyro Striker -Pyro Shade -Pyro Shadow
Field of Pyro
-Pyro Scout -Pyro Vanguard -Pyro Bulwark -Pyro Sentinel -Pyro Rider -Pyro Assassin
Nigredo Tower
-Obsidian Colosus -Obsidian Shooter -Obsidian Fighter -Obsidian Buster -Prime Grimoire
Bosses
-Lush Wolf -??? -Lamellar Warrior -Warrior Fungus -Giant Oreep -Hill, The Frenzy Meowling -Loss, The Galefeather -Adrian, the Tidal Elemental -Auss, The Lunatic Mastermage -Twisted Legion -Jade, The Knowledgable -Crystallized Wolf -Failure -Eldred, the Flaming Wings -Kingworm, Overlord of the Desert -Xenal Watcher, the Conjoined -The Unstoppable Devil -Runic Guardian -Souless Ode -Occult Prime of Pyro and Hydro -Valo, the First Knight -Isotz, the Frozen Knight -Darkfeather -Alvess, the Everstorm -Lava Horns -Colossus of Pyro, Creation of Goliath -Jade, the Mechanical Ascension -Reaping Scythe, the Crimson Hollow -Occult Prime of Anemo and Geo -Guider, the Shadow Moon -Loss, the Broken Wings -Gongor, the Eldritch Fusion -Netherfeather -Agus, the Pyro Goliath -Chroma, the Prismatic Flame -Renee -Aqil, the Pyro Goliath -Ifree -Brandt, the Blazing Blade -Spirit of the Sword -Patt, the Twisted -Karin, the Occult Prime -Eseus, the Eternal