Talk:Viability Ranking/@comment-38078818-20200118015802/@comment-44722828-20200118180955

With that said. Here’s my insights on promasters decision as a 17 yo: I think you shouldn’t use gems to rank kronx to R3 because if you have noticed the trend of how you do progressive islands, the cost decreases exponentially with the number of items left to collect, that means the cost starts to decrease rapidly at the very start and then it decreases to a lower extent when you start to collect your items to the max, so it becomes obvious that the cost is not directly proportional to the number of items, it may be an exponential (or polynomial) function. That being said, you’ll notice that you’ll spend a lot more gems getting her to rank 2 from R1 than getting her from R1 to R0, and R3 kronx May cost up to 1k gems. Think about it this way, it cost someone 150 gems to get a progressive unranked but when I get hookuai R1, it costed me 380 gems, so I have to spend additional 230 gems just for that extra 120 cell, which is not worth it. What I’ll do is to use progressive to get a Monster at R0 and save up elementals for that Monster. Also let’s talk about opportunity cost of getting R3 kronx, opportunity cost is the cost of best alternative forgone (ie if I can’t have b if I have a, b is the opportunity cost), so if you spend all your gems on kronx, you will not be getting ugluk and the next progressive Monster, which arguably can be better, so you’re giving up on 2 monsters (Or ranking those Monsters) just to rank kronx if you’re gonna use gems, it will be more economically viable to get her to R1 or R2 and spend your elementals. Anyways, I will not go into the heavy academic stuff in my explanation (like plotting a graph of items left against gems and finding minimum point etc) but these are just my insights