LogFAQs > #950573020

After the first Royal Academy match, the game begins to really open up. After news of their win over the unbeatable academy spreads, Raimon gets invited to the Future Frontier tournament, and Mark gets super motivated to try and win it all. You are able to run around Raimon Academy now, but the headmasters daughter says youre too soft to win any matches legitimately and has riled up all the other clubs at the school into fighting you. If you do run around, there are now random encounters against the tennis club and the sumo club and such, and you have to score on them to win.

You can recruit players from those other clubs at Raimon Academy that have different, and sometimes strictly better stats. Theres a really weird recruiting system, where you have to funnel a Prestige currency you earn over the course of the game through the aforementioned random battles into your manager who can then scout players all over campus. Then you get their location, run into them, and battle them to get them to join your team. There are over 600 fully unique players and you can recruit all but about 30 of them to your own team. Once the headmasters daughter joins your club as the manager, she can even recruit players of teams you have beaten before for you. You can also find old pages that detail Marks grandfathers old soccer superpowers from 40 years ago that you can then teach to your own players.


This is when Inazuma Eleven really pivots from being primarily a soccer game into being primarily a full-on RPG. Managing when to use your special moves is the key to success. You really dont want to have to expend precious TP using high-cost moves if you dont have to, and thats especially true for random battles. The currency you win from these battles, Prestige, is the lone currency in the game, and it can be spent on equipment, items, special moves, training, and recovering TP. The more TP you waste unnecessarily, the more Prestige you have to spend replenishing it, that can otherwise be spent making your team better by buying equipment or paying for stat increases.


Even during important tournament games, you need to save that TP for the moments that really matter, because theres no recovering it mid-game. If an opposing defender is dribbling the ball up toward midfield and a confrontation occurs with your midfielder, winning that contest really doesnt mean anything, because the ball will still be stuck at midfield. Theres a slim chance a regular defense will still beat a super move, so if it happens, thats golden for you. If you lose, who really cares; he still has to get the ball to his forwards to be a threat. However, if their best shooter has a breakaway and your one defender in his way is barely able to stop him, thats when you have to break out your best defensive super move to prevent a shot on goal.


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