The Battle Cats: My First Duplicate Came with My 12th Uber Rare! Sooner Than I Expected…
I started playing The Battle Cats about a month and a half ago.
As I kept pulling from the gacha, my collection of Uber Rare cats gradually grew.
“I have more than 10 Uber Rares now. I’m really starting to build up my collection!”
That was what I was thinking when it finally happened.
My first duplicate.
My First Duplicate Was Nobunaga, Around My 12th Uber Rare!
The first duplicate on my account was Nobunaga.
It happened when I had around 12 Uber Rares.
Honestly, I didn't expect to get a duplicate this soon.
I had only been playing for about a month and a half.
I thought there were still plenty of Uber Rare cats I hadn't gotten yet.
“Surely there are still way more cats I don't have than cats I do, right?”
But then I pulled a very familiar face.
“Oh… it's a duplicate.”
And after that, my collection continued to grow, but around my 18th Uber Rare, I got a duplicate of Tern as well.
The more Uber Rares you collect, the harder it seems to be to keep getting only cats you don't already have.
The First Duplicate on My Child's Account Was Painful
Meanwhile, my child's account, which started around the same time, was doing really well with new Uber Rare pulls.
The collection kept growing until it reached 25 Uber Rares. My child even pulled four Uber Rares from a single 11-pull using Cat Food!
But then came the Platinum Ticket earned from clearing Into the Future Chapter 3, and that finally brought the first duplicate.
The duplicate was Ice Cat.
She's a good cat and all… but my child really wanted someone they didn't already have!
My child was pretty upset about it.
After working hard to clear Into the Future Chapter 3, they had been looking forward to using that Platinum Ticket.
They were hoping, “Maybe I'll get an Uber Rare I don't have yet!”
So getting a duplicate instead was understandably pretty disappointing.
Seeing how upset my child was was honestly a little painful for me, too.
Once Your Uber Rare Collection Grows, Duplicates Become Part of the Game
At first, my feeling was simply:
“I don't care which Uber Rare it is! Just give me one!”
But once your collection starts growing, that feeling gradually changes.
“I want a cat I don't already have!”
If you keep playing the gacha, I think this happens naturally.
I got my first duplicate when I had around 12 Uber Rares, about a month and a half after starting.
My child's account made it all the way to 25 Uber Rares without a duplicate, so we started thinking, “Maybe we can keep this going for quite a while.”
But eventually, that first duplicate came too.
I'm still pretty new to the game, so right now getting a duplicate still leaves me with mixed feelings.
Maybe that will change after I've been playing for a long time.
For now, though, I still want to collect all the Uber Rares I don't have yet!
That's my little gacha story as a beginner The Battle Cats player.
This article was translated into English with the help of ChatGPT.