The mystery cast order is deterministic, having a strict order of priorities (that usually goes from high cost to low cost)
And in case of ties, depend on order that you placed the ninja on the field(so I've been told)

So if your opponent's "AI is smart", that's because your opponent was smart and composed a team that would cast correctly.
And if your "AI is totally useless", well, guess who messed up?

According to this:
http://forum.naruto.oasgames.com ... 039&highlight=space
You are the cause of your own problem--the one you place LAST cast first.
Of course, the OP there says it's not working for him, but the others insist that's how it works.

I said, and I quote, "depend on order that you placed the ninja on the field", I never said it is in that order. According the thread I linked, people seems to think it goes by the reverse order.
Edit 2: I also said, and I quote "in case of ties", it is not even established that your 4th position mystery is in a tie with your first (and no, cost is not the only thing, some mystery just have precendence over their peers).

In any case, it most certainly is deterministic, as that's the easiest way to make it. How it works exactly, I'm not 100% sure. The very fact that it uses your 4th position every single time proves that it's deterministic.

Edit: from personal experience of using 2 40 costers on auto in survival, it seems that it depends on the enemy as well. My sage naruto is always prioritzied over my GNW Kankuro at the start of turn 2 regardless of placement order. However after dancing, if my opponent loses 2 or more ninja, then GNW kankuro will be the one to Q his ability over the sage naruto. I have observed this pretty much every single time, so it does seem deterministic and favor certain abilities over others. So there is certainly someways in which you can influence the behavior of the casting with team placement. Thou I honestly can't tell you what the exact rules are, I'd need to see the code to do that.

This post was last edited by PraiseLuka at 2017-5-9 16:53

As I've mentioned earlier, AI prefers my sage naruto over my GNW kankuro when enemy have a full team while prefer GNW Kankuro over sage naruto when enemy only have 1 or 2 member left. Placement doesn't matter (and I actually do know my placement order, in order to control clone spawn locations), cost are the same.

So mystery priority before the "tie breaker" of placement order does exist. Exactly what is prioritized thou, I have no idea.

Also, I think barrier skills have higher priority than most regular skills too, not 100% sure on that thou.

The debuff is applied to all enemies thou, so won't that decision be regardless of how many enemy are left? as it were, if there are 4 left, it will use sage naruto instead.

The mislabeling of his ability as a single target ability seems more reasonable to me. Or perhaps it's defaulted as puppet summoning, and AoE in general have a low priority when there is few targets so both single target and summoning like kankuro(and maybe kabuto) take precedence.

No, because while you can't replace your main, you can move it. And if you move a character, it will be considered as the last to be placed.

The placement thing is only applied if there is a tie between the priority of the jutsu.
From what I understand, Mei's mystery have a higher priority than GNW tenten's against multiple target (for some reason, GNW tenten's jutsu is considered as a single target I think for the purpose of jutsu priority)

I mean you KNOW that interrupt happens before others, 60 before 40(if possible) etc regardless of placement, right? Well, this is like that... except not as clearly "labeled", there are priorities, and placement are only the tie breaker.

The fact that you would take your regular team and expect it to work in a quite different battle mechanic is BS.

Space time is a battle with a different set of "rules" due to the difference in battle mechanic, you should adjust your teams accordingly. For example, if there was a feature where there are battles on the weekdays with each day of the week providing a 500% boost to damage and hp to character of a different element except the main, where the main is always boosted, would you still take your standard PvP team into that feature? I would guess not, you would probably compose a team that is "of the element" each day for it. Space time is similar, thou less extreme. You got different mechanics and rules, as long as the rules and mechanic are clearly defined and known (not fully the case here, but we have figured most out) so that you CAN make an as-optimized-as-possible team just for it and that the same applies to all players, then it's fair and fine.

If you are unwilling to adapt and fail as a result, you can't blame anyone but yourself.
PS: I'm a wind main so for many of my teams, I have to do clone management to place clones/summons/puppets into the right place. So I know the pain that comes with it, I live with it because that's part of the mechanic.
This post was last edited by PraiseLuka at 2017-5-17 11:20