Tag Team Quality Wrestling

[Malioc]

I don't know, if it depends on my product or my strategies, but while my Singles, Three and Four Ways work fine, my tag team wrestling always sucks. So I wanted to initiate this discussion. What is your experience? Do you found ways so far to make tag team matches really good? And which strategies did you used so far? As for myself, I recognized, that Tag Team matches have to have a certain lenght to become better. While all my tag matches over a couple of minutes really suck, I actually had some fine ones, if I allowed my wrestlers more than 10 minutes. The problem here is of course, that many wrestlers can only have good matches for a short length. Furthermore all Under Carder get "overused" very quickly, if I book them in longer matches, resulting in a total collaps of momentum. Therefore I practically can't have Under Card tag teams without aweful ratings, under their general potential. What are your experiences so far?

[LFC_chris]

I think tag team experience plays a big part - if I just stick 4 wrestlers in a tag team match who aren't part of a regular team then the match won't be as good as expected. Two teams with good experience will generally get good ratings IMO though.

[Malioc]

[QUOTE=LFC_chris;441090]I think tag team experience plays a big part - if I just stick 4 wrestlers in a tag team match who aren't part of a regular team then the match won't be as good as expected. Two teams with good experience will generally get good ratings IMO though.[/QUOTE] Nope. That's not it. I used already experienced tag teams (B, A and even A*) and the matches are equally bad as those with the "new formations". For example, when I used the Martin Brothers (Kelly and Lance, who have already developed skills and some popularity in my game) it didn't add much to their performance, that they are at A experience atm. On the other hand I had my decent matches also with partially unexperience guys on higher popularity level and therefore more match time.

[FINisher]

You're playing ROF? Short matches suck no matter who is in the match :P So you really can't help that Martin Brothers wont get good ratings in the early stages of the game. You'll have to wait for a while and let them develop. Altough tagteam matches are good way to eventually develop guys as there are more people involved in the match. Try GCG with that tagteam view; They have good quality tagteams in the upper and main event section, and thus produce good tagteam matches :) Awesome workers in single matches, some of them have tagteam experience. See: Gakusha & Kuroki

[Malioc]

[QUOTE=FINisher;441158]You're playing ROF?[/quote] Nope. A self created promotion in Europe. But I like the Martin Brothers and always hire them as Under Card talent. =) [QUOTE=FINisher;441158]You're playing ROF? Short matches suck no matter who is in the match :P[/quote] I wouldn't say that. I got some okay ratings (~D+) when I put some talented guys in 3-5 minute matches. But when I used them in longer matches, it pulled down to the E-level. Besides, long matches are always terrible for new guys in terms of momentum. [QUOTE=FINisher;441158]So you really can't help that Martin Brothers wont get good ratings in the early stages of the game. You'll have to wait for a while and let them develop. Altough tagteam matches are good way to eventually develop guys as there are more people involved in the match.[/quote] Well... My midcarders and upper midcarder, who already can put up okay matches once or twice always get terrible ratings in tag matches. The Martins bring me at least D-matches in Single bouts. But in tag matches they never come above E+. Plus, when my short single matches get D-ratings and my short tag matches get E-ratings, tag matches aren't really effective to establish my new guys. ;-) At the moment I use mainly 3 and 4 ways. For some weird reason, they work just fine as far as normal ratings go. That's why I wanted to ask around, if maybe someone discovered effects on the performance of different match types, for example through the Product.

[Gigas]

If all 4 guys are over, the tag match will get a decent rating. I have Trent Shaffer and Frankie Perez teamed up in USPW with C popularity. Any tag match I put them in gets at least a C. The other tag teams I have are around D+.