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!! ''Monster Academy'' Event Pass:

!From Current Trials of the Realm Challenges:
* "Deal 25,000 damage in 30 seconds" essentially asks you to spawn camp and spam high-damage projectiles at the enemy team. Naturally, this caused a lot of complaints due to its perceived unfairness.

** Star Sisters Battle Pass:

*** Star sisters also features "Kill 15 people within 300 seconds", which asks you to kill 15 people within 5 minutes, which sounds fairly easy, until you realise just how many assists you'll get by trying to kill people others are ''also'' trying to kill. A similar challenge; "Kill 5 people within 30 seconds" basically asks you to do a team wipeout without anyone on your team interfering with your killspree, which leads to the same problem.

* "Kill 5 enemies with Stone Spear within 5 seconds of hitting them with Seismic Crash" from the Beach Bash Event Pass is hard due to the specific "Kill" requirement. Usually, getting eliminations off of it isn't hard as you stun people, but other players immediately flock like birds to the stunned enemy to kill steal you, meaning getting this challenge was a nightmare.

** Once the Event Pass and Trials of the Realm were released, complaints about unfair Challenges became ''significantly'' more frequent, since most of the free rewards such as Emotes, Poses, and free Crystals were removed from the Event Pass and made into Challenge rewards (prior to that, the only incentives to complete Challenges were extra Experience Points, which could be earned in other ways, or Titles, which were accepted as being only for crazy completionists). Not helping was the addition of a new currency, Tickets: players only get two of them, one must be spent to unlock a set of challenges, and the only way to get them back is to complete the whole set of challenges.

*** "Get 10 Kills with Explosive Flask (Pip)" quickly became infamous since Explosive Flask only deals 150 damage. Getting an enemy's health that low and hitting them with the ability while hoping nobody {{Kill Steal}}s you is difficult enough to inspire a lot of complaining.
*** "Get five headshots in a row as Octavia" also became infamous for the sheer skill required to pull off such a feat, along with a bug that misaligns Octavia's scope with the actual shots.
** "Kill 5 enemies with Stone Spear within 5 seconds of hitting them with Seismic Crash" from the Beach Bash Event Pass is hard due to the specific "Kill" requirement. Usually, getting eliminations off of it isn't hard as you stun people, but other players immediately flock like birds to the stunned enemy to kill steal you, meaning getting this challenge was a nightmare.

*** "Hit 5 players with Rend Soul 15 times (Seris)", which requires hitting all enemy players with her primary fire to mark them before using the ability (marks don't last very long, so if just one enemy is respawning, or flanking, you won't make it). It's very unlikely that all enemies will be close enough, even if you use her Ultimate (which pulls enemies towards one point and stuns them). And you have to do it ''fifteen times'', when pulling off this feat ''once'' is already a though task. And finally, the challenge was only released during the final week of the Event Pass, giving little time to complete it. Fortunately, the complaints were loud enough that Evil Mojo reduced the number of hits needed to just 3 during server maintenance.
** "Kill 15 players with Potion Launcher within 5s after hitting them with Explosive Flask (Pip)", which, due to a bug, instead counted kills with Explosive Flask, making it a harder repeat of an already infamous challenge from the Game On Event Pass. During a server maintenance session two days after the region was made available, the Trixx spray this challenge unlocked was just given away for free to all players.
** The Game On and Beach Bash Event Passes had "Kill 2 players with Dredge Anchor (Makoa)". Killing enemies with an ability that only does 200 damage and is meant to ''initiate'' a fight, not end one, was a pretty tricky ask.

*** "Hit 2 enemies with Shell Spin 5 times". This is considerably trickier than it sounds, as it requires the enemy to be in a specific formation for the shell spin to connect, which isn't going to happen all that often, not to mention the enemies in question have to be pretty slow, otherwise they can simply run out of the way. Mercifully, this is far better that what it used to read; "Hit 5 players with Shell Spin 5 times", which basically asked you to hit an entire team while spinning as Makoa[[labelnote:*]]Which as you might imagine, is an incredibly improbable and perfect scenario that isn't going to happen all that much. The main issue would've been that not every role would be next to one another anyway (Flankers are ''explicitly'' not going to be anywhere close to other champions as their role dictates they ''flank'' the enemy), and the one place when this would occur would be on the capture point, but even then, players either react fast enough to get out of the way, or all 5 of them are simply not in a position for Makoa's Hitbox to hit all five people.[[/labelnote]]
*** "Kill Azaan 5 times". While made somewhat easy by how Azaan is the newest character in 4.7, it comes with the problem of being strong enough to beat him, as he's quite notorious for being hard to deal with if you're not a frontline, what with all the walls he can spawn and the crowd control he has. It also suffers from the same issues as any other "Kill X champion" challenge does; eliminations do not count.

!Ongoing
!!Trials of the Realm Challenges:
** "Hit 2 enemies with Shell Spin 5 times". This is considerably trickier than it sounds, as it requires the enemy to be in a specific formation for the shell spin to connect, which isn't going to happen all that often, not to mention the enemies in question have to be pretty slow, otherwise they can simply run out of the way. Mercifully, this is far better that what it used to read; "Hit 5 players with Shell Spin 5 times", which basically asked you to hit an entire team while spinning as Makoa[[labelnote:*]]Which as you might imagine, is an incredibly improbable and perfect scenario that isn't going to happen all that much. The main issue would've been that not every role would be next to one another anyway (Flankers are ''explicitly'' not going to be anywhere close to other champions as their role dictates they ''flank'' the enemy), and the one place when this would occur would be on the capture point, but even then, players either react fast enough to get out of the way, or all 5 of them are simply not in a position for Makoa's Hitbox to hit all five people.[[/labelnote]]
** "Kill Azaan 5 times". While made somewhat easy by how Azaan is the newest character in 4.7, it comes with the problem of being strong enough to beat him, as he's quite notorious for being hard to deal with if you're not a frontline, what with all the walls he can spawn and the crowd control he has. It also suffers from the same issues as any other "Kill X champion" challenge does; eliminations do not count.

!Old Challenges
!!From Prior Trials of the Realm Challenges:

** Game On Event Pass:

** ''[=Gen:LOCK=]'' Event Pass:

!!From Prior Battle Passes:

%%"Hit 5 players with Shell Spin 5 times" asks you to hit an entire team while spinning as Makoa. Setting aside the incredible unlikelihood of such a perfect scenario occurring to begin with, the issue is that not every role would be next to one another anyway (Flankers are ''explicitly'' not going to be anywhere close to other champions as their role dictates they ''flank'' the enemy), and the one place when this would occur would be on the capture point, but even then, players either react fast enough to get out of the way, or all 5 of them are simply not in a position for Makoa's Hitbox to hit all five people.

** "Hit 5 players with Shell Spin 5 times" asks you to hit an entire team while spinning as Makoa. Setting aside the incredible unlikelihood of such a perfect scenario occurring to begin with, the issue is that not every role would be next to one another anyway (Flankers are ''explicitly'' not going to be anywhere close to other champions as their role dictates they ''flank'' the enemy), and the one place when this would occur would be on the capture point, but even then, players either react fast enough to get out of the way, or all 5 of them are simply not in a position for Makoa's Hitbox to hit all five people.

* Reocurring challenges:
** Back before its removal, Getting top play with a specific character. Even when trying to grind with bot matches, this was not as easy as it sounds, largely because other people were trying to get the same challenge completed on the enemy team.

** "Get 150000 Healing in a single match" requires absolutely perfect conditions for you to even have a ''chance'' to complete it: you need to be the only Support on the team, there needs to be at least two Frontlines, and the match needs to last the maximum of four rounds ([[DoWellButNotPerfect meaning if your team performs too well or too poorly, you won't get it]]). Or you could just get some friends to play a bot match with you and intentionally stall for as long as possible, but that probably wasn't the intended way.
** The Game On and Beach Bash Event Passes had "Kill 2 players with Dredge Anchor (Makoa)". Killing enemies with an ability that only does 200 damage and is meant to ''initiate'' a fight, not end one, is almost impossible.


* From the Battle Pass:

* From the Event Pass:\\
Once the Event Pass and Trials of the Realm were released, complaints about unfair Challenges became ''significantly'' more frequent, since most of the free rewards such as Emotes, Poses, and free Crystals were removed form the Event Pass and made into Challenge rewards (prior to that, the only incentives to complete Challenges were extra Experience Points, which could be earned in other ways, or Titles, which were accepted as being only for crazy completionists). Not helping was the addition of a new currency, Tickets: players only get two of them, one must be spent to unlock a set of challenges, and the only way to get them back is to complete the whole set of challenges.
** Game On Event Pass:
*** "Get 10 Kills with Explosive Flask (Pip)" quickly became infamous since Explosive Flask only deals 150 damage. Getting an enemy's health that low and hitting them with the ability while hoping nobody {{Kill Steal}}s you is difficult enough to inspire a lot of complaining.
*** "Get five headshots in a row as Octavia" also became infamous for the sheer skill required to pull off such a feat, along with a bug that misaligns Octavia's scope with the actual shots.
** "Kill 5 enemies with Stone Spear within 5 seconds of hitting them with Seismic Crash" from the Beach Bash Event Pass is hard due to the specific "Kill" requirement. Usually, getting eliminations off of it isn't hard as you stun people, but other players immediately flock like birds to the stunned enemy to kill steal you, meaning getting this challenge was a nightmare.
** ''[=Gen:LOCK=]'' Event Pass:
*** "Hit 5 players with Rend Soul 15 times (Seris)", which requires hitting all enemy players with her primary fire to mark them before using the ability (marks don't last very long, so if just one enemy is respawning, or flanking, you won't make it). It's very unlikely that all enemies will be close enough, even if you use her Ultimate (which pulls enemies towards one point and stuns them). And you have to do it ''fifteen times'', when pulling off this feat ''once'' is already a though task. And finally, the challenge was only released during the final week of the Event Pass, giving little time to complete it. Fortunately, the complaints were loud enough that Evil Mojo reduced the number of hits needed to just 3 during server maintenance.
** "Kill 15 players with Potion Launcher within 5s after hitting them with Explosive Flask (Pip)", which, due to a bug, instead counted kills with Explosive Flask, making it a harder repeat of an already infamous challenge from the Game On Event Pass. During a server maintenance session two days after the region was made available, the Trixx spray this challenge unlocked was just given for free to all players.

** "Kill 15 players with Potion Launcher within 5s after hitting them with Explosive Flask (Pip)", which, due to a bug, instead counted kills with Explosive Flask, making it a harder repeat of an already infamous challenge from the Game On Event Pass. During a server maintenance session two days after the region was made available, the reward for this challenge was just given away.

** "Get 10 Kills with Explosive Flask (Pip)" quickly became infamous since Explosive Flask only deals 150 damage. Getting an enemy's health that low and hitting them with the ability while hoping nobody {{Kill Steal}}s you is difficult enough to inspire a lot of complaining.
** "Get five headshots in a row as Octavia" also became infamous for the sheer skill required to pull off such a feat, along with a bug that misaligns Octavia's scope with the actual shots.
** The most infamous sidequest for the Beach Bash Event Pass was "Kill 2 players with Dredge Anchor (Makoa)". Killing enemies with an ability that only does 200 damage and is meant to ''initiate'' a fight, not end one, is almost impossible.

** The ''[=Gen:LOCK=]'' Event Pass has "Hit 5 players with Rend Soul 15 times (Seris)", which requires hitting all enemy players with her primary fire to mark them before using the ability (marks don't last very long, so if just one enemy is respawning, or flanking, you won't make it). It's very unlikely that all enemies will be close enough, even if you use her Ultimate (which pulls enemies towards one point and stuns them). And you have to do it ''fifteen times'', when pulling off this feat ''once'' is already a though task. And finally, the challenge was only released during the final week of the Event Pass, giving little time to complete it and crushing any hopes of Evil Mojo [[AuthorsSavingThrow hearing the complaints and replacing the challenge with something more reasonable]].