Match'fur Battle

Yep you're definitely right! I've played quite a bit more and while the drop rate is arduously low they are dropping. 

I'll definitely stand by what I said before though, this is the dark souls of match 3 games. The fact that the easy practice boss can wipe an entire fully healed team by 1-shotting almost every single character is ridiculous, especially considering they fire multiple shots at multiple characters, and renders the healer characters completely useless. My last boss fight attempt my entire team was dead in 3 attacks from full health. It was doing minimum 140 damage per attack and attacking 3 times at once. So far I have only 2 characters at level 2 and I've played several hours now. If a single character goes down you're not making it past more than maybe 1 more level which is so hard when you can lose a character in the first 15-30 seconds of a match if you're unlucky. I actually am in love with this game but it is SO difficult and usually match 3 games are kinda chill but this is the most stressed I have ever been playing a mobile game. Like, my heart rate is at Elden Ring boss levels from the second a match begins. The difficulty and incredibly slow progression are really starting to make it harder and harder to play. 

Another problem I'm facing is the character icons looking too similar. I've included a screenshot as a great example. The brown tanuki I can easily tell from the others but between the white cat and white bear I cannot tell them apart in a hurry and since you have to be lightning speed at this game from the second the buzzer sounds it makes it even harder. The green characters somewhat blend together and the green and white starts to blend with the two whites. When the screen gets like this my eyes just gloss over and I can't see anything. Even if I mix up my team a bit there's just not enough differentiation between them and for a game with RPG elements you want to be working around teams and skills, not what characters you can actually tell apart. I really really like this game but it physically hurts my eyes to play when the screen gets like this because of how badly I have to strain them.