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Meh, they managed to kill all excitement about new champs with one BS nerf and the lies behind it....

In all seriousness, stop dorking around with ai and polls and internet in general. Theres better things in life.

I think by far the worst move Kabam has made to the game is the New monthly event quests. Rewards scaled depending on your prestige level is a joke and now with their being so little quests, I barely play the game anymore. Seems like everyday I just auto fight the daily quests and spend a quarter of the time on the game as I did before. Wish they would bring back the old Monthly event quest. This new one sucks!

"Regardless if you have a counter or not"

So in your opinion Champs like Britain that are not hard at all to fight but have unavoidable damage/stalling and that hardly have any counters (or one's that do her within a reasonable time) is healthy for the game mode?

Thank you for your comments! I hope more people will engage with this post so that Kabam takes notice. There have been many similar discussions in the past, but they haven't led to any changes yet. Perhaps with increased community involvement, we can eventually make a difference.

I find the win-lose dynamic in BG to be quite toxic. Winning means reducing your opponent's points, potentially pushing them further from their desired objectives. Conversely, losing means you're further from achieving your own goals.

Additionally I dislike the use of emotes, especially those that can be perceived as bullying, like Loki laughing. It really frustrates me and makes me feel bad when opponents use them repeatedly, even when I know they aren't necessarily better than me - I might have just been outdrafted for the match. This kind of behavior makes climbing in GC even more challenging, mentally.

I must admit that I sometimes resort to using bullying emotes when I'm extremely frustrated by losses, but I feel guilty afterward, knowing I might have negatively impacted someone else's experience.

I believe that bullying through emotes is another reason why people may not enjoy the mode as much. Perhaps reducing the amount of points lost could lessen the negative impact of emotes.

You're absolutely right. I'm a longtime Valiant with over 100 7-stars, but not a whale. I have one Rank 4 7-star of each class. For me, Battlegrounds is Victory Track and Gladiator's Circuit doesn't exist. As soon as I get there, I can't make any progress whatsoever. Last season, it paired me up with people at a more advanced position and score every time. I try to get one match won so I'm at least not at the very bottom of the ranking, and then I quit because I know the chances of me losing the next match are far greater than winning. But I don't really care if they fix it. Completing the Victory Track is probably all I care to do at this point, and all I have time for. But Gladiator's Circuit is a really useless game mode for anyone but the biggest whales.

I completely agree. The system was fine when there were no objectives in the GC, it was just trying to figure out who is the best, which is OK.

However once you added objectives for people to strive for, the system should’ve changed to accommodate for that. Right now it’s a +15 and a -14 and frankly it should be changed to something like -10. That way people who participate can hit the objectives after a decent period of time.

Yes, that will bump up the total max points because losses will not be quite as painful, but it will also make people in the lower rankings participate more because they’re going to feel that progress is rewarded for their time and effort which it is not right now.

Edit = punctuation.

The majority of people on this thread can’t read and process anything.

OP’s criticism is not that the mode isn’t competitive, it’s that BGs has become a competitive card game.

That doesn't even address my point. I'm saying there is literally no way to win against some defenders without counters, at that point it's just luck of the draw. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear in my original post, but this is my main point.

In the earlier seasons of bgs it felt like actual competitive gameplay, obviously p2w roster difference still existed, but for the most part it wasn't about always having the perfect counters. I'd get wins with nova vs. photon, vox vs. korg, etc. These are not either champ's ideal matchups or either defender's counters, but they still worked as long as the user had the skill to play around the need for the counter.

You just cannot do this against any of the new line of defenders. You NEED their cookie cutter counters or else you lose the round, there's no point in playing the round, you already know you lost before even expressing your skill by fighting.

If youre active and valiant you have to have at least a couple mastery cores in your inventory from the rebirth and reunion crystals