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I sympathize with OP’s point, but what people don’t understand is that BGs doesn’t exist in isolation. BGs is just the most acute expression of a player’s overall accomplishment. That moment when you find a match, the opponent’s deck pops up, and you think “damn, he’s got every meta champ at r3 or r4…”?

That moment is made possible because your opponent has completed all the content in the game. They don’t miss anything. They probably play AW and BGs at a competitive level and probably have for a long time. They’ve invested a ton of time to get and rank those champs, and yes, they probably have invested some actual cabbage as well.

If you have reached a point in BG where you are consistently outgunned in champ selection, that’s normal. You’ve hit your current ceiling. You’re facing opponents who have done more to get ready for that moment. All you can do is emulate what they’ve done, which is to play a ton for a long time.

When BG was released, it was my favorite game mode.

Especially from a strategic point of view. Being creative benefited you. Knowing how to execute unique fights benefited you.

If you were someone who intercepted well, you had an advantage over those who played a lot of parries.

And, in my opinion, the most crucial and definitive point: Every defender could be done by any attacker, even by other defenders.

Korg, Fury, FAM, Thing, Photon, Kindred, Hulkling, Sasquatch, Rintrah, Onslaught, Enchantress.

All champions that you can at least try. Even without a suitable champion, you can enter the fight and play without having to pause and in some cases, even win the round.

On the other hand, we have Zola, Bullseye, Serpent, Dark Phoenix.

All champions that you will be punished by. There is no way around this without the four or five champions that can do them (and I'm being very generous). Anyone who plays BG knows that the list is much longer.
And no, none of these champions are impossible to deal, some are not even difficult. But think about it: a mode in which you can have ONLY 30 champions in your deck and have between 27 and 24 champions available and, among them, you can only choose 9, which appear RANDOMLY.
You cannot have champions available in the mode that can only be made by four or five options. Ok, you have 3 bans, just ban the three that you have the least response and you're good.
Every month the node changes radically, every month two new defenders are released, yes, defenders, because practically everyone nowadays is a defender, have you tried facing Gentle? Spiral?
How many different attackers can you rank up to be able to use for a month?
So the right mystic didn't show up to make Serpent? Didn't one of the five counters show up to make Bullseye? Your Dark Phoenix didn't show up and your opponent's did? You're screwed.
What did your opponent do to deserve the win? Was he lucky? How can that be competitive? Where did the strategy go? Sure, there are games where you can be strategic and give up on a round where you clearly have no counter. This makes playing BG extremely frustrating. And to top it all off, you lose and your opponent taunts you with an emote. Why isn't there an option to disable this permanently? Am I forced to mute my opponent in absolutely every game? Why isn't there a button for this like every game has?

So, are you saying that BG is all about luck? No.
I'm saying that there's more luck than there should be.
More luck means that you have to play a lot more games because you're going to lose games against opponents who play worse than you.
I didn't even mention pilots or modders, damn.
And now, with Radiance, we're practically forced to play that.