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I see arguments of RNG draft, deck of 30, bans. The opponent also has RNG in draft, a deck of 30 and 3 bans...

Which no one denies including the OP. It is in fact the very essence of the issue being discussed. OP defenders, limited counters, RNG draft can screw you out of a win before your first swipe or tap. The RNG can do the same to your opponent. You might as well be playing Yahtzee in those instances. It’s not about who is the better player or even who has a better roster.

If that’s the case, why isn’t the top of the leaderboards random from season to season. It doesn’t seem to be to me. I tend to see the same names for the most part.

Random chance plays an obvious role in a single match. But it seems to have very little to do with where most players ultimately place in GC. You can get an unlucky streak of course, and drop a few spots. You can drop out of Mysterium 3 into Quantum 1 if you were on the border, or you can maybe jump from Arcane 2 into Quantum 3 with a lucky streak. But if BG was as random as some people claim it to be, I’d find myself in wildly different tiers of GC from season to season, when in fact I tend to end up in similar spots from season to season. The competition shifts about, big sales can dramatically shift decks around, but what I’ve seen season after season is BG is not just luck and it is not just random. The randomness evens out over time, and my own skill level places me more or less where I expect to be, and it seems to do the same to everyone else I know.

The OP is complaining about this champ or that champ “killing” BG, but no champ can do that, because the drafting system means no champ is in a position to do that. You cannot rely on pulling your best defender for easy wins every match. You can’t rely on deploying your best counter to their best defender either. You need a broad set of defenders and a broad set of attackers, and you need to know how to use them. The draft mechanics do add randomness to the match, but they don’t eliminate skill, rather, the randomness itself adds emphasis to the contribution of skill. It takes a lot of skill to deal with the randomness, because it places a heavier burden on the skills of the player to deal with the fact they don't have 100% control over the match ups. If you somehow eliminate all the randomness from the draft process, you don’t make it all about skill. You actually emphasize deck construction over skill, because the better deck will have a much larger advantage in a non-random draft. You will always be facing your opponents strongest defenders. You will always see his best counters to your defenders.

Hey everyone. I really want that 7* Stark spidey. I’m a decent player at the game. I have almost 10,000 units. Was looking to go after the CCP challenges. Do you think that’s enough? What’s the hardest part of the challenges? I can easily rank up tigra and mojo to rank 4 and 5. Have the sigs to max them out also.

Have you done any of them? The stark spidey ones are super easy and fun. The gauntlet ones are pretty easy if you have all the zemos and have the avengers ranked up. But they will take some revives. The hardest ones for sure are the mojo and tigra ones. You will have to play Tigra well, know how to space out her heavy, if you do those fights will go ok. Otherwise it can be a revive fest. Make sure to use jabari against modok, she does way better than tigra for that one.
Mojo was a lot more revives for me, but if you have him awakened and can ramp him up he will do some big damage. Warlock is still a pain because you can basically only damage him with sp1 after an intercept.