What is wrong with AW matchmaking

gash228

I've always known that AW matchmaking works really strange but today's war is just beyond insane.



Our spot is top 51 in gold one
Theirs is 268 in platinum four.
This means that they are 283 alliances away from us. And not only that but the rating difference is just stupid.

SpideyFunko

the rating difference is 6 points, which is to be expected when you get higher up and there’s less and less alliances at your power level

Mauled

Not sure where the problem is really. Sure, it’s a hard match up but it is a fair matchup. Their War rating is virtually identical, they’ve likely lost a couple on the bounce. In points terms, your alliance is only actually a few wins off theirs and depending on how well you beat them you could get yourself a place in P4.

Speaking from someone in a ‘small’ alliance in P2/1 who fights alliances who on average are 10m larger than us it really isn’t the rating that matters. Sure, there’s more chance of an R3 attacker/defender and they probably have wider rosters to choose their counters from but it’s not the end of the world. An R3 6* is only an extra 2-3 combos to kill and only really saves you 2-3 combos if you’re using one. My alliance is the same size as yours fighting these people day in day out. It’s eminently possible to beat them. You just need to organise and plan carefully.

A lot of these big alliances lower down are also AQ focussed and give out deaths like they’re candy because it’s not their priority, so if you’re a ‘good 33m’ you can still send them packing.

Lvernon15

Your war rating is similar, no issues here

Ceo_Wakeford

also so many cheaters in AW nowadays ))

Mauled

This is us ^
And these are a few of the alliances that we’ve beaten this season:




Our losses have come from two ~35m and a 45m. We’ve been the smaller alliance in every war, it doesn’t really make much difference until they can field an entirely R3 defence and attack and are also genuinely good, not just stacked accounts

gash228

Seems that i failed to mention that there is only 5 6* R3 in our alliance altogether while there is 19 6* R3 in theirs. In my opinion it's not really fair to match one alliance with the one that has almost 40% more alliance rating overall, 36% more average alliance member rating and has almost 4 times the amount of your alliance's R3 6*.

Mauled

gash228 said:

Seems that i failed to mention that there is only 5 6* R3 in our alliance altogether while there is 19 6* R3 in theirs. In my opinion it's not really fair to match one alliance with the one that has almost 40% more alliance rating overall, 36% more average alliance member rating and has almost 4 times the amount of your alliance's R3 6*.

Look at my previous post. Our defence has 2 R3 across all 3 BG and we’re fighting alliances where virtually every player is placing at least 1 R3 and every war we fight they’re 50% larger than us. It sounds very harsh but you just got to get better. Learn the hard matchups, learn who in your alliance is a ninja at specific matchups and put them on those paths. Fine tune your defence and you’ll get there.

Last season we blew away a 60m alliance but lost to one our size. I’ve found that for us near the top of P2, it’s the smaller alliances that you have to worry about because they have focussed everything into AW and there’s no hint of them being carried by a massive beefy defence filled with new champs still in the MEQ.