Tanking Battle Grounds for an easy life

So not all of us playing are Uber competitive and care about our placing on the leaderboard. Getting enough wins to so we can utilise the battle grounds store is what matters to a big portion of us.

I have a really strong 30 champions but after that its so so for battle grounds when I get past 1650 points (I’m a decent player but nothing special) will end up trading wins and losses waisting time and energy. I’m not going to spend 45 units to refresh my best champions to stay competitive but I have a lot of energy refreshes available…

So I’ve found the best solution is to tank my battle ground rating, utilising my 1* and 2* champs. I don’t mind using energy refreshes as energy is waisted on fights I’ll lose any way. So once my score is tanked enough I can go in again with my best champions, all 6R3 (and 1x 6R4) and boom easy wins. Literally had 5x fights in row where I won and didn’t need to fight as opponent seemingly backed out (see below pic), so used no energy for any of my individual champions was used. At the moment there is nothing on the line ranking wise, so I don’t care about my loss record. I know this may not be in the “spirit” if the game mode, but then I don’t believe the game mode as it’s currently set is conducive to the average player. Along the way, I’ve come across a battle with another player doing the same, having a few 6* champs in there deck and the rest 2* champs so I’m clearly not the only one. If I could go in and just play and not have to worry about the cost of refreshing my best champs I wouldn’t use this method, but as it’s stands this way optimises my time, energy, units, hands (playing this game hurts!) and gets me all the milestones to utilise the store.

Comments

Colinwhitworth69

I just use my next best champs and try to win, knowing the odds are against me. I definitely do not sweat losing in this mode, but I don’t try to lose.

And I wonder whether and how kabam will use the leaderboard to incentivize with more rewards. There has to be a reason for the leaderboard other than bragging rights. This is still beta so…

Crys23

You dont need to swap in your 2* in your deck. Just match and forfeit during banning phase. If you dont draft, champ charges arent consumed.
I got my 30 wins for the week in the first 3 days and now I'm tanking with the daily energy. (Paragon player).
It will suck for whomever matches me next week while I climb back up, but thats not my problem😀. This way I'll avoid the hackers more easily too

Panchulon21

I don’t mind losing either, I just get upset when I face modders/cheaters. If I lose a legit fight then congrats to my opponent. My ranking has been consistent between 1650-1710. Been trading wins between 1690-1710. I was top 100 in leaderboard for a day then got matched with 4-5 cheaters beating my champs in 20 seconds or less with 100% health..

Wozzle007

You dont need to swap in your 2* in your deck. Just match and forfeit during banning phase. If you dont draft, champ charges arent consumed.
I got my 30 wins for the week in the first 3 days and now I'm tanking with the daily energy. (Paragon player).
It will suck for whomever matches me next week while I climb back up, but thats not my problem😀. This way I'll avoid the hackers more easily too

Cheers for the tip. Started to just forfeit matches now. Much quicker!

Chatterofforums

I'll admit it, I tank probably 80% of my matchups. The way beta is setup there is literally no benefit in trying to place high on leaderboard, tanking allows way easier and faster rewards.

Noobda

You are the reason we are seeing those posts claiming " I am Uncollected and facing opponents with a roster of 6* r3 and r4 champs ( then start blaming kabam) and keep loosing ". Lmao
That intentional rating drop to match with easy opponents . I really sympathise with those people man

Angryneeson52

I do this a lot too to ruin noobs day

GroundedWisdom

I do this a lot too to ruin noobs day

Is picking on weaker Players really a brag?

Lovejoy72

I do this a lot too to ruin noobs day
Is picking on weaker Players really a brag?

I don’t think you understand: by giving them the disparaging title “noobs” we make them deserving of abuse and unfair treatment! It’s basic dehumanization tactics?

Graves_3

I do this a lot too to ruin noobs day
Is picking on weaker Players really a brag?

Until he meets somebody who is equal to him in strength and far superior in skill. He will run with his tail between his legs when that happens.

Angryneeson52

I do this a lot too to ruin noobs day
Is picking on weaker Players really a brag?
Until he meets somebody who is equal to him in strength and far superior in skill. He will run with his tail between his legs when that happens.

Haven’t yet.

No aq and no war, so what better activity than to ruin a lower levels day in battle grounds against rank 3 and 4 defenders lol

Wozzle007

You are the reason we are seeing those posts claiming " I am Uncollected and facing opponents with a roster of 6* r3 and r4 champs ( then start blaming kabam) and keep loosing ". Lmao
That intentional rating drop to match with easy opponents . I really sympathise with those people man

On the way down the roster we are also giving all those players free wins as well. I’ve done all the milestones now and still forfeiting to tank further, so plenty of free wins to all the peeps out there with 4* champs. On deciding to tank my rating as the method of managing this game mode I ended up with 15 wins and didn’t actually fight anyone, I won by forfeit most of the time before the opponent even saw my roster, so a big portion of the community is doing the same thing. Battle Grounds has become the forfeit wars, sometimes it was a race as to who could forfeit quicker. Ultimately it’s Kabam’s job to make the mode better and disincentive this behaviour. As it’s stands it’s not worth it to try get a winning streak and I made this post to show that the mode is so flawed at the moment.

Ironman3000

I just look at their roster and decide if it's worth my time.