Hello All,
As of Recently, I just started and found out about Sandbagging. I want to say, I understand where people are coming from when they state that it is unfair. I totally see it. HOWEVER, it also seems entirely fair. Hear me out.
- I am currently in Platinum II.
- In my Roster, I have:
- 2 Rank 3 6*'s with HERO RATING between 15,000 and 16,000
- 2 Rank 2 6*'s with HERO RATING between 11,000 and 12,000
- 9 Rank 5 5*s with HERO RATING between 10,000 and 14,000
- 12 Rank 1 6*'s with HERO RATING between 9,000 and 8,000
- 2 Rank 4 5*'s with HERO RATING between 8,000 and 10,000
- 3 Rank 5 4*'s with HERO RATING between 5,000 and 6,000
- I am Thronebreaker:
- Prestige: 10,828
- Base Hero Rating: 1,257,881
WITH THIS ROSTER:
- I faced rosters with All CHAMPIONS with 12,000+ HERO RATING. MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW.
COUNTERARGUMENT:
- SKILL ISSUES. LACK OF BETTER ROSTER.
REUBUTTAL:
- I REPLACED 8 Champions with Champions with around 600 HERO RATING.
- I Then faced opponents that NEAR PERFECTLY Matched my Roster from BEFORE.
CLOSING POINTS:
- NO. I did not win every match. Heck, I'm still in Platinum II. HOWEVER, it does seem to even out the playing field by matching matching players with similar Deck Ratings.
- NO, whatever Kabam tried to do to make sure this didn't happen did not work.
- IS IT A DOUBLE+EDGED SWORD. Replacing about 8 Champions within the Deck does severely Increase the likely-hood of the better champions being replaced with 2*'s.
CONCLUSION:
- I personally Believe that Sandbagging , as I experienced it, is entirely fair. It holds significant drawbacks to the person sandbagging while also making matches more even. I believe that it is a clever way to organize decks in a manner that can bring certain advantages to the player.
- FOR EXAMPLE, say a player did not have a GALAN, DRAGONMAN, and TERRAX. at high stars. The player could include these champions in their lower rarities in their deck so when the time comes to ban those champions from their opponent's roster, they also ban them from their own roster. Reducing the number of low star champions in that deck.
- This however, is not fool-proof as the opponent may have champions that would better the player off it they were banned.
- By placing over half of the roster with low-star champions would seem to bring an advantage, but come at a big risk. (with the 8 2* champions in the deck, I had a hand drawn with only 2*'s).
- A simple way to ban this playstyle would to simply ban champions 4*'s or below.
BUT for now, despite my belief in that it is Fair game. I will refrain from further use until Kabam comes out with a further statement regarding this controversial issue. Thanks All.
