Which Arena Crystal Pays out more?

So I’m about to cash in 365 days or since January 1 every single arena battlechip I have earned for the whole year 8.5millon collected throughout the year… all my time all my sweat all my Monday through Friday holidays free time in between time
Every chance I had to myself I’d login and put in a few hours of Arena Collected a whole bunch of units collected a whole bunch of champions 3 & 4*🤣😜…got them all … But my question is, which arena do I use to get the most units from? I know there’s videos every videos different. what do you guys recommend to capitalize or yield the most units out of which crystal

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Furrymoosen

The odds are the same across the board, so none of them pay out more than the other. But the regular ones pay out more consistently because you open a higher volume. Go TB if you want to experience either great joy or great pain, or go regular if your goal is maximizing your units in the safest way possible.

GhostPoolSpider

thronebreakers give the best gold and units but are also the most expensive, I would go for uncollected crystals if you want to get some good gold/units for a reasonable price, but in the end its all rng.

Superdez11

So when you say regular one you mean not the throne breaker or the uncollected
Just the plain arena crystal

allinashes

I opened 10m of the TB ones for Cyber and only got ~9k units, well below expected return. It severely impacted my spend for Cyber and Banquet. Over time, we should expect similar units, but I feel TB are to inconsistent and will never open again. I will stick to Uncollected from now on, or even regular ones.

Wubbie075

The EV from each crystal is identical relative to cost, but the higher level crystals have more variance due to the lower volume you'll be opening.

Open the Arena Crystal if you want to get closer to the expected amount.

Open the other ones if you're willing to gamble on the jackpot result. Just remember that it can go both ways, so don't get mad if you end up with a ton of gold and not as many units as you wanted.

Personally, I usually just go for the regular Arena crystals.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

The TB arena crystals are a bigger gamble, but more rewarding. Both times I've opened them (in batches of 10kk and 3kk each) I got the doubled ammount of what I would in regular arena crystals

OldManHop

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DNA3000

So I’m about to cash in 365 days or since January 1 every single arena battlechip I have earned for the whole year 8.5millon collected throughout the year… all my time all my sweat all my Monday through Friday holidays free time in between time
Every chance I had to myself I’d login and put in a few hours of Arena Collected a whole bunch of units collected a whole bunch of champions 3 & 4*🤣😜…got them all … But my question is, which arena do I use to get the most units from? I know there’s videos every videos different. what do you guys recommend to capitalize or yield the most units out of which crystal

If all you care about is units, all arena crystals have the same average unit return per million battlechips: 1875 per million BC.

There are two main differences between the three crystals. The first is statistical. You obviously get more arena crystals with less rewards per crystal if you buy the standard ones instead of the TB ones. The TB ones cost 25x more and have 25x the rewards (almost: see below). However, whether you roll dice 4300 times or 170 times will make a difference in the sense that 4300 standard crystals have a high likelihood of generating something very near the statistical average, while 170 TB crystals have a greater chance of getting lucky or unlucky. You expect about 15% of all drops to be units, so 4300 standard crystals will be, on average, about 645 unit drops, while 170 TB crystals will be about 26 unit drops on average. You can see how just a couple good or bad rolls won’t make much difference if you’re expecting 645, but can make a big difference if you’re expecting 26. So if you’re concerned about getting unlucky, open the smaller crystals.

The other is value besides units. Besides units the crystals contain gold and the possibility of things like different rarity Punishers and energy refills. The Punisher has higher rarity in the bigger crystals, so all other things being equal the Punisher drops will be more valuable in the larger crystals. If that matters to you. The energy refills create a separate odd problem. The standard crystals have chance to get one. The UC crystals have a chance to get five, as they are five times more expensive and all the rewards are scaled up by a factor of five. If we continued the pattern, the TB crystals would have a chance to drop 25. But dropping 25 energy refills on a player was seen as a bit weird: it might be difficult to properly use them all. So the TB crystal has a higher chance to drop 10, rather than the same chance to drop 25. That forced the chance to drop gold to drop, and to make sure players were not short changed on gold the gold drops were increased by more than 5x to compensate. The net effect is the TB crystal generates slightly more gold than the UC or standard crystals.

So the absolute best value is the TB crystal, It has the same return of units, the better Punisher, the better energy refills odds, and slightly more gold return. However, it is more bursts when it comes to units: it is very likely to drop a lot more than average or a lot less than average. In the long run this is the best crystal to open.

But if you don’t care about any of that and only care about units, and you hate the thought of getting less than average if you’re unlucky, open standard crystals. You’re almost certainly going to land near the average opening 4000+ crystals.