Battlegrounds/Road-blocked as a returning player

Harvey_HJ

I don't know if its just me but, as a player who has just returned to the game after years of being away the only advice I see for catching up is to play BGs. The only issue with this is my roster is outdated and the matchmaking (in bronze 5) keeps putting me up against people with several r2/3 7*s (when my highest champs are a few r2 6*s and a r5 5*) and up to triple my total hero rating. So the matches are quite literally impossible to even have a fighting chance in.

Everything else my roster can do (without sinking units and revives) has already been done however since then the rewards for a lot of it have been upgraded (with no compensation?), so in a sense I feel like my account is soft locked to where it is now.

Currently I have act 5 explored (done pre reward buffs) and I have act 6 done. Just wondering if anyone has any advice as to what content to gun for in order to actually progress now, since battlegrounds are most definitely not doable.

Also I don't mean to sound toxic in this post, it just feels like my old account has been forced into a hole and I'm at the stage of wondering whether I should just start fresh.

Thanks for any advice

Badah

Keep pushing on story mode, act7 is easier than act6

Gamer

Don’t do bg do story

DNA3000

Harvey_HJ said:

I don't know if its just me but, as a player who has just returned to the game after years of being away the only advice I see for catching up is to play BGs. The only issue with this is my roster is outdated and the matchmaking (in bronze 5) keeps putting me up against people with several r2/3 7*s (when my highest champs are a few r2 6*s and a r5 5*)

1. You're roster is not very competitive in general, so you should not focus solely on Battlegrounds. There's tons of rewards in other parts of the game you should focus on (as others are saying). Progress takes time, don't go looking for a homerun somewhere, look for things that will help incrementally move you upward. You want to go for progression tiers, the higher you go, the more rewards you will qualify for. That's a virtuous upward cycle.

2. Battlegrounds is a competitive mode, so you're competing against everyone else. But you need to understand the mechanics of how BG works. There's two parts to BG, the Victory Track and the Gladiator Circuit. Think of the VT as a ladder everyone climbs to try to get to the GC. In the VT there are tiers, and you can only go upward: you can never fall downward (except when a new seasons starts: more on that in a bit). So as you win, you move up. If you are a weaker player, you won't win and you won't move up. But all those stronger players you see now? They will win, and they will move up. You can only match against players in the same tier, so over time the stronger players move up and out, and you're left with weaker players. Over time every tier gets weaker, as players "sort" themselves by winning and losing. Winners go up, losers stay put.

Because of this, for every VT tier, the players in it are stronger at the start of the season and weaker towards the end. So if you see a lot of strong players, try again tomorrow, or the day after, or next week. See how the competition changes over time. For every player, there is a kind of "track" that they can follow where the players stronger than they are at the moment are also ahead of them, and the players alongside them are at least beatable. You can pace yourself in that track like a surfer following a wave.

You are bluntly relatively underdeveloped, so that wave might be very late in the season to catch, but it is there, and over time as you get stronger you will be able to follow stronger waves and progress sooner and/or faster. This just takes time to learn.