Arena Matchmaking is ridiculous

Am I the only one that feels the arena matchmaking system is ridiculous? I mean if you use your lowest guys at around a 13-15 streak your matches against opponents that are at minimum 3-4 times higher rating. Can this be fixed or are we just screwed over?

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Merc1077

DNA3000

Merc1077 wrote: »

Am I the only one that feels the arena matchmaking system is ridiculous? I mean if you use your lowest guys at around a 13-15 streak your matches against opponents that are at minimum 3-4 times higher rating. Can this be fixed or are we just screwed over?

You need to research "infinite streak." Short answer: the higher your consecutive win streak, the stronger the opponents the computer puts you up against. Furthermore, if the team you put in is lower than a certain amount the computer puts in even higher teams. So as your streak count gets higher, you need to put higher teams into the arena to avoid the computer putting in super strong teams.

Right around 14-16 streak count, this behavior stabilizes and even reverses, and as long as your teams are higher than some value (different for different arena events but somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k for the 4* and higher arenas) you will always get reasonable match ups. But if you ever throw a lower team in there that is lower than a threshold, the computer will immediately pounce on you and throw a very strong team against you.

The match ups are not explicitly intended to always be "fair." They are intended to reward players that can field a strong enough team, up to a point. Understand how this flow works, and you can get over the hump at streak count 15 and then "infinitely" run easy to medium match ups.

Rogue42

You must be new. That’s the way it’s always been. You need to get some of your champs maxed out, or better yet at least 3 Four Star 4/40s that you are willing to pay units to refresh to get up to or past the 16th fight or so. It’s called an Infinite Streak. And even once you get there you have to keep your teams above a certain PI level to not get a “death squad”.

Merc1077

I’m not new haha, I’ve had an old account before but I’ve had this complaint since this game came out. I know the infinite streak method as well, I’m just saying that it’s conpletely ridiculous that the match making has to be set up like that.

bm3epps

I never place a team less than 6600 once I hit infinite streak in arena..that's roughly 2200 per champs

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Merc1077

Yeah but I’m impatient haha I don’t like waiting around for the timers and I’m not wasting units to bypass it haha

DiablosUltimate

You don't need to wait for timers when you level up enough champions to enter infinite streak in one session. Just a hint

Merc1077

Oh yeah I know lol I use to play before but stopped for awhile and forgot all my log in info lol

Dark4ge

So, does anyone know the rationale for the players that don't have a strong enough team? i.e. newer players that can't constantly field a 6600pi match?

Currently I just fight up to the "death squad" point, die, curse loudly, and start again from zero win streaks with my next set of 3*/15's etc

Is this what I am expected to do?

Also @Merc1077 - what timers? the stamina refresh? or are there more weird Arena rules Kabam don't explain?

TIA

gohard123

Dark4ge wrote: »

So, does anyone know the rationale for the players that don't have a strong enough team? i.e. newer players that can't constantly field a 6600pi match?

Currently I just fight up to the "death squad" point, die, curse loudly, and start again from zero win streaks with my next set of 3*/15's etc
Is this what I am expected to do?

Also @Merc1077 - what timers? the stamina refresh? or are there more weird Arena rules Kabam don't explain?

TIA

yes that is what you should do until you develop a good roster

Blax4ever

Dark4ge wrote: »

So, does anyone know the rationale for the players that don't have a strong enough team? i.e. newer players that can't constantly field a 6600pi match?

Currently I just fight up to the "death squad" point, die, curse loudly, and start again from zero win streaks with my next set of 3*/15's etc
Is this what I am expected to do?

TIA

We all had to do that to accumulate points, fight until you lose then start over. However, if you can play without getting hit and can bait out specials you can beat the death match.

It’s a tedious process but once you get some champs ranked above 3/30 it becomes a breeze, so just keep playing and have some patience. Everything in the game comes back around at some point in some way. The game is a marathon not a sprint.

A_Noob_Is1

Merc1077 wrote: »

Fights against a 1/10 four star are manageable with r1 three stars. Also you can sandbag( win 2 fights- lose 1) and still continue your streak

Merc1077

@Dark4ge the wait timers for the champs. If you’re not in an alliance then you have to wait around for them to get stamina back or pay units. I’m impatient but I need my units for act 5 hahaha

Drpancakes

you dont have to join a hardcore alliance. join a chill one that knows that not everyone will participate in wars and quests, but active enough to help with cooldowns. Besides you do have 3 days to do the arena. The first day is just getting to the infinite streak and the other days is using 3/30 champs or higher, if doing the basic champ arena.

Dark4ge

Thank you for your responses - much appreciated

cx23433

that looks easy