Gwenpool Cutoff Results
myPUNCAKE
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Got her with 7.1 mil. How much did y'all put up?
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myPUNCAKE
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I knew I needed more than 6mil, just didn't have the motivation to keep going. Also, I was hoping people would stay away from the arena due to the super high expected cut offs...guessed wrong
You may have just missed her
I feel you man. In the Venompoole arena, I just missed out on him by 300k. Ironically, the next week I popped a prenium and guess who was staring back at Me? My FOUR STAR VENOMPOOLE! A month after that, I popped a four star crystal and my duplicated venompoole was staring back at me.
Use your 500 four star shards and save up....
who knows? You might get a four star Gwenpoole?
Also, 6.1 mill was lower than ContestChampion or even Seatin predicted, so you shouldn't have expected him. I know they overestimated, but you still missed. Never stop grinding.
I saved up a 100 boost crystals before this arena, and I only came out with 20.
If there's a basic champion on the schedule that you really like and think You can get, build up your roster before and save a lot of arena boost crystals
Good luck in your future arenas.
Pool not Poole
Pool not Poole
Pool not poole
But, Kabam re-did the arenas to cut down arena grinding...LOL LOL LOL.
Can you change them again Kabam? Hopefully next time we can have every arena champ go for 10mil!!!
I don't get why you (and other people) would waste all that time knowing your score has little chance. I think 150k, 1.6 mil or so for the 11-25, or 6.5 mil were the only scores to get in this arena. What's the point of getting 4, 5, 6 million?
Can't speak for everyone-
It's because of the "chance"...little, tiny, barely...as long as there's a chance...it's anyone's champ.
No one knows what is EXACTLY needed. So, we do what we can with what we have and hope for the best
I feel you missed Hyperion first round by 125K. Will never under shoot ever again
That's fair, since you don't know for sure what it will be and there have been times where predicated cutoffs were off. I just would get pissed if i spent all that time and fell short so I don't risk it unless I know i'm getting the champ haha
WOW from the scores pouring into other subs, seems you missed Gwenpool by 100,000++ points
Sorry
The high cutoff in this arena is kabams fault. They paired Gwenpool with a total garbage featured champ (miles morales) so of course the grinders will be heading into the basic arena instead.
She's a relatively new champ so I guess a lot of people don't have her.
Last week was just messing around and got Fixit for 1.7m. Deliberately scored low because I was only trying for the shards.
Moral of the story: Keep grinding. Keep earning crystals, you never know what you'll get.
Actually, people are grinding less. The problem is people are only looking at the cutoff scores, and sometimes not even the right ones. I analyzed scoring after the Gwenpool cutoffs were posted because I knew people would be saying things like this. Here's what's actually going on.
The highest basic champion in the old arenas was Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler scored 6.1 in round one and 6.4 in round two. That's the highest combined score of any basic champion to date, and that was in January. Statistically speaking, basic champion scores were rising by about 20k per week under the old system, mostly due to increasing roster strength of players. We would expect that scores would rise over time and not stay constant, because that would imply no one was ranking up anything.
Projecting forward, that means when Voodoo came along the same player putting in the same effort should score on average about 400k points and for Hyperion about 440k more points. That means in terms of normalized effort Voodoo generated about 5.5 million of effective effort in round one and 3.8 million in round two. Hyperion generated just under 6 million in round one and 5.4 million in round two. Both drew less actual scoring effort than Nightcrawler.
On top of that, 14.0 streamlined the arena which means for the same amount of time players can score more points. My own informal testing suggests that while this will be different for different players, on average you can expect the same amount of time to generate between 10% and 15% more points. That means Gwenpool's 6.2 cutoff represents the same amount of effort as 5.3 - 5.6 million would have been under pre-14.0 arena. And on top of that, July 13th scoring should be approximately 520k higher than it would have been in January when Nightcrawler was running.
Normalized for natural score inflation due to strengthening players and adjusted for the 14.0 streamlining, compared to Nightcrawler, Gwenpool generated about the same effort as an effective score of about 4.7 - 5.1 million. In other words, if we look at the estimated amount of time and energy put into arena grinding, Gwenpool comes in fourth place behind Nightcrawler, Hyperion, and Voodoo. And nothing has yet beaten Nightcrawler in terms of pure effort expended to reach the minimum required score.
For a post-14.0 champion to equal Nightcrawler in terms of pure effort, it would have to generate a cutoff score of at least 7.6 million points as of today. That's what Nightcrawler would have required if it ran with player strength equal to today and with 14.0 arena mechanics (but with the same 5% cutoff). For reference, the 7 million I put up for Gwenpool took significantly less effort than the 5 million I put up for Black Widow last year. My scoring has been rising faster than the average general score inflation, as of course it probably is for about half the arena grinders.
Agreeded. The sad truth is that scored will only go up as people will keep expanding and ranking up their rosters. In theory it non-repeat basics will only go up with the exceptions to Howard and phenoix. Kabam plays their cards right putting high demand characters with low demand ones. Except the voodoo arena