My GW 12th Node
Fist time Im using this applycation for pic so I hope it works. Basically I get this today 
The guys not even in my shard. No Lukes in my shard
and His GP is Double mine
So whats up with that
The guys not even in my shard. No Lukes in my shard
and His GP is Double mine
So whats up with that
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After that I've found its important to have some trash teams to throw at the 8th node or so where they are supposed to loose before your b or c team cleans up. When I didn't do this I ran into a 12th node like yours. Basically if you have a group of sub level 50 toons throw them at the node.
Maybe I'm lucky but this method has reliably kept the power creep in check so the 12th node is difficult but not impossible for my arena team and I beat gw daily with periodical exceptions when I don't follow the above rules. My best guess is that gw calculates the next team based on how easy you beat the last one. If you steamroll too many teams it seems to get "angry" and do its level best to steamroll you on the 12th node.
Galactic War draws your opponents from the entire pool of players regardless of their account's size (Galactic Power) or age. You will frequently be matched against accounts that are bigger & older than yours. Eventually when you raise your best squads' power rating just barely high enough to qualify to pull in "maxed" opponent squads, you may find yourself matched against some of the oldest, biggest, most highly ranked and best-modded accounts in the entire world.
That's the system.
GW is matching your rated GW power to a player of a % of that power at each node. the last 2 nodes are over 100%.
Moved to correct sub forum. There are some good posts around here with strategies to help get better at and get through GW
At which point it pretty much is all about the "who" just as much as it is about the numbers. See threads about "I get same 1 or 2 opponents GW node 12 every day" whenever something that raises the power limits is added to the game.
because its 5v5 and is based on the players power. why would who the player is or their overall roster or anything have to do with a single 5v5 selection?
If your point is "what's the difference?", obviously the difference is mods (especially regarding how long it can take to develop an optimal set of mods) and access to premium/"endgame" characters (or even specific combinations of them -- the "meta"). The OP already raised one of those issues, saying he doesn't even know anybody in his Squad Arena group who has the characters that GW requires him to fight.
No, high GP doesn't automatically translate into a monstrous GW squad. But there's a strong correlation between the two things. Pretending it isn't true is, well, a little bit less than honest imo.
Over 300%
its actually around 112-115% i believe from one of the studies someone posted.
So clearly you can see that this guy is 300% better than me. This is why Im having a rant.
It's not 112-115% of your GP, it's 112-115% of the old stat power (which you can still see on swgoh.gg).
And besides, it has been mentioned many times here, GW has nothing to do with your Arena Leaderboard or your GP.
Let's say his squad has 90k power. Your squad has 30k power? You definitely can't expect to win GW with a 30k power squad.