Right as some of you know I'm a fairly recent player.
Anyway I'm wondering how big a deal is the human factor in arena matches. There's someone running the exact same squad as me except that 4 of his people are a star lower and he has worse gear and less abilities unlocked who can beat me at will and take my spot.
We are low level (high 40s) and the difference in gp is 15-20%.
I can beat him at will within 90 seconds. I don't know how easily he beats me. Anyway I'm just asking how big a deal at later stages is the human factor in PvP?
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In general, You should be able to beat teams much stronger tham you, and weaker teams should be able to beat you.
But when you start getting characters that have good synergy, get autotaunters, get very fast mods, etc, your defense should improve. But you should still lose on defense to a decent player with your same team and stats because the AI is not good on defense.
In normal AAT P2 with Z Finn and strong team I made 10 M by myself, but 3 M on auto...
For the same reason, even if my Resistance did 46% damage in P2 HAAT, it's NOT my arena team, on defense I would loose almost all matches in the 50-100 rank...
But like the previous poster said, mods and synergies can make even the smartest player lose on offense. There is one player in my shard I cannot beat no matter what, or who I change in my lineup or the kill order I try to execute. He fields well synergized teams with way superior mods than me. If I burned all 5 arena battles on him daily, I would win eventually, but I choose to go around now. He is on the opposite side of the world so his payout doesn’t conflict with mine.
And Han one shots her will his free turn. The AI for the older toons is a joke. When enough people complain they sometimes change it (like zylo) but generally they don't. It isn't about balance it is about not wasting programming hours (which I completely understand and actually support as I like new content) but it would be nice if the AI got the no brainer decisions right.