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This is the arena Im thrown into. My gp is 2.8 mil while my opponents is 5 mil. This matchmaking is horrible. Is anyone else being put into matches like this?
This is the arena Im thrown into. My gp is 2.8 mil while my opponents is 5 mil. This matchmaking is horrible. Is anyone else being put into matches like this?
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And we still need two for offense. CG really screwed us with this.
GAC is about competing with other similar skilled players right? So can anyone tell me how to "Compete" against these players?
You have similar if not identical skill rating, this is how it works
Now you'll lose, and skill rating will place you back where you can compete. Hopefully by the end of this second season you should stabilize a bit. But if you have gone up a league to where you need too many fleets/squads I'm afraid you're stuck there for the season.
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Also there is a reason why you have been matched up against these guys. They might not actually participate fully, have poor mods, poor understanding of mechanics, counters etc which is why your skill ratings are the same/similar. If you keep winning then eventually you will get to rosters that you just can't handle and then drop down again and meet more reasonable opponents.
The only way to keep climbing is to improve your roster.
Skill rating shouldn't matter. If Im going to go against someone with more gp, I shouldn't also be required to set up double the teams. I'm not capable of setting up that many teams because my gp is not high enough. So its not their skill rating thats the problem, its that Im expected to have as many teams as them...
Matchmaking kind of blows
I don't like the term "skill rating". But I'm sure your definition of it is also not correct. "Skill rating" at the moment does not only reflect the current "playing" skill of a player. Rather it includes the roster development skill and fore sure also the monetary aspect.
As explained by others, at this stage you are probably punching way above what your roster development and monetary investment could handle. Your playing skill so far is probably the only thing in this "skill rating" equation, which allowed you to be matched up with your current opponent.
But no worries. It is a self-regulatory system. And ultimately everyone here has to deal with losses. It's perfectly normal and no reason to complain about. Unless you are proud of it, in which case it turns into a brag rather than a complaint.
Keep in mind this system is placed to stop people that only gear meta teams, and kept facing people with random teams in lower GP GAC, now its your battle rating thats what matters, you will be in a steady position soon, and as you unlock more characters and teams you will slowly climb up the ranks and gain more rewards, trust me facing people with 4 GLs and executor isnt fun when you got 2 GLs and no executor lol, give it a month and you will face people similar to your own roster
Battle rating still doesn't matter though. Having enough teams to place on offense and defense has absolutely nothing to do with skill rating. It has to do with your gp. So as someone who doesn't have enough gp to place all those teams, my skill rating is useless
The only thing that matters in this current arena IS gp. Im required to set up twice as many teams as before... Having the ability to set up enough on defense and still have enough on offense comes from your gp. Doesn't matter how well I did last arena... My gp is whats causing this significant disadvantage. So its lame that cg did this so it wouldn't be dependent on gp, but now its more dependent on gp than ever.
And you'll probably lose because you don't have enough teams compared to a higher GP account, at which point you'll drop down.
All it means is that you're this months winner of the "GAC Matchmaking Isn't Fair" award for people who can't understand that it will take time for the ladder system to even itself out.
Yes, thank you for explaining how it works. But if me losing two out of three battles from last arena is enough to bump me up to an automatic loss, Im sure anyone would be confused as to why... Its not like I was on xgames mode last arena and thats why Im being bumped up
Skill rating is not all about GP (and roster size), but more about how well you put to use what's at your disposal. Because of that it promotes more balanced roster instead of super-focused meta teams: with the same effort /crystal/energy investment you can build 2 g12 teams instead on one g13 (that's of course simplification, not taking counters and so on into account, just a general idea). In the old "squad arena focus" one g13 easily was better for generating crystal income, in GAC it's the oposite. It is designed to self-regulate and in long term you are to achieve 50-50 win-loss ratio (apart from upper Kyber, where there is nowhere to go up). If yours skill rating is at level of something between Bronzium1/Chromium5 you will oscillate and "Chromium season" will be mostly losses, skill rating drops, you are demoted to Bronzium1, "mostly wins", promotion and so on. As time passes you will develop more teams, and at one time "Chromium 5" season will no longer be "mostly losses" and no more demotion. Then "stable Chromium 5" era, then "oscillate between Chromium5 and Chromium4"....
i completely agree 100% with this!
Did you even read the GAC post when they moved crystals over? They clearly said that they want people to have 50% win rate.
If you're winning the majority of your matches, then you need to lose some afterwards. This is how you lose. Working as intended.
Both my accounts are up against GP that ranges from 2-3x what I am, and after checking both my 1st round matchups I actually believe I can still win despite these GP differences, and the fact I can't even fully place all the required squads. I just know I can likely get a full clear and MAYBE trip them up on my fleet or 1 defensive teams to at least steal banners.
I have an explanation, but I'm going to come back in 6 months and post it.
Come to 6 GL lvl ... And see the magic of 6 GL defense