How is everyone saying they get top ten?
I don't consider my team terrible, I avoid the meta, and enjoy more of a team that synergizes well with Dathcha and jawa. I can only get up to rank 80, today i was 95. Am i just in a server filled with whales? cause every team is the meta team or better and i need to just hope for RNG in my favor. my team is poggle, poe, IG(L) [i was using sid(L) yesterday but wanted to try ig, i think it might work better), and the 2 jawas.
I started the game within 12 hours of public release
the current top 5 in my server, if this helps anyone, is
Surly lvl 74 QGJ
Alclonn lvl 76 Dooku
TheBinder lvl 75 QGJ
RuYouWin lvl 74 Dooku
Alteisan76 lvl 74 Dooku
ranks 1-50 have 48 QGJ/Dooku and 2 poggle
my usual strat is Poggle buffs, poe taunt, and then if RNG is on my side i can 1 shot an exposed with jawa hitting 12k, then dathcha and ig attack
I dont ask for squad strategy, just if my server is just op, cause i dont get all these people being "i hit rank 1 today for the billionth time" or "there's a number below rank 10?!"
I started the game within 12 hours of public release
the current top 5 in my server, if this helps anyone, is
Surly lvl 74 QGJ
Alclonn lvl 76 Dooku
TheBinder lvl 75 QGJ
RuYouWin lvl 74 Dooku
Alteisan76 lvl 74 Dooku
ranks 1-50 have 48 QGJ/Dooku and 2 poggle
my usual strat is Poggle buffs, poe taunt, and then if RNG is on my side i can 1 shot an exposed with jawa hitting 12k, then dathcha and ig attack
I dont ask for squad strategy, just if my server is just op, cause i dont get all these people being "i hit rank 1 today for the billionth time" or "there's a number below rank 10?!"
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I'm 100% F2P since day one. Highest I've been is in the top 30's (except for the first week, lolz).
Seems to me that just about any five toons at 7* will get you into the top 100-150. One reason why you see so many if the same toons in the Leaderboard is that most F2P players are simply using the toons they can most easily get to 7*, typically the ones in shipments.
Also, I have to point out that your Jawa strategy won't go very far. If you search the forums, you'll see that building teams with synergy requires - at the very least - 3 toons of the same ilk (Rebel, Empire, First Order, etc.) Even with that in mind, there are certain groups that are just horrible, regardless. For instance, a full squad of First Order toons will have their arses handed to them by a Droid team.
with my jawa team i actually easily crushed every team that doesnt have speed QGJ or dodge dooku. but, since almost everyone has one of those 2 in my top 100, im stuck
The important thing is to have fun the way YOU want to.. It sounds like conformity might feel like a loss if you were to go that route, and that's o.k.
There is no shame in copying them. Lest you be an uber-nerd with a degree in programming who has churned as many numbers as he/she possibly could into fancy algorithms and saw what no on else could. I'm not Dr. Burry. I'll copy the top players.
Dooku is ****
However, check this guy out (he's on my alt account server):
He has one of the very few droid teams, he's way underleveled, and still finishes (at least) top10 everyday (I assume for what I see). It's a February ladder, so I still manage to make it to top10 (being #3 my highest rank so far) on a daily basis with JC on my side. x)
My point is: as a FTP, we can surely make it to top20 with no big problems, but on mature servers like yours (and my main account's) we HAVE to follow the meta (I also finish top10 - #2 today - on my main)!
Hopefully, this new balance will allow more diversity on ladders. If not, well have a month or two to play catch with whales (and dolphins).
But I say work on a team you like. I have moved away from the dooku led team but rest of my team is all over top of leader board.
Feel u bro, all the best
1. My top finishes are only for my payout period. Outside of that time, I will fall back as far as the 30s. So everyone who manages top 10 or a no. 1 finish in Arena only holds that spot for a very short period in the day. At the highest levels, I would wager that any team in the Top 50 piloted by a good player can wreck any other team up there with a little luck, thanks to a deliberately lousy AI.
2. I chase the meta because it is a necessary evil, and honestly, the way practically every competitive game goes. There will always be a few characters that will be better and more efficient than others at getting the job done. You can't expect to field a fully-geared and starred team of Ugnaught, CUP, Stormtrooper, Mob Enforcer and Jedi Guardian and get the same results. More importantly, since I am FTP I have to maximize my limited daily gains by going after certain characters, and experience and research dictate who would be the best choices. I wish I could be like YoYoYoda and have every single character available to experiment with, but that just isn't an option for me.
3. Some team compositions and combinations of characters are just superior to others. Right now speed kills, and it doesn't matter how much damage you can potentially deal if 3 of your characters are KO'd or stunned before they attack. Sorry, that's how the cookie crumbles. Synergies, too.
4. You don't need to be a whale to hit Top 10 during your payout, but you do have to struggle more and really time your climb to the half minutes. My 5:30 to 6 pm has been the most stressful of the day for the last few months.
5. Everything changes in a big way tomorrow. Hopefully.
Also you need to do more battles (refresh) to break into top 20. With just 5 battles you will just keep losing whatever you gained and not be able to move forward. Do at least one refresh and see if you are ending up with a better rank. With Dooku(L) even the strongest team loses when RNG doesn't go their way. It is not unusual to do 2-3 battles against Dooku(L)+RG team to beat it. Most whales do 3-4 refreshes to hold their rank.
I'm FO and I beat droids all the time lol, AI is also horrible.
FO is pretty good actually it's the farming of FOST and FOTP, that there's only a few every server. Also don't like FOST. He's basically the weak link in the team but I finish top 100-150 so It's okay I guess. My FOST and FOTP are still 3/4*s so can't wait till 7*
What he said. I finished in #3 today and had it not been for the RNGods deciding he went first, I would have had #1. My squad is way underpowered compared to the whales, so I have to grind from near #30 to get to the top which requires a refresh of 50.
Here's a tip: if you refresh and have matches left over, use them. Figure out who you can beat and take mental note of that. If they're above you, those are stepping stones you can beat on your path to a higher payout. I can beat the guy who finished first today, but today I saw a ton of whales I've never seen before. Maybe our server merged.
I'm not playing completely meta as I just unlocked Dooku at 3*, but strategy works. You have to know who to target first and foremost and obliterate them to get them out of the way.
Right now, the guy who's #1 on my server has a Jawa:
Dooku (L), Phasma, Poggle, GS, Jawa (gear XI).
I've fought him in the past and the Jawa is a totally ok attacker, on par with the Pilots, etc.
So the question to you is: Do you have problems on offense (your 10 battles per day), or on defense?
First hint there: Do spend the 50¢ to buy 5 more battles and play them all, even after your payout time.
Second hint: Pick the highest (in position) team you can get (each battle should move you forward 10 positions), no matter who they are. If it's a tough team, well, you get to learn how to beat them next time.
And last: try to pick players that are not active at the moment (e.g. they live on the other side of the world): they are less likely to fight back and reverse your win minutes after the battle.
In the top-20 of my server, there is actually a lot of characters diversity, and I think there are lots of good (not best) teams that can make it to #1, maybe it takes them a few more battles or they would lose more at night.
I don't have THE meta team (don't have Dooku nor Rey), and I lose my fair share of battles to Dooku dodges, but I still make it. I run QGJ (L) - Lumi - Phasma - GS - RG, and I often see Poe-88 teams beat me.
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Hold the course, pick up a droid and wait for Jawa Engineer. Your time is coming, and mine too!
Sounds tempting haha I'm guessing they'll make Jawa engineer chromium exclusive though. Maybe guild shipments at a strech
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