This is how arena feels right now as a beginner who's just starting out trying to earn new champions.
Posted Feb 25, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC
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If it's any consolation, it seems like you have a solid playstyle for a beginner!
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Thanks! I'm trying to learn and parrying is so hard sometimes. Some of these champs are so fast you don't even see the attack until you've already been hit.
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You gotta learn how to do the infinity streak so teams aren't so hard.
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I read that you're suppose to use any teams you want up to 9 wins, then for wins 10-15 you have to have 2 really strong champions and a throwaway guy (sandbagging?) as your team. After 15 wins then things will go back to normal.
The hard part for me right now is that for matches 10-15, I don't have those super strong champions to carry me through. My strongest guys are rank 3 level 1 and I don't have enough of them to keep winning these matches.
EDIT: Also, do you know how to bait out specials so they don't build it up to the unblock-able L3's? That is how I usually lose the hard match ups.
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To do things the right way you fight with whoever you want 1-10
11-15 take 4* 3/30 teams to fight kang/tanos teams, 16-18 still needs 4* teams, then you get to infinite strike and any team above 4500PI without masteries/synergies will do.
Its for when you'll have enough 4* teams, right now your way is the best option.
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I'm in the exact same boat. 2 rank 3 level 1's and the rest haven't been levelled. I get to around 9 or 10 and then can't go any further because my characters aren't strong enough and just restart lol.
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After 15 make sure to keep your pi above 6000 and after 20 streak keep it above 4500 the whole time. But you need to rank up your champions first in order to do the streak. Baiting them is never for sure. What works well for me is waiting for them to attack, then you dash back and evade and keep your champ unblocked.
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Infinite streak isn't as good as people think. The problem is that once you get to 20ish consecutive wins, your opponents level goes much lower, but the AI gets much harder. The result is that you are working harder for lower point totals.
What I do instead is run through all the teams I can from bottom to top. Then I do a few more matches with my top few teams. When the matches are getting difficult (I don't have many 4s), I put in one of my top champions, plus my two worst. I lose with the worst ones, as they give lower scores, and make sure to win the other.
Then I repeat the whole cycle again. I haven't done the math to say that this is the absolute best way to do things, but I have definitely noticed a pronounced difference in the opponents' ratings after 20 wins or so. Going up against a 1500 instead of a 3000 makes a big difference in your score.
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Trust me ... It's not that you're new. As an experienced veteran player http://imgur.com/xafMpRS
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Am I the only one who tapped the screen out of instinct as soon as the image loaded?
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Getting K.O by a higher or lower PI or just missing out because you had one more hit left is pretty normal in this game. Once you get enough champions just get the 3x streak and go as far as you can, then reset. I did this a few times as it helps build points, and matches don't get harder.
You can earn some ranked rewards for getting roughly 50K points, and if you manage to get 100K or more a 3 star if you're lucky.
refer to this as guide only. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W1-2_-qKQgZ2RknH3osQVA7f4xR-oUXmmICIW8kjw1I/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=1049030949
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That's happened to me even in the veteran bracket lol. I got 1 hit KO by Dr Stranges L3 during his Fury stage. It was sad
It wasn't even a special, the one hit that I got was at the end when I had no more HP left from parrying the other attacks. I blocked, evaded and parried the whole time and just died because my punches hits for less damage than the AI hits even when blocked. The PI difference between the two champs were just too much to overcome.
Keep grinding though, your team will build up and it will be way easier to get 3 and 4* champs.