A few questions on Arena?

the arena selects your foes based on rank. The highest foe you can attack will always be displayed in the far right panel. you may have to refresh the screen quite a few times to see the absolute highest you can attack.

At lower ranks on the leaderboard you can attack people a lot higher than you on the leaderboard. Once you get into higher ranks, that window of people you can choose to attack shrinks. For example, at rank 12 and below you can only attack people four ranks above you. 13 to I'm not sure what number can attack people five ranks above, and so on.

The other teams you are facing are people that share your leaderboard. if you are seeing teams higher levels and stars and gear than you, then there are a number of reasons for that; from spending resources better, to dropping large amounts of cash.

If you are climbing 50 at a time and getting knocked back before you can even attack again, players may be targeting your team due to a perceived weakness. The only way to really combat this is to focus on your arena team and make them better. There are many, many guides and threads out there to help you do so....

Also, if you are setting it to auto against mirror matches just to see how it works, expect to lose the match. AI is horrible. Don't use auto in arena except for special circumstances where time is a factor. Focus on picking the best arena team for you and making them stronger, and make an effort to climb the leaderboard.

One more thing: when you battle someone and win, you switch ranks with them. For example, if you are ranked #500 and you fight the guy ranked #450, you become #450 if you win, and he becomes #500. While you are fighting nobody else can attack either you or the person you're fighting. Conversely, if someone is fighting you, you cannot fight anyone until that person has finished fighting with you.

"Scruffy_Looking;573292" wrote:
One more thing: when you battle someone and win, you switch ranks with them. For example, if you are ranked #500 and you fight the guy ranked #450, you become #450 if you win, and he becomes #500. While you are fighting nobody else can attack either you or the person you're fighting. Conversely, if someone is fighting you, you cannot fight anyone until that person has finished fighting with you.

Incorrect. I fought and won and my rank dropped. Happened again today. 896 before the victory, 989 after. Won another, rank now 1023.

"Tiltowait;586313" wrote:

"Scruffy_Looking;573292" wrote:
One more thing: when you battle someone and win, you switch ranks with them. For example, if you are ranked #500 and you fight the guy ranked #450, you become #450 if you win, and he becomes #500. While you are fighting nobody else can attack either you or the person you're fighting. Conversely, if someone is fighting you, you cannot fight anyone until that person has finished fighting with you.

Incorrect. I fought and won and my rank dropped. Happened again today. 896 before the victory, 989 after. Won another, rank now 1023.

No, he is right. Not sure what is happening in your case, but you do switch ranks when you win.

"CptCaveman;573281" wrote:
Also, if you are setting it to auto against mirror matches just to see how it works, expect to lose the match. AI is horrible. Don't use auto in arena except for special circumstances where time is a factor. Focus on picking the best arena team for you and making them stronger, and make an effort to climb the leaderboard.

???. If it is AI vs. AI then if the AI is horrible it is horrible for both. Except when it isn't.

I'm not the best at this game by far, but before this strange win and lose ranking feature I would be in the 100 or so tier each day. Not great, but okay I thought. Doesn't happen that way any more.