Grand Arena Hitting Last an Advantage?

Bruh wdym advantage? Them knowing the # of banners really doesnt matter.

I mean it's either u win or u lose :P

It works both ways, if you are efficient then it puts the opposition under pressure to be more efficient.
If your not, well they still have some pressure, just less so.
In other words just be efficient and dont worry about the opposition.

Right now I don't see this as an issue, but I would agree it would be an advantage IF the new battle logs that CG are discussing showing on SWGOH.gg are displayed before the attack phase has ended.

How about this.... a player sets an absolute FU defence. Both revans, GG, padme, etc, etc. Their best 8 teams straight onto defence. Then waits. If u full clear, they lose. If u don’t, they know exactly how many banners they need with whatever offence they have left. Their whole strategy revolves around hitting second. I’m not saying it’s an unfair strategy, it’s quite good, actually. The only thing I was asking originally is why not make the starting times fair for everyone?

"CordycepsX;c-1956675" wrote:
How about this.... a player sets an absolute FU defence. Both revans, GG, padme, etc, etc. Their best 8 teams straight onto defence. Then waits. If u full clear, they lose. If u don’t, they know exactly how many banners they need with whatever offence they have left. Their whole strategy revolves around hitting second. I’m not saying it’s an unfair strategy, it’s quite good, actually. The only thing I was asking originally is why not make the starting times fair for everyone?

You need 62 points in a battle, can you please explain how knowing this makes getting those points easier in battle?

The game is world wide, there is no time that works for everyone.

It can be an advantage in some circumstances for sure. I don't see how that's up for debate. Anyway, I don't really mind it for selfish reasons, since I live in Europe and GAs end in the evening. It's nice being able to see how many points I need, and then I can decide whether to risk battles with undersized squads if I need a lot of points to win, or whether it will be fine to finish off an enemy team using two squads. I can also decide to finish some feats if I'm comfortably ahead. It's not a huge advantage, but there certainly is one.

"DarjeloSalas;c-1956672" wrote:
There is one situation where going last can be an advantage (though I’m sure many will see it differently to me).

- player A has cleared all of B’s teams except for a revive team, like NS.
- Then player A needs to go and do something in real life, like mow the lawn or administer medicine to an angry hippo.
- Player B comes on and clears all of A’s teams, but does so inefficiently. Player B is ahead of A, but by a small margin.
- Player A returns to the game and realises that he just needs to clear that NS team, no matter how many attempts it takes, to win the round.
- Player A sends in his Imperial Trooper team, who are not always 100% successful at beating NS.
- It starts brilliantly! Zombie killed twice. Then MT is killed! Then Spirit! The troopers are still all alive, but most have plague.
- Now player A faces a tough decision. Zombie, Daka and AV are all pretty healthy. It’s Shore trooper’s move, and it will be Daka next. Will Shore get the assists to kill another NS? Or will the NS survive and Daka revives MT and Spirit next turn?

Since player A KNOWS that he doesn’t need to clear the NS first time, he can let the battle time out. Goodbye MT and Spirit. No need to take the risk that all the hard work is undone.

Who is still using troopers for ns? I thought everyone had moved on to cheesing them with gr.

"Kyno;c-1956693" wrote:
The game is world wide, there is no time that works for everyone.

Come on Kyno, read the OP's suggestion which is the topic of discussion. "There is no time that works for everyone" is exactly countered by his/her suggestion of rotating start times.

You need 62 points in a battle, can you please explain how knowing this makes getting those points easier in battle?

It doesn't make it easier but that's not the point. If you have two potential teams, the first is a 5 man team you know you have a 99% chance of winning with 58+ banners. The second is a 1 or 2 man team that can give you a 50:50 shot at getting 62+ banners with. If you go first you will most likely take the 99% chance of 58 banners. If you go second and know that 62 banners are required you take the 50:50 option every time.

Note, I personally don't care because I just play as efficiently as I can when I get the time to. But dismissing peoples concerns about this outright, is disingenuous and pointless. Make a few reasonable arguments against it like "the devs time is better spent elsewhere as there are more important issues" if you are desperate to argue against the idea.

"Jwalker1900;c-1956703" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-1956672" wrote:
There is one situation where going last can be an advantage (though I’m sure many will see it differently to me).

- player A has cleared all of B’s teams except for a revive team, like NS.
- Then player A needs to go and do something in real life, like mow the lawn or administer medicine to an angry hippo.
- Player B comes on and clears all of A’s teams, but does so inefficiently. Player B is ahead of A, but by a small margin.
- Player A returns to the game and realises that he just needs to clear that NS team, no matter how many attempts it takes, to win the round.
- Player A sends in his Imperial Trooper team, who are not always 100% successful at beating NS.
- It starts brilliantly! Zombie killed twice. Then MT is killed! Then Spirit! The troopers are still all alive, but most have plague.
- Now player A faces a tough decision. Zombie, Daka and AV are all pretty healthy. It’s Shore trooper’s move, and it will be Daka next. Will Shore get the assists to kill another NS? Or will the NS survive and Daka revives MT and Spirit next turn?

Since player A KNOWS that he doesn’t need to clear the NS first time, he can let the battle time out. Goodbye MT and Spirit. No need to take the risk that all the hard work is undone.

Who is still using troopers for ns? I thought everyone had moved on to cheesing them with gr.

Not if you use GR vs DR/Malak

It can go both ways. Seeing a wiped board and a high banner score can prompt your opponents to use more undersized squads and take risks they usually wouldn't take, which can easily backfire.