Grand Arena Hitting Last an Advantage?

"Kyno;c-1956894" wrote:

"Stokat;c-1956887" wrote:

"Nauros;c-1956875" wrote:

"UltimateZeus;c-1956873" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1956867" wrote:

"Dmitry_M81;c-1956855" wrote:
And it's huge advantage when you know opponent's banners, so you can either use undersized squads for extra banners or full squads for guaranteed win.
If banners (and maybe even squads defeated) are hidden - noone has advantage or disadvantage, fair deal for me.

Please explain how knowing you need to use an undersized team, makes winning the match easier??

It doesn't but if you are 45 score behind (excluding territory victory points) and you have 1 battle left... you know you can just send in 5 toons and clear it up instead of sending in an undersized squad to take a gamble to get a higher score.

This is just common sense.

Also, if you are 60 points behind, you know you have to take the risk and go undersized even if you wouldn't otherwise.

Exactly. I I don’t understand after being spelled out so many times why ppl still don’t grasp this basic concept. It’s not rocket science, just common sense.

The concept of that is not hard to understand, the problem is that this game mode is not won by knowing a team can be 4 or 5. Nothing about attacking first or second makes playing the game easier. A perceived advantage because a player who is unsure of their own skills doesn't mean they can win the battles they need to because they feel better about it, it also doesn't mean they would lose if they didn't know how to feel about it.

The same attack strategy can be used both first or second and score the maximum points that a player can reach based on their roster, opponent and skill.

This game mode is won by scoring more banners than your opponent, nothing else. If you lose a fight clearing it with a second team will render you with a lot less banners than clearing it on the first go would have, which is why you see many of the posts above talking about the importance of weighting the risks (using and undersized squad) with the gains (potentially getting more banners). The advantage is knowing when you have to take risks to guarantee ending up with more banners than and when you can play it safe to minimize the risks and maximize the gains. So yes, sometimes matches are won exactly by knowing if the team can be 4 or 5.

But. yes if you get max banners from every single fight every single match then going first or second won't matter at all, however that isn't the case for most of us. Not because we are unsure of our skills mind you but because some fights are difficult and while you can win them sometimes rng just isn't with you.