Grand Arena Hitting Last an Advantage?
Ok, so I live in Australia. The final hours of the GA occur very early in the morning (as in while I’m asleep). Hitting second in GA is a definite advantage, as u can work out exactly what u need to w...
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I almost always go first, because the overwhelming majority of opponents seem to wait until the last second to attack and I'm usually not able to be on in the hour or so before the phase ends.
Going second can certainly be easier, especially if your opponent drops an L while attacking, so you know that beating everything on the first battle guarantees victory.
It also goes the other way, though: if you go first, and score a full clear with 60 or more banners on every win, it forces your opponent to go for high efficiency. That can make them try out riskier matchups they wouldn't ordinarily go for when they retaliate, and make them more likely to stumble.
This works particularly well if you design your defense not around necessarily holding against attacks, but just denying full banners. Grievous, for example, is tough to get a full-banner win with on offense because he constantly damages his own team, but if left on defense he is also nearly impossible to score a full-banner win against due to the loads of AOE on his team. Maybe not the best example since he also has a pretty good chance of just straight up stopping an attack, but you get where I'm going.
Going second can certainly be easier, especially if your opponent drops an L while attacking, so you know that beating everything on the first battle guarantees victory.
It also goes the other way, though: if you go first, and score a full clear with 60 or more banners on every win, it forces your opponent to go for high efficiency. That can make them try out riskier matchups they wouldn't ordinarily go for when they retaliate, and make them more likely to stumble.
This works particularly well if you design your defense not around necessarily holding against attacks, but just denying full banners. Grievous, for example, is tough to get a full-banner win with on offense because he constantly damages his own team, but if left on defense he is also nearly impossible to score a full-banner win against due to the loads of AOE on his team. Maybe not the best example since he also has a pretty good chance of just straight up stopping an attack, but you get where I'm going.
