Huge setback for me on GAC

A 3-6 season in Aurodium actually gets you about 1300 more crystals per month than even a 6-3 season in Chromium. More if you were doing 5-4 in Chromium. So you are not losing crystals, just morale.

You will eventually settle into that roughly 50% win rate. 5v5 can sometimes be a little easier when you are facing stronger opponents. This season may go better. In any case, going up a league is always better.

Just play your best, collect rewards and know that CG honestly don’t care.  Try different teams and use it as your sandbox mode and a learning experience trying all your teams against their R10 walls.  

I just learned JKLS(L), JMLS, GMY, KB, Barris Offee are effective against GL Leia with Rex and Chewpio.  My R7 team ROFLCoptor stomped an all R9 team.  I decided not to Mirror match with my own Leia, which was a good choice.  

Yeah I do know some players purposely drop just to fight someone weaker. I bounce between K2 and K3 and I still find a 8 to 10 mill GP player cause they got the Meta GLs and the Broken DCs that help them climb. CG sees you in your shoes as seeing this disadvantage as a way to spend money. I see it as a way to just barley play. Even in K2-3 I still have days I just don't care some days or I want to attack after I wake up from my grave shift and I sleep extra and miss the deadline. Haha Graves.   Aside from that there are days I will only attack with 1 to 3 teams and then forget about it thinking I lose and some players just don't attack. I always want to get the Round Reward with an attack. So just depends on the players and their lives. Plus some players join and not attack or not join for a long time cause of their lives and then when they get more free time they finally see they dropped down and get easy wins for a while. I do agree with many players there should be more improvements to the Match making. Maybe we will get lucky in the next 3 to 5 years. I don't see that happening at all in the next year or so. I also see players that only attack once if they don't have a chance of beating a certain character or team. Like when I was still building up the annoying DS Rey cron that was out a year ago I had so many struggles I just fought what I could and that was it.

Side note, just do what you can. If you want an easy day and just do the one battle and that's it, that's always fine. I feel its best to have fun than get frustrated and annoyed. I also like to see what players struggle with on my defense, even if I lose.  

Read crzydroid's post.  If rewards are your main motivation, then being as high as possible will give you the most rewards.

The system is set out so that you find 'a place' where you're basically balanced (I'm not saying the matchmaking is balanced or unbalanced).  You'll find yourself in a window of somewhere between 65%-35% win rate.  If on the higher side, you'll go up a bit and then win less.  If you want to win more than that, sorry it's just not set up that way.  It's set up that everybody that tries wins their fair share.

zaa6q7fj8ql0 wrote:

Every win catapults you to the top, while losses only lower you a bit.

This simply isn't the case.  A win will give you the same amount of Skill Points as a lost would have.  The first match is worth slightly more points than the second, and the same for the third.  Then between seasons you are 'squished'.  A rule of thumb the squish pushes you toward division 3.  So it maybe a positive or negative squish.  

That's the whole point. The guy doesn't know that when he jumped into the Gold League from Chromium, he gets dropped into the fourth Gold League, very close to third. Literally one win and you're immediately in third. That's where it feels like you're suddenly being propelled up. Why CG decided to push you so high when entering a new league, I don't know. But to drop down and be relegated immediately, you need to lose at least seven times. And he lost six and has to spend another season in this hell with two legends. I understand him. The loss of the Datacron on Wampa is probably also having an effect. And the new Datacron set is hardly a replacement for the previous cube set for young players. He'll have to suffer for two seasons with a slim chance of winning, until he's thrown back into Chromium. It's unpleasant, but what can you do? I wouldn't rip out the game because of something like that.