Do your Spellcasters win or lose their duels?

I find the best chance of winning a duel is if
1) my sim is of a higher level than the target spellcaster
2) I'm at low charge
3) I've already lost a duel and have the angry modlet from that active.

And even with that, I think I loose about 60% of my duels. Of course, I don't worry about duels over much right now, my spellcasters are busy working on other things.

Everybody beats my Sim. I just downloaded some Spellcasters from the gallery to test, I stripped their points/perks and my Spellcaster lost to 4 out of 5 of them. It's super annoying.

Pretty sure it's a coin toss. At least that's what it feels like to me. I've had brand new casters beat sages and I've had maxed out Virtuoso's lose to the no talent townies. Your sim sounds very unlucky.

It seems really random - like there's a background factor for each sim. I have very mastered Spellcasters that lose duels consistently and I've had newbies beat Sages

So here’s the twist. It’s all about the player. The player has to intend to win the duel and therefore the sim will triumph. It takes practice. But you can get there. All it takes is intention, focus and perseverance.

Set your mind on it, and it will eventually happen...

I'd say my maxed out caster was winning about 65% of them. He wasn't using a wand though, and I have no idea if that makes a difference.

My new witches usually win a few duels until they get to the point in the aspiration where they have to win three. From then on, no matter how powerful they get, they always lose. It seems to me that this system is programmed the wrong way around, giving low-level witches an advantage over experienced ones.

What I do then, if I'm only interested in the aspiration, is have two of my played witches at the same milestone duel each other, so at least one of them can move on. But if I try to duel with strangers for ingredients or wands or stuff like that, no chance.

I've had the same problem, rather disappointing. Just started playing sims 4 and the first pack i got was the magic. Does not matter what magic level you are or what spells u pick. With no blocking and no difference what spells you choose the duels are a coin toss.

My casters have won duels and lost duels.

One of my spellcasters gets many dueling invitations and usually always accepts them. She used to be quite victorious, but now she has lost a couple of her latest matches, though her rank is higher than before and I'm quite sure she has a higher rank than Darrel now (whom she was able to beat before). I guess she has just been unlucky.