Lots of Free Victory Shields | Super Event Starts Today | Bad BG Matchmaking Reasons and More [MCN]

[@ashe7810]

The only thing I hate most abt BG is the fact that when I use energy, im more likely to get a fair match but the moment I start using those Elder marks, I lose 9 outta 10 matches & then all my marks are done.

[@LeroySoe-rh7gw]

Facts, wasting my elder mark for no reason. On top of that, Energy gives you way too low points for solo completion.

[@samon2111]

I’ve noticed that too.

[@reggiecolby542]

Yea noticed same thing!

[@Maljig]

Ik when I use energy my chance of a fair match is like 50% but if I use elder marks it goes down to like 5%

[@joshmason1460]

Definitely felt like that was a thing too. Glad it’s not just me!!

[@MayukhSutradhar]

This matchmaking isn't fair i already played with 50 vallient players and 10 legends 😔😔😔

[@ianpierce_97]

I feel bad… I had 20 matches in a row that I was playing lower players… only once was it a close almost fair match up.

[@pankajmaurya4816]

I am also facing a lot of legends and valiant 😢

[@Zoom-f4l]

Been facing Paragon and valiants and legends,the game favours those higher players

[@wilj9976]

​@ianpierce_97 same here, I hate seeing 19 or 20k as my opponent's top row and I'm over 30k in my top 2 rows. I don't blame them for forfeiting. I really hate that some pause when the fight starts because it's just wasting time.

[@laishramchingkhei8270]

​@@wilj9976 same here

[@crb4528]

About the matchmaking in BG, I'm one of these Vaillant players with only 6r5 asc and 7r2 in my account and I do agree that I feel it's not fair for my opponents this season. They should just wait out 1 week that we all get out of the VT or that we reach Vibranium at least instead of burning their token. They messed up putting us in gold 5

[@Future.IITian2001]

This is the issue. Why they put celestials players in gold??

[@hadacklux5584]

And miss 7 Megatron crystals?

[@timothy22500]

I don’t think it’ll be fixed then either, I’m sure there will be valiant players waiting till next week for easy matches

[@hyphoon709]

that isnt a fix, we shouldnt have to wait and miss on magnetron crystals

[@crawfather]

I don't see how they think the Thronebreaker "progress farther" rewards will help any TB go farther. I need 7* shards and T6CC to progress farther, but everything on this calendar seems like they're for uncollected.

[@relaxingendzyt7470]

These Victory sheilds dont even work. I literally just keep losing every single battle ground game due to absurd matchmaking.

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

The Super Event info is on the ingame home screen thru the news icon

[@joshmason1460]

I’m a Cav/TB level player. Just got TB the other day. When I play BGs, is estimate I get a relatively fair matchup about 25% of the time. The rest of the time, I either get matched against a roster that completely destroys me, or a roster that can’t compete with mine and I destroy them!! Definitely not ideal

[@mrfriendly9956]

I've had a rough experience in this season BG’s. I find it interesting that Rich is going against people lower than his rank. While I have been matched with people at my level or higher. I have also watched other high rank players live streaming. What’s interesting is that their opponents are less often to draft the Serpent’s and Bullseye’s even though they are not banning them. I understand that RNG is a factor for drafts but something seems off. I personally plan on working to get better. My win ratio is abnormally low for this season, it appears I am just being used as a stepping stone, which isn’t fun. I hope you all have had much better luck than me!

[@ThePoolo12]

If you like the current match making is bc you can't beat any account of your level and you need to match someone 2 titles under you in order to get your first W

[@hyphoon709]

fr

[@geraldfunk6503]

I think the one thing it is missing is the ranked rewards. If the intent was to get people more involved, it allows players to do the initial check the block and then no reason to keep playing. I do miss the 4hour and 24hour crystals though. This is a decrease from those and they had great resources in them!

[@TristanSimondsen]

I NEVER use victory shields. And since Kabam gave away 10 this season due to the bug in restart, I used them. It began my current unprecedented 9 match losing streak, with one shield left. 🤔

[@chrisbarkeryt4114]

Because of the matchmaking we need compensation of all those victory shields and elders marks, because all of them got wasted for me

[@DUNKIN_DEAN]

When I move, I try to divest myself of some junk. George Carlin has a great riff, A Place for My Stuff…seemed appropriate to perhaps make you laugh right now. Good luck! Thanks for the info, as always.

[@Garagelife23]

I think this meta is pretty fun. Where kabam messed up imo is still putting deathless in bgs. At least so high up in them. On top of the bugs, it causes so much frustration right before people decide if they will open up their wallets for the 4th. I'm guessing they are all sweating right now lol. I think that's why the comp rewards were as good as they are.

[@FinaciallyFree]

Here is my battlegrounds match making hypothesis. 1.) The obvious everyone started much lower than normal. 2.) Many paragon players + and myself from alliance had a major drop off in playing last two seasons due to the leveling up trophy 🏆 system which became wayyy to grindy. Therefore players like myself who is Paragon started at the absolute bottom level. 3.) Much higher progressions are playing this season. I guarantee it’s the bigges turnout Kabam has seen in months due to the new trophy system and due to better prizes for Kabams compensation. 4.) Lots more new players entering battlegrounds with all the free and easy 6 star share acquisitions so a lot more people are beating story content. 5.) This in turn makes matchmaking so much worse because there are far more Paragon + players in the pool along with more uncollected players than ever. Strategy and how to combat this. 1,) if your paragon plus everyone that’s smart is using their elder marks out the gate for easy solo objective point prizes, so if your lower level stay out of using your tokens until we advance… Like many people said in the comments they feel like matchmaking is better using energy and that’s correct and not a coincidence. If

[@johnandersen6079]

I don’t understand why Kabam continues to push BG’s as hard as they do. The people interested in it and its rewards are playing it. “Forcing” everyone else to play it (by putting chase items like deathless pieces) goes against their message of you don’t have to do everything in the game. By the way, your predictions for Valkyrie are way too high. I got just under position 300 with 41M.

[@Man08yt]

For the people that aren’t trying to reach high ranks If ur just going for the magneto crystals just do the win objective that gets u the crystal and STOP playing BG after that and do arena or something else When the objective resets and the magneto crystal come back do it again and u might be able to complete the other regular objectives like win 3 matches play 3 matches When u need one more win to rank up/advance use one of the free 10 victory shields unless u already have some but only in this situation u use them

[@ashe7810]

Dang! This vid came in clutch. I just became Paragon abt 5hrs ago & also wondered y my calendar is still Thronebreaker. This just cleared that up 👌

[@PCDynamite]

first game and i was against a guy who had 100% necro. i’m tb.

[@khil_zone_735]

I literally played for 46 matches to win a match and get one Megatron crystal and now this event is even more fucked i have to win a battlegrounds match to gain points but it is not looking like i have a chance to win a match

[@dshdesigns]

Allot of my matches have had all my opponents roster champs 10k higher then my best champ in my deck. .

[@chrisbarkeryt4114]

The 10 victory shields don't mean shit when we get garanteed losses like 20 times in a row, because you are going against champions who are 30k power and your most powerful champion is 12k power

[@wasimimran8094]

I am happy that u have addressed my problem on the channel

[@wingzbound4573]

are the valiants getting even more rewards than the rest for being put into such a low tier initially? making balance of game even worse? Or do the rewards work differently?

[@miloanderson4359]

BGs matchmaking has never really been good, but so far I have seen more even matchmaking in hero rating who I’m fighting. I’ve gone from basically a 7:1 loss/win ratio after getting to silver in previous seasons to roughly 2:1. Now as far as it being more even, it might be because there’s just more people playing BGs? I’m not sure, honestly. I can say I have seen more opponents that are more my own level in hero rating, but also seeing 1 higher or lower hero rated matchup to every 6-7 even footing matches. Personally I think it’s better but we just need to see how this is going to go this season before we all freak out. Honestly I’ve said that this wasn’t going to last past this season since kabam talked about it on the live stream. Unless they release data that shows a difference between this season vs other seasons, I’m sure we’ll never know.

[@jeffureet9288]

10 min per milestone X 3 milestones = 30 minutes

[@Popcorn31416]

Easy to tell people to wait for weeks to get fairer matchups, but what about the resources that got wasted? The energy, time and the elder's marks?

[@hyphoon709]

not too mention the magnetron crystals in the objectives that we would have to sacrifice because kabam fucked up their game

[@MarvelFan88]

Last 2 or 3 bgs I got to gladiator circuit. This one haven’t figured out yet. Had only a little success

[@troseljacdalibor9551]

I just love when i finish fight with 97% of health and still not winning because oponent finishes with 99% health left.First day i had fights against Valiant and Legends at silver 2

[@Bkaranja55]

The bg matchmaking has had me fighting for my life, like how am I supposed to beat someone with over 10 rank3 7 stars and the rest are rank 5 ansended 6 stars

[@R4GEMcOc]

Yeah I got that amount of victory shields but couldn't use shields at all even our compensation ones. So yeah they couldn't be used

[@tayshoncampbell5900]

My opponents as of late have been paragon and up or uncollected and lower(they quit due to my roster) haven’t had a single cav or tb player

[@hyphoon709]

same im TB and im only getting put against valiant and uncollecteds bro

[@tayshoncampbell5900]

@@hyphoon709 I just got to tb a few hours ago and haven’t done bg since, it’s like I get put against beefed up rosters when using elder’s marks compared to just energy

[@ahhcount]

The level up event is yesterday for me? Even if I have a different time zone, shouldn't events be all at the same time anyway?

[@ThePoolo12]

I have 3 accounts and the 3 have different missions every day we don't all get the same missions

[@aaronkrause7595]

They’re different for different progression levels

[@rossyboy1980]

They've shoehorned chase rewards into BG so people like me who usually never touch the mode is doing it. I'm definitely an unfair match for the majority of the guys I'm being paired with, but I usually never partake and thus am ranked lowly. I'm thinking there might be a bunch of players like myself, which is negatively affecting matchups.

[@delavega206]

I became valiant with Act 8, and went up from gold V to platinum I. It's not easy. I think the compensation shouldn't be these frags. Instead, they should remove that piece from VisD and try to reduce the fight. People are killing each other at the lower levels. I know this will get better, but will there be time for everyone to get a satisfactory grind? I advise, spend your shields sparingly, towards the middle of the season.

[@charleskennedy1150]

I only have 2 r4 6* champs I shouldn't be matched against valiant players with full decks of r5 6* sig200 & r3 7* champs.. idk how they do match making but they should try something else

[@aaronkrause7595]

8:34 couldn’t help but notice that the guy complaining about the matchmaking didn’t bother to attempt to win any of those matches 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@Future.IITian2001]

If 10k PI players finds 25k PI players what they do ? They forfeit.

[@hadacklux5584]

Lol no way I'm bothering with a big account like that, even the game's autoplay feature would whoop any of my champs with any of their champs

[@TheOfficialBananaKing]

I went against all r5 ascended 6* and 7-star teams when I had just barely reached cav...

[@parthsethia2605]

I don't know but despite being on gold1 and now plat 5, I have been getting pretty decent matches since past 2 days, my friends and ally mates are saying that they are getting scrutinized but I think it's not that harsh as it was 3 days ago

[@cosmosgato]

The only problem with battle grounds is too many people are afraid to play. So with the limited pool, sorry but yes there will be occasional mismatches.

[@hyphoon709]

yeah idk about that people have to be playing in order to get those magnetron crystals, unless people arent interested in those

[@Dan-ku9mt]

Ok, sooooo... I'm a high level Paragon player. I'm not THEE most skilled, but I'm not awful either. I do have a fairly strong BG roster. The season started me off at mid-silver. The MOMENT I hit Gold, virtually ALL the matches were RIDICULOUSLY unbalanced against me. We're talking Valiant players with multiple duped r3 7*s and virtually ALL FULLY STACKED and ascended 6*s apart of the 7*s. I have NO idea how they're matching people up - is it your game progression? Is it the total rating of your deck???? Is it the place you're in within the circuit??? A combination of all the aforementioned?????? WHO KNOWS!!!!?? It's MEGA-frustrating and eating through ALL my BG resources

[@hyphoon709]

its literally just if youre in gold, they will put you against anybody else who is in gold, regardless of roster size or prestige. Its clear especially with this season that there is no bgs matchmaking whatsoever.

[@bern6405]

I'm 4m valiant and I have faced some low rating accounts which just quit and did not play. Mind you not every valiant players are highly skilled, I have beaten quite a few of those high rating accounts the past several seasons don't quit just give it a try you'll never know.

[@hyphoon709]

bro you have to understand loading into a game for the 20th time and seeing r5 ascended 6*s and ranks 3s with no chance of winning would make anyone want to leave

[@briansos123]

Look at the reward for BG diamond level 4 it's 1,500 and it's supposed to be 3,000

[@atifghafoor6258]

As a player with 10k and 2 14k champions fighting against people with multiple over 23k champions just seems almost impossible.

[@jrschwab1611]

remember Rich, Time isnt a resource according to Kabam

[@Future.IITian2001]

If matchmaking does not improve in week, then many those who were playing bg earlier will leave it

[@O_sinc29]

New house looking good rich!

[@gime1945]

As for the matchmaking, I rather wait 5 minutes and get a fair matchup than wait a few seconds to get an unfair matchup that I have no chance in winning. But that's just me.

[@hyphoon709]

what are you talking about

[@akeemmarshall6545]

I' m uncollected and was batteling a valiant player with 4 7 stars r3 😢

[@vishaljr9683]

i am a thronebreaker and i got 6* onslaught from cavalier crystal today🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@reggiecolby542]

Worst matchmaking ever,never lost 10 in a row since it started! I have 3 7*s fighting people with full 7* rosters r2-3 dupes or max sig ascended 6*s! Madd it imp for us to reach the 15k 7*shards supposed compensation! Fd up esp since finished vib 1 last season and had to start at bronze this season smh

[@samcheng4566]

I feel bad for Cav and Uncollected summoners. They have 12k average pi and have to fight valiant accounts.

[@sneak9407]

Forget uncollected suffering. I have a single rank 3 7 star and I'm still getting speed runned by guys with several new good defender and at rank 2 and rank 3. Cavaliers won't even make a dent, if all my rank 4 defenders are getting cooked.

[@Maljig]

@@sneak9407I’m paragon, don’t even have a rank 5 6 star and I got put against multiple people with 6 or 7 r3 7* champs

[@hyphoon709]

@@sneak9407 you cant complain bro you are the people that all the cavs and uncollecteds are getting put against, paragons and valiants, the chance of your matches being unfair when you have a r3 7* are low, while ours are very high this season.

[@scrubnuggetxd249]

Matchmaking put me up against someone who had over 7 million higher total team rating than mine 😭

[@508phoenix]

I have a dumb question, can the victory shield get you the magnetron crystals or do you actually have to win? I have a bunch saved up because i never do battle grounds but I'm curious if i can "win" that way?

[@Bigmoney1984]

No you have to win the match if you never play and your in the bottom tier it shouldn’t be hard to win a match

[@LeroySoe-rh7gw]

No, to earn BG magnetron crystals, you need to win one match in BG. It got nth to do with Victor shield. I think the challenge recycle every two days. You can only unlock Battle ground after u reach the uncollected.

[@508phoenix]

Cool thanks guys, I'm paragon. I keep getting quit on, but I doubt that'll last much longer. I always hated battle grounds, that's why I never touched it. I thought the victory shield would push me even if I lost and count towards the magnetron crystals.

[@vincent4524]

The match making is extremely unfair. My highest is only 13000 and my enemy lowest is 14000 This unfair bg made me very mad about this game and I always face ledgendary player in only below gold5

[@Future.IITian2001]

Kabam just fooled us by saying easier to climb VT. Instead that MF kabam set pathetic matchmaking to make sure TB paragons can reach Vib or GC. Before this season there was concern for bg, but now if this matchmaking continues, many will surely leave bg. Kabam made blunder. Its tough to even reach plat.

[@MegaHunt02]

Bg takes so so long. They need to speed up the entire process if they want more players to do it

[@eghoseisiramen1892]

0:34 valiant and paragon get the same thing

[@michaelrobison9612]

My account is 571k Paragon and am getting matched against 3.5+ mil accounts in Gold IV. How a game could design such an idiotic matchmaking system is beyond me

[@marineford1]

if i send a ss of my match history its full red

[@paroobrien2843]

To much Mods playing also guys finishing with full bar off power..I'm done ..BG

[@vernondesousa]

10 minutes, 3x milestones = 30 minutes 👍🏻

[@khil_zone_735]

I got fucked up i am a cavalier and an average player. The least i have faced is thronebreaker and every other one is legend or valiant 😢

[@bimutantvt869]

3 times 10 minutes i assume so in total 30 minutes

[@claptivity]

Bottleneck on gold is crazy

[@crypticallee]

I’m valiant and faced against like 5 cavs in a row this game is great

[@michaelJ606]

I feel bad for all of us. Kabam has told us that we are bad at battlegrounds. But what Kabam isn’t saying is that they are unaware of the battlegrounds exploit. Givin exploit allows the user get lower accounts to fight. So if it works I’ll as I am paragon level get cavalier and below 😂. That being said Kabam do the people who have uncollected accounts that I’m at paragon level and murdering or the ones who look at my account and quit cuz they know that fighting me is a waste of time suck…….. look if I am able to do this then it’s happening to me as well and it’s all f@&$@$ Up so if we’re fighting pay to play a$$ holes, moders, hackers and exploiters how the f?$& is matchmaking fair or the the fffffffffffffffffffffffff do yall have the audacity to say we suck. I believe a fix plus apology in game and on livestream plus compensation is over friggin due. Until then have fun playing hackermoddeploitgrounds loosing and then being told u suck.

[@Belarius0404]

One thing that is sad is that people who chasing deathless piece strugle and some won't even be able to get the piece thanks to the shit show at the start and keep going cureently

[@THEKING-ud6gr]

I'm getting shafted in BGs

[@ZeRo-99]

I'm here defeating 7mil account rating players in platinum with my 2mil roster 🥴

[@abhijithis9424]

War rewards are TRASH. We get 2k 7 star shards for seasons 🤣🤣. We can get 5x that from BG with much minimal effort, stress and planning and getting shat on by 29 others. And you can buy 2 pots from loyalty per win. You need like 4 for R5 ascended champ 🤡

[@faustoutloud]

7:45 I'm not going to feel bad about a player that doesn't even try to fight other Summoners just looks at the deck and backs out? Why lol try and play that person if you lose you lose but winning is stil a option lol if he played those matches and lost 2-0 every time then I'd feel bad but not trying tells me alot lol not trying to be a dick just speaking truthfully ❤❤

[@hyphoon709]

we dont know how many games he had already entered and lost beforehand, it took me over 14 losses yesterday to get the magnetron crystal, at that point i just set my phone down when i saw an insane roster. This guy probably did try to play but just realized that there really isnt a point when the people we are being matched against have 4 times our overall rating.

[@Ddark-03]

Worst bg new system bro hahaha

[@edictzzz]

Whom to ascend Nick Fury, red skull, negasonic, kushala

[@hyphoon709]

nick probably but depends who you like most, they are all amazing champs

[@butchiethomas9931]

Victory sheilds..lol..BG is the fakest mode there is..only thing consistent anymore are dropped inputs, bugged game play and a rigged A.I., straight the fk up!!

[@shinyyoungstar931]

It is working as intented. New content is their only focus besides raking in the dough. And they is ranking in more dough as is.

[@butchiethomas9931]

@shinyyoungstar931 when will I see a video that holds kabam accountable for us STILL PLAYING A BROKEN GAME!!

[@nematik]

Yeah nothing like holding block for 5 minutes and then getting smashed in the face anyways…. I dunno why I play this game sometimes 😭

[@lront]

The amount of parries the defenders get when they don’t deserve it by playing so passive is frustrating..every match you literally have to hope you get good ai but sometimes from the jump you can tell the ai is going to play funky and weird just to throw you off in a game mode where time is a big factor