i see 3* teams hitting 2k+ every event, normally with very little trouble. It isn’t always about your team.. a lot of it is which slice you choose, if you are in an alliance that co-ordinates, if you have taken the time to learn your slice, who is in it, who and which alliances score high etc.. this way, when you hop, even if not on Line or whatnot, you can always make sure to get the highest points available to you, knowing who will be worth more when you hop from when you Q them etc.. It takes time to learn, make sure to check leaderboards, both in your bracket and alliances, so you can learn the players.
If you shield @ 650.. and can’t find targets, try again in 20 minutes, different people will be out, and you can easily find high point targets in your MMR range. Slow and steady gets it done.
for me, its a combination of the right slice/time/featured character and luck (who would have thought?)
if i have the featured character (most of the time, sometimes even maxed), its down to time and … luck.
i refuse to roster 5s, so my roster was 3s only until two weeks ago.
people are talking about nerfed 3s everywhere, i just dont see it.
i sometimes see well covered 4s on my climb, sometimes even underleveled 5s - i take the 5s with two covers and mostly skip maxed 4s.
dont know why i still see mixed 2/3* teams on my way to 700/800, but i wont complain.
i mostly play in slice4 and here i was able to get to 1k several times with a 3* team. i even got it with a loner ragnarok.
sometimes i find several good matches in a row, sometimes some cupcakes speed up my climb, and sometimes i just run into d3s troll wall - you know, the top10 range from 6k to 4.5k, im in t100 with about 700 points and the system refuses to match me with anyone worth more than 38 points. than i dont care about the cover and stop playing.