You s2 people are funny.
I had a similar start. After 3 seed teams almost everyone had some combination of champed Medusa/G4mora/Bl4de. I have all three champed too, so I wasn’t surprised, just not thrilled about trying to slog through a whole bunch of those types of fights. After a few skips though, I was able to get dual champed 3s and some people running two baby 5s.
I don’t typically play much Versus, but wins-based rewards do draw me in. In the last season I played 1 match in SIM and 1 in the Valkyrie PvP just to get basic participation awards. I’m already up to 10 wins in the Mystique event, and i expect to go much farther time permitting.
I’m at 50 wins right now, the highest my score got to so far was around 850. I started a lot earlier than normal, partly due to having played an earlier slice in the Fri-Sun pvp, and partly due to wanting to see what it would take to hit 75 wins. My strategy now is the same as it was with the strictly win based system: rack up wins against the easiest teams I can que and stop 8-10 wins short of final prog. At under 8hrs left in the event I focus on the highest point matches and climb untilI start getting hit or the points dry up, then shield out. 75 wins is probably not doable every event for me, but the wins come a lot quicker with a single champed 5* than they did with 4*s, and hopefully this change will open up the points a bit more for me so I can stick with points. All in all this is a really good change.
Edit: 75 wins at 1109 points (highest ever I think). No point in shielding as I can climb to 900+ points tomorrow and place the same, saving 300 hp.
Better jump on it fast! Already down to 800 and falling like a rock!
~55 wins. Once I hit 900, the alliance in my slice turned their attention on me and I ended up at 812 and shielded. Now that I can reach the 15 CPs, I couldn’t care less where I end up. I know I’ll be somewhere in the t50, and that’s good enough for me. So, I’m going to wait for my healthpacks to regenerate, grab another 20 wins, and shield wherever I end up.
The only thing to remember that this is the offseason and a lot of people don’t play hard or start until later. Once the season starts it will be interesting to see what happens.
I’m pretty happy so far. I benefited greatly from the last wins-based season (started with 2 champed 4s, ended with several more). I actually didn’t even need to rely on wins to grab the 4; I had some spare time in front of the tv, so I did the 900 points in 23 matches. That being said, it was nice knowing that I had those 23 wins “banked” so that if I didn’t get the cover, I could finish the push on the bus this morning.
Am I gonna try for 1200 or 75 wins for the CP prize? Nah. But it’s nice to know that I have the option of going after a 4* cover that I might not have gotten before, especially when someone I actually care about comes up as a prize (sorry Rhulk, you were one of the 2 I mentioned above).
Did you change your climbing strategies?
Sort of. I prejoined Identity Theft whereas normally I would’ve waited until 23h59m were left on the clock. I didn’t actually get a chance to start playing until ~6 hours into my slice, but I did when I could.
Otherwise, my PVP activity is pretty much the same; I play on my phone when I have time for a quick break, and try to hit nodes that are beatable and are worth 30 points or more.
Are you starting PvP earlier than usual?
Yes; see above.
Did you decide to stop using shield?
I decided to start! Well, I’ve used shields in the past, and I don’t intend to do it for this event, but when the next season starts I’m planning to shield near the end of each event. Normally, when a PVP event was starting to wind down, I don’t really have enough points for it to be worth carrying anything over. and if I try to keep playing so I can build up more points, I lose them just as fast.
So far, under the current system, the equilibrium (where I stop being able to gain points as fast as I lose them) seems much higher (though see above – I’m also joining earlier, which is a potential confounder, although I will say that I used to join early and stopped mainly because it didn’t seem to be making a difference in final point totals).
How are you going to achieve 40 or 75 wins?
I might not! So far, I’ve unlocked most of my progression rewards by just earning the right number of points for it, though typically only 1-2 battles away from unlocking via the wins target. I currently have about 28 wins in Identity Theft, and I’m oscillating between 700 and 800 points. There is still about a day left, so if I concentrate on PVP for a bit some time in the next day, I’ll probably either get enough points or enough wins to grab that Rulk cover. Either way, it’ll be the second time ever that I anticipate earning a 4* cover from PVP.
What are the highest reward level you going to achieve?
I very much want to earn that Red Hulk cover, as mine was 5/0/1 for a very long time and recently is 5/1/3 after some lucky pulls and a PVE progression reward.
900pts, 25 wins. Never go beyond 900, win based wont change that.
Probably done with event, put up a shield out of habit.
Very good boost week for me with 4 champed 4-stars (Blade, Medusa, Shuri and Gamora). I joined this PvP as soon as it started. I planned to grind the 4-star-reward with 40 victories because I thought it would take very long against other Gamora/Blade and Medusa teams. But with more than 24 hours left I reached 913 points after only 32 wins. That’s it for me. I will never reach 1200 points with my roster and 75 wins is just insane. So I am still undecided if this hybrid system will be much better for me. Perhaps if I haven’t any 4-star-champions I will profit.
I got to 40 wins last night with 716 points. Now I’m down to 331.
25 wins, 912 points and I’m out.
75 wins, shielded at 797
On the one hand, I feel like I deserve a better score for that much work. On the other hand, it was way less stressful not caring about the retals. I got hit a million times and couldn’t possibly care any less. Good for them. Good for me. It might get old event after event, but so far I’m happy.
Experience so far: I did what I did under the previous win-test, and joined right away. (As opposed to usual, where I join in the last few hours, climb to 575 pts and call it a day.)
I didn’t even try for points this time, just tried to maximise my wins to get the green RHulk. I got there surprisingly quickly. Got 9 seed teams to start with, which was nice. Beat the seeds with a retal-bait team. From there, I climbed on 3* retals up to 26 wins, trying to respond with 3* teams as well so those could actually hit me back again if they wanted to, for more 3* retals. After that, I whipped out my 4*s for the last climb to 40. Yay variety! When I reached 40, I ended up at 600-something points.
I like it a lot. I love having the choice-- if I don’t have the time or the 4* on offer doesn’t interest me, then I can just stick to the 575 cp. Or I can get myself that 4* through wins. Works for me!
This has gone very differently for me than the last run of Win Based PVP. In those tests it was horribly painful to grind up to the 40 win level. And yet here I just hit 75 wins and it felt pretty easy. And there is still more than 24 hours to go in the event.
It looks like the last test was run in October, which was before I had any good 5s. This time I broke through MMR pretty early and had lots of 4 teams in my queue. Thor/Gambit versus level 400 4* matches go really fast. I was even happy to take on 4 point matches versus level 250 teams just to get the win.
There’s no way I would have made it to 75 if I had to fight my normal level 450+ 5* opponents the whole way. But if the MMR stays this way I feel like I could have a chance at the 15 CP in each event.
I’m interested to look at the scores tomorrow to see if there is any reason to try to climb and shield for placement rewards, or if I’ll just be happy to have the extra CP and hang onto the HP.
really wanted that green cover for my 5/4/2 Rhulk, especially with his clash coming up next - got it in 23 wins, using blade and medusa
28 wins, 1200 points, and probably done with the event because off-season is a nice break.
I pretty much climbed as I normally would, with the exception of being annoyed that I got 10 seed teams, where that would normally have been a good thing.
I did get to hit a 3*/4* team or two once I broke MMR, with no guilt, so that was nice.
Queues seemed fairly cluttered with people floating, but that’s common for off-season, so it’ll be interesting to see if it’s the same once the season starts.
1241, 22 wins.
Thank god it’s either/or.
I think I’d kill myself if I had to grind out another 53 wins.
28 wins and hovering around 400-500 points. Definitely helpful for someone like me who has a shallow pool of 4* champs.