Just an observation, but it is getting harder and harder to tell the cheaters from the whales.
For instance I happened to look at the rouster of one of the people that keeps on leepfrogging me in the Earths Mightest, and he has 2 fully covered and leveled Furies. As well as a number of duplicate fully leveled 3 stars.
I doubt he could have saved up the iso and HP to do this without either spending boatloads of cash, or cheating.
I initally though he had cheeted because I looked at some one eles rouster thinking it was him.
I know your post was rhetorical, but from what I’ve seen in other threads cheaters tend to have characters with levels that are impossible, like a 2* that is level 8, or a 3* that is level 18, or something like that. Or at least the obvious cheaters do.
At this point 2 fully leveled Furies is definitely possible, since anyone who got out ahead way early would be able to consistently smash events and win top covers. A boatload of cash wouldn’t hurt, either.
Two fully covered, fully leveled 4*s wouldn’t be too expensive considering what some spend on the game. If I had been more selective in my hp spending i could have done it. The iso is the real barrier, but not too difficult to overcome with a few weeks of LRs and high placements in events.
Having those levels does not necessarily mean the person’s cheating. Before the level shift those were the levels you started your 2* and 3**s with (I believe it was 8 for 2* and 15 for 3*). So someone who stopped playing before the level shift and just recently came back will have characters in that range for a while. I think for me it was 1 or 2 updates before the system caught on and bumped all of them up correctly.
It was actually super annoying. When I tried to level them, they were either displayed as 0/0 iso and the level up button didn’t work. Or they were displayed as -XX/0, but still detracted from my iso. However the negative value ramped very fast, and started costing like 1-2000 iso to go from level 20 to 21. The only way around it was to click the max out button, but that wasn’t realistic for the ones I had a bunch of covers for.