In current MMR conditions a player with a couple of brand new 5* champs at 450 and only half the 4* tier champed at 270 will match with a vet with all 5* champs ranging 450-470 and all 4* tier 320-370.
Keep in mind that MMR does not take into account boost levels, only base levels, so not only will a large portion of the required 4s have the potential to be outgunned by 200-300 levels by older rosters with similar MMR, but their few 5s are also likely to be outgunned by 120-150 levels by older rosters with 5* characters on the boost list each week. And around 900 pts is when MMR breaks and everybody is fair game to the 550s.
So those smaller rosters who are actually playing PVP for more than just the daily milestone reward or smaller progression rewards, and especially those trying to earn event placement or season rewards, end up being matched up with larger rosters quite frequently.
Something like 5% of all players have a character lvl450 or above, so yes, I’d expect the top 5% of all players to be matched up with each other. Players with a couple champion 5* are not “small rosters.”
It’s based on where the cycle was the last time the character was featured as Latest.
For example (removing bosses and extra 5’s run for release events), the pattern had First Avenger Cap, Peter Parker Spidey, Knull, Ronan, Scarlet Witch, Green Goblin, and Havok, just last month.
That was Wanda’s last turn as a Latest 5, so next time around she would appear as a Classic 5 between Peter Parker Spidey and Green Goblin.
EXCEPT
We’re about to finish the 5th cycle since 5-star Essential nodes were introduced, and while this was true for patterns 2-4 (each time new characters were added to a pre-existing list, which obviously didn’t happen the 1st Cycle since it was writing the list for the first time), the 5th Cycle changed the order for a lot of them seemingly at random. So if that happens again, we’ll have no idea what the pattern will be.
@Bad: Yes, I agree with much of what you say. Although, on your point about there already being 4* PVP, whilst correct, this only seems to happen when it coincides with TV/film releases or with things like pride month and black history month. Certainly some characters won’t get covered by this and it would be nice if it was a little more regular.
@Theghouse: Sure, there will be people with rosters like that. But if they’re just focusing on getting a few characters to a very high level, won’t they be focusing on the meta ones? In which case, will 4* PVP using the loaner really be a problem? How do people with limited rosters feel about the 4* PVPs we already have? Have there been a lot of complaints about this? I have my doubts that this would really put many people off (but happy to be corrected). Certainly not as much as boosted 5*. But if it does, does it really matter? With players having very different play styles, not every event will please every player.
You’re 100% right, definitely Beast (Classic) not (AoA). Fixed in the 8/16 update, sorry! As for the boosted list, it matches with what we got on file so no typos there, just some slight changes in the buff list :).
We just had Webbed Wonders the first week of this month. So, it looks more like a copy and paste error. However, I noticed that BFF is giving Howard the Duck as placement rewards. Currently, we are at 4* characters whose names begin with ‘S’ for rewards. Is this a first for non-anniversary week? Maybe Webbed Wonders is the first pve testbed to roll out some tweaks or changes?
Thanks for bringing back Best Friends Forever. It feels like a long time since I last played them. BFF = Pick-2 PvP.
Evergreen is another pvp I’m looking to play again. The dev can extend this concept to other colours like Passionate Red, Black Despair, Hopeful Yellow etc.
If you think BFF won’t be 5Witch/Colossus, you might be fooling yourself lol. I also liked that event but it’s literally taking the middle man out of pick-2
BFF will definitely centre around 5Witch/Colossus/Apocalypse. Ghostpool can actually be fun in BFF, especially against Colossus. I remember Ghostpool one-shot my Colossus.
Anyone figured out why Howard the Duck is the placement rewards in pvp? If it’s a copy and paste error, it’s quite out of the blue.
I thought limited characters’ pvps happen during Anniversary.
8/22 - 8/27 Webbed Wonder NEW - This is Howard the Duck’s pve.
8/22 - 8/25 Best Friends Forever NEW Placement Rewards: Mister Sinister Shards, Howard the Duck, Black Widow (Grey Suit), Daken (Dark Avengers)
Out of curiosity, I went to see when Howard events was run in the last 3 years, and the months I saw were
January, March/April (April Fool’s) and September/October (Anniversary).
I guess it’s to make up for missing out on him this year. At least, players who missed out on him can get him again before Anniversary.
4-Star Teaser: The OTHER Stark tech marvel… hmm to early to tell on this one, only one i can think of is from contest of champions was Superior Iron Man perhaps?
“After the death of Howard Stark in 1991 at the hands of HYDRA,[5] the company was inherited by his son Tony Stark, with the help of Obadiah Stane, although Stane was appointed interim CEO immediately after Howard’s death before his son could officially assume the position of CEO.”
I guess Iron Monger. The word ‘OTHER’ in the clue is the only word fully capitalised. It could be an acronym or it’s signifying other thing. I think some hardcore Ironman fans would know what the clue refers to.
