Why do points shrink so much in PvP?

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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I’ll start a PvP and have a few fights worth 25-50 points. Makes sense, I’m bottom rung and everyone’s higher than me. I get that.

Get a little further up, break 300…still finding a few doable 30s maybe a 40 here and there. Then I get to about 600 or 700 points and it’s all 15-20 points per match against challenging opponents and they’re almost always ranked lower than me. There are people higher up I feel I could probably have a crack at that I don’t get matched against, unless I’m maybe very lucky. So I end up slowly, slowly crawling up the leaderboard, hoping not to get hit as I go and maybe managing only a handful of fights before I’m out of health packs and I need to rest up. I might have gained 100 points by the end of it, and when I come back my rank is pretty much where it was, even if I hadn’t been attacked.

It’s weird, I had a spell recently where hitting top 25 was relatively easy. I’m not expecting to be number 1 or anything, I aim for the two-cover slot (which, IMO, should be a little lower than top 25. 150-25 is one cover? Bit weird). It just seems there’s a band of points where the amount you win is pretty low. I hear tell after a certain threshold the point values go back up again.

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If it’s any consolation the same happens to me. When I start in the last 8 hours or so I can climb first 600 very quickly with 40+ matches, then 6-800 is mostly 30-ish, then you start getting those 48s and 49s after you cross 800. Not sure exactly why but I’m sure it’s however they’re currently implementing matchmaking

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It’s the buckets, man. THE BUCKETS!

runs away laughing maniacally

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Here’s a rundown of the phenomenon. I’m using 3* players as my reference point because I’m one of them, and the precise position of “Point Purgatory” can vary a bit:

More on this here: https://forums.505go.com/discussion/14693

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I don’t know what’s wrong but since the last two PvPs I can only see people lower than me resulting in points less than 20 even going till 9 points sometimes. I need to skip several times before I can get a match worth of 18 points. I still get 9 point worth of matches while skipping. Before I would get 40 and below point matches from players a couple hundred points above me.

edit: In Colossus PvP, it seems to be back to normal.

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Basic roadmap for PVP:

0-450: A bunch of easy level 94 teams worth 35-45 points.

450-550: A mix of easy level 94 teams and high level teams, all generally around 25-30 points.

550-750: A bunch of high level, low score teams worth 15-25 points.

750 and beyond: A bunch of Xforces, Hoods and Sentries worth 40-50 points.

As far as I can tell, that’s how it is for literally everyone.

That’s how its been for me all season and a bunch of my alliance members have said the same thing.

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things are though all over man.

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Seems to be how it is for me, too. Maybe I was just lucky getting into the brackets where 700-800 was enough to score top 25.