I'll even tell you my starter team just because your opinions annoy me so much.

I used UDK, Valerie, Sister and Sorceress.    I hadn't yet figured out that defensive toons damage comes from DEF so my UDK did very little damage.   I was equipping him with attack stuff.    I made sorceress tanky and basically only used her to debuff because she was on the fragile side.  Valerie and UDK sheilded and healed.   Valerie cleared debuffs and sister did almost all of the damage.   With that I could bring down teams of starters and bad UDKs.   I didn't start beating decent UDKs before I realized how he needed to be equipped.  Valerie was the first rare I skilled.

I tried using warmaiden but decided she was too fragile and would take too much work to make viable.   I wanted to beat the enemies in front of me today, not in 2 weeks. 

You need a champion with HP Burn to beat Ultiate Deathknight ! It is still not easy my regular champions PLUS either Mordecai OR Archbishop Pinthroy he can be beaten!

You need a champion with HP Burn to beat Ultiate Deathknight ! It is still not easy my regular champions PLUS either Mordecai OR Archbishop Pinthroy he can be beaten!

How much is someone supposed to hamstring themselves to show that UDK versus UDK fights don't last until you hit Quit Match? I think my post clearly shows that winning until you reach Gold is not impossible. All it took was ranking up TWO champs to 6 stars (not even to 60), that the two the game gave me in the first week. I didn't even bother gear farming.

The absolute majority of people complaining do have UDK, since their argument is that UDK versus UDK is a stallout fest. I see it in their screenshots, they are clearly using UDK and have to quit out of fights.

Real talk, when I'm trying to see if arena is just endless UDK versus UDK "quitout fights", who am I allowed to use if not the champs the game handed everyone? No free login champs? So no UDK or High Khatun? Only campaign farmables? No Starters? Only Uncommons? Considering I started and used the champs given to a brand new account at the time, and 60'd only champions everyone else had, what is the problem? 

The screens clearly show I went a combined 134-3 until I made Gold 1. That doesn't seem like I had to quit out a ton of fights.

No HP burn, udk was in 6 piece stone skin.

6 second fight.

UDK is free wins as 90% of the time he is a wasted spot in arena comps.

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I'm sure your team can beat the teams of other players that have as less experience in the game as you have in lower tier arena. In early arena, account level is taken into the matchmaking. Your opponents don't have a plan how arena works. They are as new in the game as you are. Don't think your victories over them show anything. As Ronda Rousey joined the game recently, I will take her for comparison: a twelve year old schoolgirl may beat up a same aged class mate. That does not help if she would have to fight Ronda Rousey. Neither makes beating up a same aged class mate her a good fighter, nore would the tactics she used in that fight work vs. Ronda. And definetly the 12 year old girl should not try to teach Ronda how to fight.

A well built team of High Khatun, Warmaiden, Starter + free champ nukes your team just away before you can act. UDK could survive, but he has a difficult position 1 vs. 4.

You have no champ in your team that pushes speed. You have no strategy of surviving the first hit of an enemy team, exept of hoping your opponent did not build his champions well and therefore just does not enough damage to kill your champs. UDK protects only vs. single target attacks.

Your debuffer, Sorceress, is a bad champ. Only a (booked) 40% chance to land the debuff, only 3 hits at random. Exchanging her with Warmaiden (campaign farmable rare, drops in campaign stage 9) would immediately upgrade your team. Not because I say so, but because of the objective reason that Warmaiden attacks all enemies and has a (booked) 100% chance to land the decrease def debuff. 100% chance to land the debuff on all enemies vs. 40% chance to land the debuff on 3 random enemies.

That's just one point. As somebody who thinks people should make their own experience, you will learn why your arena team is not good early enough.

I'll even tell you my starter team just because your opinions annoy me so much.

I used UDK, Valerie, Sister and Sorceress.    I hadn't yet figured out that defensive toons damage comes from DEF so my UDK did very little damage.   I was equipping him with attack stuff.    I made sorceress tanky and basically only used her to debuff because she was on the fragile side.  Valerie and UDK sheilded and healed.   Valerie cleared debuffs and sister did almost all of the damage.   With that I could bring down teams of starters and bad UDKs.   I didn't start beating decent UDKs before I realized how he needed to be equipped.  Valerie was the first rare I skilled.

I tried using warmaiden but decided she was too fragile and would take too much work to make viable.   I wanted to beat the enemies in front of me today, not in 2 weeks. 

So, I would never suggest anyone use multiple starters champions up, and most experienced players wouldn't either. It's just redundant because more or less all the starters serve to do the same thing: be a reasonable dungeon nuker/wave clearer/arena nuker, farm 12-3 brutal ASAP and function as a strong early Clan Boss DPS. Kael brings poisons and Athel brings weaken, which makes both of them quite viable in Clan Boss.

In terms of overall coverage of content, there isn't a single rare that functions better than the starters (especially Kael/Athel/Elhain.) That's what we're looking for early, taking our first champion to 60 that's going to allow us to bring up more champs to 60 in a timely fashion. 

In this instance, there is a very good reason why almost every single player is told to take their starter to 60 before any other champion: it's the best option because it offers the fastest progression while also being incredibly easy to invest in due to being a rare.

That UDK team is not built properly though.

That is not true. There are some, such as Reliquary Tender, Coldheart, Apothecary, Bellower to name a few, which are useful long after all the starters are gathering dust in the vault.

The whole point of destroy set vs. UDK is, that his healing from continous heal and Regeneration set is based on his max hp and gets reduced while the set reduces his max hp. UDK with 100k life heals for 30k (15% of max hp from set, 15% from heal buff). UDK with hp reduced to 40k heals 12k per turn if the heal buff is active and only 6k per turn from his Regeneration set alone. The numbers are of course only to show the principle, I don't assume that UDK in Bronze Arena starts with 100k hp.

If you are able to deal more damage per turn than he heals, you can move his hp bar down. So Destroy is good enough to beat him. 

Heal reduction of course works as well. It's just another method. It's good to have deifferent methods of defeating UDK, so people who don't have a champ with heal reduction can still win if they put a damage dealer in destroy set.

UDKs passive heals him when your team heals, that is one of the reasons he is so hard to kill if the enemy team is built tanky.

Destroy sets work, but your team will probably be wrecked long before you can get his hp low enough.

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Your experience is not what the vast majority of players are having.

Here is an example from 30 seconds ago, but in 3v3 silver 4. The enemy team was UDK, Rotos, Rector Drath and Vogoth. UDK was slow, tanky and in full stoneskin, meaning you could not do anything to the team until UDK had dropped his stoneskin, and while you are waiting for that the enemy Rotos (in this case a +2 Rotos) was hammering on your team.  The particular team I was running was Siphi, Leo, my own Rotos and Gorgorab (he is the speed lead on that particular team in 3v3). I eventually managed to get the enemy UDK down by hammering on their Rotos (he was the squishest on the enemy team and consequently that did the most damage to UDK), but by the time that happened I was down to my Rotos. UDK was put down permanently with Rotos's bock revive skill, so he was gone at that point. He is built with high defense in regen gear, and relies on being spun up to work. He was built this way to solo bosses, but it does make him tough to kill in pvp if he stays alive long enough. He almost got the enemy Rotos down, he was one A3 away from that, but he got killed just before. If he had taken Rotos down I would have won. The whole thing took something like 20 minutes.

I have had fights against teams like that which have gone on for much longer, or rather would have except that I usually quit out because I simply don't have time for that nonsense. The strategy of these people is to win by wasting your time, because, unlike them, you are actually at your computer so a 2 hour draw is not going to work. There are a LOT of teams like that in 3v3, not all use UDK though. That is why 3v3 is like having your fingernails pulled out.

Now, I know you can use something like heal reduction or block passive skills (using Ronda), but those wont land while stoneskin is up, and by the time it is down the champs that cast those would be dead.

This is basically the problem with UDK, he can be built around other tanks/ buffers that reduce team damage, along with a single target nuker and you easily have a team that is VERY hard to kill without having your own super tanky (and consequently low damage) team.

This is a problem at all levels, but particularly at low to mid levels. UDK is disproportionately overpowered as a tank with very limited methods of working around that. That may be fine in pve, but it makes for long fights at best in pvp. Remember, once you get to silver 3 or 4 in arena you will be facing 7 to 10 UDK teams with level 60 UDKs in them, and those teams without one will usually by much higher player power with at least one of the conventional OP champs in them.

To put it bluntly even.... why are fighting UDK/Rotos with a Rotos? Of COURSE that is gonna take a long time. Bring in an AoE DPS and get done quicker.

UDKs passive heals him when your team heals, that is one of the reasons he is so hard to kill if the enemy team is built tanky.

Destroy sets work, but your team will probably be wrecked long before you can get his hp low enough.

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Taking any of those up before your starter ranges from a subpar choice to horrible and will just serve to slow your progression. We need a dedicated DPS to farm campaign/dungeons (especially dragon)/Clan Boss efficiently. 

Also please take care in formatting your posts without 9000 empty lines, thank you. 

Have you tried Ronda against UDK yet? Her A2 blocks passives.

Those empty lines are probably from the stuff you are posting in the quotes. Stop posting random screenshots maybe?

Just as a side note, the editor on this page, at least on my tablet, is really buggy.