Yeah, this is silly. You lost Tazer. You lost cause you're still blindly running a Maulie team into other speed nuke teams, who have chosen, instead of being faster, to ignore their opponents Speed stat. I myself use Stoneskin on a speed team. Then I run it against other speed teams and win just about One Hundo Percent.
I have plenty of gear and could run anything. I am a Gold 3/4 Tag Player and Plat player. I've got no issues winning. But I do like easy wins, and have lots of Stoneskin to go around, enough to build out the additional speed/nuke team I sometimes sub into my three regular teams. And frankly, if people want to run a Maulie or Hege team, and don't want to adjust, I'll continue to hold my W and they can continue to hold their L.
You change with the meta, or eventually you're just bad.
One of the things you will learn as you continue to progress is that the winning strategy is never to run speed versus speed, nor big slow versus big slow, etc... You match opposing strategies against your opponents, and then things like the speed stat doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the Speed Lead is faster than yours cause you can tank several nukes no problem... or it doesn't matter the Res stat cause you've got Inc Acc and Bombs.... or etc...
To qoute Angwil here:
They should put off success until they have a team worthy of your admiration? They should not try to use what they have, until they have something up to your standards?
If you lost to a team, they are better than the team you brought. The Offensive player has EVERY advantage, including seeing EXACTLY the champs you are fighting, and stats that SHOULD tell you about their strategy. The fact you can fight them again, that's a gift you are given. Maybe Raid does it to encourage you to waste your gems on Ego checks. I don't even think you should be able to rematch a team you lost to unless you pull them on a future page. It should show up as an L, and lock the fight. Cause you lost versus a freaking A.I. copy of someone's team.
Just because their team isn't one you "respect"? That's silly. You lost. It's better than your team. You need to start respecting teams you lose to, or you will eventually lose always. No one is obligated to build teams according to your opinion of what a team should be. And implying they are bad for beating you? Wowzers.
You're better than this argument, I know it. <3