I also stopped trying it. Maybe in a few months i'll try again but at the current state it's not playable. Time will tell but it could end in a dead gamemode like tag arena.

From the Raid Digest:

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Firstly, LA only opens after lvl 50, so if you're going in at lvl 54 expect to find yourself out of your depth sometimes - just like any other newly unlocked content in Raid. After all, I doubt anyone was finishing off hydra the moment it unlocked. :) 

Secondly, like any other Raid content, you need to prepare. For LA, that means a minimum if having a core team of 3 or 4 champs who can work together as a team, with another couple of options according to your opponent's picks. 

Team strategy usually comes down to a first turn cleave team, or a go second tanky team. Tanky team's are often good to start with if lacking confidence - just make sure you can do damage with it!

Don't let yourself be intimidated by opponent level, any more than you should let player power do so in normal arena - and you should have experience by now of beating much higher power teams in normal arena. For the live version, some of those 80+ players are just as anxious as you, and honestly some of their champs are geared really badly - I've found a lot have quite slow champs who are wholly dependent on Arbiter's speed boost to make up for this. That means if you ban her and have a speed lead you have a chance to get good damage in first.

That's another thing, learning who to ban from the opponent's team takes experience. This is a key strategy to winning arena, and requires you to try and weigh up what might stop you winning the most - the cleanser, reviver, or healer, or a speed lead or nukers. That will change with each battle, but you'll find yourself developing a pattern according to what works and what doesn't.

You will get your ass kicked, though - that's what happens when you're not the best ever Raid player and are going against your peers. The point is to learn to kick ass with what you have. :)

However, that will take experience of play. If you don;t play, you won't get that experience.

Of course, LA isn't for everyone - some people will never enjoy it, and that's fair enough. But trying to avoid it for fear of not winning makes no sense in Raid, which has always been about trying to come up with a strategy to overcome challenging odds to win.

2c.

But won't that mean that eventually everyone will get into silver?  The main issue seems to be matching which if points were lost in Bronze would eventually work out like classic, with no points lost the whole player base will just keep progressing up so matchmaking won't improve

Hi all, TBH I can take or leave live arena, I do a couple of battles a day. I find 1. The teams are quite balanced. 2. You get someone who puts a team up just to long it out for the draw. 3. You fight a team much stronger or weaker than yourself. 1 makes it enjoyable. 2 you get no points for a draw so can't fathom the reasoning behind this tactic. 3 This is the bugbear, it's no fun beating a team with no challenge, conversly it's tedious to be matched against a much higher team. It is as it is, each win takes you nearer the leg, each loss doesn't take any points so slow and steady is the way to go.

Had a really great game this morning, my lvl 65 team vs a lvl 82 player. Took nearly 15 mins, during which time I nearly wiped them out, then they nearly wiped me out, until I finally won. Gripping stuff and really enjoyed it. :)

Which wouldn't have happened if I fled everytime I faced a player of a higher level than me. 

Honestly, try it - there's actually nothing to lose.:)

Awesome!

well, I guess I can take some comfort in knowing that nothing has changed in nearly a year. The opponents one is pitted against are still grossely over powered. There is still a major poorly balanced AI choosing system.  And no apparent care to fix the balance.. nice

So the reason why you run into people much higher level than you is that it puts people with similar points against each other.  Same with like how you will see level 100's in Bronze Tag Team and Classic Arena. Thing about them though is you aren't forced to fight them lol.

The original digest thing assumed that with the reset and the global release that people would be more active and then after a "few days", but with it being something that doesn't have a lot of participation in people's points aren't where the digest assumed it would be. IE: level 100's still in Bronze and Silver. 

There isn't a reason for them to get into Gold since all the medals are the same value when spending in the great hall. If you only have Bronze skills it and you need 100 points. Then it will cost you 100 Bronze, 100 Silver, or 100 Gold. Get the easy wins vs the lvl 50's in Bronze lol. If you don't do it for for a few days you then lose 5 points daily. Easy to get back down in points. 

Anyway this was also a necro post from like 6 months ago.