I think that when you spend, the size of the packs increases. So a whale will probably have bought the exact same pack string at 4x the price and gotten 88 voids.

I think this is how it works?

This is how it works, yes

Whales got the "big shard pack" which is 78 voids for $235ish.

In addition they got two wildcard packs, one was 16 shards for $50 which you can get 2 of, and one was 35 shards for $100 which you could get 3 of.

so if you wanted to drop $635 you could've gotten 180voids... not even enough to push you into mercy.  but when you're spending that much, they keep throwing other random misc offers at you as well.

btw i definitely did not do that, but a content creator named smileyTK posts all the packs and prices.

and that is why most of us will never compete in top arena :)

smileyTK discord is also where every offer and price progression paths are published, very nice content 👍 

I am not in tune with the tricks in this game but why does someone need so many shards? I hear that they are for things like fusions but why need so many?  When I get the green ones I go thru them 10 at a time and it costs to get rid of them, so what purpose are they?  Maybe after opening 100 or so green ones I get a 3 star champ but what else are they good for?