I am a CLOCK SUCKER I enjoy the satisfaction that the whale that has 10 mythicals has to wait,,,wait,,,,wait,,,,wait....Then watch them leave the match ! Up your's crappy game developers.

How do you know they're a whale with mythicals when you start clocksucking?

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It blows my mind that after all this time they still won't hire coders. 

It blows my mind that anyone who has been playing long enough to have Aleksander would actually try to use him in Live Arena and expect to win.

weird watching people totally miss teh point. 

I'm level 87, playing off and on for years now. (I have ninja too)

I just keep getting fed to max level players and then the bot is a max level who one shots me. 

😂. No one has missed your point, ever.  You only come onto the Forum to give your bi-weekly "LA Sucks and everything about it sucks, and it'd be hard for it to suck more than it already sucks." message, in either comments or with your own thread(s).

Your messages have been received and your feedback has been passed on to Plarium, multiple times, I am sure.  Maybe come back when you have constructive fixes for a Mod to pass on...not that those will get listened to either. Plarium seems to like the LA mess they have made since they keep doubling down on it versus fixing it...

Wild anyone would build him at all. 

I did, but he was the 7-day log in champ when I started, and my second lego.

My first lego was Drokgul the gaunt, and I *still* havent taken him to rank 6

That makes a bit more sense. 

Sometimes you start an account and build a champ just to prove you can get to G4-5 with that champ solo. 

Alex, Ronda, Athel, whatever ...

Gold 1 is way too crazy of a jump from Silver. Can we have a derank or tighten up the matchmaking, or even add another tier?

i'm 2800 and i get ranked vs 10K+.  The only strategy is lose a bunch to get mercy then battle people on my level.

Just wondering why I keep getting wiped out by teams with less than half my team power. why can't the team power numbers be more representative of the tesm's skill? Right now all  i get is beat to death or pay to reset the field to pick from. 

Account Level 92, about 1.5 years old.

I already reached 1320 in a previous season, so I know it is supposed to be difficult. But the current matchmaking feels significantly worse.

Around 850 season points I am repeatedly matched against level 100 endgame accounts with 20k–40k+ regular Live Arena rating and years more account progression. Losing several matches doesn't reliably improve the matchmaking anymore.

Even the bot after a losing streak can now have a very strong meta roster, so the previous fallback that at least allowed persistent players to slowly progress is no longer reliable.

I don't expect easy matches or free rewards. I expect difficult but reasonably competitive matches. Right now, playing more often can simply mean losing repeatedly against accounts I realistically cannot compete with.

Please reconsider matchmaking based almost exclusively on season progress. Account progression or another strength factor needs to be considered as well.

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The bot I lost to for the very first battle of win streak. I banned a 6* Krixia 😢

Please stop forcing us to do live arena for events. Several 10, 20, 30 live arena wins required in the Frontier Even ist just absolutely atrocious.

Is there any explanation for why a level 70 player with 3,500 points is being matched against level 100 players with 14,000 points? How is this supposed to be fair?

What the heck is this match making, please?

I constantly fight against players with seasonal rating 15-30 above mine, not to mention their overall rating being like 15k+ while mine is at 3k.

How high are the odds that I win those fights in a time you have to get 20 wins somehow for that stupid soul event?

Thats so frustrating! Think about it Plarium and change those quests.

Catching up on this thread and I think MooredRat's timer suggestion is still the single best fix on the table: if the pick timer runs out once, everything goes auto, and a second timeout should forfeit. Right now stalling is a legitimate strategy, which is honestly absurd — you can lose a match not because the other team was better, but because they ran the clock and tilted you into a rushed pick.

Two smaller things I would add: first, a short rematch cooldown would fix the win-trading pattern described above. Even a one-fight gap between rematching the same opponent would break the quit-trading loop without hurting normal players. Second, during the pick phase, showing which champions on my own roster have their AI set to manual would help a lot — I have lost games because a flex pick was still on auto from farming and I only noticed mid-fight.

Live Arena is genuinely fun when it flows. It just needs the friction removed so a match feels like a contest again.

I'm wondering if there is any concern about the accounts that are obviously repeating entry into Live Arena but their timer continuously runs out....and there is no penalty to the account holder for not being "LIVE"

In my honest opinion....if your timer runs out, at any time during a Live Arena match, then you should be defaulting the match and get a defeat.