Live Arena will never be fair, as eveything is predicated on RNG: you have no control over what champs the summon portal gives you, how gear substats are rolled, what type or quality of gear is droppped from dungeons and clan bosses or which relics appear from crafting. Even the forge is a hive of RNG.

Zero skill involved.

It's best to stay away from LA if you know you don't have the gear to compete. As a f2p, I only do it for the advanced quests (gotta get that one miserly leggo book per month lol), but even this feels likes a massive chore.

After a 3 loss streak this was my 'gimme fight' against the bot. This level of opposition is normal now, geared with relics and full mercurial or stone skin, like this team was. Obviously I lost this, the sympathy fight, AFTER already losing is just sad to see and makes me want to skip advanced quests all together.

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What are you using for champs?  I can comfortably get to 1320 every season on my F2P, with mostly free champs. 

I find it interesting the comments on advanced quests.  I have Quintus, I'm chugging for Marius, I'm only at 4k+ pts.  I personally do not like LA, so I only do 1 fight per night unless something is up on Marius quest.  Once I have horsey, I will go back to one a night.  With your pts of 13k+, I'd suspect that's partly why you're seeing mercy fights like that.  I get winnable mercy fights and several winnable fights after that by tanking the final three matches each night after getting to 5 wins to set the next night up.  My acct's not anywhere near yours, and I do honestly believe that the matchmaking differs based on your overall pts.  It's been part of why I don't spend much time in LA.

I see there's still a misconception of how matchmaking works. It's got nothing to with points, simply who is available at the time, in your current tier.

Player power also nothing to do with it. That simply shows how strong your army/roster of champs is by totaling up their power - which you can see while gearing champs. You can test this by removing gear and watching not only your champ's power drop but also the number under your name in the bastion (top left).

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I'm in gold 4 in LA. I fight against platinum dropouts and those that aren't yet strong enough to get into platinum, so my competition is already strong. However, the bot battles were winnable once. Lately, not so much; now they are impossible.

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The 13K is just how many win points I've accumulated over the 2 years I've playing, you get more the higher tier you're in. It's not an indication of how strong you are or your arena team is.

The only reason I engage with this horse ca-ca is because of the free energy - which I only go for during fusions - and the advanced quests that eventually lead to a leggo book. These are a must-do for us F2Ps.

You have a couple of misconceptions yourself:

1. During a LA Season, your LA Season Points are the main driver of match-making. There are many who believe there are additional components to the match-making (such as win-rate recency; a match-making algorithm that pushes toward 50/50...), but the only known factor is LA Season Pts.
2. There is no Platinum Tier for Live Arena. Just G4, which spans from 4800 points all the way up to Crypto (341,785 right now), and you can match all the way up to the top, which has happened to me more than once.  

Been a minute since I've been paired with him.  Surely im overdue.