Are you getting a quest to win a live arena? What level is your account? If you're under level 50 and not getting the daily quest, you shouldn't be in there. Unless you're spending quite a bit of money on your account to pull legends and buy chickens to get champs to 60, yeah, you're going to get your butt handed to you.

Oh I have many lol 60 legends with maxed skills and masteries and have spent a lot here. Its just the match up system that is out of balance. Though thinking about it I guess it needs to be this way cause if they tried to make closer match ups it might take 10 minutes just to find a match every match being not everyone at the same lvl ig is in live arena at the same time. 

Well two things can be true at the same time.  Matching purely on Player Power would lead to long wait times as youve mentioned but also the system does need an overhaul to help prevent super unbalanced matches. 

I still say add in a filter to the matchmaker process that puts people in tiers based on spending habits.

Let the pay to win krakens only fight each other, and you could power the servers with a windmill from thier screams. 😜

Hope they do something soon.  LA complaints #1 complaint across the board currently. 

😆 power a windmill. I get that some people spend a lot more than others. But if f2p a person should recieve no benefit ig otherthan playing for free. 

RAID has the best customer service I've ever seen in an online game, they're very active. Plus they put a lot of work into this game from design to events to champs and fixing of bugs, ect.. They deserve to be paid for their work. 

They replied to me saying "we are looking into the LIVE Arena issue". So I imagine in time they might try to fix this a bit. Though as said after thinking it over, it would take to long to match people up in LIVE arena if they change the match up system. This is only one small little issue and not really a main part of the game imo. As a new player I was just tired of getting smoked. 😆 But it is what it is.

New players definitely getting the short end of the stick in LA.  Already at a deficit by champs and gear and then the point system basically sets them up for long term failure.  I would be very curious to see how loading times would be effected with more stringent matchmaking.  Obviously theyd be longer at first but I wonder if people realized theyd be getting more fair matches that they might start playing more having an end result of manageable waits. 

They've been saying they're "looking into it" since the day it launched.

The change they made was to make live arena a required part of daily quests in an attempt to get more people to participate. Most of the members of my 5-clan cluster just stopped even attempting to complete the dailys, considering giving up 180 energy every day a fair trade to not do live arena at all.

The thing that really gets me, the part I can;t get over, is that even most of the krakens, dudes who do 100+ battles *a day*, which spend real world money on gems just to buy live arena token refills, say they don't *LIKE* live arena. They're just hypercompetitve to a point I'd (not a dr, no medical training) consider mentally ill.

I stand by my opinion that if you removed live arena from the daily quests participation would drop by *AT LEAST* 50%

Id venture daily players of it are constantly decreasing which in turn makes it even worse for those still playing.  I enjoy it to a degree, but I've got a 6 year old account so Ive got lots of champ options.  That said I still get annoyed like everyone else when I run into an AFK kraken with +4 / 6* mythicals that wins by virtue of the almighty dollar.