Requesting Feedback: Post-match Inspect Option
Alright, so I'm looking for general player feedback on a suggestion/request before I take it to the Discord. What do you guys think of giving people the ability to inspect the gear of enemy arena teams after a match, not before. Fully acknowledging, it would be cheese/broken to allow inspection of teams before you fight them, not asking for that, at all.
To give a very general example of why this idea is attractive to me;
In arena, I run High Khatun (50, ascended, 175sp) lead, Seeker (50, ascended, 168sp), Warmaiden (60, ascended, 160sp), Kael (60, ascended, 157sp). All of these champs are wearing between +12 and +16 gear, all blue, all 4star or better, with a focus on (based on my forum/youtube reasearch) the correct stats (i.e. speed boots, c/cdmg for nuker, accuracy for debuffers, etc). I am currently in Bronze 1. I refresh regularly, looking for teams I think it is viable to beat.
(Oh and side note, this is my defense team too, I'm trying to climb ranks to get the Silver 1 mission done, so I am not purposefully tanking my defense at this time.)
Here's where I find myself really, really wishing I could inspect an enemy team:
I see an enemy team with 1 level 50 Kael as a defender, no other chamions on defending team. The player has the same account level as me (45). I think "okay, this should be doable!", I initiate the fight. The enemy Keal has substantially less team power than me (I know, team power is a nearly useless stat, I'm just pointing out, this single Kael doesn't have 100K team power and I'm missing that).
The fight starts! The enemy Kael visibly has more HP than anyone on my team (this is a rough estimate based on the appearance of healthbars indicating general HP totals, very unscientific my apologies). The enemy Kael goes first (okay, so 210 or higher speed, since he beats my Khatun with her 19% buff). He one shots my entire team instantly with a 30K damage acid rain (my highest HP is my Kael with 23K HP). The damage usually goes by so quickly I can't tell if it is a crit or not, but I would expect all 4 are crits, indicating a 100% or close to 100% crit rate. My Kael's acid rain crits for 20K at 135% crit damage, so ballparking here, this enemy Kael has ~170% crit damage.
The match ends, I go to my defeat page...and I have learned literally nothing from this defeat. I built my team correctly, I picked a target that should definitely have been doable, I got annihilated instantly. If I could at least inspect this Kael and see his gear, maybe I could understand how someone who has (presumably) been playing the exact same amount of time I have has a level 50 5star champion who is tougher, faster, and has better crit and crit damage than my fully geared 6star champion.
I see (a lot) of back and forth arguments about Arena on the forums, and I see a lot of people saying that research/learning/investigation are key to succeeding, and I like that, I agree with that. But at the moment, all the learning is one-sided because you can't learn anything from your defeats.
The Equipment systems in this game are quite complex (which I love, I love complexity in RPG's), so I'm desperate for any tool that helps me learn. The ability to inspect and understand the buildouts of the people in Bronze 1 who are kicking the absolute shit out of me day in and day out would be an extremely valuable tool in learning and understanding how to succeed.
Do you guys feel the same way? Is there some sort of way this could be abused that I'm not thinking of? (Again, I only want to inspect AFTER the fight is over, I don't want to be able to use it offensively).
Feedback appreciated!!!