A certain Arena Champ is OP.
I waffled on whether or not to make this post. From my research, Plarium has known that a certain champ is OP all to heck. I have seen threads dating to at LEAST 2019 on this forum about how the champ cannot be beat. This is going to be a long post, because when I am 'in my cups' I like to make sure I get my point across, so buckle in.
Now, this is NOT going to be a "whiney" post. I will take the time to screenshot my Champs (at the very least the stat and armor screen, if not each and every armor piece). I really do like this game, to an extent. The feeling of Progress I have felt until this point has been quite enjoyable.
I have, so far, spent $20 on this game. Luckily, this was money via Google Rewards, where I do surveys for credit. Unluckily, that credit has all but been wasted in this game. I regret making those purchases, because now I want to re-roll my entire account, as one often does in games of this type. But I am feeling the "Sunk Cost" logical fallacy at this moment.
I am currently stuck on the Progress Mission "Reach Arena Silver 1". A few steps after that, is the mission "Earn ___ Silver or Gold Medals". I am currently Bronze 4 cannot progress past that level, nor will I *ever* finish the Medal one. Why? Because almost every single Arena team opponent has this OP champ in their team, sometimes even TWO of him.
And of whom do I speak? Well, Kael of course. This guy is the defenition of OP. When you look at the end screen and see the damage, he is literally dealing an entire teams worth of HP in ONE turn. Had I known how OP this dude would have been, and how utterly stuck I would get, I would have chosen him instead of the archer Elhain.
Now, as I alluded to earlier, I have done research on how to beat teams like these. Speed? Well that drops my Elhain to 15k power. Sure she gets a good hit in, but she is not powerful enough with the Speed artifacts to damage Kael in one turn like he does. I have spent well over 100M (Yes, that is One Hundred Million) silver over the past month to try to figure out the best way to deal with this champ. Most of the time, (if I can find a team that does not have that champ), I can win.
It would seem all of my luck was spent getting those three Legendary champs I have. And yes, I am a 'noob' when it comes to this, and I may not be min-maxing as well as I could be, but come on. When almost each and every team has this one Champ....I see dozens of champs I have never encountered before on these teams, yet 95% of teams have a Kael. That is how you *know* a champ is OP.
The only way I personally can see me progressing past Bronze 4 into Silver is by purposfully dropping down ranks every day to Bronze 1, and grinding out the Bronze medals to get all of my Great Hall stats to level three on each Type. And even *then* I doubt I can beat those Kael teams. *Maybe* my next monthly orange shard will summon me some OP counter, but I doubt it. I do not even think upgrading all of my current champs to 6 star Acsended will even help. Maybe if I grind for the next year I could upgrade all of them to such a state with fully leveled up Skills, but I dont know if I want to have that kind of commitment towards a game when every day will just be "Dailies and Autobattles" grinds.
Now, I said this would not be a whiny post, and I will hold true to that ideal with the following questions:
1. From what you guys can see from the screenshots I provide, is there any suggestions about team comp or armor sets that I could change to help?
2. Is it bannable to purposfully drop down ranks to grind Medals?
3. Which of the Champs in my Vault do you think would be a good replacement for someone in my current lineup? (I am currently trying to level up as many 3 stars as possible for fodder towards 4 and 5 stars.)
4. Should I eat the $20 I spent, delete the account and Reroll to chose Kael?
5. Should I edit this post and provide screenshots of each of my champions Artifact rolls?
6. Is it worthwhile to write down the names of Players I *can* beat, and just refresh until i find them?
Now, I am NOT looking for comments like "Kael is not op git gud" or "u just suk". OP has always been a subjective term, but when 95% of all arena teams have a certain Champ, that means it is the best option. All I need/want is tips on how I *can* beat Kael and all of the teams that feature him.
And now I am off to do my IRL dailies. Will check on this post throughout the day to see what kind of tips you guys can give me.
Raid: Shadow Legends. Kael is OP af. - Imgur