Experience. By playing arena, you learn which teams to hit, which teams to avoid, and how Team Power plays a role in those choices.
And this is different for all of us, cause we all have different teams. Sometimes those teams are HUGELY different in strategy and champs, sometimes they are similar, with the same champs, masteries but only differences in gear. What this means is that each of us needs experience with opponent selection and team composition, and the only thing that truly teaches you this is fighting in arena.
Even if you and I are fighting with the same High Khatun into Seeker into Dhukk into Kael team, if my High Khatun is 320 and yours is 305, it vastly changes the types of teams we should be fighting.
Thank you. You made my point for me.
Experience...the one thing new players do not have and the frustration of arena for a new player is not to be understated. Yet the mods, devs and community managers do just that.
"Get better" is never the right answer for a gaming company to give its clients. Yet, more often than not, that
is the answer we receive. Plarium needs to "Get better", not the new players. Expecting people who are just starting to be able to figure out the convoluted system is ludicrous.
This is exactly why I uninstalled the game. Plarium either doesn't listen or doesn't care if they drive people away.
<edit> And the seasoned players who think, "I did it, you should be able to as well"...Some of us work 5 days a week 12 hours a day. While I might be an exception; I do study games I play. I'm not making these statements for me, it is my overall distaste for the way the community is expected to "figure it out".