Unfair matchmaking

[dc1a0]

If that’s how you feel, do your quests to make sure you earn gold. Get orbs to improve your deck(s). Look at the wiki, there’s even an offer for 5 free Mythron orbs. That gave me a pretty good boost.

If you feel it’s your deck that’s lacking and not your skills, play gauntlet, their deck choices will be just as random as yours then. I myself suck at gauntlet, so I’m pretty sure it’s something I’m not doing right and not getting. However, I’ve saved and acquired cards. and I can play with decks that are still pumping out cards I’ve never seen before. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Complaining won’t get you anywhere though, not in Duelyst, and certainly not in the real world.

[halcyon98]

Duelyst is quite skill intensive. A budget deck can get you to the top with proper declbuilding and piloting. If you ask for help we’d be more than happy to give it.

[boronian]

Duelyst is not an easy game but we help you with all you need to have success.

First of all I recommend getting a good budget deck for your favorite faction.

Then read the positioning guides.

Both of them you can find here: https://duelyst.gamepedia.com/New_Player_Guides (it also shows you how to get some free orbs)

Then if you want more help, just add me as a friend ingame and I will do a video replay analysis for you to help you with positioning.

Believe me positioning is way more important than deck strength especially in Silver because everybody is misplaying. To quote ImprobableBlob: “The trick is to do less misplays than your opponent.” True words

[boronian]

Found this old but still good video:
http://9moons.gg/4-mistakes-new-duelyst-players-make/

[pavedsurface]

I think you guys are right. I should see some guides and do my best in the game. Sorry about all the drama.

[alplod]

But in reality I was recently matched by S-6 being silver 12. It seems we have less players than ever.

[phoinexflame]

This is true. We don’t know exactly how many players are left of course, but considering that in the past silver players were not matched with s-1 and queues in diamond never took over 5 minutes we can conclude that there are much less players left

[boronian]

the past silver players were not matched with s-1

At least that happened in the past too.
Can’t talk about the diamond queues though because I never had times like that. Numbers in higher divisions are not growing though I think.

[phoinexflame]

I was not aware that in the past silver players were matched against s-1.
But I can confirm for sure that queue times in the upper ladder are much longer then they used to be.

[eurasianjay]

I’ve matched against Scientist when he was S1 and I was still in gold.

And this was back in 2016

That “this didn’t used to happen” is rubbish.

[phoinexflame]

I recall hearing of you and other players in gold fighting s-1 in the past, what I don’t recall is any silver players claiming to have the same happen to them.

[eurasianjay]

I’m not quite sure what the fixation on first seed is given that S rankers have absolutely queued into silver ranked players multiple times over, especially when S rank population is fairly sparse this time of the month.

[zabiool]

I have played vs S as silver.

[phoinexflame]

Recently or in the past (1 year+ ago)?

[boronian]

I often saw posts about being in silver and playing against s-rank.

[zabiool]

Within the pat year. (maybe year +2 months)

[buyingcoats]

Its worse around the first week of the season

:eyes:

[boronian]

Thanks for giving me another name for the ribbon watch

[excogitator]

I used to be in S8 and I still lost to gold players all the time.