Whaywar1-you mean you don’t know about the pre-match opponent preview button?
Same happened to me… I had a lineup tht was dominating, but suddenly it just lost. I took out all the arks and made a completely new lineup, and now I’m winning with 4-6 arks left.
Haha really I think the preview button has been implemented!! But scorpionix has made a huge difference!! It’s all the same arks just coming in at different times makes big impact!! I have t PvP today cuz I have been trying to find a solution to my struggles!!
What preview button? Where is it???
Has anyone else noticed that every single person in master league uses shadow stalker, mossgolem, Triphoon, vegitiger, scorpionix ect. (Other OMs) the game needs more leagues soon because of this (and I know they’re coming soon). I’m sure everyone who advances to masters is like WTF as they face every godly line up using the same godly OMs. Even though I’m using an insane line up (thanks tib)… It just feels weird seeing every line up the same… or maybe master league is just filled with the same 5 players constantly PVPing lol…
That also means the old guys keep staying in the league, but eventually majority of new guys will stop attempting and quit. In this case, if the update doesn’t change this situation, this game dies
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Same to me. I use to start with Metalo and Gear now I have to change as it’s too dangerous.
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I think a lot of pp are still pvp in master as I do see lots of diff names when I checked on game centre. I do run into same opponent a lot though, i.e. bvs72 
It happens to me all the time it kinda makes me mad as the pick off one by one , but hey I can’t complain I’ve been the one getting a lot of BAs too so it’s usually every other one 
Oh well, I just battled with a Japanese player just now… I had like 30 BAs from the beginning of the match… He is having top arks, destructor, moss, ss, scorpinix, vege…etc. but I finished him having like 10 arks left behind… Man, I can feel his pain and frustration… And the luck thing is really gonna piss somebody off 
I play in masters without shadowstalkwr and moss! And it’s extremely repetitive and very difficult for me every match!! But those matches without someone with Shadowstalker are always a nice change! Haha
Barricadus now a liability… That metal slash is killer, can’t wait until octoneer comes out.
I don’t know if the problem is that the teams are very close in abilities but it seems that the winner of most of my matches are decided by multiple bonus actions. When a stego, kami, destructor or even a gremknight gets more than one BA, the opponent can get devastated… I feel guilty when I am the recipient and pissed when the opponent gets them. It does give the underdog a chance but it sure can be frustrating. I look forward to the update. It seems that multiple bonus actions are coming more frequently now. Even the poor chopperbug becomes a formidable enemy with 3 or 4 timestrikes in a row.
Also, even though I have a kami, I think the shadowstalker is currently the best ark in the game. Players without it are at a big disadvantage.
I agree that a Barry can now be a liability. I am currently metal free except for scorpionix, but I sure would like a minespider.
I agree Bonus actions have always been a problem, it makes the game too luck based.
An element of luck (or rather uncertainty) can definitely be a good thing in a game, If you take the Pokemon games as an example of this type of game then there are many things within a Pokemon battle that are luck based, i.e. confusion, chance to miss moves etc. However they all seem pretty well balanced, which isn’t the case in Hunter Island.
Nerfing the bonus actions in the next update is going go a long way towards balancing things out though, and I’m hoping with the more arkadians that come out we might start seeing different lineups and strategies a lot more common. As of right now most of the top players all use the same arks, sometimes in a different order but generally we’re seeing variations of the same team.
One thing I’d love to see (although I don’t think we will) is a better ability to re-order our team within a battle. To maybe either choose the next arkadian to come into the battle, or more moves that allow us to re-order a team. As of right now we have Pegasion’s send back, and the call moves but they’re generally not all that useful (with the exception of Chillqueen’s call holy if you have a Shadowstalker in a team that’s been scrambled). I think a better ability to reorganise our team would result in a battles being a lot more skill based, rather than hoping you’re not playing an opponent who’s arkadians are (luckily) in an order that is effective against yours (i.e. thy have a water arkadian come out as soon as you have a fire come outetc.). More control over this could only be a good thing .
It would be nice to reorder the team after the battle starts but that might be asking a bit much. I think right now is that a viable mystic counter is required to balance shadowstalker. I feel right now a scramble is needed at the beginning of a match (as a counter to stego/charc teams) and a knockback to help counter shadowstalkers ability. It would be nice to see knockback and scramble as a strategy instead of a necessity.