NY Comic Con had a few other gaming related announcements while the event was happening and these were from Marvel Entertainment who announced two new games that will be making their appearance on Android in the near future. One game is already out on iOS called Marvel: Avengers Alliance while the second game is MARVEL RUN JUMP SMASH! will be launching on multiple platforms including Android worldwide.
-GD has beaten Avengers in 5 of the last 6 meetings between the two groups.
-GD has never lost to aggressive (won both meetings)
-GD has won 2 of the last 3 v team Korea
-In the last 6 months GD has two losses total outside of 7DD and TK. A July loss to the old 7DA and a December loss to Avengers. TK similarly has 2 in this time period where aggressive and avengers have considerably more.
It basically comes down to 3 matches, GD over TK, Avengers over GD, aggressive over avengers. In my view, especially given the margins of victory, the aggressive win is the least impressive. Another way to put it, is that winning a tier up is currently worth less than winning with in a tier. While I understand why head to head is a major factor, currently there is little incentive to winning a tier above. In our case even facing Korea essentially hurts us cause a win does very little and a loss is just a missed opportunity to face a peer opponent. Throwing out all historical results, aggressive has the weakest resume of the 3 teams imo.
Anyway I know it was a hard rank to decide. The irony of a GD player also indirectly sticking up for avengers is not lost on me either. Hopefully we draw aggressive soon and can make your task easier lol.
The ranking is only partially based on data, it is not claiming to be the only possible ranking either. The weight given to the various fact(or)s is just a personal opinion and you can have whatever opinion you like. If you think your own alliance is better than the others, there is no reason not to think so, noone can proove you wrong. If you were the one putting in the work to put all this together your opinion would be the one presented on the OP.
Then this war happened, and I realized that СИНДИКАТ should be the exception to the exception. Not only have they maxed out their rank under the formula with massive winning streaks, but they are frequently matched up against and defeat even higher ranked alliances. Those include STOK, Quantum Knights, and going back a bit further KM4, Royal Flush, Ako Jiken, and Greek Frappe.
Five wars were won by the lower ranked alliance. #28 Moon Star, #36 Unleashed, #48 ALBA DEI 30 DI BIMBOZZA and #103 Die Anstalt. And finally #12 СИНДИКАТ defeated #9 STOK by 150, which is technically (but not surprisingly) an upset win.
There continues to be an above average number of alliances at less than 30 (tough recruiting times). Therefore, I continue to be a bit more lax on both unranking and re-ranking alliances. Typically 120+ alliances are ranked, with another 7-10 working their way to being ranked. For this war, 115 alliances were ranked with 8 more alliances waiting to hit 5 war scores before being ranked. An additional 11 alliances are currently tracked but unranked due to excess wars below 30.
In the seven wars won by the lower ranked alliance, three were upset wins. #105 Aggressive II, #107 LEGACY and #109 Rise of the Empire defied the odds and beat their stronger opponent. The first two won by less than 100 points, while #109 Rise of the Empire won by a solid 550 points.
I spent seven months last year in eight different alliances, ranging from two weeks to two months each. Three alliances were ranked #80 to #120, one was around #40, and the other four Top 10. Seven were English speaking, one was not.
Within the Top 100 there is a wide range of player benches, and even within each alliance there is a noticable range. The difference as you move up the alliance ranks is that range within the alliance shrinks.
One alliance was unique in two ways. They went with a quick reset followed by soft kills to start the war, and instead of a clean your own they use a flag allocation system (i.e., a designated number of oneshots / cleans for each member based on prior war history).
Troops and heroes equate to time and (mostly) money. No avoiding that. Alliances get pickier the more competitive / higher ranked they are. Level 23+ troops are generally needed to get into a lower ranked alliance, while multiple sets of 29 troops (including mana troops) needed as your move up the ranks. Lower ranked alliances are less likely to look at rosters, while higher ranked alliances will scrutinize rosters for troops and specific heroes before extending an invite.
Attack team composition - Game knowledge and practice. A huge difference between the top players in the game (regardless of their alliance rank) and everyone else is how much time they spend practicing. Often times they are testing synergies among heroes, but also perfecting attack teams against specific defenses (i.e., M&M & WP). Practice matters.
Last comments. The non-English speaking alliance I was in was a great experience. Most of their chat was on Telegram, which has an in-app translator that greatly helped being a part of the alliance. And I learned how to translate in-game chat using screenshots.
In a great matchup between two equals, #24 NEMEZISS defeated #21 Seven Days Hunting by 98, while a bit further down the ranks in another close war was #74 die Auserwahlten pulling out a 38 point win against unranked Gulf Hawks.
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