Thread:InjusticeSixx/@comment-75.159.107.64-20160415024332/@comment-28140789-20160415044153

Defense matches are almost certainly harder at the highest tiers of play, especially since the non-crit augments don't seem to affect your setup during defense.

People who can hack and who glitch are also likely to look to dominate top-tier play, naturally. This usually means they have full augmentations, if not augmentations beyond the limits in the case of hackers.

That is a decent defense rating, however. The stronger of the Most Wanted pack characters seem to be very potent at lower levels, especially as you may play a number of people who don't know how to deal with them or have the gear setups to do so. Lower-level play also allows you to "lead" with your lower base stat characters who are the most relatively promoted, and so have offset-teams, promotion-wise. At higher level play, support cards that don't carry their weight are something of a liability, because players will do with gear what they can't do with purely support passives.