User blog comment:Oneanimal/Why the FW set is OP/@comment-75.159.107.64-20161010013549/@comment-75.159.107.64-20161010201841

Getting Top 10 really depends on investing the time into playing a lot over the course of the week. That is, of course, if you've built up a good stable of gold E7 characters so that you can average 4500 to 5000 battle rating per victory (not counting the bonus battle rating points from daily bonus missions and winning standard, epic or ultimate battles).

IMO, the first two days of the MP season are the most important days to play really hard if you want to finish well in the tournament. If you rack up a good amount of battle rating those first two days it's easier to maintain a higher position as more players join later in the week expanding the player pool and diluting what is necessary for top 1 percent.

So, in MP seasons where I don't have the reward character at E7 or it's a piece of gear I don't have (like the mother box was) I will try to get around 1 to 1.2 million in the first couple of days (which is around 80 to 90 wins a day give or take) to help ensure I finish Top 1 percent. If I want to finish Top 10 I have to keep that pace, at a minimum, for the week (which is quite the grind with, in all reality, little additional reward unless you finish top 3). The times that I've maintained Top 10 (which has only been a handful of times) was to show off to friends that play. 😄

I almost always play epic battles as my "free" energy recharge doesn't work at all on my iPad (it doesn't even load the videos as my button is greyed out). As a result, I just cycle through my various E7 gold teams (I have 5 primary E7 teams) unless I'm totally out of energy on those teams and then I'll either play some E5 gold teams or rarely an E7 silver team while I wait for my other cards to recharge (or, more often, just come here and see what's on this wiki). For some reason, I'll rarely use my free recharge cards which is why I have 1396 of them currently.

As for hackers, it used to be bad last winter and spring, but I think it's gotten better as I haven't seen any obvious signs of hacking when I look at other players battle histories. Having said that, they might just be hacking in less obvious ways and so I'm not seeing it.

I will consider setting up a profile but everytime I do think I should, my laziness defeats me 😉

Thanks and good hunting,

Gorthrax