So you boost one player or whole team?

[Ilias Pardon]

First time I reached players trading I saw that players I could get were SO ahead of any of my best players (which had good results).
Now my support got MVP because stats are ahead of my adc or midlaner.
What's your strategy? Boost only one player (say adc) and buy a midlaner after? Or boost everyone but new player will be 20% of everyone when players trading?

[Ulminati]

In my current game on hard, I plan to replace one player every season if there's an obvious upgrade. I usually pick one player at the start of the season as my "weakest link". And their job in training is to use only black blocks (training partner or the black part that gains no stat in multi-person training). That player is also generally ignored for upgrades from completing goals, intensive training etc.

Weakest link so far has been support, top and mid respectively going from season to season. In the season I'm in right now, the support will get replaced again, because I really like the 2 traits my current top has (old team captain/conductor) + their hero pool works well with the heroes I like to pick.

This lets me pile stats into 1-2 star players who act as the teams main carries. The jungler who's usually the one initiating/participating in fights and either mid or adc are good candidates for boosting. If I try to develop all my players, the AI teams will outscale me. So I give my star players priority for my best training + intensive training + objective medal exp. This lets them keep up with the speed at which AI players develop in their most important stats.

[CATGIRL]

You can just hire a rookie and make them be the training mule. It'll cost like $500 after the first season.

I think the best play is to farm the early matches for medals. Make sure everyone's getting intrinsic medals and get everyone else as many medals as possible.

You'll actually be ahead of the AI in terms of stats. My first run, I basically lost towers 10-20 turns in before I could do anything because I would just get wrecked stats-wise. I would basically lose the first 4-5 matches of every league just tryring to play catchup with trainings and scrims. RN in my current run I'm something like 25W-1L and my chars are the ones wrecking.

[Axariel]

Depends what difficulty you are on. Personally I would focus a lane. Most of the time it seems advantageous to focus the bottom lane. On lower difficulties, you could do either.

[Ilias Pardon]

I'm playing in hard. Not game lost so far, but was wondering if I could do something different.
In the first place the jungle was super heavy, but then I realized that pushing bottom and mid turrets were far more effective. Too much snowball from it.
And for top? Well, a tanky survivor and it'll do. Too far to do anything for the team anyway

[Teboto]

Originally posted by CATGIRL:

You can just hire a rookie and make them be the training mule. It'll cost like $500 after the first season.

I signed a rookie yesterday, but after the transfer period ended she still wasn't in my roster. Now I'm at the next match, so it's too late for me to reload back to the transfer period and wondering if I screwed something up. Did I miss an important step?

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by Teboto:

Originally posted by CATGIRL:

You can just hire a rookie and make them be the training mule. It'll cost like $500 after the first season.

I signed a rookie yesterday, but after the transfer period ended she still wasn't in my roster. Now I'm at the next match, so it's too late for me to reload back to the transfer period and wondering if I screwed something up. Did I miss an important step?

Rookies aren't available immediately. They are still in school.

[Ilias Pardon]

Thanks all for your answers!

[Deworx]

Originally posted by Ilias Pardon:

Thanks all for your answers!

Hopefully you haven't picked a rookie who only joins after 3 seasons. (I did pick one and was quite regrettable, since i wanted a training mule)

[BlueOrange]

There's an advantage to not trading your athletes, which is that the money you would otherwise have spent converts to coaching points. Once you're in the later seasons and you're spending coach points on research, you start running out of them pretty frequently. Then you use the research to unlock A grade and S grade routine training, and then you can outscale the AI using routine training.

[Axariel]

It doesn't take too many points to get a good training regiment. On hell mode, it is near impossible to get the best stats for every player on your team, so it is likely significantly more beneficial to take cheap recruits early and to sell them off for the best recruits at some point. I did not do it, but the best players in the game had stat pools that were significantly higher than what my athletes had. Also, devoting all my training to my bot and supp only made them marginally better than everyone else. My mid eventually caught up, but my top and jungler were pretty far behind at the end of the game.

[BlueOrange]

That makes sense. I have a cold, and so I'm waiting until I can think straighter before playing Hell mode.

[Ilias Pardon]

Get better ❤️
Well I think there are different stats to try.
Maybe focus on only 4 players and mules for 2 seasons and then buy a crazy one on the third, or focus only on your team and take a rookie or cheap player only if one of your players trait is unsatisfying...
Games are muuuuch longer than I expected, but there are definitely room for improvement or tests from one game to another