When do you start playing against pool 3 decks?

[Dookieagain]

I'm lv 445 and suddenly I'm fighting against these ultra optimized decks with cards I have zero access to and it's super frustrating. I lost to a discard deck with Venom and Hela and I don't even have the full pool 2 collection. It feels pretty terrible.

[mykidsnamedme]

Originally posted by Dookieagain:

I'm lv 445 and suddenly I'm fighting against these ultra optimized decks with cards I have zero access to and it's super frustrating. I lost to a discard deck with Venom and Hela and I don't even have the full pool 2 collection. It feels pretty terrible.

That started happening to me last night.

I just hit 450 also.

[Dookieagain]

Honestly it makes me kind of want to quit. I can't even complete the daily missions cause they're win games while snapping and I've dropped from rank 70 down to like 62.

[Captain Worthy]

Seems the matchmaking has very loose borders for the pools instead of being set strictly within the same pool set. Pool 3 starts from 486 so it's picking you into these matches from 41 levels below pool 3. Doesn't sound fun at all.

[Grief Jerky]

I'm feeling the same all the way down at the start of pool 2, i'm floating in the middle of sliver and the "matchmaking" keeps give me what I assume is previously gold players (due to most of them having the Miles avatar) with uber pool 2 decks. I'm guessing its so I will get frustrated enough to go buy credits to boost my deck.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Grief Jerky:

I'm feeling the same all the way down at the start of pool 2, i'm floating in the middle of sliver and the "matchmaking" keeps give me what I assume is previously gold players (due to most of them having the Miles avatar) with uber pool 2 decks. I'm guessing its so I will get frustrated enough to go buy credits to boost my deck.

There aren't any ''uber'' pool 2 decks. In fact, pool 2 does not have that many cards, it's like 25 or something? And many of them, while okay to good, are not meta defining. Most decks are mostly pool 1 with only a few from pool 2. The most pool 2 does is add a few extra disruption things, but they add onto your deck, they do not define it.

So no, it's not to make you frustrated. This is just a skill issue. The frustration will happen at pool 3, though. But not at pool 2. There aren't any pool 2 cards that consistently would beat your pool 1 deck.

[Bonkers]

been on a losing streak for hours on and off about to say ♥♥♥♥ this game seem like you winning and the game will ♥♥♥♥ you at last second with some utter bs

[Dregora]

Originally posted by BONKERS:

been on a losing streak for hours on and off about to say ♥♥♥♥ this game seem like you winning and the game will ♥♥♥♥ you at last second with some utter bs

All fields are known at turn 3. If you get cucked in the last second with ''bs'', then you did something wrong.

[Jabal]

The beginning of pool 3 is a nightmare at high ranks. Its really my only complaint about the game in general. Pool 3 is far too large and RNG dependent.

[High Fidelity]

I hit Level 390 with a rank of ~45 and am constantly facing pool 3 decks/ cards
However I think those are mainly bad players that whale money into the game to build their collection level, since most can't play for ♥♥♥♥ and I'm still winning

[Blind Reverend]

Think it is CL 486 when you get your first 3 pool card.

I play at 690 and it is not worse than 500. Most decks have a few pool-3 cards but rest is base deck and pool 1+2.

If you play agent 13, you get most of the time a pool 3 card from the pull.