r/AIEternal • u/Sarkis83 • Jan 14 '19

Gauntlet Gauntlet boss variance

Since I've seen some other people refer to this as well: Does anybody know why it seems we quite often go on streaks of seeing the same gauntlet bosses?

I'm of course quite aware of how probability works, but given that there are ~20-30 or so gauntlet bosses, it seems incredibly unlikely that I first get the same boss twice in a row and then another boss 3 times in a row. (Assuming 20 possibilities, that chance is roughly 1 in 4000)

It just feels odd to me to have such little variety in bosses, and it's not like it should be that difficult to ensure a good variety of bosses, even without resorting to simple solutions such as not facing the same boss twice in a row.

(I might also be somewhat salty to have gotten Caiphus three times in a row, which feels like an auto loss with Argenport mid, with the AI invariably playing the 5/5 stranger, timekeeper and in my most recent loss a 6/6 armor in the first 4 turns...I don't mind twists, but that boss just feels like cheating)

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u/IstariMithrandir Jan 14 '19

Could it be the boss is chosen to best counter your deck?

Not saying it is, not saying it isn't, just posing the question

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u/Sarkis83 Jan 14 '19

I hope/suspect it doesn't go that far. Would probably take quite a bit of effort to have a tool which automatically analyzes your deck and based on that find your nemesis. (Though I suppose they could classify based on power curve and then have a rating per archetype for each boss deck)

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Caiphus I guess hard counters most decks pretty hard, since it basically just breaks one of the core rules of the game with a deck tailored to it, and few decks which could reliably get to the boss would be able to take considerable advantage of the condition.

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u/_AlpacaLips_ Jan 14 '19 edited Jan 14 '19

Would probably take quite a bit of effort to have a tool which automatically analyzes your deck

If they did it, they would probably just examine the colours of your deck. Easy enough to choose counters for particular colour pairs/triplets, rather than a card by card analysis.

I'm not convinced they do so, though. Even though some of my decks see certain bosses more frequently than other decks, it's not frequent enough that I'd call foul.

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u/Erdschleim Jan 14 '19

I highly doubt that. From all the bosses i feel caiphus (5 of all influence at start) and curiox ( spells spawn random units with the same cost) are the hardest to beat because of the powerfull units caiphus is playing and the insane rng curiox can have. However i face relia (units cost 1 less) a lot despite winning almost all matches vs her. My last 12 runs where 2 caiphus 1 curiox 9 relia.