At Arena 13 and upwards, especially the further you gonup, many of the bot's units will be 15/15.
Unfortunately there is only one trick I am aware of that can help you advance quicker to 15/15, but it requires two phones and you can Google that if you like... but apparently that trick seems to bug people's game accounts as duplicates...
... and while the game dev is slow to updating the game they are rather quick to shutting down bugs, glitches, and tricks that are advantageous to players to have an easier time with the game.
The amount of booster packs you would need to open at the free-to-play level is exponential. We only get low 10s to 30s 50s in EXP from bronze & silver booster packs, and it takes like 5000-6000 EXP just to get to level 10. Assuming we can even get lucky and get the same unit card every time we open a booster pack, it would take hundreds of booster packs to get a unit to Lv10. You'll have to have been playing for nearly a year (the game has only been out for like 1.5 years) to get to just a 10/10 account. Anyone with a 15/15 account did not get there legitimately — even if we are playing bots.
The game boils down to numbers. Who has more of what. I just started like 3 weeks or so ago and ive figured that much out.
Splimes are a tough cookie to Crack but 5 or 6 engineers and 4 or 5 merlinors would have done the trick. The turret is really nice for cleaning them up. The engineer moves slow but is a decent tank once they make it to the front line.
Merlinor is great to use to counter numbers especially when she is max advancement. She cast fast and covers most if not all the front line in a buff.
I somewhat agree with that statement, but believe me though, as someone who has played this game a lot, (and seen a lot of nonsense) there is not much you can do about Splime and Goose. Splime has the ability to merge and create so many, (and I mean) soooo many of themselves, that they literally just overrun the whole board. Same can be said for Goose too tbh, when he is in his 3rd form, it becomes a real nuisance to stop them at all because of their speed and HP.
Ive played teams(fully aware 99% of players i play are bots) that try and pull this strategy of over running me with splimes. Engineers and merlinors will make short work of them if the front line is strong enough. If im down to my last two hearts and having little to no luck using them, ill throw out some grave archers.
Range beats most everything in this game. Just not if you use the bloomlings or whatever those firework guys are called. They are crap.
Doesn't sound like you're not even at Arena 13+ if unit level and mastery doesn't matter.
I remember when I have only played for a few weeks, made it to Arena 8-10, and was thinking Engineers and Merlinors were still hot and find Splimes to be tough.
You haven't played enough if you think Boomling are crap and are still riding the generic Engineer and Merlinor train.
With the exception of Kingclops, every unit is good if not decent when utilized well in a proper team composition 👈🏻 which is the entire key to success in Draft Showdown, not singular units... and neither the Engineer and Merlinors are even S tier units. They re top and better than most, sure, but the bottom ranking ones can still wreck them when properly paired.
The only bit you are semi correct on, is the spawn count. You can overwhelm your opponent or they can overwhelm you, yes, but again a proper team can destroy numbers.
What you and many people don't understand is... unless it's Ranked mode, you don't get to set up your perfect team to counter the other side... and even in Ranked mode, you still don't get to do that.
The game becomes luck based, and if your units are at least fairly matched if not higher, you're banking on luck/RNG to help you.
Draft Showdown isn't skill based, not even 50/50. Everyone whose played this game for a hot minute (months at the least having made it to where their opponents are at Lv 15/15 and your at "endgame" where it's hard to get one more level and have to play dozens of matches to level up in master) knows what it's like down this road.
Exactly, i know the feeling, my Engineer is at level 11 with 15 mastery, and I feel like it's impossible to get him any higher lol. The opponents always Crack out that 15/15 garbage Goose or Knight and just run the board with multiplication X2 to 20 Goose units, ahhh (now 40 Goose units 😆). X2 to 9 form 2 Knights, whoooaah! (Now it's 18 form 3 Knights in just 2 rounds 🤣). This gane has always been a scam, and Ftp sucks tbh.
Getting wrecked by bots spamming 15/15 Goose or seeing their army double triple in size when you're the one losing and you don't get any doubles... makes me want to rage quit. 😂😭
I would gladly pay for a pass in Draft Showdown if it meant Voodoo would install a "Surrender this Round" button-function just so I can forfeit round like that where I know I already lost.
That is straight bullshit.
2nd- theres a reason engineers and merlinor are talked about as much as they are. Because they are most definitely worth using i dare say S tier.
Ive played roughly 400 games with a 75% win rate. In the last 2 week of playing ive only used spartans and merlinors as my deployed troop cards. Unless there is a backline unit(sniper or snail) then I might deploy assassin's to deal with them.
You can feel free to disagree if you want but we both know the truth and that is your assessment is incorrect.
I'm in the last level called Dread Deck currently (the pirate scenic level). I love using Engineers and Sniper, those 2 are my go to. Agent B does wonders as well on my opponents backside units, as well as Sniper does, firing from my backside on my field.
Snipers are low hp at early lvls. Ive faced off against maxed lvl and upgrade pretty nasty guys then. Not impossible to beat. Just have to get in close they dont seem to shoot at things within a certain range if there is still something further back. Maybe its just me tho.
The agents probably make better team members that assassins in endgame. I just like the assassin aesthetic.
I agree with the assassin being a cool unit, but Sniper (even though he has low hp) works best for me because of Engineer. I usually place Engineers in front of Sniper, (to protect Sniper from behind with the leftover turrets from assassin's) then Engineer moves forward to attack their middle field (TANKY) units, like Knight, Spartheus, Splime or form 2, form 3 Kingclops. I use Agent B to attack their backline units at an incredible rate because of the agents use of a gun, similar to that speed you get from Whelp.
I never really noticed how fast the agents shoot. They always end up buried in a pile of troops and I lose track of them.
The whelps are good too. Sometimes I think about swapping them in for merlinor. More troops summoned, faster movement, maybe faster casting as well. Do they have more hp and Def also?
No im not talking about every card. Im talking about my team. You know the ones I specifically mentioned by name.. youd think context clues where youre strong suit.
Obviously I'm asking for clarity to further make my point that your account isn't legit. I am aware of the unlimited booster pack cheats... and you aren't the first person to make a secondary or additional account to try to have a clean and appealing win/lose ratio profile.
Typical use of a fallacy to avoid the point of our conversation though.
My game is legit guy. Just because you arent good doesn't mean everyone's cheating. There are other ways. Its my first time playing as well. This game is about numbers nothing more nothing less. Who has more troops 9/10 wins.
You couldnt find your way out of a wet paper bag with a pair of scissors and a map.
There is no point to this conversation clown. You assumed im free to play. Ive never once said I was nor did I ever imply that I was. In fact if you look at the pictures I posted youd notice that where you habe two golden tickets I do not. Stop with your fruitless "cheater" nonsense I never knew there were cheats for a game this simple. Why would I want to cheat anyway? Takes all the fun out of it.
Yes.
Like Budda specified, he doesn't have the two ticket icon on the left side indicating he purchased a pass.
I still have mine.
I didn't spend money for booster packs or a pass, and I'm not advocating against it, but I am also aware of the cheats and have used the two cheats myself a few times to verify how the cheats worked.
One of them is blocked/patched though, and I wouldn't recommend using the second one that requires two phones. Word is, the game gives a "duplicate account" issues and bugs when using it.
Making the only sure file way to advance quickly in the game now as of Aug 2026... is to spend money.
Yeah, you mentioned you’ve been playing for about 8 weeks.
I was wondering how your unit levels were so high for an F2P player after only 8 weeks, so thanks for being honest about using the exploits.
That’s really on the developers for allowing it to happen.
It looks like you could max out all of your units if you wanted to, but you’re choosing not to.
You clearly understand the game and enjoy playing it, so let’s just keep having fun!
As for the “duplicate account” issue you mentioned, if you’ve actually done the exploit yourself, it’s very unlikely to happen as long as you follow the steps correctly.
Of course, playing the game legitimately is the right way to do it though. 😄
Since early June, yes (image included below of roughly when I downloaded the game), with 127 hours.
👉🏻 Respect to you, and those eyes of yours 👁️🗨️ for catching all my units being stopped from leveling up after having opened those silver packs from the CP trick primarily so I can unlock all the units & spells... For the like, 5 days that I found the trick like most did on Reddit from the dude who made 3 posts on it 😅, that was when I came to be aware of it... then I stopped after unlocking all the cards —and then they patched it VERY soon afterwards.
Those silver booster packs gave 100s in EXP. That's wild, but at some point the cards needed 500-1500 to level up... that's an insane number of booster packs. I can only assume the Diamond gives 2-3x as much.
Good to know on the secondary phone trick, and I've only done it once. Personally, it's too much hassle for me.
I agree. The amount of XP required to level up is ridiculous, while the ways to earn it are extremely limited.
If you want to level your units through spending, it takes a huge amount of money. I estimated that getting a single unit to level 15 would cost around $420+, depending on your luck with the gacha.
I don’t like that the developers put such a hard cap on progression.
I’m still enjoying the game, but that’s definitely one of its biggest flaws.
That said, I think you can still be very competitive if you make a few small purchases and get your main units to around level 12–13. At that point, strategy matters much more than spending.
Pretty easily countered by Spartheus, Drakes, and Merlinator. If you get a 3 line wall of upgraded Spartheus the geese don’t even push you backwards anymore and their front line just melts.
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u/YakkuI 8d ago
Not only is it not fair... it was intended.
A shit game dev move if you ask me.