Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36333669-20190219202756

Previous threads have touched on it but I haven’t come across a consensus at to when it’s best to use energy to shuffle and find new matches or simply fight a bot and take the 25 points. I cannot recall the completion bonuses for all stages so I’ll just use the data from level 5 I am currently at.

First, the easy part. 3 energy for 25 points fighting a bot/inactive player. Works to 8.33 points per unit of energy.

At all ranks, the points for challenging would be 10 + 15 bonus, 30 + 15 and 50 + 15 = 135. You’ll also likely receive 30 in bonus for the other fighter using an in season style fighter. Above rank 16, there would be a loss of points on round 2 and 4 (-10 and -20 at rank 5) of varying amounts. Even still, you will likely receive approximately 150 points plus the completion bonus. Even at 150, the 9 energy used will net you an expected points per energy of 16.67 (150 / 9) or DOUBLE the expected points of fighting a random bot. So this begs the question, when would it ever be efficient to fight a bot? It seems as though it is the least efficient use of energy.

Is it even worth it to race to rank 16 just to get a small completion bonus? The math doesn’t seem to support it. As we’ve all noticed, there are time of the day where it appears active players show up more often and I’ll probably start a new thread for that but is there anything I’m failing to take into mind? Or are the bots solely there to waste our time and hope we spend money on energy? 