This. It is almost never advantageous to field a weaker defense than your best.
The only exception is when you are so weak relative to the rest of the alliance that you’ll always get rolled anyway. In that case, just go ahead and minimize the points you give up. But if too many people do this on a side, it just boosts the other teams’ points too much.
They don’t have weak teams. they are putting up a defense team made up of some 1* heroes they just pulled up. they are putting them in as their defense rather than their true defensive team. They are then cutting down on the points received for defeating them. Everyone says just attack multiple times. Obviously these players don’t have a family, job or normal life. I cannot be on the game when I am trying to save peoples lives in the real world. It is rather easy to field a defense team in war that is not your true defense team. And, once changed, the points received from defeating those teams are greatly reduced. However, the teams they are fighting with are not weak or lacking in any way. Simple mathematics.
Also, it does NOT make your higher level teams worth any more of less. I have attempted it and all of our 3.5K and higher teams stayed worth EXACTLY the same amount of points as they had been before I changed my team. However, I went from being worth 98pts to worth only 28.
First, points are distributed on health, not on team power. So it’s a question of relative health.
Second, there are 1500 total points distributed across the field. So if one team goes down, others MUST go up to compensate. Those 70 points cannot vanish into the ether.
I miss the good old days. When I was still growing so I would put just a single 1* out for my defense team and rely on others as I couldn’t sport a 3k team. For the newer players, yes you could do that once.
Now I’m thinking about the good, old days… rocking on my porch telling the new kids that “before the wars everything was different”.
“We fed away all our 3 stars, most of our 4 stars, too”. After building a couple of strong teams, who needed more!
I’m gonna go full anecdotal mode here. My clan has been through that scenario you mention a few times. We had to let go a few of our old inactive members who were participating in AW but weren’t attacking properly. They were basically free points for the enemy team. They were getting free loot with minimal effort. A single attack every 2 wars, that’s all they did for weeks.
My clan had to lower the cup requirements once those members were gone. It’s not easy to recruit lvl 30+ members. Once we did we got new members fast but these new guys were too active for their own good, lol. Since day one they put their low level defense teams in war. 2* and 3* heroes mostly. Their teams were also free points for the enemy but at least they were making a few points for our clan, earning their keep.
I don’t think doing that is a strategy or an exploit, scam or whatever. I mean, your clan was probably on a winning streak so it got paired against the strong russian/japanese clan. It happens. The mercs they supposedly hired don’t get 100% participation in the war chest so imo, if they were using that ‘strategy’ they’re actually not very smart.
If you lost 70 points worth, other defenses in your alliance have to pick up those 70 points among them.
When wars were relatively new, this was referred to as the Fabian strategy. You’re welcome to read more about it in the link below, but the summary is that this “exploit” is almost always more harmful than helpful to the team using it.
Bwahahaha love it.
Back then things were different. I remember thinking “I can’t wait to field a fully levelled rainbow team of mighty 3* titans upon my unsuspecting enemies.”
Now days it’s “how tough is maxed Rigard with 10 emblems?”
I think we’re ready for a new thread 
Gotcha.
How do you know they are from Japan? Because of the flag? I mean, we use the sweedish flag so we can use american curse words, but oddly we can’t type the word Fan because it is a sweedish profanity.
The individual impact to war calculation that an account provides is determined by that accounts top 30 heroes. Therefore, if you are experience level 30 account with 15 fully leveled 4* and 5* heroes but you set your defense to 1000 you are really screwing your alliance. Your opponents will be matched against your top 30 heroes, so putting a weaker defense only allows them to use more flags against higher opponents. You will be guaranteed to lose all of your defense and the enemy will only have to use 1 flag each time to beat you, and probably with weaker 3* heroes.
You always want to put your best defense forward in war to make your enemy use more flags, otherwise you are giving them free points and skewing the battle in their favor.
It certainly does. There is a preset amount of points for the entire alliance, and it is split amongst them based on HP of their defense. If it did not do this optimal defense would just be to have EVERY team run only one level 1 defender worth like 10 points.
Sounds like just another day in garbage alliance wars.
Wish SG had spent as much time on S2 as they had on this
I dont understand the complaint. You’re losing because the opponent made half of their teams TOO easy to kill? I presume since you cannot trade heroes they cannot make their other teams stronger as a result. Since your ranking for matchmaking is based on your best 30 heroes, not your defense, it’s the same quality of opponent you are facing just with free points
In hypothetical scenario wheee team of 25 extremely strong players combined with 5 fake/super weak players gest matched against a team of 30 average players, they can count on scoring 250 points each (or something like that), leading to 6k+ final score. Not sure of system can really be exploited like that but it’s an interesting idea.
This was an issue early on in war matchmaking, but adjustments have been made to lend heavier weight in matchmaking to the 5 strongest heroes of each roster (the presumptive defense) as they will have an outsized impact on the war. The teams should therefore end up being fairly evenly matched, with slightly stronger defenses being balanced against deeper benches.
Well, but in this case the teams are also not able to make a good amount of points. Even if you have just 2-3 heroes left of a defense from a TP of 4xxx, a team with around 1000 Points will not be able to make points.
Therefore, you have the advantage of 30 flags.