I'm not ready for Expert League.

Yeah so let the game run its course and knock you back down. And keep your fingers crossed..lol

These are decent and fun builds for diamond/expert. Kinetic repeaters and shotguns are a lot cheaper and faster to upgrade, but not viable expert and up, save the avengers and storms. Thunders are just joke; they have less damage output than storm. I would focus upgrading avenger and storm only, and find substitutes for thunders on your falcon. It maybe a good idea to get another avenger for the main front slot, and use your falcon as traditionalist. T-falcon is boring as hell, but it will keep you alive and help you and your team to push for beacons. until you get decent heavies that may be better than the alternative.
I got my 3-bot smurf account into expert 2 with a leadhose natasha, a leadhose galahad and griffin. I even upgraded my avengers and storm till lvl12. It was fun till up to diamond 3. Then, I produced a strider and a invader in WS2. that is when I lost interest and stop playing my smurf. Maybe, managing your league at around diamond 3 works better for you. Just saying.

Does going afk in the match work?

Uhhh.. what?

Ohhhh so that's what tanking means, okay I won't go afk then.

Tanking means dropping league intentionally. It's frowned upon in these forums, but honestly it doesn't provide much benefit anyway. You'll hit patches where you are bowled over all the time, but they will pass quickly enough as your skills improve and equipment upgrades. Plus you will get more silver (from chests) and HP (for free stuff in operations) for higher leagues. Not saying you should push up, but rather play and don't sweat where you are in leagues as it's not going to change anything drastically.

If you want to maintain a certain league then find a good level for your weapons/bots and stop upgrading them there. That will limit how high you can rise and as those "max" out at your chosen level you can expand your hangar to play other bots/weapons you find interesting.

I would rather that you suck balls in a game then sit there and not play at all and tank.

At least if you're out there trying you're still learning how to play the game in becoming a better skilled pilot. But tanking is a no-go for me and that account usually gets Flag by other players.

And if you get reported enough I do believe that pixonic will keep an eye on your account and watch you confirm if you're tanking or not.

Wasn't planning to, it's boring being afk anyways.

You can always play Free For All and let the MM beat you back down. I suck at FFA these days, even though when it first came out, that mode was what pulled me into upper Masters. I now go back and forth between M1 and Champs on a weekly basis and I don't even notice the transitions anymore.

You may lose a lot in FFA, but play with the mindset that you're there to learn about effective builds and good 1v1 tactics.

I played FFA exclusively from Dec 18 till This July . Typical wait time was used to be 10-20 sec, but it was taking noticeably longer times to load a game before I quit playing it alltogether. Haven't tried it since late Summer.

Bull「dookie」. You are ready.


I believe in you
No reason to back down.

Thunders suck. There, i saved you millions.

Uninstall.....problem solved, and your sanity remains intact