Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26136740-20150225053528/@comment-25462635-20150303083413

I'm really sorry for you and understand your frustration. I bought my first Diamond in a value pack, the most money I ever spend in one go for this game, because I thought I will never get one otherwise, reading all the desperate posts on the "how to breed a Diamond"-threat. But then, like a month later, I did a cross I can't even remember, and suddenly I had 44 hours in the breeding den. Total surprize.

But because of the tournament, OK, I don't have so much experience, but to say if you have a Diamond, you win the tournaments, this did not hold true for me so far. Because there are certain dragons where you have only 10% winning chance with ANY dragon in the game, so a Diamond is not helping you there. The only way to win is, in my opinion, use Ultimate Attack when you see that you get stuck. And for me so far, the ones I get stuck on are not even the most difficult ones to beat, meaning in theory 30-50% winning chance, where you think, OK, I should be able to beat this guy in a few rounds. But I kept on fighting these for days without winning.

Also I read somewhere that Knj00 never won a tournament (correct me if I'm wrong, Knj00), and I'm sure he's got Diamonds and Diamond Hybrids and fights tournaments since years.

I agree, having a Diamond increases your chances because there's always one opponent where only a Diamond has more than 10% chance to win, but if you have to invest gold anyways to really win (or be super lucky), does it matter if it's one round or two where you have to do the Ultimate?