Talk:Battle Arena/@comment-27208466-20160104061013/@comment-26947630-20160104104401

LeeLush, trust me when I say my first few tournaments were a nightmare! OK until I got to the last 10 of the 30 round ones then I'd panic and freak out. I looked back today, the Skeletal Knight tournament I used three Ultimates. Now I keep a lot of battle records for reference during tournaments and I do very detailed colour cross-matching, which I build up as I face each new combination. I worry less about level, but think rarity important. I now have 306 victory records to look back on. I also battle outside of tournaments and collect the data.

So while my last 5 tournaments have been relatively smooth (I lost 16 in one round recently though) I've put a lot of research in since my early days.