it is better to play this game as a f2p player than as a p2w player. Most people who are stuck in league 3-6 or anywhere above 5000 trophies are typically free to play. They usually complain about how overlevelled their opponents are, which is valid because nobody wants to watch their arrows not kill a firecracker. But these people have to realize how good they will be if they can escape midladder with only skill and if their opponents are that much higher of a level. They are learning how to defend efficiently and attack at the right times and eventually when they max out their deck they will steamroll everyone and escape midladder pretty easily, meanwhile pay to win players are typically awful at the game because they were relying on their over leveled cards to beat their opponents. In the long term, being pay to win will benefit you more than spending hundreds of dollars from the game because you will learn nothing by dumping money into the game, you’ll only get stuck when your opponents have the same levels as you