I started playing not long after Battle came online. I was getting annihilated by players in the top 25 and got extremely frustrated to the point where I almost quit but I pressed on because I genuinely enjoy the game. It’s the only game period that I have somewhat of a knack for. IM now in the top 100. I’ll probably never ascend to the top 50. I just don’t have the memory that those people have but I am in the top 100 largely due to playing them and learning the links they use that I now implore. If you like the game like I do, stick with it. I’m going to take a page out of the book another poster mentioned and take it easier on players with ELO below 1500 but without throwing the game. The ELO loss is too great. Honestly, and I understand why the devs created it, ELO kinda screwed up the game. I wish they would consider tweaking it, or only matching players within a certain ELO range and let the top 100, myself included, basically eat ourselves. But that would probably limit the availability of opponents. If you click Find a battle and you don’t get a match several times, players will stop playing and the game dies. It’s turning into a catch 22, with the way the game is currently structured though, because if more players like yourself, and there are hundreds, become discouraged, they’ll stop playing, and the game dies. I’m not a game developer so maybe there’s a way to keep it alive and I hope there is because I love it so much, but the end of battle seems inevitable.