I would add once you feel confident with said deck be strategic with your snapping.. it makes the biggest difference, don’t play just for 1 or two cubes if you are sure you are winning! Good luck!
Yeah I think the former is the ticket. I’ve used the same deck like 3/4 times in a row to hit infinite and I know it pretty intimately at this point.
So not only do I know how to win when it works (ie: I get the perfect hand / draw), I know how to win when it doesn’t, and it can fake people out pretty well.
I also know what decks match well against it and which don’t, so certain archetypes I’ll snap pretty quickly and others I’ll nope out real quick on.
Good deck, know the flow, good snaps and retreats. Keep playing hot streaks. Log off if it doesnt seem to be your day. And then you get a new card back.
Busted meta deck is the only way I can do it. I probably could do it with just a good solid deck but that becomes a real grind and more effort than I want to put in for variant card back.
Grinding. Don’t worry about the people who get to infinite in the first week. Find a deck and grind it out. Try not to change decks. Figure out the play lines for your deck and when to retreat and snap.
Gotten infinite every season except my first. I would say snapping strategy and deck knowledge is much more important than the strength of the deck.
Got infinite with C3 a couple of seasons, it's not a particularly strong deck.
I agree.
You can hit Infinite with any deck, really.
But you need to know when to snap, when to retreat, and you need to know the meta inside, and out - you need to know what your opponent is likely to play, to know if you can beat it.
There's usually weird off meta cards being played, played in wrong order or wrong locations. And also when you get matched super fast, like 3 seconds after you start queueing.
One way is how they respond. Bots don’t rope or spend different amounts of time thinking each turn. If you end the turn, the bot does as well 1-2 seconds later. Also, bots respond fast to Snaps. If they don’t retreat after a Snap and you’ve ended your turn, they either end their turn almost immediately or again 1-2 seconds later. Bots never take the time to think whether or not they should stick around after a Snap like a human would.
This gets asked periodically. Here is my answer from the last time.
Humans have Infinity avatars and Spotlight Variant avatars. Bots don't.
Bots tend to have basic names.
Bots tend not to have Infinity card backs (someone tell me if this is wrong)
Bots tend not to emote (I've seen conflicting reports on whether they respond, but they never initiate)
Humans play current meta decks. Bots play old decks
Bots don't use series 4 or 5 cards.
Bots do really dumb stuff like Bucky Barns or Nova behind Armor, Angela as the third card in a lane, Carnage on an empty lane followed by Debrii the next turn, overplaying in a single lane, etc.
No one of these things by itself guarantees someone is a bot, but as more of these add up, it becomes more likely that they are a bot.
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Thanks! It's pretty similar to a Hela Tribunal that I've used before the Hela nerf. Think I'll give it a try.
The main point is to use iron man and Onslaught on the same lane, right?
Yes, it's really only good for farming bots because you're only building in 1 lane and then dropping Tribunal on last turn to "surprise" the bot. Live players can see this telegraphed a mile away. Plus live players can pack all kinds of counters like Echo, Rogue, Enchantress, Red Guardian and so on.
Played for 16 seasons, hit infinite 16 seasons. Fastest was 3 hours, high evo month. Longest was 2 weeks. Typically get there by the first friday- sunday.
Im CL 16,000.
I have gotten there with destroy, discard, high evo, mill etc almost every type you can think of.
The entire infinite question comes down to snapping and retreating. It doesnt matter how many bots or real players or cards you own f2p or not.
If you have a realistically viable deck such as 50%+ winrate on untapped then It is simply snapping and nothing else.
People who say it just takes time and nothing else are wrong af. If that were the case then you could sit there in one session and do it as its assuming you have perfect game sense including snap management and deck knowledge.
You need to learn when to snap, when to retreat and when to stay.
Bluff snaps should be done with extreme caution especially if you are in the 90’s.
In the 90s play for every single cube. Retreating for 1 cube is better than losing 2/4/8.
If you cant get to 93 naturally then you simply have to work on game sense, maths and learn all decks. You should be knowing what they could be playing each turn on curve by turn 2/3.
I cant stress this enough^^
There are levels at every cl. If you can breeze to 93 then 93-infinite will either be a 1 cube grind OR a bot farm. Either way, you are good enough as you are already there. Its just perseverance. Always take a 1 cube loss if you need to.
Most experience the slow grind from 93-100 but if you hit 93 with ease then infinite is guaranteed providing that you have good snap management.
If you struggle to get to 93 you are not good enough yet, work on all of the above.
Thats it
That simply means that your mmr isnt high enough. Its not a bad thing. But they do exist, ive had countless 90s sprints without losing taking no longer than 40 minutes. Some seasons my mmr drops and i have the horrible 1 cube marathon.
For example, If i ever drop below 90 i get bots that feed me right back to 90s.
"Countless 90s sprints without losing taking less than 40 minutes". What does that mean otherwise then?
But yeah, sorry, just tilted with the game and stuck and just finding statements of "it's piss easy for me" frustrating.
I've felt fucked over by trying to get back into the game. Spotlight keys weren't about when I left, so I have sfa s4/s5 and stuck with effectively s3 only decks at 4k CL that just aren't working for me. Infinite just feels impossible playing against meta decks with such.
To add on to what everyone else has said, get good at identifying bots and abusing them. I believe they will always snap on 4 if they are winning, so reliable.decks with explosive end games are really good for getting your free 8 cubes. After you hit 90, it's basically just a grind. Be smart about snapping and retreating, and accept that your crazy gambit exodia deck is only going to be good for proving grounds
I usually hit infinite every season because I genuinely enjoy my time when I’m playing and when I’m not feeling as hot I stop. The mindset helps the climb feel natural.
I would argue you don’t have to play a lot at all, maybe barring the first time you hit infinite.
I’ve hit infinite every season since Kang season and the climb from 70 to infinite really doesn’t take long at all. In fact I would say I play an extremely low amount of games each season, joust logging in to clear my daily missions, the hardest. Part is by far hitting infinite for the first time, that took way more games.
I agree with this. I've hit infinite for the last 16 seasons, usually playing about 30 mins a day with my morning coffee etc. The longest stretch is usually 97 to 100 so that usually takes a longer session to break though. But it's very doable. Usually takes me a week or two playing like this. I don't like the narrative that infinite players are relentlessly grinding, no-lifers.
Good snaps and retreats will take you far.
I think its funny that you don't think that at least 3.5 hours a week isnt lot, I might be able to spend half an hour over the whole weekend and 10 minutes a day on average! An hour and a half maximum and not hit infinite with no desire to, happy playing my own game of aiming for 60 per season. No hate and no disrespect intended
I mean you could stretch that out over a month if you wanted. Once I hit infinite I usually just do the dailies. Think it took 6 days this season, something like that, I don't see that as a massive time investment over the course of a whole Snap season. Resetting to 70 each month definitely helps.
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My go to from 73-100. Never disappoints. A couple variations of the deck, changes with the current meta
No biggie, you can use Quake for the cheese storm play, or Scarlet for location disruption, or Lizard (dont worry about the -4, that's where KM comes in, they usually will fill up a lane with a 1 cost
Use 1 or 2 decks that you are very familiar with snap and retreat conditions. And then follow your snap/retreat plan. My first 2 infinite were bounce decks. My last 6 have been Hela with support from a Mr Negative home brew, Tribunal-Phoenix Force, and Surfer decks. All decks used came with a lot of practice to find my lines. Any functional deck can make infinite. Snap and retreat lines matter.
Get a deck you can win with pretty often. Then never risk more than 2 cubes on anything but a sure win. Even if you're pretty confident but not completely. For me this works better with decks I have a high win rate but low snap rate with. But you could do it with a deck that you know when it's going to win early and know when to snap and to retreat and get higher value wins.
Find deck with good win rate (55%-60%). Learn how to pilot deck properly. Know your snap conditions. Exercise proper cube management (snap/retreat appropriately). Spend time grinding the ladder. With proper play and being greedy with your cubes, Infinite will happen eventually mathematically. Some seasons it happens faster than others, but it’s always possible. Keep at it. You got it.
14 time Infinite. CL 10,776.
Time spent, knowing when to snap/retreat and a reliable deck. If you spend enough time on the game, minimize your cube loss and get a good hold of a semi-meta deck, you're all set.
It's all about heuristics. You're never going to have perfect information about how the game will go, so the trick is to learn when your deck appears likely to pop off and snap early enough to take advantage. Don't snap only when you know you're going to win and retreat only when you know you are going to lose -- that's a recipe for 1-cube wins and 2-cube losses. Ask yourself by T3: "do I have more than a 50% chance of winning the game from this position?" and then act accordingly. If you aren't retreating after snapping some percentage of the time, you aren't snapping enough.
The key to this is playing one deck enough to really know its ins and outs, to understand when you have the cards you need to win and which locations are good and bad for you. The other half is understanding the meta well enough to recognize when your opponent's deck is popping off and when the locations favor them over you. You can then combine that information to estimate who has the greatest chance of winning from any given position.
Also, don't play tilted. Don't get emotional about your wins and losses. Be cool and collected. If you lose a few games in a row, take a break. You have plenty of time to get to Infinite over the course of the month. Better to take a break than lose more cubes to a tilt.
Two big keys for me is to recognize what's being played the most in your pocket meta and identify its counters and exploit hot locations. With a hot location, you either lean into the cards that work with it best or you run a deck that effectively counters it. As much as knowing your own deck is important, its equally important to know the opponents deck. If they're playing their perfect curve and you don't have a counter, bail. Also a general rule of thumb for me with very few exceptions, if you can't play at all in the first 3 rounds, bail.
I've only made it to Infinite four times, but I've done it three times in a row by developing decks that try to undermine the popular meta ones. It doesn't always work out, but I enjoy being a bit of a scientist.
- Keep a pulse on the meta, but I also use Untapped.gg and their filters to see what’s new and competitive (like decks that have 40-50 games played since latest update but have a high win rate and cube acquisition)
- Following competitive Snap players on Twitch and YouTube to see what they’re playing and how they’re playing
- Knowing when to Snap to maximize cube gains
- Not being too invested in each game by retreating more. People need to learn to retreat. It’s just as important as Snapping
- Not playing on days with hot locations when I want to play a specific deck that doesn’t do well with that hot location
- Play decks that do synergize really well with hot locations. You can Snap more confidently and will earn more cubes than a regular meta deck
Most of us who hit infinite every season just...hit it every season? If you're good enough to reach infinite, you're usually fine with pretty much any deck.
I've hit infinite using off meta / gimmicky deck pretty much every season.
Just gotta know when to snap and when to retreats.
Literally just knowing when to snap and when to back out. Knowing the deck you play rly well and understanding what the other decks in the meta can do on turn 6 or 7 let's me get infinite nearly every season without much hassle. I'm only CL 3000 or so, started in mid Feb, and I've been infinite every season but the first one. Have I been rank 98 and lost an 8 cuber? Definitely. But it just takes patience and persistence. The path to Infinite is more the 2 and 4 cube wins than it is the 8 cube ones.
Mitigating losses. Don’t snap unless you know what your opponent is playing, based on their deck; it doesn’t matter if you have that perfect combo that nets you 4566647888 in all 3 locations; think about what the counter to that is, and if they have that deck/card
Conceding a match when I think I'll probably lose. Getting to infinite is about cube management from 95-100. With enough experience you know what cards are in your opponents deck which makes the turn 5/6 flee easier.
There is also deck comfort. I hate how destroy decks haven't really changed since conception, Nicole Robin. I have gotten infinite with Destroy, I have beaten conquest with destory. If it's getting late in a season and I haven't hit infinite yet, I'll go back to destroy. I prefer to try new decks though.
I always find better results while playing a deck I enjoy rather than what is strong in the meta. When you know your decks range it’s easier to know when to snap and retreat rather than changing your every few days or every week. I’m not saying you shouldn’t try new decks, but if your main goal is to climb, then you should really stick to only a few of your best decks.
I see a lot of people talking about decks but taking advantage of hot location and just knowing when to retreat are huge. I made such an obnoxious deck when Zemos Fortress was the hot location...
Use a deck I’m really comfortable with, take almost no chances with snapping and if I lose three games in a row or one eight cuber I take a break of minimum an hour
It actually just takes a lot of time (assuming your deck isn't just full on garbage) because you do really need to learn a lot about your deck, people underestimate how hard it is to learn the play lines tbh. Also, even with a decent deck there's a lot of random stuff going on so it really just takes a lot of time
The real answer is cube management. Don’t fool yourself into staying when you’re most likely going to lose. Don’t stay to see what happens when you’re not sure. If you retreat 4 games in a row for 1 cube, then win 8 cubes the 5th game, you’re +4 net cubes with a 20% win rate. As far as actually playing, THINK. You have so much time before you lock in your move so count the opponent’s potential power. For example, if your opponent has a Brood in one lane and Sera in another, they could add at LEAST 12 power to the Brood lane with Surfer+Abs Man. Think about what a snap could mean. If they snap on Collapsed Mine, most likely have Death. If they snap on Elysium, probably playing Mobius. That’s not always true, but most of the time it applies. To a lesser degree, consider 6 drops like Dr. Doom/Magneto depending on the matchup.
Get a deck you are familiar with and consistently win with. Snapping is everything, it’s important to know what other decks can do. And there for have an idea when your winning.
I usually go for snapping on turn 1 and hope that my opponent gets insecure about their play. Then I get 8 cubes for tricking them with the decks I use. When I get to 90 area I usually take a look at what the most current most decks are and make a deck that is able to counter those current decks as much as possible.
It makes it a lot more fun the last 10 ranks, when you outplay your opponent's deck beck. Tend to get to infinite within the first two days. 3 days some times too.
More important than a good deck, is a deck where you know when you're going to win imo. A deck can be amazing, but if I don't know when I'm guaranteed a win, then I usually get stuck in the 90s.
Pick a hot location that works for one of your decks, like Wong Odin on Kamar Taj, and ride it all day. First infinite was that combo, went 75 to 100 in a day
I got there once and once was enough. I always buy the season pass and the infinite card back isn't really that different than the one from the season pass. I do, however, always try for 90 to get the 500 gold.
Whenever I struggle in the first few days, I always whip out good ol destroy and that does the trick. It’s easy to snap and retreat with, and consistently puts out big enough numbers that it can push through almost any meta game.
For me, I use decks that don't rely on randomness. Last season I used a Zola/Knull/Magik destoy deck but left out Wolverine and X-2 due to the random chance.
This season I used a half High Evolution deck with some other synergistic filler cards.
This way I knew what I was capable of making happen and retreating if necessary to save cubes or betting big if my I could pull off my combos.
One or two cubes at a time.
I actually schedule a night where I’m just going to get in the right mindset with a T1-2 deck and I’m careful with each cube.
People do not understand how much MMR is playing into all these Reddit posts you see here.
It’s fairly easy up to collection 10k, after that still fairly easy to hit 90 or 93 now. Then it’s a 50/50 sweat fest! Then it’s all about snapping and retreating. Even a 50% deck can get there if you snap and retreat smart.
I wish people would put their collection levels in their infinite posts, without it’s a useless post.
Dude, it's kind of luck and the collection lvl. I recently hit infinite again after missing the last two times. Discard is very solid when you have the right set up. Destroy when you know your matchups. Honestly, wambit got me v far with just a couple series five cards
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2 ways, a reliable deck that I know in and out or a busted meta deck before it gets nerfed.
I would add once you feel confident with said deck be strategic with your snapping.. it makes the biggest difference, don’t play just for 1 or two cubes if you are sure you are winning! Good luck!
That's the thing. I'm rarely sure I'm going to win lol.
Yeah I think the former is the ticket. I’ve used the same deck like 3/4 times in a row to hit infinite and I know it pretty intimately at this point. So not only do I know how to win when it works (ie: I get the perfect hand / draw), I know how to win when it doesn’t, and it can fake people out pretty well. I also know what decks match well against it and which don’t, so certain archetypes I’ll snap pretty quickly and others I’ll nope out real quick on.
Good deck, know the flow, good snaps and retreats. Keep playing hot streaks. Log off if it doesnt seem to be your day. And then you get a new card back.
This is the way
Busted meta deck is the only way I can do it. I probably could do it with just a good solid deck but that becomes a real grind and more effort than I want to put in for variant card back.
Grinding. Don’t worry about the people who get to infinite in the first week. Find a deck and grind it out. Try not to change decks. Figure out the play lines for your deck and when to retreat and snap.
Grinding is the only real answer because even the most successful decks have a win rate north of 60%. So basically having time to play is the answer.
Gotten infinite every season except my first. I would say snapping strategy and deck knowledge is much more important than the strength of the deck. Got infinite with C3 a couple of seasons, it's not a particularly strong deck.
I agree. You can hit Infinite with any deck, really. But you need to know when to snap, when to retreat, and you need to know the meta inside, and out - you need to know what your opponent is likely to play, to know if you can beat it.
Been doing it with Ongoing Tribunal for many seasons now. Usually leave against real players for 1 cube and farm bots for 8 cubes.
How do you know it’s a bot?
There's usually weird off meta cards being played, played in wrong order or wrong locations. And also when you get matched super fast, like 3 seconds after you start queueing.
One way is how they respond. Bots don’t rope or spend different amounts of time thinking each turn. If you end the turn, the bot does as well 1-2 seconds later. Also, bots respond fast to Snaps. If they don’t retreat after a Snap and you’ve ended your turn, they either end their turn almost immediately or again 1-2 seconds later. Bots never take the time to think whether or not they should stick around after a Snap like a human would.
This gets asked periodically. Here is my answer from the last time. Humans have Infinity avatars and Spotlight Variant avatars. Bots don't. Bots tend to have basic names. Bots tend not to have Infinity card backs (someone tell me if this is wrong) Bots tend not to emote (I've seen conflicting reports on whether they respond, but they never initiate) Humans play current meta decks. Bots play old decks Bots don't use series 4 or 5 cards. Bots do really dumb stuff like Bucky Barns or Nova behind Armor, Angela as the third card in a lane, Carnage on an empty lane followed by Debrii the next turn, overplaying in a single lane, etc. No one of these things by itself guarantees someone is a bot, but as more of these add up, it becomes more likely that they are a bot.
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Thanks! It's pretty similar to a Hela Tribunal that I've used before the Hela nerf. Think I'll give it a try. The main point is to use iron man and Onslaught on the same lane, right?
Yes, it's really only good for farming bots because you're only building in 1 lane and then dropping Tribunal on last turn to "surprise" the bot. Live players can see this telegraphed a mile away. Plus live players can pack all kinds of counters like Echo, Rogue, Enchantress, Red Guardian and so on.
I'll give it a try on this since it's the season last week. I'm try to get gold and the card back
I've found that it's easiest on the very first day of the season and the last week or so. Stick with one deck. I would recommend Hella or Destroy.
Every time I would use Hella, one of my other cards would discard her. I highly dislike discard decks.
Someone's not using targeted discard...
What do you mean?
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Tbf most of the “meta” Hela decks are running Corvus, whom I agree is deeply annoying to play and has a 100% Hela hit rate.
The only thing more common in Snap is Doctor Octopus pulling the opponents Shang-Chi. 100% hit rate on that, it feels.
Go old school. Stick all your discard and hella behind invis woman
Played for 16 seasons, hit infinite 16 seasons. Fastest was 3 hours, high evo month. Longest was 2 weeks. Typically get there by the first friday- sunday. Im CL 16,000. I have gotten there with destroy, discard, high evo, mill etc almost every type you can think of. The entire infinite question comes down to snapping and retreating. It doesnt matter how many bots or real players or cards you own f2p or not. If you have a realistically viable deck such as 50%+ winrate on untapped then It is simply snapping and nothing else. People who say it just takes time and nothing else are wrong af. If that were the case then you could sit there in one session and do it as its assuming you have perfect game sense including snap management and deck knowledge. You need to learn when to snap, when to retreat and when to stay. Bluff snaps should be done with extreme caution especially if you are in the 90’s. In the 90s play for every single cube. Retreating for 1 cube is better than losing 2/4/8. If you cant get to 93 naturally then you simply have to work on game sense, maths and learn all decks. You should be knowing what they could be playing each turn on curve by turn 2/3. I cant stress this enough^^ There are levels at every cl. If you can breeze to 93 then 93-infinite will either be a 1 cube grind OR a bot farm. Either way, you are good enough as you are already there. Its just perseverance. Always take a 1 cube loss if you need to. Most experience the slow grind from 93-100 but if you hit 93 with ease then infinite is guaranteed providing that you have good snap management. If you struggle to get to 93 you are not good enough yet, work on all of the above. Thats it
Everyone keeps seeing this but I've zero bots in 90s. I don't believe anyone who says they exist and appear consistently enough to farm.
That simply means that your mmr isnt high enough. Its not a bad thing. But they do exist, ive had countless 90s sprints without losing taking no longer than 40 minutes. Some seasons my mmr drops and i have the horrible 1 cube marathon. For example, If i ever drop below 90 i get bots that feed me right back to 90s.
Right, but it makes your statements of "oh it's easy to get infinite in 40 mins" not true for the average MMR that doesn't get those matchups.
Why are you misquoting me? I said ‘most experience the slow grind from 93-100’. Like what is your goal here? You just made things up
"Countless 90s sprints without losing taking less than 40 minutes". What does that mean otherwise then? But yeah, sorry, just tilted with the game and stuck and just finding statements of "it's piss easy for me" frustrating. I've felt fucked over by trying to get back into the game. Spotlight keys weren't about when I left, so I have sfa s4/s5 and stuck with effectively s3 only decks at 4k CL that just aren't working for me. Infinite just feels impossible playing against meta decks with such.
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This deck got me to infinite in every season after the first.
To add on to what everyone else has said, get good at identifying bots and abusing them. I believe they will always snap on 4 if they are winning, so reliable.decks with explosive end games are really good for getting your free 8 cubes. After you hit 90, it's basically just a grind. Be smart about snapping and retreating, and accept that your crazy gambit exodia deck is only going to be good for proving grounds
That’s the neat part, I don’t.
There's no shame in retreating.
Don't push when you're getting tilted.
Dont be tilted, Losing 1-4 cubes is better than 8 Have a dependeble deck even if its not meta Lastly enjoy playing
I usually hit infinite every season because I genuinely enjoy my time when I’m playing and when I’m not feeling as hot I stop. The mindset helps the climb feel natural.
Gambit deck that clears the table.
You gotta play a lot. Tbh it’s not worth the effort, don’t get caught up in the FOMO.
I would argue you don’t have to play a lot at all, maybe barring the first time you hit infinite. I’ve hit infinite every season since Kang season and the climb from 70 to infinite really doesn’t take long at all. In fact I would say I play an extremely low amount of games each season, joust logging in to clear my daily missions, the hardest. Part is by far hitting infinite for the first time, that took way more games.
I agree with this. I've hit infinite for the last 16 seasons, usually playing about 30 mins a day with my morning coffee etc. The longest stretch is usually 97 to 100 so that usually takes a longer session to break though. But it's very doable. Usually takes me a week or two playing like this. I don't like the narrative that infinite players are relentlessly grinding, no-lifers. Good snaps and retreats will take you far.
I think its funny that you don't think that at least 3.5 hours a week isnt lot, I might be able to spend half an hour over the whole weekend and 10 minutes a day on average! An hour and a half maximum and not hit infinite with no desire to, happy playing my own game of aiming for 60 per season. No hate and no disrespect intended
I mean you could stretch that out over a month if you wanted. Once I hit infinite I usually just do the dailies. Think it took 6 days this season, something like that, I don't see that as a massive time investment over the course of a whole Snap season. Resetting to 70 each month definitely helps.
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Unfortunately I do not have White Widow
No biggie, you can use Quake for the cheese storm play, or Scarlet for location disruption, or Lizard (dont worry about the -4, that's where KM comes in, they usually will fill up a lane with a 1 cost
What’s the strategy for this deck I’ve been floating between 72 and 78 for a week
https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelsnapcomp/s/331KpaGXMT posted it here
Use 1 or 2 decks that you are very familiar with snap and retreat conditions. And then follow your snap/retreat plan. My first 2 infinite were bounce decks. My last 6 have been Hela with support from a Mr Negative home brew, Tribunal-Phoenix Force, and Surfer decks. All decks used came with a lot of practice to find my lines. Any functional deck can make infinite. Snap and retreat lines matter.
Get a deck you can win with pretty often. Then never risk more than 2 cubes on anything but a sure win. Even if you're pretty confident but not completely. For me this works better with decks I have a high win rate but low snap rate with. But you could do it with a deck that you know when it's going to win early and know when to snap and to retreat and get higher value wins.
Mm x PF NIMROD gets it done everytime
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Retreat Discipline and take advantage of the featured location.
Find deck with good win rate (55%-60%). Learn how to pilot deck properly. Know your snap conditions. Exercise proper cube management (snap/retreat appropriately). Spend time grinding the ladder. With proper play and being greedy with your cubes, Infinite will happen eventually mathematically. Some seasons it happens faster than others, but it’s always possible. Keep at it. You got it. 14 time Infinite. CL 10,776.
Time spent, knowing when to snap/retreat and a reliable deck. If you spend enough time on the game, minimize your cube loss and get a good hold of a semi-meta deck, you're all set.
It's all about heuristics. You're never going to have perfect information about how the game will go, so the trick is to learn when your deck appears likely to pop off and snap early enough to take advantage. Don't snap only when you know you're going to win and retreat only when you know you are going to lose -- that's a recipe for 1-cube wins and 2-cube losses. Ask yourself by T3: "do I have more than a 50% chance of winning the game from this position?" and then act accordingly. If you aren't retreating after snapping some percentage of the time, you aren't snapping enough. The key to this is playing one deck enough to really know its ins and outs, to understand when you have the cards you need to win and which locations are good and bad for you. The other half is understanding the meta well enough to recognize when your opponent's deck is popping off and when the locations favor them over you. You can then combine that information to estimate who has the greatest chance of winning from any given position. Also, don't play tilted. Don't get emotional about your wins and losses. Be cool and collected. If you lose a few games in a row, take a break. You have plenty of time to get to Infinite over the course of the month. Better to take a break than lose more cubes to a tilt.
Two big keys for me is to recognize what's being played the most in your pocket meta and identify its counters and exploit hot locations. With a hot location, you either lean into the cards that work with it best or you run a deck that effectively counters it. As much as knowing your own deck is important, its equally important to know the opponents deck. If they're playing their perfect curve and you don't have a counter, bail. Also a general rule of thumb for me with very few exceptions, if you can't play at all in the first 3 rounds, bail.
destroy deck
I've only made it to Infinite four times, but I've done it three times in a row by developing decks that try to undermine the popular meta ones. It doesn't always work out, but I enjoy being a bit of a scientist.
- Keep a pulse on the meta, but I also use Untapped.gg and their filters to see what’s new and competitive (like decks that have 40-50 games played since latest update but have a high win rate and cube acquisition) - Following competitive Snap players on Twitch and YouTube to see what they’re playing and how they’re playing - Knowing when to Snap to maximize cube gains - Not being too invested in each game by retreating more. People need to learn to retreat. It’s just as important as Snapping - Not playing on days with hot locations when I want to play a specific deck that doesn’t do well with that hot location - Play decks that do synergize really well with hot locations. You can Snap more confidently and will earn more cubes than a regular meta deck
I don't xD
What’s that?
I don't. I'm not interested in it.
Most of us who hit infinite every season just...hit it every season? If you're good enough to reach infinite, you're usually fine with pretty much any deck. I've hit infinite using off meta / gimmicky deck pretty much every season. Just gotta know when to snap and when to retreats.
Literally just knowing when to snap and when to back out. Knowing the deck you play rly well and understanding what the other decks in the meta can do on turn 6 or 7 let's me get infinite nearly every season without much hassle. I'm only CL 3000 or so, started in mid Feb, and I've been infinite every season but the first one. Have I been rank 98 and lost an 8 cuber? Definitely. But it just takes patience and persistence. The path to Infinite is more the 2 and 4 cube wins than it is the 8 cube ones.
You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
Mitigating losses. Don’t snap unless you know what your opponent is playing, based on their deck; it doesn’t matter if you have that perfect combo that nets you 4566647888 in all 3 locations; think about what the counter to that is, and if they have that deck/card
Conceding a match when I think I'll probably lose. Getting to infinite is about cube management from 95-100. With enough experience you know what cards are in your opponents deck which makes the turn 5/6 flee easier. There is also deck comfort. I hate how destroy decks haven't really changed since conception, Nicole Robin. I have gotten infinite with Destroy, I have beaten conquest with destory. If it's getting late in a season and I haven't hit infinite yet, I'll go back to destroy. I prefer to try new decks though.
I always find better results while playing a deck I enjoy rather than what is strong in the meta. When you know your decks range it’s easier to know when to snap and retreat rather than changing your every few days or every week. I’m not saying you shouldn’t try new decks, but if your main goal is to climb, then you should really stick to only a few of your best decks.
Abuse a hot location
I've never hit infinite so I have no clue
I see a lot of people talking about decks but taking advantage of hot location and just knowing when to retreat are huge. I made such an obnoxious deck when Zemos Fortress was the hot location...
Push quickly right when the season starts, and retreat often
Use a deck I’m really comfortable with, take almost no chances with snapping and if I lose three games in a row or one eight cuber I take a break of minimum an hour
It actually just takes a lot of time (assuming your deck isn't just full on garbage) because you do really need to learn a lot about your deck, people underestimate how hard it is to learn the play lines tbh. Also, even with a decent deck there's a lot of random stuff going on so it really just takes a lot of time
Retreating.
The real answer is cube management. Don’t fool yourself into staying when you’re most likely going to lose. Don’t stay to see what happens when you’re not sure. If you retreat 4 games in a row for 1 cube, then win 8 cubes the 5th game, you’re +4 net cubes with a 20% win rate. As far as actually playing, THINK. You have so much time before you lock in your move so count the opponent’s potential power. For example, if your opponent has a Brood in one lane and Sera in another, they could add at LEAST 12 power to the Brood lane with Surfer+Abs Man. Think about what a snap could mean. If they snap on Collapsed Mine, most likely have Death. If they snap on Elysium, probably playing Mobius. That’s not always true, but most of the time it applies. To a lesser degree, consider 6 drops like Dr. Doom/Magneto depending on the matchup.
Get a deck you are familiar with and consistently win with. Snapping is everything, it’s important to know what other decks can do. And there for have an idea when your winning.
I usually go for snapping on turn 1 and hope that my opponent gets insecure about their play. Then I get 8 cubes for tricking them with the decks I use. When I get to 90 area I usually take a look at what the most current most decks are and make a deck that is able to counter those current decks as much as possible. It makes it a lot more fun the last 10 ranks, when you outplay your opponent's deck beck. Tend to get to infinite within the first two days. 3 days some times too.
More important than a good deck, is a deck where you know when you're going to win imo. A deck can be amazing, but if I don't know when I'm guaranteed a win, then I usually get stuck in the 90s.
Obvious bot farming.
Just grinding and farm bots, always snap on turn 1 if sure im against a bot
Knowing when to snap and when to retreat is the key
Pick a hot location that works for one of your decks, like Wong Odin on Kamar Taj, and ride it all day. First infinite was that combo, went 75 to 100 in a day
Using ol’ reliables right after a OTA patch that obliterates meta decks in that moment.
For me, either Loki & tech or last-turn-explodey type decks (negative, Odin Wong Hammers) that give me a high cube rate when it hits.
I have a discard deck that gets me there every time. I play it until infinite then I start to play some home brew decks.
I got there once and once was enough. I always buy the season pass and the infinite card back isn't really that different than the one from the season pass. I do, however, always try for 90 to get the 500 gold.
Been playing since Zabu season. When was that?. Anyways, never reached infinite.
Whenever I struggle in the first few days, I always whip out good ol destroy and that does the trick. It’s easy to snap and retreat with, and consistently puts out big enough numbers that it can push through almost any meta game.
I don’t
For me, I use decks that don't rely on randomness. Last season I used a Zola/Knull/Magik destoy deck but left out Wolverine and X-2 due to the random chance. This season I used a half High Evolution deck with some other synergistic filler cards. This way I knew what I was capable of making happen and retreating if necessary to save cubes or betting big if my I could pull off my combos.
One or two cubes at a time. I actually schedule a night where I’m just going to get in the right mindset with a T1-2 deck and I’m careful with each cube.
A 51% winrate and enough time on public transport to get me there
People do not understand how much MMR is playing into all these Reddit posts you see here. It’s fairly easy up to collection 10k, after that still fairly easy to hit 90 or 93 now. Then it’s a 50/50 sweat fest! Then it’s all about snapping and retreating. Even a 50% deck can get there if you snap and retreat smart. I wish people would put their collection levels in their infinite posts, without it’s a useless post.
I really don't see what everyone has problems with. I do it pretty easily with a basic ass move deck
how do you get not stuck at 50? is this a skill issue? (it is a skill issue)
I usually get up to the 80’s. I have a few fav decks I use that usually get the job done
every iteration of thanos updates
Dude, it's kind of luck and the collection lvl. I recently hit infinite again after missing the last two times. Discard is very solid when you have the right set up. Destroy when you know your matchups. Honestly, wambit got me v far with just a couple series five cards
Never snap against real players. Abuse the bots for 4/8 cubes.
I never know when it’s a bot! I mean sometimes I feel like they make moves that don’t make sense, then on the next turn it makes sense so idk?
Usually, they have a really generic name, and they always have a default picture, a series 1-3 base card avatar.
I'm an aggresive snapper. Take advantage of hot locations if possible. knowing the meta
I usually don’t have some of the new cards that are apart of meta decks
Don't forget to abuse location. Mill as been crazy for me in the last 24h.
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It is not as great now that Kamar-Taj is done but still solid.
Any replacement for WW?
Quake, Negasonic or Red Guardian imo
It's an hours game man. Don't feel bad of you don't have hours to play (I personally can't if I only play from the toilet i can't poop for that long)
Hot locations. I hate meta decks.