Tips on your first month
- Buying sponsor slots. You are guaranteed 10 ranked team wins every day if you have an optimal strategy (up to 2500 ELO). So keep the sponsor's pay per win in mind. Pay per day isn't the #1 reason to pick a sponsor.
- Buy a PR rep your first day. It helps your team reputation, which helps getting better sponsors. Also helps your player reputation, which increases streaming revenue.
- Getting better sponsors means to raise your team reputation, team ranked ELO, and star player ELO. You will often get blocked because star player ELO is too low. Look at the market and scout daily to pick up players with high ELO. Between 1600-2300 is good.
- Gaining more player slots through upgrading gamer house. Every extra player you get is another streamer that can generate $20k-$50k daily revenue.
- Winning ranked games. See the sponsor tip above.
- There's never a good enough reason to have less than 10 streaming per day.
Facilities:
- Utilities is a noob trap. Never upgrade. Its never cost effective
- Gaming House and Sleeping Area are cost effective up to level 10. After that you'll have to think about how you want to play the end game to decide on if you want to continue to upgrade. At this point, upgrading facilities will hemorrhage your daily revenue because of maintenance costs.
- Gaming Gear has significant effect on your PvP outcomes. Upgrading 5 levels is significant enough to overcome a 10 point difference in player stats. (That was an unscientific guesstimation.) Upgrade GG last, because strategy matters a lot more than GG. GH and SA take priority because they both allow you to do more actions per day, which snowballs your advantages. GG doesn't affect streaming or training outcomes.
PvP tips:
- The best teams are made of 2-3 players that uses mainly utility with the rest in damage.
- Your first team is trash. Look at the market daily for players you can pick up. In the end you'll replace every player except your star player.
- Look at what the best teams are doing in ranked and tournaments and copy them. It is a good base. Eventually you'll learn what are the best picks from watching games and looking at champion stats.
- A good strategy can beat out teams with up to 20 player stat advantages. Over 20 point differences will always result in losses.
- Tweak your strategy over time and based on champion picks. Try picking champions with high laning and burst with a kill strategy and picking champions with high scaling with a farm strategy and see how those games play out.
- The end game is determined by who has the best strategy that utilizes 60+ player stat players.
Academy:
- Using coach training is only worth it on academy players. Your first team is too old to benefit much from coach training. You will always find better players in the market or through scouting
- Academy players are worth investing in after you have 5-7 sponsor slots. Prior to that, getting your economy up is more important.
- Always buy academy players out to train them with coaches. Do not keep them in academy. They get higher player stats that way.
- Train academy players with 10-15 sessions. There's a logarithmic increase of player stats gains between 10-20. More sessions than 20 will cause decreases in player stats.
Misc:
- Enter weekly tournaments. Its free money.
- Always have solo queue games running, and as many as possible without sacrificing training or streaming. In order of top priorities: 10 streaming > 1 game solo queue > training (academy) > team ranked > additional solo q. Champion experience plays a big part in wins.