WTF did they do to Battlegrounds? I stopped playing in February 2022, but recently returned. Battlegrounds is FAR more RNG and luck-based than I ever remember. It is much more challenging to get a full tribal now than before, yet in a lobby of 8 people, there are at least 1 person who gets perfect tribal and core enablers almost immediately when they reach that tier. This results in incredibly 1-sided lobby where 1-2 people have unbreakable boards that are leagues ahead of anything that the other 7-6 players could have ever drafted.
The problem is that with 5 classes of minion types in a given lobby, it is statistically improbable for all 8 players to get decent tribal. In essence, the game picks and chooses who is favored to win by giving these players great picks, and giving the rest drafts that cannot compete.
I don’t have an issue of buddies except that the heroes with the best powers also have the better buddies, so the game is even more imbalanced than without buddies. It would have made sense to give heroes with better powers bad/worse buddies, but this isn’t the case.
It has reached the point where I can’t even play anymore, because Battlegrounds is too RNG-based and my individual skill has little to do with the outcome of matches.