How to Pick winning Axies for Arena: Unbiased analysis of Top 50 players’ Axies

Let’s be honest; playing Axie Infinity is more fun when you are winning 😊 Especially in Arena Mode. In this article we have analyzed the classes and cards of Top 50 players in Season 10.

We have used the information at https://axie.zone/leaderboard at the end of Season 10. Of note, this information may vary among Seasons since there are different players with different playing styles and there are changes in cards for balancing purposes.

First of all, let look at the most used Axie classes:

In general, it is suggested to have a tank (usually a plant or Aquatic), a damage dealing Axie (Beast/Bird) and a support Axie. Among Top 50 players Plant class is over-represented as seen by its 40 % presence. It suggests that some teams of Top 50 players have more than one plant Axie in their teams. Having plant Axies probably increases the vitality of the teams which might increase the winning chance.

When we limited the same analysis to Top 20 we saw something very interesting.

Now % of Reptile class doubled in Top 20. Reptile class has relatively high HP and cards that make them hard to kill. It seems Top players were concentrated making teams that are hard to kill at the 1st place. Among the new classes (Dusk, dawn and mech) only Dusk showed up in Top 50 players. Dusk class also have high HP and relatively high speed. Since Axies of these classes are not very abundant yet, we need to wait and see if they are chosen by Pro players.

Now let’s look at the cards of Top 50 players:

We have manually gone through most played teams of Top 50 players and counted the cards the Axies have. Below are the most abundant cards in Top 50:

Here we can see also see over-representation of plant cards in top 12 cards (7/12). The data suggest that Top players use Axies that can take damage, steal your energy, poison, stun and wait for the other team to die. Attack cards like “Wooden Stab” or “Prickly trap” has high attack % bonus when used in defending Axies.

If you are forming a new team, you can try to have some of these cards above in the team and see if it will help you to win more matches in Arena. In addition, I would suggest backdoor attack cards (i.e. Sneaky Raid, Dark Swoop, Smart Shot etc) to catch the opponent without a strong defense. Moreover, cards that has “Discard card” (i.e. Third Glance, Sunder Claw) have high potential to disable enemies if used in chain. You can use card explorer at https://www.axieworld.com/en/tools/cards-explorer for details of the cards showed above.

In summary:

· More defensive Axies with high vitality can help winning the match

· Inhibiting enemy abilities are as important as high damage output

· Energy generating/steal is a huge advantage

· Backdoor attacks are useful to catch the opponent off guard

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