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Battle Pools & the U200 Cap

Season 0 PvP offers two pools to choose from when you enter the arena. They share the same Season 0 battle rules — Lv.100 cards, 5× HP at start, attacker uses Archon Skills — and differ only in one thing: whether there is a Skill Power cap.

The two Season 0 PvP pools — Unlimited and ⭐U200
Pick a pool when you open PvP — each tracks its wins separately.
Season 0 PvP Arena
The Unlimited pool — no skill-star cap. Bring your strongest cards with every skill maxed; the only limits are the shared Season 0 rules.
Season 0 PvP Arena ⭐U200
The capped pool — your whole team’s combined Skill Power must be 200 stars or fewer. Raw roster strength matters less; a focused, well-built team matters more.

Everything else about Season 0 is unchanged in both pools: no rewards-or-penalty on the matches themselves, ghost-data matchmaking, and your latest committed team becomes other players’ opponent. See the PvP overview →.

Team Skill Power

The ⭐U200 cap is measured against your team Skill Power — the same star value shown on each card, added up across the whole team.

Team Skill Power = the sum of every card’s Skill Power, where each card’s Skill Power is the sum of (skill rarity × skill level) over its skills. The always-on Basic Attack is excluded.

For exactly how a single card’s Skill Power is counted — and how to switch off the skills you don’t want — see Skill Customization.

When You’re Over the Cap

If the team you bring to the ⭐U200 pool totals more than 200 stars, the game tells you before the fight and gives you two ways to get under the cap:

Two ways under the cap
  1. Do it yourself — use Skill Customization to switch off the skills you don’t need, choosing exactly what your team brings. This gives you the most control.
  2. Let the system fit it — tap Confirm and the game auto-reduces your team to fit, in two steps:
    1. It lowers skill levels first, starting from your highest-star skills across all heroes, until the team is under the cap.
    2. If every skill is already at Lv.1 and the team is still over the cap, it then switches skills off — again from the highest-star skills across all heroes — until the cap is met.

The auto-fit is deterministic and temporary — it’s applied only to the team snapshot used for that fight (and the ghost it leaves behind), and never edits your saved cards. The same team always reduces the same way.

★ Two pools, two playstyles
The Unlimited pool is about raw power — level every skill as high as it will go and bring your strongest possible team. The ⭐U200 pool is about the puzzle: with only 200 stars to spend, the question becomes which combination of skills you pick. It’s the place to experiment — try different builds, mix roles, and see what a tightly-budgeted team can do.