# Tips things i'd tell a friend before their first duel. ## farm easy wins early the matchmaker pairs you with brawlers near your rating. at rating 1,000 (everyone's starting point), the pool is huge and average. early wins are cheap to find. don't pick fights above you until your brawl stack is deep enough to absorb a couple of losses. if you're at rating 1,000 with 10 brawl in your wallet (one fight worth), losing it is the same as quitting. ## watch the combat log when you lose, scroll back through the combat log on the result screen. work out **why** you lost. was it bad rolls? sometimes you just whiff three crit checks in a row and there's nothing to learn. annoying but real. was your dex too low? your opponent went first every round and that compounded. that's a structural problem with the brawler, not bad luck. was your weapon underpowered? a knife brawler against a shotgun brawler with similar stats will lose more often than not. weapon rarity is real. these are different problems with different fixes (re-roll, sell, retire to art piece) and the log tells you which one you have. ## don't die resurrection costs real eth. rating drops with every loss. if your brawler is on a two-loss streak and the third loss would put them in the graveyard at common-tier price ($10), maybe the right play is **stop dueling for the day**. you don't have to fight just because you can. a brawler at 2 losses with a high rating is more valuable alive than dead. ## batch mint if you're going big 20 mints in one tx costs one gas fee. on base that's pennies, but if you're going to spend $400+ minting anyway, you might as well do it in a single tx and get the bulk bonus brawlers. reminder of the bulk discount: * 5 mints → 6 brawlers * 10 mints → 13 brawlers * 20 mints → 27 brawlers best $/brawler is the 20-pack. always. ## don't shill your own brawler every project has the guy who puts his rating-1500 common brawler in #general every two minutes. don't be that guy. nobody likes that guy. share when something interesting happens (hit a king, killed a legendary, won 5 in a row). don't share every win. ## trust the matchmaker the matchmaker uses rating, alive status, and a randomness factor. it's not biased toward house fighters, it's not biased toward founders. if you keep getting matched with the same opponent, that's because they're the only person at your rating online right now. reroll until something feels right. ## understand your weapon's range your weapon decides: * **min damage**: what you do on a low roll. * **max damage**: what you do on a high roll. * **speed**: affects to-hit and crit chance. a knife with a high str brawler beats a sledgehammer with a low str brawler more often than people think. damage *floor* matters more than damage *ceiling* in long fights. ## sell early if it's not for you a common at rating 950 with 0 wins isn't worthless. someone wants it. list them at $10-15 (not $30) and you'll find a buyer. better $10 in your wallet than a brawler you never click. ## play around the keeper rebalance the fight cost in brawl recalculates every few minutes. if you can see the brawl/eth chart, fights are cheapest right after a brawl pump and most expensive right after a dump. doesn't move much, but it's free alpha if you're already watching. ## talk in #strategy, not #duels \#duels is bot-only auto-posts of duel outcomes. you can't talk there. talk goes in **#strategy** or **#general** in discord. trash-talk goes in **#strategy** too, keep it about brawlers, not at people. ## the king is not for you unless you're the dev wallet. don't grind toward fighting the king. if you cross paths with him in matchmaking it's a curiosity, not a goal. ## save your seed phrase. lose your seed, lose your brawlers. self-custody rule. write it down on paper, store it offline, never paste it anywhere. nobody at baseicbrawlers will ever ask. anyone who asks is a scammer. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.baseicbrawlers.com/docs/gitbook/tips.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.