Squad Busters can get tricky when you start to encounter real players in the later Desert and Royal worlds. While I believe the game has a slight pay-to-win aspect, there are a few strategies you can employ to get better placements and keep your top-five streak alive. Here’s what I recommend.

Here are some of the best ideas you can put into practice in your next Squad Busters match to improve your ranking. Keep scrolling to read my explanation of each point.

Characters like Greg and Barbarian are great first choices. Vendors like Greg can quickly collect coins and gems without taking damage, while All-Rounders like Barbarian have decent health and can attack solo monsters at a decent pace before you can draft a second unit. Attackers take too much damage on their own, and defenders take too long to kill monsters on their own.

Prioritize picking copies of characters you have early in the game so you can create a Fusion. Fusions have higher attack and health, and reduce the cost of your next chests, which are based on the number of units you have.