User blog comment:$nake Eye$/Experimenting with Haiel's mech calculations for match making/@comment-26469644-20151025195340/@comment-26054694-20151025222222

Optimal robot weapon and level combinations for a tier. This game has a very poor matchmaker design that works on a tiered system, you get placed in a tier based on your robot and weapon levels (with some variance from your win streak and/or pilot do the day ranking). If you don't understand how the matchmaker works you can find yourself fighting vastly more experienced players than yourself with equipment 5 or more levels above yours. We've complained about the matchmaker a lot but every time they tweak it all they do is move the boundaries.