Originally Posted by
Semaphore
I think you've got it backwards. What you seem to be doing is picking the generals you want to use first, then observing that getting multiple copies of those generals is hard, so you trot out weak 0 star versions of them and have a weak team. What you should be doing is seeing which generals you happen to draw to get up to four stars, leveling the best of those up to 55 to be your team, and then replacing them as you get better options to four stars. There are only a handful of generals in the game worth using at one or two stars, and arguably nothing worth using at zero stars.
A few months ago, top tier players fielded about as many SR generals as UR, both in top end PVE and PVP. By top tier players, I mean the first handful who could clear most of the opponents in 6-4, and people who had a realistic shot at winning the daimyo tournament. With few exceptions, a relatively good four star SR general is more useful than a zero star UR general.
What changed that was the big soul ticket events where, if you could beat a particular opponent in a single battle, you'd get on average about one soul ticket per 60 battles. A two-week event of that ran three times in a relatively short period of time, and that meant that top tier players got literally hundreds of soul tickets. I personally got a little over 300 soul tickets out of it in total, and generally finished about 10th place on my server in the events.
That meant that top tier players suddenly had a ton of whichever SSR generals they wanted, and some options for UR generals, too, though many of the UR still weren't up to four stars. The "Land of Fire" event that just finished and gave a ton of Universal EVO cards (I personally got 14 from it, while only using the free rations and not buying more with koban) meant that if you had a few UR generals that you really liked but couldn't get to four stars, now you could.
That meant that instead of choosing between a four star SR general or a zero star UR general, the choice was between a four star SR general, a four star SSR general, or a four star UR general. That makes UR generals a lot more useful, so top tier players tend to have a mix of SSR and UR now.
Those events will presumably run again. It's been a while since we ran the soul ticket event. Once you're strong enough to beat the end boss from that event in a single battle, the next time it runs, you can farm it a bunch and come away with several dozen soul tickets and a lot more four star generals available. Once that happens, you should expect to field mostly SSR generals for a while as you slowly trickle in one four star UR general at a time.