Does anyone else find that 12 points for most kills is worth too much. Our battles seem to just be about killing and teams with low fighting stats suffer
If your a low Atk team vs a high Atk team, play more defensively. Tackle them when they try to attack. Force them to use their higher energy cards to not be knocked over. They can't attack you when they get pushed away or if their bruisers are all on the ground. Boot to the Head and bench their bruisers with a runner. If they use their high energy cards to defend the tackle, the chances of you being dealt lethal damage fall.
Against Amazons and Cowboys that won't work as well though since they skirt your killzones when attacking. You have to rely kinda heavily on ringer and upgrade choices if you're playing someone like the Trolls against Amazons. Those are always just gonna be really hard matchups. Amazons in general are always a hard matchup. But Amazons at 2 health get punished hard for any contest losses. Bzzt! Is a great cheat card vs them for that reason.