As a relatively new player, i am having a hard time beating anyone in leagues. My dragons are level 25 and all my opponents are feom 25 to 30 and A rank on their dragons. When I refresh my opponents and hope to get more balanced ones, I get even higher opponents because now instead of level 34 im 37, for an example. This happened 3-4 times while leveling up my game account. And ive lost all the progress towards those gems, with opponents becoming impossible to beat. Not to mention that im at a big disadvantage because i cannot complete any of the bonus objectives for the events that require to win league battles. I should get opponents based on my dragons levels, opponents that i can at least have a shot against with the right dragons. Its frustrating to completely ignore that part of the game because i know there is nothing for me there.

You are getting opponents based on your level, you stated your dragons are level 25 and your opponents dragons are within that range. Unfortunately you are correct they are either ranked or empowered. As a new player you will most likely have to stay away from the events that require the league battles or pay to skip them. To help you progress, work on your sanctuary so that you can get some of the 4 element legends. Also use the friends challenges to rank your dragons up so that they are stronger. Try to win a heroic race or two or three to get at least one heroic to use on your team. Also while your dragons are so weak stay away from the league as much as possible, the higher you go the stronger your opponents become. So until you have some good, competitive dragons leveling up in there will just hurt you more than it will help. I know as a new player you wish to do all the event types but honestly you will not be able to unless you are willing to pay to get through them. Your primary goal should be strengthening your dragons and growing your city to earn more gold so you can grow more food to feed them up.

I also forgot to add, work on breeding and empowering a Kratus, he is a good fighting dragon to use both in the leagues and the arenas.

@alexandru-teodoru You should not force levelling up to quickly. Because that will make it worse. Just concentrate on building up a good fighting team.

@bettina-löffler

I agree with Bettina. I did this. Buying and selling the 1st and only Light, Pure, War habitats to level up fast. It sure helped me get all the habitat boosting crystals.

From there I only started winning the League battles easily once I got a couple of Herioc dragons. As soon as you got 3 you're pretty good to go. I suggest to do whatever it takes to get one with pure, one with primal, and one with legend attack.

In Facebook, many veteran players always tell new players to NOT level up quickly as you will face tougher opponents.

But no, most do not listen and all you can do now, is to accept that you will not get free gems UNTIL such as time as you empowered a few legendary dragons like Kratus and/or Millennium (good luck with these - looong).

I still suggest that you accept not winning and give yourself a year to increase dragon master profile. Turtle and Rabbit.

@alexrobert23 No links to sites other than posts on the forums.

i would say impossible but certainly difficult is you don't have a good size pool to draw from in the very beginning and even later on it's best to juggle your team to keep them alive as long as possible, learn element matchups and get at least 1 titan as soon as your able their ability that says NO to the first attack can make all the difference no matter what stage on the game your in