When the aliences were added the way enemy dragons attack changed they always do the attack that does the least damage to you dragon so for instance if you have the high akuma dragon and you use it in the dark arena you cant lose because the enemy dragons will only do their dark attacks its the same for any other element

You could even win any battle with a lvl 4 dragon with dark as its main element in the dark arena if you didnt mid fight for a few hours

They changed it to make them do the strongest attacks now

Makes them more challenging and worthy, honestly that was one of the reasons why I found the Arenas so boring and only went there for the Chest fights.

@Nynaevelan
More challenging to some but too challenging for others who aren't as advanced. Really I would rather they go back to random attacks. It's very difficult to level up these alliance chests when my dragons keep getting knocked out and I need to rest them for some hours.

@Susan-McLaughlin said in Enemy dragon AI:

@Nynaevelan
More challenging to some but too challenging for others who aren't as advanced. Really I would rather they go back to random attacks. It's very difficult to level up these alliance chests when my dragons keep getting knocked out and I need to rest them for some hours.

What levels are your dragons? Your opponents? What are their first element?

@Nynaevelan
I've been playing since the high amuka race, so 9 or 10 months. My best dragons are levelled to 27-31. 9 of those are 3 gold starred. 5 are heroics and 3 are legendary. I try to match the strongest dragon I have that gives a critical hit but won't take a critical hit against its opponent.
But in the dark 3 arena most of my opponents are also 3 stars and heroics or legendaries, only they are often stronger than me, 35 or 40. And with the battles changed to always strongest hit, and especially when I change over dragons and the new pairing leaves me vulnerable to a critical hit, I'm losing dragons and even battles. And then I have to wait 3.5 hours to recharge a downed heroic only to lose it again. Which means I'm not getting very many points toward the alliance chest.
Even my daughter who is about dragon level 21 max and in the electric arenas is having the same difficulty against her opponents.

If you didn’t update. It couldn’t be easier.

@Jimmbo-Slice if you don’t update, you can’t do the alliance chest

@Susan-McLaughlin said in Enemy dragon AI:

@Nynaevelan
I've been playing since the high amuka race, so 9 or 10 months. My best dragons are levelled to 27-31. 9 of those are 3 gold starred. 5 are heroics and 3 are legendary. I try to match the strongest dragon I have that gives a critical hit but won't take a critical hit against its opponent.
But in the dark 3 arena most of my opponents are also 3 stars and heroics or legendaries, only they are often stronger than me, 35 or 40. And with the battles changed to always strongest hit, and especially when I change over dragons and the new pairing leaves me vulnerable to a critical hit, I'm losing dragons and even battles. And then I have to wait 3.5 hours to recharge a downed heroic only to lose it again. Which means I'm not getting very many points toward the alliance chest.
Even my daughter who is about dragon level 21 max and in the electric arenas is having the same difficulty against her opponents.

Unfortunately it looks like you will need to level up your dragons more. Are they trained with the best attacks?

@Nynaevelan
My training centre has been in constant use since I got it. And I feed them up when I can but that of course is just a matter of the time and gold it takes to farm tomatoes. But nobody gets there overnight, and I thought I was doing fairly well for someone playing less than a year. It was frustrating to have this change to make the battles more difficult coincide with the arena battle-based alliance chest. I've started skipping battles now. But still I sometimes make the wrong call and lose 3 dragons for a few hours.

@LilCricketPa
That’s notentirely true. I have an alliance and we are doing the alliance chest as we speak. There were two updates for the alliance chest. The second update that was labeled as alliance chest, really seems like a ploy to fix the arena glitch...I don’t see a difference, my daughters iPad updated and in the arena they always pick the strongest move. I’m in a sweet spot right now and I’m just gonna ride it out.

I’m currently running on 7.01