The reset counter is account wide.
For example, let us say that:
UR = 150 clears
Epic = 200
Epic+ = 220
How many picks you have is irrelevant. What you need to know, however, is that if you are in UR at 149 clears, and you move to epic, you will only need 51 clears to get your reset.
So, if you save picks, it means you clear the board at a slower rate. Roughly, in the long term over an extreme sample size:
100% win rate = 12.5 board clear rate (picks on a board before it clears)
100% win rate + save 1 pick = half that (6.75)
To put it in other words:
To get 12 picks, you need 6 wins. Therefore, we can say the average board clear happens at 6 wins, or 7 wins.
If you are saving 1 pick after each win, it means you are actually clearing boards at half the speed.
This is roughly the same as if you are losing every game, because losing a game gives you 1 pick.
The offset is that you get all your picks later. This seems to me like simply delaying a reset, as long as you take into account the average picks per reset ratio.
Considering this, it seems to me that saving picks isn't really worth it.
Perhaps a better strategy is to drop down to a lower tier, get to, say, 100 resets (because it's quicker due to more wins), and then go up to the higher tier.
I must admit I am not sure if my logic is proper. If anybody sees a problem, please do call me out on it. I would like to discuss strategy about this sort of stuff more as well.
EDIT: I have noticed an ERROR in my analysis:
In Epic tier, each reset card has a chance to be a TIER card (so, Epic). So, if you are saving picks in UR, and moving to Epic, the reality is that you:
1. Now have a chance to score an Epic TIER card over a UR TIER card.
2. However, the reset counter is higher, and the chance for the reset card to be a tier card on a non-counter reset is smaller.
It's all a trade off, I guess.
Personally, I find the process of saving picks a bit boring and troublesome. But I love seeing it when people post here that they saved 25 picks or whatever and just clear 4-5 boards to see what they get.
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