Players constantly argue over whether randomness adds exciting unpredictability or ruins the integrity of esports.

Understanding exactly where randomness factors into the equation allows top players to mitigate its negative effects.
Initial Deck Shuffling
The most prominent RNG element in card-based battlers is the initial four cards you are dealt at the start.

Once the initial hand is played, the rotation becomes fixed, and pure skill and memory take over.
Learn to adapt to bad RNG.Remove the guesswork from the mid-game.Some RNG is healthy for the game. Unit Targeting and Pathfinding
Sometimes a unit will retarget unexpectedly due to a micro-movement by another troop, completely ruining your defensive setup.

To counter this, veterans always place defensive buildings in exactly the same specific tiles to guarantee consistent pulls.
Battler CategoryRNG DependencyAuto-ChessSkill comes from long-term statistical managementStandard Tower RushHighly skill-dependent after the first 30 seconds Accepting Randomness
Getting angry at a bad starting hand only causes you to make further mistakes and lose the match entirely.

Over the course of a thousand games, the luck factor completely evens out for everyone.