If private battles counted on your winstreak you could get an insanely high win streak from fighting yourself. All you would have to do is create two accounts and have one kill the other over and over.

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The fact that fighting who ever you want makes private battles so easily abusable. Polak used to fight himself in matchmaking which actually increased his winstreak on the older version of SM. Since the change in levels though, all levels are populated now, so he can't choose a level where he will only find himself anymore. That's why he's started fighting in private battles.

If we made it that private battles rewarded the same as matchmaking and counted towards your winstreak, a lot more players would start abusing it as it would be an easy way right now. The fact that private battles give half the SM creds and doesn't count towards your winstreak makes you want to play matchmaking instead.

Private battles are more for practicing and perfecting builds or fighting against friends for fun ^_^ It wasn't built for the purpose of rewarding players for winning matches like matchmaking battles are.



How is this a bad reply? Players already look for ways to abuse the game. With matchmaking you don't know who you are going to fight so there is always a chance you could lose. However with matchmaking you can control who you are fighting so you know you can beat them. That means you have a way to always win. This isn't skillful so shouldn't be rewarded like matchmaking is.

Just because you are not like that does not mean that others aren't. As already stated this would simply encourage cheating. As for it counting as a win this too would be impossible because of the weekly rewards.