Just my personal opinion, but ever since they announced and now implemented the 800 MMR update, Arena has gotten waayy more competitive. Most of my scholars have dropped between 200-300 MMR because most managers greatly increased the quality of their scholars' Axie teams. I've looked over some of my scholars' replays around the 800 MMR range as well and it's not even like they're playing badly - they're just going up against much stronger teams now, and it's taking time for me to upgrade their Axies since I don't have enough finances atm. I know there's a lot of other managers in similar positions.

If the idea is to make it so that only a limited amount of Axie players can earn SLP and everyone else can earn through land gameplay once that is released, then I think the 800 MMR floor makes sense and in the future will likely increase even. However, if the intention was truly to combat autobots, I don't think an 800 MMR floor makes sense anymore. I don't see how an autobot team could realistically be above 600 MMR even with a strong team.

Curious to others' thoughts.