Question about PvP matchmaking.

I am sure this has been answered somewhere, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
So I am trying to play the Grocket event in PVP, but every team I try to face is Grocket + Kitty + Medusa. And I mean every team, I skipped 25 different players (not the same 6 or so over and over again) which I can understand. That is a good team.
Problem is, I have a couple of 450 characters and one at 452 (OML, SS and Thanos) my Medusa and Grocket are level 301
but in PvP, I am getting matched against people with 500+ Grocket, 480+ Medusa and 460+ Kitty. Is this right?
I feel like I am completely out of my depth, I just can't win. What I mean is, I do not think it is possible for me to win a match. Pretty much with three moves (plus the Medusa *poot*) my team is dead.
I don't mind a challenge, I don't mind facing people who are around my level, but I feel like my opponents are way better than me.
Am I going crazy, is the matchmaking wonky or is it my 450 characters that are causing me to face 500+ opponents?
So I am trying to play the Grocket event in PVP, but every team I try to face is Grocket + Kitty + Medusa. And I mean every team, I skipped 25 different players (not the same 6 or so over and over again) which I can understand. That is a good team.
Problem is, I have a couple of 450 characters and one at 452 (OML, SS and Thanos) my Medusa and Grocket are level 301
but in PvP, I am getting matched against people with 500+ Grocket, 480+ Medusa and 460+ Kitty. Is this right?
I feel like I am completely out of my depth, I just can't win. What I mean is, I do not think it is possible for me to win a match. Pretty much with three moves (plus the Medusa *poot*) my team is dead.
I don't mind a challenge, I don't mind facing people who are around my level, but I feel like my opponents are way better than me.
Am I going crazy, is the matchmaking wonky or is it my 450 characters that are causing me to face 500+ opponents?
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Note: Boosts are not factored into your teams or the teams you see; people with just champed 4's (none boosted) will be shown teams of champed boosted 4's.
The other factor for teams you see is their scores. The game does intend to provide you with teams that will give you maximum points while not being too high above your roster (you won't see 550's). So if you happen to start playing and people with leveled but unchamped 5's are out, you'll see them first (probably) as people that are above you in score and have teams that are close to your strength.
This tinykitty event, however, has two things going: A featured (mega boosted) Rocket and a boosted Medusa. Many vets with champed 5's have bonused these characters to very high levels (along with the vaulting which also pushed them up). And their mechanics/synergy make them extremely difficult to beat once you throw a champed Kitty in with them.
A 500 Rocket in this event is probably a baseline 360-370 and the Medusa you mention is also in that range.
So everyone is running that team and floating, and they are presented to you because they are (in the game's view) a group of beatable characters based on their relative levels. Normally you'd probably be happy to face a team made up of one champed 5 and two boosted 4's.
This event sounds good in theory (run Rocket PVP, it ties into Endgame/IW, you can get a cover for Rocket) but the state of the game, with many mature rosters that have chased Rocket and Medusa and Kitty, makes it a horror show to play.
I hit 650, got my 2 star from both tokens and quit the event.
In all other PvP events I rarely see Gritty being used outside the very beginning when players use them to clear seeds.
I loved seeing Bishop alongside Gritty this event - I don't think he ever lasted past the first turn.
I think I lost a total of 1 fight when there was a really bad cascade that downed my Bishop turn 1. It probably cost me 1 healthpack every 1.5 battles, but otherwise I had no problem hitting 900. The fights were fast and strategy was simple.