# PvP Guide for beginners
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996
**Category:** Community Guides
**Created:** [February 25, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996 "2016-02-25T10:35:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Mufasha](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mufasha)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/21 "2016-04-27T20:57:29Z")
What platform and lineup are you using? Did you just hit lvl 200?
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### Author:  [@Hawkmon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Hawkmon)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/22 "2016-04-28T04:06:01Z")
I’m playing on pc, and I’m not even level 100 yet.
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### Author:  [@Mufasha](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mufasha)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/23 "2016-04-28T09:53:58Z")
If you don’t mind sharing what is your currently lineup?
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### Author:  [@Hawkmon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Hawkmon)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/24 "2016-04-28T10:11:05Z")
Not sure what you mean by lineup. I’ve got different troops and settings. And I make sure I have at least two or three of one kingdom. But just now I had a revenge and the enemy had twice the health as me. this is impossible to win no matter how good of a team you have!
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### Author:  [@bluebehir](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/bluebehir)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/25 "2016-04-28T11:17:25Z")
Such a shame you’re going to have to redo all this work in the next patch! lol
But nice work. I noticed a couple things, and sent you a mail. Most notably, your last image is out of date and shows the wrong revenge rewards. Otherwise… nice work!
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### Author:  [@killerman3333](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/killerman3333)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/26 "2016-04-28T15:09:13Z")
Maybe my lineup is for beginners or maybe not but here goes, Templar, Priestess, Tyri, Mercy. Who needs a trait stone?
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### Author:  [@Axieoqu](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Axieoqu)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/27 "2017-07-17T12:13:25Z")
Hey, thanks for the nice guide and discussion. A few questions I have been wondering as a new player:
- In addition to ‘revenge’ tag, some opponents have a ‘rival’ tag. What does this mean?
- Does defense team earn you resources like souls, gold or maps? I would guess not.
- What are the main things players should consider when building a defense team? Notable differences to attacking teams?
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### Author:  [@CSZ](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/CSZ)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/28 "2017-07-17T13:27:44Z")
First, welcome to the game.
1. Revenge: A player marked with revenge has recently attacked and defeated your defense team. Defeat him/her in return to gain extra glory.
Rival: A rival is someone you’ve battled multiple times. A rival also gives extra glory.
2. Defense teams give you 1 souls per defeated troop of the the attacker. You also gain 1 glory for lost defense matches and 3 for won matches. Rarely they also bring you gems and gold keys, but that’s unaffected by the defense result.
3. Don’t go with the meta 😉
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### Author:  [@Drazen](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Drazen)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/29 "2017-08-05T04:23:29Z")
Thank you Archenassa, this was super useful 🙂 👍
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### Author:  [@Jedi1josh](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jedi1josh)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/pvp-guide-for-beginners/3996/30 "2018-02-18T17:55:16Z")
I’m on PS4, what do the crowns mean next to a player’s name in PVP?
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