Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28753807-20160729130147/@comment-26249703-20160729144628

To be technical, what happens is not that you get easier opponents from the off, it's that opponents go down to your artificially low level only if you meet the recommended PR. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but it definitely was in the last couple of updates.

Plus, your way of doing it would require Guru to attempt bot slowing, which I don't believe he consciously does. You would then see that his bot targets get easier, whereas they wouldn't if your PR was under the recommended one.