Levelling up is optional, and usually a mistake

Most games make levelling the spine of progression. This one does not. A level brings three allocation points and no other benefit — no stat growth, no unlocks, no scaling.

What actually makes you dangerous is gym work, and that is available from day one at any rung. So experience is not a reward. It is a cost you pay in matchmaking for points you could have earned another way.

The one pool

Attack and defence come out of the same budget. Every point you move to attack comes off defence, and fights resolve while you are away — so the split you left the house in is the split that gets tested. Set it for the fight you expect, not the fight you want.

The wheel is the game

The warm-up is not a bonus on top of this. It changes the wheel itself: a good warm-up widens the bands and slows the pointer, a bad one narrows them and speeds it up. It is a difficulty setting you choose before you play.

Warm-up cost falls as your body adapts. When it is cheap, use it — that is the window where the wheel is easiest and the payout is unchanged.

The trainer

He talks in riddles because the gym’s numbers were a secret worth keeping. Asking his opinion is free and gives you the number; the paid reading gives you the recipe. Early on the free version is enough.