Uptiered to 1.3+ BR?

I have a friend who just played an Air Arcade battle with his Mig-23ML. He has only one plane in the lineup and Mig-23ML is 11.7 in air AB. However, he met a JA-37DI in the battle which is at 13.0 in air AB. That’s a 1.3 uptier for him!

How is it possible? My friend is playing alone without being in a squad or anything.

had it happen to me and my friend plaing 8.0 france(he also has 9.3) and somehow the game showed he had 9.3 stuff in the lineup and we had some hard times awith 8.0 at atleast 9.3(he didnt bring any 9.3 to the match).
was ground rb tho

This happened to me as well. One time I just switched from 12.0to 9.3 in ground RB with my friend but that game was 12.0 nevertheless and my lineup was locked. I could only use the vehicles from the “free slots”.

In arcade a 1.3 uptier is possible. Play realistic, there’s at least a smidge of balance there

Not a bug, br in air arcade is calculated by total br, so if you have a 13.0 plane and 2 12.3 planes for ex, it will be 12.7 and get macthed into 11.7 lobbies. (maximum of 0.3 lower)

Wrong

what’s wrong?

Look at my comment, also air arcade has better balance than realistic

what you said is practically the same as allowing 1.3 uptiers. Literally. It allow +1.3 planes to be against you, that’s basically the same no matter what you call it.
And nah, the only illusion of balance you have is that arcade is too chaotic and people are too bad so it’s down to randomness. The simple fact that compression is worse there says enough