I've got a Level 2 Frontier Archon with a lot of level 1 cards. Most of mine is delegated to me or rented. The other guy has a Level 10 Archon with mostly maxed out cards and over 1million power.
Should be a piece of cake for the other guy with me getting slaughtered right? No, not the case.
https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_2e028594eeb6ac5ef3cba2e15f6cdc34?ref=sugar-fix
Bear in mind that this is occurring in Bronze 1 and this guy is obviously trying to farm newbs with his vast wealth. Could have been worse - they might have had one of those Archons that us newbs don't have access to at all like Tofu and such. Dulled out by the grind of wealth over skill.