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The airplane mode method works reliably on an iPhone 6. In any loading screen that appears before the main arena screen (regardless of whether you’re entering from the map, nest, a lost arena battle or after spinning the wheel for a won arena battle), you have to quickliy pull up Control Center from the bottom of the screen. After the first pull gesture, the screen will only show a little bar, just pull that up again. Once Control Center is open, you have all the time in the world to hit the Airplane Mode button (that was actually a mistake I made when I first tried this – I thought you had to enable airplane mode as quickly as possible, but as soon as Control Center is open, the game is in a paused state).
The game will immediately complain that there is no network connection once the main arena screen has loaded, but by that time the opponent team has already been generated, so you can just switch airplane mode off by the same method and play the battle.
When I tried this today, I found that the generated teams tend to have a higher arena rating than the real teams. They’re still a lot easier to beat because they’re generally not balanced well, and rarely have complete sets.
Please note that the trick does not work when an opponent team has already been selected. So if you enter the arena without airplane mode and see a team you don’t like, you will still have to force-close ABE or play a friendly battle in order to be able to use the airplane mode trick.