If you look closely at the bottom left of the screenshot, you will see that this player has got Adamanti, which if you say he has been playing only couple of weeks (which I take as a maximum of around 8 weeks), then I don't see how he could possible have Adam.
Now, on the other hand he could have been a player who got the 500k reps as a gift from Tynon last year, quit, and came back only to find the he got 'the returner rewards', which I believe includes 50mill coins and credits, 1000 gems, 10k casino chips and I dont know how many reps, but in 8 weeks it certainly is possible to make 300k reps, even if you are not in UA.
So, that explains how he has got so many reps.
But, if I/We had not seen that he has not already got Adam from the screenshot, then we would have never been able to put out a definite conclusion that this player got 500k reps from last year November and returned to find returner rewards.
Now, moving onto the returner rewards to make you really strong, this player obviously assigned all those coins and credits from returner rewards to runes and tavern (I would say talents, but from the screenshot I have got no evidence saying that his talents are really good.)
With the 10k casino chips he must have got maria from the casino, as you state that he does not have deep pockets, simply meaning that he did NOT purchase her with real money, also I believe Maria was not available last year November/December.
This player must have also got very lucky in getting a lot of coins from the casino, and trust me 10k casino chips is A LOT, and I would die to get my hands on those.
Now, 8 weeks means 4 Championship Warfare, which in my personal experience if you know how to bet properly you can make LOADS of loot. This player obviously spent his cw tickets on blue medals and purple medals as you see on his main character, he has already got 9 stars and 4 half moons. (Can't comment on the other heroes as I can't see their specs.)
In my mind 1000 gems would give you significant value especially if you don't waste it all in the casino as you already had 10k casino chips to spend there.
With a 1000 gems, and being in a guild that has majority of gw cities, especially lvl 4 cities, this would substantiate the fact of how he got such good heroes and lvl 12 runes. (Opportunity to prove me wrong here)
The P. Stone will give you a lot more coins and the shrine will have a significant value increase. This is in my mind where he got all his credits to get heroes to, and I quote: "... are already Archangel IV". Now we all know that we can build up Dawnseeker (the cheapest gold card hero) and later transfer to other heroes, and Calvin (the cheapest purple card hero) and transfer to heroes such as queen p or lance.
To conclude here it is certainly possible to get to where he is from having tynons gift of 500k reps last year November and returning to the returner rewards which he used very wisely. It is also most certainly possible to get where he is from FOUR CHAMPIONSHIP WARFARE'S (Maybe five, maybe 3), which if you bet wisely you most certainly can get high starred heroes and get high level sanctification's. Regarding what you say about not having deep pockets, it seems most logical to say he won maria from the casino using his returner rewards. Using the shrine with the bonus of gw lvl 4 cities, it most certainly is possible to get the necessary coins and credits to get where he is currently. It also seems most logical that he would have taken the cheapest route in transferring cheap heroes to high level heroes.
To finish now, everyone should remember "... the truth lies in the evidence ...", no matter how small the evidence is, it can lead to the most logical explanation.



