Bounties

How do I successfully collect a bounty if my level and stats are higher then the bounty but keep loosing. What do I do and what am I doing wrong?

Uh... Train more in the gym. In the mean time try to claim a different one.

Your rank is Average, look for below average or lower. Deserter title usually means it's a mission target, so look for Below Average Deserter 

Attack them and lose, use healing items and attack again immediately while their health is still low.

You could also have someone attack with you. This makes difficult targets much easier.

Take a vicodin or lsd to temporarily increase your stats.

If both your level and stats are indeed higher than the bounty targets, then one or more are going to be true:

1. your stat ratio is shit and crippling your ability to fight properly (only a problem at your age if you pumped all your e into one stat, even then easy to rectify as its only 2 months of e)
2. you are using poor or no equipment vs people that have better gear (unless you're running into orange or red armour and red weaps shouldn't affect you too much, which I highly doubt you are, loan shit from your fac and it should last you a while and be good enough)
3. you aren't taking passives into account, eg xan cd/thrown temps etc debuffing your stats or fac perks/needles, etc buffing your opp
4. you aren't fighting at full health and the target is at full health
5. you aren't taking advantage of your strengths (ex rolling needles or moti buffs, evis before using your high damage weap, not taking advantage of assassinate etcetc)
6. you aren't taking advantage of special ammo or mods (probably not super applicable yet, but will be once you bulk up a bit)
7. they have more combat focused merits (merits are not super strong, but small differences sometimes can lead to pulling a loss from the jaws of victory, though realistically you'd have a better time mid to long-term putting merits into bank/edu before anything else)

Ofc you could also just not be checking their public stats beforehand (manully or with a script, titles, rank, drugs, SEs etcetc), and the most likely problem is they're outstatting you. Bulk up, keep trying should you wish, but hitting levelling targets to start flying will likely net you more money in the short-term until you can consistently hit the 300k+ bounties (otherwise losses pay better lol) if its money you care about.

Are you sure you have higher battle stats than your target? Level and stats don’t really relate to each other - there’s level holding, plus someone who only trains in the gym will have higher stats/lower level compared to someone who did a bunch of attacks to level up faster.

If you actually have higher stats, why are you losing? Use an appropriate temp (pepper/tear if you’re not landing hits, HEG if you need to do a little more damage) and make sure your weapons are high damage/accuracy too.

I've also seen some with relatively low stats pimped out in 50b worth of armor/weapons lol

In short OP, if you can't win the first time, don't attack that person again.

If you can make 1 damaging hit per attack and are crazy enough to waste the energy, medding out repeatedly to take a hit isn't an invalid option. Just illogical 😂 I have done this tactic for missions before, ngl.