megaknight is the most stupid and unfair card. I don't understand how half of my opponents use it, 1 tiny mistake and you are done and they don't understand they NEED to nerf it. But don't worry, the new evolution is not a nerf at all...
@@RIFADOR001yeah true with Evo is true menace but PEKKA evo is scary on swarm because can one shot it and get hp% to her so is scary to see a Deck with mega knight and PEKKA evolution
Yh I’m gonna go ahead and admit that I play both of them evo. I finally stopped playing mega knight for like 2 weeks and then they handed out the evolution for free so it went straight back in my deck.
Mega knight evo and goblin drill evo are the two most annoying cards in the game. You always have to overspend elixir to defend them and they simply should not exist
I *hate* this pink psychopath and her cackle so much that I get a dopamine rush every time I eviscerate her and turn her into a pile of elixir goop. And for good measure, I also spam the pig’s exploding firecracker emote on menaces who use the Evo Firecracker or any of her emotes and lose.
Whats funny is that firecacker is one of the very few cards that recoils on attack while holding a weapon resembling an RPG, when historically an IRL RPG is one of the only weapons that doesnt have any recoil.
firecracker, one of the dumbest cards ever added. this should be removed along with wall breakers, skeleton barrel, magic archer, archer queen, and royal recruits.
Just remove every card that inconvenients us. Instead of playing cards, Supercell should let us place building that creates troops and also resources both gold and elixir, something like base building where you can raid other players but not in real time, they can keep the clash title, an example could be Clash of Tribes or something that doesn't sound like a male genital Edit: 1k likes under 9 mins when other comments barely crack 100 likes is sus
Me when firecracker first came out: “Oh no, there’s a megaknight coming, well, lemme just place down this pekka to counter him!” Opponent places firecracker down: “Oh hey, that’s the new card, wait why on earth is she doing so much damage to my crown tower!?”
@@Grason20 being everywhere is fine cos again it’s not that strong, the overleveled part is fair enough tho cos a level 12 knight isn’t countering a level 15 mk 😭
This game has a lot of disagreeing opinions. Everyone hates different cards, usually depending on what they personally play. Yet firecracker has transcended beyond the realm of opinions. It might genuinely be the one of, if not, the only card to be completely despised by almost everyone who has ever played this game. New players hate it, "midladder" players hate it, top ladder, pros, youtubers, literally everybody except for that one loser who plays hog 2.5 with firecracker and eq, hate this card. I have yet to find a single person that unironically defends this card with something other then "well its free wins and I'M having fun".
i hate this card but i still play it because i am not a dumbass to not abuse it while in the trophy range where its most abusable. (also i spent my 6 hard months getting the shards for her and i am going to use it dammit)
@@AccelX123 yea but thing is you're forced to carry arrows just to counter it, and less card variety = less fun. The game should be designed/balanced in a way that all cards can work well and shine, but good luck fighting firecracker without arrows. It's not impossible, it's just annoying, especially if it's evo.
I actually use Firecracker and it's really average to go against. I don't get why people argue on a card that can be countered easily if they properly knew what it can do, like a log with princess tower support CAN take out a firecracker.
I’m happy to see it wasn’t just me who hates the card. Once I felt just how irritating the card is, I refused to level it or use it under any circumstances The fact the card that was *the* most had got an evo is just too stupid for words
Firecracker is annoying, but most of my losses are either because of a skilled opponent, or Hog Rider. Hog Rider for me is the most annoying card out of all of them.
This card and evolved mega knight is the reason I quit after reaching 5k trophies. I know those 2 are gonna be in my opponent's deck, I build my deck to counter them, and yet I still lose because my arrows aren't high enough level. Bull.
Yh honestly, idk why people don’t complain about dart goblin as much. I was playing it during the goblin queen challenge and it easily did like 500 damage before the opponent can even react
dart goblin can’t reposition itself, hit backliners, survive a hit from backline hitters like bowler or log, deal splash damage, or completely change the way you defend a push
Firecracker is an "Arrows Check" card. If you don't have Arrows, you're gonna suffer immensely. Her recoil ensures most melee troops will never get to reach her before she's out of range. She can easily target towers and her recoil will send her back over the bridge -- out of your tower's range. This allows for a win condition to easily come in and be targeted by your tower instead of her. She pairs very strongly with win conditions to this day and is very versatile in nearly every deck I've seen. She pressures the opponent to either: 1) Use a card defensively for a likely negative elixir trade, or 2) Allow her to deal free damage to your tower while you build elixir. Coupled with double evolutions, there is no reason NOT to use Firecracker. Easy to use + difficult to counter = A card everyone hates.
9:35 An important thing to remember for any game designer: Those mid-level players ARE arguing for changes based on rates and data! It's just not the winrates and data analysis trimmed exclusively to the top 0.1% of competitive grinders. You always need to make sure your game is balanced in such a way that the entire skill progression and player seriousness curves are filled with good results. Unbalancing things at the top-level is bad for whales, lifers, and extremely vocal pros. Unbalancing things at the lowest level is bad for new player introduction. And unbalancing things at the mid-level is bad for, yaknow, NINETY PERCENT OF THE PLAYERS OF THE GAME.
Yeah he says this everytime in every video. The majority of players are mid ladder players. If you annoy them the most. That’s more than half your game gone. Yet this guy non stop says mid ladder opinions don’t matter
Ive played the game since launch. Took a few years break between 2020-2024 and then came back, firecracker is no where near as annoying as 2016-2018 ebarbs rage
Why is it so hated? Because all people do is cry, arrows and log never used to kill a firecracker and now because noobs she gets killed so easily, I never had a problem taking out firecrackers
Some midladder players dont know how to properly play the game...Mega knight is easy to counter and so is fire cracker if you have spells and a deck without a single spell is just a dogshit deck so all of it literally comes down to "You dont know how to counter her even though she isnt busted"
Pretty much all these videos about OP cards come down to. Card is alright to decent, and makes players use their brians, players get pissed and call for nerfs.
Its just with every supercell game as example brawlstars player cry about everything to just because they cant counter it and uts the same with clash royal except that clash royal players are even bigger crybabies
I find it really funny how, in the history of CR community, people have a mixed opinion on certain cards and decks like hog rider 2.6, mega knight, etc. But when it comes to firecrackers, everyone despises it in unison. Even midladders.
You know what? I'm fine with almost everything about the Firecracker. The range? Fair. The effectiveness at destroying enemy clusters? Fine. But what gets me is the FACT THAT IT PUSHES BACK WHEN FIRING. Even powerful singular units can get knocked down a peg by the constant pushback of the Firecracker and it drives me insane.
It gets so much value off of a high HP tank that gets the aggro off of her. She’s constantly going backwards which gives her a lot of survivability to melee units. It’s like having to beat the back line of the assault first instead of the frontline.
Just use spells lil bro atleast you have a direct counter for it unlike evo pekka which is good against swarms and 1v1 or evo meganut which is just........ Uhm.... Fcking diabolical i'd say.
@@AccelX123 Not your bro. Yeah I been using spells hell I love the fact she can now die by arrows. That was the best nerf they have ever done to any card.
@@AccelX123have you ever heard of logbait? The whole point is to get you to use your spells to take the firecracker out so they can spam you with everything else, so it’s not always as simple as “just take her out with a spell”
As someone who has (basically) never played clash royale, you make very entertaining videos. Could you please do a video on the history of the graveyard card? It seems like an interesting card from an outsider perspective.
It's indeed one of the more interesting ones because it was for a while THE RNG card. The spawning distance has always been random and that, alongside the way it interacts with the king tower and poison, makes it a meta-defining card.
@@N12015Well, not completely RNG-based, because the way the skeletons spawn Is defined by the most recent particle generation before It. Basically, they are depending on a particle pattern that Is already pre-established on every game (It's always the same), only being different because It's player earlier or later every time.
The most annoying card is the Mega Knight and now with the evolution that thing should be a federal crime. Too much health, too much spawn damage, too much jump damage and to add to it with area damage AND the evolution pushing your cards away from their tower or towards your tower
Firecracker can be hated but as a user who has her at lvl 14 she rarely grts tower damage and if she’s played incorrectly the knock back forces her to switch lanes meaning the support troop for your push is now dead
Bro even top ladder has moments like that. The card isn’t broken, but we all agree it’s janky, which makes it annoying to deal with. It has an unbalanced stress because it’s as threatening as magic archer for far cheaper. And although arrows counters it (like how magic archer gets fireballed), you then have to deal with bait Good card, but magic archer isn’t hated as much because it’s not as easy to benefit compared to firecracker :/
i remember when the firecracker was first released it was my favorite card b/c it was so fun to use and i was a major casual player. it was my first level 13, 14, and 15 card all when they were considered max level.
Ive got to say thanks to you for bringing me back to Clash Royale. My friend was mentioning the game and your video just so happened to appear on my recommended (I think it was history of the ebarbs) and I’ve consistently been watching you since. The thing I find most interesting is how my perspective has shifted since I started watching (I initially was very much a midladder menace and didn’t agree with some of your takes but now I’d consider myself pretty good) and how much more I appreciate your videos after becoming more invested in the game (including statistics and data). I wish for you to continue to make these videos and to not stop because I constantly find myself rewatching these videos every couple months when I’m doing work and relaxing. Also please do a video on some card in Splashyard as that’s my main deck and I believe a history on the poison/graveyard/baby dragon/ice wizard could be very interesting.
The funny thing is physics wise she shouldn't have knock back and cards like Hunter, Flying Machine and Musketeer should. Her weapon is literally something called a recoilless launcher
I don't get it why people already hate most of the new cards from 2020 - 2024, I know Supercell is trying to add something new . But it seems that everyone loves the old cards from 2016 - 2018
Firecracker is such a pain I have mirror for Arrows. Evo Firecracker doing so much damage from across the river should not be allowed. I actually hate Megaknight less. At least I can reliably predict what it does
Currently running a miner wall breaker deck with fire cracker for splash. She gets annoying when the opponent activate king tower since even though my miner doesn’t get hit with the placement I have this sometimes prevent a wall breaker connection. Other than that she is great when I pare her with my mighty miner to defend against tanks and mega knight.
Hey, love the clash content. I think you should do a video explaining the history of the barbarians. And include the addition of the other barbarian cards as well
i think firecracker is a good card, but i think i speak for all of us when i say: rage spell shouldnt do ANY damage at all ever. rage doing damage is the most irritating thing ever and it makes me want to rip my skin off.
So i dont play clash royale but i noticed a general mentality of hate against off-beat cards like spawners mirror and xbow. They should be completely valid cards that demand answers from your opponent. Every card should be that but instead the choice is to soft remove them from the game in its entirety which i find unfair tbh. Can someone explain to me where this mindset comes from?
If you want a real answer, it's because those cards don't have many answers to them outside of very specific cards. Having spawners or xbows be strong means everyone has to run those specific counters, leading to less deck variety.
To be honest I never knew this was how people felt about Firecracker. Since it came out, it's been one of my favorite cards in the game. Heck, when the evo came out I was excited for it. Until today it's still a main card in alot of my decks.
Its an okay card. It has a low dps and low health for 3 elixir. Mind you lp has double health and its attack triples in seconds. Firecracker makes up for its ability to go back and its scattering effect which is what makes it OP.
I haven’t touched this game once in my life not do I ever plan to. but Im addicted to the way you break things down. You make it super interesting so I keep coming back. good job! I wonder if you play others games or have been interested in breaking down other metas?
I swear this card would be fine and balanced if it just didn’t have recoil. I’ve placed troops to counter the firecracker and the recoil causes the troop to target a different thing. Spells which would have taken out the firecracker don’t because the recoil pushes it back out of the damage zone.
I honestly think you shouldn't be able to combo certain cards. It's literally the equivalent to an I win button. But seeing as how I understand the type of gamer that plays this game, you would lose players. This is the type of player that quits these games. If they can't find their I win button they quit or just buy their way to victory. Copying popular or powerful deck combos that are virtually unbeatable especially after paying to level them all. I have no praise for people who play this game. They aren't gamers. They are corporate cuckholds.
I see this card almost every game. I love it, i dont use it but its a fun little character. Reminds me of rambo if he was small and cute. Also, great useful card by kicking back and staying back to cycle another in is great use of that card too especially when it gets tower damage in.
You have to be joking. This is the worst take. Do you know the majority of the player count is below 7k? What happens when you don’t listen to that majority. They leave. Then boom more than half your player count is gone. You show why you’re not working at supercell
@@FFFDKHK You should clearly know that I know what Pekka is by looking at the emotes. Pekka is the best counter to MegaKnight, hence the sword and death skeleton. Get your brain into gear.
Being unfun is arguably worse for a game than being op or terrible, if you always lose to a certain gun in an fps game, as long as it’s agreed to that it’s fun for user and those it’s being used against then besides the problem of load out variance there’s no real reason to nerf the card, and same for if a gun is terrible, but if a gun is unfun to go against no matter how balanced or bad it is that will be what gets people to stop playing or complain
To me, is always 2.6 that most hated. 4 elixir that not die to fireball is fucking purple girl shooting balls, and 4 elixir guy riding on top his beloved fucking animal that doesn't die while taking 2 hit from little robot wearing armour
As someone who ran hog eq for about a year after the evo update, after not playing firecracker for almost a year I can say the card is pretty annoying to play against, however, everyone runs arrows and I think that makes it a frustrating experience for the player using firecracker and the player playing arrows. I think what the game needs is another 3 elixir spell that directly counter a card like firecracker, void could have filled that spot but didn’t quite work in the same way as arrows and wasn’t great at killing firecracker.
Firecracker disproves the argument that balancing the game based off of usage stats is logical. The majority of players have to deal with her almost every single game but she doesn’t have high usage at higher levels of play so she is considered balanced? How is this fair to everyone else that isn’t at the top level? Also if firecracker is a “mid ladder menace” then what constitutes as mid ladder? I’m a level 15 character in the final arena on trophy road and hitting ultimate champ and I see firecracker in 8 out of ten games, am I considered mid ladder? I think the devs need to accept that this card is not healthy for the game at all and I’m tired of having to run arrows in every deck just in case I play against it.
I didn’t play since 2019. When I came back to this card in the game it literally made me almost just bounce again. Thought my main account was lost forever then found it again btw
@@bitrix6261 i assume that the log pushed it back frame perfect when it was about to hit the tower, and the server didn't know what to do. So the next hit it got actually connected twice to "fix" the server's "mistake"
18:43 / 34:51 • Firecracker Gets MAJOR Buffs (Jan.-Jun.2023) fessing up when facing multiple troops is still issue with firecracker as a firecracker player basically at locks onto a true it's about to shoot at it then the trip dies it doesn't shoot at all and it keeps switching in between troops it doesn't actually ever shoot
the card who needs the most a documentary is the knight, he has always been a popular card in the game since his launch on the beta, he is one of the most known cards even for people who played the game once
Its really easy to counter...it has slow attack speed and low hp... Use high movement speed and high ranged cards like dart goblin...if you wanna save arrows for minions or goblins, use tornado to change her position....the most annoying thing about her is her position...so i guess tornado is her biggest counter...
I see alot of people literally wanting their hated cards removed. Look, Ima be honest, I play hog eq (not my main tho) and I do it with a cause: 1. If Im tilted 2. If Im desperate 3. If I hate the opponent deck You can yell at me, but I will agree tho, it can be sometimes annoying. But against actual players, its not that bad
Hey. I really appreciate the amount of efforts you put into your videos. I used to be a Golem beatdown player. I would really appreciate if you made a History video about he Golem and Im sure some of us too.
At this point, I think the best thing to do with midladder menaces may not necessarily be to nerf the cards into oblivion, but to add more cards to the midladder arenas so that the players have some counterplay from the get-go, whether it be moving cards from higher arenas down or creating entirely new cards. I can't imagine doing either one of these would be easy, but I think that it would at least be worth trying.
This, mega knight and hog rider all fight for the place of most annoying card, but Firecracker is absolutely number one. There is no card that is less enjoyable to face than it, and the fact that it got one of the first evos is a disgrace
This one has many counters, mega knight doesn't, and now it has a stupid evolution... mega night is like number 1 and everyone else is like number 5 or below
Bro what. People hated the firecracker. OF COURSE PEOPLE WERE GOING TO HATE EVO FIRECRACKER. They had to make I die to arrows because they wanted her to die to the log. Everyone wanted her to die to the log
Shes been a mainstay in my deck since release. If u cant beat them, join them. If u have problems versing her, use arrows. Pretty much a skill issue if ur complaining
What bothers me the most is the Firecracker being a common card type. It genuinely makes no sense when you compare it to the properties of other common cards. I personally would have made it an epic card, maybe rare
I honestly think that if you very slightly reduce her range or somehow make her die to log (in a way in which wouldn’t change any other interactions) or some other spell being a fair counter to her then I think she would be less of a mid ladder menace, if they don’t want to change her stats then add some new cards that counter her effectively.
MegaKnight + Firecracker made my Galaxy A32 almost turn into a ZFlip
You can thank me for that😂
megaknight is the most stupid and unfair card. I don't understand how half of my opponents use it, 1 tiny mistake and you are done and they don't understand they NEED to nerf it. But don't worry, the new evolution is not a nerf at all...
@@RIFADOR001 That's why I maxed it out
@@RIFADOR001 Good players smoke megaknight
@@RIFADOR001yeah true with Evo is true menace but PEKKA evo is scary on swarm because can one shot it and get hp% to her so is scary to see a Deck with mega knight and PEKKA evolution
I can’t go 2 games without going up against Fire Cracker, Mega Knight, or both at the same time.
Great Scott’s I love your nickname Gordon!
Sounds like free wins to me
then don't play it broooo
Use log
Yh I’m gonna go ahead and admit that I play both of them evo. I finally stopped playing mega knight for like 2 weeks and then they handed out the evolution for free so it went straight back in my deck.
Normal firecracker is annoying already. Evolution firecracker is an abomination
Amen. Totally agree. I could also say the exact same thing about Mega Knight and it's new evolution.
@@v-niftytrickster4166 megaknight is even worse tbh
you’re just bad at the game man
Fireaids evo is the worst thing og
Mega knight evo and goblin drill evo are the two most annoying cards in the game. You always have to overspend elixir to defend them and they simply should not exist
the most annoying thing is that she survives log tbh, but nerfing that would completely kill her.
I mean, I wouldn't mind having her completely killed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good
Then buff the princess, make it so she can't die to a log, there we go. Now both are good lol
@@InfiniteWatcher yea let's make annoying logbait back as if it isn't doing well already
@@InfiniteWatchernonono buffing other cards becuase a different one is good is a bad bad
I remember when this used to be my favorite card. I even called it “underrated”.
I miss my ignorance…
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I *hate* this pink psychopath and her cackle so much that I get a dopamine rush every time I eviscerate her and turn her into a pile of elixir goop. And for good measure, I also spam the pig’s exploding firecracker emote on menaces who use the Evo Firecracker or any of her emotes and lose.
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@@TheAlex-ub5dpAre u 12?
Whats funny is that firecacker is one of the very few cards that recoils on attack while holding a weapon resembling an RPG, when historically an IRL RPG is one of the only weapons that doesnt have any recoil.
I mean, it has but its fowards cause the rocket pulls a little when goes out, pretty cool weapon system :)
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
I think that the firecacker's weapon resembling more a panzerfaust than a RPG
@@OdemitidoMrOkstill has no recoil
Wow, I did not know that lol
24:40 “fire cracker is worse than Hitler” LMAO
1 evolved firecracker kills way more then 6 million troops is so funny.
Don't mess with us CR Players, we don't know how to play so we ask for nerfs
i dont rember that card
Facts though
They aren’t wrong tho, I’d take second hitler over firecracker any day
firecracker, one of the dumbest cards ever added. this should be removed along with wall breakers, skeleton barrel, magic archer, archer queen, and royal recruits.
you mean mega knight
Yeah lets just only include cards like hog rider mega knight in the game 🔥🔥🔥
Bro wants wall breakers deleted 💀
Just remove every card that inconvenients us. Instead of playing cards, Supercell should let us place building that creates troops and also resources both gold and elixir, something like base building where you can raid other players but not in real time, they can keep the clash title, an example could be Clash of Tribes or something that doesn't sound like a male genital
Edit: 1k likes under 9 mins when other comments barely crack 100 likes is sus
Bro probably plays mega knight
Me when firecracker first came out:
“Oh no, there’s a megaknight coming, well, lemme just place down this pekka to counter him!”
Opponent places firecracker down:
“Oh hey, that’s the new card, wait why on earth is she doing so much damage to my crown tower!?”
I agree, the mega knight is such an stupid and unfair card. ANYTHING plus it is just unfair.
@@RIFADOR001megaknight isn’t even that good though
Mega knight has a lot of counters your probably one of the braindead players that just bridge spam
@@soapfacesfor midladder, they are everywhere, and they are overleved
@@Grason20 being everywhere is fine cos again it’s not that strong, the overleveled part is fair enough tho cos a level 12 knight isn’t countering a level 15 mk 😭
This game has a lot of disagreeing opinions. Everyone hates different cards, usually depending on what they personally play. Yet firecracker has transcended beyond the realm of opinions. It might genuinely be the one of, if not, the only card to be completely despised by almost everyone who has ever played this game. New players hate it, "midladder" players hate it, top ladder, pros, youtubers, literally everybody except for that one loser who plays hog 2.5 with firecracker and eq, hate this card. I have yet to find a single person that unironically defends this card with something other then "well its free wins and I'M having fun".
I used to fcking hate this card a lot. But as I progress from 6k to 8k range it's average at best now. Arrows shut it pretty well
i hate this card but i still play it because i am not a dumbass to not abuse it while in the trophy range where its most abusable. (also i spent my 6 hard months getting the shards for her and i am going to use it dammit)
@@AccelX123 yea but thing is you're forced to carry arrows just to counter it, and less card variety = less fun. The game should be designed/balanced in a way that all cards can work well and shine, but good luck fighting firecracker without arrows. It's not impossible, it's just annoying, especially if it's evo.
I actually use Firecracker and it's really average to go against. I don't get why people argue on a card that can be countered easily if they properly knew what it can do, like a log with princess tower support CAN take out a firecracker.
Well tbh it's fun :D but yeah i kinda feel annoy to go against it too lol
I’m happy to see it wasn’t just me who hates the card. Once I felt just how irritating the card is, I refused to level it or use it under any circumstances
The fact the card that was *the* most had got an evo is just too stupid for words
And the Evo is fucking busted lmao
I still refuse to use the card or level it up
me too i kept it at level 1 for the longest and was my last card to max and i was disgusted i had to max it
@@purpledefaultpfp6233 bro so fax, the fact that she gets a tiny chip on your towerr is legit poison/fireball damage is just criminal
Womp womp I love my level 15 firecracker
Firecracker is annoying, but most of my losses are either because of a skilled opponent, or Hog Rider. Hog Rider for me is the most annoying card out of all of them.
This card and evolved mega knight is the reason I quit after reaching 5k trophies. I know those 2 are gonna be in my opponent's deck, I build my deck to counter them, and yet I still lose because my arrows aren't high enough level. Bull.
You’re only 5k☠️ you should a quit a long time ago
Just don’t push ladder until your deck is high enough lv just take a break after reaching a new arena and play season challenges and path of legend
Just don't even push ladder until your deck is all lvl 14. I know mid ladder is a terrible place for new players
brother is 5k and he’s crying man😭 hate it when dog water players complain about anything
evo mk is literally easy to counter, it has the same hp as an mk and mk sucks in general, idk why yall complain about mk its not that good of a card
Make dart goblin not die to log and you will quickly see why people want firecracker to die to log.
Yh honestly, idk why people don’t complain about dart goblin as much. I was playing it during the goblin queen challenge and it easily did like 500 damage before the opponent can even react
dart goblin can’t reposition itself, hit backliners, survive a hit from backline hitters like bowler or log, deal splash damage, or completely change the way you defend a push
@@fourtyfir and yet it dies from log
I run both...does that make me a bad human?
@@danbanks1010 All is fair in mid-ladder 💀
Firecracker is an "Arrows Check" card. If you don't have Arrows, you're gonna suffer immensely. Her recoil ensures most melee troops will never get to reach her before she's out of range. She can easily target towers and her recoil will send her back over the bridge -- out of your tower's range. This allows for a win condition to easily come in and be targeted by your tower instead of her. She pairs very strongly with win conditions to this day and is very versatile in nearly every deck I've seen. She pressures the opponent to either: 1) Use a card defensively for a likely negative elixir trade, or 2) Allow her to deal free damage to your tower while you build elixir. Coupled with double evolutions, there is no reason NOT to use Firecracker.
Easy to use + difficult to counter = A card everyone hates.
The ultimate king tower activator
youre thinking about tornado
I think a history of Skeleton King would be really interesting with its resurgance in recent seasons
9:35 An important thing to remember for any game designer: Those mid-level players ARE arguing for changes based on rates and data! It's just not the winrates and data analysis trimmed exclusively to the top 0.1% of competitive grinders. You always need to make sure your game is balanced in such a way that the entire skill progression and player seriousness curves are filled with good results. Unbalancing things at the top-level is bad for whales, lifers, and extremely vocal pros. Unbalancing things at the lowest level is bad for new player introduction. And unbalancing things at the mid-level is bad for, yaknow, NINETY PERCENT OF THE PLAYERS OF THE GAME.
Yeah he says this everytime in every video. The majority of players are mid ladder players. If you annoy them the most. That’s more than half your game gone. Yet this guy non stop says mid ladder opinions don’t matter
@@Jameswnwmkz93939because they shouldn’t? if you’re mid ladder you’re objectively bad at the game so why should you be listened to
@@Jameswnwmkz93939he’s brought up midladder stats for cards multiple times before???
11:56 ???
@@Jameswnwmkz93939 the opinion of beginers mostly is more valuable than pros, how strange its wouldnt sound
We need rocket cycle history
Who with me ...
omg i remember 1st year of clash royale I used rocket cycle to get to frozen arena 😂
holy shit memories
Losing to rocket cycle felt worse than ebarb spam next lane
YES 14 year old me HATED Rocket Cycle
Dude Rocket Cycle control is so fun to play
I used to hate ice bow, and still do
Ive played the game since launch. Took a few years break between 2020-2024 and then came back, firecracker is no where near as annoying as 2016-2018 ebarbs rage
I was never high enough on ladder at the time to be on the receiving end of an EBarbs rage push but yeah, Firecracker is not bad to deal with
e barbs rage is a real ladder menace, firecracker never even came close
Nothing will ever be as bad as the old ebarbs. Electro giant in 2021 was the only thing that came even close to the 2016-2018 ebarbs.
Literally anything countered ebarb rage, and you stopped playing when they added firecracker and still haven’t played? 🤔🤔🤔
EBarbs valkyrie bridge spam was terrifying back then
Why is it so hated? Because all people do is cry, arrows and log never used to kill a firecracker and now because noobs she gets killed so easily, I never had a problem taking out firecrackers
Some midladder players dont know how to properly play the game...Mega knight is easy to counter and so is fire cracker if you have spells and a deck without a single spell is just a dogshit deck so all of it literally comes down to "You dont know how to counter her even though she isnt busted"
back in the day: most annoying card
nowaydays: tower activation
No, king activation doesn't make it less annoying if it never even crosses the river.
@@kevinlandry1908 never said she's not annoying anymore
@@kevinlandry1908just use arrows and its done
Depends, mid ladder players are still figuring out how to use arrows
Back in the day? Fym it still IS the most annoying!
16:50 dont mess with clash royale players, we dont know how to counter a card so we ask for a nerf
Pretty much all these videos about OP cards come down to. Card is alright to decent, and makes players use their brians, players get pissed and call for nerfs.
@aaronlaughter6471 I use firecracker with my hog earthquake, and my opponents always place their troops in the middle of the tower
Its just with every supercell game as example brawlstars player cry about everything to just because they cant counter it and uts the same with clash royal except that clash royal players are even bigger crybabies
Fun Fact : Firecracker was based on a Clash A Rama where there was a bored Archer
Firecracker users shouldnt have human rights
You spelled mega knight incorrectly
@@RIFADOR001They just give free wins wdym
I play lvl 15 MK and firecracker lol
@@nearo007 youre not gonna be playing it for much longer
Idk man maybe you are just bad
I love seeing an opponent use the firecracker, lure it to my side, place a card just right and my king tower will be activated ;)
I find it really funny how, in the history of CR community, people have a mixed opinion on certain cards and decks like hog rider 2.6, mega knight, etc. But when it comes to firecrackers, everyone despises it in unison. Even midladders.
Electro spirit - I want to see all its 0 balance changes😂
It's absolutely ridiculous that her splash double dips on shielded troops
You know what? I'm fine with almost everything about the Firecracker. The range? Fair. The effectiveness at destroying enemy clusters? Fine. But what gets me is the FACT THAT IT PUSHES BACK WHEN FIRING. Even powerful singular units can get knocked down a peg by the constant pushback of the Firecracker and it drives me insane.
I don’t even play this game, but everytime I get your videos in my recommended. they are a delight to watch every time. Keep up the good work
She is maybe annoying, but among the cards, her emotes were probably the most friendly
It gets so much value off of a high HP tank that gets the aggro off of her. She’s constantly going backwards which gives her a lot of survivability to melee units. It’s like having to beat the back line of the assault first instead of the frontline.
I’m baffled they don’t nerf that and make her shoot slower
Just use spells lil bro atleast you have a direct counter for it unlike evo pekka which is good against swarms and 1v1 or evo meganut which is just........ Uhm.... Fcking diabolical i'd say.
@@AccelX123 Not your bro. Yeah I been using spells hell I love the fact she can now die by arrows. That was the best nerf they have ever done to any card.
@cjleehaze
Then why do you want MORE nerfs, lil bro?
@@AccelX123have you ever heard of logbait? The whole point is to get you to use your spells to take the firecracker out so they can spam you with everything else, so it’s not always as simple as “just take her out with a spell”
As someone who has (basically) never played clash royale, you make very entertaining videos. Could you please do a video on the history of the graveyard card? It seems like an interesting card from an outsider perspective.
It's indeed one of the more interesting ones because it was for a while THE RNG card. The spawning distance has always been random and that, alongside the way it interacts with the king tower and poison, makes it a meta-defining card.
@@N12015Well, not completely RNG-based, because the way the skeletons spawn Is defined by the most recent particle generation before It. Basically, they are depending on a particle pattern that Is already pre-established on every game (It's always the same), only being different because It's player earlier or later every time.
Man I remember back in the days I thought it was op cuz u can take out a tower with just one graveyard
Very interesting rigboy, how do u know this?
honestly, king tower activation is overestimated
Said absolutely no good player
@@oltimos8888 a person who doesn't use skarmy or graveyard*
bro tried to sneak in skarmy
@@Sans_The_Skeleton well I don't use skarmy on offense so
@@oltimos8888Youre right. Once I get king tower against Royal Giant, they pretty much lost already.
The most annoying card is the Mega Knight and now with the evolution that thing should be a federal crime. Too much health, too much spawn damage, too much jump damage and to add to it with area damage AND the evolution pushing your cards away from their tower or towards your tower
Firecracker can be hated but as a user who has her at lvl 14 she rarely grts tower damage and if she’s played incorrectly the knock back forces her to switch lanes meaning the support troop for your push is now dead
One great tip is to run Cannoneer, I rarely run logbait but using it with Cannoneer is a great counter
Hey, not my fault midladder filth doesn’t use spells. Get off wizard witch if you don’t like firecracker cycling
Bro even top ladder has moments like that. The card isn’t broken, but we all agree it’s janky, which makes it annoying to deal with.
It has an unbalanced stress because it’s as threatening as magic archer for far cheaper. And although arrows counters it (like how magic archer gets fireballed), you then have to deal with bait
Good card, but magic archer isn’t hated as much because it’s not as easy to benefit compared to firecracker :/
@@theoverseer393
You just suck...
It's that simple.
Ik right I run goblin barrel and no one in 7k has spells it’s always lumber loon the bridge and mk the bridge
@@theoverseer393 Magic archer was so hated it literally got two nerfs in 1 balance changes. No good player complains about firecracker
Commit wallbreaker
Every time someone uses it, I just love to position one of my cards so that the Firecracker hits my king tower and activates it :P
i remember when the firecracker was first released it was my favorite card b/c it was so fun to use and i was a major casual player. it was my first level 13, 14, and 15 card all when they were considered max level.
Ive got to say thanks to you for bringing me back to Clash Royale. My friend was mentioning the game and your video just so happened to appear on my recommended (I think it was history of the ebarbs) and I’ve consistently been watching you since. The thing I find most interesting is how my perspective has shifted since I started watching (I initially was very much a midladder menace and didn’t agree with some of your takes but now I’d consider myself pretty good) and how much more I appreciate your videos after becoming more invested in the game (including statistics and data). I wish for you to continue to make these videos and to not stop because I constantly find myself rewatching these videos every couple months when I’m doing work and relaxing. Also please do a video on some card in Splashyard as that’s my main deck and I believe a history on the poison/graveyard/baby dragon/ice wizard could be very interesting.
it does't matter how good or bad a card is if 80% of your player's are not having fun
The funny thing is physics wise she shouldn't have knock back and cards like Hunter, Flying Machine and Musketeer should. Her weapon is literally something called a recoilless launcher
24:41 he got a point
I paused the video for this moment🎉😂
This became my fav card after Fire Spirits were changed, I just loved how well the spread and range were able to deal with so many things
What way to make her even more hated? Her broken evolution on launch.
The Minecraft nether music in the background went unbelievably hard…
Classic addition
I don't get it why people already hate most of the new cards from 2020 - 2024, I know Supercell is trying to add something new . But it seems that everyone loves the old cards from 2016 - 2018
Firecracker is such a pain I have mirror for Arrows. Evo Firecracker doing so much damage from across the river should not be allowed. I actually hate Megaknight less. At least I can reliably predict what it does
skill issue frfr
You just suck...
1:30 I like it when she recoils🙂↕️
Yeah but firecracker lowkey bad as hell
😭😭😭
Bomber is better
@@shadow_Wizard627 dude bomber is not hot 💀
@@adamramirez4524yeah, he is NOT hot he is SCORCHING hot
SHE IS BLOODY 16 BONK
Currently running a miner wall breaker deck with fire cracker for splash. She gets annoying when the opponent activate king tower since even though my miner doesn’t get hit with the placement I have this sometimes prevent a wall breaker connection. Other than that she is great when I pare her with my mighty miner to defend against tanks and mega knight.
Firecracker is the sole reason that everyone is running arrows
For real. So tired of having Arrows in my deck.
Hey, love the clash content. I think you should do a video explaining the history of the barbarians. And include the addition of the other barbarian cards as well
this card was a mistake 100%
just like me
That's a lesson for kids around: DON'T SKIP SCHOOL, otherwise you'll end up like the Firecracker and be bullied forever just for existing.
This is just a skill issue on your part fr
I guess you mean the mega knight.
Yes
i think firecracker is a good card, but i think i speak for all of us when i say: rage spell shouldnt do ANY damage at all ever. rage doing damage is the most irritating thing ever and it makes me want to rip my skin off.
I'm living nice even without my skin tho maybe a bit cold in winter but you get used to it
So i dont play clash royale but i noticed a general mentality of hate against off-beat cards like spawners mirror and xbow. They should be completely valid cards that demand answers from your opponent. Every card should be that but instead the choice is to soft remove them from the game in its entirety which i find unfair tbh. Can someone explain to me where this mindset comes from?
Clash Royale players just don't know how to play their own game, so they ask for nerfs of cards they suck against
A lot of these cards are way easier to use than to go against, which makes players feel like these cards are unfair and hate on them.
A mix of bad clash royale players being mad and whining at supercell and supercell being terrible at balancing.
If you want a real answer, it's because those cards don't have many answers to them outside of very specific cards. Having spawners or xbows be strong means everyone has to run those specific counters, leading to less deck variety.
Dart goblin dies to log, this thing is a dart goblin on crack, it should die to log.
As shrimple as can be...
To be honest I never knew this was how people felt about Firecracker. Since it came out, it's been one of my favorite cards in the game. Heck, when the evo came out I was excited for it. Until today it's still a main card in alot of my decks.
Very gaycard
The only reason I use it cuz all my other cards are under lv
how could you be so ignorant
Commit wallbreaker
@@yinweyko4302you must be an 11 year old
0:27 nice fireball...
Hey Gratz I’d love to see a history of Bomber video, I think it would be pretty interesting with its history and especially with the evolution
Its an okay card. It has a low dps and low health for 3 elixir. Mind you lp has double health and its attack triples in seconds. Firecracker makes up for its ability to go back and its scattering effect which is what makes it OP.
It’s not op
Counter point: Dart goblin
I haven’t touched this game once in my life not do I ever plan to. but Im addicted to the way you break things down. You make it super interesting so I keep coming back. good job! I wonder if you play others games or have been interested in breaking down other metas?
I swear this card would be fine and balanced if it just didn’t have recoil. I’ve placed troops to counter the firecracker and the recoil causes the troop to target a different thing. Spells which would have taken out the firecracker don’t because the recoil pushes it back out of the damage zone.
I honestly think you shouldn't be able to combo certain cards. It's literally the equivalent to an I win button. But seeing as how I understand the type of gamer that plays this game, you would lose players. This is the type of player that quits these games. If they can't find their I win button they quit or just buy their way to victory. Copying popular or powerful deck combos that are virtually unbeatable especially after paying to level them all. I have no praise for people who play this game. They aren't gamers. They are corporate cuckholds.
Firecracker is way less annoying than pekka or ebarbs. Pekka+zap kills most of troops with positive elixir trade and ebarbs just are ebarbs...
You can defend Pekka with archers + pretty much anything without issues. Dont only rely on swarms against her.
You are so talented, keep making videos!
I see this card almost every game. I love it, i dont use it but its a fun little character. Reminds me of rambo if he was small and cute. Also, great useful card by kicking back and staying back to cycle another in is great use of that card too especially when it gets tower damage in.
When your opponent has a higher level Firecracker with Evolution and you’re arrows can’t kill it 🙃
Devs should not balance based on anything below like 7000 trophies
I agree 👍🏾 💯
Agreed everyone down there is saying nerf mk and remove that card cuz I have skill issue
You have to be joking. This is the worst take. Do you know the majority of the player count is below 7k? What happens when you don’t listen to that majority. They leave. Then boom more than half your player count is gone. You show why you’re not working at supercell
@@Jameswnwmkz93939agree with you, his comment is 0 brain
The funniest thing is that annoys both the player and the opponent. Imo her evolution was op, but regular card never was so strong
The knight's journey through clash royale's history please
'Butterfly,'🗡🦋💀
@@CurtainNotCertain1234what huh that’s a pekka voice line u got it mixed up or smt
@@FFFDKHK You should clearly know that I know what Pekka is by looking at the emotes. Pekka is the best counter to MegaKnight, hence the sword and death skeleton. Get your brain into gear.
"Butterfly"...Slap... the MegaKnight's dead.
Good stats for the cost.
Being unfun is arguably worse for a game than being op or terrible, if you always lose to a certain gun in an fps game, as long as it’s agreed to that it’s fun for user and those it’s being used against then besides the problem of load out variance there’s no real reason to nerf the card, and same for if a gun is terrible, but if a gun is unfun to go against no matter how balanced or bad it is that will be what gets people to stop playing or complain
You just suck...
It's that simple.
skill issue man get good
1:34 firecracker was small 💀
Ngl, for a moment I saw the thumbnail,
I thought "why it's so HARD" in a dirty way.
My bad.
The time of the evo was launch, I remember the firecrack was all over the place and I love that chaos. It was so good.
Different from the stupid mega night, that shit was ALWAYS in half of the decks and then it got an evolution...
@@RIFADOR001bro is traumatized 😂
@@Cursedpeopleakajuiceevo meganut is a sh*t card
To me, is always 2.6 that most hated. 4 elixir that not die to fireball is fucking purple girl shooting balls, and 4 elixir guy riding on top his beloved fucking animal that doesn't die while taking 2 hit from little robot wearing armour
HATE is the thing the defines this card
You mean mega night I guess.
@@RIFADOR001average midladder player:
I really hate that fuck1n b1tch
As someone who ran hog eq for about a year after the evo update, after not playing firecracker for almost a year I can say the card is pretty annoying to play against, however, everyone runs arrows and I think that makes it a frustrating experience for the player using firecracker and the player playing arrows. I think what the game needs is another 3 elixir spell that directly counter a card like firecracker, void could have filled that spot but didn’t quite work in the same way as arrows and wasn’t great at killing firecracker.
i love her she's the strongest lady in the game
They should make it so firecracker dies to log would make her way less annoying
Then there would be no point? Arrows kills so use arrows. Log is the most popular spell, so she would literally be useless.
Dart goblin dies to log, so should firecracker, i assure you that you wouldnt want a dart goblin that lives log
Firecracker disproves the argument that balancing the game based off of usage stats is logical. The majority of players have to deal with her almost every single game but she doesn’t have high usage at higher levels of play so she is considered balanced? How is this fair to everyone else that isn’t at the top level? Also if firecracker is a “mid ladder menace” then what constitutes as mid ladder? I’m a level 15 character in the final arena on trophy road and hitting ultimate champ and I see firecracker in 8 out of ten games, am I considered mid ladder? I think the devs need to accept that this card is not healthy for the game at all and I’m tired of having to run arrows in every deck just in case I play against it.
Yeah ur considered midladder still but seeing it 8/10 games is bizzare when its only used in basically 1 deck
I didn’t play since 2019. When I came back to this card in the game it literally made me almost just bounce again. Thought my main account was lost forever then found it again btw
Can you make a video talking about how overpowered the dagger dutches was?
That’s came out this year it wouldn’t make a good video you have basically nothing to talk about
"Everyone hates Firecracker" the movie.
17:15 Royal Ghost hits the tower twice in less than half a second
Was about to comment that, how tf does that work??
@@bitrix6261 i assume that the log pushed it back frame perfect when it was about to hit the tower, and the server didn't know what to do.
So the next hit it got actually connected twice to "fix" the server's "mistake"
18:43 / 34:51
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Firecracker Gets MAJOR Buffs (Jan.-Jun.2023) fessing up when facing multiple troops is still issue with firecracker as a firecracker player basically at locks onto a true it's about to shoot at it then the trip dies it doesn't shoot at all and it keeps switching in between troops it doesn't actually ever shoot
the card who needs the most a documentary is the knight, he has always been a popular card in the game since his launch on the beta, he is one of the most known cards even for people who played the game once
Literally the first card you play in clash royale.
Its really easy to counter...it has slow attack speed and low hp...
Use high movement speed and high ranged cards like dart goblin...if you wanna save arrows for minions or goblins, use tornado to change her position....the most annoying thing about her is her position...so i guess tornado is her biggest counter...
I see alot of people literally wanting their hated cards removed. Look, Ima be honest, I play hog eq (not my main tho) and I do it with a cause:
1. If Im tilted
2. If Im desperate
3. If I hate the opponent deck
You can yell at me, but I will agree tho, it can be sometimes annoying. But against actual players, its not that bad
Hey. I really appreciate the amount of efforts you put into your videos. I used to be a Golem beatdown player. I would really appreciate if you made a History video about he Golem and Im sure some of us too.
Firecracker is the clash royale edgar
Mega knight is closer to Edgar than firecracker ever will be
At this point, I think the best thing to do with midladder menaces may not necessarily be to nerf the cards into oblivion, but to add more cards to the midladder arenas so that the players have some counterplay from the get-go, whether it be moving cards from higher arenas down or creating entirely new cards. I can't imagine doing either one of these would be easy, but I think that it would at least be worth trying.
This, mega knight and hog rider all fight for the place of most annoying card, but Firecracker is absolutely number one. There is no card that is less enjoyable to face than it, and the fact that it got one of the first evos is a disgrace
Hog is so easy to counter
@@thepotassiumgamer2137and megakight and fire cracker are all very eazy to counter
@@oltimos8888 yes but hog is the easiest out of the 3 imo
@@thepotassiumgamer2137 nuh mega kight is the eazist to counter. Is the hardest out of those 3 to counter
This one has many counters, mega knight doesn't, and now it has a stupid evolution... mega night is like number 1 and everyone else is like number 5 or below
evolutions in clash royal are like if people were getting constantly fucked over by mega Kangaskhan in single player
Making the evo die to arrows was criminal. Think whatever you want about the card but it has no defensive value anymore
Bro has no idea how to bait
All I’m seeing here is an evo firecracker abuser with no skill stuck in mid ladder
Edit: fixed spelling mistake
Bro what. People hated the firecracker. OF COURSE PEOPLE WERE GOING TO HATE EVO FIRECRACKER. They had to make I die to arrows because they wanted her to die to the log. Everyone wanted her to die to the log
Found the annoying fc spammer
Shes been a mainstay in my deck since release. If u cant beat them, join them. If u have problems versing her, use arrows. Pretty much a skill issue if ur complaining
What bothers me the most is the Firecracker being a common card type. It genuinely makes no sense when you compare it to the properties of other common cards. I personally would have made it an epic card, maybe rare
What's worse is that cards like musketeer and executioner are "rare" and "epic" .
Supercell said they haven’t had a common card for a while so they made it common
did u watch the video at all
I honestly think that if you very slightly reduce her range or somehow make her die to log (in a way in which wouldn’t change any other interactions) or some other spell being a fair counter to her then I think she would be less of a mid ladder menace, if they don’t want to change her stats then add some new cards that counter her effectively.
34:28 next vid leaked?
He already made one of the mega knight.
@@chrisalvarado5454 not evolution though