IMO that's probably their most perfect balancing of a card, making it decent in top ladder, without being menacing in mid ladder, it luckily escaped the faith of the ebarbs and the wizard
The problem was the very high punishement cost of misplacing/mistiming a building. If you failes, you may have wasted up to 5 elixir for nothing. So while it was not a problem for competitive players, it certainly ruined the day of lower arena players. This change was perfect , as it not only fixed the timing problem, it also made connections with it decent enough to warrant a new playstyle at higher levels.
@@krallakrulla971 yeah, but other cards you use buildings for are melee, meaning you have more time to think, place it correctly, and get elixir if you mess it up to try and salvage the situation
@@NotDeinut with clone it will be quite the same, and also he could talk about glitches like the drill glitch or the recent goblin giant glitch. Also his history would be interesting bc it was never a meta card, besides from mirror
Yeah The Elite Barbarians are scary if not dealt with and joining alongside the Royale Giant is even more terrifying, and if super cell lowered both of their elixir by one it is over for clash royale
During RG hell, I remember being carried so hard by the royal giant to the point that I ended up loving the card more than hating it. It's so simple but so fun to use anyway.
Seems as though, overall, this card has gotten a happy ending. One rework turned it from a polarising card that was completely useless in competitive but overpowered in ladder into a perfectly balanced, healthy card that saw good use in both competitive and midladder without being overbearing in either.
this dude puts so much love into these videos, they are SO informative to the point I watched one or two and I want to play this game that I stopped playing years ago, I watched 1/2 videos so far after I got recommended the mega knight video yesterday but I fully plan to watch them all, great work Gratz!
I think a history of the skeletons would be a nice video. Considering the skeletons are included in about seven cards I think it would be funny going over how overly easy or how overly complicated it was to balance them
@@frozenfeet4534 its wild how much and how good goblin hut is at bottom ladder lost my almost maxed account had to make another and ive never had to counter or play against it properly before
i reached ultimate with goblin drill and miner switching between both decks when they were literally the least used cards. But sadly the achievement is still the same no matter the deck@@cheesecake1255 😮💨
i dont know what it is but i love this more indepth informational history videos about videogames, even if i dont play them. its just so interesting to listen to someone who is pasionate about a game who tells you the interesting story about a card, a map, a track or whatever. i love you content and i will continue watching every video you release. please keep this up man
Fun fact. Mini pekka and Prince have changed rarity. Mini pekka was an epic and Prince was a rare. This was VERY VERY VERY early in the games history though
First of all, I would like to thank you Gratz for this amazing history of the Royal Giant, you are my favourite Clash Royale youtuber . But in the video, you actually made a mistake : for the May 3rd, 2016 balance changes, you said that RG got a buff of 0.5 tiles instead of 1.25 tiles. Let me explain : before the fix of the "range bug", batiments and troops attacked troop from the center of their collision radius instead of the tip of it like today. Since it would buff range more or less depending of the troop/batiment colision radius, most card got a range nerf like the tesla's range going from 6 tiles to 5.5 tiles (0.5 collision radius) without any change on their effective range. The RG before the update had a 6 tiles range (bugged) and had a 0.75 collision radius which meant he had an effective range of 5.25 tiles. But instead of nerfing his range like most of the other card, he got buffed by half a tile making his range go from 6 tiles bugged (5.25) to 6.5 tiles non bugged which meant his range has been increased by 1.25 tiles. If you're not conviced yet, take a look at the Clash With Ash Extract around 2:44 into the video. if the royal giant had a 6 tiles effective range, he would of out range the tesla wich had a 5.5 effective range like explained earlier ( there is not the argument of the RG not seeing the tesla because it was not underground). This massive range buff could explain the huge spike in popularity since he could target the tower around 1.667 seconds earlier and could now out range all building instead of none before. Thank's to evryone who has read my post and have a nice day.
love the videos. i really like this style of video going over the history of something in a game. your channel reminds me of a different channel called false swipe gaming which does a similar thing but with pokemon instead of clash royale cards
Every time i see your videos,i just feel like playing clash royale again,and then i face people with diamond pass and lvl 12 skeleton giant when mine is lvl 8
Is a video on card evolution something to consider? I'm curious to see your perspective on it since it probably could've been a great addition to the game had it not been for level 15, Elite Wild Cards and Supercell's new hyper-monetization approach with updates like the pass "rework".
It would be interesting to hear his thoughts and have a bit of a retrospective on evolutions. Though right now the mechanic is new enough (compared to everything else gratz has covered) that it's still worth giving it some time to see how they play out.
Fun fact: A military version of the game (a big plagiarism) had made its own version which was literally a combat helicopter (yes he fly 🚁) which could fire from 7 tiles. The card is present in half of the decks, the other half being practically only the military version of the hog rider (a jeep)
I rember that time even when the RG was absolute trash i still wondered why a ranged gaint was common while all the other royal type cards where of higher rarity
Your videos always make me think back to my highschool days when I would play this game a lot for most of it, how excited I would be for updates, the discussions I would have with my friends about it, how angry I would get over losing a single match, how toxic I used to be, and I just want to go back in time to tell him to take it easy and enjoy himself, be more outgoing, don't care so much about what people might think about you, and to not play so much Royal Giant, cause it's toxic and annoying
i quit when evolutions were added but i still love watching your videos and reminiscing of the old and better times thank god the royal giant is terrible
I think a history on the Tesla, Zappies, or Sparky would be pretty cool as the cards where always interesting like how the Tesla can hide from spells or attacks and Sparky being a charge troop
Istg any midladder player complaining about meganight who hasn't faced the MONSTROSITY of royal giant and ebarbs paired together will never truly get any respect from me, because they wouldn't even last a second against a 2016 midladder menace player.
Overleveled royal giant/ebarbs/hog. The triumvirate of absolute evil for midladder players back in the early days. Definitely contributed to lots of rage.
I remember when EBarbs came out and I started using them to counter the Royal Giant and it was pretty good at doing that. It was even better after the buff but it didn't last very long...
Supercell also has an in game tip which says:
“All cards are created balanced. Even Royal Giant” 😅
“All cards are created equal, even Royal Giant”
I think that is the actual tip from the game
@@Error-ff5rgbalanced and equal kind of means same thing
Meanwhile, wizard just got another beer in el barrio after losing his 9173925th game in a row
@@S_0.2 Well, no.
Wizzard is op af in mid ladder it’s the most annoying card it needs a nerf because it counters my baby dragon and skeleton army’s
People complain about me while there's this tumor waddling around midladder.
I complain about any card I I can't beat
Especially the credit card
You are the menace of midladder bruh
megaknight gaming
Fr
If u can't defend mk u lack skill
IMO that's probably their most perfect balancing of a card, making it decent in top ladder, without being menacing in mid ladder, it luckily escaped the faith of the ebarbs and the wizard
Thinking about it, ebarbs got replaced with another ebarb
They just needed to lock card levels to king tower lvl
@@gizmoman2388but money 😢
fate
@@gizmoman2388
Fuck that would fix everything
The problem was the very high punishement cost of misplacing/mistiming a building. If you failes, you may have wasted up to 5 elixir for nothing. So while it was not a problem for competitive players, it certainly ruined the day of lower arena players. This change was perfect , as it not only fixed the timing problem, it also made connections with it decent enough to warrant a new playstyle at higher levels.
Yeah good point but nerf miner
Yes but literally every card hasthis if you do a Big misplay
@@krallakrulla971 yeah, but other cards you use buildings for are melee, meaning you have more time to think, place it correctly, and get elixir if you mess it up to try and salvage the situation
I'd like to see the clone spell history, I think it will be interesting to see how over the years it came to now
I think that the clone was really similar with the mirror in terms of balance where it was trash then randomly op then trash again
@@NotDeinut with clone it will be quite the same, and also he could talk about glitches like the drill glitch or the recent goblin giant glitch.
Also his history would be interesting bc it was never a meta card, besides from mirror
@@federico8744ram rider glitch?
WHAT WILL HE EVEN SPEAK ABOUT BRO SEARCH THE ENTIRE INTERNET CLONE HAD BEEN NEVER NERFED OR BUFFED
@@hamodyabas1179that doesn’t change the changes that happen to its viability.
14:36 that sound sent chills down my spine
Lol the ptsd
Hahah hell yeah man..... When you put skarmy and opponent zaps it
Leading to EXIT 😂
Gives the same energy as the Guardians from Breath of the Wild
what you hear before a princess tower gets obliterated
Yeah The Elite Barbarians are scary if not dealt with and joining alongside the Royale Giant is even more terrifying, and if super cell lowered both of their elixir by one it is over for clash royale
During RG hell, I remember being carried so hard by the royal giant to the point that I ended up loving the card more than hating it. It's so simple but so fun to use anyway.
I picked up Royal Giant during that time because I hated xbow
Royal giant is the mid ladder menace that I’ve been waiting for you to cover!
this card was the reason why I quit clash royale, strategy was no use since 2021.
@@tctytwho cares
@@perseperse1237i care
@@perseperse1237I care 2
@@tctytdamn
If the Royale Giant has 1000 fans, I’m one of them. If the Royale Giant has 1 fan that’s me. And if the Royale Giant has no fans, I must be dead.
have you heard about "lowtiergod" most iconic catchphrase? 🗿
Good man
Facts my brotha, spit yo shit indeed
One of the best things of this channel is that he actually lists the music he used in order in the description
Man your videos are so high-quality, I've watched all your videos at least twice now beacuse they're so entertaining! Keep it up!
Ik bro his vids are literally so good and there is something about his voice that I love
@@shockedwooloo6723no I'm better
Seems as though, overall, this card has gotten a happy ending. One rework turned it from a polarising card that was completely useless in competitive but overpowered in ladder into a perfectly balanced, healthy card that saw good use in both competitive and midladder without being overbearing in either.
This video really opened my eyes to the fact miner needs a nerf
Even though I've stopped playing CR, these videos are fun to watch and look back on.
this dude puts so much love into these videos, they are SO informative to the point I watched one or two and I want to play this game that I stopped playing years ago, I watched 1/2 videos so far after I got recommended the mega knight video yesterday but I fully plan to watch them all, great work Gratz!
I think a history of the skeletons would be a nice video. Considering the skeletons are included in about seven cards I think it would be funny going over how overly easy or how overly complicated it was to balance them
The amount of times they’ve switched between having 3 skeletons to 4 skeletons is hilarious
spear gobbos would be even more interesting imo. especially given the disparity between goblin giant at the top and goblin hut at the bottom
@@frozenfeet4534 its wild how much and how good goblin hut is at bottom ladder lost my almost maxed account had to make another and ive never had to counter or play against it properly before
This video gave me PTSD. Thank you for summarizing the non competive experience of dealing with RG so well!
Still remember the first time Royal Giant got buffed, he made me reach legendary arena. Always top 5 favorite for me
What does mean to reach an achievement if it wasn't by your own strength but in the one of an external help
i reached ultimate with goblin drill and miner switching between both decks when they were literally the least used cards. But sadly the achievement is still the same no matter the deck@@cheesecake1255 😮💨
@@cheesecake1255
...but that's how Clash Royale works?
You just use cards, that are normally viable, to reach the top of the ladder.
@@BowlofColdSoupFellas are insulting somebody for using a good card, instead of the shittiest deck in history 😂
@@BowlofColdSoup yeah, hahaha, it is just lame
i dont know what it is but i love this more indepth informational history videos about videogames, even if i dont play them. its just so interesting to listen to someone who is pasionate about a game who tells you the interesting story about a card, a map, a track or whatever. i love you content and i will continue watching every video you release. please keep this up man
for reall
14:16 mini pekka and prince sitting in the corner: 🙇🏿♂️🙇🏼♂️
Can't believe RCCH ruined clash royal
RCCH?
@@AminKhojahRCCH is pvz youtuber, he have roual giant in the profile picture
Lol
How did I never notice that that was his pfp
How dare he
Fun fact. Mini pekka and Prince have changed rarity. Mini pekka was an epic and Prince was a rare. This was VERY VERY VERY early in the games history though
They changed their rarity when beta was finished
I remember this channel just came out of nowhere and released some good videos.
never even played clash royale but there’s something about your videos that are just entertaining to listen in the background
2 Gratz vids within a Week?! this made my day
Wow two videos in a week, you've really outdone yourself Gratz! I love these!
Royale giant outranging every building is just something else
Clash Royale is truly a "perfectly balanced game with no exploits"
I found you again
im starting to believe this man's actually a robot
@@YTInnerAgntAutoi am very worried
@@YTInnerAgntAutoit is
Yo Gratz, I love how quickly you uploaded this time! Keep up the good work
Will we be seeing a video on the Gobin Giant? Id love to learn the history of that card!
Love these videos! Pekka video next would be cool! Or history of pekka bridge spam etc
“Changing a card’s rarity is something that’s never happened” sir have you heard that mini pekka used to be an epic?
Also the Prince was once a Rare card also
@@Ashvextient I forgot about that
First of all, I would like to thank you Gratz for this amazing history of the Royal Giant, you are my favourite Clash Royale youtuber .
But in the video, you actually made a mistake : for the May 3rd, 2016 balance changes, you said that RG got a buff of 0.5 tiles instead of 1.25 tiles.
Let me explain : before the fix of the "range bug", batiments and troops attacked troop from the center of their collision radius instead of the tip of it like today. Since it would buff range more or less depending of the troop/batiment colision radius, most card got a range nerf like the tesla's range going from 6 tiles to 5.5 tiles (0.5 collision radius) without any change on their effective range. The RG before the update had a 6 tiles range (bugged) and had a 0.75 collision radius which meant he had an effective range of 5.25 tiles. But instead of nerfing his range like most of the other card, he got buffed by half a tile making his range go from 6 tiles bugged (5.25) to 6.5 tiles non bugged which meant his range has been increased by 1.25 tiles.
If you're not conviced yet, take a look at the Clash With Ash Extract around 2:44 into the video.
if the royal giant had a 6 tiles effective range, he would of out range the tesla wich had a 5.5 effective range like explained earlier ( there is not the argument of the RG not seeing the tesla because it was not underground).
This massive range buff could explain the huge spike in popularity since he could target the tower around 1.667 seconds earlier and could now out range all building instead of none before.
Thank's to evryone who has read my post and have a nice day.
As long as royal giant has that drip, he will always be my giant.
love the videos. i really like this style of video going over the history of something in a game. your channel reminds me of a different channel called false swipe gaming which does a similar thing but with pokemon instead of clash royale cards
These videos are PERFECT for background noise, but I still can listen to them. Love this style!
i don't play royale anymore but listening to stories about mid-ladder royale always makes me laugh 🤣
Every time i see your videos,i just feel like playing clash royale again,and then i face people with diamond pass and lvl 12 skeleton giant when mine is lvl 8
Is a video on card evolution something to consider? I'm curious to see your perspective on it since it probably could've been a great addition to the game had it not been for level 15, Elite Wild Cards and Supercell's new hyper-monetization approach with updates like the pass "rework".
It would be interesting to hear his thoughts and have a bit of a retrospective on evolutions. Though right now the mechanic is new enough (compared to everything else gratz has covered) that it's still worth giving it some time to see how they play out.
Evolved rg and firecracker break the game in half
@@LucyWest370
Evo Firecracker?
Yes.
Evo RG?
No.
Gratz, we love you. Take of your shirt
🤨
14:16 Technically Prince and Mini PEKKA changed their rarity from Rare to Epic and Epic to Rare, but it was a Traded Rarity
I can confirm as someone who hasn't played the game in years seeing this evolved RG almost gave me a heart attack
Fun fact: A military version of the game (a big plagiarism) had made its own version which was literally a combat helicopter (yes he fly 🚁) which could fire from 7 tiles.
The card is present in half of the decks, the other half being practically only the military version of the hog rider (a jeep)
Boom Beach? Kinda remember that.
@@absoultethings4213 Jungle Clash
Is it really plagiarism though?
Ps, I think Clash Royale can have one copy cat considering other games like Candy Crush have hundreds.
Dude I love your videos and I can't believe you have only been making videos for less than 2 years. You definitely deserve my sub
"A cards rarity has never been changed before" mini pekka: am I a joke to you
💀
ok super mini peppa i get it
Mini Pekka was changed?
@@arielcevallos8188 yea it was originally a epic
@@arielcevallos8188dont know the full details, but the prince and mini p.e.k.k.a. has their rarities swapped
2017 me when I'm told to just outskill the RG 4 levels above my cards 🤯
Why didn't *I* think of that?!
Bro can actually put me to sleep with his videos and that’s not a bad thing
Royal Giant always seemed so volatile in the community’s, you either see people praise him, or want his head on a pike
Jokes aside tho, this man is my source to clash royale card lore. Amazing quality videos, keep it up!
Still advocating for a history of the Knight. I wanna see how good my favorite card is! Also great job as always 👍
19:29 MOM, I'M ON THE VID
lol
I rember that time even when the RG was absolute trash i still wondered why a ranged gaint was common while all the other royal type cards where of higher rarity
Your videos always make me think back to my highschool days when I would play this game a lot for most of it, how excited I would be for updates, the discussions I would have with my friends about it, how angry I would get over losing a single match, how toxic I used to be, and I just want to go back in time to tell him to take it easy and enjoy himself, be more outgoing, don't care so much about what people might think about you, and to not play so much Royal Giant, cause it's toxic and annoying
This guy is like the false swipe gaming of clash royale
10:18 perfect pre fire on that fireball.
Damm these uploads are quick!
Can you do a video about firecracker. I feel like it would be an interesting story
He's only doing cards released before 2018. The only post-2018 card he's considered was Elixir golem.
Firecracker:
Misunderstood to Overhated to Just Hated!
Elixir Golem: How to Turn Trash into Unbalanced Dumptruck, no offense Drewbian
16:59 PEKKA (which still hasn't had her deploy sound "fixed"): Am I a joke to you?
14:19 fun fact the prince was a rare and the mini pekka was a epic
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, rarities have changed before idk what he’s going on about
i quit when evolutions were added but i still love watching your videos and reminiscing of the old and better times
thank god the royal giant is terrible
Sameeeee
2 videos in one week ?!
Jeez, you're putting in the work
I discovered your channel about a week ago and it is amazing!
Bro your Minecraft music background makes me so nostalgic and sad
Very nice to see another upload so quick!
U really present ur vids In a intresting way dude.. love ur vids and keep it up
I loved the RG tbh. Just such a nice positive elixier trade.
i cant believe it's been 5 years since the 60% buff. i see the royal giant and think oh. its the newly buffed rg
bro the minecraft music is gonna make me cry
2 Gratz vids in one week? W across the board
I think a history on the Tesla, Zappies, or Sparky would be pretty cool as the cards where always interesting like how the Tesla can hide from spells or attacks and Sparky being a charge troop
am i the only one who finds it weird the the Royale giant is a common meanwhile the normal giant is a rare
Istg any midladder player complaining about meganight who hasn't faced the MONSTROSITY of royal giant and ebarbs paired together will never truly get any respect from me, because they wouldn't even last a second against a 2016 midladder menace player.
love the c418 in the background
Babe wake up, new gratz video just dropped
Overleveled royal giant/ebarbs/hog. The triumvirate of absolute evil for midladder players back in the early days. Definitely contributed to lots of rage.
Actually they have changed card rarities before. Mini pekka used to be epic long ago
Gratz is simply the goat clash royale channel
Thanks that clears up an unresolved issue, I didn’t know I had.
I remember when EBarbs came out and I started using them to counter the Royal Giant and it was pretty good at doing that. It was even better after the buff but it didn't last very long...
You are my new favorite UA-camr. Keep up the great work! ✨
I love your music choices for this video
Let’s just all be glad there isn’t a mini pekka evolution. Now let’s keep praying
Yo finally great job man
I was not expecting a new video this fast
When i stopped playing years ago, RG+ giant skeleton was my go to. Hilarious dropping one at each bridge.
I love these videos I don’t play clash royal anymore and these are the only videos I watch on it
april 2017 was the moment i reconsidered my gaming choices
Man I remember this, the meta was to pocket place him 1 tile down so the king tower couldn't even hit him
Do a video about Flying Machine and Graveyard, please!
Id like to see the lava hound or balloon history
I’d love an episode on the spirits, especially the fire spirit who I’ll never forget was fire spirits at first
in summary... failing at defending this is a skill issue
elixir golem vid would be really cool. its a really fascinating idea for a card
Hope this card does not get any nerfs
“The phoenix was really good after its release” but not only was it really good, it may have been the best card of all time.
Can you do Lumberjack's history next video?
The evolution firecracker definitely deserves nerf
Nerf royal giant is just like Rate tidal wave of 2016.
I've been using Miner WB bait for over three years and I never had problems with RG
I remember playing RG and E-Barbs. Best deck I had till I was able to upgrade my fav cards more recently.