You forgot to mention the nice feeling when you deploy a golem behind King's tower and 0.1 seconds later you see the enemy throwing E-barbs with rage on the opposite side
People are so fucking funny and original almost every single match I play I have to deal with the firecracker I CAN'T PLAY LIKE THIS IT IS NOT FUN IF I HAVE TO PLAY AGAINST THE SAME GODDAMN CARDS OVER AND OVER AGAIN
back then the elite barbs were so fast that you could skip the load up info and spam barbs and rage and the tower would be gone if the opponents hadnt reacted within a second or two, it ran faster than any card in the whole game at the time
@@art-games6230i was bought in for so long. Now i only touch it if i’m playing 2v2 with my best friend during random downtime. That aspect is still fun, but ladder is awful compared to pre 2019 in my opinion
Oh man, the memories. It was this card which made me quit for years. It was just too frustrating and unrewarding how they could simply be lazily put there and win the game. Completely agree with your summary of how this was the worst time for any (casual) play in the entire history. Great video!!
As a casual guy Who started playing when there were only like 6-8 arenas, elite barbarians made me quit the game. They were Just unfun and unfair to play against
For real i feel like i subconsciously started to quit because i would play and everyone used this card, it was a complete bitch to kill and i didnt feel like switching up my deck to only kill elite barbs. and i remember using them when they came out and they SUCKED, seriously makes the game not fun just stupid card/cards to add same thing with mega knight lowkey
I remember when e-barb was everywhere. I just started playing bowler graveyard as the bowler was a complete counter to them and was a great counter push
I played a similar deck but with hog instead of graveyard. Was basically a free win every time someone dropped ebarbs. I used the king laugh emote every time
Almost recently or almost a year ago I finally played the game again and it was pretty fast as I have a muscle memory when I used to play in full but it didn't suffice as I got higher then I found out it was rigged from every start of the battles, so yeah too bad.
@@kryane99 well it's complicated to point it out but I would say this sometimes I have the wrong cards, and sometimes I have the right cards. Because the reason I say that within that time I always switch cards of what is best or what's not best to bring in I constantly switch cards quite a lot, so given up on it.
I think the balance changes that were done to address the Three Musketeers in 2018 (buffing their counters, nerfing their synergies, introducing new cards that counter them) affected Elite Barbarians quite negatively as well, which was why they dropped so much during that time.
Oh man, can you imagine how even MORE busted Ebarbs Rage would've been had Rage done damage like it does now? Takes out swarmies and then your tower lol
Man I havent played CR in like 4 years but this came up in my reccomended and it was such a trip down memory lane, I'm glad the ebarbs are somehow balanced now but god do I still hold so much trauma from having lived directly through their reign of terror.
I’d love to see a History of Mortar video! This one was very great. As someone who didn’t play the game back then it’s very interesting seeing how different and broken Ebarbs used to be.
I remember those days, I always played Giant + Witch, so those were pretty rough times. But eventually I started baiting the elite Barbarians by playing a witch behind a tower, naturally E barbs players would instantly play them on the other lane, then I would kite them to the Witch (to the skeletons to be precise) with my Giant.
I remember adapting to this era by making an anti-ebarb deck. Bowler was the main defense, with an ice golem in front to last longer, and garveyard freeze made the push. Ebarb players had no patience, so the tough bowler would push them back until the rage wore off. I gotta admit staying true to my principle and never using this braindead toxic card until they received the deadly nerf, but on that last day before the bc, when I finally took them for one round, I was stunned at how op it was to play them
I think a history of the Three Musketeers would be fun. The only card whose price didn't increase when Mirrored (at a time). It may need to be complemented with the Musketeer but it would be nice.
Hi Gratz! Your videos have single-handedly reminded me on how complex and interesting this game is and swung me back into the Clash series. Been having lots of fun so far, so I just wanted to say thank you!
I remember this. My deck, like many, was designed to counter elite barbs as I was no high level and didn't have the time to be one. I did just fine for a while, but by the time they added things like the executioner and mega knight, I was already too used to my anti elite deck and had invested too much into it. At that point I quit playing. Came back last year and wow there's a lot I missed.
@@warmute4886it’s even more skilful what are you saying. You get to match the opponents deck instead of facing the same 3 recycled meta decks. I personally love this change. I’ve only lost about 3 or 4 games so far, so much more strategy in the counter picks to their choices. Really a fantastic addition
@@kardel8850 I’ve been playing since beta so I actually forgot not everyone has cards level 11. My lowest level cards are 10 being legendaries. So I guess your guy’s complaints are valid, for higher level players this is 100% better. Especially because all the perma meta cards for me are 11, because I just like using dumb cards I guess. So when everyone uses hog/hogs/mega and pekka decks it gets very stale. Mega draft for me is super refreshing
I used that combo back in 2022 when rage still had a large area and it was one of my favorite combos. I never really got to use these crazy cards cause I got to pekkas playhouse when clash royale was somewhat new and got inferno dragon as my first legendary and called it a day
Back then almost everyone in my class played Clash Royale and I remember one kid being beaten up by 3 other kids for using Elite Barbarians and Royal Giant. I hear he stopped using both cards after that
Yoo finally another video!! Keep it up bro we all are with you from beginning to end. Eager for that day when you will finish the series and make one for all cards!!
Never say “once and for all” with balance. All it takes is the right balance change to another card-or a new card to be released entirely-in the future for the e-barbs’ balance to get challenged once more. The domino effect really _can_ strike from anywhere, and this might also by why Supercell wants to hold off when implementing a balance change until the other components (i.e. changes to other related cards) are ready as well. That and the fear of community outrage. Never *EVER* underestimate the potential consequences of a backlash. Releasing the same things but in a different order can definitely impact how people will react, how angry and/or relieved they’ll be, and if players will classify your rework attempt as a hidden buff or a dumb nerf. Nerf a card but forget to touch its counters? The other way around? Yeah~ The use/win rates and all the associated meta stats will eventually-and quite quickly-even out and settle on the same values regardless of balance order. However, getting a couple of weeks/months of an unbearable toxic nightmare (on mid or top ladder) can leave a seriously bitter taste. And history will remember it if you needed to do an emergency nerf.
E-Barbs have been pretty balanced since June 2021. Before that, they were weak at even levels but MENACE WHEN OVERLEVELED. But Supercell loves these type of extreme scenarios.
It wasnt mid and high ladder tho… it was mid ladder and whale ladder. Mid was casual f2p up to sweaty low budget spenders… High ladder was whales dropping hundreds to thousands of dollars to max out a card day 1. So when it came to community backlash, it was justified as only whales were playing a balanced game, while 99% of the player base was still at day 170 out of 215 to max out fireball, their first max card.
I remember when those came out with the buff, it was the strongest unit in the game. People would just drop them and you feared for your life because only a few units could not even counter them, but slow their progressions. They were tanky, fast, and dealt so much damage, you could just drop them on a tower and if the oppenent didn't defend, it was gone in seconds... well, even if the player defended your tower was still gone
I haven't played this game in years but i remember the absolute fear and dread a person feels when they see this card getting deployed I for one also used this card a lot too lol
I quit clash Royale like 5 years ago and I don't care about it now, but you still manage to make vids about it that interest me, so good job! You're one of the best niche historian youtubers I've found out there.
My God that meta was a nightmare. And I use Pekka mini Pekka so they ment nothing but the moment you messed up you lose the game. Still miss those dayes
I haven't played clash royale for almost 4 years now and goddamn that triggered ptsd. The amount of times I've seen those suckers just as I launched a nice attack on the other side was so frustrating. and not only with just rage, some played the lumberjack before them, which were essentially 3 of them with a delayed rage spell included...
I still remember when the electro wizard came out with his own challenge. EVERYONE was just using an e-barb deck in it (me included ofc) and every game was just focused around e barbs and how to play around em.
Tbh if I were to rework the e-barbs I would make it so that the e-barbs have the same speed as the regular barbarians but they get a temporary special rage effect that boost their speed by a lot if they took out a unit. That way, it could be used to kill big units then the e-barbs would Get their high speed boost to counter push the enemy. Also, considering that the e-barbs are raged when they kill a unit, the rage spell wouldn’t effect it anymore.
They are not even op people need to learn how to play. It's 6 elixir what do y'all would want to do. I can easily counter this card with valkyrie, dark prince, Bats+tesla and more
People cry about Elite Barbarians which can be countered by like more than half the cards in the game but if I dare say that Goblin Barrel or Firecracker are absolutely cancerous I get hated on lmao
Really good video, I loved seeing the history of E-Barbs and MAN am I happy that I never saw them overpowered. Anyways you might have forgotten to mention the rage range/damage rework and how that possibly affected E-Barbs.
I still didn't get over the fact EBarbs are just "fast" anymore, but they're still my babies and I'll still use them and be toxic until Clash Royale's final days
The biggest mistake is a casual game was heavily treated as an esport when it could never be. The top 100 leaderboard is not even 0.01% of the game. Rest of the playerbase got ignored for too long and suffered for it
This causal environment often literally only existed becuase of the overleveling which isn’t part of the core gameplay but instead part of the monetization policy
Great video! Funny thing is I remember EBarbs being incredibly toxic, but my least favourite clash era was by far goison (Giant + Poison meta) when poison used to slow and kill. I think it was before ebarbs released and that destroyed ladder for me haha. :)
It's interesting watching videos like this about the history of CR because I get to learn so much about the meta environment that I didn't care about back then. I remember playing in 2016 in high mid ladder and not having a significant issue with e-barbs at all, even though I was usually underleveled as a f2p player. Maybe it was just the deck I was running, idk.
I always thought they might benefit from the opposite of the twitter poll. 9 cost, 3 barbs, longer spawn timer. They wouldn’t be good, but it would help isolate them from a lot of the synergies that made them so oppressive
In my opinion, elite barbs only got balanced when the movement speed was changed. That was my very first thought back then when the trailer and card came out and I always thought that it was very obvious what had to change about them
Your videos are always informative and a great listen. I hope eventually there's a card history for all the cards in the game. Maybe a 3 balance change minimum? It would also be intriguing to find if there are any cards that have stayed relatively the same since release.
13:36 this is the time when the game truly died. The zap nerf and the year long logbaitmeta following it. I am glad it made me stop playing the game. After seeing what they did to the game now it feels like the best choice I made in the past
As always great video. I can't wait for the next video on the update. And for card history i think it would be a great time for a history of the most nerfed card ever. Miner
I was an player in this era and my 4 first maxed out cards are zap, royal giant, mirror and elite barbarians in order. I felt so bad for abusing them to the point I've refused to use any metas today (example E giant, Mega knight) because the game is more fun that way
If you gave the barbarian evolution to the elite barbarians except it gives a buff based off what the health of what it killed and normally as slow as a normal barbarian so you cant play them on a push and had to play them on defense where it would give a good counter push and can mostly be used on defense and you need skill to use it and would give the first vision of giving a high pressure counter push more true
i havent played clash royale seriously since 2016, but for some reason i still really enjoy your videos. i think that means you do a really good job :)
I remember using E-Barbs in 2016-17 and even 2018. They were the best win condition by far in 2016, to the point where I legit never remember losing once. Lvl 10 tower with lvl 13 E-Barbs btw. Carried me to like 4.5k, even winning against lvl 11 and 12 players. That's how stupid broken they were.
Ogs know the feeling when you had No elixir to defend and your opponent drops Elite Barbarians it's still going on but it was way too powerful back then. If you didn't had any Skeleton army or Gobin gang or Mega knight (which was very common in Mid-Ladder) you were fucked up. Even if you tried you were still dead you had no chance of winning specially if the Name of the player was in Japanese or Korean.
It's been literal years since I've played clash royale and I'd never forget using e-barb rage in mid-ladder 😅 Edit: still traumatized by e-barb deployment sound though
As a E-barb user today, they're surprisingly balanced now. One thing is I miss the old rage radius and no damage as I've had plenty of matches where I put E-barbs down and use the rage just to clear the tower. One thing I've always loved about them tho as that their the staple of beat down decks. They may be boring now by themselves but I still have a blast using my beat down deck with my favorite card. Side note, I was playing when they were at their peak. Whatching thus just gave me a nostalgia trip and a half. Sometimes, I do miss the good old days.
This brings me back when i was using e-barbs + lumberjack. I climbed so fast with thjs combo almost makes me wanna redownload the game but after browsing the reddit i dont feel it anymore
I've used Elite Barbs for so long with the rage spell to the point that I don't know any other way to play. You catch yourself lackin' against me just a tiny bit and boom one of your towers gets Elite Barb Rage Combo'd. Then you just instantly give up and let me get the three crown. Well that's what people usually do for some reason. They have no confidence in themselves winning against me after instantly losing a tower. Sometimes before people can do anything about it my Elite Barbs can also end up three crowning people before they can defend or properly defend themselves. Especially when I combo the elite barbs with different cards which I usually do to secure that fast W. Obviously all decks can get hard countered, so Elite Barbarians technically aren't always going to beat everyone's deck unless they are just really really bad at the game that somehow ended up in high trophy Arenas.
Yea, as a seven year player, the e barbs rage with RG was rough to say the least. Remember get very frustrated abt even trying to counter them when my skarmy would just get zapped away. It was oppressive.
Those were the times around when I quit this game. I remember consistently playing against players with cards and king level 1~2 levels higher than me on the ladder and it just didn't feel fun anymore. Especially when I meet stuff that are 3 levels above me. There was no fun in a game where you can't strategize, you can't counter, you can't outplay, you can't do anything just because you stupid ahh opponent who makes the worst plays in the world still win because they are so overleveled.
When I was younger I snapped and broke my phone because I saw my opponent use E-Barbs at the beginning of the match, yes, that's right "saw", just seen them was enough to skyrocket my anger
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Actually Gratz, Mega Knight, Seth/Rumham, and Drewbian Ruined Clash Royale.
Elite Barbs were just the hardest card to be balanced.
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You forgot to mention the nice feeling when you deploy a golem behind King's tower and 0.1 seconds later you see the enemy throwing E-barbs with rage on the opposite side
lmfao
"Call an ambulance, call an ambulance!.... But not for me"
@@sandy_nes31 true
I do that today but no rage. Can't let you golem players build a significant push
That's what you get for going golem first play without knowing your opponents deck
Nowadays, every single deck has a fucking evolved firecracker in it.
On God fuck chip damage decks
It was like the first one ofc everyone has one
Firecracker atp makes me wanna close my phone and jus go breath some air cause the chip damage is almost impossible to avoid
People are so fucking funny and original almost every single match I play I have to deal with the firecracker I CAN'T PLAY LIKE THIS IT IS NOT FUN IF I HAVE TO PLAY AGAINST THE SAME GODDAMN CARDS OVER AND OVER AGAIN
i hate the firecracker
i remember the 19% health buff
i looked at it and thought how mad strong the card would be
Homobarbaros con furia
@@migs6674I love that youtube properly translated “homobarbos” to “homobarbarians” even tho it isn’t even a word😂😂
@@benjaminmudd2071It can’t translate at all, that’s why it didn’t change.
back then the elite barbs were so fast that you could skip the load up info and spam barbs and rage and the tower would be gone if the opponents hadnt reacted within a second or two, it ran faster than any card in the whole game at the time
I don't even play Clash Royale, I just like seeing this guy go in-depth on units and game mechanics/history for half an hour
Same, I used to play it but after supercells recent money grabs I quit
You should down load it. Its free
Weird flex but ok
@@art-games6230i was bought in for so long. Now i only touch it if i’m playing 2v2 with my best friend during random downtime. That aspect is still fun, but ladder is awful compared to pre 2019 in my opinion
@@SuperDuperSebBruh he's not flexing he's just telling what he think
Oh man, the memories. It was this card which made me quit for years. It was just too frustrating and unrewarding how they could simply be lazily put there and win the game. Completely agree with your summary of how this was the worst time for any (casual) play in the entire history. Great video!!
Seriously it hindered many people seeing the Legendary Arena just once
As a casual guy Who started playing when there were only like 6-8 arenas, elite barbarians made me quit the game. They were Just unfun and unfair to play against
Skill deficit 😭😂
For real i feel like i subconsciously started to quit because i would play and everyone used this card, it was a complete bitch to kill and i didnt feel like switching up my deck to only kill elite barbs. and i remember using them when they came out and they SUCKED, seriously makes the game not fun just stupid card/cards to add same thing with mega knight lowkey
@@trippen4391no. If you play elite barbarians you have no drawback. Is not a skill-based card, same for the tornado, you are Just trash
Seeing the history of the elixir golem or the history of golem beatdown would be pretty cool
@@יונתןטל-י1עit’s still very much used by a lot of players and is still very good. Don’t know how you get that impression
Check out the history of night witch, it covers that deck quite a bit.
Corny npc kid
@@יונתןטל-י1ע he made history of hog 2.6
@@יונתןטל-י1ע it become balanced because it has a lot more counters now and people know how to play against it better
I remember when e-barb was everywhere. I just started playing bowler graveyard as the bowler was a complete counter to them and was a great counter push
i just used mini pekka or mega knight. mega knight was my dream card back then
i still play this combo to this day 😂
I played a similar deck but with hog instead of graveyard. Was basically a free win every time someone dropped ebarbs.
I used the king laugh emote every time
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It’s sad, watching these amazing videos makes me want to play Clash Royale, then I remember the game just got ruined
Almost recently or almost a year ago I finally played the game again and it was pretty fast as I have a muscle memory when I used to play in full but it didn't suffice as I got higher then I found out it was rigged from every start of the battles, so yeah too bad.
@Sanguinis how was it rigged if you dont mind asking
@@kryane99 lol this guy is just salty
@@kryane99 well it's complicated to point it out but I would say this sometimes I have the wrong cards, and sometimes I have the right cards. Because the reason I say that within that time I always switch cards of what is best or what's not best to bring in I constantly switch cards quite a lot, so given up on it.
@@sanguinis7717you’re decks just aren’t well rounded
Gratz: *talking about how overpowered e-barbs were/are*
meanwhile the background, showing a sparky absolutely demolish the e-barbs.
I think the balance changes that were done to address the Three Musketeers in 2018 (buffing their counters, nerfing their synergies, introducing new cards that counter them) affected Elite Barbarians quite negatively as well, which was why they dropped so much during that time.
I remember perfectly how broken they were. People started running e-barbs and barbarians just to stop them
My god, I remember when there where three fire spirits instead of One, that E-barb and fire spirits push was UNSTOPABBLE
ptsd
Ice golem to kite and then just play troops and e barbs die
@@caralho5237 hog cycla HERETIC!
i used it and still use a variation with the furnace
@@ryanbradford6227Furnace is bad, sorry
The card that ruined clash royale was the credit card
Literally
"Removing a card is something Clash Royale would NEVER do"
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At least it got reborn as the healing spirit.
It's actually was a rework
These documentaries of CR are awesome man, they're so fun to binge watch! Thank you 🎉
Oh man, can you imagine how even MORE busted Ebarbs Rage would've been had Rage done damage like it does now? Takes out swarmies and then your tower lol
my god, i would have hated that back then, or i may have used them, not sure
Rage does damage now? I dropped the game more than a year ago and i always used Elite Barb Poison for the same reason
@@danielkis719does same damage as zap, overall healthy and balanced change
Man I havent played CR in like 4 years but this came up in my reccomended and it was such a trip down memory lane, I'm glad the ebarbs are somehow balanced now but god do I still hold so much trauma from having lived directly through their reign of terror.
same
Same
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SAME 😂 that was a dark time fr. Those cards were so OP
I’d love to see a History of Mortar video! This one was very great. As someone who didn’t play the game back then it’s very interesting seeing how different and broken Ebarbs used to be.
or the xbow
I remember those days, I always played Giant + Witch, so those were pretty rough times. But eventually I started baiting the elite Barbarians by playing a witch behind a tower, naturally E barbs players would instantly play them on the other lane, then I would kite them to the Witch (to the skeletons to be precise) with my Giant.
I remember adapting to this era by making an anti-ebarb deck. Bowler was the main defense, with an ice golem in front to last longer, and garveyard freeze made the push. Ebarb players had no patience, so the tough bowler would push them back until the rage wore off.
I gotta admit staying true to my principle and never using this braindead toxic card until they received the deadly nerf, but on that last day before the bc, when I finally took them for one round, I was stunned at how op it was to play them
I look forward to your videos more than the game itself nowadays.
And with good reason.🥲
The work you put in shows every single time broski appreciate your depth no one does it like you.
I think a history of the Three Musketeers would be fun. The only card whose price didn't increase when Mirrored (at a time). It may need to be complemented with the Musketeer but it would be nice.
He made a video like a month ago when you commented and titled it, why do they exist? Im sure there will be some history there.
this channel is pure gold, such good sleep aid, I don't even play anymore but it's so nostalgic to watch as well
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I think you should do a history on the most popular cards throughout the years. That would be interesting to see. Much love ❤
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Hi Gratz! Your videos have single-handedly reminded me on how complex and interesting this game is and swung me back into the Clash series. Been having lots of fun so far, so I just wanted to say thank you!
I remember this. My deck, like many, was designed to counter elite barbs as I was no high level and didn't have the time to be one.
I did just fine for a while, but by the time they added things like the executioner and mega knight, I was already too used to my anti elite deck and had invested too much into it. At that point I quit playing. Came back last year and wow there's a lot I missed.
I can’t wait for the video on the new update. Mega draft in leagues was such a weird change.
I don't like it, I prefer the level cap 1v1, it took skill to play, not random bs go
@@warmute4886it’s even more skilful what are you saying. You get to match the opponents deck instead of facing the same 3 recycled meta decks. I personally love this change. I’ve only lost about 3 or 4 games so far, so much more strategy in the counter picks to their choices. Really a fantastic addition
@@clandon9624 if u have lvl 11 cards anywhere then yea.. p2w
@@clandon9624 most of my cards are damn level 9 man i can't take this shit
@@kardel8850 I’ve been playing since beta so I actually forgot not everyone has cards level 11. My lowest level cards are 10 being legendaries. So I guess your guy’s complaints are valid, for higher level players this is 100% better. Especially because all the perma meta cards for me are 11, because I just like using dumb cards I guess. So when everyone uses hog/hogs/mega and pekka decks it gets very stale. Mega draft for me is super refreshing
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Elite barbarians +rage was always a fun if not somewhat broken play in 2016 good to see they were good at other points in time to
I used that combo back in 2022 when rage still had a large area and it was one of my favorite combos. I never really got to use these crazy cards cause I got to pekkas playhouse when clash royale was somewhat new and got inferno dragon as my first legendary and called it a day
Oh God, it was *disgustingly* broken. I genuinely don't know how I managed to get to Jungle Arena with my old Giant+Witch+Prince deck
Broken on ladder because Rage mostly works as a way of making fast, strong cards even stronger, like two overleveled elite Barbarians.
Didn’t elite barbs come out early 2017?
i mean still today in low-mid ladder elite barbarians+rage is still disgusting if your barbs are a high enough level
Back then almost everyone in my class played Clash Royale and I remember one kid being beaten up by 3 other kids for using Elite Barbarians and Royal Giant. I hear he stopped using both cards after that
Getting beaten up over cr is crazy 😭😭😭
Yoo finally another video!! Keep it up bro we all are with you from beginning to end. Eager for that day when you will finish the series and make one for all cards!!
Never say “once and for all” with balance. All it takes is the right balance change to another card-or a new card to be released entirely-in the future for the e-barbs’ balance to get challenged once more.
The domino effect really _can_ strike from anywhere, and this might also by why Supercell wants to hold off when implementing a balance change until the other components (i.e. changes to other related cards) are ready as well.
That and the fear of community outrage. Never *EVER* underestimate the potential consequences of a backlash. Releasing the same things but in a different order can definitely impact how people will react, how angry and/or relieved they’ll be, and if players will classify your rework attempt as a hidden buff or a dumb nerf. Nerf a card but forget to touch its counters? The other way around? Yeah~
The use/win rates and all the associated meta stats will eventually-and quite quickly-even out and settle on the same values regardless of balance order. However, getting a couple of weeks/months of an unbearable toxic nightmare (on mid or top ladder) can leave a seriously bitter taste.
And history will remember it if you needed to do an emergency nerf.
E-Barbs have been pretty balanced since June 2021. Before that, they were weak at even levels but MENACE WHEN OVERLEVELED.
But Supercell loves these type of extreme scenarios.
Your channel grows really fast and the videos are very well made. Keep up good work
man i just subscribed to u ur videos are like genuinely the best things to watch while high
It's cool to see new clash royale channels pop up and do well like yours is right now
Next video: "How Clash Royale ruined Clash Royale"
Recently discovered your channel and now playing CR again after long break as a old player.
Keep it up
It wasnt mid and high ladder tho… it was mid ladder and whale ladder. Mid was casual f2p up to sweaty low budget spenders… High ladder was whales dropping hundreds to thousands of dollars to max out a card day 1. So when it came to community backlash, it was justified as only whales were playing a balanced game, while 99% of the player base was still at day 170 out of 215 to max out fireball, their first max card.
Man i just have to sub those videos are so well made that it made me replay this game since 4 years. Keep up the good work king
I remember when those came out with the buff, it was the strongest unit in the game. People would just drop them and you feared for your life because only a few units could not even counter them, but slow their progressions. They were tanky, fast, and dealt so much damage, you could just drop them on a tower and if the oppenent didn't defend, it was gone in seconds... well, even if the player defended your tower was still gone
Listening about this game is more fun than playing it right now. Good video
I haven't played this game in years but i remember the absolute fear and dread a person feels when they see this card getting deployed
I for one also used this card a lot too lol
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I remember a meme at that time :
you use toenado on e barb to activate king tower.
the ipponent place rage
e barbs destroy the king tower
Elite barbarians with megaknights, whoever uses this estrategy, I hate you
This guy is the type of guy to make videos on a game that died 3 years ago but still get a ton of views because his content is that good
Yup
I quit clash Royale like 5 years ago and I don't care about it now, but you still manage to make vids about it that interest me, so good job! You're one of the best niche historian youtubers I've found out there.
I remember when Elite Barbarians were the terror of the earth. When they moved very fast 😂
Then add the fact your opponent has Level 13/14 E-Barbs against your Level 9 deck.
My God that meta was a nightmare. And I use Pekka mini Pekka so they ment nothing but the moment you messed up you lose the game. Still miss those dayes
I haven't played clash royale for almost 4 years now and goddamn that triggered ptsd. The amount of times I've seen those suckers just as I launched a nice attack on the other side was so frustrating. and not only with just rage, some played the lumberjack before them, which were essentially 3 of them with a delayed rage spell included...
MINER! You should explore the history of the miner.
I remember back in 2016 when ebarbs were literally everywhere at 3000-4000 trophies....never again😅
I truly love this channel and the amount of work you put in your videos.
Pd: talk about the balloon or the lava hound ;)
We definitely need a video on the zap as I remember the card as a menace and nowadays don't see anyone using it in mid ladder
I still remember when the electro wizard came out with his own challenge. EVERYONE was just using an e-barb deck in it (me included ofc) and every game was just focused around e barbs and how to play around em.
I think you’re the only person on UA-cam who does video essays on clash royale’s history, I love this style of content so definitely keep it coming 👍
Tbh if I were to rework the e-barbs I would make it so that the e-barbs have the same speed as the regular barbarians but they get a temporary special rage effect that boost their speed by a lot if they took out a unit. That way, it could be used to kill big units then the e-barbs would
Get their high speed boost to counter push the enemy. Also, considering that the e-barbs are raged when they kill a unit, the rage spell wouldn’t effect it anymore.
They are not even op people need to learn how to play. It's 6 elixir what do y'all would want to do. I can easily counter this card with valkyrie, dark prince, Bats+tesla and more
People cry about Elite Barbarians which can be countered by like more than half the cards in the game but if I dare say that Goblin Barrel or Firecracker are absolutely cancerous I get hated on lmao
@@TheDemon117heavy on firecracker (especially with evo)
Really good video, I loved seeing the history of E-Barbs and MAN am I happy that I never saw them overpowered.
Anyways you might have forgotten to mention the rage range/damage rework and how that possibly affected E-Barbs.
I still didn't get over the fact EBarbs are just "fast" anymore, but they're still my babies and I'll still use them and be toxic until Clash Royale's final days
The biggest mistake is a casual game was heavily treated as an esport when it could never be. The top 100 leaderboard is not even 0.01% of the game. Rest of the playerbase got ignored for too long and suffered for it
This causal environment often literally only existed becuase of the overleveling which isn’t part of the core gameplay but instead part of the monetization policy
9:51 7 and 8 i see you like your arenas early
Great video! Funny thing is I remember EBarbs being incredibly toxic, but my least favourite clash era was by far goison (Giant + Poison meta) when poison used to slow and kill. I think it was before ebarbs released and that destroyed ladder for me haha. :)
It's interesting watching videos like this about the history of CR because I get to learn so much about the meta environment that I didn't care about back then. I remember playing in 2016 in high mid ladder and not having a significant issue with e-barbs at all, even though I was usually underleveled as a f2p player. Maybe it was just the deck I was running, idk.
Do the history of the miner. He has had a crazy road
nice vid bruh but tell me why the music at 29:47 had me getting so hyped up for no reason.
I always thought they might benefit from the opposite of the twitter poll. 9 cost, 3 barbs, longer spawn timer. They wouldn’t be good, but it would help isolate them from a lot of the synergies that made them so oppressive
In my opinion, elite barbs only got balanced when the movement speed was changed. That was my very first thought back then when the trailer and card came out and I always thought that it was very obvious what had to change about them
And the sight range, that was just abnoxious
Your videos are always informative and a great listen. I hope eventually there's a card history for all the cards in the game. Maybe a 3 balance change minimum? It would also be intriguing to find if there are any cards that have stayed relatively the same since release.
another amazing video :) hopefully we don’t have to wait another month haha
13:36 this is the time when the game truly died. The zap nerf and the year long logbaitmeta following it. I am glad it made me stop playing the game. After seeing what they did to the game now it feels like the best choice I made in the past
Gratz uploaded! Everyone wake up!
As always great video. I can't wait for the next video on the update. And for card history i think it would be a great time for a history of the most nerfed card ever. Miner
I was an player in this era and my 4 first maxed out cards are zap, royal giant, mirror and elite barbarians in order. I felt so bad for abusing them to the point I've refused to use any metas today (example E giant, Mega knight) because the game is more fun that way
If you gave the barbarian evolution to the elite barbarians except it gives a buff based off what the health of what it killed and normally as slow as a normal barbarian so you cant play them on a push and had to play them on defense where it would give a good counter push and can mostly be used on defense and you need skill to use it and would give the first vision of giving a high pressure counter push more true
i havent played clash royale seriously since 2016, but for some reason i still really enjoy your videos. i think that means you do a really good job :)
*panananan* rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! *ough* rah! Rah! *ough*
00:35 just stop the video and click
Who else was vibing with the Minecraft music
I remember using E-Barbs in 2016-17 and even 2018. They were the best win condition by far in 2016, to the point where I legit never remember losing once. Lvl 10 tower with lvl 13 E-Barbs btw. Carried me to like 4.5k, even winning against lvl 11 and 12 players. That's how stupid broken they were.
Ogs know the feeling when you had No elixir to defend and your opponent drops Elite Barbarians it's still going on but it was way too powerful back then. If you didn't had any Skeleton army or Gobin gang or Mega knight (which was very common in Mid-Ladder) you were fucked up. Even if you tried you were still dead you had no chance of winning specially if the Name of the player was in Japanese or Korean.
It's been literal years since I've played clash royale and I'd never forget using e-barb rage in mid-ladder 😅
Edit: still traumatized by e-barb deployment sound though
read carefully 16:46 lol
2:02 Barbarians has 5 units not 4
On launch barbarians had 4
HE SAID "HAD" DUMBASS HOW ARE WE THIS RETARTED AS A GENERATION BRO
@@John_Marston...There was one time when a Chinese commentator in an official tournament said bandit cost 4 elixir
As a E-barb user today, they're surprisingly balanced now. One thing is I miss the old rage radius and no damage as I've had plenty of matches where I put E-barbs down and use the rage just to clear the tower. One thing I've always loved about them tho as that their the staple of beat down decks. They may be boring now by themselves but I still have a blast using my beat down deck with my favorite card.
Side note, I was playing when they were at their peak. Whatching thus just gave me a nostalgia trip and a half. Sometimes, I do miss the good old days.
I remember refusing to upgrade my E barbs because they were so strong! They are still lvl1 today
OHHH YEAH BABY THE HISTORY ABOUT GAYS IS HERE
Lmao
This brings me back when i was using e-barbs + lumberjack. I climbed so fast with thjs combo almost makes me wanna redownload the game but after browsing the reddit i dont feel it anymore
I haven't played clash royale in years but I've been binging your channel, statistics make my brain happy
I've used Elite Barbs for so long with the rage spell to the point that I don't know any other way to play. You catch yourself lackin' against me just a tiny bit and boom one of your towers gets Elite Barb Rage Combo'd. Then you just instantly give up and let me get the three crown. Well that's what people usually do for some reason. They have no confidence in themselves winning against me after instantly losing a tower.
Sometimes before people can do anything about it my Elite Barbs can also end up three crowning people before they can defend or properly defend themselves. Especially when I combo the elite barbs with different cards which I usually do to secure that fast W.
Obviously all decks can get hard countered, so Elite Barbarians technically aren't always going to beat everyone's deck unless they are just really really bad at the game that somehow ended up in high trophy Arenas.
Yea, as a seven year player, the e barbs rage with RG was rough to say the least. Remember get very frustrated abt even trying to counter them when my skarmy would just get zapped away. It was oppressive.
Haven't played clash royale since 2015 but here I am.
Those were the times around when I quit this game. I remember consistently playing against players with cards and king level 1~2 levels higher than me on the ladder and it just didn't feel fun anymore. Especially when I meet stuff that are 3 levels above me. There was no fun in a game where you can't strategize, you can't counter, you can't outplay, you can't do anything just because you stupid ahh opponent who makes the worst plays in the world still win because they are so overleveled.
When I was younger I snapped and broke my phone because I saw my opponent use E-Barbs at the beginning of the match, yes, that's right "saw", just seen them was enough to skyrocket my anger
It’s fun seeing videos about the times when I played all day every day after school