What's the WORST Meta in Clash Royale History?

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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
  • There's always a meta in Clash Royale. And while it may seem that the game is always in a braindead and annoying meta, there are some particular cases throughout Clash Royale that really stand out as being a terrible state of the game. So in this video, I want to explore what truly is the worst meta in Clash Royale history
    Music:
    神官テメノスのテーマ - Yasunori Nishiki
    Theme of Eline - Yasunori Mitsuda (Edge of Eternity)
    Haggstrom - C418
    Ballad of Enchantment - Runescape 3
    Sweden - C418
    神官オフィーリアのテーマ - Yasunori Nishiki
    Dreiton - C418
    Eye of the Storm - Guild Wars (Prophecies)
    Main Theme - Edge of Eternity (Yasunori Mitsuda)
    Chapters:
    00:00 - Intro
    00:22 - Level 16 Electro Giant Meta
    03:17 - Night Witch Beatdown Meta
    05:40 - Little Prince + Evolutions Meta
    08:22 - Elixir Collector Meta
    10:21 - Dagger Dutchess Meta
    12:47 - Night Witch + Witch + E-golem Meta
    16:45 - Phoenix + Monk Meta
    19:16 - Metas worth Mentioning
    20:22 - Giant Poison Meta
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  • @epsilonclash
    @epsilonclash  20 днів тому +32

    Did anyone notice it yet??

  • @loggerT123
    @loggerT123 21 день тому +441

    Don't have to watch video, I already know it's phoenix. Literally all the meta was phoenix mirror

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +84

      close, but I'm on the fence about it. Giant Poison and Phoenix were both horrible metas, changing their order in the vid makes complete sense, actually the only reason I put giant poison at the end was so that we would end on a nice nostalgic revisit to the past, it was a good way to end the video on something that OG players can relate to. But yes, phoenix was equally damaging.

    • @HenryChen-vs8cc
      @HenryChen-vs8cc 21 день тому +17

      @@epsilonclash I've watched videos about the Phoenix release meta and the night witch meta... But I still think the meta right after dagger duchess: 💀💀💀

    • @BIELOpdb
      @BIELOpdb 21 день тому +11

      The meta right after goblin machine and goblin curse were realesed is even worst in my opinion, but lasted only a single day.

    • @micrology3350
      @micrology3350 21 день тому +1

      What about goblin machine goblin curse mirror pump

    • @totovaretardslap7986
      @totovaretardslap7986 21 день тому +1

      No the worse meta was duchess meta... And in actual decks it was post nerfed ebarbs or double egaint cycle

  • @limonero8757
    @limonero8757 21 день тому +309

    Dagger Duchess is, in my opinion, the worst thing that has happened to Clash Royale. She used to simply DENY half of the win conditions to the point that the META deck consisted on damaging the enemy tower without even crossing the bridge. Absolutely awful.

    • @BIELOpdb
      @BIELOpdb 21 день тому +31

      Actually there were two kind of decks, Giant/Lava spam (the only weakness of duchess) and some princess deck with rocket since dagger duchess couldn't do anything about these cards, same for xbow but giant is counter of xbow so xbow wasn't very popular.

    • @limonero8757
      @limonero8757 21 день тому +6

      @@BIELOpdb true. Fucking awful nonetheless.

    • @TimbyTurner
      @TimbyTurner 20 днів тому

      Short period where gob machine recked challenges 🤫🤭

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому +25

      Yeah she was such a toxic and pay to win card man. Really sucked. I didn’t even get to use her coz I only had her at lvl 10, so imagine how annoying it was for me to play in April 2024…

    • @InsertFunnyThingHere
      @InsertFunnyThingHere 20 днів тому +9

      The thing is: every new tower troop is just gonna ruin the game until it gets nerfed
      Whenever a new tower troop comes out it'll be overpowered, and if a TOWER TROOP is overpowered it means it's a lot easier to defend, which means the game is gonna be a stalematey defensive hell that only becomes playable once double elixir starts and you can spam the cards that actually get through that tower troop

  • @imowalli
    @imowalli 21 день тому +142

    A while ago, I saw a video of Orange Juice explaining how to use the executioner . Well, I know that the video is almost 7 and a half years old. I went in and started scrolling through the comments. I saw someone say in a comment 7 years ago that the Supercell strategy is clear. They add new super powerful forces, then people pay money for them, and after some days they do Nerf 😂 My brother actually predicted the future.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +31

      lol thats true, in fact, while researching for this video I kid you not, there was a video from ClashWithAsh where he made a skit about how CR releases broken cards 'by accident' sarcastically and talks about how they made the ghost op on purpose.

    • @InsertFunnyThingHere
      @InsertFunnyThingHere 20 днів тому

      Allegations of them making broken braindead cards on porpuse have always existed, but I think they only started making them busted on porpuse Phoenix Monk and onwards.
      Maybe October 2019 was on purpose too but I'm not too sure, and while I'm sure they wanted champions on release to be really strong I'm pretty confident that archer queen wasn't meant to be THAT overpowered (like I bet they wanted all the champions to be about equally as good so everyone would spend money on all of them and not only on one at a time)

    • @kiim0
      @kiim0 20 днів тому

      explain night witch and heal spell then....

  • @Virtahep0
    @Virtahep0 21 день тому +91

    I don't really know if you can count the goblin machine thing as a meta as it only lasted for like 2-3 days, but it was definitely the darkest days Clash Royale has ever seen.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +30

      yeah i was thinking about it but they killed the card in legit a week 💀

    • @Kanki69
      @Kanki69 20 днів тому

      I played a grand challenge that day and every opponent I repeat every opponent had it

    • @notabot10912
      @notabot10912 20 днів тому +2

      that card is the reason i stopped playing this game

    • @stickofthetruth9408
      @stickofthetruth9408 18 днів тому

      It was technically a meta since meta stands for "Most Effective Tactics Available" and it indeed was, the most effective card before the nerf

  • @geometryemperor
    @geometryemperor 21 день тому +52

    The slow effect on the Poison during the Goison era was also a lot more potent. Not only the effect itself was stronger, but it also affected attack speed (and spawn speed), while nowadays, it only affects movement speed.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +6

      yep. in fact, when they removed the slowdown of poison in late 2016 and kept its stats pretty similar, it actually killed the card, and everyone said it was overnerfed. So yes, the slowdown contributed to its overpoweredness.

    • @Bacon2000.
      @Bacon2000. 19 днів тому +2

      Ah, my slowness technique, I haven't used this since the goison era.

    • @ravishah4121
      @ravishah4121 18 днів тому

      I can imagine the sukuna saying this lol

  • @soapygaming1562
    @soapygaming1562 20 днів тому +11

    The Elite Barbarians meta back in 2017 broke the game it was seen in literally every game and it took Supercell forever to nerf them probably one of the most unplayable metas

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      Yeah exactly if I included it in the video it woulda been a repeat of what I mentioned in my vid of worst balance changes so I decided against explicitly mentioning it

    • @InsertFunnyThingHere
      @InsertFunnyThingHere 20 днів тому +1

      @@epsilonclash I don't think repeating the same point is an issue when it's relevant, maybe just give a quick summary of it and plug the other video while you're at it lol

  • @ShadowInkPirate
    @ShadowInkPirate 21 день тому +12

    A difference between Poison during the Goison Meta and the current Poison (which I think you did not directly mention):
    Poison back then not only made cards move slower, but it also made them ATTACK slower.

  • @jshooa4840
    @jshooa4840 21 день тому +19

    One other thing about season 4, many people wanted emergency nerfs. But, due to the Executioner being balanced every 5 minutes, Supercell confirmed they weren't emergency changing the cards.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому

      yep. If i continued that section and tied it with the November 2019 season then I would declare it as the worst meta of all time. Because in November the executioner was godly.

    • @HenryChen-vs8cc
      @HenryChen-vs8cc 21 день тому

      @@epsilonclash didn't the executioner have some *unusual* characteristics? Such as his axe hitting entities behind him, sometimes his axe would just glitch away, and it was just BROKEN BROKEN overall??

    • @geometryemperor
      @geometryemperor 21 день тому

      @@HenryChen-vs8cc those were at a different time, in 2017, another era when the Executioner was busted.

    • @HenryChen-vs8cc
      @HenryChen-vs8cc 20 днів тому

      @@geometryemperor oh ok. Thank you for pointing that out, I was literally just guessing (I only started playing last year lol)

    • @d6spair
      @d6spair 19 днів тому

      @@HenryChen-vs8cc when executioner came out he was broken beyond belief then the spent the rest of his life span trying to find some purpose, he’s in his best place now

  • @some_gaming
    @some_gaming 20 днів тому +5

    During the dagger duchess meta, you forgot to mention the princess/rocket cycle deck that was dominating because you didn't need to cross the bridge and deal with your opponent's duchess

  • @merciless6424
    @merciless6424 20 днів тому +2

    great vid honestly. Really hit the two metas I hated the most. Night witch golem and egiant mirror metas.

  • @LeoPHP1
    @LeoPHP1 21 день тому +13

    I don't think there is competition against October 2019 season, maybe the Phoenix spam meta could, but I stay with October 2019

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +2

      yeah but its probs gonna surprise you what I think is the worst meta tbh, but giant poison is undoubtedly the worst imo. It was like the e golem meta but had like 6 op cards instead of 3.

    • @kravmaga4093
      @kravmaga4093 17 днів тому

      ​@epsilonclash yes but that is EXACTLY THE THING October 2019 having less op cards imo made it so much worse

  • @nelsonescalante3493
    @nelsonescalante3493 20 днів тому +3

    Funny thing is I actually won my first GC playing minion horde bait in the Goison meta. One of the few things to "counter" it

  • @Rico.colinat
    @Rico.colinat 20 днів тому +1

    Wow this video is really well made, for a second I thought this video was from a channel with millions of subscribers. Keep it up! It's only a matter of time that you'll get to a million!

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому +2

      That means a lot to me, thank you so much for the support!!

  • @mizukichan999
    @mizukichan999 20 днів тому +2

    3:17 The night witch was such a broken card back in the day that in my entire CR career, that meta was the only time I was ever able to get a 12 win in a challenge that wasn’t a special event. I quit right after the scam level 14 update, so I never got to play with OP champions or evolutions. And frankly, I’m not missing much either.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому +1

      yeah it sucks to see this game die, i really want them to keep the game alive and healthy but its just not happening

  • @superluigi6423
    @superluigi6423 19 днів тому +3

    Goison was so bad that even after all this time I remember it (especially the bowler version) ...

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  17 днів тому +1

      yep. Bowler really ended the debate about the worst meta

  • @caspermadlener4191
    @caspermadlener4191 21 день тому +16

    12:52
    When you let AI make your subtitles:

  • @user-dk6cj6qs7x
    @user-dk6cj6qs7x 21 день тому

    Great video man

  • @AllTop507
    @AllTop507 20 днів тому +3

    There was also the egolem, executioner, sparky meta, battle healer meta. Executioner did a musketeer shot worth of damage per tick, meaning one throw was 2 musketeer shots worth of splash damage.
    Also golem clone meta. Golem did absurd amounts of death damage, night witch spawned 4 bats, and lumberjack rage radius was still big, around 5 tiles I think.
    Also the balloon meta. Lumber loon, miner loon cycle, lumber loon freeze, anything balloon. Balloon + death damage would almost 2 shot a tower, leaving the tower at only 10-15% hp, and lumberjack rage radius was still big.
    Also the musketeer meta. Musketeer miner cycle was strong, but ppl were putting the musketeer in any deck. It shot every 0.9 or every 1.0 seconds and had a first hit speed of 0.1 or 0.2 seconds, meaning it could clear a skeleton army no problem. It shot and it didn't stop shooting. And I could be wrong or misremembering, but I think it did more damage as well. If it did, it was almost wizard or both ticks from the executioner level of damage per shot.
    Also, ik it's very difficult to go through the entire game's history in detail and with accuracy, but I didn't see any mention of earthquake during the mirror egiant meta. Earthquake was definitely a more popular choice over the rocket, bc it let your egiant connect through buildings, was less risky to play, and did the most damage per cost than any other spell in the game besides for rocket. In fact, the earthquake was so strong during that meta, there were defense only decks at the top of ladder that used tesla ice wiz tornado for defense and earthquake log and poison were the win conditions. Not even a miner, just spells bc earthquake and spells in general did so much damage during that time that you didn't a miner or anything else. Supercell even eluded to the defense only and throw spells deck during the balance change they nerfed earthquake.
    Great video. I'm sure it took you a long time to make it :)

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      yeah I assume you are talking about November 2019 right? I should have included that. And yes, EQ was super strong during e-giant meta, which I failed to talk about. I was really tryna keep every section less then 3-4 min but yeah i made mistakes. Thank you for the feedback!! I can only imagine how long it took for you to type it all out. I appreciate the effort!!

  • @shermdempsey4572
    @shermdempsey4572 20 днів тому +1

    The goblin machine and curse have to have been the most braindead and broken cards to ever be released, but they didn’t even get a meta since they were locked behind goblin ladder, and were nerfed in like 2 days

  • @Sttav
    @Sttav 21 день тому

    I had a great sleep after this. Appreciate it bro.

  • @myaurov
    @myaurov 19 днів тому +1

    Y'all remember giant skeleton royal hogs mother witch archer queen mirror deck? It was a literal pandemic. Devs had to revert lvl 16 mirroring due to that deck and nerf other cards too

  • @riceballsmashpokemongamere1705
    @riceballsmashpokemongamere1705 День тому +1

    In the giant evo bomber section, he shows an Arena 1 deck for an example of how the giant was able to fit in so many archetypes
    I don't know if this was a joke or not.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  День тому

      Yea lol now I think about it I think I put the wrong image there 💀

  • @lokir2809
    @lokir2809 18 днів тому

    U reminded me how old im by mentioning E barns meta, that was the most cheese way to win, if enemy had bad starting carts u could just rush his king tower.

  • @Michael-sz7lp
    @Michael-sz7lp День тому

    Where can you see the usage stats? Are they posted somewhere?

  • @Commentary_channel
    @Commentary_channel 21 день тому

    Yaay another banger video

  • @marlondiriche
    @marlondiriche 20 днів тому +1

    I played the game right after release and stopped when the E Barbs were OP, my favorite card was the Witch. I started playing again in late 2023 and it's sad how I missed the only time Witch was viable

  • @user-js2tn1qq7v
    @user-js2tn1qq7v 20 днів тому +2

    I’m surprised metaknight wasn’t mentioned because while it wasn’t a top ladder crusher, it was insane in midladder and everyone had it or a counter to it

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      Yep, I shoulda mentioned it but I knew there would be comments of people saying “oh you’re just bad at the game coz u can’t counter mk” so I kept it out 💀

  • @tpmjg
    @tpmjg 20 днів тому +2

    giant posion, no contest. if you played back then it was literally unavoidable

  • @caseymoffitt9867
    @caseymoffitt9867 19 днів тому

    Surprised there was no mention of Earthquake Mirror cycle meta, not only was it super braindead broken, but it was the best counter to Elixir Pump Mirror forcing its usage even higher!

  • @jurggugger1793
    @jurggugger1793 20 днів тому +3

    In my Opinion the wirst Meta was the Day one Goblinmachine, becouse it was so Broken that no other Deck than Goblinmachine miror was even playable. If you player even the best metadeck Form bevor you habe no Chance and the five other cards than Goblinmachine mirror and goblincurse were just there to fill your Deck. I think no one talkes about it becouse it took onely one Day,but it was just skillless.

    • @DemiCape
      @DemiCape 20 днів тому

      was that even a meta though? Barely anyone had enough cards to fully upgrade it and before most people could obtain it, it was nerfed very fast.

  • @yakandery
    @yakandery 21 день тому +4

    I play on high rangs and there is only two types of decks now: mega knight + firecracker or hog + firecracker. And you lost game after game in sudden death because of the cheap damage that she does. Nothing changes since firecracker is out. Dunno why the devs can’t nerf it. At least do the fire rate like the princess has. Why my main card, princess is so bad in compare with firecracker, and she’s been that bad for years already.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому

      thing is the firecracker isn't actually that much of a problem in top ladder, because in the end she is pretty easy to counter. Its in midladder shes an issue because many players don't really know how to counter her in mid ladder.

    • @kalebanderson7483
      @kalebanderson7483 20 днів тому +1

      I highly doubt your high rank if you can’t defend a hog.

  • @soma2550
    @soma2550 20 днів тому

    Yooo amazing video. ❤ i would love to ask where you found that 2017 data since im a big math nerd and love watching them but i never found them on royale api. Thanks

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      It was just searching on reddit and seeing what people talked about In terms of usage. For instance, there was a reddit post that I used to find night witch stats in release and in that someone mentioned she had a 43% usage rate. It’s not easy but it’s worth it in the end

  • @InsertFunnyThingHere
    @InsertFunnyThingHere 21 день тому +2

    I think one of the current year or late 2023 metas has to be the worst one imo (though I wasn't playing during the original Giant Poison era so I don't know how bad that one was). Phoenix Monk Mirror and October 2019 specially were absurdly toxic but they were at least a shock to the system after the meta was relatively stale for a while, but now there's just an absurdly broken toxic meta literally every meta.
    Instead of the broken meta being somewhat refreshing after a stale meta the broken meta IS the stale thing. Like me and many others even those who play fully casually are just bored of "broken new P2W thing comes out and dominates a season" for the 15th time.
    Specially bad for the metas where dagger duchess was broken, since having a tower troop that good means that it's inherently going to be harder to get through and win which means a lot of matches are gonna feel like a complete stalemate and that's just gonna be a lot more boring and frustrating.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому +1

      Yeah, I’m not a fan of where the game is headed tbh. Even tho metas were brain dead in the past they never really felt pay to win like they do now. It’s a weird feeling

    • @InsertFunnyThingHere
      @InsertFunnyThingHere 20 днів тому

      @@epsilonclash not only that most braindead metas before were the exception, and honestly often were refreshing in a way after a stale meta.
      Nowadays they took a complete left turn to the direct opposite direction, now the meta is completely different and completely braindead broken 80% of the time and you bet that the new shiny card you need to buy and level up is gonna be the number 1 card that season

  • @7odaz
    @7odaz 11 годин тому

    And here it is they made the dagger from a good card used in meta to the worst card that none uses

  • @nasidctg
    @nasidctg 15 днів тому

    True but I never had any problem getting to top 500 every season. Lumber loon bowler freeze is my oldest deck. There was a time when people considered it toxic but now as it doesn’t have any evo's or champs it's one of the most balanced decks out there and it counters almost everything. Because of the bowler. At this point in time, the bowler is the best counter to almost every broken card.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  14 днів тому

      yeah theres been a trend where the bowler has been a counter to every broken ground card. Its probably because the bowler is able to do so many things like knockback small troops, do area damage and hit multiple targets.

  • @_kelso9959
    @_kelso9959 18 днів тому +3

    Dagger Duchess meta was the absolute worst to me

  • @ShabbyCA
    @ShabbyCA 18 днів тому +2

    there arent many people that played back in 2016 around anymore, but I promise that Goison was actually unplayable. Especially since those cards were reallly accessible compared to other bad metas. EVERYONE was running it and it was soooo much better than everything else

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  18 днів тому

      yeah, a lot of people tend to say phoenix meta but like goison was soo toxic its not even a joke

  • @noelopez3437
    @noelopez3437 20 днів тому +1

    While brief, I think Goblin Machine mirror was one of the generally most brain dead (whoever gets the most goblin machines down wins), but I’d hesitate calling it bad since it was fun watching rockets exploding all over the place and troops blowing up.

  • @happycarrot_
    @happycarrot_ 19 днів тому

    Goblin machine + goblin curse... For like 5 horus when it came out 😂

  • @FrozenBrawlStars
    @FrozenBrawlStars 16 днів тому +1

    I like the name of your channel. When I discovered the origin of the name zeta division I was like OHHHHHHH

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  16 днів тому

      lol i dont play brawl stars but glad u like the channel name!!

  • @MrBlipman
    @MrBlipman 5 днів тому

    Haven't played this game consistently for like 4 years, however I never used any meta deck and stuck with my own self made deck basically since I had the cards that consists of Poison, Mega minion, Electro wizard, zap, ice spirit, dark prince, battle ram and Pekka. My winrate is crazy good with 1222 wins, 826 3 crowns and 485 losses since the game was released. Wish it was like it was 4-6 years ago when there wasn't all this cancer of new towers and crazy OP units with goofy abilities.

  • @not_popskgaming8150
    @not_popskgaming8150 20 днів тому

    April 2024 dagger duchess was actually fantastic for me. (I played Xbow so I never had to cross the bridge 😭😭)

  • @kristyandesouza5980
    @kristyandesouza5980 20 днів тому +5

    Tower cards? Evolutions? DOUBLE evolutions? I'm glad i left this game a few years ago.

    • @RandomHandle837
      @RandomHandle837 20 днів тому

      They are actually really cool when balanced

    • @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174
      @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 20 днів тому

      ​@@RandomHandle837Evolutions are inherently broken. They buff cards that aren't necessarily bad, like skeletons.

    • @RandomHandle837
      @RandomHandle837 20 днів тому

      @@olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 Skeletons Evo needed like 4 buffs to become good, how is that inherently broken?

    • @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174
      @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 20 днів тому

      @@RandomHandle837 They were good already without the evolution. The evolution just wasn't as good as other evolutions, so they received buffs until they could defend an entire push for 1 elixir + counter-push potential.

  • @tatemansell4707
    @tatemansell4707 20 днів тому +1

    Gotta love the Minecraft music in the background

  • @loggerT123
    @loggerT123 21 день тому +5

    12:49 "clash royale would be dominated by three overpowered cods"
    Not the cods! 🐠🐟

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому +1

      hahaha bro I swear like the subtitles thing I use literally has no common sense. Cool to see it got some giggles tho

  • @RaiXYT
    @RaiXYT 18 днів тому

    One thing every broken cards was this strong is mostly cycle decks, just cycle your strong 4 elixir and you pretty much win games. They should just make power levels according to elixir costs, its understandable that skarmy can counter a pekka but a knight or ice wiz to solo a pekka in defense alone was too effective itself.

  • @Golgothebest
    @Golgothebest 20 днів тому

    And now we have rocket silo 2.9 in the rocket rumble challenge

  • @ratio1948
    @ratio1948 19 днів тому

    One of the most quiet yet op metas ever was the 2022 goblin drill meta. When mighty miner was first released and the 4 instead of 3 goblins buff was first introduced, this deck took so little skill. You would drill and might miner same lane and u basically had a free tower. It worked even better with that fact tornado was extra strong at the time.

    • @lightsama2463
      @lightsama2463 19 днів тому

      the fact that every deck then had valk/bowler/dark prince/ghost/log, even multiple of them, yet goblin drill was still an issue is insane

    • @ratio1948
      @ratio1948 19 днів тому +1

      @@lightsama2463 exactly. Also this was pre rocket nerf so you could cycle rockets as well and they did 600 dmg

  • @johncosgrove2092
    @johncosgrove2092 20 днів тому

    Im surprised you forgot golem night witch clone. Or 3 musketeers.

  • @Andriux999
    @Andriux999 20 днів тому +1

    You forgot to add executioner on his release dude was full of glitches like mini stun and hitting behind his back plus tornado made it even more broken

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      yeah I did, there are so many metas that I missed tbh

  • @lkjkhfggd
    @lkjkhfggd 14 днів тому

    I played back in 2017-2018. One of the last new cards I saw was giant goblin. Game was still fun then, but I'd already been playing it for like a year. It was time to move on. I'm astounded to learn that people like Orange juice and surgical goblin are still playing this game six years later.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  14 днів тому

      damn thats cool to hear, what made you quit in 2018?

    • @lkjkhfggd
      @lkjkhfggd 14 днів тому

      @@epsilonclash I was getting bored of the game, yet I was still playing it quite a bit every day due to its addictive nature. I figured I'd be better off just dropping it entirely. It seems I was right about that.

  • @lightsama2463
    @lightsama2463 19 днів тому +2

    I Played CR daily from June 2017 to July 2023 , experienced almost 50 different metas, and ofc there has been so many toxic ones, so many bad ones that still were kinda fun, few balanced/not so bad ones
    But for me the worst meta one by far that was literally unplayable was the 2019 October meta, the egolem release season, there was waay too many very broken cards at the same time ( egolem / witch / night witch / executioner / wall breakers) not to forget that these made many other cards be better in a toxic way (fisherman / rage / lumberjack / poison / sparky...)

  • @hellwalkerkrieg2425
    @hellwalkerkrieg2425 19 днів тому +1

    Drill in the dagger duchess meta was more of a counter meta deck that relied heavily on the op bomber since drill wouldn’t get damage if they placed a knight night witch ball or even barbs on it, drill wasn’t op and didn’t even receive any buff for yonks

    • @hellwalkerkrieg2425
      @hellwalkerkrieg2425 19 днів тому

      Once they nerfed bomber the deck was thrown out basically, it still would work if the bomber was the same and the drill was still nerfed

  • @youtubecommenter4992
    @youtubecommenter4992 17 днів тому

    To be fair, little prince was a card that was given out for free to players no matter their trophies or level. Since it was a champion too, many people will use it resulting in its high 75 percent usage rate.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  17 днів тому

      yes but keep in mind that was grand challenge usage rate, so despite getting it for free over 75% of players were using it in GCs as well. Its insane tbh lol

  • @modestlatios5553
    @modestlatios5553 20 днів тому

    Evolutions, phoenix, goblin machine. There, saved ya 25 minutes.

  • @hariss5705
    @hariss5705 20 днів тому

    I miss the Double Prince and Hog Freeze Meta

  • @annuvynarawn392
    @annuvynarawn392 19 днів тому

    worst for me was the last one with Duchess tower hero... cut down on so many decks

  • @BruhMoment-dt2fh
    @BruhMoment-dt2fh 20 днів тому

    my favorite gotta be the lv16 3m pump meta in 2021 💀

  • @wistfulgraph
    @wistfulgraph 20 днів тому

    “…And almost every time a new evo was released”

  • @bryantwilson4731
    @bryantwilson4731 21 день тому +1

    Bro now uploaded ❤

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  21 день тому

      Imma try my best to do at least monthly, but next year im gonna have much more time on my hands!!

  • @randomthingsxd9030
    @randomthingsxd9030 19 днів тому

    Battle machine pekka for the short amount of time it was viable was the only usable option

  • @Ze_Carrot
    @Ze_Carrot 20 днів тому +1

    Oh for first attack speed u could put a sword and like a 1st in a clock

  • @Tnbeta-er5gm
    @Tnbeta-er5gm 19 днів тому

    Imagine if all cards had all the nurfs taken off and every card with every buff piled up and every card is at its peak who knows what would be the top deck or cards

  • @ryzikx
    @ryzikx 21 день тому

    good video

  • @Raz-Vanos
    @Raz-Vanos 20 днів тому

    Clash royale is in his peak right now since the moment evos came out

  • @Asamuraidoge
    @Asamuraidoge 19 днів тому

    At least we never had a true meta with the first version of the goblin machine, that would have been monk-phoneix meta 2.0

  • @mzmc3020
    @mzmc3020 11 днів тому

    Idk I feel like the mother witch meta deserves a mention. After her first buff she countered the swarm meta single- handley

  • @llemon05
    @llemon05 20 днів тому

    Did goblin machine release not qualify because of how short it was?

  • @breadquonda2863
    @breadquonda2863 21 день тому

    thank you for making content that can replace gratz im tired of supporting creeps

  • @ernesto_7O7
    @ernesto_7O7 20 днів тому

    Competitive games don't really need to have a meta, like smash bros ultimate on release, all characters were equally viable and matchups weren't too favoured towards one character

  • @Master-b9y
    @Master-b9y 20 днів тому +1

    Bro where is goblin machine meta?Okay it stayed short but worth to mention you know.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      Yea I had it in mind, but it’s not really a meta, it’s more of a phase that the game went through.

  • @user-mb9wz3ei6i
    @user-mb9wz3ei6i 20 днів тому

    The minecraft music is so good

  • @carlostillan8644
    @carlostillan8644 19 днів тому

    Find a time period in clash Royale history without a broken no skill meta challenge impossible

  • @benediktduckers1899
    @benediktduckers1899 10 днів тому

    I don‘t know why, but the op Night Witch was the best time for CR, it was funny and I would say that my favourite times were when an innovative Card like Night Witch or Egiant was strong for a shorter time. I think everybody loved that first op Night Witch Meta, because it was sth new. My most hated Card of all time is Drill and that is the reason why I say, every time this Card was strong and Drill was never a bad card I hated the meta and Drill is one of the reasons why I have deleted my account and would never play this game again! Egiant was my second most liked card behind Monk!

  • @michelkaak7296
    @michelkaak7296 19 днів тому

    I think Void is what pushed wizard etc. out.

  • @thelandomaestro7271
    @thelandomaestro7271 21 день тому +3

    Peak content

  • @theunitedsoup9792
    @theunitedsoup9792 17 днів тому

    we're in the paywall meta

  • @MrPatato-ek5lf
    @MrPatato-ek5lf 19 днів тому +1

    B-but lumberloon

  • @benjaminlin998
    @benjaminlin998 21 день тому +1

    any meta in 2023 is bad

  • @tomekk.1889
    @tomekk.1889 20 днів тому

    Are the subtitles automatic?

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      Kind of. I edit a little bit of them but they’re mostly auto

  • @Fireflame404
    @Fireflame404 19 днів тому

    What if for April fools supercell brought back the strongest version of every card that would be funny to see which would be the strongest

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  17 днів тому

      that would make for such a fun gamemode lol. It would truly bring life back into this game

  • @MoniPooky
    @MoniPooky 18 днів тому

    I was going to say the worst meta was mirror egiant golden knight and earthquake was bad but nothing was worse than dagger duchess it genuinely made the game so unfun

  • @Daxxelxz
    @Daxxelxz 14 днів тому

    The mirror needs to be upgraded, you can't even use it after a champion to copy the previous card to the champion
    The fact that the mirror has extra lv2 is not the problem, the problem is that lv1 is 10% more statistics and that is too much, but this will never change
    right not lv15?

  • @anuroxftw7080
    @anuroxftw7080 20 днів тому

    Heal spell 3 musketeers meta??? That meta was so broken they had to nerf the heal spell to oblivion and then later delete it from the game.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  20 днів тому

      Yeahhh tbh I actually took a small break from the game during that time so I didn’t even think about it, my bad

  • @idotdragon
    @idotdragon 20 днів тому +1

    If mirror is viable, then the mega is trash

  • @Fernando-sh8ip
    @Fernando-sh8ip 20 днів тому

    The elixir meta is by far the worst one in my opinion, combined with the prince and pekka, made me uninstall the game and not play it for 3 years straight, horrible how long it took for the elixir pump to be nerfed

  • @DavidAdrianXplays
    @DavidAdrianXplays 21 день тому +3

    Average Epsilon W

  • @fishunboxing
    @fishunboxing 20 днів тому

    epsilon dan reform is making videos 🙀

  • @CreaturaFina
    @CreaturaFina 18 днів тому

    you forgot the goblin machine mirror meta back when the goblin path was added, i know supercell nerf it 3 days later but that reveals how BROKEN it was for 5 elixir it was so insane and stup1d that all the deck was spirits and goblin machine mirror, doesn't need any support, almost the hp of a 7 elixir card and the rocket cleaning firecrackers, musketeers, even inferno dragons in 2 rockets
    also the goblin rocket was doing 528 to crown tower in level 11, making 1056 damage always in 1x elixir, easy win in 3 pushes
    for me it was personally annoying hearing baby sounds on the most broken card just because supercell wanted a bald bastard on the arena, its just nonsense
    you can tell me the legendary fire bird fenix its meta, a giant dude armored with iron and a battery its meta, two crazy blonde man who trained years and years are meta
    but you can't tell me a baby with his *wood toy* its meta, literally the goblin machine should die to a fire spirit or to a pekka in 1 hit, the other ones are more . . . justified why they were meta

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  17 днів тому

      I wouldn't say forgot, since I played when it first released and I know how stupidly strong of a card he was, but I wouldn't say its a meta. I see where u are coming from, but I would say its more of a phase that the game went through rather then a full blown meta. But yes, for those couple of days the game was at an all time low of toxic and braindead

  • @bigpapamanman1550
    @bigpapamanman1550 18 днів тому

    12:07 Not the arena 1 starter deck

  • @nameless4082
    @nameless4082 15 днів тому

    2016 RG not in the vid is crazy

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  14 днів тому

      yeah but it was only really an issue in top ladder for a couple of weeks, after that it became a broken midladder card. All of these metas affected top ladder equally to midladder. If that was the case, i could have included mega knight or hog rider since they are also infamous mid ladder cards. Hope that makes sense!!

  • @Alexmealexmealexmefly
    @Alexmealexmealexmefly 21 день тому +1

    When newbies say "Phoneix was the most overpowered card!" Remind them 2017-2018 night witch can take out pekka
    (pekka cant even have a shot on tower"

    • @BIELOpdb
      @BIELOpdb 21 день тому

      Nowadays night witch can still counter a Pekka with right timing.

    • @Alexmealexmealexmefly
      @Alexmealexmealexmefly 21 день тому +1

      @@BIELOpdb i just mean a support troop can took pekka. Imagine battle healer took pekka down

    • @InsertFunnyThingHere
      @InsertFunnyThingHere 21 день тому

      Phoenix was the more overpowered and versatile card overall but OG night witch was the most toxic

  • @23BS6N
    @23BS6N 12 днів тому

    Imo
    1.phoenix+monk meta
    2.Dagger dutchess meta
    3.Lvl 16 mirror
    4.Crl 2023 meta
    5.Giant meta

  • @omermsiddiqui
    @omermsiddiqui 21 день тому

    Goison was the Vietnam of metas. Any other answer is by someone who didn’t face the cruelty that was goison.

  • @_Pocketcat
    @_Pocketcat 21 день тому +3

    now best metas:
    3m
    3m
    3m
    3m
    mkloon
    3m

  • @sambrown770
    @sambrown770 18 днів тому +1

    My issue with this subject is bias. No matter who you ask you'll get bias. Ask cycle players? Beatdown metas are bad. Ask beatdown players? Control metas are bad. Such is the way of things. Its a decent video, tho i dont fully agree with all the metas used, or at least the reasons given. Personally i hate modern cycle as i think its low skill, but that's just an opinion. So yeah, good vid, but keep bias in mind and also the mindset of players plus the game state outside of the meta.

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  18 днів тому

      Haha yeah but when I saw “worst” I mean the most universally hated meta. Technically speaking there is no such thing as a worst anything just a universally hated thing.

  • @boeinga380
    @boeinga380 20 днів тому

    dagger dutches was the worst because she was on the field the entire game and made Rocket Cycle and beatdown the meta, not to mention the broken evolutions

  • @dannykim6936
    @dannykim6936 20 днів тому

    Funny times back in the day

  • @Spicy_4650
    @Spicy_4650 20 днів тому

    No way bro forgot the Royale giant meta when RG could shoot at the bridge practically and shots only took 1 second!!!!

    • @epsilonclash
      @epsilonclash  18 днів тому

      It was more of a mid ladder problem then overall the whole game but yeah