080: A Giant Problem

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Introductions

Our Weeks in the Arena

Joe: ~4549 now

• Balloon cycle
• Clan: 5868
• Participating in my first war in over a month. Feels good man.

Rob: ~4267 this season

• Lavahound from War Chest
• Royal Ghost from Crown Chest
• Log from War Chest
• Mini Pekka Emote (challenge)
• Maxxed my ZAP!
• Got the Wall Breakers
• Clan: 6226 trophies!!!

Discussion

(00:10:15)

• Challenges
  • Mini Pekka Draft Challenge
    • New Emotes
      • Sword, Robot, Angry Head, Pancakes
  • Sudden Death Global Tourney
  • Win a new Emote tiered Challenge
    • Retro, Draft, Modern
  • Legendary Ladies Draft Challenge
    • 15 wins
    • With Continue option!!
• Clash Royale’s 3rd birthday
  • New emotes!
  • Goblin, Giant, Rascal Girl
• Wall breakers reactions

Boom It or Moob It

(00:26:45)

1. Barbarians: Hitpoints -13%, Troop Count 4 -> 5
2. Bomb Tower: Added Death Damage (deals 2x Area Damage)
3. Wall Breakers: Hit Speed 1.5 -> 1.2
4. X-Bow: Hitpoints +4%
5. Goblin Gang, Rascals, Bats, Barbarians: Added 0.15sec Deploy Time between Troops

Meta Check

(00:38:38)

The Meta Check is brought us by our boy Sir Devon (LloydChristmas)!! Let’s look at a few risers and fallers for this meta check!

• Giant Snowball
• Barbarian Barrel
• Goblin Gang
• Guards
• Baby Dragon

Meta Check Trends, between year 2 and year 3!

•  Fireball
•  Lumberjack
•  Dark Prince

It’s time… for DAD JOKES! Clash Royale Edition

To see the stats behind this week’s Meta Check click here.

Chest Openings

(00:47:33)

We open chests round robin style, starting with the least rare, then moving to “The big dogs”!

1. Rob – Crown, and 4 Big Dogs
2. Joe – Crown

Deck Spotlight

(00:58:56)

A Giant Problem (3.6 AEC)

Cards: Giant, Miner, Guards, Mega Minion, Hunter, Prince, Poison, and Zap

Copy to Deck

Decksplanation: The punches that this deck packs is insane. The defensive capabilities of the Prince, Hunter, Mega minion, and Guards is incredible. The Hunter absolutely destroys anything that comes into it’s path. It’s good against AOE or single target troops. Mega minion is a fantastic DPS or tank killer. Also, the Prince is amazing for tank killing. The Guards held distract while your other cards defend and DPS threats down. Once you effectively defend your opponents push, your goal will be to throw down the Giant for an offensive counter push. Your best counter push will be Hunter, behind Prince, behind the Giant. Once that happens, you’ll want to wait and see what your opponent does – then use the Poison, Zap, or Miner – depending on what they do.

This deck will take a little bit of time to get used to; however, the key is to not play this deck offensively. If you do, you’ll find that you’re running short on damage, and also will be on your back foot. Play the deck defensively at first, develop the elixir advantage through the effective and efficient defensive troops that you have. Be sure to use your miner or your poison on the pump if your opponent has one. BUT if you use the miner on the pump, just know that you won’t have it for sniping your opponents musketeer, wizard, Ewiz, etc. But – if you need to use the miner on the pump that would be totally fine – just know that you will lack the immediate response to your opponents defensive troops (which is a little sacrifice to your offensive counter-pushes. Again – either works, but just know the limitations for each option. Boom!

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