Nature's Gift is definitely up there. I think it should be considered tier 1 as well.
I don't agree at all. Natures gift is easliy shut down and way too passive. Especially the devotion lists. All the opponent must do is out engine you and steal your cards or remove them. I love devotion natures gift cause having no tall removal is great.... wait... no it isn't. So yeah I think your right that its strong but no way top dog. It's easily beatable.
Which is why non-devo is meta, not devo. Which brings me to the querstion, why did they put devotion Schirru there? Honestly, I haven't played it, but isn't the classic non-devo Schirru with either Skaggs or engines or all-in handbuff better? Or is it because non-devo Schirru can't win R1 for shit?
Only relying on personal experience is just a very bad idea overall, I think your comment shows that perfectly
Team Leviathan Gaming updated the meta report today (09-26-2020).
teamleviathangaming.com
If you click the data analysis section, it explains how SK currently has an "outrageous Pure Winrate of 63.25%." Wow, just wow!
Gwent Meta Report #28
Welcome to our 28th meta report! NG and NR are in a great spot, with Assimilate and Alumni somehow avoiding the nerf hammer and thus dominating the meta. SK isn’t far behind - Reckless Flurry is still a force to be reckoned with and Battle Trance is a decent pointslam alternative. As usual, Nature’s
If you click the data analysis section, it explains how SK currently has an "outrageous Pure Winrate of 63.25%." Wow, just wow!
At least every season (month), but I think they usually update it even more than that.
Depends on the meta. If there are big swings like that Keltulis Ciri list that rocked the qualifiers, then they probably get a few guys to test it to see if it's worthy of a tier as wel as check the numbers or get the feel for whether old lists need new inclusions because of it. Like some lists to got to get movement or more tall removal because of that Keltulis list.
Also, I think they changed the SK list like ten times this month, switching between Morkvarg and Tyrgvii. It all depends whether there's more ST or SK seeing play.
Just curious do they usually buff or nerf to balance...or both.
Usually a bit of both actually.
Hopefully, they'll do it right this time and make enough changes to SK to keep it from dominating yet another season.
I don't know what game he's been playing but there hasn't been any balancing for quite some time. They've made "changes" which doesn't necessarily equate to "balance" .
They've been trying to balance SK who they overpowered for several months now and so far failed in doing that after two patches. Instead they ended up making another overpowered faction. The last two expansions were pure buffs that just broke the game even further. It's quite obvious that they've just been throwing things on the wall and hoping something sticks. If you aren't play NR, SK or NG who can counter those two you'll have a difficult time.
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True, CDPR failed in balancing this game with the last couple of patches.
It's strange that they just let SK be top dog for so long.
NG can counter NR, but NG dies horribly, like the rest, to SK as SK just slaughters everything with both control and points. You have to be dreaming if you think that NG has a better chance than the rest to take on SK. ST has a better chance, for sure, than NG.
NG was pretty good against SK last season, wonder if the formation nerf was enough to break the faction?
Honestly I regularly beat sheild wall and SK warriors with off meta meme decks because a lot of the folks relying on these decks to to the work for them don't have a good grasp of the fundamentals of the game. You can get them to overcommit, fall for interactions that don't make sense, they are confident enough to go a card down etc. I had a sheildwall player try to duel my defender protected by Sukros yesterday. Im in low Pro rank, you would think that they would understand why it doesn't work?
I've come around on sheildwall, I still hate the leader but after winning enough games against it I don't consider it the oppressive menace I once did.
Honestly I regularly beat sheild wall and SK warriors with off meta meme decks because a lot of the folks relying on these decks to to the work for them don't have a good grasp of the fundamentals of the game. You can get them to overcommit, fall for interactions that don't make sense, they are confident enough to go a card down etc. I had a sheildwall player try to duel my defender protected by Sukros yesterday. Im in low Pro rank, you would think that they would understand why it doesn't work?
I've come around on sheildwall, I still hate the leader but after winning enough games against it I don't consider it the oppressive menace I once did.
I have been using a precision strike allgod deck and it works ok. SK is hard for real tho
Shows how broken SK is. Even with SK cards being around 5 power for real great Schirrus, it's quite hopeless because your Gord and Skaggs will get morkvaged/hjalmared/championed every time without last say. And you can't win with SK bronzes in R1 unless you trade your topends. You can only win if they make the mistake of bleeding you, which can be defended by Schirru.Or if they don't draw the Morkvark.