What's the WORST Meta in Clash Royale History? 

Did anyone notice it yet??

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

12:52 When you let AI make your subtitles:

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

Great video man

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 :)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yaay another banger video

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Dagger Duchess meta was the absolute worst to me

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Gotta love the Minecraft music in the background

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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...)

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

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.

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

I miss the Double Prince and Hog Freeze Meta

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

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

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

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

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

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

good video

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The minecraft music is so good

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

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!

I think Void is what pushed wizard etc. out.

Peak content

we're in the paywall meta

B-but lumberloon

any meta in 2023 is bad

Are the subtitles automatic?

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

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

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?

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.

If mirror is viable, then the mega is trash

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

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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

2016 RG not in the vid is crazy

12:07 Not the arena 1 starter deck

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"

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

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

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

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.

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

Funny times back in the day

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