Please fix the spam meta
First of all,this is not a rant post, I do enjoy the game.
I just find it frustrating that you have to play spam decks to be competitive in upper legendary (7500-8500). I see 3 underlying issues
Issue #1 : (low cost) meta cards have too much value
Fact : the most played card in the top 250 is Underpants Gnomes (52% of decks).
Redlynx overdid it with several buffs : gnomes, SWT, Witch Garrison... Just by comparing their stats with other cards of same energy cost, playing them is a no brainer..
Issue #2 : There is no hard-counter against spam decks
Fact : the only (reliable) punishing card against spam deck is blood elf bebe who feed on low cost units.
Arguably, arrowstorm and lebard are also counter but not "hard counters", more like equal energy trades.
Cards like bounty hunter kyle, robo bebe, mephesto, storyteller jimmy, nelly... are supposed to be counter agains swarms but they do not work. For instance, it makes no sense that a lv5 BHK would not one-shot a gnome..
Issue #3 : Tanks are not competitive
Fact : Dragon Slayer Red is played by 49% of top 250 players.
In this context, why would you play a 5+ energy unit that gets countered by a 4 energy unit?
I don't think this is hard to fix. A buff to anti-swarm and/or a slight nerf to selected units would work.
I am concerned that Redlynx does not aknowledge it. This meta has been around for a while and I don't see it getting fixed with the current pace of (random) balance changes.
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