Okay I didn’t want to start a new discussion since this is about the meta and I wanted to resume discussion about it now that it’s settled down a bit
I am honestly so frustrated by the new meta. I’m just curious how other people feel about it.
I was doing just fine until people started using the double manticore deep borer bone dragon teams.
When people were just using one manticore I didn’t think he was over powered. But that specific combination is brutal and extremely frustrating to me.
And the more I think about it the more I can’t understand how one troop can do so much when he isn’t even a legendary or mythic. My stance on this troop was different before I had to consistently go against this team. I’m becoming part of the problem and using it to hopefully help others experience it and perhaps lead to a solution. Or if it turns out that others aren’t frustrated by it and a fix isn’t needed, then I’ll just soak up the 50% win rate rewards.
I think it’s a bad choice to make an entangle immune (impervious in this case) troop that has a really strong self buff on top of being very cheap, mana draining, and being empowered. All of that together is a nightmare to go against.
After the first cast of his skill a mythic with full bonuses with have 40 attack (I believe). And you can’t entangle that. So, you build a gorgotha team. Obvious counter.
But then manticore has a stun, so if he chooses gorgotha then his trait goes right out the window. Most of the time you can bait him into going after another troop but there are times where it doesn’t work out.
Especially since manticore is empowered (and if two are used … ouch). And then if there are a lot of his colors on the board to where you can’t deny him, the two manticores can very easily get their mana back. And you just can’t keep up with them.
And while your messing around with the manticores, the deep borer can get filled very easily because he’s cheap. And that can fill up bone dragon. And then bone dragon pretty much guarantees that gorgotha is finished and often times your second troop dies, too. And then the whole game is pretty much over from there.
So to combat bone dragon I also include my own empowered mana drain. Particularly spirit fox (untargetable). But it almost rarely makes a difference from my own experience, because they just get their mana back right away.
I don’t know. I’ve tried so many different counters for this team, none of which work out, and I am just very frustrated with it.
If you have any opinions or some new counter I might not have thought about please share it. I will note that this post is mostly a rant. But I hope that solutions can be thought up to bring this troop more in line with others of his rarity.
I don’t think it’s fair for one troop to do so much.