Some pvp stats

[Sytro]

I did some fun with GowDB stats and found out that my ranked pvp reached point where i’ve got over 90% win rate (with attacks). Kind of funny, especialy that i don’t play much ranked or dont bother do optimise my battles and sometimes even retreat if battle would take to long (ie. orbweaver, goblins).

So i’ve scanned through my collection to check how far Divinia is from being de-throned from my most used PVP troop. So here’s my top10 of all rarity troops sorted by most ranked pvp battles:

Name		Kind	Kingdom	Base Rarity	Level	Traits	Invasion
Divinia		Troop	Dragon’s Claw	Legendary	20	3	2488
Daughter of Ice		Troop	Glacial Peaks	Epic	20	3	2449
Zuul’Goth		Troop	Karakoth	Mythic	20	3	1995
The Possessed King		Troop	Darkstone	Mythic	20	3	1914
Mercy		Troop	Whitehelm	Epic	20	3	1818
Drowned Sailor		Troop	Bright Forest/Sunken Fleet	Ultra-Rare	20	3	1646
Glaycion		Troop	Dhrak-Zum	Legendary	20	3	1527
Stonehammer		Troop	Khaziel	Mythic	20	3	1230
Moon Rabbit		Troop	Shentang	Epic	20	3	1169
Apothecary		Troop	Khaziel	Ultra-Rare	20	3	1074

10 Most used Mythics:

Name		Kind	Kingdom	Base Rarity	Level	Traits	Invasion
Zuul’Goth		Troop	Karakoth	Mythic	20	3	1995
The Possessed King		Troop	Darkstone	Mythic	20	3	1914
Stonehammer		Troop	Khaziel	Mythic	20	3	1230
Obsidius		Troop	Dhrak-Zum	Mythic	20	3	997
Vash’Dagon		Troop	Karakoth	Mythic	20	3	954
Scorpius		Troop	Drifting Sands	Mythic	20	3	931
Arachnaean Weaver		Troop	Zhul’Kari	Mythic	20	3	718
Infernus		Troop	Broken Spire	Mythic	20	3	572
Suna		Troop	Bright Forest	Mythic	20	3	531
Tian Yi		Troop	Shentang	Mythic	20	3	453

And 10 most used Legendary troops:

Name		Kind	Kingdom	Base Rarity	Level	Traits	Invasion
Divinia		Troop	Dragon’s Claw	Legendary	20	3	2488
Glaycion		Troop	Dhrak-Zum	Legendary	20	3	1527
Wrath		Troop	Sin of Maraj	Legendary	20	3	959
Forest Guardian		Troop	Maugrim Woods	Legendary	20	3	882
King Avelorn		Troop	Forest of Thorns	Legendary	20	3	861
Qilin		Troop	Shentang	Legendary	20	3	811
Yao Guai		Troop	Shentang	Legendary	20	3	809
Queen Beetrix		Troop	Drifting Sands/The Deep Hive	Legendary	20	3	804
Queen Titania		Troop	Bright Forest	Legendary	20	3	803
Scylla		Troop	Blackhawk	Legendary	20	3	793

What are your most used troops ?

[Shimrra]

Name	Rarity	Invasion Count	Usage?
Mercy	Epic	6939	Mostly ages ago
Infernus	Mythic	6593	Ages ago
Divine Ishbaala	Legendary	3841	Ages ago
Krystenax	Legendary	3728	Doubled stats from two in team
Gaard’s Avatar	Mythic	3353	Ages ago
Gorgotha	Legendary	3105	???
The Possessed King	Mythic	2709	NOW
Wrath	Legendary	2621	NOW
Kraken	Legendary	2504	Also double stats
Queen Titania	Legendary	2468	Forever; sparingly
Obsidius	Mythic	2251	NOW
Sylvanimora	Legendary	2185	Ages ago
Tai-Pan	Epic	2159	Forever; sparingly
The Dragon Soul	Legendary	2146	Ages ago
Yao Guai	Legendary	2124	Forever; sparingly
Sheggra	Legendary	2114	Ages ago
Infernal King	Legendary	2096	Ages ago
The Great Maw	Legendary	1977	Ages ago

So there’s mostly a few specific teams in here.

• Maw Mercy (IK, Sheggra)
• Krystenax x2, TDS, Sylvanimora // EMG
• Flammifer*, Yao, TP, Titania
• Wrath, Obsidius // Zuul, DoomedGlaive*, TPK // Mercy
• Divine Protector*, Infernus, Mercy, Ishbaala // Ubastet
• Forest Troll, Kraken x2, Mab

(*: Hero weapons aren’t counted right and therefore aren’t listed in GoWDB for invasions)

[Sytro]

Well, for me, these are te few i’m currently using(at least on GW weeks):

Daughter of Ice
Zuul’Goth
The Possessed King
Mercy
Drowned Sailor
Obsidius
Infernus
Wrath
Qilin
Yao Guai
Queen Beetrix
Queen Titania
Scylla

These are also few teams:

• Yao team (with titania, child of summer, flammifer)
• Zuul team (with drowned sailor and daugther of ice)
• Wrath, TPK, Mercy, Scylla (usually with storm hero class+writhing staff, that i want to level instead of TPK)
• Infernus and Qilin for yellow GW day
• Mercy is also part of Green GW team
• Obsidius is part of few GW teams

Some ancient ones:
Divinia, Glaycion, first 2 decent legendaries i’ve got some time ago
Stonehammer, first decent mythic i’ve had

Some old ones:
Suna, Scorpius, Tian Yi, Vash’Dagon, AW - i haven’t used these in pvp probably whole 2020…
Same goes for Avelorn

But numbers are pretty low, as my total of ranked PVP is somewhat near 20k.

[TheIdleOne]

Top 10 Invasions

Name		Kind	Kingdom	Base Rarity	Level	Traits	Invasion
Fire Bomb		Troop	Broken Spire	Common	20	3	53498
Sunbird		Troop	Suncrest	Ultra-Rare	20	3	29474
Leprechaun		Troop	Bright Forest	Ultra-Rare	20	3	11452
Infernus		Troop	Broken Spire	Mythic	20	3	11226
Divine Ishbaala		Troop	Leonis Empire	Legendary	20	3	8566
Gorgotha		Troop	Khaziel	Legendary	20	3	5534
Captain Skullbeard		Troop	Blackhawk	Epic	20	3	3993
Phoenicia		Troop	Suncrest	Mythic	20	3	3569
The Possessed King		Troop	Darkstone	Mythic	20	3	3229
Gaard’s Avatar		Troop	Whitehelm	Mythic	20	3	3143

What does this tell you about my PvP habits? mostly, nothing useful

[Goodly]

Stopped playing PvP for months, each one came from an era, quite surprised how Phoe never even made the list.

Fire Bomb		Troop	Common	38593
Infernus		Troop	Mythic	27747
Sunbird		Troop	Ultra-Rare	25419
The Maraji Queen		Troop	Legendary	18036
Gorgotha		Troop	Legendary	17781
Rowanne		Troop	Epic	13432
Divine Ishbaala		Troop	Legendary	12699
Kraken		Troop	Legendary	11788
Yao Guai		Troop	Legendary	11004
Queen Titania		Troop	Legendary	8785
Tai-Pan		Troop	Epic	7853
The Worldbreaker		Troop	Mythic	7259
Ubastet		Troop	Mythic	6112
Ragnagord		Troop	Epic	5779
Giant Spider		Troop	Ultra-Rare	4930
Mercy		Troop	Epic	4806
Krystenax		Troop	Legendary	4726
Leprechaun		Troop	Ultra-Rare	4659

[Neritar]

The most uncommon thing from my PVP stats is probably Lust on 3rd place with 13059 Invasions

[ChunkyMono]

This was a screen grab from 12 Jan 2020

A more recent grab from today, 04 Dec 2020 shows little change (I used Mab 1 more time, don’t ask me why. I thinks me alt hacked me again.)

Two Goblin Rockets on Yellow and Red GW days accounted for most of their activity, until I found better teams. With the introduction of campaign and team bonus stats, Cedric Key team has been retired. I’ve never been a fan of Mythics, until I crafted Zuul. Even then, it took me close to a year before I began using him in GW and PvP. He has become my weekly “Get to PvP rank 1 and quit” team.

Of the XBox players linked to Gowdb.com, I am still 46th as of today with 20,840 invasions, but those were mostly when it burned while I pvp’d. Precious memories, how they linger.

The Gray King saw his first 5 battles last GW on Brown Day. It’ll take a few more years before he cracks my top 20 at that rate. I retired Infernus years ago when he started to hurt my eyes. Famine use died when his meta did.

Overall, I’m just glad Black Beast still outplays Forest Troll on my usage list. Not too fond of trolls. Or Elvses, Fey, and Blue Mana users. chunky mono, For the Horde

[Mithran]

Man, barely anything on here that would be considered “meta” (in PvP) anymore. Nearly every troop I use regularly now in any mode has 1000 or less invasions.

Backstory:
Infernus/Krystenax used to be part of my quick kill combo, with a Ragnagord starter, allowing for usually 2 cycle wins often with very few turn drops. Either of them also made their way into a bunch of other teams, hence the high placement

Mercy was used in multiple teams and was the only empowered board mod for a long stretch

Kraken was doubled up, back when “kraken bombing” (getting a blob match and getting 10+ trait activations on one board) was a thing (I did not use mab as the popular team did since double Kraken allowed for the same thing faster on offense with no turn drops)

Forest Guardian was used in both beast-centric teams and with the Ishballa 1-2 punch. It was my skull generator of choice long before she came out, and this was the first double converter I owned, so I used all kinds of oddball combos with it.

Ragnagord was the favored quick starter of choice back in the day. Pre-exploder nerf, it was more likely to fill itself without a storm on the table (and storms were much less likely to be present), allowing to stack damage with light generation in other slots (eg, Infernus/Krystenax)

Valk was used with Queen Mab and some other blue centric teams. My main mab team used double valk. It was extremely effective before it was decided “mana burn” needed to have an immunity trait put in (for mab, specifically).

Terraxsis was my oddball pick, often paired with Alchemist and Mercy and sometimes Krystenax or Kraken to practice long control chains. This was also one of the troops I used to break into endgame, supporting Great Maw before I could do Maw/IK/Sheggra, I was using Maw/Terraxsis/KoS, and instead of treant/alchemist/valk/banshee I would use treant/alchemist/valk/terraxsis.

Fire Bomb was used primarily in blitz teams versus stuff with much lower stats.

Ishbaala was paired with usually Infernus or Forest Guardian. Surprised it wasn’t higher, but I used this primarily for skull spamming rather than the Infernus/Ubastet thing.

Then we have this curiosity - Rowanne, Carnex and Bombot all tightly clustered. My speed t3 PvP team was, for a time, Carnex/Bombot/Rowanne/Prismatic Orb with Mechanist. While this sounds odd by today’s standards, at the time, this would trivially single-cycle most encounters even in the T3.

I actually have no idea how I got to 2177 Sunbird invasions because I generally wouldn’t seek out lower level matches, but one of my teams was Warden with Bronzelock, Sunbird, Forest Guardian, and Fire Bomb which would wipe out mid range battles in 1-2 cycles (usually firebomb - sunbird - pistol or FG - sunbird - pistol or FG).

Leprechaun is obvious, it fit in a ton of teams, even though it isn’t nearly as old as the others.

And at the bottom we have some dragons. Back before everything that mattered needed to have an empowered start, Dragon’s were fairly effective.

Apothecary stick out like a sore thumb there between the others, because she is actually used on my current rotation of troops as well as back in the day. She has the same colors as Queen Beetrix so it is difficult to justify using her as a team slot to cover cleanse, but sometimes you don’t want to just spam the same option over and over (and sometimes you might want to actually counter stun I guess).

I’m sure these numbers would be much different if they included all combats. PvP is such a tiny sliver of the game nowadays, its looking like even if I played way more than I do now it would take years for my current PvP rotation to be at the top of my list here.

[Shimrra]

@Mithran

I’m sure these numbers would be much different if they included all combats. PvP is such a tiny sliver of the game nowadays, its looking like even if I played way more than I do now it would take years for my current PvP rotation to be at the top of my list here.

That’s where I’m at as well. For instance Yao and co would be preposterously high for me because that’s been all of my pet rescues ever, MarajiQueen + Rowanne for dailies that surely outnumber my PVPs in the last year+ as well as a ton of <lvl100 delves, etc.

[Brakkish]

My pvp list is totally embarrassing.
And the top spot isn’t changing anytime soon.

[ChunkyMono]

Cedric/Greed would be even higher for me.

Skeleton Key and Egg Thief for dailies/Dungeons/Pet Rescues, and Bronzelock/Zuul for Explores.

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I have yet to experience the joy of Peasant in PvP, @Brakkish. I have much to learn, it would seem.

[Avathar]

I don’t even play to tier 1 nowadays unless forced by the campaign, but PvP was my favourite game mode back in the day… I started by ‘punching upwards’ with a Dragon team and then a Tesla team back when Ragnagord/Famine was scary, played a lot during the divine meta heydays, did a fair amount of casual PvP to finish leveling classes and used both Greed an Obsidius/Zuul teams quite a bit, pretty mixed list

[Sytro]

@Brakkish

My pvp list is totally embarrassing.
And the top spot isn’t changing anytime soon.

I’d say that’s pretty impresive… it’s not that hard to have a good mythic/legendary as most used troop… while having peasant… well that’s impresive…

[ChunkyMono]

@ChunkyMono

Skeleton Key and Egg Thief for dailies/Dungeons/Pet Rescues

Back when I had 6 active accounts, I used to think “I bet I could get 8 Pet Hunts done in an hour”. What I didn’t realize, what I couldn’t have know back then, was that the Kingdom progression was changed. New accounts could no longer head straight for Zaejin, and unlock the Thief class and Skeleton Key.

Then, as those new accounts, er, “players” hunt pets, er, “rescue” them, their teams will be saved for the next pet rescue. So, by the time these “players” get Skeleton keys, if a pet “rescue” is active, they will have to change teams to get the preferred team up and running.

That, plus the fatigue of running 8 accounts, well, only a mad man would think to do that in the first place. I never did get 8 hunts done in an hour. And now, I never will. 5 accounts retired; 3 pending suitable replacements.