Me neither.
Most of the player base complained about having to buy dragonite and then went all in. Some spent dozens if not hundreds of thousands of gems on it. I went 4 months without a perfect run, even if i did spend gems i know i’d be one of those players with 10 copies of each before i got 1 of the last. I am not lucky enough.
There are other good teams for sure. Take advantage of the Shadow tree and the Knowledge tree has some good talents as well. As 4.21 said Books, are probably a good choice. Obsidian Libram, Secrets of the Crypt, i like Memories of Stone sometimes. I like to build type teams too, in this case it would be Daemon. You could go with a kingdom team of some sort as suggested by RootsSeed.
Basically just because it isnt meta doesnt mean it isn’t worth using. I strongly feel that every class, weapon, and troop has some use, you just might need to be more creative on how to make it useful.