# Where da giants at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [September 29, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935 "2017-09-29T03:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/1 "2017-09-29T03:05:52Z")
I’ve played 90+ PvP matches and so far I’ve only killed 37 giants. What gives? What the heck kind of “event” is it if it’s impossible to actually do the thing you’re supposed to do? Is this one of those life lessons, like when Calvin’s dad told him random stuff “builds character”? ---
**Author:** ![JuaitoR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/juaitor/32/11770_2.png) [@JuaitoR](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/JuaitoR)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/2 "2017-09-29T03:09:49Z")
Look in casual PvP, the repick button is your best friend to complete this type of event. Also, that Calvin reference made me laugh 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Amadan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amadan/32/7653_2.png) [@Amadan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Amadan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/3 "2017-09-29T16:38:21Z")
Unfortunately any “Kill X in PVP” event, where X is anything other than the current meta, is nearly impossible unless a sufficiently large amount of people intentionally set their defense teams to be both 1) full of Xs, and 2) likely to lose for you. It’s…silly, to say the least. The best you can do is stack _your_ defense team for the event, and cross your fingers that a lot of other people do it too. ---
**Author:** ![Esoxnepa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/esoxnepa/32/1837_2.png) [@Esoxnepa](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Esoxnepa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/4 "2017-09-29T17:47:32Z")
I’ve got 4 giants and I’m getting attacked about twice a day, which is really weird. Normally, when the hunted troop is set for defense, I’ll get hit 10+ times a day. ---
**Author:** ![Darkness](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkness/32/2712_2.png) [@Darkness](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkness)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/5 "2017-09-29T17:48:46Z")
> [@Amadan](#): > > The best you can do is stack _your_ defense team for the event, and cross your fingers that a lot of other people do it too. That’s exactly what I did. It took me around 150 PVP battles to get 150 snotstones… ---
**Author:** ![Vangor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vangor/32/31404_2.png) [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/6 "2017-09-29T17:56:40Z")
Heh… All i have seen all week is wisps… In fact the only giants i have seen is that fool who is always surrounded by krakens My snotstone total for the week? 6… -\_\_\_- ---
**Author:** ![Mariana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mariana/32/63233_2.png) [@Mariana](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mariana)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/7 "2017-09-29T18:01:23Z")
It seems many players cannot be bothered to put up a Giant team so we play the same builds over and over and over again in pvp. I have had a Giant team as pvp defense since before reset. It takes minutes. ---
**Author:** ![jeno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeno/32/20235_2.png) [@jeno](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jeno)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/8 "2017-09-29T18:03:32Z")
At least krakens come with giants. that’s a team player right there. ---
**Author:** ![Vangor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vangor/32/31404_2.png) [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/9 "2017-09-29T18:14:32Z")
Personally i am in this club > [@I have joined the lame/dark side](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/i-have-joined-the-lame-dark-side/30855): > > I have been a strong advocate against the meta team defenses for a long time now. I happily created all unique teams with limited success to defend in Guild Wars. I give up. I got obliterated on my first two GW matches today due to the Wisp meta and skyfall cascades. I will admit that after this recent change to negate surges on 4 matches that I lasted longer but on the first skyfall cascade I lost at least one of my troops, on the second skyfall cascade my team was wiped out. I am now using… I used to always set my defense for the event but i no longer see the point if only 4% of the player base is doing it too and 25% are still trying to get cheap wins by setting 1 troop as defense. One of my 3 losses this week was to a very well known player in a top guild who i would consider a friend the troop that was showing was the forest troll and the team score was 5.5k so i thought cool there is an easy 4 snots… So i used my boombot team and turns out i had to fight his blue gw team… So that said i cant think of one reason to not set whatever team everyone is complaining about. My current def team? 2x wisp shiny mab… ---
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/10 "2017-09-29T20:05:26Z")
It feels like a lame lost opportunity. The devs are rewarding the wrong thing. Sure, it makes sense to get a bonus for successful defense teams. It’d also make sense to get more rewards if you participated in the event. Maybe 1 snotstone per successful defense with the event team, but IMO there ought to be something neat you can ONLY get via successful defense participation. It’s really easy to get players to do things if you put incentives on them. I can’t really abuse the “reject PvP” trick because I’m still trying to max out my kingdoms so gold’s still precious to me. I’ll be remembering that one, but it’s still dumb because it’s the devs’ jobs to make players do more than just pick the easy way. ---
**Author:** ![Nephilim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nephilim/32/29092_2.png) [@Nephilim](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Nephilim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/11 "2017-09-29T20:11:51Z")
Set yourself apart and join the 4% . You know you want to! ---
**Author:** ![Vangor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vangor/32/31404_2.png) [@Vangor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vangor)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/where-da-giants-at/30935/12 "2017-09-29T20:12:47Z")
Nah… Tried it and it accomplished nothing.