Dagger Dutchess DESTROYED the Clash Royale Meta

In this video, Billy discusses the new Clash Royale tower troop, the dagger duchess, and how it completely flipped the clash royale meta. The best deck in Clash royale is now giant night witch elixir pump with the dagger dutchess because the dagger dutchess is the best tower troop in Clash royale. Many of the best cards in Clash Royale like the evolved bomber and evolved zap are used in all of the best clash royale decks, but many of the worst cards in clash royale are also being used.
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[@_Quazarz]

It’s funny to me how everyone including a lot of top players said the DD was shit when she first dropped and then a week later everyone is calling her op

[@mo.elmasri]

Same thing with canoneer

[@_Quazarz]

@@mo.elmasri well the cannoneer was actually shit, that’s why they mega buffed it

[@averageguy3108]

@@_Quazarzthe only buff canoneer got was a range fix to match princess tower

[@el-low6663]

I called DD broken day 1, but people told me I was crazy 😔

[@_Quazarz]

@@averageguy3108 yeah that was a massive buff

[@colewilson1386]

Tower troops were a terrible idea to begin with as you need to go into a game anticipating any tower troops you may face. What the cannoneer fails to do, the duchess excels at and vice versa .

[@adrianbravo3454]

I finally learned how to optimize my deck and no matter what tower troop it is I usually come out on top. Cannoned is the easiest, then the duchess, lastly the princess tower. The princess has the best defense against my deck

[@stormfang9208]

That just means we need to start making more adaptable decks.

[@adrianbravo3454]

@@stormfang9208 at first I didn’t know how to counter the duchess but all you gotta do is make them think you’re pushing one side then really push on the other side. You basically just have to have a small tank waste the duchess ammo and you’ll get a ton of damage from the troop behind it while they commit to your false push they don’t have enough to defend your real push effectively

[@joshuafoley3856]

Accept change. Not everything revolves around you.

[@YoshiApress]

​@@joshuafoley3856 he's saying the game is more matchup dependent now

[@user-vn1rp6xv6m]

Honestly giant deserves some love after so long

[@dingas5632]

Every time giant comes back into meta I get giant graveyard flashbacks

[@stancamita9126]

​@@dingas5632is better than the pheonix havoc tbh

[@Lucy_595]

You clearly sound like a mid ladder player. Come up to 1800+ ultimate champion and half of the players use giant graveyard. And now there are even more toxic giant pump beatdown decks. Miner control metas are way better, at least noobs cannot use miner control.

[@Emzi2309]

I’m going against golem, giant skeleton pump night witch clone bro

[@desigualdade_igual]

Yeah

[@commandercrimson5858]

Honestly I'm happy to see anything at all be responsible for me not seeing hog cycle in 60-70% of my games in upper-mid ladder

[@vincenthaynes3603]

and Miner dig up a poor use rate

[@Lucy_595]

And now you are seeing giant in 60-70% of your games. What is the difference?

[@Mattferreri_]

​@Lucy_595 because I'm sick of seeing hog cycle in 70% of decks for the past three freaking years.

[@Lucy_595]

@@Mattferreri_ There is a difference between facing decks like hog cycle which are not even good in the meta and easy to defend compared to broken decks like gob giant evo recruits few seasons ago, giant graveyard and beatdown currently.

[@netherendX]

@@Lucy_595I agree hog was only annoying when I was a bad myself (I am still a bad but not as bad)

[@mynameiscal3478]

Dagger dutchess just makes everything until 2x elixir meaningless unless someone overcommits, which ends in either player losing a tower. Theres no in between.

[@caralho5237]

Pretty much. You simply cant build a push big enough or apply enough pressure because it just regens the daggers way too fast

[@mystictlyxx7919]

Miner Poison Players:💀

[@darkwarriorgaming9026]

Wouldn't you agree going up against miner poison is so freaking boring though?

[@saugat7966]

Yes especially in 3 exlier​@@darkwarriorgaming9026

[@scottreyes6768]

​@@darkwarriorgaming9026Who spread this idea of Miner Poison being boring? I remember the community actually having respect for Miner Control decks due to how difficult it was to play.

[@darkwarriorgaming9026]

@@scottreyes6768 I use miner poison as one of my decks, believe me, it's not that difficult. Going up against it you realize how lame the deck is

[@noahabc1234]

@@darkwarriorgaming9026miner poison actually takes skill I use it and have to beat golem beat down, mk, and sparky decks with it and you might call those fun but I call them cancer

[@samallalong7428]

For me, a good nerf for the evo bomber would be making that each bomb hit, deals less damage. Ex: First hit deals the normal damage, the second hit deals 3/4, and the third bomb deals 1/2. Same for the second and third zap from the evo zap.

[@Rainne.]

How to make evolutions useless in 1 comment:

[@juicebox682]

@@Rainne.no thats how to make them balanced 🤦

[@leopoldotactico]

​@@Rainne. Hitting a tower for +400-500 damage every time is not balanced ,

[@samallalong7428]

@@Rainne. bro, for 50%+ usage rate, dealing less damage to crown towers is probably not enough

[@thegochibot7-shujun193]

I think that I should only have one extra bounce so it cannot double bounce

[@bdwbomegaok7308]

I honestly love how the game changes so much every update keeps it fresh.

[@justaperson4540]

In a bad way. If it's not bad it's underwhelming. For example, dagger duchess is bad and underwhelming. Canonneer isnt bad but it's underwhelming. And evolutions are just terrible unless maybe every card is evolved and everyone has them but most people wont have enough evos

[@tapiocashoppe]

it's absolutely miserable as a f2p. i can't spend months maxxing a good deck if it becomes utter garbage the next month

[@dennyvalenzuela4941]

The game is in its worst state of all time and it gets worse with every update. Players who don't spend money are literally left out of every meta and will lose matches back to back.

[@Cadoe]

I think the 3 comments above me just proved why thats a load of shit

[@Lucky1252_]

Lmao the hog kids are mad dagger duchess counters them 💀

[@Leon_Orlov]

Hog eq players enjoy ahahahahahhaha

[@JoeShoesAreComfy]

Not even a hog player, but at least hog takes skill unlike giant spam 💀 hog ain’t even hard to counter

[@caralho5237]

@@JoeShoesAreComfy Hog takes minimal skill you just go cannon in the middle muskie in the corner then spam cheap troops

[@cj8494]

Cycle players can’t handle not being meta for 1 fucking season lmao

[@fulltiltgaming]

1. I’m not a cycle player 2. When did I say this was an issue?

[@cj8494]

@@fulltiltgaming 1. Wasn't calling you out 2. Was just commenting on complaints I've seen from mainly hog players

[@yoshifan2185]

@@cj8494it’s a bit annoying to me as a hog eq player because I finally hit level 15 f2p and my only level 15 cards are kinda useless now

[@cj8494]

@yoshifan2185 yeah you and half of midladder run firecracker and hog womp womp maybe be a bit more original

[@yoshifan2185]

@@cj8494 I would love to run something else, I really like graveyard for example however it is just not possible because u would be -1 or -2 levels on most of my cards

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-_-_-]

I don't know if anyone sees this, but win rates for cards are absolutely fucked up right now. evo recruits: 30% hog rider: 29% magic archer: 27% musketeer: 35% EQ: 38% suprisingly, pheonix has the highest win rate despite cr toning it down with the multiple nerfs it got over the last year

[@Rikka_V1]

Win rates makes no sense. Even if a card is extremely broken and overused it will only have like 55% win rate because if one player wins the other has to lose. Some cards are trash like 3 musketeers but can have higher win rate because only very good players can use it.

[@oklol7616]

@@Rikka_V1Here is how it works, if a card has below 45% win rate, the decks it’s used in may not be too great. It’s not good to judge the best cards in the game by win rates but the ones that have around 10% or lower can tell if the card is successful for people who use it

[@i_saidmeow2469]

Hog Rider and EQ are deserved

[@user-cw5mz7kj2t]

@@i_saidmeow2469hog eq players need to die and learn an original deck,😂 ain’t hard to literally cycle tower damage

[@i_saidmeow2469]

@user-cw5mz7kj2t alright, maybe not die but certainly Hog EQ players have no mum. They've been abused by their father so hard, they are mentally handicapped, and Hog is the easiest deck to play. Combine EQ and the only counters for Hog are gone

[@abeltotallynotdnsclientors5054]

Imo, the dutchess is mostlt fine as is. Evo bomber in the other hand needs a seperate tower dmg stat like the miner. 2 cost, 1 cycle, does as much dmg as it does, hits tower from the bridge and can hit it twice in one shot.

[@iag.f]

Honestly 5+ elixir only should be one cycle, only real exception can be ice spirit since it is ass, anything below 5 shouls be 2 or more, and im very sure the "cycle" part was something about spending elixir for dark elixir, so makes sense if the cheaper and steonger evos take more cycles since they are "more expensice"

[@prehistoriccreator9600]

Duchess needs either a damage or reload nerf imo, especially considering its health pool.

[@Lightning_XD]

Tower troops just make the game so much more unballanced

[@anasgamerx7502]

As a hog eq main . I'm in pain bc of the dagger duchess this seoson .

[@dallasrice4784]

Same 😢

[@satanicgay666]

I can finally play golem without getting a hardcounter in 90% of my games 😂😂

[@enn1924]

Same, when a knight hog eq push got deleted by a single inferno tower it made me realize how over it was

[@Zeke57]

As a hog eq main myself I am not having trouble but it's because everyone is dogshit in chal 3😂 I'm sure once I get back to champ it will be very difficult to win

[@saiyamjain1475]

After nearly 3 years of getting bullied by hog players i decided to play a hog deck myself from last month( it was pretty good i copied from sirtag) seems that now clash royale also bullied me by launching dd

[@arsonman48]

Dagger Dutchess messed up the game so much that I went back to the original deck.

[@domin8tion651]

Yeah anyone who calls dd bad has no idea what they are talking about

[@darkbuffalo8813]

2.6 hog glazers gonna be pissed AF

[@detective1883]

Dagger duchess counters my deck so fucking hard and I hate it because one card has ruined 3 years of learning my deck

[@frankthetank6298]

Honestly I like that it manages to nerf cycle decks without directly nerfing the cards in the deck. I do think it needs a nerf but I like the idea

[@gatarrrrk5500]

i love seeing more variety in the game evo firecrackers were going to make me quit this game

[@cabfish8339]

We gone full circle with the meta lmao **Full Cycle***

[@Jadesux._.]

I’ve been playing 2.6 since 2017 and none of my other cards are very high level but I lose to dagger duchess like 80% of the time

[@highoctanesynx7950]

Wait i thought that fast cycle decks are duchess' kryptonite Glad i was terribly mistaken lol, i getting my trusty old giant back

[@tomclancysfortnite8789]

Cycle decks are honestly just annoying to play against, don’t mind seeing fewer of them now

[@matthewbender5861]

This is how it should be

[@sunshineandrei2569]

Tower troops are healthy for the game, rather have more fun interesting matches than boring stagnant ones.

[@takingpigon8478]

I hope they don't nerf her it nice to see the older decks being playable once again

[@detectiveg7885]

i love how the phoenix is slowly creeping its way back into the meta

[@Splashmaster97]

Been running giant witch since 2017, never stopped. The toxic emotes i get after winning is hilarious

[@R41ph3a7b6]

I hate how common Giant-Graveyard is becoming!!

[@nikodemchojnacki9989]

1 barbarian elixir cost 1

[@MangelMurguia]

the DD is burst DPS, once that burst is over (dagger meter) it becomes *really* vulnerable to whatever can tank the hits + any follow-up troop unless a proper defense, which shouldn't be trouble for higher arena players but still you see a lot of weird things even that far up

[@LeonGamer_real]

What was that arrows miss at the start 💀

[@TheCloud785]

It can easily be overwhelmed by draining the daggers with a tank. Even 2 elixer ice golem drains it.

[@esertekin9727]

The old pekka deck that I haven't changed in 5 years is finally paying off.

[@goldennugget2562]

It makes a committed giant user happy to see giant beat down and giant control to be leading the meta. 😊

[@TheSunil1978]

Being a cycle player it is very hard to keep the pressure on when her daggers are out

[@sarat8124]

My deck hasn't changed for 4 months, it goes well against all three tower troops I use magic archer as my win condition so it doesn't even matter to me what the other guy has as a tower troop

[@Ammiad]

Bring back the card ideas series

[@bluefiremarkii]

My main issue with it is.. why does it have more hp than a princess tower, when it's harder to chip its health down? Make it even with the princess.

[@leafninja-fox5713]

I LOVE the fact I can finally counter Hog Rider decks. They're so annoying and have never fallen out of viability since release. Hopefully the dagger duchess only gets a small nerf, or no nerf at all

[@TypicalTerry]

I’ve been running Evo Royal Recruit cycle 💀

[@asher3262]

What they need to do is rotate seasons or weeks where the towers are same as each other and not so you have to buy or upgrade

[@cartersouthern]

Been using a goblin giant sparky deck with zappys, bommer, dart goblin, guards, log, and fireball. It’s worked out pretty well

[@superluigi6423]

Finally a meta where hog AND log bait is bad :)))

[@sukhman._]

Add one to three ravagers with different and have one-time rewards if you are killed by them, or some form of achievement of getting killed by a particular ravager

[@owainplays8945]

thank god good to see that hog isn't being used nearly as much

[@DemonChri]

And after this the game is in the final stage of his life

[@YoshiLegend9]

beginer decks eh? *WE GOIN BACK TO TRAINER OJ WITH THIS ONE*

[@hub21074]

Giant and bomber brings me back to arena 1 push back then

[@brutalthebigone]

Kinda funny how there’s almost zero scenarios in which the princess is as good or better than the dagger duchess (I have lvl 10 dd and lvl 11 princess and even I feel that the dd is like an objective upgrade)

[@haz2734]

Dagger duchess claps all my high level decks so I can’t really push this season 😭

[@OsamaBinFlyer]

BRO I PLAYED FOR AN HOUR STRAIGHT IN AROUND 7K AND 75% OF THE GAMES I PLAY AGAINST PEKKA

[@Bluepie130]

Me over here with mega knight balloon deck thinking, yeah dagger duchess is perfectly balanced I mean it can’t even kill my win condition or my mega knight.

[@n0oneatallyeet]

i was wondering why it’s been quite challenging to climb ranked recently… i play splashyard and still think the dagger dutchess can be terrible at times when i play against it

[@fbi9009]

ice golem slept on throwing that out there

[@LeSpearow]

Meta of the good old days

[@casengamer255]

Ice golem sitting in the corner when he can fully deplete DD’s meter

[@mattdawes9698]

Every deck can't fit ice golem

[@casengamer255]

@@mattdawes9698 true, a good majority can. At least in my opinion

[@814jonny]

@@casengamer255most decks can fit Ice golem but knight and valk are way better

[@casengamer255]

@@814jonny fair

[@Rikka_V1]

Giant was strong for many months in giant graveyard. If anything was in the bottom 3 win con that came back recently it's goblin drill.

[@814jonny]

No drill was balanced now it's op asf

[@areniag]

This is the other timeline that could have happened back then

[@pangoomb6781]

In the double Evolution tournament Monk was in one of the best decks which shows how weird this meta is

[@jacoblehn8752]

Im under the impression that 2.6 will never be a bad deck

[@Zyzz_Enjoyer]

Yea I play miner mortar poison and dagger dutches has basically made the miner useless in my deck, which was my primary win condition beforehand. Now I can’t even punish my opponent when they make negative elixer trades.

[@zetahalo]

Decks from the beggining thats nice! Will baby dragon and inferno dragon the bridge work too?

[@zeninjerxyz9293]

Old decks? Hellnyeah, im pulling goblin + barb hut out

[@tomas.lambert]

Dagger Duchess: I will end cycle decks!!! Evolutions: I don’t think so

[@jeremishkelly8217]

They should make a dart goblin evolution it’s could have like poison darts or something

[@sam-po2mf]

I can proudly say I survived that with x-bow

[@nigoku7961]

I think the goblins indirectly bugged the dagger dutchess

[@StringedPawn]

I literally haven't seen a single person play Giant Night Witch Pump

[@sahaf4730]

Got evo barbs to deal with all these giant,golems running around

[@ChangeNameEdits]

We making it to training camp with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wildmischief]

It's funny how much people will defend Evo Zap and Evo Bomber (usually the same people that defended Skeletons before their nerf). Just goes to show that everyone calls it balanced when THEY use it, but broken when they don't

[@CarbonFang25]

Maybe I don't want the Evo I spent six months to unlock to be bad

[@ytho8476]

This is a good time feels like im back in OG clash Royale again especially on path of legends

[@imgonnacream]

i am LOVING absolutely 0 hog but i literally just maxed my cannoneer a bit before DD came out and now the whole meta countering cannoneer with bats and im seeing a lot of witch in classic challenge

[@someguyv1188]

I think it might be good. The game has been unbalanced in favor of cycle decks since evolutions came out, so it might be good to have a balancing force that brick walls them and makes beatdown viable again.

[@KIRB881]

I love this meta, some nice og clash

[@AlwaysAWreck]

This shit needs an immediate nerf followed by those two broken ass two elixir evos and honestly after that WB evos could stand to be nerfed as well

[@ogcnlitfvmlhf]

You run hog lmao

[@fulltiltgaming]

To be fair, he isn’t wrong

[@lingeringpiss]

bro u just suck quit the game

[@ogcnlitfvmlhf]

@@fulltiltgaming Yeah but I like it

[@AlwaysAWreck]

@@ogcnlitfvmlhfI run recruits

[@TopazIsGood]

My terrible log-bait skills can't compete with dagger duchess 😔

[@yelloweleking6462]

And then there’s me… trying to figure out if dagger duchess needs a buff or a nerf

[@godregretsyou]

Buff??? Are you fucking serious?

[@yelloweleking6462]

@@godregretsyou yes

[@claybricks3689]

Giant being meta is rare

[@cd7677]

What i hate is people just use high dps troops and +2 spells and defend literary everything with that pay 2 win of a tower

[@Qweeeeegame]

I personally have no problem with it, though maybe its because I use splashyard

[@brst828]

In area 14 the most anoying card for me is xbow, beacause of dager duches is killing the troops that try to destroy the xbow and i lose half of my towers hp also both tower troops exept princess can counter wall bracker(main card that i use)

[@maxwellcunningham8908]

I love this meta. Cycle decks and hog are my least favorite to play against

[@lightningspeedgaming3138]

"Inevitable nerf" Clash royale: i think we need to nerf miner

[@botboy-5679]

Giant graveyard has become common

[@ashvardanyan]

Day 2 of suggesting this card The iron mace Its health is gonna be in-between executioner and vallyrie every 4 hits it will smash down and knockback in area damage around the radius of a fire spirit if the card is left for 6 tiles it will dash and have 20% damage resistance and once it hits it will slow all cards in its radius its gonna be double the range of fire spirit radius elixir cost is gonna be 5

[@Sledge447]

I miss clash before evos ngl

[@BurnadaKnigter]

Well I was half on the money with thinking of a deck DD would bring back, I juat went giant graveyard...

[@stanislavmihalas1345]

Me using giant at 5500 trophies before dagger duchess: 😅

[@mrnoname5183]

Honestly, as much hate as supercell updates have been getting, I will say that this meta is by far one of the most versatile ones

[@Starlight_583]

For beatdown players that's the case. For cycle players I don't think so. You're basicly forced to play drill and everthing else is mediocre or bad.

[@ECC_GEKKO]

I mean dutchess isnt too bad to play against so far. Ive been playing drill cycle for forever and its still pretty strong against DD.

[@just_that_guy_pal]

Got my Lava hound deck back out

[@ared4824]

Can we also talk about how unbalanced freaking gob drill is?

[@ClydeIsFake]

the fact that little prince is still meta says alot about this card. Lets nerf barb hut

[@jamesbeckenham1469]

My giant knight witch deck is super op, knight witch is really good against cannoneer aswell

[@coledavidson5630]

LAVA HOUND IS BACK BABEYYY! Good riddance hog cycle

[@JoseRodriguez-oe9ru]

Here's a good combo Hog rider Heal+ice spirit Heal heals hog from tower damage and ice spirit give hog rider time to do damage

[@1239pr]

The dagger d is so OP she can counter a baby dragon with only one hit