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ChaosDragon88 Admin Heaven Destroyer Wednesday 25/07/2018, 14:29

Hello Urban Rivals players,

The past Z Palace season was quite interesting and unique, as a lot of clans made their way to the top of the ranking. Usually, we manage to identify 3-4 clans ranked clearly above the others, while this time we had 10 of them.

At the beginning of the season, it were Freaks based-decks on the top, while in the last 10 days arose a lot of solid decks who could perform well against Freaks.
Skeelz and Pussycats could easily partner with Freaks, while La Junta, Fang Pi Clang, Berzerk, Vortex, Piranas and Nightmare were able to easily send Freaks under the 3 life treshold, or to stop their bonus.
Special mention for the mono Sentinel deck, outperforming the mono Rescue deck this past season thanks to Slade, and getting to a very nice position.

Usually, we try to nerf a little the most used clans and buff the less used ones, while keeping the number of changes to the minimum amount possible.
For this season, the list of changes will be slightly bigger than usual.
In addition to the usual changes, we will restrict some opener cards that sometimes may influence the course of the match on their own, resulting frustrating to play against or able to create 50-50.

All Stars: No change for now, as we would like to first see if #B Mappe will have an impact on the Z Palace or not.
PS: A 4* New Blood is gonna come soon…

Bangers: With the release of Blast, we think Bangers became a quite solid clan in Z Palace. We decided to lower back to Polit Arena Zoe. She was restored to Z Palace, together with Doug Snop, to boost the clan usage while waiting for a New Blood. Now that Blast is here, she can go down.

Berzerk: As usual, we like to give more time for the meta to stabilize before considering to ban new released cards.
Bruno can be a blessing and a course depending on the opponent hand; for now, we don’t think he will pose as many problems as Dollum, who had much less counters.
We decided to ban Granny May (Misery comes back). Granny May was the most played card, able to shut down alone entire decks and strategies. We would like to see how the Berzerk will perform with Bruno and without her.

Dominion: No change In Z Palace.
We decided to lower Death Adder from Danger Zone to Chocomuscle Ring. The king spotted impressive stats, comparable to the ones of Ymirah Cr, and we think it’s fair to limit him a bit more.

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ChaosDragon88 Admin Heaven Destroyer Wednesday 25/07/2018, 14:29

Fang Pi Clang: We would like to try a swap Pa Mei - Kamekun.
Pa Mei is an incredibly solid card who often remained in the top among the most played cards. In conjuction to all the other bans, and due to the possibility to pair her more easily with Pussycats, we think we should try this swap and see how the FPC will perform this season.

Freaks: Crazy Legs resulted to be too good of an opener to be allowed in Z Palace, especially now that the can count on Pussycats to better defend themselves. This is why we decided to return to how the situation was before Crazy Legs release, returning Jezebel to Z Palace in his place.

Frozn: no change

GHEIST: no change

GhosTown: no change

Hive: no change

Huracan: no change
PS: The clan was rarely played, but a New Blood is coming soon for them… ; )

Jungo: The clan was rarely played. We decided to return Dianzi in place of Abey, to increase the number of playable options for the clan.

Junkz: no change

La Junta: Scooty was a Polit Arena card we restored to Z Palace to help the clan getting popular. We think there is no more a need for this and we think we can put her back to Polit Arena.

Montana: no change.
We considered a change to Bella Ld and Raser Ld, but both of those cards are quite popular options in Daily Tournaments, so we are reluctant to modify them. However, no worries, as a strong Montana NB is coming soon…

Nightmare: no change

Pussycats: We decided to slightly nerf ashikaze ld, increasing her ability minimum from 1 to 3. Ashikaze Ld is an incredibly strong opener, always forcing the opponent to play some pillz against her as well as reducing damage if losing the round. This change will give Ashikaze Ld a few problems against cards with a lower ability minimum, and Uppers/Sakrohm.

Piranas: We would like to try a swap between Barden and Langren.
We feel like Barden can be a bit of a ‘random’ card to play against, while Langren requires more strategic play.
Similarly to Ashikaze Ld case, we also decided to slighly up the ability minimum of De4th Ld from 1 to 3.

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ChaosDragon88 Admin Heaven Destroyer Wednesday 25/07/2018, 14:29

Raptors: no change

Rescue: no change

Riots: #dr web resulted to be bit too powerful with the change we did last month. We decided to put her back as she was before, with 5-3 base stats. We also decided to restore Argos in place of Violet, to enhance the Riots utility as a support clan.

Roots: no change

Sakrohm: We would like to try and swap Ahseya with Baka. We feel like, at the moment, Sakrohm are a very passive clan, mostly used as a support clan for clans like Freaks or Berzerk. This swap should make them a more solid and offensive clan.
We will monitor the results of this swap closely.

Sentinel: no change

Skeelz: We are thinking about a big rotation for the Skeelz, trying to help their mono-clan and reduce the impact of the 3 cards block Arantxa, Sopiket, #beck-nena (yomi ld).
Compared to past season:
Xingshu OR Nekron, Dr Falkenstein, Dounia Mt and Henry coming to Z Palace, Miss Xingshu OR Navi, Kephren, Arantxa and Sopiket going down to polit arena.
We are not yet sure about this change, and we would like to hear your opinions about it.
For the meantime, we only replaced Sopiket with Henry to try and keep in check Skeelz as a 3 cards block.

Ulu Watu: no change
PS: The clan was rarely played, but a New Blood is coming soon for them… ; )

Uppers: The clan wasn’t played so much. It has a slight issue, having both Sean East and Gail Ld with the same kind of ability, reducing the clan roster of choices.
We considered two possible options: changing Gail Ld ability, or swapping Sean East to reintroduce Christelle.
Since Gail Ld is a quite popular option in Daily Tournaments, we decided to try the second option first.
If this change won’t be successful, we may try the other option instead…

Vortex: Similar scenario of Barden, we would like to try a swap C-Arib for #t-gaank.
C-Arib is a card a bit difficult to face, modifying a large amount of pillz both in the cases she wins or loses. We would like to see how the clan will perform without it, but c-arib will come back next month if this change won’t be successful.

Good UR