Hello everyone,
I wanted to take a couple of minutes to explain our ideas about the current elo bans.
We carefully analyzed the top used cards, the cards you wanted to ban, and we are reading all of your proposals in the forums.
Our main aim is to make every clan playable in ELO, but we also would like to 'change' things a little, allowing players to use cards that have been banned for a long time.
All Stars:
The ban of Marina was necessary to permit the reintroduction of Robb Cr. The AS can replace her with many other cards, and they have other good DR cards to use.
Bangers:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
Berzerk:
We actually think the Berzerk are a good and not overpowered clan, but a lot of players asked us the ban of one of their 'defeat cards'. We understand your point of view about asking us to remove the 'mindless' cards from the ELO metagame, and this is why we have decided to ban Clive.
Fang Pi Clang:
Kerozinn Cr is a powerful card, but she is easily repleaceable by many other cards of the clan. We think there is no point in banning her.
Freaks:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
Frozn:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
GHEIST:
We don't want to return to the time when the SoA clans ruled the ELO scene with no adversaries. We would like to give GHEIST and Roots different playing strategies and weaknesses. GHEIST will be focused on dealing damages and controlling the pillz, while Roots will be focused on protecting the player life and being 'walls'.
This is why we do not intend to give GHEIST back Bristone, at least not for now, and why we have decided not to ban the DRs of the Roots clan.
Rolph was a card banned by the players many times, and this is why we decided to ban him to get back Dolly Cr.
Toro in our opinion is a card too strong for the GHEIST in the actual metagame. The same applies to Draheera.
Huracan:
The clan right now is a bit underused, and this is why we wanted to restore one of their banned cards. But we agree that El Gascaro, El Divino and Zapatino may result in being too strong for the actual metagame, especially when paired with certain clans. So, we won't restore any card here.
Jungo:
Ongh is a card that can win the matches alone, thanks to his impressive solidity, his high damage output and his strong power modifier. He was banned a lot of weeks. Troompah is too strong to be restored right now, and we think the clan can substitute Ongh quite easily, so we would ban him.
Junkz:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
La Junta:
We think Pilzken and Raven are strong cards indeed, but being forced to mono-clan decks they do not deserve to be banned.
Leader:
We would like to try and reintroduce again the leaders in the elo metagame. For now, we will begin with Vholt and Timber only, to see how that works.
Montana:
The Montana is an underused clan right now. We think reintroducing Oscar can be a good move and won't make them too powerful either.
Nightmare:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
Piranas:
For a similar reason as 'GHEIST-Bristone', we would like not to unban Ulrich. The clan has Fischer at their disposal if you need a damage reducer, and can count on really solid cards for every level, together with an astonishing pillz manipulating play.
Parmabarb is a strong card, but is almost the only strong defeat card the clan have, so we think he can stay.
Pussycats:
We think Lucy is an awesome card, almost crucial for his clan. You can use her as an opener, a wall or as a flat DR. But, after having read your comments, we decided not to ban the strongest 2 stars cards of the clans (like lehane, parmabarb or or Cyb Lhia). We will ban Diana and Sera M1 only in order to unban Yayoi Cr.
Rescue:
Rescue is an underused clan, and this is why we would like to unban one of their cards. We decided to restore Elvira and not Lea, because Lea permits players to easily use strong 5 stars cards in the deck, while Elvira require a more balanced deck. Campbell is a really strong card and we are discussing if letting him stay or not. After having read your comments, we think he could stay together with Elvira, but it isn't decided yet.
Riots:
We think there are no reasons to make changes here.
Roots:
In the current metagame, a defeat: + life card is stronger than a common DR in a lot of situations. This is the reason why we decided to swap Arno with Flora.
Sakrohm:
Many players requested the ban of Jautya, considered to be a 'too random' card. We think we can unban Lear Barduh (more solid but less 'win condition card') in order to ban her.
Sentinel:
We thought about the ban of Lehane in order to unban Coby, but the majority of players seems to dislike the usage of mono Sentinel decks. So, for now, we think we could just leave Sentinel as they are.
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ChaosDragon88 - Friday 17/04/2015, 17:15
