Rate my friends roster.
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Rate my friends roster. 127 votes
10/10
18%
23 votes
5/10
5%
7 votes
9/10
24%
31 votes
8/10
22%
29 votes
7/10
9%
12 votes
6/10
19%
25 votes
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Comments
If you want to rank up Thor Ragnarok because he has high prestige and you want high prestige, that is not a meta decision. That is a normal game decision. If you want to rank up Thor Ragnarok because you want to get into a top alliance and the top alliance leaders will only recruit you if you have high prestige, that's a meta gaming decision. Thor Rag can be said to have low in-game value but high meta value. Similarly, intercept is an in-game tactic. It used to be viewed as something only high skill players would reasonably know how to do. Now it is considered a standard skill by the players and the devs think nothing of adding higher end content that relies upon being able to use that skill. Intercept as an in-game tactic works the same way today as it always did, but the meta surrounding intercept has changed over time.
Before Blade, Magik was the best defender, there were very few ways of dealing with her. Couple this with Dorm and broken MD/Dex interaction and you had the Mystic Wars meta. These several factors created a powerful, obvious strategy. She was a meta defender because she got kills and had few counters, because of this many people ranked her for AWD. She was popular due to her effectiveness, everyone who had her ranked her and put her on AWD, as she was the best option. Then Blade came out and Defender Diversity. That shifted the meta as she no longer was getting kills. Then the meta shifted to the Trinity AWA which was around until Corvus came into the picture.
The meta is a little spread out now, which Kabam has done a better job of in the past 6 months-ish.
But of course, if you do in fact like the champ, it might not be a bad choice to rank them up. It is probably better to be a happy person with a weaker roster than an unhappy person with a strong roster.