Why This New Battlegrounds Meta Is By Far My Favorite

1. Archangel and Torch cant nuke the opponent down in 25 seconds. For any player who doesn’t have either of them it’s a lot more fun
2. It gets you to test your skills and intercept a lot while doing them saver in the process
3. It significantly changes my deck and let’s me focus on other champs, who aren’t always used in other metas
4. Getting triple crits with my Jubilee

Comments

willrun4adonut

Didn't release about #1 until I tried AA against Mags. I lost that one .

Also, Fury is great on defense for these nodes.

Lpoo

Eh, it’s ok. It really ups the difficulty for normally benign defenders. Man thing, Maw, Doom, and Domino have become much more frustrating than normal, skill or no skill

SirGamesBond

Eh, it’s ok. It really ups the difficulty for normally benign defenders. Man thing, Maw, Doom, and Domino have become much more frustrating than normal, skill or no skill

Doom became significantly easier with guaranteed crits, people are nuking him under a minute.

Aleor

AA still shuts down annoying defenders, I believe? And torch may be a great defender, if you trick opponent to only have mystic/energy champs. I most likely will save a spot for r4 torch in my deck for defence

Yodabolt21

This is my favorite as well. It takes more strategy with planning.

It’s also fun not banning the same champs over and over. But the Nick Fury thing is total BS in my opinion.

Aomine_Daiki10

It is a skilled based meta and I love it

AverageDesi

From arcane to celestial from just yesterday. I'm loving this

BitterSteel

What I love about this meta is it actually changes the meta in a fun way that while challenging, gives you the tools to solve it

It’s the complete opposite of the autoblock meta.

Looking at the differences below (1 being autoblock and 2 being crit)

Both present a really tough challenge:
1) all your attacks have a very high change to be auto blocked unless you have buffs
2) all your sources of damage do no damage unless they’re crits

But the additional nodes on top of the two meta’s are where the success or failure of the meta come in

1) you also will lose ability accuracy when hitting block, meaning you can’t get more buffs in a horrible feedback loop. And you also can’t use true sense either as a buff to count to the total, or even to counter the autoblock.
2) you have a way outside of champion abilities to counter the nodes, intercepting can allow pretty much anyone to take fights

If the autoblock meta had given us a “on parry gain a stackable buff for X seconds” maybe it would have worked, but as it was it’s just to punishing and limiting.

This meta however, changes how we can fight but instead of punishing on top of it, it gives us the tools to fight it.

I don’t think that’s necessary for the less impactful meta’s like the heal on block and crits after knockdown last week. That’s essentially normal play, we don’t need a “heal block on intercept” or “extra block proficiency node”. We can play around the healing and block damage.

But when a meta uproots what we normally do like autoblock and crit me with your best shot do, I think it’s really important not to just layer on top more horrible nodes. That’s why we saw such low scores in the autoblock meta, I placed a rank 1 Mordo multiple times and got a lot of kills - someone with an R4 nimrod got 10k points. It was too limiting, and too punishing

This meta is one of my favourites so far. It takes some champs and makes them bad (sorry Mr Negative), but it takes others and makes them genuinely amazing - see Colossus, Killmonger, Stealthy, Thing (he’s my Maw counter in this meta), hell, I even got a 51k fight against a Killmonger with Annihulus of all champions because he benefits massively from guaranteed crits

There are a ton of champions who it turns out are actually incredible when you turn their crit rate to 100%. Some you’d expect, and some you wouldn’t. I wouldn’t want this sort of meta every week, I like some being the usual sort of gameplay, but 1 or 2 times a season if it’s done like this- sign me up for more

13579rebel_

Me and my Shang chi go brrrr

SuelGames

1. Archangel and Torch cant nuke the opponent down in 25 seconds. For any player who doesn’t have either of them it’s a lot more fun
2. It gets you to test your skills and intercept a lot while doing them saver in the process
3. It significantly changes my deck and let’s me focus on other champs, who aren’t always used in other metas
4. Getting triple crits with my Jubilee

Agreed. I did not see when the nodes changed, first fight i took AA and wasnt doing any damage, i was like WTF, even took screenshots thinking the guy was a hacker LOL

After that i changed my deck and faced opponents with decks A LOT BETTER than mine and i beat most of them within 2 rounds!

So i think its great cause apparently there are lots of whales with great accounts and little finger skills, and that amuses a F2P like me

World Eater

Well, I’m not enjoying crit me with your best shot at all. My roster and skills for this obviously aren’t as good as many others . Besides that I’ve had two fights where my intercepts didn’t grant me the precision for guaranteed crits.

Ultron vs domino
Magneto vs peni

That’s totally turned me off from this meta and I’ll prob just skip BGs for the rest of this week. Not worth dropping my rating any lower than it already is.

Bocksarox

I hate this meta. I'm timing out on 75% of my fights, even if I have ideal matchups.

MiniMF

Feels good ngl

TimeGenesis

I like it but dislike it at the same time.
The skills for sure is there but what sucks is if the AI is being defensive just constantly holding block and baiting specials.

K00shMaan

Can't say I've decided if I am a fan or not of this Meta overall but this Meta feels a lot more human than the others. What I mean is unlike in the Nuke Metas, any score can win. So many of the others Metas you just knew you were going to lose if you didn't fight perfectly whereas this one it honestly doesn't even matter the matchup, there's still going to be a chance because a ton of skill is involved. Definitely won my fair share of rounds putting up numbers in the 30K range. Also put up scores of 0 myself once or twice because hey it just happens sometimes. Most Metas if you're below 50K it's pretty much a guaranteed loss.