"...and this is why x-bow is so frustrating, it is one of those cards that require such a specific response" Me (a lvl 9 with lvl 9 cards): That sounds like a great deck to play. My opponent in mid-ladder: Lvl 14 golem, pekka megaknight and royal giant in the same deck. Edit: Get ready for Lvl 16 Megaknight(mirrored cards are +2 Apr 2022)
@@KFCCLASH i actually like your lore-ish kinda vibe youre going with your narration. there are people who appreciates your kind of narration. idk maybe im bit too old for clash royale, i find over enthusiastic narration annyoing tbh 😁😁
The funniest part about xbow to me is one of its greatest downfalls is to the mid ladder noobs who use 3+ tanks and always have one of theirs specific counters on deck. A meta deck that gets countered by noob strats
I’m a new xbow player (hate me if you want) and every other game I stare at the screen screaming “WHAT IS THIS DECK” as my king tower gets overwhelmed by Mega Knight, E barbs and Giant Skeleton.
Experienced that exact situation when I decided to give it a spin for one of the arenas in the 15 Arena Challenge. Man had PEKKA, Mini PEKKA, Mega Knight, Ram Rider, and Guards. It was complete nonsense as a deck, and on any good day I'd mop the floor with it, but nothing ever died and he had that midladder effect of seemingly always having more Elixir. My only takeaway was that meta can always be broken and defeated if you really just pull dumb ideas out of thin air.
@@Simply_better22343 a good xbow player is practically invincible against everything except maybe a deck designed to counter them. Defensive stackings for days
@@williamhuynh869 you’re absolutely right, I made a deck that hard counters x-bow and RG and I maxed it out and still use it and I have found ways to defend anything except graveyard. Very unfortunate this meta it seems. It consists of: Mega Knight Ram Rider Knight Bats Baby Dragon Electro Dragon Fireball Snowball I’m a Level 12, 5500 trophy player and I’ll never be good, but when I see x-bow or royal giant I get excited. The point is I love clash royale and play it with my friends daily, ladder is dominated by cards that can be used at high skill or at no skill and still be effective, but at the end of the day it is “A most ridiculous duel”
Something you didn’t mention is that, princess has very little health, and can be killed with literally any spell. Mortar shoots very slowly, does little damage, and cant hit cards within a certain radius of the building, and has less health than x-bow. X-Bow however, can hit very far, very fast, and shoots faster than any other card in the game. As well as that, the card can hit anywhere in its range, with no area that it can’t.
but mortar is 4 and the princess is only 3 elixir giving up over half of your elixir for something that can be easily countered but can do high dps if used correctly and knowing that your opponent does not have an counter in their hand is pretty balanced
@@davidjrgensen7419 X-Bow has a hit speed of 0.3 seconds, whereas Inferno has a hit speed of 0.4 seconds. As well as that, a rocket will easily counter a inferno dragon as well as an X-Bow. Maybe before you reply to a 1 year old comment about me being wrong you should fact check yourself. Have a good day/night :)
It’s not that easy to play Xbow past 6300 trophies.... yes it might be annoying ok low ladder but people create decks with 4 tanks that coincidentally counter xbow. Plus, you cant overdefend your Xbow otherwise your opponent will go all in opposite lane. Also, what about the free to play players that want to master a deck while getting matched with over leveled opponents. You can only push to a certain trophy range if you aren’t fully maxed.
@Pierre Ramos awhile back he was streaming and trying to find a name for his minions. I suggested moist boys he laughed and since then if I catch the video early enough I reply with that.
@@asdfhuk6798 how would they know they hard counter when the match has only just started? Its not like CCs are like top ladder where everyone knows what everyone is running.
@@keepawayfromwindows2181 So you only use 1 card to ever counter anything? Damn, impressive 😁👍 Almost all decks that are actually well rounded and good have a way of dealing with X-Bow and can put up enough pressure to make it hard to get a lock
@@keepawayfromwindows2181 All good decks have to have at least 2 cards to counter meta decks. Not a single meta deck right now is running XBow counters like that, but there's definitely a lot of Gob Drill and E Giant counters. The only reason XBow is even played anymore is because Tesla is just OP.
x-bow just force you to have skill, if you can't play against a x-bow you don't have skill, if you don't know how to play with x-bow and just put an x-bow right on the bridge in start of the match, you will lose the game instantly.
Sadly most people who watch this are over leveled midladder players who spam ebarbs at the bridge. They can't understand that some decks need actual skills.
I’ve only ever lost to xbow in ot because they cycle spells and spam teslas, i play skelly barrel, zap, miner so there’s no hop when they can cycle rocket or fireball
@@cheeseandmilk skelly barrel zap and miners aren’t good responses to xbow so it’s obvious why ur losing, miner can keep you in the game with chip but that’s it
In the current meta, there are so many counters to X-Bow. Especially in mid-ladder where mfs run Mega Knight, Elite Barbs, Giant Skeleton, Royal Giant, etc. X-Bow isn't as reliable as it was before.
Xbow is the hardest deck to master according to pros (cf CWA channel). Decks which requires skills should be powerfull as a reward to master them. Xbow is also one of the only deck that you can play as underleveled player. On ladder, I can assure you that playing Xbow is not that easy, since they all use decks with 3 or 4 tanks (megaknight, knight, valkery and so). Only one mistake and you lost the game. But I still have fun compared to the brainless deck that you can find on ladder...
xbow is one of the only f2p options for clash royale, together with log bait and 2.6, both not very viable atm, especially in low-mid ladder. You can easily beat MK PEKKA sparky kinda stuff with xbow, but if they have triple spell, it becomes nearly impossible for logbait, and if they have alot of air cards, its much harder for 2.6 hog. You can have bad matchups with xbow, like rg, rocket, golem, or ideally all three combined, which sounds very unlikely, but in mid ladder some players dont know good synergies, so they play whatever they have leveled up. I don't think this makes much sense. If there are any other f2p, which there probably are, let me know in replies. bye
@@peedjar2231 a lot of mid ladder players combine cards like golem or giant rage and then a few high damage support cards, all maxed ofc, and my level 11 cards don’t actually have enough power or hp to kill them before it does 2000 damage minimum, even with things like fishermen, cannon, and musketeer/hunter to dps as quick as I can
The reason you lose in mid ladder is because you don’t play defensive enough you have to play really defensive in bait. Think of it like a goblin barrel control. That’s how I pushed to 5600 with level 10
Xbow: exists Supercell: allow us to introduce to u, another beatdown meta (Btw pls talk about why barb hut graveyard had been 10x more annoying than xbow since the rework) Edit: xbow is already in losing matchups against the meta... and now this nerf happened ;-;
Barb hut is probably the most op and annoying card in the game. Barb hut graveyard with a couple tanks matched with an xbow deck is like a free win if both players have similar skill. Thank god they nerf it too, not just the xbow.
@@VarisTheHacker what about the extremly big number of cards that can counter it aka mega knight, P.E.K.K.A, giant skeleton, electro gaint, rocket, fireball, earthquake, electro dragon, Bayby dragon, Bowler, wizard, witch, night witch, motar, executioner, valkyrie, royal recruits and poison? I probably missed some too
@@eh2587 I'm saying it with the perspective of an xbow player. Also rocket doesn't counter it. You basically get 4 barbs with the cost of 1 elixir lol. But let's not argue here, I play xbow and I hate those royal hogs royal recruits barb hut flying machine decks that's it.
Also, X-bow's health and life timer are so much that even its specific counters don't perfectly counter it. Even if you rocket an X-bow the instant it's played it will survive and keep shooting at your tower for a couple of seconds, dealing massive damage. Meaning that you still have to use multiple cards to counter it, even though rocket already is an even elixir trade. It's basically the only win condition without a hard counter.
As an x-bow player, I disagree with you. When you are against an opponent who have an e-giant, mk, pekka or even royal giant. You don't have any chance if the guy know how to play. I have 8k trophies for now and the royal giant evolution is my worst nightmare.
@@misterburp_5627 Still, those are mostly more expensive than the x-bow and also you have to build your deck around them. And they still aren't necessarily a hard counter for xbow as they can be killed.
I mean I use a mortar so it's always very personal when I fight someone using an xbow I usually win by handicapping their xbow by playing mortar every 3 seconds then attacking with my other cards, bridgespamming all my cards, or I just bait their xbow out, destroy it, and chip away at their tower with the mortar. I use the Giant Skeleton with is perfect when used with the mortar, and it's also a good xbow counter. Because the mortar has so much HP, it can both tank an xbow while ensuring any troops that managed to kill the giant skeleton gets hit by his bomb. unless of course, they rocket cycle me. My mortar can not compete with that, and it's a hard counter to mortar decks in general.
Again nowdays too, everyone uses it and its soo hard to beat, They use like: princess, knight, 3 skeletons, x-bow, ice spirit, tesla, and they spam and there is NOTHING you can do abt it
I recently started playing xbow. My win rate is about 50%. Xbow is hard to play and probably too high skill for me. A good chunk of my wins come from the opposition giving up when they know what I'm playing. Xbow fear overwhelms people the fear is more deadly then the xbox itself
Yea I play and win prolly 75% or 80% of my matches since I mastered it. If it’s gone then I’m officially leaving the game cuz they already nerfed tf out of rocket
I played almost all decks in the game, bridge spam decks are the hardest to use by far... It is so much easier to play on your side of the map.. instead of having to think ahead of time and plan your attack. XBOW players literally put the cards they want on the exact spot they want all the time and win..
You don't need to counter xbow at the river. Most of the time, you shouldn't. Just distract it long enough for its life to run out and spell if need be.
Thats because it’s so good that people that used it in mid arenas are in the top 🤣 To clarify this is a joke and is to be taken as such, it’s probably just more boring and repetitive for some players that other cards that get them intrigued. X-bow is pretty much plant at bridge and defend at bridge.
@@octaviocampos5294 i practice it. It’s just not my style and I just hate it. I’m practicing it and I’m good at it. It’s just not my main deck is what I meant. It’s not that hard to play
Here is when the meta comes in and ruins the day for x bow players. THE electro giant. If anything it brings even more of a feel of hopeless ness if you see IT for VERY similar reasons as x how or say e barbs. It requires expensive tank killers to properly kill it and the pekka and mini pekka are the only to REALLY good cards at doing that, and then, like with x bow, you can just cycle away from those cards. And this counters x bow really good as well as everytime it tries to shoot it when it is close to it. It takes a lot of damage. And the e giant will target buildings. The ONlY giant to not target only buildings is the skeleton giant.
No it's pretty hard to defend with the deck if they have two tanks, two high damage spell cards, mirror, or witch. I play low mid ladder I think, so it's nothing but night golem, royal sparky, and mega knight. If you want to beat an x-bow all you have to do is have Rocket and Royal giant in your deck and you'll win by default. Especially if they set up the x-bow and Tesla at the very start. Just play the RG on the opposite side of the Tesla
The reason people hate xbow is because when you lose you cant even tell what you did wrong when its just because you played your tank a single tile too high once and it died to the twenty teslas two seconds sooner so you lost your entire tower because you made a singular mistake
Doesn't matter what you think about the deck or how you feel when you play against it on battles, just a limmited number of players has the courage to play in the competitive cenario just for beeing very risky and need a good match-up, cuz xbow has lots of couters in the game, expecially on this meta.
Ok lets adress all the points. 1. Its strong 2. Placed at bridge 3. "Specific expensive response needed to defeat it" 4. Cycling to spam xbows is op 5. Synergy with log and tesla Lets ignore the 1st point, as that one is very subjective and can be very polarizing, without any factual answer to that point available. 2. It is placed and used to destroy towers from the bridge. So are princess and even magic archer could be counted torwards cards that can destroy towers from the bridge. Princess is a card that will almost certainly deal damage to the tower, if not predicted that is, and is also very cheap. In something like logbait, she will be spammed just like goblin barrels in order to bait out "specific responses" from the opponent. And while speaking about it, logbait is also quite strong against xbow, as it has rocket and can easily defeat the xbow player by using it, or a knight/ inferno tower/ tesla to tank or to attack the xbow directly. You mighr argue that logbait is baiting logs and not a "specific expensive response" but in the end, once the log is out your towers are being swarmed by cheap cards, often times winning the game just off one mistake. JUST like xbow. 3. Now to the 3rd and probably the worst point, which the youtuber funnily enough used as his strongest one. The "specific expensive response" argument and would you look at that! There are a lot of cards requiring the SAME "specific, expensive response". Golem requires a building like tesla or inferno (and of course you could defeat it with any other troups like a witch or a mini pekka, but its exactly like with xbow. Of course you can defend it with a loon or something like valkyrie m-archer, but its just not the most optimal way if you have rocket in your deck!) and if you play against sparky, youll also need a "specific expensive response" called lightning or rocket. And you are totally correct in saying that an e-spirit or a zap will counter it, but guess what, zapping an xbow will make it reset its target! It doesnt kill the xbow, but it also doesnt kill the sparky. Zap is still the most op card vs the legendary, so why not use it vs other cards as well? Now with that out of the way, does it mean that sparky ks overpowered? Coz I mean, it requires a "specific expensive response" and if it gets to the tower it will do 1300 damage in one shot! "But you dont have to beat kt at the bridge" you might say, but you do. If sparky gets onto your side you are practically taking a hit if your opponent is good that is. Heck, it may even cost you a tower if your opponent decides to use e barbs or a hog on the other side! But back to the zap. A zap and a bowler can make a xbow do no damage to the tower for half its lifetime and that only if used to tank, if played well the bowler alone with some support is going to annihilate the xbow and tesla. GG. 4. The xbow is spammed by using cheap cards to cycle. Yes it is, but so is 2.9 hog cycle. Op right? And look at that! A hog is even easier to cycle and also needs a specific response in order to not do damage. If played well you "might feel defenseless and hopeless before the game even beginns!" Cycling cards is simply a way to win. Some people prefer to stack support behind a golem, others like fast decks, or even bridge spam! Thats just how the game is. Cyclingalso requires skill, you cant just spam 1 elixir cards and expect to win, the opponent will have their own attacks as well! Xbow just like 2.9 hog cycle are seen as the top skill decks for a reason, so deal with it. Being outskilled doesnt mean their cards are op, they are just better. 5. The last one I can definitely see. "The xbow has synergy with log and tesla." Log sure is useful and I agree that it synergizes well with the deck, but thr real fiend here is the tesla. Op card, no doubt. Hides when not in use, shreds tanks and swarm troops alike. The placement to prevent enemies to target the xbow only makes this worse. While I do not agree that xbow is too strong, I most certainly agree that the tesla is. If there ever is a nerf, I believe that adding 1 elixir to the cost might balance it, or a good nerf to the hp. And if anyone read this please, tell me about how "the xbow requires a specific expensive response" and no other cards does. Id love to see what others think
Tbh,.as an x-bow player it is a tough match up but it is easier compared to golem and giant. Unless they have tornado+arrows it is somewhat manageable.
When I see the xbow, I go panic mode. I quickly look to see if I have any high health cards ready to play before it starts shooting. Then I look for tower attacking cards. If not, I'm doomed, and gotta try taking out after a bit. In that case, as soon as I see it, I go fu-
Xbow is insanely hard to protect if the opponent just plays a MK at the bridge, and when you point out a high elixir tank is needed to respond to it...that's kinda the point, xbow is 6 elixir and if you catch your opponent at an elixir deficit you deserve the lock as you've outplayed them, the deck is very hard to play and master but if you defend the xbow right and skilfully you deserve the lock, High risk higher reward if you manage to protect you xbow you get a ton of damage or the entire tower but if you fail to defend it, you've just wasted 6 elixir possibly more trying to defend it and there's still a half health royal g going towards your tower and your on 2 elixir, the card needs another rework to get it back into the meta ad its insanely rare to face in top or midladder
Xbow simply adds a new style of play, I'd been using it for a good while, just because it fit my style of play. I enjoy the feeling of a strategic plan and predicting and tracking my enemy's options and then forcing them into a situation where I have advantage
Great counter for x-bow is e-giant/tornado/zap cycle, you just cycle to egiant to counter xbow and even if a tesla is in play the egiant can counter both, tornado to bring in range troops on the egiant to kill them off, and zap to redirect the xbow on the egiant if youre a second too late
@@arijitrox123 r u stupid hog eq is Impossible and most meta decks are hard to play against if you dont play near perfectly. There is a reason why it's the highest skill deck in the game.
@@GOD-jt3il Don't waist your time explaining those things.. X-bow is a boring matchup yeah but, if they speak like that, they are probably at 4500-5000tr.. I mean, if you don't recognize that this meta is really hard for x-bow, i don't get it..
and if you have no spell they can defend the entire game and win. you forgot to say that not only is x-bow op on offence, it can also defend good af and then they can double x-bow you if you do not defend the first one
Nice vid. All that was missing was your suggested solution/rework for Xbow decks. I think a 5-elixir rework to tesla or a rework to xbow with decreased health (so rocket + 1 elixir counters)
Tesla is just fine cuz it doesn't does a like a whole ton of damage like a inferno tower but xbow needs a serious nerf cuz all they do is defend their ass of and the xbow will connect with it's long health if you don't have a big spell
problem with this complaint is that if the opponent literally just plays mega-knight or e-giant or golem with something to counter your cheap cards like wizard you'll just die, theirs very little the x-bow player can do. also if you play x-bow and tesla right after each other your opponent will just punish you so freaking hard for spending all your elixir
Oh no. You need to respond to a card the opponent plays. It is so good that you don't need to do that with agaist any other deck like a ballon freeze, hog cycle or anything else. truly it is a great thing only the xbow forces you to adapt a specific way of playing aginst it
What do you mean specific response ? Literally any tank or minitank or a big spell maybe paired with log/zap is enough to either stop the x-bow completely or have it do only chip damage. Oh they played a tesla and knight as well. Thats a total of 14 el. Why are you expecting to stop it with anything less than 10 el ? Nobody expects to do that for anything else but as soon as its x-bow suddenly its a problem that you have to spend a lot at the bridge ? The real problem is that x-bow and mortar are the only cards that cannot be hurt by the opponent's crown towers. This reduces the damage the opponent can do to it. Since this does not happen for anything else they usually underestimate how much spending is required to kill it and when it does not die when they think it should have they feel cheated. For mortar it s not a big deal since it only fires once a while and thus the damage is never too much and thus its a lot more forgiving. For x-bow unlike mortar any single mistake can result in losing huge chunks of tower hp. Its a lot more dangerous when it does connect and thus opponents feel a lot more pressured when playing against it. These two factors are what really make the x-bow feel unfair.
minitanks can counter it, but keep in mind 4 elixir, or maybe 5 is more than enough to destroy any minitank, usually with skeletons or skeleton army, if you instead respond with instant spell, it will still deal some damage to your tower, and each time it damages your tower, that pressures you to do something, if the enemy just keeps chipping away, even if you manage to defend, they will win by tiebreaker
Ppl hate xbow because it’s insanely oppressive and makes you feel very stressed. This also blinds people to the fact that it is probably the highest skill cap win condition in the game, ppl hate it so much that they don’t realize that it is insanely difficult to play. That’s why barely anyone plays it, those who do however, and master it, become borderline godlike
I'm sorry, you're a x bow player but worry about mega knight ? Bruhh just cycle it, your opponent would not be able to do anything Also e golem is easily counter with giant skeleton and golem deck, and graveyard is about to go extinct with the new card coming in the next season
I think its a skill deck curse u just can counter it with 1/2 of all the cards exsit like rg giant skeleton peka mega night and more x bow has to many hard conters
This video actually makes so many incredibly good points. Xbow isn’t even good anymore and I’m an Xbow cycle player, but this video still makes me feel like Xbow is an abomination lol. Really well done
ok, xbow is too strong, I agree even though I use it. You can win almost every matchup but only if you play perfectly and that's how the game should look like - skill. It doesn't deserve a nerf as long as some really no skill cards get nerfed
"because X-bow forces out specific expensive responses due to its high elixer cost and ability and ability to take towers from the other side of the map" - KFC CLASH, 2020
Mr thinking why isn't there an xbow gameplay during the talk: 🗿
I WAS THINKING THAT DAMMIT
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@I’mBatman it wasnt even about clash royale lol
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"...and this is why x-bow is so frustrating, it is one of those cards that require such a specific response"
Me (a lvl 9 with lvl 9 cards): That sounds like a great deck to play.
My opponent in mid-ladder:
Lvl 14 golem, pekka megaknight and royal giant in the same deck.
Edit: Get ready for Lvl 16 Megaknight(mirrored cards are +2 Apr 2022)
Just trying to level up cards by 2v2 instead of ladder bc it’s so frustrating that everyone has higher level cards
@@michaeldonatelli7166 same , wanna play 2v2?
@@paddy2132 yeah I forget how to add ppl tho but I’m down
@@michaeldonatelli7166 true and than laugh at you if you can't defend
Xbow is also spell cycle if oh can’t break thru
You explain it like im memorizing school stuff.
lol i'll try sound more enthusiastic next time
Maybe that was the point. X bow has taken the life out of him.
@@KFCCLASH i actually like your lore-ish kinda vibe youre going with your narration. there are people who appreciates your kind of narration. idk maybe im bit too old for clash royale, i find over enthusiastic narration annyoing tbh 😁😁
@@kishorraika6411 how old are ypu it doesmt matter you can play clash royale at any age tf cares at what age you play
@@kishorraika6411 exactly. The faked energy makes it cringe and annoying attunes
The funniest part about xbow to me is one of its greatest downfalls is to the mid ladder noobs who use 3+ tanks and always have one of theirs specific counters on deck. A meta deck that gets countered by noob strats
I’m a new xbow player (hate me if you want) and every other game I stare at the screen screaming “WHAT IS THIS DECK” as my king tower gets overwhelmed by Mega Knight, E barbs and Giant Skeleton.
I love my royal giant and rocket deck
Destroys xbow very nicely
@@4digitiq12 Sounds like me playing 2.6 or xbow
Experienced that exact situation when I decided to give it a spin for one of the arenas in the 15 Arena Challenge. Man had PEKKA, Mini PEKKA, Mega Knight, Ram Rider, and Guards. It was complete nonsense as a deck, and on any good day I'd mop the floor with it, but nothing ever died and he had that midladder effect of seemingly always having more Elixir. My only takeaway was that meta can always be broken and defeated if you really just pull dumb ideas out of thin air.
and then they play defensive xbow and spell cycle you...
Xbow players are those people who everyone hates, and they can't figure out why.
Why tho
@@mystic7042 because people are mad they got out skilled
@@Simply_better22343 a good xbow player is practically invincible against everything except maybe a deck designed to counter them. Defensive stackings for days
@@williamhuynh869 you’re absolutely right, I made a deck that hard counters x-bow and RG and I maxed it out and still use it and I have found ways to defend anything except graveyard. Very unfortunate this meta it seems.
It consists of:
Mega Knight
Ram Rider
Knight
Bats
Baby Dragon
Electro Dragon
Fireball
Snowball
I’m a Level 12, 5500 trophy player and I’ll never be good, but when I see x-bow or royal giant I get excited.
The point is I love clash royale and play it with my friends daily, ladder is dominated by cards that can be used at high skill or at no skill and still be effective, but at the end of the day it is “A most ridiculous duel”
@@williamhuynh869 a good x-bow player, that is. X bow actually requires skill to use
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B-rad ducky head hate x bow X BOW BROKEN he said xDDDD LOOK HOW HE TRY TO COUNTER IT AND DONT DEATH BECOUSE A LOT OFF CRINGE
@@rzonduox2156 I had a seizure reading that
@@rzonduox2156 what the fuck are you trying to say!
@@ernestkassama2653 Fr tho
@@rzonduox2156 ok
X-Bow: you can’t defeat me
Everyone: Oh I know, but he can
*Health slowly running out*
The very slow health drain is a reason why xbow is toxic. It will destroy the tower and have health left
@@carldablob324 not anymore, it got nerfed and not that good anymore.
@@idkwhyihaveyt8686 it’s still really good
My version: Xbow:you cant defeat me
low levels:I know but he can
Electro giant
Skarmy(for xbow) pekka(for defensive cards)
Conclusion-remove its ability to shoot
GENIUS
Remove the last 4 words
Ngl that's actually a really good idea
@@magicpaladin wow 😮
Just shorten lifespan, goddamn thing lasts forever
Something you didn’t mention is that, princess has very little health, and can be killed with literally any spell. Mortar shoots very slowly, does little damage, and cant hit cards within a certain radius of the building, and has less health than x-bow. X-Bow however, can hit very far, very fast, and shoots faster than any other card in the game. As well as that, the card can hit anywhere in its range, with no area that it can’t.
but mortar is 4 and the princess is only 3 elixir giving up over half of your elixir for something that can be easily countered but can do high dps if used correctly and knowing that your opponent does not have an counter in their hand is pretty balanced
@@purplepixels9608 to destroy one xbow you use a lot more elixer, and by that time thye cycle to another
You’re wrong, inferno dragon is fastest attack. Also xbow costs more so don’t compare them. Compare to other 6 elixirs such as rocket, which counters…
@@davidjrgensen7419 X-Bow has a hit speed of 0.3 seconds, whereas Inferno has a hit speed of 0.4 seconds. As well as that, a rocket will easily counter a inferno dragon as well as an X-Bow. Maybe before you reply to a 1 year old comment about me being wrong you should fact check yourself. Have a good day/night :)
@@jumpvelocity3953 if you have to overspend on an x-bow just to kill it, your deck either sucks or you're just not good at the game, simple as that.
Ayyyyy moist boys we here. The OGs in this intro. 😢😢😢 RIP
lmao rip they aren't dead bro
@@KFCCLASH ah I know but content ain’t been what it was for them. I meant rip as to the golden days of CR content.
It’s not that easy to play Xbow past 6300 trophies.... yes it might be annoying ok low ladder but people create decks with 4 tanks that coincidentally counter xbow. Plus, you cant overdefend your Xbow otherwise your opponent will go all in opposite lane. Also, what about the free to play players that want to master a deck while getting matched with over leveled opponents. You can only push to a certain trophy range if you aren’t fully maxed.
@Pierre Ramos awhile back he was streaming and trying to find a name for his minions. I suggested moist boys he laughed and since then if I catch the video early enough I reply with that.
@@KFCCLASH nickatnyte hasn't uploaded CR in forever though
U forgot the part where they just xbow tesla the river to open the game
@Carmelll You should look in CC's. Especially when they know they hard counter
@Carmelll +
@@asdfhuk6798 you mean after they identify your deck?
@@asdfhuk6798 how would they know they hard counter when the match has only just started? Its not like CCs are like top ladder where everyone knows what everyone is running.
@@namankashyap791 Dude CC's are filled with meta decks. From splashyard (which is the one I play) to sparky to golem.
_Nice tower you got there. Would be a shame if this X-Bow whittled it down from this side of the Arena..._
Supercell: puts knight infront of the Xbow in "showcase video"
Supercell: kills healing spell
Every clash royale player except x-bow gremlins: yeah cool, now do x-bow next :)
O
Nah, do megaknight
@@Simply_better22343 7% usage 42% win ☠️☠️☠️☠️
@@Simply_better22343 u must be stuck at 5300 with a terrible deck lol
@@xaz-FactsandMore29 what? Sorry, I couldn't hear over all the "Pathetic"
Molt will rage about anything so using his clip means almost nothing😂
Exactly he complaints too much like a kid
Fax bro lol 😂
Yup. Screw m0lt.
@@ankurghosh2387 he even sounds like a kid
Some people get mad during games yall been on a mw2 lobby?
As a veteran 2.9 player, never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
@人へんたい you act like having a game state where you are required to run 2 X-bow counters is good
Also, spoken like a true x-bow player
@@keepawayfromwindows2181 So you only use 1 card to ever counter anything? Damn, impressive 😁👍
Almost all decks that are actually well rounded and good have a way of dealing with X-Bow and can put up enough pressure to make it hard to get a lock
@@grotn_ I’m saying it makes lots of decks useless against x-bow and it should be reworked in some way
@@keepawayfromwindows2181 All good decks have to have at least 2 cards to counter meta decks. Not a single meta deck right now is running XBow counters like that, but there's definitely a lot of Gob Drill and E Giant counters.
The only reason XBow is even played anymore is because Tesla is just OP.
@@kamikaze8365 Tesla got a nerf now
x-bow just force you to have skill, if you can't play against a x-bow you don't have skill, if you don't know how to play with x-bow and just put an x-bow right on the bridge in start of the match, you will lose the game instantly.
Sadly most people who watch this are over leveled midladder players who spam ebarbs at the bridge. They can't understand that some decks need actual skills.
I’ve only ever lost to xbow in ot because they cycle spells and spam teslas, i play skelly barrel, zap, miner so there’s no hop when they can cycle rocket or fireball
@@cheeseandmilk many skelly barrel players use rocket aswell
@@___________482 ok, I don’t, if i swapped something out in my deck id kill the synergy
@@cheeseandmilk skelly barrel zap and miners aren’t good responses to xbow so it’s obvious why ur losing, miner can keep you in the game with chip but that’s it
B-rad saying yikes is hilarious because its probably the calmest hes reacted to x-bow
Wait you used this deck just to make OJ cry 😂😂 OJ tilted so hard with this deck in his livestream..Toxic ;)
RIP OJ
@@KFCCLASH Do you know Clash With Kevo?
I missed the stream, rip
Do you have a clip or something by chance?
In the current meta, there are so many counters to X-Bow. Especially in mid-ladder where mfs run Mega Knight, Elite Barbs, Giant Skeleton, Royal Giant, etc. X-Bow isn't as reliable as it was before.
The giant skeleton buff + seasonal boost is definitely hurting xbow, I don’t think it’s gonna be viable especially for this season
Stop abusing
Xbow is the hardest deck to master according to pros (cf CWA channel). Decks which requires skills should be powerfull as a reward to master them. Xbow is also one of the only deck that you can play as underleveled player. On ladder, I can assure you that playing Xbow is not that easy, since they all use decks with 3 or 4 tanks (megaknight, knight, valkery and so). Only one mistake and you lost the game. But I still have fun compared to the brainless deck that you can find on ladder...
xbow is one of the only f2p options for clash royale, together with log bait and 2.6, both not very viable atm, especially in low-mid ladder. You can easily beat MK PEKKA sparky kinda stuff with xbow, but if they have triple spell, it becomes nearly impossible for logbait, and if they have alot of air cards, its much harder for 2.6 hog. You can have bad matchups with xbow, like rg, rocket, golem, or ideally all three combined, which sounds very unlikely, but in mid ladder some players dont know good synergies, so they play whatever they have leveled up. I don't think this makes much sense. If there are any other f2p, which there probably are, let me know in replies. bye
I play log bait and have stopped playing ladder just to prevent me from smashing my phone or shouting. 😶
@@peedjar2231 a lot of mid ladder players combine cards like golem or giant rage and then a few high damage support cards, all maxed ofc, and my level 11 cards don’t actually have enough power or hp to kill them before it does 2000 damage minimum, even with things like fishermen, cannon, and musketeer/hunter to dps as quick as I can
The reason you lose in mid ladder is because you don’t play defensive enough you have to play really defensive in bait. Think of it like a goblin barrel control. That’s how I pushed to 5600 with level 10
And x bow is not free to play. It has 2 common cards 2 rares free to play is usually mainly or all commons and rares like Mortor bait.
Mortars free to play too I nearly maxed it before quitting
Xbow: exists
Supercell: allow us to introduce to u, another beatdown meta
(Btw pls talk about why barb hut graveyard had been 10x more annoying than xbow since the rework)
Edit: xbow is already in losing matchups against the meta... and now this nerf happened ;-;
Barb hut is probably the most op and annoying card in the game. Barb hut graveyard with a couple tanks matched with an xbow deck is like a free win if both players have similar skill. Thank god they nerf it too, not just the xbow.
@@VarisTheHacker what about the extremly big number of cards that can counter it aka mega knight, P.E.K.K.A, giant skeleton, electro gaint, rocket, fireball, earthquake, electro dragon, Bayby dragon, Bowler, wizard, witch, night witch, motar, executioner, valkyrie, royal recruits and poison? I probably missed some too
@@eh2587 I'm saying it with the perspective of an xbow player. Also rocket doesn't counter it. You basically get 4 barbs with the cost of 1 elixir lol. But let's not argue here, I play xbow and I hate those royal hogs royal recruits barb hut flying machine decks that's it.
When the golem first play guy lose against xbow:
Bruh just use EQ to counter xbow its just a building
ohh wait
Lmao 😂😅😂
Double eq + snow ball would kill it😂but at wut cost
@@dbzfan5229 your tower gone before u get your second eq down unfortunately
@@razerty_ use mirror bro😂
@@dbzfan5229 NEGATIVE ELIXIR TRADE
Also, X-bow's health and life timer are so much that even its specific counters don't perfectly counter it. Even if you rocket an X-bow the instant it's played it will survive and keep shooting at your tower for a couple of seconds, dealing massive damage. Meaning that you still have to use multiple cards to counter it, even though rocket already is an even elixir trade. It's basically the only win condition without a hard counter.
As an x-bow player, I disagree with you. When you are against an opponent who have an e-giant, mk, pekka or even royal giant. You don't have any chance if the guy know how to play. I have 8k trophies for now and the royal giant evolution is my worst nightmare.
@@misterburp_5627 Still, those are mostly more expensive than the x-bow and also you have to build your deck around them. And they still aren't necessarily a hard counter for xbow as they can be killed.
The unsolved mystery of the xbow
extremely well said. you're a real one kfc 😤😤
You here🙃
I mean I use a mortar so it's always very personal when I fight someone using an xbow
I usually win by handicapping their xbow by playing mortar every 3 seconds then attacking with my other cards, bridgespamming all my cards, or I just bait their xbow out, destroy it, and chip away at their tower with the mortar. I use the Giant Skeleton with is perfect when used with the mortar, and it's also a good xbow counter. Because the mortar has so much HP, it can both tank an xbow while ensuring any troops that managed to kill the giant skeleton gets hit by his bomb.
unless of course, they rocket cycle me. My mortar can not compete with that, and it's a hard counter to mortar decks in general.
Thank you, United States
I play mortar and giant Skeleton too
Again nowdays too, everyone uses it and its soo hard to beat,
They use like: princess, knight, 3 skeletons, x-bow, ice spirit, tesla, and they spam and there is NOTHING you can do abt it
Enemy:plays x bow
Me a rocket player: good game
Me, xbow 3.0 player: Baiting your rocket, cycling to another xbow.
**Spam laughing goblin at the end of match** because you BMed me, lol.
@@albertpaints all fun and games until he is playing spell cycle
Me: started to upgrade x bow deck from level 9 to level 13 to make B rad rage
Clash Royale: lemme just nerf it after ur almost done
Me: I quit.
When is it getting nerfed
same i maxed that card yesterday so I can ake brad bmad
I main 2.9 bit I didn't notice the 'nerf' at all. It's more of a rework.
@@hajidle nah it dies super quick now. Before they needed many tanks or firepower but not one fireball log gives enough for it to die
I recently started playing xbow. My win rate is about 50%. Xbow is hard to play and probably too high skill for me. A good chunk of my wins come from the opposition giving up when they know what I'm playing. Xbow fear overwhelms people the fear is more deadly then the xbox itself
Yeah x bow is so high skill when ever I play x bow it is free cups. I play double barrel bait btw
Yea I play and win prolly 75% or 80% of my matches since I mastered it. If it’s gone then I’m officially leaving the game cuz they already nerfed tf out of rocket
Sincere or you could play a deck that takes skill
I played almost all decks in the game, bridge spam decks are the hardest to use by far... It is so much easier to play on your side of the map.. instead of having to think ahead of time and plan your attack. XBOW players literally put the cards they want on the exact spot they want all the time and win..
@@shashankmuralidharan8710 u say its high skill because u counter it lol
I got big nostalgia when I heard molt say “MY MIND IS STILL BLOWN, THE XBOW DIDNT TARGET THE GIANT SKELETON”
When he said xbows makes the players defeated before the match has even started , I felt it .
It's fun to watch 🍋tree 68 tho 🏆
He left the game
@@kanishk7214 no he didn’t I was just spectating him a couple days ago
@@Gopher3785 if you see his gameplay on best na's channel then it's not lemontree. Best NA has made a lemon tree id because real doesn't play
@@Gopher3785 It is BestNA using a second acount with Lemon's name
original lemontree left, there is Swan as 2nd lemontree, also BestNA the 3rd lemontree
You don't need to counter xbow at the river. Most of the time, you shouldn't. Just distract it long enough for its life to run out and spell if need be.
I mostly do that
Tugg speedman would play mirror zappies in his xbow deck
But still now there is too much counter to x-bow now and not dominant to mid arenas now
Thats because it’s so good that people that used it in mid arenas are in the top 🤣
To clarify this is a joke and is to be taken as such, it’s probably just more boring and repetitive for some players that other cards that get them intrigued. X-bow is pretty much plant at bridge and defend at bridge.
some high ladder players say mid ladder is harder than high ladder
He should make a sequel called "how logbait also ruined clash royale"
Something that has 130 dps, can survive a rocket, and can reach your tower from the other side of the map for 6 elixir.
Supercell: seems fair
Okay, get 12 wins with it in a grand challenge than talk
@@octaviocampos5294 I’m not an Xbox player dude.
@@octaviocampos5294 xbow
@@idkhi8983 You're not for a good reason. Because it's an extremely hard deck to play and it's easier to play golem and whatever else
@@octaviocampos5294 i practice it. It’s just not my style and I just hate it. I’m practicing it and I’m good at it. It’s just not my main deck is what I meant. It’s not that hard to play
Here is when the meta comes in and ruins the day for x bow players. THE electro giant. If anything it brings even more of a feel of hopeless ness if you see IT for VERY similar reasons as x how or say e barbs. It requires expensive tank killers to properly kill it and the pekka and mini pekka are the only to REALLY good cards at doing that, and then, like with x bow, you can just cycle away from those cards. And this counters x bow really good as well as everytime it tries to shoot it when it is close to it. It takes a lot of damage. And the e giant will target buildings. The ONlY giant to not target only buildings is the skeleton giant.
The main problem lies in the fact that it's too powerful when played defensively. No win condition should be that good defensively.
No it's pretty hard to defend with the deck if they have two tanks, two high damage spell cards, mirror, or witch. I play low mid ladder I think, so it's nothing but night golem, royal sparky, and mega knight. If you want to beat an x-bow all you have to do is have Rocket and Royal giant in your deck and you'll win by default. Especially if they set up the x-bow and Tesla at the very start. Just play the RG on the opposite side of the Tesla
these people: xbow is too OP! nothing counters it
the same people: below 6k using 4 tanks and still loosing
The reason people hate xbow is because when you lose you cant even tell what you did wrong when its just because you played your tank a single tile too high once and it died to the twenty teslas two seconds sooner so you lost your entire tower because you made a singular mistake
X-bow is like your crush,
You would love to have it,
But you will throw tantrum if you see other people with it.
Xbow mirror :)
@@LiewLmao xbow mirror match is just starting hand luck
Correct title: I can’t handle Ls against underdog cards.
Doesn't matter what you think about the deck or how you feel when you play against it on battles, just a limmited number of players has the courage to play in the competitive cenario just for beeing very risky and need a good match-up, cuz xbow has lots of couters in the game, expecially on this meta.
as an x bow player , this time when x bow was good is now over for probably a year
EBarbs are op XBOW is one of the weakest and easiest cards to counter now
Bias.
If you use ebarbs then you’re probably more annoying than Xbow.
@@Lyenati I’ve used both and ebarbs are way more annoying ☠️ so yes you right
this sounds like a school assignment
Ok lets adress all the points.
1. Its strong
2. Placed at bridge
3. "Specific expensive response needed to defeat it"
4. Cycling to spam xbows is op
5. Synergy with log and tesla
Lets ignore the 1st point, as that one is very subjective and can be very polarizing, without any factual answer to that point available.
2. It is placed and used to destroy towers from the bridge. So are princess and even magic archer could be counted torwards cards that can destroy towers from the bridge. Princess is a card that will almost certainly deal damage to the tower, if not predicted that is, and is also very cheap. In something like logbait, she will be spammed just like goblin barrels in order to bait out "specific responses" from the opponent. And while speaking about it, logbait is also quite strong against xbow, as it has rocket and can easily defeat the xbow player by using it, or a knight/ inferno tower/ tesla to tank or to attack the xbow directly. You mighr argue that logbait is baiting logs and not a "specific expensive response" but in the end, once the log is out your towers are being swarmed by cheap cards, often times winning the game just off one mistake. JUST like xbow.
3. Now to the 3rd and probably the worst point, which the youtuber funnily enough used as his strongest one. The "specific expensive response" argument and would you look at that! There are a lot of cards requiring the SAME "specific, expensive response". Golem requires a building like tesla or inferno (and of course you could defeat it with any other troups like a witch or a mini pekka, but its exactly like with xbow. Of course you can defend it with a loon or something like valkyrie m-archer, but its just not the most optimal way if you have rocket in your deck!) and if you play against sparky, youll also need a "specific expensive response" called lightning or rocket. And you are totally correct in saying that an e-spirit or a zap will counter it, but guess what, zapping an xbow will make it reset its target! It doesnt kill the xbow, but it also doesnt kill the sparky. Zap is still the most op card vs the legendary, so why not use it vs other cards as well? Now with that out of the way, does it mean that sparky ks overpowered? Coz I mean, it requires a "specific expensive response" and if it gets to the tower it will do 1300 damage in one shot! "But you dont have to beat kt at the bridge" you might say, but you do. If sparky gets onto your side you are practically taking a hit if your opponent is good that is. Heck, it may even cost you a tower if your opponent decides to use e barbs or a hog on the other side! But back to the zap. A zap and a bowler can make a xbow do no damage to the tower for half its lifetime and that only if used to tank, if played well the bowler alone with some support is going to annihilate the xbow and tesla. GG.
4. The xbow is spammed by using cheap cards to cycle. Yes it is, but so is 2.9 hog cycle. Op right? And look at that! A hog is even easier to cycle and also needs a specific response in order to not do damage. If played well you "might feel defenseless and hopeless before the game even beginns!" Cycling cards is simply a way to win. Some people prefer to stack support behind a golem, others like fast decks, or even bridge spam! Thats just how the game is. Cyclingalso requires skill, you cant just spam 1 elixir cards and expect to win, the opponent will have their own attacks as well! Xbow just like 2.9 hog cycle are seen as the top skill decks for a reason, so deal with it.
Being outskilled doesnt mean their cards are op, they are just better.
5. The last one I can definitely see. "The xbow has synergy with log and tesla." Log sure is useful and I agree that it synergizes well with the deck, but thr real fiend here is the tesla. Op card, no doubt. Hides when not in use, shreds tanks and swarm troops alike. The placement to prevent enemies to target the xbow only makes this worse. While I do not agree that xbow is too strong, I most certainly agree that the tesla is. If there ever is a nerf, I believe that adding 1 elixir to the cost might balance it, or a good nerf to the hp.
And if anyone read this please, tell me about how "the xbow requires a specific expensive response" and no other cards does. Id love to see what others think
Then came the electro giant, the xbow's worst nightmare that barely anyone uses.
Tbh,.as an x-bow player it is a tough match up but it is easier compared to golem and giant. Unless they have tornado+arrows it is somewhat manageable.
@@oliversmith6770 true but supercell did add egiant as an xbow counter but it still lives under the shadow of golem
@@Samguystein I did not know e giant was meant as an x-bow counter. I thought it was just another addition of tanks that could be irritating to x-bow
@@oliversmith6770 Ya the devs did mention egiant as an xbow counter and stuff, almost like how they said the mother witch was a graveyard counter.
Man made a full on video essay on how much he hates xbow. A real one 🙌🏻🙌🏻
B-rad’s worst enemy: the x-bow
Fun fact : Everyone hates playing against xbow but no-one plays it in clash royale leagues
U probably don’t watch CRL then... It’s been used multiple times, maybe less then other decks tho, but still has been used in CRL
@@lightningchamp7939 bruv its used like once a week maybe twice in the west at least, whereas gy and rg are used like every other match.
Guy with xbow: hahaha you're screwd
Me: laughs with earthquake
they then proceed to outcycle your earthquake lmao
Once again B-rad needs to see this
Me an xbow player: the thought of someone suffering because of me just puts a smile on my face
Still didn't see any reason for nerfing it, it's not the xbow card itself that's strong it's the deck as a whole that works together perfectly
"xbow needs a expensive response" goblins can destroy it
It’s never played alone
@@Evanaccardo poison then
@@moustachebird5863 yeah poison so the xbow 2/3 of you tower, and goblins are not a counter lmao
@@moustachebird5863 Xbox cycle is done so you can't poison it every time xbox is played.
When I see the xbow, I go panic mode. I quickly look to see if I have any high health cards ready to play before it starts shooting. Then I look for tower attacking cards. If not, I'm doomed, and gotta try taking out after a bit. In that case, as soon as I see it, I go fu-
Xbow is insanely hard to protect if the opponent just plays a MK at the bridge, and when you point out a high elixir tank is needed to respond to it...that's kinda the point, xbow is 6 elixir and if you catch your opponent at an elixir deficit you deserve the lock as you've outplayed them, the deck is very hard to play and master but if you defend the xbow right and skilfully you deserve the lock, High risk higher reward if you manage to protect you xbow you get a ton of damage or the entire tower but if you fail to defend it, you've just wasted 6 elixir possibly more trying to defend it and there's still a half health royal g going towards your tower and your on 2 elixir, the card needs another rework to get it back into the meta ad its insanely rare to face in top or midladder
It's also really hard to nerf xbow bc it's really easy to overdue it and the card becomes usless
That's what we want
It's one of the most balanced cards
"X-Bow is annoying because it forces out specific responses"
Midladder: *Are you sure about that?*
Xbow simply adds a new style of play, I'd been using it for a good while, just because it fit my style of play. I enjoy the feeling of a strategic plan and predicting and tracking my enemy's options and then forcing them into a situation where I have advantage
That's describing clash royale not xbow
@@yousefmerchak532 exactly lmao
@@nav5738 no I'm not joking that's actually describing clash royale idk what have he been playing like pride spam and thinks all decks are luck that
@@yousefmerchak532 Dude Lumberloon Freeze is also clash royale, not all decks are the same.
@@kamikaze8365 yeah but hw described how clash royale is played yout statement makes no sense
KFC Clash: How xbow ruined clash royale
Mega knight: allow me to introduce myself...
you are noob
Magic Archer With The Power Of Geometry
Great counter for x-bow is e-giant/tornado/zap cycle, you just cycle to egiant to counter xbow and even if a tesla is in play the egiant can counter both, tornado to bring in range troops on the egiant to kill them off, and zap to redirect the xbow on the egiant if youre a second too late
As an xbow player myself i drink my enemies tears when I'm thirsty
This sounds like a educational documentary
There r so many counters to it. There's decks that x bow can't win against.
Your high
really ?? like what ?? x bow is the most punishing to go up against and almost impossible to break through on offense
@@arijitrox123 rg eq cycle is an impossible match up.
@@arijitrox123 r u stupid hog eq is Impossible and most meta decks are hard to play against if you dont play near perfectly. There is a reason why it's the highest skill deck in the game.
@@GOD-jt3il Don't waist your time explaining those things.. X-bow is a boring matchup yeah but, if they speak like that, they are probably at 4500-5000tr..
I mean, if you don't recognize that this meta is really hard for x-bow, i don't get it..
solution: reduce xbow to four elixir, adjust stats to match this lower cost.
and if you have no spell they can defend the entire game and win. you forgot to say that not only is x-bow op on offence, it can also defend good af and then they can double x-bow you if you do not defend the first one
Sooooo, that is what is called cycle deck, not golem first play and clone afterwards
Well now x-bow is fine so there is really nothing to argue about lol. I agree that golem clone/golem first play is noskill.
Nice vid. All that was missing was your suggested solution/rework for Xbow decks. I think a 5-elixir rework to tesla or a rework to xbow with decreased health (so rocket + 1 elixir counters)
Tesla is just fine cuz it doesn't does a like a whole ton of damage like a inferno tower but xbow needs a serious nerf cuz all they do is defend their ass of and the xbow will connect with it's long health if you don't have a big spell
@@leechin1306 says Mk Pekka Ebarbs Egiant Rage Rocket Lightning Mirror player
Everything you said was true lol...also keep up the great work bro❤️
thanks Terrence, i like ur name
@@KFCCLASH lol thanks hehe.
2:25 you can use Valkyrie, cannon, giant, inferno tower, or Tesla all for a positive elitzer trade
Or earthquake
Only an X-Bow player can understand the amount of satisfaction this video gives! 😌
This feels like a murder documentary 😂😂😂
Tag asserts dominance anyways so he's not in the intro 😂
Mother had 2 sons. One was a xbow player and the other one was also gay.
Lol he hates X bow
Only people who like X-bow are X-bow players
@@asdfhuk6798 so true
@@asdfhuk6798 true
@@asdfhuk6798 ONLY PEOPLE THAT LIKES GOLEM IS PEOPLE THAT DOES GOLEM FIRST PLAY AND CLONE AFTERWARD, Im assuming that that you do that probably
@@pikola1 i play splashyard......the deck that gets hard countered by X-bow
problem with this complaint is that if the opponent literally just plays mega-knight or e-giant or golem with something to counter your cheap cards like wizard you'll just die, theirs very little the x-bow player can do. also if you play x-bow and tesla right after each other your opponent will just punish you so freaking hard for spending all your elixir
But when earth quake spell came in it kinda hard counterd it resulting in fall of x bow players
Oh no. You need to respond to a card the opponent plays. It is so good that you don't need to do that with agaist any other deck like a ballon freeze, hog cycle or anything else. truly it is a great thing only the xbow forces you to adapt a specific way of playing aginst it
What do you mean specific response ? Literally any tank or minitank or a big spell maybe paired with log/zap is enough to either stop the x-bow completely or have it do only chip damage. Oh they played a tesla and knight as well. Thats a total of 14 el. Why are you expecting to stop it with anything less than 10 el ? Nobody expects to do that for anything else but as soon as its x-bow suddenly its a problem that you have to spend a lot at the bridge ? The real problem is that x-bow and mortar are the only cards that cannot be hurt by the opponent's crown towers. This reduces the damage the opponent can do to it. Since this does not happen for anything else they usually underestimate how much spending is required to kill it and when it does not die when they think it should have they feel cheated. For mortar it s not a big deal since it only fires once a while and thus the damage is never too much and thus its a lot more forgiving. For x-bow unlike mortar any single mistake can result in losing huge chunks of tower hp. Its a lot more dangerous when it does connect and thus opponents feel a lot more pressured when playing against it. These two factors are what really make the x-bow feel unfair.
minitanks can counter it, but keep in mind 4 elixir, or maybe 5 is more than enough to destroy any minitank, usually with skeletons or skeleton army, if you instead respond with instant spell, it will still deal some damage to your tower, and each time it damages your tower, that pressures you to do something, if the enemy just keeps chipping away, even if you manage to defend, they will win by tiebreaker
I'm here in 2021 and most of the decks mentioned in the beginning-including x-bow cycle are still op
Ppl hate xbow because it’s insanely oppressive and makes you feel very stressed. This also blinds people to the fact that it is probably the highest skill cap win condition in the game, ppl hate it so much that they don’t realize that it is insanely difficult to play. That’s why barely anyone plays it, those who do however, and master it, become borderline godlike
Me as a X-Bow player : what about the egolem golem RG graveyard m e g a k n i g h t infestation?
I'm sorry, you're a x bow player but worry about mega knight ? Bruhh just cycle it, your opponent would not be able to do anything
Also e golem is easily counter with giant skeleton and golem deck, and graveyard is about to go extinct with the new card coming in the next season
Relax, it's getting nerfed in a while:)
they should make it cost 10 elixir but it can shoot rockets
yo wtf I'm intrigued
I think its a skill deck curse u just can counter it with 1/2 of all the cards exsit like rg giant skeleton peka mega night and more x bow
has to many hard conters
thats why xbow cycle decks exist, you defend with a tank, xbow player defends and they get xbow again
@@friendsheeep thats why almost every deck has cycle cards lmfao not that difficult to outcycle and its not like every deck only has one xbow counter
@@jensmarino5954 lol try playing against my opponents, only 1 out of 10 people use cycle cards
@@friendsheeep idk what to say bro what trophies u at💀💀
@@jensmarino5954 im stuck at 5k rn, i dont really push ladder
remember when KFC wanted to main 2.9 to push trophies back in the day?
Finally a new upload
gonna try be more frequent sorry :(
@@KFCCLASH it's ok but i hate countering x bow like tesla and x bow i hate that synergy i would drop my mega knight already
This video actually makes so many incredibly good points.
Xbow isn’t even good anymore and I’m an Xbow cycle player, but this video still makes me feel like Xbow is an abomination lol. Really well done
ok, xbow is too strong, I agree even though I use it. You can win almost every matchup but only if you play perfectly and that's how the game should look like - skill. It doesn't deserve a nerf as long as some really no skill cards get nerfed
Yeah like e-giant right
Correct except there’s no skill
@@TruthAndReconciliation prove it
"because X-bow forces out specific expensive responses due to its high elixer cost and ability and ability to take towers from the other side of the map" - KFC CLASH, 2020
Pov: You can'y defend x-bow 💀☠️
pov: you play x-bow
Jokes on you guys, I try to mimic my clash of clans TH10 base when playing Clash Royale.
man we got lucky he uploaded in 5 days
''you shouldnt be able to put something on your side and shoot the other side''
Princess and mortar... Am i a joke to you?
Spell cycle decks (logbait too, since G barrel is a spell): let us introduce ourselves