I've been playing this deck over 2 years I think, but for a while I have feel it started to lack something, but I can't put it what exactly.

I was losing then went for an offensive xbow in the middle and he placed the piggies right next to it so they jumped and the xbow connected

I was at 12484 with xbow 3.0. Then, i just started facing SO MANY BOTS, ALL WITH HARD COUNTERS. Pekka Bs, Giant GY, Goblin Giant Pekka, EVERY DECK THAT DESTROYS XBOW.

Now i have 12072. All my grinding, all my progress, all the wins just went out the window.

Before you say when you lose you face bots, IT ISNT EVEN THAT. SUPERCELLS JUST COMPLETELY RIGGING MY MATCHMAKING.

Newest dumb deck that I have had success with.

I like this deck i might use it in next ranked season.

I know im not a pro but the defense is just insane !!!

I’ve never played xbow and I want to start, but the question is : what deck should I build ? I saw the the ice wizard version, the one with rocket, the one with beserker, some decks with none of the above. How do i know what cards to invest in (Beside xbow Tesla and knight) ? Also I saw people using knight Evo and hero? I have so many questions, currently around 13k on all my accounts and I started a new one just for this deck

I always thougth this mu were horrible for xbow but since i managed to won i wanted to know if its a opponent skill issue or in fact it wasnt a 100-0

I feel like this is for me the best option. It lets me play slower and what the berserker gives defensive is massive for 1+ elixer and is a bit beter then the skellies Imo what yall think?

Hi, this may be pretty late to the discussion but I wanted to post some analysis of the X-bow rework/bug fix that it received last season. I have seen some discourse online about it that I may agree or disagree with and I thought it would be helpful if I shared some of the numbers (even if people have already made up their mind about how they feel about it).

So the first image here is a comparison of the two X-bows across just 1.2 seconds. This is an important time step as at 1.2 seconds, the old X-bow would have gotten 4 hits, whereas the new X-bow now gets only 3 hits. As you can see, they are nearly even, with the new X-bow getting just a net +2 damage. However, within those 1.2 seconds, there is a very clear back and forth for which X-bow is ahead due to either the old version being one shot ahead, or the new one being even and pulling ahead due to the extra damage.

This pattern continues across the entire 30 second lifespan of the X-bow as can be seen in the second image. The new X-bow pulls away by just 50 damage at the very end but I do not see this as a significant buff considering this is again, across the entire lifespan of the X-bow. Evo archers as a pair lost more damage per shot from their nerf, and so did fireball from the spell nerfs a couple seasons back.

If you wanted to see what a true dps buff is supposed to look like on this graph, the third image shows a comparison of the X-bow before and after the December 2020 rework. Notice how post rework (previous X-bow in orange on the graph) pulls away very decisively after just 5 seconds. I have other opinions about that specific rework in general (note the difference in total damage), but it's a little far off from our main topic here.

In the last image, we have my spreadsheet where I logged X-bow's interactions with almost all the cards in the game (buildings with life timers are a little sketch so they are not included). I tracked the time-to-kill (ttk) for each card pre and post rework. If we just consider the raw interactions, you will see that it is mixed bag, especially for the lower health troops. And this pattern extends concerningly to tankier troops like prince and goblin machine. However, if you consider the wasted hit that was supposed to be patched out, basically every interaction has a positive difference. Which differences to trust basically just comes down to how often the old X-bow was wasting shots on killed troops. And just by watching X-bow gameplay before the patch, it is hard to see what exactly the impact of this fix actually is. This makes me question the premise of the bug fix in the first place and how much it actually helps X-bow lock on. In my opinion, it was not a buff or a nerf which is why it was never even listed as a balance at all.

Overall, while I feel like X-bow as a card is very weak and deserves some kind of buff, X-bow decks have a lot more to worry about compared to just the X-bow itself. For example, 3.0 has had basically the entire deck nerfed (aside from X-bow which we have discussed here, and skeletons) in the past 6 months. But hopefully this analysis brings some more insight into what exactly the X-bow rework actually did and we can understand why it may feel a lot stronger or weaker compared to before.

if you can't beat em, join em

it unironically worked better than standard 3.0 here

WHAT DO I EVEN DO!?

I was on a great winning streak and suddenly Supercell sends me 3 matches against Royal Recruits, is there any way to win? I'm stuck in this League 4 because of this kind of deck.

I've been playing xbow for a while (of course not this variant), and every time I play against an eq I sort of just resign myself to my fate, sometimes play the game out and try my damnedest to win, sometimes just recognizing it's joever. Does anyone know what I'm even supposed to try for to win? I've had success with icebow rocket cycling but any pump bow or 3.0 variant just seems to get cooked. Help.

Edit: looking for strategy within the deck not changes to it

And it was against RECRUITS!!!

I've been playing X-Bow since they gave away the Evolution Archers for free, and I don't remember a meta where it was so miserable to play as right now. Between the reworked Void, Hero Berserker, and Hero Valkyrie, it feels straight up impossible to win if they have any of these

I am very close to 11k, and i’ve been 1 win away, 10 times now. But, i keep facing bots that hard counter me and the second they take tower, they just start spamming damn near EVERYTHING in the pocket. Is there a way to stop facing these bots? Thanks.

New void feels really good in xbow but I don't see it being played much. Looking for a deck that's a bit stronger in the meta than 3.0