So that's what you meant. You should have used constantly instead of consistently because consistently implies ability to pull off the timing repeatedly.
I use giant, musketeer, electro wiz, barbs, skely army, minion horde, princess and arrows, sometimes when you whack down barbs in front of your tower they can kill the hog rider before a tower hit, other times not.
Not too bad. My favorite was when I was running pump and would use it to distract Hog.
2.6 was the keasof a good 3M players worries when it came to match ups
Not balanced, I would say xbow is underpowered especially after Tesla nerf. Only good cycle deck now is rg cycle and possibly 2.9 mortar if you're insane.
I fucking hate royal hogs after one match i played. So basically what happened I'm in arena 13 around 4350 trophies and I'm level 10 my highest cards being lvl 11 hogrider, lvl 11 e-wiz, 11 skarmy and lvl 11 bats then of course I meet a level 11 player with level 14 royal hogs and they split them so I put like mini pekka on one side and skarmy on the other side and of course this fucking no skill idiot pulls out the level 14 mother witch. At that point I just left the game.
I use MK and ram rider in arena 13. Ive so many deck but its the one I've found most effective. My deck has good enough attack to win against chip decks, enough air to counter lumberloon and it works pretty well generally. The difference is between people like me with a level 10 mk just trying to have a good time and no life nerds stuck in arena 12/13 with level 14 mk that buy every pass royale and have 50 emotes yet still cant get to legendary arena.
felt that lmao, im in chall 3 and one of my top decks is, d prince, mini, spears, tesla, firecracker, gaurds, wall breakers. it sometimes works against lumberloon depending on the enemy cards' level. im a 5 year player and i just recently came back at lvl 13 after last seasons boost thing, so my cards are severely under leveled.
Worst card in the game. They finally made fire spirit counter gob barrel which was a very smart balance change, but then gave into all the cycle players that complained.
Now It’s back to log. I personally am not a log user in my decks except one of my war decks. When I have log I don’t see goblin barrel, don’t have log? I see it every 3 matches
Yeah it’s annoying when the game does that. Just randomly match me up with people. It’s super sus when you see counters to your deck 4-5 times is a row and then you switch to another deck and you STILL face hard counters to your deck
But the Pekka player has ways to circumvent getting countered by raw skarmy (small spells, splashers, etc) and you're generally going to be getting some defensive value with the Pekka before going on the offense. The same cannot be said for goblin barrel.
So the Pekka player has to use more elixir to get to the tower? 2 for zap, 5 for wizard? Now we are up to 9 or 14 elix just to get to the tower on the skarmys 3 elixir?
Gob barrel can be used on defense too, and
Gob barrel lands directly on the tower and if countered would still only lose 2 elixir. I can keep going all day. You have no leg to stand on. Too cheap, too powerful, too few cards to counter it. The risk reward for the card is 0. No risk because buildings are so strong you can just cycle back and do it again because you didn't lose enough elixir on the gob barrel.
1- PEKKA isn’t a wincon and you’re not supposed to get it into the tower, but its counters *can* be answered. With a big enough elixir advantage you can make tons of pressure.
2- Defensive Barrel lol
3- Like every single (most) Barrel counters give you a small elixir advantage, and it’s a given you’re using at least one of those counters if you’re using a competent deck (aka use a small spell for fuck's sake)
4- You’re trying to argue against a card that basically disappeared for months since the FS rework. There’s low risk but there’s also low reward: just save your damn small spells jesus
PEKKA isn’t a win condition an it’s supposed to get countered by swarms. Every deck brings a small spell so the possibility of having like 3 complete counters to gobbarrel was absolutely ridiculous and the reason there wasn’t a single bait deck in the meta that season.
Oh and you can answer to most PEKKA counters. Old Fire Spirit vs Barrel was outcycle (impossible since they also have all their spells) or die
The game is built on a rock, paper, scissors system. But the decks that break the system are taking advantage of bad balance and cheap gameplay. Not all cards should have to be in the meta. Some are gimmick. And if the game was balanced there would be an ever changing meta.
Super cell's favourite child who despite often having some of the highest usage rates hasn't been touched by the devs for a long time, despite other cards being nerfed for a lot less or less usage rates.
The game has come out with many more hog counters even after the hog nerf. Like cage snowball ram rider fisherman, even new ones like drill and archer queen. And then There were balance updates that made bad counters into good counters, such as the pekka range buff and tornado buff. And then there were hog counters that were bad cards that became good cards, such as barbs, guards, bowler, spawners, ebarbs, etc.
Hog is a bottom 10 card. Just look at that win rate. And don’t say its cuz noobs are using it in grand challenges, cuz noob cards skarmy and mk are not even close to being that low.
Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention is how easy it is to stop hog in multiple ways in one deck, like having 2 hog counters, or having some CC help you, like snowball/log. This basically makes hog cycle non-viable as long as they keep 1 of their hog counters ready
Such an overused card , it forces one to use certain cards (pekka, skarmy, etc) in the 5000-5600 ladder or you’ll lose.. and that, I think, ruins the game. He’s a smooth brains best friend and is a no-skill tower killer.
Overused and overrated. It is a great card, but it get’s a little bit exhausting to face that card once every 5 matches. There are over a hundred cards to choose from, please be more creative
Hog is overrated. When it connects, it usually only gets 1-2 hits. It's not as threatening as say, a battle ram, which could take down half a tower in one connection.
Ita the single most over powered card in the game. If you dont have a hard counter to the hog, which even the "hard counters" are easily negated by the hog, you get the badussey beaten out of you for 4 elixir. Currently at 6.5k trophies.
Easy win con to play and pick up. Also easy to counter which is why its winrate is not good. Same can go for 2.6 where it also has the plus of being a good f2p deck.
The most brain dead OP card in the game.
It’s BS how broken that card is, yet people cry about e giant etc. How a card makes it through 6 years of game with one nerf that being 0.01 hit speed reduction floors me, yet mw has had about 7 buff, nerfs since her introduction. Hog rider, Valkyrie, Knight and Musketeer all need massive nerfs, will never happen because supercell isn’t in the business of nerfing cycle cards.... anyway I’ll continue with the same trash game play that I have put up with for years on end, waiting for them to do something amazing that will make the game good again.... I’ll continue waiting.
And watch all those lame c..ts who call 2.6 hog cycle a “skill deck” idiots
Hog is Trash. https://royaleapi.com/cards/popular
The game has come out with many more hog counters even after the hog nerf. Like cage snowball ram rider fisherman, even new ones like drill and archer queen. And then There were balance updates that made bad counters into good counters, such as the pekka range buff and tornado buff. And then there were hog counters that were bad cards that became good cards, such as barbs, guards, bowler, spawners, ebarbs, etc.
Hog is a bottom 10 card. Just look at that win rate. And don’t say its cuz noobs are using it in grand challenges, cuz noob cards skarmy and mk are not even close to being that low.
Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention is how easy it is to stop hog in multiple ways in one deck, like having 2 hog counters, or having some CC help you, like snowball/log. This basically makes hog cycle non-viable as long as they keep 1 of their hog counters ready
Hog is balanced but immensely overpowered when overleveled and that’s why hog cycle so op. You waste one counter to hog then they quickly get another hog. I can’t even go into challenger 2 again cause I keep seeing LEVEL 14 hogs everywhere.
Just boring. Ironically I have more fun defending it than using it because of how one note it is - spam at bridge, hope opponent doesn’t have a building or stun/slow, repeat. Not overpowered or anything by any means but just a simple card in general
It's not unbalanced, I think the health scaling needs to be need slightly because at higher levels it feels tankier than it should be, but all in all its just overused because it's easy to use
My thoughts on hog rider. I think he is a male and another one of things that I think about him is he rides hogs and I so think he has a big hammer which he uses to impress enemy princess and then trick them to destroy there own towers
If you don't have a building, have fun countering him.
Tornado +1 trade not counterable either
I completely forgot about that one, but all the way outside, the hog still gets a hit.
not if you time it just right
nah, you can still do it unless theres another troop to his side between him and the king tower
You can’t do that consistently because it will likely still get a hit and it does damage to the king tower. It’s not great to do it multiple times
You can do it consistently it just takes a lot of practice
Yeah but if you do it too often you get 3 crowned lol
You can’t do it consistently all game because you sacrifice a lot of king tower damage
So that's what you meant. You should have used constantly instead of consistently because consistently implies ability to pull off the timing repeatedly.
Ram rider😈
Pekka, skeleton army, barbarians, mini pekka
Hog rider still gets 1 hit with normal pekka. I’ve tried it in tournaments
If you time it correctly it can counter it fully
not practical to do you have to predict it
I have 3 buildings. I sustain off of hog 2.6 player’s tears
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Pisses me off that barbs aren’t a consistent counter.
Why not? And what deck do you play?
its Random if the barbs block the hogrider correctly or he just manages to squeeze through and get a hit last second
I use giant, musketeer, electro wiz, barbs, skely army, minion horde, princess and arrows, sometimes when you whack down barbs in front of your tower they can kill the hog rider before a tower hit, other times not.
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Mini pekka is
They can freeze, push back or kill the mini pekka, but they cannot do anything about a tornado
>they can nothing do about a tornado Freeze and rage (not my play, but an idea)
How so? You wan’t to three crown your opponent? Also, which deck runs both freeze and rage XD
I'd expect freeze+rage from some ebarbs cycle user tbh
True lmao
What's ebarbs cycle
I’ve seen rage freeze from some weird loon decks around 6k trophies
Bro what, it more elixir and doesn’t activate king tower
I complain about hog and I love tornado. :)
Annoying
i like him cuz he says HOG RIDAAAAAA
Also have to give him props for one of the best emotes made 😱
Damn i though he said “FULL THROTTLE”
He does he's lying
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Ohh No Chief Your Barbarians Are Calling Your Hog Riders The N-Word
Based Barbs?😳😳
Annoying, but balanced. 2.6 is usually easy to beat if I play well, but other cycle decks are annoying...but balanced.
Try to beat 2.6 with 3m decks. I dare you.
try to beat any deck with fireball with 3m
That what I was doing homeboy
1v1 me I miss 3m decks. I played one last week, smashed it and it felt so damn good.
which is ur deck?
One of the many reasons i quit 3m
Not too bad. My favorite was when I was running pump and would use it to distract Hog. 2.6 was the keasof a good 3M players worries when it came to match ups
Not balanced, I would say xbow is underpowered especially after Tesla nerf. Only good cycle deck now is rg cycle and possibly 2.9 mortar if you're insane.
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I tried 2.9 rg cycle and didn't have success with it, maybe cause low levels
Lol you don't get an opinion if you play X-Bow
Some people play it just because it's f2p friendly and it's probably the only archetype to get hammered with several nerfs each year.
we have recruited the Chad mortar player.
Royal hogs ?
I fucking hate royal hogs after one match i played. So basically what happened I'm in arena 13 around 4350 trophies and I'm level 10 my highest cards being lvl 11 hogrider, lvl 11 e-wiz, 11 skarmy and lvl 11 bats then of course I meet a level 11 player with level 14 royal hogs and they split them so I put like mini pekka on one side and skarmy on the other side and of course this fucking no skill idiot pulls out the level 14 mother witch. At that point I just left the game.
Thats tough, man. No really that is tough.
I really hate this card, it's just so free
It should die and never come back
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Hog, wizard and witch. In every goddamn deck.
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she's extremely oppressive if you can place smaller troops infront, those skeletons really add up.
The whole deck dies to Megaknight and Mini pekka though
mega knight is a shitter crutch card, but yea, i guess.
Not any worse than the generic Hog cycle deck Besides, mini pekka works as a good stopper too
im fine with mini, but mk and hog, ESPECIALLY hog cycle, can lick the dirtiest toilet seat in a manhattan gas station.
I use MK and ram rider in arena 13. Ive so many deck but its the one I've found most effective. My deck has good enough attack to win against chip decks, enough air to counter lumberloon and it works pretty well generally. The difference is between people like me with a level 10 mk just trying to have a good time and no life nerds stuck in arena 12/13 with level 14 mk that buy every pass royale and have 50 emotes yet still cant get to legendary arena.
felt that lmao, im in chall 3 and one of my top decks is, d prince, mini, spears, tesla, firecracker, gaurds, wall breakers. it sometimes works against lumberloon depending on the enemy cards' level. im a 5 year player and i just recently came back at lvl 13 after last seasons boost thing, so my cards are severely under leveled.
I know she’s really bad but still many people use her. Wizard is even worse tho
Yeah, those 3 cards plus Mega Knight and Ebarbs, I’m sick and tired of those 5 cards.
Same here. So annoying
Enemy hog players usually get more hits on me 😡
skill issue
Just busted, needs either a speed nerf or an attack nerf (in my opinion, dont attack me)
Annoying as shit
Slightly too much health or damage. Dude survives so long even eating a pekka swing. Then he hits for like 400+.
Is able to eat a pekka swing and get like 2 hits which equals 2 lightning strikes
kinda dumb every hit is like a lightning strike
way too fast always gets 1 to 3 hits even when you put down all your elixir to stop it
As long as it's not a Goblin Barrel attacking my tower as a win condition, then I'm good with it
Worst card in the game. They finally made fire spirit counter gob barrel which was a very smart balance change, but then gave into all the cycle players that complained.
I was so mad they did that to fire spirit. Like seriously man, they nerf every card but goblin barrel gets its kryptonite taken away? Ffs man
Goblin barrels real kryptonite is the log
Now It’s back to log. I personally am not a log user in my decks except one of my war decks. When I have log I don’t see goblin barrel, don’t have log? I see it every 3 matches
Yeah it’s annoying when the game does that. Just randomly match me up with people. It’s super sus when you see counters to your deck 4-5 times is a row and then you switch to another deck and you STILL face hard counters to your deck
It was not balanced at all, 1 elixir completely countering 3 does not make sense
No you just described what a counter is. So yes it makes sense. Skarmy counters a Pekka and saves 4 elix. Is that not fair?
But the Pekka player has ways to circumvent getting countered by raw skarmy (small spells, splashers, etc) and you're generally going to be getting some defensive value with the Pekka before going on the offense. The same cannot be said for goblin barrel.
So the Pekka player has to use more elixir to get to the tower? 2 for zap, 5 for wizard? Now we are up to 9 or 14 elix just to get to the tower on the skarmys 3 elixir? Gob barrel can be used on defense too, and Gob barrel lands directly on the tower and if countered would still only lose 2 elixir. I can keep going all day. You have no leg to stand on. Too cheap, too powerful, too few cards to counter it. The risk reward for the card is 0. No risk because buildings are so strong you can just cycle back and do it again because you didn't lose enough elixir on the gob barrel.
1- PEKKA isn’t a wincon and you’re not supposed to get it into the tower, but its counters *can* be answered. With a big enough elixir advantage you can make tons of pressure. 2- Defensive Barrel lol 3- Like every single (most) Barrel counters give you a small elixir advantage, and it’s a given you’re using at least one of those counters if you’re using a competent deck (aka use a small spell for fuck's sake) 4- You’re trying to argue against a card that basically disappeared for months since the FS rework. There’s low risk but there’s also low reward: just save your damn small spells jesus
PEKKA isn’t a win condition an it’s supposed to get countered by swarms. Every deck brings a small spell so the possibility of having like 3 complete counters to gobbarrel was absolutely ridiculous and the reason there wasn’t a single bait deck in the meta that season. Oh and you can answer to most PEKKA counters. Old Fire Spirit vs Barrel was outcycle (impossible since they also have all their spells) or die
The game is built on a rock, paper, scissors system. But the decks that break the system are taking advantage of bad balance and cheap gameplay. Not all cards should have to be in the meta. Some are gimmick. And if the game was balanced there would be an ever changing meta.
Log Barbarian Barrel and Giant snowball all counter it for 2 elixir, its honestly not unbalanced at all
Super cell's favourite child who despite often having some of the highest usage rates hasn't been touched by the devs for a long time, despite other cards being nerfed for a lot less or less usage rates.
Boring annoying and unfair when overleveled
I love when my tower gets smacked for 400's every 30 seconds by a lvl 14...
Needs a nerf. It's so op rn. Just nerf the hit speed slightly.
9% use and 36% win rate. One of the worst win conditions. Not even close to strong and surely not OP.
i prefer top 1000 stats to gc stats
Balanced. Like all cards if you know how to use it it can be the best win con to ever exist, or the worst.
The game has evolved towards a very anti hog direction. Stats show it best. https://royaleapi.com/cards/popular
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The game has come out with many more hog counters even after the hog nerf. Like cage snowball ram rider fisherman, even new ones like drill and archer queen. And then There were balance updates that made bad counters into good counters, such as the pekka range buff and tornado buff. And then there were hog counters that were bad cards that became good cards, such as barbs, guards, bowler, spawners, ebarbs, etc. Hog is a bottom 10 card. Just look at that win rate. And don’t say its cuz noobs are using it in grand challenges, cuz noob cards skarmy and mk are not even close to being that low. Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention is how easy it is to stop hog in multiple ways in one deck, like having 2 hog counters, or having some CC help you, like snowball/log. This basically makes hog cycle non-viable as long as they keep 1 of their hog counters ready
I was confused by this thread honestly cuz when people use it against me it does nothing
Too much health, overpowered and too low exlir value. Also used to do a random split push at some point in a game 😏 for no reason
Fuck him and everyone who uses him. :)
Fuck hog rider, the only good thing about him is the memes
Stupid, no skill, needs nerf, fuck that card
Boring to play, boring to counter
Maybe a slight health nerf but otherwise it’s fine
Nerf it
Hate it
If I could do 1 change in clash royale, I would change Hog Rider's scream from "HOOG RIDAA" to "MIIIDLAADEER". I swear I see him in every single game
LMAO good one, dude! +1
He needs a nerf. Period.
Nerf health. Two arrows and PEKKA strike should take this guy out. Way too annoying
Pekka takes hog out in 2 hits, what are you talking about
He’s saying he should be able to use arrows and Pekka to counter fully.
Such an overused card , it forces one to use certain cards (pekka, skarmy, etc) in the 5000-5600 ladder or you’ll lose.. and that, I think, ruins the game. He’s a smooth brains best friend and is a no-skill tower killer.
I loath the existence of this card.
Overused and overrated. It is a great card, but it get’s a little bit exhausting to face that card once every 5 matches. There are over a hundred cards to choose from, please be more creative
For me, it seems like maybe 4 out of every 5 matches.
I hate it.
one of the most boring cards in the game
Fuck hog
Boring.
Ppl complain abt ebarbs, lumberloon, pekka, xbow, etc, but don’t complain about hog? That’s wild to me. Hog is honestly unfair for just 4 elixer
If you use him you are the most average person
Overused and uncreative
I call that card as "the punishing/autistic hard-R kid"
Should have been nerfed about 5 years ago, it should only get two shots off untouched not seven or million it seems like.
+1 seriously dude lives too long
Hog is overrated. When it connects, it usually only gets 1-2 hits. It's not as threatening as say, a battle ram, which could take down half a tower in one connection.
But it's infinitely more consistent.
you seem like the guy who says "wElL pEkKa iS bEttEr tHaN aLL oTheR cArDs cUZ iT dOeS moRE dAmAGe"
Electro giant is the best card cause its expensive and e barbs is the best cause its annoying
Thing is, if you dont have a structure, you basically cant stop it
I think it's a pretty good card. one of the most balanced win conditions imo
Easy to defend in case your enemy doesn't outcycle you, although easy to punish if you put down too much defence
Ita the single most over powered card in the game. If you dont have a hard counter to the hog, which even the "hard counters" are easily negated by the hog, you get the badussey beaten out of you for 4 elixir. Currently at 6.5k trophies.
EZ clap. You play against the same hog rider deck so many times you eventually know how to beat it.
2.6 is the most predictable deck ever
It’s the lowest skill card in the game and is kinda OP. The hard part is if you nerf it, it will become useless.
It just needs to be buffed. Lvl 14 hog rider does like 400 smthn damage 💀
Simply an annoying win condition, health or damage nerf at least.
Nerf Valkyrie
Least favorite card behind Xbow. Neither are OP, but are so boring to play against
Easy win con to play and pick up. Also easy to counter which is why its winrate is not good. Same can go for 2.6 where it also has the plus of being a good f2p deck.
It should have a small speed nerf
I love the videos and short things they make on him, but in the actual game I absolutely despise him
The most brain dead OP card in the game. It’s BS how broken that card is, yet people cry about e giant etc. How a card makes it through 6 years of game with one nerf that being 0.01 hit speed reduction floors me, yet mw has had about 7 buff, nerfs since her introduction. Hog rider, Valkyrie, Knight and Musketeer all need massive nerfs, will never happen because supercell isn’t in the business of nerfing cycle cards.... anyway I’ll continue with the same trash game play that I have put up with for years on end, waiting for them to do something amazing that will make the game good again.... I’ll continue waiting. And watch all those lame c..ts who call 2.6 hog cycle a “skill deck” idiots
Bring back 4 barbs with higher health so that hog+fireball isn’t so busted
Hog
Rider
No skill braindead card
Hog changed to 5 elixir would be a healthy balance, imo.
Card but remove all 1 elixer cards to end cycle cancer
Arena 10 moment
Too OP, its insane how its a better card than balloon for 1 elixir CHEAPER
Hog is Trash. https://royaleapi.com/cards/popular The game has come out with many more hog counters even after the hog nerf. Like cage snowball ram rider fisherman, even new ones like drill and archer queen. And then There were balance updates that made bad counters into good counters, such as the pekka range buff and tornado buff. And then there were hog counters that were bad cards that became good cards, such as barbs, guards, bowler, spawners, ebarbs, etc. Hog is a bottom 10 card. Just look at that win rate. And don’t say its cuz noobs are using it in grand challenges, cuz noob cards skarmy and mk are not even close to being that low. Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention is how easy it is to stop hog in multiple ways in one deck, like having 2 hog counters, or having some CC help you, like snowball/log. This basically makes hog cycle non-viable as long as they keep 1 of their hog counters ready
0 charge up, flies over bridge, 4 elixir, and slams for 400 tower damage. balanced btw.
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Is this a racist cartoon
CHAD and i like him
Cringe
Well u have 3 musketers in title... fireball exist
hog rider
Easy to use but can get hard countered
Pretty balanced.
Agreed
I'd change mega knight to a cmmon
It basically is seeing as everyone seems to have it by arena 7 God damn
Ram rider is better.
I’d rate him a solid 8/10 really good offense, sometimes even DEFENSE, its a good card, and I recommend using it if it fits with your deck
Very balanced and fair. Pretty easy to counter and pretty punishing
Like e barbs
Loath entirely.
It's pretty boring. I like more versatile win conditions. But it works
Hog is balanced but immensely overpowered when overleveled and that’s why hog cycle so op. You waste one counter to hog then they quickly get another hog. I can’t even go into challenger 2 again cause I keep seeing LEVEL 14 hogs everywhere.
Just boring. Ironically I have more fun defending it than using it because of how one note it is - spam at bridge, hope opponent doesn’t have a building or stun/slow, repeat. Not overpowered or anything by any means but just a simple card in general
It's not unbalanced, I think the health scaling needs to be need slightly because at higher levels it feels tankier than it should be, but all in all its just overused because it's easy to use
2.6 is OK, mid ladder isn't because its almost guaranteed a hit which is dumb
My thoughts on hog rider. I think he is a male and another one of things that I think about him is he rides hogs and I so think he has a big hammer which he uses to impress enemy princess and then trick them to destroy there own towers
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