The goblin giant log interaction always pisses me off. There’s not a SINGLE other card who drops ground troops invincible when a log kills it. It’s so annoying how awkward it makes defenses sometimes.
@@hunter_crive been following you for a bit and ima regular cr player who enjoys playing various decks but i seriously CANNOT STAND this meta. How does anyone whos probably garbage at the game reach top 100 by either spamming recruits and other cards at tue bridge or by spamming evo pekkas at the back and then throwing their entire elixir bar. Or even by spamming cannon carts and mortars at the bridge and defending with nothing. I know i might have given you the yapper special but im seriously pissed
Yeah but midladder is cancer for xbow players. Not because it's not winnable but they have all tanks and mini tanks so goodluck getting a lock, especially after double elixir and then when I start to rocket cycle they start bming like it's my fault I can't get a lock.
Hunter has to be the realest CR youtuber fr, you don't see others showing how bad the meta situation is rn, they just be like 100% positive all the time, they mostly reflect the game's community opinion abt the game so the devs be watching them and be like "yeah everything is fine let's buff recruits"
hunter is anything but a pro player man😭😭😭 He’s got 0$ in earnings in official tourneys and never really got close to winning an important one. He’s a great player and one of the best with x-bow, but competitive play is soooo different from ladder, he lacks a lot in deck picking abilities and his deck pull is very small, playing pretty much only x bow or maybe cycle but not at a top level. I know this is because he is more focused in having fun than pro play, but I don’t think he calls himself a pro player either.
Thats literally a pro player, using an out dated garbage deck and still winning. Obviously he hasnt gone to any tournaments, and he doesnt even have a creator code, also hes at the top of ladder too. What the hell are you yapping about 😭
@@whyjustwhy1911 what does having a creator code have to do with being a pro player, and also how can you say that he can be a pro if he doesn’t play tournaments? lmao what are you up to, the literal definition of pro is making a living out of the winnings of tournaments. Ladder has nothing to do with being a pro player either are you sober?
Dw huntie I hate ladder too 😭 I am TIRED of bait and goblin giant it's making me not want to play the game Also I'm sorry you're not having a good day... I hope it gets better man!
I quite like this meta, at least there's some versatility in the decks and you can use the meta decks in multiple different strategic ways , splashyard, logbait, pekka, mk bait, lava hound quite interesting meta jn my opinion although it gets annoying with stein every single match
The worst meta in my opinion is giant bowler or bowler egiant metas + evo bomber meta, very oppressive the ones using the meta decks could get away blocking one entire lane with the bowler and would not be punished for it, the way to win was either they commit a mistake or slow chip damage and perfect defense so gay gameplay for the oponent as I had to be a lot more skilled than the opponent to win
Also dagger duchess meta combined with bowler and evo bomber worst meta , dagger duccess was even more oppressive as bowler if you didn't have the specific deck you were at massive disadvantage
I think this is the highest skill video I've seen of you, the way you pull these wins out last second is insane 😭 i woulda rage quit like 10 times before that point lol
@@hunter_cr you're doing really good😭 Ian and Ryley are like a hair away from acc catching her but they fail almost every time, they stopped even trying from what Ive seen 😔
You know a deck is broken when whatever the meta is always gets mentioned by it. For example "stein/recruits... and logbait" or "pekka bridge spam... and logbait"
as a logbait player (sorry for it), i can say that we getting chopped by recruits and pekka every single match, i dont know how the matchmaking works but i dont think it should make you face pekka and recruit EVERY MATCH NO FAIL, im tired of this game honestly... maybe im just bad at the game and logbait hardcounter recruits but is impossible to me to defend that whole brainrot spam i swear this game is dead... losing and getting bm by a guy who plays a chef dack or recruits made me go insane
i hate how this was my mindset a couple YEARS ago and now im so far behind in levels (i refuse to pay this company more than what ive spent when i was a mindless kid that was their TARGET demographic) so now i cant rlly play the game like how i rlly wish i could cuz im so far behind theres no point
I love xbow so much and used to play it so often, but unfortunately, the balancing team has stated they want xbow to be bad and wont touch it, because its "too toxic" (pekka stein cycle isnt toxic tho)
One thing that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough is that when you kill the scientist before the monster, it puts the Goblinstein back in rotation, meaning while they're happily cycling back to another Goblinstein, you've still got to deal with the tanky monster, only to deal with another one seconds later. It's a joke. It shouldn't be added back in rotation until both scientist and monster are dead.
Yo Hunter, I was an X-Bow main before I stopped playing and your XB videos are the closest I get to seeing fun, nostalgic gameplay. Considering how toxic the meta is, I completely understand if you no longer want to play XB. Game 1 was crazy!!!
The ability definitely needs a nerf, but also, there's just way too much HP on the field, especially for only 5 elixir. It has way too much utility - a tank, stun, aoe, unlimited range on the ability, a troop that requires at least 6 elixir (lightning, fireball log) to kill if you don't want to deal with the ability, but then you've got to deal with the tank; but then, you also get punished if you kill the scientist first since they're now able to cycle back to another Goblinstein even quicker. It's just brain-dead.
16:30 i 'd like to see xbow last a bit less to add some dps. But since aint no way xbow gets a buff/rework. This ideas for an evo would be cool : 1. make it shoot through troops like a magic archer 2. make it shoot faster the less hp it has. That last idea would be hilarious
how is the only way you can get a lock, luck (with a nado combo) Also happy new year bro, imma stop watching ur videos for a good bit, I need to lock in haha Wish you the best, thanks for being basically the only cr TH-camr I watch now (other than B-rad)
what do you think about Supercell thinking they know whats good for their CR playerbase and applying the most toxic meta possible to the game? aas you can see i hate these brainless cards and rather have them removed, but whats your opinion?
The amount of logbait and mindless hog at bridge is completely frustrating. If I had $100M I would use at least $10M to make a competitor to clash that's 10x better for everyone
i feel you hunter, i been a ride or die xbow player forever and this past month has just worn be down so much. I stuck around during EQ meta, E giant mirror etc but this past month of none stop evo pekka goblinstein ram rider type decks just made me uninstall. Im going to keep it uninstalled until they buff xbow so i might not come back. it really sucks that the developers dont care about us.
Bruv I've never saw a hunter video (not live stream) where he's so low on morale and not enthusiastic as before. He sounded like a sick Eragon. Cr is on a new low with the meta and hunter is totally fed up with it
Hunter is walking straight thru fire to get an even higher ladder finish in the future when the balance changes come. Try evo hunter for ice wiz when it comes out :)
as an Icebow player with non maxed cards outside of the top 1k I confirmed I deleted the game after I came back from a 2 year quit and the first 100 matches were only logbait, evopekka, recruits, royal giant and 4.8 midladder cycle
I loved playing xbow for years but quit right before the evo pekka/evo megaknight releases. It was getting really hard to get locks. I switched to mortarbait (not with stein, but just bomber) and have way much more fun. Had to remove my bomber out now because of the nerfs and switch out for bats, but even then it's just been rough. Now everyone is playing stein/skellyking mortarbait/logbait/beatdown. Feels bad man.
I can see pretty much your getting unmotivated playing Xbow, mainly because it's just Pekka Goblinstein Giant Goblin, Logbait and Queen Hog Cycle, just hope that everything will change in the meta
The goblin giant log interaction always pisses me off. There’s not a SINGLE other card who drops ground troops invincible when a log kills it. It’s so annoying how awkward it makes defenses sometimes.
Literally so dumb
@@hunter_crive been following you for a bit and ima regular cr player who enjoys playing various decks but i seriously CANNOT STAND this meta. How does anyone whos probably garbage at the game reach top 100 by either spamming recruits and other cards at tue bridge or by spamming evo pekkas at the back and then throwing their entire elixir bar. Or even by spamming cannon carts and mortars at the bridge and defending with nothing. I know i might have given you the yapper special but im seriously pissed
sus bush does that
@@Theroyalmaster-h8jpreach.
bush does that too but I think they intentionally made it like that to try and make it broken for p2w
Starting to appreciate the variety of midladder more after seeing this meta
How are we at this point...
Yeah but midladder is cancer for xbow players. Not because it's not winnable but they have all tanks and mini tanks so goodluck getting a lock, especially after double elixir and then when I start to rocket cycle they start bming like it's my fault I can't get a lock.
@@ML-jm2qj only way to win xbow in midladder is to surprise in the very beginning, cuz I can beat Xbow players with just my tesla
@@bagteaxbow in mid ladder is just so boring there’s a 99% chance ur just gonna turtle up n spell cycle lol
@James60kg I'm at 7.5 and I get locks all the time they have lots of tanks but slow reaction time
We started 2025 off with a video that feels like a 2022 Hunter video with some 2024 vernacular thrown in.
8:33 This is why I keep watching. Best play I've seen this year ^ - ^
I see what you did there
i also see what you did there
hey i am another person that has seen what you did there
i, too, am a person that has vision
Hunter has to be the realest CR youtuber fr, you don't see others showing how bad the meta situation is rn, they just be like 100% positive all the time, they mostly reflect the game's community opinion abt the game so the devs be watching them and be like "yeah everything is fine let's buff recruits"
8:46 the most genuine "are you kidding me?" I've ever heard😂
The fact they were back to back throws is even sadder, it just shows how much of an pro player hunter is despite these garbage decks rule the game
I hate that the deck is Literaly not thiers and they get top 100 like that for free
I never been even to 100k
Don't even want it 😒😒😒😒
hunter is anything but a pro player man😭😭😭 He’s got 0$ in earnings in official tourneys and never really got close to winning an important one. He’s a great player and one of the best with x-bow, but competitive play is soooo different from ladder, he lacks a lot in deck picking abilities and his deck pull is very small, playing pretty much only x bow or maybe cycle but not at a top level. I know this is because he is more focused in having fun than pro play, but I don’t think he calls himself a pro player either.
Thats literally a pro player, using an out dated garbage deck and still winning. Obviously he hasnt gone to any tournaments, and he doesnt even have a creator code, also hes at the top of ladder too. What the hell are you yapping about 😭
@@whyjustwhy1911 what does having a creator code have to do with being a pro player, and also how can you say that he can be a pro if he doesn’t play tournaments? lmao what are you up to, the literal definition of pro is making a living out of the winnings of tournaments. Ladder has nothing to do with being a pro player either are you sober?
20:47 there is absolutely no way 😭😭😭😭😭😭 you’re the goat W butch clip aswell
How does this man find a way to cheese a xbow lock in every matchup
GOAT
Skills
Because he's the goat and his opponents really have so braindead decks that they don't even know how to use them to their full potencial
🤷♂️
5:00 actually made me laugh really loud after all this frustration and tension 😂
Dw huntie I hate ladder too 😭 I am TIRED of bait and goblin giant it's making me not want to play the game
Also I'm sorry you're not having a good day... I hope it gets better man!
Glazing hard as shit😭
@@nexalis9924 he just said to have a good day lol, you dont do that irl?
@@soaxxmHuntie is insane
@@nexalis9924god forbid someone's shows another human love
@@mikeyjute69 brother its literally normal af lol, like its literally the next most normal thing he could have called him lol.
Sometimes I wish I could meet my opponent face to face to have a kind talk with them
Real
Fr
I NEED this January balance change ASAP dude I can't with this meta
U waiting for the pekka buff and witch buff? Ts does not help me
@@TXC_CARNAGEit's not a buff lol
Can’t wait for evo dart goblin to buff logbait😊
@@slayer1577 ok we can ignore that part
@@TXC_CARNAGE the pekka change is a massive nerf lmao
16:54 - 17:04 the entire experience of playing xbow summarized in 10 seconds
This is genuinely the worst meta in Clash Royale history tbh
I quite like this meta, at least there's some versatility in the decks and you can use the meta decks in multiple different strategic ways , splashyard, logbait, pekka, mk bait, lava hound quite interesting meta jn my opinion although it gets annoying with stein every single match
The worst meta in my opinion is giant bowler or bowler egiant metas + evo bomber meta, very oppressive the ones using the meta decks could get away blocking one entire lane with the bowler and would not be punished for it, the way to win was either they commit a mistake or slow chip damage and perfect defense so gay gameplay for the oponent as I had to be a lot more skilled than the opponent to win
Also dagger duchess meta combined with bowler and evo bomber worst meta , dagger duccess was even more oppressive as bowler if you didn't have the specific deck you were at massive disadvantage
@martinho5474 you just listed like a billion low skill decks that mostly counter xbow on an xbow channel, great job cuh
Remember mirror eq meta 😂😂
Buff Goblinstein I only see it in 80% of decks I wanna see it in 100% 😪
I think this is the highest skill video I've seen of you, the way you pull these wins out last second is insane 😭 i woulda rage quit like 10 times before that point lol
That last win was crazyyyyyyyy
Bro neeeeeds to uninstall after a fumble that bad caught in 4k 😭
8:52 bro almost said "defet" 💀
😂😂😂
You're the only one I've seen consistently being fast enough to catch the princess by reaction
Haha I try
@@hunter_cr you're doing really good😭 Ian and Ryley are like a hair away from acc catching her but they fail almost every time, they stopped even trying from what Ive seen 😔
Supercell is giving Dart Goblin the powers to cause a genocide but giving X-bow a faster deploy time seems too much to them. smh
the silence at 13:52 was warrented
You know a deck is broken when whatever the meta is always gets mentioned by it. For example "stein/recruits... and logbait" or "pekka bridge spam... and logbait"
as a logbait player (sorry for it), i can say that we getting chopped by recruits and pekka every single match, i dont know how the matchmaking works but i dont think it should make you face pekka and recruit EVERY MATCH NO FAIL, im tired of this game honestly... maybe im just bad at the game and logbait hardcounter recruits but is impossible to me to defend that whole brainrot spam i swear this game is dead... losing and getting bm by a guy who plays a chef dack or recruits made me go insane
Xbow is weak but its so controversial to buff it because half of the players which are midladder p2w noobs are gonna quit the game
The amount of braindead people who think they’re good cause they play these simple ass decks has me not playing the game until they’re nerfed
i hate how this was my mindset a couple YEARS ago and now im so far behind in levels (i refuse to pay this company more than what ive spent when i was a mindless kid that was their TARGET demographic) so now i cant rlly play the game like how i rlly wish i could cuz im so far behind theres no point
I love xbow so much and used to play it so often, but unfortunately, the balancing team has stated they want xbow to be bad and wont touch it, because its "too toxic" (pekka stein cycle isnt toxic tho)
Hunter the tornado pull into the rocket at 8:51 ohhh my bro good shit. High level game play!!!
One thing that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough is that when you kill the scientist before the monster, it puts the Goblinstein back in rotation, meaning while they're happily cycling back to another Goblinstein, you've still got to deal with the tanky monster, only to deal with another one seconds later. It's a joke. It shouldn't be added back in rotation until both scientist and monster are dead.
Yeah that’s insane
I think the log phasing thru the goblin giant’s spear goblins is an intended interaction unfortunately…..
Yeah it’s braindead
Yo Hunter, I was an X-Bow main before I stopped playing and your XB videos are the closest I get to seeing fun, nostalgic gameplay. Considering how toxic the meta is, I completely understand if you no longer want to play XB. Game 1 was crazy!!!
I'm really unsatisfied with the G stein nerf! They shoulda nerfed the ability damage
The ability definitely needs a nerf, but also, there's just way too much HP on the field, especially for only 5 elixir. It has way too much utility - a tank, stun, aoe, unlimited range on the ability, a troop that requires at least 6 elixir (lightning, fireball log) to kill if you don't want to deal with the ability, but then you've got to deal with the tank; but then, you also get punished if you kill the scientist first since they're now able to cycle back to another Goblinstein even quicker. It's just brain-dead.
@@MT-dn4tu This card made me hate the game
Crazy impressive tbh that you’re making xbow work AT ALL in this meta
16:30 i 'd like to see xbow last a bit less to add some dps. But since aint no way xbow gets a buff/rework. This ideas for an evo would be cool :
1. make it shoot through troops like a magic archer
2. make it shoot faster the less hp it has.
That last idea would be hilarious
Bro has the calmest rage out of all Clash Royale players
Hunter i feel you man. Pure suffering.
5:40 Lol, it's da log that killed ur ice wiz!
Ohhhh
how this meta came to be is beyond me
8:40 holy hunter you’re the goat
You know you’re in a bad mood when you end up raging, despite winning every game you play
8:34 that was diiiiiiirty! you sly dog ;););)
how is the only way you can get a lock, luck (with a nado combo)
Also happy new year bro, imma stop watching ur videos for a good bit, I need to lock in haha
Wish you the best, thanks for being basically the only cr TH-camr I watch now (other than B-rad)
All good bro
Love u hunter keep pushing 🤙🏻
6:17 I think tornado would've been better here than ice wiz, u can defend it near perfectly with tornado
‚Im boutta crash out‘ in the nerdiest voice ever is so funny
5:45 to be fair it was the log
5:58 W Vocabulary
Love your commentary mannnnnnnnnn
:)
That pre tornado at 8:42 is the greatest play that I have ever seen. OMG
Cannon Cart, Ram Rider, and Diddystein: Yo bro come outside we won't jump you 95% of matches we swear.
15:45 made me weak 😂
Bro is raging on every cards, every archetypes, and every game styles 😂
Did bro not see the log at 5:40 ????
Please more agressive videos as it's so satisfying to see you rage ✊
what do you think about Supercell thinking they know whats good for their CR playerbase and applying the most toxic meta possible to the game? aas you can see i hate these brainless cards and rather have them removed, but whats your opinion?
I mean they don’t care let’s be real
You really deserve the 100k this year bro
8:37 It's barely 2025 and we already have a play of the year.
Literally speechless at the amazing 🤩 play Hunter did wow 8:36
Wow last game was amazing. Great gameplay at high level whole vd good job hunter!
The amount of logbait and mindless hog at bridge is completely frustrating. If I had $100M I would use at least $10M to make a competitor to clash that's 10x better for everyone
Brainrot meta, no skill just spammers
as a logbait player I'm so sorry bro
this is the sound of a man whos broken. pls buff xbow supercell
i feel you hunter, i been a ride or die xbow player forever and this past month has just worn be down so much. I stuck around during EQ meta, E giant mirror etc but this past month of none stop evo pekka goblinstein ram rider type decks just made me uninstall. Im going to keep it uninstalled until they buff xbow so i might not come back. it really sucks that the developers dont care about us.
This is the only rage video I’ve seen where someone wins every game
Stopped playing this game months ago and my mental health has greatly improved 🙏. Take me back to 2022 clash
I just found your channel
Feels much more relatable to watch compared to for example ian or ryley since they never rage at all 😅
How these literal trash players are in top ladder is beyond me. I pray for your sanity Hunter 🙏
they’re literally killing us bro
hunter in some video you should double tap swipe mid video and play subway surfers for the rest of it
Lmfaoooo
Id watch till end
That last game was one of the best comebacks I have ever seen you are INSANE ❤
What gets me is that royal chef upgrades everything except buildings and that's directly a disadvantage to xbow.
that sequence to win the game in game 2 was absolutely insane 😮
THAT LOGBAIT KING MATCH LMFAOOOOO
Insane gameplay bro😮😮😮
Bruv I've never saw a hunter video (not live stream) where he's so low on morale and not enthusiastic as before. He sounded like a sick Eragon.
Cr is on a new low with the meta and hunter is totally fed up with it
That “oh yea” 5 min into the video gave me life😂😂
"DonT BuILD a PuSh" that voice 😭
That guy with pekka gob giant played exactly like a midladder player, every card at the bridge just caz he can
5:40 Hunter did not notice the Log contributing to his Ice Wiz defeat : )
Defet me
that was actually funny and quite relatable ngl
Hunter is walking straight thru fire to get an even higher ladder finish in the future when the balance changes come. Try evo hunter for ice wiz when it comes out :)
12:23 comedic timing of that ice spirit should be studied
Props to your opponents for making the games close while fighting their decaying brain.
6:32 "That made my day" - it did not make his day
Man deserves a bigillion subs for that holy 😭 you’re the goat
as an Icebow player with non maxed cards outside of the top 1k I confirmed I deleted the game after I came back from a 2 year quit and the first 100 matches were only logbait, evopekka, recruits, royal giant and 4.8 midladder cycle
Fun!!
@@hunter_cr so fun that seeing logbait made me so damn happy since I knew other matchups were worse
We really feining for those balance changes man 🙏🙏
dude that was some insane gameplay omg youre amazing like just wow dude youre goated omg
Hunter, you are the best for me, man. What a great video.
I loved playing xbow for years but quit right before the evo pekka/evo megaknight releases. It was getting really hard to get locks. I switched to mortarbait (not with stein, but just bomber) and have way much more fun. Had to remove my bomber out now because of the nerfs and switch out for bats, but even then it's just been rough. Now everyone is playing stein/skellyking mortarbait/logbait/beatdown. Feels bad man.
Nah dawg the knight prediction is crazy 😭
Bro has to predict 40 different things do 20 things right in a sequence and read his opponent like a book to get a singular xbow lock
Happy 1st brother!
6:00 spitting some grade S English 😭
The last game was just 😂
i hope you always succeed hunter
Evo barrel princess at the bridge and inferno tower elixir values creating CR careers for the past months...
I can see pretty much your getting unmotivated playing Xbow, mainly because it's just Pekka Goblinstein Giant Goblin, Logbait and Queen Hog Cycle, just hope that everything will change in the meta
SUP HUNTER HAPPY NEW YEARS
Happy new year!