#Meta definition esports Patch

Moreover, King of Beggars got more provisions, but is still powerful. It means that the meta should lean more towards engine play.

#Meta definition esports Patch

(just a reminder – strategy is optimal when there is no deck doing the same but better in a faction)įor example in Patch 10.1 the most impactful change has been Milva:Sharpshooter nerf.

What is the type of the most powerful cards now? (pointslam/engine/control).

Did some of the old optimal stategies got overriden?.

Last season meta and best performing decks are most often accessible. Still, there could exist a better set of ladder decks, but the invention barrier is too high for the community to overcome the hill.Īt the start of the season usually balance patch and/or new cards are released. Towards the end of the season, we reside in one of the deepest valleys ( final meta). One day though a new deck or concept may overcome the hill, and we land in a new valley, new meta.

Small deviations from the Meta valley lead only to worse %wr (that’s why meta stales for a period of time). Each time the jump takes place across a ‘hill’ (the middle of the picture). Meta could jump from one deck set to another during the season (especially early on).

Let’s now concentrate more on the depicted situation. Meta is then a set of decks which is perceived as having best winrate against optimal strategies. Meta is always defined against a set of optimal strategies.īy optimal strategies in Gwent we mean decks clearly superior to other ones relying on the same gameplan in the same faction. Meta is a very successful (on average) strategy applied by most competitive players in a given game.