Meta History (help me older players)
I've been here for over 2.5 years. When I started, Wedge was the monthly login. I think Droids with Engineer were the top arena team, but my arena was young so it was mostly Phasma and Luminara lead generic teams using the same mainstream characters who lacked real synergy but dealt damage.
Then Wiggs became the meta (for us anyways), and then Palpatine came along. Because Empire/Sith were so bad, lots of us just ran him with our Wiggs team, although a few big fish had a full solid Empire team to use which crushed it.
CLS dropped, I got him, he tore it up, then I quit for a few months and came back to see this JTR chick all over top 50.
zEP rework came out, and that was probably the most diverse meta I remember. zEP dominant, with a strong presence of JTR and CLS and NS because they could all beat each other and let's just say zEP vs zEP mirror match was... A Nightmare.
zBastila had to come along and eliminate zEP and CLS, and brought down JTR a fair bit too.
Traya came and slapped Bastila. Almost nothing except super specific counter teams could beat her. That was imo the most broken and uniform meta. The game changers can say what they want, Chewie did not really do much for CLS players against Traya. Still almost impossible to win and defense was laughable.
Then C-3PO came out. Instantly I could walk on Traya (and just unlocked her myself). This was better, as both teams could win pretty well on offense.
Revan drops. He blocked CLS, who still got along by climbing over the Trayas. Traya was still the majority, but Revan was supreme.
Since Revan's return he absolutely dominates arena. Strong Trayas can beat him, zFinn can although he's about to get nerfed, and a few other 3PO variants are able to with considerable difficulty. NS in the same boat there. So while this is a very uniform meta, I think the Traya one was longer and worse because there were even fewer effective counters to it.
I don't know for sure what's coming next, and I don't know what was around before I started. Who here can trace the meta back to its earliest days?
Then Wiggs became the meta (for us anyways), and then Palpatine came along. Because Empire/Sith were so bad, lots of us just ran him with our Wiggs team, although a few big fish had a full solid Empire team to use which crushed it.
CLS dropped, I got him, he tore it up, then I quit for a few months and came back to see this JTR chick all over top 50.
zEP rework came out, and that was probably the most diverse meta I remember. zEP dominant, with a strong presence of JTR and CLS and NS because they could all beat each other and let's just say zEP vs zEP mirror match was... A Nightmare.
zBastila had to come along and eliminate zEP and CLS, and brought down JTR a fair bit too.
Traya came and slapped Bastila. Almost nothing except super specific counter teams could beat her. That was imo the most broken and uniform meta. The game changers can say what they want, Chewie did not really do much for CLS players against Traya. Still almost impossible to win and defense was laughable.
Then C-3PO came out. Instantly I could walk on Traya (and just unlocked her myself). This was better, as both teams could win pretty well on offense.
Revan drops. He blocked CLS, who still got along by climbing over the Trayas. Traya was still the majority, but Revan was supreme.
Since Revan's return he absolutely dominates arena. Strong Trayas can beat him, zFinn can although he's about to get nerfed, and a few other 3PO variants are able to with considerable difficulty. NS in the same boat there. So while this is a very uniform meta, I think the Traya one was longer and worse because there were even fewer effective counters to it.
I don't know for sure what's coming next, and I don't know what was around before I started. Who here can trace the meta back to its earliest days?
