History of Clash Royale's Most Polarizing Card

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Published 2023-07-02
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Clash Royale has added many controversial cards over the year, and Xbow is one of many. You either really love it or really hate it. Xbow is a very controversial siege win condition that was very hated even when balanced. Although considered high skill by many, is undoubtedly very unfun and unhealthy for the game. This is the history of this card and why it remains to be in a statistically underpowered position today.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Sponsor
01:57 2016
09:12 2017
12:41 Tesla Gets Buffed
14:35 2018
15:12 Draw Rate
18:20 The Downfall of Xbow
21:56 2019
24:56 2020
27:47 The Xbow's Final Change
29:15 Final Thoughts

Music List:
Fungal Wastes - Hollow Knight
Ruin Tower (Dead Sea) - Chrono Cross
Dreiton - C418
Forest - The Last Guardian
Auric Wilds - Guild Wars 2
Aria Math - C418
Infinite Amethyst - Lena Raine

All Comments (21)
  • @Coraledge
    I think we can all agree the xbow is a card
  • @ofirnadel
    You forgot to mention the era when ice golem made troops and buildings immune to spell damage, indirectly buffing xbow
  • @Jozhin_s_Bazhin
    The part of Xbow that takes skill is when you have to make it connect trough 4 minitanks in mid-ladder.
  • @UserMatt21
    I bet they're gonna make evolved x bow that shoots inferno tower beam considering the mortar evolution
  • @KogasaTatara514
    The 2016 April Fool's update also introduced a mortar that fired level 15 goblin barrels at max level.
  • @thehr99
    5:56 I like how an April Fools joke for the Mortar ends up being a reality 7 years later.
  • @gems_cr
    30:40 It’s actually not bad for us for xbow to be on the weaker side because then the meta won’t actively try to destroy it. High skill cap deck than can succeed on the down low. Though I wouldn’t recommend learning how to play it in this day & age as it’ll take months or even years to master every matchup.
  • @MisterySB
    One thing I thought you could've mentioned was the broken pump + mirror + archer queen mini pekka deck that was dominating the meta for a little while when aq and mirror were overpowered
  • @JereMania0
    Hog 2.6: defensive deck that exists X-Bow 2.9: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
  • @nightwitchsimp
    the biggest nerf X-Bow has ever received was Tie Breaker being added
  • @eclipse9727
    As someone who's been around the game for a long enough period (Currently not active in it anymore), I wonder if you'll do a video on Sparky. It's been a card that has been so... under the radar for as long as I remember it. I even remember giving it a rework idea to make it much more flexible that people liked. But... nowadays, Idk it's fate, or if it's been touched at all, so I'm curious to see how it went.
  • Can't lie, I took like a 4 year break from Clash Royale and I was so lost coming back to it a couple months ago. Watching these videos are both educational and entertaining to listen to while working, keep up the badass content Gratz!
  • @RustedMC
    Tip: never play hog rider to counter xbow when the timer on the xbow is 3/4 clocked in. If you do the hog rider will jump the river and for the fraction of a second the hog is in the air the xbow will lock on to the tower
  • @mythic_Tisiphone
    I play X-Bow and I can confidently say that only mid ladder players hate on in since it’s impossible for them to break through with their fatherless Electro Giant pushes. X-Bow is imo one of the most difficult to play cards, just look at Eragon. Edit: What I meant was not that to win with X-Bow requires a lot of skill, especially in midladder, but that X-Bow has a much higher skill cap than most other decks, allowing good players to push to the top of ladder with it (like Eragon). Though its dead now anyway.
  • @sk_555
    Xbow deserves a buff 🥹 I appreciate you making a long and comprehensive video on this! My personal opinion is that Xbow is inherently a very weak card in its current state, so the archetype has success due to either the merits of broken support cards in the meta itself, or simply the best players and their skill level. I would love to see my favorite card get a buff one day, but I don't foresee it happening anytime soon, solely due to how much hate the archetype gets from the community.
  • @ImKnivey
    I'm happy seeing a channel grow like this, you're really underrated Edit: Y'all 🤓in the replies better be checking back the definition of underrated, you're not the hero you think you are.
  • @Michelletto0
    These videos are so relaxing, I stopped playing this game but coming to see what's new and see the history is great. The Minecraft music and everything else you put also hits different at the end of the videos, It gives these videos such a great send-off. Thank you for making all of your videos man and I hope you only grow from here
  • @RandooGaming
    I love it when the content creator puts the sponsor on its own segment, it makes it very easy to skip