1234BEYBLADE 100K (this is epic) - 8/31/19
Toronto, ON, Canada - Burst Format
1st: Justin TC
Lord Spriggan 0 Cross Xtend Plus
Balkesh B3 00 Wall Bearing
Judgment Joker Blitz Xtreme Dash Zan (Deck Format Finals Only)
2nd: henwooja1
LC Archer Hercules 0 Cross Xtend Plus
Zwei Longinus 10 Bump Orbit Metal Zan
Balkesh B3 00 Wall Bearing
3rd: OldSchool™
LC Archer Hercules 0 Cross Xtend Plus
LC Archer Hercules 00 Xtend Plus
4th: HopieNinja
It's a Lord Spriggan, Balkesh B3, Judgment, Zwei, Archer Hercules kind of world out there right now ... lol. This trend continued into
BEY OR DIE II this past weekend as well which I will post later.
LS Xt+ seems to have taken away some of the popularity from aH Xt+ in Toronto since this event happened, but it's interesting to me seeing how aH doesn't seem to have seen much or any use at all in other regions in the same way that it has here in Toronto. I wonder why that is. Perfect Phoenix seems more common in the US, despite my feeling that aH performs better against Zwei than pP.
I also feel that the meta in Toronto has steered away from attack over the past month or two. When Zwei and Judgment were introduced they were just obliterating everything even in the first stage, but now it feels like players have become more careful of their usage of them to a certain degree. It's still very much present in the final stage, but not so much in the first stage.
In thinking about how the metagame has evolved over the past year, it's interesting for me because as I begin to look at things now, I have this feeling that attack types have ironically actually become harder to use. I was one of the seemingly few people who was able to find consistent success with Xtreme Dash based Attack types pre-Judgment and Zwei. Part of the reason for that was because in a metagame where everyone was using stamina, using attack–and using it well–was a way to separate yourself from the pack competitively.
Now, with the more natural power of Judgment and Zwei even on setups that aren't hyper aggressive, it was harder to maintain that same advantage when they were first released. There was little point in competing in mirror matches between hyper aggressive attack types.
With the shift back to more traditional stamina types in Toronto however, we are back at a point where it seems attack is what you can use to separate yourself. Justin TC has proven this many times lately.
However, the introduction of Lord Spriggan has made things tricky. Judgment and Zwei can certainly deal with it, but there also seems to be many cases where they suffer intense recoil and self-KO in matches against things like LS Xt+ (where LS Xt+ gets the wall-save). So, despite their power they don't always feel "safe" to me in that sort of matchup. It's not like Judgment X' versus Balkesh B3 Br, or last year how I felt with nL vs. hS or 超V vs. aH or pP where as the attack user you don't really have much to worry about beyond shooting well. It's things like this that make me wonder what the best way to use attack types is right now.
With the increased frequency of events we've been having here in Toronto (and surrounding areas) this summer, I wonder if that has impacted the development of the metagame at all as well; perhaps players have had less time to reflect and test new ideas than they might normally.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing, so I'll continue searching for what feels best to me going into our next event.
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