At some point, they just started arbitrarily adding cards to random rarities. With A slight exception of legendarys. Even then, night witch Exist.

I still remember when clash royale was released and i invited my friends to download it lol, good old days of simple meta and cards.

The only rarity that matters is legendary. It’s cards that offer unique mechanics for their cost compared to other cards.

Battle healer being a rare kinda makes sense cause the heal spell came out before her, if im not mistaken, so "healing" was not a unique thing only she did. Of course, when heal spell died and we got HSpirit, they COULD have put her rarity up a little, maybe epic, cause healing was more of her thing now, but anyways. Best card, best design. Give us that Shield Maiden from clash mini as a champion or I'll commit depressed suici.

Card strength shouldn’t play into their rarity anyways. It’s actively bad when legendaries are more powerful than commons. Card complexity, though, makes more sense at higher rarities and is the right way to design an incentive. And they have done that with Champions. It’s not as bad as you make it seem in this video

I also remember a time when Seth said in an interview that the Mega Minion should've bin a common card.

Battle healer is a rare and yet have a special ability The only rarity matters now is champions because they have special ability and most of them are good Expect golden knight

Evolutions made the rarity thing even more illogical. Now, even Common cards feel too complex to be on that rarity because of their Evolutions. Rarities are really now a shadow of their former self, with only Champion being the one that is still true to its name.

It don't even feel the same when u get a legendary

I cant lie, i still think legendries feel like their role. they still are the most "special" cards, with epics pretty close behind

If MK launched today he would be a Champion 100% sure lol

2:29 yeah, rocket so complex he missed literally EVERY troop 🤣

Firecracker should be legendary

the way you dissect complex topics is awe-inspiring!

You mentioned that adding more legendaries makes it harder to get the one you want but this is incorrect since the odds of getting a legendaries is directly affected by the amount of legendaries there are in the game which balances out the fact that the one you want is harder to find amongst them.

I think one reason for the rarities that is a bit more in depth is the ease in getting them. Certain cards are good even at a lower level because the do something cool (like which, tornado and skarmy). Other cards are not nearly as good if they are not tournament standard because the interaction get significantly worse if under levels (like ice golem, musketeer and ice spirit). When these cards are under levelled the musketeer dies to fireball, ice spirit does not get to the tower, and ice golem does not kill skarmy when it dies. For this reason I prefer that they are a lower rarity so that these cards can be more easily upgraded.

I think the purpose of rarities now is to control the management of magic items and card levelling. They design the cards so you generally run a mixture of all rarities in a deck so you can level more simultaneously rather than being bottlenecked

Knight is prob most built off melee troop… and skeles:bats, goblins:minions, goblin brawler:mega minion…

rarity is also how easily a card should be leveled especially at the time, if everyone is going around with a max pekka then it would completely change the interactions at the time, so for the pekka i’ll explain it like that. same with the legendaries. the easier card or common can be upgraded to match higher rarities strength

The problem was is that there is only a certain amount of “simple” cards you can add before you start getting too similar cards, so when supercell wanted to add these cool complex and unique cards they had to put them in rarity that’s don’t suit them

you're right, rarity matters from the mechanics of the cards but it also counts how powerful and how much damage it does, and how much health it has, for example the battle healer has a unique mechanic but anyway it does little damage and has little life

I think that a logical way to determine the rarity of a card upon release would be to see how important is leveling up that card, and thus considering how much does it rely on particular abilities (such slow effects, range, duration for spells or buildings or the fact that a troop can respawn) rather than statistics (such as HP and DPS). That's because when leveling up a card one increases its statistics by 10%, and this means that if a card is harder to get (i.e. it is of a higher rarity), it is better for it to rely on things that do not need to be leveled up to be strong or useful. In this sense I can see how legendary cards are usually cards have a peculiar trait, as those traits don't usually increase in value when leveling up, and thus the card is useful even if it's harder to get. In my opinion the rarity of every card should be reconsidered applying this thought, but now it's too late, as people have spent money to get Mega (Thrash) Knight to level 14 (if not even 15) and thus it would be quite a scam for them.

I play games on mobile phone and ps and I can say that gaming has dropped a lot, microtransactions are now also in the games you buy, so you have to make an effort to find something interesting regardless of where you play

Firecracker being a common is just insane

4:02 I think the reason the Battle Healer and Heal Spirit are rare cards is because the Heal Spell was a rare card.

I can't disagree with a single thing you said in this video. Spot on

I think part of it is that it's almost impossible to come up with new cards that should be common, without it being redundant and there being something that does the exact same thing. Commons are meant to be cards that do very basic things, like barbarians and archers. But how are you going to add a basic ranged troop that isn't just the same as archers. You need to make cards more complex for them to make sense to add to the game. I think they have changed what it means to be a common or rare so they can add more of them, which actually makes it better for F2P.

Counter argument: You're half wrong. Most legendaries come with a unique clutch/mechanic, WHILE being cost-effective, compared to the other rarities. That's why there's no common Royal Ghost, nor common Princess, etc., they're cheap. Try imagining a 3 elixir common card that can shoot at the tower without crossing the bridge, or a 3 elixir card that freezes things in place; If legendaries were any other rarity, they'd be worth at least 1 more elixir. That said, there definitely is a profit motive with the new cards they're adding.

i didnt watch the video but i 100% agree with the title and thumbnail, the problem is that you cant realy remove them after they have been in the game for so long

common rare and epic rarities don't really matter and they shouldn't, they seem to be chosen by the troop role, elixir cost and complexity as you said, but I also think they are given based on how easy it is to level then up, it doesn't matter at high level gameplay but in mid ladder if some cards were a lower/higher rarity it would probably make the gameplay a lot worse but being too high leveled or low leveled

we need a legendary evolution electro wizard or fisherman

Honestly it feels like only normal cards,evos are the only rarities now

Even most people dont even use champions in deck nowadays

Card rarity shouldn't be a factor in balancing. This is how you get extreme pay to win games. Many other card games are like this the difference between rarities is the uniqueness in gameplay, mechanics, and character design. As it should be.

I think part of the issue is that supercell only wants to release cards with new and unique effects because they are what generate the most hype and interest. If the archers were released in 2024, they would be seen as boring and lazy on the developers’ part. However if every new card needs to be unique and interesting then it’s hard to make cards for the lower rarities.

I dont think it is just for money tbh. Its just that at this point, there are so many cards, which means new cards NEED some sort of special ability to feel actually unique, but just having every card be a legendary is also kind of boring (e.g. the goblin drill, which was supposed to be legendary but was made epic before release cause they had just released another legendary)

I bet my money on Tencent with this

Honestly, the card complexity logic doesn't really make sense it didn't even apply at launch Fireball and rocket are really simple- just deal damage to troops that it hit. And they are rare cards. Mini Pekka is no different from knight and barbarians. Just a simple melee damage dealer. Rare. (you also covered Pekka)

I miss old Clash royal, everything got worse today

I gotta disagree about them making Legendaries more for money, there's only so far you cam go with "common cards are basic" style of design before it gets boring and cards like Elixir Golem, Fire Cracker, Electro Giant could br bumped up in rarity and they'd still fit in. Royale is at the point where if a new card is added it _has_ to be unique, but then that would mean every new card ks a Legendary but there's a reason they aren't.

the game us peak unbalanced rn…there are only certain decks you can use to counter duchess…that makes zero sense if everyone just shows up w it

personally i find higher rarities easier to upgrade

More like why rarities don’t make sense

I never knew about Barbarian Launcher.

I don’t think legendareis should be better, but definitely have something unique

bro said more different

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The "devs" have nothing to do with it... They just do what they're told to do, what they're paid to do... Blame the directors board at supercell who took those poor decision 💩

Gratz but he doesn't like little kids 😂

Problem, they aren't as bad as you describe like they are bad but not that bad, the reason they aren't consistent is dependent on the card but the ones that come to mind are the royal giant and the elite barbarians which were of lower rarity because it means more play styles for lower latter which granted backfired horribly but that doesn't change the fact that it was ment for them, also higher rarity aren't that hard to level uo if you know what you are doing also they nerf cards when they are overpowered day one which dismantles your claim that supercell is all for the money and are willing to turn clash Royale into a pay to win game rather than a skill based game, now they do want the money and are willing to do a lot of things that players would not like but at the same time they are willing to sacrifice short term gains in exchange to allow themselves to maintain profits mid to long term, stop being so negative and see that they aren't Nestle or ea they are rather normal not willing to sacrifice the entire game and business just to squeeze every last bit of money out of a player no matter how much they want to, they are a company who weighs the pros and cons of each action and making more cards for profit isn't one of them mostly because of the fact that they would have rushed more cards like they did in the past which they stopped because the cards were a buggy mess and players didn't like that with the perfect example being the executioner which on arrival was a vary buggy mess, if they were as bad as you say they are then this game would be more similar to clash of clans which is certainly a vary pay to win but that was that type of game really

They removed rarities from the wrong game

Just compare firecracker whit princess for example, or firecraker whit regular archers

I mean I still remember the time when the Mini Pekka was an epic and the prince was a rare card. But then later they would swap their rarities.

Legendary cards dont feel legendary anymore

It is called legendary rarity and not legendary strenght

E golem sucks. He gives wins. He should be common. 😂

Your greedy argument doesn’t make sense. Epics are easier to obtain and level than rares.

honestly, I never felt there are too many cards that dont feel like their specific rarity. RG like you said is fair, but the only card I feel like absolutely ignored rarities is the firecracker. knockback after every shot and projectiles that have an 11 tile range, which is absolutely insane when you consider the princess has a 9 tile range and magic archers arrow travels 11 tiles, so that kind of range was obviously reserved for higher rarity cards. She absolutely shouldve been a legendary, epic wouldve even felt low

This is a bad take

Not same thing for champions.