I’ve been running kattmander for this reason but it’s not fun to have to adapt to a single tactic that’s overwhelmingly common right now
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Nah, all those nova teams were free wins since nova fails to kill ldief
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Nerf Nova Now? 
On the same boat. Met almost nothing but nova aoe. thing is, it’s equally as boring as meeting the daily gem backbiters because it’s such an easy fl to counter, but it does give me the feeling that I’m facing 1 person 80% of the time which has already put me off pvp for this rule. This sucks! I hope next time they plan this type of rule they put nova and toad both on 1st restriction because this ruined the most fun restriction list i’ve seen in a long time…
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Nah don’t touch at nova just make demotoad speed 35 or something around
I see one simple solution: put Scarleguard in FL and 1 shot Nova. Or if there’s protection, have a Titan or something along those lines to True hit Nova, then finish him off with something. Those teams you posted look quite bad, maybe one of them is actually an ok team. Obviously when you face a proficient teambuilder they can win in other ways too than Nova spam.
I used to encounter many Nova Toad FLs when I played PvP and 90% of them would rage quit after I 1 shot Nova with Scarleguard.
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It’s not about countering nova aoe, which is ridiculously easy to do. Nova aoe being more common than literally every other strat combined is the issue.
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Yeah, it’s becoming the new Cani FL. Just too easy to not use your brain and spam through everything. I support a Nova or Toad nerf just because I want people to come up with more creative strategies.
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As duck said countering it isnt the problem as someone using high speed fls most of time i kill it before first turn , but its ridiculously repetitive and abusive
Nova AoE being common when we have a special rule is not a problem with the setup, it’s just a feature of the special rule / problem with the playerbase.
Explanation…
Feature of the special rule: when you are only allowed 2 elements it’s super restrictive for people who don’t have very large collections. Building a strong team with that is hard, so something like Nova AoE may be your best option because it doesn’t require much to be decent.
Problem with the playerbase: It may be the case that people could/should have built better teams for the rule but they took the easy option of Nova AoE or got beaten by it and copied the team. That’s something which should ultimately phase out if the rule lasted long enough because people would play the counters so it wouldn’t keep winning and people would change their teams to something else.
For me, I really don’t think there’s much problem if a special rule creates a boring meta for a week. It’s different to normal, then is gone.
As others have said here, there was no power level concern with Nova AoE under this rule because it’s very easy to counter. I don’t doubt that lots of lower ranked people were wrecked by it and unable to build a team to counter it without compromising their own team building, but that’s just a feature of the rule which lasts literally 1 week. We also get many other special rules with harsh restrictions for players with smaller collections.
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Novadake aoe is so weak why nerf it it’s useless, for experienced players if Nova aeo is a problem well it’s players should ask about their levels
Yep it’s easily counterable, what poses a problem is that it’s played a lot nothing more
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Coming from a nova aoe spammer himself
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No just because i’m bored i’m using you, everyone knows i’m using Nova last stun it’s way more interesting
I do not support nova demontoad nerf .
It is pretty easy and accessible strat for beginners to collect gems from PvP. The matchmaking for lower account is already way too bad and harsh if they are able to get easy wins then it should be like that.
(Not to mention demontoad nerf will affect nox aoe another starter strategy)
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tbh, i think we both are a lil bit at fault on this. We have been literally making every newbie we find save gems and hatch on day 13 for nova and telling them to run this strat
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@GMagic gg ,you were really hot on this one you can thank your mythics, I really liked the way you wanted to sleep lock me and it was you who ended up finding yourself 1 vs 4
Uhh, it looks like you’re the one in the 1v4 in the screenshot but yeah mythics do help quite a bit
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You’re right, i definitely only won because of the monsters in my team (that i saved gems for, placed throughout the lineup, and chose each move throughout the game with). If it weren’t for those darn monsters, you would have won.
It was cool how you pulled off Runeconqueror though! That was awesome
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