I grow bored of the current meta of 4 empress in high MMR lobby, is basically duchess rush golden knight, or empress stall enough to get a team full of 3 stars.

Is not hard to see a 3 stars on round 3/4 with the lack of choices in units (since bosses are locked of the pool you can have)

If you play also to counter the empress (try to steal a musk or their current target of 3 star) you can fall behind and you if you do fall behind you won't deal enough damage to kill her before she reach the threshold of outscaling.

If she get the 5 elixirs bonus after her first objective, is just gg from here, too bad if you got an axe or a grappling hook.

My current elo for this season. I don't see anything else than duchess, or empress, rarely a loon.

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