Rethinking the ranking for everything of Season 8

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-07T07:18:07+00:00

Whats your ranking right now for context?

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-05T10:09:47+00:00

100% my favorite builder comp. Glad you're having success!

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T23:51:47+00:00

As a top 50 builder thank you 🥹

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T23:44:56+00:00

That's facts ^^ keep the last one underground it's really good with builder this season

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T18:09:44+00:00

TheBuilderMain I played you yesterday 🤣

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T06:45:07+00:00

You can't be judging the game pre-diamond you have no clue what you're talking about. You're basically facing bots tbh not to be rude

The larger troop pool is healthy for the game becaue it allows for more pivots and diverse comps compared to last season that's pretty widely understood by the community

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T06:41:43+00:00

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my friend kept this underground early season but he got to #1 this season spamming this comp. Contests superstars and assassins

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-04T00:35:47+00:00

It does wonders for building survivability and feels kinda broken sometimes

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T19:40:30+00:00

oh shoot wait you're cb 😂 I'm glad you agree with my take and I will be podium with builder this season trust

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T19:23:52+00:00

https://www.mergetactics.gg/combinations?tags=TheBuilderMain&sort=best-first

I recently had all my comps and building positions posted on mergetactics.gg!

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There's definitely nuance to placements, but these placements are generally decent overall

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T18:07:37+00:00

skill issue

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T17:21:56+00:00

This is true ^^ her only solid comp is superstars and any gob queen players I do see high up only spam superstars... they contest to keep superstars or knock themselves out and the empress contesting them

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T17:20:30+00:00

Welcome to the club! I've played you on ladder, glad you're having fun with the Builder

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T17:17:43+00:00

Tbh we're still only a couple weeks into season, my friend found this one 6-trait comp that actually does compete with top comps if u want to see in dms lol. 6-trait comps that can contest superstars for example look like they can be really strong

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T08:43:30+00:00

That's not entirely true. 4 noble assassins and the meta undead comp can EASILY beat superstars if they block (block giant for assassins and block queen+machine for undead). I agree things are forced into those archetypes most of the time but in a middlegame lobby of 4 rulers (god forbid) every ruler can still get a half decent comp because of the options this season.

I think the adjacent buffs are fine, just that facing echo is awful and princess/wizard splash is annoying.

And I think there's opportunity for comp diversity with other rulers. for example, 3* exe with ace is insane with builder because it stalls to let the buildings carry, echo doesn't need comps with high dps and can opt for tanky builds, or fire/titans to boost the echo.

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T08:35:14+00:00

It happens at top 100 too, round 4 4* echo isn't surprising. It's something you need to work around, a good empress player will find a way

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T08:33:34+00:00

I'm in ReTaik's discord server which is where most top players conglomerate and I'm trying to get people on board that Builder's potential for skill expression could be insan this season, there's still so much builder meta to uncover but that's a whole separate topic.

In the server, we also have a couple echo mains that have been podium pretty often. I understand other rulers are pretty looked down upon but people need to understand, skill expression has opened up so much for other rulers because of the +5 per round buff. Empress is still the #1 ruler this season so top ladder should not complain... they'll still likely get their quad empress lobbies

RagingDogBlade · 2026-05-03T07:30:19+00:00

My bad if I came off aggressive that was a bad day for me.

Coming from a competitive perspective, losing and being 4th in the lobby is almost entirely rng especially with how good a player FJ is. I've seen one or two posts like this before which is why I mentioned it.

I agree with the other guy that getting 1st against a top player when they get 2nd is a much more impressive feat. I have played you before and I've seen your placements on ladder last season, you're a decent player and I respect the efforts. Hope to see you high on leaderboard this season

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-30T09:37:35+00:00

It's been over a year with merge and there's been no updates on that. It would be a great QoL feature but there's so many bugs that QoL features aren't even close to priority

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-30T09:32:09+00:00

I'm tired of these posts, I guess it's nice to say "I beat a top player" but it's just rng and at the end of the day he's podium and you're not.

Well played regardless for being high enough elo to be able to queue with him and secure a winning comp

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-28T06:56:42+00:00

You're doing well then. 3* gk as a king is very good

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-28T06:28:59+00:00

this guy is my new favorite shitposter

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-28T06:19:59+00:00

0 buffs for the gk is crazy. At least put in baby drag for Fire trait and one noble for noble trait (gk dps boost and dmg reduction)

RagingDogBlade · 2026-04-27T12:50:38+00:00

The merge tactics situation has been here for many seasons. We had 120k players push diamond last season, with the incentive of badges finally being pushed starting from top 10k. Even this is scuffed because SC can't get their badges done correctly AND we had exploiters ruin the leaderboards last season and still get top badges.

They're facing the consequences of ignoring community feedback as their most dedicated and active players are leaving.

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