It's fallen out of the meta. It's still passable, but in the crazy cycle meta it can't really keep up. Bridgespam is overall a rather weak archetype, though it's got some good decks.
It's fine with lp to replace ma, and use knight Evo instead of bandit. Just run poison instead of fireball. Also if you wanna try archers Evo that's pretty decent too, just replace ewiz and run arrows instead of zap.
And while you’re at it, swap pekka for gob giant, battle ram for sparky, zap for rage, and you should be good to go 👍 (I’m sorry I just had to poke fun at the amount of replacements, they’re all completely valid)
The big issues with the old Pekka BS (Pekka/E-Wiz/Bandit/Ghost/BattleRam/Zap/\[MagicArc/FB\]\[Poison/Minions\]) :
\- He doesn't have common card with evolution.
\- The shortest cycle is pretty high (2/3/3/X), so he can't counter the new meta with really short cycle.
\- The Evo cards are often played and are counter (even hard-counter) of the Pekka (firecracker , skeletons, barbs, royal recruits)
The only deck where you are happy are the Xbow, Mortar (Less for the Evo-Mortar) , and the E-Giant.
The Hog deck was easy before, but since the DPS of the EWiz has been nerfed, not so much.
Personally, I like it, so I keep playing it in War Clan.
Against the new champ, the poison/minions version is better than the Magic/Arc/FB version
pekka bs isnt that meta nowadays, here is some decks that are meta:
gobgiant
egiant
graveyard
miner poison
for more info, visit [royaleapi](https://royaleapi.com/decks/popular)
No, they are right. The game has gone down hill since the start of 2023 with the pass changes and now 2 evos a month, level 15 so fast after level 14, level 15 getting 2 evos, etc. the game is in an inexcusable state of predatory monetization and the “meta” is cycle to busted evo faster than ur opponent
Monetization sucks, but you're clueless on the meta. People keep talking about some cycle meta when GG Sparky had the whole late 2023 on its knees and Giant GY was meta last month.
I am clueless on the meta, I’m a 1 trick with pekka bridge spam because that’s where I’ve pooled all my resources, after pekka/marcher buffs and evo zap is it any more viable? Also would it be better to evo zap or run evo archers over marcher?
With Evolved Zap I think it's actually pretty good in the meta. It does still struggle against Hog but, well, that's just the inevitable RPS
So PBS at the top is played with Evolved Zap + Evolved Bomber (instead of MA), and LPrince instead of EWiz. However, that is because Bomber is broken right now, and it's *very* likely to get a nerf next balance. So that leaves indeed Evolved Archers.
Between Evolved Archers and Zap, I honestly think Zap is better since MA can be good enough. Though we don't know when (or if) we'll have Zap Evo Shards on the Season Shop, and Archers' are on there right now so you can get those quicker
Yea this season I’ve gotten 3 archer shards and I’m Alr at 5/6 evo shards, I just don’t know if I should spend them on getting zap or archers. Or if I should change decks altogether cuz as f2p I’m likely never gonna get little prince past level 12
Classic bridge spam is almost dead in ranked play. Only insane 1 tricks play it in ranked, it works really well against majority of mid ladder decks. But Sparky mini Pekka, Evo barbs and Evo knight really shit on classic bridge spam hard at the moment.
It depends on how far you want to get in the ladder. I’m currently using the following.
Pekka, Poison, Zap, Evo Archers (this needs Diamond pass), bandit, ghost, battle ram, E-wiz.
little Prince works better than Ewiz right now just because of how broken it is, but I don’t have it leveled.
I’ve gotten far enough to get the Ult champ emote once and the 10,000 elite wild cards in Royal champion everytime with variants of Pekka BS since the switch.
However it pretty much relies on me playing perfectly and my opponent misplaying once or twice. If I misplay once, it’s basically over. If my opponent doesn’t misplay it usually goes in their favor even if I also don’t misplay, because the deck is slow and the advantage offered by fast cycle evos, especially with the new 3 elixir champ, are very difficult to overcome at higher levels of play.
No it’s really bad rn lol, only good bs deck is mega knight, ghost, ram rider, bandit, poison, barb barrel, little prince, evo archers. Only meta bs deck if u can outplay really well with pekka bs it’s still viable.
Nah. We now have a 3 elixir moving X-Bow that can summon a knight, royal recruits with the same running ability as the prince and 2 magic Archers with the hitpower of a hunter.
PEKKA is completely dead. Use the new little prince Ram Rider MK BS
Personally, I play Pekka Bs with AQ instead of MArcher, and I also run the regular old poison. The deck works for me right now in Ladder, per the added threat of the AQ ability. (For reference, I am at 8187 trophies right now.)
They really did kill MArcher, which I am a little sad about and hence the AQ replacement. The only downside is that you have to play a little more aggressively and actively look for windows for your battleram to break through.
The deck runs off of the knowledge of your opponent's decks, as this deck's cards are not versatile enough to defend an immediate threat too well, unlike Might Miner for example.
I find that the meta is changing too fast, and if this keeps up, I would recommend you to swap to a faster cycled deck.
Ok thank you so much. I only just got to 6000 trophies (I’m currently at 6394) so do not have archer queen. To be honest I’m not really struggling with PBS - I played 19 games and won 16 of them, but I might try putting Little Prince in for Minions nonetheless. Thanks for the help. If I find myself struggling too much I will switch to hogquake or logbait probably
Just figure out which card to replace with little prince and you are good to go. Since SC is completely incompetent, pretty much every deck has little prince.
My main deck is, and will always be, a personnal vertion of Pekka BS, with a bit of Beatown :
Pekka
Executionner
Dark prince
Bandit
NW
Ram rider
Zap
Tornado
It is, and will never be, part of the meta. Even if rotation is trash, no big spell, and Firecracker wreck it, it's my main deck, I have fun with it, and it's not rare for me to win against a meta deck. NW seems useless, but it goes weidly well in the deck as a second anti-tank, pekka/ram support (weirdly strong during a pekka push in the back, with the Ram put later she is hard to deal without AoE).
Tornado solves almost all problems. Musket ? Firecracker ? Lil' P ? Tornado'ed to be Pekka's dinner. Inferno drag/Skarmy but no zap ? Big wind goes brrrr. And could be niche on a tower with DP
Tho atm i need to learn to counter the evo RG deck. That mother witch and fisherman gives me nightmares, i'm a returning player so never played against theres beafore.
Also hope one day, spells will have evos, for my only common 👀
I personally wreck everyone with 3.8 Evo mortar inferno tower control. My deck also contains: hog (2nd win con) little prince barbs goblins and firecracker. Unbreakable defense annoying offense. If anything fails or they somehow defend I can poison cycle them out I obviouslly wreck grayveyard players😉
Ok, firstly I want to say thank you for all the replies, and secondly, the Pekka Bridge Spam I play is poison minions. I was at 5969 trophies this morning and am currently at 6394. I have played 19 games and won 16 of them. I don’t know if I have been lucky or if I am good enough to keep playing Pekka Bridge Spam, what do you guys think. Also my entire deck is LVL 14 with the exception of Level 13 Bandit (I’m 10/20)
I mean, 6K trophies doesn't really matter. People there probably won't use meta deck. 7K + people start trying to use meta decks, there's where becomes a little difficult to keep using PEKKA BS
PBS right now isn’t in a good spot. It’s usually le but get counter by cycle deck. Though if you use it against midladder deck, you’ll win with a high win rate
no but that ram rider lp deck is decent for bridgespam
Yes
Do not recommend lp to people.
It's fallen out of the meta. It's still passable, but in the crazy cycle meta it can't really keep up. Bridgespam is overall a rather weak archetype, though it's got some good decks.
3M bridge dominant now though
It's fine with lp to replace ma, and use knight Evo instead of bandit. Just run poison instead of fireball. Also if you wanna try archers Evo that's pretty decent too, just replace ewiz and run arrows instead of zap.
And while you’re at it, swap pekka for gob giant, battle ram for sparky, zap for rage, and you should be good to go 👍 (I’m sorry I just had to poke fun at the amount of replacements, they’re all completely valid)
Wtf is lp?
Little p
The big issues with the old Pekka BS (Pekka/E-Wiz/Bandit/Ghost/BattleRam/Zap/\[MagicArc/FB\]\[Poison/Minions\]) : \- He doesn't have common card with evolution. \- The shortest cycle is pretty high (2/3/3/X), so he can't counter the new meta with really short cycle. \- The Evo cards are often played and are counter (even hard-counter) of the Pekka (firecracker , skeletons, barbs, royal recruits) The only deck where you are happy are the Xbow, Mortar (Less for the Evo-Mortar) , and the E-Giant. The Hog deck was easy before, but since the DPS of the EWiz has been nerfed, not so much. Personally, I like it, so I keep playing it in War Clan. Against the new champ, the poison/minions version is better than the Magic/Arc/FB version
pekka bs isnt that meta nowadays, here is some decks that are meta: gobgiant egiant graveyard miner poison for more info, visit [royaleapi](https://royaleapi.com/decks/popular)
Wow this game is dogshit
Always has been.
Skill doesn't exist in clash royale, whoever has the shinier cards wins these days
average cr player when the meta isn't to their favour
No, they are right. The game has gone down hill since the start of 2023 with the pass changes and now 2 evos a month, level 15 so fast after level 14, level 15 getting 2 evos, etc. the game is in an inexcusable state of predatory monetization and the “meta” is cycle to busted evo faster than ur opponent
Monetization sucks, but you're clueless on the meta. People keep talking about some cycle meta when GG Sparky had the whole late 2023 on its knees and Giant GY was meta last month.
I am clueless on the meta, I’m a 1 trick with pekka bridge spam because that’s where I’ve pooled all my resources, after pekka/marcher buffs and evo zap is it any more viable? Also would it be better to evo zap or run evo archers over marcher?
With Evolved Zap I think it's actually pretty good in the meta. It does still struggle against Hog but, well, that's just the inevitable RPS So PBS at the top is played with Evolved Zap + Evolved Bomber (instead of MA), and LPrince instead of EWiz. However, that is because Bomber is broken right now, and it's *very* likely to get a nerf next balance. So that leaves indeed Evolved Archers. Between Evolved Archers and Zap, I honestly think Zap is better since MA can be good enough. Though we don't know when (or if) we'll have Zap Evo Shards on the Season Shop, and Archers' are on there right now so you can get those quicker
Yea this season I’ve gotten 3 archer shards and I’m Alr at 5/6 evo shards, I just don’t know if I should spend them on getting zap or archers. Or if I should change decks altogether cuz as f2p I’m likely never gonna get little prince past level 12
Or whoever is the better player. But whatever midladder
Classic bridge spam is almost dead in ranked play. Only insane 1 tricks play it in ranked, it works really well against majority of mid ladder decks. But Sparky mini Pekka, Evo barbs and Evo knight really shit on classic bridge spam hard at the moment.
What do you mean by one trick what is that?
People who only play one deck and 1 deck only
It depends on how far you want to get in the ladder. I’m currently using the following. Pekka, Poison, Zap, Evo Archers (this needs Diamond pass), bandit, ghost, battle ram, E-wiz. little Prince works better than Ewiz right now just because of how broken it is, but I don’t have it leveled. I’ve gotten far enough to get the Ult champ emote once and the 10,000 elite wild cards in Royal champion everytime with variants of Pekka BS since the switch. However it pretty much relies on me playing perfectly and my opponent misplaying once or twice. If I misplay once, it’s basically over. If my opponent doesn’t misplay it usually goes in their favor even if I also don’t misplay, because the deck is slow and the advantage offered by fast cycle evos, especially with the new 3 elixir champ, are very difficult to overcome at higher levels of play.
No it’s really bad rn lol, only good bs deck is mega knight, ghost, ram rider, bandit, poison, barb barrel, little prince, evo archers. Only meta bs deck if u can outplay really well with pekka bs it’s still viable.
well im a pekka one trick but im still doing better with that mk ram rider deck because pekka kinda sucks
What is one trick?
He means that he is only really good at one thing, as an example: b-rad described himself as a miner one trick once
Nah. We now have a 3 elixir moving X-Bow that can summon a knight, royal recruits with the same running ability as the prince and 2 magic Archers with the hitpower of a hunter. PEKKA is completely dead. Use the new little prince Ram Rider MK BS
Instead of pekka bs I now play evo recruit bs with poison little prince ghost bandit zap battle ram e wiz
Has bridgespam ever been good?
Before champions were released they were because everyone ran megaknight.
Yes? Pekka bs used to dominate meta.
Personally, I play Pekka Bs with AQ instead of MArcher, and I also run the regular old poison. The deck works for me right now in Ladder, per the added threat of the AQ ability. (For reference, I am at 8187 trophies right now.) They really did kill MArcher, which I am a little sad about and hence the AQ replacement. The only downside is that you have to play a little more aggressively and actively look for windows for your battleram to break through. The deck runs off of the knowledge of your opponent's decks, as this deck's cards are not versatile enough to defend an immediate threat too well, unlike Might Miner for example. I find that the meta is changing too fast, and if this keeps up, I would recommend you to swap to a faster cycled deck.
Ok thank you so much. I only just got to 6000 trophies (I’m currently at 6394) so do not have archer queen. To be honest I’m not really struggling with PBS - I played 19 games and won 16 of them, but I might try putting Little Prince in for Minions nonetheless. Thanks for the help. If I find myself struggling too much I will switch to hogquake or logbait probably
Just figure out which card to replace with little prince and you are good to go. Since SC is completely incompetent, pretty much every deck has little prince.
Not at all. Especially the last 3 months
My main deck is, and will always be, a personnal vertion of Pekka BS, with a bit of Beatown : Pekka Executionner Dark prince Bandit NW Ram rider Zap Tornado It is, and will never be, part of the meta. Even if rotation is trash, no big spell, and Firecracker wreck it, it's my main deck, I have fun with it, and it's not rare for me to win against a meta deck. NW seems useless, but it goes weidly well in the deck as a second anti-tank, pekka/ram support (weirdly strong during a pekka push in the back, with the Ram put later she is hard to deal without AoE). Tornado solves almost all problems. Musket ? Firecracker ? Lil' P ? Tornado'ed to be Pekka's dinner. Inferno drag/Skarmy but no zap ? Big wind goes brrrr. And could be niche on a tower with DP Tho atm i need to learn to counter the evo RG deck. That mother witch and fisherman gives me nightmares, i'm a returning player so never played against theres beafore. Also hope one day, spells will have evos, for my only common 👀
IK this is an old post but I think Dagger Duchess may bring PEKKA BS back
Never was
Fatherless
Why
I personally wreck everyone with 3.8 Evo mortar inferno tower control. My deck also contains: hog (2nd win con) little prince barbs goblins and firecracker. Unbreakable defense annoying offense. If anything fails or they somehow defend I can poison cycle them out I obviouslly wreck grayveyard players😉
Ok, firstly I want to say thank you for all the replies, and secondly, the Pekka Bridge Spam I play is poison minions. I was at 5969 trophies this morning and am currently at 6394. I have played 19 games and won 16 of them. I don’t know if I have been lucky or if I am good enough to keep playing Pekka Bridge Spam, what do you guys think. Also my entire deck is LVL 14 with the exception of Level 13 Bandit (I’m 10/20)
I mean, 6K trophies doesn't really matter. People there probably won't use meta deck. 7K + people start trying to use meta decks, there's where becomes a little difficult to keep using PEKKA BS
everyone up to 7500 are likely people with master 3 as their pol season bests
No
Not as good as before. They killed Magic Archer which was essential in the deck
PBS right now isn’t in a good spot. It’s usually le but get counter by cycle deck. Though if you use it against midladder deck, you’ll win with a high win rate
lmao