The Most Hated Deck in Clash Royale History

This video will cover probably the most infamous deck in Clash Royale history. Hog 2.6. Perhaps the oldest meta deck that is still used by a lot of players today. This video will cover a brief history of the deck and talk about how this deck was revolutionary, why it's so polarizing, why it never dies, and if it really requires as much skill as some people claim.

[drippingplatinum]

It's kinda hard not to hate this deck when your 25 elixer gets countered by someone spamming chucks of ice and lead shooters

[mokakola]

"Can't nerf a card because it's so good in one specific deck"

Supercell with night witch: "Watch me"

[brxyann]

As someone who hasn’t played clash royale since 2017, this was a super interesting video and kept me watching the whole time. Nice job

[minecraftoverlord]

Hog chip damage is definitely the worst part about this deck. In order to prevent the hog from doing any damage, you usually need a negative elixir trade. And you likely won't have the same cards for the next hog, because he's already halfway to the next one. So unless you have a cycling deck of your own or have a deck built to handle this, its just going to be a pain.

[piranhabones]

The reason it's so unbelievably annoying to play against 2.6 is that sometimes, if the opponent is not braindead, your attack simply cannot touch the tower. With some decks, your only hope at SMELLING the enemy tower is just to HOPE AND PRAY the opponent makes a serious blunder, which is obviously not in your control. It just feels like you can't do anything, because the deck's defense is so brutally good. 80% of the deck is just defense, with the occasional hog rider or spell cycling.

[DatHuggiePro]

The history of logbait could be cool seeing as it never really fades out of the meta and has so many variations

Edit: my wish has come true

[Astrosker]

If you say hog 2.6 every mid ladder player will immediately go into a panic attack

[sleepy_infinite]

I hate playing against 2.6 Hog Cycle, but I have mad respect for Hog Cycle players as a single misplaced card can mean a push-defense-fall and thus, not being able to save the match

[xd_joe]

this channel is a perfect example of quality over quantity, which is pretty rare in the clash royale youtube scene. Props to you

[cannibalskitchen]

When I played CR, Hog 2.6 was always annoying, but it felt like I was getting outplayed. Ice Bow was the deck that really pissed me off. Eventually I learned the matchup pretty well, and I could play around it with my deck, but every time someone spammed the laughing emote at me while dropping Tesla and X-Bow at the bridge made my blood boil.

[saturnine.]

One of my biggest problems with this deck is literally just how popular it is. It isn’t as bad right now, but a few months ago I would be going up against a hog2.6 player like every other game. I have screenshots of my battle log after I had faced 4 hog 2.6 players in a row on ladder. Some games I won, some games I lost - my problem isn’t really the deck itself, it’s just that it’s so common to see and really takes a lot of the fun out of the game. With billions of possible decks people could make that I could play against, why on earth do I keep seeing the same one over and over again?

[Yupp]

Fun fact the name of the fourth skeleton was Ledoom and since Ledoom got removed from skeleton card
Ledoom joined the skeleton army buffing the skeleton army from 14x to 15x a little bit

[Pudding]

Back in 2017 when skeletonarmy cost 5 and arena 8 was just released, this deck dominated. Stalling really is the universally hated playstyle no matter where you go.

[MedvediImasa]

Two 20+minutes videos in a row! And you put so much effort into every single video, for me you are for sure the most underrated CR content creator!
Keep up the amazing work and I think you'll reach 100k subs in no time.

[fredk]

My least favourite thing about 2.6 is that they'll defend my entire push with no matter what it is with 0 damage and get a counter push going, and when you think something might actually connect they'll pull 4 elixir out of their ass and fireball all your hope away. But my least, least favorite thing is when you wait for their counter to get out of cycle, push right at that instant, and then they just spam random stuff down untill they get back their counter in like 4 seconds aaaand you get fireball cycled and lose the game.

[lilypads]

Nothing is more satisfying than getting through a hog 2.6 defenses and finally 3 crowning them

[randompolygon]

the main problem here is that you NEED to rely on the other player making a mistake. you can't outplay it, or outsmart it. you just have to hope they screw up in one way or another.

[LMXIMN]

I love this History videos so much, you have so much potential in this area and i cant wait to see the Channel Grow :)

[valkenhayn]

One thing that wasn't mentioned and I think its important to also know is that 2.6 does NOT work the second you have just 1 card that's lower lvl than the opponent.
every single interaction HAS to be perfect for the deck to win all the way to the top.
for example, ice golem and ice spirit have to kill skeletons and bats, if they don't.. you lose

[Legorunner]

"this is the most hated deck"

Kid named mid-ladder megaknight