They’re just insanely strong right now and they ruin whatever lobby they’re in.
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Almost never see anyone play beast after week one 
and even less them winning anything, but I do notice them in this forum, so guess its just me
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Just had a game where someone had 150/120 beetles. It’s busted.
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That wouldn’t even be enough to beat an average pirate board let alone anything else end game.
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In the meh rankings, we see a lot more 150/200 beetles then we do pirate builds that beat that.
The good thing is they compete for pieces, say 4 go beetles, 1 dragon,1 naga, 1 quilboar.
the top 4 will only include 1 of those 4 beetles but he will probably go top 2.
I think this is a matter of low and high MMR lobbies being dramatically different.
I played beasts earlier today and took first but only because I was handed parts - I got bird and beetle as afk, found an early Rylak, Brann from a triple bird, and then discovered scabs hero power the turn I played the other beast player… I took two turns buying their whole board, lol.
But outside of that there are much stronger tribes to play if you know what you’re doing. I think many long time players would benefit from browsing the comp list in the tracker to see some of the things they might not have considered. Stuff works differently than many players think it does.
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Oh for sure. If my beetles aren’t into the 250+ attack range i’m probably not beating the player that hit the good Tier 6 scaling builds. As you said you won’t even get that without the combo and the Titus and/or Brann is necessary to get those kind of numbers early and scale till the end to be in the 250+ numbers. Another reason why i don;t think Beetles are broken. They are a solid early/mid build but you can do better going to 6 if you don’t hit all the pieces.
I will usually give it a turn maybe two to see if Rylak hits and if not it’s on to tier 6. I think many players skip over the Bird Buddy when playing beetles as well. It’s a great minion for any beast build for a few turns. The other big one is if you have undead in and hit the Abominations early. I have made some crazy boards with beetles popping out fueling undead.
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The average player is probably top 4 with only 100/100 beatles (I can probably judge well the average player since I don’t play much and I barely go 6.5K by the end of seasons).
It probably raised a lot as the days went by even across the same MMR players because the people generally keep learning how to play a meta.
E.g. new Elementals are VERY hard to figure out as a casual BG player because how you SELL them needs careful strategy that can go very wrong.
I’ve had 400/400+ beetles before.
I’m at 6200 at the moment. My peak last season was 7260. I’m meh, but not terrible.
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Move Titus to 6 - this solves so many issues besides these ridic beetle boards
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They would have to move Brann to 6 as well since Brann is far more useful and powerful in BG’s. It would also make any builds that use those minions obsolete and BG’s boring.
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