This Week's Banned Characters for ELO Format

Updated list of banned character for November 1 to 11, 2010.

Banned as voted by the players

• Marina  
• Emeth  
• Shann  
• Ghumbo  
• XU52  
• Copper  
• Askai  
• Dorian  

Nightmare's Vince

The Nighmare clan has several good 5-star clan which includes Kolos and Ghumbo just to name a few. This will be my second spotlight and goes to the Nightmare clan's Vince

GHEIST's Vladimir

This will be first of many character spotlight for this week. Since most of the top G.H.E.I.S.T. characters are being banned for the week, players will resort to using some unnoticed but good cards. Fof this week my character spotlight will be on Vladimir

Temporary Banned Characters for October 25 to 31, 2010 [Update]

Temporary Banned Characters for October 25 to 31, 2010


Characters temporarily banned by the players’ votes

• Shann  
• Sledg  
• XU52  
• Lou  
• Askai  
• Copper  
• Ghumbo
    
Characters temporarily banned by the staff

• Jessie  
• Bristone  
• Toro  
• Mona  
• Arno  
• Havok  
• Robb  
• Leviatonn  
• Radek  
• Oshitsune  
• Rico  
• Hawk  
• Blaaster  
• Methane  
• Gil  
• Dalhia  
• Sigma  
• Hikiyousan  
• Vermyn N  
• Rolph  
• Rowdy  
• Kerry  
• Uranus  

New Characters Released

Urban Rivals released another set of new characters. The new set includes C Beast for the Vortex, Tino of the Montana Clan, Burdock for the Roots and Ector for the Piranas

As you have notice that some of them have similar traits and abilities to from other clans. C Beast almost like Caelus of the Skeelz clan, Burdock is Root's version of Leviatonn and Ector is almost similar with the Upper's Oxen.

Tino of the Montana Clan

Burdock of the Roots

Ector of the Piranas

C Beast of the Vortex

Top ELO Preset Decks for this Week

The ELO meta game this week is a bit loose in terms of banned character as top characters like Ghumbo, Chiara, etc. where not included on the said banned list. On the other hand the GHIEST clan has been a great on ELO despite the banning of Toro, Methane, Rolph and Leviatonn.

Here are some of the top preset decks using GHIEST and other clans that have a high positive ratings from the Urban Rivals community.

GHIEST-PIRANAS

GHIEST-UPPER preset deck 1

GHIEST - UPPERS preset deck 2

GHIEST - NIGHTMARE Ghumbo's Revenge

Temporary Banned Characters for October 18 -24, 2010

Another week of ELO week ended. Here's the updated temporary banned list for ELO meta game format.


Characters temporarily banned by the players’ votes

• Marina  
• Sledg  
• Dagg  
• Bodenpower 
• Lou  
• Emeth  
• Copper  
• Yayoi  
• Dorian  

ELO Deck Construction Trend

The ELO meta game constantly changes because of the weekly changes in the list of banned characters. With that there will be a kind of "trend" to which what clans do you opt put when constructing your ELO.

Once you got the list of temporary banned characters, we create decks around the clans that are less affected by the temporary ban list.

When playing the ELO meta game format, it is recommended to have a least three diverse styles of ELO decks as there are times that there will be losing streaks specially when playing the daily tournament under the ELO format.

Banned Characters for ELO Tournament for October 11-17, 2010

Temporarily banned characters as voted by the players

• Shann  
• Cliff  
• Stanly  
• Methane  
• Sledg  
• Gil  
• Lou  
• Emeth  
• Copper  

Rescue Cards replaced for ELO Format

With the recent banning of the Rescue clan's "utility cards" Kerry, Lea and Elvira on the ELO format, here are the following cards that are considered best replacement for the the aformentioned card:

Ghoub for Kerry: Ghoub might not have Kerry's superb ability yet his higher damage value is enough to become the replacement

Joanna or Bobby for Elvira: Elvira's SOA ability can't be replaced but we can replace her power and/or damage values by using either of these two. Joanna is more flexible in my opinion

Larry or Frida: As with Elvira, Lea's SOB ability is invaluable yet we can replace her with high damage 2 stars like Larry or Frida as long as they are use in a right situation. Larry is mostly considered because of his ability.

Banned Characters for ELO Tournament for This Week

Another week, another list of characters that are temporarily banned on the ELO format:

As voted by the players
Marina
Askai
Cliff
Elvira
Sledg
Lou
Yookie
Stanly

As voted by the Urban Rivals Staff:


Robb
Rolph
Emeth
Dalhia
Noodile
Dorian
Blaaster
Toro
Mona
Kerry
Rico
Vermyn N
Pegh
Ghumbo
Lea
Uranus
Bristone
Rowdy
Oshitsune
Arno
Chiara