Banned Characters for ELO Tournament for This Week

Update list of temporary ELO banned character for this week.

ELO Banned Character Ban List

Another ELO week on the books and there only slight change on the ban list.

Buccaneers - Mono Piranas ELO deck

This week's ELO tournament is basically in a conventional mood as the list of banned cards are those typical banned from the previous weeks' ELO tournament as seen on my previous post.

With that in mind I decided to create another Type 1 / ELO deck since my last deck has been loosing a lot of matches on ELO meta. My new deck is a mono-Piranas deck which I called "Buccaneers".

The deck is composed of staple cards like Tula, Tyd and Hawkins with power cards like Bloodh, Scubb and Kristin while Ulrich and Spycee are the decks' utility cards.

Update List of Banned Card for ELO Tournament

This week's ELO ban list is not as many as the previous weeks but the list includes some of those typically voted by the players as well as the staff of Urban Rivals. Cards like GHEIST foursome of Leviatonn, Bristone, Toro and Rolph, Sakrohm's Uranus and Sigma to name a few. Over all the ELO tournament this week is a bit loose and player can now use the power decks that rule the previous ELO tournaments.

My ELO Deck of the Week: Foxy Ladies

This week's featured deck is my very own Foxy Ladies Mono PussyCat deck. I am proud to share this deck because it has helped me win most of the daily tournaments matches on both Type 1 and ELO formats.

The theme of this deck is balance and diverse strategies as each card can provide. As a first round play you may either play Muze, or Candice to confuse the opponent on what strategies are you cooking up. Veronica and Jeyn are you mid-round game breakers as they will be the one to provide you with separation either for pillz or life point advantage. Clara will be your blocker/big finisher card while Ella is your best damage reducer card.    

ELO Weekly Tournament : No Massive Damage Reduction

Last week's ELO tournament was a "No SOA" week,  this week's ban list is a "No to massive damage reduction week" so any cards that value has a 3 and up damage reduction value are be banned for this week's ELO tournament. Notable cards that are included are Sakrohm's Uranus, the Root's Arno, the Rescue clan's DR duo of Slyde and Steve.

It's fortunate for the PussyCat clan players that no member (aside from Charlie and Wanda) has been included on the list so expect the PussyCats will be one of the top ELO constructed deck for the week. This week is also serve as reprieve for most of the GHIEST clan cards as only Bristone was banned so expect this clan will also include on the top deck constructions for this week.

Tips on How to Win in the Weekly ELO Tournament

The ELO tournament in Urban Rivals is one of the only few ways a player might win those coveted Collector cards in the game. The other two being buying the cards themselves (which can be worth millions of in-game currency) or participate in official once-in-a-blue-moon games/events which are hosted by certain moderators.

Going back to ELO, there's an important thing to remember before joining in on the fun of this weekly event, and that is how to create a winning ELO Deck. There are many cards which are banned from ELO play. Add to that, every week, one clan is banned from the ELO tournament entirely. That is a pretty tough situation, especially for ELO newbies.

ELO Tournament: No SOA for this Week

Another week of ELO tournament and the theme for these week is "No Stop Opponent's Ability", so characters with SOA ability are being slapped with the temporary ban (see updated ELO ban list). Which mean GHEIST and Roots gets the bulk of the ban as well as known SOA cards from other clans.

So if you have SOA cards in you deck, then make the necessary adjustments by replacing them with much better cards, If your using Gheist or Roots chances the only way you can play them is either on Type 1 - Non Elo format or Type 2.

Suggested Two Clan ELO Deck (with Review)

Here are the suggest two-clan deck for ELO format this week.

Mutants and Ghouls (Nightmare and Skeelz)


Both the Nightmare and the Skeelz clan are several of those clans that possesses two of the great clan bonuses: The Nightmare's can cancel out opposing clan bonuses while the Skeelz  protects their individual abilities. Combining the two is a challenge.

The deck is composed of good 2- and 3-star cards from each clan along with 5-star Nistarok and Eloxia. Eloxia is the star of this deck she can be played as a bluff card to invoke the poison effect or a finisher on late round. Nistarok will be the deck's blocker/damage reducer card which is use to face off opposing massive big massive cards like Cassandra, Splata, etc.. Praxie will be the other blocker card as well as the surprise finisher if encase the the opposing player plays their damage reducer cards last.

New Elo Ban List back to "Normal" proramming

The experiment banning of almost all 5 star cards on last is somewhat a wake up call to us how are good are we in creating good decks in Urban Rivals. Player where able to create good decks out of the 2, 3, 4 star cards to which there are a lot of non-5 star cards that can beat a 5 star card head on. This week's ban list is somewhat a "back to normal programming" of a list of some sort.

We'll another week of ELO tournament. Let keep on experimenting and create the best decks in Urban Rivals.

Top Cards got banned in this week's ELO meta game

This week's ELO meta game is undergoing a "Martial Law" phase in the because almost all of the staple and power cards in most Urban Rival clans has been slapped with the ELO ban by the UR staff leaving players to greatly restructure their best ELO deck or skip the ELO format for now.

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  

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  

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  

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

Stock up free Clintz and Credits by Joining the ELO Daily Tournaments

Urban Rivals is all about collecting all the cards needed to create better decks by purchasing character cards either by buying packs (using credits) or single cards (using clintz as currency). The fastest way to accumulate clintz (and credits as well) is by joining the daily tournament through the ELO format. Each tournament is played every other hour and every match win or lose will accumulate points to the within that hourly tournament play.

Just playing in the ELO tournament will get you 50 Clintz if you were not able to reach the top 20 percent of the total participants. If you manage to reach the top 20 percent but not the top rank, you will get the free 50 Clintz and 1 Credit. If you manage to reach the top spot, you'll get yourself a lot of clintz and possible a rare card.

By the end of the week if you have an ELO rank around 1200 and up, you will get additional clintz with a minimum of 1000 clintz depending on your ELO ranking.