CFV - Meta Analysis May 2017

At the end of last year I did an analysis on the meta at that time I said I would do some sort of follow up on the post in a couple months =P life got in the way, I didn't have the time for it, sorry! But the post was quite popular and I've gotten numerous emails to do another so here I am 5 months later with another post.

Before I begin... every now and then I get a question like this... "why do I emphasis so much on the Japanese game and not English?" Well:

• The Japanese game is much more mature/popular than the English game, more players naturally lead to a more competitive environment.
• Because of the game's popularity it's much more supported in Asia, for example there are more major tournaments; Clan leader Fight, District Battles etc. the West really only has the yearly WGP and even the regular shop tournaments in some areas are almost daily versus a more weekly thing in the English game.
• The Japanese game get their cards earlier than the English game so most of the time optimal builds would already have been figured out by the time cards come out in English.

Now that's out of the way... This time I decided to make a more competitive list with results only from larger tournaments; 24~ or more players. Again I'll be using a combination of vg.xpg, twitter and izazin to the best of my ability to compile the list and again I will only be counting decks that topped 2 or more times in the past 2/3~ months. At the time I'm writing this its late April, early~ May. 

Remember to take this with a grain of salt because I'm no professional analyst, I may have missed a deck or 2 or even counted decks an extra time =P

CFV - Meta/Top decks Analysis December 2016

Hey guys I apologise it really took me a while to get this up work+getting to end of the year not a good combo =S Don't want to trash talk too much so here's my analysis.

The results here are based on tournaments in the last 2 months or so. I chose 2 months because I personally feel any results before that becomes less relevant due to Vanguard having new sets every other month and the amount of change that can occur between sets.

What do guys think are the best/most popular decks right now?

Well let me give you guys an idea, I mainly used vg.xpg.jp for this as they compile deck lists that top from both English and Japanese tournaments (though mostly Japanese, still a pretty good overall representation). Note that I didn't take in to account decks that only topped once.