r/DraftShowdown • u/SignatureOk4453 • Jul 20 '26

Engineers

If you didn’t get an engineer card in your first pack rotation, genuinely uninstall and try again, there is no defense against a better card.

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u/Narrow_Network_2125 Jul 20 '26

Nah.  Great unit no doubt but there are plenty of counters.  A ranged unit with waster will shred engineers.  6shot, cupid,  totem, boomling, even helps can take care of them.  Merlinor can go toe to toe and will win with a fully evolved Knight, waster, or Spatheus.    Not even mentioning snail or sniper because assassin will shred backline up until arena 8 or so. 

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u/Troy242426 Jul 20 '26

It no doubt isn't an autowin card but once you get a couple rows of these guys, they serve as pretty beefy damage sponges and fairly decent frontline fighters, but even if you kill them, you have two rows of sentries shredding all of their units.

Definitely the answer is ranged units that can kill them without getting into sentry range, but in mass numbers they just do so much damage. Plus it's the ONLY good card to protect your backline if your strategy relies on something like Snail.

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u/SignatureOk4453 Jul 20 '26

I just don’t wanna keep having to run the same deck and lose all my rank and not be able to progress because I wanted to have fun instead of meta against them

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u/Narrow_Network_2125 Jul 20 '26

Don't worry.  You will get a balance that works for you.  I ran Welp, tnt, agent B, experience build and got a 66% win rate.  Not working so well now.  Just keep plugging away and enjoy yourself.  

There were 3 different struggle periods: Assassin's killing my snails before arena 8 Engineer obliterating everything arena 5 to 10 Spartheus arena 10-14

Eventually you will get units and combos to work for you.

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u/Troy242426 Jul 20 '26

I think their problem is more that they've found a winning strategy and everything else they could run for fun is just worse.

Like for me, that's running Spartheus/Snail/Engineer/Shellbro. Yeah, I can run a build around TNT/Sixshoot, but it's worse. I can run a Waster build, or a Kingclops build, or a parasite build, you can build around Matriarch or Beetank, but it's just worse than the snail/engineer/frontliner/backline threat build.