tldr:

• Fear Steal dominates the top of the Leaderboard

• Ramp Tiny Fan and Heal & Steal are next

• Summon Heal, Feather Fan, and Triple Owl wrap up the top

         Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       5500        1-5500
    Dragon       8971    5501-14471
     Tiger      11175   14472-25646
      Bear      24335   25647-49981
      Wolf      30132   49982-80113
      Boar      26523  80114-106636
      Hare      17142 106637-123778
     Chick      33285 123779-157063
       Egg      19965 157064-177028

5500 players at Challenger with 1 player above 2600 VStar. Over 177k players played Origins this Season with close to 40k only at the lowest ranks.

Fear Steal is dominating the top of the leaderboard, then we have Ramp Tiny Fan and Heal & Shield. There are also Heal & Steal teams are put into Others because there do not even run many Shields. After that we have Summon Heal, Feather Fan, and Triple Owl.

Jinx is still the most popular archetype at 2000+ VStar, meaning teams that beat Jinx can have a good time until around 2100+ VStar.

Ramp Tiny Fan seems to have a very high win rate near the top. As for archetypes that are falling, we have Fury Aggro, Sponge, and Koi.

Fear Steal does have some weaknesses in Clover, Triple Owl, Eggshell Mavis, and Summon Heal. While Ramp Tiny Fan is tough to climb and also at the top as it is not good against Jinx, Fury Aggro, and Fear Steal.

Runes upgrade has added quite a bit of complexity in the game, which is a good change. There was a bit of a missed opportunity where the Mystic and Final Era could be different if Stage 3 Mystic Runes were only allowed in the Final Era. In any case, I would say it has been a pretty good season for relatively diverse meta outside of the top 100. Let's see what the next Season will have in store for us!

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• Fear Steal is the most dominant archetype followed by Ramp Tiny Fan

• Heal & Shield and Summon Heal are also close to the very top

• Ramp Sandal, Triple Owl, and Feather Fan can also be found near the top

        Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       4489        1-4489
    Dragon       8338    4490-12827
     Tiger      10671   12828-23498
      Bear      16324   23499-39822
      Wolf      32445   39823-72267
      Boar      28939  72268-101206
      Hare      17970 101207-119176
     Chick      28822 119177-147998
       Egg      16484 147999-164482

More than 4000 players at Challenger now with over 160k total players in Season 11. Wolf is now the peak regarding player numbers.

Fear Steal is still the most dominant archetype followed by Ramp Tiny Fan, and then Heal & Shield and Summon Heal. Ramp Sandal, Triple Owl, and Feather Fan can also be seen near the very top.

Jinx is still the most popular in Challenger followed by Fury Aggro, Sleep Poison, and Poison.

Amongst the most popular archetypes, Fury Aggro struggles the most. For the other archetypes, Snake Jar Turnip and Leafy are really not doing too well and are on their way down. Besides the top achetypes mentioned, Eggshell Mavis is also in a good spot to climb at higher level.

The biggest weakness of Fear Steal is Triple Owl. Eggshell Mavis and Clover also seem to do well against Fear Steal but the Strawberry tech somewhat covers it.

Feather Fan seems to be having a good time as well with good win rates against the most popular archetypes in Challenger except Earwing Wing Horn.

Ramp Tiny Fan seems to be only viable further up as it is not the best against the 2 most popular archetypes in Challenger, namely Jinx and Fury Aggro.

It is difficult to balance so many new Runes and I understand that the pre-Season Cup was supposed to help with the balancing. Somehow Fear Steal was not adjusted but it is what it is. We still have another 1 week+ to go for this Season. Now I am just looking forward to seeing what new things we will get for the next Season.

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• Fear Steal as a new archetype at the top

• Ramp Tiny Fan and Summon Heal also found at the top

• Diverse meta with Jinx being the most popular in Challenger, capable of getting near the very top

      Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       3458        1-3458
    Dragon       7444    3459-10902
     Tiger      10788   10903-21690
      Bear       9278   21691-30968
      Wolf      27616   30969-58584
      Boar      34873   58585-93457
      Hare      17641  93458-111098
     Chick      28602 111099-139700
       Egg      14871 139701-154571

More than 150k players in Origins for Season 11, which is higher than the many seasons that I can remember. 3400+ players already at Challegner, with 20k+ players at Tiger or above. Boar is still the highest peak, probably meaning quite a lot of players are stuck at that level.

Fear Steal is the top of the meta at the moment with Ramp Tiny Fan and Summon Heal. Jinx is the most popular in Challenger, with some getting close to the very top. Near the very top we also see Ramp Sandal, Snake Jar Turnip, Koi, Eggshell Mavis etc. I must say, it is the pretty diverse, though of course I do meet Jinx and Fury Aggro more often that others. The good thing is that many different archetypes are viable to get to relatively high in Challenger.

Fear Steal, Summon Heal, Ramp Tiny Fan, Ramp Sandal, Eggshell Mavis are doing pretty well at the top in terms of win rates. Snake Jar Turnip is on its way down, and so are Heal & Shield, Shield, Anemone, Pure Damage etc.

Fear Steal is certainly the archetype to look out for. It has positive win rates pretty much all the way across, partly due to the fact that only the very top players are playing it at the moment.

Ramp Tiny Fan would be doing great if not for the not so good matchups against the 2 most popular archetypes - Jinx and Fury Aggro.

We are still very early in the meta. Some archetypes are on their way down, such as Snake Jar Turnip, while some are going up, especially Fear Steal. I except more top players will play Fear Steal and the meta at the top may have some more innovations as we get more into the Mystic Era. I am excited to see what new archetypes will come up as the era progresses.

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• Snake Jar Tunrip at the top

• Ramp Tiny Fan and Perch are good counters to Snake Jar Turnip

• Diverse meta in Challenger

      Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       2242        1-2242
    Dragon       6135     2243-8377
     Tiger      10905    8378-19282
      Bear       5950   19283-25232
      Wolf      13816   25233-39048
      Boar      45239   39049-84287
      Hare      15015   84288-99302
     Chick      26997  99303-126299
       Egg      13686 126300-139985

Close to 140k players in Origins this season. Over 2000 players in Challenger already. Boar has the most number of players, which I think is definitely better than having most players at Egg and Chick. It is nice to see that close to 20k players are at Tiger or above.

Snake Jar Turnip is the top archetype to beat yet again. Other archetypes close to the top include Bubble Aggro, Poison, Triple Owl, Earwing Wing Horn, Ramp Tiny Fan, Pure Damage, and Perch.

In terms of overall usage in Challenger, Fury Aggro, Jinx, Sleep Poison, Earwing Wing Horn, and Poison are the most popular, with Snake Jar Tunrip and Triple Owl as 6th and 7th most popular in Challenger.

Snake Jar Turnip is leading the way but Ramp Tiny Fan and one particular Perch team are catching up with climbing the ladder. Pure Damage also has the potential to climb further at the top.

Anemone, Clover, Feather Fan are on their way down with sub-40% win rates at their highest VStar brackets.

Ramp Tiny Fan and Perch are looking good at the very top to farm Snake Jar Turnip players. Ramp Tiny Fan may not be the best against Fury Aggro and Jinx, and this is where the top Ramp Tiny Fan team techs in Mavis in order to have a better matchup against those archetypes while helping to Ramp in general.

Snake Jar Turnip is again the top archetype to beat at the moment but it does have weaknesses, especially Ramp Tiny Fan and Perch. For previous seasons, Snake Jar Turnip tends to drop off in the Mystic Era. Let's see if that will be the case. One thing has to be said is that despite certain archetypes being overpowered at the top, the meta remains pretty diverse in most of Challenger below top 100. It is nice to see a diverse meta I think partly due to Axie Levels and also partly due to Rune upgrade. With Rune upgrade, players probably tend to stick with one archetype with the runes that they upgraded as it costs significantly more to upgrade a new set of runes for a different archetype. I am personally liking the diverse meta ar Challenger so far this Season!

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• Bubble Aggro, Poison, Jinx, and Triple Owl popular at the top

• Shield, Snake Jar Turnip, Sleep Poison, Earwing Wing Horn, and Fury Aggro also found at the top

• Jinx, Sleep Poison, Fury Aggro, Earwing Wing Horn, and Poison are the 5 most popular archetypes on the way to Challenger

      Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       1082        1-1082
    Dragon       4313     1083-5395
     Tiger      10636    5396-16031
      Bear       4974   16032-21005
      Wolf       5998   21006-27003
      Boar      38520   27004-65523
      Hare      22943   65524-88466
     Chick      21660  88467-110126
       Egg      12056 110127-122182

Shifting the meta reports a day early as it fits better in my busy schedule these days, still we can a close to 20k increase in player base compared to last week. We see a peak at Tiger at expected but it is interesting to see that the Boar peak is a lot higher compared to Egg and Chick, which are usually the highest peak as new players just play a few games and quit. It seems like more players and staying throughout the season and move themselves up to Boar.

Bubble Aggro seems to be the team to beat at the top. There were some games played at 2200+ by since have dropped back down to below 2200 VStar as there are no players at 2200+ VStar at the time of writing. It is a pretty diverse meta at the top with Bubble Aggro, Poison, Jinx, and Triple Owl with above 10% usage at 2100-2200 VStar. There are also Shield, Snake Jar Turnip, Sleep Poison, Earwing Wing Horn, and Fury Aggro in the mix.

If we look at high Dragon to Challenger, Jinx, Sleep Poison, Fury Aggro, Earwing Wing Horn, and Poison are the 5 most popular archetypes you should expect to see on your way up.

The main trend here is that Snake Jar Turnip is not doing very well at the top. Sleep Poison is also not having the best time compared to the rest of the archetypes at the top.

Clover, Ramp Tiny Fan, and Ramp Sandal are also having pretty good win rates at the top, suggesting that they may have the potential to push further up.

The top 5 most popular archetypes do not seem to have matchups that are too polarising against each other, which is nice for the average player where the game is not just determined by the matchups. Having said that, there are always extreme matchup spreads for some archetypes such as Snake Jar Turnip, Shield, Spikes, Mit Sleep, Eggshell Mavis etc.

Bubble Aggro seems to be in a good spot against the popular archetypes with at least close to even win rate. Ramp Tiny Fan seems to be a good way to counter Bubble Aggro and has pretty good matchup spreads across the board, probably because most players that play the archetype have optimised teams.

The Epic Era meta seems to be in a pretty good spot. While there are always things to improve, the balancing has been pretty good so far. Just that the costs of Runes are quite a bit more than before if you want to highest level possible. For this reason, I really hope there will not be Charms upgrade as it will just costs too much to upgrade every charm in a team.

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• Over 100k players already in Season 11

• Snake Jar Turnip, Triple Owl, Bubble Aggro, and Topaz (with Turnip) at the top

• Sponge, Earwing Wing Horn, Confused, and Shield near the top

      Rank  # Players     Rankings
Challenger        313        1-313
    Dragon       2073     314-2386
     Tiger       8816   2387-11202
      Bear       4754  11203-15956
      Wolf       5080  15957-21036
      Boar      14659  21037-35695
      Hare      41799  35696-77494
     Chick      18689  77495-96183
       Egg       8827 96184-105010

Already over 100k players in Axie Origins for Season 11 and we are still in the Rare Era. It is interesting to see that HAre has the most players instead of Egg and Chick, quite a lot of players are continuing with the game to progress to Hare. Another significant peak is Tiger, which indicates the "serious" players. There are more over 10k players at Tiger and above.

Only 1 player is at 2100+ at the time of writing and yes, it is Snake Jar Turnip again for the Rare Era. It is the 4th most popular archetype at 1500+ but it is looking like the best archetype at the top.

There are also Triple Owl, Bubble Aggro, and Topaz (with Turnip) above 2000 VStar. Sponge, Earwing Wing Horn, Confused, and Shield are also up there near the top of Challenger. Sleep Poison, Jinx, and Fury Aggro are common at lower ranked but not at the highest level.

Triple Owl, Snake Jar Turnip, and Topaz are doing well at the very top. Bubble Aggro is finiding it slightly harder at the top based on the win rates. Sleep Poison and Poison are getting pushed down with 42-43% win rate at their respective tops.

The overall matchup spread seems pretty nice. Even the top archetypes have counters. The overall win rate at a particular VStar particular will depends on the archetype distribution. If Earwing Wing Horn and Sleep Poison are still the most popular, Snake Jar Turnip will probably be one of the archetypes based on the matchups.

I think most of us cannot wait until Epic Era arrives. With the ability to upgrade Rare Runes to Epic, there will be more options and perhaps enable more ways to play different archetypes. Who knows, maybe we will even see some new archetypes.

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• 3 most popular archetypes at the very top - Snake Jar Turnip, Topaz, and Bubble Aggro

• Sponge, Triple Owl, Triple Nuts, and Confused also in the mix at the top

• Most popular archetypes in 1200+ - Jinx, Earwing Wing Horn, and Sleep Poison

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger         19        1-19
    Dragon        229      20-248
     Tiger       3149    249-3397
      Bear       3780   3398-7177
      Wolf       5055  7178-12232
      Boar       7794 12233-20026
      Hare      10964 20027-30990
     Chick      49435 30991-80425
       Egg       7872 80426-88297

Already 88k+ players in the first few days of Season 11, which is certainly a promising start of the season. Having said that, similar to previous seasons, most of the players are at Egg, Chick, and Hare. The number of players at Tiger or above is actually similar to last season, so the number of "serious" players has not changed much (yet).

A pretty diverse meta so far across the leaderboard in the early Rare Era of Season 11. I would say Rune Upgrade probably contributed to it in some way. At this stage, many "casual" players, including myself, are still trying to craft and upgrade our runes.

Snake Jar Turnip, Topaz, and Bubble Aggro are the 3 most popular archetypes at the very top with Sponge and Triple Owl also in the mix. Triple Nuts and Confused can also be found not far from Challenger together with the top 3 most popular archetypes overall in 1200+ VStar - Jinx, Earwing Wing Horn, and Sleep Poison.

The win rate data shows the limits of certain archetypes such as Fury Aggro, Poison, and Spikes, where a sub-50% win rate means it will be difficult to climb further.

Matchup data looks decent with most archetypes having some sort of weaknesses. Jinx and Confused are the two that probably have the least polarising matchups, meaning they stand a chance against most archetypes and it is more to do with card draw and discard.

Season 11 is off to a good start with Rune Upgrade being the main new feature this season. I personally have more incentive to play more to gain more moonshards for crafting to upgrade my Runes. The meta seems to be quite diverse so far as players are still trying to optimise their teams. There are more players in Origins this season. The only thing that I hope can also go up would be the number of "serious" players as it is similar to last season at the moment. Maybe the upcoming crypto bull market will bring more serious players into Axie Origins.

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• Strawberry Koi (Counter Stance Koi with Soul Eater Strawberry Shortcake) gains popularity at the top

• Top 3 archetypes: Strawberry Koi, Cocoon Heal, Cuckoo Koi

      Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       4921        1-4921
    Dragon       7207    4922-12128
     Tiger      10902   12129-23030
      Bear      16685   23031-39715
      Wolf      15579   39716-55294
      Boar      12334   55295-67628
      Hare      13989   67629-81617
     Chick      31487  81618-113104
       Egg      19455 113105-132559

Over 130000 total players in Season 10 and close to 5000 players getting to Challenger at the end of Season 10. Hopefully we will see further increases next season!

There is this Mystic Era Aggro archetype with Counter Stance Koi and Soul Eater Strawberry Shortcake, which I just call Strawberry Koi for now, and it is one of the top performing archetypes as we are getting into the Final Era. With Meta Morph, it is a lot easier to netdeck and copy whatever teams that are best performing, so we do see quite a lot of players playing this Strawberry Koi archetype.

Cocoon Heal has gone through some adaptations with Hermit or Kingfisher back. Cuckoo Koi and Sleep Poison sum up the very top of the leaderboard though Sleep Poison is on its way down from the very top.

Jinx and Summon Heal are the 2 archetypes that follow Strawberry Koi, Cocoon Heal, Cuckoo Koi, and Sleep Poison.

This Season we saw quite a lot of innovations around how to best use the OP runes. With Rune Upgrades coming next season, it will be interesting to see if the Upgraded Rare Runes can fight against the Upgraded Mystic Runes, or do we still need to play Mystic Runes in Mystic Era to stay competitive.

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• Cuckoo Koi & Cocoon Heal are the most dominant archetypes at the top

• Counter Stance Wing Horn Koi teams amongst the top

      Rank  # Players      Rankings
Challenger       4360        1-4360
    Dragon       6953    4361-11313
     Tiger      10416   11314-21729
      Bear      11685   21730-33414
      Wolf      17697   33415-51111
      Boar      14166   51112-65277
      Hare      12366   65278-77643
     Chick      28379  77644-106022
       Egg      19568 106023-125590

Over 120000 players in Origins this season. The Tiger peak somewhat disappeared as more players move up to Dragon and Challenger.

Cuckoo Koi and Cocoon Heal are the main 2 archetypes at the top. It has to be said that there has been innovations in various archetypes which can now be easily "net decked" Meta Morph. I am not in the position to say if it is a good thing or bad thing, but from a player point of view, it is always more fun to be able to have more options to customise your own team.

Mystic Era is always difficult in terms of defining archetypes, so there is quite significant number of teams labelled as "Others". At the time of writing, the number 1 team is an "Others" team with a Counter Stance Beast with Wing Horn and Koi.

Another thing to note is that I ran into some API rate limit problem near the end so I may not have captured all data in 1900-2000 VStar.

Besides Cuckoo Koi and Cocoon Heal, Sleep Poison, Summon Heal, Jinx can be found in 2300-2400 VStar.

At the very top of the leaderboard, Cocoon Heal is taking advantage of Cuckoo Koi to climb up further compared to last week. Sleep Poison is now taking advantage of the rise of Cocoon Heal. The overall matchup data is pretty similar to last week as it includes players from 1900+ VStars. Various archetypes have undergone different changes and adaptations for the top teams, whose data is not really reflect in the overall matchup. See Additional Data section below for more data.

For the top players, this Mystic Era maybe the most fun with so many different possibilities and now it is relatively easy to get perfect Axies thanks to Meta Morph. Of course, this also means it is easier to copy other people's teams. For players who do not have expensive collectible Axies, it will be quite a bit more difficult to compete as the top players have perfect Axies for their strategies.

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• Cuckoo Koi & Summon Heal are the strongest at the top

• Fury Aggro, Earwing Wing Horn, Jinx, Cocoon Heal, Bleed AoE also amongst the top

  Rank	# Players	Rankings
Challenger	3411	1-3411
Dragon	6483	3412-9894
Tiger	10414	9895-20308
Bear	7532	20309-27840
Wolf	16186	27841-44026
Boar	18760	44027-62786
Hare	11367	62787-74153
Chick	25014	74154-99167
Egg	18134	99168-117301

Cuckoo Koi is the big one in this Mystic Era. Fury Aggro, Earwing Wing Horn are there as usual with Summon Heal being the main new addition at the top of the meta in the Mystic Era. Jinx, Cocoon Heal, Bleed AoE can also be found at 2300+. At 2200-2300 VStar, we can see Sleep Poison and all sorts of archetypes, some of which are not defined in any of the categories (e.g. Counter Stance with Beech and/or Koi).

Summon Heal and Cuckoo Koi are the best performing archetypes at the top. Snake Jar Turnip is certainly dropping down as Aggro teams are so much faster in Mystic Era. A new archetype that should be mentioned is Fear, which is doing quite well at 2200-2300 VStar, suggesting that there is some potential there.

Cocoon Heal actually has many good matchups, e.g. against Cuckoo Koi, but it is not the best against Fury Aggro and Earwing Wing Horn, which are very popular. Cuckoo Koi is enjoy this meta as long as there are not too many Cocoon Heal around. Again, note that this data is for 1900+ VStar, which does not represent matchup data from the best teams of each archetype. Check out Additional Data below for that.

Mystic Era is always one that is fun to see with the most possibility for innovations. There are quite a number of teams that are not categorised (yet) which are viable at top 1000. I would not be surprised there could be more innovations moving forward now that Meta Morph makes it possible to get optimal Axies for particular strategies. Let's see anything new will come up in the coming 2 weeks.

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• Over 100k+ players in Season 10 in Axie Origins

• Snake Jar Turnip still the most dominant

• Fury Aggro and Earwing Wing Horn still the most popular in Challenger

      Rank  # Players     Rankings
Challenger       2504       1-2504
    Dragon       5380    2505-7884
     Tiger      10689   7885-18573
      Bear       6013  18574-24586
      Wolf       9483  24587-34069
      Boar      25945  34070-60014
      Hare      10245  60015-70259
     Chick      21677  70260-91936
       Egg      15727 91937-107663

Over 100k players in Axie Origins this Season and we are only in Epic Era. As usual a trimodal distribution with most players in Boar. About a third of the players are in Egg and Chick. Over 18000 players at Tiger or above with 2500+ players in Challenger already.

Turns out, Snake Jar Turnip is still the most dominant archetype in the Erpic Era this Season. NOte that only 9 matches were played at 2300+ VStar in Days 10-12 of the Epic Era.

Besides Snake Jar Turnip, we see Earwing Wing Horn (AoE / Feather) and Fury Aggro at 2200-2300 alongside a Turnip Topaz team which has fallen back down to 2100-2200 at the time of writing. Jinx, Sleep Poison, (non-Sleep) Poison, Shield, Pure Damage, and Feather Fan can also be seen at 2100-2200 VStar.

Similar to the archetype usage data. Main thing is the Snake Jar Turnip is still too strong. I expect Snake Jar should get a nerf as it has way too much value, especially played early game it is very hard to counter.

Hopefully the matchup data is useful in chossing what archetype you want to play. Pretty much every single archetype has some form of weakness and it all depends on what you want to be good against, and of course we play style you like. If you prefer very polarising matchups, I suggest playing Shield (Sustain). If you prefer more even matchups, perhaps you can try Anemone or Jinx though Anemone is not doing the best currently.

Looking forward to the Mystic Era where we will should see more strategies with the Mystic Runes. Let see if Snake Jar Turnip, Earwing Wing Horn, and Fury Aggro will still be the most dominant in the Mystic Era.

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As usual, Fury Aggro, Feather, Poison are at the top along side Turnip in the Epic Era. Many different archetypes managed to get to top 1000, mainly as high level evolved Axies of "weaker" archetype can compete with teams with low level Axies. AXP and Meta Morph are certainly making an impact in the meta and I am glad that Axies are becoming the focus again in Origins as opposed to just focussing on Runes and Charms.

tldr:

• Close to 100k players already for Axie Origins this Season

• Fury Aggro, Feather, Poison, Turnip at the top

• Jinx, Triple Owl, Pure Damage, Clover in top 100

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger       1385      1-1385
    Dragon       4065   1386-5450
     Tiger      10668  5451-16118
      Bear       5507 16119-21625
      Wolf       5687 21626-27312
      Boar      24869 27313-52181
      Hare      14049 52182-66230
     Chick      18799 66231-85029
       Egg      14140 85030-99169

Very distinct 3 peaks in terms of player base distribution - 1 at 0-200 VStar for new players who never progressed, 1 at 400-600 VStar for players mostly "Play-to-Rice" and progress slowly over the Season, and 1 at around 1300 VStar at Tiger where players climbed and slowed down at Tiger. At the top end, over 1000 players at Challenger already and more than 10k players at Tiger.

First a bit of update. This time I tried to include more than just the most popular 20 archetypes. Main reason being some "underused" archetypes are making it to the top, and I do not want to omit those archetypes. Obviously it makes the colours harder to see but I tried my best to pick the colour palette to display the data. Another update is that I am moving away from using Runes to define archetypes. Obviously there are some archetypes such as Glorious Mane, Sturdy Fighter, and Healing Pulse that are archetype defining, but I want to focus more on the Axie Parts as I believe those should be the most important element of the strategy of each archetype. I am still in the process of reclassifying archetypes, so next report may see some changes with the arhcetype list (e.g splitting Poison to Sleep Poison and non-Sleep Poison).

In a way, this plot shows the diversity of strategies available in Axie Origins, which makes me appreciate more about the difficulty in the balacing of Origins. Currently, Fury Aggro is the most dominant archetype at the top (and overall at 1700+ VStar), with Feather and Poison being the next 2 dominant archetypes. All have seen these 3 archetypes over and over again for the past few seasons. Turnip and Jinx are also around at the top, which pretty much round up the top 20 players or so.

At top 100 or so there are more archetypes including Sustain, Pure Damage, Triple Owl, Clover, and Topaz Turnip (which is currently labelled as Multiple Archetype).

With the introduction of AXP, I think more archetypes are able to get to the top 1000 or at least to Challenger. Even though the archetype may not be the most competitive, the high level evolved parts help with boosting the power level compared to teams with low level Axies.

For this season, I see more experimentation of different parts in certain archetypes from the introduction of the Meta Morph mechanic. I personally think it makes Origins a more fun game now that players are not limited by the availability of Axies with certain Parts combinations.

Turnip, Feather, Fury Aggro, and Poison are the top in terms of win rate. Again the win rate data reflects the archetype usage data at various Victory Star brackets.

A pretty big table this time. Only matchups with more than 10 games are displayed, and this is for every match with at least 1 player at 1700+ VStar. Fury Aggro is looking pretty good as long as it can dodge Feather, Eggshell Mavis, and Clover. Sustain as usual has the most polarising matchups.

This Season is looking pretty fun. Even though it is mostly the same archetypes, Meta Morph allows players to experiment a bit more even within existing archetypes. I do hope that Fury Aggro and Feather can be changed a bit so that it is not always so dominant season after season, but at least we see quite a number of archetypes being viable at least at top 1000.

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           # Matches Played in Days 3-5
2100+                               870
2000-2100                          5341
1900-2000                         22281
1800-1900                         60016
1700-1800                         64468

It is nice to see different strategies being represented at the top of the Leaderboard. Turnip is still strong but we see Triple Nut and Feather as well. Triple Owl is also somewhere up there.

With Meta Morph, it opens more opportunities for strategies and for getting the perfect combinaiton of cards for the team. I am excited to see how Meta Morph may lead to some new strategies as the Season continues.

tldr:

• Turnip still the most dominant at the top

• Triple Nut, Feather, Triple Owl also seen at the top

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger        390       1-390
    Dragon       2285    391-2675
     Tiger       8407  2676-11082
      Bear       5488 11083-16570
      Wolf       5647 16571-22217
      Boar      11055 22218-33272
      Hare      26461 33273-59733
     Chick      16883 59734-76616
       Egg      11433 76617-88049

Just under 400 players got the Challenger so far but only 11 players are above 2000 VStar at the time of writing. At this point we already see a very clear "Tiger peak" which is a good sign that a significant number of players are playing enough to get to Tiger. Another 10k players joined Origins in the past week and we can getting close to 90k total players already in the Rare Era.

Turnip is still at the top but this time we see Triple Nut, Feather, as well as a Topaz Turnip team ("Multiple archetype" in the plot) at 2100+ VStar. We also see Triple Owl making an appearance at 2000-2100 VStar. Next up at 1900-2000 we start to see Poison, Fury Aggro, Jinx, Anemone, Sponge, and Sustain.

The teams at the very top are certainly doing very well. The archetype win rate matches the info in the archetype usage. One thing notable is the Anemone does not seem to be doing too well and will be difficult to climb further.

In terms of matchup spread, Triple Nut seems to be the one that looks pretty good across the board. Sustain, Feather, and Sandal can be tough matchups but not unwinnable. Similar can be said for Jinx and Anemone but of course this is for overall matchup spread for players above 1500 VStar, so things can be quite different at the very top (though there is not enough data at the very top to conclude much).

This Rare Era seems to be a more balanced one compared to last Season but Turnip is still very strong after the nerf. Another notable things is that we are seeing some collectable Axies at the top of the Leaderboard thanks to Meta Morph. I personally think it is a nice feature from a player point of view as it allows players to access combinations of Cards that are not available due to the lack of Axies with specific Card combinations. It opens up more opprtunities in terms of strategies. I am excited to see how the Epic Era will shape up.

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           # Matches Played in Days 10-12
2100+                                  58
2000-2100                             733
1900-2000                            1988
1800-1900                           16101
1700-1800                           22705
1600-1700                           32011
1500-1600                           48618

Meta Morph is the new thing for Season 10 of Axie Origins, allowing collectable Axies to change some of its parts for Origins. It will for sure have a big impact on breeding as well as the speed at which the meta shifts given the ease of getting perfect Axies for whatever strategies.

At the time of writing, a Mystic Axie is sitting at the top spot of the leaderboard. I can totally see this becoming the norm if the Meta Morph system stays as it is. Excited to see how Meta Morph will change the dynamics of the meta throughout this Season.

tldr:

• Meta Morph already making impact in Origins

• Diverse meta so far in Early Rare Era of Season 10

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger         37        1-37
    Dragon        395      38-432
     Tiger       3966    433-4398
      Bear       3834   4399-8232
      Wolf       5341  8233-13573
      Boar       8622 13574-22195
      Hare      10307 22196-32502
     Chick      33890 32503-66392
       Egg      10626 66393-77018

Already 77k players in the first week for Season 10, which is more than 20% more than the 63k last season. Having said that, more half of the players are at Egg and Chick (the lowest 2 tiers). The rest of the player base seems pretty similar as before.

First we can ignore the 1900+ as there were only 3 games played between Day 3 and Day 5 of the Rare Era in that bracket. When we look at 1800-1900, it is nice to see more diversity. Yes, Turnip is still around but at least it now can be somewhat countered by dispel. Besides Turnip, we see Feather, Fury Aggro, Triple Owl, Bubble Aggro, and Triple Nuts with more than 5% usage. Poison, Anemone, and Jinx can also be found in Challenger.

Of course, it is still early in the Era and I am sure more archetypes making it into Challenger such as Sponge, Sustain, Leafy, Topaz etc. In fact there are Topaz x Turnip teams (even Topaz with Giant Bubble) at the top of the leaderboard!

Anemone seems to be the one having the best time in Challenger at the moment as it has good matchups against Fury Aggro and Turnip, both of which are popular at the top. I am sure the meta will shift as archetype usage changes throughout the Era. Turnip, Feather, and Triple Owl are also doing well in Challenger, while Fury Aggro, Bubble Aggro, and Triple Nut are doing okay. Poison on the other hand is not having the best time this Era.

It is good to see a healthy matchup spread where each archetype has some weaknesses. There are still some very polarising ones, e.g. Spikes vs Turnip, and I personally feel that Spikes need a bit of rework to make it less dependent on the opponent. I personally have been playing a Leafy Tri Spikes team and I just hope to face Feather every game so they proc my Spikes.

A healthy start for Season 10 of Axie Origins in terms of the meta. Meta Morph will be a big factor especially for competitive players fighting for the top spots. Not finanical advice but I think the demand for collectables will continue to increase hopefully as more players are getting into Axie Origins.

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           # Matches Played in Days 3-5
1900+                                 3
1800-1900                           695
1700-1800                          1691
1600-1700                          2685
1500-1600                          6028
1400-1500                         15009
1300-1400                         39203

We are finally at the end of Season 9. It is definitely a Turnip Season from start to finish. This season we saw over 100k players in Origins. With Axie Classic coming back strong, I wonder how will players balance / choose between Classic and Origins. Origins still has better earning power but that may slowly change as Sky Mavis seems to be putting a lot of effort into reviving Classic recently. Let us hope that they will continue their support with Origins and let both Origins and Classic grow together.

tldr:

• A Turnip Season from start to finish

• Close to 120k players in Season 9 of Axie Origins

      Rank  # Players     Rankings
Challenger       5294       1-5294
    Dragon       7395   5295-12689
     Tiger      10529  12690-23218
      Bear      10498  23219-33716
      Wolf      13872  33717-47588
      Boar      14192  47589-61780
      Hare      12782  61781-74562
     Chick      21229  74563-95791
       Egg      23457 95792-119248

Close to totally 120k players in Season 9 of Axie Origins, which is definitely a significant increase compared to previous seasons. Having said that, about 40k players are at 200 Victory Star or below, which means a third of the players never progressed in the game.

In terms of number of players at Challenger, it has not increased much at close to 5300. Do note that players can drop from Challenger back to Dragon, so in theory the number of players in Challenger can decrease due to losing and/or decay.

It is interesting to see the that distribution is quite even / flat between Hare and Tiger. At this point, most players are settled at a particular level based on the power level of their teams.

Only 3 players are at 2500+ VStar at the time of writing with only 20 games players between Days 3 and 5 of the Final Era were played at that level. If we take into account 2400-2500 VStar, we see that Turnip is still the most used archetype at the top followed by Feather and Brutal Claw. I am sure Turnip will be addressed next Season but I hope that other underused archetypes can be adjusted to make them more viable.

Fury Aggro and Ramp Tiny Fan are losing their grounds while Turnip, Feather, Poison, Brutal Claw, and Healing Pulse are still going strong at the top. Jinx has fallen and all the other archetypes are settled at lower VStar brackets.

Turnip really only has one weakness and that is Fury Aggro. The problem is that even though Fury Aggro is the second most used archetype, the chances of matching with other archetypes are still so high that it makes the overall win rate of Turnip the highest. We cannot expect players to all shift to Fury Aggro just to counter Turnip as Fury Aggro is very weak to the most used archetype, Feather.

This wraps up the meta reports for Season 9 of Axie Origins. Best of luck with the final push in the Final Era. Let us hope that there will be some drastic balance changes to shake up the meta. We have seen too much Feather, Fury Aggro, and Poison. Hopefully there will be some new fun stuff for Season 10!

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           # Matches Played in Days 3-5
2500+                                20
2400-2500                          1607
2300-2400                          7483
2200-2300                         14730
2100-2200                         24797
2000-2100                         38955

We are seeing quite a diverse meta at the top. A notable archetype at the top is Ramp Tiny Fan on Last Stand Mech. It is nice to see another archetype finding success, not just the usual over and over for multiple seasons. Let us see if Ramp Tiny Fan will take over as we get to the Final Era of Season 9.

tldr:

• A relatively diverse meta at the top

• Ramp Tiny Fan finding success and climbing

      Rank  # Players     Rankings
Challenger       5033       1-5033
    Dragon       7348   5034-12381
     Tiger      10818  12382-23199
      Bear       7437  23200-30636
      Wolf      13455  30637-44091
      Boar      15653  44092-59744
      Hare      11617  59745-71361
     Chick      18765  71362-90126
       Egg      21993 90127-112119

This week it seems like there are more people at Egg and the distribution has more peaks, suggesting that different players are stuck / settled at various levels. Another 1k players got to Challenger, making it over 5000 players in Challenger.

Finally a more colourful picture at the top which is not just Turnip. We have Feather, Poison, Brutal Claw, Healing Pulse, Turnip, and Ramp Tiny Fan at 2400+ VStar. The interesting one has to be Ramp Tiny Fan on Last Stand Mech seems to be quite viable at the very top.

Turnip is no longer the number 1 archetype once we get to the Mystic Era. Ramp Tiny Fan is the archetype that seems to be climbing and doing well is the current meta at the top. Other archetypes such as Anemone, Perch, Sponge are not making it very far this Season in the Mystic Era.

Matchup table looks like there is not really any OP archetypes. Different archetypes have their good and bad matchups. There are some matchups which are very polarising, which can be frustrating in terms for player experience.

A more diverse meta at the top compared to tthe rest of the Season. Ramp Tiny Fan has been around as an archetype but finally finding success in the Mystic Era of Season 9. It can be frustrating to play against if your team is not fast enough against it. Could it be the archetype that will flood the Final Era? Or will we see even more new innovations?

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           # Matches Played in Days 10-12
2400+                                  51
2300-2400                            2647
2200-2300                           13105
2100-2200                           25287
2000-2100                           40260

All finally have over 100k players in Axie Origins this Season. Hopefully it is a good sign that more players will be joining in future seasons. Perhaps the crossover effect from other Ronin games may bring Axie Origins more players.

As for the meta, Turnip is still strong in the Mystic Era but there are 8 other archetypes along side it at the top. A very diverse meta so far at the top in the Mystic Era. Let's see how the meta will unfold in the rest of the Season.

tldr:

• Over 100k players in Origins this season

• Turnip stilll strong but with 8 other archetypes along side

• Very diverse meta at the top so far

      Rank  # Players     Rankings
Challenger       3947       1-3947
    Dragon       6930   3948-10877
     Tiger      10394  10878-21271
      Bear       6271  21272-27542
      Wolf       9335  27543-36877
      Boar      19138  36878-56015
      Hare      10603  56016-66618
     Chick      17692  66619-84310
       Egg      17887 84311-102197

We have reached the 100k mark this season in terms of players number. The trimodal pattern still exists with many players stuck at Boar and Tiger. Close to 4000 players are getting to Challenger. I personally am still rocking my Rare team hanging around at Dragon I, so it is very much possible to reach Challenger without too much investment in terms of Runes and Charms.

There are only 15 matches played by 2400+ VStar in Days 3-5 of the Mystic Era, and mostly they are played with Turnip. Turnip is still the most popular archetype at the very top in 2300-2400 VStar but there are definitely more archetypes up there including Feather, Fury Aggro, Jinx, Brutal Claw, Sustain, Healing Pulse, Ramp Tiny Fan, and Triple Owl. Of course there are also quite a number of teams I failed to categorised them in an archetype given the diversity of what is viable in the Mystic Era. It is certainly nice to see different archetypes being viable. Let's see if Turnip will still be the strongest in the Msytic Era.

Other than Turnip, Feather, Fury Aggro, Jinx, Brutal Claw, Sustain, Healing Pulse, Ramp Tiny Fan, and Triple Owl are all doing pretty well in climbing. The ones that are falling includes Pure DMG Strudy Fighter, Anemone, Leafy, and Perch. Such is the rise and fall of archetypes as the Era changes.

It is nice to see different archetypes keeping each other in check. The main one that is mostly green (positive win rate) across would be Healing Pulse but it also has some even and not so good matchups. At this point, it should make sense that the Mystic Era is the more balanced one as the team has worked the most on balancing Mystic. It should be quite a fun Mustic Era for those who can and want to afford the Mystic Era. The main challenge is still AXP and leveling. It is not easy even for top players to switch teams because of the time investment required to level up Axies. Will this change with the collectable Axies parts metamorphosis in the future? We shall see.

Seems like a pretty diverse meta so far in the early Mystic Era. Should be a fun one for those who play Mystic Runes and Charms, which are probably those at mid to high Challenger. Let's see if the diverse meta at the top will last until the Final Era or will someone come up with something crazy to break the meta.

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           # Matches Played in Days 3-5
2400+                                15
2300-2400                           865
2200-2300                          5597
2100-2200                         17586
2000-2100                         36215
1900-2000                         61543

Turnip turns out to still be too strong in the Epic Era, but at least there is another archetype that can compete at the top in the form of Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter. The meta seems to be a bit less diverse compared to the Rare Era with the similar few archetypes amongst the top. Let us hope that for next season there will be more archetypes being buffed to the point to being viable (again) at the top.

tldr:

• Turnip still at the very top

• Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter has the highest win rate at the top

• Same few archetypes amongst the top

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger       2992      1-2992
    Dragon       6200   2993-9192
     Tiger      10751  9193-19943
      Bear       5839 19944-25782
      Wolf       5564 25783-31346
      Boar      21351 31347-52697
      Hare       9996 52698-62693
     Chick      15456 62694-78149
       Egg      15037 78150-93186

Closing on to 100k players for this Season. Close to 3000 players at Challenger. It is interesting to see a tri-modal distribution with one at Egg of course, but also one at Tiger and one at Boar. It is interesting to see that amount of players who are stuck at Boar, which is not common from previous seasons.

One additional note from my personal experience. For this season I have decided to go completely free-to-play, playing my Rare team in the Epic Era. With that, I am currently at around Dragon II which means most players around and below Dragon are most likely not be spending much, if at all. This also gives an idea that only around 4000 players out of the close to 100k players spends on the game in terms of crafting and/or Runes and Charms each season.

I was very wrong when I said Turnip may not make it in the Epic Era. Turnip is still very much the most dominant archetype at the very top with Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter along side. Fury Aggro is still around at 2200-2300 VStar. Below that we have Jinx, Poison, Feather as well. Perch, Anemone, Sustain, and Sandal can be seen around 2000 VStar.

Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter seems to be the strongest at the very top though of course we are talking about 1-2 players at 2300+ playing the archetype. The rest of the archetypes are pretty much settled at their corresponding VStar brackets.

Interestingly Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter does not seem to have a particular good matchup against the popular archetypes such as Poison, Fury Aggro, and Jinx, but its good matchup against Turnip may be one that allows it to perform well at the very top. Pure DMG Strudy Fighter seems to be the only one that is giving the top Turnip teams some trouble.

Turnip turns out to still be too strong in the Epic Era. Let us see if this will continue in the Mystic Era. I am sure it will be a fun one at the top in the Mystic Era, but for the majority of us who play casually, we will just watch and see what happens while continuing to grind AXP for our Axies.

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           # Matches Played in Days 10-12
2300+                                 213
2200-2300                            1351
2100-2200                            5746
2000-2100                           19875
1900-2000                           49470
1800-1900                          102437

Turnip is still the number 1 archetype at the top of the ladder. Fury Aggro is still strong despite the nerf in Mask of Frenzy. Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter has the potential for this Epic Era. Jinx is doing pretty well too in this Epic Era. Poison and Feather are still around and the most popular.

tldr:

• Turnip still the number 1 archetype

• Fury Aggro still strong despite nerf

• Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter has a good chance this Epic Era

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger       1698      1-1698
    Dragon       5051   1699-6749
     Tiger      11050  6750-17799
      Bear       5815 17800-23614
      Wolf       4637 23615-28251
      Boar      12728 28252-40979
      Hare      17647 40980-58626
     Chick      13736 58627-72362
       Egg      12157 72363-84519

Close to another 10k players joined Axie Origins in the past week, which seems to be the normal increase. Total number of players getting close to 85k this Season. It may be possible to get to 100k at the end of the Season. Over 1600 players in Challenger, and interestingly more people are climbing up to Hare and Boar as Play-to-rice players get wins at the lower end of the ladder.

Well maybe I was wrong about Turnip. It is still holding up pretty well at the top for optimised teams. Just when we thought Fury Aggro may be dead with the Mask of Frenzy nerf, it does not seem to be the case. Fury Aggro is still very popular AND also very succussful in the Epic Era. I guess it is still not nerfed enough.

One surprising archetype we find close to the top is Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter. And one thing to note is how powerful Snake Jar can be with its 90 AoE DMG (i.e. 270 DMG) for 1 Energy. We have seen it in Turnip but there are Sturdy Fighter teams running Snake Jar as well. Finally, we see Poison and Feather still the most popular and relatively successful, which is a good thing for players playing for AXP rather than at the very top.

Turnip is still the number 1 archetype at the moment. Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter and Poison seem to be doing well to catch up. Feather, Jinx, and Fury Aggro are the other 3 that are around the very top. Other archetypes seem to be falling, with Triple Owl, Sustain, and Sandal hanging on.

Fury Aggro, Sustain, Sponge, and Perch are all good options against Turnip. The biggest thing going for Turnip in general is its good matchups against Poison and Feather, the 2 most popular archetypes overall.

Feather, Sandal and Eggshell Mavis are giving Fury Aggro some trouble, especially for Feather as it is popular amogst all levels.

Pure DMG Strudy Fughter is one to look out for. Its matchups seem to be mostly pretty good. Can beat Turnip and only really struggle against Jinx.

Jinx is in a pretty good spot this Era. Poison is still a problem but otherwise it can beat most other archetypes. It is just unfortunate for Jinx players that Poison is so popular across the ladder.

Turnip turns out to still be very strong in the Epic Era. Turnip and Snake Jar provide so much value. I am glad to see that value teams can make it even when Aggro teams are gaining more tools with Runes and Charms. Combo teams like Sponge and Perch are still a problem for value teams like Turnip. I personally also like Pure DMG Sturdy Fighter with a more Midrange approach having its Shields as well as the new Steal Cunning synergy. Fury Aggro is still strong after the nerf. I hope next season we will see a bigger change in power level, enabling different archetypes to shine.

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           # Matches Played in Days 3-5
2200+                                52
2100-2200                          1324
2000-2100                          8062
1900-2000                         27219
1800-1900                         76858
1700-1800                         84949
1600-1700                         76560

Turnip ruining the party for the balance team this Rare Era, but it is not without its counter. Some top players are shifting to Sponge to counter the Turnip dominance at the top. Let's see how things will play out at the end of the Rare Era.

tldr:

• Turnip dominates the top but not without its counters

• Number of players at Tiger or above is similar to last season

      Rank  # Players    Rankings
Challenger        465       1-465
    Dragon       2973    466-3438
     Tiger      10171  3439-13609
      Bear       5717 13610-19326
      Wolf       5079 19327-24405
      Boar       7280 24406-31685
      Hare      19938 31686-51623
     Chick      14628 51624-66251
       Egg       9105 66252-75356

There are now has over 75000 players who played Axie Origins this seasno with over 400 players made it to Challenger. It is also interesting to see that the numbers at Tiger or above is similar to last season, which suggests the "additional" player count is mostly from Play to Rice playing a game or 2 a day without climbing much.

Turnip seems to be the winner for this Rare Era where the Rare Runes and Charms are not as powerful compared to the value Turnip gives. Rare Era generally favours strong cards given the power level of Runes and Charms are weaker, and Turnip is one example. However it is likely that Turnip may fall off next Era as Aggro hits harder and faster but we will see.

Besides Turnip, we see Feather, Poison, Sponge, Glorious Mane, Sustain, Triple Owl, and Topaz in 1900-2000 VStar. In other words, other Turnip, things are not actually mostly okay.

As usual, some archetypes are better than others. The main one that stands out of course is Turnip at 79% win rate at the very top.

The meta is continuing to evolve even within days. In this report, I collected data for Days 10-12 of the Rare Era. It seems like some of the top players are shifting to Sponge to counter Turnip. The end of the season is probably going to be a fun one for the top players to snipe each other with certain matchups. For the rest of us, just enjoy the diverse meta in whatever VStar brackets we are in.

Turnip ruined it for the balance team this Rare Era. Let's see how things will go in the Epic Era. My guess is that it is probably not going to Turnip but I may be wrong. Let's see.

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           # Matches Played in Days 10-12
2100+                                  79
2000-2100                             784
1900-2000                            2785
1800-1900                           15454
1700-1800                           28431
1600-1700                           42090
1500-1600                           65645