Meta King of the Year BeyBlade

It truly seems impossible for game developers to create metagames that are enjoyable for all to play and watch. While the developers keep making the game better and better every month, we still have people complaining about every different meta like it's the worst one yet. Of course there are different reasons that can make meta games so easy to complain about, but the meta king of this year was picked for a specific reason: ease of use.

The strategy - quickly labeled BeyBlade by the community due to it looking like the early-2000's spinning-top toy - involved Nano Boosting a Reaper as he was about to use his Death Blossom Ultimate. This strategy truly showed up during the Overwatch Open LAN, and quickly became a meme. Thanks to both Ana’s quick ultimate charge rate and the nature of Reaper’s ultimate, this strategy was available often and not too hard to execute. Truly all or nothing (all, more often than not), BeyBlade gave only a split second of counterplay in most cases. Characters with stuns had to react to Reaper coming out of nowhere before the incredible damage per second made it too late. Ana was the true MVP during the period this was popular, as she could both start off and shut down this strategy thanks to her aformentioned Nano Boost and her Sleep Dart, respectively. Despite its initial effectiveness, we aren’t seeing as much of the Beyblade these days thanks to the nerf to Nano Boost’s speed increase.