MCC 22 was one of the most legendary events, with two super star teams going head to head.
However, this MCC’s battle box showed a completely different story.
Today, we’re gonna dive deeper into that story by covering four of the top performing
teams, the Yellow Yaks, the Lime Lamas, the Aqua Axolotls and the Cyan Coyotes.
The last time Jojo and Blushi played Battle Box together in All Stars they were able to
provide great bow support.
But on this map these gals prove that they aren’t supporting players, they are the
main attraction.
The map has a lay-out that looks quite similar to the canal map, having two distinct paths
to the wool.
While both paths force conflict between teams, the boat path is notably riskier than the
dock, being more open and having gaps to fall into.
The map in general has lots of open space and spots to hide, making this a map very
much centered around bowing.
With this in mind, Sylvee pushes the right side while Geenelly soft pushes left.
Both Jojo and Blushi then stay in their spawn to bow.
This team is the most bow heavy out of all the teams, moving as a unit while staying
back to bow, only rushing in when it is deemed safe.
The standout performance on this team was Jojosolos, not only getting tons of kills
with her stone sword but also using her bow really effectively.
In terms of their item usage, Sylvee also made good use of her bow but Geenelly had
a hard time hitting people and Blushi had a restrained use of her Jump potion.
However, their biggest weakness by far was their passiveness overal.
Their strategy of staying back until the enemies went for wool meant that they often stood
at the same place for a long time.
This meant that whenever teams started pushing they got stuck, forcing them to take oncoming
arrows.
This cost them some games against more aggressive teams, as you will see later on.
Still, they won a respectable 6 out of 9 matches, getting a total of 25 kills with Jojo getting
15 of them.
It was Quig’s birthday this MCC, so for his birthday he doesn’t just get his cake,
he eats it too.
Solidarity pushes left with his crossbow while Quig pushes right.
Pearl stays back to support with arrows while Smajor uses his jump potion to get to middle.
Rushing middle is not very ideal on this map since it is easy to cover it with arrows,
so Smajor doesn’t get the wool.
Instead, he distracts the opponents by jumping around as if he is going for wool, wasting
the opponents arrows while the others of Lime can whittle them down.
But no distraction is good without a backstab and Quig was there to give it to them.
He crushed his opponents with his stone sword and racked up a total of 18 kills, nearly
tying the battle box kill record.
The rest of the team held their own Weight as well, with both Pearl and Solidarity getting
4 kills, Pearl especially doing good damage with her bow, saving Quig a couple of times.
Their biggest weakness, besides implementing this strategy only after 3 games, is that
Scott himself didn’t do much damage.
Often Quig was enough to compensate for that, but that wasn’t always a guarantee.
This meant whenever Scott was out early it became very hard for Lime to then get the
win.
Still, they did really solid, getting 6 out of 9 wins, second overall in points.
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
- Sun Tzu This team had the unique situation where they
switched strategy halfway through the game.
Their first strategy was pretty simple: Hbomb pushes boat while Grian pushes dock, with
both Scar and False staying back to bow.
This strategy was pretty flawed as it allowed teams to easily target Hbomb and Grian before
they took out the rest.
So after losing six rounds where they only won two games, they switched up their strategy.
Instead of staying back to bow, Scar goes into mid with his jump potion to pressure
wool.
This might not seem the greatest move since wool can be easily covered by enemy arrows,
which is where Grian jumps in.
Literally.
Instead of pushing the dock he instead uses lilypads in the lake to quickly get to the
enemies side to try to melee them.
This attracts the attention of many of the opponents, pulling attention away from the
wool.
This way, Scar easily fills the wool in and gets Aqua the win.
The biggest downside to the strategy is that this doesn’t get much kills and thus less
coins, but it seems that didn’t matter for this team much since the only team they fully
wiped was orange, and that was only barely.
Not to mention, they only won 2 out of 6 games before they switched strats, and after the
strat switch they proceeded to win every game.
Still, in the end they got quite some kills, getting a collective of 14 kills with Hbomb
getting a respectable 7 kills.
A good showing for a team not predicted to do well in Battle Box.
If MCC 22 proves something it is that Cyan teams always do excellent in Battle box.
Seapeekay goes on the boat path alone, Ranboo and Wisp rush the dock and Wilbur supports
them with bow shots.
This put Seapeekay in a risky spot, but by playing extra conservatively he is able to
safely get hits with his crossbow.
With this in mind, Ranboo and Wisp can wreak general mayhem on the opponents.
The biggest reason this team got so many wins in the end was definitely Ranboo.
Ranboo used his jump potion incredibly well, not just being a distraction for opponents
like Smajor did for Lime but also being great in doing cheeky damage.
It is by no surprise that the only match Cyan lost was when Ranboo was the first to go down.
That isn’t to put down the other Cyan members, because when one Cyan fell down, another Cyan
was there to pick it up.
The rest of their kit usage was also pretty good.
Wilbur put his plenty of arrows to good use, Seapeekay pushed back opponents with his crossbow
well, and Wisp slayed many opponents with his stone sword.
An interesting note however is that Seapeekay got more kills with his sword then Wisp did,
even though they both got the same amount of kills.
This still led them to winning eight of nine rounds in the end with a combined 33 kills,
Ranboo getting the most with 10 kills.
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Well, let’s see these teams in action!
Being the first round, the teams scramble across the map, figuring out the lay-out while
trying to bow each other.
A loose arrow by Scar snipes Wilbur, but Hbomb has to back down due to half his health getting
yanked by Ranboo.
This means that False is left alone in a 2v1.
In an effort to save False, all of Aqua put their entire focus on Wisp and Ranboo, but
with bow support from CPK, Wisp and Ranboo are able to successfully dodge whatever Aqua
throws at them and while Aqua crumbles under the might of Cyan.
It first seems that the teams are deadlocked in a bowing match, but Scott unknowingly exposes
himself in the open, which gets punished by Sylvee.
While Quig Quigly finishes off Sylvee, Solidarity loses the 1v1 against Jojo.
Quig then tries to clean her but Jojo makes a smart move to fall back with her teammates.
With Lime being low on health and out of arrows, Yellow pushes middle, forcing Lime to contest,
which gets easily punished.
Even though Yellow forgets to kill Pearl, they still win the round with ease.
This match really shows why Ranboo’s distraction is so significant.
Ranboo feels a bit bold and rushes solo into Scott and Pearl, which catches the attention
of the entire Lime team.
Even though Ranboo loses the 1v1 against Scott, Wisp is there to clean it up, and with Quig
being stuck in a bow battle with Seapeekay he can only watch while his team gets decimated
by Cyan until he goes out last.
This round certainly is where Quig shined the most.
Scar makes a run to the wool to contest, but Scott has the same idea and he quickly takes
out Scar.
Grian gets destroyed in a 1v1 against Quig so in a rush Hbomb tries to get the wool.
Sadly he doesn’t have enough time to finish the rush and gets killed by Quig.
Lastly, False gets backstabbed by Solidarity while Quig cleans her up.
A total wipe.
This battle shows why playing defensively isn’t always the best option.
Geenelly initially soft pushes left but almost immediately has to back down.
Sylvee then tries to rotate to push Cyan but the rest of her team stays back to bow.
This means she exposes herself to Cyan’s arrows and thus also has to back down.
Yellow now backed into a corner, Cyan pelts them with arrows.
CPK recognising the weakened Yellow he rushes in to finish Yellow off for 3 kills.
A clean sweep.
Grian wastes no time whatsoever and immediately rushes over to the yellow side, trying to
get Jojo low.
While Geenelly recognizes that Scar is rushing and tries to bow him, the rest of Yellow is
too busy trying to kill Grian.
Hbomb recognises this chaos and tries to clean Yellow out, getting a kill in the process,
but by then Scar has already finished the wool.
Aqua won against one of the strongest pvp teams in only 10 seconds.