Hello, fellow Lunacian,
Welcome to our 13th edition of Axie News! Let’s start by saying that the last week has been mind-blowing. Updates, new products, a new season, game balancing - all of that we will unpack here. So without further ado, let’s jump right into the news!
🕹 Axie Infinity Updates
Ronin mobile wallet has been released this week, both for iOS and Android operating systems. It is a huge step towards creating a multidimensional ecosystem. The wallet allows users to authenticate, manage and exchange their digital tokens. In the recent interview with Brycent, Jiho mentioned that the Ronin Wallet is going to be useful for enterprises accepting payments in $AXS and $SLP.
It’s a decentralised crypto version of Venmo. - Jiho, co-founder of Axie Infinity.
Season 19 is finally live with 3000 AXS ($400.000+ as of 11.11.2021) in rewards. The duration of the season is 6 weeks. MMR has been reset to 1200 and a major rebalancing patch has been released.
You can read the detailed description of all the changes here.
But I would like to share my point of view and a quick summary of the patch.
The major change in my opinion is the crit formula update. Now, morale directly affects the bonus damage on critical strikes. Lower morale means less critical damage axie is going to deal. For example, a Single Combat card will deal way more damage when played on beasts (beasts have the highest morale in the game).
Some of Aqua cards have been nerfed, while a lot of Bug, Reptile, and Beast cards have been buffed. We will definitely see more bugs in Arena this season.
Terminators have been nerfed as Thorny Caterpillar, Lagging and Tiny Turtle now deal less damage. Poison teams are nerfed too. Garish worm damage and shield have been reduced. Moreover, grass snake now applies only 1 poison instead of 2.
Antenna and Cute bunny were technically nerfed. However, I do think these are still overpowered abilities. Cute bunny applies 2 fear and has crazy stats (100 damage and 35 shield). The antenna is another imbalanced ability. While providing utility in a form of stealing the energy it also deals 80 damage and gives 50 shield. Compared to Antenna, Serious (a plant card) looks like total garbage. So it might happen that Cute Bunny + Antenna are going to remain the major top 1000 team composition.
Beasts were super underpowered in the last season. With the recent patch, they definitely look more competitive.
Overall, it is an interesting update and I am excited to see what kinds of axies are going to dominate the arena. - Se Won
💰 State of the Economy
As you already know, one week ago Sky Mavis has released Ronin DEX, Katana. In such a short amount of time, it became the #1 Ethereum side chain by total volume locked. Deposits are up 46% since the Katana launch. More than 900k active addresses are interacting with the chain daily!
$RON rewards are active, but it’s still not possible to claim them. Everyone in the community is encouraged to add their assets to the liquidity pool to gain LP tokens and then stake those tokens to farm $RON. Why? Because this is the unique opportunity to gain ownership of the Ronin chain. During 90 days, community members who stake their LP will be the first ones to farm $RON. The total amount of RON distributed through farming will be 100,000,000. Later on, you will probably be able to acquire $RON by buying it. Not financial advice and do your own research on this.
With all the updates now in place, Sky Mavis is ready for another spike in growth. The only peace missing still is an adjustment to breeding fees. Right now there are not enough Axies in existence to cover the projected growth so the breeding fee needs to be adjusted to incentivize breeding. With high growth in players, there will be a huge demand for Axies and $SLP might go up, as well as $AXS. Exciting times are coming for the economy. I hope you are ready!
- Mr.Kepolas
👨🏽🤝👨🏽 Community Spotlight
Today’s community spotlight goes to Axie Buzz! I am not sure if this is one person or a guild/organization. Or maybe it’s a guild and a profile of one person at the same time, who knows. But the reason I give Axie Buzz the spotlight is because of his path of “Empowering Lunacians to earn cryptocurrency for creating content about.” Axie Buzz is a strong proponent of the HIVE chain and platform for creatives. It’s a blockchain and a platform where you can create blogs and posts about anything and get paid if your content is upvoted enough. Axie Buzz hosts a group or community of Axie Infinity players on that platform and encourages everybody to start creating. This is a new and great way for everyone in the community to start creating and making some crypto out of it. Well done! Follow Axie Buzz on Twitter and join the Hive platform.
- Mr.Kepolas
🎨 Lunacian Art Scene
In this edition, I want to mention an artist from the Philippines, @Frenchkate1. Her style is very unique and right now she is open for commissions, offering a sweat deal of 300 SLP / one artwork for all Axie community! Go and support the artist and get your axie drawn in her amazing style! - Se Won
⚔ eSports Overview
The eSports scene is going wild once again. Axie E1337 Open #5 is this weekend! Axie E1137 is my favorite tournament. This will be a 2-day event with over $20,000 USD value in prizes! As always we have a lot of great players in the tournament. This tournament is becoming so popular that they now have a waitlist where you can apply to be invited to participate in the tournament. It’s crazy. I definitely recommend watching this tournament. - Mr.Kepolas
❓ Question of the Week
What should I buy to win more often in season 19?
While having a rough idea of the team I want to play in this season, I do not recommend buying anything right now. The balancing update has just been released. There is simply not enough data. Besides that, a lot of people will be fast-selling/buying axies as FOMO kicks in, which means you are at a high risk of paying unfair prices for axies that might not even end up being good in the arena. Just keep on playing what you have played before the update. You might be losing more than you did. But the problem might not be your old team. The MMR is reset and you can end up playing against the top 1000 players from the last season. So be patient and don’t rush. - Se Won
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