(Note: This is a follow-up to my previous post that discussed the Living Legend points of heroes in the Flesh and Blood TCG. That post looked at the Classic Constructed LL leaderboard – this one focusses on the Blitz LL leaderboard)
Classic Constructed is the most popular competitive format for Flesh and Blood TCG, but there are others too – Blitz, Living Legend, Commoner, etc. Blitz is a commonly played faster format that uses Young versions of heroes with 20 life instead of 40 life and decks that have a minimum of 40 cards (unlike CC’s 60), and is the only other format that has a Living Legend system where heroes rotate out of play (when they reach 500 LL points, though this has changed recently). It should be noted that at the time of writing there are heroes that only exist in Young form (such as Terra, Kavdaen, Blaze and Emperor) and so are only legal to play in Blitz.
The Blitz graphs are more straightforward than in Classic Constructed. For one thing, there are fewer data points here because the Blitz leaderboard is updated less frequently – Blitz is generally only played competitively at side events and Skirmishes.
Traditionally heroes rotated out of play in Blitz at 500 points but recently this was (somewhat clumsily) adjusted by LSS to prevent Zen from retiring so quickly after he went from 205 to 505 points in one week! As a result, in November 2024 LSS decided to raise the Blitz LL limit to 1000 points and double every Hero’s point except Zen’s, who now found himself back in the middle of the pack again. This adjustment would have appeared as a sudden discontinuity in these graphs, so I made my own adjustment to keep things visually consistent – when all of the official points doubled, I halved them back down again so they remained consistent with their previous scores, and also I retroactively halved all of Zen’s scores since his introduction. This means that the Blitz LL limit on this graph remains at 500 points (even though it’s officially be 1000 now).
What is interesting in Blitz is that there is no obvious “Mistveil Effect” (seen in CC, where most of the heroes’ scores flatten out in May 2024 when Part the Mistveil was released) – instead it looks like heroes jump in points when other heroes retire. e.g. at the end of Dec 2023 Chane, Kano, Ira and Kassai (Sellsword) all reached LL within a month of eachother and many of the other heroes gain a lot of points immediately after that, presumably because they started winning events once those heroes left. This appears to happen again later when Dash, Briar and Rhinar all rotated out within a couple of weeks of eachother in Aug 2024.
I won’t go over each class individually this time, I’ll just present the graphs below (Blitz excel sheet is posted below too for anyone who wants to look at the data). Assassins and Rangers seem to be the classes that struggle most in Blitz, with none above 150 points. Many of the other classes have a couple of heroes who do really well while the rest linger around the lower end of the leaderboard (this is particularly noticeable in Mechanologists, where the original Dash was quite successful but all the other Mechanologists have less than 100 points). I haven’t shown the minor Blitz-only classes here (Bard, Merchant, Shapeshifter) because they don’t really have any support and haven’t won many games – Melody (Bard) and Genis (Merchant) each have 0 points, Kavdaen (Merchant) has a single point, and Shiyana (the only Shapeshifter) has 22 points. I’ve included Emperor (the only Warrior-Wizard) with the Wizards – he is doing fairly well (despite being dead :D) considering he is a hard-to-find character with Legendary rarity (like Shiyana).
Full dataset: final_LL_table_for_Blitz_25Feb2025
Please let me know if you have any further comments or observations!