Demeter is the only major god with an abundance of ranged units ,including myth units, heroes, unique fortress units, as well as technologies and bonuses tailored specifically for ranged combat. She could never be considered a weak god. Furthermore, we have to keep in mind that Demeter is the most defensive god in the entire game. Why should we buff the most defensive god in the game? It makes absolutely no sense.
Please stop bringing up Demeter’s win/loss ratio. What do you want, for Demeter’s units to turn into high-precision guided missiles?
In my opinion, Demeter didn’t succeed because players were expecting a different type of unit roster and gameplay style. For example: melee Amazon military units, melee Centaurs, military units named “Spartans,” and god powers that were less defensive and more versatile…
Greeks where popular to play except for Demeter who was unpopular to play before the rework. Demeter also was on the low end of win rates.
With both low % play and win rates something needed to be done.
Demeter is now much funner to play after the rework. Overall the Demeter rework was great with some new techs, improvements to some techs, removing the build limit to Amazon Archers and allowing Lykaons to transform from villager to beasts back and forth at will.
Well she was not doing well, for any particular group of players pvp wise. Even pve players mentioned how she felt like a handicap compared to how other gods performed.
Dunno if this is the case considering theres literally Hades which demeter seems more eco focused by comparison imo.
As much as i agree that most people posting flat winrates are missing a bigger picture, i would like to ask you, in what enviroment were you finding demeter to be performing better when compared to other gods?
With how invested people are into tierlist and winrates dunno how much of this is the case. Theres certainly a group of people that would play Demeter if she was good. Theres also a number of people that didnt particularly care about the whole theorycrafts some people did before demeter was anounced and then made them mad when the god didnt cater that specific design.