It's literally never been bad besides that one fire spirit meta
My tier List!

I remember being in arena 3 and trying to kill troops with its land dmg
I don't think we played when Goblin barrel did that. We did play with skeleton army was 21 skeletons though :0

We played when Skeleton Army Costed 4 and had 21 Skeletons
I'm not sure if Goblin Barrel was already changed then
Then we quit for like a solid 2 years

Yeah
I remember coming back to the game and looking and skeleton army and pondering why the preview of the skeleton army seemed to have so little skeletons. I was so sad when I learned that the skeletons were reduced. Oh the good old times when skeleton army could take out a tower if ignored

Skeleton Army was so broken without splash (which was the case with a lot of people who just started)
I think Archers weren't even that good against Skeleton Army
Now Knight can counters skeleton army lol

Minions could kill the old skarmy I think
But there were just so many skellies in old skarmy. It was like a stream of skellies when they converge at the bridge

it feels like it's egiant, mortar, drill, goblin barrel, rg, lava
I thought graveyard was good, but I don't keep up with the meta so
Goblin Barrel is really good right now