[ GAMING ][ NOUN ]
The recurring cycle of a game's balance patches making certain strategies dominant for a stretch before the next patch swings the meta somewhere else.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That build was busted for a whole patch rotation before they finally nerfed it."
LORE & ORIGIN
Competitive-gaming vocabulary naming the predictable back-and-forth pattern across successive patches, not just one patch's changes.
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