Hearthpwn

Hi, guys, I just currently fell from rank 1 as a hunter after getting obliterated by Razakus Priest.  The stats say 38%, but I probably have a low 20% win rate since I forgot to record myself getting destroyed around rank 2.

Funny, I recently answered to someone's concerns that mid-range hunter is a counter to Priest. So, what is a deck that can significantly counter Priests (Besides fatigue warrior and secret mage)?

ive seen a lot less pirate warriors, which is what the deck youre playing is built to farm. go a little greedier with your minions. big priest will still be a nightmare if they barnes on 4 into obsidian statue and a res you just lose. highlander priest shouldnt be so bad though. dont play too hard into dragonfire. I'm running CotW as a 1-of in my hunter deck, its a nice little late game burst if they have somehow survived that long to finish it off. they cant really afford to play their deathknight so u can continually pressure the board. if he doesnt raza you dont even want to play your deathknight since 2 face damage every turn is pretty powerful and puts him on a clock which forces him into sub optimal plays.

Tremendous success with Mill Warlock.  That and quest mage are my bitch.

Against Big priest on turn 8 they finally drew the 5/5 shadow clone card on my latest game.  They cast the spell and sat there for nearly the entire turn with nothing on their board before they realized I got lucky and sniped all of their creatures.

Jade Druid, Exodia Mage, and Midrange/Face Hunter were by far my worst matchups.   Mage was probably an instant loss. 

Mill decks will work exodia mage will work aggro decks will work against highlander seriously there is too much counter to highlander priest.

Punch them in the face and play around nothing unless you are 90% sure they have it.

Pray that they draw badly. It's basically a dice roll because they have every tool to do every thing but everything is a single copy. Yea it's pretty dumb but people thinked Jade druid are dumb ( including me ) because it is way too consistent. I don't think there is a way to beat a well drawn priest with current decks tho.

 Murloc/Midrange Paladin is still consistent enough to rush them down.  At least potentially.  Won't win every time, but it'll give you a good shot.

According to VS Live, MR Hunter vs. Highlander Priest should be a coin-flip. But Jade Druid, Secret Mage, Big Priest, Exodia Mage, Pirate Warrior are all favored against Razakus Priest. Murloc Paladin, too, even if only slightly.

On the other hand (unless for some reason you're facing almost exclusively Highlander Priest) you should take into account how these decks perform against the rest of the meta. For example, Exodia mage has the worst overall WR of them all (41% atm), so I wouldn't pick that for my anti-priest needs ;)

HTH

I reached the point where I auto-concede when I face Highlander Priests. At the moment I play Evolve Shaman, Tempo Rogue, Asmodai Hunter and Murloc Paladin. Even against Exodia Mages and Jade Druids these decks do very well but there is absolutely no chance against these Priests. 

There is one exception: You draw ALL the nuts every turn AND the Priest has to draw very bad. After about 250 games with my decks I can say that this is not the case by 95%. They nearly always has answers to everything combined with the infinte power of "Andu-win" which is supported by card draw mechanics like Elise Starseeker and so on.

In my opinion they have too many things to survive the early game and later you just don't have enough power to resist. Please note: I'm just talking about my experience of aggro and midrange decks. I don't know if other control decks do better or if Priest is also the top dog there. As I said I decided to concede when I face them because I don't feel like playing long games where I know that I will loose anyway.    

I had a very satisfying meme win as miracle rogue where I got the DK and blasted him faster than he could blast me.

But yeah generally it's a major pain. Dirty rat or some good aggro can work well though.

Priest is so strong they need to nerf him the only reasons that hunter is strong is because hunter is strong early game and every class playing aggressive , and priest is the only that can beat aggressive decks so if they buff him or his death knight the game will become stupid

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I reached the point where I auto-concede when I face Highlander Priests.

As I said I decided to concede when I face them because I don't feel like playing long games where I know that I will loose anyway.    

 

Hunter is terrible against a Good priest player, I have a 73% win rate against Hunter with Priest.

Best success with Hunter so far if they get perfect draw impossible to beat them. 

use highlander priest. duh

Any of the following decks are techinically favored against Raza Priest, so you want to win the match-up most of the time I can recommend the following:

a) Renomage or Control Mage with an obligatory Frost Lich Jaina
b) Aggro Druid
c) Malygos Shaman
d) Malygos Druid
e) Big Priest (ugh hate this one to be honest)
f) Aggro Shaman
g) Dude Paladin
h) Exodia Mage
I) Freeze Mage

Hope this list helps! :)

Big druid is about a 70 percent win rate vs priest

Big priest plays very good against Highlander