now that the nerfs are live I'm currently sitting on a great pile of 8645 dust and I would like to ask all of those Giant Naga Hunter players out there to spread some guidance as to what list I should be looking for and what I should be crafting.
I'm funnilly enough missing every single Giant but I'm willing to craft some epics to give it a spin. Hunter has been my favourite class since GvG and Giants Hunter is one of the only archetypes I haven't got to try yet.
Another question of course is how succesfull are you currently with Giants Hunter? If there are any interesting decks with a decent winrate floating around I'm happy to give those a spin aswell. Cheers for any submitions!
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I haven't seen many Giant Hunters around lately, but there's plenty of Giant Warlocks. And I dare say they have a higher winrate (and are much easier to play) than Cubelock.
Question is, are you sure this is what you want to play? The whole deck leans on one card, and that's Naga Sea Witch. If you don't draw it early enough, you lose. If you do draw it and your opponent has an immediate answer to you flooding the board with giants, you lose. If your opponent has no counter, you win.
It's very boring gameplay for both involved, but you can make that choice.
Yeah Giants lock is just a better version of Giants hunter at the moment and you queue into it all the time at high ranks in wild. There's not much point in playing Giants hunter I feel like... Better to just play face hunter with spellbreakers. You'd have a better chance of beating all the Warlocks.
It's very boring gameplay for both involved, but you can make that choice.
Even though I haven't played the deck I find it quite entertaining to lose against. And as I said it's a very different deck for Hunter than what has been and is played since the beggining of Hearthstone, but I don't want to sink my dust into a bunch of Giants and end up being sad that the deck performs very mediocre on ladder. Thanks for stopping by though, appreciated.
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I whouldn't heavily invest in a Naga-Deck at the moment, because I wouldn't be suprised if Blizz decides to change or nerf the Naga in the (near?) future and then you are sitting of a bunch of "useless" giants.
Blizzard should make a special stream lessons or youtube videos in which they explain the the only way hs should be played is with supa dupa 1000 IQ control/combo homebrewed decks and 30 minutes long match is a minimum time period that proves you're not braindead blah blah something etc.
Giants hunter is still decently strong. Due to cards like Tracking, King's Elek, Stitched Tracker it is equally if not more consistent than Nagalock. It loses to aggro very consistently and that is usually why the warlock giants is preferred over it.
A guy used it to get to Legend for about 3 seasons in a row. Check out Thesinakoleon ~ he pioneered the build in EU.
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Naga Hunter has dropped off in popularity a great deal over the past couple months. At its peak, the deck represented about 40% of Hunter builds on ladder - it's currently about 15%. The deck wins against slow control builds, and typically struggles against fast decks, and Priest. The Wild meta currently features lots of Priest and fast Paladin builds, so I suspect it might be a difficult and expensive slog if you craft all the giants . . .
Hunter sucks when playing the control role, so even though you do run some stuff to slow down aggro (Explosive Trap, Wandering Monster, Bow and so on), the best route is to assemble your combo pieces ASAP for a T5~4 Naga. If you manage to pull even just 2 giants against aggro at turns 4 or 5 you may comeback from a losing spot. Against Priest you should hurry as well, since after turn 6 they can deal with your board no matter how big, so pulling the combo ASAP even if not having a full board of 8/8s is mandatory too.
Other Control archetypes may have too slow answers (Warlock for example) or rely on 2 card combo to clear your board (Paladin, Mage) - so you can take your sweet time. Thing is: wether it is a favored or bad match up, people play Hunter variation over lets say Giant Lock cause it pulls off the combo way quicker and more consistently. So, always go for the hard mull and attempt for the turn 5 Naga.
I'm not even a Wild player myself but managed to get rank 1 in only a few days running Giant Hunter last season. Definitely a strong deck.
that card is just a reflection of how much blizzard cares xp they wont nerf it , get over it. or as blizzard would probably say after all this time leaving that shit unchanged: suck it..oh and shhh buy more packs, wink wink
It's very boring gameplay for both involved, but you can make that choice.
Even though I haven't played the deck I find it quite entertaining to lose against. And as I said it's a very different deck for Hunter than what has been and is played since the beggining of Hearthstone, but I don't want to sink my dust into a bunch of Giants and end up being sad that the deck performs very mediocre on ladder. Thanks for stopping by though, appreciated.
If you like hunter, this can be a really fun deck with a decent win-rate. I think it is similar in some ways to freeze/combo mage (or any combo deck) you either get your combo or you don't and rarely you will pull off a win without it. Which giants are you missing, because you don't need all of them. And you may be able to 'try out' a version with a giant or two less to get a feel for it. I like it a little better than other OTK combo type decks because it can be a little more flexbile and DK Rexx has won me games without a devastating Naga turn.
I used Giant hunter at the start of the season and went from 20-13 and only lost about 2 games. It was a fun climb, most people at lower ranks are surprised by it (or at least expecting a more popular hunter) though at higher ranks there are a lot more answers for it.
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Greetings fellow Hearthstone players,
now that the nerfs are live I'm currently sitting on a great pile of 8645 dust and I would like to ask all of those Giant Naga Hunter players out there to spread some guidance as to what list I should be looking for and what I should be crafting.
I'm funnilly enough missing every single Giant but I'm willing to craft some epics to give it a spin. Hunter has been my favourite class since GvG and Giants Hunter is one of the only archetypes I haven't got to try yet.
Another question of course is how succesfull are you currently with Giants Hunter? If there are any interesting decks with a decent winrate floating around I'm happy to give those a spin aswell. Cheers for any submitions!
Add me up if you're looking for someone to play friendly matches with! I play on EU. LuckyScrub#2745
I haven't seen many Giant Hunters around lately, but there's plenty of Giant Warlocks. And I dare say they have a higher winrate (and are much easier to play) than Cubelock.
Question is, are you sure this is what you want to play? The whole deck leans on one card, and that's Naga Sea Witch. If you don't draw it early enough, you lose. If you do draw it and your opponent has an immediate answer to you flooding the board with giants, you lose. If your opponent has no counter, you win.
It's very boring gameplay for both involved, but you can make that choice.
Yeah Giants lock is just a better version of Giants hunter at the moment and you queue into it all the time at high ranks in wild. There's not much point in playing Giants hunter I feel like... Better to just play face hunter with spellbreakers. You'd have a better chance of beating all the Warlocks.
Add me up if you're looking for someone to play friendly matches with! I play on EU. LuckyScrub#2745
I whouldn't heavily invest in a Naga-Deck at the moment, because I wouldn't be suprised if Blizz decides to change or nerf the Naga in the (near?) future and then you are sitting of a bunch of "useless" giants.
Giants hunter is still decently strong. Due to cards like Tracking, King's Elek, Stitched Tracker it is equally if not more consistent than Nagalock. It loses to aggro very consistently and that is usually why the warlock giants is preferred over it.
A guy used it to get to Legend for about 3 seasons in a row. Check out Thesinakoleon ~ he pioneered the build in EU.
Here's a current list from HSReplays -
https://hsreplay.net/decks/M4HfHpAs65p9om96rVp2bg/#gameType=RANKED_WILD
Naga Hunter has dropped off in popularity a great deal over the past couple months. At its peak, the deck represented about 40% of Hunter builds on ladder - it's currently about 15%. The deck wins against slow control builds, and typically struggles against fast decks, and Priest. The Wild meta currently features lots of Priest and fast Paladin builds, so I suspect it might be a difficult and expensive slog if you craft all the giants . . .
Hunter sucks when playing the control role, so even though you do run some stuff to slow down aggro (Explosive Trap, Wandering Monster, Bow and so on), the best route is to assemble your combo pieces ASAP for a T5~4 Naga. If you manage to pull even just 2 giants against aggro at turns 4 or 5 you may comeback from a losing spot. Against Priest you should hurry as well, since after turn 6 they can deal with your board no matter how big, so pulling the combo ASAP even if not having a full board of 8/8s is mandatory too.
Other Control archetypes may have too slow answers (Warlock for example) or rely on 2 card combo to clear your board (Paladin, Mage) - so you can take your sweet time. Thing is: wether it is a favored or bad match up, people play Hunter variation over lets say Giant Lock cause it pulls off the combo way quicker and more consistently. So, always go for the hard mull and attempt for the turn 5 Naga.
I'm not even a Wild player myself but managed to get rank 1 in only a few days running Giant Hunter last season. Definitely a strong deck.
One aspect that hasn't been brought up yet is what it's like to actually pilot this deck.
Let's put it this way - this deck takes up one of my precious 18 deck slots and I call it "Giant Yawn" because I find it boring AF.
If you like high-roll garbage, you may enjoy it ;)
that card is just a reflection of how much blizzard cares xp they wont nerf it , get over it. or as blizzard would probably say after all this time leaving that shit unchanged: suck it..oh and shhh buy more packs, wink wink
Blizzard is a lie for money lul