You forgot shockadin in your list. Freeze mage and aggro hunter are in my opinion the worst matchups, but neither deck is widely played.
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I'm so glad there is prejudice against playing hunter/zoo/[insert FotM deck here]. People like that make the life so much easier for those of us who play to win.
Aggro is manageable as long as you adjust your removals and pacing. You'd simply have to adjust your playstyle after you realize they are aggro. For example, you'd try to drop monsters and not tap as much to maintain your health until you get your molten giants + taunt.
I've always felt that Control Warrior is the counter to warlock given it's insane amount of efficient removals. They can easily take down giants and twilights while being able to dish out high damage burst.
Freeze mage is in a category by itself. You pretty much just have to rush for the face as fast as you can to have any chance.
Is freeze mage really that hard? I mean you have plenty of ways to deal with doomsayers, and frozen minions can be silenced and then attack. Aggro mages destroy me, and shamans tend to remove everything and overrun me eventually, hiding behind his cheap taunts.
I struggle the worst against Mages - both types - currently rank 7. The Midrange hunter, which is thankfully, not super common in my recent opponent pool is also a pain for me, but I get unlucky and it seems they get Deadly+Mark at the best of times.
Doubling up on Shadowflame has been a solid play both against aggro and the more control oriented big minion decks too.
I love when the handlock players thank me for getting their health low enough to drop 2 molten Giants for free then I wipe the board.. next turn they thank me again when they switch to jaraxxus and I send him to the nether world 2 turns later. That's when I give my "justice demands retribution".
I beat an aggro paladin today! Probably not the best player, but my strategy was to empty my hand as much as possible to make devine favor a dead card. Eventually he run out of steam, having used a lot of cars suboptimally.
Question for experienced Handlock players. Which of these decks are are Handlocks most afraid of?
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The 4 times I faced freeze mages, it was impossible to win. Lost them all and currently rank 5.
You forgot shockadin in your list. Freeze mage and aggro hunter are in my opinion the worst matchups, but neither deck is widely played.
I'm so glad there is prejudice against playing hunter/zoo/[insert FotM deck here]. People like that make the life so much easier for those of us who play to win.
Aggro is manageable as long as you adjust your removals and pacing. You'd simply have to adjust your playstyle after you realize they are aggro. For example, you'd try to drop monsters and not tap as much to maintain your health until you get your molten giants + taunt.
I've always felt that Control Warrior is the counter to warlock given it's insane amount of efficient removals. They can easily take down giants and twilights while being able to dish out high damage burst.
Freeze mage is in a category by itself. You pretty much just have to rush for the face as fast as you can to have any chance.
Anything with The Black Knight. Any time I face it it is such a massive tempo shift I normally can't recover.
Also Earth Shock just outright kills Twilight Drakes, if you pull one you literally can't play it.
Is freeze mage that good?
This poll is missing paladin I know a lot of people don't play paladin but that class dominates handlock.
Shockadin is impossible to win, no matter how many taunts/giants you drop it's Equality and gg.
Is freeze mage really that hard? I mean you have plenty of ways to deal with doomsayers, and frozen minions can be silenced and then attack. Aggro mages destroy me, and shamans tend to remove everything and overrun me eventually, hiding behind his cheap taunts.
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I struggle the worst against Mages - both types - currently rank 7.
The Midrange hunter, which is thankfully, not super common in my recent opponent pool is also a pain for me, but I get unlucky and it seems they get Deadly+Mark at the best of times.
Doubling up on Shadowflame has been a solid play both against aggro and the more control oriented big minion decks too.
I love when the handlock players thank me for getting their health low enough to drop 2 molten Giants for free then I wipe the board.. next turn they thank me again when they switch to jaraxxus and I send him to the nether world 2 turns later. That's when I give my "justice demands retribution".
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I beat an aggro paladin today! Probably not the best player, but my strategy was to empty my hand as much as possible to make devine favor a dead card. Eventually he run out of steam, having used a lot of cars suboptimally.
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