Getting to rank 5 is easy for me but rank 4 is extremely difficulty. What do I need to learn? I mostly play warrior, like control playstyle, and I've been rank 3 with miracle rouge a year ago.
they really need to do like other card games and put tournaments in the game, but you can only play 1 deck in the tournament with no modifications after you sign up.
it will show you what the best decks are, OR it will tell you why hearthstone shouldnt be a competitive card game.
There is none. Even above and well into rank 10+, there is barely any visible difference. HS has such a low skill ceiling, it's hard to NOT play "decent". There is also a huge RNG factor that makes it impossible to outplay your opponent if he draws every answer, or if you draw the wrong part of your deck. There is nothing you can do about that.
I really don't understand all that talk about the meta and adapting to it... let's say you've faced 3 Hunters (2x Midrange, 1x Beast) during the last hour. You modify your deck, and tech in one or two cards that really help that match-up. Then you play another hour... and no Hunter. How was that helpful ? And what do you do now ? Go back to the original list, or have faith you'll meet Hunters again very soon ?
ya im not of the belief that you can "meta" for a certain rank, when your opponents are likely to be playing different decks to "counter" the meta themselves possibly. you just gotta find a strong deck and get better draws.
I strongly disagree with everyone who says there is no skill-difference above rank 5. In my opinion, above rank 5 is where skill matters the most.
Proof:
Players get consistenly to Legend every Season, while others got stuck between Rank 5 -1. If it is only luck-based, you can't get every season to Legend, while everybody should reach Legend some time. But this is not the case. You can reach Legend consistenly every season when you are a skilled player!
If you let 2 equally skilled Players play each other 1 Million games, both players will reach Rank 5, because of the Bonus Stars. They don't advance to Rank 4. If 1 Player is better than the other, he will reach Rank 4, while the other got stucked at Rank 5. Now every season over 10k player reach Legend. While only 50% of players advance from rank 5 above (simplification if you don't fight Legend players while ranking), you have to be better than 50% of your field in Rank 1, Rank 2, Rank 3 and Rank 4 to advance. That's why alot of players (50% simplificated) got stucked, because they belong to the 50% who are worse than the ones who advance.
Is it technically possible that everybody reaches Legend? General speaking No, because not everybody can have an above 50% winrate. There must be equally player winrates under 50%. But Technically yes, if Legend or rank 6 and above Players loose alot against Ranked 1-5 Players, so more than 50% can advance every Rank.
The Meta:
The Meta is overrated in the "Race to Legend"-Run. The Meta is very important, if you want to reach Top 10 Legend/Tournaments or kinda stuff, because you play against every other player, who also doesn't do any or only minor mistakes and play their best. Then you have to counter the Meta to get an edge above other high-skilled player.
Skill:
The biggest Skill-difference i learned from rank 5 above is, good players make less mistakes/bad plays, whatever you call it. It doesn't matter what deck you play, as long as you play it good and you get a 50% above winrate. So you will advance. Of course, if you have a strong meta-deck, it will make your life easier, because you will get a higher winrate and reach Legend in shorter time, but in the end, playing any deck as good as you can, is enough to advance, because you are going to beat all the players, who plays their decks poorly.
Stats:
Here is what you should aim for, to reach Legend from rank 5 above: 60% winrate, in 125 games, you'll get 25 Stars. That's roughly 21 hours gameplay, if 1 game takes 10 minutes/average. If your winrate is higher, you need less time, if it's lower you need alot more games/time. For instance, with a winrate of 55%, you need 250 games, with 51% you need 1250 games to reach Legend. <- This is why alot of people consider it as a huge Grind, because they have a low winrate and come to the conclusion that it is not skill-based and use the limit of time as an excuse for not reaching Legend, but still might have played more than 250 games. Yes, you still need a dedicated time to make it to Legend every month, but it is not as bad as alot of people say, IF you are skilled.
Good luck everybody! Play a good deck and play it at your best!
People get consistent legend because they play a lot. That's all there is to it, once you have reached a certain, rather low, compared to other games, competitive level. Of course you can also blaze through ranks 5 to 1 without a single loss, but that's definitely not an attribute to skill - at least not past a certain aspect. The "if you are skilled" is exactly the point here. To be considered "skilled", you don't need much.
The difference between rank 5 and Legend is mostly time played. The win percentage drops toward the top and of course you don't get win streak bonuses. Thus, it just becomes a time grind.
You haven't read the article. It is "technically" impossible that everybody advances above rank 5 if everybody plays alot to reach Legend. For every player who advances, there must be player who doesn't advance. The difference between those 2 players is called Skill.
So even if both players play alot, 1 player doesn't advance, because he has less Skill than the other. Even if they play alot say 1 million games, only 1 player advances. If you blame it on RNG, then why only the same player advance? So there must be some form of skill, which let to the result. If it's purely RNG, 50% of the time, the 1st player advances, 50% of the time the 2nd player advances if both play alot.
hate how the term "skill" gets thrown around so much in this game. there is very little room for "skill" in a game like this. why dont people use the term "game knowledge" or "deck choice" or something.
The people who are best at card games are those who can understand there's and there openets game plan and still have the flexibility to change it mid game depending on what they play
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Getting to rank 5 is easy for me but rank 4 is extremely difficulty. What do I need to learn? I mostly play warrior, like control playstyle, and I've been rank 3 with miracle rouge a year ago.
they really need to do like other card games and put tournaments in the game, but you can only play 1 deck in the tournament with no modifications after you sign up.
it will show you what the best decks are, OR it will tell you why hearthstone shouldnt be a competitive card game.
There is none. Even above and well into rank 10+, there is barely any visible difference. HS has such a low skill ceiling, it's hard to NOT play "decent". There is also a huge RNG factor that makes it impossible to outplay your opponent if he draws every answer, or if you draw the wrong part of your deck. There is nothing you can do about that.
The difference between rank 5 and Legend is mostly time played. The win percentage drops toward the top and of course you don't get win streak bonuses. Thus, it just becomes a time grind.
É óbvio que à medida que o ranking sobe também a qualidade dos jogadores. Jogar em ranking 15 não é o mesmo que jogar em ranking, apenas um exemplo.
The people who are best at card games are those who can understand there's and there openets game plan and still have the flexibility to change it mid game depending on what they play