Hey guys! So i am kind of tired of those pesky aggro decks and i want to ask you all for an advice. I am at rank 6 now. Today i was 1 win away from taking 5 and i faced 5 aggro opponents (including pirate warrior and aggro shaman) who just stomped me. I played dragon priest with innerfire and secret mage with Antonidas. Both of this 2 decks stood no chance today. Side note: i do not play paladin because i have only basic cards for this class. What can you suggest guys?
Hey guys! So i am kind of tired of those pesky aggro decks and i want to ask you all for an advice. I am at rank 6 now. Today i was 1 win away from taking 5 and i faced 5 aggro opponents (including pirate warrior and aggro shaman) who just stomped me. I played dragon priest with innerfire and secret mage with Antonidas. Both of this 2 decks stood no chance today. Side note: i do not play paladin because i have only basic cards for this class. What can you suggest guys?
Hey guys! So i am kind of tired of those pesky aggro decks and i want to ask you all for an advice. I am at rank 6 now. Today i was 1 win away from taking 5 and i faced 5 aggro opponents (including pirate warrior and aggro shaman) who just stomped me. I played dragon priest with innerfire and secret mage with Antonidas. Both of this 2 decks stood no chance today. Side note: i do not play paladin because i have only basic cards for this class. What can you suggest guys?
They probably don't work because they rely on certain (small) combos. I used to play a deck that worked pretty well. It is a bit outdated, but was really fun:
Control/Gunther mage is fine against aggro for instance.
Gunther mage is decent against aggro druid (if you tech volcanic potion) and pirate warrior but against token bloodlust shaman, it sucks.
If you run double Volcanic Potion it's still fine i m o. Maybe not favoured, but not terrible either.
Double volcanic potion might help but it does not change the outcome of the matchup. Bloodlust just reks you. It's like 80-20 favoured to the shaman, maybe 70-30 with 2x volcanic potion but i don't think cutting something for the 2nd VC just to increase your worst MU's win % slightly is justified.
If it's actually that unfavoured, which I highly doubt, then I've faced some pretty shitty shaman players. Granted I've played very little the past few months, so I've spent most of my time in pleb ranks, but It's not like it's a deck that's hard to pilot.
Not playing in the same rarefied ranks as is GrandPatzer above, but I've had good results with taunt warrior against that deck.
You pretty much have to play it assuming they'll get off a Bloodlust at some point in the game, but if you're smart about your armor and try to give them only good-not-great bloodlust opportunities, you can run them out of stuff pretty readily.
vS rates the match as favorable for taunt warrior overall, although the smaller recent legend sample shows it as nearly even, so it could just be that my opponents are not navigating the matchup as well as they should. Either way, it's fun to play because you have to manage the potential damage from your opponent pretty carefully throughout.
Control/Gunther mage is fine against aggro for instance.
Gunther mage is decent against aggro druid (if you tech volcanic potion) and pirate warrior but against token bloodlust shaman, it sucks.
If you run double Volcanic Potion it's still fine i m o. Maybe not favoured, but not terrible either.
Double volcanic potion might help but it does not change the outcome of the matchup. Bloodlust just reks you. It's like 80-20 favoured to the shaman, maybe 70-30 with 2x volcanic potion but i don't think cutting something for the 2nd VC just to increase your worst MU's win % slightly is justified.
If it's actually that unfavoured, which I highly doubt, then I've faced some pretty shitty shaman players. Granted I've played very little the past few months, so I've spent most of my time in pleb ranks, but It's not like it's a deck that's hard to pilot.
Don't know which ranks you are playing @ but my decktracker tells that my win% against shamans (nearly all were token, few elemental shamans here and there) is 29% currently sitting @ legend #320 with 57 games played against shamans.
Well then I'd say that your stats is probably a lot more reliable than mine. I've only played to rank 5 since un'goro released I think.
But I'd still say that it matters a lot what your list looks like. If you don't run anyVolcanic Potion, which is pretty greedy, I can see how the matchup would be terrible, because without it you almost can't get the board unless you have the perfect draw.
I avoid tech cards for specific decks like crawler and crab. Instead, tar creeper is great against aggro decks. Also, doomsayers are a great way to prolong the game to the later turns. Stonehill defender can get a lot of value in shaman lineups because you can get whiteyes and multiple things from below.
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Hey guys!
So i am kind of tired of those pesky aggro decks and i want to ask you all for an advice.
I am at rank 6 now. Today i was 1 win away from taking 5 and i faced 5 aggro opponents (including pirate warrior and aggro shaman) who just stomped me. I played dragon priest with innerfire and secret mage with Antonidas. Both of this 2 decks stood no chance today.
Side note: i do not play paladin because i have only basic cards for this class.
What can you suggest guys?
Control/Gunther mage is fine against aggro for instance.
https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/decks/control-mage-standard-meta-snapshot-june-5-2017
Fairly standard list, but there are a few tech spots of course.
CW is good versus aggro, but currently struggles to carry enough value to threaten mid-range decks / other control decks.
Control mage is decent versus both.
I play standard atm, but thx anyway
Not playing in the same rarefied ranks as is GrandPatzer above, but I've had good results with taunt warrior against that deck.
You pretty much have to play it assuming they'll get off a Bloodlust at some point in the game, but if you're smart about your armor and try to give them only good-not-great bloodlust opportunities, you can run them out of stuff pretty readily.
vS rates the match as favorable for taunt warrior overall, although the smaller recent legend sample shows it as nearly even, so it could just be that my opponents are not navigating the matchup as well as they should. Either way, it's fun to play because you have to manage the potential damage from your opponent pretty carefully throughout.
I don't have so many of those cards but that looks CRAZY fun!
Here's a good one vs aggro, made a few rage. You know it's good when they add you to bitch haha
Defeat Deathwhisper!
I avoid tech cards for specific decks like crawler and crab. Instead, tar creeper is great against aggro decks. Also, doomsayers are a great way to prolong the game to the later turns. Stonehill defender can get a lot of value in shaman lineups because you can get whiteyes and multiple things from below.