This is not a real thing. Your opponents aren't playing 5d chess predicting what you'll play and counter queuing you. This just variance combined with confirmation bias.
Like the other guy said, it's better to just play one deck and stick to it. Not only because you can't predict the ladder, but also because learning to play one deck well will get you farther than playing an assortment.
This is not a real thing. Your opponents aren't playing 5d chess predicting what you'll play and counter queuing you. This just variance combined with confirmation bias.
Like the other guy said, it's better to just play one deck and stick to it. Not only because you can't predict the ladder, but also because learning to play one deck well will get you farther than playing an assortment.
You can play all the games in the world but bad draw game after bad draw games after opponent having the opening hand nuts will make you reconsider your choice.
Didn't you know, Hearthstone is the pick this deck - go up against that deck game. Every single match up, doesn't matter what deck you pick to play, you'll most of the time go up against your hard counter.
It might be superstition to me but this I found that this all started happening when HSReplay came out and with every deck on the site showing you their hard counter, it's been more frequent.
I can absolutely understand the sentiment, and that feeling of "the game is out to get me" with all of the counters you hit, bad draws you have compared to your opponents, etc. I reset to rank 6 yesterday and I've fallen already to rank 7 one star, and it feels like every single game is an impossible counter or draw that I'm trying to overcome. It's all in your head though, mate. Like others have said, find one good deck that you enjoy that has a +50% win rate, learn to pilot it, and you will climb.
Thing is, getting to 5 feels like a walk through the park, but then getting from 5 to 3 actually takes almost an entire week, getting from 3 to Legendary seems impossible, as you always fall all the way back to 5, and then there are hundreds games between that and getting back to 3 and from there you are basically stuck.
It is consistent too, it is EVERY bloody month the same dumb procedure., it almost feels like as a F4P player you are not allowed to pass through. LOL
Yup agreed rank 5 onwards is really a painful grind for not much reward. I also only play to rank 5 standard every month, then switch to meme decks or try hit rank 5 in wild (at least there its more fun). So yeah bottom line once you get to rank 5 just have fun do something different in hearthstone, maybe even battlegrounds...
The bottom line is, do whatever your goals are. If you play to have fun (I know, what a notion) and rank up during it, great. If you really wanna put the time in, and getting legend satisfies you, do it. Just enjoy the game, for most there is no other purpose.
I have noticed some wierd match making when I first change a deck. Especially when I change to an off meta deck, it seems like suddenly I'll be facing mage which I haven't faced all day, but given time the matches will go back to "normalish" it still feels like non-standard decks are allowed to face off each other more often though.
Hard counter's though? That's literally impossible in a binary system (because the hard counter is getting a softball) unless they're purposefully trying to make you feel bad by creating bots and having you queue into the bot hard counter, which seems highly unlikely... they want you to feel good about yourself and keep playing the game. If anything a soft bot might be thrown in once in a while to make it easier to ladder.
Tl;dr the conspiracy you're talking about is literally impossible without bots. And having bots do this is impossible because Blizzard doesn't act against its own interest.
I play most of the time with rogue and 1/3 or more of my games is vs hunter.
Soon I try with control warrior, is favored vs hunter but bad vs many others, I never will see a hunter again, don't matter if I play 10, 100 or 10.000 games.
I play most of the time with rogue and 1/3 or more of my games is vs hunter.
Soon I try with control warrior, is favored vs hunter but bad vs many others, I never will see a hunter again, don't matter if I play 10, 100 or 10.000 games.
>.<
We need to clarify here. Control warrior is good against face hunter, but is actually unflavored against midrange dragon/Reno builds.
I play most of the time with rogue and 1/3 or more of my games is vs hunter.
Soon I try with control warrior, is favored vs hunter but bad vs many others, I never will see a hunter again, don't matter if I play 10, 100 or 10.000 games.
>.<
We need to clarify here. Control warrior is good against face hunter, but is actually unflavored against midrange dragon/Reno builds.
Face hunter is a free win, literally 100% winrate, dragon agressive builds (the ones using the free 3/3 minion) are easy too, midrange dragon and highlander are 50/50 matchs.
The nightmare for control warrior is control priest and any rogue deck.
Didn't you know, Hearthstone is the pick this deck - go up against that deck game. Every single match up, doesn't matter what deck you pick to play, you'll most of the time go up against your hard counter.
It might be superstition to me but this I found that this all started happening when HSReplay came out and with every deck on the site showing you their hard counter, it's been more frequent.
I dont support the conspiracy theory but i like to add my super low rank experience few days ago while i had to play eight 1 mana cost minions to complete my quest, so made a deck full of 1 drops to play a game in wild..rank 24...my opponent was a ''troll'' playing a meme deck based in the reveal a minion in each deck mechanic..i added the guy he was excited it was the first time playing that deck ...hearthstone is pure fun
I would like to mention something related to the op post and the conspiracy theory. So some days ago I was countering a big wave of rest priest with a deck which was like 3-0 (3 consecutive priest matches) then the 4 match was against another priest and... after mulligan before the cards glow if they are playable the game just crashed, that match never happened, none player lost or gained stars and after that I did not find another priest for like 2 days. I think there was no way I would lost that match so the only way blizzard could balance my winrate was crashing the game.
Wish I had this experience more often, but most of the time when I'm playing some little meme deck just trying to complete a quest all I end up queuing against are tier 1 and 2 meta deck with opponents who are apparently just farming gold in casual. Most of the time they absolutely destroy me before I make much progress on my quest while sitting there bm'ing the whole time like they're actually doing something.
There was one time though... Play so many spells quest, put together a Mage deck with Luna and Sorcerers Apprentice and almost nothing else but 1-mana spells. And the New Mage Quest on top. Managed to cycle through almost my whole deck in one turn and this Tier 1 meta deck opponent just quit. Was funny as hell, because I was gonna concede after I got all my spells off. Lol
So funny reading all these theories on unfair match making, this must mean that there are a bunch of people out there who blizzard decided to only let them play their most favorable match ups, man they must be lucky as hell! Or maybe all the hard counters that play against you are blizzard employees, out there to get you?
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Hello everyone,
Who else had the experience whatever he plays, he get the counter matchup?
I fall from rank 4 - 3 stars to bottom of rank 5 and i guess 60 % matchup, 30% draw and ok 10% skill with two bad decisions ex post.
Matchups (pick - opponent)
1.Quest priest - galakrond rogue
2.Quest priest - galakrond rogue
3. Galakrond rogue - embidden druid
4. Dragon hunter - mech pally
5. Dragon hunter - dragon hunter
6. Quest priest - galakrond rogue
7. Galakrond rogue - face hunter
8. Galakrond rogue - galakrond rogue
9. Face hunter - quest priest
10. Galakrond rogue - quest shaman finally a ein
11. Galakrond rogue - face hunter
So at least can play meme decks again...
This is one of the reasons it's better to pick a deck and stick with it. Also 11 games is not enough sample size to determine anything.
This is not a real thing. Your opponents aren't playing 5d chess predicting what you'll play and counter queuing you. This just variance combined with confirmation bias.
Like the other guy said, it's better to just play one deck and stick to it. Not only because you can't predict the ladder, but also because learning to play one deck well will get you farther than playing an assortment.
I can relate.
Hard to stick to one deck when you hit a wall of losses. The win/loss swings in this game are the worst I’ve ever seen in anything gaming.
You can play all the games in the world but bad draw game after bad draw games after opponent having the opening hand nuts will make you reconsider your choice.
Didn't you know, Hearthstone is the pick this deck - go up against that deck game. Every single match up, doesn't matter what deck you pick to play, you'll most of the time go up against your hard counter.
It might be superstition to me but this I found that this all started happening when HSReplay came out and with every deck on the site showing you their hard counter, it's been more frequent.
I can absolutely understand the sentiment, and that feeling of "the game is out to get me" with all of the counters you hit, bad draws you have compared to your opponents, etc. I reset to rank 6 yesterday and I've fallen already to rank 7 one star, and it feels like every single game is an impossible counter or draw that I'm trying to overcome. It's all in your head though, mate. Like others have said, find one good deck that you enjoy that has a +50% win rate, learn to pilot it, and you will climb.
Thing is, getting to 5 feels like a walk through the park, but then getting from 5 to 3 actually takes almost an entire week, getting from 3 to Legendary seems impossible, as you always fall all the way back to 5, and then there are hundreds games between that and getting back to 3 and from there you are basically stuck.
It is consistent too, it is EVERY bloody month the same dumb procedure., it almost feels like as a F4P player you are not allowed to pass through. LOL
Just play to rank 5 every month. The rewards are about the same. Climbing past 5 is a pain in the ass, for what?, accolades?
Yup agreed rank 5 onwards is really a painful grind for not much reward. I also only play to rank 5 standard every month, then switch to meme decks or try hit rank 5 in wild (at least there its more fun). So yeah bottom line once you get to rank 5 just have fun do something different in hearthstone, maybe even battlegrounds...
The bottom line is, do whatever your goals are. If you play to have fun (I know, what a notion) and rank up during it, great. If you really wanna put the time in, and getting legend satisfies you, do it. Just enjoy the game, for most there is no other purpose.
I have noticed some wierd match making when I first change a deck. Especially when I change to an off meta deck, it seems like suddenly I'll be facing mage which I haven't faced all day, but given time the matches will go back to "normalish" it still feels like non-standard decks are allowed to face off each other more often though.
Hard counter's though? That's literally impossible in a binary system (because the hard counter is getting a softball) unless they're purposefully trying to make you feel bad by creating bots and having you queue into the bot hard counter, which seems highly unlikely... they want you to feel good about yourself and keep playing the game. If anything a soft bot might be thrown in once in a while to make it easier to ladder.
Tl;dr the conspiracy you're talking about is literally impossible without bots. And having bots do this is impossible because Blizzard doesn't act against its own interest.
For me happen with hunter.
I play most of the time with rogue and 1/3 or more of my games is vs hunter.
Soon I try with control warrior, is favored vs hunter but bad vs many others, I never will see a hunter again, don't matter if I play 10, 100 or 10.000 games.
>.<
We need to clarify here. Control warrior is good against face hunter, but is actually unflavored against midrange dragon/Reno builds.
Face hunter is a free win, literally 100% winrate, dragon agressive builds (the ones using the free 3/3 minion) are easy too, midrange dragon and highlander are 50/50 matchs.
The nightmare for control warrior is control priest and any rogue deck.
I dont support the conspiracy theory but i like to add my super low rank experience few days ago while i had to play eight 1 mana cost minions to complete my quest, so made a deck full of 1 drops to play a game in wild..rank 24...my opponent was a ''troll'' playing a meme deck based in the reveal a minion in each deck mechanic..i added the guy he was excited it was the first time playing that deck ...hearthstone is pure fun
I would like to mention something related to the op post and the conspiracy theory. So some days ago I was countering a big wave of rest priest with a deck which was like 3-0 (3 consecutive priest matches) then the 4 match was against another priest and... after mulligan before the cards glow if they are playable the game just crashed, that match never happened, none player lost or gained stars and after that I did not find another priest for like 2 days. I think there was no way I would lost that match so the only way blizzard could balance my winrate was crashing the game.
Wish I had this experience more often, but most of the time when I'm playing some little meme deck just trying to complete a quest all I end up queuing against are tier 1 and 2 meta deck with opponents who are apparently just farming gold in casual. Most of the time they absolutely destroy me before I make much progress on my quest while sitting there bm'ing the whole time like they're actually doing something.
There was one time though... Play so many spells quest, put together a Mage deck with Luna and Sorcerers Apprentice and almost nothing else but 1-mana spells. And the New Mage Quest on top. Managed to cycle through almost my whole deck in one turn and this Tier 1 meta deck opponent just quit. Was funny as hell, because I was gonna concede after I got all my spells off. Lol
Switched to Highlander Hunter, as soon as I did every 2nd opponent runs Albatross, though its suposedly just in "7% of all decks"
Talking about fixed Matchmaker bullshit.
So funny reading all these theories on unfair match making, this must mean that there are a bunch of people out there who blizzard decided to only let them play their most favorable match ups, man they must be lucky as hell! Or maybe all the hard counters that play against you are blizzard employees, out there to get you?