Gala work can beat it, it's about 50/50. Bomb warriors arn't as good as people think. A 4 mana 3/2 weapon isn't very good. It does put bombs in their deck but you need to not die before you can play it so you need skipper and armorsmith. You also need the pirates to activate those, plus ideally some draw like battle rage. If you don't draw into skipper and armorsmith you will most certainly lose. It's an RNG fest basically. Egg warrior has a much better chance at winning imo.
The fact that we can't come up though with a single deck that hard counters DH is really bad:(
Pureblood Paladin hard counters DH. I’m currently at Diamond Rank 9 with mine and rising.
Gala work can beat it, it's about 50/50. Bomb warriors arn't as good as people think. A 4 mana 3/2 weapon isn't very good. It does put bombs in their deck but you need to not die before you can play it so you need skipper and armorsmith. You also need the pirates to activate those, plus ideally some draw like battle rage. If you don't draw into skipper and armorsmith you will most certainly lose. It's an RNG fest basically. Egg warrior has a much better chance at winning imo.
The fact that we can't come up though with a single deck that hard counters DH is really bad:(
Pureblood Paladin hard counters DH. I’m currently at Diamond Rank 9 with mine and rising.
In my experience pure paladin loses hard to DH and the stats on hsreplay seem to confirm it's a horrible matchup. I am though talking about playing against the best DH deck, tempo DH. Some people confuse tempo DH with aggro DH because tempo DH is so strong it looks like an aggro deck until the resources and aggressiveness simply never stop until they fatigue. You could win against some bad DH lists though.
The optimal tempo DH list is a deck with no hard counters. It is ever so slightly unfavoured vs gala warlock and res priest. Otherwise it pretty much beats everything. You can get a good run against DH in the short term though. Contrast this to say gala rogue which is an incredibly strong deck but it is hard counted by spell druid and face hunter (and other decks that do lots of face damage very fast or go wide very early as they have no board clear). You might think that DH would suffer against a deck like murloc paladin since it goes wide fast but nope it gets smashed, and hard. Tempo DH is so absurd it beats face hunter more often than not which is absolutely insane for a tempo deck with only minor healing.
My complaint against DH is there is no hard counter which is very punishing. If rogue gets too strong in the meta and everyone plays it, you can play a cheap budget face hunter deck and win 70% of the games. What can win against DH to that degree that can keep it in check? Nothing as far as I know. Warrior seems good except it relies too heavily on drawing specific cards that need to interact together and so it's inconsistent vs DH since you don't have time.
For some reason people think Priest counters DH, but the opposite is truth. DH wrecks Priests. Before and after the nerfs. Warglaives breach anything. Altruis and Kayin, too. Adept and Priestess... Priest doesn't draw, while many other decks do. So, Priest, in order to win, needs to kill 3-4 cards with just one card! And smartly manage development / removal sequences, which is a very hard task against players who know what they're doing. Priests counter only Warriors, imho.
Secret Rogue is fine vs. DH. Most lists I see are not good enough to deal with DH, though. Spy is a very good card vs. DH, as a pseudo Eviscerate.
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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
I have been using a pure pally list with extremely good results both vs hunter (5 - 0) and DH (6 - 0) in this season climb to legend. I used the same list pre-patch (waiting till the meta settles to craft anything and no Yrel :'( ), with also good results. From a total of 168 games, score vs DH is 17 - 5 (+77% winrate) and score vs Hunter is 26 - 8 (+76% winrate). Hard mulligan for consec and control board early on, that's it. Hope I help!
Good luck on the climb! Remember, stick to the deck you are most familiar too and do not make the same mistake twice!
Pureblood Paladin hard counters DH. I’m currently at Diamond Rank 9 with mine and rising.
https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1346635-secret-gala-rogue
this is what i have been playing with
In my experience pure paladin loses hard to DH and the stats on hsreplay seem to confirm it's a horrible matchup. I am though talking about playing against the best DH deck, tempo DH. Some people confuse tempo DH with aggro DH because tempo DH is so strong it looks like an aggro deck until the resources and aggressiveness simply never stop until they fatigue. You could win against some bad DH lists though.
The optimal tempo DH list is a deck with no hard counters. It is ever so slightly unfavoured vs gala warlock and res priest. Otherwise it pretty much beats everything. You can get a good run against DH in the short term though. Contrast this to say gala rogue which is an incredibly strong deck but it is hard counted by spell druid and face hunter (and other decks that do lots of face damage very fast or go wide very early as they have no board clear). You might think that DH would suffer against a deck like murloc paladin since it goes wide fast but nope it gets smashed, and hard. Tempo DH is so absurd it beats face hunter more often than not which is absolutely insane for a tempo deck with only minor healing.
My complaint against DH is there is no hard counter which is very punishing. If rogue gets too strong in the meta and everyone plays it, you can play a cheap budget face hunter deck and win 70% of the games. What can win against DH to that degree that can keep it in check? Nothing as far as I know. Warrior seems good except it relies too heavily on drawing specific cards that need to interact together and so it's inconsistent vs DH since you don't have time.
For some reason people think Priest counters DH, but the opposite is truth. DH wrecks Priests. Before and after the nerfs. Warglaives breach anything. Altruis and Kayin, too. Adept and Priestess... Priest doesn't draw, while many other decks do. So, Priest, in order to win, needs to kill 3-4 cards with just one card! And smartly manage development / removal sequences, which is a very hard task against players who know what they're doing. Priests counter only Warriors, imho.
Secret Rogue is fine vs. DH. Most lists I see are not good enough to deal with DH, though. Spy is a very good card vs. DH, as a pseudo Eviscerate.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Tinder Druid completely shuts them down in wild. I just went 20-2 with it.
https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1368393-gaduks-tinder-druid-wild-anti-aggro-control-fun
Hello buddy!
I have been using a pure pally list with extremely good results both vs hunter (5 - 0) and DH (6 - 0) in this season climb to legend. I used the same list pre-patch (waiting till the meta settles to craft anything and no Yrel :'( ), with also good results. From a total of 168 games, score vs DH is 17 - 5 (+77% winrate) and score vs Hunter is 26 - 8 (+76% winrate). Hard mulligan for consec and control board early on, that's it. Hope I help!
Good luck on the climb! Remember, stick to the deck you are most familiar too and do not make the same mistake twice!
Have a nice day!