Hearthpwn

Yesterday I finally reached legend (after a two-year break), and instead of satisfaction the only feeling I got was that the game is punishing me for that achievement. I played 20 games after reaching legend, with the deck that got me there, and I got 5-15 or so.

Literally out of nowhere, I started getting one of the most obnoxious decks that ever existed in HS history, most of them was hyper-aggro. Like, Pirate Rogue, the last time I saw it, when it was, half a year ago?

Amongst other there was Shadowform Aggro Priest (10 or so games), which, once again, I didn't encounter in a very long time.

Libram Paladins, coming one after another. I haven't seen a single one while climbing the ladder. Not a single one on bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond, but literally dozens on legend? This is outrageous.

The game felt especially rigged when I encountered a Golakka Crawler used against my minion. I mean, using THIS in 2025?

The whole rant isn't about players using hyper-aggro decks, it's about game suddenly started throwing only this type of decks at me, like no other types exist. Like reaching legend means you're crossing some threshold, and fun is no longer allowed.

Weird flex, but okay. 

If you didn’t see a single libram paladin or shadow priest while climbing to legend and were ‘happy’ with what you face given we’re in a much quicker meta as well as some quite scary combo decks when you probably had so many losses the ranking system thought you were single bronze or whatever. When you go to legend you tend to face better players. What were you playing?

I never said I was "happy" with what I faced when I was climbing the ladder, that's your words, not mine.

I am playing with my own non-meta custom hunter amalgam deck. I play on the phone, so I don't have the exact statistics, but from my feelings it has about 70% wr. I can't say that I had many losses with it. I lose occasionally, sure, but I also had 10-win-in-a-row streaks many times with it.

With all due respect, I can't agree that I started to "face better players" in legend. It's more like that I suddenly started to face decks that I encountered so rarely that I almost forgot about their existence. My question is: if Libram Paladin or Shadow Priest is so effective why I didn't encounter them a single time several seasons in a row? Are diamond players (just an example) so silly that they all decided not to use effective decks like these? Not a single diamond player?

All I wanted to say is that I feel drastic difference between non-legend and legend, like it's two non-intersecting worlds.

I had a very similar experience when I reached legend a few months ago.  I suspect that below the top few hundred players, most player start playing whatever they think might be fun or interesting.  I found new contentment in reaching Diamond.  This season on Standard I was one star away from hitting Diamond 5 when the game started punishing me like this.  Weird storms of matchups like this seem to happen periodically.  So I'm taking a break on Diamond 10 while waiting for the miniset.  

You can not reach conclusions after day or two, or what seems not so many games.

Wrong: "fun is no longer allowed". It is allowed. mostly for tha playey who wins. What happened on your way up? You had fun, won many games while others felt loss. Still your opponents did not rush to open discussion, develop theories. Maybe they  kept on playing with another deck, maybe did something else.

Ye, sometimes i get feeling that my deck is 'not working as ususl',  things I try in BG don't suceed. So I play another deck, another class, sometimes develop a new deck, whatever. Or I play with my other user, another region. if I may suggest - try.. it is fun to restart from beginning and be happy to reach something.

I  wonder how you mention together :  "after a two-year break" + "the last time I saw it, when it was, half a year ago" + " I didn't encounter in a very long time". But maybe my clock is under frost spell...

I believe the decks you mentioned seeing once you hit Legend are all popular decks for fast climbing.  Personally, I tend to see a lot of them once I reach Diamond ranks.  Even before then really.  I usually just climb quick to Diamond and then mess around with whatever I feel like will be fun, maybe try new meme combos, etc.  So realistically, if others play the way I do you could quite a few Diamond players playing "ineffective decks".

I'm curious though, did you take a two year break from Hearthstone completely, or just from climbing to Legend?  If you took a long time off from the game itself, you may have had very low MMR assigned to your profile.  Hitting Legend would have bumped you up quite a bit to now face more of the serious, grinding, meta bro players who take the game and rank way too seriously.

By saying "after a two-year break" I meant "I haven't reached legend for two years". It was two years without reaching legend, not a two-year break in playing. Sorry if that ambiguity brought any confusion.

Win rates in wild are way more one sided at times so if you’re playing Hunter, a class that isn’t good in wild at all and even playing a meme deck when you come up against tier 1 decks you’re gonna get pumped.