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Just Got Legend First Time im So Excited!! i agree it is a grind lots of ups and Down But That Feeling of Finally getting it is so Great!!!
"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available." —Cinna, Vedalken Consul
I've played MTG for years and Hearthstone since a couple of weeks before Naxx dropped. I think I've plenty of both. In fact, I've placed in a few opens. 60 card decks means making more choices for cards. More space to fine-tune against a metagame. What cards change in HS decks? 4-6 MAYBE. In HS? You can have 10-15 flex slots sometimes. Being able to sideboard (and indeed, CRAFT your sideboard) is another skill-based aspect of the game HS does not have. There are no hosers you need to plan for in HS. There's far less variety in decks, so the metagame is easier to learn and predict, and even LESS viable cards for each deck in a deck HALF the size.
If skill is defined as applied knowledge, then HS has skill. A very low skill ceiling compared to something like MTG. So low in fact that HS only seems skill-BASED if it's your first card game. In HS you'll never have board states like the clusterfuck that is Humility. You'll never have interactions like Sensei's Divining Top + Abrupt Decay + Misdirection. And a skillful MTG player knows how to resolve that stack and interpret those board states. The most skillful thing you can do in HS is memorize probabilities and know niche interactions like Equality'ing your own damaged Ragnaros Lightlord to guarantee you heal face and other things like that. There's applied knowledge but not much and it's not necessary for the vast majority of games. Much less to know, much less complex, much less knowledge needed, much less skill.
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what now?
for the most parts no it doesn't require more skills than the guy that just reached rank 10 or 5 but getting to legend imo just require a lot of free time and an average player plays
then you underestimate yourself
i am 100% sure you know people, even a lot, who play the decks thzy "pros" use, follow the mulligan guide. Yet can't go over rank 11, or 9 or 7. Because they lack the skills to pilot the deck properly, they take bad decisions but dont realize it. Got another explanation? putting time over and over, if you take bad decisions without realizing they are bad, you will run in circle.
As I said in my previous post, what people lack to understand is that you don't have to argue that it's ONLY skill, or ONLY luck, or ONLY time. I'm positive you can actually understand that there are multiple factors involved, not just one. However, people here seem to disagree on how much skills can weigh on the game's results, in the long run. And I guess it's a matter of opinion, but if I sum up I'd say that skills sure do matter and help getting legend faster, but in general the game is not as skill-based as other games like MTG.
If you want to boil it down to a simple forumla, we can put it this way:
LEGEND RANK = Winrate x Time spent. Simple as that.
Where "Winrate" is influenced by: skill, how deep your card collection is, how strong your deck is, how you can adapt to the meta...
And of course the higher your average winrate (due to better plays, better reads, stronger deck,...), the less time you need to spend to reach Legend rank.
That simple formula pretty much sums up this whole thread.