First off, I've never hit legend, (I know stopped reading there) and if I have the time month to month I'm usually falling rank 10 or below. I spend the majority of my month trudging through ranks 15-11 fighting off the strangest mix of aggro and anti aggro decks. Does anyone have any tips for getting through these ranks? Ranks 10 to 5 seem to be more stabilized that you can run some control archetypes with success, but ranks 15-11 are me hoping that RNG gets me a streak to get through it.
I am having very similar experiences to you. I basically just run a Priest control deck over and over until I get a win streak and get to rank 10. I usually put in Golakka Crawlers for Pirate Warrior and others and when against control decks I can usually out last Paladins.
I flew through those ranks in like 10-12 matches using Aggro Druid. Tech cards are OK, but unless you literally playing 35-40% of ONLY that deck type it usually isn't worth it. Just keep your deck as strong as possible and keep the synergy as high as possible.
I'm sorry to break it guys, but if you have a problem getting past rank 10, then you're in your soft spot. When you start to break that code, you will have the same type of problem between 10-5. Then you will be stuck at rank 5, until you learn to play even stronger, finding better synergy, and understanding the meta. I usually play lots of meme decks between 15-8 and then make a push for 5 with some stronger decks, to hit that wall rank 5 wall. Then I play some more meme decks, until I find the motivation for the final grind. I like playing combo, midrange and control.... if you have a veteran cardpool I would recommend wild.
Watch some streams, try to understand why players make certain decisions. Most importantly, know your match up. Know what decks each class are playing. What deck do you prefer to play when climbing? I would recommend playing one deck, so you can understand all the possible outcomes.
Thanks for the replies. I keep resisting using aggro decks, as I could craft them, but just dont want to net deck some pirate deck out of the ranks. Maybe the aggro druid is a good call, and just keep going till I get the breaks. I typically hit rank 10 sometime in the last 3 days of a season, and fly through there with the same decks that were getting mud stomped in 15-11. I'm much more of a casual player, I'm only playing 2-6 games a day or so, and I'm happy landing in the <10 ranks.
I bounce around decks a lot, so maybe that is part of my issue, I just need to stick to one or two decks and run it.
Funny that you mention this. I JUST went through this issue for the past couple days. Aggro isn't consistent enough so I switched to Secret Mage and finally pushed through to rank 10. Hope this works for you as well!
play freeze mage. its pretty good vs aggro and is strong vs control to get you through that bubble. i always seem to run into renolock and a million priests in that bracket and thats what gets me through that has a solid winrate vs pirate warrior and druid/murloc paladin
Most months, I find a spot or two where I get stuck. Often it's somewhere in 15-10 in the second week or 10-5 in the third.
If you don't play a lot, variance makes it all but certain this will happen if your expected winrate is anywhere in the 55-65% range, which it is for most decent players and decks. I honestly don't think there's much more to it than this.
If it makes you feel better, you can switch decks or tech, but honestly unless there's a discernible tilt to the decks you're facing, you're probably just swapping one ~60% wr deck for another.
You should try aggro decks. Playing aggro decks and playing them perfectly is two different things.
Aggro decks are popular because a very small percentage of games, is won just due to your opening hand...or opponent's inability to manage your momentum. The difference between playing aggro and playing like a newbie, is to manage to play flawlessly with a mediocre or bad hand, or against similar aggressive strategies.
I would say if you want to climb consistently, choose a deck you are good at. I play random decks every day, whatever I happen to need for my quests and I tend to climb even that way, just at a slow pace. If I really want to rank up, or I'm at like 1 rank below a Rank Floor, I will switch to a deck I can pilot really well to get there easily. For me, it's nearly always Freeze Mage, that's the one deck I've been using for Ranked and used for Tournaments most consistently, for the last 3 years, it's the deck I'm most comfortable playing. When you have decks that you know very well, it doesn't matter too much what it is as you will pilot it well against whatever you play against.
At the same time, you can pick a really powerful deck, usually very aggressive, and that will get you the same result much faster. I've done this once or twice, but I felt so disgusted doing it that I decided not to repeat it.
Good call. Freeze has been there for ages, and was always something I loved using.
Good call. Freeze has been there for ages, and was always something I loved using.
I don't know if you play Wild or Standard or Both, I do both, I use it in both formats, but I much prefer Wild. In Wild I can use a full list that doesn't have any RNG cards (Mad Scientist I don't consider it RNG since you can even control it). It's much better personally, I always know what every single card in the deck is and will do, and that is what I feel is the best when I need to win, to be in full control of your deck and what your cards will do. Primordial Glyth is a powerful card, but it's RNG reliant, and I can't afford to use that most times, and I will lose in Standard due to it, while in Wild I simply have defined cards instead.
Great points. I havent played standard in ages, for the sake that I have so many from first release collected, and it's so much variety (until the pirates came).
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First off, I've never hit legend, (I know stopped reading there) and if I have the time month to month I'm usually falling rank 10 or below. I spend the majority of my month trudging through ranks 15-11 fighting off the strangest mix of aggro and anti aggro decks. Does anyone have any tips for getting through these ranks? Ranks 10 to 5 seem to be more stabilized that you can run some control archetypes with success, but ranks 15-11 are me hoping that RNG gets me a streak to get through it.
I am having very similar experiences to you. I basically just run a Priest control deck over and over until I get a win streak and get to rank 10. I usually put in Golakka Crawlers for Pirate Warrior and others and when against control decks I can usually out last Paladins.
I flew through those ranks in like 10-12 matches using Aggro Druid. Tech cards are OK, but unless you literally playing 35-40% of ONLY that deck type it usually isn't worth it. Just keep your deck as strong as possible and keep the synergy as high as possible.
I'm sorry to break it guys, but if you have a problem getting past rank 10, then you're in your soft spot. When you start to break that code, you will have the same type of problem between 10-5. Then you will be stuck at rank 5, until you learn to play even stronger, finding better synergy, and understanding the meta. I usually play lots of meme decks between 15-8 and then make a push for 5 with some stronger decks, to hit that wall rank 5 wall. Then I play some more meme decks, until I find the motivation for the final grind. I like playing combo, midrange and control.... if you have a veteran cardpool I would recommend wild.
Watch some streams, try to understand why players make certain decisions. Most importantly, know your match up. Know what decks each class are playing. What deck do you prefer to play when climbing? I would recommend playing one deck, so you can understand all the possible outcomes.
Thanks for the replies. I keep resisting using aggro decks, as I could craft them, but just dont want to net deck some pirate deck out of the ranks. Maybe the aggro druid is a good call, and just keep going till I get the breaks. I typically hit rank 10 sometime in the last 3 days of a season, and fly through there with the same decks that were getting mud stomped in 15-11. I'm much more of a casual player, I'm only playing 2-6 games a day or so, and I'm happy landing in the <10 ranks.
I bounce around decks a lot, so maybe that is part of my issue, I just need to stick to one or two decks and run it.
Funny that you mention this. I JUST went through this issue for the past couple days. Aggro isn't consistent enough so I switched to Secret Mage and finally pushed through to rank 10. Hope this works for you as well!
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play freeze mage. its pretty good vs aggro and is strong vs control to get you through that bubble. i always seem to run into renolock and a million priests in that bracket and thats what gets me through that has a solid winrate vs pirate warrior and druid/murloc paladin
Most months, I find a spot or two where I get stuck. Often it's somewhere in 15-10 in the second week or 10-5 in the third.
If you don't play a lot, variance makes it all but certain this will happen if your expected winrate is anywhere in the 55-65% range, which it is for most decent players and decks. I honestly don't think there's much more to it than this.
If it makes you feel better, you can switch decks or tech, but honestly unless there's a discernible tilt to the decks you're facing, you're probably just swapping one ~60% wr deck for another.
You should try aggro decks. Playing aggro decks and playing them perfectly is two different things.
Aggro decks are popular because a very small percentage of games, is won just due to your opening hand...or opponent's inability to manage your momentum. The difference between playing aggro and playing like a newbie, is to manage to play flawlessly with a mediocre or bad hand, or against similar aggressive strategies.