Now that it seems every player is playing a netdeck fully optimized to beat whatever deck I am playing I can't seem to win in ranked mode anymore. Are there any free resources available to get better at the game? Or are there any decks that are strong and easy to play so I could get some accidental wins based on the strength of my deck without my bad play getting in the way?
i hate to say this but just play brainless aggro and you will get your ranked wins fast and easy. just drop your cheap minions and go face (probably with hunter). Or if youre playing wild just play big priest.
Now that it seems every player is playing a netdeck fully optimized to beat whatever deck I am playing I can't seem to win in ranked mode anymore. Are there any free resources available to get better at the game? Or are there any decks that are strong and easy to play so I could get some accidental wins based on the strength of my deck without my bad play getting in the way?
As usual to all players who don't post what are they playing: WHICH DECKS ARE YOU PLAYING? IN WHICH RANK, HOW'S YOUR COLLECTION?, F2P?
Check hsreplay.net for decks, stats and guides. Also, download hsdecktracker, it synchs you collection to your hsreplay account and lets you know what decks you can build or how much dust you're missing.
Watch streamers or go to the countless help sites. Hsreplay, vicious syndicate, hearthstone top decks, hearthpwn, tempostorm, etc.
Watching streamers is a completely waste of time.
Not necessarily. I don't watch much, but I like how Kibler describes the threats your opponent has in their deck. "If I make move A, Im dead if he plays ____." Being familliar with common archetypes helps you realize leathal ranges and when you have to play around removals.
Guys, not worth to answer OP. He starts similar threads every other day and as soon as he gets some helpful responses he just abandons the thread and opens another one. He doesn't give any detailed information, he just complains about something and doesn't say thanks when getting help or useful suggestions. Really awful behaviour.
Something that really helped me was watching pros stream. Especially the ones that explain what they're doing. I'll often decide how I'd play with their hand and sometimes they do something completely different. After thinking about it its often better than my play.
The best non-free method is to pay $5 a month to HSreplay to get detailed information. Then what you do is click Meta on the top menu, click Matchups, select your Time Frame, such as the past 1 day, select your Rank Range, such as Legend Only, select your Region, such as All Regions, and then click on EWR in the far right - this stands for Expected Win Rate, and shows you how each archetype is expected to perform *currently* based on recent data.
So right now for those constraints Midrange Hunter is the top deck at an expected winrate of 55.04%, followed by Clone Priest at 51.57% and Odd Rogue at 51.10%. Then you go to the decks, select Midrange Hunter, and find the best Midrange Hunter deck, build it, and that gives you the best chance to move up the ladder, assuming you're as skilled with Midrange Hunter as you are with any other archetype.
Another benefit of using this method is that the top archetype changes frequently. Today it's Midrange Hunter, tomorrow it might be Odd Paladin, the next day it might be Odd Warrior. So not only are you always selecting the optimal archetype for the current meta, you're always playing and becoming more skilled at a variety of decks, which comes in handy if you plan to play in the upcoming online tournaments where you have to bring (and preferably be skilled at) at least 4 decks across 4 classes.
And if you don't enjoy playing Midrange Hunter, you can select another archetype to your liking that also performs well.
i hate to say this but just play brainless aggro and you will get your ranked wins fast and easy. just drop your cheap minions and go face (probably with hunter). Or if youre playing wild just play big priest.
If you like creating your own decks, I wouldn't suggest you just start netdecking in order to win. The most important thing when making your own decks is not having anything unneeded in your deck and constructing it so in most cases, you have something to play on curve starting from at least 2 mana and plenty of removal as well, if you're a control kind of player. So instead of netdecking, you should study the type of deck you like, IE Combo, Control, Aggro etc and see how the most popular decks are constructed and try to use that knowledge when building your own deck. For example, when I got N'zoth I was just mindlessly making Nzoth decks by throwing as many deathreattles into my decks as possible but after I started watching the streamer called Dane, I noticed how his deathrattle decks were constructed and whenever I made my own after that, I made sure to remember which core pieces he used to keep the deck as steady as possible even when you're not getting the outcomes that happen in ideal situations.
renolock is quite easy to play and not too expensive, it might take a few weeks to gather the dust but it has and will always be reliable, since it just has answers to everything
I love to create and test decks and new things. I did build a lot of good decks that were gorgeous to play but in the end lost most games against T1 netdecks and droped in ranking. Especially hunters at the moment and at some point frustration comes up..
So i did dust off my most successful deck from witchwood/first boomsday month, adapted it with three cards from rumble and went straight up 5 ranks with 40 games at 68% winrate... I also think that control warrior is propably the playstyle that fits me most and i can play it half asleep...With the fall of shudder shaman this deck shines again.
52% of oponents were hunters thats a wooping 21 of 40 matches and i won 18. (Two bad luck one misplay as losses).
Now i take a break from serious play again trying griftha gift deck ... LoL.
EmoGit gave the best advice here ;-). Thats how you start to win and enjoy it.
Quite frankly up until Rank 3/2 it's really easy to climb up because until these ranks (and often above) opponents make many mistakes during the game. Some tips:
1. Understand the meta
2. either jump on the bandwagon and play the strongest class (currently hunter) or play their counters (odd pala, even warlock, priest and the likes) , this will grant you a positive winrate if played well (coming to point 3)
3. try to play as optimal as you can, take your time to think ahead for the future turns
Don't play a sub optimal deck, if you are missing more than two legendaries try another deck even if it has a lower win rate , take your time on each play , follow the advice above. At rank 15 and above you really need to have all the cards needed. Mulligan for aggro play more, play slower
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Now that it seems every player is playing a netdeck fully optimized to beat whatever deck I am playing I can't seem to win in ranked mode anymore. Are there any free resources available to get better at the game? Or are there any decks that are strong and easy to play so I could get some accidental wins based on the strength of my deck without my bad play getting in the way?
i hate to say this but just play brainless aggro and you will get your ranked wins fast and easy. just drop your cheap minions and go face (probably with hunter). Or if youre playing wild just play big priest.
Do you have a decklist? I'm playing standard.
### Why is Oondasta here?
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 2x (1) Dire Mole
# 2x (1) Springpaw
# 2x (1) Tracking
# 2x (2) Crackling Razormaw
# 2x (2) Scavenging Hyena
# 2x (3) Animal Companion
# 1x (3) Ironbeak Owl
# 2x (3) Kill Command
# 2x (3) Master's Call
# 1x (3) Spirit of the Lynx
# 2x (3) Unleash the Hounds
# 2x (4) Dire Frenzy
# 2x (4) Flanking Strike
# 2x (5) Tundra Rhino
# 1x (6) Deathstalker Rexxar
# 2x (6) Savannah Highmane
# 1x (9) Oondasta
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔
As usual to all players who don't post what are they playing: WHICH DECKS ARE YOU PLAYING? IN WHICH RANK, HOW'S YOUR COLLECTION?, F2P?
Watch streamers or go to the countless help sites. Hsreplay, vicious syndicate, hearthstone top decks, hearthpwn, tempostorm, etc.
Check hsreplay.net for decks, stats and guides. Also, download hsdecktracker, it synchs you collection to your hsreplay account and lets you know what decks you can build or how much dust you're missing.
Not necessarily. I don't watch much, but I like how Kibler describes the threats your opponent has in their deck. "If I make move A, Im dead if he plays ____." Being familliar with common archetypes helps you realize leathal ranges and when you have to play around removals.
Guys, not worth to answer OP. He starts similar threads every other day and as soon as he gets some helpful responses he just abandons the thread and opens another one. He doesn't give any detailed information, he just complains about something and doesn't say thanks when getting help or useful suggestions. Really awful behaviour.
Something that really helped me was watching pros stream. Especially the ones that explain what they're doing. I'll often decide how I'd play with their hand and sometimes they do something completely different. After thinking about it its often better than my play.
The best non-free method is to pay $5 a month to HSreplay to get detailed information. Then what you do is click Meta on the top menu, click Matchups, select your Time Frame, such as the past 1 day, select your Rank Range, such as Legend Only, select your Region, such as All Regions, and then click on EWR in the far right - this stands for Expected Win Rate, and shows you how each archetype is expected to perform *currently* based on recent data.
So right now for those constraints Midrange Hunter is the top deck at an expected winrate of 55.04%, followed by Clone Priest at 51.57% and Odd Rogue at 51.10%. Then you go to the decks, select Midrange Hunter, and find the best Midrange Hunter deck, build it, and that gives you the best chance to move up the ladder, assuming you're as skilled with Midrange Hunter as you are with any other archetype.
Another benefit of using this method is that the top archetype changes frequently. Today it's Midrange Hunter, tomorrow it might be Odd Paladin, the next day it might be Odd Warrior. So not only are you always selecting the optimal archetype for the current meta, you're always playing and becoming more skilled at a variety of decks, which comes in handy if you plan to play in the upcoming online tournaments where you have to bring (and preferably be skilled at) at least 4 decks across 4 classes.
And if you don't enjoy playing Midrange Hunter, you can select another archetype to your liking that also performs well.
nice r15 advice here 10/10 solid.
This site has a great resource, but you can check out HS Replay as well
If you like creating your own decks, I wouldn't suggest you just start netdecking in order to win. The most important thing when making your own decks is not having anything unneeded in your deck and constructing it so in most cases, you have something to play on curve starting from at least 2 mana and plenty of removal as well, if you're a control kind of player. So instead of netdecking, you should study the type of deck you like, IE Combo, Control, Aggro etc and see how the most popular decks are constructed and try to use that knowledge when building your own deck. For example, when I got N'zoth I was just mindlessly making Nzoth decks by throwing as many deathreattles into my decks as possible but after I started watching the streamer called Dane, I noticed how his deathrattle decks were constructed and whenever I made my own after that, I made sure to remember which core pieces he used to keep the deck as steady as possible even when you're not getting the outcomes that happen in ideal situations.
I actually came across a guy playing Zoolock earlier today! Haha! XD
I guess some people simply cant let go...
renolock is quite easy to play and not too expensive, it might take a few weeks to gather the dust but it has and will always be reliable, since it just has answers to everything
I love to create and test decks and new things. I did build a lot of good decks that were gorgeous to play but in the end lost most games against T1 netdecks and droped in ranking. Especially hunters at the moment and at some point frustration comes up..
So i did dust off my most successful deck from witchwood/first boomsday month, adapted it with three cards from rumble and went straight up 5 ranks with 40 games at 68% winrate... I also think that control warrior is propably the playstyle that fits me most and i can play it half asleep...With the fall of shudder shaman this deck shines again.
52% of oponents were hunters thats a wooping 21 of 40 matches and i won 18. (Two bad luck one misplay as losses).
Now i take a break from serious play again trying griftha gift deck ... LoL.
EmoGit gave the best advice here ;-). Thats how you start to win and enjoy it.
Quite frankly up until Rank 3/2 it's really easy to climb up because until these ranks (and often above) opponents make many mistakes during the game. Some tips:
1. Understand the meta
2. either jump on the bandwagon and play the strongest class (currently hunter) or play their counters (odd pala, even warlock, priest and the likes) , this will grant you a positive winrate if played well (coming to point 3)
3. try to play as optimal as you can, take your time to think ahead for the future turns
Cheers.
Ran into this same problem. Started playing Yogg Druid with Togwaggle and got some accidental wins
Don't play a sub optimal deck, if you are missing more than two legendaries try another deck even if it has a lower win rate , take your time on each play , follow the advice above. At rank 15 and above you really need to have all the cards needed. Mulligan for aggro play more, play slower