As handlock the games I dislike most are hunters. midrange and face are both difficult for me to deal with but face hunters by far tear me apart as I have gotten better in ranks I have made my handlock more and more greedy. At your rank I am unsure how the handlocks would tech but if they are stealing the cookie cutter builds face hunter should wreck them pretty good.
I also find rogue works very well against handlock. It does require the rogue to draw fairly well but most rogue decks are heavy on draw and can beat me fairly consistently. That said their are few decks that have super high win rates against handlock that are also super strong against the current meta. This is in fact a large reason you are probably running into so much handlock at the moment.
Playing as handlock I find zoo to be a very favored match up on my end. Of course zoo will occasionally burn me down but usually as long as I draw a combination of 2 heavy taunts and enabler, two aoe clears, or an aoe clear and a large taunt enable I win the game and with as many cards as handlock draws and as many of those as we keep in our decks. I find I win against zoo about 65% of the time.
Against shaman I also dont dislike handlock vs shaman and wouldnt consider it a free win for shaman but will admit the shaman is favored in both the early and mid game. If handlock can manage to hold off until late game with heals and clears I find handlock can usually outlast shaman. I win about 50% of my matches against shaman but feel this would probably be slightly lower if I had a large enough sample of shaman opponents.
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Besides paladin, what other deck can be a good counter to handlock? Been playing in rank 16-13 and handlock is the deck i encounter more.
mech/ burst shaman has been picked a lot in tournaments vs handlock.
Any deck with burst or reach.
Have a great deck that's really, really cheap? Help the new players out
As handlock the games I dislike most are hunters. midrange and face are both difficult for me to deal with but face hunters by far tear me apart as I have gotten better in ranks I have made my handlock more and more greedy. At your rank I am unsure how the handlocks would tech but if they are stealing the cookie cutter builds face hunter should wreck them pretty good.
I also find rogue works very well against handlock. It does require the rogue to draw fairly well but most rogue decks are heavy on draw and can beat me fairly consistently. That said their are few decks that have super high win rates against handlock that are also super strong against the current meta. This is in fact a large reason you are probably running into so much handlock at the moment.
I win 4/5 time against handlock with zoo, just remember to bring an Ironbeak Owl and be sure to ignore the non taunt minions
Shaman just destroys handlock, it's a free win if you get Earth Shock in your opening hand.
Playing as handlock I find zoo to be a very favored match up on my end. Of course zoo will occasionally burn me down but usually as long as I draw a combination of 2 heavy taunts and enabler, two aoe clears, or an aoe clear and a large taunt enable I win the game and with as many cards as handlock draws and as many of those as we keep in our decks. I find I win against zoo about 65% of the time.
Against shaman I also dont dislike handlock vs shaman and wouldnt consider it a free win for shaman but will admit the shaman is favored in both the early and mid game. If handlock can manage to hold off until late game with heals and clears I find handlock can usually outlast shaman. I win about 50% of my matches against shaman but feel this would probably be slightly lower if I had a large enough sample of shaman opponents.