With the warrior i has 52% hunters which was 21 games. I did win 18 of them ...
As it should be :-) - Warrior is currently the best tool against Hunters.
You're dead wrong, it's not even funny. The fact that you think it's a better tool against hunters than odd paladin shows just how little you know.
Odd paladin doesn't work against mid hunters : secrets and springpaw destroys odd pally early game and then you're pretty much screwed. Only 3 people bring odd pally in HCT america, this must mean something.
Odd Paladin crushes every type of Hunter out there. You can clear three or four Odd Paladin board with secrets, springpaw and Rexxar but Odd Paladin can just create another board. I looked up the stats of Midrange Hunter vs Odd Paladin and it is 55% in favour of Odd Paladin, and that is accounting for trash Odd Paladins. You can easily add 10% more to the winrate if Odd Paladin player is half decent.
As for the tournament, most people didn't bring Odd Paladin cause there are a lot of Control Priest.
Why nerf Rexxar ? He is sooo fun to play against, particularly after they buffed it's beast pool. Thanks Blizzard, great game balancing suggestion by the community.
There are different types of OTK decks. Decks like Topsy Priest, Shirvallah OTK, Mecha'thun decks and Hakkar Druid are "stall and draw" combo decks, all they do is draw their combo and win. You can't do much against these decks other than switching to a aggro deck. Needless to say I don't like these types of OTK decks.
The other type of OTK decks like DK Paladin and Clone Priest. DK Paladin is inconsistent, so if you can pressure enough there is a decent chance to win. Against Clone Priest, you can out armor them as Odd Warrior or use Polymorph as Mage. The matchup is still hugely favourable for Paladin and Priest but at least you can do something to have a chance at winning.
I don't know why you kept Loot Hoarder in your mulligan. You want that card from CTA not play it from hand. Also you are playing against Odd Warrior, you don't need early game presence, it's not like Odd Warrior is going to smorc you down. By keeping loot hoarder you made your CTA weaker and kept a dead card in hand which could have been Uther (30% more likely to get Uther if you didn't keep loot hoarder).
First Equality was also unnecessary, Thekal + Shirvallah was better.
I am not denying that you got super unlucky and should have won that game, but you can't say you played flawlessly.
There's too much OTK stuff in my opinion. Most of the games I have played in last 1-2 weeks have been about cycling through decks, not caring about board state at all and just trying to combo off. It's really boring to play a game when one of the players is not engaged in the game at all and is not interacting with anything you do.
Now I don't have a source for this but as for why the meta is mainly aggro, I think depends more on the playerbase than team 5's desicions. Many players don't have a lot of time to play and then turns to aggro. You accomplish more by playing 2 5-minute games with an aggressive deck than 1 10-minute game as a control deck. Especially considering both options should have about the same chance to win.
No I don't think so that meta is mainly aggro due to the playerbase. It is a card design choice of developers to let the playerbase choose for mainly aggro. You can't blame the masses for card design politics as much as you can't blame Marcus Aurelius to abolish arena fights, while his son Commedus reinstated it (with a huge approval of the masses).
Top paladin decks are Odd Paladin, Even Paladin, Uther OTK Paladin. These decks are totally different from each other and share only few cards between each other. None of these decks feel oppressive or bad to lose, OTK paladin can be a little oppressive against Control decks but it's fine.
So yes, Paladin has a many different decks at tier 1 but these decks are very different and are easily counterable. I don't see any reason to nerf Paladin.
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Odd Paladin crushes every type of Hunter out there. You can clear three or four Odd Paladin board with secrets, springpaw and Rexxar but Odd Paladin can just create another board. I looked up the stats of Midrange Hunter vs Odd Paladin and it is 55% in favour of Odd Paladin, and that is accounting for trash Odd Paladins. You can easily add 10% more to the winrate if Odd Paladin player is half decent.
As for the tournament, most people didn't bring Odd Paladin cause there are a lot of Control Priest.
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Why nerf Rexxar ? He is sooo fun to play against, particularly after they buffed it's beast pool. Thanks Blizzard, great game balancing suggestion by the community.
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I don't think you are playing properly. Big Priest, Odd Mage and Odd Rogue are all good enough to get you out of rank 15.
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There are different types of OTK decks. Decks like Topsy Priest, Shirvallah OTK, Mecha'thun decks and Hakkar Druid are "stall and draw" combo decks, all they do is draw their combo and win. You can't do much against these decks other than switching to a aggro deck. Needless to say I don't like these types of OTK decks.
The other type of OTK decks like DK Paladin and Clone Priest. DK Paladin is inconsistent, so if you can pressure enough there is a decent chance to win. Against Clone Priest, you can out armor them as Odd Warrior or use Polymorph as Mage. The matchup is still hugely favourable for Paladin and Priest but at least you can do something to have a chance at winning.
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It messes with Master's Call.
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Warrior :
Warlock :
Shaman :
Rogue :
Priest :
Paladin :
Mage :
Hunter :
Druid :
** - Must haves
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They have nerfed both Odd and Even Paladin in past without affecting the other. I don't see why they can't do similar nerfs in future, if required.
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It's the other way around. Even Shaman is a favourable matchup for Big Priest not a bad matchup.
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How so ? I can't find any data but Patron Warrior was certainly tier 1.
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I don't know why you kept Loot Hoarder in your mulligan. You want that card from CTA not play it from hand. Also you are playing against Odd Warrior, you don't need early game presence, it's not like Odd Warrior is going to smorc you down. By keeping loot hoarder you made your CTA weaker and kept a dead card in hand which could have been Uther (30% more likely to get Uther if you didn't keep loot hoarder).
First Equality was also unnecessary, Thekal + Shirvallah was better.
I am not denying that you got super unlucky and should have won that game, but you can't say you played flawlessly.
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There were more OTK decks before the nerfs.
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Valve attempted trading with Artifact and it was a colossal failure. Maintaining economy and stuff is just too complicated.
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Aggro decks :- Odd Rogue, Beast Hunter, Odd Paladin.
Midrange decks :- Even Paladin, Even Warlock, Spell Hunter, Secret Hunter, Deathrattle Hunter, Even Shaman.
Combo decks :- Clone Priest, OTK Paladin.
Control decks :- Control Priest, Odd Warrior, Big Spell Mage.
I don't see a "mainly aggro" meta.
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Top paladin decks are Odd Paladin, Even Paladin, Uther OTK Paladin. These decks are totally different from each other and share only few cards between each other. None of these decks feel oppressive or bad to lose, OTK paladin can be a little oppressive against Control decks but it's fine.
So yes, Paladin has a many different decks at tier 1 but these decks are very different and are easily counterable. I don't see any reason to nerf Paladin.