Quote from Rich_Piana >>Yes there is RNG involved in hearthstone. But it's a coping mechanism that people use that seem to struggle with their ranks that luck is all you need. If that was REALLY the case, how come it's always the same group of people that always get on top of the leaderboards?
Ladder is all about quantity not quality. It's always the same group of people because those people play the game way more than your average guy.
A person with a 51% win rate deck/skill can get a higher rank than a person with a 60% win rate deck/skill, if he plays more games.
Luck is all you need, because TIME is all you need. The more time you invest, the less lucky you need to be in order to climb. So in a way, luck is more important to casual and low kill players, but it's still the primary factor that helps high skill players climb ladder.
Anyway, luck is the essence of card games, without luck and RNG a card game is merely a math exercise and victory is only deciced by the biggest math brain. I don't understand people who complain about luck, but I also don't understand people who think luck is anecdotal when literally every game is vastly different because of mechanics you can't control, like draw order, match making, card generation and random effects.
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That's true in ranked you can play a lot games, so bad luck games don't affect to much. But look in grand masters you only play 5 games and luck can be very determinant great players can have bad results like bunnyhoppor or new grandmasters players can have good like tinchohs, so competitive is affected because luck and make new players that wants to try in competitive(like me) less attractive.
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I win a lot of games vs control decks, but yeah it's not a good matchup. That's the problem with shaman doesn't have draw so if you use late game cards might be dead in your hand and you lose tempo and you probably lost, so this deck it's oriented to be good in early game and midgame and some combinations for late game like Bru'kan+Dunk Tank or firehearth to finish the game. Still have some value with guidance, primordial studies and marhspawn so vs control decks you have to choose the more valuable things while you playing your best tempo play.
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I always watch your videos, you are good making off meta decks, I made a highlander shaman with the new buffs, I think highlander Shaman can be viable with the buffs. What do you think?
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I played since 2 years ago and I have 5600 victories and 400 in arena, I have 2 heroes with 1000 wins mage and rogue and hunter, priest and paladin with 500 wins.