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I always wonder how people are so sure that they are playing against bots.. I play a lot of hearthstone and there were times, although rarely, i was considering whether my opponent was a bot, but i was never sure. How do people actually tell ?
Sometimes i feel like people heard a streamer say something about bots and they are suddenly convinced that they are playing bots all the time. Maybe they are - i would just like to know how to be sure..

 All the bots I've played against in the last 24 hours did the same thing: play everything as fast as possible, even discovers are done immediately without looking at the options, they make plays like playing primordial wave on an empty board just to spend all their mana, I don't see a red border when they hover over cards, heropowers or portraits (for me this is the most obvious hint), all have russian names and as zizka said they don't appear in the latest opponents, so you can't even report them. 

I guess it's because of the ladder reset that I meet more bots than real players at the moment, but it's weird how infested lower ranks are right now

 Okay that actually does sound very bot-like. But i wonder how they manage to not show up in the recent opponents. Maybe some special characters in their name or maybe they disconnect right before the game ends ?

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Quote from Kogan >>

I always wonder how people are so sure that they are playing against bots.. I play a lot of hearthstone and there were times, although rarely, i was considering whether my opponent was a bot, but i was never sure. How do people actually tell ?
Sometimes i feel like people heard a streamer say something about bots and they are suddenly convinced that they are playing bots all the time. Maybe they are - i would just like to know how to be sure..

 Certain play patterns. Same delay between commands, replies to your first emote only with greetings, hovers over hero power and clicks it even when nothing happens, makes nonsensical trades, no arrows on attacks, doesn't concede when they are in topdeck mode in late game. Not all at the same time, but there are various little things you can pick up on if you have a keen eye...

 By those criteria i might be mistaken for a bot in some games xD

I always wonder how people are so sure that they are playing against bots.. I play a lot of hearthstone and there were times, although rarely, i was considering whether my opponent was a bot, but i was never sure. How do people actually tell ?
Sometimes i feel like people heard a streamer say something about bots and they are suddenly convinced that they are playing bots all the time. Maybe they are - i would just like to know how to be sure..

I think only minions on the board can die. Everything else gets destroyed and thus does not count as dead.

It's one of those again... 

Small sample size and confirmation bias.

Quote from shad0wseek3r >>

Wild is like that because of the banned and heavily nerfed cards, those two decks would have negative winrate otherwise.

They can't afford to do that since all of the cosmetic releases are mostly mage and priest class oriented.

Best deck to counter those two are currently big shaman or murloc/freeze shudder shaman. Aggro won't work cause you need to highroll constantly to even have a slightest chance. 

So theres that, hope it helps a bit.

 Aggro Decks can work but they have to be really aggressive - with Murloc Shaman you can have huge boards by turn 4 which still is not always enough against priest (still decent tho) but does very well against secret mage.

Hadn't noticed. Thanks !

It's gonna die ofc.

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It's so in your face.

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especially if you're on a win streak the game looks to stop that asap.

The only thing in your face is your lack of understanding and bias of "getting EVERYTHING they need to respond and  beat their opponent".
I mean, yes the game ends with one side beating the other.

Also when you are on a win streak your MMR goes up and you will face stronger and stronger opponents to match your skill level. That isn't to "stop" you but to keep equal (MMR) matches. It just happens that after a few games into a streak, your opponent will be stronger than you and you lose.

Use the deck tracker to record 20 games and show us where this happens every game - or wait for 3nnui to tell you about the patent and how the goal of this rigging is to make you spend more money or something.

 I'm always glad to find your voice of reason in these threads so i don't have to write the stuff myself.

This has certainly some more merit than the usual "its all rigged"-posts but as YourPersonalGuru pointed out a proper statistical analysis of the data would be helpful.
But that aside i wanted to point out that baron dying earlier than other minions could also be because of its usually lower health compared to a lot of other minions. Baron rarely has more than its standard 7 health while most minions in the later stages tend to have much more.

I'm actually surprised that more people than not seem to dislike buddies. I personally really liked them and hope they'll return someday. The first few BG games felt kinda boring without them, even with the addition of nagas.

I think it's mainly because of the second point. There are just no other cards to encourage building a highlander deck. Reno by himself is not enough.

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Also strongly recommend to play Tickatus. But agreed, that you need strong APM to actually get most of it's power.

 Very nice :O Thats an insane final comp !

Well.. as someone who thought my 12000 overall ranked wins to be a lot... i can say i was wrong xD
And ofc you play too much hearthstone :P

Gz tho!

Quote from SirJohn13 >>

By far the most broken interaction in BGs currently is playing Tickatus via Sir Finley. If you get your hands on a Brann before you get the last 2 Finley buddies what happens is:

• The first Finley buddy gives you 2 Tickatus buddies
• You play the first Tickatus buddy and discover 2 late game treasures
• You play the 2nd Finley buddy and get 2 more Tickatus buddies, thus tripling it up
• You play the golden Tickatus buddy and get 4 more late game treasures for a total of 6 treasures + a free tier5/6 minion from playing a golden
• Now if somehow you manage to get a golden Brann before you do all that then you do all of the above on steroids

 

Attached is my final comp. In my hand I  had 5 random 6-drops, 2 Argent Braggarts and a spell to refresh my gold that I never got to 

 You actually don't need to do it with Finley. Tickatus by itself with a bran can give you endless treasures (because of the "make a minion golden an return it to your hand"). With enough apm you can make all your minions golden, give them +10/+10 divine shield and windfury and endlessly keep going. Also all minions will cost 0 once you played the treasure that makes them cost 1 less 3 times and the first 5 rerolls each turn are free. I've managed to get to this state twice but you need so much apm to make good use of it and keep buying the free minions fast enough :D Still won both times.