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She's got great synergy with mal'ganis

I've had some interesting games played with an aggro version as well and the issue is mainly that it just has too many counters. Not that there couldn't be a unicorn deck but I think it has to be very tuned to the meta. 

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He had insanely high winrate dude.

 

https://www.hearthpwn.com/guides/battlegrounds/7054-hearthstone-battlegrounds-hero-tier-list-with-win

 

22%. The next two closest were 19 and 16% respectively. That means that he wins about 18% more than the second place, 40% more than third place, and since 11-27 all have 11% winrate or less, that means he wins DOUBLE the amount of most other heroes.

 

Imagine if in Constructed we had Warrior sitting at a 90% winrate and you'll see the problem.

 But as Blizzard said his high win rate is only in the low rankings. In other words he is a low skill hero, very consistent plan that's hard to mess up, so at lower ranks with general skill lower his consistency increases his win rates. 

I have noticed some wierd match making when I first change a deck. Especially when I change to an off meta deck, it seems like suddenly I'll be facing mage which I haven't faced all day, but given time the matches will go back to "normalish" it still feels like non-standard decks are allowed to face off each other more often though.

Hard counter's though? That's literally impossible in a binary system (because the hard counter is getting a softball) unless they're purposefully trying to make you feel bad by creating bots and having you queue into the bot hard counter, which seems highly unlikely... they want you to feel good about yourself and keep playing the game. If anything a soft bot might be thrown in once in a while to make it easier to ladder. 

Tl;dr the conspiracy you're talking about is literally impossible without bots. And having bots do this is impossible because Blizzard doesn't act against its own interest.

Believe or not Rat is also a fine target. early gold rat = win early game, then chain level to 6.

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I like this card in aggro Mage with Elemental Evocation.  Most classes can't deal with this immediately if dropped on turn 1 so you can get some good early damage in.  I am only hoping for one hit and potentially 2 to get their health in range of my buffed damage spells and Avalanche.  It is also an Elemental deck so it plays towards Elemental Allies as well.

The weakness of this card is the 3 health for sure.  It is way too easy to kill.  Elemental Evocation allows this to come out early enough to be worth it IMHO.  Later in the game it is still useful as it must be addressed but not good value usually.  But if you can't get it out early I am not sure it's worth playing.

Unless possibly when you are playing Embiggen Druid.  I think that a single +2/+2 buff makes this card much more viable and 2 buffs makes it crazy.

Those are the two decks I use it in, is anyone else using it elsewhere?

 I've definitely seen it work in mage. Mostly for the reasons you mentioned, and in mage it can boost your win rate just on it's own against certain decks that don't do much the first few turns. Interesting idea about embiggen. cards that traditionally aren't good but would be good when embiggened. I wonder what else fits under that umbrella? there is the 1/1 that copies it self.  Of course the deck variance is going to change if going that way too much. 

NOt sure but they have lowered the cost for tier 6

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The minion pool is too diluted. Going for a specific build now requires insane high roll. The game is more luck-based than anything. Though it helps picking some OP heroes like Tirion, Deathwing and Ysera. 

 Really disagree. You win by not going for a specific build now.  sort of. It just works differently. Better to tier up and pick good minions. And Vs. Deathwing is not that hard. Obviously it changes the meta if Deathwing is in play. 

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Druids that open with: Embiggen, Strenght of numbers and a breath of dreams!
They always have the NUTS and I am facing these lucky shits way too often!

 I hate it too, It's an okay fight if they don't get embiggen until turn 5 or so, or are too stupid to wait for on curve plays before playing their embiggen, but an early embiggen with a curve often seems impossible to beat. It feels a lot like prince 2 used to feel when drawn, except worse if they manage to keep curve and get a second embiggen. I've only found one deck that beats it and other decks more than 50%. and it's a druid deck.....not to mention an embiggen or 2 into strength of numbers. 

 Agreed. In fact it's win rate is probably understated because so many bad players play it and drive it's average down.

I agree with the Arena advice. I think it's especially useful to use the a tracker like heartharena - It gives you suggestions, and you can start thinking about why a card is good or bad and it's synergies. In addition heartharena introduces concepts like reach, kill, curve etc. and gives you a way to track it so that you can start thinking about how you are making good decks and what makes them good. With the practice you can start to track how much you need etc. For instance after going hard on Arena for 8 months I built my own deck that got me to Legend for the first time, which is a feat because I don't actually play ranked that much (and it was before the rank changes). I actually did take a meta deck but was able to adjust it to the meta and introduce new ideas that propelled it to beat most other decks. (basically druid with extra reach. )

the new tier 6 murloc is totally sick with divine shield taunt support and poison. Killed half the field with him.

I had the same, entered from the web and was able to find the update button.

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By 'the past few weeks' do you mean the past 12 hours? Because that's how long the patch has been out. And if anything, Battlegrounds require MORE skill and has less RNG now. More minions make it a lot harder to get lucky, roll early goldens and assemble your desirered comp. Many of the new heroes demand careful consideration, like Reno with his once per game hero power and Malygos' switch a minion with a minion from the same tier. 

 It started with adding Tirion to the game. A hero that is almost automatic top 4 since you get guaranteed buffs on your easy to triple minions every turn for ONE MANA. Then they moved Watcher to 4 when IMO they shouldve left it at 3 and moved Juggler to 4. They left Cobalt alone in tier 3....like...really?? And now they have just added a new tribe with a bunch of nonsense...its just a sh!t show. They add all these new heroes yet you still get games where it offers you Sylvanas, Lich, and Ragnaros...tons of fun there...

My rating has went down from 8000 to like 7300 since the Watcher nerf. What's changed? I haven't changed. The game has changed. The game has become even more RNG luck based over skill...which is the SAME MISTAKE they have made with it in Standard/Wild.

 Going down 700 against a field where half go up against you is a clear sign that you just don't understand the new meta and need to learn it.

I find myself super annoyed playing against priest too. It's basically can I trick them not to play only the 2/6 taunt. if not then Lose. at least with some decks. It's hard to be midrange agaisnt that deck. 

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It’s easier to get Poisonous on your murlocs by cycling through Toxfins. 

 Thanks for the super leet tip! Did you happen to have an opinion about the thread topic?

 Ok, Zoomer