You know I used to think I was just getting unlucky with this character, but the more I think about it, the hero power is just awful.
You take up to 5 suboptimal turns to get an RNG golden minion from up to your tier, to be fair lets say it’s 4 turns if you get 2+1 or 4+1, but you also have no other momentum so you are weaker than everyone else. The effect of this power is further lowered but the current special minion mod, so you getting your minion slower by loosing fights, and you probably more damage.
Even better, not only the minion is random, the tier can be lower than the current tier. Sometimes you get literally useless minion, so you made 4 to 5 crappy turns to get 1 discover and 10/10 stats.
And yet, we are still not done. This power usually does not come online 2 times per game, you probably will lose the game if you do that.
The hero power is so good, sometimes I feel safer not using it.
At the minimum, the golden minion must be of the current tier Either that, or keep it the way it is, but make it 4 turns
The only thing it needs is to change from ‘get a golden minion’ to ‘discover a golden minion from your current tier’. THAT would be super worth it for targeted builds.
I don’t believe a Hero easily puts you 5th and lower if it’s not good. A Hero being great gives an extra push. The game is won easier by just having better draws than others; i.e. good draws > good Hero; combined it’s even better but not required (but just good Hero and bad draws is usually way worse).
The buddy was dropped a tier to come out sooner for early triples that you would normally avoid. That is the strength of the hero ATM in this buddy meta. The HP is kind of a one and done later on but really it doesn’t get used all that often. Overall it’s just a bad hero but could be useful when the other choices are worse. Yeah, there are worse heroes.
They just need to buff it back to 4 taps instead of 5. It was nerfed from 4 taps in a patch YEARS ago and it was only good then because the game was completely different and a lot slower in power creep. Win condition minions especially in duos are at much higher tiers than before.
On the topic of a hero that feels like pure bait - Rat King. Pure dumpster hero
It’s a bad meta for rat king not only because of buddies but because menagerie has little support besides getting some DS minions and abusing KT+Nightbane combo. Should get much better once the patch goes live and we get a new meta. Lightfang is back and buffed and has a trinket to support it.
any character with cheaper than average minions isn’t gonna be bad.
Queen Togwaggle and Bigglesworth are the only two characters I’d actively consider bad, their hero powers are situational at best and unapplicable at worse, making them just kind of worse Patchwerk.
I have lost count of the Heros that are THEORETICALLY good and I die or they are theoretically bad and I win. You’re not going to lose necessarily if the hero is not the greatest. Just keep playing and the draws may be good; I’ve actually gone 1st a few times and I was absolutely sure the Hero was crap; I usually play for achievements so I cycle through everything that doesn’t have 1st.
2 cost hero power where the odds of it giving you a tribe you want AND the card you want make it negligible. A hero to compare to would be starseeker. Infinitely better in every aspect yet they’re close in armor levels. The buddy for starseeker especially w/ rylak in play makes it miles better than random free rerolls to ultimately find nothing over half the time
its’ much stronger early game. Specifically, being able to get two minions on turn 3 and three minions on turn 6 without having to sell anything is a pretty big tempo boost and often enough to catapult you into a mid-game comp
In solo it’s more impactful. Duos not so much. That’s exactly how I play the curve with him but it’s still like rafaam where your hero power just doesn’t help you when the board states are in core development. You have a tribe and your hero power doesn’t roll your tribe for 5 turns? might as well not even use it. Why pick it when the buddy is disposable anyways? Tribeless minion. If it were all tribe it’d be actually playable
