Demon Hunter and Aggro Meta Prevails

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Who would have imagined that given the data we had pre-patch?

Hopefully we don’t have to wait another month on another balance patch.

Demon Hunter is just laughably overpowered now. It’s at a 61% winrate average up from 58% pre-nerf. It was the highest winrate deck pre and now post nerf. Congratulations balance team.

Pirate Warrior’s nerf didn’t even hit the problem. Now they just play a slower mid range version of the deck and it’s still pretty dominant if not more in some matchups.

Druid is also still problematic… because just like Pirate Warrior. They didn’t hit the actual problem card (Guff).

Pre-nerf the meta was Aggro DH, Pirate Warrior, Druid.

Post-nerf the meta is Aggro DH, Pirate Warrior, Druid.

Wild.

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Yeah. That’s a gross oversimplification though.

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Yeah. That’s a gross oversimplification though.

It is what it is. Like it or not.

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Ok then. Good talk.

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except, it isn’t.

at the moment there’s all kinds of deck styles in competitive meta.

as a few examples:

you have aggro with DH, you have midrange with mech paladin, you have combo in quest hunter, you have control with control warrior and holy paladin.

those are all t1-2 in top 1000 atm.

and as i said, the list is not conclusive, there are a lot more decks currently, representing all kind of flavours.

That said, some classes are indeed pushed off the meta, namely priest, warlock, rogue and shaman. But as far as gamestyles are concerned (since you mentioned “aggro meta”) you are simply flat-out wrong.

Now, if you want to talk about popularity, i can tell you that in 139 matches since the patch, according to my deck tracker, I have faced exactly ONE pirate warrior, and i have faced 41 control warriors.

DH is indeed the other popular deck, but pirate warrior is extinct in higher ladder. So is druid where i have faced 6 of them, one of them beast and the other 5 ramp.

So, even there you are wrong.

There’s a ton of control warrior, a ton of aggro DH, lots of paladins, enough quest hunters, and the rest of the classes share the remaining population.

So, even popularity wise, it’s really more of a control meta rather than an aggro meta, since warrior+paly > aggro DH as far as numbers go.

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The term meta refers to the best and most consistent decks in the game that are played by a larger percentage than other decks. You will always have some off meta decks, but they are not indicative of the meta - low playrate decks are not the meta. Midrange Paladin and Hunter are low playrate decks.

We’re still seeing Druid, Pirate Warrior, and DH as the most consistently played decks in the game - all still above 55% winrate in Legend.

Yes, you have a VERY small number of Control Warriors and one that is #1 Legend, but that does not make it a meta deck. If it gains popularity, it would be a meta deck, but right now it absolutely is not. Most people will not play it because it has a high skill ceiling and unskilled players suffer from drastically lower winrates.

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what are you even talking about?

have you SEEN the stats on legend?

the decks i listed are simultaneously the most popular and most powerful.

pirate warrior and druid are all but gone from legend.

now, you have said before that you were a legend player, your words right now make me realise that you are probably much lower than that if you keep seeing those decks and not get flooded by control warrior, mech paladins, quest hunters, holy paladins, and yes, DH.

but druid and pirate warrior? just lol.