Paladin is too strong

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hi i try to rank up but paladin is everywhere , handbuff got lifesteal all day and can kill from hand i allways got countered by flood paladin .

can we tone down these archetypes ?

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Pally is indeed strong this release.
I doubt much will be done. Pally is a team 5 pet.

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It’s just plain average outside the lowest ranks. The game is filled with “smart” decks now that can either wipe your board or use it against you; yes it has big stats but that’s good only if the opponent has mediocre answers against that; we’re in a meta that you can even transform minions to legendaries on both sides if it suits your stats.

It’s a very “high difficulty” meta; too much high power cards that turn everything upside down scattered around the decks; the only ones escaping that are the super aggro decks and the fastest good one is too expensive for new accounts who want to save dust for soon to be rotated cards.

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Three different terms to describe it, two edits.

Two more edits and the deck will be nonexistant.

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They mean I called it bad and then I called it just average. The wording change is not very important in this context.

I just figured it’s not fair to call something bad if various other decks still played are usually even worse.

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Pala is not even top tier its tier 3 at best learn to play and control the board i dont see any up in legend.

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pally is number 1 in Daily HSR today.
https://hsreplay.net/

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Dont bother to engage, he thinks(belives) Paladin is on the bottom of the ranks and no amount of stats and data will convince him otherwise.

Schyla already wasted time on that to no avail.

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ty for the heads up. ignored him.

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This isn’t really true, paladin has a 58% win rate in legend across both archetypes.

The class is pretty solidly top of the meta alongside druid and now DK.

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Yea I was about to say… flood paladin especially is strong this meta. Handbuff is still pretty strong too but fell off a little due to limited support besides Sanc’azel.

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its time for you to go super

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Yeah cause your putting in bad data. Im sorry have you even see druid in the hands of a t1000 player? It makes almost every wild deck from before the last expansion look balanced if they were to be played in standard.

Pally legit dont exist d5+ for a verry good reason. Its bad. Its only good to climb to gold maybe plat then its a dumpster of a class.

It cant compete with a half decent priest shaman dk mage or especialy druid.

I have a whole thread with hard data proving this too. Multiple videos.

I mean if yall wana screw up the game even more by nerfing a noob stomper deck be my guest but pally is far form the issue or an issue right now.

Its not just me other top players will say the same thing.

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I didn’t put in any data. just went to HSR and looked at their daily rankings.

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Anyway, this is yesterday’s news

Today, 80% of matchups are InsanityLock and 20% are Druid

Other decks and classes have officially died.

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Reminded of this classic CAD comic around WotLK

https://cad-comic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cad-20090916-fb64a.x26972.jpg

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Sadly, as obnoxious as paladins are, we need decks like these to deal with the likes of druid and warrior. One of the few decks that can wreck druids and doesn’t need many high mana cost cards to beat them. You really do not want minion-centric aggro decks nerfed, trust me. Otherwise it will be 70% Druid and Warrior matches.

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I wish this deck would die in a fire.

It’s practically impossible for so many decks to beat this nonsense.

What can survive 4-8 insanity casts?

I love tidepool pupil, I don’t want it nerfed, but insanity warlock is massively abusing it because you aren’t getting copies, you’re getting upgrades.

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Apparently, 2 decks and 2 non-decks

Concierge Druid, Handbuff Pally, and then Elemental Mage and Elemental Shaman xD

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Well, to be fair, they aren’t surviving it, they are beating it before it gets to play the card at all.

There’s really no mid-late game counter. You can’t stop the spell, you can’t dirty rat both virtuosos and you can’t kill the weapon both times. It’s literally inevitable that you will lose.

And at top1k Legend, the only thing that is beating it decisively is Concierge Druid, which just OTKs you on turn 5-6.

Handbuff Pally is barely beating it, and Elemental Mage and Shaman aren’t having positive win rates against it.

So basically, it’s Concierge Druid putting it in its place and that’s it.

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