I’ve seen people saying that Pirate Warrior has over 70% winrate right now. That’s basically a lie.
If you don’t have a subscription, HSReplay gives the data for Bronze through Gold ranks ONLY. Opponents at these tiers are much less skilled than average and run incredibly weak lists.
For example, there’s a version of Pirate Warrior that has 71.6% winrate over 28,000 games when I have the Bronze through Gold filter on (doesn’t require subscription). But when I switch to Diamond through Legend (paid filter), the exact same decklist is 64.3% over 27,000 games. That’s over a 7% winrate difference.
If you don’t have a subscription to HSReplay, please stop going there. Looking at the free data will make you stupider. Stop making yourself stupider. If you want to know something, just ask me and I’ll look it up and tell you. Or pay them, if you’re impatient. Whichever.
But stop posting Bronze through Gold stats.
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People who don’t play a lot could still be slowly climbing the ladder from reset and probably hadn’t played since before the expansion and started at bronze 10. High ranks may give a good competitive assessment but that doesn’t mean it rules the general player experience.
If by high ranks you mean Legend, I agree. But if by high ranks you mean Platinum and up, you’re wrong. Bronze through Gold is utterly irrelevant.
Diamond 5-1 definitely matters. I don’t think it’s even borderline reasonable to say otherwise.
Diamond 10-6 maybe matters. Not sure, but I’m leaning yes, it probably matters. Wouldn’t argue with people who say it doesn’t.
Platinum also maybe matters, but on that one I’m leaning no, it probably doesn’t. But again, I wouldn’t argue with people who say it does.
Gold? Absolutely not.
It just goes to show the further up the ladder you go, the more realistic the stats are.
But that being said, 60-65% win rate filtered for high rank play is absolutely ridiculous. You usually see that lopsidedness stat at the bronze to gold level.
It’s going to be interesting to see the meta shift the numbers around over the next few days. It’s a fun time for people who love stats.
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It’s 61.8% over 6,400 games at Legend. That’s not Tier 1 that’s Tier 0. It’s still kinda early to be jumping to conclusions in a new meta, but if I don’t see it drop below 60% in the next 24 I’ma hop on that “nerf pirate warrior” bandwagon.
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The tryhards that are always at legend can have the option to play fun decks, the rest have to slog through an unsatisfying experience
Hey!
I went from 500 to 2300 “testing stuff” and I can assure you that Legend is choke full of Q Warrior and Mech mage.
So let the myth that legend players don’t play meta die.
Early impressions are that both the Q warrior and “mech reading” need adjustment.
Could you post some stats or analysis?
TY in advance.
I’m willing to bet that the decks are largely the same just winrates are slightly different. Your example is kinda strange because it shows that the deck preforms well in both tiers…
Seems more like a post to brag that you pay for premium tbh.
The metric you are missing to make your point valid is the ranks of the player base.
If the majority of the player base are between Bronze and Gold then these are actually the stats that are most important to look at.
If only 25% of your player base are hitting legend, I have no idea of the actual numbers, then there is no point focusing on that 25% compared to the 75% because it’s the majority who will be putting money in to the game and who will stop playing if the experience isn’t enjoyable.
HSR is the biggest rip off ever.
Think legend is more like 1%
Though much more likely to be paying customers, I assume.
Why? It’s like £6 per month and gives you access to a plethora of information.
It is all about the 1% dontcha know. 
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I bought two hoverboards once for $900, and never opened them.
Yeah, while it is still a bit too early, even if it does get stamped down a bit further, it will still be pretty format warping as the barrier to entry for decks will likely still be “can you beat pirate warrior?”
I think it’s about time that Smite loses the “give all pirates charge” that he never should have had.
Turning a Nellie set of pirates into a near OTK is something that deck very much did not need on top of the added draw consistency.
That would make you a slave to consumerism.
I’m not.
I don’t think HSR is worth paying for, but hey, throw your money down whichever rathole appeals to you.
