Rouge needs a much needed rebirth
Every hero has that impossible card to beat and Rouge is missing that
The direction that Rouge is going in the latest expansion is hitting a brick wall
Stealth = dead
weapons = dead
Combo = dead
BLZ Drop the dead weight and focus on deathrattles, return to hand, minion creation, minion spawning in deck, repetitive minion generation.
I expect a change in the standard cards for Rouge next expansion. do it
Stealth = annoying still and has no way play around outside AOE spam
Weapon = your not wrong
Combo = still very alive and is one best times as rouge
wich all classes have acces to except for Rogue (great idea from the mind of the naruto watching brain dead guy that directs the game now by the way)
that is not true but that is very subjective.
Now that you mention it, I don’t see much rouge around anymore. I was never a fan of it, but calling it dysfunctional to wear rouge is wrong.
Fashion trends are fluid, so maybe this fall it will return.
Rouge is over-powdered.
Rogue has just no interest from people but is actually doing well.
Miracle rogue does average against almost everything on the field and it’s basically the classic archtype everyone likes and loves from the class.
If anything mage and rogue probably have improvements to be done across the board but the lack of actually good cards from the mini set made the interest for deckbuilding die.
Let’s be real here…
Mini sets the way they’re structured aren’t being good for the metagame overall.
Sure they produce changes but it feels like any classes that didn’t get “cool new toys” just stop on time and people stop refining their decks.
While it’s fun to find unseen improvements against the field it can get bad really fast when you have to literally kill people interest on the classes to make that happen.
I am in a Chinese restaurant ATM. They have rouge table mats.
Druid didn’t get anything good in the miniset and it’s all over the place with most people having quickly realized miracle druid is terrible. Face hunter is a pretty prominent deck despite hunter getting nothing for that deck in the mini set.
Face hunter is prominent if you want to lose.
Priests crush it
Shaman outrace it
Paladins still win against they.
Even mage can reach near flipping that matchup but luckily most mages on ladder are just losing their time hating on priests rather than trying to climb.
Like…
While you can technically play face hunter with it being viable and even better than many things on ladder… I literally can’t find a reason to actually play it.
Anyone wanting an agressive deck should be playing shaman because of the priest matchup.
Thanks for the smile. 
It matches up well against shaman, mage and demon hunter and the less common druid variants. It’s not the most popular deck at high legend but it’s still in the top 7 most played decks there according to hsreplay and is even more common at the ranks below that. It wouldn’t still be played as much as it is if it didn’t have some good matchups against common decks.
Anyone who writes “rouge” should be ignored.
Almost dead for now, for sure when the new tech against weapon with tradeable being released.
I don’t get why people keep writing “rouge”.
True and wrong all classes got limited AOEs and Rouge can make every stealth minion count
it works fairly well a healthy 56% times it works
At legend ranks and we know that those are the only ranks that matter right?
Problem is getting to those ranks in the usual diverse meta we have of facing Thrall, Ragnaros, Lady Vash and murgls, and lets not forget about the boring dark elf brothers and their crush.
Class is in no great spot at the moment and with the new tech coming as you well agreed the weapon route is dead ( so cool that we got a weapon focused set of cards last expansion by the way) but we only need to wait and see what it’s getting now for United in Stormwind.
Says the one with the French name. By association, I would argue.
(the less likely answer would be misspelling:p)
From now on I will only use “Rouge” (not rouge but “rouge”)
tempo.you play around it with countertempo, aoe spam isn’t the only way.
Legend ranks not a good spot test card win rates on ground everyone always running counters for counter for counter for counters making number from their unreliable and unable come down to a proper soiled number (gold or silver better because in mid rang)