Taunt druid is underplayed relative to its power because it just isn’t that fun to play. Sure, most of the time you can get in quickly and kill your opponent before they can stop you, but if they have the answers then you’ll be helplessly watching them clear board after board until you run out of gas, they turn the corner and start to grind you down.
Plus it’s OLD! Why would anyone want to play the same old deck that’s been everywhere since the beginning of the last expansion when there’s new decks to play? Cool new decks with HUGE dragons and AWESOME treasures?
I believe that those tier lists are from Legendary Rankings. For example, I have tried to play those top tier decks. aggro druid and quest warrior since the patch, they don’t do well. But I imagine people in legendary like them so they play them a little more. idk. just my tinfoil hat.
They are decent decks as long as you get good draws. But it’s tough for them to keep up with the Onyxia cards that are allowing decks to attack and defend from all angles.
Since the population is so low it isn’t worth attempting to counter them, so they pick up more free wins.
Really, this is not rocket science. It’s the reason aggro always has high winrates, not because of the inherent strength of aggro, but because greedy decks that lose to aggro are overplayed relative to their power.
I think you misunderstood them. Orion isn’t saying that the OP is wrong about their subjective experience, rather that having run a few games doesn’t mean that you’ll necessarily see a representative sample of the meta. So, the appropriate analogy would be if you had only seen ten or twenty vehicles, but hadn’t seen very many, or any of the truck you mentioned.
Not disagreeing with you my dude, but I gotta point out most statistics aren’t based on all the statistics. You just need so many people to have an accurate Idea of the proportions of any said group.
There might be selection bias with the hsreplay playerbase (people who use the deck tracker use it to collection sync (which means they likely netdeck), and the fact that they’re using a deck tracker itself indicates that they’re tryharding the game, and so more likely to be playing the decks with the highest winrate. Your average noob or fun deck player likely won’t use a deck tracker. I’m not generalizing, just suggesting this might skew results
Their opponents don’t.
So If there is some random super secret overpowered deck it’s Very likely that atleast a small number of players get against it and it start to get attention in the data.
It not matters how much you think you’re “try harding” if you’re bad and it’s the same for any person.
People put far less credit in the players than they deserve nowadays.
I do concede the point of how the deck tracker will also collect opponent data (but I’m not sure if it actually uses that information to build the meta analyses, especially since not all cards are seen). Not sure what you mean by the second half. I’m not suggesting there’s some secret overpowered deck (unicorn priest ?!), rather that netdecks (cheap aggro decks, most likely) will be overrepresented, as OP is noticing.
Not sure what player skill has to do with the decks they’re using. If people are using a deck tracker, they likely care more about winning (or else they wouldn’t bother to add a deck tracker). Thus, they will use a deck that maximizes their chances of winning (as opposed to playing an old or fun deck). Thus, those decks will be overrepresented in the deck tracker.
