i’m tired of low ranked players complaining about warlock, just play aggro deck and warlock does nothing, of course warlock is op when people play full legendary greedy slow deck, against good decks warlock is as powerful as the other good decks
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No, warlock is just OP. Stop being bad at playing it. The aggro sludge deck only has like, a single deck that it’s bad against. It has taken over pretty much the entire ladder and has warped what can be effectively played around it because of how powerful it is.
It’s going to be nerfed.
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i don’t even play warlock, i’m just sick of people blaming the deck when they lose, warlock is definetly not too strong
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Except that, by every measure, it is?
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At high ranks Sludge was a Tier 1 deck before nerfs with Drilling Rogue, Ramp Druid, and Naga DH. Cue nerfs, Drilling Rogue was nerfed and Ramp Druid was deleted while Sludge was untouched. It is now Tier S. I think it only has one unfavoured matchup in Control Warrior and that’s maybe 55-45. It’s approaching 30% playrate at top legend.
At lower ranks add on to that the effects of the Treant Druid and Excavate Pally nerfs. Even if it isn’t a Tier S deck in winrate, it’s the only Aggro deck worth playing at lower ranks that isn’t meh. Expect population numbers to spike there too once people stop experimenting and focusing on climbing, if it hasn’t already happened.
So at low ranks not only will Sludge have a superlative winrate but it will also have a playrate to match. “just play aggro” doesn’t work when Sludge is the premier aggro deck at the moment. Treant and Excavate Paladin got nerfed because of low rank “feels”, Sludge is definitely going to be nerfed.
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Yup and it’s downright toxic to try to play control warrior, cause as soon as you do, the crowds swap over to plague death Knight, which is nearly a hard counter to both Warlock and control warrior as long as they draw helya in the first 4 turns.
So very cyclical meta, Warlock and warrior going nearly neck to neck, then dks start flooding in to feed off the free wins, then any other deck other than Warlock and warrior can annihilate dks after which Warlock just destroys those decks and we are back at step 1 in the cycle.
So depending an where in the cycle the meta is, just start playing the next deck and you will coast to top ten, as it’s rock paper scissors on steroids.
There are a few things your post tells about you:
1 - you are a noob
2 - you don’t even know what metastats or hsreplay are
3 - You have no idea how to read statistical data
Get off the forum. Start learning.
forge of wills is the problem, create 2 7/7 or 6/8 on turn 4-5 with all upside, any 2-3 mana minions get sniped by sludge and the game closes out every time. only counter is to play sticky small minions even then the amount of stats they create on board will just kill you
Excavate Pally is still very strong. I don’t think Boogie Down was even nerfed, the new version is particularly strong against Sludge.
Not saying that Sludge isn’t OP, I’m just saying that as Excavate Paladin the matchup is winnable.
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What a pathetic and desperate attempt to not get nerfed Xd I love this thread. Tell me more how warlock is balanced.
Fantastic username for this rancid take, by the way.