Why do demons suck so bad in battlegrounds?

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I mean yes IF you can get mana wreaver & IMMEDIATELY get soul rewinder, and then ASAP get floating watcher & insatiable ur’zul then you MIGHT place 4th. I mean, first the mana wreaver is a great way for you to help your opponents kill you if you don’t get rewinder. Second, if demons are in the lobby why do 4 of the players go demons? Every time. And third are demons just this awful and why if so do my first 3 turns only offer me demons when they are in the lobby? I mean my first turn will be mana wreaver, upbeat frontdrake, and razorfen geomancer, so then naturally mana wreaver looks like the best choice with it’s scalability, but then you can’t find a rewinder to save your life (literally), or somehow despite getting a buttload of demons to then scale the wreaver to like 50/50 crazy fast, 5 of your opponents are tier 5 and have a dream team. Like seriously? Hell I’ll even have 2 wreavers at 50/50 and still…

Post is meant more as rhetorical so no need for giving advice or trolling. Just asking anyone else seeing this?

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Whether or not you recognize it, Demons tends to get to keep chip damage off your health for the first several turns.

That can get you to live long enough to get top 4 just by outlasting some of the other players.

So they are at least useful for that.

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mostly because they are stupid and dont properly test before implementing. Demons are a joke right now, especially if murlocs are in the game with recurring venom. You work your butt off to build up demons just so that a store bought murloc can take out 2 of them.

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Demons are quite week early in a lobby. They shine greatly in the later tiers. It’s why it’s so easy to pivot to a Demon build late game and it works. Their best minion to abuse is in Tier 6 and needs you to be a diversified build to make it work anyway.

If you are taking a rewinder early you are probably trying the tier 2 strategy or you are hoping for a Prince for some free looks. Watcher in general scales pretty badly when compared to something like a Ur’zul.