Important Conversation About Hearthstone

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In the spirit of that other thread, what drugs do you need to become a top-shelf Harkstein player?

Definitely not pot or alcohol. Hearthstone is a decent amount of math as you analyze the board state to decide who you are going to attack with minions and cast spells on. Basically constant math, just simple addition/subtraction, but it never stops

Then usually you want to be thinking of your next move or two ahead, but that requires understanding everything about the deck you are against to anticipate what their next move is likely to be but having a contingency plan for alternatives. Some things like board clears you want to try to force/bait early, obviously anticipate and not “go wide” (summoning lots of minions) right into. But that means knowing how many of what board clears the opponents deck runs. Once you get into the higher ranks, deck variety shrinks to usually just all top meta decks, so it’s fairly easy to memorize them all. Legend (top 1-2%) actually has a better variety of decks than, say, Diamond partly because it has players that are so fucking good they can do well with even weird homebrew decks. Usually these are like streamers who play ranked hearthstone at Legend every day in like 8 hour shifts

But a player running a T1 aggro deck who a decent understanding of the game can grind our legend through sheer effort. Can only do this with an aggro deck, what you are doing is continuing to play until get multiple starting “god hands” in a row vs multiple opponents. You just keep grinding and grinding (due to rank floors you can’t de-rank past Diamond once you hit it) until you get that crazy god hand win streak and boom Legend. That’s the most common way