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The highest win-rate deck I've ever observed was Force/Roar Druid in Classic. It was 61% for over 2 months. We never nerfed it because its population never got very high and players didn't seem to mind it. Never dipped below 56-57% IIRC. Has my vote for best deck ever.

The highest win-rate deck I've ever observed was Force/Roar Druid in Classic. It was 61% for over 2 months. We never nerfed it because its population never got very high and players didn't seem to mind it. Never dipped below 56-57% IIRC. Has my vote for best deck ever.

  • Iksar

    Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
    The highest win-rate deck I've ever observed was Force/Roar Druid in Classic. It was 61% for over 2 months. We never nerfed it because its population never got very high and players didn't seem to mind it. Never dipped below 56-57% IIRC. Has my vote for best deck ever.
    • Iksar

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      Galakrond Shaman was 59% on launch or something, which is incredibly high for modern Hearthstone. I think it was very slightly higher than Ashes DH. If we would have let Ashes DH live for longer, I imagine its win rate might have crept up near 60. We'll never know!
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        The 'best deck' of any meta is usually around 53-54% at the top 1% of players. 53-55% is normal nerf territory (we don't nerf by looking at numbers, it just happens to be that this is pretty normal 56-57% is busted 58%+ almost never happens, truly megabustado
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        The 'best deck' of any meta is usually around 53-54% at the top 1% of players. 53-55% is normal nerf territory (we don't nerf by looking at numbers, it just happens to be that this is pretty normal) 56-57% is busted 58%+ almost never happens, truly megabustado
        • Iksar

          Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
          also pls don't tag this tweet and link me future hsreplay data of some deck with a tiny sample size and bias data that has 60% win rate ugh you are going to do it anyway, aren't you? AREN'T YOU
    • m_mccall

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Wasn’t Patron in the mid sixties or was that just at high legend? I remember it being broken off the hinges
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        @m_mccall patron was one of those decks where individual top players had high 60's or low 70's win rates with 100+ games sample size not overall tho
        • ToastieNL

          Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS @m_mccall Does a similar thing hold for LSDH, which always had middling performances at most aggregate data, but was highly played by some players nevertheless
          • J_Alexander_HS

            Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
            @ToastieNL @IksarHS @m_mccall You’d want to account for player skill there. If a player regularly records a 57% win rate, them recording a 60% is a different beast
            • ToastieNL

              Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
              @J_Alexander_HS @IksarHS @m_mccall Mr Iksar... :)?
              • Iksar

                Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
                @ToastieNL @J_Alexander_HS @m_mccall Individual players do weird things. The best Hearthstone players frequently play middling decks and call them great decks because of how they feel.
                • Iksar

                  Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
                  @ToastieNL @J_Alexander_HS @m_mccall Even in cases where there is a deck that is only successful for very high-legend players, it's usually a result of the niche meta at that level more than it is a result of that deck being mega-high-skill
    • ZerinaX

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS I think Undertaker Hunter beat this out back in the day, it was a VERY high WR
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        @ZerinaX it was mid-high 50's i think this is mostly because undertaker was being used in a variety of classes to great success and hunter was just the best of the bunch
    • kilmarnok1285

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS Never nerfed? Force used to summon treants with charge
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        @kilmarnok1285 I mean we never nerfed it in the classic era
    • acrowfliedover

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS I wonder how much better ashes DH was if we remove mirror matches
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        @acrowfliedover all win-rate data has mirror matches removed
    • AlAkir_

      Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS What was the highest winrate deck that I was in?
      • Iksar

        Posted 3 years, 7 months ago (Source)
        @AlAkir_ I don't know it would take me a long time to read that far down the list



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