Metagame Madness 6/22

I know I said I would come back and tell everyone what I thought about the Worlds information that was made public this week, and I'm still planning on doing that. But it's already Friday and I haven't covered the metagame yet this week, so I'm going to do that today.



First up are the faction numbers:



Alliance- 109/+18
Horde- 103/+21



Another close week and Horde is closing the overall gap. I think that the versatility of the Horde is starting to have a greater effect on deck choices. I know I've said this before, but all the Alliance decks are beatdown where the Horde decks are anything from beatdown to mid-range to combo to control.



Shaman- 50/+9
Hunter- 40/+9
Warlock- 38/+7
Warrior- 28/+6
Druid- 21/+2
Paladin- 16/+5
Priest- 8/+1
Rogue- 6/+1
Mage- 5/+0

The separation of classes has become very apparent. Shaman and Hunter lead the way again followed closely by Warlocks, Warriors, and Paladins. The "new" has really worn off the Telrander deck as it has started to sputter a little bit. Paladins as a class continue to pick up some steam, but this week they weren't led by Draenei beatdown players who didn't want to play Shaman. This week it was the Red Paladin, Aleyah Dawnborn leading the Paladin brigade. Druids, Priests, Rogues, and Mages all had a pretty crummy week. Another interesting note regarding the Shamans being on top again is that Grennan was actually the best performing Shaman of the week, Darkmoon Faire Chicago excluded of course.

Here's the breakdown by hero:

Phadalus- 37/+4
Telrander- 19/+2
Dizdemona- 17/+5
Pagatha- 16/+2
Sen'Zir- 14/+4
Gorebelly- 14/+2
Azarak- 13/+2
Elendril- 12/+3
Bulkas-11/+2
Grennan- 11/+5
Nimaasus- 8/+1
Aleyah- 5/+3
Kayleitha- 4/+0
Omedus- 4/+0
Zenith- 4/+0
Morganis- 2/+0
Thangal- 2/+0
Ja'nah- 2/+0
Kalinna- 2/+0
Haruka- 2/+0
Victoria- 2/+0
Ta'Zo- 1/+0
Ruby- 1/+0
Grumpherys- 1/+0
Radak- 1/+0
Savin- 1/+0
Timmo- 1/+0
Graccus- 1/+0
Litori- 1/+0
Daspien- 1/+1
Warrax- 1/+1

Results for the week show that there's a lot of variety and a lot of balance to the top decks. Finally someone other than Phadalus takes the top spot for the week, although the blue Shaman maintains a stranglehold on the overall totals. In a Heroes of Azeroth flashback moment, Grennan and Dizdemona return to the top, although most of the Dizdemona decks these days are the rush variant. Grennan has once again become a strong choice as answer to the Alliance beatdown decks. It has one of the best anti-rush cards in the game with Chain Lightning. The untargetables have made this card so much better than it was before, which was still really good. EvilDave over on the WoWrealms boards made the comment that the best way to beat Shaman rush was to play Shaman control. It will be interesting in the next month and a half to see if something legitimately steps up to challenge Shamans or if we'll see a repeat of Chicago in Indy.