TH3WITCH3R;n7894290 said:
I never faced any monster players with this strategy lacking warriors so sorry not going to buy that point.
Err... Okay?
zantclick;n7903450 said:
Honestly, monsters aren't broken unless you're playing in the really early levels (which it sounds like you are) simply due to the fact that their commons and rares are highly synergistic and valuable whereas most other factions require a variety of rare/epics to be strong. But once you get past that initial hurdle, you'll find that monsters has a pretty unforgiving cap - scoia'tael and northern realms can have insane 200+ str values at the end of their final rounds, and skellige and nilfgaard both have so much fuel to survive well past most monster decks' peak performance
Here are some (graphomaniac) thoughts from monster point of view (around 3300 MMR, consume deck):
— SK discard is the most popular deck on ladder. I think it beats everything, but monsters, Ciri-dash+Cerys+Lugos combo is mad pile of gold in last round, plus overbuffed Morkvag and Olgierd. Should be nerfed at my opinion. Punished by deck with monster graveyard control, though. SK masochist is now weaker, easily countered by weather. Have a high win rate.
— NR can't put up a fight, except for Radovid. There are lots of Radovid control decks on the ladder, which can counter monster consume deck. I have 50% winrate against NR, mostly due to precisely timed Pavetta draining out all nekkers. It also can be done with cleaver, but it is a hard enough to do so. Margo spam is much harder to manage compared to consume conveyor; Foltest is susceptible to be controlled by weather easily. None, but Radovids then.
— ST can't put up a good fight. Overbuffed dwarves end with weather/d-bomb easily, you just need to provoke them into long play. Neophyte spam is weak tactics enough, Ele'yas is neither weather immune nor agile. I think they will made him so in future, but now it can be easily countered by tacticool-placed fog. It has 10-20 strength at most, equal to ekikimara carried into last round by monster ability. The match becomes purely mind game with lots of math on Toruviel power. Mistaken by one once, got owned, but win rate is high, and they are rare enough. The game is boring and nervous, don't like it. 200+ strength is debuffed easily due to row stacking on melle, deck which is not based on buff is too weak in terms of str.
— Nilfs are the most interesing matchup; have very low win rate, but the game is dynamic and interesting. Lots of cow-thrower combos and so on. Rare.
tl;dr: now everyone play Radovids, Consume/Weather and SK diskard; SK discard and monster should be nerfed; NR gold spam should be buffed; No idea why nilfs are so rare.