Im just going to link to this reddit post which has playrates in pro rank, where people are usually try hards and don't play off meta decks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gwent/comments/l4m3gj
As you can see there are at least 5 really strong decks with some others probably getting less attention althought they are still really strong (like movement, even viy doesn't have that high of a winrate right now I think people are bored by it.) The thing that surprised me was that NR witchers was by far the most played deck. Then Wotw came out everyone said that NR got the worst cards but in the right hands that deck is extremely tough to beat in a short round, long round even a card down. Thing is that I barely see anyone complain about it here because it doesn't feel as oppressive to play against as something like viy or lockdown.
You might say "things are worse lower on the ladder" but my experience has actually been the opposite. The lower on the ladder you go a) the more variety of decks you see (partially because people dont know what their doing but also because you don't get punished as hard for trying new things) and b) the easier it is to play against people who are net decking because they are not as competent at piloting their decks.
Am I tired of playing against lockdown? When Im playing cache yes, when Im playing assimilate Im like "easy win." Am I tired of playing against viy? When Im playing assimilate yes but when Im playing cache Im like "easy win". You could say that is the binary nature of the game but unfortunately I don't know if a game like this can be completely balanced. If your goal is to have fun then accept that you are going to lose sometimes, if your goal is to tryhard and rank up play the decks than punish what you are playing against a lot instead of being like "why doesn't my favorite deck have a chance at beating everything".
https://www.reddit.com/r/gwent/comments/l4m3gj
As you can see there are at least 5 really strong decks with some others probably getting less attention althought they are still really strong (like movement, even viy doesn't have that high of a winrate right now I think people are bored by it.) The thing that surprised me was that NR witchers was by far the most played deck. Then Wotw came out everyone said that NR got the worst cards but in the right hands that deck is extremely tough to beat in a short round, long round even a card down. Thing is that I barely see anyone complain about it here because it doesn't feel as oppressive to play against as something like viy or lockdown.
You might say "things are worse lower on the ladder" but my experience has actually been the opposite. The lower on the ladder you go a) the more variety of decks you see (partially because people dont know what their doing but also because you don't get punished as hard for trying new things) and b) the easier it is to play against people who are net decking because they are not as competent at piloting their decks.
Am I tired of playing against lockdown? When Im playing cache yes, when Im playing assimilate Im like "easy win." Am I tired of playing against viy? When Im playing assimilate yes but when Im playing cache Im like "easy win". You could say that is the binary nature of the game but unfortunately I don't know if a game like this can be completely balanced. If your goal is to have fun then accept that you are going to lose sometimes, if your goal is to tryhard and rank up play the decks than punish what you are playing against a lot instead of being like "why doesn't my favorite deck have a chance at beating everything".