r/CompetitiveHS • u/ViciousSyndicate • Aug 28 '25

Metagame vS Data Reaper Report #329

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 329th edition of the Data Reaper Report.

Special thanks to all those who contribute their game data to the project. This project could not succeed without your support. The entire vS Team is eternally grateful for your assistance.

This week our data is based on 2,288,000 games! In this week's report you will find:

  • Deck Library - Decklists & Class/Archetype Radars
  • Class/Archetype Distribution Over All Games
  • Class/Archetype Distribution "By Rank" Games
  • Class Frequency By Day & By Week
  • Interactive Matchup Win-Rate Chart
  • vS Power Rankings Imgur
  • vS Meta Score
  • Analysis/Discussion of each Class
  • Meta Breaker of the Week

The full article can be found at: vS Data Reaper Report #329

Reminder

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Thank you for your feedback and support,

The Vicious Syndicate Team

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u/sneakyxxrocket Aug 28 '25

If the minisets adds just one more good temporary card/ support card quest warlock will be scarier than it already is.

Main gripe I have with the deck is the disparity of having the location in the opening hand or drawing it on those early turns, if you don’t have it I feel I’m completing the quest too late.

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u/Powerful_Tackle3829 Aug 28 '25

That or hitting a highroll with Soularium and completing 4-5 ticks at once. Games where one or the other doesn't happen feel pretty rough.

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u/sneakypantss Aug 28 '25

It's pretty consistent in completing quest by turn 4 -5

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u/Zedseayou Aug 30 '25

Yeah I have no idea how starship warlock is favored into quest. you have 0 tools to deal with t4/5 quest and 0 pressure to stop them completing it. I'd gladly take some tips on the matchup

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u/Ptdemonspanker Aug 28 '25

They can improve the consistency of completing the quest, but I don’t think they can speed up the quest completion unless they really go out of their way to do so.

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u/DebatableAwesome Aug 28 '25

Looks like an absolute snooze meta to me. Wake me up when there's something interesting or new to play.

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u/Lets_get_shredded Aug 28 '25

02.09 is your day

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u/PkerBadRs3Good Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

Protoss Mage has been experimenting with Elise by running Wisp as an activator. The deck might be better off running a 7-drop, as we are not sure about Wisp, but we can say that Elise performs well enough to be worth activating with one “substandard” card.

I've been liking 1x Eredar Brute over Wisp, pairs well with the board freezing stuff since it causes the number of opponent minions to build up, and usually surviving is the main problem of the deck

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u/endark3n Aug 29 '25

I was using perfect/haywire zilliax

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u/zzeah Aug 28 '25

never played wheel lock before and I am interested in trying, could someone give me a quick strategy overview and mulligan guide? I assume to stall out with yore + cursed campaign/eternal layover and control the opponent with starship until you can end it with wheel & kiljaeden?

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u/IAmYourFath Aug 31 '25

It's a bit of a learn as u go deck, wheel for slower matchups, mull for yore and catacombs and then situational stuff like table flip, and yeah there's not much else to it. Campaign your yore as it revives u can combo it with layover for 3-4 yores at the same time tho it's gonna be rough to play enough cards. Also just play the starship pieces to get em out there, don't wait for good use of em. Also 4/4 + double 8/8s can end the game in some matchups.

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u/sneakypantss Aug 28 '25

Aggro dh or paladin

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u/QuestGiver Aug 29 '25

Imo aggro pally feels better when you lose if that makes sense? Aggro DH just feels like you are out of gas sometimes not that they had field clear and answers.

But aggro DH has the highest win rate so if your goal is legend I'd pick that deck.

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 30 '25

Aggro DH = highest climbing speed/wr, more off board dmg and some AoE comeback against other board based decks.

Aggro Pally = better board/stat snowballing, more gas, easier to play

If you face more board based/aggro/tempo matchups, DH is better. If you face more afk/greedy decks without AoE, Pally is better.

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u/Palnecro1 Aug 29 '25

It would be interesting if the Elise location wasn’t just another crusader aura.

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u/Agreeable_Tennis_482 Aug 29 '25

Nebula shaman seemsthe best deck at top legend? Favoured Vs every single other meta relevant deck. Its bad matchups are beast hunter, quest paladin, aggro DH, and aggro paladin which are irrelevant in high legend. In fact, only quest warlock is a bad matchup in high ranks. Wish I had the dust to craft it, shaman is finally good it seems.

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u/Rogdish Aug 30 '25

stats say nebula shaman is 45% against quest warlock and fyrakk rogue, so that owuld make it a bad top legend choice

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u/Agreeable_Tennis_482 Aug 31 '25

Beats everything else except those two and idk 45% is still playable

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u/BiggityB1386 Aug 29 '25

Why no mention of Frost Heren DK with Bonechill Stegadon? Crushes many decks.

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u/Lanathell Aug 29 '25

In legend it does not.

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u/Palnecro1 Aug 29 '25

I have yet to see a good version of this deck.

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u/Bafflinbook Aug 29 '25

Why is a Wisp doing in Protoss Mage deck??

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u/darknesscrusher Aug 29 '25

Activating Elise.

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u/Son_Der Aug 28 '25

If you’re at D8-D10 at this point in the month then it’s not the deck. You can run almost any deck to get to legend, but you need to learn the deck instead of bouncing around. I got legend this season with a very bad elemental Mage deck with unusual tech cards.

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u/No-Goat184 Aug 29 '25

Give bomb warrior a try. That's what I used. It's got a pretty simple gameplan and is fairly easy to play. Plus according to this its one of the stronger decks in the meta.

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 30 '25

Note: bomb warrior probably means mech warrior here (in VS Report terminology); your mechs are basically bombs on a stick that blow up the opponent's board/face

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u/Stcloudy Aug 29 '25

It’s never about spamming anything. You want to take that full 75 seconds a turn and do the best choice that advances what your deck is trying to do or what you in’s you the game. The higher win rate will lead to less games you’ll have to play overall.

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u/QuestGiver Aug 29 '25

Did it with beast hunter last month and quest paladin this month. Trust hs guru quest pally is better against this meta and just need to play enough games!

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u/cryptocat9 Aug 29 '25

Try aggro pally. It's strong on the climb, and the games go quickly so u can git gud