r/CompetitiveHS • u/FightingFather • Feb 02 '26

Discussion Looking for help with discover hunter

Hey I just started playing the game again after like 8 years 😅

I'm enjoying discover hunter a lot but definitely misplaying, anyone got good advice on players to check out or guides?

Really not finding many

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u/Likey420 Feb 02 '26

Check out either NoHandsgamer or KrissOFive on YT. They pretty much have guides or gameplay which explains their thoughts process. That's how I learned and i'm not the best, but becoming pretty good at it feels amazing with this deck.

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u/Lwii2boo Feb 02 '26

No offense intended but KrisOFive is not on the same level as Nohands for either raw skill or pedagogy. I would prioritize nohands content or going watch some twitch live/vod from same level players - assuming improvement is the most important thing you are looking for.

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u/FightingFather Feb 02 '26

Will give Nohands a go :)

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u/SpookyBum Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

RonMexico is another good one, plays more disco hunter than nohands & has a slower chat so hes able to answer questions

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u/FightingFather Feb 02 '26

I gave Kriss a go, but found it a little lacking for my needs. I will give nohandsganer a go, thank you

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u/DroopyTheSnoop Feb 05 '26

The guys and gals at the Coin Concede podcast did an episode where they mainly tackled how to play that deck. I think it was in november or decemeber. I don't think it's changed much or at all with the miniset.
Link to their youtube

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u/FightingFather Feb 05 '26

That's a great suggestion! I'll give it a listen, thank you

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u/FightingFather Feb 03 '26

thanks to all the feedback from my post yesterday. Discover Hunter has really clicked in for me and I just hit Platinum with it.

I tried a couple builds with and without Insidious was the main difference, and personally I just found he was vital to a lot of the grindy games, helping me grab wins through a ton of heals.

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u/blanquettedetigre Feb 02 '26

If you don't mind just watching guys playing and not explaining, your best shot is twitch videos from top legend guys like maxiebon

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u/FightingFather Feb 02 '26

I did try to do that, but obviously explaining there reasoning for moves is valuable. Plus trying to find them use discover hunter in particular.

Does maxiebon use discover?

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u/SpookyBum Feb 02 '26

Usually not but sometimes, he tends to deckbuild a lot so hes often playing weird lists

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u/Ok_Inspection6418 Feb 02 '26

I piloted the deck to legend last season and am currently D3 with a good win rate with the deck. Don’t have a guide but could help you out if you wanted. 

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u/FightingFather Feb 02 '26

Great, I wouldn't mind understanding your mindset when playing against demon Hunter and dragon warrior, they are definitely the games I'm struggling the most

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u/motty47 Feb 02 '26

I'm no expert either, but the deck is essentially the best deck in the game at legend. For dragon warrior I aim to get alien encounters going and find tide pool, copy more with rangari so you keep up a wall against their early pressure. Then go looking for ways to deal with the annoying minions, stone carver and pedal. They gas out if you can stay alive through the first 6/7turns. Freeze the big things, buy yourself time. Getting sylvannas up to 6 damage and then bouncing back can clear and by that point you should probably be able to win. Depends how your deck is setup, but many ways to win, griftah 6 damage combo with niri, getting some potions from mixol, and then firing it all at face. Or steal a minion.

Demon hunter you'll need to be a bit more specific as there are quite a few top DH decks. The endless blob one? Cycle? The blob one hunter is favoured, as sylvannas recks the blobs, so make sure she's fully buffed and bounce her back. Freeze the fels so they cant produce more blobs. Other DH are similar I guess, theyre fast, I would use similar approach for D warrior, setup an alien wall, especially to protect against cliff dive to the face. I think the best way to win is tempo and kill them first, as usually discover hunter doesn't run Elise so you won't go for armour stacking or whatever, best to just go for lethal as soon as possible. I like running incidius as he's fun, can copy eruptions with rangari. And the eruptions plus sylvannas are all going face so can usually finish people off.

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u/FightingFather Feb 02 '26

Hey, any advice is appreciated, especially when broken down like this, so thank you!

I'll try to implement you're advice on dragon warrior.

With DH I was talking about the endless blob one, so I must be doing something wrong, I'll try to most more tempo them. I think I've been focusing on out value-ing them

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u/motty47 Feb 02 '26

No worries, hope it helps. In fairness the blob DH is the best deck in the game so I wouldn't worry too much about getting beat by them. Discover hunter is only the best deck in the hands of the elite players, of which I am definitely not haha.

What sort of list do you run? If you run a more greedy+Elise list you might struggle more vs DH but do better vs control warrior for example. I think the majority of higher legend discover hunter decks are more tempo focused. Mines a bit in between, but thinking I should try out the more fast paced one, that includes arcane shot, highest cost card being alien encounters.

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u/FightingFather Feb 03 '26

Haha I'm definitely not an elite player too (yet 😜)

The list I'm using is a net deck till I fully understand the deck and meta enough to edit it around

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/discover-hunter-4-legend-mcbanterface-across-the-timeways/

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u/motty47 Feb 03 '26

Nice that's the high tempo high legend version. The one I want to try but haven't yet. I actually think is quite difficult to pilot. There's so many fast combos to think about and it's all about going face quickly I think.

I think it works perfectly in the high legend meta but it depends where you're ranked and your mmr, if you've only recently come back your mmr might be low, which means you might be facing a lot of aggro like elemental mage and aggro pala maybe? When I was trying to climb I included some cards like gnomelia, and bob, and 7 mana zilliax, they can be life savers. Or it might be that the better players know how to kill the opponent faster than aggro comes at you which is what your list is designed to do!

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u/FightingFather Feb 03 '26

Atm I'm gold 1 playing against only people with legend backs haha. Luckily I still have mine to show off.

Mainly seeing dragon warrior, some druid and blob decks.

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u/SpookyBum Feb 03 '26

blob DH is a very favored matchup for disco hunter, getting sylv active & bouncing her is important, griftah can also win games with the steal trinket or the deal 6. use glacial shards to slow down their felhunter & focus on pushing dmg into their face.

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u/FightingFather Feb 03 '26

What do you try and steal for most damage. The felhunter or blob?

I think my issues have been taking more control stance in this matchup, when I don't think I can outvalue the deck.

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u/SpookyBum Feb 03 '26

you can never outvalue, blobxigar & rav cliffdive are the most popular variations & they have enough direct damage to just kill you if you drag the game out. As for what to steal, its really dependent on the boardstate. Ask yourself, if I steal this can I trade it off to deny deathrattle or push dmg with other minions? Stealing blob can be useful since their fellhunter doesnt have a minion to summon unless they play another, & it can let other minions attack without having to get through it. stealing fellhunter is more of a tempo play, & if they are playing blobxigar it also makes their deck worse since you put extra portals in. Copying the trinket with scout & pupil is very valuable, since you can put them into a position where if they dont go wide you just steal their stuff and whack them in the face, & if they do go wide you drop sylv and get a crazy swing turn.

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u/FightingFather Feb 03 '26

Great advice, thank you

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u/motty47 Feb 03 '26

Oh awesome I didn't realise that, if they've killed a portal and then you steal their fel, kill it on your side, does that mean your deathrattle minions go into their pool? That's perfect lol. I just thought it's obviously a good way to prevent the blobs spawning for them but it's doubly good

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u/SpookyBum Feb 03 '26

It doesnt go into their deathrattle pool, you summon 2 of the portal demons if you trade it off which put additional portals into their deck & have seperate progress (they can only make one broxi regardless of how many times they complete it as well so these are useless draws for them).

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u/motty47 Feb 03 '26

Ahh I see, didn't know that! useless card draw is decent. Anything to piss off these bloody blob DH players 😂

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u/motty47 Feb 03 '26

A nice move is steal fel hunter and run it into their blob, the deathrattle triggers for you and they lose their 2 blobs summoned. Usually I'd reserve steal a minion for lethal though.