From last server stats i did some calculations to say definitely what are the real matchups, usually i heard about new good and bad matchups which are totally invented. Probably because of personal experiences or just taking a look on only one stats table.
I'll write only the very good and very bad matchups from all stats i have and from my experience, there are surely good and bad matchups which are really situational depending from one ore two special house cards, combinations and countering combinations, for example people say sorcerer is good versus beast because of s8 on b6,b7, is it sufficient to say sorcerer>beast? Or demon>holy because h4 and h6 are not really good vs d1,d5,d7, yeah probably but h3 is good vs d6,d7,d8 and especially d3 at the start. So i like to consider these matchups just too situational.
Note: in parenthesis the matchups that i consider verygood/good or verybad/bad
Cleric
Very good: Necromancer - Illusion - (Forest)
Very bad: (Dominator) - (Time)
Necromancer
Very good: Beast - Forest - (Goblins) - (Time)
Very bad: Cleric - Demon - (Dominator)
Mechanician
Very good: (Forest) - (Goblins)
Very bad: Illusion - Demon
Dominator
Very good: Sorcerer - (Cleric) - (Necromancer)
Very bad: Forest - Time - Golem - (Chaos)
Chaos
Very good: (Dominator)
Very bad: Golem - (Forest) - (Time) - (Demon)
Illusionist
Very good: Priest - Mech
Very bad: Cleric - Forest - Time - Vampire
Demonologist
Very good: Necro - Mech - Sorcerer - (Chaos) - (Vampire)
Very bad: -
Sorcerer
Very good: Goblins
Very bad: Dominator - Demon - (Cultist)
BeastMaster
Very good: (Golem)
Very bad: Necro
Goblins
Very good:
Very bad: Sorcerer - (Mech) - (Necro)
Forest
Very good: Illusion - Dominator - (Chaos) - (Cultist)
Very bad: Necro - (Cleric) - (Mech)
Time
Very good: Dominator - Illusion - (Chaos) - (Cleric) - (Golem)
Very bad: (Necro)
Priest
Very good: -
Very bad: Illusion
Vampire
Very good: Illusion
Very bad: (Demon)
Cultist
Very good: (Golem) - (Sorcerer)
Very bad: (Forest)
Golem
Very good: Dominator - Chaos
Very bad: (Beast) - (Time) - (Cultist)
Modified by GrimJoker on 2015-04-29 17:11:42
Forest is good vs illusion just because forest is faster than illusion. Illusion can do always more damages turn by turn thanks to big opponent creatures with ill3 and ill4, forest have no big creatures and usually play almost midcreatures. Ill7 is useless vs forest. Indeed the last 3 winrates forest vs illusion are 61% 56% and 60%.
Beast is favourite vs Forest? The only breaking card is the white elephant which means automatically gg but i can't consider this a bad matchup just because one card, beast7 and beast8 are usually too expensive to be useful. The last winrates Beast vs Forest are 49% 48% 49%. (Forest 51% 52% 51%).
Ps: to have more good matchps is not a good thing at all if the same class has also more weakness, indeed in my opinion time and deomon are pretty impressive, sorcerer is now the worst,about control class i think is just op only for big lvls who can also win vs very bad matchups.
Modified by GrimJ0ker on 2015-04-29 21:54:03
Ill8 useless vs forest? Hardly if you have at least water 6
It is not like big guys are never good vs forest. Beast 7 is one of its worst nightmares
Also, vampires bad vs demons? demon is too slow class...
Modified by Sinist on 2015-04-29 17:32:46
Ill8 useless vs forest? Hardly if you have at least water 6
It is not like big guys are never good vs forest. Beast 7 is one of its worst nightmares
Also, vampires bad vs demons? demon is too slow class...
I meant illusion7 is useless versus Forest not illusion8.
You consider Vampire a quick class? Who cares demon is too slow?
Last winrates Vampire vs Demon (44.1% - 47.8% - 46.5%).
I don't want to convince anyone, these are the numbers, everyone is free to believe in their matchups.
Modified by GrimJ0ker on 2015-04-29 22:29:00
Ill7 - maybe...
And vampire is more powerful in long games that demon or anybody else (maybe with exception of time), imho
What level are those winrates for?