Positioning Explained by a PRO | Hearthstone Battlegrounds Guide 

What the shit

Good on ya mate. We should buy Jeef a burrito!

My take from this is you’re not married, live with your mum and are 4k mmr xD

wife is what I call my right hand too

This kind of statement is usually hyperbolic, or something that an MLM rep would say to try and get someone to buy into their nonsense. Except I swear to god this quite literally just happened to me over a couple hours of play immediately after watching. Actual BG virtuoso.

I love watching Jeef but have been losing mmr since trying to implement his strategies. Probably a coincidence though xD

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The great goat! of both playing, and teaching BG’s.

I think that falls in the "combo" build he mentioned to be exceptions :)

@@voidgods well it’s not really that known to newer players or returning players from before yeah sure it makes sense but even high ranked players forget I’ve seen DogDog and RDU taunt Brann while they had Rylak and realize what they did after the fact. Rylak is branns 1 exception it’s much different than other combo pieces. But that’s just my opinion while you see it as common sense probably due to baron/titus aura and him mostly always being at the back, the Brann Rylak pair to me is still new enough to at least mention where the 1 single exception applies.

@@voidgods also I should mention I’m higher ranked than most of my friends and we get in discord calls and I help them out and I always say watch streamers and I reccomend dog rdu and jeef and when I say higher ranked I’ve peaked around 9.5k but I’ve been having more fun and just playing for fun builds and stay around 8.5-9k now and most the people I’m helping are around 6-7k now, I get how my original comment to jeef may have sounded like a back handed compliment like a haha I said this and I think I’m smarter but no, I’m gonna send this video to my friends because everything else he explains so much better than I do he goes into more detail of the why.

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theres no real skill in playing around anchor, you're just guessing

@@JeefHS There's some mind games to it. If you're playing a titus comp and you're against a pirate comp, you can predict the snipe and shuffle your titus to a weird spot. You're way better than I'll ever be, but I have to disagree about it being random guessing. Regardless, it's a very good video guide. I should've mentioned that in my first comment.

​​@@rivetacemind games and guessing are the same thing though, since you can't predict the outcome 😅 as in, compared to positioning that has only 2 mechanics to consider that almost never change: taunts are attacked first and a 50/50 chance of attacking first, and you can predict what happens. Playing around Anchor is at best 1 out of 6 possibilities (both players considered, shuffling around the last 3 slots in each side's board) and at worst 1 out of 14. A pro player will never play around such low odds, for the sake of consistency they will always play the board that has the highest chance of winning, not the one that has the highest chance of not-losing. In other words, there's a point you simply stop trying to play around Anchor because your Titus is already in 1 out of the 2 best positions it can be at, so you just let the enemy mindgame themselves and assume you will move your Titus when you didn't 😂

@voidgods Okay, if all you care about is the best odds for winning, you can still use anchor to your advantage. You can snipe a bumper, getting more value out of your divine shield taunt. You can snipe a cleave buffer. Basically, you can punish optimal positioning, and if they play around it, you still get an advantage because now their positioning isn't optimal. It's a win-win in non-guessing-game situations like that if you use it smartly. I'm not saying the card is nuts, or even good tbh. But its impact is significantly determined by its positioning, and it has multiple use cases, so that's why I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in a video about positioning.

@@rivetace I think it's definitely a card with a lot of potential. While I'm no pro, I do think pros under utilize the card in menagerie builds. But there's a reason they don't use it and it's definitely not a card to build or prepare around I'd say, that's why I think he didn't mention it, other than the fact that it is very reliant on this card existing in the pool, which is not only guarantee in every game but also in future patches. Not only that, it is also the only minion of its type (start of combat - interact with enemy board), all other start of combat minions, which are not many, only interact with your hand/board. Maybe if they add more cards like Anchor then it is definitely no longer a meta-specific situation but an actual consideration to make.

It spawns a turtle with taunt so it always dies before manasaber attacks?

I guess. I just don't see what makes the positioning shown incorrect.@@Zaulhk

Count the number of open hits on the Humming Birds the opponent has.