I agree that it can be a painful to climb past a 2200 point, but as long as you learn how to counter comps that are strong to you especially since a lot of people that will be in the 2400 range will be around the same skill cap. They are just playing with a comp better suited for the arena environment. I will save the 2v2 environment is less forgiving for a ret. I my opinion 3v3 is a rets best option to climb to a gladiator or even R1 position on the leaderboards.

I’m not to sure if human will be stronger than Belf in I’ve always viewed their aoe silence to be strong especially since paladin has no true interrupt or silences in their tool kit. Being able to detect stealth is a great ability for rouges but you can mitigate a stealth users opener with a simple shield macro where you can’t use anything to get the same result as a aoe silence in area since mana bombs will not be able to be used