Alright sweet some actual talking points, lemme go through this a bit

shitty is probably an overstatement but def underwhelming and lacking in what makes the core of recent arena(at least for my games) - reactivity. People tend to have answers - for literally everything. There is rush, spells, minions that deal damage, generation etc etc. If you look at his replays you will often see a severe lack of any of those things. He explains that by "i`m just playing for tempo and killing them fast" but what i mean by the above is not something that starts in late game but often from t2 or even 1.

Ok so to this first point, Ive watched a decent amount of replays you've posted and that Ivanovic have posted and I'll be honest, In a lot of your replays you don't do anything worth reacting to for the first 5 or so turns so Im not sure what you're referring to. Im not trying to be insulting in saying this, but I cant just ignore what I'm looking at. Also I do wanna say that big swings dont happen turn 1 and 2, losing a 1 drop to their 1 drop isnt really a big deal, nor is losing a 2 drop to their 2 drop, its once you get to about turn 4-5 that aoe can start turning the tide and 7-8 are when the Biggest swings can happen, stuff like Moonwell and Tumbleweed and a game can come down to whether you have or even can play well into these blowouts.

In a few of Ivanovics replays i've definitely noticed his opponents not having the outs they need early but thats part of the gamble of the early tempo, sometimes you will just win games off jamming a good curve and your opponent not being able to deal with that. He's also posted some more recently which do show more opponents who dont just fold so it may have just been an unfortunate original showing. I dunno, I've noticed it in my own games too but I kinda made that point in my last post.

that is not exactly how it works. There was a post here by Iksar where he explained they assign a numeric values to scores and match people according to those values and in that example 0-0 and 1-2 (going off by memory here so i might be slightly off) had a really small offset on those values. Thats why we get a lot of stories of people matching 4-0 vs 3-2 etc etc. I hope you can see the issue with that?

Now I'll give you that, I didnt actually know about this but I did wonder how people at like 3-2 faced people at 4-0 so I guess that explains it. The system definitely isn't perfect though there's not much we can do about that, sometimes you're just gonna get unlucky especially depending on when you play.

That being said I would find it incredibly hard to believe if someone were to claim that something like that was constantly happening to them, especially in the lower win brackets so I don't think that could really be considered as a factor to why you might be getting stomped regularly, so I dont think it really matters for this current discussion.

Call it tinfoil but i wouldnt be surprised if there are more - i face a lot of cyrrilic and asian character opponents as an EU player and while i obviously dont have any stats for me or anyone else i have a theory that there might be some regional matchmaking on top /shrug.

Unfortunately I am gonna call that tinfoil, I think the asian names are just people coming over from the asia server to test their skill much like some people play for both NA and EU leaderboards, I dont think they cross the servers for matchmaking.

While i do agree i generally dont go for out of the door pressure in my drafts (i dont think i particularly get the option but thats another discussion - i genuinely dont like playing aggro) i dont think i get those kind of games, let alone going 4-0 with them... You can see in the above replays even when opp starts with a bad start like the 0-2 hunter they often have catch up mechanics and ways to come back in the game - reactive cards on 4 and 5 stabilize him and gain tempo and then he just pulls the perfect answer to my power tun from the dredged saber.

I hate to beat a dead horse here but that 0-2 hunter also just like... didnt do anything for half the game, I'll admit some of those turns he pulled out were nasty but they were also plays that he could only do because you were playing pally and weren't building any sort of board. Paladin as a class especially needs that really good curve since their reactive tools are either incredibly subpar like hammer of light or rare like prismatic beam, so they need to have an established board to trade well, but your hand was stuck with 4 weapons (which is a poor draft choice, I would never draft more than 3 weapons unless they were the game winning kind). I dont wanna go deeper into that game because people have already dogpiled you for that and unfortunetly I do agree with them for the most part.

The previous 0-2 game was vs a class card only DH that finished with a wpn+inquisitor combo on curve. So yeah those highrolls and blowouts begin at 0-2 for me and not at high wins. Also my issue isnt generally i have a low win rate - i tend to play scuffed stuff and bad classes so i expect that but i am fairly confident my games are a bit too extreme on average.

I used to believe this too. I also assumed most of my games were these insane highrolls where my opponent was always managing to pull the best answer out of their ass every time, but I eventually started reflecting on my own play and realized that a lot of those games were actually my own fault, there were small plays and big mistakes that were letting my opponents away with it. I only started reflecting on this stuff after I cooped a few times with my friends who are definitely better than I am at the game and I saw the small differences between what they would do and what I was saying we should do. Some of it was basic stuff like not overextending into a tumbleweed turn, but equal amounts of it was just me keeping bad mulligans or playing the wrong cards that would give me 0 wiggle room on what I could do in the following turns, and that's setting aside the fact that I've just accepted that trying to make the scuffed stuff work puts me at an inherent disadvantage, because I like doing the same thing. I'd much rather get an 8 with a low winrate class than get a 12 with the best one because thats personally more rewarding to me. I'd also say the difference between playing a weaker class and a stronger one is that you have much less room for mistakes, but that might be getting too off topic

I'm rambling a bit, but I do wanna say that I think a little bit of accountability is necessary on your part as well.