This is somewhat related to the ‘missed opportunities’ concept. Take note of characteristic play patterns tied to certain cards.The more your opponent accumulates new unknown cards in their hand, the less your hand read is reliable.
Keeping track of when the opponent plays the card they top-decked is very valuable to know how reliable your hand read still is. This last example showcases a limitation of reads on what the opponent doesn’t have: these reads lose value as the game goes on because of the draw. My opponent still has a very low chance to have either Brightsteel Protector, Sharpsight, or Ranger’s Resolve, and they can’t have more than one of these cards. I still know that the other 3 cards in their hand can’t contain a card I eliminated with my hand read on the previous round. However, it doesn’t mean that I lose the entire value of my previous read. This means that the left-most card they just topdecked, which I don’t have a read on, could theoretically be one of the previous cards I eliminated from my hand-read. I can deduce that they don’t have one in hand, and I will not play around those powerful combat tricks in the next turns.Īt the start of the next round, my opponent plays the card that is the second one to the far-left of their hand. In this spot, my opponent would have certainly played a combat trick (Sharpsight, Ranger’s Resolve) on their Miss Fortune if they had one, to save her and level her up on the next turn. In the very next action of the game, I challenge their Miss Fortune with Fiora. In the next turns, I will use this information and take my time to develop my board before attacking. This is a piece of very valuable information, as it’s the only way for Scout to punish me for not open-attacking with my Challenger units. Because Brightsteel Protector would have been such a perfect play, I can easily deduce that my opponent doesn’t have one in hand. My opponent has 2 mana open and they just passed on the opportunity to protect Miss Fortune with a Brightsteel Protector. She is a priority target, and I know my opponent would do anything to protect her. Miss Fortune already has seen 2 attacks and could level up on the very next turn. Let’s look at an example below.Įxample: I am playing as Fiora/Shen against Scouts. When your opponent passes on a key opportunity likes the ones above and makes a weaker play instead, you can make the assumption that they don’t have the necessary tools.
#Hand of fate card trick revealed how to
It is not a rare occurrence to win an entire game thanks to a game-changing hand-read, especially if you know how to capitalize on it. Having precise and accurate information about your opponent’s hand is a massive advantage, as it will enable you to play exactly around the cards they have and not to play around the cards they don’t have. There is always room for improvement in that skill.īetter hand-reading means having access to more information. If you really dig deep into the concept it can radically change the way you think about the game and make you a way better player. What really fascinates me about hand reading is how high the skill-ceiling is. The precision of hand reading that can be achieved can vary from the simple estimation of a wide range of cards to naming the exact cards the opponent has in hand.
In order to do so, you need to analyze your opponent’s plays and know their deck very well. “Hand reading” is the skill of deducing the cards the opponent has/doesn’t have in their hand.
0 kommentar(er)
