Only one in two hundred makes it into the coveted legend ranks in Hearthstone, according to a statistic.
“You are better than you think,” Blizzard encourages us in a new blog post. And the statistic proves: Even if you are somewhere in the perceived nirvana of rank 12, 13, or 14 (kind of an ELO hell), you have already surpassed 75% of the remaining players.
From season to season, many only played up to rank 20, to grab the card back, and then gave up the ascent to a higher rank, the so-called ladder climb. Because it is tedious: For each win, you get stars; with each defeat, you lose some. Although winning streaks offer bonus stars and the ranks in Hearthstone rise steeply. However, some lucky streaks come to a sudden halt when the right card doesn’t show up or your deck proves to be vulnerable against exactly the card combination that everyone else seems to play. And then you tumble back down, your portrait image becomes more and more humble, and so does your mood.
75% of all players in Hearthstone are between rank 25 and 15. 17.5% of all players are between ranks 14 and 10. At the top, it gets tight: only 5.5% manage to reach rank 9 to 5, one in twenty players. Ranks 4 to 1 are achieved by only 1.5% of the players. And where the music plays and the biggest streamers move, only 0.5% of all players reach the legend rank.
From Rank 5, the real struggle begins in Hearthstone
According to Blizzard, the level significantly increases from rank 5, winning streaks become rare, and more time goes into theorycrafting to forge the perfect deck.
In that, Hearthstone encourages players who are making their way up, in the blog post to courage and pride. Regardless of whether one is playing as an angry chicken or a powerful sea giant, it is important to have fun with the game.
Blizzard’s free card game Hearthstone enjoys unbroken popularity. Recently, Blizzard announced that 20 million players have grabbed the cards with World of Warcraft motifs at least once. Hearthstone is booming and even at rank 15, you are not entirely at the end of the food chain. Good news indeed!
