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Demons are subpar. They are entirely reliant on getting both Soul Juggler and Devout Hellcaller ASAP. And if your Soul Juggler gets targeted early in the fight, you might as well write it off as a loss. But even if you get everything perfect. Even if you get golden Hellcaller, Juggler, Icky, Piggyback, Earl, Enforcer and Ruin Lord? Quillboars, Naga, Murlocs and Elementals all scale way harder into late game. Never mind that you can't buff the stats on your minions other than the devout, the juggler and the lord since you need them to fucking die. Or that half the time, you can't summon all the minions off a deathrattle and you have no way to take advantage of that.

If you decide to go with the "consuming" build, you're even more fucked. At least with the revenge build you can survive the early game if you're lucky. With the consuming build, you're shit out of luck until you hit tier 4. By the time you do hit it, it's usually too late. And guess what? It doesn't scale any better than the revenge build. Unless you get super lucky and get a famished felbat super early on for some fucking batshit reason.

Also, getting rid of the self-damage mechanic was retarded. What even is the point of Lich Baz'hial now? Her entire schtick was using her hero power to take advantage of it. But now nothing scales off self-damage and there's no way to prevent it. It's just completely retarded design.

This season of battlegrounds is going to suck ass. The magnetize build on mechs is fucked. Undead are janky as fuck. Rally is OP. Quillboars are raping everyone left and right. Dragons just downright suck. And demons were redesigned by a lobotomy patient.