Originally Posted by
Symonidas
It's still too few shadowpriests playing around to tell you their chances to win, at least on my realm there are no high rated shadowpriests.
But from shadowpriests i experienced so far, i must tell its quite easy for retri paladin to win the fight, yet well played and geared shadowpriest could make a trouble.
Shadow Priest is currently underpopulated class in terms of pvp and arena, so far in this season we met one shadowpriest playing with rogue (2.4k rated tho). Playing ret/restoshaman myself we won one and lost second fight with them, when priest decided to swich more into healing than dpsing.
Don't forget you can outplay any class depends on your and your opponent's skills and gear, yet on battlegrounds a good shadowpriest is something extremly rare to meet and duel with, still too few to say how a fair duel with really skilled player would look.
It comes only from duelist, so you might wait for some gladiator's reply :P