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Sadly enough, though, I dont think we can really ever win a 1v1 situation against another skilled player at equal mana (assuming they arent allready dead). I've learned all to quickly that without my PvP trinket and shield, I'm pretty much more susceptible than even shamans to CC, and every class that I've ever dueled relies on it to a disgusting extent.
For example, a good affliction warlock can quite literally kill you without you even hitting him once. CoT, a felhunter, UA, iHoT is simply too much for any paladin, and you wont even get a heal off let alone deal some damage. Other specs arent too far behind.
Good mages, likewise, save their burst for the period after they have counterspelled you, and will have little trouble wiping the floor with you if they get off a sheep into a primary damage spell.
Rogues are a better matchup if you have a cooldown or two still up, but even so skilled rogues will blind you through a BoP and keep you from healing, EVER, with KS, gouge, kick and their other cooldowns.
Warriors are a decent matchup for us 1v1, but there is one caveat: Assuming warrior+healer as the other team, which is what most warrior combos are made up by, if it is just warrior vs you, then chances are you are oom. Unless that warrior is practically dead allready, there is no chance in hell you are going to get to drink, and you cannot fight a warrior with no mana.
Finally, against healing classes we may have a "chance", but hope it never happens to you. This is where you see screenshots of those games that last 2+ hours. We simply dont have a way to put down reliable enough burst damage on a low mana budget to actually be a threat for a well-geared, well-played healer, at any point in time. Likewise, the same is true for them. Even when I was ret (our supposedly highest damage spec), I found myself avoiding healers because there is just simply nothing we can do but keep beating on them until they go oom (and often we do first).
I cant say I have any experience vs a hunter, but I can imagine that is one class we can win against in 1v1.
In terms of what you can do, I'm going to just go with keeping your options open and your finger on the rez key. I have had a rogue blind me before and run like a coward to the other side of the arena so he could bandage (even though he probably could have killed me right there) and I just walked behind a pillar and rezzed a teammate. Keep your eye open for situations like these where the opponent is trying to kite you, and take advantage of some los and attempt a rez.
I'm actually willing to bet that in that famous WSVG fight alot of us saw with Power Trip vs an asian team 3v3 where it was mage vs paladin at the end, if the paladin had walked behind the pillar after the mage had sheeped him and BLINKED away, he could have gotten a rez off and ended the match right there.
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