What's your rank?

Originally posted by virgo:

What's your rank?

Gold 1, being slowly dragged against my will into plat

Originally posted by IsthisKosher:

Originally posted by virgo:

What's your rank?

Gold 1, being slowly dragged against my will into plat

Another person suffering from RNG while everyone else is enjoying regular games. Like seriously, I can run the most 2004 deck in the world in gold and be fine. Its a rank full of fun times where even the occasional meta decks aren't true or are piloted by newbies practicing.

Damn I can't even remember when was the last time I'm at gold and plat.

Originally posted by IsthisKosher:

and maybe 1/15 times a decent back and forth

Lawl, lucky you. I had a single decent back and forth this season. I guess the games vs Yubel were close to technically qualify and lasted for 6+ turns but whether win or lose, it's just not fun vs them beyond the "haha, serves you right" moments.

Originally posted by IsthisKosher:

And yet defenders of the game seem completely fine with this? Or blame it on other things.

It's also funny how all the copes fall apart when you watch the pros play, and it's the same "my opening hand > your opening hand, gg"

If your opening hand is trash and opponent have full combo its a no-brainer to find out what will happen. You either sit and wait until he is done or you leave the game mid combo and he gets mad why everyone is always leaving.

Despite being a competitive game, it's fairly "casual" in the sense that you get no penalties for leaving a game. If you were going to lose it anyway, you're just saving time by surrendering and moving on to a game that you think is winnable. That means people who are only trying to rank up or get their dailies done can and will do that. In my experience, even seemingly lost causes are very often much more winnable than you think if you stick it out, and a single misplay on either end can throw away a guaranteed win. But since there is no investment into bo1 games, you can't prevent opponents from giving that up.

Not sure where you're getting that number from, 1/15 sounds ridiculous. I haven't bothered climbing out of plat in ages and I get real games more often than not. Maybe it's that bad if you're playing yubel/snake-eye or surrender every time you see any of the 20 best decks, but playing something fitting for your rank you should only be having a non-game once in a while, not the majority of the time

Originally posted by sr5123rs:

It's also funny how all the copes fall apart when you watch the pros play, and it's the same "my opening hand > your opening hand, gg"

Really? I don't watch them because I put competitive Yugioh on the same level as competitive Ubislop games but if that's true that's hilarious.

I guess that means anyone can be a "pro" at Yugioh if you're lucky and/or smell bad enough.

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Really? I don't watch them because I put competitive Yugioh on the same level as competitive Ubislop games but if that's true that's hilarious.

I guess that means anyone can be a "pro" at Yugioh if you're lucky and/or smell bad enough.

Maybe it got better in the final (I only watched the Jesse games of which one ended with him normal summoning Mudora and calling it quits right away and the other was "lol, I got Grass") but rounds 1-3 were as predictable as it gets. Almost made me feel sorry for some Purrely player who had to end his turn after two handtraps.

Given how the same teams ended up in finals, it doesn't seem completely devoid of skill but deck building seems like the only relevant factor aside of luck. Seeing Left Arm Offering used was kinda surprising and it was the card that won him the game too.

Another myth that's hopefully debunked for good is the whole bs that tears still isn't a stupidly powerful deck when 2 out of the top 6 players used it.

Originally posted by sr5123rs:

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Really? I don't watch them because I put competitive Yugioh on the same level as competitive Ubislop games but if that's true that's hilarious.

I guess that means anyone can be a "pro" at Yugioh if you're lucky and/or smell bad enough.

Maybe it got better in the final (I only watched the Jesse games of which one ended with him normal summoning Mudora and calling it quits right away and the other was "lol, I got Grass") but rounds 1-3 were as predictable as it gets. Almost made me feel sorry for some Purrely player who had to end his turn after two handtraps.

Given how the same teams ended up in finals, it doesn't seem completely devoid of skill but deck building seems like the only relevant factor aside of luck. Seeing Left Arm Offering used was kinda surprising and it was the card that won him the game too.

I didn't watch any of it so I'll have to take your word for it, not surprised it was a mostly a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ though.

Another myth that's hopefully debunked for good is the whole bs that tears still isn't a stupidly powerful deck when 2 out of the top 6 players used it.

I can see the arguments they'd make now:
"Ackshually it was only 33% of the top 6 players using it so it's perfectly fine!"
I've given up on the idea will ever be better at this point, there's zero indication Konami sees the power creep let alone cares.

Just ran into a bot that passed their turns without playing a card

Deck was mix of archetypes at 3 copies each with no synergy

U.A., Beetrooper, S-Force, Bujin, Lightsworn mixed with some traps from the default deck

Bots being bots
Rank up and they get filtered out

Originally posted by Gauche:

Just ran into a bot that passed their turns without playing a card

Deck was mix of archetypes at 3 copies each with no synergy

U.A., Beetrooper, S-Force, Bujin, Lightsworn mixed with some traps from the default deck

Bots being bots
Rank up and they get filtered out

They still manage to make it into platinum ranks since they're enough impatient players willing to give them free wins.

Originally posted by G3:

They still manage to make it into platinum ranks since they're enough impatient players willing to give them free wins.

Especially near the end of the month, plat 5 does become somewhat of a bot magnet. But the instant you get into plat 4 they're basically nonexistent, maybe once per season if you play every day