Why does Utopia do less damage than it should?

[CollinTooCool]

I've been playing this harpie deck where the main win con is the Utopia Double to Utopia to smack a monster with 10'000 atk to try to OTK. (the deck sucks don't judge) The only problem is.. this only works like half the time. I hit monsters while i have 10k attack, however, i do almost half the damage i should have done to their life points. I've looked around and i have no idea why this happens. Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a mechanic I'm missing? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. And forgive me I'm new to this.. I only played Duel Links..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2761003374

There is an example. I destroyed a monster with 1700 attack while i had 10000 attack. I only did 4150 to their life points and lost the game =( why tho?

[76561199243807737]

are you using pot of prosperity?

[CollinTooCool]

Yeah

[76561199243807737]

Originally posted by CollinTooCool:

Yeah

probably why then, it halves the damage your opponent takes for the turn

[CollinTooCool]

Oh wow.. Just read the card oops. Thank you lol

[mimizukari]

and this is why we say yugioh players can't read. I for one take the time to read every card which can lead to me using 100 seconds on an opponent's turn if they use a new archetype, better safe than sorry.

[FlintX]

Originally posted by Etna:

and this is why we say yugioh players can't read. I for one take the time to read every card which can lead to me using 100 seconds on an opponent's turn if they use a new archetype, better safe than sorry.

Nah, more likely they just repeat those decks stupid combo scripts without thinking about anything and barely knows what half of the cards they are playing actually does.

Last night I literally won 5 straight matches on XYZ event because dudes were playing their entire deck and trying to win in a single turn. Then after I played a few cards to negate one or 2 attacks from them and special summon a single card as a last defense resource just so that I could see if I would draw a Raigeki or something, they simple proceeded to surrender for no reason. With the game already won for them. Wth dudes? I literally couldn't do anything on those duels, but those guys simple surrendered thinking that I would pull off some miraculous play and summon my entire deck to win the duel or something. I went from like 1700 to 3200 points, guaranteeing the last of the big rewards from the event just because of that.

Really, newbies are so brainwashed with all those stupid OTK metas duels that they actually think this game is all about summoning and winning on a single turn or lose.
This is even carrying over to standard duel as well. I just finish a duel against a guy who was in Gold 2 and was triggering "Number 39: Utopia" effect against his own declared attack. He also didn't even seems to knew what several of the cards he was using could do, like the Time Thief cards. "promeatball" was his nick, ID: 696-201-435.

[Kit Fulvas]

Originally posted by Etna:

and this is why we say yugioh players can't read. I for one take the time to read every card which can lead to me using 100 seconds on an opponent's turn if they use a new archetype, better safe than sorry.

I love it when People use cards like darkhole or raigeki when I use my Witch-Crafters with WitchCrafters Street spell active. EVERY Spellcaster on my side of the field gets free single use destruction protection every turn.

[peteer01]

Originally posted by Etna:

and this is why we say yugioh players can't read. I for one take the time to read every card which can lead to me using 100 seconds on an opponent's turn if they use a new archetype, better safe than sorry.

Yup. Bunch of people who complain about slow players, but if I'm seeing a card I don't know well already, taking a little time to try to understand the cards in the game helps solve a lot of mystery and can easily be the difference between winning vs. not understanding why I lost.

One thing I've seen multiple times in Plat that still surprises me is people playing CbtG on Ash or Maxx C and then turning around and playing an Ash or Maxx C on their turn. I'm genuinely surprised to have seen this simple mistake as many times as I have, and wonder if I'm seeing new players with strong decks who are still learning their own deck and don't understand the card, or of people are just playing on auto-pilot and not paying attention.

[FlintX]

Here it is the win streak i mentioned earlier:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2761246592

All those guys surrendered at some point after I playing a couple cards that broke their scripted combos of summoning their entire deck to field and attempting to OTK. Or because I used something like "Swords of Conceiling Light" to put some of their strong mobs to facedown and try to win a few more turns. They could easily win on their next move but for some reason chose to surrender instead. I really don't get why they get mad lmao. Maybe even them get too bored themselves after spending 5 minutes setting their boards to stomp the other guy and get angry if the guy happens to have a card to delay the inevitable. Then they probably just quit because they are already too tired of clicking the mouse or something. I guess they don't stand the waiting for someone else to make their turn. I dunno, it is just funny.

Yu-Gi-Oh players and meta suckers are really a weird bunch these days.

[taznkid]

Wish I got easy surrender matches like yours. My matches usually involve trying to play against stuff like Thunder Dragons and Virtual World with a brick hand despite having something like 90% probability of drawing at least 1 of my play starting cards.

[Buz Ligtear]

Originally posted by FlintX:

Here it is the win streak i mentioned earlier:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2761246592

All those guys surrendered at some point after I playing a couple cards that broke their scripted combos of summoning their entire deck to field and attempting to OTK. Or because I used something like "Swords of Conceiling Light" to put some of their strong mobs to facedown and try to win a few more turns. They could easily win on their next move but for some reason chose to surrender instead. I really don't get why they get mad lmao. Maybe even them get too bored themselves after spending 5 minutes setting their boards to stomp the other guy and get angry if the guy happens to have a card to delay the inevitable. Then they probably just quit because they are already too tired of clicking the mouse or something. I guess they don't stand the waiting for someone else to make their turn. I dunno, it is just funny.

Yu-Gi-Oh players and meta suckers are really a weird bunch these days.

Well I mean you could've summoned a huge board to instawin with those free turns.
So better to scoop and find a new match.

[FlintX]

Originally posted by taznkid:

Wish I got easy surrender matches like yours. My matches usually involve trying to play against stuff like Thunder Dragons and Virtual World with a brick hand despite having something like 90% probability of drawing at least 1 of my play starting cards.

Techinically those free wins came after several losses with my meme decks. And ocasionally a couple of long try harding duels. And so far I only faced 2 guys using the suicide decks.
In the end I'm just glad I managed to get all the XYZ packs rewards in time, really.