The meta is awful (as usual)

[Effluvial Kraken]

I've gotten up to Master 4 and now I see the same thing over and over again. Extremely long unstoppable turn 1 combo. Ends on a bunch of monsters with effects that negate. Wow. Such fun.

The ladder experience in this game is watching somebody play solitaire for 5 minutes while hoping that it will turn out that it was ever possible for you to win after the turn order was decided.

I know that Konami doesn't care, but every time I think this game has sunk as low as possible, it somehow gets even worse. I complained about Branded. I complained about Kashtira. But you know what? At least those decks don't do obnoxious synchro summon combos that end with a bunch of cards that say "you can't play the game".

Solitaire enthusiasts have taken over. It's over. They don't feel bad about making people wait 5 minutes for them to finish their autopilot combos. They like clicking buttons, and maybe they feel proud of themselves for knowing how to summon Baronne de Fleur in the most convoluted way possible. This is the game state that the developers are happy with. The people have decided, and they want a slot machine that you have a 50% chance of being able to play in the first place.

Maybe we've finally hit the point where the unpleasantness of this game outweighs the dopamine response that's been hardwired into my brain from seeing my deck's best cards. Really, I just want to comment on how insane it is that everybody can see how bad this game is, including me, and yet still think that it's worth playing.

Anyway, nerf Branded, ban Baronne de Fleur, and make it so you can't activate Called By on turn 1. Thanks, gg.

[¿¡Kloey!?²]

First off, love the 2000s era feeling Klonoa kirby pfp.

Second, you are probably better off leaving this as a negative review on the store page. As someone who refuses to bang their head against the ladder after doing that for years with Duel Links I've learned that Yugioh is a game you play casually or sparingly and if you want to make it to the 'top', you are gonna have to suffer to a degree and if you expect to and are fighting the same handful of decks, preparation out of expectation (like dark ruler no more) can go a long way but I'm sure you know all this already.

[Kaulu]

Game gets more sweaty the more you climb. Also water is wet. If you are in master, you know the cards you can make use of to get around negate boards. Just play where you can have fun. Sure, I still see the odd meta deck down here in gold, but I also see hero, cyber dragons, blue eyes, weather painters, invoked, sky strikers, etc. SHS will be hit not long after the pack leaves the store rotation.

[.♡. Cathy Katherine .♡.]

Stop becoming; start being.

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Originally posted by Kaulu:

Game gets more sweaty the more you climb. Also water is wet. If you are in master, you know the cards you can make use of to get around negate boards. Just play where you can have fun. Sure, I still see the odd meta deck down here in gold, but I also see hero, cyber dragons, blue eyes, weather painters, invoked, sky strikers, etc. SHS will be hit not long after the pack leaves the store rotation.

Higher rank = more gems.

[Kaulu]

Originally posted by Garbage:

Originally posted by Kaulu:

Game gets more sweaty the more you climb. Also water is wet. If you are in master, you know the cards you can make use of to get around negate boards. Just play where you can have fun. Sure, I still see the odd meta deck down here in gold, but I also see hero, cyber dragons, blue eyes, weather painters, invoked, sky strikers, etc. SHS will be hit not long after the pack leaves the store rotation.

Higher rank = more gems.

A few hundred gems a month extra or a more relaxed environment to play in. Pretty easy choice for me.

[Astrallight]

Originally posted by Kaulu:

Originally posted by Garbage:

Higher rank = more gems.

A few hundred gems a month extra or a more relaxed environment to play in. Pretty easy choice for me.

Those 2k gems are not worth it anyway. You can easy farm 7k gems a month just by staying in plat where most fun decks are around.

[Zephyr]

Agreed, and what's worse is people will argue up and down that this is "fun and interactive". When everyone plays solitaire decks, it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

[Filipino Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

ok yeah ur a troll good to know

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

It's meta, what were you expecting?

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Agreed, and what's worse is people will argue up and down that this is "fun and interactive". When everyone plays solitaire decks, it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

News flash you can play solitaire and still end on floodgates, meta decks have and still do this

[Raven]

Originally posted by Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!:

It's meta, what were you expecting?

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Agreed, and what's worse is people will argue up and down that this is "fun and interactive". When everyone plays solitaire decks, it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

News flash you can play solitaire and still end on floodgates, meta decks have and still do this

People want to talk about how all the new cards are broken and how things were so much better back in the day, just a reminder Teledad goes back to 2008, the whole point was to turbo out Dark Armed Dragon on the first turn and then set royal oppression. Opponent draws a card, you flip royal oppression, GG. That's the game.

So no, things aren't much different these days to the past except people get to INTERACT with each other through hand traps and turns become more "our turn"

/end this same rehashed discussion for whatever really high number this is

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Filipino Enjoyer:

Originally posted by Zephyr:

it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

ok yeah ur a troll good to know

I know you're coping with what I said, but saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true you know.

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!:

It's meta, what were you expecting?

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Agreed, and what's worse is people will argue up and down that this is "fun and interactive". When everyone plays solitaire decks, it's no wonder floodgates are hated since they actually force the game to be interactive and typically more fun.

News flash you can play solitaire and still end on floodgates, meta decks have and still do this

Meta decks don't typically run floodgates since they rely on monster effects and omninegates that'd otherwise be negated, the only exception is debatably lab as I've seen people use skill drain with that but even that can interfere with lab.

And let's be real here, the real issue with lab is EEV.

[Papa Shekels]

Out of all the copy/paste complaints coming out of yugiboomer facebook groups, I never understood why "solitaire" is one that stuck around. It's not the insult you think it is, it's more of a self-report. Cards are made to combo together from a starting hand if left uninterrupted; congratulations, you have just figured out how card design has worked for the past 17 years! Unless you're talking about real solitaire decks, which I highly doubt; dark world hasn't been relevant for many months now, and I don't think anybody is playing exodia in master. If you call other decks solitaire, it's more calling yourself out as being in one of these groups:

* Playing a deck that doesn't do anything, thus being surprised when others do something
* Being a sore loser about a game where you didn't draw any interaction
* Having an inability to focus for more than a few minutes
* Refusing to play interaction but then getting mad at the consequences of it
* Coming back to the game after a 15+ year break and being surprised that the deck you used on the elementary school playground back then doesn't do well on the modern ranked ladder

Like really, think carefully about what you're saying before you say it. Also, this format IS awful, but none of the reasons you gave so far are specifically attributed to the current format

[Astrallight]

Floodgates in a BO1 will always be awfull no matter what you think. Or els they would never nerfed Runick/Stun.

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

you could have posted this a year ago and it would still apply to that meta. nothings different, this is yugioh