The Yugioh Card Duel Arena 10.0

*cough*loads of decks that are able to pull a fight and don't involve pendulums*cough*
Plus Pendulum butt hurt.

 

C'mon, Yakumo! Only you think Pendulums aren't broken! And you wnna know why? Because they are broken!

 

Pendulums in all its glory can pull off a turn 3 rainbow dragon that is indestructable, untargetable, and has 12,000 atk. And you can't destroy them even in the S/T zones. And I can negate all S/T the opponent activates and summon 5 more CBs from the deck for free.

 

Yes, but Yakumo is not hearing nothing of that, because Pendulums. It's almost as bad as Jaden not banning Seal here.

 

I just spent a couple hours watching high ranked players on DN. I think it's not that pendulums are OP, so much as that all of the new stuff that's been coming out since pendulums started is much stronger than what came before. So it's just severe power creep in the game in general, not just pendulums.

 

"What I'm implying is that if you're only here to annoy me, you won't be willing to show me where to go! C'mon! You can't say that wasn't possible!"



OOC: You didn't answer...

 

OOC: Ah, my bad, I meant to answer it at the same time as what it was posted with but ended up only responding to the latter.

IC: "It was quite possible, but the truth is that I would be willing to help you get home.. If you wanted to go home. But it would be a waste when there's such wonderful sunbathing to be had, right?"

 

OOC: Technically speaking, Pendulum cards can't really be considered "broken". Otherwise, Konami would have to revise it. They are more like unpredictable if anything.
And that's also true for all the cards ever created for Yu-Gi-Oh. If they were broken, not only they would be hard to pull off, they would be unbeatable by any means necessary.
Now, before most of you start a rebuttal, think about this from my perspective: most of the cards chain together, yes, and some of these combos almost can win any duel with anyone. But the beauty of this game is that with so many strategies and so many cards in Konami's directory that that one particular strategy can be rendered useless by another person's strategy, and usually, you would have to change your strategy depending on your opponent's.

Pendulum cards are just another twist to the game.
Just like XYZs,
Just like Syncros,
Just like Rituals,
And just like Fusions, and even Effect monsters at all.

Besides cards in the Banlist, you have all of that at your disposal. The one thing that people don't understand is that the cards aren't broken, they're just put into really good strategies.

 

"Haha, very funny. Now, if you could stop being so annoyingly sarcastic, could you just tell me where I should be going now?!"



OOC: You didn't answer...[/QUOTE]

 

"That one's easy. You should be going home. I thought you already knew that."

 

Lol I love how Zack is trolling Silver so hard.

But on the topic, Pendulums and Xyzs are both very broken. And so are Synchros for that matter.

 

*obviously enraged Silver is obvious*

"No, duh! And all this time I thought I had to go to the Pokémart! How deluded I was!"



"Are you going to tell me the way or not?!?!?!?!"















OOC:

@Jaden Yuki, your Sea of the Ancients+Giant Trunade+Trap Stun combo is also broken...

 

Have you seen Shaddoll? Fusion monsters are broken now. Have you seen Burning Abyss? Effect monsters are too.

In terms of where the game was at day one, even normal monsters are broken. A four star with 2k attack and no negative effect? Are you kidding? I remember when I was happy with anything over 1700 attack on a normal monster.

If you look at how things were in GX, Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum are all broke. Too fast, too efficient, too strong.

If you look at how things were in 5Ds, Xyz and pendulums are broke. Xyz isn't much stronger than Synchro, sure, but it's way more consistent and splashable.

Look at Zexal? Pendulums are broke. You can fill a field for free every turn. At least Xyz requires you to pay a card or two.

Look at Arc V? Nothing's broke, it's all fine.


It all depends on what you think normal is.. And if everything is stronger than your normal, you've probably picked the wrong normal.
Following that.. I think I'm going to start playing again, after finals, and just considering the new power level that things seem to be at normal. Maybe my older decks can't keep up, but that's okay. Just need to try new stuff. If I just say "The game is broken" because I compare it to what used to be, I wont have any fun. If I try it without bias, then I can decide whether it's fun or not.[DOUBLEPOST=1417457550][/DOUBLEPOST]

"All right. I'll be serious. There's no way for you to get back on your own. You can't just take a stroll into another dimension. There is a way I can help you get back, and it's the way that I usually go from dimension to dimension, but you're really not going to like it."

 

Seal+Trunade+Stun is also broken here! But Jaden does not ban Seal. One would think that him limiting Super Poly was a sign of him not being biased but not banning THAT shows me he is.

Many people are biased with their duel styles... *sighs*

 

When he uses Seal, you can reveal a back row that's something like "Waboku and 7x Jar of Greed". That way no matter what he does to try to get rid of them, you can convert them into cards in hand, while protecting yourself with the Waboku.

Additionally, you can pretend that he's playing a card like Harpies Feather Duster or Giant Trunade (although with no specific counter) and hit it with a general counter trap. That's why it doesn't need a ban.

That said, it is very strong and should probably get a limit. Not sure what its current list status is.

 

"As long as I don't have to deal with more morons of this dimension. How bad could it be anyways?"

 

"Well.. You have to die."

 

I have limited knowledge of the spell counters, but Magic Jammer wasn't an option because I had no hand.

I couldn't use reload to have a more useful hand but doing as you said could have still left me crippled. There are other ways to damage or scr** over the opponent's strategy beyond attacking.

 

Yeah. It is a really strong card. I'll browse the counter traps for something that hits it cheaply.[DOUBLEPOST=1417459034][/DOUBLEPOST]

 

"I have to... Die.

WHAT?! WHY?!"