Top 10 Worst Pendulum Monsters Part 2 

Funnily enough with Dark Doriado, if you use her in tandem with a few low level vanillas and Enchanting Fitting Room, you have the chance to get up to four free special summons off of a two card combo, a normal summon, and an army of garnets

If you ever feel useless, remember: PM Captor searches PENDULUMS from the GRAVE and PROTECTS ZOMBIES You know, the archetype that never wants to be in the grave and the archetype that wants to be in the grave

To be fair, Twilight ninja kagen came out during a time when ninja's weren't playing as a flip deck. It was the original ninja's that were flip monsters and the new ninja's have flip effect but between those periods the strat was spam hanzo out as much as possible and setting up your ninjustsu's for interpretations

Slight note with Rain Bozu: I believe the intention with it was to play in a deck with a LOT of pendulum monsters, seeming as those get added to your extra deck upon being destroyed. Thus, your extra deck would slowly grow beyond the normal limits and allow Rain Bozu to gain more attack. Still not good, but at least makes sense.

Yuya has such a weird deck. He has some majorly game-breaking cards, especially once he gets all the Dragons near the end of the show, and eventually has, like, 12 different Boss Monsters he can use. But then his main Tuner is Tuning Magician, which gives your opponent LP while forcing you to take damage, while the last few arcs has him constantly use Smile World during Duels, despite being a trash card.

PM captor WAS for the longest time the ONLY zombie pendulum, however that is no longer true, since the release of Daidalatant the Liquid Giant

I swear these worst lists are so much fun! I like brainstorming ways of making the “worst” cards into GREAT cards. Also, I think we can use Pendulum monster cards as a base for porting over MAXIMUM monsters from RUSH. Have normal monster effect on the bottom text while having the MAXIMUM effects in the top box.

Dark Dorado is actually really good as a tech card for fortune fairy's (not the best deck I know) as long as you put fortune fairy chee on top of the deck you can get a guaranteed two free special summons that you can use to link or keep them on the board for your miracle stone.

Dark Doriado's pendulum effect seems handy for a charmers deck.

Something I think is overlooked with Performapal Smile Sorcerer is that both the level 8 summoning issue and the need for higher than base attack points can be completely solved with Soul Pendulum. Increase your high scale 8 to scale 9 and then all pendulum monsters thereafter gain 300 atk per counter on soul pendulum. I use this combo quite often in lower tier Master Duel as nobody ever really expects a draw 6 off of one monster effect.

Prior to the release of Darkwing Blast Twilight Ninja Kagen was pretty important to the Ninja archetype. Ninjas didn't have many options to special summon their ace monsters like Hanzo and Getsuga, so the pendulum cards had to carry the entire archetype.

On Magician of Hope, it would also benefit from all the other pendulum magicians if it was Dark since they support Dark Spellcasters in the archetype. (the Zarc cards especially, not including the new support coming out.)

Dark Doriado's only really reliable way to resolve her effect is to summon her with enough material to make Saryuja on board and then draw all 4 of the monsters you just stacked the deck with. I've seen meme combos that do this to turbo out stuff like all the barrier statues

Dark Doriado only exist for lore reasons. Such as finally mastered the dark attribute as before she mastered every other attribute except dark. Dorado is part of the Charmer lore.

Rain Bozu doesn't specify face down, so more dead pendulum monsters also make a difference between the two decks.

Magician of Hope is definitely not a bad card. It’s a generic rank 4 that summons a monster from the hand; its problem is that the effect was balanced too much by negating the effects of the monster it summons.

Frightfur Meister actually enables some funny stuff in Fluffal. You can use it to tribute a monster and summon Lilith, Lady of Lament from the deck, who can then using her effect get you a copy of necro fusion. Setting you up to possibly make tiger or cruel whale on the opponent’s turn for an additional piece of distruption.

Performapal Smile Sorcerer can still be saved if : 1) they make a new Smile pendulum monster that is Scale 9 (and either a Magician or an Odd-Eyes) 2) Make more support that actiually further encouraged you to play Smile world (either by playing specific monsters or cards). instead of just being "just more ATK just because"

Cool video! I think it’s worth mentioning that another downside of PM Captor is its scale of 5 since 4 and 5 are considered the worst scales a monster can have.

Dark Doriado was actually used in tandem with electrumite to basically get multiple searches by stacking the deck then using the draw effect of electrumite

I think if more zombie pen monsters exist, PM captor might get better since zombies benifits a lot from self-mill. Which means those pendulum monsters will end up going to the gy. And who knows, maybe a zombie monster or continuous spell/trap (like a zombie world retrain) that makes pen cards go to the gy might come out one day.

Idk if this has been an idea yet for a video but have you ever considered the question of “Which type of extra deck card(Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link) has the best cards and could be considered the dominate extra deck card type?” Just seems like it would make A very interesting video and debate within the community.

Dark doriado is often used in ftks. Skull dread can draw all 4 of the cards placed in the deck. Giving you a new hand.

14:39 a try at fixing this one: Frightfur Meister: The Amended (DARK) Level 8 Pendulum Scales: 5 You can Tribute 1 Level 4 or lower "Frightfur", "Fluffal", or "Edge Imp" monster; Special Summon from your Deck, 1 Fiend monster with the same Level, but with a different name. You can only use this effect of "Frightfur Meister" once per turn. Fiend/Pendulum/Effect During your Main Phase: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Frightfur", "Fluffal", or "Edge Imp" monster from your Deck, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters. (Quick effect) You can Tribute 2 or more Fiend monsters; Special Summon 1 "Frightfur" Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, whose Level equals the combined original Levels of those monsters, (This is treated as a Fusion Summon.) then increase this card’s ATK/DEF the tributed monsters combined ATK/DEF. You can only use each effect of "Frightfur Meister" once per turn. ATK/0 DEF/0

mummy archetype that sends the dead to the extra deck to get mummified and buried in the (link monster) pyramids

Dark Doriado + enchanted fitting room is an ftk probably 2x Zany zebra is an extra link (and basically works with boompoline too)

I love pendulums, it's by far my favorite summoning mechanic but man, konami really hate pendulum cards, pls konami give me a new GOOD pendulum archetype, instead of just supports for other archetypes, pendulum literally had so little time in the meta, gone destroyed by master rule and even relevant pendulum cards are not used for the pendulum mechanics but for any other reason! Justice for pendulums!

Hey hey, dark doriado ain’t bad at all. Many very interesting builds abusing the on summon effect back when interruptions were harder to come by

Dark Doriado would work well in a charmers deck.

18:21 Idea to salvage Pazuzule _Pazuzule Pizzazz_ (DARK) Level 1 Pendulum scales: 1 _Pendulum Summons of your monsters cannot be negated or responded to. Once per turn, during either players turn: You can target 1 card on your field; this card's Level becomes the Level/Rank of that Pendulum Monster Card, Then you can special summon this card from your pendulum zone._ Fiend/Pendulum/Tuner/Effect _Pendulum Summons of your monsters cannot be negated or responded to. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 card on your field; this card's Pendulum Scale becomes the Level/Rank of that Pendulum Monster Card, Then you can place this card into your pendulum zones._ ATK/500 DEF/500

Frightfur Meister looks like a card that can be heavily abused; Since it's rather easy to find a Level 3 or 4 Edge Imp and a Poly with Frightfur Patchwork. So any Fiend Fusion Deck that plays Level 3 or 4 might want to use it as a Searcher/Extender. OR and that's rather disgusting it can easily cheat out the DARK Barrier Statue or Protector of the Sanctuary to prevent the opponent from Special Summoning anything but DARK or to draw cards. Heck you can even search for Gren Maju Da Eiza. And when going for a Fiend Fusion Deck, I'd say Dark World would profit the most (it's the only Fiend Archtype I can think of right now that uses Fusions outside of Frigthfur)

Magician of Hope is MVP in Magikey Abyss Actors though. With only one AA in hand, you can XYZ summon it, use its effect to bring out the AA, and just like that you now can go into Hyper director and use its effect to bring him back to the field, then link it off for Super Producer!

I am surprised that Hallohallo is not on the list. Which is good, because every time i need a tuner monster, especially a dark tuner monster, i can use him. Plus his dice roll ability is fun, and can be useful in different situations.

Fun fact P.M Captor was my very first pendulum monster

Another bad thing you missed about PM Captor is it’s protection effect has to activate, which means the monsters would still be susceptible to bottomless, torrential, etc.

Dark Doriado is one of my favorite cards artwork wise

Rain bozu is at least a scale 8 without negative effect and with an okay floating effect.

17:46 That variable is only in part controlled by your opponent, since you can fill your Extra Deck with Pendulum monsters by destroying them. The problem is just that you need to destroy upwards of ten Pendulum monsters to get a moderately sized beater (or the admittedly decent 1000+ ATK buff; ATK modification is not worth this effort but boosting your whole board by 1000 is nothing to scoff at, if you can still build a decent board while filling your ED this way).

Aye W video though like always keep it up

I found that dark doriado effect was best paired with heart of the underdog and the promo normal monster pendulum cards like the dragoons of draconia

Frightfur Meister is not what I would call a bad card. It’s not supposed to be Fluffal/Frightfur pure support, it’s supposed to let you access ANY FIEND MONSTER IN YOUR DECK if you have a corresponding level.

6:18 looks like the hamboning of the DuelLogs Duel Logs is leaking into the main channel

About the time for the Dark Doriado mention..just came from LukeVonKarma's vid and the replay features it on a pend deck to pend summon all barrier statue 😂

I think Kagen was not evaluated properly because while a big theme of the ninja archetype is taking the opponent by surprise with flip effects they can also be played more aggressively. Before the new support the twilight ninja cards that supported the archetype focused more on swarming the field using their pendulums jogen and kagen with shogun being able to special summon 2 ninjas from the grave with chunin and the lv4 twilight ninja being protection and the ninjitsu arts cards mostly worked with face up ninja monsters so pendulum summoning out a ninja face up was not a draw back. Not to mention Hanzo gets a ROTA effect off of being flipped summoned AND special summoned so being able to pendulum summon hanzo allows you to grab ANY ninja monster from your deck and shogun can be tributed with 1 ninja so if you have at least one other ninja in your grave yard you can special summon hanzo again for another ninja then go into a link or XYZ. The 1000atk pump also helps push for damage especially with jogen out as it gives piercing to all ninjas. It also helps that you can just slap shogun, chunin, blue and red dragon ninja down with pendulum summons as well.

It’s been so long I literally don’t remember if I ever saw part 1

Awe no love for Twilight Ninja Kagen. I played this in my ninja decks before the new support. Its definitely not good in the flip variant. The only thing I disliked about it is that you cant pendulum summon it from the extra deck since Jogen is scale 1.

At least Rain Bozu is heart meltingly adorable. Still think Top 10 Extra Deck Pendulum Monsters would make for a neat list. Just about the only one I ever see anyone use is Clear Wing Fast Dragon and that's almost entirely because I have a Speedroid/Wind Synchro deck in Master Duel.

Here is my use of PM Captor on duel links : have the totality of the deck be lvl 4 pendulum monsters with scale of 3 and 5, that way you can always pendulum summon into a xyz monster. After activating a xyz effect materials are sent to the graveyard, and you get them back with PM Captor. Useful as a farming deck

5:12 Idea for an improved Doriado card: _Elemental Inheritance Doriado_ (LIGHT) Level 4 Pendulum Scales: 0 _Once per turn, during either players turn: You can declare 1 attribute: Until this effect is activated again, or this card leaves your field, apply the following effects:_ ⚪️Monsters of the declared attribute require 1 less tribute to normal summon/set. ⚪️Both Players can conduct additional normal summons/sets of monsters of the declared attribute with no limit. ⚪️If a monster is is Normal or Special Summoned: It’s controller can change its battle position. Spellcaster/Pendulum/Effect _Once per turn, during either players turn: You can declare 1 attribute: Until this effect is activated again, or this card leaves your field, apply the following effects:_ ⚪️This card’s original attribute becomes the declared attribute, and cannot be destroyed by monsters of the same attribute (by battle or card effect.) ⚪️While in attack position, Monsters of the declared attribute can attack a second time in a row, and deal piercing battle damage. ⚪️While in defense position, monsters of the declared attribute Cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects, and can attack while in face-up Defense Position (While applying its ATK or DEF for damage calculation, whichever is higher.) ATK/1600 DEF/1600

Unrelated comment. I think the performapal slime sorcerer would be used in your combo by purposely destroying a card you control to special summon him and search slime world. And then at the end of your long combo you activate slime world in order to activate sorcerer effect to draw a bunch of cards to set some backrow or draw into follow up for next turn.

Pazuzule only synergizes with the gnome. I forgot about that one.

I use twilight ninja pungumles to. Great effect I'll have you know

Ah yes I love playing the classic Supreme King Performapal Branded Dark Magician deck

your stream persona's catchphrase "hamboned" is leaking into the edited videos too now!

I'm not sure Pazuzule deserves this spot. It seems like excellent support of Pendulum beatdown decks (an unviable strategy at time of writing but not necessarily ever).

17: Igknight/Rain Bozu is one of the first Decks I made in Master Duel

Top ten flip monsters Even though flip monsters not played anymore My favourite is big eye

I've been playing Yu-Gi-Oh for a while and still never really understood pendulums that well. I just kind of avoided them for years.

Smile universe is actually a fun card, I had a nurse burn deck with it in it. It was a fun gimmick deck It had one of the sorcerers in it given it could be searched.

There is a combo with the frightfur meister that gets you necrofusion for going first fluffals

I don't think Frightfur Meister deserves his 3rd place. His Pendulum-Effect has a huge amount of potential search targets. For example you can summon Lilith, Lady of Lament, who in turn can search Necro Fusion, which synnergizes very well with Frightfur Tiger and gives this pure Go-2nd-Deck a way of going 1st.

Ive used dark doriado in a budget prankkids deck for my brother and its a really fun card

Dark Doriado is somewhat my favorite Wish we had Doriado archetype

12:38 pray for Duellogs so that he will never get haunted ever again

I love people are making retrains for these cards! Gotta read those later...

Gonna have to disagree with you again here. If you are not playing the pendulum ninjas in Ninja, your making a mistake. And in fact, Kagen is extremely useful, making super easy OTK with Direct attacks with Battle Ninja Meizen. Plus, if you actually know how to play ninjas, its extremely easy to search the scales and repeatedly fill your hand wjth ninjas, making the swarming ability granted by the pendulum summon very powerful. Also the other Ninja Pendulum is evem better, as he can very easily SS himself. The truth is actually pendulum in ninjas made PERFECT sense. Because back then we had dedicated pendulum zones, and they did not occupy your backrow, which freed all the space for Ninjitsu Spells/Traps. The problem NOW is that we lost pendulum zones, and now the pendulums can clog your backrow.

Thanks for another worst of list! Still waiting for the next part of worst classic cards

DuelLogs dissing performapal smile sorcerer That one dude playing smile universe FTK : I just wanna have a word with him **load shotgun with malicious intent**

Yo, I just saw you lock a video behind a pay wall. That's crazy

Giant Skyhawk would be appalled by you putting Frightfur Meister on this list.

There is one aspect of rain bozu that you missed, and thats the fact it can also count pendulum monsters that are in your extra deck. Doesnt make it good just a little better than you gave it credit for

I would like to see more Yugioh anime protagonist important cards, like Jaiden, Yusei, Yuma, and everyone else

Glad the Qlis aint gettin here. It may hard locks on summoning Qlis, but the 300 atk boost/reduction really matters (i managed to push OTK with 8.6k damage, thx to the boost). Sells out to be not a worse pend

In Honor (poor choice of words) of Pazuzule, I suggest a Top 10 worst exit conditions in Yugioh video.

Zany Zebra looks like a card that could be used with Spright Elf to somewhat lock the opponent from their combos if done right... but it needs to be in the GY first 🤔

Performapal Smile Sorcerer is actualy vital as a part of a Bad Reaction to Simochi OTK (ussing Smile Universe) that pretty consistent in all things considered so I would not put it at 10 on this list

Video Idea: Best Low scale (or High Scale) pendulum monsters

how can the human brain devolve to the point of thinking that pendulums are complicated

Trivia about Pazuzule: both, it's name and art design are based off of an ancient apotropaic (protection from the evil) demon deity of the Mesopotamian religion called Pazuzu. He was depicted as the furious winds form the southwest, storms and even blight and pestilence, hence he was respected and feared for he was considered to have an obnoxious appereance and being dangerous. But, ironically enough, it was for those exact reasons (and also because he was the King of the Demons of the Wind) that people would resort to him to ask for protection against other demons and malicious beings (specially from his consort and rival, Lamashtu who used to attack pregnant women and cause other disgraces) by carving statues of Pazuzu and other ornaments in tribute to him at the entrance and inside of their houses, since Pazuzu was so ugly and terrible that nobody wanted to deal with him. And you can see the ironic and contradictory nature of Pazuzu, reflected on the effects of the cards, jus that it's inversed: while the original god whom the card is inspired from, is supposed to be frightening and nasty but ends up serving a good use for people, gaining him popularity among the mases; Pzuzule is supposed to be good for granting protection and its ability to madulate its scale; but, ultimately, it ends up being avoided and rejected due to the functioning of the card's effects. Also, even the art reflects it: the card counterpart looks like a toon, making it silly-looking and something not to be taken seriously, in contrast with the original god.

...Twilight Ninja Kagen could be good.... *if* they let you use the flipped face up effect on pendulum summon. You'd get the ninja theme going still by having the surprise ninja gank and not make the card useless.

Zany zebra was certainly not printed to lock an opponents scale in the pendulum mirror because it COULD NOT DO THAT at the time of release...

Oh no way I actually pulled that Umbreon card a while ago lol

12:42 "Normal Level 7 Brick" lol

I've always wanted a whole Doriado Archetype.

I find it kinda sad how badly the introduction of Link monsters ruined the Pendulum mechanic. When pendulum zones were separate from your spell/trap zone, it gave them a lot of options, and pendulum summoning from the Extra Deck didn't have to be to the Extra Monster Zone or a zone a Link monster points to. Granted, Pendulum monsters have some decent support, in Pendulum Call and half of the Odd-Eyes archetype, so they aren't made *very* inconsistent, but they're made much less desirable because of the Master Rule 4 (and even more by Master Rule 5) changes. If Master Rule 6 doesn't bring back separate Pendulum Zones, and introduces new Pendulum support, I'm probably going to cry. As someone who plays D/D, my Spell/Trap Zone is clogged up as it is, and is made an even bigger problem with the amount of Pendulum monsters that are required for the deck to function.

‏‪11:00‬‏ I wanted to play this as a bond between Yuma and Yuya, too bad the effect is that bad

Now someone has make a rain bozu deck

P.M Captor I have found use for thanks to its draw from GY effect, since XYZ mats go to GY no matter what they are. When playing, you work with what you have. EDIT: I am glad I came back to this vid again because of Rain Bozu. I still stan for that card. I still lack a better alternative in Duel Links that does all that it does. It synergizes with what I do to make combos work. I don't have full efficiency but I do have a SHITTON of luck!

Are there any other cards like Magician of Hope ie a crossover between two protagonist ace monsters that didn’t interact with each other? It’s a shame it turned out so mediocre because the idea is cool on paper.

Pov: you just realized the dark doriado is the perfect card you were missing in your huge revolution turbo deck! 🤯

I feel like you've done so many lists you should just do "10 Yu-Gi-Oh cards" and just list off 10 random cards with no reasoning for any of the cards being the number they are or even relating to each other, unless you've done this already and I missed it

Can you put the link to part 1?

Top 10 cards better in real life than in the anime/manga

Guy who figures which cards to give out in Duel Links evwnts: furiously writing* THIS IS GOLD

18:23 I HIGHLY AGREED WITH THIS!

Dear God. I used to run a junky ass ojama zone control deck from years ago. And ran a zaney zebra just to hit one more zone.

14:46 Nobody can convince me that isn't sans

I wonder if localization either did not get that Magician of Hope was meant to be a reference to No.39 or did not bother as they have translated "Hope" to "Utopia" all the time

New video let’s go.

Wait wait wait wait wait Did DuelLogs just used Hambone on main channel? We are witnessing the merge of Mr. Logs RU-vid and streaming personality