TOP 5 Things to STOP Doing to Become Better at YuGiOh - feat.  

Surprised they didn’t add “do not lick your opponent cards” I feel like thats a must for playerd

Another one Josh left out that's massively important: If you see your opponent play a card you've never seen before, READ IT. Every interaction they do is integral to the strategy, so ignoring it will do much more harm than good. It may be annoying, especially when your opponent's playing a deck you've never played against before, but in order to play against your opponent's board you need to know what it's doing. Take it from someone who bubbled out of a top cut because I didn't read Pendulum Call, and thus had no idea it protected their scales until their next turn on a lingering effect. Addendum: No, I'm not endorsing slow play. Ideally, you do a lot of testing on simulators or at locals to figure out what most of the relevant cards of the format do.

On the topic of "developing a gut feeling," I think that's definitely something a lot of people can develop with both game knowledge and experience playing - I know a lot of people in other games who ask similar questions and this answer is very often the same. If you enjoy the game enough to do your due diligence and research on the competitive landscape, you'll probably build a gut feeling that hits the mark more often than not, and from there, it all comes down to your passion. Really good video and points overall!

One of the issues with pendulum cards is that the actual pendulum mechanics are very easy to understand its the decks that use it that are complicated. For example majespecter is very easy to understand but at the same time I've played against endymion multiple times and still have no clue whats going on most of the time. People see decks like endymion be complicated and assume its the entire pendulum mechanic thats complicated and not just those cards that are complicated.

Worst thing I do is respond to my opponents plays by asking if *hypothetical card I may or may not have* would interrupt their play. Instead of just learning what my cards do vs meta decks

I think a really good tip is using the phases to your advantage. Example, wait until the battle phase to use a card like compulsion evacuation device. With Runick enter the Battle Phase then play the cards that make you skip your next battle phase so you can still attack this turn instead of using the cards in the main phase and skipping the last half of your turn (Also plays around a lot of cards that can only be used in the main phase). Mastering Phases is extremely important in getting better at YuGiOh.

Also very important: reading the card explains the card. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The most important rule; read your cards + read your opponents cards 😂🎉 Also don’t be afraid to take a step back when it’s not fun. I lost all my matches at locals once and took a few weeks break, did some revisions. Came back and did well. When the fun stops, stop 😅

Something I noticed from my friend that would be a good thing to add is "Stop reacting to your own hand." If your hand sucks, do not complain about how bad it is. This just tells the opponent they can do anything and win.

I feel like the more you play, the more you understand. Experience helps a lot in cardgame. You can make something like 2 negates board but if your opponent bait out the negates then start playing while you have no more countermeasure to your opp plays anymore then usually its a game, and to know when to negate/using resources require experiences. Great videos!

Love the collab with Joshua, that guy is truly an awesome player and person too

Pendulum summoning is relatively straight-forward, it's the pendulum deck resource loop that can be kind of counter-intuitive. You live or die depending on how you sequence your effect activations to cycle through the deck and get each of your pend monsters in the right place.

Hope to see Joshua again here. Maybe with a live duel where he can coach us 👍

Set ( placing them in the far right or left spell and trap card zone)scale 1-12 special summon any monsters with level between those scales may also special summon pendulum monsters from the extra deck that are face up

My gut feeling improved whilst playing Endymion (without Extra Deck because at that time I had no idea what to do with it) because most of the time I just had one or two Negates. When you only have two attempts to stop their play at a key moment, your gut will know when to strike.

Reading your opponents cards is another huge one. Even if your familiar with them, a quick glance can help refresh ur memory on how you may want to change your play.

I had recently bought the slifer structure deck and added MST and Gizmek along with three link monsters cuz of how many tokens are involved

I appreciate these kinds of videos, thanks so much! Just wanted to say about #3 not playing “easy decks”. Sometimes a slower or different strategy might work better for a player. I’ve always played more control-based decks and the one time I switched to a more fast-paced combo strategy (branded despia) I did poorly at nawcq. There were too many lines and too many interactions and different scenarios I just couldn’t keep track of everything in each game and I’m sure I misplayed almost if not every match. I learned a lot from the experience and now I know I gotta play a slower-paced deck. I get too nervous at big events. And if that means that playing a trap heavy deck is right for me to do well, then so be it.

thanks for these tips!

1) Don't blame RNG 2) Make more mistakes 3) Don't play cookie cutter decks 4) Trust your instincts on plays 5) Just have fun and, to pendulum summon, here is an example: If I have Purple Poison Magician (a pendulum scale of 1) on one side of the field, and Double Iris Magician (a pendulum scale of 8) on the other side, I can Pendulum Summon as many monsters in my hand and face-up on my Extra Deck (because when pendulum monsters are destroyed, that's where they go) as possible whose levels are in-between the two scales of the Pendulum monsters in the Pendulum zones. Meaning, I can summon monsters that are levels 2 - 7 to my field because Purple Poison Magician has a P-Scale of 1, and Double Iris Magician has a P-scale of 8.

5:08 Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if you have a card with a Pendulum Scale in each Pendulum Zone, you can Pendulum Summon any number of monsters from your hand or face-up Extra Deck, with Levels between (exclusively) the Pendulum Scales of the cards in your Pendulum Zones, but you can only Pendulum Summon monsters from the Extra Deck to your Extra Monster Zone or your zone a Link Monster points to. A Pendulum Summon is a type of Special Summon. If you assume that properties like “being an activated effect” must be explicitly stated, the above describes the functionality of Pendulum Summoning. (Interactions like negating a Pendulum Summon are best left to the descriptions of other mechanics.) EDIT: You can only Pendulum Summon from your hand or face-up Extra Deck, not your face-down Extra Deck. EDIT: Further corrections. (The above edit summary used to say "face-up Extra Deck". It now says "hand or face-up Extra Deck", in a more accurate summary of the edit actually made.)

It seems that this advise worked, well done on your nationals Top Adam :)

I know how to Pendulum Summon, because I'm the kind of person that loves every shiny new thing that comes out. So, I immediately jumped on Pendulum cards when they first came out in 2014. Nowadays, I barely ever touch Pend, and it's my least favourite summoning mechanic, but I still know how they work.

Ok, the issue with trying a new dexk isn't fear. It's just strait that a competitive deck costs way way way more than it should and it's not worth spending money on to just go do poorly with. People would be way more willing to experiment if it didn't cost $700 to do so.

Getting in your own head is a problem I normally have,which leads to mistakes,misplays and free wins.

I got Evenly Matched twice in the same turn. Played around the first one so he just played a second immediately. I'm still salty.

Joshua seems like such a nice guy

I can tell you how to pendulum summon: when you have a higher pendulum scale number the left than on the right you can special summon monsters in the level range of the pendulum scale monsters from your hand

Could you have Joshua on magic channel in staple or stinker? He seems like interesting fella

Put 2 pens monsters in the zone then summon as many cards from hand with levels between the numbers on the pendulum scale then you can summon 1 pendulum to a extra monster zone also in between the scales and if it’s an extra deck monster it had to have been summoned first I believe

Pendulum monsters can be played in the far left and far right of the spell zone where they are then counted as spell cards instead of monsters. When you have a monster in each of those spots you can special summon any monsters from your hand to your field whose level is in between the two monsters' pendulum levels.

Yes I was around for pend summoning but the master rule messed up the entire extra deck so I quit for a bit before coming back a few years after.

Out 2 Pendulum monsters on the scales then you get to summon as many monsters from your had that whose level are between the scale numbers so level 2&7 would be level 3&6 or/and you can summon a pendulum monster from the extra deck (because they go face up in the extra deck when they get sent to the GY but only in the Extra Monster Zone it a Zone a link monster points too

way back in middleschool, my friends and i loved playing yugioh. we played it all throughout middleschool and halfway thru highschool till link monsters came out. we were confused and hated them and we stopped. a couple years later i got back into it and at a competitive level this time, still hating links. eventually after finally switching off my exodia deck, i landed on live twins. love the deck till this day! that being said i got where he was coming from lol. dont be afraid of learning new mechanics you might love em!

Me red rebooting a floodgate when I have a pop in grave already 🤡

The issue I have with trying to play most current well performing decks is I don’t have thousands of dollars that I’m able to spend on yugioh. Which is why I usually stick to control decks or something janky like a blueeyes/Danger! combo. I was lucky to get a Spright core for cheap, but that was right at the start of ishizu/tearalaments, so I was in no way topping locals, usually finished mid field

I do know how to Pendulum summon, and even run Abyss Actors and Solfachords ("Beyond the Pendulum" is my best friend), but I still occasionally forget some aspects of the mechanic.

so you place a low scale in one pendulum scale and a high scale in the other one and then you annouce pendulum summon and Special Summon any number of face-up pendulum monsters from your Extra Deck with a level higher than the low scale and lower than the high scale to linked zones and any number of monsters from your hand with a higher level than the low scale and a lower level than the high scale to any zone, then you pray they don't have Solemn Strike.

Just to throw it out there. This list can apply to any TCG game.

Joshua Schmidt is right! Never blame your bad luck! It’s useless! Most of the time if you analyze your game you do realize that you could have done much better plays! People say I lost to the out or I lost to board breakers but it’s not entirely true! You could have played better, sided better, used your cards or even predicted your opponent’s plays! There are so many factors you HAVE control over! That little luck with the out does come up sometimes and it may be the cause for your loss but it’s never 100% bc of bad luck! The only exception is when you open completely unplayable hands then it can’t be helped! It happens. Joshua is a very good player but he admits his mistakes, misplays. In order to become better you should accept your mistakes!

About "fun" or "easy" decks, its probably even worse to play a deck thats just a favorite or an archetype that you're obsessed with?

I have two decks, Gren maju and Ojama. I have a fun time nomatter what because if I lost I still made it difficult.(dimension shifter in gren maju and ojama king/knight combo)

1:09 Stop Blaming Bad Luck 1:59 Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes 3:34 Stop playing the easy decks 5:57 Develop a Gut Feeling of What the Right Play is 8:14 Have Fun While Playing

@4:00 he means high floor low ceiling

I felt that Pendulum comment. I can't stand the play style and feel they have no place in the game, but they wreck me so I want to learn one of the decks to have a better chance at grasping their strategy.

I play vaylantz irl and pend magi in MD, I know how to play pend decks, they were my entrance to playing more complicated decks.

He hates flood gates but I bet he's playing kashtira right now

5:10 this is why I play vaylantz

Great general life advice lol

Sometimes I have a gut feeling its not the best play, but I dont have anything else. So I play it and then it backfires 😅😅😅

One of my friends always used to play floodgates and I eventually got so used to it that I started incorporating a turn-1 trap lock in my deck to stop him from playing outright.

I love floodgates ^^

Floodgate players out there I have something to say to you don’t flip your cards immediately let your opponent play into the floodgate like if you have summon limit wait until they summon twice to flip it or until goshen match will actually destroy something

When you lose at every dice roll and when you side decking 2nd turn cards and you draw all the 1st turn cards, it's bad luck though

I think it’s funny how the main guy on this channel (cannot rememeber his name) Looks just like penn badgley the main guy from the show you

JOSHUA JOSHUA JOSHUA SCHMIDT!

07:36 ...yeaah, about that:...

You should invite toffel to teach him how to play yugioh

İm actually a control player (not the ones Who Just set 5 then pass and causes nightmares) i play control decks to see if i can defeat a full negate board with skill and other stuffs,also you know the yugioh of today...rip to players Who goes second or againstkashtiras.And i wanna see what i can do to them,i play a 60 card control deck that needs luck and skill,(and no,i dont use grass to mill 20)and as a control player even i dont like those easy stuns. Whats the point if you can normal summon 1 then set 4 to win in every duel?

In order to Pendulum Summon you- Wait no I'm not explaining this without irl interaction. Just go watch the first few episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V, that'll teach you how Pendulum Summoning works. The anime is actually a good tool for teaching extra deck mechanics in my opinion

I got lost against runick and kashtira I'm afraid 2 decks makes me want to give up

As an MD player who reads, I unironically expected him to say “stop playing master duel”

Something I noticed about your "2 peopple across the table" videos (like Staple or Stinker), your audio sound a bit muffled, but you can fix it really quick: Use a 10 band Equalizer and rise a bit the 8k Hz band, while lowering just a pinch of the 250 Hz one.

Dude, I struggle at life in general.

I definitely thought #1 'd be: "Read the effing cards".

" Floodgates don't win tournaments " - Joshua

Is Joshua going to be joining the card market? 😮❤

Can we just get a video explaing how pendulum works haha I need that

you missed the READ YOUR CARDS

I really only like playing control decks, but honestly, playing a ton of floodgates doesn't interest me. I'd rather interact with my opponents, I have a pure subterrors/guru control deck I play a bunch of the behemoths as 1 ofs but 0 floodgates, and honestly, if I wanted to optimize, I dont think I'd add any floodgates. though I'd probably cut down to at max 2-3 behemoths and add a second warrior that card is super underrated. (assuming you play behemoths)

I am a gem-knight player the last 5 years and i happen to love my deck... (I don't play the ftk version because it is unfair) . You can't imagine how many people have disrespect me and my deck because i refuse to play meta... I want to say that you should play whatever you like. If you like your deck , you probably find a way to deal with problems, as i do. #moregem-knightsupport

I like floodgates because I like keeping my opponents honest. If you can kill me before I'm finished reading your 2nd card, you can change your deckbuilding slightly to deal with floodgates.

as a player mainly use floodgates as strategy.. I'm sad

first rule, being outskilled by Vins, wait if it's not a rule why did it happen?

I didn't know Daniel Radcliffe was into yugioh

A pendulum summon requires 2 pendulum monsters with different scale numbers example: (1 and 8) you place the pendulum cards in the far left and right hand spell and trap zones the you can preform a pendulum summon with allows you to summon any number of monsters from your hand or pendulum monster face up from you extra deck all at once you cand summon monsters who's levels fall in between the scale numbers example:(1 and 8) so my scales are 1 and 8 so now I'm allowed to summon monster that have a level of 2,3,4,5,6,and 7 from my hand or face up extra deck. Pendulum monsters have even more things going for them. Instead of going to the gave when leaving the field they attempt to hit the gave but then go to the extra deck face up and they have 2 text boxes 1 for there spell effect witch is between it's scale number on the card and then it's monster effect, witch can trigger even if the card is destroyed or leaves the pendulum scale.

and what if someone is passionate about floodgates? 🤔 don't look at me, I'm not a bully. I'm playing Dark World right now 😉

Standing draw phase alright? Yeah good. Damage step? God fucking damn it

Why is Anika on the thumbnail when she’s not in the video?

Number 6: don't be broke

Pend best deck!

Joshua hat's geschafft

Tip #1 see the pro player ygo guy in the video? See how clean he looks? Do that. 💀💀💀

I only play simple easy decks since I don’t play the game a whole lot. I don’t have any interest in competitive play. Just play with friends mostly.

Just Read the cards

I feel I am in the minority here, but I actually quite like floodgate cards as they are a hard counter to decks that focus too hard on doing one specific thing. I understand that with how yugioh archetype's work, that means floodgate's can just completely shut down an entire deck due to a lot of archetype's being not super flexible, but it's important to have them in a card game. It's just a thing which I personally feel is unfortunate that, instead of people making decks with slower rates of play that can accomodate for those floodgates, the community at large has doubled down on the current pace of the game (And in the case of cards like Maxx C, banned them depending on format...not that people responded by slowing down when it came to Maxx C in OCG either sadly...) One of my favourite floodgates and cards in the game At least in speed duels, so...duel links basically. is Summon Breaker, because in that format it suddenly adds a resource into the game by limiting you to 2 summons, but giving you the option to give up your battle phase for a third summon. Floodgates like those are the best designed in my opinion, because they have both a hard and soft limit to them. Asking you what you're willing to give up to proceed with your playstyle...though obviously due to the main phase 1 part of the card it doesn't really work in that cool a fashion outside of speed duels

the best advice to people who want to improve at the game is to stop being poor

if you wanna learn to stop blaming bad luck just play full power tear mirrors for a week and you will realize that you are just a bad player as the full power tear mirror is 99.9% of the time decided by who is the better player as going first or second is literally the same option for tear

Read your cards

Well, it's fun to see players get frustrated against floodgates. You can see the agony in their eyes beyond that arrogant smugface.

reboot to 3

I just expect a lose if play against pendulum xd

“Don’t plY the easy deck, like the floodgates. Then you beat the players who don’t draw the out.” Is that really the other players problem? Maybe y’all should realize people don’t wanna watch you play solitaire

Bro said normal summon Robina and I had Vietnam flashbacks lol I detest that deck lol. Much more enjoyable to play against with barrier statue gone though.

I kinda feel click baited by this video, the thumbnail made my mind go to a really different place

"stop blaming bad luck every time you lose" So I'm supposed to think bricks are just proof I'm not good enough at shuffling? Oh yeah, my opponent opening the 3 best starters and board breakers in their deck didn't decide the game before a card ever touched the field. That was just skill issue. Yugioh is inherently random, you will lose to bad luck more than anything else.

One thing that should’ve been added to the video: There’s no right or wrong deck to play and you shouldn’t shame someone for playing what they enjoy. Seriously you sound like a child when you tell people off for playing “easy floodgate”. Counter point, how about you get better with dealing with them?

Stop playing floodgates decks, they don't win YCS. Proceed to ycs Brazil and win against over full power mathmech and spright with mystic mine(floodgate strategy)

These really aren't bad tips for life in general lol

I know why I lose I don't buy the exact cards I need I keep playing brick eyes 😹