Turns has an “s” at the end because the player has multiple turns throughout a duel. Not having an “s” could lead some to believe it is a once per duel thing, while it actually activates during every start of the players turn.
@@CaptainMarvel4Ever Technically speaking the second but the first is under editing. But yea, it’s in works for more depending on how long mic issues last
I think a ton of context was missed for these. Like you can get into kog with lower tier decks, so saying it’s kog worthy isn’t thaaat crazy. Then like the current format is dominated by like blue eyes, agents and rokket, all using their own archetype skills. So maybe in the past the charmers got there, but now now.
As I did note, my information is based off of stuff from Duel Links Meta and the dates were literally up to the day of recording. So it’s possible there is a lot of context and stuff missing but there is just not enough public information out there on the deck builds in Duel Links
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 I mean, yes, but the way it's described kind of misses the point. Like I and others have said, getting a deck in KOG isn't hard at all, and can be done with even meme decks if you are willing to grind things out a bit. DuelLinksMeta does actually show what's top tier presently. It's one of the first links on the site, and it shows what has been topping actual tournaments. It also shows, for example, for the Dino Dna skill, that it was last used by a whole 1 deck to KOG last year. Conversely, you look at Battle Chronicles for Blue Eyes/DM, and it's deck usage is filling all these top tournament spots just recently. If you want a more generic skill, Madolches use the generic Level 5 Reload skill to shuffle away Puddincess. So you can see they still get a lot of event and KOG ranking placements this year, showing it is still a heavily used skill for a reasonably popular and successful deck. I appreciate the idea. Dule Links is a very obscure and unusual branch of Yugioh. But all this info is available on the website you were using. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate you spotlighting this kinda dying oddball game. I just think from the video, a lot of people might get a very skewed idea of how Duel Links is, or even was.
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 DuelLinksMeta does have information on deck builds and usage though. The Tier List tab will show you top performers in recent tournaments and you can get a gauge of how prevalent a skill is by how often it is used, which can be shown by selecting the skill and seeing it's recent placements. Like Dino DNA has had 1 KOG placement in the entirety of last year and only 1 again the year before. So it is not a well used skill even if it is a generic one. Also, as others have brought up, getting into KOG is not hard and can be done with very low tier decks, so just one or two placements means little. Conversely, go to the tier list and see Blue Eyes with their Battle Chronicles skill and you can see multiple recent tournament placements, let alone endless KOG placements. Even for a generic skill like Level 5 Reload, used by Madolches and other decks, it has a ton of KOG and event placements, meaning it is at least a popular and well used generic skill for rogue decks like Madolche. I am glad you tried to spotlight Duel Links, as it is a very odd and funny environment thanks to being Speed/Rush with skills. But I do think the way you described a lot of these skills maybe gave a very misleading idea of how Duel Links is right now, or even in the past.
So the thing is that KOG isn’t any real benchmark of power as anything can get there with some effort. The website you mentioned, DuelLinksMeta also does have a good way to gauging at least current deck, skill and card performance. It has a tier list based on most recent tournament results and each decks, skill and card shows their most recent deck successes. Dino DNA for example, has had one KOG usage last year and none this year, indicating close to no usage at all. Compare this to Battle Chronicles, used by the current top tier deck, Blue Eyes. Several tournament placements and endless event and KOG placements means it is highly used and very strong. I appreciate you trying to spotlight Duel Links as it is an oddball game with its own very unique meta. I just think if people only watched the video, they will be very misinformed about what was or is good.
Very interesting video. If I had to give any criticism, I'd wished Dimitri would have gone more in-depth with skill histories. For example I really wished he'd explained how Kaiba Corp Bling was used and how players would spend HUNDREDS of dollars to pull 1 (or 3) Prismatic UR they needed like Diamond Core or grind the hardest character to grind just to get a UR enemy controller and since DL didn't allowed you to pick which rarity to choose from, you'd have to get rid of 50 something copies of thosr cards just to play with it.
In this case, the history of Skills is something that I don’t actually know much of since the only actual accurate way to gather the Skill change history is to dig through the Announcements in Duel Links and I don’t know many players who do true competitive play in Duel Links
I wad squirming with discomfort until he explained that Rush Duels had multiple normal summons. It's the singular most important difference in how you evaluate cards in that game. (The drawing several cards per turn being the second most important thing. )
If there's another Duel Links video, I believe the better format would be the "was this card/skill ever good " Gives more room to show cases like KC Bling that were broken at some point and now very forgotten
That was my initial thought but I found there was no way to accurately measure that without me going into my own biases since Duel Links information is very limited
Being King of Games doesn’t make a deck meta, once you hit King of Games players will swap to fun decks because you can’t de-rank from it. Dino DNA was never meta, skills have their own agency and won’t proc Aromages nor can they be chained or responded to. Charmers were rouge at best but no one played them a week after release. KaibaCorps Bling was broken and was pay to win. Getting a foil rarity of a UR or Sr box card is less than 1% and crazy expensive, especially if it was a large box. It was changed to be unviable. The Rush skill is okay, unfortunately psychics are a weaker archetype and the skills at best allow them to be tier 3.
@@TheOneJameYT Honestly these skills are almost all from the beginning of Duel links, so another video would be great! Just for reference, if KaibaCorp was legal at full power, it highly unlikely anyone would play it today.
kaibacorp bling hasnt been good since the nerf to make the requirement from 1000 life to 2000. now its just a worse "destiny draw" which lets you get any card when you lose 2000. it was broken with 1000 life tho
I don't know what the hell Konami was thinking when they released both full power orcust and mermaid unlimited lmao. Btw orcust is not at full power anymore, harp horror and knightmare orcust are limited to 3 and pretty much every generic dark support is/will be too because of the deck. Babel is also limited to 1 so you can't play any other limit 1 card in the deck, including the orcust trap that I don't remember the name in English rn.
@capolol5976 I mean more that the fact that full power orcust even existed to begin with before they finished printing ABC is criminal. Especially since if they do print ABC A C Hangar and Driver theyre going to be in a different box from B Sort of like how monarchs are all high rarity and split between like 30 billion boxes.
Nice to see Duel links get some love, same with Rush Duels. I get Master Duel is better since the economy of DL is f*cked, but it's a shame nobody talks about it since there's a lot of cool features outside of the standard game. Same for Rush Duel. I LOVE Charmers too, easily myfavorite art within the game. Also one of the only archetypes who has a credited artist, Akina Fujiwara.
Duel links used to be so good before they sped up the game. Sergeant electro control, amazoness hero meta, sylvans, red eyes, neos, cyber angels, koaki meru. There were so many cool metas. Recently returned for rush duels which has reignited my passion though im not touching speel duels after an opponent took a 5year link turn.... its just master duel with skills now
I only play rush duel on Duel Links. I played speed Duel for 4 years until master Duel was released but I dropped it becouse it was way to expansive. I redownlad the game when rush duel was added but I don't play speed at all
dimitri did a ok job imp its realy hard to scale skills especly because they keep changing how they work yes they nerf them and buff them yes even change there entire text, theres no easy way to say if skills are bad or good, shure there are skills that are worse than others because they are not genric and oo nesh but yeh. the only way you can realy say if its good or not is if it has had completive kog tops witch itself has problems because kog is laughably easy in dule links you can kog with any deck in theory.
Dimitri isn't even king of games and they think they know what skills are good and what skills are bad. At times they talk normally so I'm pretty sure they are just really nervous. Finally the first skill isn't the worst one but it also isn't good, people play a skill that gives you 1000 LP at the start of the duel over this one, there are more examples. You can get to KoG(King of games, the highest rank) with pretty much any non-trash tier deck I got to it and I'm bad at YGO. He should of only looked at the tournaments, not KoG Decks! It would be interesting to do it with Dkayed or someone who is more knowledgeable.
Relax dude, we get it, you're a big deal on Dual Links because of your rank and all. These videos are for fun, not the most insanely accurate view of the meta game of any TCG
@@mooninites755No, this is a super fair point. I know nothing about Duel Links, and even I could feel there was a huge gap between different "good" skills here. Like, being able to grind out a certain ranking in a mobile game is absolutely not the same as something actually being meta, and nothing in the explanation gave any justification for why gaining 200 LP per turn was better than any of the other actual useful skills that must exist. Especially when looking up Dino DNA and learning, no, it specifically doesn't synergize with cards that care about gaining LP, because apparently that would make Aromages too broken for something.
@@mooninites755 Getting to KoG is easy it is just time consuming, it isn't a flex. A lot of skills were broken and later changed, they could of showed those or ones that look bad but are were actually good/broken like: "Labyrinth Builder", "Elements Unite!", "Life Cost 0", "Draw Pass", "Cyber Style", etc. Isn't the whole point to show those type of cards in these videos?
@@Metallicity Every character has a bad skill and sometimes they become good. But this one was quickly nerfed so it was good for like 10 days, maybe even less. You would just draw a bunch of cards from the Aromage monster that draws when you gain LP(That was pretty much the only monster you would play) and play annoying traps, like wall of D.
I will admit that I am very limited in my knowledge but the issue is a mixture of lack of information availability and the rating of stuff is purely based on what users willingly submit to sites. Which makes my information much more limited than one would have for paper YGO or other TCGs
I only made it to 2 mins personally. I get this is a patron thing, but I think there should be some vetting for presentation. I don't have super high standards, we are card gamers after all, but we should have at least some standards.
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 I had to turn on subtitles to try to understand what you were saying, but the automatic subtitles also couldn't understand you.
Turns has an “s” at the end because the player has multiple turns throughout a duel. Not having an “s” could lead some to believe it is a once per duel thing, while it actually activates during every start of the players turn.
That's like a joke in of itself. "WHOA, GAMES LASTS MORE THAN A TURN"
Yet pretty much every card game make it singular and peps understand it happens every turn
As the Patreon member who did this. Yes I am aware of the microphone issue. Windows 11 issue spent a full six hours working on it
Enjoyed having you on the show nonetheless!
I don't worry, first time for eevrything
@@CaptainMarvel4Ever Technically speaking the second but the first is under editing. But yea, it’s in works for more depending on how long mic issues last
Sad to hear but I suppose sometimes shit happens
I think a ton of context was missed for these. Like you can get into kog with lower tier decks, so saying it’s kog worthy isn’t thaaat crazy. Then like the current format is dominated by like blue eyes, agents and rokket, all using their own archetype skills. So maybe in the past the charmers got there, but now now.
As I did note, my information is based off of stuff from Duel Links Meta and the dates were literally up to the day of recording. So it’s possible there is a lot of context and stuff missing but there is just not enough public information out there on the deck builds in Duel Links
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 I mean, yes, but the way it's described kind of misses the point. Like I and others have said, getting a deck in KOG isn't hard at all, and can be done with even meme decks if you are willing to grind things out a bit. DuelLinksMeta does actually show what's top tier presently. It's one of the first links on the site, and it shows what has been topping actual tournaments. It also shows, for example, for the Dino Dna skill, that it was last used by a whole 1 deck to KOG last year. Conversely, you look at Battle Chronicles for Blue Eyes/DM, and it's deck usage is filling all these top tournament spots just recently. If you want a more generic skill, Madolches use the generic Level 5 Reload skill to shuffle away Puddincess. So you can see they still get a lot of event and KOG ranking placements this year, showing it is still a heavily used skill for a reasonably popular and successful deck.
I appreciate the idea. Dule Links is a very obscure and unusual branch of Yugioh. But all this info is available on the website you were using. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate you spotlighting this kinda dying oddball game. I just think from the video, a lot of people might get a very skewed idea of how Duel Links is, or even was.
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 DuelLinksMeta does have information on deck builds and usage though. The Tier List tab will show you top performers in recent tournaments and you can get a gauge of how prevalent a skill is by how often it is used, which can be shown by selecting the skill and seeing it's recent placements. Like Dino DNA has had 1 KOG placement in the entirety of last year and only 1 again the year before. So it is not a well used skill even if it is a generic one. Also, as others have brought up, getting into KOG is not hard and can be done with very low tier decks, so just one or two placements means little. Conversely, go to the tier list and see Blue Eyes with their Battle Chronicles skill and you can see multiple recent tournament placements, let alone endless KOG placements. Even for a generic skill like Level 5 Reload, used by Madolches and other decks, it has a ton of KOG and event placements, meaning it is at least a popular and well used generic skill for rogue decks like Madolche.
I am glad you tried to spotlight Duel Links, as it is a very odd and funny environment thanks to being Speed/Rush with skills. But I do think the way you described a lot of these skills maybe gave a very misleading idea of how Duel Links is right now, or even in the past.
So the thing is that KOG isn’t any real benchmark of power as anything can get there with some effort. The website you mentioned, DuelLinksMeta also does have a good way to gauging at least current deck, skill and card performance. It has a tier list based on most recent tournament results and each decks, skill and card shows their most recent deck successes. Dino DNA for example, has had one KOG usage last year and none this year, indicating close to no usage at all. Compare this to Battle Chronicles, used by the current top tier deck, Blue Eyes. Several tournament placements and endless event and KOG placements means it is highly used and very strong.
I appreciate you trying to spotlight Duel Links as it is an oddball game with its own very unique meta. I just think if people only watched the video, they will be very misinformed about what was or is good.
pretty much anything can kog if you play enough games. i kog'd with toons before
Very interesting video.
If I had to give any criticism, I'd wished Dimitri would have gone more in-depth with skill histories. For example I really wished he'd explained how Kaiba Corp Bling was used and how players would spend HUNDREDS of dollars to pull 1 (or 3) Prismatic UR they needed like Diamond Core or grind the hardest character to grind just to get a UR enemy controller and since DL didn't allowed you to pick which rarity to choose from, you'd have to get rid of 50 something copies of thosr cards just to play with it.
In this case, the history of Skills is something that I don’t actually know much of since the only actual accurate way to gather the Skill change history is to dig through the Announcements in Duel Links and I don’t know many players who do true competitive play in Duel Links
I wad squirming with discomfort until he explained that Rush Duels had multiple normal summons. It's the singular most important difference in how you evaluate cards in that game. (The drawing several cards per turn being the second most important thing. )
Dimitri should probably look more into Duel Links before doing videos about it. His knowledge is clearly lacking. The main deck size is 20-30 btw.
Nice video idea, unfortunately Dimitri's duel links knowledge is really outdated and/or incorrect.
Probably a mix of both. I don’t tend to be in the competitive aspect of YGO anymore. And I am pretty much working with what information I have
If there's another Duel Links video, I believe the better format would be the "was this card/skill ever good " Gives more room to show cases like KC Bling that were broken at some point and now very forgotten
That was my initial thought but I found there was no way to accurately measure that without me going into my own biases since Duel Links information is very limited
Being King of Games doesn’t make a deck meta, once you hit King of Games players will swap to fun decks because you can’t de-rank from it.
Dino DNA was never meta, skills have their own agency and won’t proc Aromages nor can they be chained or responded to.
Charmers were rouge at best but no one played them a week after release.
KaibaCorps Bling was broken and was pay to win. Getting a foil rarity of a UR or Sr box card is less than 1% and crazy expensive, especially if it was a large box. It was changed to be unviable.
The Rush skill is okay, unfortunately psychics are a weaker archetype and the skills at best allow them to be tier 3.
Thanks for this!
@@TheOneJameYT Honestly these skills are almost all from the beginning of Duel links, so another video would be great!
Just for reference, if KaibaCorp was legal at full power, it highly unlikely anyone would play it today.
kaibacorp bling hasnt been good since the nerf to make the requirement from 1000 life to 2000. now its just a worse "destiny draw" which lets you get any card when you lose 2000. it was broken with 1000 life tho
I liked it a lot!! Thanks Dimitri it was cool to see the differences between these versions of yugioh!!
insight in duellonks was fun since I refuse to touch a game with full power orcust existing before ABC and the game only having B-Buster drake.
I don't know what the hell Konami was thinking when they released both full power orcust and mermaid unlimited lmao. Btw orcust is not at full power anymore, harp horror and knightmare orcust are limited to 3 and pretty much every generic dark support is/will be too because of the deck. Babel is also limited to 1 so you can't play any other limit 1 card in the deck, including the orcust trap that I don't remember the name in English rn.
@capolol5976 I mean more that the fact that full power orcust even existed to begin with before they finished printing ABC is criminal.
Especially since if they do print ABC A C Hangar and Driver theyre going to be in a different box from B
Sort of like how monarchs are all high rarity and split between like 30 billion boxes.
When we try to drain the TheOneJame's skill but he doesn't have any.
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Nice to see Duel links get some love, same with Rush Duels. I get Master Duel is better since the economy of DL is f*cked, but it's a shame nobody talks about it since there's a lot of cool features outside of the standard game. Same for Rush Duel.
I LOVE Charmers too, easily myfavorite art within the game. Also one of the only archetypes who has a credited artist, Akina Fujiwara.
Happy you enjoyed it!
Duel links used to be so good before they sped up the game. Sergeant electro control, amazoness hero meta, sylvans, red eyes, neos, cyber angels, koaki meru. There were so many cool metas. Recently returned for rush duels which has reignited my passion though im not touching speel duels after an opponent took a 5year link turn.... its just master duel with skills now
I only play rush duel on Duel Links. I played speed Duel for 4 years until master Duel was released but I dropped it becouse it was way to expansive. I redownlad the game when rush duel was added but I don't play speed at all
dimitri did a ok job imp its realy hard to scale skills especly because they keep changing how they work yes they nerf them and buff them yes even change there entire text, theres no easy way to say if skills are bad or good, shure there are skills that are worse than others because they are not genric and oo nesh but yeh.
the only way you can realy say if its good or not is if it has had completive kog tops witch itself has problems because kog is laughably easy in dule links you can kog with any deck in theory.
Oh god I used to love duel links the skills are crazy
They really are!
Dimitri isn't even king of games and they think they know what skills are good and what skills are bad. At times they talk normally so I'm pretty sure they are just really nervous. Finally the first skill isn't the worst one but it also isn't good, people play a skill that gives you 1000 LP at the start of the duel over this one, there are more examples. You can get to KoG(King of games, the highest rank) with pretty much any non-trash tier deck I got to it and I'm bad at YGO. He should of only looked at the tournaments, not KoG Decks! It would be interesting to do it with Dkayed or someone who is more knowledgeable.
Relax dude, we get it, you're a big deal on Dual Links because of your rank and all. These videos are for fun, not the most insanely accurate view of the meta game of any TCG
@@mooninites755No, this is a super fair point. I know nothing about Duel Links, and even I could feel there was a huge gap between different "good" skills here. Like, being able to grind out a certain ranking in a mobile game is absolutely not the same as something actually being meta, and nothing in the explanation gave any justification for why gaining 200 LP per turn was better than any of the other actual useful skills that must exist. Especially when looking up Dino DNA and learning, no, it specifically doesn't synergize with cards that care about gaining LP, because apparently that would make Aromages too broken for something.
@@mooninites755 Getting to KoG is easy it is just time consuming, it isn't a flex. A lot of skills were broken and later changed, they could of showed those or ones that look bad but are were actually good/broken like: "Labyrinth Builder", "Elements Unite!", "Life Cost 0", "Draw Pass", "Cyber Style", etc. Isn't the whole point to show those type of cards in these videos?
@@Metallicity Every character has a bad skill and sometimes they become good. But this one was quickly nerfed so it was good for like 10 days, maybe even less. You would just draw a bunch of cards from the Aromage monster that draws when you gain LP(That was pretty much the only monster you would play) and play annoying traps, like wall of D.
I will admit that I am very limited in my knowledge but the issue is a mixture of lack of information availability and the rating of stuff is purely based on what users willingly submit to sites. Which makes my information much more limited than one would have for paper YGO or other TCGs
I couldn't understand a thing the other guy was saying because of that ridiculous lisp.
Don't wanna be mean but the way Dimitri talks is giving me straight cancer, literally stopped watching at the 3min mark
No worries. I have a very strong case of the “either you like my talking style or hate it.” situation
I only made it to 2 mins personally. I get this is a patron thing, but I think there should be some vetting for presentation. I don't have super high standards, we are card gamers after all, but we should have at least some standards.
@@dimitriwhisenhunt5136 I had to turn on subtitles to try to understand what you were saying, but the automatic subtitles also couldn't understand you.