58:00 that bit and that transition are so good lol Cvit is by far my fav editor in the whole yugitubing community, no weird zoom-ins, no over the top edits, no unnecessary messing with the audio, no self inserts that stop the video, really just nice, clean editing
@S V I don't wanna throw shade, most editors are fine for what they do even if rough around the edges but yeah, I got a couple series ruined by horrible out of place editing every 5 seconds like the viewer has that long of an attention span *cough cough* Junior Journey *cough cough*
Eh, i like both styles at different times. Sometimes I wanna have a clean, calm edit. Sometimes I wanna have zoom-ins, audo distortions and other shit.
I think alternating between bad decks, outdated decks, and new but overshadowed decks is a good direction for the series. As long as it is not a real top tier deck I think they will be fun. Great episode.
@@ashikjaman1940 funnily enough, since Lantern and Buzzsaw count as 3/5 for Xyz, and Abyss and Crystal count as 3/4 and become level 4 anyway, not really
@@ashikjaman1940 I run three of each though? They’re kinda the best starters in the deck. Plus, Buzzsaw searches Lantern, Abyss searches any of em, and Abyss and Crystal are super good extenders
Congratulations on getting Umi & friends to Diamond 1. Some of those duels looked extremely rough if they were able to deal with the lockdown. Gotta say though, Unending Nightmare is definitely the unsung hero of this climb for sure.
This is my first time watching HardLeg and I have no idea where he’s been all my life 😭🤧 I love Umi control so I’m glad this was my first video of his !!
As someone who plays this deck a bunch, I've really grown to love Pacifis over A Legendary Ocean. Yeah, it's a bit harder to search, but those tokens are really valuable. Plus, you get to play Phantasm Spiral Power, a searchable Imperm! Also, SSA+Pacifis, for whatever reason, is really hard for Despia to break down, haha.
@Christian Wright Right now the deck list is 1 Phantasm Spiral Dragon 3 Kairyu-Shin 3 Electric Jellyfish 2 Doom Kraken 1 Mega Fortress Whale 1 Icejade Tremora (Good Synergy with Ice Barrier, and can unbrick you if you draw a big water monster) 1 Legendary Fisherman II 1 Legendary Fisherman III (You can totally cut the Fishermen, as they get walled pretty bad by Despia and Floo, but some decks like Dinomorph and I think Labrynth don't really have many answers to it.) 3 Maxx C 2 Warrior of Atlantis Spells: 1 Terraforming 2 Pacifis 1 A Legendary Ocean 1 Sea Stealth II 1 Rage of Kairyu-Shin 3 Pot of Extravagance 3 Foolish Burial Goods 3 Fish Sonar Traps: 2 Sea Stealth Attack 2 Ice Barrier 1 Phantasm Spiral Power 1 Kairyu-Shin's Dark Reef Extra Deck: Whatever you want, really. Just toss in a Bahamut Shark and a Toadally Awesome if you have it, cause that comes up sometimes.
1:09:20 I noticed, and I appreciate you changed it to day 2. With how long these go on for at times, it's nice to know which session you've been in to understand a bit more of how you're playing and what's the context for deck changes and the like.
Jolly Roger Bay is one of my favourite Mario songs. So peaceful and beautiful and the remix you used is equally so. Also the Unending Nightmare bit made me laugh more than once.
Thank you Joe for reminding me why getting to Diamond 1 is something I never ever wish to do: there won't be anything but pain and agony because birds and out of nowhere numeron and eldlich fester on its surroundings. Branded at least is more interactive than them.
Yay floodgates. And ones that use actual WATER for once! I'd normally puke at this egregious display of Stun strats, but they way it's done in this almost looks tolerable if you understand how it works enough to deal with it. Though more importantly was how entertaining the pack pulling was. Ocean Man indeed.
Thanks for the ideas, I have a pretty good version of this deck before I saw your video and this helped fix some issues I was having of updating my childhood deck.
I literally just finished an Umi control deck the other day and have been beefing it in the Duelists Cup. I'll be happy to see one of my fave yugi tubers take it as high as possible!
Hey Joe congrats, I use umi control and you didn't use the whale to its full potential. When it's destroyed by battle or card effect you can summon a lv 7 or lower warrior water monster to the field or add it to your hand. From my experience you can either use it to summon legendary fisherman 2, and when it's destroyed get legendary fisherman 3. Or you can summon General raiho of the ice barrier. If he gets destroyed, you can just keep cycling between the whale and raiho as long as you have sea stealth 2. Raiho makes it where you opponent has to discard a card to activate monster effects on the field otherwise its negated, and its not once per turn.
I don't really see Kairyu-Shin as a traditional monster floodgate, like VFD for example, because by itself it doesn't do anything aside from searching making Umi Control a pretty balanced deck. I mean it leaves so many ways to counter it since Jellyfish is typically your only negate all your opponent has to do is remove Umi (preferably via non-destruction). Also leave Leafplace Plaice alone! He's trying his best.
I think you just do both janky and competetive episodes! Just throw in a serious episode like this once in a while, play something meta and be serious from the start, but definitly keep some goofy episodes
I am a real sucker for water archetypes so umi control is one of my new favourite decks, but i gotta say, it also combines with one of my favourite archetypes of all time, Swordsoul, pretty well. also, the sheer number of players who have no idea what the second effect of Sea Stealth Attack is will always make me laugh
I had never seen the kairu shin monster before even in decks where I'd seen sea stealth attack and stuff, this makes me see why I have never seen some of these cards haha
I wouldn't call the lack of interactions and decisions "lack of free will", I'd just call it bad game design but not having free will does sound pretty ominous lol
Would've kept Sea Stealth Attack at 3. Really protects backrow and monsters when needed, and recurs your "Umi" from GY. Also some interesting interactions with Foolish Burial Goods. Warrior of Atlantis at 2, since 3 can get bricky. Sea Stealth II at 2, since you need as many "Umi" as you could get. Ice Barrier at 2 because lol. Also pairs well with Icejade Tremora... 2x Icejade Tremora for when you brick, or when your Physalia gets negated but need to summon Ocean King. ALSO, an Ice Barrier target.
I want to see you reach the top more than anything. IF things get silly deeper in it feels like giving up. I love seeing non-meta make it as far as they can. I think the moments for that are way more interesting and fun than "goofy" strats. Just my opinion
I think we do have free will because in the anime mako using this exact strategy against his opponent yugi. Even in a desperate situation yugi didn't quit he new he did have choices SO HE ATTACK THE FUCKING MOON!
I know the "free will" bit is, you know, a Bit. A joke. A ghafaw. But, I would like to postulate this: You Freely Willed yourself into playing the game. So, checkmate?
I think you're somewhat misconstruing determinism. That free will doesn't exist doesn't mean that you, right here and now, can actually predict the future: to do that you may lack the necessary understanding of the world (complete comprehension of every process) as well as the means to apply it (the tools to assess and/or manipulate every detail of the world to any desired accuracy). There exists randomness in the world, even in computer programs such as Master Duel to some extent (I'm not a programmer but I gather there are two options: either MD uses an algorithm to generate pseudo-random numbers, or derives random numbers from some physical measurement inside the machine).
Given the name of the series I'd personally like to see the strongest variant an try hard to the top, however it's not hardleg without some jank so probably from low rank use jank until high rank then switch to meta variant.
also as a long long long time magic player. the grass is not always greener. magic has been going through a hell of being forced to play the newest most busted stuff for awhile now
I reached D 2 with umi controll it’s actually not that hard imo probably one of the easiest decks to reach D 1 and can counter meta decks except that stupid runick deck…
Just as I couldnt take my hardleg ladder climb withdrawal anymore this video dropped, Hardleg truly does provide
the laugh of pure, manic joy at the end was fantastic
10:14 HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T KNOW HARDLEG WAS SO GOOD AT SINGING! HE SOUNDS SO GOOD!!
He is a legit singer, idk how long you've been following but his videos always had his acapella music sprinkled in and it's been always so good
hardleg has some amazing singing bits in older epsidoes, it’s a sshame we don’t see it too often but it’s a treat every time it comes up
58:00 that bit and that transition are so good lol
Cvit is by far my fav editor in the whole yugitubing community, no weird zoom-ins, no over the top edits, no unnecessary messing with the audio, no self inserts that stop the video, really just nice, clean editing
Common Dire L
@S V I don't wanna throw shade, most editors are fine for what they do even if rough around the edges but yeah, I got a couple series ruined by horrible out of place editing every 5 seconds like the viewer has that long of an attention span *cough cough* Junior Journey *cough cough*
@@SerechII If you think Junior Journey editing is bad, watch Broke Boy. It is *constant* key jingling.
Eh, i like both styles at different times.
Sometimes I wanna have a clean, calm edit.
Sometimes I wanna have zoom-ins, audo distortions and other shit.
Pretty much every clip with unending nightmare was amazing lol and that ending was awesome
Unending nightmare is such a underrated beautiful card. Well done Joe.
honestly after some of those duels I'm considering just slapping it onto some of my decks
Or at least would if Maxx C didn't exist
Ever since the start of the game, Umi and Stealth Sea Attack has been my favourite archetype, so it's really nice to see it still active today!
Hardleg has such a nice singing voice i would legitimately listen to a hardleg ocean man cover
I think alternating between bad decks, outdated decks, and new but overshadowed decks is a good direction for the series. As long as it is not a real top tier deck I think they will be fun. Great episode.
Ocean man take joe by the hand take him to the land where he understands
I am 3/4 through the video, I saw the bubble transitions coming 1.609 km away, but I was surprised to learn that the nightmare is unending.
This is pretty cruel but I’m loving the new Umi control decks. Not because I’m playing them, but because Sharks runs only Water monsters
lol
Sharks gets fucked over by Legendary Ocean though
@@ashikjaman1940 funnily enough, since Lantern and Buzzsaw count as 3/5 for Xyz, and Abyss and Crystal count as 3/4 and become level 4 anyway, not really
@@toothpastetube7843 you're not going to draw them against Umi though lol
@@ashikjaman1940 I run three of each though? They’re kinda the best starters in the deck. Plus, Buzzsaw searches Lantern, Abyss searches any of em, and Abyss and Crystal are super good extenders
You want a free will test? Bruhda all you had to do was ask.
Hey, my grandma just turned 69 this year.
Duel 153 Vs Zombie Floodgates. It was so satisfying seeing undending nightmare work. God that was a great stream!
As a new player, I randomly chose Umi as my first deck, very fun and strong to play
Congratulations on getting Umi & friends to Diamond 1. Some of those duels looked extremely rough if they were able to deal with the lockdown. Gotta say though, Unending Nightmare is definitely the unsung hero of this climb for sure.
I love this monthly series, I hope it never ends :)))
Always looking forward to HardLeg ladder climb. Good work. Hope to see more videos like these.
The laugh at the end, is Close to crazy and joyful
Love it :D
This is my first time watching HardLeg and I have no idea where he’s been all my life 😭🤧 I love Umi control so I’m glad this was my first video of his !!
As someone who plays this deck a bunch, I've really grown to love Pacifis over A Legendary Ocean. Yeah, it's a bit harder to search, but those tokens are really valuable. Plus, you get to play Phantasm Spiral Power, a searchable Imperm! Also, SSA+Pacifis, for whatever reason, is really hard for Despia to break down, haha.
Got a deck list of that?
i think the fact taht pacifis mandatory search will still go off after running out of targets will never not be funny to me
@Christian Wright Right now the deck list is
1 Phantasm Spiral Dragon
3 Kairyu-Shin
3 Electric Jellyfish
2 Doom Kraken
1 Mega Fortress Whale
1 Icejade Tremora (Good Synergy with Ice Barrier, and can unbrick you if you draw a big water monster)
1 Legendary Fisherman II
1 Legendary Fisherman III (You can totally cut the Fishermen, as they get walled pretty bad by Despia and Floo, but some decks like Dinomorph and I think Labrynth don't really have many answers to it.)
3 Maxx C
2 Warrior of Atlantis
Spells:
1 Terraforming
2 Pacifis
1 A Legendary Ocean
1 Sea Stealth II
1 Rage of Kairyu-Shin
3 Pot of Extravagance
3 Foolish Burial Goods
3 Fish Sonar
Traps:
2 Sea Stealth Attack
2 Ice Barrier
1 Phantasm Spiral Power
1 Kairyu-Shin's Dark Reef
Extra Deck:
Whatever you want, really. Just toss in a Bahamut Shark and a Toadally Awesome if you have it, cause that comes up sometimes.
@@GatsbyCioffi have you concidered droping one of the doom krakens for a pot of properity or a foolish burial goods
1:09:20 I noticed, and I appreciate you changed it to day 2. With how long these go on for at times, it's nice to know which session you've been in to understand a bit more of how you're playing and what's the context for deck changes and the like.
Jolly Roger Bay is one of my favourite Mario songs. So peaceful and beautiful and the remix you used is equally so. Also the Unending Nightmare bit made me laugh more than once.
what a ride so glad you made it all the way and got to diamond one, great video!
I didn't expect Hardleg to have a singing voice but that ocean man bit kinda banged
This was so entertaining to watch. Behold the power of the feeeesh!!!!
man's having too much fun, by depriving him of fun. never thought something would be a fun, but it's fun, how fun...
Thank you Joe for reminding me why getting to Diamond 1 is something I never ever wish to do: there won't be anything but pain and agony because birds and out of nowhere numeron and eldlich fester on its surroundings. Branded at least is more interactive than them.
Well Barrier Statue is shadow realmed now so at least that's gone
Yay floodgates. And ones that use actual WATER for once!
I'd normally puke at this egregious display of Stun strats, but they way it's done in this almost looks tolerable if you understand how it works enough to deal with it.
Though more importantly was how entertaining the pack pulling was. Ocean Man indeed.
Looks like the One Piece was real after all. Congrats Joe on making it to Diamond 1.
Thanks for the ideas, I have a pretty good version of this deck before I saw your video and this helped fix some issues I was having of updating my childhood deck.
53:38 nooo not the ultra-rare fortress whale
I’m surprised it was this deck that made you question free will and other existential questions and not the madness that was Ojamas.
The joy on your face when you made it to diamond one was exactly what it's like after having to grind lol..Nice one Joe good gaming 👍
My lord... it's THE ocean man!!
I literally just finished an Umi control deck the other day and have been beefing it in the Duelists Cup. I'll be happy to see one of my fave yugi tubers take it as high as possible!
YES I've been waiting for this all December!
1:26:00 can we appreciate this player that went second and still did the FTK line pretending that they didn't have a battle phase
Evil Joe be like:"hahaha I play good deck!"
"Okay, I activate my free will."
"Ash"
"...why did that work?"
Hey Joe congrats, I use umi control and you didn't use the whale to its full potential. When it's destroyed by battle or card effect you can summon a lv 7 or lower warrior water monster to the field or add it to your hand. From my experience you can either use it to summon legendary fisherman 2, and when it's destroyed get legendary fisherman 3. Or you can summon General raiho of the ice barrier. If he gets destroyed, you can just keep cycling between the whale and raiho as long as you have sea stealth 2. Raiho makes it where you opponent has to discard a card to activate monster effects on the field otherwise its negated, and its not once per turn.
Me sober enjoys the duels. Me drunk just listens to fun dire dire docks moo-zeek!
It's finally out. Wish I could watch these live but different time zones make that impossible
I main this deck irl and in master duel. This video made me buy 18 copies of Unending Nightmare. Thanks for the spicy tech option!
I don't really see Kairyu-Shin as a traditional monster floodgate, like VFD for example, because by itself it doesn't do anything aside from searching making Umi Control a pretty balanced deck. I mean it leaves so many ways to counter it since Jellyfish is typically your only negate all your opponent has to do is remove Umi (preferably via non-destruction).
Also leave Leafplace Plaice alone! He's trying his best.
I really wanna see Hardleg use infernity climb ranked, mostly so I can learn the deck vicariously. lol
I love fish sonar. Some may not, i however, do.
"what is this, Japanese Duellogs?" The master of jank gimmick decks has many students, it seems
I think you just do both janky and competetive episodes! Just throw in a serious episode like this once in a while, play something meta and be serious from the start, but definitly keep some goofy episodes
oh how i love these ladder climb vids
WHEN THE NIGHTMARE IS UNENDING
Icejade Agergine , Icejade Eriosion, Icejade cradle, Abyss shark, and Crstal shark will make the deck MUCH better
It's kind of crazy that this deck disappeared from the face of the Earth. Good since it's a floodgate deck but still.
I did not know hardleg could sing
I am a real sucker for water archetypes so umi control is one of my new favourite decks, but i gotta say, it also combines with one of my favourite archetypes of all time, Swordsoul, pretty well. also, the sheer number of players who have no idea what the second effect of Sea Stealth Attack is will always make me laugh
u could try to climb with predaplants now that they have more support
Can't believe he's teaching the fish to TCBOO
I would jump on uncharted waters with you as my captain, if you catch my drift.
I had never seen the kairu shin monster before even in decks where I'd seen sea stealth attack and stuff, this makes me see why I have never seen some of these cards haha
HE’LL TEACH *YOU* TO STAY OUT OF THE WATERS.
I wouldn't call the lack of interactions and decisions "lack of free will", I'd just call it bad game design but not having free will does sound pretty ominous lol
Need to see a morphtronic deck ladder climb
Would've kept Sea Stealth Attack at 3. Really protects backrow and monsters when needed, and recurs your "Umi" from GY. Also some interesting interactions with Foolish Burial Goods.
Warrior of Atlantis at 2, since 3 can get bricky.
Sea Stealth II at 2, since you need as many "Umi" as you could get.
Ice Barrier at 2 because lol. Also pairs well with Icejade Tremora...
2x Icejade Tremora for when you brick, or when your Physalia gets negated but need to summon Ocean King. ALSO, an Ice Barrier target.
I was very lucky with this pack, I got 3 kairyu shin in the first 10 boosters I opened.
shoutouts to that Endymion player holy shit
Honestly, mad props to the Valyantz player in Diamond 2 xD
wild that i’m watching this now
Master Duel needs to bring down the hammer on the birds, enlich, branded. Their always in diamond
When people think of what a yugioh player looks like, this is it
Is it? I imagine they'd think of someone with bigger, more silly, anime hair.
What have you done Joe! You were supposed to destroy the floodgates, not become them...
I did both, once I got Unending Nightmare in my deck.
This guys voice affect is very unique
Joe honestly I would love to hear you sing more your voice is so good
4:22 Poor fish, be nice.
I love this pack. It got me into Marincess. Which is the only good one among the elemental cyberse decks
Damn you can sing man
The boat won me a lot of duels, because of the direct attack effect. Not using anything for when it pops, though. Tried it, but it rarely comes up
2 evenly, 2 dark rulers, 2 impers instead of torrential package,
To break board when going 2nd
I want to see you reach the top more than anything. IF things get silly deeper in it feels like giving up. I love seeing non-meta make it as far as they can. I think the moments for that are way more interesting and fun than "goofy" strats. Just my opinion
That ending. Gah damn
1:32:43 lmfao, nice editing
I'm only 30 minutes in, but I hope Joe's strong confidence in Umi Control doesn't become a "punished for his hubris" situation.....
I've been waiting for this Video
I think we do have free will because in the anime mako using this exact strategy against his opponent yugi.
Even in a desperate situation yugi didn't quit he new he did have choices
SO HE ATTACK THE FUCKING MOON!
I know the "free will" bit is, you know, a Bit. A joke. A ghafaw. But, I would like to postulate this:
You Freely Willed yourself into playing the game. So, checkmate?
I think for another deck to play is the Arcana Knights or Poker Knights
Branded best deck? May I introduce you to scareclaw 😎
Had very similar luck to hardleg on the cosmic ocean, ODL was just fucking impossible to pull and he was the only UR I actually cared about pulling.
9:43 spoiler: just like a shiny in a pokemon game, when you least expect it
Handled is the skinner's box of yugitubers
I think you're somewhat misconstruing determinism. That free will doesn't exist doesn't mean that you, right here and now, can actually predict the future: to do that you may lack the necessary understanding of the world (complete comprehension of every process) as well as the means to apply it (the tools to assess and/or manipulate every detail of the world to any desired accuracy).
There exists randomness in the world, even in computer programs such as Master Duel to some extent (I'm not a programmer but I gather there are two options: either MD uses an algorithm to generate pseudo-random numbers, or derives random numbers from some physical measurement inside the machine).
Given the name of the series I'd personally like to see the strongest variant an try hard to the top, however it's not hardleg without some jank so probably from low rank use jank until high rank then switch to meta variant.
am i the only one who loves this man singing
I've been playing masterduel since it came out & I can't win duels unless they scoop!!! I'm even having hardtime getting thru solo mode. goodluck!
also as a long long long time magic player. the grass is not always greener. magic has been going through a hell of being forced to play the newest most busted stuff for awhile now
Reject man, return to turtle
ITS FINALLY HERE!!!!
imagine if he did this with (general) Insects
gotta pray to ocean man now
I reached D 2 with umi controll it’s actually not that hard imo probably one of the easiest decks to reach D 1 and can counter meta decks except that stupid runick deck…
I am surprised you didn't try Yorishiro of the Aqua as recursion in the deck.
I seriously considered it, but it doesn't really do much for the deck.
OH FFS IT'S DECEMBER 23 NOW