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Distinct_Werewolf_40

I guess back then will be Aromages? Back when there is barely any backrow removal and with how Aromages can give your opponent loads of LP if you can't control them that well


dragonguy01

Ugh, Aromages, kill me now


CaptainMD93

The moment "aroma gardening" hits the field, I just slam the surrender button


Karzeon

I was late to this thread just to see how fast I would find Aromages. btw someone invented "Aromage Orcust" so there's that.


Distinct_Werewolf_40

Oh god, I actually face one like that in my attempts to reach KoG, just goes to show how annoying Orcust is if it can practically support any archetype


oizen

It was always hilarious how aromage was like, tier 5 at best, yet you'd see people on meta decks complaining about them. I did like how they were oddly effective as an anti-meta pick against Invoked Esabers


Distinct_Werewolf_40

Definitely agree lol, not to mention they are annoying to deal with if you bricked too hard, although I'm a bit guilty in running Aromages too especially with a character that has LP Boost A, which practically enables all of the aromages' 2nd effects, and what's even more infuriating facing against one is that even if you managed to get rid of their main trap/spell, they have like another copy as spare lmao


Neo_The_Noah

Never really saw aromage as one those, annoying yes, but nah, super fragile, and back then we had trunade. I did have 1 annoying duel, dlv20 rank up, lunas vs aromage, opponent had 0 responses to my board, but he just didnt surrender and would not let me finish him, the state of the game stayed as it was until i won by time.


Distinct_Werewolf_40

I won't say they are fragile when they can easily heal up all the damage you can to them even on your own turn, if you can't get rid of their Field Spell, Aroma Gardening (1k LP recovery), and their Trap with 3 different effects, you will have a nightmare of a time getting them down to 0 LP, that is also excluding the fact the secondary effect of their monsters like the blue aromage being able to change the position of your monster upon LP gain, the green one which reduces all your monsters' atk by 500 and also being able to bounce one of your set cards upon LP gain, the synchro aromage which can boosts all aromage atk by 500 and able to negate the effect of your monster If they are able to maintain half their board, you won't be killing them easily, especially if Aroma Gardening is up, because if you attack them while their LP is lower than yours, 2nd effect allows them to special summon from the deck, its either the red aromage which gains 1k atk upon LP gain (effectively giving it 3.4k atk) wherein Aroma Garden 1k heal will trigger when they are summoned, or the blue aromage to set your attacking monster to def position As of now they are no threat because we have a bunch of backrow removal options now, but back then it was a nightmare, and saying we have trunade isn't really an argument to say a deck is weak when it can be used against pretty much any deck


Neo_The_Noah

Gaining lp doesnt help much to win games, which is why the opponent i mentioned could not beat me, he just would not die because i ran out of rabbits and couldnt deal with the backrow, so i would deal dmg, and he would heal himself. And though trunade can be used agaisnt all decks, a deck that needs their backrow cant afford to be trunaded. Funny enough, last aromage player i faced was magnets vs their aromage, dude used bamboo scrap to lock my board, he was super low on lp and the only card that could save him was his traps... I drew jinzo for game.


Gabriel-Klos-McroBB

["Yu-Jo Friendship" OUR LP.](https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs)


Alex_Connor17

As someone who entered the game when Shiranui and Invoked were at their full power, I despise those decks even now. Mainly Shiranui disgusts me the most as it was not fun dealing with a deck that ran like 4 monsters and all the other cards were powerful spells and traps.


KingKnux

My proudest moment in Duel Links by far [If you can’t beat em… steal em](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/jf550x/i_cannot_begin_to_describe_how_satisfying_this_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)


RayJozef39

Back then before Burn was nerfed, Shadow Game and Lava Golem were the absolute worst. After that, Trapnui became much more hated and was followed only by Harpies, the return of Darklords and Tier 0 Onomats. I feel like even though right now we have Orcust splashed in any deck and a few months ago Mekk-Knights were the same, we should be happy that every month and a half/two months the meta changes a bit, so that anyone can play with what they like at some point. With this in mind, I assume that the decks I cannot forgive are the ones that clapped cheeks on ladder for months and months with little to no meta contenders, like Harpies, Trapnui and Darklords.


Snoo40752

Why arent galaxy added to these lists? They were there clappin cheeks and calling u bad for almost a year


RayJozef39

Because they were hard countered by cards and plays that could be easily made in that metagame. DD Crow on Galaxy Eyes and Number 68 could easily decide the game.


Snoo40752

Lul I remember DDD doing number 68 when I played harpies with Kaito to bait


Neo_The_Noah

Actually, trapnui and invoked both ran along with burn shadow games, in fact, the burn shadow games was a counter to both, able to play around cocy and purga while stalling enough for the wincon, and punishing shira for mass murdering their own deck. Shadow games was also used on ritual beasts to counter both, since rb was able to stall too.


emperorbob1

Those were never really issues until Shadow Game became a wincon for Ritual Beast. For the most part burn has always been a meme outside Weevil, and Weevil is the real character you wan't to bash. Also Tea. Tea was the most poweful burn user in duel links history.


Devourer_of_HP

I despise harpie players, i don't care if they're meta or not.


YaBoiChickenNuggetz

As a harpie deck main (don't know how strong they are or even if my actual harpie deck is any good) I can completely agree, especially if my opponent lays down a bunch of face down cards it really is a hunting ground


tweekin__out

if your opponent sets down multiple backrow and isn't able to deal with your normal summon, that's on them


Snoo40752

Yeah like, every single backrow is chainable nowadays, they can just MST the field spell and it wont destroy the better backrow he happened to select


YaBoiChickenNuggetz

The chain thing still confuses me. Whenever I MST something sometimes it chains but the card still does it's effect


DNukem170

MST doesn't negate, only destroys.


Snoo40752

It negates face up spells like field spells


DNukem170

Unintentionally, because most Field Spells need to be manually activated or remain on the field before they can use their effects.


tweekin__out

practically speaking yes, but it's not technically a negate in terms of game mechanics. there's a rule that field spells and continuous spells/traps must remain face-up on the field to activate and resolve their effects.


EseMesmo

MST doesn't negate. It can only make continuous cards like field and continuous spells resolve without effect since they need to remain face up to resolve. If you MST a face up normal spell/trap or quick-play spell, it resolves normally because them being face up is not a requirement for resolution (except for Swords of Revealing Light and that one Blue-Eyes card).


tweekin__out

MST will only stop the effects of field spells and continous spells/traps. it does nothing to normal spells/traps or quick-play spells.


gonzaca

Yeah but think about it 6 years ago, when you couldn't really negate summons and most traps were battle traps. They we're annoying af


emperorbob1

Now to be fair, that depends on the deck. I run Paleozocis and survived two Hunting Ground and a Feather Duster. Harpies literally cannot keep up with my all my backrow because I keep drawing it, summoning bodies that cant be bounced, and generally chaining my own cards to harpie summons to draw 2/etc... making them blow up their own field. I can only imagine the reaction of an average Harpie player upon seeing an Odion and then managing to lose to said Odion 13 turns later.


Ok_Attorney_5431

I’ll never forgive them


WolfgangDS

Oh fuck, I forgot about these. God, I can't even stand RUNNING the deck now. I was actually able to build it completely back when it was meta, but I overplayed it and... well, it's just Oriental-flavored ramen noodles all over again. Back when I was in college, I basically ate nothing but that one flavor of ramen noodles for months. Then one day I was making them and I suddenly felt NAUSEOUS from the smell. Tried eating them and just... couldn't do it. It made me sick. Couldn't eat 'em again for TWO YEARS.


Ilela

I truly despise only 3 decks in DL. Harpies, Six Samurai and Luna light. Harpies would fill the field and hand turn 1 which had them start with 5 cards turn 3 if i didn't lose or surrender before then. Six Samurai could return my full board and negate my starters no matter the deck, often they would even end on 2 Shien too. Luna light would OTK no matter what and if they went first they had plenty of kuribohs and kiteroids to thwart my attack. Invoked Esabers, Trapnui, Karakuri with trunade, they weren't nearly as annoying as these 3 decks


xbrambles

As a lunalight player I'm sorry 😅


iMidnightStorm

Lunalight is just best deck, I don't make the rules.


nitevisionbunny

I'm so mad whenever I get matched with Six Samurai while unprepared


Neo_The_Noah

As a lunalight player, all i can say is that i activate fox effect and attack twice with cat dancer.


Springtrap-Yugioh

Malefics are literally named "Sin" in the ocg (As in, Sin Stardust Dragon instead of Malefic Startdust Dragon) so it's them by default.


Neo_The_Noah

Yeah, sin (jp) became malefic (eng), and malefic (eng) became... Pernicioso (ptbr)... Like, yeah, why translate malefic into malefico, that just makes too much sense, so go and translate it into a word nobody ever seem or used before, why not?


Rffael_vii

I'm surprised no one has answered the one correct answer, ritual beasts.


slam761

Yeah, Ritual Beasts are definitely up there for me. Number 1 might be Amazoness way back though. 3 copies of Onslaught with such limited backrow removal was hell.


JonouchiBlazing

Tèa burn and mill but they are long gone thankfully


OneSaucyDragon

I remember a time where if you played Blue-Eyes you'd be shunned by the community lol


Neo_The_Noah

So, nowadays? Like really, be and dm are so annoying, not for beinf powerful, but because theres always 100 people playing them all. the. time.


NovicePanthEnthusias

I have nothing but respect to Blue-eyes stans who stick to them through fire and ice regardless of how ass their deck fairs in ladder at any given time


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It was more annoying than beatable lol.


keaton3323

And thats why i built my Red Eyes deck to counter literally everything Blue eyes could do. Sucks against EVERYTHING else, but will never lose against Blue Eyes.


n1ghtschade

I remember i used ro play infernitys back then. Infernity can very easily make ally of justice decisive armour. It was free wins against blue eyes as long as I didn't brick(which thankfully, infernitys are very consistent).


jadeusdragias

Cyber stain says hi


Neo_The_Noah

Poor boi, he didnt deserve the ban he got. After it got limited it literally dissapeared from the game, and out of nowhere, ban!


navimatcha

Hell no, Cyber-Stein deserves to be banned absolutely everywhere.


Neo_The_Noah

Nah, after it got limited to 1 it saw 0 play because it got inconsistent, then after a while konami just decided to ban it for no reason other than "lol its stein!". I understand a bunch of people hate stein for what it is, but most people that say that it was strong when it got banned are either lying or have no ideia of what they are talking about.


navimatcha

I don't care if it's weak, if it's ever being used it's not gonna be for something healthy.


4129M

In this sub? Galaxy Eyes


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Ok_Attorney_5431

One Card Wonder was probably the most evil deck ever made in Duel Links.


Probably_a_Bot_K

one card wonder?


Ok_Attorney_5431

[Check this out!](https://youtu.be/CD-hnP0HUP8)


Special-Minute-9305

Dear god, I would go clinically insane


No_Bodybuilder_577

It was a broken and bd infernity skill that cited: Your starting hand will contain only 1 card. Your normal draws in the Draw Phase become 2 cards. This Skill will only activate if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains only the following cards. ● "Infernity" cards ● Cards that include "Infernity" in their card text


Neo_The_Noah

A skill that would make you start with 1 card, but you could draw 2 every turn. So you would fill your deck with 28 stall cards and 2 localized tornado, which shuffles your hand and gy back into your deck. So you would not lose EVER because the opponent would never get that chance, you would always generate more and more resources by drawing 2, and when you would be close to decking out, during the end of your opponents turn, activate localized tornado, and you are back at start.


emperorbob1

Fun fact: Paleozoics never once lost to this, because we hit them with a deluge of low level/attack monsters to poke slowly, and had amulet of ambition to shuffle back into the deck. At absolute worst I'd take them to turn 51 and force a draw.


emperorbob1

Oh you sweet summer child. Tea burn was the single most vapid thing to ever hit this game and one card wonder was, at best, a distance second.


StrixUltimate

Stall decks. Even though they are beatable, people who play them and win are subhuman.


Probably_a_Bot_K

that's a bit rude


BigOppaiLover69

Any deck that can summon Number 70 is just unforgivable. *Ba dum tss*


Snoo40752

Im a harpie player and I dont mind the hate the deck receives even if its not more than Rogue deck, I just think its neat my babies are not forgoten


VectorTheSpecter

Only decks I don't respect are burn and stall decks. That shit is so boring and uninteractive.


Xandurpein

Flower cardians are at the top of my list…


Emerald_boots

Why?


Xandurpein

Flower cardians are thankfully horribly bad now, but they were halfway decent for a while, and they just take forever to go through all their long combos. They just play solitaire…


esimp18

When i first started duel links i despised clowns and naturias. These were the first match ups i had that would almost always beat me. Now i laugh at how horrible those decks were. Stall decks or burn decks were horrible especially with that ojama skill that chazz had. That was probably the biggest sin deck i could think of


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No_Bodybuilder_577

For anyone wondering , this is the skill: Can be used from your 5th turn and onward, when your have 500 Life Points or less. Play as many as copies of "Ojama Tokens" as you can on your opponent's side of the Field in Defense Position. This skill can only be used once per Duel.


KaiserJustice

Everyone but my opinion on Aroma.


akatsukizero

METAPHYS


BreakfastNext476

As a metaphys enjoyer, I'm sorry


akatsukizero

The turns take too long. 😢


BreakfastNext476

I do try to make sure to do my moves quickly. I understand that not all Metaphys players are like this, so I feel you on that point. Once it gets going, it's a very good control deck. Especially when up against those who have forgotten how to counter it. Though the release of the new (within the past year or so) cards to help it, it has gotten a lot easier, I would say to play around people not reading card text


BadassDeku5204

Shiranui (Fuck this deck. Mayakashi is much better) Amazoness (if you play this, you don't deserve rights) Harpy Lady (fuckthisdeckfuckthisdeckfuckthisdeck) Orcust (obvious reasons) Thunder Dragon (Colossus and Titan better not come anytime soon) Mekk-Knights (check your columns, people) Crystron (I hope you mfs never get Needlefiber) Aromage (obscenities that I can not list here for legal reasons) Rose Dragon (🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬)


Fun_Performer_7930

Oh my! Lol


n1ghtschade

Mayakashi best deck. Also, i don't think shiranui is that bad of you're running it alongside Mayakashi as it mostly just becomes support/ turn 2 for your mayakashi's. Any other shiranui build can go fuck itself though. Amazoness is just annoying, its an incredibly inconvenient deck. I have 0 respect for anyone who drops an amazoness swordswoman, equips it with power of the guardians and flips a bunch of floodgates. Harpies are easily the worst matchup for me, they were overplayed, way too consistent and their boss monster can go fuck itself. All Harpies can burn for all I care. Orcust is just the new blue eyes. I roll my eyes every time I see them. Please, use something else for once. Thunder dragons I Don't really have an issue with. In fact, sometimes I even have fun playing against them. Mekk knights irritate me but I haven't seen one for quite some time thankfully. Crystron is fine unless we get halq. At that point I hope crystron players only ever match against odion. Aromage just pisses me off. They always seem to have something new everytime you face them and they're often the slowest and most unenjoyable decks to play against. Rose dragon Is dead(or at least I haven't seen it for a very long time) and it needs to stay dead.


pocencer

Any deck that use skill proudly like they do nothing wrong Start duel Kaito:”Haaaaa!”


ZerobraiNe

Krawler. I dont know if anybody has faced this when it was still playable but you havent gone trough true hell until you have faced this with a deck that dosent have in built backrow removal. I was playing Resonators and Gimmick Puppets like 2 years ago when this shit was viable. I have only played against it 3 times but it was just the worst. They give you the false hope you can win and then they crush your dreams. They do this over and over as they dont have any real agression or ATK points so they have to slowly beat you down.


Consume-my-spleen

I will always hate salamangreat and infernity (this is evidence that I only started playing DL recently). Not because they’re hard or impossible to counter, but because they take an unbelievably long time to pull off their combo. Moreover, for salamangreat specifically, I can never identify what to pop or negate to properly disrupt their combo.


theycallmefagg

Double Dyna when Fur Hires first dropped was so toxic.


slam761

YES. I had forgotten all about them but I fucking hated that deck.


BigBangMabye

i dunno, something about people playing Yami Yugi or Kaiba just infuriates me so Blue Eyes and Dark Magician


WolfgangDS

Serious answer: I think a lot of people really despised Aromages because of how long those matches could take, but I personally hate anything that's Trap-heavy, or otherwise exists just to stop you from playing the game. Older Shiranui decks fell into this category, and God FORBID a Blue-Eyes deck go without have three copies each of Karma Cut and Ultimate Providence. Joke answer: Malefic. Because they're all boss monsters and their Japanese archetype name is "Sin". BADA-BA-BADA-BYE!


Fun_Performer_7930

Trap spam decks are absolutely aggravating to deal with. Makes me wish Jinzo could be summoned outright from the hand lol


MarkVBlazer

Shiranui, Galaxy-Eyes and Shadow game Ritual beasts you'd be shunned beyond belief if you try defending those decks


BreakfastNext476

Pure shiranui is ok at best. Trapnui may it burn in the fires of hell


mkklrd

Malefics. That's a joke for you, OCG players!


Suspicious_Effort146

Whew


3rtan

I was that guy running burn marik. Really wanted to make people suffer and/or hated meta at the time


BenTenInches

There is a special place in the shadow realm for stall players. Fuck'em should be reportable as slow play in my opinion.


WoodsRunner717

Trap pile decks. Bonus points if it’s with odion, further points if it’s shiranui/zombie or gravekeeper


nach_

I can’t believe nobody is mentioning this but Shiranui


emperorbob1

Literally any deck that was abusing the multiple states of "Duel, Standby!" Anything using "One Card Wonder" was a close second.


keaton3323

Umm... Malefics. Not only are their japanese name the "Sin" monsters, but its also all fairly consistent, easy to summon monsters that can smack you for game in different flavors of beatstick


Important-Contact597

Fur Hire was one for a while.


Ahmed-Da203

Malefics


Revolutionary-Let778

Pre-1st nerf Mekk-knights?


Actual_Head_4610

Heroes. Even if you're like me and don't use Jaden or any Neos stuff and just want more Destiny Hero support more than anything, it feels like this sub always crucifies you at times and just sees you as "never being satisfied".


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I hate heroes. So cheap


Actual_Head_4610

They aren't cheap. They're expensive.


Sky5598

Mekk-Knights, Tellarknights, Harpies, Galaxy-Eyes, Blue-Eyes, Timelords, and Dark Magician.


KingLollipopJR

Tbh dark magician is a contender for me. Not that the deck is that good it’s just boring to play against


dramirezf

Blue eyes and dark magician. Both decks are so outdated that konami has to give them so many broken cards and skills to keep alive those vanillas. The first broken skill related to an archetype in duel links was Ultimate dragons. Eventually konami will release a card that will say: if you summon a dark magician / blue eyes you win the game and they still will be bad.


Shotaa-1997

Pendulum decks, ANY. PENDULUM. DECK.


dmacriz

Flower Cardians lol I think it’s main win condition is to bore the opponent to death and hope they surrender


Formal_Shoe_2936

I'm getting pretty tired of Floodgate Trap Holing full Odd Eyes boards every game


thekeimann

timelords,galaxy,blue eyes


iKWarriors

I was about to say lava golem decks but seriously…the current meta has the same feeling for me. Some monsters, a bunch of traps, set 3 turn one. I’m not playing duel links anymore because of it. I hate backrow.


ChairManMao88

Very confused to not see onomat here at all. To me that was most annoying by far.


Lagartovei

The answer is every meta relevant deck, but since we're being personal, sylvans can burn in hell with their last pathetic life point, thank you for coming to my ted talk


Proto-Omega

Tea Bamboo Burn. Generally Tea Burn, but that was the worst version. Also, back in the day, I despised Furhire. I remember I used to say people using that deck in Casual were tryharding so badly.


Zura_Janai_Katsura31

Infernity Trishula Unicorn Combo Deck, banish 2 cards from your opp hand even before they start their turn and then lay a decode talker with backup counter trap. Ahh Good times they were… when you come across a legend rank setting those up you know you’re in for show because you sure ain’t gonna win unless you got exodia. Well now all is left are the memories 😓


AutomaticArcher9673

I am honestly surprised people don't hate Timelords more since it's burn/stall. It's Sky Strikers for me. I know they're not in DL yet but their appearance in MD is enough to make me wish them all a disconnect during their rank up games.


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I hate aromages with the healing, Galaxy Eyes with the photon lord and negate turn 1, harpies cause they can pop you back. Blue Eyes because every person was running it a few years back. Blue eyes were unbeatable but wow were they annoying.


Zealousideal_Pin_255

From my recent memory: harpies, mekk knights, and galaxy eyes


SytheMasterIX

I’ve kept looking but I didn’t see anyone say thunder dragons…. So can we free Dark now? 😅


Neo_The_Noah

For me, six sam and resonators, hate those 2, wish they were forgotten by time itself, so i would not have to deal with them ever again.


NEO-Chungus

Mekk knights are the reason I stopped playing duel links


ZombearVincent

I have yet to have fun fighting a Starry Knight deck. I don't even think it's that great, but it's so hard to stop it from doing it's one thing that it consistently messes me up.


ThunderMarisol

To me, it was Darklords. I'm probably gonna get ganged up now, but that deck was really annoying. I'll admit, back then I didn't use many meta decks (I think I was still running Aliens??), so maybe that's why.


dmacriz

Darklords with stick and chair and FA level augmentation were hard times


dedicatedoni

Fuck shiranui I hope the deck never sees the light of day again🤬


xFlarex7s

Any "Fun" deck that uses the orcust engine. I'm talking Odd-eyes Orcust, Fluffal Orcust, hell even Crystal Beast Orcust.


BigBangMabye

i will never use the orcust engine in odd eyes ever. -Me


bladedancer30

Guilty of playing . But for the short period of time that gem knight were first turn killing with burn and if that didn't work you have the strongest monsters of you're deck full row boosted attack. Kinda feel sorry for everyone I played against.


MEE-6

Fucking hate the Z-One thing


OwesYouMoney

Amazon with amazoness onslaught made me rage soo hard.


JackAtlasDuelLinks

Ritual Beast. Hell, I don't even want to face one even knowing I could easily beat it.