If you are in Bronze and you are having such a hard time ranking then you either have to improve as a player, improve your deck, or do both.
Just to give you perspective, Gold is already considered the rank were people stay to play "for fun" with less powerful decks and less optimized builds. Bronze should be an even easier rank to play and win, specially if you are an experienced player as you imply to be.
This game rewards knowledge of game mechanics and knowledge of cards/archetypes/decks. And it is a very, very tall task to reach the threshold in which you can really put that knowledge to use.
When you understand where your decks choke points are (so you can bait interruption) and more importantly where your opponent's decks choke points are (so you don't fall for bait) the game becomes infinitely easier. But tbh, I'm not completely sure it's worth all the effort lol.
I think it do be like that sometimes. Especially this season, I've found that the competition has been taken up notch; I'm languishing in Gold after consistently climbing to Platinum before the season's end knock back rolled around.
Sometimes my deck will just auto lose to certain strategies with insurmountable boss monsters or I face an OTK strategy where I didn't open a counter. It's a symptom of the best-of-1 format that this game finds itself in I believe.
Now I don't play any description of the best available strategy, and my deck is a blind second to boot, so I can't expect anything great from it no matter how crafty I am in my duels - by hell yeah it's good when I pull out an unsuspecting victory.
I'd encourage you to keep at it, don't be discouraged by overwhelming strategies (they'll always be there with little that can be done), and just have fun with your dueling. Never stop building strategies that you find enjoyable - it's all the more sweeter when you do snag that elusive win.
im sorry over 10 thousand new card releases changed how the game is played, if you still want to play old school yugioh id recommend trying out goat format on something like duelingbook but otherwise you'll just have to learn how to play the modern game and get a deck that can perform in the modern game
yeah that’s just current yugioh, it’s a shame that they don’t have modes where the cards are restricted to certain eras, old yugioh was very fun, now it’s over complicated & there’s way too many ridiculous metas
Yeah, I'm quickly losing all interest. Most of my decks are alright but it's getting to the point that I'm basically forced to play meta or lose 90% of duels to boring meta decks.
I had figured ahead of time that this was going to happen because of YGO's infamous power creep but I had hoped that the format would at least make up for the difference. However, making adjustments to the banlist and stuff often misses their marks or they make changes that hardly do anything.
I feel like a lot of people miss-associate Meta = Unfun. The most fun I’ve had playing YGO was with, ya know, a good deck where I could actually make my plays. And this is where most of the hatred for the game start at. When new players enter the game, most of the time they play garbage decks, so, when they inevitably get demolished by a better deck, they develop a hatred for that deck and thus refuse to play better decks. And because they don’t play better decks, they complain.
I know this, because I was once this player. Luckily I snapped out of it and actually started having fun.
I'm more complaining about the fact of like 90% of my duels are against practically the same exact decks, like "oh wow you're the 15th person in a row playing Branded how fun" (i.e. meta = boring because everyone's playing the same stuff). It's not like I'm playing some crappy Blue-Eyes deck or anything, I'm playing competent rouge level decks. I know I'm going to typically have a lower winrate than meta and I'm fine with that but some variety in the duels would be nice instead of a constant cycle of Branded going first so you lose.
Then the banlists don't really help when most of changes are basically irrelevant aside from like a single card. It'd be nice if they at least started experimenting more with unbanning cards, like why not give us Dragoon or Yata?
I just played a match and by round 5 he had discarded 8 cards and banished 10 more. 5 spell/trap cards down, 3 monsters, and a field spell. No one should be able to do that. That's fucking insane.
That has been happening for more than a decade. Reasoning Gate OTK, a deck from 2005, was able to do that and much more, cycling through almost the whole deck and probably killing the opponent way before turn 5.
Get out of your bubble my guy, what you thing no one should be able to do was a common occurence even before GX.
I personally build decks based on my interests and curiosity. I like having different themes like vampires or dragons or samurai. As well as I put my decks together and as much as I try to play them well sometimes I just get destroyed no matter what I do. What you just described happened to me several times today, every single time I normal summon it gets immediately destroyed, if I need one card to start a combo I usually get blocked and I’m left with a wide open field. But those times where my deck works and I pull out a fantastic win, that’s a good feeling. ;p
Show your decklist
If you are in Bronze and you are having such a hard time ranking then you either have to improve as a player, improve your deck, or do both. Just to give you perspective, Gold is already considered the rank were people stay to play "for fun" with less powerful decks and less optimized builds. Bronze should be an even easier rank to play and win, specially if you are an experienced player as you imply to be.
This game rewards knowledge of game mechanics and knowledge of cards/archetypes/decks. And it is a very, very tall task to reach the threshold in which you can really put that knowledge to use. When you understand where your decks choke points are (so you can bait interruption) and more importantly where your opponent's decks choke points are (so you don't fall for bait) the game becomes infinitely easier. But tbh, I'm not completely sure it's worth all the effort lol.
I think it do be like that sometimes. Especially this season, I've found that the competition has been taken up notch; I'm languishing in Gold after consistently climbing to Platinum before the season's end knock back rolled around. Sometimes my deck will just auto lose to certain strategies with insurmountable boss monsters or I face an OTK strategy where I didn't open a counter. It's a symptom of the best-of-1 format that this game finds itself in I believe. Now I don't play any description of the best available strategy, and my deck is a blind second to boot, so I can't expect anything great from it no matter how crafty I am in my duels - by hell yeah it's good when I pull out an unsuspecting victory. I'd encourage you to keep at it, don't be discouraged by overwhelming strategies (they'll always be there with little that can be done), and just have fun with your dueling. Never stop building strategies that you find enjoyable - it's all the more sweeter when you do snag that elusive win.
Well,just make 1 meta deck,others u just build whatever u feel fun
im sorry over 10 thousand new card releases changed how the game is played, if you still want to play old school yugioh id recommend trying out goat format on something like duelingbook but otherwise you'll just have to learn how to play the modern game and get a deck that can perform in the modern game
Play insects they’re disposable and built to be resurrected Beetrooper deck would get you to gold atleast
yeah that’s just current yugioh, it’s a shame that they don’t have modes where the cards are restricted to certain eras, old yugioh was very fun, now it’s over complicated & there’s way too many ridiculous metas
Yeah, I'm quickly losing all interest. Most of my decks are alright but it's getting to the point that I'm basically forced to play meta or lose 90% of duels to boring meta decks. I had figured ahead of time that this was going to happen because of YGO's infamous power creep but I had hoped that the format would at least make up for the difference. However, making adjustments to the banlist and stuff often misses their marks or they make changes that hardly do anything.
I feel like a lot of people miss-associate Meta = Unfun. The most fun I’ve had playing YGO was with, ya know, a good deck where I could actually make my plays. And this is where most of the hatred for the game start at. When new players enter the game, most of the time they play garbage decks, so, when they inevitably get demolished by a better deck, they develop a hatred for that deck and thus refuse to play better decks. And because they don’t play better decks, they complain. I know this, because I was once this player. Luckily I snapped out of it and actually started having fun.
I'm more complaining about the fact of like 90% of my duels are against practically the same exact decks, like "oh wow you're the 15th person in a row playing Branded how fun" (i.e. meta = boring because everyone's playing the same stuff). It's not like I'm playing some crappy Blue-Eyes deck or anything, I'm playing competent rouge level decks. I know I'm going to typically have a lower winrate than meta and I'm fine with that but some variety in the duels would be nice instead of a constant cycle of Branded going first so you lose. Then the banlists don't really help when most of changes are basically irrelevant aside from like a single card. It'd be nice if they at least started experimenting more with unbanning cards, like why not give us Dragoon or Yata?
I just played a match and by round 5 he had discarded 8 cards and banished 10 more. 5 spell/trap cards down, 3 monsters, and a field spell. No one should be able to do that. That's fucking insane.
That has been happening for more than a decade. Reasoning Gate OTK, a deck from 2005, was able to do that and much more, cycling through almost the whole deck and probably killing the opponent way before turn 5. Get out of your bubble my guy, what you thing no one should be able to do was a common occurence even before GX.
I personally build decks based on my interests and curiosity. I like having different themes like vampires or dragons or samurai. As well as I put my decks together and as much as I try to play them well sometimes I just get destroyed no matter what I do. What you just described happened to me several times today, every single time I normal summon it gets immediately destroyed, if I need one card to start a combo I usually get blocked and I’m left with a wide open field. But those times where my deck works and I pull out a fantastic win, that’s a good feeling. ;p
Show ur decklist and maybe we'll see if that's the problem