A Saturday post? Quite rare indeed. Also rare was the chance to play either Pokemon or Vanguard at locals today because nobody plays Yu-Gi-Oh! at Comic Readers anymore.
I opted to play Vanguard over Pokemon despite this being the last possible weekend that I could play Zekrom/Eels at a tournament and roflstomp everyone because everyone at Pokemon Locals except for the organizer is over the age of 13 and don't play the game seriously.
It's totally not awkward at all.
...yeah. So Vanguard locals it is! Turns out we got to choose the format and it ended up being Tag Fights. I partnered up with Megamonkey who was playing his DOTE Deck much to the chagrin of many in the room. We called ourselves Team Fire Storm which is badass and all but now that I've had some time to think on it I have a better name;
Team BLOODY END.
With the two most try hard peopl-*remembers that this is a Vanguard Locals* okay nevermind. There's at least 3 people who are more try hard than us. Still with two SKILLED people teaming up this thing should be a snap, right?
Oh how little you know.
Round 1 - BLOODY END vs I don't even fucking know (Loss)
I open awful with no Grade 1s for a turn which is far too long in this game. I also draw all 3 of my Heal Triggers so was up to Monkey to keep us alive while I tried to recover.
But then the opponents got 2 Critical Triggers when we were sitting at 6 damage and it was over.
Round 2 - BLOODY END vs DOTE/Bermuda Triangle (Win)
This one was much, much better as I opened strongly and the Bermuda Triangle player was an idiot or something according to the opposing DOTE player. Anyway I'm able to hit the Crossride and BLOOD's 13k causes him to burn more resources than he wanted to on defense. I also resolve an Ultimate Break to set things up for Monkey's end game push.
Round 3 - BLOODY END vs Kagero/Triangle (Win)
These two were in over their heads, basically. We pretty much dominated them from the start and between DOTE and BLOOD they just couldn't keep up.
Round 4 - Narukami vs DOTE (Win)
Our team had no opponents, so we ended up "playing" each other. Instead we pissed around and read "YGO Players you would Fuck" and other riveting topics from DuelistGroundz. Oh and we played a War Duel.
Round 5 - BLOODy END vs Bermuda/Zeal (Loss)
I have no idea what the hell happened here. We both played well and made correct moves. They just...blargh. I never saw a Perfect Guard and I'm certain Monkey only saw 1. The Zeal Player was able to sack into a Megablast that put Monkey's DOTE at 7000 and neither of us didn't have enough defense to stop it. Did we hit a Heal Trigger? Oh no. Certainly not! After all we don't sack. We beat our opponents with skill.
By the way. Just because you managed to beat someone with a card that is widely considered bad by many players that doesn't mean the card is good. It's still bad.
After that we were eliminated from top cut. Being the Captain (I guess) I was entered into another tourney without really knowing. It was to win a BLOOD mat.
Round 1 - Bye
Yeah I got to play no one.
Round 2 - vs DOTE
The DOTE guy from an earlier round. He hits me with a double Crit. I try to do the same but sadly I don't get the double crit and my YOLO drive fails. I storm back and beat him down.
Finals - vs Sacky McLucksack (Loss)
The Zeal guy from Round 5. I had every intention of paying him back in full for what happened before and frankly this almost seemed like it was right out of the anime. A ferocious start that puts him on the ropes with a Cross ridden Vermillion "The BLOOD" with 2 Intercepts staring him down. Unfortunately I'm not drawing near as well as I could (my Drive checks were either 5k) and he pulling triggers up the ass. Would it have been too much trouble for me to get a Perfect Guard? Ugh, I had him beat at least THREE times if it wasn't for Heal Triggers. Worse yet he's also "that guy" who runs Stand Triggers in decks that aren't Aqua Force or Nova Grapplers and after he Zeal's my BLOOD down to 8k and attacks with his RGs what does he do? Rips 2 Triggers off the top, one of them being a Stand. I of course don't get a Heal off of my damage check and victory is stolen from me.
I flat out called him a fucking sack and this opinion has not changed. I had that game won. I kicked his ass from the start, played damn near flawless and he gets rewarded with some of the most bullshit lucky breaks I've seen in a long time. I don't fucking care if this makes me sound like a pretentious asshole. I don't care if "its part of Vanguard, man."
That was complete and utter horseshit. I swear to Triple H that I'd better get some kind of karma reward down the line and start 4x critting people with Dragonic Descendant in the winter.
Props
-Tag Fights! These are mad fun when you can choose your own partner. There's at least 5 people I'd enjoy Tag Dueling with.
-Picking up a playset of Eradicator, Spark Horn Dragon. First of the new Archetypes in the game!
Slops
-Getting super sacked. Two games were outright STOLEN from double triggers at the worst possible time.
-Buying a box of Judgment of the Light and pulling A-S-S. You're guaranteed a Secret and an Ultra in the box, right? Nah I ended up being the poor sap who bought THAT ONE bad box in a case. Yeah I'm done buying YGO boosters again.
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Monday, 5 August 2013
Lolcals Report - Zero Fucks Given
Well this was an interesting day. Judgment of the Light's Sneak Peek was yesterday and to be blunt everyone pulled S-H-I-T. Nowhere near as well as Saturday's Sneeks apparently.
Whatever, I got mostly what I needed? Picked up some Shwarzchild Limit Dragons which is a card that's flown under the rader imo. Its basically a free 2000 Beatstick at Level 8 if the opponent has a monster with 2000 attack or more which honestly what deck DOESN'T pump out monsters like that? I see tremendous potential with this thing. I just don't know how to use it at the moment outside of "stick it in Blue-Eyes."
Then I participated in my first Locals since the end of June! My deck of choice? Constellars.
Round 1 - vs Fire Fist (2-1)
Game 1 - Tengu set four with my only form of backrow removal in hand a Heavy Storm? Yeah I wasn't going to get much done here. This was made clear when I had no choice but to Heavy or lose and saw the Starlight Road and lose regardless.
Like it was basically summon a monster? Bottomless/Compulse/Warning. My hand was all monsters too.
Game 2 - Much like the first one except I open with backrow too! It took ALOT of tries but I finally got monsters on the board! I also got to make Omega and I rode it to victory.
Game 3 - I summon a monster and it dies or gets bounced. I use backrow on a monster and it gets Lanced or something. It got down to use topdecking and he topdecks a Tenki into Bear and I do the same, except my Tenki into Bear was enough to win.
Round 2 - vs Wind-Up Zexal Weapon (2-0)
Game 1 - He's got Summoner Monk into Magician/Shark but I've got the Veiler for anything threatening and just sit on Thunder King.
Game 2 - I don't remember much on this one either. I just beat him down with Constellar plays.
Round 3 - vs Prophecy (2-0)
Game 1 - I won the dieroll and that's the only reason I didn't get blown out here as I had the all mighty, super powerful and once format definining play of turn 1 Thunder King Rai-Oh. Priestessless Prophecy I think might actually have some difficulty against him since you need a fuckton of spell counters on Star Hall or Power to get over him. He didn't have those so I beat him down.
Game 2 - I had EEV.
Top 4 - vs Fire Fist (0-2)
Game 1 and 2. Backrow. Backrow for days. Days. I couldn't do jack shit. Between Fire Formation Gyokku, Bear/Gorilla picking off my field (he managed to pin down the exact cards that he needed to hit out of my backrow, it was disappointing) and Solemn Judgment I scooped it up and I had to take a breather AGAIN out of frustration. At the time I thought I was pissy because of the way things were. Nah. I just hate being 2-0'd without getting a fighting chance. That's something that will always upset me to the point of being unable to think straight or talk to people.
Then I traded for Tour Bus and German Super Rare Debris Dragon and all was kay. Playset of German Super Debris now. GET ON MY LEVEL.
Then we went to Robins and I played some games of Yu-Gi-Oh! against Megamonkey's Zero Fucks Given - Synchro with my Zero Fucks Given - Gishki deck. I'll just leave these here;
PROPS
-Getting that 2nd Debris.
-...LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES.
SLOPS
-Sloppy play all around. I made several moves I wish I didn't in the Fire Fist games.
-Pulling GOD AWFUL at the Sneak. Yeah I pulled Armades but I did not come close to making back the money I dropped.
Whatever, I got mostly what I needed? Picked up some Shwarzchild Limit Dragons which is a card that's flown under the rader imo. Its basically a free 2000 Beatstick at Level 8 if the opponent has a monster with 2000 attack or more which honestly what deck DOESN'T pump out monsters like that? I see tremendous potential with this thing. I just don't know how to use it at the moment outside of "stick it in Blue-Eyes."
Then I participated in my first Locals since the end of June! My deck of choice? Constellars.
Round 1 - vs Fire Fist (2-1)
Game 1 - Tengu set four with my only form of backrow removal in hand a Heavy Storm? Yeah I wasn't going to get much done here. This was made clear when I had no choice but to Heavy or lose and saw the Starlight Road and lose regardless.
Like it was basically summon a monster? Bottomless/Compulse/Warning. My hand was all monsters too.
Game 2 - Much like the first one except I open with backrow too! It took ALOT of tries but I finally got monsters on the board! I also got to make Omega and I rode it to victory.
Game 3 - I summon a monster and it dies or gets bounced. I use backrow on a monster and it gets Lanced or something. It got down to use topdecking and he topdecks a Tenki into Bear and I do the same, except my Tenki into Bear was enough to win.
Round 2 - vs Wind-Up Zexal Weapon (2-0)
Game 1 - He's got Summoner Monk into Magician/Shark but I've got the Veiler for anything threatening and just sit on Thunder King.
Game 2 - I don't remember much on this one either. I just beat him down with Constellar plays.
Round 3 - vs Prophecy (2-0)
Game 1 - I won the dieroll and that's the only reason I didn't get blown out here as I had the all mighty, super powerful and once format definining play of turn 1 Thunder King Rai-Oh. Priestessless Prophecy I think might actually have some difficulty against him since you need a fuckton of spell counters on Star Hall or Power to get over him. He didn't have those so I beat him down.
Game 2 - I had EEV.
Top 4 - vs Fire Fist (0-2)
Game 1 and 2. Backrow. Backrow for days. Days. I couldn't do jack shit. Between Fire Formation Gyokku, Bear/Gorilla picking off my field (he managed to pin down the exact cards that he needed to hit out of my backrow, it was disappointing) and Solemn Judgment I scooped it up and I had to take a breather AGAIN out of frustration. At the time I thought I was pissy because of the way things were. Nah. I just hate being 2-0'd without getting a fighting chance. That's something that will always upset me to the point of being unable to think straight or talk to people.
Then I traded for Tour Bus and German Super Rare Debris Dragon and all was kay. Playset of German Super Debris now. GET ON MY LEVEL.
Then we went to Robins and I played some games of Yu-Gi-Oh! against Megamonkey's Zero Fucks Given - Synchro with my Zero Fucks Given - Gishki deck. I'll just leave these here;
That's over 15000 damage on board.
Monkey throwing poop at me (get it!? LOLOL!). Haven't even taken my turn. Thank god for Maxx "C".
My hand upon finally getting my turn.
Much to my sadness this was all I could do.
PROPS
-Getting that 2nd Debris.
-...LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES.
SLOPS
-Sloppy play all around. I made several moves I wish I didn't in the Fire Fist games.
-Pulling GOD AWFUL at the Sneak. Yeah I pulled Armades but I did not come close to making back the money I dropped.
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Locals Report - You Won't Be Able to Get Up Anymore!
It's been pretty dead on here, eh? That's what happens when you don't Yu-Gi-Oh! for a while I guess.
Oh well I can write down some stuff regarding Vanguard and Pokemon. So lets do it!
Pokemon
I didn't play this as much as I thought I would. Only made it to 2 Locals and at those I played Zekrom/Eels and dominated Team Plasma. Highlight of the whole experience? Getting Zekrom EX to annihilate a Lugia-EX with Strong Volt for 300 damage. Good deck is good. Too bad it dies next month.
Vanguard
Pretty much summed up as;
Oh well I can write down some stuff regarding Vanguard and Pokemon. So lets do it!
Pokemon
I didn't play this as much as I thought I would. Only made it to 2 Locals and at those I played Zekrom/Eels and dominated Team Plasma. Highlight of the whole experience? Getting Zekrom EX to annihilate a Lugia-EX with Strong Volt for 300 damage. Good deck is good. Too bad it dies next month.
Vanguard
Pretty much summed up as;
Vermillion Catastrophe!
Thanks to friends (mainly Megamonkey) I was able to pick up a playset of Vermillion The Blood, Spark Edge Draco Kid and Dusty Plasma Dragon which was all I needed to complete my only good deck in the game; Narukami.
I'll spare you all the gushing over having a finished deck and just say The Blood puts in a TON of work. 13000 on offense/defense is an incredible asset and it forces the opponent to play around it. Oh and I also have a 10k Booster so I'm swinging for 23000. I've played and defeated;
-Dungaree Narukami
-Narukami the Blood
-Great Nature
-Aqua Force
-Murakumo
-Oracle Think Tank
-Pale Moon
-Dark Irregulars
-Dimension Police
-Mega Colony
-DOTE Kagero
It really is the little changes that help. Having Blood and Plasma gives the deck a ton of offensive power. The fact that I can go toe to toe with DOTE is really impressive. In the hands of a skilled player Narukami could honestly do serious damage in the format. Easily Tier 1.5.
Oh and I also participated in the Dazzling Divas Sneak, pulled an SP, the Break Ride and got 2nd Place earning me a mat that is well...
...yeah.
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