My Advice for New Players
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0:00 How much do I practice?
4:55 Can Master Duel make you better in TCG?
12:22 Advice for New Players
Just try not to burn yourself, it's a blessing and a curse to be constantly playing
I play Gold Pride 😢
I'm playing earth machine link and can get borrelend out pretty easily
@@masterchiefblank4885send me a decklist. I play earth machine, a pretty common version, and in hard pressed to believe you get borrel easily.
Don't forget, enjoying this game makes you better at it. It's less stress if you play with a style you like, which leads to less distractions while analyzing the current board and matchup. And you won't know for sure what clicks and how to make it better unless you keep testing and testing. So yeah, time matters A TON, not just for learning, but also for exploring and finding personal preferences to begin with.
Making friends who also play is an underrated part of improving
yeah I have a few but most of them dont play online on EDO-Pro and spend so much time but it sure helps staying in contact with it, but we all have in common we dont wanna go any near from competetiv, actually I build my decks either because I like the card design or the archtetype playstayle or to annoy toxic players who although playing like most competetiv deck ever happen to jump on casual server just to feel like a god winning in yugioh and dont actually care about the game as long as they are not winning.
Its actually sad that this game which should be fun can be destroyed by the pure " you won" or "you lost" at the end. When I play against friends I try my best but I never cry why I lost the game, its part of the fun, you win some you lose some. Thats simply life.
I think most advices are pretty good from Joschua but I feel like one is missing, the keep the frustration at low I would focus on simulator yugioh online games first and starting with not the strongest players out there to flatten the learning curve.
I think it's so important to remember that ygo is basically a kind of social game, and it really benefits you to have your own friend group when playing it. Even moreso, I think games like ygo assume you already have one, and are jumping into the game with them. That said, I do think we're in a particular age now where online gaming is the norm, and I can see a lot of new or old returning players struggling by jumping into something like MD alone.
“I wasn’t super motivated for bologna” says the guy who then proceeded to win the event Joshua is just on another level what a legend
imo, MD does help in TCG. personally it has improved my technical play since MD forces you to play properly and each mistake you make is a thing that impacts your outcomes; thus allowing you to reflect and improve. There is no accepted gamestate after misreading or misusing a card. The game always keeps you playing cards properly and learning from the times you did not
100% agree
I feel this in reverse, like I’m able to learn from MD and playing irl is where I put my knowledge to the test since you have to remember effects and how cards interact with other cards. It’s easy to forget certain things that could switch advantage to your opponent.
But...But...But...Maxx C tho!
Indeed, my entire YGO experience is from MD and yugitubers. And with that I took it to my first local tournament and somehow got first place undefeated. I must say that I made quite a few mistakes since many of the branded despia effects activates on the graveyard under certain conditions.
Mainly, mirrorjade resolution effect at the end of the turn since MD does it automatically for you. It happens the same with many of the branded fusions in the GY, remembering every single one of them while trying to formulate a solution as your opponent activates their effects/handtraps.
@@siopaoguy maxx c is just one problem. You can say the same with it being best of 1. However, the things you learn in an individual game is still there. Maxx C doesnt appear in each game despite most players running a playset, there will be games where both players never draw it
This is great advice, thank you so much for posting this!
I see so many new players not just in YGO, but in other competitive games asking how to get better and expecting a simple anwser like "just play the best deck" or "just do what the pros do"
And it's never that simple. If anything the simplest anwser is as you said; Practice, practice, practice.
Nothing will help you to improve more than just sheer raw experience and time with the game.
But you dont need to be a sweaty try hard to get that kind of time and experience with the game. If you truly enjoy what you play and have fun with it, the experience, learning, and understanding will come naturally.
"If you truly enjoy what you play and have fun with it, the experience, learning, and understanding will come naturally " beautiful said
I've played for almost two years pretty consistently on master duel, and I've gotten a few impressions from yugioh in that time.
Few games can be randomly so soul crushingly frustrating. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to learn decks when you can just draw bad hands or have the opponent draw the out 9/10 duels one day, then the next you go on win streak after streak, then the next you lose more than you win, without ever changing how you play. This is truly a game where skilled play includes identifying when you just lose because RNGesus says you do.
Atop that, learning yugioh is ridiculously complicated. Between learning your own decks which can be a few hour affair to being so convoluted that you can learn new plays weeks into playing it, all while also needing to learn all the different matchups and identifying choke points for the dozens of decks going around. It's a bit much to try and grasp.
Some say nobody gets into yugioh without a friend to get them into it. I'm proof that's not entirely true, but man do I wish I had.
As someone who took a 14 year break from 2009 to 2023, the best way is just to take it one step at a time. I started going to the locals and got a deck, Despia Branded, because it looked cool. It was a big hard for me so I switched to Traptrix and I stuck to it. I have gone 0-4 or 1-3 so much but I've learned the other decks by going to locals. I just switched to Salamangreat because I wanted to try something new but by the end of my Traptrix run I was able to give players a challenge because I knew what to hit. Don't take the loses personal. It sucks but it's part of the game.
From what I have seen, one of the most important things that makes people get better at the game is to play many different decks, and not just focus on the same one for months or even years. Of course this can be hard in the paper game since a lot of the top decks can be extremely expensive, but at least simulators exist.
I think you're wrong. Knowing how to play different decks is good, but also use that knowledge to focus on piloting your own deck is better imo. Josh has been playing Runick for years, that's why he played so optimally.
From my perspective, I have been playing Tear since its released and also I'm still learning about new decks. I think I have much successful than people who play new decks in my local.
@@bdc129 do you even watch the streams?Josh plays a lot of decks, of course Runick is one of his favorites but my point is that being a one-trick pony is probably not the best way to grow and learn the game specially if you are new.
@@Ragnarok540 Every competitive players know how to play many decks, but when they prepare they only focus on 1-2 decks to practice, not all of them. Learning a variety of decks is good, but if you don't focus on any deck, you won't have any result.
I think you should know how to play every Deck in a Format, just to know their combos and when to use interactions.
But in Prep u then break it down to what feels good to play into a format and focus on that specific archetype.
If its for example Runick every single time its fine as long as u considered the other options.
Awesome content, keep up the great work 🤙🏼
Reflecting about your failure helps a lot to improve yourself i had a duel where my opponent got a full board with 5 interruptions and it took me sometime but i cracked his board just by thinking what interrutions could hit me first and which i can force or bait.
Don't let FOMO be your guide when choosing a deck or spending money in general. Go with something you know you are going to enjoy so even a bad day can still be fun. A hobby can just be a hobby and this is not worth going into personal debt.
Feels like we should always be putting an emphasis on the players and pilots over the cards, even if power creep just makes certain decks not viable, the competitive meta is down to the players
for me, i personally like control decks and strategies and basically, i spend more time in learning other decks in the meta so i would know the ins and outs and what do i negate or disrupt. so yeah i agree, being up to date is a crucial aspect in this game
same control decks are sadly in bad reputation since they work with floodgates well and everybody hates them because combo players.. the only deck I own in person is actually all about negating the right cards the enemy plays (its not a competetiv deck)
what control deck do you main?
@@RichiSpilleso You're absolutely right. The line between control and stun can be blurry, and some control decks get lumped together with pure stall tactics because they utilize floodgates. It's frustrating when people assume all control decks are just "no fun allowed" zones, especially when your focus is on strategic negation, not just shutting down the opponent entirely. I totally get enjoying the art of disrupting plays at the right moment without resorting to pure lockdown.
personally, i like stuff like, labrynth, non stun runick stuff, also like some fun midrange decks like vanquish soul
People please understand that its not how long you test, you can spend 10 hours testing by just throwing yourself at games, but if you arent actively learning then they may as well be empty calories, 2 hours of intesive learning from testing and learning about the meta will beat just playing randoms for 10 hours just doing standard combo
9:10 is so true. I was playing Mathmech, I had two cards that could give me an great endboard, I went straight for Alembertian and got ashed, I had nothing after that, If I played around the ash by going for Splash Mage first, I would least end on Firewall DD - NTM.
Find whatever deck people are complaining about the most and get really good at playing that deck.
Itd be pretty cool if Konami USA formatted the cards like the OCG. Navigating through a paragraph with size 3 font and trying to squint to find commas, periods, semi colons, colons is absurd. When they can simply mark effects with (1) (2) (3). Its easier to comprehend "you can only use the effects of (1) and (3) once per turn. Ive got more experience in MTG and fell off and started to play more YGO cuz of the homies, and holy hell this game would be more enjoyable if they made just that one change.
Location is pretty huge, playing online is just not the same as playing irl
One of my locals juatbditched yugioh for one piece, 20 players, I was gutted, now I gotta drive way further to play locals with like 7 people that go and there may be like 2 meta players. I love the game but have small opportunity to play irl, I do work full time and can't drive all over the count4y to duel, ycs Sydney coming up and I'll be flying from Brisbane to Sydney for it but don't have the best chances to practice irl
How to get better at the game.
play play play. spot the misplays, dont get tilted by them.
i sadly dont have that much time since 2017 so i look into tournament reports, watch streams or a part of it and my exp. helps me alot to get good results atleast on a Regional lv. ycs dortmund i did go 8:1 but i got sick before day 2 so yeah. it happens but it was nice to see that my deck building and playstyle paied off.
Also to get better at the game, try to find people that are better at your locals and learn from them and with Them. playing against better players as testing helps.
Can relate. Not to competing in real life, but just playing MD, it’s easy to get burned out. I’m playing meta comp 20% if that. And the rest I’m playing with friends or playing around in casual with fun stuff. If I didn’t I’d lose my mind
real
i think its also important to not get too lost in the weeds testing too far out from specific events
true smoking weed always make me forget my trigger effects
I have no idea what deck to play
Imo it's not about how much you practice, it's about how much you learn from those practice. If I have to take an example from Fighting Games, dudes can lab a combo for 10 days straight and still doing nothing. Give another guy that wants to learn fundamental for 10 days straight, pit both those guys up, and the one that learn more will be better at the game
7:39 Thankfully my spreadsheet doesn’t have that weakness 😌
Just like any fighting game, the combos are supposed to be the easiest part of the game. Learning your opponent, and playing around what they're doing and capitalizing on their mistakes.
I only play Master Duel because *everything is automated* , unlike the likes of duelingbook where I’m just as irrecoverably lost as I am when I am trying to figure out how to even use the AutoCAD GUI. And no, I have never dithered with paper all my life, and started off with the Power of Chaos game trilogy.
That, and if you have to memorize the living hell out of a gameplay rule book that rivals the EM-385 in terms of specific rules and depth… I don’t know, but that’s a lot of unneeded tedium.
"Even playing master duel"
I hate playing MD but during the nats week i played at least 100 games with runick fur hire od MD which definitely helped a lot for winning nats
Honestly money is always the thing that is keeping me away from playing competively, as a south american you have to spend at least 1 month worth of salary to build any decent meta deck and even then you have to pay all your travels expense, konami also pays no prize money. It feels like dogsht if you don't make any money from it unless you are a content creator from yt or other platforms
Any advice for older/returning players?
As a person that left at pendulum era and came back via MD, I watched a lot of streams and videos of modern decks, and take note of cards/decks/archetypes that are popular. After that it's making your first modern deck that fits you, and play a lot with it.
I wonder what would you do if the game ever gets canceled or just isn't dropping enough money for a living? Do you have a backup plan? If so, what is it?
First advice: DON’T START
Winning isn't that important. I personally cherish all the friends and rivalries I've made along the way and I think that's what regional and ycs events are all about: celebrating the game and meeting new and old ppl that share that same love for the game
Yeah but if my opponent locks out of the game, how am I supposed to have fun?
I honestly would not be able to make my hobby my job.
My first yugioh tournament was inside a toys r us, I got smashed by a toon player, I just had 50xrandom cards I liked, no discernible strategy at 10 years old haha
Of course Josh would say money isn’t a big factor in topping events, he literally doesn’t have to worry about money and can get any cards he wants so it’s easy for him to say that.
My advices for new players, learn your deck, learn other decks, test a lot, and be ready to spend over 1000 euros te be able to compete.
I agree with what you say people don't spend enough time learning other decks tunnel vision on decks that allow them to make up for their lack of knowledge and foresight and then when they lose they'll complain despite it coming as result of their poor decisions the truth is their is no substitute for experience and if you believe that a strong deck and knowing how to play it is all you need it will bite you in the A$$
This game gets new players?
Playing other TCGs made me a lot better at Yugioh since it gave me a fresh perspective. Unfortunately it also made me not want to play Yugioh.
Kinda had the opposite experience for me. I played yugioh, went to different card games, but they were all so slow compared to what I was used to that I just wanted to go back to yugioh the whole time.
@@e-tan3911 The average game of MTG (on arena) is a lot faster than most of the first turns people take on Master Duel.
@@user-iz7nu4wk3h I mean the speed of the game, aka how long it takes to establish boards and such.
Also, I play exclusively in real life, me and simulators do not click at all.
So your advice is to be a streamer, got it
In a truly tragic reality, the best way to get better at yugioh is to play a lot of yugioh, and know why you're bad at it
Ayo why is grown Lisa such a baddie tho?
About the decision making, playing edison really helped me with that. You need to be thinking about wich cards to play arround and trying to read what you opponent have all the time
What Edison?
@@ranbirrandhawa9736 It's an older format. It's the format of March 2010 that has been super popular recently.
plenty of top performers who are cringe in anything they do. thank you
My advice: find a different hobby fast! I love YuGiOh but you’re about to be locked in a whirlwind I don’t even go to events and it’s a headache collecting and playing with your friends and the odd locals but you’re gunna be tempted to(and will) spend way too much to try an build a ‘meta’ deck. I still play lightsworns in every build to keep it fun but I’ve broken the bank on Lightsworns - ABC’s - cyberdragon - metalfoes- ddd’s(2017-Yea I know what happened) - fluffals - invoked - predaplant - Tearlaments - my current deck of choice - chaos lightsworn Tearlament kashtira bystials switching back to ddd’s cause it’s cheaper than finishing that monstrosity
When you cant adult because you're too busy playing a childs game.
The amount of dumb comments in Josh’s chat is almost unbearable if you concentrate on the chat window during the video.
While Josh gives out so much valuable information, lot of people in his chat post dull comments. I guess this once again tells you quite a lot about the yugioh community as this is not the first time. God damn it…
The internet in general is full of this graffiti. It gets worse if a comment section becomes popular.
Josh in his 20's right no way be playing this game for 20 years not possible
its possible, and not even particularly unlikely. as an example, i started playing pokemon TCG when I was 9. I was still playing it at 29. (I'm 34 now) If Josh is around 28/29 I woudn't be suprised if he picked the game up around 8/9 years old and stuck with it the entire time.
i started playing on the school playground when I was 8 and i am 25 now. I will play another 20 if i can!
Definitely possible, I started playing yugioh at the age of 8 with the same scenario as josh - playing at the playground and messing around with classmates where we just make up rules. Eventually I found the power of chaos pc games and started there, went to tag force on the psp and eventually on my first local experience. Although nowadays I am just a casual tear player because of full time work and other real life commitments.
Yugioh was a child's card game at one point, believe it or not. It is entirely possible to have been playing since you were 7-9 years old.
@@pockit5107there’s kids that play at the locals I go to, they play cheap decks because that’s all they can get. Sometimes I give them basic staples
First!!!
how old is josh
28 I believe.
Yes
He's old.
@@steelheart538don’t say that to a 28y old
@@yy5173 gotcha. You're old.
And here is my advice for new players : Dont play this game !
My advice... Run away and try other card games
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New Players: How do i get good?~
Josh: Have you tried putting some effort over a long time?~
New Players: 🤯🙏🫶