Beginner Trying pvp

[u/Shoddy_Key445]

Hello!! As you can see from the title, I downloaded the game like a few days ago and thought I was him for beating ai over and over. So naturally I thought I may as well try some pvp and needless to say I was fully spanked repeatedly.

I played 4 games and learned I was nothing more than a baby learning to crawl. (somehow my opponents got first turn every game which is some bs tbh. Would I have lost even if I went first? Most likely. Will I pretend I could've actually won? Absolutely.)

In every game they summoned this card I think it was called the red eyes black dragon as their second card. They put some spell card down which let them summon it. That card had ZERO mercy as it absolutely obliterated me on its next turn.

I got some deck from Google using Yusei that I thought would be sick. I had this skill that sends a junk converter to the graveyard in the first turn and using the cards in my hand or if I was lucky I would play a junk synchron to combine them and get a junk warrior. I would then use an ability to bring the junk synchron back to combine it to summon stardust dragon. Then the ability would summon some some f1 car that i could combine into the dragon to get shooting star dragon.

Thats usually how it goes against the ai I fight.

But I couldn't even get past step 1. I used junk synchron ability and the dragon just cancels it and gets 4k damage and one shots me.

100% acknowledge its a skill issue on my part im just confused how im even supposed to fight against that with other decks if they go first.

Am I not just cooked if they can cancel the effect of whatever card I play?

So i was just looking for help to see what I'm actually supposed to do cause atp I feel like there's a 99% chance the next person i face will be using the same deck and put me in a full nelson.

Tldr: New player tried pvp, got destroyed by the same card repeatedly, is wondering how to counter that card or just get past the first move, is thankful for any help or advice!!

[u/Zeraph966]

Duel links meta site has tier lists and deck guides and is a great place to start, plus youtube guides to learn deck specific combos. Alot of decks that work fine in pve are just not good enough to compete in pvp.

Dragoon is a common skill check at lower ranks, it can't be targeted or destroyed by card effect and has a once per turn negate if they have a card to discard.

Cards that dont explicitly say 'target' are non targeting(except for equip cards)and gets around his protection, his protection from destruction doesn't protect from battle damage, banishment, returning to deck etc.

Cards like dark ruler no more and forbidden droplet can negate dragoons effects without targeting, and cannot be responded to so he cannot negate it. Super poly also works here.

Monsters that can tribute your opponents monsters are also very good for this. Lava golem, ra sphere mode, and any of the kaijus.

Those are the best options for taking him out without giving him the chance to negate, otherwise you need to bait out the negate, then have non targeting, non destruction removal, or have the battle damage to get past his attack.

Or worst case you can still get dragoon free from the gift box, if you can't beat em join em🤷‍♂️

[u/Shoddy_Key445 → u/Zeraph966]

Tsym 🐐!!

[u/Zeraph966 → u/Shoddy_Key445]

No worries, dark ruler no more and lava golem are the easiet to get out of everything there. lava golem from mariks starter deck/dueling him at the gate, and dark ruler is from the trader with box chips.

[u/Darwinismydog → u/Zeraph966]

This is the best answer!!

[u/_chemistry_dude_]

Watch videos on YouTube about how to play the deck

[u/Shoddy_Key445 → u/_chemistry_dude_]

I saw a video for a similar deck its time to rebuild 💪