Exposing European Players

[@bloodfest8510]

I like how the answer is either " juust memorize their whole deck word for word" and/or "just fuckin nibiru them"

[@JPositive116]

Listen, as a plant player, let me just say, that I appreciate the fact that no one knows how to counter this deck.

[@asuraphreak]

Slifer.

[@JPositive116]

@@asuraphreak No, you can play around slifer.

[@asuraphreak]

@@JPositive116 Was being a smartass. Practically everything can play around the God's.

[@luckyjc8702]

@@JPositive116 btw how do you play through slifer? just curious for science. Apart from the obvious ways of drawing non-engines like imperm/book/whatever, or hard drawing konkon + a way to tribute. Cuz all main deck monsters die to slifer, nobody has >2000 atk. I guess you can set a monster and then tribute for mudan? Mudan dies but still searches konkon, and if you have glamour or something you can tribute the slifer. But that's still 2.5 cards combo to out slifer. Less realistic than just drawing imperm at that point.

[@jofx4051]

Evenly Matched but no one plays it it seems or Droll

[@Josephhof]

Chat acting like it was an actual classroom had me cracking up

[@johnnyhall9154]

The strangle hold Rikka Sunavalon has on EU is fucking hilarious

[@karozoronah146]

From now on I wholeheartly respect Dr. Crowler's PHD in dueling

[@mrevilducky]

Definitely. Judai/Jaden was just a freak of nature prodigy that was chosen by a space devil

[@capcr_owo]

I love watching Josh learn, in real time, the pain of being an educator.

[@ducky36F]

“We talked about this yesterday!” Can relate 😂

[@franksta21]

Also, if you summon Nibiru, don't put the token in the center main monster zone. If they can extend into jasmine, they will use the token as a tribute.

[@31-DZ]

Same for most left and most right, they can swap EMZes and tribute there if they can, leaving only column 2 and 4 as options.

[@jofx4051]

Huh wha

[@jofx4051]

Can't they just TTT take control Nibiru making all your attempt useless lol (ofc providing they have TTT though)

[@franksta21]

@@jofx4051 really just to put you in the best situation against this deck. Do what you want with the information.

[@bagorngo]

@@jofx4051 Yes, but that means they aren't going to use triple tac to draw 2 or rip you for one.

[@brasil2907]

Unironically can you do this for every top deck? One of my friends is a plant player so I knew a decent amount about the matchup but I actually learned a lot about the intricacies of the deck from this video

[@abdurachmanromzy4778]

Ofc,if it became slander in his pov Just like loci/circular slander

[@gandung777]

Most of meta decks are either solved or the counter is generally known, so what matter is could you actually pull it in the game. Meanwhile rikka deck at that tournament is either unexpected so people doesnt really have the counter, and as josh said, not all player knows the details of the deck

[@liammcphelin4775]

C'mon Josh, Aromaseraphy Jasmine should not be banned. It has nothing to do with the playability of the deck, or how good it is for the format. The reason it shouldn't be banned is because it would be so much funnier to have a lvl 1 0/600 vanilla to be the first banned card that people see when the look up the yugioh banlist.

[@yato7030]

This is the first good argument I have heard to not ban jasmine

[@dimitrilepain3821]

i'd actually give up on Sunavalon just for this to happen. Murder my deck if you need to, but at least do it in the funniest and most memey way possible

[@ultradolp1335]

Fun fact: If you see the Aromage Jasmine (the level 2, not the link monster) on the field, you are almost certainly facing someone who added the Cactus Bouncer package in the deck (as that is the only reason a Rikka Sunavalon player will use that card), which locks BOTH player out of special summoning if the controling player has at least 1 other plant monster. So in a sense you using Imperm on the card will stop them dropping the Cactus. However funny enough, that is still not the correct play because - Regulus can just negate the imperm and still get Cactus on the board, and regulus will still have negate on your turn - You can simply just imperm the cactus during YOUR turn, forcing out regulus negate to go into your boardbreaker (e.g. evenly, both TTT) - If they have strenna on the field, you can be safe from them tagging out for Teardrop/Hyperiton because cactus also lock them out of SS. Though you obviously need a way to play through konkon and SS lock

[@DirtCheapFU]

The new main deck Aroma, Rosalina can SS a Jasmine from deck. So you will be able to finish your board and then use your new, extra normal summon Bouncer lol

[@josephdiaz6480]

This was fun. I'd watch one of these for every meta deck

[@nbonasoro]

The guy who said my fish ate my notes missed out on the opportunity to say my ghoti ate my notes.

[@babrad]

Josh if you ever read this, today there was a ruling reversal about CL1 TTT (take) vs CL2 IP into SP. The current controller (ttt user) gets the on summon trigger effect and not the summoning player. Couple of Aces VS Remove Brainwashing was also reversed to follow this change. This can have a great impact on the current metagame depending on how this will be ruled on each event, due to SP potential meta relevance

[@rektenx]

As a teacher, Josh's struggle is soo relatable :D

[@chixbro]

"We talked about that YESTERDAY" 😂 Hilarious! as a teacher I can feel Josh 100%

[@henbro271]

Guys, we failed unfortunatly

[@TheRedScizor]

As a Rikka player, I think I should move to the EU

[@Bait154]

As a plant player this was really well done. 👍🏻 Mr. Schmidt if you try another teaching session, you should have chat do the quiz before/after the class to see the difference in scores

[@darklordzerato7]

With this we can be certain that rikka will win another big event V:

[@fortant691]

Latin America and NA know what to do. Both players in the finals at worlds beat Rikka sunavalon to get there.

[@firatd.monkey7330]

Weren't the 1st and 2nd place after swiss both Rikka? I think the first place was also undefeated so I guess they didn't know what to do against it the first time lol but maybe got lucky the second time

[@fortant691]

@@firatd.monkey7330 yup and Paulie and Juan Mateo, the guys in the finals were both 7th and 8th after swiss.

[@Yusodus]

@@fortant691 They let a pure Rikka deck get Top 8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHLOl4V8dpZjotk

[@officialmasqq_594]

Had to watch to see how a deck doing well threatens the continuity of the European Union

[@francescolofaro8258]

Oh man, I was sure the editor was gonna put the moment joshua lost in the master duel tournament

[@gianniskarageorgos6040]

He's doing his part

[@generalistvibe3279]

I got my first ever Regional top and Nationals invite by beating Rikka Sunavalon in the final round. I lost the die roll and Ash, Imperm, and Nib’d him game 3. It felt very good.

[@richard8670]

humblebrag

[@generalistvibe3279]

@@richard8670 Oh yeah I’m really bragging about how hard it is to achieve full Spright combo along side 3 hand traps

[@jofx4051]

​@@generalistvibe3279 it takes only 1 lv 2 cards and Nibiru token and no disruption to go full combo :V

[@generalistvibe3279]

@@jofx4051 (hey psst! That’s the joke bro)

[@DanBalan1]

I know World Champion Joshua Schmidt is doing Plants 101 for entertainment, but the cats running Metafy services would be wise to pick up this style of practice exam. In the world of private SAT/ACT test prep, the tutors who give homework like this get more repeat customers than those who just coach.

[@homecomin]

This will singlehandedly bring down Julius winrate at locals

[@Sailing10cjm]

This was indeed very fun and educational, would love to see more videos in a format like this for other decks

[@scarletterose1303]

Aromage Jasmine isn't in a typical Rikka Sunavalon deck, therefore the question was bad and Josh should feel bad.

[@arielbrathwaite7747]

"THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!!"

[@GenoWhirl24]

this guy would be teaching at GX Duel Academy and be the best for sure

[@FSF4live]

Richtig gut, Herr Schmidt. Vielen Dank für die lehrreiche Unterhaltung.

[@esrohm6460]

weird how there is so much to read for this being nothing but a normal monster

[@efraincaraballo8942]

This is some top tier content, banger video.

[@CubemasterXD]

regarding possible number of Strenna targets being 2 there is a third one which only the highest of plant masters are running: orea the sylvan high arbiter its a virus target :)

[@BobbyCorwen42]

I would be happy to see this happen for more decks. I know I would have liked to see that happen on other formats.

[@angramainyu1813]

Its our fault rikka keeps doing ok because we cant read the cards and refuse to learn

[@qaz6400]

Is not the point, even most of the rikka players don't know every line, so against someone that has mastered the deck Is hard to play perfectly

[@samifaride3245]

It's not a reading problem. Rikka is basically an FTK deck, if you don't have a handtrap just scoop

[@angramainyu1813]

@@samifaride3245 if you are talking about ftk's anything with crimson dragon and calamity is a better example. Rikka puts a lot of interruptions. That in itself is not really an issue. The problem is how easy it is to put on the board those interruptions.

[@MohammadAli-uf3cg]

​@@angramainyu1813and the kind of interruptions they put up. Not just negates

[@samifaride3245]

@@angramainyu1813 Yeah 5 interruptions is not an issue. I mean labrynth can set 5 pass and play around calamity. Good luck doing that to full combo Rikka

[@geemot7914]

Unironically peak Yugioh content

[@cawrhy]

I would go to Joshua’s class every day and not sleep through it. Very based.

[@Celerious]

my homework got floodgate trapholed so i couldnt flip it back up

[@wyspreegamings6380]

What an effective Gardening AP class.

[@LuxLikeGaming]

I mean we may have only reached a 3 in german grades, BUT what you have to think about is that 3 is befriedigend, befriedigend ist gut und gut ist fast ne eins!

[@chamtton1935]

This was so fun to watch

[@1stOptimusPrime]

Honestly, you are SO RIGHT 😂 Thank you!

[@xyz-dharak]

You know what they say. Dont blame the the student, blame the teacher.

[@mattyorshin]

I have been top 16 in two regionals with Rikka this year. Love the deck

[@ziltoid984]

If I wanted to read I would've stayed in school. That being said, this type of video for other decks would be BANGER content.

[@RiccardoGalloppi]

Funniest shit i have ever seen! This kind of format is sooo good

[@gavyn5718]

Truly a dedication. I hope we'll get another content like this talking about another deck. Real fun and educational, thank you for making this.

[@aytaf5430]

This was really good i wich we get the same traitement for other decks.

[@stardust9470]

Plot twist:it wins another event in Europe anyway because people still don't know how to play against it

[@samifaride3245]

Rikka best deck

[@waiyon1951]

This was helpful to learn. Edit: i never really know when to best ash them.

[@godmarkos]

He is funny as hell 😂

[@mortis8188]

It's so joever

[@vitari]

This was a brilliant video, well done!

[@JoshuaSchmidtYGO]

Thank you very much!

[@jacobwoodard818]

something I haven't been seeing is people using rescue hedgehog which I think is pretty crazy because you can special summon a lv.3 or lower effect monster plus sunseed from your deck but then again wasn't it also a promo

[@ichiniisan21]

The two monsters must share type, attribute and level though :/

[@luckyjc8702]

It's really bad, there's nothing good that you can summon, you should re-read rescue hedgehog. The 2 monsters you summon need to be same type, level, and attribute. Rikka Petal is water so you can't get her. If you want to summon loci, you need to also play a lv 1 earth plant effect monster. And there's literally no lv 1 earth plant effect monster that isn't a brick when you open them in hand (you'd need to play rose lover or something stupid like that). So playing rescue hedgehog doesn't do anything. It's not really an extender, cuz you need to use your normal summon for it. It is also a sub-optimal starter, worse than directly normal summon loci. This deck is not lacking in consistency to be desperately looking for sub optimal starters to play. What it wants is more extenders to play through handtraps, and hedgehog doesn't offer that (+ requires you to play a brick to resolve it). If only rescue hedgehog can grab both petal + loci tho, that'd increase the ceiling for the combo and don't require you to play any brick, then rescue hedgehog might fit right in. But as it is, it's just extremely awkward and unnecessary.

[@ultradolp1335]

To be fair, there are enough starter to get to Sunseed loci that you don't really get the additional benefit of getting a level 1 earth effect plant monster (I think most target for that sucks anyway) The usual 3x Unexpected Dai (doesn't use your SS) 1-3x Lonefire Blossom (uses NS, but is part of the Rikka combo and good bridge) 3x Sunseed Loci 3x Small world (Technically not 1 card combo, but is easy to bridge into seed with any monster in hand) The less popular but still useful ones 3x Painful Decision (Get a plant to GY, allow you to get Lily Borea on field early but doesn't really allow you to get Regulus before Sowing) 1x One-for-One (Doesn't use SS, but require a monster discard, can also get you petal when interrupted) 3x Sowing (Any level 4 or lower plant get summon dryas then you can use Sowing, leaving a less than perfect end board) 3x Draconnect (Summon any level 2 or lower normal monster from deck on NS) So you can easily fit 12-15 card starter into the deck if you want. Plant player deck space is tight so which is why they don't need to load out the whole deck for the all the option. A more fragile way of reaching the loci isn't really all that useful

[@frig7014]

was hoping to see the topping submission for the extra credit essay

[@kabitoshien7212]

Insanely valuable video.

[@chrisb.2028]

Btw, while it wasn't the case at the Dortmund's finals, leaving your monsters in defense is not always the answer. It's useless if you have sowing in gy or the therion coliseum on the field, in fact: sowing, summon the seed, crash into something, summon healer, go dancepione (or jasmine if you have something to summon) is a legitimate play if you're really bricked. It's not actually good since it's very likely your opponent already has a way to negate or destroy the dryass (could be useful as to bait a negate I guess). If you have sowing and the coliseum in hand: activate coliseum (to bait the ash), grab lily (or regulus), sowing the seed, crash and protect with coliseum, foolish regulus (or lily) and now you have two bodies on the field, and easy access to an omni negate, if you don't get disrupted of course, this is a last ditch effort if you're in a really bad position and only works if your opponent isn't much better. Honestly, I find unsettling Joshua's hatred for the deck, keeps repeating it's good, but also says it dies very easily to handtraps, only sees it brick, and keeps saying the only reason for it's success is due to luck and people not knowing the deck, like, if all of that's true, then isn't that the definition of a bad deck? there's a lot of decks that can make crazy, "unbeatable" boards if everything goes right, and most of them don't see ANY competitive game, why is a deck that REQUIRES mastery over it just to be able to catch up with the meta a good deck then? and if it's so mediocre, why the fervent desire to kill it? the disdain is so palpable, I could bet, this video would have never been made had vs won the event, in fact, had any other deck won the event, a video on said deck wouldn't exist.

[@itsvanburen5879]

Rikka University 🎓🎓🎓

[@258thHiGuy]

The funniest part is that this whole quiz thing really only pertains to the EU scene with how low the representation for plants is in the states

[@airbomb24]

i mean, i made an unaffected bubble reef and they kept trying to tribute it with konkon and then scooped. who doesnt know whose deck now

[@WombatOfDisaster]

Have you hear about the tragedy of Rikka Flurries, the Wise?

[@Kapowbam]

People complain about this combo calling it rikka, when its the links that are the true offenders here

[@luckyjc8702]

Almost every decks use link monsters though nowadays, aside from the ones with hard type locks like Branded or something. And even then, they sometimes play 1-2 link monsters for special cases. Complaining about links is just too universal, you might as well complain about the whole modern YGO at this point. Complaining about Rikka is archetype specific though, so it is much more reasonable. It has a lot of characteristics as a deck that a lot of people deem "toxic", not because they play link monsters.

[@ultradolp1335]

Honestly, one could argue Dryas and Jasmine is the bigger offender (imo Jasmine is the real problem). But without the Rikka part and plant link deck is significantly weaker. Ending on Benga + Cherry + Regulus is still vastly weaker than the standard one with Rikka mixed in

[@juancasas7539]

From my experience, single negate hand traps like ash are pretty bad, imperm and droll are the better ht imo

[@charleslindita8635]

Imagine Rikka winning next YCS.😅

[@chrisb.2028]

Would be hysterical if someone new go and just goes undefeated on the next big EU event, but alas, it's not going to happen, either people are more prepared for it, or there's just nobody left playing the deck.

[@lordscottish69]

After reading Dryas I still have no clue why summoning in attack position is better

[@luckyjc8702]

If you summon in defense, dryas can crash to your monster, which makes them take battle damage and triggers dryas to special summon a free link body. If you summon in attack, the dryas will die by battle if it crashes to your monster (unless there's sunvine sowing in GY I guess). If there's no sowing in GY, this is important in a simplified game state. They can't play with just dryas, but if you let them get a 2nd body, they can link climb and play.

[@Lobster44]

it can swing into a defense position monster to take battle damage to special a sunvine from the extra to extend, this effect also triggers jasmine if that's on board too since it gains the life back

[@alexanderksiazek8790]

plants forever

[@ASMRbyJIO]

Lmaoo jasmine doesnt need a ban

[@DarkAuraLord]

t. rikka player

[@David-hw9si]

link to exam plz

[@masterofyolo6102]

I’ve always just ashed sowing. Come on SURELY they don’t have twins in hand right ? RIGHT ?!?

[@AnRuixuan]

This was so fun. I know it started as kind of a joke bc Rikka keeps winning Euro events, but doing this for various meta decks would actually be really fun and informative too!

[@poro9084]

the thing about plants decks nowadays seems comboing from aromaseraphy jasmine, if she gets banned they dont have anything really

[@andriusbikus1948]

I am late, but this act will kill Aroma part of the deck for sure :D

[@4pfBulmond]

oh, I bet you know alright after that defeat in the tourney

[@TheDjdeath45]

E FOR EU LETS GO

[@ShurMaster]

Sounds fun. I wish you'd put the link to the test on the description!

[@Shiny_Plume]

As a Rikka player, there are two fates for all of you: 1. Ignorance 2. Assimilation.

[@brandogg974]

Guys do I imperm loci or will ash be ok??

[@luckyjc8702]

Yes, imperm loci is FTK, they will immediately rise from their chair and leave... to call the judge.

[@chrisb.2028]

Obviously you veiler the seed bro.

[@Monkey_D_Rimuru]

Belle can´t be used for the XYZ summon because she summons the XYZ from the Extra Deck and then attaches herself onto the XYZ Monster, you should say to her effect to add the Rikka card or Plant Monster from the grave to hand, not the summon or am i seeing things wrong???

[@ultradolp1335]

Rikka Strenna can summon a rank 5+ plant XYZ monster from Extra deck AND GY, which is why Belle work

[@ashikjaman1940]

Well now you need to play a set against Jess

[@X00-9FromZeroToBinggo]

Jasmine is not wrong

[@DaemonRayge]

Rikka Sunavalon is just Dragon Link, except replace the dragons, some of which with guns, with pretty sparkly flower princesses and the likes. We should just start calling it P-Link. Change my mind.

[@DirtCheapFU]

Yeah, trade guns for parasol's.

[@andriusbikus1948]

well there is combine harvester in our fields :D (Regulus) :D

[@B.27y]

Still don't know why you should summon in attack

[@HeartBeatCollide]

repeat after me, WE 👏 HOLD 👏 HAND-TRAPS 👏 FOR 👏 DRYAS 👏

[@Nyartatouille]

Petal eff Summon from grave Eff to search Mudan Mudan eff tribute petal Mudan eff search konkon Konkon eff set glamour Glamour tribute mudan Add princess and primula They summon themselves Make strenna Eff to add back any plant Tribute strenna somehow

[@lisandrob.leopatri3324]

you can limit Dryas or Healer and make the deck a litlle bit worse without having to ban Jasmine

[@HoppouChan]

same effect, basically kills the deck tbh. And nukes pure Sunavalon to orbit as a side effect. Limit Jasmine is already more than enough, if people were to learn what the cards do finally

[@mattyorshin]

Jasmine sould not get banned. Its only good in plants. Rikkas dont even top that offen.

[@worthywill9294]

The community as a whole has a "how dare you play me with this inferior deck" mentality.... so when it wins, even if barely, we gotta cry for bans..... How ppl say fenrir is fine but cry about Jasmine is CRAZY

[@mattyorshin]

@@worthywill9294 exactly

[@victorhmg8080]

I DONT WANT TO READ THE PLAAAANT CARDS

[@aecflashbreaker]

or just be me and instead of sending Tragedy off Brafu to make Lubelion we just send Necroworld Banshee instead ._.

[@PatricioMarino]

This stream is from before he lost the duelist cup to Sunavalon Rikka, right?

[@marinethibault5160]

If he lost, that's just deserved tbh

[@luckyjc8702]

​@@marinethibault5160 I mean duelist cup is referring to master duel lol. Losing in master duel is just a normal tuesday. What can you do if you lose coin toss, opp full combo 6 negates + maxx C you in your draw phase.

[@marinethibault5160]

@@luckyjc8702 Bro I play master duel 💀 and this guy absolutely hates on Rikka Sunavalon with no valid reason and I play a variant of the deck, how can you expect me to a) not be pissed b) think it's only deserved if he lost against it after lecturing people on how to beat it ? That's called karma, don't shit on unharmful deck and go ask for an Arise-heart ban already

[@europaboi]

I wish I had Golden Kappa here right now

[@ziggystardust1973]

I'm still not sure why to summon in attack vs Rikka,but I'll trust you on it ;)

[@ultradolp1335]

Sunseed Dryas has the following effect Once per turn (Soft): When you take damage (battle or effect), you can heal the same amount and special summon a sunvine link-1 monster (e.g. healer, thrasher) from your extra deck. So a plant player can summon Dryas, attack your defense position monster, take the damage and get a +1 to continue extending their play in MP2. In previous YCS that was what allowed the Sunavalon Rikka player to win by time as they summoned thrasher and stopped further damage

[@ziggystardust1973]

@@ultradolp1335 ahaha I see how many will miss that

[@chrisb.2028]

​@@ziggystardust1973Leaving them in atk isn't always the best answer tho, you're vulnerable to ls, and if you have coliseum or sowing in gy, you can crash into it and survive anyways.

[@lenabo9929]

we need doctor crowler

[@blazekaizer9000]

Secrets out

[@YouseeMourinho]

Someone link the quiz

[@metalmariomega]

Sheesh, NA doesn't respect ANYTHING and they still managed to stop Rikka from stealing tourneys(including WORLDS). EU might have the MD World Champions, but the rest of the continent needs to step up their game, especially on paper.

[@babrad]

Step up their game when NA was hard carried by Canada for 20 years while the EU had World's wins since 2005? Different regions just like different decks. Even during TOSS, NA (particularly the US part) had Thunder combo overrepresented while EU/LATAM preferred the control oriented Salad/Striker (even geist) until Orcust threw the balance of the window.

[@DirtCheapFU]

NA is crowded with full gas decks and cancer decks. So only the leeches are squeezing in with Rikka.

[@jayduel7897]

Maybe because it's a good deck

[@candybracelets]

Those grade boundaries are wild. I swear 65% used to be a decent result in the UK, 70% was a first at degree level back in my day. Maybe we're just dumber than the rest of the world. 😆

[@friskydrinklunkybank1108]

Thats crazy to hear. 75% below is a failing grade, 80-85 is average and 86 and above is great where I come from

[@DarkAuraLord]

when I was in school back in the paleolithic era, 70%+ was passing. People getting dumber and dumber. 😔

[@oshi1711]

I don't understand the plant hate lol

[@AfffS-oz5sd]

wait why do you summon zeus in attack?

[@marcellofilipe6571]

Just limit Jasmine and healer to 1, Dryas to 2, and maybe konkon to 2. I actually play with this quantity cause i like to put some less used cards like sylvan alsei and rikka kanzashi. Rikka/Sunavalon has no toxic card, so it would be better to just use some consistency hits. But as a Plant Player i really believe konami should errata jasmine so her search effect is just on a hard once per turn. also the deck is just not good going second. If konami ever print more rikka supporte they need to adress that.