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[@ct1296]

Some of the advice from chat here is so dogshit. Glad he opted to start making his own decisions - misplaying yourself gives learning experiences, but misplaying because chat told you to misplay is going to make things even more miserable.

[@maunabesanika]

fr, like negate eldlich to remove the atk bonus, or when they tell him to summon baronne in case of nibiru, AFTER his enemy just reveal their ENTIRE hand of 2 cards(fire kaiju and borger)

[@forgeree]

@@maunabesanika i didnt get to the eldlich part, can you elaborate? which yugioh player thinks you can negate the fucking atk bonus as if its not a lingering effect?

[@maunabesanika]

@@forgeree someone in the chat was saying "imperm/chi xiao the eldlich to reduce the attack" or something like that, i remember it doesnt work that way, but the person made it sounds like it's very believable, i double check it and of f-ing course it doesnt work

[@greedo1531]

​@@maunabesanika Yeah....Rarran was improving but some people in chat very clearly have never played Swordsoul before, or are just straight up terrible at the game.

[@maunabesanika]

@@greedo1531 i think he should decide his own move more, and only ask/read chat after certain confusing things happened (like with the long yuan->gamma->ash->gamma interaction), anyway i agree his gameplay's getting better

[@khota5761]

Watching rarran play the game i grew up with has been an amazing experience. Those streams give people a great rundown on what issues can come up when you try to teach someone new how to play this game. It is always fun seeing him play against decks where it is impossible to easily understand/explain what a deck is doing and seeing him slowly loose his sanity. Especially during the dark world match. I hope he will be told to add just a couple more going second cards like talents, evenly matched or nibiru so he can play the game more even if he looses the die roll. I wish him as much fun as possible with the rest of his climbing the ranks and hope the stream chat finally starts being nicer too him!

[@elin111]

YGO players always tell new people "Just read the new cards burh" Try reading 50 paragraphs of text every 4 seconds because the opponent is constantly throwing cards you've never seen before at your face and be expected to immediately understand and figure out what every wall of text is going to do on the moment and what it's going to lead to.

[@greedo1531]

Yeah, he should probably add TTThrust and Talents, and probably Heavenly Dragon Circle to dodge Imperm. There was also several times where he could have gone into Psychic End Punisher, so probably that too.

[@ericlaw1993]

Although not the best card, I think he should just add droll and lock bird because it is a hand trap like maxx c and ash blossom which he knows how to use and it's effect is pretty straight forward, just don't use it on his own turn

[@MOWVash]

When they were saying to maxx c immediately, what they were talking about was if you change your toggle to on you can maxx c in the draw phase or standby phase which playes arround a cars called triple tactics talents. Talents can only be activated if your opponent activates a monster effect during the main phase.

[@forgeree]

this and also non-activated effect summons, or inherent summons like cyber dragon or the kashtira monsters

[@UncleForHire]

It's also demoralizing af to get Maxx c before you even do anything after they set up their entire board.

[@bentasticc2941]

Bro not gonna lie your Combos are getting really good and smooth man! Even the timer isn't a probably anymore I want more that's good shit! Earned a sub

[@daveclarke1990]

Wild that yugioh can go from "having no idea what youre doing and being bored" to "knowing exactly what youre doing and being bored"

[@forgeree]

because they somehow still refuse to ban maxx c XD

[@nuhrii3449]

​@@forgeree because its a balanced card for the constant special summoning that is in every deck now. we have hit the point that ash is a bad card. the only card that does both better is droll, but thats the most unfun card to play against

[@insertname5371]

@@nuhrii3449 lol its not balanced at all. Now we have to break boards while the opponent has negates up while giving them card advantage and running cards specifically to beat the card.

[@nuhrii3449]

@@insertname5371 except you were screwed anyway, if you cant play through 3 negates and break their board at the same time, it doesnt really matter how many cards they have, you were already dead, at least when you maxx c them, you have the chance to draw an out

[@insertname5371]

@@nuhrii3449 letting them draw cards gives them pieces to stop your combo. There are still many grindy decks that want to break a board and beat you on low resources. The only decks that benefit from that are degenerate combo decks that suck going second already and shouldn’t be able to play through those negates if the player is competent never mind deal with disruption

[@ericlaw1993]

I'm a YuGiOh player and even I can see the obvious problem with this game which is "the goal of this game is to play the game by making your opponent unable to play the game".

[@DDismas]

I mean you're growing pretty damn fast, I think you could actually go and pull off some very mean, more in-depth decks with a bit of practice now! The world's your oyster man, I think you're ready to give a try to salads again now that you're a bit more knowledgeable about the mechanics :D

[@defegatu]

He could try salad, but i dont think it will be better even if he play in the same lvl, just maybe, i dont touch salad in a very good time :(

[@IC-23]

The BASIC salad combo is still more than twice as long as 90% of what swoso does and if you get hand trapped it's not obvious what you have to do. Swoso is a must for at least a month or so for Rarran to at least have the ability to learn what his opponents are up to, he still ll isn't playing optimally so there's no reason to throw most of what he's learned in the trash to pick up a weaker deck that he's he's going to have to relearn.

[@Griffingterra]

I think he'd really enjoy plunder patroll.

[@pandaman2407]

The world is a shitty 3100 beatstick

[@Auovix]

Ngl that is a step down in power level from Swso Tenyi

[@LetsDiscuss5]

You’ve gotten much better at the game and actually being able to understand cards and you remembered the names that’s crazy lol

[@flowdane5139]

One thing i can't stand is the chat advising him to overextend

[@Jeffet629]

What do you mean?

[@brickstacker6533]

If you can end on more interruption, it's not over extending. There is only 3 Turns, no point in not playing your whole hand.

[@ct1296]

@@brickstacker6533 it is if you’re playing into something like nib / super poly etc in the process tho. Also swordsoul is a midrange deck that (with the exception of protos lines) is never gonna set up an auto-win board - in this deck, having full combo in hand for follow-up on turn 3 is better than adding your 6th best boss monster to your already competent endboard.

[@brickstacker6533]

@@ct1296 if you don't start with long yuan you will have to play into nib. Imo playing into superpoly is worth it, the chance to run into superpoly is lower than running into a meta deck that will either OTK you (mathmech, branded, superheavy, snake eyes, etc..) and the extra interrupts are going to be helpful or just outgrind you if you can't OTK on turn 3 (Lab, branded, snake eyes). Having full combo on turn 3 is pretty useless if you are dead, or your opponent has setup 2 interrupts to stop your otk. That said, extending is only useful if it will stop your opponent. Throwing out tenyis for the sake of doing it is wrong.

[@ct1296]

@@brickstacker6533 you have chaofeng lines that don’t play into nib. A lot of the time, if you can overextend in SwoSwo, you’d have been better off setting up a light lock before you started your main plays. There are scenarios where you want to extend. But you’ve gotta evaluate the game and look at factors like how many handtraps you have, how many cards in hand your opponent has (ie have they used anything on your turn), and what information (if any) you’ve gained from the cards they have used. Snake Eye isn’t likely to otk you through Baronne + chixiao + blackout without a cracked hand, but it has a good chance to break the bulk of your board and threaten to pull ahead in the grind game - you’d always rather have follow-up in that sort of scenario. Unchained dominated the tcg for the last quarter of 2023 - and the players that were topping were the ones prioritising follow-up and choosing not to overextend. The best board isn’t the one with the most interruptions - it’s the one that commits the least resources into stopping the opponent.

[@threevelayt5302]

Spoilers, but referring to a moment around 2:01:00 Amazingly played after noticing chaos angel would've been unaffected by baronne to pop it with blackout, rarran learning such intricate interactions so early on is the sign he can definitely be good and also enjoy yugioh if he puts in the effort required, and chat was very helpful in that scenario. I'm hoping he changes his mind and sees the game for the puzzle it actually is because even though he doesnt like yugioh so far it looks like he's enjoying himself while playing Swordsoul and in three streams he's already gotten so much better.

[@kgamer142]

When he yelled “it’s my turn!”, I lost it 😂

[@SnailBot]

I think you need a session with Farfa again but this time just chill in duel room with maximum time or play with bot a few round. I saw 2 problem here 1. Not understand the whole deck yet. (also the name) Maybe a few chill round with no time limit might help you gather a few line that you can do mindlessly with out thinking to much. Cause some line is so liner that you didn't want to spent time thinking about it too much. You better use those time thinking about what your opponent gonna cook up for you. 2. Response to situation. Due to low card pool knowledge (which is fine, it take time) you can't know like top 50 popular decks you gonna play against in ranked. So I think you need to learn to response to something blindly. for example : Branded : You gonna freak out if you let Branded fusion resolve but you didn't know what it does yet so if they normal something to search something that a prime target to negate/interrupt something like Aluber, Razen, Alester Just try to do a lot of think yourself and learn from it. But overall, you did really great job on learning this game. But I just think you need to chill a bit. Also please remember the card name and their whole effect too. So you didn't have to read much in some tight situation like banish Blackout/Emergence or any swordsoul monster is better that banish any tenyi.

[@r3zaful]

That's would make even farfa proud of him if succeed.

[@andrewlikesmetal1095]

Honestly man you are doing an awesome job. Dropping in with no prior knowledge and doing this well is an accomplishment. Ryu ran is doing good man. If going second is rough I do reccomend using evenly matched, dark ruler no more, or divinecarnate kurikara. my man these will give you a bit of an edge and often outright win if they resolve

[@pixlize]

I wish we had the ranked distribution for this game... I just got Lion V but its like am I trash or not idek what the FUCK LION V MEANS

[@pamonja4301]

king of games?

[@matija9540]

Master 5… Master 1 is the best rank in the game, make of your achievement what you will

[@kauanjos3199]

Lion 5 lmao

[@r3zaful]

The ranked distribution is fine, it's separate casual and try hards very well, try hards in master, diamonds for people who have skill issue and plat for casual.

[@r3zaful]

I purposely stay in diamond 1 last season because i don't want to deal with people on my similar level last season, this season climbed up to master v in a week then refuse to play anything else besides solfachord ariseheart turbo, on plat literally on 15 winstreak. ❤

[@Archimo]

It's really nice to see how good Rarran is getting at the game. He's starting to understand his deck fully and understanding the base of the game, he just needs more playtime experience and he'll be completely fine. Also my favorite type is Synchro as well (But I play RDA even tho not even meta) so it's really nice to see that Rarran is enjoying playing Synchro seems like the way you summon them is just easier to get behind and undertstand.

[@lostfound2834]

We did it boys! We broke Rarran's will! Hope you make more yu-gi-oh! content in the future, your rage sustains us.

[@jacobcoates7987]

"There's no way you guys have straight backs."

[@Krazy893]

Ever since that first yugioh vid something just told me you were destined to play more yugioh man even though you hate it lmao keep up the grind!

[@awesumsauce24]

I think the yugioh league of legends comparison is actually kinda accurate, but the thing is that going first always wins is a misconception in yugioh. Especially with swordsoul, a lot of the fun of the deck is how you can make chenying and have a super crazy going second comeback victory. The game doesn't feel like any other card game because it's the only card game where you can live out your deranged anime power fantasies of either setting up an unstoppable unbreakable board of terrifying boss monster with some rube goldberg machine combo or picking apart and destroying your opponent's crazy unstoppable unbreakable board of terrifying boss monsters and then killing them with your terrifying boss monsters. The game is swingy by nature, but the usual goal is to utterly obliterate your opponent. It's just that sometimes the fun is in going up against seemingly impossible odds and not only making it out but also flipping the situation entirely on its head and pulling out an overwhelming comeback victory. Almost every way you can win in this game is over the top.

[@pango4425]

I'm on the same road! Got into Master Duel a week ago, now Plat 3 with Ghoti

[@Tragic_Hooway]

ah yes classic this will be awful because i already convinced myself it will be awful

[@butterspike680]

Loved the stream, you have gotten so much better at swordsoul it's amazing, it's like watching your heir riding a bycicle for the first time, puts a tear in your eye.

[@Mrholysymbol]

Heir? Wtf lol such an odd way to phrase that

[@KingGlorp]

I know at the beginning you said you don’t want to add more cards, but going second tools seem like they would be good for you. An example from this vod would be at 3:45:24 when the opponent uses super poly to fuse away your board (even though they weren’t going second). Some good generic ones are the Kaijus or the spell card dark ruler no more, these cards basically allow you to rub your balls on the opponent’s board.

[@djeldj]

Sword soul doesn't have the room for it in order to play the required number of board breakers he would need to take out most of the hand traps

[@nico-wj1mh]

with a chat like this it's no wonder he got stuck in the salad mines the first time

[@mr.niceguy9394]

Chat was starting to Get wild Near the end

[@abcrx32j]

The duel vs Relinquished Kaiju was so full of misplays but it was still hype to see how you managed to win anyways

[@armandonoriega681]

That 7 win streak is amazing, but it is more impressive the amount of times he won the coin flip in a row. What is the chance of doing that?

[@ericlaw1993]

fr, my past 20 coin flip goes like this: lose lose win lose lose lose lose win lose lose win win lose lose win lose win lose lose win

[@walldoser33]

4:03:55 watching this vod in the background and hearing my name be mentioned almost gave me a heart attack

[@eniferxamm]

Really amazing progress here. Within 20 hours or so on Master Duel, you’re breaking down very complicated hand-trap interactions on replays. Sorry chat was miserable; while trying not to gatekeep, there are a ton of very casual players in yugioh who play a very difficult and complicated game. A lot of mid and even good players also kind of expect new players to intuitively understand these very complex systems. So it’s like toxicity rolls at you from two directions, much worse players and much better. Hope you continue to enjoy, you’ve hit your first real hurdle in understanding and playing the game but you’re developing skills very quickly and I think you’ll keep improving a lot.

[@imbadatygo73]

Can't lie your chat is shit at this game. And you are crazy good it hard to believe.

[@simonepoma95]

Hi, i suggest u to go in duel settings and turn on the "Activation order setting". This will allow u to select in which chain order u want to activate effects that would activate in thw same condition. In this way u can choose which effect u want to activate before and it will be protected. Like your lv8 swordsoul synchro and mo ye

[@vladnuke]

The one thing I can take from this stream, is it's always better to play fast and go with your gut than play slow and get messed up by the time. The only thing that is annoying is losing the maxx c mini game (playing a 60 card deck, this happens way too much unfortunately for me) but as long as your plan is secure against at least imperm/veiler, then you should be safe more than 50% of the time, including going second, given you're also running handtraps.

[@Sleepy-Tan]

Bro's getting to diamond without reading opponent's cards 💀

[@Mrholysymbol]

Typical yugioh player honestly he fits right in

[@FakeHeroFang]

This game has 10,000+ cards, to be fair. You'll see a lot of random shit in lower ranks that is not worth memorizing. It's a task just to keep up with the current format if you're new, being asked to memorize every rogue and meme deck just isn't realistic.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

​@@FakeHeroFangthat's where your wrong while it's not essential to know every card in a rogue strategy you still want to know their key cards and how it functions. Not knowing or caring about any cards they have is a recipe for a big fat "L". It also would be much different experience if he was playing TCG and not Master duel, because Master Duel spoon feeds it's play base. Their is a difference between click on a highlighted card and you know how a deck functions. Knowing the interactions,chains,and time activations.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

It is a Meta deck, not as popular as it used to be. So it will get auto wins against lower tier decks

[@alexyee8947]

I'd love to see another lil collab stream like you did with Farfa if that's something you're still up for. Learning from chat can be a bit chaotic

[@Aymungoos]

Just a tip for imperm. You should always set it in the far left or far right to be able to negate pendulum scale effects if it ever comes up

[@elquesohombre9931]

Honestly, you can stop before diamond 5. It’s obvious that this game just doesn’t feel fun to you. You’ve understood a fair bit, but the difference between you now and someone who is capable of getting to master 1 is just playing cards and reading for another 20-50 more hours than you have for now. I do like seeing you play yugioh because watching you suffer IS one of the bigger reasons as to why I watch you, but the swordsoul combo is so so linear and can only be watched a handful of times before I start speeding past the video, and making you play anything else would be inhumane because you’d have to go through a lot more to learn another deck. Decision is up to you, and while It is inevitable that there will be people who will get mad at you for stopping at diamond or before diamond, you’ve given this game way more than enough time to get the gist of it.

[@antm9771]

I agree, skill spread out in so many form, deck in this game, different settings, decision tree,... That playing more just to climb rank with single linear meta deck does not make clear we good or bad. Maybe it will be more fun if he borrow someone high rank acc and learn the unique of each deck and essential of basic thinking and make choices instead of you do or you don't. Try to get consistent winrate in that competitive environment so at least we can say: We good enough to compare the difference card games. Because in every games everyone try to pull things really fast if not casual, we can see in these streams many times the turn up to 4 and 5.

[@jps_user20]

@@antm9771 The fun begin when you actually know how to deal with turn 2 onward Turn 1 is basically a spreadsheet. And so far he only know how to do combos not do combos with full board distruption

[@jjay2771]

lol getting the heart of the cards Longyuan vs Kaiju was great

[@Alex_Barbosa]

Honestly going second being awful is probably the coldest take in Yugioh history

[@Ingenii80]

I hope you get farfa or another yugi tuber/streamer on your next stream again like distant coder, mbt, nym etc.... it was so much fun seeing you guys interact and him explainingnit to you. Inhave tomsay even as a yungi oh player it was so fun to watch and a learned a lot.

[@mochi355]

Theres going to be a 2004 event in Masterduel tomorrow, you have to check it out

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

2:27:50 - Specifically, a game for lawyers that have to follow laws that make no sense, are contradictory, and refuse to be updated for modern times. ... You know, now that I write that, yeah, it's still just "a game for lawyers"... Wow, that's depressing...

[@Salacavalini]

There's relatively easy defending YGO games ending in 1~2 turns, actually. The turns themselves are longer and more interactive. Hearthstone doesn't have hand traps, and mana means you can't really do anything on turns 1 or 2 besides activating like one card. You can't expect completely different systems to have similar turncounts, and HS turns aren't interactive since the opponent is unable to do anything by design. YGO not being a Magic clone with mana isn't a bad thing fundamentally. Plus, HS has had periods where you lose on turn 4 to Face Hunters, which was very "fun and interactive".

[@SeaHorseOfYoutube]

I still remember back in 2013 special summoning was already out of control in some decks (dragon rulers, etc) but most boss monsters stopped themselves from attacking if they used their effects, which extended the turn count and allowed a healthier/grindier meta to rise, were slow resource loops and efficient trading won out in the long run. It's kinda crazy how Konami has powercreeped cards to a turn 1 meta by removing or cheating around limits.

[@33_plus27]

​@@SeaHorseOfKZbin that was 9 years ago, yugioh is a non rotating format. How do you think they should have approached it?

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Dont be afraid to make mistakes thats how you learn, dont feel compelled to so stuff just because a different players says or attempts to pressure you to make. Take the time to learn the unique interactions. If you misplay so what, your learning and if they want to talk down to you forget them. Find out what works for you and doesn't. Anyway thats all from me from what ive seens your progressing well.

[@mauer1]

3:44:01 yeah that happens sometimes lol. just interaction after interaction after interaction.

[@Riku4560]

I cant wait to see RawrXDRan get into competitive yugioh within the next year. He has a glorious love hate relationship with this game that we all do!

[@qweytrop572]

This replay feature is amazing, especially in this game

[@shizan1068]

the guy who said baron is mid needs a new brain

[@SeaHorseOfYoutube]

Hey Rarran idk if you read comments but there's a YuGiOh Classic Games Collection dropping on steam this year, you might wanna give it a try for content!

[@insertname5371]

He’s reached the point where he’s close to getting it but not fully. Yugioh has a problem going second but it’s far from as toxic he thinks. Hopefully he starts learning how to break boards. He’ll start to get it soon enough.

[@Chaosnegi12]

Breaking board is always a great feeling.

[@kosigisa]

25:00 custom hand

[@armandonoriega681]

This man was spitting facts about this game during the whole stream! 😮

[@sagekoko69420]

Going second is a loss unless you build a deck that is built to go second.

[@nebulosam45]

Maxx "C" is not the cause, it's a symptom.

[@grantnielsen1706]

Trying to learn from chat looks like an absolute nightmare. Well done interpreting their aggressive typing until it makes some semblance of sense

[@user-jc2lz6jb2e]

You SHOULD have used Maxx "C" early against that Danger! Darkworld player at the end. It's a good learning experience.

[@user-wu8qc9bb3e]

I get to Diamond in 2 days playing like 5 hrs in total in a day. It's actually quite easy, I'm using nerfed so hard birbs by the way.

[@seedfan8548]

The highest I've reached is Plat 3 with Marincesses.

[@cyberkallas]

1:03:24 your the best ygo player!!

[@sanguisuga6825]

Haven't finished the video yet, but I hope you enjoy the game

[@LetsDiscuss5]

You have to go for master if you get diamond it’s a must

[@jordanbarley796]

Put in accel stardust to make baron anytime you resolve gamma

[@redcatTN]

4:09:08 wtf why no max c

[@elquesohombre9931]

NEVER maxx c a danger dark world player. They will deck you out if you drop it off at the start of the combo.

[@redcatTN]

@@elquesohombre9931 oh Kk It's like that synchro deck that go over 60+ summon

[@user-jc2lz6jb2e]

@@elquesohombre9931 He SHOULD have dropped Maxx "C" so that he'd learn LMAO

[@mcmisterhd1920]

​@@elquesohombre9931isnt this why you play 1-2 nib droll?

[@sirgrig7845]

Keep it up mister streamer ❤. It sad to know, that you probably will not try other decks so

[@Grinfx38]

loving when you play yugioh

[@Chikadesu.]

Somebody tell rarran to add "swordsoul sacred summit" it opens new line where Taya sends moye and Chixiao add summit.

[@Immortal-sr8gq]

He should play punisher synchro card. Good to have for emergency.

[@Lahna123q]

Wen new expansion series Mr.Rarran?

[@mobnishi251]

39:28 wtf chat . You played optimally .your chat are trolls

[@dhiogomartins7]

More Yu-Gi-Oh por favor

[@Kisaamee]

I love to see you learn yugioh. I played heartstone before but its not my cup of tea. Keep playin you are entertaining 😆

[@seanmcmahon808]

Going second isn’t terrible for certain decks. You’re just playing swordsoul and nothing else which is fine but other decks are good second.

[@espypkm5022]

I believe you should go to a locals it would be a new experience also there is no max c in the tcg so you don’t worry about that card

[@vivinestian]

Did this game appear before Legenda of Runeterra?

[@ericlaw1993]

If you mean yugioh the card game, yes, it existed way before. If you mean master duel, it appears after at 2022

[@Archimo]

I think my favorite part is the really dumb chatters that are essentially: "Oh you're learning the game???" -> "Well why are you not an omnipotent god that knows these things" Dumb chatters that can't understand what learning is 🤣👌

[@Camelotsmoon]

1:32:42 LOL

[@poro9084]

just dont understand to people telling rarran to play different deck

[@dreamerboy797]

Platinum 2 is acceptable but if you get to diamond 1, i will consider you as a good yugioh player

[@Gradashy]

You only became a real Yugioh player when you got Exodiaed at least once ;P

[@alicepbg2042]

you could actually beat the darkworld deck in the last match. but fuck playing against darkworld. specially when you don't know where to interrupt.

[@LetsDiscuss5]

1:19:54 why can’t I win this many coin flips

[@hazx9-686]

Bro needs to learn how to use chaofeng

[@giveashot8763]

He is going first every game how is that not rigged

[@willymartinez2882]

Can you please do collab with mbt playing fun gimmick decks that woould be awesome

[@Immortal-sr8gq]

Not if you play labrynth.

[@alanmontez168]

A lot of the yugioh players are saying stupid shit but your flat out just not reading cards. U do have time. Ur just freaking out for no reason. Read the card and if u don't understand what's going on from there at least u attempted to read.

[@gamerasad2736]

Bro pls try unchained next ,it’s an easy deck ,and u don’t have to read much at all

[@g-iltuballa5866]

Rarrans chat is equivalent to toddlers giving advices, they're the worse swordsoul player that ever existed like amma bet those numbskulls never reach diamond at all

[@finalsusanoo830]

Honestly I think it would be fun watching a new player. Play for the first time but it’s actually hard seeing him fumble through every combo. On top of that just ignoring what he’s opponents cards do have the time.

[@nekokurokami7165]

@Rarran ("Called by the grave") lasts for 2 turn's from when it is played.