Joshua Schmidt Reacts to Jesse Kotton winning his 5th YCS

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[@TheKeksletsplay]

How about instead of limiting something on the banlist, we limit Jesse to winning only 1 YCS per Year?

[@neogalactic1195]

For real give us plebs a chance

[@mrsquadbot]

That's way too harsh. I suggest we semi limit Jesse Kotton first and watch how the meta changes

[@felipemendes5336]

kinda insane how many people started to cry about Triple Tactics Talent already. But as a wise man once said "Given enough time, Yu-Gi-Oh players will cry abou literally anything"

[@bend4456]

activate ash into talents hand rip into full combo into instascoop is my favourite type of game

[@phoenix5095]

​bend4456 idk if talents and thrust is super common do u not think it would be wise to play board breakers instead if u do that talents and thrust are dead cards in hand if they are going 1st

[@bend4456]

@@phoenix5095sure sometimes but these cards almost always see some amount of play, if talents/thrust is in a third of main decks it might not outweigh how good hand traps are but non-games will still be created. The solution to this is not “don’t ever play hand traps again”

[@shadowdraqon2479]

Idgaf about talents or thrust, the only cards i cry about r handtraps

[@nerfirelia8235]

Full hand knowledge + a rip is pretty crazy. Doing full combo and then knowing 3 out of the 4 cards in your opponent's starting hand pretty much wins the game by itself.

[@Gabriel_Ax]

"Why he keeps winning?" A: Because he doesn't lose. Hope this helps!!!

[@relevantusername3342]

😂

[@Hokag3Chrisku]

😂😂

[@nicolaignazio]

It's that easy

[@yu-gi-oase7498]

Like Magnus Carlsen once said: I think his main strength is that he's just better than others.

[@jarom1144]

Jesse is insane. Not only does he have 5 wins, he has a lot of ycs tops too.

[@justawarlord]

alot of second places as well

[@Zoodles611]

And a UDS win

[@Linkingx2]

We need some josh vs/& jessy content, cant wait for next worlds

[@jayoodyang747]

At this point the debate between playing Tour Guide or not has been settled by the results. There is literally no top placing Unchained without Tour Guide. Perhaps no one wants to give it a shot but I am pretty damn sure the best players have done more testing than randos in the YT comments section.

[@geek593]

The D/D/D engine being added in makes it better since Tour Guide's super consistent Caesar floats into the D/D/D package giving it all a lot more value. Having both makes the line a lot cleaner.

[@gorsedh]

The randos on KZbin comment section are the same pro players spreading misinformation to reduce the power level of other decks

[@jayoodyang747]

@@gorsedh hahahah imagine. Maybe you know instances.

[@gorsedh]

@@jayoodyang747 trust me bro ya gotta play oviraptor at 2 otherwise it bricks

[@Eric-ih5mb]

They 100% used to do it on Pojo. Also remember Hoban trolling around with bad cards at regionals to get people on it for YCS's then he'd switch off. One instance that comes to mind was Solemn Scolding in Nekroz format.

[@FGj-xj7rd]

He didn't choose winning. Winning chose him.

[@FGj-xj7rd]

Yeah, I know this is old lol. Jesse is a chad.

[@ssengageisop3952]

..

[@MrHellsing1055]

Dude put all his skill points into Intelligence

[@lordbored7006]

4:20 Joshua hates staples confirmed

[@trollinggaming9903]

The greatest players create the meta.

[@person19863456]

But when is Joshua gonna go and get another ycs win? 👀 it’s time

[@grantplunkett8410]

Master Duel Championship Runner-Up wins a YCS!

[@NewtBannner]

I can’t believe Jesse tried to Patrick Hoban us into thinking Thrust was mid when it came out

[@ZachButler92]

At the time it was, the format shifted to make it have a better position

[@ApollousasBear]

Nah, he did not. Thrust was not great when it came out and barely played. If you look at other decks that run Thrust, they play Daruma Cannon or something, which is a non-engine card. If you set an engine card in other decks like Labrynth, you still need to wait a turn to use it. It just so happens that Unchained gets immediate value off Thrust on either turn by popping whatever you set if you need to grab engine on your first turn.

[@corebren2510]

I always love the hilarious coping replies to such posts, that refuse to acknowledge that the text of didn't get errata'd, or that the rules of the game didn't change. There are constants in yugioh that practically don't change and allow those that are good enough to see the intrinsic value in cards, even if they """aren't good""" in a particular format. I, for example, knew Thrust is mind-bogglingly insane the moment I first read it. So yep, either Jesse actually fell short there, or he unironically tried the Patrick Hoban move. Don't be surprised if it's the latter; this would be in line with behaviors such as the 2020 buyout of a useless card like Snake Rain that he caused too. Top players aren't necessarily saints, it would take a fool to believe this. The temptation of being able to shift a market to your favor through influence is too big.

[@thatguyzach7599]

Lmao

[@jofx4051]

Thrust can set any unchained trap to start combo 😅

[@michaelfellner9822]

I find it funny how Hoban at some point dominated YGO and now its Jesse .. the guy who Hoban used to hangout with the most. You can really tell how these guys managed to learn how to optimize deckbuilding and think ahead of the curve. Him, Joshua and some other folks have gotten lonelier tho since the peak level of ygo has less good player nowadays.

[@jonl7893]

Pretty sure Jesse hangs out with other players in Toronto/GTA more than hoban

[@michaelfellner9822]

@@jonl7893 Hoban used to be his buddy.

[@Sp3llmen]

I miss Jeff Jones crushing meta the meta with random decks nobody thought was good

[@michaelfellner9822]

@@Sp3llmen yea he was great, was absolutely in love with his psychic deck!

[@veryfrozen3271]

Hope he's not a cheater too

[@mikawa1314]

He’s like the real life Jaden Yuki, lives and dreams YGO. Dude literally came up with a tournament winning Utopia Double strategy in the shower.

[@zettgundam6317]

Nah Jesse doesnt cry and get depressed over a single big loss

[@derpmagician5631]

he is just build different

[@mikemachabey3464]

Hi joshua, I have a question about a card. If I set a fire king monster facedown and I activate sky burn during my opponent turn, it work or not? I was thinking about icarus attack. I just wanted to know if it work? Ty and have a nice day 😊

[@kenja0685]

Instead of those pie charts with decks, we have pie charts with Jesse's face on them?

[@dkphame]

He is sooo much better than the rest of the playerbase. Even compared to high level players there is a noticeable skillgap.

[@whands5835]

Because he is good 👍 👍👍

[@JADGERBOMBS]

Decks don't brick, people brick.

[@koidayo]

he's just built different

[@EMPCraft]

unchained was a meta choice for the event. Wont hold for long when people stop spamming droll and stuff

[@phoenix5095]

When that happens Kash will dominate again since people are respecting it less, after it dominates again people will respect unchained less for Kash, and the cycle will continue

[@EMPCraft]

i think purelly is the overall winner of unchained beeing in the heads of people right now.@@phoenix5095

[@martinrios3546]

One of the funniest things I’ve seen in Yugioh is the majority of the Unchained discord/FB group community swearing up and down Tour Guide was horrible, and the actual good players disproving them

[@jofx4051]

Tour guide becomes bait I think 😅

[@victormulders3270]

Because he plays duel night every week

[@zukusenryu]

People like Jesse and Pat Hobans thought processes are different than most. That’s why they will continue to top event after event

[@ayoobi1691]

but in what way? by what cards they chose to play?

[@zukusenryu]

@@ayoobi1691 I don’t know. But if you listen to pat on a podcast.. his thinking is much different than others who are on the same podcasts

[@LilBabaG]

No lie for the longest time I thought these two were the same guy

[@HapsterHap]

If Konami does hit the deck, the most based hit would be TGU to (1)

[@DanXRojas]

Because he plays yugioh like he’s playing a chess game he’s always 5 turns ahead of his opponent

[@luzifer8421]

Hi Joshua Why do you think that Tour Guide is not that relevant for the deck.

[@Shadowbot074]

World champion diff.

[@PeTr0o0L]

On the gryphon topic, its funny how paradoxical it is. Last event when pak won several people were on 4+ book cards which would be dead against gryphon so that was a preferred end board. After that event when people realised books can be dead against unchained people cut down on some books which made ddd better. That plus replacing the books with nibs is a phenomenal meta call for that event especially going first.

[@hermitxIII]

Marionette mite is very based. I wish they would make a card like that for psychic/wyrms.

[@ukon3395]

I wanted to build unchained and then realized it’s gonna cost me $700 ish to fully build it 😭

[@KixMusaid]

Goat reacting to the other goat

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

Coder said tourguide was bad and the unchained community for some reason takes his opinion on unchained as the gospil so if they say something is bad they'll live and die by that. it's weird. the same thing can be said about Unchained Wailing. Coder keeps saying it's bad. I agree. it's really annoying when a good deck needs to play bricks in order to make better plays. it's similar to Infernoble. I'm a firm believer that the dracoslayer package is too insane to not play in the deck but it has 1 soft brick in majesty Pegasus that loses value if you hard draw it. sure you still get to pendulum summon it to search a field spell but then it won't be a tuner while it would be one if summoned by the effect of Ignis Phoenix. sure the standard Infernoble noble board is strong but people complain it loses to Dark ruler and the dracoslayer combo helps build a board that doesn't lose to dark ruler that isn't searching for a flood gate.

[@lonelycloud4643]

How many YCS has Joshua won again?

[@FGj-xj7rd]

5

[@chuchojuarez95]

Not enough

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

Don't matter, world champ

[@Saltymoles]

I think josh is at 3 or 4

[@superfactorial5717]

OK guys but with all due respect

[@pepperonipog1575]

They’re extremely good at slight of hand

[@V4Lanz]

the title in the image is sus asf "Why he keeps winning? 🤤😭"

[@frankunodostres473]

jesse and joshua are the ronaldo and messi of ygo. I wish we would see them face off in a ycs or world final. master duel doesn't count. I mean IRL face to face handshake game :D

[@Blizz3112]

Jesse's talent, and I've seen this time and time again, is that he mastered the combo's within the game almost to a tee, knowing exactly when to perform them when they are most effective... its clear that he tests his deck against multitudes of decks and then learns how to counteract said decks before perfecting it...

[@marktheshark1799]

Made a post in zodiac questioning how fair Unchained is and alot of players did not like it

[@yareyare9335]

sebab boleh dik

[@LuisGomez-fe8dy]

Its cuz he thinks out the box everyone who play wants to use meta or play what other ppl play but jesse thinks of other ways n card to combo with in the long run

[@tristanconus3063]

Lowkey Prospe should be banned next banlist. I don't get why ppl want it at 1, it would just completely randomize the game even further.

[@fafnirymd]

what makes unchained become popular now?

[@e-tan3911]

3 new busted support cards came out that pretty much fix almost all the deck's problems.

[@fafnirymd]

@@e-tan3911 wow they got new supports? I don't know that, thanks for the reply 😄

[@briannitzschke2767]

Thrust is an annoying card for many reasons, but one of them is that it fundamentally changes deckbuilding, so for those of us who have bills to pay, it makes half the profiles out there kind of useless to us. We arent gonna be playing 1 evenly 1 duster 1 dbarrier

[@quotesmoving169]

I have bills to pay and still run 3 thrust. There’s decks that can play without it. Purrely is a great example!

[@TheCrankyTechnician]

Jesse Cotton is everything the little German would like to be

[@bayar_]

no need to compare you normie

[@SNDVeteran]

deck stacking

[@calich33sehead]

Bricks are good for balancing top tier decks. And Unchained only has two?

[@jofx4051]

He cut level 8 brick that can be used for link climbing or link recovery (which most of time off gonna gets negated)

[@retr0pearce765]

No life obviously lol My best friend is cracked at yugioh but gues what? He has to work to maintain his family.

[@AngelD329]

he loves the game more than anybody . The man wins without putting much effort, makes it look easy. He travels around the world to win tournaments, I'm pretty sure he's seen more of the world than we have. Decent life in my opinion

[@jeremydyar7566]

Man's the world champion. How is that no life

[@Young_space]

He looks 43

[@kristianardon7072]

Usually how it goes when people don’t take care of their health

[@wenhao3534]

When he acquire his third chin he will be world champion🎉

[@UTgohan]

He plays the best deck: probably also wins a lot of die rolls, and it’s modern yugioh so if you open up better then your opponent you will win automatically lol

[@Harmonic14]

So he just happened to get lucky at 5 YCSes and a UDS? Sure pal lol

[@mulldrifterz6469]

This has to be the dumbest comment I have read in some time. Proof you don't/haven't pay much attention to modern Yu-Gi-Oh in the last year to year and a half.

[@Scapegoat-po2ou]

"You automatically win if you open better than your opponent" is true of literally any card game assuming perfect play from both players. Jesse's play is simply closer to perfect than most other people.

[@UTgohan]

Yea modern yugioh is ass

[@tripleaaabattery8480]

@@UTgohan right, sure, not like he consistently tops events and has been arguably the best player for a long time or anything... nah clearly he's just been lucky.

[@EMPCraft]

I know he is not a bad player, but i kind of dont enjoy his method in deckbuilding

[@zwartesoep2010]

Probably why we're not looking at any decks you've ever built💀

[@EMPCraft]

your argument is legit nonexistent kekw@@zwartesoep2010

[@georgbergsten6050]

Wdym

[@RaiOHfive]

Most pro players do deck stacking for the earlier rounds until they top. Jesse is definitely a good player, but it’s statistically improbable to get first place that many times when there are that many people in a tournament. Notice how they never brick until feature matches/top cuts.

[@lordyhwach6618]

Don't say these (realistically) things!

[@WillieRayPR]

Jesse also gets 2 byes at every event he attends, so he can construct his deck more toward the meta and respect a little less the rogue decks you tend to encounter early in the tournament

[@Jerry4281]

Also, that's just false. Even if that was true, multiple instances have shown how skilled he is in navigating the meta and his decks that he builds, W/ breaking boards from going 2nd to building his own going first. Saying he's cheating is mainly just hatin' Jesse is the GOAT for the NA region. Also, I think he's the only one with 5 YCS wins. Maybe there are a couple of others, but I can't think of any on the top of my head. I know Billy has 4, Joshua has the World's dub and multiple different tops/dubs from other YCS's in Europe.

[@Harmonic14]

I don't think you understand how much of a factor deck building is in tournament success lol

[@Konata615]

This take is coping so hard😂 How do you you quantify the difference in skill and deck building to come to the conclusion that it’s statistically improbable to get 5 YCS wins?

[@Bradlolnick]

Kotton isn't as good as people think. He ONLY plays the best meta deck at the time. I CHALLENGE HIM TO RUN A ROGUE DECK THAT WE ALL KNOW AND SEE HOW FAR HE GOES #outthefirstround.......

[@jeremydyar7566]

Lol it's Meta because he wins with it

[@TheGreatKingChiba]

Didn't it come out years ago that he is basically a cheater and legitimately does ANYTHING to win?

[@Saltymoles]

Bruh what hahahaha

[@TheGreatKingChiba]

@@Saltymoles Could be getting him mixed up, I seemed to remember him having an issue with giving false information in matches and that led to more stories and it basically came down to the fact he is willing to be shady af and bend the rules as far as he can to win. Again, I might be mixing him up but I was pretty sure that was him.

[@Saltymoles]

@@TheGreatKingChiba christopher leblanc maybe? Ive never heard anything about jessie

[@TheGreatKingChiba]

@@Saltymoles So just for an update. I just spent the past like 45 minutes combing YT for videos on the subject and I'm pretty sure I did mix him up with someone else.

[@jofx4051]

I do sure they are other people

[@EXTRALONELY]

JESSE IS REALLY THAT NIGGA 🐐😂

[@chrisdavis245]

Why does he keep winning? Look at him. He sweats yugioh.