Monday, September 9, 2013

Is VG taking the right path?

hi today, i will be discussing about how the game is progressing nowadays.As we all know, the game started in a state where Embodiment of victory Aleph was considered good. At that time, The royal paladins were the most powerful deck as they had a very nice card known as Alfred. Alfred was a very good card that was hitting for 20k! feel my sarcasm yet?Then it slowly progressed to become more powerful where Tsukiyomi had dominance due to it ability to superior ride and draw cards and stack triggers. And then they introduced The shadow paladins..People were like woah phantom blaster dragon gets 10k and a crit which is so powerful! shadow pala was a very good deck as they had filtering power such as macha and nemains and javelin to search for Blaster dark. Their boss card was Phantom blaster dragon. It had the best ability, where you sacrifice 3 Rear guards to gain 10k and 1 crit" Raging form is ROFL" . Even though the shadow paladins had everything, the royal paladins were still the better deck compared to them as the royals had more power cards such as soul savour and alfred.  The game came to its era of broken when Set 5 was released along with the krakken known as Dragonic overlord the end! The release of this single card made the whole game insane. Every tournament was dominated by this card. why? Because it has the ability to RE-STAND when it hits. Bushiroad realised the card was too strong and they created the mechanics called LIMIT BREAK. This lead to the Birth of gold paladins which were the next most powerful deck. Their boss card was ezel which has a very decent ability where it can superior call the top card and gain the power equal to the card called. Also the set released the future's most troublesome clan. Narukami. They got Vermillion as their boss card which was very good in my opinion. It has the ability to battle all front row units at once. but they were not as strong compared to Gold paladins or DOTE.  The TCG did not get dote for a very long time and hence Gold paladins were winning there. and the card that won everywhere was Spectral duke dragon. why? Because of its RE-STAND ability. However, when DOTE arrived in the TCG, it naturally became the most powerful deck. Then bushiroad introduced Ultimate break ability which can be done when you are at 5 damage and was very rewarding. This ability put Dote off the scene for a little while but to no avail. Then came the restriction list! Dote was hit so harsh that it was literally unplayable after that. This was when the game was in a peaceful state where all decks had the chance to win.

Ok so the era of limit break was good. but then Bushiroad did their biggest mistake ever. They introduced the New ability called break ride! The single reason why the meta is in such a hassle. The monster know as Eraser Dragonic descendant(EDD) arrived on planet earth and just ruined the whole game. Although Liberators were around, they were no match for EDD. Even bad end dragger was not able to fight EDD. why? Because of EDD's RE-STAND ability.  EDD just dominated the whole game against all other decks. Then bushiroad decided to Release Dauntless drive dragon(DDD). It was a break ride that allows the broke ridden card to stand by discarding 3 cards regardless of the attack's success.  Along with this, DOTE was released from its cage and EDD was put to 2. Everybody decided that DOTE will be the new dominating deck due to DDD's ability to RE-STAND dote. However, The deck did not do well as expected and still lost to EDD. Then came BT12. The most problamatic set ever. They brought back the failed shadow paladins. They gave them Raging form Dragon! Its a combination of spectral duke and DDD without the discarding card part. The deck was so consistent that even EDD was not able to keep us to its power and consistency. Shadow basically dominated everywhere due to Raging form's ability to RE-STAND itself. However, there was one deck that could counter them. Its the clan that can surpass all other clans and its true. Its the invaders from space! The Link Jokers. Their unique power to lock units is devastating. raging form was unable to restand because locked units cant be sacrificed for its effect. Link joker is a very good clan and they will be the next best deck.

So after reading the above paragraph written with poor eng, you should have realized something. I pointed out the restanding ability each time. The reason why the game is so broken is solely thanks to Units that can re stand themself. DOTE,SDD,,EDD and Raging form all have the ability and were the most broken decks at their time. So we can say that Re-standing vanguards are bad for the game especially if their cost is low and its easy to achieve. And what is bushiroad doing? They are making even more re-standing units like tetra drive and ethic buster reverse. Is bushiroad trying to make the game even worse or are they trying to make a game where anybody can win thanks to their auto pilot re-standing vanguards?I mean VG is already a game where anybody can win but, To make it even more brainless i feel its not good. The game is not lasting more than 5-6 turns nowadays. Even with dote the game could last till somebody will deck out. But nowdays decking out happens only if you are not playing decks like shadow pala. Anyway, thats just my rant or opinion on the game now, if you think im wrong or have any opinions on the game, pls leave your comments below thanks~

3 comments :

  1. i totally agree with u man. if u dun mind could i add on too? there used to be a time where crossrides were OP and selective. Now a single unit can have 2 and almost every clan now will have one at this rate with the reverse series... Also bushiroad has been releasing boosters so much faster than before. Now almost every month there is a new booster set and several new play styles, giving the older sets lesser time to settle down in terms of popularity. With too many playstyles it can make a TCG a little boring. Reasons why i have mostly converted to weiss schwarz. Anyway great job with blogs man, awesome tactics, reviews and opinions~ keep it up :)

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  2. Thanks alot iloveshana. I agree with you, bushiroad is really getting overboard with the number of cross rides and are changing the meta with every new set released.

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  3. This is a late reply, but I just think u r over-rating the meta decks out there. Vanguard is still balanced. Every clan has its weakness, and its up to the player to find out the weakness. Eg. Link Joker is weak to Early Game rush clans like Pale Moon/Spike Brothers, and also clans that switch out their rearguards. Raging Form Dragon has to sacrifice its rear guards, etc. Besides, re-standing vanguards still have quite expensive costs, and its not really OP because if your opponent survives the turn, u will almost definitely lose because of the net lost of cards. Another thing is about the short games nowadays. I agree games are getting shorter, but different people prefer different lengths of the games. So its not really a bad thing. And the number of crossrides, well isnt it better for all clans to have 1 and even out the playing field? I dont know about you, but i think Bushiroad is still awesome and Vanguard is much more fun than some other games i know

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