I've seen a lot of players afraid of taking damage. Its not always a bad thing to take damage. New duelists always try to defend as much as possible at the start of the duel and forget they will need to go on the offense. Taking damage early in the game is not always a bad thing, just as long as its not half you LP taking off .

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Yuki.Judai23 wrote:

I've seen a lot of players afraid of taking damage. Its not always a bad thing to take damage. New duelists always try to defend as much as possible at the start of the duel and forget they will need to go on the offense. Taking damage early in the game is not always a bad thing, just as long as its not half you LP taking off .

This will conclude this tip for this week, I'll try to post a tip every second week.

Thanks for reading! Share your thoughts down below

"just as long as its not half you LP taking off" So solemn judgment is bad to play during the beginning of the duel?

That highly depends on the circumstances of the duel. If you have an OTK deck and you would need to negate a summon, or protect your attack, then it is perfectly fine to use. But if it's to negate a level 4 monster that won't do anymore damage than 2000 to your Life Points, I suggest not using it.

Jalice wrote:

That highly depends on the circumstances of the duel. If you have an OTK deck and you would need to negate a summon, or protect your attack, then it is perfectly fine to use. But if it's to negate a level 4 monster that won't do anymore damage than 2000 to your Life Points, I suggest not using it.

I wanted Yuki's opinion, wanted to see what he would say But , ok then

For a tip to let less skilled players to improve, you need to take up a notch and give more detailed explainings and what so ever

thanks for the thought. it was just the first one, ill get more into detail later on.

OneForAllAndMore wrote:

"just as long as its not half you LP taking off" So solemn judgment is bad to play during the beginning of the duel?

Depends on the situation. A lot of the times people who use Judgment, don't even know how to correctly use it. I dont know myself. It's good in the later game but not at the start.

timing Solemn's are tricky because you want to use it when it will disrupt your opponent the most and will minimalize your chances of losing.

For example

Player A knows that Player B is running a Hieratic OTK deck
Player A has a set Solemn Judgement, no monsters out and only 3000 LP left

Player B has 4 cards in there hand and it is there Main Phase 1
Player B summons Hieratic Dragon of Eset - dont use it
Player B tributes Hieratic Dragon of Eset for Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet - don't use it
Player B uses Eset's eff to summon a Curse of dragon from the grave - don't yet
Player B Overlays into Shark Fortress - use it now

the reason you would wait to use it is because you just eliminated a possible play in the next turn, as well as saved yourself from being killed.

if they had summoned Su instead of Nebthet, they still have 2 cards in the hand, take into account the odds 1 of them is a Hieratic and decide whether to use it or not on Su's summon. Since if they do in fact have another hieratic, gg. if not then wait on the xyz to remove it to eliminate a future play.

and that is just in 1 turn of deciding when to use it. You have to know the opponents archetype as well as you know your own deck in order to truly know when it is appropriate to use such cards.


Also taking LP damage early in the game could allow you to setup your own strategy easier later.
I have been burned before because I set a card to protect my lp when if I had just let them hit me directly I could have went for an OTK the following turn. Or I used my Battle Fader 1 turn too early as I would have been left w/ 400 lp and instead I am dead the following turn instead of waiting.

Of course the opposite can be true as well, being defensive at the beginning could force your opponent to run out of plays before you go for the kill. Just depends on the deck build you are using ^_^

uh solemn ftw.
it brought me many victories.
its not bad to pay 4000 cause one card is able to *censored* up the whole duel.