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

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

The strangle hold Rikka Sunavalon has on EU is fucking hilarious

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This is some top tier content, banger video.

This will singlehandedly bring down Julius winrate at locals

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

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

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

Honestly, you are SO RIGHT 😂 Thank you!

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

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

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

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

He's doing his part

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

This was so fun to watch

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

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 :)

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.

Insanely valuable video.

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

Unironically peak Yugioh content

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.

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

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

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

What an effective Gardening AP class.

He is funny as hell 😂

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

This is the best thing I have ever watch after finishing my finals. Please, more classes with the World Champ!

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

Rikka best deck

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!

This was funny, entertaining AND informative. Good video

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.

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

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

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

This was a brilliant video, well done!

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

Lmaoo jasmine doesnt need a ban

Rikka University 🎓🎓🎓

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

link to exam plz

Secrets out

E FOR EU LETS GO

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.

plants forever

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

Still don't know why you should summon in attack

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???

we need doctor crowler

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

Well now you need to play a set against Jess

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

Maybe because it's a good deck

wait why do you summon zeus in attack?

I wish I had Golden Kappa here right now

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

Imagine Rikka winning next YCS.😅

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

So why don't you summon zeus in attack?

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

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

Someone link the quiz

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

I DONT WANT TO READ THE PLAAAANT CARDS

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

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

Can you still do the test?

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

But wait why zues in attack again????

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!

Jasmine is not wrong

19/23

It's so joever

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

So, I have to play Plants at ycs bologna then? :3

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.

Guys, we failed unfortunatly

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