The problem with yellow is that not only you have to be careful of when to hit life but also you have to run against the clock cause you don’t want to get 10mom 3 times in a row, or have them use Yamato . So the problem is you have to most of the time leave enel and katakuri at 2 life so they can’t use Yamato, Cracker , Amaru or things like that while also having to keep your own life low but also they will manage to build board and heal every turn while also having to play against triggers and expect the worst when hitting life. It’s becoming a chore and there’s yellow players that will literally only play blockers until they can heal and try to get you trash your life with big moms only.

I think the luck just got out of hand with Enel, specially with the recovery, you leave them at zero they recover and its like they healed 2 plus the new triggers. I wished we got more green cards with banish

The main problem is something mentioned briefly at ~7 mins in - If you play too safe, you lose automatically due to board development and/or pressure that you cannot handle but yellow can. If you play aggressively, you lose to a bunch of triggers as well, the balance is extremely fine and skill doesn't really factor much here honestly, most of the time. Does skill play a role? Sure. Is it detrimental and aboslutely the decider of the game? No, it's not, due to how your decisions and plays might be 100% correct in 1 set of triggers and completely wrong in another, all of which you HAVE to risk and go for regardless of the result, most of the time lacking the knowledge to actually make a skill-based descision and weighed odds - This is bad game design for a cardgame that's inherently random, as all cardgames are - this is what I personally despise about Hearthstone and clones of that nature - skill is basically a non-factor, as it's mostly luck-based once you have the basics down. Current yellow is the embodiment of that. I firmly believe cards like LEnel, Bege and Sanji simply shouldn't exist in their current form (with Sanji being the least of those "evils" as you can atleast interact with it, but it still shouldn't be a 5k blocker). Crackers, Brules, Satoris, etc. are fine as a gimmick, but things with no real counterplay that can completely sack a game (like Bege and LEnel) are a problem. I've had games where I have 6 attacks (4 of which were 10k+) and I still couldn't kill an Enel with 4 cards in hand (2 known bricks) and 1 life, no initial blocks - You can imagine what happened, I'm sure you've experienced similar extreme highrolls. That should simply not be possible, at all. Obviously, he won the next turn, completely undeserved by any stretch of the imagination. I think Kata is much less of a problem than Enel, as with Kata you simply have to go for it most of the time, there's no real playing safe since mom into mom is game over if you take your sweet time and you're not passively Beged if you aggro early like against Enel. Enel is the definition of terrible card design and it would've all been avoided if he simply wasn't yellow - any other color would still be good, but not ridiculously random and frustrating to play against and with. He's really only problematic in yellow if you think about it. Also, I completely disagree with the "there are definitely ways to play around your opponent getting lucky" - That is true only sometimes, most of the times you simply risk it and it either pays off or it doesn't - NEITHER of which feel good for either player. Enel has 3 Beges and 3 Sanjis in trash yet gets both in last life cycle - Play around that when you're 100% losing next turn. The scenarios where you're helpless when they get lucky and you HAD TO ACT are faar too many and going for the "outplay" will lose you the game against smart opponents who realize it's time for them to go for it instead. And ofcourse, the complete poopshow current yellow vs yellow matches and mirrors are is also terrible. EDIT: All this could be much less of a problem if half-way decent banish cards were present in the color pools instead of being like what, 5 cards in total?

I thought this was really useful and hope you do more like this

Might need more cards with banishing effects to deal with yellow decks

Thankyou for this guide . wishing you can make more guides for more other matchups.

This was awesome!🎉

lol thanks for the video Egman! I still haven’t beat Kat but feel better prepared now than ever !

Definitely studying this aggressively

i enjoyed it !thanks bro

Thank you for this. I need to practice more vs enel

One piece needs a card similar to kongo, your opponent cant add cards to life until the end of your opponents turn.

Thanks for the video

I have been needing to hear a video like this. As a sakazuki player, I feel like I have the most trouble with yellow decks. It’s good to hear out a game plan and variables to look for when playing against yellow decks. 😊

The biggest issue is that trigger cards got power crept to hell when yellow came out. When you look at earlier sets, Triggers were reserved for events as a trade-off for not keeping the event, or for very niche cards that were like 4c for 2k power with effects or 2c for 3k power characters. That made it balanced because you could run 4 in a deck in hopes of a trigger, but also risking it being a dead card in your hand. The new yellow cards are all so useful that there's no reason and no risk to running a full playset. Cards like Shirahoshi make sense because if you don't pull it as a trigger it's probably just gunna be a 1k counter. But things like Bege or any 5k swinger/blocker, those are great cards in your hand or in your life, there's no trade-off. Unfortunately, because so much luck is involved in beating yellow, I'm not sure how you would balance it. The decks themselves are still beatable so any type of card restrictions could make yellow just unplayable.

Please more of these types of videos

Yellow's playstyle with each set is becoming more of a chore. Judging by OP-06 meta so far in JP, its only going to get worse. I hope Bandai will realize that "luck" shouldn't decide high-level tournaments, even if this is a card game with inherent variance

Thanks, I play saka in this season and Enel with always the perfect trigger or Amaru in the end game, "stole" my perfect game 😅 I play the best I could but something yellow is too mush even for saka I guess....... Any advice for the matchup saka VS Enel? Or a good deck list saka for Vs yellow? Thanks 3000

Is there anyway a can easily ubderstand some abilities in cards, im already the cards but some of condition is i dont understand how it works, im newbie is there any site that they can explain how ability works, like - 2don, trash 1 card to you life then some thing like that, specailly navy leader where you can put your cards due to removal of your cards.

Yellow can definitely be tricky to deal with, now with newer cards coming out that allow switching life it’s definitely not going to be so heavy on luck. RP law has been so helpful in yellow from the games Ive played that removal plus aggro is nice. Enel has still been a problem though, still trying to learn that match up.

They don’t make banish cards that are effective. But they push out trigger cards that just turn the whole game around. While every other color has to play off the don curve.

I know RG law is not meta anymore, but I had always had a tough time with that leader against katakuri. But most Law players said katakuri is free for them... what's going on there? Is there any videos highlighting the strategy for this?

Would like one of these for saka

Nice video now please VS sakazuki

Bro uploaded this video and destroyed me with yellow in the sim after hahahah , gg again man ❤

This is great content. As a player that started 3 weeks ago, this really helps me jump in and hit the ground running at locals. More videos of this nature would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!

Play Iceburg and spam kaku banish

Enel should either be banned or decent cards that have banish need to be released for all colors.

Yellow was a mistake with no good banish cards

Play red purple Luffy, have an 8k leader all game

I come from yugioh, my mind set is always “if you got it, you got it “ and usually they have it if not I just start swinging for the fences

I understand, still dislike yellow. Just a walk in the park for them at times.

I feel like yellow could be easily balanced by better cards with Banish, but most banish cards aren't too viable rn

Can you do this video but for sakasuki?

Playing against yellow is not skill, but who is luckier

Not only do I think most people dont recognize the advantage they give people off of life with yellow triggers, I dont think they recognize it in general. Giving Sakazuki cards in hand is also not a good feeling if he can use them for removal next turn, especially if you've already grinded him down to almost nothing in hand, and you could present lethal by waiting a turn and being patient.

&when a guide on how to stop losing to Sakazuki?

Conversely, only lose to yellow when I'm playing it

Just play nami, yellow cowers in fear of nami 😂

Limit 1 trigger per turn, everything is solved

I'll save you guys 20 minutes. Just hope your opponent doesn't get lucky. 😂 much love, egman

If ppl are fed up with Yellow just play Nami and cook yellow up and benefit from your triggers like they do. Sakazuki needs something to keep it somewhat in check so I think yellows playstyle is needed in the meta

U can't change them hitting triggers and getting free 5k bodies on board or even drawing 3cards for free to cycle their deck. Just one free 5k body nets them a 5don advantage over u already. Another cash grab game with no balance involved.

there just needs to be a limit on triggers in a deck

tudo mentira

Isn't complaining about life cards for yellow akin to complaining about reds rush cards, or blues bounces, or blacks removal potential?

BRO NOT EVEN BLACK HAS SO MANY TRIGGERS THAT DESTROY CHARACTERS FFS. Green doesn’t even have KO if they are not rested, you have now 2 good rushers, you also REST stuff, you stop people from attacking AND YOU HEAL. Come on. You TRASH life without removing don like Kaido + you develop a 10K body without consequences, and this is not counting 7C mom. You jump over the “don limit” by been able to put 5K characters on turn 2.

do a video of how to win with yellow

Yellow is dumb lets be honest they completely bypass the don resources of the game with triggers even when they hit a 5k body from life on the clap back it feels horrible 😂

Been Katakuri since the start of 03 and the hate is amazing lol. Big Mom 10 drop goated 🤣🤣🤣

Imma keep it real, most players lose to yellow because they're too aggro brained to think through a play. Some players lose to yellow because of high roll, but that goes for any good deck, you're gonna high roll sometimes.

stop LOSING to yellow? I can't even WIN as yellow.