But do you know... why *You're* here?

Yes we do~ get some support reports ready~

"Picture of Genex Recycled, Repaired Genex Controller, Trishula, Crystal Wing and Arms of Genex-Return Zero T-Posing over Rata Crying in a pile of Hot Glued Blue Eyes White Dragons."

Get to work card boy

GENEX SWEEP BABY!!!

Month? My friend, it's been centuries since the Gods called him to Mount Olympus to make the Heroes video.

When did anyone have an issue with longer videos?

Never knew trishula was a genex card... But you learn something new everyday I guess

@@shizukousapostle1stapostle710 Watch the War of The Worthless. You'll understand

@@speedyalzh yh I know... In the whole pile of shit... One garbage was better then other.. But everyone in the comment acting like war of the worthless somehow change anything in the video... Even to shit out trishula there are better ways... What is the strong point of genex that will make it even close to thoes other archtypes?

@@shizukousapostle1stapostle710 idk, but it was fun

@@shizukousapostle1stapostle710 It's the fact that it *CAN* do that, unlike the other covered archetypes, even though this is supposed to be the worst archetype of them all.

It also turbos out crystal wing.... apparently.

@@yeager1957 It can also beat nordics, somehow....

To be fair, the Genex Recycled + Machine Dupe combo is a surprisingly efficient way to effortlessly create any non-archetype tuner restricted level 3-9 synchro, but the problem lied within the fact that Genex synchro monsters suck ass. Which, hilariously, means that a Genex synchro-focused deck using almost any non-Genex synchro is the best way to use them, sometimes to jaw-droppingly good effect.

@@joshuakim5240 It's like how Roids have a powerful Rank 4 and 6 without anybody noticing.

All those swarming can actually be used to link summon, got someone fucked my ass up with those R-Genex Extra Link back then when Goblin still a thing.

it was literally designed by the Flamvell in lore, so ofc it is.

All of the genex are lorebots.

If you look up the genex allies, most of there monsters were designed to work for other duel terminal arcatypes

OCG name of flamvell is _flambell._ So we have Flambell LOREman and Genex Bellflam...

It all makes sense, Genex were never meant to work with themselves! They were only meant to support other archetypes!

Wait, duel terminal was a game?

@@funtimegamer8733 Yes. Certain cards shops had it. It was an arcade-style machine where you pay $1, get a Duel Terminal card that could be scanned by the machine (when it was working), and play some weird mini-games or a slimmed-down duel. In a way, it was like a proto Duel Links type duel. Not every card was in the game, just the one appearing in Duel terminal sets for the most part. Check either the wiki or TCGplayer for Duel terminal sets and you get an idea of what was in them.

I already do, they're actually kinda ok now thanks to a few certain Link monsters

Here are two lists I've currently got, both are kinda unoptimized, though the second one is moreso. The first list is focused around the fact that Undine, Summoner Monk, and Turbo all enable some decent degree of 1- or 2-card link-4 plays, while also containing the Blastfan Dupe combo for when it happens to be useful. The side deck contains handtraps and Evenly Matched for in a match game where I know I'll be going second, and the cards needed to make Undine a 1.5-card King Calamity on the opponent's turn are there for when I know I'm going first (my luck is really bad so I can't afford to main the latter due to Plaguespreader being a pseudo-Garnet and the other three parts taking up a lot of Extra Deck space). The second decklist is the only pre-Needlefiber MR4 decklist I have for Genex, featuring Crystron Rion to make extra use of Rosenix by allowing it to force itself into the gy at the cost of a normal summon if I open it, and a Symphonic engine for two reasons. For one, the extra normal summon is absolutely amazing in a deck where half the cards have on-normal summon effects, and for two, if you open with both scales, or Guitaar+Birdman, you can then begin pendulum summoning so as to get the many things you searched onto the field and so as to SS Blastfan more. As a side note, it's also the only way I've found to summon Vindikite efficiently. Compared to the first list, the Symphonic one doesn't run the Machine Dupe combo since it can spam decently enough already and it felt bricky during testing. In both decks, the only things searchable by Blastfan are the Tuners, since the other dark maindeck Genex cards are exceptionally bad (besides kinda Duradark but even he's super-situational). The three copies of Red Resonator are somethig I'm still unsure about the viability of, but being a pre-Needlefiber list, it becomes really easy to run out of Tuners, plus an instant Coral Dragon is pretty nice in casual duels. If you have any questions about either deck or about the archetype in general, feel free to ask, I always enjoy talking about my favorite archetype

Ok so I thought i had sent the imgur link in the previous post but apparently not, sorry. Here they are. imgur.com/a/9nMXy

Max Maus Legend

We RRRRRRRRRANK10TRRRRRRRRAINS VS that Genex player (My moneys on the genex sorry rata)

Ata Misirli daver35 (I think that's the name) is a true God. I mean machine dupe and recycled? Hi did he think of it

thanks dude, glad you enjoyed the show.

Our God Cometh

+AtaMisirli I still find it hilarious that someone used Ojama Trio against him while he had a Tuner on the field.

"Why would you give a Synchro player THREE OJAMA TOKENS?"

Really its Genex Recycled.

Michael James P-p-p-p-p-power

I literally read this just as Rata said it

Honestly how did no one think hey its a machine dupe target that can change its name but then I realized no one really looked at genex.

ZetaByt oh yeah

+TylerCoon And Spare.

Hahahaha yugioh lore

@@gogomarioloshi ecksdee ecksdee DAE parrots may-mays man !! 1!1!

Correction, three corpses. Controller is using Spare's head as a control panel to drive Locomotion.

Yeah, who doesn't love hydro energy, geothermal energy, and... windmill energy.

Thermo Genex, Aero Genex. Done

Giving me ideas for my stories...

And then Genex Ally cutsified it all

@@marxxplaysgames going to ignore R-Genex being a sleeker, more advanced line over Genex? Genex Ally is just Genex's attribute interactions mixed with Ally of Justice armor.

Allow me to present a solution Linkuriboh

That's the thing though: Genex are a surprisingly competent synchro spamming deck...but their own archetypical synchro monsters are complete trash and they're ironically better off summoning any synchro monsters not in their archetype. In fact, the funniest thing is that the War of the Worthless tournament showed that they're good at summoning Trishula of all things.

@@joshuakim5240 Which is worse that the Archetype that Trishula is apart of has trouble summoning it. Trishula is a solid level 9 synchro to be fair but two cards used to summon it is way better than Ice Barriers means if they can get to level nine easily.

Stop making him aware of his powers or jimbles will make him meme a worlds topping ojama archetype into existence.

Shadow Drifter field spell that gives you a double normal summon of genex, special summon of level 4 or lower genex or that let's you mill a genex monster to set up for machine dupe

@@MattTGM isnt that a bit too far. You're gonna give rank10train boi a migraine from the plays they can make after war of the worthless

VixXstazosJOB Sarcasm

Garrett Seno obviously searching and summoning 2 monsters one of which being a tuner makes this a one card trish for the low price of a foolish burial effect that is not once per turn is broken. Ban beartrap I say

I think shadoll thing will give it a good run for its money. That attack boost is just too op

Genex Bear Trap Level 4 400 ATK / 1500 DEF Win the game when you control five Genex monsters. Yep - broken as hell.

Genex Bear Trap should be a Trap Monster & Tuner

That is the Genex player's key combo in the war of the worthless. It is brilliant.

Picky Psychology Student dont forget spamming trishula in every match... and ignoring every card Rata said was what made the archetype playable save for birdman and blast fan and some of the synchro monsters (and some other stuff that could be relevant but I want to point out that)

SaberMacro your profile picture said it all

would you mind going into more detail about what the genex player does to make Rata eat his words?

C10pokefan as Wendy said, genex recycled, genex blastfan, and machine duplication, he literally synchro summoned trishula every game. with the 2 to 3 searches he got from blast fans effect

I know. I point it out in the video.

yep i'm just agreeing they were stupid back then.

Why not make them Thunder-types to at least validate them still looking mechanical, instead of having magical toasters?

@@InkubozuNikki I honestly don’t know why they didn’t either because that makes sense and thunder is a type that doesn’t have a lot of good Low level searching cards. Apparently solidarity is too broken but machine dupe and limiter removal are just fine.

Yo, Solidarity beatdown was meta in playground formats, back in the day. 800 ATK boost turned your level 4 beaters into decent attackers.

I know, right? I Can hear him shouting the card names out as he duels lol

Trishula, Dragon of the Genex

Wolfox Trishula Genex Dragon of Vengeance

The Ultra Gaming Champ at least they stayed inside the same arch type

... Except Bellflame says it burns "your opponent", and when you switch control of it to your opponent, that now means "you". Basically do what you said, except use the spy to give your opponent Whangu and crash into it with Bellflame.

Bellflame's last effect doesn't trigger until it's in the Graveyard, making "your opponent" be the opponent of the Graveyard it's in. Just like how "you" in generic searchers such as Pyramid Turtle is the player whose Graveyard it's in, making those searchers nice Creature Swap targets. Regardless, I do agree it's best to just give Wanghu instead.

Merciless SSJ2 Ah, I see, admittedly my game mechanics are a little rusty.

That might just be the worst OTK I've ever heard

dyldragon1 "belflame can be used in a shitty OTK" "Shitty OTK" "Shitty" Glad to see you've added a whole new perspective to this comment thread. Good job.

+LuckySolshot Let's hope he will uphold his promise.

sadly no dead blue eyes for rata genex lost the final

@@fluffyplayery3017 He said "If Genex wons anything" Emphasys on "anything", and Genex won a lot of matches so...

You guys REALLY wanted that Blue-Eyes bukkake. Why not step it up and have him doing it in front of a picture of Seto Kaiba... (Or Kazuki Takahashi)

Yeah because they created a lot of cards that can actually replace BYWD for the most part. Maybe the only aspect that is required from BYWD compared to the other support monsters is the fact that he is Normal. It's actually the case of Skull Servant too, even though they aren't really competitive (they still get wins). There are a bunch of cards that have their names considered as Skull Servant, which means you (almost) don't have to run the original Skull Servant in your Deck. I didn't mention Dark Magician and Red-Eyes/Summoned Skull, but they are pretty much the same. Getting cards that have the same name, same stats and all but are more fresh in terms of effect is an easy way to pump up those kind of Decks.

+Lord Hades The great thing about Red-Eyes is that most of its support cards work on better cards than REBD, such as Red-Eyes Wyvern and Paladin of Dark Dragon both working on the fast and powerful Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, and the one card that actually requires running the original REBD, Red-Eyes Fusion, is supremely powerful and fishes REBD straight from the Deck, and since it can Fusion Summon a Fusion Monster that can put a dead REBD back into the Deck, you can run a whole playset of Red-Eyes Fusion with only one REBD in your Deck! :D

+Autobot Starscream If you're gonna play Red-Eyes Fusion, you may as well just use Red Eyes Dark Flare Dragon and Red Eyes Archfiend.

+Michael Archer Red Eyes Archfiend doesn't work (superbly useless card) since Geminis aren't treated as normal monsters in the deck. So only if you summon it.

+Yash Farooqui I was actually talking about the deck focusing on Red Eyes' Fusions. And Red Eyes Archfiend isn't that useless once you get him in the hand, grave or field, and his destruction effect can be handy if you've already used up Raigeki, and he's revivable by Return of the Red Eyes, Red-Eyes Spirit and Blazing Meteor Black Dragon so that's something.

what was wrong the synchro era??

Yes, Trishula, not the actual Genex Synchros, which is what he was talking about being the intended goal of the archetype. It was still funny to see someone make enough use of Genex cards to shock Rata. 😂👍

playing around with pure genex on reverse of arcadia and yeah, there are barely any monsters you can properly run pure. from what I can see the archetype is SUPPOSED to be splashed into other deck like tumors (though if it's super early YGO you can get big beaters assuming your opponent's deck does die to a deck focused on 1800+ beaters). play it pure and you eventually see a few problems, though a level 1 is nice with the like 2 of the genex ally synchros since it potentially gives you more than 1 effects. but on the flip side reverse of arcadia's NPCs mostly run garbage decks so it's AOK.

@@autobotstarscream765 R-Genex Locomotion: And I took that personally

@@SetSeth-yl6ke Rata: "And I took you existing as a Train that isn't Rank 10 personally." 🚂

Repaired Genex Controller really symbolizes the repair in the relationship between Rata and Genex.

Flamvell got like one card that doesn't fix the archetype

Furnace's pathetic stats and lack of real utility make it completely irrelevant. You can compare it, for example, with Super Quantum Red Layer - Same stats, same attribute, same level, better summoning condition. Army is kinda hard to explain why it's bad to people who are not familiar with the game. On the surface, it seems neat because you get a relatively strong monster and get to pop a card, but the thing is that it's just way too slow for what it does (requiring a tribute to pop a card once) and there are many better ways you could be going about your card advantage.

+RANK10YGO Ah that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much for the clarification. If you don't mind my asking, why are the attack boosts not so strong? This isn't as confusing as an outsider but I'm still not clear. At any rate, thanks so much for your videos (and response)! Really like how in depth you go in explaining each Deck's flaws, real good quality content that's as entertaining as it is informative.

Adding to this, Furnace's ATK is 2000. There are quite a few monsters that require no tribute to begin with and have that ATK. Army doesn't fit with the overall deck strategy at all, because Genex isn't about Tribute Summon, and even then, it's strictly worse than the various Monarchs, who all have effects along the same line, better stats, and can be used in any Deck. They're almost strictly worse than splashing Gene-Warped Warwolf and Caius the Shadow Monarch in (if you don't mind not getting the oh-so-amazing Genex support). As for attack boosts, in general, attack boosts are certainly handy (especially as non-battle protection is becoming increasingly common), but in general, the primary usage for an attack boost is "getting over" problematic monsters, and a 500-point boost is far too small to help with that. It either needs to be an incidental effect on a card that can do other stuff (such as the Qliphort Pendulums, which have a small attack boost but an impressive set of Scales) or so drastic that just playing it is a sign of a comeback (such as Limiter Removal, which doubles the ATK of all your Machines).

Izayoiaki24 t

Esteban Rodas because they suck there are level 4 monsters with 2000 attack that see no play

But lost in the grand finals to Meklords.

Proving an anti-type is a very good choice in a type dominant format.

@@JindraAG proving that meklord are really good in doing what they are made for

@@victorlima875 too bad its only anti synchros and nothing else kinda sad really

@@JindraAG Sychros dominating a tournament Meklords: *THE TIME HAS COME AND SO HAVE I*

.... Stratos is at three? So he finished parole?

@@tiraXpyrrha Tempest is still on parole. Harpies are hoping he is freed.

Johnny F WOOOOOOOOOHHHH LORE

That Fig and the genex them is helping out the other duel terminal archetype's hence all the weird and inconsistent effects they are supposed to be put into the x-sabers, ice barriers, mist valley, and flamvell

@@DarkSymphony777 Does building decks like that actually help them at all, or are they still pretty badly optimized?

@@clayxros576 still pretty bad but all of the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

@@DarkSymphony777 See you can design decks to work with other decks for Lore, and still have them function really well on their own. Konami just sucks at designing cards so we get garbage like Duel Terminal.

@@clayxros576 I mean we got some good archetypes from the duel terminal like shaddolls and qliphorts (and especially the NEKROZ) but for the most part they garbage. Now the world legacy archetypes on the other hand

he can't keep getting away with it!

Eric Gropuis Or make a field spell with R-Accelator's effect be one of them.

Rata: "You don't really want Level 1 Tuners if you want to do anything with this Deck." Genex: "Alexa, play "My Time is Now.""

Here's what I would to to fix them (in their current state): > Give Genex the potential to Synchro toolbox properly and have it be worthwhile. The Genex Synchros are pretty mediocre already, so give them like a Field Spell that lets you tweak a Genex's Levels and Attributes at will, at the cost of only Synchro Summoning Genex Synchros for the turn. It would make their Synchro Summoning more consistent and actually reward you for playing the underwhelming Genex Synchros. > Actually reward people for playing Genex Controller. As said, no reason to play the *main card of the archetype* anymore. Something like "OPT, you can Special Summon 1 Controller from hand or Graveyard", or "When a Genex Synchro dies, SS 1 Controller from Deck, Hand or Graveyard". Once again, preferably on a Field Spell. > Give them swarming potential, preferably with their Tuner Monsters. May overlap with the point above. > Give them a proper boss monster. Locomotive is not that good in XYZ era, Ally Accel is good but requires plenty of setup and Triforce is awesome but lacks the ability to affect the board state. Give them a big fat Synchro that gives them actual removal. > Seriously, give them some S/T already Konami. Jeez.

Ritokure I have been thinking on this. not long mind you ,but for thier spell and traps could be focused on changing opponents attributes, increase their atk/def, recover tuners from the gravyard, and thier own archetype version of double summon.

Why? a bad deck beating other bad decks doesn't mean much.

@@reeree3032 Because he said it was the worst archetype of all time.

@@DeltaPJ it is

@@reeree3032 I can think of some that are worse, but if you say something is the worst, and then it beats a bunch of other 'better' things, usually you 'owe it an apology.' in LotW standards, it does mean much that what he thought was the worst one of all turned out to be the best of the worst.

@@DeltaPJ Winning 1 singular non-competitive tournament of like 16 people with each deck only being ran once does not make it the best of the worst, it's very much a fluke.You can't determine what LOTW deck is better from that tournament because each deck was only ran by 1 person, which is not how it works in reality, if the tournament were bigger with more people running a deck than just 1 person then the results would mean something. Genex are shit.

THIS

Feels like there wouldn't be enough to talk about - there's only four Phantom Beasts (plus Gazelle and Chimera) and one support card that's actually type support. It'd be, like, five minutes long.

Hristo Kuymdjiev 17k and as you probably know, he does this

Which ones?

Plants will finally have some competitive edge, hell yeah!

frogs are now meta. ever heard of toadally awesome?

isaiah I hate it but love it in dinos

ShadeSlayer1911 big question though. Is it des frog deck or wetlands frogs?

ShadeSlayer1911 Frogs will always treat you well.

Wait what?!