January 12, 2011

During Training

Call it practice or free play or whatever you will.

A lot of people during free play tend to roll off or try to go first.

Which isnt really conducive, if you think of it.

If you go second, you start the game at a disavantage, because the opponent has set spells and traps to mess you up.

However, in training, it doesnt matter if you win or lose, only that you learn and improve afterwards.

So, during free play, why are you trying to go first?

Whilst it is important to learn how to open, and not completely reveal more or less your entire decklist before the opponent even draws, its harder to play the uphill battle.

Hence, if you know how to play uphill, you can learn the other way around much easier.

Thats all for today.

G-Ray Out.

3 comments:

  1. that's why it is called "training", to experience a serious match even when there is none (which means you'd start first), so i see no problem with that

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  2. @Anonymous
    The first game is probably the match decider for many matches, simply because going first in Yugioh gives a huge advantage. If the player starting off wins the first game, he/she can lose the second and go first again third game and most likely win. However, if the player going second wins, then the tide has completely turned. Of course, siding plays a big factor as well, but setting up a defense and having answers to your opponent's setups/plays is the key to winning a game. Going second makes it much more difficult to win a game, and is thus better practice.

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  3. He's just pointing out that it would to better to "train" and get used to being at an disadvantage, so that you would play even better when you are at an advantage(in this case, starting first).

    Therefore "training" like this would be much more effective.

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