What is your most and least favorite kind of opponent?

[I Hate Snatch Steal]

Most favorite for me is the easygoing have fun with it type. They are happy to explain their card effects to me and to go slower while making moves as needed. They have a general good feeling to them and thus are fun to play against regardless of the outcome. They are generally the most willing to give thier all against my created card decks. These people are even better when they have interesting decks to face so they are worthy foes.

Least favorite for me is the uptight hyper competitive type or in other words the 'rouge deck makes me flip out [hyperbole alert] type' who can't handle anything that they don't see in tournaments every day. Especially those who have a tendency to be rude. They have a varietly of adverse reactions to my created decks including, not even trying [blatently misplaying because they don't read the cards and/or don't care], being rude about my card making, especially if the art comes from something that they feel is too sacred for yu-gi-oh, and generally having a bad attitude.

 

Please note that these catagories are not black and white and are also not all inclusive. Some people can be competative, but not ant-rouge deck and not rude.

 

(Please note that I judge on more then just willingness to play me created decks, some people will play against them and its no fun at all regardless of the outcome because of their attitude.)

What about you?

 

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[Wildflame]

Easy ones

 

I guess I'm cool with everyone as long as they are not rude (wich can happen when you are playing E Dragons...). I play mostly in YGOPro so I don't have to worry about rulesharking and the like.

[Sleepy]

I think I have more ways of players that I have issues with than the ones that I like.

 

I enjoy casual players that want to have fun, but still try to win in a one on one.

Since it's actually hard in this game to get casual decks that actually match equivalently in power, it is rather common for a deck to be pretty much strictly superior to another while both be called casual. So I appreciate that if my random deck doesn't actually have a chance, that it be defeated more quickly instead of holding back for another 10 turns, waiting for me to do something interesting, but countering it as soon as I start it anyways.

 

I do not usually find the "I'm better than you, you should be competitive" types on DN or YGOPro. I have IRL, and that's one of the most annoying types.  There's also the ones that think they are competitive but have the weirdest ideas. One time a guy told me I lost because my Uria was Japanese and I should buy English cards (wat).

 

There's also the type that makes-up rules to try to beat people they assume don't know how the game works. Fishing for newbs. One guy with a Monarch deck back when Raisas were like 50 USD each, invented that I couldn't use "Blast Held by a Tribute" on his because he was already Summoned a few turns back and was no longer "Tribute Summoned". I felt so sad for him, and so annoyed at the same time, that I didn't know how to tell him how much of an idiot he was. The guy near him also actually sided with him so I was like "f*ck it.. alright, if you need that so much go ahead". and he kept talking about his "reasons" for why he was right as I was leaving the table.

[I Hate Snatch Steal]

There's also the type that makes-up rules to try to beat people they assume don't know how the game works. Fishing for newbs. One guy with a Monarch deck back when Raisas were like 50 USD each, invented that I couldn't use "Blast Held by a Tribute" on his because he was already Summoned a few turns back and was no longer "Tribute Summoned". I felt so sad for him, and so annoyed at the same time, that I didn't know how to tell him how much of an idiot he was. The guy near him also actually sided with him so I was like "f*ck it.. alright, if you need that so much go ahead". and he kept talking about his "reasons" for why he was right as I was leaving the table.

I HATE those people, especially since when you play casual, its hard to have someone in authority set them straight without a judge.

 

edit: Please note that I have no problem with honest mistakes, I make them too sometimes, its the sadsistic people who are out to troll you into a 'loss' that I LOATHE.

 

My least favorite [insert your favorite explitive here] ruling that I heard when I encountered someone like that was '"Toad" monsters cout as "Frog" monsters' when substitoad was at 3. I would have wiped the floor with him if he didn't invent that ruling. Secound place goes to not being able to negate Machina Fortess's 'destroy a card when its destroyed' effect with an effect like Divine Wrath that negates and destroys because it can't be destroyed while in the graveyard (the correct ruiling is that it can still be negated).

[Master Hyperion]

My least favorite players are possibly that make a deck with terrible choices or create flat-out bad deck, and when someone points it out or even explains why some card choices are terrible, they immediately flip out because why they think the other person is wrong because he either only plays casually or just for the sake of originality, and then ends with an insulting remark.

 

Guys, it's okay to be casual or original, but that doesn't excuse making awful card choices. Making good card choices that make deck function properly is still important when it comes to deck building.

 

[spoiler=" "]oh and your 60-card dark magician e-hero yugi jaden.dek isn't original either[/spoiler]

[Canadian]

You mean, Rainbow Dragon doesn't need to go in my Crystal Beast deck? 

 

:o :o :o :O

[Zauls]

My least favourite players are those that think they're all amazing and get really cocky when they beat you even if it was just when they sacked you out.

An example of this was when I was at YCS Bochum, I was on the bubble at round 6 and this really cocky kid sits there not saying a word to me and just opens the Diva Megalo OTK on me both games then tries sharking me as well...

[Just Crouton]

In addition to what Hyperion brought up, I don't like the kind who blames their lost on the fact the opponent runs a higher tier deck, then tries to save face by claiming the opponent's deck doesn't need skill because it wins games quickly.

 

Then, there are the jagoffs who justify running bad cards by arguing that winning isn't everything (the people who say that always lose.)

 

And, Jesus Christ, the quitters.

[Toffee.]

claiming the opponent's deck doesn't need skill because it wins games quickly.

>Infernities

[vla1ne]

my favorite kinds of opponents are the kind who can crack a joke during a match, and don't get upset about the outcome of duels whether they win or lose. also people who know when to stop bragging about their win.

I hate rule sharks that act like they never make mistakes and people who brag too much over minor things.

[~British Soul~]

my favourite kinds of opponents are the kind who can crack a joke during a match, and don't get upset about the outcome of duels whether they win or lose.

Yeah, I enjoy those kind of opponents as well, and literally 95%+ of the people at my locals are like that.

 

My least favourite kind of opponent are those who make their moves too quickly and doesn't wait for a response to their plays without being prompted.

[Sleepy]

I'm pretty sure there's been people with most of these negative traits in one. It's as if there were enough stuff to make a sort of "don't be an ass" commandment list. Haha.

[Slinky]

I like generally friendly players.

 

Users I despise: Bujin users because they obviously get a kick out of your opponent not being able to play the game.

 

Other stuff:

Overly cocky players (like seriously, I don't give a f*** if you won a YCS, you're still just an obstacle in my path)

Players who conduct their moves too quickly or too slowly (IE: takes multiple minutes to take a single move, or plays so quickly you can't activate your backrow and stuff and then tries to ruleshark you by saying "Oh its too late to activate that yo")

Overly competetive players (People who /only/ use Meta, and just add in stuff to just counter every play you make)

Netdeckers (oh my f***ing god, these guys just have no skill whatsoever)

[the_engineer]

I can't stand those who take the game too seriously. I mean, it's a damn game, not a fight for survival!

[ihop]

I can't stand people who shark others on really trivial stuff, if you can't win through normal means then sharking won't make it any better.

 

On the flipside, I also dislike people who try to soft cheat etc for pretty much the same reason why I don't like sharks.

 

I'm more or less fine with other opponents but I like players who try and interact and engage the opponent in conversation as much as they can, particularly in major tournaments e.g. YCSes, Nationals, Regionals where often friendly interaction goes out of the window as players are more focused on winning. I always try my best to talk to my opponent when I'm in a big tournament.

[Airride]

I like players who are chill dudes regardless, and especially if they let you take back moves if you realized you really screwed up. I know this sounds bad, but when you realize the optimal move you should have made seconds after playing the cards constantly, it's really nice if you can go back and do that instead, as long as the game state hasn't been altered too much as a result of it, or a previously unknown card has been revealed, since it feels a bit like cheating to me.

 

Related, Since I am admittedly a bit of a Rule Shark sometimes, I hate people who have no idea how the cards in their deck work. For example, one of the people at my school that plays thinks things like Lightning Vortex and Magic Jammer activate DWs, and that Xyz Material count as on the field (ex: He tried activating Trance Archfiend's Second effect when Utopia that it was attached to was killed). Oh yeah, and the people that are like that are usually stubborn as hell too, which makes it even worse, since I get really worked up over things like this, sadly =/

[NeoRWBY65]

I can talk about an opponent I had in Magic, right?

 

This little girl had a deck that her uncle made for her, every time I played a card she would respond "I wouldn't do that if I was you," and the game that I beat her she claimed she was "going easy" on me. All of that together just really made me hate having to play against that girl.

[I Hate Snatch Steal]

I can talk about an opponent I had in Magic, right?

Sure

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

They all suck.

[Slinky]

They all suck.

That goes both ways. Giggity Giggity.

[-Noel-]

I just hate my school friends who chained MST to Solemn Judgment...

[:^)]

I really hate versing people that have to read every single card they are using, and when talking about this situation I'm mainly talking about one person at locals who doesn't net deck and builds his own decks so I don't know why every time I'm paired up against him he seems to have the need to read each card and then also out to me, such as: Mirror Force, MST. 

 

I like versing people who know what they're doing and are willing to explain a card if needed.

[Mugendramon]

Overly cocky players

you're still just an obstacle in my path

Hue.

 

Let's see... being the quite player I am, an opponent who doesn't want to talk is perfectly fine; some people actually do need to focus in what they're doing sometimes. Talkative ones make the experience a lot more enjoyable obviously, as long as it's not 10-year-old taunting or bragging or whatever the word for being a huge assbag while playing yugioh is.

 

And solitaire players. Especially bragging solitaire players.

 

I mean... yes, okay, you won, you're done drawing now, there are your five pieces, okay. Yes, yes it was a really good game and I am impressed. Yes, I know I should be enjoying the game.

 

Except you made me sit here for half an hour to watch you draw cards.

I'm mainly talking about one person at locals who doesn't net deck and builds his own decks so I don't know why every time I'm paired up against him he seems to have the need to read each card and then also out to me, such as: Mirror Force, MST. 

 

This is otherwise called stalling.

[Toffee.]

And solitaire players. Especially bragging solitaire players.
 
I mean... yes, okay, you won, you're done drawing now, there are your five pieces, okay. Yes, yes it was a really good game and I am impressed. Yes, I know I should be enjoying the game.
 
Except you made me sit here for half an hour to watch you draw cards.

I second this^

[:^)]

This is otherwise called stalling.

 

No like, they guy is pretty much brain dead and that is putting it nicely.