Half Unbreak

[~British Soul~]

 

Target 1 monster on the field; this turn, that monster cannot be destroyed by battle, also any battle damage you take from battles involving that monster is halved.

 

discuss?

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I remember Yuma using this in nearly every conceivable episode during Season 1 (and parts of 2).

Now if only DP14/15 were released in English; why they weren't, I don't know,

 

Nice for protecting stuff and cutting down the damage you take.

I think the anime version required it to be in Attack Position though; if that's true, then RL version is better.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Like a really shitty waboku. I guess it could be used on an opponent's monster, so that you can at the opponent's life points repeatedly but... eh...

[mshends]

Finally my Yuma deck is complete!!!

[Toffee.]

Anime version was a plot device
IRL version.... Ehh....

[BlackBeartic]

They reprint and yet again do not change the effect when there is a card that is literally way better.

 

Really?

[evilfusion]

As an anime card, I'm very accepting of it, because Yuma as a Duelist kind of sucks during early Zexal. He probably doesn't have a lot of "good" cards.

 

As a real-life card, it's outclassed so badly by Waboku that it hurts to see it printed. That said, it still functions like the anime did, with Yuma's trick of sometimes targeting the opponent's monster in desperate situations to halve damage.

[heraldry_lord]

That said, it still functions like the anime did, with Yuma's trick of sometimes targeting the opponent's monster in desperate situations to halve damage.

 

That was one of the few truly clever tactics Yuma used in his duels.

[I Hate Snatch Steal]

I remember Yuma using this in nearly every conceivable episode during Season 1 (and parts of 2).

Now if only DP14/15 were released in English; why they weren't, I don't know,

 

Nice for protecting stuff and cutting down the damage you take.

I think the anime version required it to be in Attack Position though; if that's true, then RL version is better.

The target did not have to be in attack position in the anime (though it almost always was), when Yuma dueled the kid with construction equpment deck he used it on gagaga magician in defense position.

 

I agree completely with waboku being better and so on as others have said.

[Sleepy]

Yeah the anime version was pretty much the same as the IRL version. The reason Yuma almost never used it in Defense Position monsters is 2 things:
-He was building up for Utopia Ray, allowing damage but not completely stopping it, also opponents got the impression of "damn this guy sucks" before the bomb dropped on them.

-His character is reflected on the play style. Always charging head on, at times even mindlessly. In any case it almost doesn't matter what sort of bad call he'd be potentially end up making with his charges if they can always turn into Utopia which it was a good shield when the opponents didn't negate it, and Ray often meant OTK. Just like how out of the duel aspect of the series, no matter how deep in trouble Yuma was, he always had a final cushion to bounce him back (often in the form of ZeXal Weapons AKA Deus Ex Machina AKA cheating).

 

 

It is "on the field" so the card has a place in casual decks. You can use it as Yuma did, but with the added bonus of multi attackers like Overdragon having a field day with it.
It would be somewhat competing with Half Shut, where it is loses to it for some uses with Half Shut weakening the opponent's monsters instead of reducing the damage, and it not being a Trap but a Quick-Play, and it being able to activate in the Damage Step, but..... umm actually, Half Shut does sound like it has more pros than cons vs this card....

[玄魔の王]

Yeah the anime version was pretty much the same as the IRL version. The reason Yuma almost never used it in Defense Position monsters is 2 things:
-He was building up for Utopia Ray, allowing damage but not completely stopping it, also opponents got the impression of "damn this guy sucks" before the bomb dropped on them.
-His character is reflected on the play style. Always charging head on, at times even mindlessly. In any case it almost doesn't matter what sort of bad call he'd be potentially end up making with his charges if they can always turn into Utopia which it was a good shield when the opponents didn't negate it, and Ray often meant OTK. Just like how out of the duel aspect of the series, no matter how deep in trouble Yuma was, he always had a final cushion to bounce him back (often in the form of ZeXal Weapons AKA Deus Ex Machina AKA cheating).


It is "on the field" so the card has a place in casual decks. You can use it as Yuma did, but with the added bonus of multi attackers like Overdragon having a field day with it.
It would be somewhat competing with Half Shut, where it is loses to it for some uses with Half Shut weakening the opponent's monsters instead of reducing the damage, and it not being a Trap but a Quick-Play, and it being able to activate in the Damage Step, but..... umm actually, Half Shut does sound like it has more pros than cons vs this card....

And Half Shut has been replaced by Pianissimo, which reduces ATK all the way to 100. This card is just bad.

Also, the reason behind cards like these is added drama. The writers think leaving the hero with less LP is better for tension.

[Sleepy]

And Half Shut has been replaced by Pianissimo, which reduces ATK all the way to 100. This card is just bad.

Also, the reason behind cards like these is added drama. The writers think leaving the hero with less LP is better for tension.

 

Yeah that was a painful thing of ZeXal. Yuma's strategy was consistently this, and the boss only work under low LP conditions so it was no surprise at all. Though the real issue is not that it happened like that, but how many times it did.

 

And yeah now that you mention it, Pianissimo seems like it outclasses Half Shut.